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Kourtney Kardashian flaunts major underboob as fans think she’s ‘pregnant’ at premiere with Travis Barker & their kids
KOURTNEY Kardashian showed major underboob with Travis Barker at the premiere of The Kardashians.
Rumors have been swirling about the Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum being pregnant with her fiancé's child.
On Thursday, Kourtney was spotted making her way down the red carpet at a star-studded event celebrating the upcoming premiere of The Kardashians.
She attended the celeb-filled bash with Travis, 46, her children and his older kids.
The Poosh founder donned a cape-like top that hung low in the back and exposed a portion of her breast in the front.
Kourtney showed off her stomach amid rumors that she is pregnant with her first child with Travis.
Kourtney and Travis seemed to ignore all the buzz about them – pregnancy-related and otherwise.
The couple recently shocked fans, as well as their own friends and family, when they ran off and tied the knot in a Los Vegas chapel after the Oscars.
They beamed as they posed for photos with their respective children during Thursday's event.
With the children in tow, the pair refrained from their usual over-the-top shows of affection.
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The Blink-182 rocker wore a sharp black suit with a black shirt to the event.
Like Kim Kardashian's beau Pete Davidson, who was also in attendance, he polished the look off with a pair of slim black shades.
FAMILY AFFAIR
Travis' children, Alabama and Landon, were in attendance.
His daughter wore an all-black look that consisted of a corset.
Her blond hair hung in chunky curls over her shoulders.
Landon wore an outfit much like his fathers, accessorizing with sunglasses and a dangling earring.
He shares the teens with ex-wife Shanna Moakler.
Meanwhile, Kourtney brought son Reign along.
The pair shared a sweet moment, as the youngster appeared to begin running around on the red carpet while Kourtney looked on smiling in video captured and shared by E!.
At one point, Travis was seen chatting with Khloe Kardashian, who was holding her daughter True Thompson in her arms.
AMICABLE EXES
Also in attendance at the event was Kourtney's ex, Scott.
He walked down the red carpet with Rebecca Donaldson on his arm.
The entrepreneur wore a black suit with a white shirt.
Mason and Penelope Disick did not appear to be with either Kourtney nor Scott at the event.
He appeared in a much better place than he did during a recent outing – one of the first after Kourtney and Travis' surprise wedding.
The 38-year-old was spotted outside of Catch LA in West Hollywood with Rebecca, 27, hours after news broke of his ex's nuptials.
The New York native wore a black zipped-up hoodie, dark-colored pants, and a backward baseball cap while his date matched his color scheme with a short black mini dress and high heels.
Scott appeared sad, keeping his hands in his pockets as he and the model headed inside.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
7-4-7-8
(seven, four, seven, eight)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
7-4-7-8
(seven, four, seven, eight)
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Ken West, who founded and created the Big Day Out Festival, has tragically passed away in his sleep at the age of 64.
Ken West, who founded the iconic Big Day Out Festival, has passed away in his sleep this morning, April 7th, at the age of 64.
The festival was grande in scale, drawing in large acts and local Australian names as well, and ran from 1992 to 2014. The first Big Day Out festival, which West organized in January of 1992, featured 21 bands, headlined by Violent Femmes, and most famously featured Nirvana at their peak.
Not long after, the festival took to the road— showing in six different cities every Summer. Headliners included Neil Young, Metallica, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kanye West, Muse, Pearl Jam, The White Stripes, and more.
The statement from his family, reported by @steph_harmon in this case, covers his life and passing.
“07/04/2022
Ken West, founder and creator of the iconic Big Day Out festival has passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of 64.
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His family have issued a brief statement confirming the sad news:
“We bring unfortunate news that, Ken West; a father, husband, mentor and most of all a legend, has passed away peacefully in his sleep on the morning of the 7th April 2022. Our family would appreciate respect and privacy during this difficult time. Ken was big and noisy in life, but passed quietly and peacefully.”
Ken, along with his business partner Viv Lees, produced the record-breaking Big Day Out festival that toured Australia and New Zealand from 1992 through to 2014. In its heyday the festival featured world-renowned international acts such as Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Chemical Brothers, Rammstein, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Patti Smith and PJ Harvey along with a myriad of Australian acts such as Powderfinger, Hilltop Hoods and Spiderbait who became household names through their main stage appearances at the event.
In January this year Ken had released an excerpt from his upcoming book to mark the 30th Anniversary of the inaugural Big Day Out that took place in Sydney in 1992.
Ken is survived by his wife Cathy, son Oliver and his many comrades, collaborators and friends he made along the way.”
Ken West, the founder of Big Day Out, died in his sleep this morning. 💔 pic.twitter.com/JNhJ8PiPIv
— steph harmon (@stephharmon) April 7, 2022
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Ukrainian Gets 5 Years For Role In $1B Credit Card Fraud
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — CJ McCollum scored 23 points in 29 minutes against his former team and the New Orleans Pelicans moved closer to clinching a home play-in game with a 127-94 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday night.
Jonas Valanciunas, who returned from a sore right ankle, scored 14 points in 21 minutes for the Pelicans, who were without leading scorer Brandon Ingram (right hamstring), but wound up not needing any starters on the floor for as many as 30 minutes against a reeling Blazers team that had a patchwork lineup and lost its ninth straight.
The victory, combined with San Antonio's loss at Minnesota, left New Orleans needing either one more victory or one more Spurs loss to lock up a home play-in game on Wednesday.
McCollum appeared to hurt his right hand, with which he shoots, when he we fouled and crashed to the floor in the third quarter. But after missing two free throws and a subsequent 3, he remained in game for nearly eight more minutes, hitting his fifth 3 of the game and a finger roll, before checking out for good.
Reserve center Willy Hernangomez had 17 points and 14 rebounds for New Orleans. Larry Nance Jr., sent from Portland to New Orleans as part of the trade that also brought McCollum to the Pelicans, scored 12 points, as did rookie Trey Murphy III.
Reserve guard Jose Alvarado also contributed with nine assists and four steals for the Pelicans, who led by 13 at halftime and by 25 after three and continued to widen the lead down the stretch.
Drew Eubanks scored 20 points and CJ Elleby had 17 points for Portland, but the Blazers were sloppy with the ball and outworked around the basket. Portland committed 22 turnovers, leading to 36 Pelicans points. New Orleans also turned 23 offensive rebounds into 33 second-chance points and outrebounded the Blazers 49-27.
McCollum had 15 points and Valanciunas 14 in the first half, when New Orleans led by as many as 15 points.
TIP-INS
Trail Blazers: Reggie Perry scored 15 points on 7-of-10 shooting. ... Former Pelicans Didi Louzada scored 11 points and went 3 of 4 from deep. ... Josh Hart, who was part of the McCollum trade, did not play but received a loud ovation when shown on the video board above the court. Hart smiled, put his hand on his chest, stood and waved to the crowd. ... Shot 52.2% (36 of 69), including 11 of 31 from 3-point range.
Pelicans: While Ingram was a late scratch with a recurring hamstring injury, Pelicans coach Willie Green downplayed the seriousness of the injury. “We just don’t want to risk putting him on the floor and he’s feeling sore,” Green said. "We don’t anticipate he’ll miss a play-in game or anything like that. He’s just not going tonight.” ... Jaxson Hayes highlighted his 11-point night with several authoritative dunks. ... Rookie Herb Jones had nine points and eight rebounds, highlight by his block of what looked like either a lob or long shot by Keon Johnson. Jones raced into the Portland back court to grab the loose ball and finished with a breakaway layup.
ZION UPDATE
Green said before tipoff that Williamson, who has not played or even fully practiced this season as he recovers from an offseason foot injury, is now doing some “controlled” five-on-five work.
“He’s playing against the coaches and some of our guys will jump in," Green explained. “He’s playing in a controlled scrimmage and that’s where he’s progressed to. Past that, there’s no update on him.”
The Pelicans have not officially ruled out Williamson for the season, but have not offered any indication that he'll play any time soon, either. New Orleans has two regular season games left and must win two play-in games to advance to the NBA playoffs.
UP NEXT
Trail Blazers: Visit Dallas on Friday night for their final road game of the season.
Pelicans: Visit Memphis on Saturday for their road finale.
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What will happen to the "bread basket of Europe" once the shooting in Ukraine stops? Russia is the largest and Ukraine is the fifth largest exporter of wheat. Together they account for 29% of the world's annual wheat sales. The war has disrupted not only the harvests in Ukraine but also the ability of Russia to ship its wheat to other countries.
This will cause food crises through much of the world. Two of the most volatile regions, the Middle East and North Africa, are the most dependent on these two sources. But food prices everywhere will be under pressure.
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, wheat prices were already 49% above their 2017-2021 average, The Economist reports. They've gone up another 30% since the war began.
The war will cut supply in several ways. Obviously, it will reduce harvests in Ukraine. But even if Russian wheat fields continue producing, the conflict will make it harder to export its grain, as noted above.
Importantly, it will affect harvests elsewhere because Ukraine and Russia are also major suppliers of farm fertilizers. Ukraine's supply is being pounded by war, while Russia's is getting frozen by economic sanctions.
But what about U.S. farmers? The United States is the world's second-largest wheat exporter. Couldn't American agriculture replace a shortfall in supply, especially if higher prices for their crops spur our farmers to grow more? It's apparently not that simple.
American farmers would certainly value higher prices for wheat. The problem lies in the higher cost of producing it. Already paying record prices for fertilizers, farms must also deal with the rising cost of the diesel fuel that runs their tractors and other machines.
High fertilizer prices are already affecting what farmers choose to grow. Americans, for example, usually plant more corn than soybeans. This year, however, the balance has changed to favor soybeans. The reason: Soybeans generally need a quarter of the fertilizer that corn does. As for wheat, it falls somewhere in the middle in fertilizer use.
Aggravating matters, wind and dry conditions have left America's winter wheat crop in its worst shape on record, according to the Department of Agriculture. This follows a poor harvest in 2021 that forced American wheat stocks down to their lowest level in 14 years. In any case, almost all the winter wheat was already planted when the war began. And severe drought is being forecast for the Western Plains, America's bread basket.
Even if the violence against Ukraine stops through a ceasefire or, better, a resolution, that country will have a hard time restoring its agricultural might. First off, its farm infrastructure is being destroyed. Tractors and other farm machinery have been used to stop Russian tanks. And the Russians have been bombing agricultural buildings full of tools and other farm equipment.
There are also questions of how much ordnance is now buried in Ukrainian fields. That would put farm workers in danger of setting off explosives, much as happened in Europe after World War II. Ukrainians are already fearful of Russians having booby trapped dead bodies on the streets with bombs. They could do it on purpose in the fields.
But should Ukraine get back on its feet, will everyone then revert to the earlier world food order? That seems unlikely. This bizarre invasion has toppled many assumptions about where everyone's food comes from. And if this horrible war goes on for years, the international system for feeding the planet will certainly have to make permanent adjustments.
America, the land of plenty, will not starve. Our expectations that food will be cheap as well as plenty may not hold, but we have much to be thankful for.
2022, Creators.com
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But with top exporters Australia and Indonesia having already hit production limits and major producer South Africa constrained by logistical problems, some importers may struggle to maintain supply levels. The expected rush is likely to keep global coal prices elevated.
The EU ban is to take effect from mid-August, a month later than initially planned, according to two EU sources, following pressure from Germany to delay the measure.
In top-10 coal producer South Africa, Exxaro Resources told Reuters it had already received numerous requests from European countries wanting to sign supply contracts.
It said it has the right quality of coal for the European market, but that current production has already been allocated, and that South Africa's struggling rail network means miners will not be able to export more to meet the increased demand.
"South African coal producers are able to produce more coal, but significant work will need to be done to improve logistics in order to ramp up coal supply for export," Exxaro said.
State-owned rail company Transnet's capacity to haul mineral exports has been limited by cable theft and vandalism.
German energy company Uniper said it has taken steps to ensure its coal-fired power plants in Europe can be technically operated without Russian coal and decided not to extend its Russian supply contracts.
Toby Hassall, a lead analyst with Refinitiv, said most EU buyers' contracts for Russian coal would be for a year or less.
'VERY LIMITED SPARE CAPACITY'
Coronado Global Resources, with metallurgical coal operations in Australia and the United States, said it has received queries for coal in recent weeks from Europe.
It expected to be able to meet some of the new demand, but said volume, destination and timeframes were confidential. Coronado expects to produce between 18 million and 19 million tonnes in 2022.
"We have plans for growth in future years beyond this," a spokesperson said in emailed comments, without elaborating.
Australian producers Whitehaven Coal and New Hope Corp said they have been approached by prospective customers but their priority was to serve existing customers.
In Asia, at least two utilities in Japan and South Korea have halted Russian coal imports. Others may have to follow suit if sanctions are expanded.
Japan, the world's third-largest coal importer, plans to reduce Russian coal imports gradually while looking for alternative suppliers due to the sanctions against Moscow, the country's industry minister said on Friday. He acknowledged, though, that it would be hard to find alternative suppliers immediately.
Japan's Kyushu Electric Power Co Inc stopped buying Russian coal as of end-March, a company spokesperson said.
Kyushu Electric, which bought 7% of its thermal coal from Russia in the year to March 31, 2021, is procuring supplies from other regions, the spokesperson said, without specifying where.
"We have no plan to buy Russian coal this financial year," he said.
In South Korea, at least one unit of state utility Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) began diversifying coal supply away from Russia in February, a source with knowledge of the matter said.
(Reporting by Nelson Banya in Harare and Sonali Paul in Melbourne; Additional reporting by Kate Abnett in Brussels, Yuka Obayashi in Tokyo, Joyce Lee in Seoul and Jonathan Saul in London; Editing by Bernadette Baum, John Stonestreet and Tom Hogue)
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Green Bay's city council sees shakeup after flood of special interest investments
GREEN BAY (WLUK) – After an unprecedented amount of special interest money was spent on Green Bay’s city council elections, candidates backed by conservative-leaning groups fared better than those supported by liberal-leaning groups. The 12 city council seats are nonpartisan, but that didn’t stop a flood of...
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News of Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk taking a board seat at Twitter has some Twitter employees panicking over the future of the social media firm's ability to moderate content, company insiders told Reuters.
Within hours of the surprise disclosure this week that Musk, a self-described "free speech absolutist," acquired enough shares to become the top Twitter shareholder, political conservatives began flooding social media with calls for the return of Donald Trump. The former US president was banned from Facebook and Twitter after the Jan 6 Capitol riot over concerns around incitement of violence.
"Now that @ElonMusk is Twitter's largest shareholder, it's time to lift the political censorship. Oh… and BRING BACK TRUMP!," tweeted Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert on Monday (April 4).
Despite Twitter's reiteration this week that the board does not make policy decisions, four Twitter employees who spoke with Reuters said they were concerned about Musk's ability to influence the company's policies on abusive users and harmful content.
With Musk on the board, the employees said his views on moderation could weaken years-long efforts to make Twitter a place of healthy discourse, and might allow trolling and mob attacks to flourish.
In the wake of Trump's ban from Facebook and Twitter, the billionaire tweeted that many people would be unhappy with US tech companies acting "as the de facto arbiter of free speech."
Musk's intentions
Musk has not articulated what he wants to do as a new board member but he has telegraphed his intentions with his Twitter activity. A week before Musk disclosed a 9.1 per cent stake in Twitter, he polled his 80 million followers on whether the site adhered to the principle of free speech, and the majority voted 'no.'
The employees, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution, point to Musk's history of using Twitter to attack critics. In 2018, Musk came under fire for accusing a British diver who had helped rescue children trapped in a cave in Thailand of being a pedophile.
Musk won a defamation case brought by the diver in 2019.
When asked for comment, a Twitter spokesperson repeated a statement from Tuesday that the board "plays an important advisory and feedback role across the entirety of our service," but daily operations and decisions are made by Twitter's management and employees.
"Twitter is committed to impartiality in the development and enforcement of its policies and rules," the spokesperson said.
Some employees that Reuters spoke to were not so sure about the company's commitment to this.
"I find it hard to believe (the board) doesn't have influence," said one employee. "If that's the case, why would Elon want a board seat?"
But other employees Reuters spoke to said that Musk's involvement could help quicken the pace of new feature and product launches, and provide a fresh perspective as an active user of Twitter.
Neither Tesla nor Musk responded to requests for comment.
Twitter's board figures prominently in discussions within Twitter, more so than at other tech companies, one employee said. That is because unlike Meta Platforms Inc, where founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg controls the company through a dual class share structure, Twitter only has a single class of shares, making it more vulnerable to activists like Musk. Teams within Twitter often consider how to communicate a strategy or decision to the board, for instance, the employee said.
On Thursday, Musk tweeted an image from 2018 of him smoking weed on the Joe Rogan podcast on Spotify, with the text: "Twitter's next board meeting is going to be lit."
Trump's return?
One employee familiar with the company's operations said there were no current plans to reinstate Trump. A Twitter spokesperson said there were no plans to reverse any policy decisions.
But a veteran auto analyst who covers Musk's operating style at Tesla said such a decision may only be a matter of time.
"If Donald Trump was actually rich, he would have liked to have done the same thing but he couldn't afford it. So Elon is doing what Trump would have liked to have done," said Guidehouse Insights analyst Sam Abuelsamid.
"I wouldn't be surprised" if Twitter restores Trump's account now that Elon owns nearly 10 per cent of the company," he said.
Longer term, employees said Musk's involvement may change Twitter's corporate culture, which they say currently values inclusivity. Musk has faced widespread criticism for posting memes that mocked transgender people and efforts to stem the spread of Covid-19, and for comparing some world leaders to Hitler.
Several employees were alarmed by the warm welcome Musk received from Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and co-founder Jack Dorsey, which prompted them to hit the job market this week.
"Some people are dusting off their resumes," one person said. "I don’t want to work for somebody (like Musk)."
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The $103 billion Tata Group rolled out its long-awaited all-in-one e-commerce app allowing users to buy everything from apparel to airline tickets as the sprawling Indian conglomerate vies for a piece of the fiercely competitive sector currently dominated by Amazon.com Inc., Walmart Inc. and Reliance Industries Ltd.
Mumbai-based Tata Digital Pvt.’s digital services platform, Tata Neu, which went live to consumers on Thursday, will have in-house brands including Croma, Westside, AirAsia India, the Taj chain of luxury hotels and BigBasket, according to the group’s website. Described as a “super-app” and in the pipeline since at least mid-2020, the website called it “a unified platform that connects several brands across the Tata universe like never before.”
The 154-year-old Tata group, which makes luxury cars, trucks, air conditioners, smart watches, tea besides operating luxury hotels, airlines, utilities, departmental stores and the local Starbucks Corp. franchise, wants to leverage the diversity of its products and services to lure buyers in a country of almost 1.4 billion people, who are increasingly shopping online. India’s e-retail segment is expected to be worth as much as $140 billion by March 2026, Bain & Co. estimates, and is the only large consumer market still open to foreign companies, making it a prize fight for global and local retail firms.
“Tata Neu is an exciting platform that gathers all our brands into one powerful app,” Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chairman of the main holding company Tata Sons Pvt., said in a statement on LinkedIn. Airlines Vistara and the newly acquired Air India, watch maker Titan, jewelry brand Tanishq and automaker Tata Motors Ltd. are some of the other Tata Group firms that are expected to join Neu soon, he said.
The all-in-one app also has a loyalty program for retaining customers. Each brand on Tata Neu is “connected by a common reward called NeuCoins, which can be earned across all brands online and at physical locations and can be used similarly as well,” according to the website.
The e-commerce project was closely overseen by Chandrasekaran who has been championing the digitization drive in the group. Pratik Pal, chief executive officer at Tata Digital, which developed Tata Neu, has helped with digital transformation at some of the world’s largest retail chains including Walmart, Tesco Plc, Target Corp., Best Buy Co. and Marks & Spencer Group Plc.
Tata Neu is expected to give more firepower to the Indian conglomerate against entrenched rivals such as Amazon, billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance and Walmart-owned Flipkart. Tata Group, founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868, that has 29 listed companies across ten sectors across steel, automobiles, technology, consumer retail, infrastructure, financial services, trading, defense, travel and tourism.
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A look at what’s happening around baseball on Friday:
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BRAND NEW BALLGAME
Rachel Balkovec is set to become the first woman to manage a minor league affiliate of a major league team when her Class-A Tampa Tarpons in the New York Yankees’ organization face the Lakeland Flying Tigers in the Florida State League.
“I’ve thought about it plenty,” the 34-year-old Balkovec said last week. “Just trying, with as many distractions there will be, lock in what we’re trying to do on the field and what we have to prepare, and that’s it.”
Balkovec has broken several barriers on her way to the position. She was the first woman to serve as a full-time minor league strength and conditioning coach, then the first to be a full-time hitting coach in the minors with the Yankees.
The Yankees announced her hiring as a minor league manager in January.
Balkovec, a former softball catcher at Creighton and New Mexico, got her first job in professional baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals as a minor league strength and conditioning coach in 2012.
THE MIGHTY MAX
Max Scherzer makes his New York Mets debut in the second game of the season at Washington, the team he helped lead to a World Series title in 2019.
