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Creators' Legal Announces Listing Partnership with App Sumo
OAKLAND, Calif., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creators' Legal announced today a listing partnership with App Sumo, a leading product discovery site.
App Sumo will host a discounted subscription for App Sumo users of the Creators' Legal platform. The placement of Creators' Legal on App Sumo coincides with Creators' Legal recent release of their third version of the product. The listing will go live on June 17, 2022.
The newest version of Creators' Legal includes a contract editor to allow creators the freedom to fully edit their contracts. It also includes the ability to add company logos in the contract. These new features are a step towards Creators' Legal shift to provide a fully integrated legal platform for independent production companies as well as independent creators.
"We are very happy to be on the App Sumo platform, it is a well-known brand in software and product discovery". Said Eric Farber, the Founder, and CEO of Creators' Legal.
Creators' Legal is the first and only DIY legal platform built for the Creator Economy. With close to 50 million people in the United States earning a living off content creation Creators' Legal is quickly becoming the tool of choice for the community.
Creators' Legal has over 170 contracts in more than 10 Creator categories including filmmakers, musicians, NFT creators, Podcasters, Web Series, Digital Creators, and more. The products are available on a per-use basis or through subscription. Creators' Legal boasts close to 1000 creators using the platform for their creative legal contracts. There is also an educational 2 program for students and faculty of creative schools and programs. All can be found at www.CreatorsLegal.com.
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Harrison Hot Springs firefighter Fred Webber has a unique story to tell and now, plenty of people to listen.
Webber’s story of joining the department in his late 50s has recently been published – twice – in the renowned Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
Webber has lived in Harrison for 11 years and has been with the fire department for nearly as long. He is 69 this year.
“‘New Recruits Wanted’ just tells my story of going through the (firefighter recruitment) process,” he told The Observer. “I always wanted to be a firefighter since I was younger, but it never materialized.”
RELATED: Harrison Fire Department names top firefighter for 2014
Webber’s story was originally published in the Chicken Soup book “Your 10 Keys to Happiness.” His was one of four stories from that book to be republished in the “Age Is Just A Number” edition. He said his friend, a cancer survivor, encouraged Webber to tell his tale after they had some stories of their own accepted.
“The first time being published was awesome,” Webber said. He said being published a second time was practically unheard of and was just as proud of that accomplishment.
“It’s kind of nice to think about when they tell you how many languages they print in and how many millions of people they reach,” he added.
READ ALSO: Harrison firefighter conquers “Everest” for Agassiz-Harrison Community Services
Webber worked in construction for 35 years as a first aid attendant and is proud to have earned his place as a firefighter for the village. He works as a first aid instructor and a pumper truck expert.
“We’re not career firefighters, we’re paid-on-call, but you still have to do the same training. Training isn’t easy; you have to really want to do it” he said. “The fires are just as hot as they are for paid-on-call and career firefighters.”
He found most of his first aid skills translated well to working as a firefighter. Other commitments held Webber back from his firefighting dream for many years, but when he moved to Harrison and became semi-retired, he knew it was time.
“I figured maybe they could use an older guy,” he said. “Turns out, they could.”
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Why have Liverpool sanctioned Sadio Mane exit and what now for Reds attack?
By PA Staff published
Liverpool forward Sadio Mane’s impending departure to Bayern Munich means Jurgen Klopp’s famed original front three will be broken up.
Between them, Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah have scored a remarkable 374 goals for the Reds.
However, with the trio now in their 30s – and all in the final 12 months of their contracts – there was a need to think about a succession policy, something which began with the arrival of Diogo Jota in September 2020.
Here, the PA news agency takes a look at why Mane has been allowed to leave and what it means for Liverpool going forward.
Mane scored 23 goals last season, why let him go?
The Senegal international is 30 and, in the final year of his contract, made it clear he wanted to move on. With Mane and strike partners Salah and Firmino all entering the last 12 months of their deals there was a need to get them signed up or phase them out. With protracted negotiations continuing with Salah, and Firmino – the oldest of the three – likely to play out the remainder of his contract, the club could not let the situation drag on without addressing it.
But £35.1m for a player who has been so influential seems on the cheap side…
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In reality Mane could speak to overseas clubs in January and leave for free next summer. Liverpool have made the assessment it is better to cash in now and start the rejuvenation process rather than wait a year and find themselves in a situation where they could be looking for a couple of forwards, which selling clubs could exploit to their financial advantage.
However, Mane would not have been allowed to leave had the club not had a replacement lined up and the recent arrival of Darwin Nunez, eight years his junior, offsets his loss. The income from Mane’s sale, plus getting his considerable salary off the wage bill, makes Nunez’s potential club-record £85m signing more palatable.
How much of a risk are Liverpool taking?
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The 22-year-old Nunez may be raw and have only one decent season behind him but his six-year contract highlights the faith Klopp and his coaching staff have in the former Benfica striker. The club’s recruitment policy over the last four or five years has been the envy of the world and while losing a player of Mane’s quality will no doubt be felt there comes a point when every cycle has to end and you have to build for the future.
With Salah’s goalscoring – the Egypt striker has won the Premier League’s Golden Boot in three of the last four seasons – showing no signs of slowing down, January signing Luis Diaz having an immediate impact and Firmino and Jota as more-than-able back-up options, it is a reasonable calculated risk. Fulham teenager Fabio Carvalho is another exciting prospect who is joining this summer.
So how will Liverpool line up next season?
Salah, obviously, will maintain his position up front on the right, Nunez will be given a run through the middle – although his role may be interchangeable with Firmino and Jota as part of his adaptation – while Diaz looks like he has already made the left-wing berth his own after only four months at the club. Klopp rarely deviates from a 4-3-3 formation but on occasions last season he switched to 4-2-4 as Liverpool chased games, while 4-2-3-1 with Firmino behind Nunez is now a more realistic alternative.
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HBO's upcoming docu-series Mind Over Murder is all set to explore the bizarre and twisted case of Helen Wilson's death where six innocent people were convicted of a crime through police persuasion, threats, and flawed scientific explanations resulting in decades-long sentences for Joseph White, Thomas Winslow, Ada JoAnn Taylor, Debra Shelden, James Dean, and Kathy Gonzalez.
Helen Wilson was the grandmother of seven who lived in the sleepy town of Beatrice, Nebraska. On the morning of February 6, 1985, Helen's sister from the same apartment complex found her dead body and called the authorities. It was soon determined that she was suffocated to death and assaulted. This began the circle, which ended in the six suspects being wrongfully convicted for years before the real criminal was discovered.
Read on to find out the real cause of Helen's death.
Who was Helen Wilson and how did she die?
Helen Wilson was a resident of Beatrice, Nebraska, who was widowed early in her life and raised three children on her own in the same town. Helen was a beloved grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of five. She loved spending time with her family.
The day before authorities found her dead, her son had visited her at night as she was not feeling well. When he called later at midnight, she did not pick up. The following morning, Helen Wilson's sister found her body on the ground with her nightgown lifted. Her sister and her husband called the police right away.
The autopsy revealed that Helen Wilson was allegedly assaulted and suffocated to death. She also had pneumonia. There was also an alleged break-in but the police ruled out robbery as there was nothing of value missing from the house. The police initially connected this to three other similar instances where elderly women were attacked in their homes, but they managed to fight off the attacker.
The authorities did originally find the real murderer but due to faulty lab testing and lack of conviction on their part, he was let go without much fuss. Rather, the six odd suspects, Joseph White, Thomas Winslow, Ada Taylor, Debra Shelden, James Dean, and Kathy Gonzalez, collectively known as the "Beatrice Six," were rounded up and forcefully convinced that they were criminals despite none of them having any memory of the incident.
The bizarre accusations were taken seriously in the court and all six of them were sentenced to prison, with only Joseph White maintaining his innocence. White was simply prosecuted based on the false memories of the five other suspects. By the time the police found the real murderer, he was already dead.
Who killed Helen Wilson?
The first suspect that the police rounded up, Bruce Allen Smith, turned out to be the killer after DNA evidence proved it two decades later. Bruce already had a history of criminal records and was originally accused after he threatened to assault a woman in a bar the same evening the murder took place. He was also allegedly spotted in Helen's neighborhood.
When Bruce Allen Smith was finally convicted of his crimes, he was already dead for over a decade. Unfortunately, he never answered for the crime while six innocent people served a long sentence owing to misjudgment of the authorities.
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Sustainable steps by Louth County Council will lock down costs for 25 years
Louth County Council says it is delighted to have added to their existing renewable energy installations with 2 new solar panel systems now increasing their installed capacity to 30kW.
“The installation of new solar panels at the Town Hall and Civil Defence facility is a great example of how generating our own renewable energy can reduce costs and tackle carbon emissions,” said Padraig O'Hora, head of the Sustainable Energy Section at Louth County Council.
“At a time of great market uncertainty and price inflation we have effectively paid up-front for the electricity these systems will generate over their 25-year lifetime. This creates guaranteed price stability of on average 13 cents per unit when many businesses and homes are now paying 24c. While this energy crisis may be short term it heralds the rise in the risk of being dependent on fossil fuels.”
The council first installed solar panels back in 2014 at the County Museum and then again in 2017 at County Hall. Having monitored these projects, they have seen how well they perform, the clear benefits and how easy they are to install and maintain.
Padraig continues, “We see the solar panels consistently outperforming their predicted electricity generation. Even with our Irish weather pattern they work well and are providing clean energy that can be utilised in council buildings.”
As system costs reduce they have looked for more opportunities for renewable energy projects. These have included a recent air source heat pump for County Hall, a renewable technology that is likely to play an increasing role in heating our homes and buildings.
“The council is committed to playing our part when it comes to addressing issues related to climate change and sustainable energy”, said Ursula Conlon, Executive Planner at Louth County Council’s Sustainable Energy Section.
“Our participation in the OPW’s Optimising Power @ Work campaign has yielded significant energy reductions. Making our buildings as energy efficient as possible is the first step to ensure, when we plug renewables in, it will have the maximum benefit.”
The council has built a team internally to focus on energy related issues and enable them to continue to make progress in this area. They are firm believers in the benefits of staff engagement programs to increase awareness of energy and environmental issues for their colleagues and the public. They have several events planned, including one to highlight renewables and provide advice to colleagues on their suitability for their own homes.
Speaking about working with Louth County Council Declan Rajasingam, an Energy Advisor from the Optimising Power @ Work campaign, said “Louth County Council have shown great leadership by embracing energy efficiency and in looking towards renewable energy for their future energy needs. They are taking sustainable steps towards achieving the requirements set out in the government’s Climate Action Plan 2021, to achieve a 51% reduction in overall greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and getting on a path to reach net-zero emissions by no later than 2050.”
As our society’s energy transition gathers pace, local authorities will play a growing leadership role in demonstrating the technological and psychological journey to meet our net-zero goals. The council has nominated Dundalk as a Decarbonising Zone and is already working in partnership with stakeholders (e.g. industry and communities), to incrementally decrease dependence on fossil fuels and replace these with zero carbon-based solutions that meet the needs and expectations of society.
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The lineup for the Foo Fighters’ tribute concerts to their late drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died in March at age 50, continues to expand: Pink and LeAnn Rimes have just been added to the bill for the Los Angeles concert.
Hawkins played drums on the song “We Could Have It All” off Pink’s 2019 album Hurts 2 B Human, which she co-wrote with Beck. Producer and songwriter Greg Kurstin, who worked with Pink on that album, also produced Foo Fighters’ 2017 album Concrete and Gold. He’s joined the lineup as well.
As for Rimes, they evidently lived near each other and were friendly. When Hawkins died, she tweeted, “GUTTED to hear of our friend and neighbor, Taylor Hawkins departure. In disbelief, like everyone else. He was one of my favorite people, always full of love… he will be deeply missed. Our hearts go out to his family, to the Foos.”
Tickets for the two tribute concerts, taking place September 3 in London and September 27 at LA’s Kia Forum, go on sale today, with proceeds going to a variety of charities. Other acts who’ve been added to the bill in LA are Heart‘s Nancy Wilson, former Nirvana bass player Krist Novoselic and former Led Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones.
As previously reported, Miley Cyrus, Mark Ronson and Alanis Morissette are also on the bill for the LA show.
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SpaceX Fires Employees That Were Critical of Elon Musk
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SpaceX, according to multiple media reports, has fired some employees responsible for an open letter that called on the company to condemn CEO Elon Musk’s online behavior and separate itself from the billionaire’s personal brand.
citing three employees with knowledge of the situation, reported Friday that SpaceX fired the employees who helped organize the critical letter of Musk. Reuters, citing two people familiar with the matter, reported at least five SpaceX employees were fired.
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When it comes to comfort and durability, not all gaming chairs are created equal. And if you're shopping for a new chair for your home office or gaming space, the old adage of "you get what you pay for" absolutely holds true. Fortunately, the new Kaiser 3 from AndaSeat features a heavy-duty build to hold up under daily use while still providing plenty of support to keep you comfortable while you work or game. It also sports a hefty price tag, but if you're looking for a chair that is going to stand the test of time, the Kaiser 3 is well worth the investment.
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The AndaSeat Kaiser 3 can be bought from the brand's official website for $549. And while it's not available to purchase outside of the United States just yet, it's safe to assume that it will have a similar price tag in the UK and in Canada, and possibly closer to $700 in Australia. It is a lot of money for a gaming chair, but it's also in the same tier as the Secretlab Titan Evo ($519) and the Noblechairs HERO ($459.99), which are some of the most popular "luxury" gaming chairs on the market. And I can honestly say that after a few weeks of use, the AndaSeat Kaiser 3 is worth every penny.
I was very impressed with how the Kaiser 3 had been packaged. Every part and box of fasteners was neatly placed and fitted together for an efficient use of the box's space and to prevent damage during shipping. There was also plenty of cushioning foam and plastic coverings for more stability and protection from dust and scratches while in transit. Fortunately, almost all of the packaging is recyclable, though you should check with your local recycling center to see if they'll take the foam inserts.
The instruction manual for assembly was large and easy to read, and it was in several different languages, including: Spanish, French, German, Simplified Chinese, and Arabic. Each part was clearly labeled in images and instructions were written simply, which made matching things up quicker and easier. It even came with a hex key for tightening screws, so you don't need to worry about having a toolbox handy when you're ready to put your chair together. I appreciated that the screws, washers, and safety caps came in a shrink wrap-sealed package which kept everything from getting lost while I was working on different sections of the chair assembly.
The assembly process itself was pretty straightforward once I had verified that all the parts and fasteners were in good shape and actually in the box. It took me about half an hour to put the Kaiser 3 together, and I only ran into a few hiccups. Firstly, the covers for the seat back assembly aren't very distinct from one another, but either one will only fit correctly on their specified side. It took a few minutes of confused faffing about to get everything situated, but it wasn't a huge frustration. And secondly, the thick foam padding can get in the way of properly aligning screw holes. I had a bit of trouble with one of the seat back screw holes lining up with its mate in order to accept the fastener, but a quick ream with a pen fixed the issue.
The Kaiser 3 has some pretty fancy ergonomics features built into the seat back. There are two knobs, one on each side, that are used to adjust the internal lumbar support structure; you use the right-hand side knob to adjust the support forward and back while the left-hand knob moves it up and down. I do wish the knobs were labeled or color-coded to make it easier to remember which does what, but after a while you can memorize what the controls do. Having the lumbar support built into the seat back is a nice touch, in my opinion. Separate lumbar cushions are nice since they help relieve tension in your lower back, but they can be uncomfortable in some gaming chair models because they get bunched up, don't stay in place, or use annoying straps to keep them where you need them. An internal structure eliminates all of those issues so you can get the support you need exactly where you need it, and quickly.
The memory foam head and neck pillow uses a magnet to attach to the upper part of the seat back, which makes it very easy to adjust and remove when you don't need it. The only complaint I have about the pillow is that the area it can attach to is somewhat small, so it takes a few tries to get it placed just right. But once the pillow is in place, it stays exactly where you need it to be, so you won't have to worry about constantly adjusting the neck cushion to stay comfortable and get the proper support you need.
The armrests have the most range of motion I've seen in an office chair. Along with being able to be raised up and down, there are buttons that release locks allowing you to angle them in or out as well as slide forward, back, and to the side to give you more room if you're a bigger person and to find the perfect placement for your arms while leaning back in the chair. The armrests also have bolts where they connect to the bottom of the chair seat, which when loosened, allow you to move the entire arm assembly in or out, giving you even more flexibility for comfort and space.
Both the seat and chair back feature thick, sturdy foam padding that is firm without being unyielding. After several weeks of daily, 8-10 hour use, the seat and chair back cushioning hasn't gone flat or shifted in any way, which means that it's likely that the Kaiser 3 will continue to provide the same level of comfort and support for your hips, spine, and shoulders for a very long time, indeed. The cushioning also does a great job of covering the heavy duty steel frame which gives the Kaiser 3 its durability and strength. At no point did I ever feel like I was being jabbed by hidden bars or bolts in both upright and fully reclined positions.
The armrest covers are also made of a firm foam over a plastic frame, which makes them have a slight give that's nice when I need to lean on them or over them to shoo cats and foster puppies out from under the chair or my work desk. The smooth surface of the armrest covers makes them easy to keep clean with a damp cloth, baby wipe, or sanitizing wipe since there's no woven upholstery that can be stained or hold dirt and pet hair.
The model I was sent for review features the premium PVC faux leather upholstery, which has a matte finish that my thighs are very grateful for since it doesn't make my skin stick and pull uncomfortably in warm, muggy weather. The faux leather is also very easy to keep clean, which is something that I constantly worry about with two cats and two dogs who love to curl up in my office chair as soon as I get up to refill my coffee or check the mail.
A lint roller is more than sufficient to take care of any pet hair and crumbs that come from having animals or eating lunch at your desk, while a baby wipe or damp, soapy washcloth is perfect for getting rid of dirt, oils, and spills. The neck cushion has a velvety-feeling cloth cover that unzips and can be removed if you need to toss it in your washer, and I would recommend spot cleaning the pillow itself with a damp, soapy cloth if need be since the magnet plate is permanently attached to it.
The wheelbase has 5 casters and is made of cast aluminum, giving the chair a heavier base to keep it from easily tipping while you shift around in the seat, recline, or release the tilt lock. The caster wheels have smooth movement over both hard floors and carpet, making it easy to zip around your gaming room or office without leaving your chair. The height adjustment and tilt lock levers are located under the seat and are easy to reach, featuring a textured handle for a better grip. The tilt lock lever can be a bit finicky when trying to release it, but you don't need to wrench on it; just make sure you're centered in the chair and not putting too much pressure on the lever itself and the tilt lock will release without any issues.
I am not exaggerating when I say that the Kaiser 3 is the most comfortable office or gaming chair I have ever used. The extra thick foam padding in the seat and backrest is solid enough to provide support for your hips and spine without feeling like you're sitting on a pile of rocks. The magnetic neck pillow was, frankly, a stroke of genius. It eliminates the need for adjustment straps that can not only be confusing but also uncomfortable to sit against as well. There is a somewhat small area on the headrest that the pillow will actually stick to with its magnet, so you're limited to having the cushion near your head, neck, and upper shoulders if you need it to stay firmly in place while you work or game. Though it is possible to use it as an additional lumbar cushion or mid-back support, it just won't stay put when you get out of the chair.
The foam also feels like it won't break down or become flat over time, like some office and gaming chairs can. I'm usually in my office anywhere between 8 and 10 hours on weekdays for work, and then around 5 or 6 hours most weekends to play games and watch movies with friends. And at no point during the day do I feel like the Kaiser 3 is anything but a joy to use. Once I got everything adjusted to my liking, my ex-bodybuilder spine and hips finally had enough support to not ache after a few hours of meetings and research or catching up with friends via Discord movie night.
The sheer amount of adjustability of the chair means that you can pretty well custom fit the Kaiser 3 to your body. Not only do the armrests slide forward, backward, and side to side, you can rotate them in and out and set their height. There are even screws on the bottom of the chair which, when loosened, allow you to adjust the armrest width even further if you're a bigger person and need more room in the seat.
The backrest can be reclined almost 180 degrees, which is great for doing some at-desk stretches during the work day or while waiting for your game lobby to be ready. It's also almost enough to fully lie down if you want to get comfortable while watching movies with friends in Discord or sleep during your 36-hour Twitch subathon. I do wish that there was a small, integrated footrest that could be folded under the seat and out of the way, similar to how the Respawn 110 is designed. But AndaSeat does have a separate footrest you can buy if you really want to luxuriate and leisure in your chair.
And if you don't want to recline, but still want a bit more room to stretch out, you can release the tilt lock, which lets the chair tilt back like a rocking chair. I usually prefer to keep the tilt lock engaged on office and gaming chairs so I don't feel like I got roped into trying the mechanical bull at a bar, but the Kaiser 3's tilt isn't quite as dramatic as all that so it's nice to sit back and stretch or take a breather when I'm working on a tough article for work or in between matches in Apex Legends.
Part of what I think will make the Kaiser 3 able to stand up to just about anything you throw at it is the magnetic system AndaSeat created for it. Not only is the neck cushion magnetic, but the armrest covers are as well. That means that you'll be able to swap them out if they get worn, damaged, or if you just want a splash of color; so instead of having to replace the entire chair, spending another $549, you can spend a fraction of that to replace the armrest covers.
AndaSeat is also planning on releasing a magnetic table attachment for the Kaiser 3 so you can turn your chair into a mobile workstation or gaming desk. It will have a built-in smartphone/tablet holder so you can play videos and music while you work, set up your mobile devices for virtual meetings and video calls, or have better control and stability while playing mobile games. It will also feature two metal tabs on the back edge to help keep your work or gaming laptop in place while you use it.
The table top accessory will use the same swappable, magnetic system as the armrests, allowing you to quickly change it out when you don't need it any more as well as make quick adjustments by sliding it forward and back to either give yourself more room while sitting or to bring your laptop closer for more comfortable use. The table top will also be available in several different colors so you can match the decor of your gaming space and RGB lighting setup, show off your personal style, or blend into more professional spaces. Unfortunately, there hasn't been any word on how much the table top or armrest covers will cost, but going by the prices of the replacement parts AndaSeat offers, I would expect to pay at least $50 for armrests and $100 or more for the table.
The fact that AndaSeat offers replacement parts through their website is another reason I think the Kaiser 3 is well worth its high price tag. Customers can purchase replacement wheel bases, tilting mechanisms, armrest assemblies, and gas pistons. I am a sucker for planned product longevity, and being able to repair the Kaiser 3 yourself is a big plus for me. It shows that AndaSeat cares about their product and customers and is confident in the quality of their chairs.
They also have a robust social media presence and customer service, so if you ever need to troubleshoot issues, replace parts, or return a faulty chair, it should be a pretty straightforward process. They also have a page dedicated to booking someone to assemble the Kaiser 3 for you if you don't feel comfortable doing so or don't have time.