The three-time Cy Young Award winner developed a problem with his right hamstring late in spring training but declared himself “good to go” after coming through some fielding work just fine Thursday at Nationals Park.
“I knew it was a hiccup. I knew it wasn’t a major, like, injury. I’ve done this a couple times and had an idea what it was,” Scherzer said, speaking in the visiting team’s clubhouse at a stadium he called home for 6 1/2 seasons.
Asked what he expects his return to the mound in the nation’s capital to be like, he said: “It’s just going to be a crazy, wild atmosphere.”
“You get used to playing for another team. You go out there and just compete and have fun. A lot of good memories here. There always will be good memories here,” Scherzer said. “But nothing lasts forever.”
Washington traded Scherzer to the Los Angeles Dodgers last July and he finished a combined 15-4 with a 2.46 ERA and 236 strikeouts in 179 1/3 innings. He became a free agent in the fall and signed a $130 million, three-year contract with the Mets.
NEW DIGS
Freddie Freeman, Carlos Correa, Trevor Story and Kris Bryant are some other stars ready to debut for their new teams.
Freeman plays his first game for the Dodgers in Colorado against the Rockies, who signed Bryant to a $182 million contract in the offseason. Freeman, the 2020 NL MVP, inked a $162 million deal with Los Angeles after leading the Atlanta Braves to a World Series championship last season.
After a rainout Thursday, Correa makes his Minnesota debut in a showdown with new Mariners lefty Robbie Ray, the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner. Both players changed teams via free agency, with Correa departing Houston and Ray leaving Toronto.
Story gets his first taste of baseball’s biggest rivalry as his Boston Red Sox face the Yankees in New York, another opener pushed back from Thursday because of bad weather.
GO DEEP
New Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson’s first completion in Denver will be to a catcher.
Wilson will toss out the first pitch when the Rockies host the Los Angeles Dodgers in the season opener. Wilson was once an infielder taken by Colorado in the fourth round of the 2010 draft.
After batting .229 over two minor league seasons, Wilson did an end-around on baseball and chose the gridiron option.
The Broncos acquired Wilson in a deal with Seattle last month. He helped the Seahawks beat Peyton Manning and the Broncos in Super Bowl 48.
“I’m excited the Broncos got him,” Rockies opening day starter Kyle Freeland said. “Veteran quarterback who’s a proven winner.”
Freeland won’t be offering any first-pitch tips to Wilson.
“He knows what he’s doing,” Freeland said. “I’m sure he’s going to fire a strike.”
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From April 10-18, Thought Pyramid Art Centre, Abuja, will be agog as Excel Signature presents ‘Moods Relic of Courage’, a contemporary art showcase by Jude Olotu.
Olotu hails from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. He developed a passion for art as a child while growing up in the northern part of Nigeria, Jos precisely, where the landscape was as though it was painted on a canvass.
In recent years, Olotu has showcased his unique style of eclectic art in New York and France. His arts stood out among a plethora of exhibited works at the just concluded World Art Dubai Exhibition. The genius of Olotu has created and nurtured many talents including art students, leading to the creation of Excel Signature Creative Hub located in Abuja.
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How do you solve a problem like Marjorie?
Even after Twitter banned Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account for a fifth strike violation of spreading false COVID-19 information in January, the Jewish space laser conspiracy theorist still, inexplicably, has control of her official Twitter account. And boy is she putting it to work.
In the wake of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Greene took to social media Monday night to smear the soon-to-be justice and the senators who will be voting to confirm her, including three Republicans.
In a long and unhinged thread, she trafficked in the dishonest GOP talking point that Jackson was “soft” on child pornography offenders in her sentencings.
This grotesque trope was parroted by Republican senators during the hearing, led by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri. The attack was so offensive on its face that even one right-wing National Review writer admitted it was “disingenuous,” calling the allegation “meritless to the point of demagoguery.”
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Over at Fox, the prime-time personalities were happy to roll with it. As one host asked baselessly, “Why would you sympathize with people who possess child pornography?”
Of course, this is not what Jackson did. As The Washington Post and myriad other fact-checkers have pointed out, this appalling claim is a dishonest distortion that takes her remarks on child pornography sentencing out of context, mischaracterizes the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s work, and twists her record.
And, inconveniently for the right-wing smear-mongers, several Trump-appointed judges handed down similar sentences — and were confirmed by Republicans, including Hawley.
But Marj has never met a conspiracy theory she didn’t like, so naturally she’s taking it to cartoonish extremes.
Her five-part Twitter rant read in part: ”Any Senator voting to confirm #KJB is pro-pedophile just like she is.”
“There are MANY more qualified black women judges, that actually can define what a woman is, but Biden chose the one that protects evil child predators.”
“You are either a Senator that supports child rapists, child pornography, and the most vile child predators. Or you are a Senator who protects children and votes NO to KJB!”
“[Sen. Lisa] Murkowski, [Sen. Susan] Collins, and [Sen. Mitt] Romney are pro-pedophile. They just voted for #KBJ.”
Now, I asked around to see if this constituted actual malice, the bar by which courts determine defamation against a public person — because I can’t think of a worse smear than calling someone “pro-pedophile.”
Experts agree it falls within the realm of opinion, vile as it may be.
But the better question is why hasn’t Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell condemned these horrific attacks on members of his body?
It would seem to be asking too much for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to condemn Greene for smearing Jackson — she is, after all, a Biden nominee. But for Murkowski, Collins and Romney, Greene’s allegations are a direct attack on the Senate itself, littered, as she would believe, with “pro-pedophiles” and people who support child predators.
McConnell, whom Greene has called “Biden’s b——-,” has taken on Greene before. Last year he released a statement pointed directly at her: “Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country,” it read. “Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality.”
A few months later, he scolded her again for comparing COVID-19 regulations to Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews, calling it “reprehensible.”
Recently, he distanced himself and the party from Greene’s views on Russia, calling her one of “some lonely voices out there that are in a different place.”
Now, these are hardly profiles in courage — Greene is an embarrassing disaster — but McConnell’s condemnations are further than McCarthy has ever gone.
His spinelessness when it comes to Greene is well-noted.
McCarthy dodged and dithered before actually condemning her attendance at a white nationalist rally — as if that were a gray area — but said afterward that Greene would still get her committee assignments back if Republicans win the House this year.
So, for all her cancerous behavior in the House, McCarthy will essentially give her a promotion.
But will either McCarthy or McConnell summon the courage to state the obvious now, which is that Greene’s attacks on her Senate colleagues are unacceptable? Will McConnell call these “loony lies,” “reprehensible” or something else? Will McCarthy finally do anything about Greene, besides promising to reward her in the future?
We’ll see if Republican leadership would rather their members be labeled pro-pedophiles than have to distance themselves from the lunatic who called them that. Should be an easy decision — but don’t hold your breath.
S.E. Cupp is the host of “S.E. Cupp Unfiltered” on CNN. A political commentator and longtime conservative, she is author of “Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media’s Attack on Christianity” and co-author of “Why You’re Wrong About the Right: Behind the Myths.”
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WATCH: People jump from boat being crushed under drawbridge
JUPITER, Fla. (WPEC) - It was a close call for this group of boaters last week when a drawbridge in Florida began to move, partially crushing their pontoon and sending some jumping over the edge in fear.
Thankfully, no one was hurt.
“I think they were trying to move the boat, but the bridge ended up folding on them so they couldn’t move,” said Gillian Pisciotto, who witnessed the incident.
Pisciotto captured now-viral footage of the terrifying moment.
She said she is relieved that the group all walked away unharmed.
“Well, I started screaming at them to move,” she said. “I thought everyone was not going to make it.”
It’s still not clear what the boaters were doing under the bridge. Instead of passing under the main channel, it appears as if the group stopped under a portion of the bridge close to the intercoastal waterway.
There are signs there clearly marked “unauthorized personnel prohibited” and “danger moving machinery.”
The bridge is operated by Palm Beach County.
The county’s public works department was asked if there are cameras under the bridge that the tender on duty could have checked before raising the bridge.
A spokesperson said there are some cameras in the vicinity but couldn’t say where they’re positioned.
Pisciotto said she believes there should be more surveillance under those bridges.
“Yeah, I think would be best just to make sure that like cops could come and make sure they know what happened, instead of having like people just guess what happened,” she said.
According to a manual for bridgetenders in the county, operators are supposed to check for boats, but it’s not clear if every bridge has the equipment to do so.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona's Pavin Smith sliced a line-drive single to start the seventh inning, ending an opening day no-hit bid by the San Diego Padres on Thursday night.
Yu Darvish threw the first six innings for San Diego without giving up a hit, but he was pulled before the seventh after throwing 92 pitches. Manager Bob Melvin's decision wasn't a surprise: Pitchers all around the game are on limited pitch counts following a shortened spring training.
Left-hander Tim Hill relieved Darvish, matching up against the left-handed Smith to start the seventh, but the hitter responded with a clean single to left. The next batter, Carson Kelly, grounded into a double play.
Darvish — a five-time All-Star — made his third opening day start and second for the Padres. The 35-year-old struck out three and walked four.
Bob Feller threw baseball's only opening-day no-hitter for Cleveland in 1940. The Hall of Famer was 21 years old when he accomplished the feat against the White Sox.
There were a record nine no-hitters thrown across the majors last season. Most of those came before a midseason crackdown by Major League Baseball on the use of illegal sticky substances by pitchers.
The Padres led 2-0. It's a rough offensive start for the Diamondbacks, who are trying to bounce back from a 110-loss season.
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Recent release "Notorious Two-Bit Street: Second Edition" from Page Publishing authors Lyle and Jean Barnes offers a vivid and evocative portrait of the sights, sounds, and human faces of the three infamous blocks along Ogden, Utah's Twenty-Fifth Street, a bastion of immorality in the heart of a devout Mormon community. Home to raucous saloons, brothels, and gambling establishments, Two-Bit Street, as it was called in its early twentieth-century prime, is brought to life through meticulous research, contemporaneous sociopolitical commentary, and a generous array of historical photographs.
HURRICANE, Utah, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Lyle Barnes, a University of Utah graduate and attorney who practiced law in Kaysville, Utah from 1971 until his retirement in 2007, and Jean Barnes, a Utah native and gifted musician who has been happily married to Lyle for more than forty years, have completed their new book "Notorious Two-Bit Street: Second Edition": an updated and enhanced history of the world-famous yet improbable hotbed of vice in the center of Ogden, Utah.
Madams of brothels, houses of gambling, rampant government corruption—all these were found in a late 1800s Mormon community. This is the fascinating, well-researched, true history of Two-Bit Street—a street that became known throughout the world for its ladies of the evening and saloons that never closed. The American West's wildest poured into this small Utah town after it was chosen to be the Junction City for the newly constructed 1869 transcontinental railroad. A history that spans three quarters of a century, this book shows how a pious people can be overpowered by an uncontrollable malignancy of lust. At times inspiring, this book also unveils the struggle between deep corruption and those who wanted this corruption to be destroyed. Infamous Twenty-Fifth Street in Ogden has been named as one of the ten great streets in America because of its past notoriety and its complete contiguous turn-of-the-century commercial architecture which remains as a witness of that colorful past. Lyle J. Barnes is the street's original historian, and many other authors have quoted his history of Twenty-Fifth Street. With the fine additional research and writing done by Jean Barnes, this second edition makes Lyle's best-selling history better than ever.
Published by Page Publishing, Lyle and Jean Barnes' engrossing book is a fascinating and historical portrait of an unforgettable neighborhood at a bustling junction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
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Skier died in avalanche at Whistler Blackcomb, RCMP say
A man in his 30s died in an incident on Whistler Mountain this week, a spokesperson for the ski resort confirmed to CTV News.
The skier, who has been identified only as a 34-year-old, died Tuesday in what Vail Resorts called a "ski incident."
The company provided no further details on the incident other than it occurred at the base of the West Ridge ski run. It's a black diamond run, meaning advanced, located along what a map from Whistler Blackcomb designates as a "cliff area."
In a news release confirming the fatality Thursday, Whistler RCMP said there had been a "Size 1 avalanche" that swept up the victim.
Size 1 refers to the smallest avalanches, which are considered unlikely to bury a person, though they can still be dangerous depending on the terrain.
Police said they were called to the resort shortly before 4 p.m. Tuesday by "several skiers" who had located the victim in need of medical assistance. No other victims of the avalanche were located, police said.
Whistler RCMP said it will be working with the BC Coroners Service and the Whistler Blackcomb health and safety team on its investigation, adding that another avalanche - this one Size 2, slightly larger than the first - had been reported on Wednesday in the West Col area.
"The snowpack in and around Whistler is unstable at the moment due to the warming weather and snowfall this past week" said Staff Sgt. Sascha Banks, in the RCMP release.
"We are recommending everyone to check your area prior to touring in the backcountry or Whistler Blackcomb, know your skill level, trip plan, have the appropriate equipment, and have friends with you. Our thoughts are with the family, friends, and the responding team from the man found on Tuesday."
A Vail Resorts spokesperson said the skier was pronounced dead "after emergency care and evaluation," and quoted COO Geoff Buchheister expressing the company's "deepest sympathy" to the man's family and friends.
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The Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday proposed to make cardless cash withdrawal facility available across all banks and ATM networks using Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
At present, cardless cash withdrawal facility is available only at select banks across the country.
At present, cardless cash withdrawal facility is available only at select banks across the country.
"In addition to enhancing the ease of transactions, the absence of the need for physical card for such transaction would help prevent frauds such as card scheming, card cloning, etc," Das said.
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A cargo airplane broke up during an emergency landing in Costa Rica on Thursday, in an accident that provoked the temporary closure of the international airport in San Jose.
Smoke was billowing from the bright yellow plane of German logistics giant DHL as it ground to a halt, having slid off the runway when it spun and broke up around the rear wheels.
Two crew members aboard were “in a good condition," said the chief of Costa Rica’s firefighters, Hector Chaves.
Nonetheless, the Guatemalan pair were sent to hospital as a precaution “for a medical check-up," according to Guido Vasquez, a Red Cross worker.
The pilot was shaken up but both crew were conscious and “remember everything vividly," added Vasquez.
The accident happened just before 10:30 am (1630 GMT) after the Boeing-757 plane, which had taken off from the Juan Santamaria international airport outside San Jose, was forced to return 25 minutes later for an emergency landing due to a mechanical failure.
The crew apparently had alerted local authorities to a hydraulic problem.
The airport was closed until 6:00 pm.
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Jackson will join more diverse and conservative high court
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will join a Supreme Court that is both more diverse than ever and more conservative than it’s been since the 1930s.
She’s likely to be on the losing end of a bunch of important cases, including examinations of the role of race in college admissions and voting rights that the high court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, will take up next term.
Jackson, 51, is the first Black woman confirmed to the Supreme Court following Thursday’s 53-47 vote by the Senate. She won’t join the court for several months, until Justice Stephen Breyer retires once the court wraps up its work for the summer — including its verdict on whether to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights.
When Jackson takes the bench as a justice for the first time, in October, she will be one of four women and two Black justices — both high court firsts.
And the nine-member court as a whole will be younger than it’s been for nearly 30 years, when Breyer, now 83, came on board.
Among the younger justices are three appointees of former President Donald Trump, and the court’s historic diversity won’t obscure its conservative tilt.
In Breyer’s final term, the conservative justices already have left their mark even before deciding major cases on abortion, guns, religion and climate change. By 5-4 or 6-3 votes, they allowed an unusual Texas law to remain in effect that bans abortions after roughly six weeks; stopped the Biden administration from requiring large employers to have a workforce that is vaccinated against COVID-19 or be masked and tested; and left in place redrawn Alabama congressional districts that a lower court with two Trump appointees found shortchanged Black voters in violation of federal law.
Jackson’s replacement of Breyer, for whom she once worked as a law clerk, won’t alter that Supreme Court math.
“She’s just going to be swimming against the tide every day. That’s a lot to take on,” said Robin Walker Sterling, a Northwestern University law professor.
But Jackson’s presence could make a difference in the perspective she brings and how she expresses herself in her opinions, said Payvand Ahdout, a University of Virginia law professor.
Jackson, who was raised in Miami, may see the high court’s cases about race “from the lens of being a Black woman who grew up in the South. She has an opportunity early on to show how representation matters,” Ahdout said.
During her Senate confirmation hearings, Jackson pledged to sit out the court’s consideration of Harvard’s admissions program, since she is a member of its board of overseers. But the court could split off a second case involving a challenge to the University of North Carolina’s admissions process, which might allow her to weigh in on the issue.
“Historically, the court goes to some length to try to get as much participation as possible. So I wouldn’t be surprised to see the two dealt with separately,” said Ahdout, who was a clerk to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg the last time the court dealt with race in college admissions, in 2016. Just seven justices took part in that case, because Justice Antonin Scalia died before it was decided and Justice Elena Kagan had been involved as a Justice Department official before joining the court.
For now, Jackson might not have much to do. She remains a judge on the federal appeals court in Washington, but she stepped away from cases there when President Joe Biden nominated her to the Supreme Court in February and will continue to do so, a White House official said.
That could reduce the number of times Jackson has to recuse herself from any of her old cases that later make their way to the Supreme Court.
Breyer said in January that he would retire once his successor had been confirmed, but not before the end of the term. With a bare Senate majority, Democrats didn’t want to risk waiting until the summer for confirmation hearings and a vote.
That leaves Jackson in a situation that is “unprecedented in modern times,” said Marin Levy, a Duke University law professor who studies the federal judiciary.
Most new justices begin work a few days after they are confirmed, Levy said. Justice Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in to the court just a few hours after his tumultuous Senate vote.
Jackson could spend time arranging for her clerks and other staff for the Supreme Court, and closing down her current office.
But she won’t have to find new housing or upend the lives of her husband and children. Her new workplace is less than a mile from the court of appeals.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra): Lucknow Super Giants' wicket-keeper batter Quinton de Kock earned the 'Player of the Match' award for scoring 80 runs off 52 balls and guiding his team to a six-wicket win against Delhi Capitals here at the DY Patil Stadium.
"I just play what is put in front of me. It was a chaseable score but we made sure not to get too ahead of ourselves. We just wanted to keep wickets in hand, " said Quinton de Kock in the post-match presentation ceremony.
Quinton de Kock along with his captain KL Rahul had put on 73 runs for the opening wicket and then he had a 36-run stand with Deepak Hooda for the third wicket to take his team closer to victory. In his 80-run knock, he smashed nine boundaries and two sixes.
"Obviously, Prithvi made it look easy and I also felt the wicket was a bit low and slower balls were gripping. It was a matter of playing straightish," said Quinton de Kock.
Quinton de Kock's 80-run knock paved the way for Lucknow Super Giants' third consecutive win of the season. Lucknow team under the leadership of KL Rahul have now won three matches out of four and are now placed in the second spot in the IPL Points Table. Lucknow Super Giants will now face Rajasthan Royals on Sunday.
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DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic made history on the night his Denver Nuggets clinched a fourth consecutive playoff berth with a 122-109 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies.
Jokic became the first player in NBA history with 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 500 assists in a season.
He had 35 points, 16 rebounds, six assists and five steals Thursday night.
“Dude is really great at basketball,” teammate Bones Hyland said.
Jokic's big night came after taking an inadvertent elbow from Jaren Jackson Jr. to the right forehead and temple that drew blood in the opening minute.
After having to retreat to the bench twice to stop the bleeding, Jokic donned a red headband for the remainder of the game as he helped the Nuggets (48-33) overcome a shaky start to avoid a season sweep at the hands of the Grizzlies.
“The MVP isn't even a competition,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone declared afterward. “There's other great players. I'm not saying they're not great players. But what Nikola Jokic has done this year — with this team — everything we've had to go through, is just incredible.
“He was good last year and he's even better this year.”
Despite missing stars Jamal Murray and Kevin Porter Jr., the Nuggets clinched a top-six spot in the Western Conference playoffs and avoided the four-team play-in thanks to another outstanding performance from the reigning MVP.
They can still win the Northwest Division with a victory Sunday night against the Lakers and two losses by the Utah Jazz (48-32), who finish up against Phoenix and Portland.
Aaron Gordon added 22 points for Denver and Desmond Bane had 14 points for the Grizzlies, who were coming off an overtime loss at Utah on Wednesday night, have already captured the first division title in their history along with securing the second seed in the West.
The Grizzlies are hopeful of getting All-Star guard Ja Morant back this weekend from a right knee injury that has sidelined him since March 18.
Jokic was hit in the head on the Grizzlies' first bucket, a drive by Jaren Jackson Jr., and retreated to the bench for treatment. He wasn't back on the court for long before returning to the sideline for more treatment and a red headband.
“My first thought was Steve Nash in that playoff series and they couldn't stop the bleeding,” Malone said. "And I'm saying, ‘Of all games, Nikola gets a very non-malicious elbow, an inadvertent elbow to the head and he's bleeding.'
“I'm saying, ‘Not tonight."
Malone said he implored his trainers to do whatever they could to staunch the flow of blood.
“Like, get a staple gun out here," Malone said. "And it finally stopped and Nikola put on another MVP performance."
While making NBA history.
TIP-INS
Grizzlies: Memphis remains one win shy of tying the franchise record for wins in a single season (56-26 in 2012-13). ... Despite back-to-back losses to Utah and Denver, the Grizzlies finished 26-15 away from home, the NBA's second-best road record behind the Suns' 31-9 mark.
Nuggets: PG Jamal Murray missed his 81st game, but the Nuggets still haven't ruled out a return either Sunday in the regular season finale or in the playoffs. Murray tore his left ACL last April 12.
MORE MORANT
The Grizzlies’ leading scorer, Morant has ramped up his work over the last week. Morant is averaging 27.6 points. He missed 12 games earlier this season with a left knee sprain and sat out the game before getting hurt at Atlanta with back soreness.
Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins said they would like to have at least one game with their full contingent before the postseason. But health matters more.
“If that’s not what’s the recommendation of the medical team, we don’t feel like that’s the smartest move, then we won’t do it,” Jenkins said.
COURTSIDE VIPS
Among the VIPs at courtside was Broncos new QB Russell Wilson and his wife, R&B singer-songwriter Ciara.
“So, that was an added bonus,” Malone said of seeing Ciara, who's also a model and dancer.
He didn't introduce himself to Ciara, “but I talked to the guy she was with, but I didn't get his name,” cracked Malone.
UP NEXT
Grizzlies: Return home to face New Orleans on Saturday and Boston on Sunday to wrap up the regular season.
Nuggets: Wrap up the regular season at home Sunday night against the Lakers, who are sitting out these playoffs.
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Friday Summaries from Mexican football (home teams listed first): Mexico Primera A, ClausuraMexico Primera Division, Apertura
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Next Fifteen Communications Group's (LON:NFC) Dividend Will Be Increased To UK£0.084
Next Fifteen Communications Group plc (LON:NFC) will increase its dividend on the 12th of August to UK£0.084. Despite this raise, the dividend yield of 0.9% is only a modest boost to shareholder returns.
See our latest analysis for Next Fifteen Communications Group
Next Fifteen Communications Group Might Find It Hard To Continue The Dividend
Even a low dividend yield can be attractive if it is sustained for years on end. Even though Next Fifteen Communications Group isn't generating a profit, it is generating healthy free cash flows that easily cover the dividend. This gives us some comfort about the level of the dividend payments.
Looking forward, earnings per share could 69.8% over the next year if the trend of the last few years can't be broken. This means that the company won't turn a profit over the next year, but with healthy cash flows at the moment the dividend could still be okay to continue.
Dividend Volatility
Although the company has a long dividend history, it has been cut at least once in the last 10 years. Since 2012, the first annual payment was UK£0.021, compared to the most recent full-year payment of UK£0.17. This implies that the company grew its distributions at a yearly rate of about 23% over that duration. Despite the rapid growth in the dividend over the past number of years, we have seen the payments go down the past as well, so that makes us cautious.
The Dividend Has Limited Growth Potential
Given that the dividend has been cut in the past, we need to check if earnings are growing and if that might lead to stronger dividends in the future. Next Fifteen Communications Group's EPS has fallen by approximately 70% per year during the past five years. This steep decline can indicate that the business is going through a tough time, which could constrain its ability to pay a larger dividend each year in the future.
Next Fifteen Communications Group's Dividend Doesn't Look Sustainable
Overall, this is probably not a great income stock, even though the dividend is being raised at the moment. In the past, the payments have been unstable, but over the short term the dividend could be reliable, with the company generating enough cash to cover it. Overall, we don't think this company has the makings of a good income stock.
Companies possessing a stable dividend policy will likely enjoy greater investor interest than those suffering from a more inconsistent approach. Still, investors need to consider a host of other factors, apart from dividend payments, when analysing a company. For instance, we've picked out 1 warning sign for Next Fifteen Communications Group that investors should take into consideration. Looking for more high-yielding dividend ideas? Try our collection of strong dividend payers.
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Ukrainian leaders predict more gruesome discoveries ahead
CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian leaders predicted there would be more gruesome discoveries in the days ahead after retreating Russian forces left behind crushed buildings, streets strewn with destroyed cars and mounting civilian casualties that drew condemnation from across the globe.
Kremlin forces devastated the northern city of Chernihiv as part of their attempt to sweep south toward the capital before retreating. In the aftermath, dozens of people lined up to receive bread, diapers and medicine from vans parked outside a shattered school now serving as an aid-distribution point.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned Thursday that despite a recent Russian pullback, the country remains vulnerable, and he pleaded for weapons from NATO and other sympathetic countries to help face down an expected offensive in the east. Nations from the alliance agreed to increase their supply of arms, spurred on by reports that Russian forces committed atrocities in areas surrounding the capital.
The mayor of Bucha, near Kyiv, said investigators have found at least three sites of mass shootings of civilians during the Russian occupation. Most victims died from gunshots, not from shelling, he said, and some corpses with their hands tied were “dumped like firewood” into recently discovered mass graves, including one at a children’s camp.
Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk said the count of dead civilians stood at 320 as of Wednesday, but he expected the number to rise as more bodies are found in his city, which once had a population of 50,000. Only 3,700 now remain, he said.
In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that the horrors of Bucha could be only the beginning. In the northern city of Borodianka, just 30 kilometers northwest of Bucha, Zelenskyy warned of even more casualties, saying “there it is much more horrible.”
Ukrainian officials said earlier this week that the bodies of 410 civilians were found in towns around the capital city. Volunteers have spent days collecting the corpses, and more were picked up Thursday in Bucha.
In the seaport city of Mariupol, Ukranian authorities expected to find much the same. “The same cruelty. The same terrible crimes,” Zelenskyy said.
Ukrainian and several Western leaders have blamed the massacres on Moscow’s troops, and the weekly Der Spiegel reported that Germany’s foreign intelligence agency had intercepted radio messages between Russian soldiers discussing the killings of civilians. Russia has falsely claimed that the scenes in Bucha were staged.
In the 6-week-old war, Russian forces failed to take Ukraine’s capital quickly, denying what Western countries said was Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s initial aim of ousting the Ukrainian government. In the wake of that setback and heavy losses, Russia shifted its focus to the Donbas, a mostly Russian-speaking, industrial region in eastern Ukraine where Moscow-backed rebels have been fighting Ukrainian forces for eight years.
On Thursday, a day after Russian forces began shelling their village in the southern Mykolaiv region, Sergei Dubovienko, 52, drove north in his small blue Lada with his wife and mother-in-law to Bashtanka, where they found temporary shelter in a church.
“They started destroying the houses and everything” in Pavlo-Marianovka, he said. “Then the tanks appeared from the forest. We thought that in the morning there would be shelling again, so I decided to leave.”
Hundreds of people have been fleeing villages in the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions that are either under attack or occupied by Russian forces.
Tatiana Vizavik, 50, fled Chernobaievka in the Kherson region with her son, daughter-in-law and six grandchildren.
When the Russian attack began, they moved to the basement of an apartment building and spent five nights there. “We had nothing to eat. We had no drinking water,” Vizavik said. “We were frightened to go out. Then some volunteers starting helping us.”
She said they don’t know whether their house survived the shelling because they were too frightened to check before leaving town. They hope to reach safety in the Czech Republic.
Marina Morozova and her husband fled from Kherson, the first major city to fall to the Russians.
“They are waiting for a big battle. We saw shells that did not explode. It was horrifying,” she said.
Morozova, 69, said the only news people get is from Russian television and radio. She said the Russians handed out humanitarian aid so they could film the distribution.
Anxious to keep moving away from areas that Russian troops have reached, the couple and others boarded a van that would take them west. Some will try to leave the country, while others will remain in quieter parts of Ukraine.
The United Nations estimates the war has displaced at least 6.5 million people within the country.
The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, said that more than 4 million have left Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion on Feb. 24 and sparked Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II. Half of the refugees are children, according to UNHCR and the U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF.
The International Organization for Migration, which tracks not just refugees but all people on the move from their homes, estimated that more than 12 million people are stranded in areas of Ukraine under attack.
The United Nations’ humanitarian chief told The Associated Press on Thursday that he’s “not optimistic” about securing a cease-fire after meeting with officials in Kyiv and in Moscow this week, underlining the lack of trust the two sides have for one another. He spoke hours after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Ukraine of backtracking on proposals it had made over Crimea and Ukraine’s military status.
It’s not clear how long it will take withdrawing Russian forces to redeploy, and Ukrainian officials have urged people in the country’s east to leave before the fighting intensifies there.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Ukrainian and Russian officials agreed to establish civilian evacuation routes Thursday from several areas in the Donbas.
In addition to spurring NATO countries to send more arms, the revelations about possible war crimes led Western nations to step up sanctions, and the Group of Seven major world powers warned that they will continue strengthening the measures until Russian troops leave Ukraine.
The U.S. Congress voted Thursday to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and ban the importation of its oil, while the European Union approved punishing new steps, including an embargo on coal imports. The U.N. General Assembly, meanwhile, voted to suspend Russia from the world organization’s leading human rights body.
U.S. President Joe Biden said the U.N. vote demonstrated how “Putin’s war has made Russia an international pariah.” He called the images coming from Bucha “horrifying.”
“The signs of people being raped, tortured, executed — in some cases having their bodies desecrated — are an outrage to our common humanity,” Biden said.
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Schreck reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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The Lord tells us that as we do for the least of these, we do for Him, but I’m kinda struggling with something that I hope you can help me with.
I live in downtown Dallas and pretty much every day I come across someone panhandling, and I do my best to help when I can. But even then I have people like the man yesterday who snatched the dollar I was handing him and, I’ll be honest, my heart hasn’t always been kind … how can I best be a reflection of God in those circumstances? What do you do?
-Sonny
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2023: Soyinka slams APC, PDP, reveals what he would do during election
Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka has revealed what he would do during the 2023 general elections.
According to the playwright, it is very likely he would just take French leave of the elections and just watch the results.
As the 2023 elections draw near, Soyinka said he might be a spectator, describing the country’s political scene as “turbid”.
“So, very likely, all I would do is take French leave from the elections and just watch the results,” he said.
Soyinka said this at a press conference in Lagos on Thursday, berating the two leading political parties in the country, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, whose members cross-carpet at the slightest provocation.
Soyinka slammed the most popular parties for the gale of defections, saying that it was now difficult to distinguish between both political parties.
“Look at the two major parties, there has been such cross over from one rivulet to another, each crossing having its own purpose, that it is getting difficult to even distinguish between the two major parties,” Soyinka added.
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Consumers spared annual price reviews in hard times
Friday April 08 2022Summary
- The inflation adjustment, which came to force in 2018, is a means of protecting the government’s spending power from being eroded by the rising cost of living.
- Consumers and manufacturers of the excisable goods have in the past two years protested upward adjustment of taxes in line with average inflation for the previous year, citing economic hardships brought about by Covid-19 shocks.
Consumers will be spared annual price increases on a range of excisable goods like fuel, beer, motorcycles and bottled water during a hard economic period if MPs approve proposed changes to the Excise Duty Act.
The proposed amendments have empowered the Kenya Revenue Authority Commissioner-General Githii Mburu to exclude some products from annual inflation tax adjustments depending on economic circumstances facing producers and consumers of the applicable goods.
At the moment, Mr Mburu has no power to exclude any of the about 31 excisable goods from higher taxes in line with inflation.
The inflation adjustment, which came to force in 2018, is a means of protecting the government’s spending power from being eroded by the rising cost of living.
Consumers and manufacturers of the excisable goods have in the past two years protested upward adjustment of taxes in line with average inflation for the previous year, citing economic hardships brought about by Covid-19 shocks.
“It has been observed that the adjustment may not always be appropriate for some products, depending on the economic and social environment facing these products at that time,” said Treasury secretary Ukur Yatani in his Budget Statement on Thursday evening.
“To address this, I propose to empower the Commissioner General of KRA to exclude, from inflation adjustment, such products after consideration of the prevailing economic circumstances.”
This, if endorsed by lawmakers, will come as a relief to consumers and manufacturers who have been calling for a change in the legal regime to consider unique economic circumstances before raising the duties.
For example, the KRA was last November forced to exclude petroleum products from a 4.97 percent tax increment after two consumers — Isaiah Odando and Wilson Yata — challenged the enforcement in court on grounds of hard economic conditions.
The adjustment in excise duty, which initially targeted Sh3.7 billion between last October and June 2022, was paused until November 2 after Justice James Makau issued an injunction on fuel taxes pending the determination of the case.
Earlier in the year, giant beer manufacturer East Africa Breweries Limited (EABL) #ticker:EABL and beverages maker Coca-Cola had unsuccessfully lobbied lawmakers to have the excise duty reviewed every two years and three years, respectively.
“The problem with that inflation adjustment is that it put in law a mandatory excise increase every year.
“So what will happen is that beer price in Kenya, which is already the most expensive in the region, will get worse,” EABL’s chief executive Jane Karuku said in an interview in July last year.
“If we continue increasing like this, people will go to the spirits and spirits is where you find a lot of counterfeit, unlike beer.”
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Thefts reported April 5
Patrick Hemke, 2602 N. 26th St., burglary at 1016 N. 10th St.
Shira Hemke, 2602 N. 26th St., burglary at 1016 N. 10th St.
Brian Auxier, 2714 Olive St., vehicle stolen at 3906 Pickett Road.
Jeffery Uzzle, Savannah, Missouri, items stolen at 724 N. 22nd St.
Damon Grippando, 1820 Clay St., burglary.
Vandalism reported April 5
Vanessa Pritchett, 2727 S. 21st St., destruction of property at 1800 Commercial St.
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Welcome to our live blog dedicated to helping your journey run smoothly. We will mostly focus on the traffic chaos continues across Kent due to the Operation Brock contraflow on the M20, the A20, and the A2.
These routes have been affected at the Port of Dover due to reduced ferry movement at the Eastern Docks. This is because P&O Ferries is not operating at the moment, as its vessels are undergoing safety reviews. It is not known when its vessels will be reinstated.
All non-freight traffic is being urged to use the A20 instead of the M20. On the other hand, freight traffic which comes off at J8 of the M20 is then sent back down into the holding areas as they await clearance to head to the Channel Crossings.
READ MORE: Operation Brock: Dramatic photos show extent of M20 traffic chaos as Dover brought to a standstill
We will also be adding updates on Kent and Medway's roads and rail too and the very latest updates, pictures and video. If you have any pictures or information to share with us about this or any other story, you can email breakingsoutheast@reachplc.com
See below for the latest.
Key Events
Higham roadworks cause delays
Drivers going through Higham will face long delays as temporary traffic lights set up for roadworks in Pear Lane have stopped working.
Higham, A226 Gravesend Road. Traffic lights at the Pear Tree Lane junction are not working. An engineer is attending. Expect delays in the area & approach with caution: https://t.co/EOMgtAR4bp
— KCC Highways (@KentHighways) April 8, 2022
Operation Brock diversion route
As lorries queue on the motorway, local traffic / any non freight vehicles, as well as Eurotunnel cars and holiday traffic, are being diverted to the A20 instead. All freight traffic for Eurotunnel or Dover must go through this holding area.
Dover A2 update
The A2 / Jubilee Way on the coastbound carriageway is closed due to traffic. This is due to a management system to prevent lorries from trying to bypass the holding areas between A258 (St Margaret's At Cliffe / Deal Rondabout ) and A20 (Eastern Docks roundabout).
Non freight traffic is being diverted to Castle Hill Road.
M20 update
According to traffic monitoring site Inrix; the M20 coastbound closed due to Operation Brock as the motorway is being used to hold lorries heading for the channel crossings between J8 (Leeds Castle / Maidstone Services) and J11 (Hythe / Westenhanger).
The London-bound side remains open to all traffic.
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Annie Stella Bowden 1932 – 2022 BRUNSWICK – Annie S. Bowden, born March 19, 1932 in Perry, passed away peacefully April 3, 2022 at Horizon’s Living and Rehab Brunswick with family at her side. Daughter of Eder and Lucy (Sherman) Pottle of Perry. She was an honor graduate of Shead Memorial High School and graduate of Beals Business College. Employed as a senior secretary at BIW for 22 years, she was an active member of Grace Episcopal Church for 67 years and served on the altar guild. She loved living on the coast of Maine, taking family outings to the beaches of Maine and Mountains of New Hampshire and reading Harry Potter. Predeceased by her parents Eder and Lucy Pottle; and her husband of 50 years, James A. Bowden; three brothers and their spouses, Raymond and Betty Pottle of Bangor, Charles and Mary Pottle of Perry, and David and Joanne Pottle of Bath. Survived by her four children and their spouses, Warren and Paula Bowden of New Hampshire, Donna and Mitch Miller of Wisconsin, Don Bowden and Lori Green of Florida, Bill and Robyn Bowden of Florida; and sister, Irma DeWitt of Brunswick; 13 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; 10 nieces and nephews; numerous grandnieces and nephews. There will be a graveside service June 10 at 11 a.m. in Oak Grove Cemetery in Bath, and a celebration of life reception will immediately follow at the Grace Episcopal Church, 1100 Washington St. in Bath. Please share condolences and memories with her family and friends at http://www.brackettfh.com
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Newmont Co. (NYSE:NEM – Get Rating) – Research analysts at Raymond James lifted their Q2 2022 EPS estimates for shares of Newmont in a report released on Tuesday, April 5th. Raymond James analyst B. Macarthur now anticipates that the basic materials company will post earnings of $0.80 per share for the quarter, up from their previous forecast of $0.75. Raymond James currently has a “Outperform” rating and a $82.00 target price on the stock. Raymond James also issued estimates for Newmont’s Q3 2022 earnings at $0.87 EPS, Q4 2022 earnings at $0.87 EPS, FY2022 earnings at $3.30 EPS, Q1 2023 earnings at $0.68 EPS, Q2 2023 earnings at $0.70 EPS, Q3 2023 earnings at $0.71 EPS and Q4 2023 earnings at $0.73 EPS.
Newmont (NYSE:NEM – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 24th. The basic materials company reported $0.78 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.77 by $0.01. The business had revenue of $3.40 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.38 billion. Newmont had a net margin of 9.54% and a return on equity of 10.19%. The firm’s revenue was up .6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.06 EPS.
NEM stock opened at $81.03 on Thursday. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $71.45 and a 200-day moving average price of $62.33. The company has a market capitalization of $64.22 billion, a P/E ratio of 55.88 and a beta of 0.30. Newmont has a 52-week low of $52.60 and a 52-week high of $83.72. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.28, a quick ratio of 2.55 and a current ratio of 2.90.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, March 24th. Investors of record on Thursday, March 10th were paid a dividend of $0.55 per share. This represents a $2.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.72%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, March 9th. Newmont’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 151.72%.
In other Newmont news, CFO Nancy Buese sold 10,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, March 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $79.00, for a total transaction of $790,000.00. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, SVP Blake Rhodes sold 500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, February 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $62.00, for a total value of $31,000.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 70,343 shares of company stock worth $5,082,613. 0.11% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the business. BlackRock Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Newmont by 0.4% in the third quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 92,169,488 shares of the basic materials company’s stock valued at $5,004,805,000 after acquiring an additional 387,477 shares in the last quarter. State Street Corp grew its holdings in shares of Newmont by 1.6% in the fourth quarter. State Street Corp now owns 40,349,321 shares of the basic materials company’s stock valued at $2,502,465,000 after acquiring an additional 616,798 shares in the last quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp grew its holdings in shares of Newmont by 6.0% in the fourth quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp now owns 39,746,651 shares of the basic materials company’s stock valued at $2,465,087,000 after acquiring an additional 2,256,671 shares in the last quarter. Flossbach Von Storch AG grew its holdings in shares of Newmont by 0.9% in the fourth quarter. Flossbach Von Storch AG now owns 17,186,588 shares of the basic materials company’s stock valued at $1,065,912,000 after acquiring an additional 147,793 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Geode Capital Management LLC grew its holdings in shares of Newmont by 2.6% in the fourth quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 12,994,833 shares of the basic materials company’s stock valued at $803,531,000 after acquiring an additional 330,167 shares in the last quarter. 76.72% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
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Newmont Corporation engages in the production and exploration of gold. It also explores for copper, silver, zinc, and lead. The company has operations and/or assets in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Peru, Suriname, Argentina, Chile, Australia, and Ghana. As of December 31, 2021, it had proven and probable gold reserves of 92.8 million ounces and land position of 62,800 square kilometers.
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Harrisburg, Pa. – The mental health crisis continues to impact students across the nation and right here in north central Pa. As state officials and programs push for change, they are attempting to guide policy decisions usually left to school districts.
One state program from the Office of Attorney General, Safe2Say Something PA” (Safe2Say), offers students and community members the chance for anonymous reporting without using school channels. Since the program's launch in 2019, over 70 percent of reported tips describe instances of bullying, mental illness, suicide and self-harm, discrimination and harassment.
The program has received more than 80,000 tips from students across the Commonwealth since it launched in 2019. Of those total Safe2Say tips received, 72.9 percent have focused on instances of bullying, suicide and self harm, mental illness, or discrimination and harassment. The program was brought on by concern for mental health issues from PA legislators.
As for institutional changes in schools, one request is for more mental health professionals per student, a call the Office of Attorney General has made each year since the reporting program began.