I mentioned before that AndaSeat offers a separate footrest if you want a way to fully lie down in your Kaiser 3. The Luxurious Footrest (yes, that's what it's actually called) looks like AndaSeat took some extra chair seats and put them on wheel bases, which could also make the footrest an impromptu seat if needed as well as much easier to match the height of your chair when you want to stretch out.
It's upholstered in the same, high-quality PVC faux leather that the Kaiser 3 uses, meaning that it will be easy to keep clean and free of things like pet hair and crumbs. At the time of writing, it's up for pre-order for $149.99, and only comes in a black and red color scheme, which will certainly clash with some of the color choices available for the chair itself like Creamy Pink and Robin Egg Blue. If I had the choice, I'd much rather have a footrest that is built into the Kaiser 3 itself like their Jungle 2 series and able to be deployed or tucked away as needed because my office is on the small side, and I don't have room to store a separate piece of furniture that may not get used very often.
If you're looking for a gaming or office chair that provides top-notch ergonomic support for your hips, spine, neck, and shoulders as well as customization options to show off your personal style or match office decor, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better choice than the AndaSeat Kaiser 3. With the magnetic armrest covers and replacement parts available through AndaSeat, the Kaiser 3 is easy to repair and customize, while the tabletop accessory can turn the chair into a compact desk.
The internal lumbar support system and magnetic neck cushion eliminate confusing and uncomfortable straps, letting you quickly and easily get the support you need exactly where you need it. While the $549 price tag is on the steep side, it's a worthy investment for a chair that will last you for years to come. But if you're still not entirely convinced that the Kaiser 3 is the chair for you, I've gathered up a short list of alternatives to consider with similar ergonomics, materials, and designs.
Secretlab is one of the top names in gaming chairs, and their Titan Evo 2022 series is a pretty close comparison to the AndaSeat Kaiser 3. It comes in three different sizes to accommodate people of all sizes, and you can customize your chair with fabric, faux leather, or genuine NAPA leather as well as colors and themes based on your favorite games, eSports teams, or characters.
Alienware may be more well-known for their gaming PCs and laptops, but they offer a great chair with their S5000. The biggest drawback is the white color, which can easily get grimy and dirty and will require more cleaning and maintenance to keep looking its best. But the steel frame, adjustable neck and lumbar pillows, and ergonomic design make it a comfortable seat for marathon gaming sessions or long work days. It even sports coffee ground-infused microfiber and silver-coated stitching in the embroidery of the neck and lumbar pillows to help prevent bacterial growth which can lead to odor.
The Respawn 110 is one of the more affordable options for a gaming chair, and it's the official chair of the Faze eSports team. For about $200, you'll get an ergonomic design that hugs your body for better support during long gaming sessions or work days. It features both neck and lumbar support cushions as well as padded armrests and a retractable footrest for ultimate comfort. It also comes in a wide variety of colors so you can match the look of your gaming setup or show off your personal style. | https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/andaseat-kaiser-3-review/ | 2022-06-17T19:17:49Z | https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/andaseat-kaiser-3-review/ | true | 1 |
State Secretary Alexandra van Huffelen and the Executive Council of Bonaire agreed on Thursday, the 16 th of June on administrative working agreements. The agreements will run until the elections of March 2023 and elaborate on earlier agreements. The government will make extra money available to execute the agreements.
State Secretary Van Huffelen is pleased with the agreements made. “The administrative work agreements were established through intensive cooperation between the Public Entity and various departments, which has led to a nice mix of actions that make a visible difference for the inhabitants of Bonaire.”
Island Governor Edison Rijna further explains, “We are very happy with the active attitude and additional resources deployed by the Kingdom. As an island we do not want to look only to the Kingdom to realise results for the
inhabitants, but Bonaire wants to do this more and more independently. With the new agreements we will continue to build on the sustainable development of Bonaire and the further professionalisation of the Public Entity Bonaire.”
Included in the working agreements are programmes resulting from the 30 million Euros which the cabinet has made structurally available for the Caribbean Netherlands through the Coalition Agreement. Thus 2.2 million is available for the elimination of backlogs, 1.7 million is available for the strengthening of the implementation force of the Public Entity, 1.4 million for the development of neighbourhoods and 1 million for labour mediation.
The spearhead of all administrative working agreements is the realisation of noticeable improvements for the inhabitants of Bonaire. In addition to attention to administrative and executive power, the social agenda (with a focus on tackling poverty) and efforts on spatial and economic development, there are also agreements on a new library and efforts will be made on youth participation to stimulate young people to become (politically) involved in the
development of Bonaire.
The ambition is to establish a long-term agreement after the elections with the new Executive Council and the new Island Council. The current agreements are in line with the Governance Agreement 2018-2022 with which good
results have been achieved. Key positions within the Public Entity Bonaire have been filled, training programmes have been set up and twinning initiatives with municipalities in the European Netherlands have been started.
The job centre has been realised, steps are being taken to improve childcare, renovation of the main roads is in full swing and the supply of social housing is being expanded.
In addition, there are already agreements for the annual increase of the minimum wage, with the aim of achieving the social minimum benchmark in 2025, there is a proportional increase in minimum benefits, an increase in child allowances, structural efforts to reduce the costs of drinking water and the Internet and there is a local poverty policy aimed at, among other things, debt assistance and improving opportunities on the labour market. | http://pearlfmradio.sx/2022/06/17/extra-money-for-bonaire-with-working-agreements/ | 2022-06-17T19:18:23Z | http://pearlfmradio.sx/2022/06/17/extra-money-for-bonaire-with-working-agreements/ | true | 2 |
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The Amherst Police Department is mourning the loss of their Comfort Dog Winston, who died after being diagnosed with lymphoma and leukemia last weekend, the department said on Facebook.
"This progressed so aggressively that his handler, Officer Laramee, had to make the heartbreaking decision to end his pain and let him pass peacefully," on Wednesday, June 15, police said. Winston was just about to celebrate his second birthday.
"Officer Laramee had a vision for a comfort dog program here in Amherst and he was greeted with the perfectly tempered, incredibly happy, very sleepy, Winston," police said. "The program was a success in every way that Officer Laramee imagined and this loss will be felt by many."
Winston's journey started when he came to work in Amherst in September 2020, according to a post on his Instagram profile. Boonefield Labradors introduced Winston to the department where he became part of their comfort dog program.
"He was great at his job," the post read. "Good looks, supreme confidence, and willing to saddle up whenever the bell rang. "He will be deeply missed by his brothers and sisters @amherstpolicema and the many communities he visited."
People flooded the comments section of the post honoring Winston and his service to the Amherst community.
"We loved following Winston’s visits on Instagram," one Facebook user wrote. "Thank you officer Laramie for starting this program. I hope when the time is right there will be another comfort dog."
"This is beyond heartbreaking! Way too young," said another. "Life is not fair. My sincere condolences to his handler, family and PD. Thank you for your service K9 Winston. RIP good boy."
A memorial for Winston is expected in the near future, police said.
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Sløtface have returned with two new singles ‘Beta’ and ‘Come Hell Or Whatever’. Check them out below, along with our interview with frontwoman Haley Shea.
After announcing earlier this week that the Norwegian punk band would now just be the project of Shea after the amicable departure of guitarist Tor-Arne Vikingstad and bassist Lasse Lokoy, the first fruits from the new iteration of Sløtface can be heard today.
“It’s more like a family or a collective, but it’s definitely my responsibility and my project,” Shea told NME of the current incarnation of Sløtface. “It was a rough 2021 with COVID and then all of these new changes. I didn’t think I could take in any more blows at that point – but there we are.
“It feels so good to have so many amazing and talented friends involved, who I was already friends with before. The few live shows we’ve done recently have been so fun – not just because we’re back to proper rock shows after COVID but also because there’s a really good energy amongst our entire group.”
New songs ‘Beta’ and ‘Come Hell Or Whatever’ were co-written between Shea and songwriter and producer Mikhael Paskalev. The tracks marked a breakthrough in “shifting the way” the pair “thought about music”.
“We started working together in his studio at the beginning of last year, and thought ‘Beta’ could have been for a solo project, for something new and not for Sløtface,” said Shea. “As time went on, I did enough soul-searching to realise that I wanted to continue with Sløtface and I still wanted to be in a rock band.
“I realised, ‘Of course this could be a Sløtface song’. It’s different, but it’s not impossible to think of it in the same universe.”
With ‘Beta’, Shea explained how she explored a more “slowed down, moody and sexy” sound than Sløtface fans might be used to in comparison to the spiky feminist punk sounds of their two albums ‘Try Not To Freak Out‘ and ‘Sorry For The Late Reply‘.
“It’s very much inspired by Caroline Polacheck, HAIM and stuff like that,” said Shea. “We never had a Sløtface song with 808s before, so that was a big change to get used to! After ‘Sorry For The Late Reply’ and before we knew anything about the changes in the band, I was already thinking I wanted to make songs that were a little bit more light-hearted and fun. I was feeling a little bit angsty after the whole process of the songs being so personal. I knew that I wanted there to be story-telling songs that weren’t necessarily my whole and honest true self.”
She continued: “This is much more inspired by Taylor Swift’s songwriting and the way she tells stories. ‘Beta’ exists in that same fictional world, and that creates an alter-ego that’s nice to lean on when I needed a self-confidence boost.”
As for the story she wanted to tell, Shea explained how she turned to the world of dystopian sci-fi.
“Mikhael had written a bunch of lines about gladiators the night before we started in the studio,” said Shea. “That immediately started me off on this track in my imagination about a dystopian gladiator, bodybuilder, bullfighter world where everybody is competing to get the most attention. That’s a dystopian twist on what social media is, and that set my brain off about thinking of this alternate reality where someone’s fed up with all this shit and wants to rise above it all.
“‘Beta’ was originally written as considering this world they’re living in to be the beta version of reality, with beta males instead of alpha males and this woman as the master. We were such movie buffs that we both dived deep into all of our science fiction influences.”
Meanwhile, the other song from the double A-side, ‘Come Hell Or Whatever’, also exists “within the same Matrix, Bladerunner, Mad Max kind of world that we created”, as Shea revealed.
“We were playing around with this drum loop that sounded really industrial and cool and I realised that this needed to be our ‘action movie track’,” she said. “I wanted it to be an ode to the best female action movie characters.”
As for other material in the bag, Shea said that fans should expect a much more experimental approach to sound and crossing genres.
“It’s important for me to let everything be open and experiment with different things,” she said. “I knew going into a new version of Sløtface could be scary and that not having a super-defined sound would be harder for people to wrap their heads around, but it also feels really important to include lots of different musical genres and approaches to music.
“The most honest thing would be to establish that right from the start. The next songs we’ve got coming out are pretty different. They sound more organic and one of them is more Americana and [Bruce] Springsteen influenced. There are common threads and the way we worked on them is similar, but I wanted to keep it open and dare to not define everything so clearly. I’m sure not everyone will like it and not everyone will like everything, but I’m OK with that.”
Right now, Sløtface are working towards an EP to be released around the start of next year, and currently writing as much as possible with the hope of dropping a slew of singles.
“It’s fun to release one or two tracks at a time and not delve so deep into an album,” said Shea. “I want to keep things light, fun and energetic.”
After Sløtface’s second album was picking up steam with a lot of critical acclaim, their extensive UK tour was then wiped out due to the first wave of the COVID pandemic. As a result, Shea said she has a much more pragmatic approach to what she wants from music.
“Over the last few years, we’ve all changed – I know I have,” she said. “My ambitions at this point are more realistic and feasible, compared to when I was 22. My ambitions now are just to feel good, have fun, and work with people who have good creative input. To release good music and play live are the only goals now!”
She continued: “There’s probably a part of me that’s worried about being disappointed. I’m not too concerned with ‘blowing up’. That was probably more of a thing with the last album because it did feel like it was getting good traction before the world shut down. Now I have smaller goals. It would be amazing if people liked the music and it went really well, but now I’m putting less of myself into the idea of success than I used to. It feels less like life and death. Music is meant to be fun, and it’s harder to make it fun if you’re always worried about it.”
With a number of live shows approaching in Norway before wider tour dates are planned for the rest of the world, Shea described the current live set-up as a real “feel-good” experience.
“Getting out and playing in packed-out rooms with a bunch of natural musicians feels amazing,” she said. “The energy is so good and so fun. We have two guitar players now which makes everything sound so huge. The ‘Telepathetic’ guitar solos are now dual harmony, which is really fun.
“I was really nervous before the first show with this line-up and was so worried that people wouldn’t like it and it wouldn’t get as much moshing or stage-diving, but it was the same chaos that there’s always been.”
During lockdown in 2020, Sløtface released the live and acoustic album ‘Slumber Tapes’ – featuring the new song ‘Doctor’ and a cover of Sophie Ellis Bextor‘s ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’.
Former Sløtface bassist Lasse Lokoy is currently pursuing life as a solo artist and producer in LA after releasing his debut solo album ‘Badminton’ in 2021.
In a four-star review, NME said: ‘Badminton’ is a bold statement from an artist with a very sophisticated pop palette and streetwise worldview; it seems he can do what he likes and get away with it.” | https://www.nme.com/news/music/slotface-beta-come-hell-whatever-new-music-album-interview-haim-taylor-swift-caroline-polachek-interview-3250156 | 2022-06-17T19:25:26Z | https://www.nme.com/news/music/slotface-beta-come-hell-whatever-new-music-album-interview-haim-taylor-swift-caroline-polachek-interview-3250156 | false | 3 |
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COLUMBUS -- Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday sent a letter to school superintendents to provide information on recent changes to Ohio law and raise awareness about school safety services and resources offered by the state.
The letter addresses the following:
-- Student Wellness and Success funding for mental health programming and training
-- Ohio School Safety Center resources and expansion
-- $100 million in grants for school safety and security upgrades
-- New behavioral threat assessment training for educators
-- Optional arming of school staff and training requirements
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"House Bill 99, which I signed this week, addresses the option of arming school staff. Arming school personnel is a serious decision that is left up entirely to your school. It is optional. It is one of many tools that you can choose based on your unique school situation," DeWine wrote.
"Other tools, such as a school safety officer, may serve your school better. I signed this bill because we know some schools want to do this and know that each school situation is different.
"I did not want to deny schools this option and wanted to make sure that if a school chooses this option that all training hours are directly relevant to situations that could occur in schools.
"However, I have made it clear that, in my opinion, the much preferred option is to have a school resource officer in each school building," the governor wrote.
DeWine said his recent school safety announcements are part of a multi-faceted, comprehensive approach to school safety that has been in process since taking office 2019.
Ongoing initiatives directly and indirectly impact school safety through efforts contributing to an overall reduction in violence and enhanced mental wellness services for youth, the governor said.
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Mother expecting 1 in 70M set of quadruplets
BOSTON, Mass. (WCVB) – A woman in Massachusetts is expecting quadruplets, but her story is even rarer because they’re actually two sets of identical twins.
Ashley Ness was shocked when she found out she was pregnant at a routine doctor’s appointment the Friday before Valentine’s Day.
A surprise baby is one thing, but nothing could have prepared Ness for the news she learned at an ultrasound two weeks later.
An ultrasound tech revealed quadruplets on the screen, which Ness said were conceived without any fertility treatments. The chances of this are about one in a million.
Ness is having two sets of identical twins – two boys and two girls. The odds of that happening without fertility treatments is one in 70 million.
“I need to get a passenger van now. I need an addition on the home. Initially, I was like, ‘I need to do a lot,’” Ness said.
Ness and her boyfriend already have four kids between the two of them. The oldest is 24 and the youngest is 7.
Before having her daughter, Ness said she struggled to get pregnant.
Now, eight years later with four healthy babies on the way, she feels lucky to be in this situation -- as overwhelming as it might appear.
Ness is 22 weeks along, and doctors plan to deliver the quads via C-section between 30 and 32 weeks. They have a due date in mid-October and will likely spend some time in the NICU as well.
She said she has plenty of support from family and friends who are ready to help.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s government has been accused of using violence against Maasai herders protesting efforts to evict them from one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations, in the latest friction between those who see certain African landscapes as a lucrative playground and those who simply call them home.
Witnesses of the confrontations in the Ngorongoro area told The Associated Press that some of the wounded people fled to neighboring Kenya to seek medical care, fearing retaliation from Tanzanian authorities. Video shared with the AP shows Maasai taking cover amid gunfire and tear gas, and others injured.
“We saw many people being beaten,” said Stephen Parmuat, who said he helped carry some of those wounded across the border after the confrontations late last week. “For now, the situation is still bad. We don’t know what’s next. Many people are displaced. We don’t know where to go.”
A Tanzanian advocate for the Maasai told the AP that 20 people arrested, including political leaders, were charged with murder on Thursday at the Resident Magistrate’s Court in Arusha without advocates being notified, contrary to procedure. The AP saw a copy of the court documents, with many of those charged described as “peasants.” Speaking on condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation, the advocate asked how so many people could be charged with the murder of the one police officer that authorities said was killed.
A call to the court in Arusha was not answered.
The confrontations, which erupted after Maasai community members noticed Tanzanian authorities marking off land reportedly for a game reserve, occurred just days before the East African Court of Justice is set to rule next week on the merits of a case filed by supporters of the Maasai against Tanzania’s government.
The government was served notice of the upcoming judgment, and lawyer Donald Deya wondered whether Tanzanian authorities were trying to pre-empt it by marking off the land.
“In 2018 the court issued an interim order that stopped the government from doing exactly the kind of things it’s doing now,” said Deya, who leads the Pan African Lawyers Union. “Do not evict Maasai, do not touch disputed land. These actions of the government are in contempt of court.”
Human rights lawyers in Tanzania were searching police stations in the region for more than 30 people, including Maasai leaders, allegedly detained amid the confrontations, he said.
A march by a small number of Maasai in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, to the Tanzanian embassy on Friday was broken up by police who used tear gas and arrested a national community leader.
In order to take land in the public interest, Tanzanian authorities must consult communities and give justification, Deya said. He doesn’t believe that has occurred, and he warns that a court decision favoring the Maasai could be followed by a public campaign pressuring Tanzania’s government to respect it.
“Embarrassment might stop them,” he said, adding that some “tourists want to have exclusive use so they don’t have to run into cows.”
Tourism is a major source of income in Tanzania, which drew global attention when its previous president, John Magufuli, largely denied the presence of COVID-19 and urged tourists to keep coming to the East African nation.
The confrontations in Ngorongoro district led to an outcry among supporters of indigenous communities in general and of the Maasai, many of whom are employed in the safari industry in both Tanzania and Kenya.
Several United Nations human rights experts in a joint statement on Wednesday said they were “deeply alarmed” by the reports of Tanzanian security forces using live ammunition and tear gas against the Maasai and protested “continuous encroachment” on their ancestral lands.
Up to 70,000 Maasai could be displaced by the planned game reserve which would take up 1,500 square kilometers (580 square miles) of 4,000 square kilometers (1,544 square miles) designated as village land, experts said.
The entire Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the U.N. experts urged Tanzania’s government to make sure any plans for the area meet human rights standards.
The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights this week called on Tanzanian authorities to “halt the ongoing forcible eviction.”
Tanzania’s government, including the tourism minister and prime minister, have said the goal for the disputed area is conservation and alleged that the growing number of Maasai and cattle on the land could put it at risk.
Police inspector general Simon Sirro accused some Maasai of being mobilized by local leaders to disobey the law. “I have instructed the police to apply force where necessary,” he said. | https://www.ozarksfirst.com/local-news/world-news/tanzania-accused-of-violent-eviction-attempts-against-maasai/ | 2022-06-17T19:33:07Z | https://www.ozarksfirst.com/local-news/world-news/tanzania-accused-of-violent-eviction-attempts-against-maasai/ | false | 34 |
In case you hadn't noticed, Julia Fox's eyebrows have been M.I.A. since late May. Well, OK, they're still there, but the legendary Pat McGrath reportedly bleached them into virtual invisibility a few weeks ago. Since then, the Ahncuh Jahms muse has stuck with the edgy look. However, on Thursday, she added a dramatic new detail.
On June 16, Fox was spotted at the Tribeca Festival with what we're dubbing flying saucer brows. The futuristic look actually starts off as eyeliner. The black liquid thickly lines her top lashes, and wings out — but instead of stopping where even the boldest wings typically stop, they loop around and above her natural, bleached brows to create a somewhat sinister-yet-surprised-in-outer-space effect.
The rest of Fox's makeup is practically nonexistent. She let her liner-brow hybrid makeup and 3D-printed top do all the talking.
As of writing this, it's unclear if Fox did her own makeup or relied on a makeup artist like McGrath or someone else. As we know, Fox loves to do her own eye makeup; she famously "actually did it myself" for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party — the admission became a hugely popular audio clip on TikTok — and even did a tutorial. What we do know is that whatever liner was used stands up to a brisk bike ride through New York City, which is apparently how Fox got to the Tribeca Festival. | https://www.allure.com/story/julia-fox-flying-saucer-brows | 2022-06-17T19:39:26Z | https://www.allure.com/story/julia-fox-flying-saucer-brows | true | 1 |
SIERRA VISTA — John Brown Staples died peacefully in his sleep on June 15, 2022 as he lived his life – with courage, quiet humor, and in control. He was born on February 7, 1948 in Windham, Maine, the son of Vaughn B. & Clara E. Staples. A Valedictorian of Windham High School, he went on to obtain his B.S E.E. from Northeastern University in Boston and his M.S. from Northern Colorado University.
As a R.O.T.C. grad, he served in the U.S. Army until September 1975, exiting as a Captain. He continued his career as a systems engineer for the U.S. Government under various commands and contractors until he fully retired in 2011. His unsung contributions to the communication networks of the country will only be known by a select few.
He was an associate faculty for Golden Gate University and Western International University. He will be especially remembered for NEVER letting a class out early.
John was a charter member of the Huachuca Hiking Club in 1975 and a dedicated backpacker; he traveled every inch of the Huachucas, the Chiricahuas, and the Grand Canyon, assisting also with the Arizona Trail section in Southern Arizona. He was hiking the North Rim on Father’s Day just a year ago.
He was also a Scout Master of Boy Scout Troop 445 in Sierra Vista. Many a Sierra Vista lad will attest to his dedication and detailed commitment to the tenants of Scouting and outdoor life…camping, cooking, and hiking. He was always prepared for anything or could make something work.
The history of his family farms in Maine was a recent passion. There will be a nearly 1000 page document when we all finish the work he started, complete with photos. He and his sister have published a family cookbook with history notes every Christmas for over 20 years.