Pennsylvania falls short in its ratio of counselors to students, averaging one school psychologist per 1078 students; the national average is one psychologist to 500 students, according to the National Association of School Psychologists.
Education on mental health, inside and outside of schools, is also needed, according to Attorney General Josh Shapiro. "I think we need to make sure that we listen to students and eliminate the stigma associated with getting help," said Shapiro, before adding that parents also need mental health education; that way, children have more resources to turn to.
Rural communities face particular difficulties in access to mental health resources, according to Shapiro. A potential policy change could result from "driving more health professionals into these rural communities by offering loan forgiveness to graduates who agree to practice in these rural communities. That's a way to incentivize them to bring their talents to areas that are oftentimes medically underserved," said Shapiro.
A report released by the Office of Attorney General acknowledges the increased pressure young students face today compared to previous generations, from youth gun violence to bullying and isolation on social media.
The report also cites long standing data trends that show the presence of a school counselor reduces instances of disciplinary action, increases academic performance, and improves attendance.
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The Town of Cascade has been awarded a $5,500 grant from Montana Urban and Community Forestry Association to remove and replace (5) hazardous trees. Most of the trees will be in North Railroad Park.
We ask that you not park on the east side of Front Street between Central Avenue and 1st Avenue North on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday (March 23-25) to give the contractors the space they need.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Oregon faces a dire shortage of public defenders and as a result, nearly three dozen criminal cases have been dismissed in Portland in recent weeks.
Oregon’s Supreme Court chief justice is asking Gov. Kate Brown and legislative leaders to convene a summit to address the crisis.
Because of pandemic court closures, public defenders face a backlog of cases and aren’t taking new clients.
Cases can’t be heard unless the defendant has an attorney and several hundred people are in custody without representation.
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt says the justice system is “nearing the point of breakage.”
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Newest State Senator sworn in to office
South Carolina's newest senator has been sworn into office. South Carolina's newest senator has been sworn into office. Senator Mike Reichenbach became the chamber's newest member Tuesday, a week after he won a special election for his Florence County district with 90% of the vote.
Reichenbach is a political newcomer and owner of a Ford & Lincoln dealership in Florence. He is the Senate's only Black Republican. Reichenbach is filling out the last two-and-a-half years of the term of Sen. Hugh Leatherman. After the Republican died last year after serving more than 40 years. Reichenbach ran promising to bring more economic growth to his region. He also favors the right to bear arms and opposes abortion.
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What are the factors driving the India-China border crisis and what is the best way for India to deal with it?
That’s among the topics Sushant Singh, senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, discusses with Arne Westad, a renowned scholar of Modern, International and Global History and Elihu Professor of History, Yale University,
Westad unpacks whether the relationship between the United States and China can be called the new Cold War and whether such a comparison is accurate.
Singh and Westad also discuss China’s development since the 1970s, the trajectory of economic reforms and the shifts in its foreign policy.
Follow the work of the Centre for Policy Research on Twitter or visit www.cprindia.org. You can listen to all the episodes of CPR’s India Speak podcasts here.
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Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:IOVA – Get Rating)’s stock price was up 4.9% during trading on Thursday after Robert W. Baird raised their price target on the stock from $30.00 to $34.00. Robert W. Baird currently has an outperform rating on the stock. Iovance Biotherapeutics traded as high as $17.66 and last traded at $17.37. Approximately 15,486 shares changed hands during trading, a decline of 99% from the average daily volume of 2,281,076 shares. The stock had previously closed at $16.56.
IOVA has been the topic of several other reports. StockNews.com started coverage on shares of Iovance Biotherapeutics in a research note on Thursday, March 31st. They set a “sell” rating on the stock. Chardan Capital cut their price target on shares of Iovance Biotherapeutics from $50.00 to $45.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 25th. Stifel Nicolaus upgraded shares of Iovance Biotherapeutics from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and lifted their price target for the stock from $23.00 to $25.00 in a research note on Friday, January 28th. Truist Financial dropped their price objective on shares of Iovance Biotherapeutics from $45.00 to $32.00 in a research note on Monday, February 28th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company dropped their price objective on shares of Iovance Biotherapeutics from $35.00 to $25.00 in a research note on Wednesday, January 5th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, one has given a hold rating and eleven have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $31.83.
Institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Herold Advisors Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Iovance Biotherapeutics during the third quarter worth about $49,000. Neo Ivy Capital Management acquired a new position in shares of Iovance Biotherapeutics during the fourth quarter worth about $55,000. Knott David M acquired a new position in shares of Iovance Biotherapeutics during the third quarter worth about $99,000. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. increased its stake in shares of Iovance Biotherapeutics by 579.4% during the third quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 4,681 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock worth $116,000 after acquiring an additional 3,992 shares during the period. Finally, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co NY increased its stake in shares of Iovance Biotherapeutics by 69.3% during the fourth quarter. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co NY now owns 5,082 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock worth $97,000 after acquiring an additional 2,080 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 94.37% of the company’s stock.
Iovance Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:IOVA – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 24th. The biotechnology company reported ($0.63) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.56) by ($0.07). During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned ($0.47) EPS. Analysts predict that Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. will post -2.64 earnings per share for the current year.
Iovance Biotherapeutics Company Profile (NASDAQ:IOVA)
Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, focuses on developing and commercializing cancer immunotherapy products to harness the power of a patient's immune system to eradicate cancer cells. It has six ongoing phase 2 clinical studies, including C-144-01, of its lead product candidate, lifileucel, for the treatment of metastatic melanoma; C-145-04, of its product candidate lifileucel for recurrent, metastatic, or persistent cervical cancer; and C-145-03, of its product candidate LN-145, for recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
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Four-time world champ Sebastian Vettel falls foul of the F1 fun police after going on a crowd-pleasing lap of Albert Park on a scooter - only for stewards to launch an investigation
- Crowds flocked to Melbourne for the first Australian F1 Grand Prix since 2019
- Four-time champion Sebastian Vettel had a power issue during practice
- He borrowed an official's scooter to do a lap around the track to greet fans
- F1 stewards are now launching an investigation into his spontaneous trip
Three-time Australian Grand Prix winner Sebastian Vettel is being investigated for a light-hearted moment where he pinched a scooter and did a 'lap of honour' for delighted fans at Albert Park on Friday.
Vettel's spontaneous trip around the track came after his car suffered a power outage and caught fire during the first practice session.
Vettel took matters into his own hands by grabbing a fire extinguisher to put out the flames, but it was what happened next that really grabbed fan's attention.
It is believed an F1 official was sent to Vettel on a scooter to bring him back to the pits - but instead of hopping on and riding pillion, Vettel allegedly commandeered the scooter.
Vettel surprised fans with his cheeky lap of Albert Park on a scooter that he presumably pinched from an official who was sent to collect him when his car broke down
He did a lap of the track with his helmet - labelled with anti-war and pro-Ukraine stickers - halfway off his head so his face was visible and took his hands off the handlebars to wave to the crowd.
'Where has Vettel got this moped from?' one commentator asked.
'He's nicked it. Normally you get a lift on the back but I've never seen the driver just take it.
'He's going around the circuit, I have never seen this before ... it's like a lap of honour.'
Race stewards have launched an investigation into the incident on the basis Vettel may have entered the track without permission.
Vettel is also understood to be in hot water for not wearing the helmet properly and taking his hands off the handlebars to wave to fans.
The investigation into Vettel's antics is especially odd considering that the official Formula 1 Twitter account was happy to share a video of the incident with the caption 'This is the most iconic end to a practice session we can remember' followed by a laughing emoji.
'They do still love him here. The fans, we have said before they are passionate, but they are so knowledgeable and they do support every single driver,' a commentator said while Vettel was completing his scooter lap.
'The welcome for the drivers is insane in the mornings.'
It was a perfect day in Melbourne as Formula 1 returned to Australia after a two year absence because of Covid restrictions
McLaren driver and local hero Daniel Ricciardo has also been swept up in F1 mania and praised the crowds for their vocal support in the first F1 event at Albert Park in two years.
'It's always been pretty wild here, there's no denying that,' he said.
'But it felt like it was turned up a notch, or two, or three.
'For a Thursday, and I'm talking around the world, it was the busiest Thursday I've ever experienced walking into a paddock. That certainly stood out.
'It's awesome. It's definitely a good crazy and there's a lot of support and love. I think everyone's just stoked to have the race back. It's a special feeling.'
Ferrari topped the time sheets in the first session with Red Bull’s Sergio Perez in third and his teammate Max Verstappen fourth. Lewis Hamilton was seventh while Ricciardo finished eighth.
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For the first time in the US Supreme Court's 233-year history, the Senate has confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, an African-American women, to serve as a Justice in the nine-member bench of the apex court.
The confirmation came following a 53-47 vote on Thursday, reports Xinhua news agency.
Only three Republicans joined the Democrats and independents in supporting the 51-year-old Jackson.
Since June 2021, she has sat on the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, often referred to as the nation's second most powerful court.
In February, President Joe Biden had announced Jackson's nomination to succeed liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who will retire this summer.
Jackson will not be sworn in until after Breyer leaves the post.
Biden and Jackson watched the Senate vote, which fell largely along party lines, from the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Thursday afternoon.
"Judge Jackson's confirmation was a historic moment for our nation," Biden tweeted with a photo of him taking a selfie with the judge.
"We've taken another step toward making our highest court reflect the diversity of America," he said. "She will be an incredible Justice, and I was honoured to share this moment with her."
The White House has scheduled an event for Friday to celebrate the confirmation.
While Senate Democrats have praised Jackson's qualifications, as well as the historic nature of her nomination, most Republicans have cast doubt on her past rulings.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who voted against the nomination, voiced concern about what he saw as a "long and disturbing record of using judicial activism to go soft on crime".
It was one of Biden's major campaign promises to fill a potential Supreme Court vacancy with an African-American woman.
Since the Supreme Court was established in the US in 1789, 115 justices have served on the bench. Of them, 108 were white men.
The Justices have life tenure and can serve until they die, resign, retire, or are impeached and removed from office.
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Miami, Jackson received her law degree from Harvard University and graduated cum laude in 1996.
Earlier in her legal career, she worked as an assistant federal public defender in D.C. and served as vice-chair of the US Sentencing Commission for four years.
Jackson served more than eight years as a judge on the US District Court for the District of Columbia before being elevated to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
This year, the Supreme Court will rule on cases involving a series of major issues, including abortion, affirmative action and gun control.
Court watchers have argued Jackson is expected to vote very similarly to Breyer and her ascension won't change the Supreme Court's ideological balance, in which conservatives have a 6-3 majority over liberals.
The Supreme Court is the final appellate court of the US judicial system, with the power to review and overturn lower court decisions, and is also generally the final interpreter of federal law, including the country's constitution.
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Mumbai: MS Dhoni may not officially be the captain of Chennai Super Kings, but with his experience – he will always be the most heard voice in the leadership group of any team. IPL 2022 has not got off to the best of starts for the defending champions as they are yet to open their account after three games.
As per a report in The Indian Express, Dhoni has spoken to out-of-form Ruturaj Gaikwad and asked him to not worry too much about what has happened and to focus on playing his natural game.
One of the biggest reasons why Chennai find themselves in such a spot is because last year’s Orange Cap winner Ruturaj has merely scored two runs in three games.
Meanwhile, Dhoni has looked in good touch in the three games CSK have played. The ex-CSK captain has amassed 89 runs in three matches, including two not-outs and a half-century, and a strike-rate of 123. On the field as well, he has been spotted leading the troops despite Ravindra Jadeja’s presence. Jadeja has also been seen taking advise from Dhoni.
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Oklahoma City residents could soon be paying more on their water bills.
City leaders are recommending an increase in rates for annual water, wastewater and solid waste services.
The total increase for all three would be 4 percent.
Officials said the funds would help replace infrastructure and improve the system's reliability.
If approved, the new rates would go into effect June 1.
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XI'AN, China, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tianlong's integrated PCR lab solution is installed in Jakarta's international airport in Indonesia to help conduct nucleic acid testing for inbound and outbound passengers. Since its installation in September 2021, Tianlong's COVID-19 solution has helped diagnose hundreds of positive cases at the Jakarta International Airport. Timely entry testing effectively prevents the import of positive cases from abroad and protects the gateway of Indonesia.
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Lismore knows how to do floods. It's a flood town. Its residents live in two, sometimes three-storey houses, raised well above the usual flood level. Residents and businesses have well-worn flood plans, reliable evacuation routes, methods to keep the water out and they know who to call upon in an emergency. They prepare well in advance. But after suffering a record-breaking flood on February 28 and then another on March 30 the resilience of even the most hard-nosed citizens has been sorely tested. It has got to the point where dark clouds on the horizon can bring out palpable fears in people and the pitter patter of rain on the roof can re-traumatise an already traumatised community. After suffering two major floods in the space of a month, three in the past five years, Lismore probably deserves its mantle as "Australia's most flood-prone city". But it is at a major crossroads in its history. The sheer size and scale of this dual disaster has to be seen and smelt to be believed. Up to 10,000 people were displaced by the rain bomb which hit on February 28. Thousands of homes have been slated for demolition or deemed uninhabitable. These homes belong to people who are just like you and me. Thousands of people are living away from home, in temporary accommodation, campervans and tents. Former governor general Peter Cosgrove likened it to Darwin after Cyclone Tracy levelled it in 1974. He should know, as a young soldier he was there for the clean-up. Like Darwin post 1974 cyclone, Grantham post 2011 flood, or Mallacoota post 2019 fire, talk in Lismore is about "building back better". But despite the promise of millions, if not billions of dollars in flood relief, by government and various fundraising efforts, the evidence is that people are building back the same. They are building back the same because their insurers tell them to, or because it is all they can afford, or because it the quickest route from apocalypse to being able to live in their own home again. This is not a one-size-fits-all problem. There are no easy solutions. This will take years not weeks or months to fix. There's a massive gap between the grandiose promises by governments and actual action on the ground. That gap is being filled by people power. Think ordinary citizens in tinnies rescuing people from roofs. Think thousands of people travelling from all over Australia to join the Mud Army participating in the massive clean up. Think people making meals in their kitchens and feeding it into food hubs which are literally fuelling the city's recovery in the absence of any shops being open in the city. Like the people of Darwin, Grantham and Mallacoota before them, Lismore residents know that long after the spotlight has faded from these disastrous events, they are going to need support from others who have been through the same thing before. David Kirkpatrick ACM Editor, Lismore City News
Its residents live in two, sometimes three-storey houses, raised well above the usual flood level.
Residents and businesses have well-worn flood plans, reliable evacuation routes, methods to keep the water out and they know who to call upon in an emergency. They prepare well in advance.
But after suffering a record-breaking flood on February 28 and then another on March 30 the resilience of even the most hard-nosed citizens has been sorely tested.
It has got to the point where dark clouds on the horizon can bring out palpable fears in people and the pitter patter of rain on the roof can re-traumatise an already traumatised community.
After suffering two major floods in the space of a month, three in the past five years, Lismore probably deserves its mantle as "Australia's most flood-prone city".
But it is at a major crossroads in its history.
The sheer size and scale of this dual disaster has to be seen and smelt to be believed.
Up to 10,000 people were displaced by the rain bomb which hit on February 28. Thousands of homes have been slated for demolition or deemed uninhabitable. These homes belong to people who are just like you and me.
Thousands of people are living away from home, in temporary accommodation, campervans and tents.
Former governor general Peter Cosgrove likened it to Darwin after Cyclone Tracy levelled it in 1974. He should know, as a young soldier he was there for the clean-up.
Like Darwin post 1974 cyclone, Grantham post 2011 flood, or Mallacoota post 2019 fire, talk in Lismore is about "building back better".
But despite the promise of millions, if not billions of dollars in flood relief, by government and various fundraising efforts, the evidence is that people are building back the same.
They are building back the same because their insurers tell them to, or because it is all they can afford, or because it the quickest route from apocalypse to being able to live in their own home again.
This is not a one-size-fits-all problem. There are no easy solutions. This will take years not weeks or months to fix.
There's a massive gap between the grandiose promises by governments and actual action on the ground.
That gap is being filled by people power.
Think ordinary citizens in tinnies rescuing people from roofs.
Think thousands of people travelling from all over Australia to join the Mud Army participating in the massive clean up.
Think people making meals in their kitchens and feeding it into food hubs which are literally fuelling the city's recovery in the absence of any shops being open in the city.
Like the people of Darwin, Grantham and Mallacoota before them, Lismore residents know that long after the spotlight has faded from these disastrous events, they are going to need support from others who have been through the same thing before.
David Kirkpatrick
ACM Editor, Lismore City News
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The 48-year-old skateboarder eyeing the Olympics
He’s an X Games file holder, good mates with Tony Hawk and has skated by the White House, but except you have been a skateboarding superfan on the flip of the century, Andy Macdonald may not be in your radar.
But ought to issues go to plan, he could possibly be in Team GB colors on the Paris Olympics in 2024 – the yr he’ll flip 50.
“It would be an honour and a very neat way to finish my career of 30 years as a professional skateboarder to be in the Olympics,” he advised BBC Sport.
The Olympics wasn’t “in the equation” when ‘Andy Mac’ began out within the sport. Instead, the X Games have been – and to many nonetheless are – the top, and to at the present time Macdonald holds the file for essentially the most X Games medals in vert skateboarding, amongst his 23 medals throughout all disciplines.
A handful of these medals are from the doubles occasions, partnered with Hawk – one of the crucial influential skate boarders in historical past.
But with the game making its debut at Tokyo 2020, the Olympics has introduced one thing new to skateboarding, and that is one thing Macdonald desires to embrace.
“I didn’t become a professional skateboarder because I thought one day I could skate in the Olympics,” he stated. “Skateboarding has come such a long way globally.
“When you are out enjoying cat and mouse with safety guards, now you may inform them ‘I’m coaching for the Olympics, you may’t kick me out of this spot’.
“It’s pretty neat to see this counter-culture sport, this lifestyle, come into its own and people understand that this is a legitimate sport and you can make a living riding a skateboard.”
That’s one thing Macdonald has finished himself, a nine-time world champion with quite a few TV and online game appearances and an autobiography.
His squeaky clear picture – he actively promotes an alcohol- and drug-free way of life – makes him a perfect ambassador for the game, even three a long time on from the beginning of his profession.
Macdonald turned professional in 1994, lengthy earlier than the vast majority of at present’s rivals have been born. In Tokyo, GB skate boarders Sky Brown and Bombette Martin have been 13 and 15 respectively, but they could possibly be his team-mates in two summers’ time.
“It would be a cool thing to show the world that skateboarding knows no bounds,” stated the daddy of three. “You could be anyone from wherever.
“For me, it is simply the expertise of being there. It’s not like I’m going to go for the gold – there are such a lot of youngsters which might be going to be miles forward of me.”
‘There’s such a expertise pool within the UK’
Born in Massachusetts but now living in San Diego, Macdonald qualifies to compete for Great Britain through his Luton-born father.
His first taste of the British skateboarding scene comes this weekend, when he will compete in the park event at the National Championships in Hemel Hempstead.
“I’m excited to skate with everyone and have some enjoyable,” he stated.
“Bombette, Sky… there’s such a expertise pool. We want to supply the amenities in order that we will foster that expertise and get youngsters on skateboards.”
He added: “Numerous what I’ve finished by my complete profession is assist construct the skate scene all around the world.
“It’s just a blessing to be able to give back to skateboarding and to show skateboarding to the world.
“If I can do this right here within the UK, superior.”
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CHERNIHIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian leaders predicted there would be more gruesome discoveries in the days ahead after retreating Russian forces left behind crushed buildings, streets strewn with destroyed cars and mounting civilian casualties that drew condemnation from across the globe.
Kremlin forces devastated the northern city of Chernihiv as part of their attempt to sweep south toward the capital before retreating. In the aftermath, dozens of people lined up to receive bread, diapers and medicine from vans parked outside a shattered school now serving as an aid-distribution point.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned Thursday that despite a recent Russian pullback, the country remains vulnerable, and he pleaded for weapons from NATO and other sympathetic countries to help face down an expected offensive in the east. Nations from the alliance agreed to increase their supply of arms, spurred on by reports that Russian forces committed atrocities in areas surrounding the capital.
The mayor of Bucha, near Kyiv, said investigators have found at least three sites of mass shootings of civilians during the Russian occupation. Most victims died from gunshots, not from shelling, he said, and some corpses with their hands tied were “dumped like firewood” into recently discovered mass graves, including one at a children’s camp.
Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk said the count of dead civilians stood at 320 as of Wednesday, but he expected the number to rise as more bodies are found in his city, which once had a population of 50,000. Only 3,700 now remain, he said.
In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that the horrors of Bucha could be only the beginning. In the northern city of Borodianka, just 30 kilometers northwest of Bucha, Zelenskyy warned of even more casualties, saying “there it is much more horrible.”
Ukrainian officials said earlier this week that the bodies of 410 civilians were found in towns around the capital city. Volunteers have spent days collecting the corpses, and more were picked up Thursday in Bucha.