John is predeceased by parents, Clara and Vaughn Staples of Westbrook, Maine. He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Gail, his sons Christopher (Sierra Vista, Arizona) and Gregory (Columbus, Indiana) and his daughter Jill Hoard (Chris) of Chandler, Arizona. His three grandchildren Ryan, Matt and Amber were the delight of his life and he loved teaching them about cooking outdoors, building projects or taking them camping, although in later years, he became a fan of VRBOs!
John is also survived by his brother Fred (Carol) of Windham Maine; his sister Mary Kornegay (Daniel) of Brunswick, Maine and his sister Rose Staples of Westbrook, Maine. He is especially remembered for his quiet Maine humor and always wanting to share his vast knowledge by many, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews.
Many thanks go to the excellent care of Dr. S. Patel and the staff of Valor Hospice, especially Chris, his RN. Although with his recent diagnosis of ALS, he did not see them for long, their care and knowledge was superb.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to the Sierra Vista Ranger District, 4070 S Avenida Saracino, Hereford, Arizona 85615.
A memorial will be held on July 7, 2022 with visiting hours at 9 a.m., military ceremony at 10 a.m., and service at 10:15 a.m. at the Hatfield Funeral home, 830 AZ-92, Sierra Vista, Arizona. | https://www.myheraldreview.com/obituaries/john-brown-staples-74/article_cd9cb024-ee57-11ec-af65-776e2287aef7.html | 2022-06-17T19:39:33Z | https://www.myheraldreview.com/obituaries/john-brown-staples-74/article_cd9cb024-ee57-11ec-af65-776e2287aef7.html | true | 2 |
VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — A third elderly church member who was shot when a man pulled out a handgun during a potluck dinner has died, police said Friday.
The 84-year-old woman died hours after being rushed to a hospital following the Thursday evening shooting at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills. The suspect, a 71-year-old man, was subdued and held by a person attending the dinner until police arrived, sparing the congregation from further violence, police Capt. Shane Ware said.
“It was extremely critical in saving lives,” Ware told a news conference. “The person that subdued the suspect, in my opinion, was a hero.”
Ware said the suspect and the three victims were all white.
The woman who died Friday was not immediately identified. Vestavia Hills police said in a Facebook post that her name was being withheld because her family requested privacy.
Walter Bartlett Rainey, 84, of nearby Irondale was killed at the church and Sarah Yeager, 75, of Pelham died soon after being taken to a hospital Thursday.
Rainey’s family said in a statement Friday that it was hard to believe he had been killed at one of his favorite places, a church that “welcomes everyone with love,” while attending a dinner with his wife of 61 years.
“We are all grateful that she was spared and that he died in her arms while she murmured words of comfort and love into his ears,” said the statement provided by Rainey’s daughter, Melinda Rainey Thompson.
“We are proud that in his last act on earth, he extended the hand of community and fellowship to a stranger, regardless of the outcome,” Rainey’s family said.
Police are still investigating what motivated the suspect, who occasionally attended services at the church, Ware said. He said the man’s name is being withheld until prosecutors formally charge him with capital murder.
The event was a “Boomers Potluck” gathering inside the church, according to messages posted on the church’s Facebook page by the Rev. John Burruss, the pastor. He said he was in Greece on a pilgrimage with a group of members and trying to get back to Alabama.
Vestavia Hills Mayor Ashley Curry told reporters his “close-knit, resilient, loving community” had been rocked by “this senseless act of violence.” The bedroom community is one of the wealthiest cities in Alabama, home to many businesspeople, doctors and lawyers who work in nearby Birmingham. Vestavia Hills is known for top-flight schools and a family-centered, suburban lifestyle. It has nearly 40,000 residents, most of whom are white.
The Rev. Rebecca Bridges, the church’s associate rector, led an online prayer service on the church’s Facebook page Friday morning. She prayed not only for the victims and church members who witnessed the shooting, but also “for the person who perpetrated the shooting.”
“We pray that you will work in that person’s heart,” Bridges said. “And we pray that you will help us to forgive.”
Bridges, who is currently in London, alluded to other recent mass shootings as she prayed that elected officials in Washington and Alabama “will see what has happened at St. Stephens and Uvalde and Buffalo and in so many other places and their hearts will be changed, minds will be opened.”
“And that our culture will change and that our laws will change in ways that will protect all of us,” she added.
There have been several high-profile shootings in May and June, starting with a racist attack on May 14 that killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. The following week, a gunman massacred 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Thursday’s shooting happened just over a month after one person was killed and five injured when a man opened fire on Taiwanese parishioners at a church in Southern California. It comes nearly seven years to the day after an avowed white supremacist killed nine people during Bible study at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Agents with the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives joined investigators at the scene, which remained cordoned off Friday with yellow police tape as police vehicles with flashing lights blocked the route to the church.
On Saturday, thousands of people rallied in the U.S. and at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to renew calls for stricter gun control measures. Survivors of mass shootings and other incidents of gun violence lobbied legislators and testified on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued a statement late Thursday lamenting what she called the shocking and tragic loss of life. Although she said she was glad to hear the suspect was in custody, she wrote: “This should never happen — in a church, in a store, in the city or anywhere.” | https://www.wsav.com/news/ap-top-headlines/alabama-church-shooting-kills-2-wounds-1-suspect-held/ | 2022-06-17T19:44:03Z | https://www.wsav.com/news/ap-top-headlines/alabama-church-shooting-kills-2-wounds-1-suspect-held/ | true | 33 |
When I was given the opportunity to write these articles, I saw it primarily as a chance to help share information about animal welfare and the efforts of local animal advocacy organizations. An added benefit for me, personally, is a massive education regarding animal behaviors/treatments and the challenges that face local animal welfare organizations. As I write these articles, I am privileged to meet local community members who selflessly put their hearts, souls, time and money into improving the lives of animals each day.
On a very sad note, an incredible local animal advocate, Nancy Cheadle-Winberg, is battling cancer and cannot physically continue her Trap Neuter Release (TNR) activities with feral cats. She has repeatedly demonstrated what an amazing person she is. Until now, she has continued to rescue and TNR with Bannock Feral Friends (BFF) while also fighting her personal health situation.
Nancy started to rescue animals about 11 years ago. Her goal was to teach her son, Daniel, that you can love something and let it go. I can't tell you how heartbroken we all are that Nancy has had to step down from her work with BFF. She has been the driving force since the organization began its work.
Those who know her marvel at her strength mentally and physically. She is truly Wonder Woman. I don't know many people who undergo a chemotherapy session and then immediately go out to perform feral cat TNR activities. TNR is always physically exhausting. Some days are also mentally/emotionally exhausting as well given the horrible situations one must confront. For folks like Nancy, the reward of having a hand in reducing the suffering of innocent animals is enough!
Even at this most difficult time for her personally, she is working with a group of feral cats hoping to tame them for future adoption. She just doesn't give up! She is the definition of what it means to be there for animals. Even as her condition degrades, those who know her still pray for a miracle. Life is unpredictable, and we must strive to live to the fullest remembering each day is a gift.
Nancy, BFF, individual animal advocates and many of the local animal welfare organizations are part of a more recently formed coalition called “All About the Animals Coalition” (AAA). The organization’s goal is to bring together eastern Idaho animal advocacy/welfare organizations to collaborate around common animal welfare objectives.
Getting involved with AAA provides networking opportunities and insight into the broader benefits/projects associated with animal advocacy in our area. These efforts include spay/neuter campaigns and establishing a central pet food pantry. To date, this coalition has held five free spay/neuter clinics altering and immunizing more than 300 animals in Fort Hall. AAA has also provided free outdoor shelters and food to pet owners in need.
For decades, the largest, most significant local population of unneutered animals has existed on the Fort Hall reservation. These large populations of essentially feral animals multiply rapidly resulting in animal packs/colonies which pose safety issues for humans, domestic pets and animals on the reservation and in surrounding areas. It was an easy decision for the AAA Coalition partners, from Hamer to Pocatello, to combine forces around this issue. The support and commitment of time, resources and talent from the ShoBan Tribal Council, First Baptist Church in Fort Hall and reservation citizens are also significant reasons the coalition chose Fort Hall as a critical spay/neuter kick-off location. The first clinic was held for Fort Hall residents on Thursday. Reservation residents may get on the waiting list for future clinics by contacting Tressa Gonzales at 208-406-8777.
The AAA, and the Snake River Animal Shelter, located in Idaho Falls, obtained a grant from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(ASPCA) national organization to fund veterinarians, technicians and required supplies to implement spay and neutering and wellness clinics for animals on the Fort Hall reservation. The Idaho Humane Society loaned AAA the use of their portable surgery lab to facilitate these efforts. Later this year, clinics may be implemented in additional areas in southeastern Idaho, including the Chubbuck/Pocatello area.
There is no better legacy to leave behind than a beating heart that would not be there had it not been for you. Please consider donating to an area animal welfare organization
Upcoming events
The Aiding 2 Adoption organization will be participating in the PetSmart National Adoption Week (petsmartcharities.org/adopt-a-pet/adoption-events) and will have dogs and cats available in store and out July 11 to 17.
Local animal welfare organizations:
— Portneuf Animal Welfare Society (PAWS): pocatellopaws.org
— Bannock Humane Society (BHS): bannockhumanesociety.org
— Aiding 2 Adoption Rescue (A2A): a2arescue.godaddysites.com
— Bannock Feral Friends (BFF): facebook.com/Bannockferalfriends
— Friends of the Pocatello Animal Shelter (FPAS): pocatelloshelterfriends.org
— Fort Hall ROAR: facebook.com/FHROAR
— Bingham County Humane Society (BCHS): binghamcountyhumane.org
— Snake River Animal Shelter (SRAS): snakeriveranimalshelter.org
Kelly Boodry is president of the All About the Animals Coalition. | https://www.idahostatejournal.com/opinion/columns/selflessness-and-progress/article_013ea0cb-ba99-511f-81c1-c630ccdd8f8c.html | 2022-06-17T19:44:51Z | https://www.idahostatejournal.com/opinion/columns/selflessness-and-progress/article_013ea0cb-ba99-511f-81c1-c630ccdd8f8c.html | true | 1 |
You know you need sunscreen and layers to protect you from the sun, lest you get a bad sunburn. It stands to reason that if UV rays can be bad for you, they can be bad for other things — even things not covered in skin. Your vehicles, for instance, can suffer sun damage, but just as you can intervene on behalf of your body, you can intervene on behalf of your possessions, too.
Can the sun damage your vehicle?
The sun can damage your vehicle’s appearance by oxidizing the paint, and can even make the interiors dry and aged, especially if they’re made of leather. What’s more, heat can impact your cooling system, your fluids, your battery, and your air conditioning. The issues range from vanity-based to actually impacting your safety, so it’s important to tackle the sun’s impact on your car from a variety of angles.
How to protect your vehicle’s operations from the sun
According to State Farm, you need to make sure your vehicle is in good working order, get the belts checked, and have your antifreeze or coolant drained regularly. Overheating is more likely when your fluid levels dip below the recommendations, so check your motor oil, transmission fluid, power steering fluid, and brake fluid regularly, too.
High temps and use of high-accessory loads like air conditioning can also impact your battery, so get have checked regularly. And if the air conditioning itself isn’t functioning — which could be a sign of a more serious issue — that should be looked at, too. And finally, keep tire pressure in mind: Hot pavement will be especially dangerous to under-inflated tires and can even lead to a blowout.
How to protect your vehicle’s appearance from the sun
Obviously, your car’s safety and function is more important than its aesthetic, but that doesn’t mean the appearance and comfort of one of your most expensive purchases isn’t also important. Here are tips for protecting the interior and exterior of your vehicle from the effects of the sun:
- Park in the shade to avoid your dash drying and cracking, and consider cracking a window to get some airflow, if it’s safe to do that where you parked.
- Use a windshield sun protector to keep the interior cooler and protect your dash even more.
- Wipe down your dash with a microfiber cloth, as dirt can cause even more scratching — and you are bound to get more dust and dirt inside when you crack the windows for cooling. Look into detailing products, too, which can protect your dash more.
- Use seat covers to protect and cool seats, or consider a product like Fibrenew, which protects leather seats from sun.
- Wash and dry the car often, because sun and heat can fade and crack the paint, which will be exacerbated by dirt and dust scratching it
- Get your car waxed to provide a layer of protection between the finish and the UV rays.
These are simple steps that can prevent your car from looking older than its true age, overheating, or experiencing a tire blowout. | https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2022/06/how-to-protect-your-vehicle-from-sun-and-heat-damage/ | 2022-06-17T19:47:26Z | https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2022/06/how-to-protect-your-vehicle-from-sun-and-heat-damage/ | false | 2 |
Company that helps animals walk builds first wheelchair for emu
Company that helps animals walk builds first wheelchair for emu
STEVE: THE NEW HAMPSHIRE COMPANY THAT HELPS ANIMALS GET BACK ON THEIR FEET, HAS HELPED IT’S FIRST U.EM AMHERST-BASED WALKIN’ PETS CREATED THIS FULLY-SUPPORTIVE WHEELCHAIR FOR THIS LITTLE GUY NAMED LEMU. GREAT NAME. YOU CAN SEE HE TOOK RIGHT OFF, SKIPPING AHEAD FROM LEARNING TO WALK TRUO NNG.IN LEMU LIVES AT AN ANIMAL SANCTUARY IN NORTH CAROLINA WHERE THERE ARE ALSO SEVEN GOATS WHO ALL HAVE THEIR OWN WHEEHALCIRS. [LAUGHTER]
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Amherst-based "Walkin' Pets" created a fully-supportive wheelchair for the emu named "Lemu."
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Lemu took right off, skipping ahead from learning to walk to running.
The emu lives at an animal sanctuary in North Carolina, where there are also seven goats who all have their own wheelchairs. | https://www.wyff4.com/article/wheelchair-emu/40304260 | 2022-06-17T19:54:49Z | https://www.wyff4.com/article/wheelchair-emu/40304260 | false | null |
Perfect Weather To Start the Week in the Berkshires
According to the National Weather Service, the continuation of the beautiful weather we experienced over the weekend will continue to start the week in Berkshire County. The sun will be out in force to start the week and according to the NWS and temps will be heating up into the upper...
wsbs.com | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2635127249210/perfect-weather-to-start-the-week-in-the-berkshires | 2022-06-17T19:56:03Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2635127249210/perfect-weather-to-start-the-week-in-the-berkshires | true | null |
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court has found that the NAACP has no standing to sue a Mississippi prosecutor accused of routinely rejecting Black jurors in criminal cases.
District Attorney Doug Evans has been in office since 1992, and his jury selection tactics have scrutinized for years. His exclusion of Black jurors in one high-profile murder case caused the Supreme Court to overturn the conviction of Curtis Flowers in June 2019, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh citing a “relentless, determined effort to rid the jury of black individuals.”
The Attala County branch of the NAACP and four Black voters sued Evans months later, asking the courts to declare that the prosecutor’s jury-selection practices violate the constitutional rights of prospective jurors such as themselves. They also requested an injunction to prevent Evans and his staff from making race-based jury strikes.
U.S. District Judge Debra Brown acknowledged the plaintiffs’ claims against Evans may have merit, but she dismissed their case in September 2020, saying an injunction would put the federal court in the improper role of conducting an “ongoing audit” of current and future state court proceedings. She also said those who suspect a prosecutor of race-based jury exclusions can make challenges in state courts.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that decision in its ruling Thursday. The three-judge panel said the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring the lawsuit because they “have not demonstrated a ‘real and immediate threat’ or a ‘substantial risk’” that Evans could strike them from jury service because of their race.
The appeals panel noted that only one of the plaintiffs had ever been called for potential jury duty, and was dismissed after saying she could not support the death penalty in one of Flowers’ trials — a permissible reason to exclude someone from a jury.
The Associated Press left a phone message Friday for Evans at his office in Grenada, Mississippi, seeking his response. Evans, whose office covers seven counties in northern Mississippi, is one of six candidates running in a nonpartisan election in November for a state circuit judgeship.
Flowers was tried six times in the 1996 shooting deaths of four people at a furniture store in Winona, with four convictions and two mistrials. He has always maintained his innocence. Flowers remained in prison for six months after the Supreme Court overturned his final conviction because he was still under indictment, and he was released in December 2019 after a judge set bond.
Mississippi dropped charges against Flowers in September 2020, months after Evans turned the case over to the state attorney general’s office.
The Supreme Court ruling that led to Flowers’ freedom came after American Public Media’s “In the Dark” investigated the case. The podcast recorded jailhouse informant Odell Hallmon in 2017 and 2018 recanting his testimony that Flowers had confessed to him. It also presented an analysis finding a long history of racial bias in jury selection by Evans.
Flowers filed his own lawsuit against Evans and three investigators in September 2021, seeking unspecified damages. Flowers' suit is still pending. It says Evans and the investigators engaged in misconduct, including pressuring witnesses to fabricate claims against Flowers.
In March 2021, a judge ordered Mississippi to pay Flowers $500,000 for wrongful imprisonment — the maximum under a state law that limits such payments to $50,000 a year for 10 years.
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Follow Emily Wagster Pettus on Twitter at http://twitter.com/EWagsterPettus. | https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Court-doors-closed-to-NAACP-suit-over-Black-juror-17249253.php | 2022-06-17T19:56:29Z | https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Court-doors-closed-to-NAACP-suit-over-Black-juror-17249253.php | true | 14 |
Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch has taken to social media, sharing stories and behind-the-scenes info marking the tenth anniversary since the series debuted back in 2012. As a final treat for fans, he shared some of the humorous yet obviously frustrating notes he received from Disney’s Standards and Practices department.
What’s Happening:
- Alex Hirsch, creator of the fan-favorite Disney Channel animated series, Gravity Falls, has taken to social media to share a video showcasing some of the comments that he received from the network’s Standards and Practices (S&P) department.
- Hirsch even mentioned in his post that he “probably shouldn't share this buttttt here are some REAL NOTES from DISNEY S&P and my REAL REPLIES.”
- The thread continues and he shared another shorter video with comments from S&P regarding a line from a limerick about “a man from Kentucky” and the insinuated rhyming possibilities from said line.
- After more positive fan reactions to the comments from both S&P and Hirsch continued, the Gravity Falls creator shared even more comments and replies as images in lieu of video.
- S&P at a TV network is responsible for ensuring programming adheres to the moral, ethical and legal standards of the station it airs on, which can be rather stringent for a network with “Disney” attached to it.
- Some of the notes in the main video focus on content that isn’t just offensive or sexually connotative slang, but also the content and subject matter presented in the show, touching on cultural offensiveness or the representation of the show’s gay couple, which Hirsch has previously on several occasions publicly discussed having to fight to show.
- Keep in mind, these comments came during the show’s run which began in 2012 running through 2016, prompting notable comments in 2021, when he criticized Disney on social media for selling Pride-related products while censoring LGBTQ representation in its shows.
- Gravity Falls was a Disney Channel animated series that followed twin siblings Dipper and Mabel Pines. The pair find themselves in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer with their great uncle in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon. Upon their arrival, Dipper and Mabel's huckster great uncle, Grunkle Stan, enlists the siblings' help in running The Mystery Shack, a tourist trap filled with fake exhibits that overcharges unsuspecting customers. Although Dipper and Mabel quickly discover The Mystery Shack itself is a hoax, they sense there is something strange about their new town and together they begin to unlock the secrets of Gravity Falls.
- The show went on to receive critical acclaim, and winning BAFTA and Annie Awards while garnering a massive fan base that exists to this day.
- While Hirsch created the show, Gravity Falls, he is still present on several other Disney Channel series, providing his voice to some characters in Amphibia, as well as serving as a creative consultant as well as the voice of King and Hooty on The Owl House. Amphibia recently aired their final episode and The Owl House is about to enter its reduced third season, composed of three 44 minute specials in lieu of 20 22 minute episodes like the previous seasons.
- In 2018, he publicly left Disney and moved over to Netflix to produce both adult and children’s animation content, including creating the adult animated series Inside Job, as well as an unnamed project that is still in development.
- Fans and soon-to-be fans of Gravity Falls can still catch the series streaming on both Disney+ and Hulu.
Sign up for Disney+ or the Disney Streaming Bundle (Disney+, ESPN+, and ad-supported Hulu) now | https://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2022/06/17/gravity-falls-alex-hirsch-standards-practices/ | 2022-06-17T19:58:44Z | https://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2022/06/17/gravity-falls-alex-hirsch-standards-practices/ | false | 1 |
MADRID (AP) — Politicians and experts met in Madrid on Friday to discuss ways to tackle drought and the increasing spread of deserts across the globe.
“The consequences of drought can affect up to three quarters of humanity by 2050. There is nowhere to hide if we are unable or unwilling to avert the severe alterations we are inflicting on the planet,” Ibrahim Thiaw, executive secretary of the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification, or UNCCD, said at the opening of the meeting.
“Let us be prepared to confront the new reality,” he added.
The half-day meeting is being held to mark the United Nations’ World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.
Thiaw said half the world population was expected to face severe water scarcity in the next eight years, adding that that could lead to as many as 700 million people — or about 10% of the world’s population — being at risk of being displaced during that period.
The meeting brought together numerous experts, including Kenya’s Patricia Kombo, founder of the PaTree Initiative to help Kenya achieve 10% forest cover by getting students to plant trees.
“I know majority of you have never come across drought,” said Kombo. “But I would like to tell you how drought feels like. Clean and safe drinking water is like a diamond. Three meals a day is a dream.”
She said communities had turned to violence because of the lack of food and water.
“You are fighting for the only available resources,” she said. “We are fighting for water.”
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez spoke at the meeting and U.N. Secretary General António Guterres was to make an address by video.
The UNCCD says that between 1900 and 2019, droughts have impacted 2.7 billion people in the world, and caused 11.7 million deaths.
Spain’s Ecological Transition ministry says 75% of Spanish land is vulnerable to desertification and this is increasing.
The meeting comes as Spain is suffering an unusually early heat wave that has helped fuel wildfires across the country.
The focus of the meeting will be on encouraging early action to prevent disastrous outcomes. | https://www.wkrg.com/international/leaders-meet-in-madrid-to-mark-world-day-to-fight-drought/ | 2022-06-17T20:01:03Z | https://www.wkrg.com/international/leaders-meet-in-madrid-to-mark-world-day-to-fight-drought/ | false | 37 |
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A man raised in Las Vegas man believes skeletal remains found at Lake Mead last month could be those of his father, who died more than six decades ago.
Daniel Kolod was 22 when he drowned in Callville Bay, on the northwest shore of the lake, in 1958. His body was never recovered.
Water levels at Lake Mead have dropped drastically since their peak in the 1940s, and then again in the 1980s. On Thursday, the lake dropped below 1,044 feet in elevation (lake levels are expressed in altitude, not depth) which is nearly 200 feet below Lake Mead’s highest levels, which can reach nearly 1,230 feet.
“After he drowned, I was told that he ‘went away,’” Todd Kolod, Daniel Kolod’s son, told KLAS from his home in Spain.