In the seaport city of Mariupol, Ukranian authorities expected to find much the same. “The same cruelty. The same terrible crimes,” Zelenskyy said.
Ukrainian and several Western leaders have blamed the massacres on Moscow’s troops, and the weekly Der Spiegel reported that Germany’s foreign intelligence agency had intercepted radio messages between Russian soldiers discussing the killings of civilians. Russia has falsely claimed that the scenes in Bucha were staged.
In the 6-week-old war, Russian forces failed to take Ukraine’s capital quickly, denying what Western countries said was Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s initial aim of ousting the Ukrainian government. In the wake of that setback and heavy losses, Russia shifted its focus to the Donbas, a mostly Russian-speaking, industrial region in eastern Ukraine where Moscow-backed rebels have been fighting Ukrainian forces for eight years.
On Thursday, a day after Russian forces began shelling their village in the southern Mykolaiv region, Sergei Dubovienko, 52, drove north in his small blue Lada with his wife and mother-in-law to Bashtanka, where they found temporary shelter in a church.
“They started destroying the houses and everything” in Pavlo-Marianovka, he said. “Then the tanks appeared from the forest. We thought that in the morning there would be shelling again, so I decided to leave.”
Hundreds of people have been fleeing villages in the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions that are either under attack or occupied by Russian forces.
Tatiana Vizavik, 50, fled Chernobaievka in the Kherson region with her son, daughter-in-law and six grandchildren.
When the Russian attack began, they moved to the basement of an apartment building and spent five nights there. “We had nothing to eat. We had no drinking water,” Vizavik said. “We were frightened to go out. Then some volunteers starting helping us.”
She said they don’t know whether their house survived the shelling because they were too frightened to check before leaving town. They hope to reach safety in the Czech Republic.
Marina Morozova and her husband fled from Kherson, the first major city to fall to the Russians.
“They are waiting for a big battle. We saw shells that did not explode. It was horrifying,” she said.
Morozova, 69, said the only news people get is from Russian television and radio. She said the Russians handed out humanitarian aid so they could film the distribution.
Anxious to keep moving away from areas that Russian troops have reached, the couple and others boarded a van that would take them west. Some will try to leave the country, while others will remain in quieter parts of Ukraine.
The United Nations estimates the war has displaced at least 6.5 million people within the country.
The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, said that more than 4 million have left Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion on Feb. 24 and sparked Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II. Half of the refugees are children, according to UNHCR and the U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF.
The International Organization for Migration, which tracks not just refugees but all people on the move from their homes, estimated that more than 12 million people are stranded in areas of Ukraine under attack.
The United Nations’ humanitarian chief told The Associated Press on Thursday that he’s “not optimistic” about securing a cease-fire after meeting with officials in Kyiv and in Moscow this week, underlining the lack of trust the two sides have for one another. He spoke hours after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Ukraine of backtracking on proposals it had made over Crimea and Ukraine’s military status.
It’s not clear how long it will take withdrawing Russian forces to redeploy, and Ukrainian officials have urged people in the country’s east to leave before the fighting intensifies there.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Ukrainian and Russian officials agreed to establish civilian evacuation routes Thursday from several areas in the Donbas.
In addition to spurring NATO countries to send more arms, the revelations about possible war crimes led Western nations to step up sanctions, and the Group of Seven major world powers warned that they will continue strengthening the measures until Russian troops leave Ukraine.
The U.S. Congress voted Thursday to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and ban the importation of its oil, while the European Union approved punishing new steps, including an embargo on coal imports. The U.N. General Assembly, meanwhile, voted to suspend Russia from the world organization’s leading human rights body.
U.S. President Joe Biden said the U.N. vote demonstrated how “Putin’s war has made Russia an international pariah.” He called the images coming from Bucha “horrifying.”
“The signs of people being raped, tortured, executed — in some cases having their bodies desecrated — are an outrage to our common humanity,” Biden said.
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Schreck reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Los Angeles FC (4-0-1) vs. LA Galaxy (3-2-0)
Carson, California; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Los Angeles +148, LAFC +160, Draw +273; over/under is 2.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: Chicharito leads the LA Galaxy into a matchup with Los Angeles FC after scoring two goals against the Portland Timbers.
The Galaxy went 13-12-9 overall and 8-4-5 at home last season. The Galaxy scored 50 goals a season ago while allowing opponents to score 54.
LAFC compiled a 12-13-9 record overall in 2021 while finishing 4-10-3 in road games. LAFC scored 53 goals a season ago while allowing opponents to score 51.
Saturday's game is the first time these teams meet this season.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Galaxy: Adam Esparza-Saldana (injured), Jorge Villafana (injured), Douglas Costa (injured).
LAFC: Eddie Segura (injured), Franco Escobar (injured).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ – Get Rating) – Investment analysts at Capital One Financial decreased their Q2 2023 EPS estimates for RLJ Lodging Trust in a research note issued to investors on Monday, April 4th. Capital One Financial analyst N. Malkin now expects that the real estate investment trust will post earnings per share of $0.63 for the quarter, down from their previous estimate of $0.64.
RLJ has been the topic of several other reports. Robert W. Baird upgraded RLJ Lodging Trust from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and lifted their price target for the company from $17.00 to $18.00 in a research report on Friday, January 14th. StockNews.com cut RLJ Lodging Trust from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Saturday, April 2nd. Finally, Zacks Investment Research upgraded RLJ Lodging Trust from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday, March 2nd. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, one has given a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, RLJ Lodging Trust currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $18.00.
RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ – Get Rating) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, February 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported ($0.21) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.16 by ($0.37). The firm had revenue of $238.09 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $232.24 million. RLJ Lodging Trust had a negative return on equity of 14.23% and a negative net margin of 38.84%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 161.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned ($0.28) EPS.
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, April 15th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, March 31st will be paid a $0.01 dividend. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.31%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 30th. RLJ Lodging Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently -1.99%.
In other RLJ Lodging Trust news, Director Nathaniel A. Davis sold 40,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, March 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $14.40, for a total transaction of $576,000.00. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Corporate insiders own 1.60% of the company’s stock.
Large investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in shares of RLJ Lodging Trust in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $23,538,000. Barclays PLC grew its stake in shares of RLJ Lodging Trust by 60.8% in the fourth quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 238,637 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $3,324,000 after purchasing an additional 90,270 shares during the last quarter. Vident Investment Advisory LLC grew its stake in shares of RLJ Lodging Trust by 13.5% in the fourth quarter. Vident Investment Advisory LLC now owns 14,280 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $200,000 after purchasing an additional 1,704 shares during the last quarter. Allianz Asset Management GmbH lifted its holdings in RLJ Lodging Trust by 27.4% in the fourth quarter. Allianz Asset Management GmbH now owns 254,717 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $3,548,000 after buying an additional 54,750 shares during the period. Finally, Deutsche Bank AG lifted its holdings in RLJ Lodging Trust by 1.1% in the fourth quarter. Deutsche Bank AG now owns 167,950 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $2,340,000 after buying an additional 1,813 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 98.73% of the company’s stock.
About RLJ Lodging Trust (Get Rating)
RLJ Lodging Trust is a self-advised, publicly traded real estate investment trust that owns primarily premium-branded, high-margin, focused-service and compact full-service hotels. The Company's portfolio consists of 103 hotels with approximately 22,570 rooms, located in 23 states and the District of Columbia and an ownership interest in one unconsolidated hotel with 171 rooms.
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Louisiana Baseball Swept by Troy Following 8-3 Game Three Loss
The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns were swept by the Troy Trojans this weekend after they lost game three of the series 8-3.
With the loss, the Cajuns are now 9-10 overall. They have started Sun Belt Conference play with an 0-3 record. Head coach Matt Deggs talked about the weekend series.
"We didn't play good," Deggs said. "We just got beat all the way around. But here's the thing about it. It's not a three-game conference season, it's 30. We'll regroup and get better from it."
Louisiana had at least one batter reach base in each of the first three innings, but they weren't able to score early on. Troy broke through first against starting pitcher Jeff Wilson with a big three-run second inning. A clutch two-out single combined with a throwing error prevented Wilson from escaping a bases loaded situation with one run allowed. Instead, Troy took a commanding 3-0 lead.
Kyle DeBarge walked to start the top of the fourth inning, and he stole second base. This allowed him to score on a line-out and a RBI groundout by Heath Hood. Louisiana cut into the lead, but Troy instantly answered with another big inning.
A single and RBI-double to start the bottom of the fourth erased the progress the Cajuns had made. After a strikeout, the third hit of the inning scored another run, and Wilson was replaced by Dylan Theut.
Theut was excellent out of the bullpen for Louisiana. A sac-fly scored another run, but he stranded two in scoring position to keep the score at 6-1. Theut went on to pitch three hitless innings in the contest for the Cajuns.
In the fifth, a leadoff single was followed by a double-play. After the Cajuns got a two-out single, a groundout ended the inning.
A pair of walks came around to score in the sixth inning thanks to a two-out RBI-triple by Connor Kimple. The hit cut the Trojans lead to 6-3, but a groundout stranded Kimple at third base. Theut erased a leadoff hit-by-pitch by using a pop-up and a double-play to end the frame.
Following Kimple's triple, the next 10 Louisiana batters that came to the plate were retired. They couldn't get anything going offensively to attempt to claw back into the game late.
Jake Hammond entered the game for Theut in the seventh, and the Trojans rallied in the eighth inning against him. The Cajun reliever got two quick outs, but a walk and error on a fly ball scored an insurance run for Troy. They got two straight hits following the error, scoring another run to balloon their lead to 8-3. The Cajuns did nothing in the ninth and left Troy, Alabama without a win to start conference play.
Up next, Louisiana will look to end their losing streak when they travel to face Nicholls State on Tuesday, March 22 at 6:30 p.m.
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Brandon Woodruff looks to get Brewers back on track vs. Cubs
The Chicago Cubs are well aware one game does not make a season. However, the Cubs are hopeful a season-opening win over the Milwaukee Brewers is a sign they're a lot closer to being a first-place-caliber team in the National League Central than a contender for last place.
The Cubs will look to at least assure themselves a split of the first series of the 2022 campaign Friday afternoon, when they are slated to host the Brewers in the second game of a four-game set.
Chicago left-hander Justin Steele (4-4, 4.26 ERA in 2021) is scheduled to take the mound against All-Star right-hander Brandon Woodruff (9-10, 2.56).
The Cubs and Brewers were the first teams in the majors to take the field Thursday, when Ian Happ's tiebreaking, two-run double in the seventh inning lifted Chicago to a 5-4 win.
While the Cubs built their winning rally against relievers Aaron Ashby and Jake Cousins, they also fared well against the Brewers' starter -- reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes, who gave up three runs over five innings. All three of those runs came in the fifth, when Patrick Wisdom lofted a sacrifice fly and Nico Hoerner hit a two-run homer.
Happ batted fourth after making just 14 starts in the cleanup spot last season, when the departed trio of Anthony Rizzo, Javier Baez and Kris Bryant combined for 80 starts in the No. 4 slot. He finished with three hits for the Cubs, who finished with a losing record last season for the first time since 2014.
Chicago right fielder Seiya Suzuki went 1-for-2 with two walks in his U.S. debut following nine seasons in Japan.
"Man, to be honest, I really believe in the group that we have right now," said Chicago catcher Willson Contreras, who played in 76 games for the World Series-winning Cubs in 2016. "Like I told them during (a team) meeting, they're here for a reason. They earned their spot. And if the front office chose them to be here, it's because they can do something special."
Nothing that happened Thursday discouraged the Brewers, who have made the playoffs a franchise-record four straight seasons and are looking to reach the World Series for the first time since 1982.
The Brewers overcame a 3-1 deficit Thursday to tie the game in the top of the seventh. They had the go-ahead run at the plate in the eighth, when Rowdy Tellez hit a sacrifice fly, and the ninth, when Willy Adames singled with one out before David Robertson struck out Christian Yelich and retired Andrew McCutchen on a grounder.
"We're at the start of the marathon," Brewers manager Craig Counsell said.
McCutchen added, "With the amount of talent we have up and down the order, if guys go out and they can be themselves, I think the sky's the limit for our team."
Steele went 0-1 with a 3.97 ERA in four games (two starts) against the Brewers as a rookie last season. Woodruff, who finished fifth in the NL Cy Young balloting in 2021, is 2-1 with a 2.75 ERA in 13 games (11 starts) against the Cubs, the team he has opposed more than any.
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It was David Stern’s running joke. He would get asked when the NBA would be adding a European division and his answer was almost always the same.
“In 10 years,” the then-commissioner of the NBA would say.
Thing is, it wasn’t intended to be a joke. Stern was always looking ahead, looking for the next thing, the next innovation to keep the league moving. He oversaw expansion, pushed toward getting the league on television around the world, found ways to take revenues to record levels.
It took more than 4,700 players and nearly 14 million points to get to this spot, but the 75th anniversary season for the National Basketball Association is winding down. Nobody knows for certain where the NBA will be in 25 years, when it’ll be celebrating its 100th anniversary.
The only safe bet is that things will be very, very different.
A play-in postseason tournament was added in recent years. An in-season tournament is probably coming in the next couple years. By the 100th anniversary, having more teams seems certain. Seeing more women in leadership roles, on the court and off, also seems certain.
Maybe a 4-point shot gets added. Robot referees. The possibilities are endless, especially in a wildly and rapidly changing world where technology evolves constantly and ideas flow just as quickly.
“You could have a separate league,” Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer said. “There are obviously leagues in Europe. But you have to say, ‘What’s the purpose? Do you want the best players from Europe to play in Europe or do you want them to come to United States and play in the greatest league in the world?’ I think the answer is the latter, because you want to see the best of the best play against each other. To have an NBA team in London would be nuts; the travel would wipe people out, so you’re not going to do that.”
Where Ballmer sees change coming is in the way the game is experienced.
Technology, he insists — and believes — is everything. Technology is what truly allowed the game to grow, because NBA games can now be watched on phones and tablets in just about all corners of the world.
“I think the broadcast, the way we think about the broadcast, the way we use technology in the broadcast to enhance the broadcast and make it more social ... I think that will be dramatically different,” Ballmer said. “I think the stadium experiences will be dramatically different, but the broadcast is where I think ... there won’t be a broadcast anymore, it will be a digital interaction.”
Innovations in travel -- faster planes, for example -- could change the way games are scheduled. Innovations in fitness could allow players to recover more quickly. The ball could become some sort of computerized tracking device. Virtual reality, something that only a small percentage of people experience now, might be something more mainstream by then, allowing fans to have a true in-arena feel without leaving their home.
It will be different.
Oscar Robertson only hopes the decision-makers in 2047 treat the league with the same reverence as was the case at its 25th anniversary, its 50th anniversary and now as the league celebrates its 75th.
“The game is a great game,” the Hall of Famer said. “The 3-point shot is electrifying ... and the fans love it. As long as the fans want the game, it’s going to be fine. I just hope the players and owners get together and keep it at the top of the list.”
Nobody knows what will happen. But the players of now are laying the groundwork for whatever will come, just as the players of yesterday did for the players of today.
The way LeBron James sees things, it’s on each generation to take the game and push it forward.
“It’s a responsibility, for sure,” said James, a four-time champion with Miami, Cleveland and most recently the Los Angeles Lakers. “Somebody did it before me and put it in a position where it was my responsibility to make sure I kept it where it was and also make it even more grand and make it better than what it was and represent this league with the utmost respect.
“I’ve held that title of the ambassador of the league. Nobody ever told me to do it, but I felt like if I wasn’t going to do it, who was going to do it? I took that with a lot of responsibility, and I’ll continue to do it until I’m done playing the game.”
And in 25 years, he hopes — and expects — to see something even better than what the world enjoys now.
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Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY – Get Rating)’s stock price traded up 2.1% during mid-day trading on Wednesday after Morgan Stanley raised their price target on the stock from $265.00 to $364.00. Morgan Stanley currently has an overweight rating on the stock. Eli Lilly and traded as high as $298.65 and last traded at $298.59. 3,732 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 100% from the average session volume of 3,078,677 shares. The stock had previously closed at $292.49.
Several other equities analysts have also recently commented on the company. Daiwa Capital Markets began coverage on Eli Lilly and in a report on Thursday, March 10th. They issued an “outperform” rating and a $286.00 price target for the company. Berenberg Bank raised their target price on Eli Lilly and from $270.00 to $305.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, December 20th. The Goldman Sachs Group began coverage on shares of Eli Lilly and in a research note on Friday, December 17th. They set a “neutral” rating and a $236.00 price target on the stock. DZ Bank raised shares of Eli Lilly and from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $291.00 price objective for the company in a report on Friday, January 21st. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein lifted their target price on shares of Eli Lilly and from $250.00 to $300.00 and gave the company a “market perform” rating in a research report on Monday, January 3rd. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating, fourteen have given a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $295.83.
In other Eli Lilly and news, CAO Donald A. Zakrowski sold 1,660 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, February 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $243.84, for a total value of $404,774.40. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, SVP Ilya Yuffa sold 1,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, February 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $237.45, for a total value of $237,450.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 949,506 shares of company stock worth $264,729,935 in the last 90 days. Company insiders own 0.12% of the company’s stock.
The company has a market capitalization of $293.73 billion, a P/E ratio of 50.23, a PEG ratio of 2.37 and a beta of 0.43. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.68, a current ratio of 1.23 and a quick ratio of 0.97. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $264.14 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $255.63.
Eli Lilly and (NYSE:LLY – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 3rd. The company reported $2.49 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $2.51 by ($0.02). Eli Lilly and had a return on equity of 96.36% and a net margin of 19.71%. The business had revenue of $8 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $7.89 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $2.75 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 7.5% compared to the same quarter last year. Research analysts expect that Eli Lilly and Company will post 8.71 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
About Eli Lilly and (NYSE:LLY)
Eli Lilly and Company discovers, develops, and markets human pharmaceuticals worldwide. It offers Basaglar, Humalog, Humalog Mix 75/25, Humalog U-100, Humalog U-200, Humalog Mix 50/50, insulin lispro, insulin lispro protamine, insulin lispro mix 75/25, Humulin, Humulin 70/30, Humulin N, Humulin R, and Humulin U-500 for diabetes; and Jardiance, Trajenta, and Trulicity for type 2 diabetes.
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A SPECIAL cocktail in honour of York's hospice helped raise £21,000 in just 30 days.
St Leonard's Hospice has unveiled the winners of this year's fundraising accumulator challenge which attracted the support of eight teams.
Participants were given just £30 and tasked with use their entrepreneurial skills to make as much money as they could in 30 days, with the results announced at a ceremony at The Marriott Hotel.
The Grand York was named accumulator challenge winner 2022, taking the coveted crown for the second year after the team raised £8,515.
The group took part in various activities to raise the cash, including adding a special St Leonard’s Hospice cocktail to their menu and several circuits of the city's walls.
Altogether the teams raised almost £21,000 for the Tadcaster Road charity.
Anne Keogh, community fundraiser at St Leonard’s, who supported the teams in their challenge, said: "The teams got really stuck into the challenge, coming up with lots of ways to coin it in.
"We’ve been really impressed, not only by the variety of fundraising initiatives that took place but also by the fantastic teamwork and community spirit that we have seen.
"It was a very emotional 30 days for some as they have undertaken challenges in memory of a loved one. A huge thank you to everyone who took part. They have raised way more than we could have hoped for.”
The Red Lion Pub in Knapton came second, raising £4,047, with one employee, Elise Richards, doing a skydive in memory of her mum, who was cared for by the hospice.
She was awarded a special 'individual achievement award’, voted by all teams on the night.
The pub also won a special award for ‘most inclusive team’ because of how they brought the community of Knapton together in their fundraising.
Some teams took on physical activities to raise cash.
A spokesman from Mosaic Fulfilment Solutions, who came third raising £2,051, said: “Ella walked a marathon in memory of her mum, who had volunteered at St Leonard’s after she retired.
"Carol and Ella walked 28.341 miles from York to Selby and back with two other staff members, Kate and Martin. This was challenging physically and emotionally, especially when we passed the hospice all lit up as the sun was setting. We were literally almost crawling back to the starting point where we’d parked our cars!”
Other teams taking part were Jeff’s Design Shop, which raised £2,017, The Marriott Hotel, York Vangarde, and Ainsty Ales.
The ‘most innovative team’ award went to York Gin, with a spokesman saying: “We chose St Leonard’s as a charity partner because the hospice has touched so many of our lives in a very positive way.
"We did lots of events and activities including a 198.5-mile bike ride in the York Gin shop to celebrate the year St Leonard’s was established. It was on an exercise bike rather than a real bike.
"We’ve been asking if customers would like to add £1 to their bill in the shop and online. We also ran a party weekend in the shop with raffle prizes and lots more.
"Our lovely Jo and Susannah hosted a series of popular online gin quizzes during the first lockdown and they agreed to do a quiz in real life to raise money. And our lovely Flo and Adam wrote an original fundraising song ‘Gin It To Win It’ to keep morale going and entertain everyone.”
Julie Dale, senior sister for St Leonard’s Hospice@Home team thanked all the teams at the ceremony for their efforts and spoke about the work of the hospice in the community.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, April 8, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WARNING
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Warning
National Weather Service Albany NY
250 AM EDT Fri Apr 8 2022
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM EDT EARLY THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of east central New York, including the
following counties, Greene and Ulster.