“He went out [fishing] regularly,” Todd Kolod said. “He ran out of people to give fish to.”
Todd Kolod was 3 years old when his father drowned. Daniel Kolod was on a speed boat with a friend when they hit a wake. Both men flipped and fell into the water. Only one survived.
Witnesses found the boat circling on its own about a mile from the drowning site near Swallow Bay, documents reviewed by KLAS said. Onlookers said they saw Kolod drown in Callville Bay. Crews, including divers and a helicopter, never found his body.
But as the lake recedes, more of its secrets are revealed. What once was a popular spot for swimmers and boaters in Callville Bay is now sand littered with debris, including boats, propellers and chairs. Relics from the good times in the lake’s past are now visible on its newly exposed shore.
Since the lake’s filling in the 1930s, 300 people have drowned in its waters, park service officials said. The number does not reflect the people whose bodies have not been recovered.
In May, kayakers discovered the skeletal remains not far from where Daniel Kolod is believed to have drowned. Police and park officials determined the death was not suspicious.
“When I saw Callville Bay, my eyes bulged wide open,” Todd Kolod said.
Todd Kolod, watching the news reports from across the Atlantic Ocean, thinks the remains could be his father.
One clue concerns Daniel Kolod’s teeth. He was in a car crash a few years before he drowned and lost his front teeth, Todd Kolod said, adding that his father wore a partial denture.
KLAS brought photos of the remains and Daniel Kolod’s story to Dr. Deborah Staten, owner and dentist at Desert Hills Dental in Las Vegas. Staten is certified in helping identify remains from dental records, as oftentimes, teeth are the last resort in trying to identify the victim of a crime.
The area of Callville Bay as seen in June 2022. The 2021 water line in this picture is several hundred yards from the lake’s receding shore. (KLAS)
“Bone and teeth are solid, which is why they become this gold standard for identification because they don’t change,” Staten said. “If it just sat there undisturbed, it’s probably how it arrived there.”
When shown photos of the remains, Staten observed only four teeth. She believes the skeleton is missing its front teeth, and that this person was missing other teeth before their death.
“I feel like those front ones were freshly removed,” she said.
Simply based on the photos, Staten could not provide further information. The key, she said, is finding Daniel Kolod’s dental records, but it is almost certain they were destroyed.
There was no DNA testing in 1958. Getting a sample from Todd Kolod today and matching it with the remains is the only way to potentially solve this mystery.
“My grandfather, he did everything he could to find the body,” Todd Kolod said. “I just assumed finding the body was an impossibility.”
For a son who does not remember his father, what was once impossible could now be possible with time.
“This could be my dad, or my dad could be the next discovery,” he said.
A speedboat appears on land as Lake Mead recedes. This part of the lake was under water until 2021. (KLAS)
In an unrelated case, Metro police and the FBI are working to identify the body found in a barrel in May. The person, believed to be a man, is suspected to have been murdered in the late-1970s or 1980s, investigators said.
The Vegas Justice League, a group of entrepreneurs that have given money to Las Vegas Metro police to help solve cold cases, has offered to pay for the processing of the DNA in that case, league member Justin Woo told KLAS.
Lake Mead was a popular dumping site for murderers. Police said they suspect they will find more barrels with bodies as the lake recedes. Lake Mead will drop nearly 30 feet from its current level by September of 2023 if forecasts released Thursday are accurate.
Tips can be submitted anonymously through Crime Stoppers by calling 702-385-5555 or at crimestoppersofnv.com/report-a-crime. Information can also be sent via text by sending “CRIMENV” and then your message to “CRIMES” (274637). Crime Stoppers offers a reward for information that leads to an arrest. | https://whnt.com/news/this-could-be-my-dad-man-suspects-remains-exposed-at-lake-mead-might-be-father-based-on-photos-of-teeth/ | 2022-06-17T20:01:18Z | https://whnt.com/news/this-could-be-my-dad-man-suspects-remains-exposed-at-lake-mead-might-be-father-based-on-photos-of-teeth/ | false | 31 |
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWTI) — A suspect has been arrested in connection to a shooting in the City of Watertown last summer.
According to the City of Watertown Police Department, a shooting took place on July 17, 2021, around midnight at 913 State Street in Watertown.
Police said that a victim involved in the incident reported that a male shot a firearm at him during an argument, however, there were no injuries.
The suspect was identified as 41-year-old Benji Reed of Utica. Reed was then taken into custody by the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office nearly a year later on June 8 in Kirschnerville, New York.
He was subsequently charged on June 16, 2022, by the Watertown Police Department with Reckless Endangerment in the First Degree, a Class “D” Felony, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the second degree, a Class “C” Felony.
Reed was arraigned in Watertown City Court and is now in custody at the Lewis County Correctional Facility.
The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office, New York State Police, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and Metro Jefferson Drug Task Force provided assistance in this investigation. | https://www.informnny.com/abc50-now/utica-man-charged-in-connection-to-watertown-shooting/ | 2022-06-17T20:04:37Z | https://www.informnny.com/abc50-now/utica-man-charged-in-connection-to-watertown-shooting/ | true | 1 |
MCALLEN, Texas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott will hold a news conference to provide an update on the state's border security's latest efforts.
The conference is taking place at 2:45 p.m. on Friday at the Anzalduas International Bridge in McAllen.
The governor will first receive a border security briefing at 1 p.m. at the Tomas Garces National Guard Armory in Weslaco. Following the briefing, he will provide the details on their mission.
Gov. Abbott's office also shared a press release on Friday saying that, since the launch of Operation Lone Star, it has led to more than 263,900 migrant apprehensions and more than 16,240 criminal arrests, with more than 13,500 felony charges reported. More than 5,400 weapons and over $41.5 million have reportedly been seized.
The operation is ramping up mass migration response efforts in preparation for caravans, they say.
You can read more about Operation Lone Star here.
Gov. Abbott will be joined by Texas Division of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd, Texas National Guard Brigadier General Ronald W. Burkett II and Texas Department of Public Safety Deputy Director Freeman Martin.
You can watch that livestream in the video player above when it becomes available. Check back for the latest. | https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/special-reports/at-the-border/gov-abbott-border-security-mcallen-texas/273-52322f37-ac49-4c0a-a1e7-1f8d0dbe5383 | 2022-06-17T20:05:03Z | https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/special-reports/at-the-border/gov-abbott-border-security-mcallen-texas/273-52322f37-ac49-4c0a-a1e7-1f8d0dbe5383 | true | 1 |
An elected official who is a central figure in a New Mexico county's refusal to certify recent election results based on debunked conspiracy theories about voting machines has avoided more jail time for joining the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol.
Couy Griffin was sentenced on Friday to 14 days behind bars, which he has already served. The founder of the political group Cowboys for Trump, who is a member of a county commission in a remote part of New Mexico, entered a restricted area outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but didn't go into the building itself.
Griffin two other colleagues on the Otero County Commission in southern New Mexico voted against certifying results from the state’s June 7 primary without raising specific concerns about discrepancies, the Associated Press reported.
The state Supreme Court has since ordered the conservative-leaning commission to certify the results before a statewide deadline on Friday. | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/official-in-election-standoff-avoids-prison-in-capitol-riot | 2022-06-17T20:05:38Z | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/official-in-election-standoff-avoids-prison-in-capitol-riot | true | 10 |
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — National home run leader Ivan Melendez of Texas won the Dick Howser Trophy on Friday as the outstanding player in college baseball.
Melendez’s 32 home runs are most in Division I since 2003. He leads the nation with 94 RBIs and an .886 slugging percentage.
The junior from El Paso, Texas, is the fourth Longhorn to win the Howser Trophy. Other Texas players to win it were Brooks Kieschnick (1992-93), Scott Bryant (1989) and Taylor Jungmann (2011).
Melendez ranked first in the Big 12 Conference in batting average (.432), homers (14) and RBIs (32).
Melendez also has been named national player of the year by Collegiate Baseball newspaper and Perfect Game and is a consensus All-American.
Other Howser Trophy finalists were Oregon State pitcher Connor Hjerpe, Tennessee third baseman Trey Lipscomb, Georgia Tech catcher Kevin Parada and Clemson third baseman Max Wagner.
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More AP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | https://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/college/2022/06/17/texas-melendez-wins-howser-trophy-as-top-college-player.html | 2022-06-17T20:07:13Z | https://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/college/2022/06/17/texas-melendez-wins-howser-trophy-as-top-college-player.html | true | 31 |
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Pretoria - The Sekunjalo Group of Companies (Sekunjalo) on Friday won an interim order in the Equality Court preventing Nedbank from closing its bank accounts.
Presiding over the interdict proceedings in the Equality Court sitting in Western Cape High Court, Judge Mokgoatji Dolam found that Sekunjalo had a prima facie case of discrimination, and that it has been treated differently to the likes of Steinhoff, Tongaat, EOH and others by Nedbank.
He also found that Sekunjalo and its entities would suffer irreparable harm if their accounts were to be closed, something Nedbank sought to diminish in its technical representations to the court.
Judge Dolamo added that Nedbank’s argument that the Sekunjalo Group could find other remedies, did not hold water.
He also agreed that Sekunjalo has made out a proper case for interim relief, and therefore granted an interim interdict in terms of the provisions of PEPEDUA Act 4 of 2000.
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As a result, Nedbank has been ordered to stop any closures and re-open any accounts that have already been closed.
The financial institution has also been ordered to pay the costs of the application.
“This is a resounding victory for not only Sekunjalo and its Group of Companies, but for all South Africans who have faced any form of discrimination by the banking fraternity,” said a jubilant Sekunjalo chairman, Dr Iqbal Survé on Friday.
“I would like to thank my colleagues, and the teams who have worked tirelessly on preparing for this case and fighting the prejudices of the past that still make themselves felt in the present, for all their effort and their support. This is one step closer to realising an equal society for all in South Africa at last.”
IOL | https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/nedbank-has-shown-discrimination-towards-sekunjalo-court-finds-45b20725-cb17-4b91-8e64-aa50a0d67e95 | 2022-06-17T20:14:06Z | https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/nedbank-has-shown-discrimination-towards-sekunjalo-court-finds-45b20725-cb17-4b91-8e64-aa50a0d67e95 | false | 1 |
The New Zac Efron Wrestling Movie Is Based On A Tragic True Story
It was announced Thursday that Sean Durkin, the mind behind films like "Martha Marcy May Marlene" and "The Nest," was working with A24 on his next film, "The Iron Claw." The film gets its name from the nickname and trademark move of professional wrestler Fritz Von Erich, a 23-time world champion and the patriarch of the legendary Von Erich family of wrestlers. Not much information has been made publicly available regarding the film, with the exception of Zac Efron's casting announcement. It's unsure what Efron's role will entail, with many speculating that he'll be playing one of the members of the Von Erich family which, if the case, means he's going to need to grow a foot taller and add about four inches of muscle around his entire body and some serious neck thickness.
When the announcement was made, there was a stark divide online between people excited that Efron seems to have finally shedded the Disney demeanor that defined the start of his career by acting in an A24 movie, and wrestling fans who actually know the history of the Von Erich family. For the general public, the world of professional wrestling is mostly defined by crossover superstars like Hulk Hogan, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and John Cena, which means most are not familiar with the unbelievably tragic history of the Von Erich dynasty. If you thought this new movie would show Zac Efron jumping from the top rope in a glittery outfit like something out of "GLOW," you're, uh, you're about to have a bad time.
The Von Erich Dynasty
Fritz Von Erich (real name Jack Adkisson) started his athletic career as a Texas football player in the 1950s, but eventually pivoted toward the world of professional wrestling. At 6'4" tall, he immediately drew the attention of Stu Hart (as in the father of Bret and Owen Hart) who was captivated by his size and visible Germanic appearance. He was immediately packaged as the villainous heel "Fritz Von Erich," a Prussian Nazi character. Von Erich drew immediate heat for obvious "Nazis are bad guys" reasons, and while this character angle would eventually phase out throughout his career, the association with this character has been the source of many urban legends to "explain" what would eventually happen to the Von Erichs.
The second generation of Adkisson/Von Erich children would comprise of Jack Adkisson Jr., Kevin Von Erich, David Von Erich, Kerry Von Erich, Mike Von Erich, and Chris Von Erich. The first child, Jack Jr. died prematurely at the age of six when he was shocked unconscious by an exposed wire and fell face first into a mound of snow that eventually drowned him. The other five Von Erich children followed in their father's footsteps by joining the wrestling business, and becoming bonafide wrestling superstars.
"We were family, we loved each other,” said Kevin Von Erich in his family's episode of "Dark Side of the Ring." He continued by saying, "We regarded our fans as people, not tickets." There have always been rumors that the Von Erichs weren't as heroic as they appeared, but given the circumstances of their eventual, cataclysmic demise and their legacy in the industry, many have chosen to let sleeping dogs lie.
The tragic truth
Of the six Von Erich children, only Kevin Von Erich still remains with us. While Fritz Von Erich passed away due to natural causes, at the time of his death, he had lost five of his six children in unexpected and gruesome ways, including three suicides. It's been called "The Von Erich Family Curse," with some antisemites even believing their deaths were part of a revenge plot from Holocaust victims for Fritz's years of making light of genocide by playing a Nazi character. Their devastating history has been compared numerous times to that of the Kennedy American political family, and were the subject of arguably one of the best episodes of "Dark Side of the Ring," which featured Kevin as "The Last of the Von Erichs."
The Von Erich wrestling dynasty continues today, with Kerry's daughter Lacey Von Erich where she is a one-time TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion with Velvet Sky and Kevin's sons Ross and Marshall still competing as a tag team today with Major League Wrestling (MLW) where they are former world champions. This is all to say that given the intensity of Sean Durkin's usual filmography and the real life story of the Von Erich family, it's safe to assume that this film is going to be dark, depressing, and difficult to watch. Given the fact Kevin Von Erich is still alive and has been put into a position to be the arbiter of his family's legacy, I sincerely hope that A24 and Durkin have been in communication with him, so as to not exploit the disconsolate truth of the Von Erich family deaths. | https://www.slashfilm.com/899903/the-new-zac-efron-wrestling-movie-is-based-on-a-tragic-true-story/ | 2022-06-17T20:18:30Z | https://www.slashfilm.com/899903/the-new-zac-efron-wrestling-movie-is-based-on-a-tragic-true-story/ | true | 1 |
(The Hill) — Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-N.J.) called on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign on Thursday after news that his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, emailed with conservative lawyer John Eastman, who was central in former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
In a statement on Thursday, Pascrell said Thomas “cannot possibly be seen as a neutral actor,” labeling him “a corrupt jurist.”
“Over the last few years, we have become numb to bad acts by powerful actors, but Clarence and Ginni Thomas have participated in one of the worst breaches of trust ever seen in our court system,” Pascrell said.
“Clarence Thomas cannot possibly be seen as a neutral actor but instead as a corrupt jurist who has poisoned the HIgh Court. Clarence Thomas should have dignity and final respect for our democracy and resign,” he added.
The call came less than one day after The Washington Post reported that the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has obtained email communication between Ginni Thomas and Eastman. The sources, however, would not provide details of the correspondence.
That revelation added to the heaps of reporting that detail Ginni Thomas’s connections to the efforts to overturn the 2020 results.
In March, news broke that Ginni Thomas texted with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the aftermath of the presidential election regarding efforts to reverse the vote.
Earlier this month, the Post reported that she urged 29 GOP state lawmakers in Arizona to choose new presidential electors in an effort to reverse President Joe Biden’s win there.
The Jan. 6 committee has asked Ginni Thomas to speak with the panel, with her saying Thursday, “I look forward to talking to them,” adding, “I can’t wait to clear up misconceptions.”
Pascrell, in his statement, referenced reports of Ginni Thomas “conspiring” with Trump and his allies, while also noting that Clarence Thomas had heard 2020 election-related cases before the Supreme Court.
The high court has handed down at least 10 rulings regarding the 2020 election. Among the most notable was a January decision allowing the Jan. 6 panel to obtain White House records from the Trump administration.
Thomas was the only justice to dissent the decision.
“Last night, we read yet more reports that the wife of the longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court was actively conspiring with Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the election and overthrow American democracy,” Pascrell wrote.
“And while she was doing all this, her husband, Justice Thomas, was hearing litigation related to the 2020 election at the High Court,” he added.
In a tweet, the congressman said, “Ginni Thomas was complicit in the insurrection attempt at the Capitol on 1/6 as Justice Thomas was considering litigation around the 2020 election,” adding, “Thomas has proven himself a corrupt actor who has breached public trust.”
“For the good of the court and nation, he must resign NOW,” he said.
Pascrell is not the first lawmaker to call for Thomas’s resignation. In March, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) urged the justice to step down. Others have called on him to recuse himself from cases related to the Jan. 6 attack.
Some of Thomas’s colleagues, however, are offering support. Justice Sonia Sotomayor this week said her conservative colleague “is a man who cares deeply about the court as an institution.”
“We share a common understanding about people and kindness towards them,” she added.
The Hill has reached out to the Supreme Court for comment. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/house-democrat-calls-for-clarence-thomas-to-resign-following-report-of-wifes-email-with-eastman/ | 2022-06-17T20:31:22Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/house-democrat-calls-for-clarence-thomas-to-resign-following-report-of-wifes-email-with-eastman/ | true | 16 |
Energy minister Greg Hands has insisted the new windfall tax on the North Sea energy industry will not deter investment.
And the sector has a lot to be positive about in a wave of renewable projects gathering pace, he said.
Mr Hands was speaking just after he returned to Aberdeen following his visit to an offshore platform.
He was a guest of French energy giant TotalEnergies on one of its key production facilities on the Elgin and Franklin gas and condensate fields in the Central Graben Area of the North Sea, about 150 miles east of Aberdeen.
Fourth time in Aberdeen as energy minister
And on his fourth visit to Aberdeen in his nine months as energy minister, he also met representatives of the Granite City-based North Sea Transition Authority – the offshore industry’s watchdog – and trade body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK).
The flying visit to the north-east – kept short due to concerns about potential travel disruption amid aviation sector woes – came just a few weeks after Chancellor Rishi Sunak caved in to widespread demands for windfall tax on the UK energy industry.
The sector had repeatedly warned the move would hit future investment and threaten jobs.
But Mr Sunak was under growing pressure to mitigate fast-rising household energy bills, taking aim at North Sea firms’ hefty profits after a sharp rise in crude oil prices.
We want to see people investing in oil and gas.”
Greg Hands, energy minister.
Mr Hands said: “I have every confidence investment will not be affected by the announcement by the chancellor on May 26.
“There were a lot of allowances for investment within that.
“Our message is we want to see people investing in oil and gas.”
Mr Hands said he was a strong advocate of making sure conditions are ripe for companies to spend in the UK, having previously served as Britain’s investment minister.
North Sea oil and gas has a “fantastic track record”, while the north-east and the rest of the UK can also reap the rewards of the world’s largest offshore wind sector, he said.
The minister said assets like the Elgin-Franklin fields, together producing about 5% of the UK’s gas requirement, with TotalEnergies accounting for 12%, were vital for Britain’s energy security.
Earlier this year the UK Government unveiled its Energy Security Strategy, aimed at setting out how Britain can accelerate home-grown power and increase energy independence.
The main goal is to increase low carbon electricity production to 95% by 2030.
Offshore wind is a focus, with the target of reaching 50 gigawatts of energy production by 2030.
Mr Hands said he was in the north-east to “thank” TotalEnergies and the widerNorth Sea energy industry for “putting money where their mouth is” in terms of ongoing investment, as well as for its “increasing move into renewables”.
The minister had no fresh news to share about carbon capture and storage (CCS) funding.
A Scottish Cluster – comprised of major industrial emitters and the developers behind the flagship Acorn CCS project, planned for Peterhead – was passed over for “Track 1” government funding last year.
The Scottish scheme was instead selected as a “reserve cluster”.
Mr Hands rounded off his visit by meeting OEUK chief executive Deirdre Michie.
An OEUK spokeswoman said: “We continue to raise concerns over the windfall tax and restated our commitment to working with government to now mitigate the negative impacts this will have on production, jobs and our ability to attract much-needed investment into the basin.” | https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/business/local/4430706/energy-minister-greg-hands-upbeat-on-north-sea-investment-prospects-despite-windfall-tax/ | 2022-06-17T20:32:22Z | https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/business/local/4430706/energy-minister-greg-hands-upbeat-on-north-sea-investment-prospects-despite-windfall-tax/ | true | 1 |
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said as many as 141 suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported in-country, up from the previous 110 cases.
The NCDC, via its verified website, disclosed this Friday.
The NCDC said From January 1 to June 12, 2022, there have been 141 suspected cases in total and 36 confirmed cases from 15 states.
It added that the states were; Lagos (7), Adamawa (5), Delta (3), River (3), Cross River (2), FCT (2), Kano (2), Bayelsa (2), Edo (2), Imo (2), Plateau (2), Nasarawa (1), Niger (1), Oyo (1) and Ondo (1).
“One death was recorded in a 40-year-old man with co-morbidity that was receiving immunosuppressive drugs.
“Overall and from September 2017 to June 12, 2022, a total of 653 suspected cases were reported from 33 states in the country.
“Of the reported cases, 262 (40.1%) have been confirmed in 23 states – Rivers (55), Bayelsa (45), Lagos (37), Delta (32), Cross River (16), Edo (12), Imo (10), Akwa Ibom (7), Oyo (7), FCT (8), Plateau (5), Adamawa (5), Enugu (4), Abia (3), Nasarawa (3), Benue (2), Anambra (2), Ekiti (2), Kano (2), Niger (2), Ebonyi (1), Ogun (1) and Ondo (1).
“In addition, from September 2017 to June 12th, 2022, a total of nine (9) deaths have been recorded (CFR= 3.4%) in six states – Lagos (3), Edo (2), Imo (1), Cross River (1), FCT (1) and Rivers (1),” it stated. | https://www.blueprint.ng/monkeypox-suspected-cases-rise-to-141-in-13-nigerian-states/ | 2022-06-17T20:32:24Z | https://www.blueprint.ng/monkeypox-suspected-cases-rise-to-141-in-13-nigerian-states/ | false | 1 |
Metro Denver’s hotels saw a strong first quarter, marching – slowly but surely – to pre-pandemic occupancy levels, according to an industry report from real estate giant CBRE.
But the recovery remains behind the national average – largely because of the influx of all the newly-constructed, higher-priced hotel rooms that hit the Denver market in recent years.
The company looked at occupancy levels, average daily rates (ADR) per room and revenue per available room (RevPAR) – three key metrics by which a hotel’s success is measured.
Denver’s occupancy rate plummeted to 41% during the depths of the pandemic in 2020, when the travel and leisure industry, and business travel, all but shut down for most of the year. CBRE experts forecast Denver’s occupancy to rise 7.7% in 2022 – to 63%. It should fully recover to pre-pandemic levels by 2024, according to the report.
Denver’s average daily room rate fell to $95.13 in 2020, and revenue per room to $38.81. That’s compared to $136.68 ADR and $100.32 RevPAR in 2019. Forecasters expect Denver ADR to hit $131.42 this year, and $139.39 by 2023. RevPAR levels are expected to rise 21% this year to $83.20 and hit $105.42 by 2024 in Denver.
Those Denver recovery metrics are still behind national averages. CBRE anticipates a full recovery in ADR in 2022 and in RevPAR in 2023.
“Denver’s recovery trails the national forecast due to the large amount of new supply introduced into the market within the past five years, or that was in the construction pipeline prior to the onset of the pandemic,” said Zachary Alm, vice president with CBRE’s Valuation & Advisory Services in Colorado, in a news release. “The bulk of new supply since 2017 largely consists of upper and mid-priced properties — categories most negatively impacted by the pandemic. The good news is that upper and mid-priced properties are forecast to see the largest gains in demand and RevPAR in Denver over the next five years.”
As far as nationally, the report points to several risk factors.
“Since year-end 2021, several factors, such as the Russia-Ukraine war, high gas prices and the 19% pullback in the S&P 500 have increased the risk of a potential slowdown. However, for now, CBRE Econometric Advisors continues to forecast positive GDP and employment growth and continued elevated Consumer Price Index (CPI) through 2023,” CBRE said.
“To date, there has been no sign that the more than 50% increase in gas prices and the stock market’s hovering near bear-market territory are dampening hotel demand,” Rachael Rothman, CBRE’s Head of Hotel Research & Data Analytics, said. | https://denvergazette.com/news/cbre-denver-lodging-bounces-back-but-lags-behind-national-recovery/article_a5e2692e-ee6c-11ec-ac6e-1f5d023e2566.html | 2022-06-17T20:35:19Z | https://denvergazette.com/news/cbre-denver-lodging-bounces-back-but-lags-behind-national-recovery/article_a5e2692e-ee6c-11ec-ac6e-1f5d023e2566.html | true | 2 |
Man United’s transfer dealings have been awful for a number of years now, and it’s likely that it’s going to take a few windows to overhaul the current squad.
The fans saw little to no change when Ralf Rangnick came in last season so it’s going to be interesting to see if the players completely buy into Eric ten Hag’s way of doing things, but it will certainly help him if he can get a few players in who he can trust.
The big-name currently touted is Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong, and a report from the Guardian does suggest that it’s edging closer to happening.
It’s believed that an initial bid of €60m was rejected as Barca held out for something closer to €85m, but their well-publicized financial issues mean that the price tag could come down, and something in the region of €70m with add-ons could now be enough to get the deal done.
At his best, the Dutchman could bring some much-needed balance to the midfield as someone who can actually get on the ball and run the game, but it’s also thought that ten Hag won’t completely get his way when it comes to his transfer wishlist.
Ajax defender Jurrien Timber was seen as another major target, but he’s told them that he wants guaranteed first-team football in the run-up to the World Cup in December, so he’s not looking to make a move at this stage.
Another Ajax star that ten Hag will know well is Brazilian forward Anthony who’s also touted as a potential target, but it appears that all the effort is going into de Jong for now, and the potential deal is edging closer to happening. | https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/06/17/mixed-news-for-man-united-as-marquee-signing-edges-closer-but-another-target-ruled-out/ | 2022-06-17T20:36:07Z | https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/06/17/mixed-news-for-man-united-as-marquee-signing-edges-closer-but-another-target-ruled-out/ | false | 1 |
The GTS-VP, the only Remote Patient Monitoring SaaS platform available for government use, has advanced to FedRAMP In-Process Status
HUDSON, Ohio, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Telehealth Services (GTS), an industry leading Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) company, today announced that the GTS VirtualHealth Platform (GTS-VP) has been designated as Federal Risk and Authorization Management (FedRAMP) In Process status at the Moderate impact level. GTS achieved this status in partnership with its sponsoring agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), with VA's Authority to Operate (ATO) expected to be accomplished in Q3 22.
FedRAMP is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and monitoring for cloud products and services. Its certification process is the most rigorous security authorization SaaS companies can achieve and includes an in-depth examination of a solution's data security and data governance capabilities, as well as the security practices of its cloud services. And to date, the GTS-VP is the only RPM solution available in the FedRAMP Marketplace.
GTS is an industry leader in the development of enterprise RPM solutions. GTS solutions are designed to be device agnostic, fit into the existing workflows of our customers, and to ease the implementation and creation of RPM programs for healthcare providers. For more information visit https://www.globaltelehealthservices.com/FedRAMP/.
CONTACT: Brendan Coughlin
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Banks diversity push sees Citigroup recruit associates in U.S. from outside finance
By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall
NEW YORK, June 17 (Reuters) - Facing intense competition for talent and pressure to hit diversity goals, banks are getting more creative in their hiring, with Citigroup Inc C.N recruiting U.S. associates this summer without banking experience or business degrees.
Launched this year, Citigroup's pilot program aims to boost its diversity goals by recruiting associates from under-represented minorities as well as nontraditional backgrounds.
The group consists of 10 recruits, including lawyers, a dentist and an engineer - and eight of them have not attended business school.
"We are trying to catch them right before they go to business school to give them a different opportunity," said Paul Burroughs, global chief operating officer and North America head of corporate banking for the New York-based global bank.
Banks have for years recruited candidates from liberal arts programs for entry-level jobs like interns and analysts. Citi's effort is novel, said Patrick Curtis, chief executive of online career forum Wall Street Oasis, because it seeks to bring in associates, who manage analysts, from outside of the business world.
"The associate role is typically a post-MBA role, and it is considered a career-track role," said Curtis, referring to the Master of Business Administration.
Citi is betting that non-MBA candidates will bring different, sector-specific expertise that will help their investment and corporate banking teams.
Its program also expands its recruiting network as banks face cutthroat hiring competition from peers and tech companies, which has pushed up wages. They are also under pressure from investors and policymakers to increase diversity, which has traditionally been lacking among senior ranks.
In 2018, about 26% of employees in the U.S. financial services industry were women and 1% were Black, according to data from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
In 2021, 40.6% of Citi's mid- and senior-level staff globally were women, up from 37% in 2018, its disclosures show. In the United States, 8.1% of Citi's mid- and senior-level employees were Black, up from 6% in 2018.
Citi, JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM.N and others have expanded recruiting to more colleges and cities, and offered training for people from other careers to attract talent for internship and entry-level banking roles.
Citi received 125 applications for 10 spots in the new program. Two are Hispanic and eight are Black, the bank said.
The candidates get a roughly three-month crash course in finance before joining the broader class of associates in July, a job two rungs up from interns and analysts, and one rung below vice presidents. The post typically lasts three to five years before associates may be promoted.
Candidates from outside finance may need extra support early in their careers, which this program aims to provide, Citi's Burroughs said.
Associates in the investment bank can work 80- to 90-hour weeks said Curtis, which may be a tough adjustment.
The program's class includes a former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development lawyer, a packaging engineer and Carolina Botero, 33, a Columbia University-trained dentist.
"They were welcoming to my background," said Botero, who hopes to ultimately land a job with Citi's investment bank. "They saw my value."
Banks say they are paying up for talent as hiring is competitive
Goldman Sachs boosts recruiting team in push to meet diversity goals
U.S. banks' 2021 hiring show lenders are seeking talent far beyond Wall Street
(Reporting by Elizabeth Dilts Marshall; editing by Michelle Price, Megan Davies and Jonathan Oatis)
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WWE is apparently not the only promotion that has a proverbial "Forbidden Door". AEW star Andrade has been banned from appearing at AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door. Konnan recently expressed that Mexican promotion's AAA and CMLL's war with NJPW influenced the former WWE Superstar's ban.
The Forbidden Door pay-per-view is set to take place on the 27th June 2022. While other promotions have had significant crossover events, this will be the first of its magnitude. Andrade El Idolo and the Lucha Brothers were initially set to appear at the event, but due to CMLL's influence, all three stars were pulled.
On the latest episode of the Keepin' It 100 podcast, veteran wrestler Konnan discussed the reasons behind Andrade being unable to compete at the upcoming pay-per-view.
"That’s f***ing New Japan and CMLL’s asinine and arcane rules that ‘oh, if you work in AAA you can’t work with us because [we] and AAA have been at war for 30 years.’ They actually have a list of people that cannot work in CMLL and I was the very first person on the list," Konnan said. (1:10 onward)
Konnan continued by listing the stars that he believes are currently banned from appearing in NJPW shows.
"On that list is me, Hijo del Santo, Blue Demon, Vampiro, Andrade. Basically, CMLL asked [NJPW] ‘Please, help us out, make sure that your people don’t wrestle with Triple A’ and for whatever reason they’ve been backing them up. Obviously, [Andrade] wanted to be a part of this and they told him ‘no, because you wrestle at Triple A.’" (1:47 onward).
Andrade will unfortunately have to hold out for another opportunity to prove why he is a top star in AEW.
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Former WWE SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair accompanied Andrade to St. Louis and likely attended AEW
In a recent Tweet from Andrade, the star shared a picture of himself and Flair on a plane to St. Louis shortly before AEW aired in the city.
The newly wed couple likely attended the event backstage, despite Andrade's exclusion from the show. As Charlotte Flair is currently on a break from WWE, the star could continue to make numerous backstage appearances at AEW.
Find out which promotion Alberto Del Rio is suing right here
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Microsoft founder says he prefers to invest in companies that create real products, rather than services like bitcoin, whose “anonymity is used for tax evasion”.
In finance, the “foolishest theory” starts with an investor doing something stupid in the hope that someone will later decide to do something even more absurd.
The first buyer pays an inflated amount of money for a good that he will soon put up for sale at an even more exorbitant price in an attempt to find someone even more “silly” to buy it.
In this dangerous game, what is traded can be tulips – as happened in the first big financial bubble in world history in the first half of the 17th century – or, according to Bill Gates’ latest statements, bitcoins.
The Microsoft founder stated at a conference in Berkeley, California, that the cryptocurrency and NFTs (digital tokens) market is based “100%” on the most foolish theory.
This is because, according to this theory, it is possible for investors to make a profit by buying very expensively and then selling to another investor.
This entire cycle works without anyone stopping to think about the real value of the asset — and according to experts, many investors fall into this trap, probably without knowing it.
The price of gasoline may go higher and higher, but oil is always backed by its utility. It serves something.
Gates added that he prefers to invest in companies that create real products rather than services whose “anonymity is used for tax evasion,” he said in reference to the most famous cryptocurrency.
According to him, people bought cryptocurrencies and NFTs regardless of the price and convinced that they could sell more expensively because “someone is willing to pay more for it than I am”.
He also stated that he had never invested in this market.
Other wealthy investors and executives, including Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon, have also expressed skepticism about cryptocurrencies.
Buffett even called bitcoin “the squared rat poison”.
Gates was also ironic about the value of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens.
They are certificates of ownership of virtual or physical assets that are often used — in the world of art or digital music. After becoming extremely popular last year, its demand seems to have stabilized recently.
“Obviously expensive digital images of monkeys are going to make the world a lot better. It’s amazing,” Gates said sarcastically on the forum.
The 66-year-old billionaire philanthropist was referring to the Bored Ape Yacht Club digital art collection, a limited edition of 10,000 unique pieces of a monkey image with minor variations that have sold for thousands of dollars.
But now that the world economy is going through a bad moment, investors prefer to put their capital in less risky investments and avoid more speculative bets, such as cryptocurrencies and digital certificates, two markets that do not have legal protection.
Bitcoin accumulates drops of more than 50% in 2022, while ethereum has lost 69% of its value.
The value of the monkeys’ NFT has also dropped by more than half.
All this suggests that the chain to find the “silliest” has been broken, affecting many other parts of the market.
Just this week, the Celsius platform, one of the largest digital currency lending companies with a key role in the world of decentralized finance, decided to protect itself from “extreme market conditions” by freezing the accounts of its 1.7 million users and imposing a kind of “corralito” to the customers.
In the same vein, Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency transaction platform, also had to “stop” bitcoin withdrawals for a few hours, while Coinbase Global, another major platform, announced that it would lay off almost a fifth of its staff.
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IOWA CITY — More than 4,000 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the dean’s list for the 2022 spring semester. Dean’s list status was earned by 714 first year undergraduates during the 2022 spring semester at Iowa, only 1,268 second year students, only 1,559 third year students, and only 2,045 fourth year students.
Guidelines for inclusion on the list are:
Undergraduate students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Education, the College of Engineering, the Tippie College of Business, and University College who achieve a grade-point average (GPA) of 3.50 or higher on 12 semester hours or more of UI graded coursework during a given semester or summer session and who have no semester hours of “I” (incomplete) or “O” (no grade reported) during the same semester are recognized by inclusion on the dean’s list for that semester
Undergraduate students in the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine with fewer than 12 semester hours of graded credit, if deemed appropriate by the college
College of Nursing students participating in clinical courses who have a total of 12 semester hours of earned credit, with eight semester hours of graded credit with a GPA of 3.50 or higher
Please note that courses offered on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory (S/U) or pass/fail
(P/F) basis do not count toward graded credit for inclusion on the dean’s list.
Craig Bantz of Independence (50644) [College: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Major: Cinema; Year at Iowa: first year]
Emma Cutsforth of Fairbank (50629) [College: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Major: Political Science; Year at Iowa: second year]
Abigail Davis of Independence (50644) [College: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Major: Psychology; Year at Iowa: third year]
Andrew Evans of Independence (50644) [College: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Major: Psychology; Year at Iowa: fourth year]
Samantha Frost of Stanley (50671) [College: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Major: Ancient Civilization; Year at Iowa: fourth year]
Jenna Gearhart of Coggon (52218) [College: Carver College of Medicine; Major: Radiation Sciences; Year at Iowa: fourth year]
Holden Gillespie of Dunkerton (50626) [College: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Major: Criminology, Law and Justice; Year at Iowa: third year]
Sydney Hearn of Independence (50644) [College: Tippie College of Business; Major: Finance; Year at Iowa: third year]
Keira Hellenthal of Independence (50644) [College: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Major: Art; Year at Iowa: first year]
Erica Hoffman of Quasqueton (52326) [College: College of Education; Major: Elementary Education; Year at Iowa: third year]
Asa Kelley of Fairbank (50629) [College: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Major: Elementary Education Interest; Year at Iowa: first year]
Kylie Kurt of Coggon (52218) [College: College of Nursing; Major: Nursing; Year at Iowa: third year]
Madison McMurrin of Winthrop (50682) [College: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Major: Psychology; Year at Iowa: third year]
Joshua Peterson of Oelwein (50662) [College: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Major: Biology; Year at Iowa: fourth year]
Nicole Pettinger of Winthrop (50682) [College: College of Nursing; Major: Nursing; Year at Iowa: third year]
Kira Reed of Independence (50644) [College: College of Nursing; Major: Nursing; Year at Iowa: fourth year]
Aubrey Stacey of Fairbank (50629) [College: Carver College of Medicine; Major: Radiation Sciences; Year at Iowa: fourth
year]
Parker Sweeney of Independence (50644) [College: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Major: Pre-Business; Year at Iowa: fourth year]
Elsie VanDaele of Fairbank (50629) [College: Tippie College of Business; Major: Management; Year at Iowa: fourth year]
Hannah Wenger of Masonville (50654) [College: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Major: History; Year at Iowa: third year]
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From inside our world-class medical center to the most prestigious creative writing program in the U.S., students have access to quality academic support and are equipped with the tools they need to stand out in a competitive workforce. Our 15:1 student-to-faculty ratio allows students to work directly with experts in their field while earning valuable, practical skills.
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, June 17, 2022
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Joe Joyce recently gave his opinion on Tyson Fury's retirement in an interview with iFL TV. When asked if he felt 'The Gypsy King' was sure about remaining retired and not returning to boxing, Joyce stated:
"I'm not convinced. I think he's spending time with his family and will wait around and watch what happens with the Usyk vs. Joshua rematch. He's still a young man, but he's been in this sport a long time, he doesn't really have to prove anything to anyone. He's staying in good shape and I wouldn't be surprised if we see him again."
Since his retirement, Fury has continued to post on social media and document his training. This includes morning runs with his father along the pier while vacationing, and putting shadow boxing and bag workout videos up on Instagram. Fury remaining in shape after retirement sparked curiosity and doubts among fans and fighters who couldn't be sure he was serious about being done with boxing.
Joe Joyce, like many others, is not convinced that we won't get to see Fury in the ring one last time before he hangs up the gloves for good.
Joyce posted the picture below to his Instagram prior to Tyson Fury vs. Dillian Whyte. He stated that he would be happy to jump in for the latter if he didn't want to fight Fury:
Watch Joe Joyce's interview with iFL TV here:
Joe Joyce vs. Christian Hammer
It has been revealed that Joe Joyce's return to the ring will be against Christian Hammer on July 2, 2022, at the Wembley Arena in London, England.
Joyce, also known as 'Juggernaut', has an unbeaten record of 13-0, with 12 knockouts to his credit. The boxer has been out of the ring since his last win over Carlos Takam in July 2021 after suffering a broken wrist.
During his amateur career, he gained many accolades. 'Juggernaut' won bronze at the 2013 European Championships and gold at the 2014 Commonwealth and 2015 European games. He also won bronze at the 2015 World Championships and silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
As a professional, some of his former opponents include Daniel Dubois, Michael Wallisch, Alexander Ustinov, Bermane Stiverne, Joe Hanks, and Iago Kiladze. His only fight that went the distance was with Bryant Jennings. | https://www.sportskeeda.com/pro-boxing/news-boxing-news-joe-joyce-thinks-tyson-fury-return-possible | 2022-06-17T20:45:42Z | https://www.sportskeeda.com/pro-boxing/news-boxing-news-joe-joyce-thinks-tyson-fury-return-possible | false | 1 |
‘It shocks me’: Melissa Leong on Australian TV and her chance at making history
By Karl Quinn
Melissa Leong is having none of that business about how you’re supposed to downplay the significance of a Gold Logie nomination.
“It’s potentially a big deal,” the MasterChef judge says of the fact she has a shot at becoming the first woman of Asian background to win Australian television’s biggest popularity contest. “People go, ‘Oh, it’s just the Logies’, but it’s a mirror being held up: Who are we watching? What stories are we watching and experiencing through the course of the past year?”
This being the first Logies since Tom Gleeson stunned everyone with his irony-fuelled win in 2019, you can make that the past three years. And that just happens to be the span over which Leong has gone from a freelance food journalist to one of the most recognisable faces on Australian television – and one of its most distinctive.
“The fact I am the only person of colour in the Gold nomination is surprising to me,” she says when we meet in her stylist’s office, a tiny apartment in South Yarra that’s absolutely packed with racks of clothes and shelves piled high with shoes. “The fact Waleed Aly is the only person of colour who has won a Gold Logie so far saddens me. It shocks me that Deborah Mailman doesn’t have a Gold Logie. So it does weigh a bit more for me.
“I’m very pleased to just be here so we can have these conversations about representation – that in and of itself is a win,” she adds. “But if I did win, then that’d definitely be a moment in Australian history, and that’s a pretty cool thing to be a part of.”
Leong, who was born in Sydney to Singaporean-Chinese parents, faces stiff competition, not least from Hamish Blake, whose chart-topping podcast with Andy Lee and his huge social media following (570,000 on Twitter, 1.2 million on Instagram) makes him a serious chance of repeating his 2012 win.
Industry insiders think she’s a strong chance to better Lee Lin Chin, the former SBS newsreader who became the first Asian woman to be nominated for Gold in 2016, the year Waleed Aly became the first man of colour to be nominated, and the only one to win (he has since been nominated twice more).
Leong has a second solo shot at a Logie on Sunday – she’s also nominated for the newly minted Bert Newton Award for most popular presenter – while the show she co-hosts with Jock Zonfrillo and Andy Allen is in the running for most popular reality program, and the industry-voted most outstanding reality program too.
Gone are the days when network publicists ran from newsagent to newsagent buying every copy of TV Week they could find, then taking them back to the office to clip out the voting coupons and fill them in by hand. These days you need to register your phone number before you can vote online; short of buying a stack of burner phones, hacking the vote has become almost impossible.
So it is that Ten’s publicity team has squeezed me into a packed schedule of interviews in the final days of the Logies race. Voting in the popular categories is open until the telecast starts at 7pm on Sunday, so every last appearance in the media and on the socials could help.
When I arrive, our photographer is already snapping away. Leong is a fashion designer’s dream, always willing to play dress-ups. Coupled with the warmth and empathy she projects on screen, and a tendency to tear up when contestants share their food “journeys”, it has helped make her the standout among the three judges who took over when Matt Preston, George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan left in 2019.
She’ll be wearing vintage Collette Dinnigan on Sunday, but for this shoot she’s opted for “oxblood patent leather, because why not”.
It could come in handy for drinking red wine, I imagine.
“You just get a Chux and you’re fine. So for long sessions and unpredictable nights out – or, I guess, working in my office – this would be quite useful for a quick clean-up.”
Given the range of designer clothes she cycles through on the show, and the vast amount of eating the job demands, splatter must be a real occupational hazard. What’s the secret to avoiding an expensive mess?
“Small bites.”
There is a whiteboard in the wardrobe department, she reveals, with the names of the three hosts, and a running tally.
“It starts at the beginning of the season, and you get a point for each splatter, and whoever ends up having the most points at the end of the season has to cook for the wardrobe department,” she says. “It’s almost always Andy, but we all have our off days. There was a recent episode where we were cracking crab and there was just carnage.”
Win or lose, Sunday night could get messy – “isn’t it a tradition that you’re still drunk if you’re doing press the next day?” she asks – but she’s determined not to get ahead of herself on that score.
“I know it sounds like a cliché to say it’s a thrill just to be nominated, but I’ve been doing this for half a second in comparison to some incredible people who have been plugging away at this for decades,” she says. “It was very unexpected, it’s an amazing class of people to be associated with, and it is a thrill.”
The Logies are on Nine, which owns this masthead, on Sunday from 7pm. Join our live blog for red carpet highlights followed by the award ceremony, from 3.30pm on Sunday.
Email the author at kquinn@theage.com.au, or follow him on Facebook at karlquinnjournalist and on Twitter @karlkwin
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Russian economy to overcome ‘reckless’ sanctions, Putin says
By Irina Titova and Jim Heintz
St Petersburg: President Vladimir Putin has declared that Russia’s economy will overcome “reckless and insane” sanctions, while condemning the US for acting like “God’s own messengers on planet Earth”, at the country’s showpiece investment conference.