* WHEN...Until 500 AM EDT.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying
and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 246 AM EDT, Flooding continues across the area. The steady
rainfall will taper off before sunrise however runoff
continues from the rain.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Kingston, New Paltz, Ellenville, Saugerties, Wallkill,
Milton, Plattekill, Hurley, Woodstock, Highland, West Shokan,
Olivebridge, Mount Tremper, Kenneth L Wilson Campground,
Kerhonkson, Woodland Valley Campground, Phoenicia, High
Falls, West Hurley and Napanoch.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
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Zacks Investment Research downgraded shares of Gamida Cell (NASDAQ:GMDA – Get Rating) from a buy rating to a hold rating in a report issued on Monday morning, Zacks.com reports.
According to Zacks, “Gamida Cell Ltd. is a biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on developing cell therapies to cure cancer and rare and serious hematologic diseases. The company’s product pipeline consists of NiCord and NAM-NK which are in clinical stage. It operates primarily in the United States, the European Union and internationally. Gamida Cell Ltd. is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. “
Several other equities research analysts also recently commented on GMDA. HC Wainwright reiterated a buy rating and set a $22.00 target price on shares of Gamida Cell in a report on Wednesday, March 16th. JMP Securities reiterated a buy rating and set a $17.00 target price on shares of Gamida Cell in a report on Tuesday, February 1st. One research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and six have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Gamida Cell has an average rating of Buy and a consensus target price of $13.39.
Gamida Cell (NASDAQ:GMDA – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, March 15th. The company reported ($0.52) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks’ consensus estimate of ($0.44) by ($0.08). During the same period last year, the firm earned ($0.68) EPS. Analysts expect that Gamida Cell will post -1.18 EPS for the current year.
A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the business. Stifel Financial Corp acquired a new position in shares of Gamida Cell in the 4th quarter worth approximately $37,000. Bank of New York Mellon Corp acquired a new position in shares of Gamida Cell in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $39,000. Guild Investment Management Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Gamida Cell in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $71,000. Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC grew its position in shares of Gamida Cell by 10.7% in the 4th quarter. Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC now owns 32,230 shares of the company’s stock worth $82,000 after acquiring an additional 3,105 shares in the last quarter. Finally, GSA Capital Partners LLP acquired a new position in shares of Gamida Cell in the 4th quarter worth approximately $83,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 53.43% of the company’s stock.
About Gamida Cell (Get Rating)
Gamida Cell Ltd. operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company. It engages in the development of cell therapies to cure blood cancer and rare serious hematologic diseases. The company was founded by Tony Peled and Menashe Levy in 1998 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.
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GEORGE Jung is a drug dealer who spent decades behind bars for smuggling cocaine.
Jung, who was also known as Boston George or El Americano, died on May 5, 2021.
Who is George Jung?
George Jung is the famous cocaine smuggler portrayed by Johnny Depp in the film Blow.
Jung, more popularly known as "Boston George," served 20 years in prison for running drugs.
He was released in 2014, but was back behind bars just two years later for violating parole.
How did he die?
George Jung died the morning of May 5, 2021 at his home in Boston, sources told TMZ.
The cause of his death has not been made clear, however the outlet reported that he had recently experienced liver and kidney failure.
He had reportedly been in home hospice over the weekend and died with his wife and friend by his side.
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Following the news, Jung's Twitter account tweeted a quote from the iconic film.
"May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars. 1942-2021," the post read.
The outlet claims that Jung will be cremated, however, no information about a funeral has been made publicly available.
What did people say about his death?
Fans of the film Blow took to social media to pay their respects to Boston George.
"The man himself was far more magic than the myth. Truly one of a kind. RIP George Jung. AKA Boston George #ForeverJung," one user wrote on Twitter.
"RIP George Jung aka #BostonGeorge inspiration for one the best movies of all time!!" another said.
"May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. And may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars - George Jung," one quoted.
The 2001 film Blow, based on Jung's life, starring Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz and Franka Potente, is available to watch on Netflix.
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, April 11, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Warning
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
155 AM EDT Fri Apr 8 2022
...The National Weather Service in Binghamton NY has issued a Flood
Warning for the following rivers in Pennsylvania...New York...
Susquehanna River At Conklin affecting Broome and Susquehanna
Counties.
For the Susquehanna River New York...including Conklin...Minor
flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Stay tuned to further developments by listening to your local radio,
television, or NOAA Weather Radio for further information.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THIS MORNING TO EARLY MONDAY
MORNING...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Susquehanna River At Conklin.
* WHEN...From this morning to early Monday morning.
* IMPACTS...At 12.0 feet, Flood stage. Alta, River and Lawrence
Roads closed in the Town of Conklin due to minor flooding. No
homes are flooded at this river stage. Valley park in Kirkwood
takes on water.
At 14.0 feet, Water begins to affect properties closest to the
river from Corbettsville to Five Mile Point. Some water begins to
back up into Schnurbusch Park.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1:31 AM EDT Friday the stage was 11.2 feet.
- Forecast...The river will rise above flood stage this morning
to 12.6 feet this afternoon. It will then fall to 12.1 feet
and begin rising again this evening. It will rise to 13.6
feet tomorrow evening. It will then fall below flood stage
early Sunday afternoon.
- Flood stage is 12.0 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EDT THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...Portions of northeast New Jersey and southeast New York,
including the following counties, in northeast New Jersey, Bergen,
Essex, Hudson, Passaic and Union. In southeast New York, Orange,
Richmond (Staten Island), Rockland and Westchester.
* WHEN...Until 1100 AM EDT Friday.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying
and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring. Streams
continue to rise due to excess runoff from earlier rainfall. It
will take several hours for all the water from these storms to
work through local drainage systems in urban areas.
- At 157 AM EDT, Even though the heavy rain has ended Flooding
is occurring in the warned area. Between 2 and 4 inches of
rain has fallen.
- No additional rainfall is expected.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Newark, Paterson, Elizabeth, Passaic, Wayne, Hoboken,
Plainfield, Bloomfield, Hackensack, Linden, New City, Orange,
Bergenfield, Paramus, Ridgewood, Summit, Lyndhurst, Millburn,
Monsey and Rutherford.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
...FLOOD WATCH IS EXPIRING...
The Flood Watch is expiring for portions of northeast New Jersey and
southeast New York, including the following areas, in northeast New
Jersey, Eastern Passaic, Western Bergen, Western Essex, Western
Passaic and Western Union. In southeast New York, Orange and
Rockland.
Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
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If you scroll down Mira Rajput’s Instagram page, you will know that she loves working out and for her yoga is the way of life. The social media and fitness enthusiasts often post videos and pictures on her social media motivating her fans and followers. Mira’s latest yoga asana took everyone on the internet by surprise. In the picture, she can be seen in the middle of a Sarvangasana.Also Read - Explained: What Is XE Variant Of Coronavirus? Should India Worry? Symptoms And Treatment, Expert Speaks
The picture was captured by her kids Misha and Zain. Along with her pictures, she wrote a lengthy note, encouraging people to take fitness seriously and why it shouldn’t be ignored. In the post, she also talked about how parents should set the right example for their kids and have conversations about successes and failures. Also Read - Mithila Palkar on Menstrual Health, "Periods Are Just Periods, Embrace it"
An excerpt of her note read, “On this World Health Day remember you are your biggest cheerleader and your body, mind and soul is for you to look after. So feed it with good thoughts, good food, sufficient activity and adequate rest.” Also Read - World Health Day 2022: How Has Covid-19 Affected Our Health? What Can We Do To Boost It? Expert Speaks
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She added, “When your kids watch both your successes and your failures – mine captured this tough moment – it’s the intention that sets an example. Train, drink your kadha and meditate – cause they’re watching!”
Earlier, Mira shared another video where she can be seen working out with a ball. Husband Shahid Kapoor also commented on her picture, he wrote, “Were you imagining my face instead of the wall ? 👻”, Mira responded by saying, “@shahidkapoor nahhhhh you know I love your face 💋”
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear vetoed a bill this week that would mandate student athletes to participate in sports based on the sex written on their birth certificate.
Senate Bill 83, known as the "Fairness in Women's Sports Act," passed the state Senate 26-9 and was sent to Beshear on March 25. Beshear's veto came on Wednesday.
"Transgender children deserve public officials' efforts to demonstrate that they are valued members of our communities through compassion, kindness and empathy, even if not understanding," Beshear said in a letter.
The bill said that K-12 schools belonging to the Kentucky Board of Education "shall designate all athletic teams, activities and sports for students in grades six through twelve as one of the following categories: 'boys,' 'coed' or 'girls.'"
At public colleges in the state, the bill would have disallowed transgender women from participating in both intercollegiate and intramural sports.
Bill clashed with state athletic participation rules
Additionally, the bill stated that for Kentucky students wanting to participate in sports, their sex would be determined by the sex printed on their birth certificate and an affidavit from a doctor ascertaining that information.
Beshear noted in a letter that the Kentucky High School Athletic Association encourages transgender students to participate in sports, free from discrimination.
"Senate Bill 83 bans transgender children from participating in girls' or women's sports without presenting a single instance in Kentucky of a child gaining a competitive advantage as a result of sex reassignment," Beshear said in a letter.
KHSAA rules state that a student athlete may participate in sports geared toward their opposite sex if they have undergone hormonal therapy for a certain length of time and have been legally reassigned, which may be demonstrated by a birth certificate, driver's license, passport or medical record.
Additionally, if a transgender student athlete stops hormonal therapy, they must participate in the sport that coincides with the gender they were assigned at birth.
Senate Bill 83 does not "restrict the eligibility of any student to participate in an athletic activity or sport designated as 'boys' or 'coed,'" the bill says.
The state board, school districts who are members of the state board and agencies overseeing athletics in the state would be prohibited from taking legal action or "any other adverse action" against a school for banning transgender students from girls' sports, the bill stipulated.
Some amendments to the bill suggest restricting students in grades 6 through 12 from the rule, and giving students who were assigned female at birth the option to take legal action to enforce the proposed act.
Republican governors Spencer Cox and Eric Holcomb, in Utah and Indiana, respectively, vetoed similar bills last month.
Holcomb said it was unclear if the procedures outlined in the bill would be applied consistently in schools across Indiana. Other states that enacted similar bans were facing lawsuits that, in some cases, stopped the bans from being enforced, he said.
In Utah, Cox explained his veto in a letter to legislative leaders: "I must admit, I am not an expert on transgenderism. I struggle to understand so much of it and the science is conflicting. When in doubt however, I always try to err on the side of kindness, mercy and compassion."
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CALGARY, AB, April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Universal Ibogaine Inc. (TSXV: IBO) ("UI" or the "Company") a life sciences company with a mission to develop and deliver medicalized ibogaine-centered addiction care, advises that it has temporarily closed the Kelburn Recovery Centre ("Kelburn") due to an on-site flooding issue.
Kelburn is UI's addiction treatment site operating near Winnipeg, Manitoba, and which experienced abnormally high winter snowfall conditions, resulting in high current groundwater levels arising from spring melt conditions. Kelburn is currently assessing options for continuation of in-process patient treatment, and remediation of damages, which will fall under Kelburn's property and business interruption insurance coverage, subject to policy limits. The timing for remediation and ultimate re-opening of operations at Kelburn is not determinable, but will likely require a minimum of 2 to 3 months.
Nick Karos (CEO) noted "this is of course an unfortunate unforeseen event, and our first priority is to ensure the continuity of ongoing care of our patient group. The extent of damage will hopefully be contained to a portion of the basement, and allow us to resume on-site operations in a reasonable time frame."
UI is a life sciences company, with a mission to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of its ibogaine based drug detox protocol through a planned Canadian Clinical Trial (focused on opioid use disorder), and ultimately to utilize that protocol around the globe through planned future licensing agreements. UI is concurrently developing a state of the art holistic addiction treatment protocol at its Kelburn Recovery Centre that, when paired with the planned ibogaine detox protocol, is intended to revolutionize the way we treat addiction and drastically improve the lives of individuals and families affected by addiction.
NEITHER THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE NOR ITS REGULATION SERVICES PROVIDER (AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THE POLICIES OF THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE) ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE.
This news release may contain forward-looking statements and information. Forward-looking information is frequently characterized by words such as "plans", "expect", "project", "intend", "will", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate", "scheduled", "potential", or other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may", "should" or "could" occur. The forward-looking statements and information are based on certain key expectations and assumptions made by UI. Although UI believes that the expectations and assumptions on which the forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking statements because UI can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct.
Since forward-looking statements address future events and conditions, by their very nature they involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those currently anticipated due to a number of factors and risks, which include, but are not limited to, risks that required regulatory approvals are not obtained. The reader is cautioned that assumptions used in the preparation of such information, although considered reasonable by UI at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information, which speaks only to conditions as of the date hereof. UI does not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to forward-looking information contained herein to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.
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Situation With Ukraine Not Linked To Russia, US Fulfilling START Treaty - Russian Diplomat
Umer Jamshaid Published April 08, 2022 | 11:40 AM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 08th April, 2022) The situation around Ukraine has nothing to do with Russia and the United States fulfilling the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Sputnik.
Earlier this week, US Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Bonnie Jenkins said that Washington and Moscow are not currently a position to have arms control talks in light of the developments in Ukraine, but both sides have crucial issues to address.
"We do not believe that the situation around Ukraine is relevant to the implementation of the New START Treaty.
We continue to view this treaty as an important tool for arms control and maintaining strategic stability in our relations with the United States. We strictly fulfill our obligations under it, we are closely monitoring that the provisions of the START are also fully observed by the Americans," Ryabkov said.
The New START Treaty, effective since February 5, 2011, entails that each side would gradually reduce its nuclear arsenal to a total of 700 rockets, 1,550 warheads and 800 launchers.
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Islamabad [Pakistan], April 7 (ANI): The State Bank of Pakistan has increased the interest rate by 250 basis points to 12.25 per cent, reported the local media on Thursday.
The SBP's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) said in a statement that in its last meeting on March 8, it had noted the "significant uncertainty around the outlook for international commodity prices and global financial conditions" which were further exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, reported Dawn.
"Since the last MPC meeting, the outlook for inflation has deteriorated and risks to external stability have risen," it noted.
"Externally, futures markets suggest that global commodity prices, including oil, are likely to remain elevated for longer and the Federal Reserve is likely to increase interest rates more quickly than previously anticipated, likely leading to a sharper tightening of global financial conditions," the statement said, as per the newspaper.
Moreover, The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday forecasted Pakistan's economic growth rate to slow down to 4 per cent this year from 5.6 pc in the Fiscal Year 2021.
The decline in the growth rate is owing to tighter fiscal and monetary policies and the Russia-Ukraine war. According to the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2022, ADB's annual flagship publication, the Manila-based lending agency said Pakistan's revenue collection was still lower when compared with peers and needed a strong reform effort to achieve its tax-to-GDP potential of 22-25pc, reported Dawn.
Moreover, the ADB also projected growth in South Asia to slow to 7pc in 2022 (from 8.3pc in 2021), before picking up to 7.4pc in 2023.
"Pakistan's growth is forecast moderating to 4pc in 2022 on weaker domestic demand from monetary tightening and fiscal consolidation before picking up to 4.5 in 2023", the ADB said.
The ADB expected inflation to pick up in FY22, averaging 11pc, reflecting higher international energy prices, significant currency depreciation, and elevated global food prices from supply disruptions reported the newspaper.
Pakistan is a net importer of oil and natural gas, with both comprising almost 20pc of total imports, the country will continue experiencing strong inflationary pressure for the rest of the current fiscal year from the jump in global fuel prices related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (ANI)
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They ask to delete a pirate IPTV app for Android, Smart TV and other devices
Skyone of the most important telecommunications companies that provides services in the United Kingdom, has set a new target in its fight against pirate IPTV: the service known as Cuco TV, which offers free movies and series to watch on Smart TV, Fire Stick , Chromecast, Roku, My Box, PlayStation, Xbox, Mac, PC and many other devices, as promoted on their website.
The fight against pirated content continues every day, with cases that are successful and many others that end up being as particular as this one.
Sky wants Cuco TV off GitHub
Sky has asked GitHub, the world’s largest online development platform with 70 million users and over 200 million code repositories, to remove all traces of CucoTV, the app for streaming free (albeit ad-supported) movies. and copyrighted series.
The request must have been half listened to by Github, since it is true that it has eliminated the CucoTV repository, but the main website of the application, which is also hosted on GitHub, continues to function normally. In fact, you can even download its APK yet.
With the help of your anti-piracy partner, kopjraSky asked the developer platform to remove the offending site and APK, which they only partially achieved.
“We are writing to you for and on behalf of Sky UK Limited, the exclusive owner of the rights to distribute and operate Sky UK channels. This IPTV application (CucoTV) includes the Sky TV pay TV series Gomorrah in an illegal and unauthorized way,” the notice says.
Half victory: closed IPTV repository
Sure enough, the repository has been closed. If you access this website, you will find the following notice:
“Repository unavailable due to removal by DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Ley de Derechos de Autor de la Era Digital]. This repository is currently disabled due to a DMCA takedown notice. We have disabled public access to the repository. The notice has been published publicly» and it does not lead to the previous warning that we told you about.
However, it seems that GitHub wants to do rather little against Cuco TVSo, apart from the website still operating normally, even the associated repository is still online. This repository is linked to a different user than the one targeted by Sky, which may be part of the explanation as to why it hasn’t been disabled, but instead Sky would have to go through the same process over and over again.
Interestingly, Sky had previously tried this fight against Cuco TV, through its Italian subsidiary also through Kopjra, which sent two requests to GitHub in May and June of last year after seeing the Sky TG24 program and the Diavoli series ( Devils in the rest of the world) respectively. On that occasion the defeat was total, because GitHub skipped over taking any action against pirate IPTV app.
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Fat Joe Says Will Smith Slap Makes Minorities Look Bad
Fat Joe on Will Smith Oscars Slap Makes Minorities Look Bad ... People Think 'We Don't Know How to Act'
4/8/2022 12:40 AM PT
Fat Joe says Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars has serious consequences for all POCs when it comes to demanding respect ... especially because it was Will who got violent in public.
We got Joey Crack Thursday in New York City, and asked for his take on the fallout from Will's actions, and the impact on minorities.
You can tell it pains him to say it, but Joe says Will being the culprit makes it much worse for the culture than, for instance, Fat Joe and 50 Cent beefing.
Watch the clip, he really did take that shot at himself -- but his point is people expect more from Will, because as he put it ... the Oscar winner is "the best we got."
What's more, Joe says the slap looks bad from the outside because it comes at a time when Black and brown people are demanding more respect in society.
Don't get it twisted though, he sounds very sympathetic to Will -- he points out what a great role model the actor has been for decades. But, for Fat Joe, the reality is that slap has some people feeling like "we don't know how to act."
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A 3-year loan was given to the National Coffee Fund by Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (Smbc) for $40 million as part of the contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Given the relevance of this loan to the Fund, it should be noted that it has been rated at the level of sustainable financing in accordance with the social lending principles of the Loan Market Association, Asia Pacific Loan Market Association and Loan Syndications & Trading Association, entities specializing in the so-called syndicated loans.
“We are proud to advance our relationship with the Japanese financial market, not only because of its international recognition, but also because it is an ideal complement to the achievements achieved over the past 60 years in terms of positioning Colombian coffee in Japan,” said the general manager of the National Coffee Fund, Roberto Velez Vallejo.
It is a good time for coffee production and its international projection. In accordance with the loan granted by the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (Smbc) to the National Coffee Fund, the National Federation of Coffee Growers celebrated the 60th anniversary of its subsidiary in the land of the rising sun.
According to the institution, Japan is the second market for direct sales of the Federation as well as the fifth destination for Colombian exports and one of the main customers of the guild's value-added strategy, in this case, that of the Colombian Freeze Dried Coffee factory, known as Buencafé.
In addition, the Federation highlighted that, as a result of the subsidiary's work in Japan, it was the historic launch of the premium coffee “Emerald Mountain” in 1989, which was initially marketed by Miyako Shokuhin Corporation, now Capital Corporation.
This luxury product still generates revenue in the specialty coffee segment, as it is considered one of the key components of Japan's best-selling canned coffee.
The Federation reported that Colombia's coffee exports in 1960 were 41,000 bags of 60 kg and that, in the last decade, they amount to one million bags of coffee per year, being one of the best known products appreciated by Japanese consumers.
Colombian coffee arrived in Turkey and Qatar
Among other news about Colombian coffee, the National Federation of Coffee Growers also confirmed in recent days that Juan Valdez officially opened two stores in Turkey and Qatar after “hard work and with the clear objective of continuing to expand the brand internationally”.
The shops, located in Istanbul and Doha respectively, according to the coffee growers union, have the support of Colombian bariculturists, who not only were part of the process of opening the establishments, but will also be in charge of the attention of customers, as was known to W Radio.