On Friday (Russia time), Putin began his address to the St Petersburg International Economic Forum with a lengthy denunciation of countries that he contends want to weaken Russia, including the US.
He said the US “declared victory in the Cold War and later came to think of themselves as God’s own messengers on planet Earth.”
Russia came under a wide array of sanctions after sending troops into Ukraine in February. Hundreds of foreign companies also suspended operations in Russia or pulled out of the country entirely.
Putin said trying to damage the Russian economy “didn’t work”.
“Russian enterprises and government authorities worked in a composed and professional manner,” he said. “We’re normalising the economic situation. We stabilised the financial markets, the banking system, the trade system.”
Russia’s projected inflation rate has fallen marginally, but the current projected annual rate of 16.7 per cent is still too high, he said.
Putin also vehemently defended his country’s actions in Ukraine. Russia has contended its neighbour posed a threat because of its desire to join the NATO military alliance.
“In the current situation, against a backdrop of soaring risks and threats, Russia’s decision to conduct a special military operation was a forced one,” the Russian leader said.
“It was very hard to make it, but it was forced and necessary. It was a decision by a sovereign country that has an unconditional right, based on the UN Charter, to defend its security.”
Putin predicted Russia’s success in Ukraine after more than 16 weeks of fighting.
“All of the special military operation’s objectives will definitely be attained,” he said. “This is predetermined by the courage and heroism of our warriors, the consolidation of Russian society, whose support gives strength and confidence to Russia’s army and navy, the profound understanding of the rightness and historic justice of our cause.”
Russia also “will accept any of the choices” the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine make about their futures, Putin said.
There’s been consistent speculation that the separatist territories will hold votes on joining Russia, similar to when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. Separatist leaders of the two areas have expressed the desire for such a referendum.
Russia recognised the two areas as independent states days before sending troops to Ukraine, a move none of its allies have so far repeated.
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who sat on the stage alongside Putin at the St Petersburg forum on Friday, said the Central Asian nation is unlikely to do so and called the self-proclaimed republics “quasi-state territories”.
The fighting in Ukraine has raised fears of a global food crisis because it has interrupted food exports, particularly of grain.
Putin said Russia could “significantly increase its export of food and fertiliser” but expressed concern that Ukraine might use income from exports to pay for weapons it has received from other countries.
Meanwhile, the European Union’s executive arm recommended putting Ukraine on a path to membership, a symbolic boost for a country fending off a Russian onslaught that is killing civilians, flattening cities and threatening its very survival.
The possibility of membership in the EU, created to safeguard peace on the continent and serve as a model for the rule of law and prosperity, fulfils a wish of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Western-looking citizens.
The European Commission’s recommendation that Ukraine become a candidate for membership will be discussed by leaders of the 27-nation bloc next week in Brussels. The war has increased pressure on EU governments to fast-track Ukraine’s candidacy, but the process is expected to take years, and EU members remain divided over how quickly and fully to welcome new members.
AP
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Rewa (Madhya Pradesh): Mayor candidates of both the major political parties-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress, filed their nomination papers in the Collectorate office in Rewa on Friday.
BJP mayoral candidate Prabodh Vyas went to the collectorate to file his nomination. At the time of filing nomination, Vyas was accompanied by former minister and MLA Rajendra Shukla, Member of Parliament (MP) Janardan Mishra and district president Ajay Singh. Later BJP corporator candidates from 45 wards also filed their nominations.
Similarly, Congress candidate Ajay Mishra Baba was accompanied by district president Triyugi Narayan Bhagat and ex-MLA Sukhendra Singh Banna went to the collectorate to file his nomination. Congress candidate Mishra said that if his party would win civic body polls, then the development work in the city would be carried out with pace and would combat corruption.
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Russel Metals Inc. (RUSMF) CEO John Reid on Q2 2020 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Russel Metals Inc. (OTCPK:RUSMF) Q2 2020 Earnings Conference Call August 7, 2020 9:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Martin Juravsky - EVP and CFO
John Reid - President and CEO
Conference Call Participants
Michael Doumet - Scotiabank
Frederic Bastien - Raymond James
Michael Tupholme - TD Securities
Anoop Prihar - Stifel
John Novak - CCL
Operator
Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the 2020 Second Quarter Results Conference Call for Russel Metals. Today's call will be hosted by Marty Juravsky, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and John Reid, President and Chief Executive Officer of Russel Metals. Today's presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer period. [Operator Instructions]
I'll now turn the meeting over to Marty Juravsky. Please go ahead.
Martin Juravsky
Thank you, Chris. Good morning, everyone. I plan on providing a brief overview of the Q2 highlights to give a context for the key developments that we have seen. If you want to follow along, I'll be using the PowerPoint slides that are on our website. Just go to the Investor Relations Conference Calls part of the website and you'll be able to find it.
On page three, you can read our cautionary statement on forward-looking information. So, let me start on page five with a few summary observations. One, it was obviously a very unusual quarter with developments related to the COVID-19 challenges.
In fact, the quarter involved really two distinct segments; one, the decline that we saw coming into the quarter and two, the pickup that we saw coming out of the quarter. With this backdrop, we are really very proud of our various businesses in proactively adapting and adjusting to the quickly changing market situations.
First and foremost, we put in place the right protocols to focus on safety. Even though we were deemed an essential service and we continue to operate, the overall economic conditions impacted activity, particularly the front part of the quarter.
In order to adapt, we made a series of rapid changes throughout the quarter relating to staffing, which is down around 15%, cost containment, discretionary spending, which is also down a fair amount, and inventories as we pulled back on our procurement activities. I think the results for the quarter show the flexibility of our business model.
I think as most of you are aware variable costs are a big part of our business. They represent around 85% to 90% of our total cash costs; will include cost materials, employee expenses, other operating expenses. And it's just one example. Our variable employee expenses are down over 25% versus Q1 of this year and down over 50% as compared to the 2019 average.
Countercyclical cash flows, we talked about this a lot. In the quarter, we generated CAD95 million from non-cash working capital this quarter. Diversification across North America, just as COVID-19 impacted the global economy in very different ways; we've seen that our risk has been reduced by having a broad geographic platform in very diverse customer base. We do not have all of our eggs in basket.
Lastly, our capital structure is in great shape with our net debt coming down and our liquidity going up substantially in the quarter. If you go back to our Q1 conference call, we talked a lot about the ability to generate cash flow in this part of the cycle in our think our Q2 results provided that illustration.
If you go to our financial results on page six, from an income statement perspective, the gross margin percentage remained around 19%, but the dollars came down with lower sales activity. As compared to Q1, our sales in Q2 declined by about CAD227 million and gross margin declined by about CAD42 million. But our EBIT and our EBITDA only declined by about CAD4 million.
As mentioned earlier, we quickly adapted to the environment and we're able to bring down our net cash costs on almost a dollar-for-dollar basis with the decline in gross margins.
This bottom-line was achieved despite a couple of notable items. One, with our share price increasing in Q2 versus a decline in Q1, the mark-to-market on our stock-based compensation was a CAD3 million expense in Q2 versus CAD4 million recovery in Q1. This is non-cash, but it flowed into our EBITDA.
Also, we took an additional CAD5 million provision related to the potential risks in our inventories energy in particular, this is also a non-cash item, but it flowed into our EBITDA. Overall, given the strong financial profile of our company, we're pleased to once again declare a dividend of CAD0.38 a share for our shareholders.
From cash flow perspective, CAD95 million reduction in working capital with the biggest shift seen from accounts receivable. Our credit team did an absolutely terrific job and our pace of collections was well above normal.
We also lowered our inventories and I believe that depending upon the future economic conditions, we'll make further progress on inventories in the months and quarters ahead.
CapEx at CAD5 million is pretty modest and there are no large commitments on the come.
From a balance sheet perspective, net debt declined from CAD443 million last quarter to CAD368 million at the end of June, or CAD75 million reduction. As a result, we're sitting on a net cash position of about CAD77 million excluding our term debt and this gives us a lot of dry powder and operational flexibility.
For shareholders' equity, there's an accounting adjustment because of the FX shift at quarter end -- second quarter versus quarter end quarter one. The bottom-line is that we made really good progress in driving free cash flow and I believe we still have more in the coming.
If you go to page seven, we have some segmented P&L information. The service centers did well under some really tough market conditions. Despite revenues coming down to CAD373 million, our gross margins held in and around 21%. In fact, we generated a higher operating profit in Q2 than we did in Q1.
Tons shipped were down 14% versus Q1, which is better than the industry data that we've seen among our competitors. The stability of our gross margins in a declining market, in many respects, was due to the value-added processing and the investments that we've made over the last number of years. As mentioned earlier, the team's ability to adapt quickly to the evolving market was a big factor in driving down costs.
In energy, there were several macro factors on top of COVID, including low energy prices and drilling activity levels, along with weather delays in Western Canada coming out of breakup.
That said, we have two distinct sub segments within our energy business with different results. The field stores/Comco segment continue to hold a better in the quarter, as it actually posted an operating profit of CAD4 million. That operation was supported by infrastructure activity related to the Trans Mountain project.
By contrast, the OCTG and Line Pipe part of the energy segment incurred a loss. We are very focused on inventory management across all of our business units, but in this segment in particular.
The distribution segment managed really well in a very tough environment led by the Canadian business, which typically structures its buying and selling activities on a back-to-back basis. So, there's relatively little risk and fairly stable margins.
On page eight, we have segmented balance sheet information to provide a frame of reference for some of our recent capital allocation shifts. Our segment, net identifiable assets declined by CAD129 million since year end. Most of the shift was on the energy side.
We lowered the energy segments identifiable assets in both absolute dollars as well on a relative basis. As an example, metal services was 48% of net identifiable assets at year-end and it's now 45%.
On the energy side, most of that segments identifiable assets are working capital with very little fixed assets. More specifically of the CAD612 million of identifiable assets within the energy segment at June 30th, almost half is OCTG and Line Pipe working capital. As I said earlier, inventory management of that segment is a key focus.
Now, I know outlook is probably a big question for a lot of people. So, let me just say this in terms of overall outlook for our business. We aren't very good at predicting the future, but we are really good at adapting to it. This quarter demonstrated that. So, from my perspective, regardless of how economic conditions evolve, we are really well-positioned from both an operational and a capital structure perspective to take advantage.
In closing, on behalf of John and other members of the management team, I'd really like to express our appreciation to everyone within the Russel family. This quarter presented some really unique challenges and we couldn't be more pleased with the teamwork and resourcefulness of our colleagues.
So, operator, that concludes my introductory remarks. If you now open the line for any questions, please.
Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]
Your first question comes from Michael Doumet, Scotiabank. Michael, please go ahead.
Michael Doumet
Yes, hey, good morning guys. So, first question. I just want to know if you guys could provide some specifics on the wage subsidy in the quarter and it's contribution to each segment? And further just as released the SG&A margin progression given expectations for the wage subsidy and how sustainable do you think one of the EBIT margins are into the second half?
Martin Juravsky
Sure, why I don't I tackle that Michael. So, in terms of wage subsidy, we haven't disclosed the specific number, but what I'd say -- and part of the reason is because we look at our staffing costs in totality, and there's multiple elements attached to it. We think the government's initiatives actually support employment, made an awful lot of sense to be getting companies through this period of time and we reacted to that appropriately.
What we've included is some disclosure of the nature of the beast in terms of how the methodology works. So, in the quarter, we qualified for the subsidy, we've benefited for 12 weeks of it. The maximum per employee is CAD847 per employee. Not everybody gets the maximum. So, on average, we're less than the maximum, which is nature of the beast. And in Canada, we have roughly 1,800, 1,900 employees.
In terms of the go--
Michael Doumet
Sorry.
Martin Juravsky
In terms of in terms of the go-forward, the way we look at our business model is really simple. In some ways, it's back to what we talked about before. We look at cost in totality, and margins in their totality and in many cases, when we see what's in front of us, we're just going to have to adapt to varying circumstances.
So, as the way subsidies start to fall off towards the end of the year, we'll make other operational decisions and try and work towards getting the appropriate bottom-line and appropriate return for our shareholders.
So, we think that that was a good incentive in terms of keeping employment at appropriate level during this past quarter, and as that starts to roll off, we'll continue to revisit over various cost line item, overhead, headcount and the like.
Michael Doumet
Okay. Thanks Marty that's really good color. And maybe just turning to the energy product. Not a huge surprise, but the inventory turns has really dropped there. So, maybe given some of the softness in the OTCG pricing, I mean is it fair to expect continued margin pressure through the second half until say -- I mean inventories are adjusted? How should we think about mix between OCTG and oilfield stores in the second half as well?
John Reid
So, I'll take that one. You like more -- go ahead, go ahead Marty.
Martin Juravsky
No, go ahead, John, sorry.
John Reid
So, the Line Pipe and the OCTG is definitely where we're having our issues with the turns and again, just the volume slowed down when you fell the rig count levels and like during breakup, we were at a low point of 13 which we thought was bounced back, was it 45 as of this morning? Again, that's still up 67%, 68% from last year, the U.S. is down to 251. So, there's just not a lot of demand out there for that product. And so we'll continue to work through that. But the terms are much lower than we want in that segment.
Flipping over to the field store side, our turns are down slightly, but they're still in, they're in a pretty good spot for us. We continue to turn the inventory, we adjust quicker there, because that part of the business, again, is there for the life of the well and maintain -- and the maintenance piece, along with projects like the Trans Mountain that we're participating in phase one and phase two throughout the end of this year.
So, the turns there are at an acceptable level, although on the low end, but they are at an acceptable level. So, our focus point, as Marty alluded to earlier, really beyond OCTG and Line Pipe. And again, it's just a demand issue right now, it's very challenging, plus you have an overstock from all distribution.
Michael Doumet
Okay, great. And maybe just a follow-up, John. I mean, you have to tie in that inventory discussion with your expectations on working capital requirements for the second half. I mean again, things can change obviously with the market and presumably even, you should your businesses are seeing different trends. But I'm interested to hear and how much maybe excess inventory you guys think you have, again, particularly in the OCTG or anywhere else in your business?
John Reid
Yes. So, right now on OCTG and Line Pipe, we're carrying probably a turn and a half to two turns of inventory versus what we would like to have. We'll continue to try to bleed that off, we're really watching -- and the orders coming in right now are sold with the exception of one operation that is operating at a profitable level and they continue to have a program that goes forward that is locked in; it's just not sold upon arrival.
So, -- but we basically changed all of our purchasing to reflect only items that are sold coming in until we thin our inventory down to an appropriate level. So, I think we'll continue to throw off working capital there. Again, it will be based on what volumes are available in the market at the low rig count; it will be a slow grind to get that inventory down.
Michael Doumet
Okay, great. Thanks for the answers.
Martin Juravsky
Thanks Michael.
Operator
Thank you. Your next question comes from Devin Dodge, BMO Capital Markets. Devin, please go ahead.
Unidentified Analyst
Good morning. This is Jim [Indiscernible] calling in for Devin. Can you guys maybe give us a little more color on some of the demand trends in your service centers across your regions and end market?
Martin Juravsky
John, do you want to--?
John Reid
Yes, I'm sorry. You broke up just a little bit. I'm assuming you said demand trends, is that right, Jim?
Unidentified Analyst
Yes.
John Reid
So, if you look across our service center segment, non-res construction held up really well compared to what's going on in the world right now with the pandemic. And so we've seen -- we saw slight pullback early on in April with that as everybody adjusted to the essential versus non-essential. It came back pretty quickly in May and June, as all our demand did. And so what we're starting to see is construction, the solid -- those jobs that were put on hold are starting to move forward. And that's really the bright spot that's out there.
Other segments that we've seen in the heavy equipment, ag, those have slowed down, impacting 20%, 25%, 30%. And we're seeing other manufacturing end use market slow down as well. So, the biggest thing we watch, when we look at construction for the go-forward is how much of this is a tail on a project versus how much is in the architectural billing index going forward, which represents nine to 10 months out. And that that index in the construction world, the ABI index, is actually improvement, still below 50, which is a sign of growth, but it's actually improved quite a bit in the last two months. So, we're hopeful that that tail will carry on into next year.
The other end markets, obviously, that we serve are energy related. Those were down dramatically; 50%, 60%, 70% based on the fall in the rig count and the -- depending on where you are and what part of the country. We are seeing some projects in the energy go-forward, Trans Mountain, as we look at Western Canada, there is some movement there going forward.
But overall, most of our energy segments are down right now. And just for you Jim, we don't participate in automotive. And so that's something that we can -- we watch it, but as it relates to our competition, it could creep into our market, but we don't participate in automotive other than maintenance.
Unidentified Analyst
That's great. Thanks. Second question. Do you guys expect industry M&A to pick up and has there been an increase in seller interest?
John Reid
Yes. So, we were actually seeing a fair amount of deals coming across and -- especially relative to first quarter and into the year. Some of those deals are obviously more liquidation type deals where people are looking to get out. We are seeing some reasonable things to look at right now. So, we think there are some opportunities in M&A for us in this market that we will explore and we'll just see where they go.
Unidentified Analyst
Got it. And one last question. Have you guys been seeing increased competitive pricing pressures in the market?
John Reid
Yes, across the Board, in every segment, strongest is obviously OCTG and Line Pipe. We're seeing it in service centers, and again, I want to commend our service center for the tremendous job maintaining margin.
Typically, if you look back at our historical performance and the falling price environment, you would see margins drop as a gross margin percentage, they've not done so. And that's a nod to our value-added processing that's out there as we continue to grow that segment of our business as a percentage of our sales. It's holding that margin steady and so we're very pleased with the performance there and with our service center's overall financial performance. Yes, there's margin pressure in all three segments.
Unidentified Analyst
Got it. Thanks guys and I'll turn it over.
Operator
Thank you. Your next question comes from Frederic Bastien, Raymond James. Frederic, please go ahead.
Frederic Bastien
Hi. Thanks and good morning. Guys I'm just wondering how much cash you can reasonably expect to release from working capital in the second half? And is it fair to expect that most of that will come from inventories?
Martin Juravsky
Hey Fred. Yes, I think your answer your latter question. Yes, I think it's fair to say it's mostly going to come from inventories. As I mentioned earlier, on the receivable side of it, we had a really, really strong collection quarter and our receivable levels have been brought down in really good shape from that that perspective. There's more work to be done on the inventory side of it. It's a little stickier in terms of ability to move it. But it does move over a period of time. I mean, and that's where the focus is right now.
So, I think if you kind of stand back and say, where are we going to be for the back half of the year? Some of it is going to be a function of overall economic activities, particularly on the service center side of it, but notwithstanding that, I think the biggest focus in terms of inventories coming down is on the energy side of it.
So, almost perspective of economic conditions, we’ll be bringing inventories down on the on the energy side over the course of the next few quarters and even beyond the next few quarters. Orders of magnitude, we've probably got another 10% to go is my order of magnitude guess.
Frederic Bastien
Thanks. Thanks, Marty. Now it's hard for us really to make sense of the margins, when we have no clear idea of what the subsidies were. Is there a way for you to provide a bit more color on that, or at least, at least provide us with some goalposts or some an estimation of what these might have been?
Martin Juravsky
Yes. Yes. So, for the building blocks to get there, on the Canadian side of it, which is really where the subsidies are, is really related to staffing levels, and there's a maximum amounts per person, and the maximum amount per person is CAD847 per employee per week, 12 weeks of benefit in the quarter.
And we have in Canada, around 1,800 or 1,900 employees. And not everybody gets the maximum, because that's driven off of where everybody's individual salary or wages are. So off of there, you get orders of magnitude for that math.
Frederic Bastien
Okay. That's going to be an interesting exercise. John, just switching gears here. Are you seeing any green shoots coming out of energy either on both sides of the border?
John Reid
Right now we just don't see a lot of pickup for energy for the balance of the year. I think inventories, hopefully, will start to come in line from the distributor side and people's inventories will start to come down to reasonable levels. But we're not -- we're just not seeing a whole lot other than in Canada is benefiting from heavy oil, and the U.S. is basically shut in or kept off their heavy oil production, which is primarily the Dakotas and Pennsylvania area due to the cost to produce that heavy oil, and they’re primarily many rigs in the Permian and the low-cost basin where we do operate with our field stores.
So, there is a benefit for Canada because there's a need for the heavy oil come across the border to run the refineries to do the appropriate mix for gasoline and to be used in different grades of gasoline that's out there.
So, we've seen some lift there. And I think that will continue to happen, as long as all that's range about in this CAD40 to CAD45. As that starts to creep back up and sustain above CAD50 and CAD60, then I think you'll see the U.S. to start opening back up more of that heavy oil play.
Frederic Bastien
Awesome. My last question, John, what's the most important lesson you're taking away from this pandemic?
John Reid
I guess there's lessons and things that you reflect on is you're really proud of your people. First and foremost is the safety and the way that our people responded to it through our decentralized model. We had to take the approach. We're really centralized to get the combination of information, get it disseminated out to the team and how they reacted because it's very -- just as the pandemic attacks us in different places in different regions of the world differently in terms of number of cases, positive cases, our safety our safety team has reacted appropriately. In our case count is extremely low. We've had just a handful of interruptions.
And so I'm just very proud of our people for how they handled the safety, how they've taken the welfare of everyone within the Russel family, their suppliers and their customers to make sure we're operating safely. And so some of the lessons that we've learned, obviously, as you go through any downturn, you can look through your operation. There's an opportunity to go back, tighten your belt.
We do run with the lowest operating cost on a percentage basis in the industry, but we're looking at ways to do that better. It's really challenging our people. And we continue to find ways to do that better through technology, through different operating efficiencies with the new equipment that we have out there. And then really, we're learning that our value-added processing, growth initiative and service centers is really stronger growth opportunity in a downturn than we anticipated.
So there are a lot more customers that are looking to us now to do that. To give you a reference point, we're bringing on a new tube laser and flat laser to our Trenton, Georgia facility we'll be shifting work over where we've been developing that customer base from another facility, we're already booked out at one full shift and well into the second shift. And we’ve got to started operation we're still probably 30 days out from starting operation.
So we're seeing that stickiness of those customers who want us to do more and more value added processing as they've had to pull back as well. So we're very pleased with that. Some of the lessons learned on the energy side, again we're looking at our purchasing trends, specifically in OCTG and line pipe.
Our import trends where you get called with material on the water and trying to evaluate our buying patterns to make sure that we can maintain a turn level that's reasonable to ultimately get to level we want to return to our shareholders. And so we're really working through that closely.
And we're really happy with our field store. So can we continue to see, even in this low, low rig count, that are continuing to provide that maintenance component, although there's not the project piece of their business that's out there. The maintenance component is there, and we can adjust scale and size very quickly. So we're very pleased with that.
Frederic Bastien
Awesome. That's very good color, John. Thank you very much, guys.
John Reid
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Your next question comes from Michael Tupholme, TD Securities. Michael, please go ahead.
Michael Tupholme
Thanks. Good morning. First--
John Reid
Good morning.
Michael Tupholme
Good morning. Thanks. First question just relates to the service center, demand and volume trends. Volumes were down 19% year-over-year in the quarter. I apologize if I missed this, but I'm just wondering if you can provide a bit of a snapshot as to how that looked at the end of the quarter just to get a sense for the progress as the quarter evolved. And then further to that, any indication as to sort of where things sit now on a year-over-year basis here in early August?
Marion Britton
Yes. John, you want to handle or you want me to…
John Reid
Yes, go ahead, Martin, I'll provide color then.
Marion Britton
Sure. So Mike, your premise is thought on, which is the entry to the quarter looked an awful lot different than the exit from the quarter. And April was obviously down a lot from March, May picked up from April and June picked up from May. And so when we look at the quarter as a whole, the June activity on a run rate basis was higher than the quarter average.
But that being said, the June activity was still below pre-COVID levels, and it was probably below pre-COVID levels by I'd say about 5%. June activity is continuing on at a comparable pace to where things were at in June, you got some noise in July though, holidays in different regions, Quebec, Canada Day, 4th of July. So July is an interesting inflection point, just because of some seasonal dynamics. I think the ultimate test is going to be how things evolved into August where we're in September.
But if you look at the step at the second quarter in its totality though, there were really two different stories of things dropping off pretty hard into April and then picking up at a reasonable level, but still slightly below pre-COVID levels by time we got to June.
Michael Tupholme
Okay. That's helpful. If down 5% year-over-year. By the time you got to June sounds actually quite good in the context of the environment we're in. Just wondering, do you think there was some sort of pent-up demand that maybe helped -- help those numbers a little bit, as you got into June and maybe July or is that do you think indicative of kind of sort of a reasonable run rate for the next little while absent further acceleration and reopening?
John Reid
So I think what we really saw pent-up demand has really jumped in the last half of May. And as we came out of April, it was so much thing -- so many things been just shut down. So really solid in May, was a little nervous going into June to see what -- June actually performed a little bit better.
Again, as Marty mentioned, you get a lot of noise in July with all the extended holidays in Quebec, taking the two weeks makes it a little difficult. But what we're seeing is it looks like July is basically flat with June, with all the noise. August seems to be coming out at flat to slightly up from that. But I think we're going to move -- as I said in our press release, I think we're going to move in concert with the pandemic, and so you're going to have an uneven recovery.
So we'll take two step forward, maybe one step back as the pandemic surges and it causes people to move back and forth in different phases of opening, obviously, children going back to school. There's one belief that's out there that that may cause the pandemic to surge for a period of time. So we'll watch that closely. But right now we're operating even or slightly above what we saw in June, so far in the quarter.
Michael Tupholme
Okay. That's helpful, John. And I suspect there are some regional differences, but just from a high level perspective, is what you're suggesting in terms of the volume trends, is that -- I mean, is that generally applicable across most markets, or is this really a mixture of wildly different things going on in different jurisdictions?
John Reid
It's typically applicable across. And again, you're going to see different market trends with -- but again, where you have an area that's not intensely impacted by the pandemic, typically is a low population area, that's not an intense steel user, because of the population, there's just not a lot of demand there. So the larger cities have a lot larger issues to deal with. The U.S. is obviously not dealing with here as well as Canada. So we're very pleased with what's going on in Canada right now.
So we're seeing some rebound layer. Our U.S. operations actually were extremely strong in the service center side and the demand. I think we were only down 2%. So we were very, very pleased with what happened in the U.S. side, Canada is making strides to come back very strongly as well. So I think it applies across the board. Again, barring a large, large outbreak.
Fortunately, we're not in some of the states that have been impacted dramatically other than Texas. And so right now, we haven't had to deal with that. Again, Canada is handling it so much better than the U.S. to date. So we'll just see how it goes forward as we continue to come and open up the economy.
Michael Tupholme
Okay. Thanks. Next question relates to steel prices, we've seen our recoil under some pressure may be leveling off here and potentially some possibility of maybe having found a bottom heading higher. But wondering if you provide any thoughts on that? I know it's difficult, but secondly, what is the pricing you've seen thus far through the second quarter imply for margins and service centers? Should we be thinking about service center margins potentially being down a little bit relative to the second quarter because of what we've seen with prices?
John Reid
Since the first part of your question and you're right, it appears that if you use hot-rolled coil as a proxy, it appears it's found the bottom. In that 440 range is bouncing off the bottom. Slightly scrap, which is the main driver for hot-roll coil or all steel pricing now. Actually, in the last few days, it's solidified. And we're seeing some potential lifts there, very uneven, though, where you see that come out. If you're looking in the Midwest scrap pricing for the U.S. that's down a little more than the southeast and primarily driven by exports. There's been a big drive from the export market from Turkey to buy scraps. That's driven that price up.
So again, I think we'll follow scrap, as it moves. It look like it is firming. If you look at demand in steel mills are running at 59%. So there's plenty of room to bring up on capacity that could add extra capacity that would likely keep it range bound. However, if you look at the North American price right now, those prices on the world market, so that would mean imports are probably not going to be a big factor in Q3.
And so really, we're fighting against ourselves to some degree there on pricing in the North American market. So as long as we balance capacity, with demand then there should be room to run on pricing. But again, I think it will remain range bound for the balance of the year.
Michael Tupholme
And any other…
John Reid
Service margins I think we are fairly strong in service centers, we're north of four. Continue to climb there with. Again, we've talked about before turning to a just a little slower in our Canadian service centers, compared to our U.S. service centers just due to geography and the timing trends to get material into the states. It's not made in Canada. So I think our margins will hold.
And in fact, we may see some slight margin increases throughout the quarter. And as we get the rebalancing, material left will be flushed out, it may be carrying any higher cost than we replaced with the lower cost material. And again, as we continue to press forward trying to grow our value added initiative that should help the margins as well.
Michael Tupholme
Thank you for that. Just turning to the energy products segments, if you not had the NRVs, it looks like that would have been sort of breakeven on an EBIT basis, recognizing that field stores were profitable. Just wondering though as we look forward any sort of indications on how we can think about the margin profile or profitability of that business as a whole would be helpful for some comments there?
John Reid
So as Marty alluded to, you really get two subsets within the energy for us you could filed store margins, although they saw some pressure that seemed to normalize now maybe a couple points below where they are generally on gross margin percentage. It's really OCTG, and Line Pipe there's just the margin challenges. So there's just the order count is so low, and people doing projects due to the nature of their ability to borrow money for projects right now is very limited.
So there are only a handful of projects that are going and that's just creating an intense margin pressure in that environment for us, so I think any, any lift that we get from the field stores may be offset from OCTG and Line Pipe, we'll continue to watch OCTG it looks like it's leveling on price, it's holding up a little bit better than Land Pipe, Line Pipe is continuing to drift with flat roofs starting to set the bottom and they've been the main substrate for both products.
I think that we should see that it's usually a two to three month lag. So we should start to see that bottoming as well. But there's so many bills that are idled or short term or indefinitely right now in both Canada and the U.S. I think we'll have capacity to then have capacity coming offline to rebalance inventories there over time. So we're hopeful going into Q4, Q1 of next year that we'll see the inventory start to rebalance throughout the industry as a whole and provide some room for margin expansion at that point.
Michael Tupholme
Okay. That's helpful. Thanks, John. And then lastly, again I apologize if I missed anything on this, but the renewal of tariffs against aluminum by the U.S. -- Canadian aluminum by the U.S. just yesterday no aluminum is not a something you deal in but you know, can you talk about what the potential reintroduction of steel tariffs if that were to happen what you think that would mean both overall as well as for Russell?
John Reid
And -- you want to talk about steel and aluminum there because again --
Michael Tupholme
I'm just -- I mean, -- don’t want to talk about aluminum. So just using looking at what happened with the reintroduction of renewal post tariffs and thinking about the possibility that they could also bring back tariffs under 232 against Canadian steel. So just wondering more specifically about what you think that would mean, if that happened on steel side?
John Reid
Firstly, I was highly unlikely. Of course, I thought, I'm somehow enlightened the first time so, but if it does happen, it's again, we do so little across the border. And in all of our products that I think it would be it would be healthy for Russell. And for the service center industry as a whole is where all the mark on business plus your value added component. So it would cause prices to raise obviously about 25% very quickly. And that would be helpful for us in that regard.
With demand levels being where they are, right now, again, I'll be in a challenge to get that in for steel, but anything that's going to cause that price increase would be helpful for us it could be harmful for some of our customer base and how they would have to adapt to it so it could hurt demand. But again, we would have to look at it, you can tell what it did for us back when they implemented those early on base drove us up.
Michael Tupholme
Right, so it sounds like you wouldn't expect it, if it were to happen. You wouldn't expect the reaction to be much different than it was last time is what I'm hearing?
John Reid
That's right. It's just -- it's just on a relative basis to demand where demand is today versus where it was. So that would be the only difference. I think.
Michael Tupholme
Okay. That's helpful. I'll turn it over. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Your next question comes from Anoop Prihar, Stifel GMP. Anoop, please go ahead.
Anoop Prihar
Good morning Marty. Just with respect to the government subsidies that you guys received in Q2, is that something that will be repeated in Q3 and Q4 or is it a one-off deal? And do you have to repay those funds or is it an outright grant?
Martin Juravsky
So the second question, first, it's an outright grant. And to answer your first question, so the government has done this in phases and they introduced the revised rules for the renewal phases, post Q2 and effectively they go to the fourth quarter, but the impacts of them start to get tapered off as you get to the back end of Q3 and then into Q4.
So the way we look at it and assumed the way the government looked at it, as well as it was a stopgap measure to support employment in the Canadian economy as it was going through a transition, we think that worked, and it was helpful, and it was impactful. But it's running its course.
So as I said earlier, one of the things that we're always doing is revisiting costs, or totality. So to the extent that we are going to see some tapering off of those wage subsidies towards the fourth quarter -- sorry, into the fourth quarter, we'll be making other adjustments along the way, depending upon what's otherwise going on in the broader economic conditions. So there were some benefits in Q2, they'll continue to be some benefits in Q3, the way the program is set up, and then they taper off pretty substantially in Q4.
Anoop Prihar
Okay. Thank you.
John Reid
Anoop, just to follow-on, they're obviously just a tremendous amount of cost related to COVID and the rapid pace when we had to implement this across all of Canada and the U.S. And so the subsidies actually afforded us time as we were able to, we had to incur costs that were obviously unexpected, large degree, soon these large cost we had some offset with that with the wage subsidy, it gave us time to make adjustments to get things and we needed to appropriately protect our people to get through the disruption.
And we can continue on to keep it as Marty mentioned, the employment levels appropriate with our revenue, and we now have been afforded that time that we can go ahead and make the adjustments necessary.
Anoop Prihar
Lastly, just on that point, and can you give us a rough estimate of what you think your one-time costs have been today with respect to dealing with COVID?
John Reid
To quantify in a specific number, I would be guessing, if I gave that without that, I would say, they're not materially off, but we actually received a subsidy. So we got I think it was more of a neutralizing effect there than anything.
Anoop Prihar
Okay. Well, that's helpful. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Your next question comes from John Novak, CCL. John, please go ahead.
John Novak
John, can you talk about your thoughts with respect to right size for the right sizing and repositioning of your energy business?
John Reid
Yes, as we look at -- as we look at that, John, obviously, we like the field store business Comco and or Apex, rebranded Apex and states under elite supply. We like that side of the business. It's very much like our service centers similar in turn similar and margin profile, high service business.
And so it's something that we see as a platform to continue on, we look at OCTG and Line Pipe which is just becoming more and more structurally chap. And so we're taking different avenues and different looks at how to reduce our capital exposure there. And we may end up shrinking the size of the business long term for Russell as to what it represents as far as our total portfolio.
John Novak
Okay. Thank you. And Marty, was did you defer any payments with respect to federal state provincial taxes that will fall into the second half of the year?
Martin Juravsky
Yes, yes, would -- it is a flow through in the second quarter.
John Novak
Because I think last year, you had a large tax payment in the first half. It doesn't appear that you had one this year that that happened in Q3 or Q4?
Martin Juravsky
No, no, no, not with the level of profitability.
John Novak
Okay, I'm thinking of last year's taxes that we're doing this year, right?
Martin Juravsky
No material issues there now, no. No big shift.
John Novak
And Marty, I'm still confused why there's the unwillingness to disclose what the government subsidies are? Every other company is doing it some are including it in their footnotes, it's really hard to make sense of your margins. And it seems that, you know, you just, you're introducing unnecessary volatility and forward estimates without getting some sense of what those were?
Martin Juravsky
We'll look, John, we've seen variety companies, frankly, all over the map in terms of their disclosure on this topic. We've included the disclosure on the building blocks associated with it. And you know, as we said before, a couple times in different ways, the subsidies were meant to provide some incentives to retain employment.
So we view that as a component of our overall employment costs. And it's a single component. It's not the -- it's not, it's not in its entirety. So the building blocks are all there in terms of the disclosure associated with what the subsidies are.
John Novak
Okay. Thanks.
Operator
Thank you. There are no further questions at this time. Please proceed.
Martin Juravsky
Great. Thanks, operator. Well, we appreciate everyone's interest and discussion for Russell on this second quarter conference call. If you have any further questions or follow-up, please feel free to give myself or John a call. Again, I appreciate it. And we look forward to staying in touch and talking again at the end of the third quarter.
Operator
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Gordon Deegan
A judge has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of anti-vaccine activist Antonio Mureddu after he failed to turn up to Ennis District Court for a second time in two weeks.
Judge Mary Larkin issued the bench warrant for the arrest of Mr Mureddu (45) of Headford Arms Hotel, Headford, Co Galway following a Garda application.
In the case, Mr Mureddu is facing a charge of the alleged assault of a Garda and two separate dangerous driving charges on the same date last August.
Mr Mureddu did not appear at court two weeks ago concerning one of the dangerous driving charges and a medical report was provided to court on behalf of Mr Mureddu which said he has “Covid symptoms – flu like”.
A similar report was handed into court on Friday, again saying Mr Mureddu has “Covid Symptoms – flu like”.
Sergeant Louis Moloney said Mr Mureddu had been informed of Friday’s proceedings via registered post and, in response to his non-appearance in court, applied for the bench warrant for the arrest of Mr Mureddu and for him to be brought before a district court for the execution of the bench warrant.
Assault
In the case, Mr Mureddu is accused of assaulting Garda James Hanley with intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detention of himself for an alleged offence, dangerous driving at Knockanean, outside Ennis, on August 10th, 2021, contrary to Section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act, (Public Order Act) 1994.
Mr Mureddu is also accused of dangerous driving on the M18 motorway at Caheraphuca, Crusheen and on the same motorway at Ballymacahill, Ennis on August 10th.
In relation to separate and unconnected alleged motoring offences before Letterkenny District Court at the start of the month, Mr Mureddu told a judge he will only return to court on alleged motoring offences if he gets €1 million
In court, Mr Mureddu told Judge Brendan O’Reilly: “If you are going to adjourn this it is going to cost you €1 million.”
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NEW YORK, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The InfraCap MLP ETF (NYSE Arca: AMZA) (the "Fund") has declared a monthly distribution of $0.22 ($2.64 per share on an annualized basis). The distribution will be paid June 29, 2022 to shareholders of record as of the close of business June 22, 2022.
AMZA Cash Distribution:
- Ex-Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2022
- Record Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2022
- Payable Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2022
The Fund estimates that 100 percent of the distribution, or $0.22 per share, is attributable to return of capital and that 0.00 percent, or $0.00 per share, is attributable to dividend income. Infrastructure Capital Advisors expects to declare future distributions on a monthly basis. Distributions are planned, but not guaranteed, for every month. The next distribution is scheduled to occur in July 2022.
For more information about AMZA's distribution policy, its 2022 distribution calendar, or tax information, please visit the Fund's website at www.virtusetfs.com.
Virtus ETF Advisers is a New York-based, multi-manager ETF sponsor and affiliate of Virtus Investment Partners. With actively managed and index-based investment capabilities across multiple asset classes, Virtus offers a range of complementary exchange-traded-funds subadvised by select investment managers.
Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC (ICA) is an SEC-registered investment advisor that manages exchange traded funds and a series of hedge funds. The firm was formed in 2012 and is based in New York City. ICA seeks total-return opportunities in key infrastructure sectors, including energy, real estate, transportation, industrials and utilities. It often identifies opportunities in entities that are not taxed at the entity level, such as master limited partnerships ("MLPs") and real estate investment trusts ("REITs"). It also looks for opportunities in credit and related securities, such as preferred stocks. Current income is a primary objective in most, but not all, of the company's investing activities. The focus is generally on asset-intensive companies that generate and distribute substantial streams of free cash flow. For more information, please visit www.infracapfunds.com.
Fund Risks
Exchange Traded Funds: The value of an ETF may be more volatile than the underlying portfolio of securities the ETF is designed to track. The costs of owning the ETF may exceed the cost of investing directly in the underlying securities.
MLP Interest Rates: As yield-based investments, MLPs carry interest rate risk and may underperform in rising interest rate environments. Additionally, when investors have heightened fears about the economy, the risk spread between MLPs and competing investment options can widen, which may have an adverse effect on the stock price of MLPs. Rising interest rates may increase the potential cost of MLPs financing projects or cost of operations, and may affect the demand for MLP investments, either of which may result in lower performance by or distributions from the Fund's MLP investments.
Industry/Sector Concentration: A fund that focuses its investments in a particular industry or sector will be more sensitive to conditions that affect that industry or sector than a non-concentrated fund.
Short Sales: The Fund may engage in short sales, and may experience a loss if the price of a borrowed security increases before the date on which the Fund replaces the security.
Leverage: When a Fund leverages its portfolio, the value of its shares may be more volatile and all other risks may be compounded.
Derivatives: Investments in derivatives such as futures, options, forwards, and swaps may increase volatility or cause a loss greater than the principal investment.
MLPs: Investments in Master Limited Partnerships may be adversely impacted by tax law changes, regulation, or factors affecting underlying assets.
No Guarantee: There is no guarantee that the portfolio will meet its objective.
You should consider the Fund's investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before investing. Contact VP Distributors LLC at 1-888-383-4184 or visit www.infracapmlp.com to obtain a prospectus which contains this and other information about the Fund. The prospectus should be read carefully before investing.
Virtus ETF Advisers, LLC serves as the investment advisor and Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC serves as the sub-advisor to the Fund.
The Fund is distributed by VP Distributors, LLC, member FINRA and subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.
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Here's The Best Small Town In Washington State
By Zuri Anderson
June 17, 2022
Big cities and metropolitan areas usually capture people's attention, but small towns can make you feel right at home and have their own perks. That's why Insider found the best small towns in every state.
"Small towns in the US can have just as much culture as big cities," according to the website. "Insider identified small towns with lots of activities, charm, history, and natural beauty."
According to writers, the best small town in Washington state is...
Port Townsend!
This town, located in Jefferson County, has a population of over 9,800. Port Townsend has plenty of activities and history to keep you hooked throughout the day. This is what writers had to say about the town:
"Port Townsend was born out of a mistake. In the 19th century, people thought the town would boom as a shipping port, so they built the town up with Victorian mansions. But when the railroads connected to Seattle instead, Port Townsend was bypassed. Instead of taking defeat, the town has redefined itself as an art and culture hub in Washington state.
The historic buildings with large bay windows still stand in this quirky arts village. For the more adventurous people, there is Fort Worden State Park nearby, where you can find sandy beaches and kayaking."
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Nandi Bushell Will Join Foo Fighters For Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
By Rebekah Gonzalez
June 17, 2022
Nandi Bushell will join the Foo Fighters to help honor the late Taylor Hawkins at the upcoming Wembley Stadium Tribute Concert. The 12-year-old drummer became a viral sensation during the pandemic and will take part in one of the previously announced Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concerts set for September 3rd, according to a report from Variety.
The band revealed the pair of tribute shows earlier this month in honor of their drummer who died at the age of 50 in March. In addition to the Wembly Stadium show, the band also announced a US tribute show set for September 27th at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.
Bushell took to Instagram to call the opportunity, "the greatest privilege of my life to join Mr Grohl on stage with Pat, Chris, Nate and Rami at @wembleystadium in tribute to my hero and friend. The legendary Taylor Hawkins."
Band members Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, and Rami Jaffee announced the London show's lineup earlier this week. Performers will include both Hawkins' friends and influences including, Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, Mark Ronson, the Police’s Stewart Copeland, Wolfgang Van Halen, Jane’s Addiction’s Chris Chaney, and jazz/rock drummer Omar Hakim. In addition, Queen touring member Rufus Taylor and Hawkins' cover band Chevy Metal will perform at both tribute shows.
Performers for the Los Angeles show have also been announced and include, Miley Cyrus, Joan Jett, Alanis Morissette, Kiss’ Gene Simmons, Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, Struts singer Luke Spiller, Queens of the Stone Age drummer Jon Theodore, Weezer drummer Pat Wilson, and Rage Against the Machine drummer Brad Wilk. | https://www.iheart.com/content/2022-06-17-nandi-bushell-will-join-foo-fighters-for-taylor-hawkins-tribute-concert/ | 2022-06-17T21:01:29Z | https://www.iheart.com/content/2022-06-17-nandi-bushell-will-join-foo-fighters-for-taylor-hawkins-tribute-concert/ | false | 1 |
'I was just irritated, tired, high, and pissed off': Mike Tyson admits he was wrong to pummel an overzealous fan on a JetBlue flight in April, but says he was too exhausted to be patient after celebrating pot-themed 4/20 holiday
- Mike Tyson told Jimmy Kimmel he was wrong to attack a passenger aboard in April flight from San Francisco to Florida, but added he was irritated at the time
- Tyson said he was tired from spending the day celebrating the pot-themed 4/20 holiday on San Francisco's Hippie Hill, and admitted to being high on his flight
- Tyson: 'I was wrong, that should've never happened. That's me back in my primitive child stages... but I was just irritated, tired, high, and pissed off'
- Neither Tyson, nor the other man, were charged for their roles in the scuffle
- Video of the fight went viral, showing the other man with cuts above his eyes
Mike Tyson admits he was wrong to punch an overzealous fan on a recent flight, but confessed to Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday's show that he was 'irritated, tired, high, and pissed off' when he bludgeoned the passenger in the seat behind him aboard an April 20 flight.
'Hey listen, I'm usually good at these things,' said the 55-year-old former heavyweight champion. 'I was wrong, that should've never happened. That's me back in my primitive child stages, I shouldn't of done that, but I was just irritated, tired, high, and pissed off. S*** happens.
'I don't wanna hurt nobody.'
Kimmel joked that he's 'still glad' Tyson punched the other passenger.