“Operating in these markets is the materialization of the brand's effort and great teamwork with our franchisees Honest Holding in Turkey and Ali Bin Ali Holding in Qatar. Likewise, achieving this milestone is an immense pride for Juan Valdez and for Colombia, as it allows us to continue to make the coffee experience and tradition of our country visible in different cultures worldwide,” Juan Valdez's international vice-president, Sebastián Mejía, said to the same media outlet.
With the opening of these two stores in Turkey and Qatar, the coffee growers' guild hopes that the brand's presence of Colombian coffee growers will be strengthened throughout the Middle East.
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Akuapem Poloo warns Ghanaians not to abandon Black Sherif
Ghanaians made Gyakie, Yaw Tog one-time hitmakers
Nigerians support their artistes better than Ghanaians, Poloo
Akuapem Poloo has called on Ghanaians who are hailing and celebrating the achievement of young rapper, Black Sherif, to keep up the same energy in the months to come.
According to the actress who has been observing the trends in the music industry, Blacko will soon be abandoned just as they did to Patapaa Amisty, Gyakie, Yaw Tog, and Bosom PYung who enjoyed massive buzz with their hit songs.
Their glory was short-lived as Ghanaians failed to celebrate them after the buzz.
She argued that the industry abandoned these new atistes after jamming to their one-time hits.
"You see how Ghanaians are hailing Black Sherif, the same way they hailed Yaw Tog, Patapaa, Ataa Adwoa. Where is Gyakie now? You people will hype these people and later bring them down."
In a video sighted by GhanaWeb on Poloo's Instagram page, she cautioned music lovers against such attitudes toward young artistes and urged the management of Black Sherif to keep up the good work by promoting his brand outside Ghana.
She noted that the story is different in Nigeria as they know how to hype and sustain the craft of young talents.
"Look at the way Nigerians handle new artistes and make them stay for life. Ghana, you have started again with Black Sherif, nobody should let his dreams fall. Stop the backbiting, use the same energy to promote all his music," Akuapem Poloo warned.
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Conversational systems market report contains detailed information on factors influencing demand, growth, opportunities, challenges, and restraints. It provides detailed information about the structure and prospects for global and regional industries. In addition, the report includes data on research & development, new product launches, product responses from the global and local markets by leading players. The structured analysis offers a graphical representation and a diagrammatic breakdown of the Conversational systems market by region.
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The conversational system is mainly an interactive platform designed to communicate with humans with specified coherent structure. These conversations are enabled with gestures’ haptic feedback’ and others. Conversational systems implement the functionalities of cognitive computing’ artificial intelligence’ Internet of Things’ and others. These systems consist of hardware and software components being used to generate appropriate output responses. The deployment models for this system are cloud-based and on-premise.
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The Uttar Pradesh Basic Education Board (UPBEB) has declared the Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test (UPTET) result 2021. The exam was conducted on January 23, 2022. Candidates who appeared in the exam can check their results at the official website — updeled.gov.in.
The board had earlier released the final answer key of UPTET 2021 on February 23. The provisional answer key was released on January 27 and were provided a window to object the answer key till February 4, 2022.
UPTET 2021 result declared: How to check
Step 1: Visit the official UPBEB website by clicking on updeled.gov.in
Step 2: On the homepage, click on the link for ‘UPTET result 2021’
Step 3: Enter log-in credentials
Step 4: The UPTET 2021 scorecard will automatically appear on the screen.
Step 5: Download and save it for future reference and use.
The UPTET final answer key 2021 was released after analysing all the objections. Based on it, the UPTET results have been declared
The qualifying percentage for the General category is 60 per cent, for the OBC category, it is 55 per cent and for SC and ST categories, the same is 55 per cent. In that case, the marks stand at 90 for the General category and 82.5 for the remaining categories.
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China uses AI software to improve its surveillance capabilities
Dozens of entities in China have over the past four years bought such software, known as "one person, one file". The technology improves on existing software, which simply collects data but leaves it to people to organise
Dozens of Chinese firms have built software that uses artificial intelligence to sort data collected on residents, amid high demand from authorities seeking to upgrade their surveillance tools, a Reuters review of government documents shows.
According to more than 50 publicly available documents examined by Reuters, dozens of entities in China have over the past four years bought such software, known as "one person, one file". The technology improves on existing software, which simply collects data but leaves it to people to organise.
"The system has the ability to learn independently and can optimize the accuracy of file creation as the amount of data increases. (Faces that are) partially blocked, masked, or wearing glasses, and low-resolution portraits can also be archived relatively accurately," according to a tender published in July by the public security department of Henan, China's third-largest province by population.
Henan's department of public security did not respond to requests for comment about the system and its uses.
The new software improves on Beijing's current approach to surveillance. Although China's existing systems can collect data on individuals, law enforcement and other users have been left to organise it.
Another limitation of current surveillance software is its inability to connect an individual's personal details to a real-time location except at security checkpoints such as those in airports, according to Jeffrey Ding, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation.
One person, one file "is a way of sorting information that makes it easier to track individuals," said Mareike Ohlberg, a Berlin-based senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund.
China's Department of Public Security, which oversees regional police authorities, did not respond to a request for comment about one person, one file and its surveillance uses. Besides the police units, 10 bids were opened by Chinese Communist Party bodies responsible for political and legal affairs. China's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission declined to comment.
The tenders examined by Reuters represent a fraction of such efforts by Chinese police units and Party bodies to upgrade surveillance networks by tapping into the power of big data and AI, according to three industry experts interviewed for this story.
According to government documents, some of the software's users, such as schools, wanted to monitor unfamiliar faces outside their compounds.
The majority, such as police units in southwestern Sichuan province's Ngawa prefecture, mainly populated by Tibetans, ordered it for more explicit security purposes. The Ngawa tender describes the software as being for "maintaining political security, social stability and peace among the people."
Ngawa's department of public security did not respond to requests for comment.
Beijing says its monitoring is crucial to combating crime and has been key to its efforts to fight the spread of Covid-19. Human rights activists such as Human Rights Watch say that the country is building a surveillance state that infringes on privacy and unfairly targets certain groups, such the Uyghur Muslim minority.
The Reuters review shows that local authorities across the country, including in highly populated districts of Beijing and underdeveloped provinces like Gansu, have opened at least 50 tenders in the four years since the first patent application, 32 of which were opened for bidding in 2021. Twenty-two tech companies, including Sensetime, Huawei, Megvii, Cloudwalk, Dahua, and the cloud division of Baidu, now offer such software, according to a Reuters review.
Sensetime declined to comment. Megvii, Cloudwalk, Dahua, and the cloud division of Baidu did not respond to requests for comment.
Huawei said in a statement that a partner had developed the one person, one file application in its smart city platform. The company declined to comment on the patent applications.
"Huawei does not develop or sell applications that target any specific group of people," the company said.
The documents Reuters reviewed span 22 of China's 31 main administrative divisions, and all levels of provincial government, from regional public security departments to Party offices for a single neighbourhood.
The new systems aim to make sense of the giant troves of data such entities collect, using complex algorithms and machine learning to create customised files for individuals, according to the government tenders. The files update themselves automatically as the software sorts data.
A wide range of challenges can complicate implementation, however. Bureaucracy and even cost can create a fragmented and disjointed nationwide network, three AI and surveillance experts told Reuters.
Reuters found announcements for successful bids for more than half of the 50 procurement documents analysed, with values between a few million yuan and close to 200 million yuan.
SYSTEM UPGRADE
China blanketed its cities with surveillance cameras in a 2015-2020 campaign it described as "sharp eyes" and is striving to do the same across rural areas. The development and adoption of the "one person, one file" software began around the same time.
Ohlberg, the researcher, said the earliest mention she had seen of one person, one file was from 2016, in a 200-page surveillance feasibility study by Shawan county in Xinjiang, for acquiring a computer system that could "automatically identify and investigate key persons involved in terrorism and (threatening social) stability." A Shawan county official declined to comment.
In 2016, China's domestic security chief at the time, Meng Jianzhu, wrote in a state-run journal that big data was the key to finding crime patterns and trends. Two years later, the system was referenced in a speech to industry executives given by Li Ziqing, then-director of the Research Center for Biometrics and Security Technology of the state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences. Li also was chief scientist at AuthenMetric, a Beijing-based facial recognition company. Neither the research centre nor AuthenMetric responded to requests for comment.
"The ultimate core technology of big data's (application to) security is one person, one file," Li said in the 2018 speech at an AI forum in Shenzhen, according to a transcript of the speech published by local media and shared on AuthenMetric's WeChat public account.
The Party's Political and Legal Affairs Commission, which Meng led in 2016, declined to comment. Meng could not be reached for comment. Li did not respond to a request for comment.
The industry developed quickly. By 2021, Huawei, Sensetime, and 26 other Chinese tech companies had filed patent applications with the World Intellectual Property Organization for file archiving and image clustering algorithms.
A 2021 Huawei patent application for a "person database partitioning method and device" that mentioned one person, one file said that "as smart cameras become more popular in the future, the number of captured facial images in a city will grow to trillions per year".
SAFE CITIES
The 50 tenders Reuters analysed give varying amounts of detail on how the software would be used.
Some mentioned "one person, one file" as a single entry on a list of needed items for surveillance systems. Others gave detailed descriptions.
Nine of the tenders indicated the software would be used with facial recognition technology that could, the documents specified, identify whether a passerby was Uyghur, connecting to early warning systems for the police and creating archives of Uyghur faces.
One tender published in February 2020 by a Party organ responsible for an area in the southeastern island province of Hainan, for instance, sought a database of Uyghur and Tibetan residents to facilitate "finding the information of persons involved in terrorism."
The Hainan authorities did not respond to a request for comment.
More than a dozen tenders mention the need to combat terrorism and "maintain stability", a catch-all term that human rights activists say is often used to mean repressing dissent.
At least four of the tenders said the software should be able to pull information from the individual's social media accounts. Half of the tenders said the software would be used to compile and analyse personaldetails such as relatives, social circles, vehicle records, marriage status, and shopping habits.
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DEAR ABBY: I live in an over-55 condominium community in Florida. Overall, it’s calm and quiet, which is why I moved here. My favorite pastime and form of exercise is to go to the pool. However, some neighbors think nothing of playing their music loudly in the pool area.
I would never subject anyone else to my taste in music in such a public arena, and I can’t understand why they think they have the right to inflict it on other people without asking. I have spoken to them politely and asked that they refrain, but they continue to do exactly as they want. Any suggestions? -- DESPERATELY SEEKING PEACE AND QUIET
DEAR DESPERATELY: Because you have spoken to the neighbors about this with no success, I will offer some suggestions. The first would be to bring this to the attention of the manager and the board of directors of your condominium association. Consideration for others should not need to be written into the bylaws, but the sad reality is that sometimes it does.
Another solution could be as simple as the music lovers wearing ear buds to enjoy their music without bothering others. However, if that doesn’t solve the problem, you may have to invest in noise-canceling headphones for yourself.
DEAR ABBY: I reconnected with an old flame, “Ollie,” eight years ago. We would see each other and catch up during a weekly event he hosted. We’re both married with kids. We kept it non-physical but connected emotionally. We chatted every day and confessed our attraction to each other while still not engaging in anything more than our weekly encounters among friends.
People often assumed we were husband and wife. At the time, I was going through a horrible period in my marriage. My husband, “Pete,” was emotionally abusive and one night even threatened to kill me. Pete and I went to couples counseling, and I went to counseling on my own.
During the first five years of reconnecting with Ollie, he was supportive, accepting and very kind. I fell in love with him, and he with me. We had one quick hug before I left for the holidays. When I returned, we had an intimate kiss. Then COVID hit. Obviously, there was no physical contact after that kiss, but we still talk nearly every day. We have seen each other at business functions among friends twice in three months.
Pete has actually changed and has apologized for how he treated me. We got along nicely during the quarantine. I am just no longer attracted to him. I no longer trust him. He knows nothing of my friendship with Ollie. I also don’t think Ollie will ever give in to his feelings for me. What can I do? -- CONFOUNDED IN IOWA
DEAR CONFOUNDED: Go back to your counselor. You have some heavy decisions to make about how you want to live the rest of your life. Remove Ollie from the equation and ask yourself if you really want to stay married to someone to whom you are no longer attracted and no longer completely trust.
Some people are so fearful of the prospect of being alone that they stay in empty or abusive relationships. Figure out whether you have the strength to go it alone, and you will have the answer to your question.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — An Australian was sentenced Friday to five and a half years in jail for killing a Singaporean man and injuring his wife by hurling a wine bottle, with the court saying the man’s actions reflected religious hostility toward Muslims.
Andrew Gosling threw an empty wine bottle at a dinner gathering of ethnic Malay Muslims two floors below his apartment in August 2019, hitting Nasiari Sunee on the head. The bottle ricocheted and struck his wife on the shoulder. Nasiari, a 73-year-old delivery driver, suffered severe head injuries and died the next morning.
Gosling pleaded guilty in February to two charges of causing death and injury.
Judge Victor Yeo Khee Eng said Gosling displayed a “high degree of rashness” and disregarded the group’s safety when he threw the bottle. His inebriation may have impaired his judgment but not to the extent of causing an unsound mind, the judge said.
Gosling shouted religiously charged vulgarities after throwing the bottle, and the prosecution his actions demonstrated religious hostility. The judge agreed and said tolerating criminal acts like Gosling’s would undermine Singapore’s racial and religious harmony. About 15% of Singapore’s multiracial population of nearly 6 million are Muslim.
The judge also said the sentence needed to be a deterrent so people wouldn’t throw dangerous objects from high rises in a country where many people live in them.
The judge said he took into account that Gosling was remorseful, turned himself in, pleaded guilty and voluntarily paid some compensation to the family.
He sentenced Gosling to four years in jail for causing Nasiari’s death and 18 months for causing injury to Nasiari’s wife. The sentences are to run consecutively from the day he surrendered in 2019.
Nasiari’s wife, Manisah Sitri, declined to comment on the sentence. She was quoted by Channel News Asia as saying that “it’s fate.” Her son also reportedly said: “It’s hard to forgive, only time will heal this.”
Gosling had only been in Singapore for a month before the incident. He told police he thought about using a weapon such as a gun but decided it was a “heinous act.” He then searched for the wine bottle in a trash chute and threw it from the seventh floor at the group attending a housewarming party.
Gosling surrendered to police 10 days later. He told police that he threw the bottle to “startle” the group because he was angry over Islamic militant attacks in the Indonesian island of Bali in 2002 and in Melbourne in 2018 that had killed Australians.
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Ram Charan and Jr NTR starrer action drama RRR is performing exceptionally at the box office. After the second weekend of its premiere, the movie has smashed several records at the box office and emerged as a massive success.
RRR Box Office collection, Day 15, saw the SS Rajamouli directorial maintaining a steady growth while earning a whopping amount worldwide.
With the action-packed performance of Ram Charan and Jr NTR, RRR hit the theatres on March 24, 2022, in multiple languages. Right from the first week, the film received a stunning response at the box office. On the opening day, RRR garnered around Rs 257 crore worldwide and has maintained its steady growth still, despite facing strong competition from The Kashmir Files. As per upresults.org, the movie is expected to earn Rs 7Cr on the 15th day of its release after earning Rs 15.25 crore at the ticket windows on the 14th day of its successful run.
As per trade analyst Manobala Vijayabalan, the movie was made on a budget of Rs 450 Cr and has collected an amount of approximately Rs 969Cr globally while gradually inching towards the 1000 Cr mark while becoming the third highest-grossing movie of all time. It was also revealed that the movie even beat the lifetime figure of Secret Superstar and Bajrangi Bhaijaan having 966.86 cr and 969.06 cr respectively.
#RRR with ₹969.24 cr BEATS #SecretSuperstar[₹966.86 cr] and #BajrangiBhaijaan[₹969.06 cr] lifetime figure to become the 3rd HIGHEST grossing Indian film of all time.
— Manobala Vijayabalan (@ManobalaV) April 8, 2022
Helmed by SS Rajamouli, the period action film revolves around the fictional tale of two freedom fighters namely Bheem and Ram. While Bheem is a member of the Gond community who is trying to rescue her sister from the Britishers, Ram is a police officer serving the English regiment. The duo becomes best friends only to turn into each other's arch-rival until they learn each other's hidden motives. The notable cast of the movie includes actors namely N. T. Rama Rao Jr. as Komaram Bheem, Ram Charan as Alluri Sitarama Raju, Varun Buddhadev as Young Alluri Sitarama Raju, Ajay Devgn as Venkata Rama Raju, Shriya Saran as Sarojini, Alia Bhatt as Sita, Alison Doody as Catherine Buxton among others.
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As Russia's military buildup near Ukraine accelerated early this year, military planners at NATO began preparing to dispatch scores of fighter jets and surveillance aircraft into the skies near Russia and Ukraine. It was a warning to Moscow not to make the mistake of targeting any member country.
Even in the weeks preceding the war, politicians and analysts were divided over whether President Vladimir Putin would really order Russian troops to invade. From a military point of view, though, the forces arrayed around Ukraine appeared designed to do just that.
It became a matter of urgency to put more eyes in the sky and to tightly link NATO aircraft, warships, ground-based missile systems and radar installations to protect the alliance's eastern flank.
"We are monitoring very closely," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said this week. "Information, best possible situation awareness, is of course extremely critical in such a dangerous situation as we see in Ukraine now."
In the lead-up to the Feb. 24 invasion, the alliance's Combined Air Operations Center in Uedem, western Germany, shifted gear. A few dozen military personnel now simultaneously manage up to 30 aircraft in skies from the northern tip of Norway down to Slovakia.
From an underground bunker in quiet farmland, patrolling aircraft are diverted to monitor suspicious Russian planes. Jets on 15-minute standby are routinely "Alpha Scrambled" from around Europe to intercept unidentified aircraft near NATO airspace.
More than 100 aircraft can be working aloft on any given day, mixed in among roughly 30,000 civilian flights made daily through European skies.
Six Boeing E-3A surveillance planes from NATO's ageing fleet of early warning and control aircraft help create an "air picture" to share with member nations. These "eyes in the sky" do not fly into Ukraine or Russia, but can see up to 400 kilometers (250 miles) across borders.
Fighter jets also provide information about what is going on inside part of two countries at war. These "assets" are sometimes sent from as far away as western France, refueled mid-air, and can patrol for about an hour in the border area before they must return.
The 30-nation military alliance is wary of being drawn into a wider war with Russia, so borders and airspace are scrupulously respected.
"There is always the fog of war, and we don't want to have NATO assets close by because even unintentionally you might have some losses," said Major General Harold Van Pee, commander of the NATO facility in Uedem.
The most sensitive zones for unidentified planes are the Kola Peninsula - at the high north borders of Russia and Norway - the Gulf of Finland approaching the Russian city of St. Petersburg, and the skies around Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad, sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland.
From their computer screens, NATO personnel can also track cruise missiles, like those that Russia used last month to pound a military training base in western Ukraine near NATO member Poland, killing 35 people.
But shadowing them with aircraft is a high-risk endeavor, particularly at night, in poor weather or when the missiles hug the ground, flying so low that electrical pylons and cables become a danger. "We have to be convinced that there is a credible threat" to go after one, Van Pee said.
A less obvious challenge to NATO airspace is rogue drones. Military officers said that Russia is using powerful electromagnetic devices for communication jamming purposes which can disrupt remotely controlled flights.
Last month, a military drone drifted uncontrolled out of Ukraine through the airspace of three members - Romania, Hungary and Croatia - before crashing in the Croatian capital. Some parked cars were damaged but no one was hurt.
The drone weighed just over 6 tons. Both Russia and Ukraine denied launching it. Military officers and NATO officials refuse to comment on the incident until an investigation is completed.
"Even if you fly alongside one of those drones, are you going to do something about it? You have to ask yourself, because if you shoot it down then for sure you're going to do damage on the ground. If you let it fly, hopefully it will crash in the sea. I mean, you don't know," Van Pee said.
Whether it's a rogue drone or a missile threat, political and legal experts are supposed to be involved in any decision to shoot something down. Despite the war in its backyard, NATO is operating under strict peacetime rules and is determined to keep it that way.
"Before you start using force there has to be an imminent threat to either NATO forces or NATO populations. That's a judgement call, and that's always hard to make," Van Pee said.
Even in the weeks preceding the war, politicians and analysts were divided over whether President Vladimir Putin would really order Russian troops to invade. From a military point of view, though, the forces arrayed around Ukraine appeared designed to do just that.
It became a matter of urgency to put more eyes in the sky and to tightly link NATO aircraft, warships, ground-based missile systems and radar installations to protect the alliance's eastern flank.
"We are monitoring very closely," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said this week. "Information, best possible situation awareness, is of course extremely critical in such a dangerous situation as we see in Ukraine now."
In the lead-up to the Feb. 24 invasion, the alliance's Combined Air Operations Center in Uedem, western Germany, shifted gear. A few dozen military personnel now simultaneously manage up to 30 aircraft in skies from the northern tip of Norway down to Slovakia.
From an underground bunker in quiet farmland, patrolling aircraft are diverted to monitor suspicious Russian planes. Jets on 15-minute standby are routinely "Alpha Scrambled" from around Europe to intercept unidentified aircraft near NATO airspace.
More than 100 aircraft can be working aloft on any given day, mixed in among roughly 30,000 civilian flights made daily through European skies.
Six Boeing E-3A surveillance planes from NATO's ageing fleet of early warning and control aircraft help create an "air picture" to share with member nations. These "eyes in the sky" do not fly into Ukraine or Russia, but can see up to 400 kilometers (250 miles) across borders.
Fighter jets also provide information about what is going on inside part of two countries at war. These "assets" are sometimes sent from as far away as western France, refueled mid-air, and can patrol for about an hour in the border area before they must return.
The 30-nation military alliance is wary of being drawn into a wider war with Russia, so borders and airspace are scrupulously respected.
"There is always the fog of war, and we don't want to have NATO assets close by because even unintentionally you might have some losses," said Major General Harold Van Pee, commander of the NATO facility in Uedem.
The most sensitive zones for unidentified planes are the Kola Peninsula - at the high north borders of Russia and Norway - the Gulf of Finland approaching the Russian city of St. Petersburg, and the skies around Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad, sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland.
From their computer screens, NATO personnel can also track cruise missiles, like those that Russia used last month to pound a military training base in western Ukraine near NATO member Poland, killing 35 people.
But shadowing them with aircraft is a high-risk endeavor, particularly at night, in poor weather or when the missiles hug the ground, flying so low that electrical pylons and cables become a danger. "We have to be convinced that there is a credible threat" to go after one, Van Pee said.
A less obvious challenge to NATO airspace is rogue drones. Military officers said that Russia is using powerful electromagnetic devices for communication jamming purposes which can disrupt remotely controlled flights.
Last month, a military drone drifted uncontrolled out of Ukraine through the airspace of three members - Romania, Hungary and Croatia - before crashing in the Croatian capital. Some parked cars were damaged but no one was hurt.
The drone weighed just over 6 tons. Both Russia and Ukraine denied launching it. Military officers and NATO officials refuse to comment on the incident until an investigation is completed.
"Even if you fly alongside one of those drones, are you going to do something about it? You have to ask yourself, because if you shoot it down then for sure you're going to do damage on the ground. If you let it fly, hopefully it will crash in the sea. I mean, you don't know," Van Pee said.
Whether it's a rogue drone or a missile threat, political and legal experts are supposed to be involved in any decision to shoot something down. Despite the war in its backyard, NATO is operating under strict peacetime rules and is determined to keep it that way.
"Before you start using force there has to be an imminent threat to either NATO forces or NATO populations. That's a judgement call, and that's always hard to make," Van Pee said.
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Pennsylvania grandmother arrested for threatening police with ‘white witchery’
BLAIR COUNTY, Pa. — A woman is facing charges for calling state police officers and threatening them with witchcraft if they didn’t drop drug charges against her grandson.
State police told WTAJ that Celestia Barker III called the police while she was at the hospital on March 27 to ask them to drop felony charges filed against her grandson. She allegedly told police that her grandson only had a small amount of marijuana and a pipe.
Barker is accused of asking the officer on the phone if he “had it in his heart” to drop the charges, and when the officer said no, Barker allegedly told the officer he would be in jeopardy because she practices “witch” activities, according to court paperwork obtained by The Altoona Mirror. When she was told that threatening an officer is a crime, Barker allegedly said she was just making statements.
The officer hung up on Barker, but investigators said she called back repeatedly. One time, police said she spoke with a dispatcher for 23 minutes and said she would use “white witchery” on the officer if the charges against her grandson weren’t dropped, WTAJ reported. Barker is accused of saying that she practices “white witchery” and that the police “best be looking over their shoulder,” WTAJ reported.
When state police contacted Barker about the threats, she told investigators she wasn’t threatening the officer, just giving an ultimatum the way her grandson was given, The Altoona Mirror reported.
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AmpliTech Group (OTCMKTS:AMPG – Get Rating) and Track Group (OTCMKTS:TRCK – Get Rating) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
9.0% of AmpliTech Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.1% of Track Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
This table compares AmpliTech Group and Track Group’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Track Group has higher revenue and earnings than AmpliTech Group.
Volatility & Risk
AmpliTech Group has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Track Group has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for AmpliTech Group and Track Group, as provided by MarketBeat.
AmpliTech Group currently has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 266.30%. Given AmpliTech Group’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe AmpliTech Group is more favorable than Track Group.
Profitability
This table compares AmpliTech Group and Track Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Summary
Track Group beats AmpliTech Group on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About AmpliTech Group (Get Rating)
Amplitech Group, Inc. designs, engineers, and assembles micro-wave component-based amplifiers. The company's products include radio frequency (RF) amplifiers and related subsystems, such as low noise amplifiers for use in receivers of various communication systems comprising Wi-Fi, radar, satellite, base station, cell phone, radio, etc.; and medium power amplifiers that provide enhance output power and gain in transceiver chains. It also provides specialty microwave block downconverters used as a test device on satellite access point antennas; specialty microwave 1:2 Tx protection switch panels that is used in satellite communication earth stations; desktop/benchtop and compact wideband power amplifiers; and waveguide to coaxial adapters for SATCOM and satellite internet gateway systems. In addition, the company offers cryogenic amplifiers for quantum computing, medical, RF imaging, research and development, space communications, accelerators, radiometry, and telephony applications; and cryogenic and non-cryogenic 4g/5g small cell subsystems for high-speed networks and airline Wi-Fi systems. Further, it provides custom assembly designs and non-recurring engineering services on a project-by-project basis. The company serves aerospace, government, defense, commercial satellite, and wireless industries through sales representatives and distributors in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. Amplitech Group, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Bohemia, New York.
About Track Group (Get Rating)
Track Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets location tracking devices. Its products include ReliAlert XC4, a GPS monitoring device; ReliAlert XC 3, which enables agencies to track offender movements and communicate directly with offenders in real-time through on-board two/three-way voice communication technology; and Shadow, an offender tracking device with 3G compliant. The company also provides IntelliTrack, a secure state of the art device-agnostic platform; IntelliTrack Mobile, a mobile application of the Intellitrack software is available for Android and iOS devices; TrackerPAL, a cloud-based monitoring system; TrackerPAL Mobile, a mobile application of the TrackerPAL software for Android and iOS devices; data analytics services; and BACtrack, a smartphone-based remote alcohol monitoring system. In addition, it offers Empower smartphone application that provides victim and survivor support by creating a mobile geo-zone around a survivor of domestic abuse and communicates with the offender's tracking device; InTouch, a smartphone monitoring and supervision application for the criminal justice market; SecureCuff steel bands; and RF Beacon, a self-contained and short-range transmitting station that provides a radio frequency signal communicating with assigned offender GPS devices, as well as product support services. Further, the company develops and sells various related software, services, accessories, networking solutions, and monitoring applications. It sells its products in the United States, Latin America, and internationally. The company was formerly known as SecureAlert, Inc. and changed its name to Track Group, Inc. in May 2015. Track Group, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Naperville, Illinois.
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The future is decidedly not female for California mosquitoes, or at least that’s what researchers hope to achieve when they unleash 2.4 billion genetically altered bloodsucking males into the West Coast state starting this summer in an attempt to control the booming populations.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced last month that biotech firm Oxitec had received approval to expand its existing pilot program in Florida into California’s Central Valley, where they’ve been given the all-clear to expand the campaign through till 2024 and release a maximum of 2.4 billion over that time span.
Since male mosquitoes don’t bite, the logic would hold that by expanding the share of male offspring born each season, it would decrease the chances of female biting mosquitoes from spreading deadly diseases like Zika, dengue and yellow fever.
To achieve this effect, researchers at Oxitec paired a special protein to the male so that when it mates with a biting female, the only viable offspring that results are more non-biting males.
Though this campaign could impact all species of mosquitoes, the targeted group is the Aedes aegypti mosquito, a dangerous invasive species that has seen its numbers rise in recent years in the west coast state.
In 2013, the Greater LA County District only had a small concentration of these ankle biters, which are said to be capable of piercing through clothing and laying their eggs in a bottle-cap amount of water. By 2020, the Los Angeles Times reported, that concentration had ballooned to encompass the entire district.
And while California has not yet noted an uptick in the diseases the pests are capable of spreading, there is growing concern since they have the potential and with an out of control population growth, those risks will only become greater.
In a statement from Oxitec’s CEO issued after the announcement of the pilot’s expansion to California, he expressed how “proud” he and his team were to have met this “milestone”.
“Given the growing health threat this mosquito poses across the U.S., we’re working to make this technology available and accessible,” Grey Frandsen said in the statement.
For California, the climate crisis has presented innumerable challenges, wildfires, droughts, intensified storms to name a few. But the warming planet also poses a problem for maintaining the populations of invasive species, such as these vampiric blood suckers, that have taken hold in recent years.
Droughts make for low lying water in pipes and lakes, which in turn make for an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes. While the lack of rain makes it so more of those eggs don’t get washed away.
Though the project has been approved by the EPA, it’s still awaiting a final sign-off from California’s department of pesticide regulation. And while those who created the genetically modified biters are, as CEO Frandsen says, “looking forward” to “demonstrating the technology”, there are critics who believe there has not been enough transparency and the risks of introducing this new species far outweigh the pros.
The results from the first Florida pilot trial, for instance, have yet to be released to the public, raising concerns about the project’s actual success.
And when the EPA announced the expansion of the Florida project to California this year, the agency received 13,000 comments in opposition, most of which were collected by the environmental organisations like Friends of the Earth, the Institute for Responsible Tech and the Center for Food Safety.
In reporting from The Guardian, Dana Perls, a program manager with Friends of the Earth of the trial in Florida, explained how the opposition to the mosquitoes being released without more trials comes from a well earned place.
“The public is being asked to trust that Oxitec’s experiment will work and no GE female mosquitoes will survive. But how do we know that?” Ms Perls told The Guardian.
Ms Perls’s concern, along with other critics of Oxitec’s California campaign, point out that there is an antibiotic that is commonly used in agriculture, which California just so happens to be a hotbed for, that can actually reverse Oxitec’s genetic intervention and actually allow for female’s to be bred.
Tetracycline, the antibiotic, is often found in places where mosquitoes like to nest, specifically wastewater. They’re fear is that, should these genetically modified biters then interact with this wastewater, the results could lead to a hybrid that scientists cannot account for what the end result would be, but ultimately could lead to the population becoming even more difficult to control.
The EPA, however, outlined that the critters are not permitted to be released within 500 metres of sources, specifically wastewater treatment facilities, that could contain the antibiotic.
That is not a guarantee that the insects won’t, however, make their way to one of these facilities.
As Mary-Joy Coburn, director of communications for the Greater LA County Vector Control District, told the Los Angeles Times last year, these mosquitoes might not be able to fly far, but they are “smart”.
In an anecdote she shared with the outlet, she described how a female mosquito could very easily hop in your car and lay her eggs in the next city you drop her off in, while others might simply hop over fences and into their neighbour’s yard.
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Which Ryobi batteries are best?
Ryobi is a consumer brand tool company that focuses on manufacturing reliable, high-quality products at a reasonable price. The key to the company’s success is its power system. Ryobi’s advanced technology lets the batteries communicate with the tools to provide the best performance possible.
Ryobi’s 40-volt 7.5 Ah High Capacity Battery is a high-end battery designed to work with the company’s line of lawn and garden tools. It offers four times more runtime than Ryobi’s 2.0 Ah battery and features an onboard fuel gauge.
What to know before you buy a Ryobi battery
Amps vs. voltage
Shopping for a battery can be difficult because the terminology is confusing. Additionally, manufacturers sometimes direct your attention to details that aren’t crucial to the battery’s performance. The two primary concepts you need to grasp are amps and voltage.
Since electricity is a current that moves, it is often compared to water. If you think of a river, the volume of water in that river would be the amps. Voltage, on the other hand, is the steepness of the river. To give you a mental image, a battery with low amperage and low voltage is a creek trickling through a field. Conversely, a battery with high amperage and high voltage is a wide river racing down the side of a mountain.
More amp hours are better
All batteries have an amp-hour rating. While there are many factors that contribute to a battery’s actual runtime, in general, a higher Ah means a longer runtime. If all things are equal and you purchase an 18-volt 4.0 Ah battery, it will offer roughly double the runtime of an 18-volt 2.0 Ah battery. In short, a higher Ah rating means you will be able to use a tool, such as a cordless drill, longer before it needs to be recharged.
What to look for in a quality Ryobi battery
Voltage
Ryobi makes two types of batteries: an 18-volt battery and a 40-volt battery. If you have an 18-volt tool, you must use an 18-volt battery. If you have a 40-volt tool, you must use a 40-volt battery. The 40-volt batteries are reserved for heavy-duty lawn and garden tools.
Amp hours
Ryobi batteries range from 1.5 Ah to 7.5 Ah. The higher the amp hours, the longer the battery can run between charges.
High performance
A high-performance battery performs better than a standard battery. Ryobi defines its high-performance batteries as lasting two times longer while providing 30% more power than the company’s standard battery.
Number of batteries
If you ever anticipate needing more than one Ryobi battery, it is wise to purchase a two-pack, a four-pack, a six-pack or an eight-pack. When you purchase batteries in a multipack, the price per battery is significantly lower.
Included charger
If you already have a Ryobi battery charger, you can just purchase a battery. If you do not have a charger, or you’d like to charge more than one battery at once, the most cost-effective way to do that is to buy a starter kit that includes both the battery and the charger.
How much you can expect to spend on a Ryobi battery
Ryobi batteries cost anywhere from $50-$250. There are roughly two dozen options between those price points, offering something for every budget.
Ryobi battery FAQ
How long does a Ryobi battery warranty last?
A. All Ryobi batteries come with a three-year limited warranty. If you ever have a problem with your Ryobi battery, simply call customer service to get the help you need.
Where can I find Ryobi products?
A. If you shop in a brick-and-mortar store, the only place you can find Ryobi tools is at Home Depot. However, if you shop online, you can also find Ryobi products on Amazon.
What’s the best Ryobi battery to buy?
Top Ryobi battery
Ryobi 40-volt 7.5 Ah High Capacity Battery
What you need to know: This is the largest battery in Ryobi’s line. It is for lawn and garden equipment.
What you’ll love: This battery provides extra runtime, making it suitable for people with large yards. It delivers fade-free lithium-ion power and has an onboard fuel gauge, so you always know how much power remains. With the RYOBI 40-volt rapid charger (sold separately), you can charge this battery in 75 minutes or less.
What you should consider: This is the most expensive battery currently in Ryobi’s line.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top Ryobi battery for the money
Ryobi ONE+ 18V High Performance 4.0 Ah Battery and Charger Starter Kit
What you need to know: This battery and charger set is for the person who wants to get the most out of their Ryobi power tools.
What you’ll love: This high-performance option gives you up to four times more runtime than Ryobi’s standard lithium-ion battery. It runs cooler, is impact resistant and performs in extreme temperatures. The built-in LED display lets you know at a glance how much power remains.
What you should consider: Rarely, a subpar charger slips through quality control.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Ryobi ONE+ 18-volt High Performance 2.0 Ah Compact Battery
What you need to know: This affordable high-performance battery is designed for the individual who already has a compatible charger.
What you’ll love: The Ryobi ONE+ 18-volt High Performance 2.0 Ah Compact Battery has the same features as the higher-priced 4.0 Ah battery. It has a fuel gauge, works in extreme temperatures and runs cooler than the company’s standard lithium-ion batteries. The main difference is it only offers two times the runtime of Ryobi’s standard lithium-ion batteries (not four times the runtime).
What you should consider: The charger is not included. If you need one, you will have to purchase it separately.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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Dr. Gilbert Casterlow, Jr., 72, earned eternal rest on December 2, 2020. Gilbert was born on October 28, 1948 in Rich Square, NC to the late Gilbert and Juanita Casterlow, Sr. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from NC A&T State University and earned a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University. He returned to his "Dear A&T" where he taught in the Math Department for over 30 years and was later appointed assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs. Dr. Casterlow was acknowledged as a great motivator, role model, administrator, and surrogate father by many.
He is survived by his wife, Patricia Vaughan Casterlow, his 3 daughters, Bonita Casterlow Mittman, Laveda Casterlow McDowell, and Marquita Casterlow Richardson, 5 grandchildren and a host of family and friends.
A public viewing will be held on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 from 4 to 6 p.m. at Brown Funeral Home. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, a private graveside service will be held on Thursday, December 10, 2020 at Lakeview Memorial Park.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to NC A&T State University, designated for the Gilbert and Patricia V. Casterlow Endowed Scholarship in Mathematics c/o North Carolina A&T State University, University Advancement, 1601 East Market Street, Suite 400, Greensboro, NC 27411.
Donations may also be made to East White Oak Missionary Baptist Church, 1815 Water Street, Greensboro, NC 27405.
Brown Funeral Home
909 E. Market Street, Greensboro, NC 27401
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Someone as special as you will never be forgotten. Your friends and neighbor.
Milton and Dorrie
Milton Peele
Friend
December 6, 2021
I am sorry to hear this news. Dr. Casterlow was one of best math instructors to so many. He was also a great mentor and role model. His legacy and contributions will never be forgotten.
Claude Barnes, Phd
December 11, 2020
I am so sorry for your loss. Dr. Casterlow was a wonderful teacher, boss, friend. I will always remember him carrying a sleeping little girl on each shoulder after a show in Robeson Theatre.
Pat OConnor
December 10, 2020
Our Friend and neighbor. Rest in peace.
Milton & Dorrie Peele
December 10, 2020
Let God´s deep love and understanding help you in your grief. For He is there to ease the pain and bring your sorrowing heart relief. Class of 1993
Colette Froneberger
December 10, 2020
REST IN PEACE MY BELOVED FRAT BROTHER. I WILL ALWAYS CHERISH OUR FRIENDSHIP AND FAMILY TIES. GOD BLESS
bill hubbard
December 9, 2020
I have many fond memories of times spent at A & T with Dr. Casterlow. He was a valuable resource for mathematics teachers in Guilford County and the students and teachers benefited greatly from his knowledge, friendship and commitment to education. He will be missed.
Carolyn Warren
December 9, 2020
Dr. Casterlow was an amazing professor who could teach all ages and make math fun. He was one of the first master teachers I saw teach online when virtual learning was brand new. God gifted Dr. Casterlow with a smile and a spirit to grab your attention and open your mind to math. Thanks to his wife, daughters and family for sharing a real trailblazer and story teller (Rich Square). We send our love and prayers. Aggie Pride!
Mable Springfield Scott
December 9, 2020
When I worked with the doctors at Eagle Internal Medicine @ Tannenbaum I met Dr. Casterlow. He touched my heart with his kindness and gentleness. I later moved to the other side of the office to be the administrative assistant, but never forgot him. Some people leave a lasting impression. I am so sorry for your loss. I will be praying for you all.
Sue Morgan Elliott
December 9, 2020
To God be all the glory for the great things you have done to make this world a better place, including raising such beautiful daughters. Instilling in so many the need to explore God´s great world and learning from it. Rest In Peace my brother.
Mr & Mrs Andrew Pettiford
December 9, 2020
Dear Casterlow Family,
Please accept my sincere condolences in your loss of Dr. Casterlow. He was a colleague and an exceptional individual...brilliant and caring! May GOD in HIS divine and infinite wisdom sustain you and your precious memories give you lasting joy and peace, always!
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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday kept the benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4 percent and decided to continue with its accommodative stance despite rising inflation.
This is the 11th time in a row that the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das has maintained the status quo.
RBI had last revised its policy repo rate or the short-term lending rate on May 22, 2020, in an off-policy cycle to perk up demand by cutting the interest rate to a historic low.
MPC has decided to keep the benchmark repurchase (repo) rate at 4 percent, Das said while announcing the bi-monthly monetary policy review.
Consequently, the reverse repo rate will continue to earn 3.35 percent interest for banks for their deposits kept with RBI.
This is the first MPC meeting of the current financial year.
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The University of Guam Conference on Island Sustainability concluded Friday with a discussion on environmental project ideas.
The key priority is restoring and preserving the island’s coral reefs, said Austin Shelton, director of the University of Guam Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant program.
“We can increase more of our coral reefs, which provide great value. They not only help us attract tourists to the island and become a center for cultural interactions but also protect our shorelines,” said Shelton.
He said the waves at the edge of Tumon Bay are 3 to 4 feet but because of the reef, they are only a few inches high when they reach the beach. Further deterioration of the reef would mean higher waves that would erode the shoreline, affecting homes and businesses.
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Funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law could increase efforts already underway by the Guam Green Growth initiative to help prevent soil from washing into the ocean and damaging the coral, Shelton said.
This aquaculture initiative grows young corals in protected areas that can be introduced to a reef to help it expand.
Guam will receive $96 million in funds from the law for over five years to primarily fix bridges and roads, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Some of the funds, however, could be allocated to the initiative.
“One of the things we could be thinking about, in terms of green infrastructure, is helping to restore coral reefs and we could do that now with more of our expertise in aquaculture,” he said.
Sea wallsPacific Daily News reporter Jackson Stephens covers poverty as a Report for America corps member. Reach reporter Jackson Stephens at jstephens@guampdn.com.
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