In a video that ultimately went viral, Tyson was seen punching a man repeatedly aboard a Florida-bound airplane on April 20 and leaving him with cuts on his forehead. The victim, later identified as 36-year-old Melvin George Townsend III, allegedly threw a bottle at Tyson and had been seen pestering the boxing legend prior to take off.
Through his attorney, Townsend denied throwing a bottle at Tyson and blamed the incident on being 'overly excited.'
Last month, San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen M. Wagstaffe declined to press charges against Tyson because of 'the conduct of the victim leading up to the incident, the interaction between Mr. Tyson and the victim, as well as the requests of both the victim and Mr. Tyson.'
Mike Tyson admits he was wrong to punch an overzealous fan on a recent flight, but confessed to Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday's show that he was 'irritated, tired, high, and pissed off' when he bludgeoned the passenger in the seat behind him aboard an April 20 flight
Melvin Townsend III was the man who was pummeled by Tyson. Here he's pictured in his mugshot following one of several arrests in Florida. Like Tyson, he served three years in prison
Tyson wasn't being flippant when he admitted to being high.
The Brooklyn native spent the marijuana-themed 4/20 holiday in San Francisco, where he was seen smoking pot throughout the day.
Video of the incident shows Tyson punching Townsend before the JetBlue flight had taken off from San Francisco to Fort Lauderdale, leaving the Florida man with a bloody forehead.
Townsend initially had a cordial exchange with Tyson, according to TMZ. A witness says he and a friend greeted the 55-year-old boxing legend as they boarded the plane and even got their picture taken with Tyson.
Tyson soon grew tired of engaging with Townsend and reportedly asked him to be quiet. When Townsend continued talking, Tyson reportedly then stood, turned, and threw several punches to his face and forehead.
'Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Mike, come on, stop that,' a witness is heard saying on the cell phone footage.
Another video from the flight shows the aftermath of the incident, with Townsend sporting traces of blood on his forehead.
'My boy just got beat up by Mike Tyson,' said the man shooting the video. 'Yeah, he got f***ed up. Just trying to ask for an autograph. I don't know what happened.'
Jimmy Kimmel joked that he's 'still glad' Mike Tyson punched the other passenger
A representative for the Brooklyn-born boxer later claimed he was reacting to Townsend, an unruly passenger who had been harassing him and actually threw a water bottle at Tyson.
'Unfortunately, Mr. Tyson had an incident on a flight with an aggressive passenger who began harassing him and threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat,' a representative for Tyson told DailyMail.com in an email.
Townsend, through his attorney, denied throwing a water bottle.
'Our client is a big Mike Tyson fan,' Morgan told TMZ. 'When Mike Tyson boarded the plane, he became overly excited. At first, their interaction was cordial.
'At a certain point, Mr. Tyson clearly became agitated by an overly excited fan and began to strike him in an excessive manner,' Morgan continued. 'This situation could have been avoided simply by contacting the flight attendant. Our client denies throwing a water bottle prior to being struck by Mr. Tyson.'
San Francisco police did detain two individuals from the April 20 flight, but declined to identify either. They did pass along the video to San Mateo County police, who are now declining to press charges.
'On Wednesday April 20, 2022, at approximately 10:06 p.m., San Francisco Police officers assigned to the SFPD Airport Bureau were dispatched to a physical altercation onboard an airplane located at the Domestic Terminal of the San Francisco International Airport,' read a San Francisco police statement provided to DailyMail.com.
'Officers arrived and detained two subjects that were believed to be involved in the incident. One subject was treated at the scene for non-life-threatening injuries. That subject provided minimal details of the incident and refused to cooperate further with the police investigation. Both subjects were released under 849(b) of the California Penal Code pending further investigation.
'The SFPD is aware of video that possibly captured the incident, which surfaced following the initial investigation. That video has been forwarded to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, which has investigative jurisdiction on this incident.'
JetBlue did not respond to requests for comment.
Mike Tyson was seen enjoying the good vibes and marijuana that the 4/20 holiday brings just hours before repeatedly a punching a fellow passenger on a plane at the San Francisco airport Wednesday night, leaving the man with a bloody forehead
On April 21, Tyson was seen leaving the Eden Rock Hotel, where he was ushered into a waiting car. He had been scheduled to attend the Benzinga Cannabis Conference in South Florida
Mike Tyson is seen in Miami Beach, Leaving Eden Rock Hotel, where he got a pat on the back from one of the establishment's employees (right) on April 21
Like Tyson, who served nearly three years in an Indiana prison after being convicted of rape in 1992, Townsend has his own criminal record.
The native of Punta Gorda, Florida has served 20- and 15-month prison sentences for a variety of crimes, including possession of Oxycodone, burglary, grand theft, fraud, and trafficking stolen property, according to a records search. In one 2018 incident he stole a trailer by trespassing and hitching the unit to his pickup, reported TMZ, which was the first media outlet to identify him.
Townsend was last released from a Florida prison in July of 2020 after serving 15 months of a 25-month sentence for that incident and his use of a fraudulent personal ID. He previously did time for trafficking stolen property in 2009 and 2010.
The altercation came after a long day of pot smoking for Tyson, who was seen celebrating the pot-themed 4/20 holiday on San Francisco's Hippie Hill on Wednesday.
Townsend has served 20- and 15-month prison sentences for crimes including grand theft
Following Wednesday's altercation, Townsend's identity slowly began leaking on social media
Tyson maintained his festive mood on his way out of town, too, as witnessed by Bay Area-photographer Josh Edelson, who was arriving at San Francisco's airport after a trip to Italy. Edelson approached Tyson roughly an hour-and-a-half before Tyson's incident on the JetBlue flight.
'When we walked out of the airport, I turned to my wife, like, ''Oh my God, that's Mike Tyson right there,''' Edelson told DailyMail.com.
'So I went up to him and was like, ''Mike do you mind if I get a picture with you real quick?'' And he responded with, 'I don't give a f***,' and then he took a huge toke of his joint.
'I went and took a picture with him, and he took another big toke and said ''goodbye'' to his driver, who I assume drove him there from Hippie Hill or wherever he came from in San Francisco,' Edelson continued. 'And that was pretty much it. I didn't really think very much of it. Then I left and went home, and then woke up this morning, and as it turns out, he was just arriving to go fly home or [Fort Lauderdale.]'
According to Edelson, Tyson appeared to be in a peaceful mood before boarding his redeye flight to Florida.
'He was really chill,' Edelson said. 'He seemed overall happy. He obviously was smoking, was having a good time and seemed to be in a really good mood.'
Then, before boarding his flight, he was seen at the San Francisco airport by Bay Area-photographer Josh Edelson, who was returning with his wife from a trip to Italy
Tyson was also asked by Kimmel about a potential exhibition fight with Jake Paul, the former YouTube star who is now moonlighting as a boxer and promoter. In January, The Sun reported the two were negotiating a bout that could generate nearly $50 million.
'That could be very interesting,' Tyson said, remaining noncommittal. 'I never took it really serious, but that could be really interesting.'
Obviously it's a three-decade age difference that makes this potential bout unique.
'This fight bridges the gap between old school boxing fans and the new generation of followers,' the source told The Sun.
The 30-year age gap aside, Tyson (50-6-2) holds a considerable advantage in experience having fought in 58 professional bouts against actual boxers.
Paul, on the other hand, is 5-0 against another YouTuber, former NBA star Nate Robinson, and MMA fighters Ben Askren and Tyron Woodley, the latter of whom was knocked out in their rematch last month.
Unlike those, though, this would be an exhibition fight, in which knockdowns — let alone any knockouts — are quite rare.
The Sun's source believes the bout can generate as much as much as £36million ($49 million) between live and pay per view broadcasts.
Mike Tyson and Jake Paul are reportedly nearing a deal for an exhibition between the 55-year-old former heavyweight champion and 25-year-old YouTuber that could be generate nearly $50 million. The Sun is reporting the deal, which would be a pay-per-view bout later in 2022
Tyson previously speculated about another exhibition following his split decision draw against retired boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. in 2020. At the time, he thought he'd be back in the ring in February, but it now looks to be taking place later in 2022.
'I am going to have a return fight in February and we are pretty skeptical about the opponent but it will be a really stimulating opponent,' Tyson told the Sun.
According to Tyson, the money for fighting one of the well-known Paul or his brother Logan would be too much to refuse.
Tyson last fought in 2020 against another retired former champion, Roy Jones Jr. (right), in LA
'That is the fight for the money,' Tyson said in 2021. 'Those are the money-making fights, those guys got 35 million people to watch.
'Hell, I would fight them,' he continued. 'They would fight me. That would make a lot of money.
'Hundred million dollars, they do anything, they don't mind getting beat up for a hundred million dollars.'
While a win over Tyson would be Paul's first against a legitimate boxer, it might not impress those within the sport.
Even aside from his age, Tyson's reputation as the scariest man in boxing was laid to rest since 1990, when he was knocked out by James 'Buster' Douglas in Tokyo.
Prior to that, things were considerably different for Tyson, who was once so scared of killing his opponents in the ring that he often needed to have sex with groupies before fights to take the edge off his rage, his former bodyguard and chauffeur has claimed.
'He had to get laid to disengage some of the strength he had,' Rudy Gonzalez told The Sun in November. 'So I had girls tucked away in bathrooms and changing rooms.
'Sometimes he'd go in with them for a minute, bang the s*** out of them, snap his neck and say: ''Okay this guy is going to live tonight.'''
Jake Paul fights Tyron Woddley during a Paul Woodley II on December 18, 2021 in Tampa
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Released three days after George Ezra’s 29th birthday last Tuesday (June 7), his album, Gold Rush Kid effects the 23rd change of leadership on the chart in as many weeks, debuting in pole position on consumption of 44,514 units.
Selling 27,684 copies on CD, 6,755 on vinyl, 1,097 on cassette and 4,659 on digital downloads, with sales-equivalent streams accounting for the rest, Gold Rush Kid is Ezra’s third straight No.1 album – his entire output – with consumption of ...
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The Pew Research Center has found that over 90% of American adults own smartphones. With computing devices at the tips of our fingers, why would we even consider using a Mac?
Mac computers have changed since 1984 and continue to adapt to the times. With the overhaul of the latest model last year, Apple has introduced its most advanced operating system and hardware yet.
Are you an Apple gadget user? Read on to discover tips and features beginner Mac users must know about.
1. The Apple Ecosystem
Apple devices are designed to work together seamlessly. This means you can easily share files and sync data between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Apple is known for its security and privacy features. So if you’re worried about data leaks or malware, rest assured that your devices are safe. You may also check this article about how to clear your browsing history on Mac https://setapp.com/how-to/delete-browsing-history-on-mac. (For a little added privacy and security)
Apple offers a wide range of services and applications that can help you with everything from productivity to entertainment. So whether you’re a first-time iPhone user or a seasoned Mac user, there’s something for you in the Apple ecosystem.
2. The Finder
The Finder is the default application for managing files on a Mac. It’s what you use to browse your files and folders and launch applications. It has some handy features that you may not be aware of.
For example, you can use it to create shortcut keys for your most frequently used applications.
You can also use it to quickly find files on your computer. To do this, simply type in the name of the file you’re looking for in the search bar.
It also has a variety of different views that you can use to view your files. For example, you can choose to view your files in list view, icon view, or column view. To change the view, simply click on the View menu and then choose the view you want to use.
3. The MacOS Dock
For beginner Mac users, the Dock is a toolbar that is located at the bottom of the screen. It allows you to quickly access and launch applications, open documents, and more.
To add an application to the Dock, simply drag and drop the icon from the Applications folder into the Dock. To remove an icon, drag and drop the icon off of it.
You can customize the Dock by adding spacers, which are small, blank icons that you can use to group items in it. To add a spacer, open the Finder, go to the Applications folder, and then drag the Extras folder into the Dock. Next, open the Extras folder and drag the Spacer icon into the Dock.
You can also change the size of the icons by going to System Preferences > Dock. Here, you can adjust the size of the icons and also turn on magnification, which will make the icons larger when you hover your mouse over them.
4. The OS X Terminal
The OS X Terminal allows users to access the underlying UNIX operating system that powers OS X. It is a powerful tool that lets you control your computer using text commands.
To open the Terminal, go to Applications > Utilities > Terminal. Once you’ve launched the Terminal, you can start typing commands.
To see a list of all the available commands, type “man” followed by the command you’re interested in (e.g. “man ls” to learn about the “ls” command).
To learn more about a particular command, you can also type “man -k” followed by a keyword (e.g. “man -k delete” to see a list of all commands that deal with deleting files).
Finally, to quit the Terminal, type “exit” at the prompt.
This can be incredibly useful for configuring your system, managing files, and even running scripts and programs.
5. The MacOS Siri
Siri is a digital assistant built into Apple devices. It can answer questions, make recommendations, and perform tasks. It is a great tool for beginners because it is easy to use and can be helpful in a variety of situations.
To use Siri, simply hold down the Command key and press the Space bar. This will bring up the Siri interface. You can then ask it a question or give it a command.
One of the most useful features of Siri is its ability to search the web. Simply ask it a question and it will use the internet to find an answer. This can be helpful when you need to look up something quickly.
It can also open and close apps, as well as perform tasks within apps. For example, you can ask Siri to send a message or email.
Beginner users can also take advantage of Siri’s integration with Apple’s other services. For example, you can ask Siri to set a reminder or timer.
6. The MacOS iCloud
iCloud is a cloud-based storage system that lets you access your files from any Apple device. You can store photos, videos, music, documents, and more in iCloud and share them with family and friends. You can also use iCloud to back up your Mac, so you never have to worry about losing important files.
To get started with iCloud, simply go to System Preferences and click on iCloud. Here, you can choose which files you’d like to store in iCloud and choose whether to enable iCloud backups. Once you’ve got iCloud set up, you can start using all of its features.
One of the best things about iCloud is that it lets you access your files from anywhere. Whether you’re at home or on the go, you can always get to your documents, photos, and other files. Simply open the iCloud app on your Mac or iOS device and sign in with your Apple ID.
7. The MacOS Keyboard Shortcuts
There are a lot of shortcuts built into the MacOS that can save you time and effort when you know how to use them. The list of shortcuts below is the most essential for new Mac users to know.
- Command-C: Copy
- Command-V: Paste
- Command-X: Cut
- Command-Z: Undo
- Command-A: Select All
- Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of your entire screen
- Option-Command-ESC: Force Quit
- Control-Option-Command-8: Show View Options
- Space bar: Quick Look
- Option-Command-L: Open the Downloads folder
- Control-Option-Command-D: Show/hide the Dock
A Unique Experience For Mac Users
If you’re new to the world of Apple, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about. After all, aren’t all computers essentially the same? Not quite. Now we know that the Apple ecosystem offers a unique user experience to Mac users that can be tailored to your individual needs.
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HARTFORD, Conn., June 7, 2022
HARTFORD, Conn., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtus AllianzGI Convertible & Income Fund (NYSE: NCV), Virtus AllianzGI Convertible & Income Fund II (NYSE: NCZ), and Virtus AllianzGI Convertible & Income 2024 Target Term Fund (NYSE: CBH) announced the following distribution declarations on their respective common shares:
Virtus AllianzGI Convertible & Income Fund:
Virtus AllianzGI Convertible & Income Fund II:
Virtus AllianzGI Convertible & Income Fund 2024 Target Term Fund:
The amounts of distributions reported in this notice are estimates only and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the distributions will depend on the fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The fund or your broker will send shareholders a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell shareholders what distributions to report for federal income tax purposes.
Virtus AllianzGI Convertible & Income Fund and Virtus AllianzGI Convertible & Income Fund II each have an investment objective to provide total return through a combination of capital appreciation and high current income. Virtus AllianzGI Convertible & Income 2024 Target Term Fund's investment objectives are to provide a high level of income and to return at least $9.835 per common share (the original net asset value per common share of beneficial interest before deducting offering costs of $0.02 per share) to holders of common shares on or about September 1, 2024. Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. is the investment adviser to each fund and Allianz Global Investors is the subadviser.
For more information on these funds, contact shareholder services at 800-254-5197, by email at [email protected], or through the closed-end fund section on the web at virtus.com.
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Blockstack (STX) traded flat against the U.S. dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 16:00 PM ET on June 17th. Over the last seven days, Blockstack has traded flat against the U.S. dollar. One Blockstack coin can currently be bought for approximately $0.48 or 0.00001398 BTC on major exchanges. Blockstack has a market cap of $358.50 million and approximately $2.36 million worth of Blockstack was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
Here is how similar cryptocurrencies have performed over the last 24 hours:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004858 BTC.
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $20,627.91 or 0.99995957 BTC.
- Solana (SOL) traded 2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $31.56 or 0.00152987 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded up 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004850 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- THETA (THETA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $5.25 or 0.00010640 BTC.
- yOUcash (YOUC) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $0.50 or 0.00002423 BTC.
Blockstack Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “Stacks is an open-source network of decentralized apps and smart contracts built on Bitcoin. The Stacks blockchain is a flexible layer on top of Bitcoin that enables decentralized apps, smart contracts, and digital assets A layer-1 blockchain that connects to Bitcoin for security and enables decentralized apps and predictable smart contracts, Stacks implements Proof of Transfer (PoX) mining that anchors to Bitcoin security and produces blocks at the same rate as Bitcoin. Stacks Token (STX) is the native asset on the Stacks blockchain and used as fuel for transactions. All transactions, from executing Clarity contracts to creating digital assets, are paid for in STX. “
Blockstack Coin Trading
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Sri Lanka Is Hiding Behind Economic Disaster To Avoid Accountability For Atrocity Crimes Committed Against Tamils: TGTE
"Different Responses To The Protests In The Northeast And The South Reveal The Entrenched Racism In The Sinhala Polity"
UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, June 17, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) has alerted the UN Human Rights Council that Sri Lankan foreign Minister G.L. Peiris’s statement to the Council on June 13, 2022, was aimed to mislead the Council to avoid accountability for mass atrocities Sri Lanka has committed against the Tamil people.The TGTE urges the international community not to allow Sri Lanka to use the current economic disaster as a cover to hide its abject failure to show any accountability for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide perpetrated against the Tamil people, as required by previous resolutions of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
FINANCIAL BURDEN DUE TO MAINTAING LARGE ARMY:
One of the primary reasons for the economic disaster in Sri Lanka is tremendous financial burden placed by maintaining a large army with the sole purpose of subjugating the Tamils. Even 13 years after the end of the war in the Tamil homeland there is one military person for every 6 civilians according to the California based Oakland Institute.
21st AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION:
The Sri Lankan foreign minister in his speech gave a completely false perception of the 21st Amendment to the Sri Lankan Constitution, which he claimed was introduced to “consolidate seminal democratic values enshrined in Parliament, independent institutions and salutary checks and balances on the powers of the Executive.” This is a hypocritical statement because the amendments put forward by the government do not actually act as a check on presidential powers as the President can continue to have certain government ministries under him/her and also the power to prorogue parliament. Second and most importantly in order to “consolidate seminal democratic values” the Sri Lankan society as well as its parliament should be ethnically neutral. Merely giving more powers to parliament to act as a check and balance on the presidency does not alter the character of the state. The Sri Lankan state remains as a Sinhala Buddhist fundamentalist state and will continue to remain so, even after the passing of the 21st Amendment.
DIFFERENT RESPONSES TO THE PROTESTS IN THE NORTHEAST AND THE SOUTH:
The way Sri Lankan Government has handled protests that erupted against economic mismanagement in the south by mostly Sinhalese demonstrators including at "GotaGoGama" protest base camp, show naked racism by the government and state institutions. In contrast to what routinely happens to Tamil protestors in the NorthEast, in the South when the police shot and killed a protestor in Rambukkana, the OIC of the Rambukkana police station was arrested. When the protestors at Galle Face were attacked, the perpetrators, even though they were MPs were arrested and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was forced to resign.
Lawyers of Bar Association of Sri Lanka [BASL] stood in front of protestors to see they were not attacked by police and STF, whereas [BASL] does not turn up when protestors at Mullivaikal Memorial Day or Maveerar Naal are attacked. Sinhala journalists covering the protests were not attacked and their cameras were not forcibly taken, whereas Tamil journalists covering protests such as those by the families of the disappeared are harassed and taken for questioning by the police. Therefore, the government, its law enforcement arm and the Sinhala Civil Society have clearly demonstrated their racism through the way they handle Southern protests from the way they handle protests in the NorthEastern parts of Sri Lanka.
PREVENTION OF TERRORISM ACT (PTA):
The Foreign Minister in his speech also talked about amending the notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), which has been categorized as a ugly blot on civilized nations by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). Tamils, like many international human rights organizations, want the PTA rescinded, not amended. The Foreign Minister also claims that 22 persons detained under the PTA have been released. These 22 persons were released after years in prison and having suffered torture, isolation etc. There are still others taken in under PTA who remain in custody.
The TGTE also wants to highlight those cases of Tamils arrested for unlawful assembly at Maveerar Naal or MullivaikalMemorial Day, or journalists arrested for covering these events arrested under PTA. In the case of the protests in southern Sri Lanka, the arrests were not made under PTA but under Emergency Laws that were soon allowed to lapse, whereas the PTA has been on and off the books since 1979. What it means is that all Tamils arrested even today are arrested for “terrorism”, as also Muslims after the bombings of Easter 2019, but not the Sinhalese protesting in the South. As the Bell Emerson the U.N special rapporteur on torture, has pointed out ‘the PTA disproportionally impacts on the Tamils.
OFFICE OF THE MISSING PERSONS (OMP):
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister in his statement to the Council also stated that “Office of Missing Persons (OMP) has met 83% of persons invited for panels of inquiry as part of the verification process.” But his own President has stated that “all the missing are dead”. According to the BBC’s January 20, 2020, report: “Sri Lanka’s President has acknowledged for the first time that more than 20,000 people who disappeared during the country’s civil war are dead. Gothabaya Rajapakse made the remark in a meeting with the UN Envoy in the Capital, Colombo. Steps would be taken to issue death certificates for those missing, a statement from his office said.” (Source:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51184085). This news was also widely covered in several international media including New York Times and The Hindu. Despite this, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister is continuing to perpetrate this fraudulent claim, that the Office of Missing persons is actively working to find a solution regarding the disappeared. TGTE calls upon the UN Human Rights Council members and the President of the Council to make the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister accountable for his false statements.
OFFICE OF REPARATIONS:
Further, the Foreign Minister in his speech stated that the Office of Reparations was allocated 53 million Sri Lankan rupees (equivalent to approximately $148 thousand dollars) in addition to 759 million Sri Lankan rupees (equivalent to approximately $2 million dollars). We would like to point out that material reparations alone cannot heal sufferings and the trauma to which the victims are subjected. As European courts and the Inter- American Court have stated “effective remedy entails thorough and effective investigation and measures for non-recurrence. Monetary handouts alone will not alleviate the existential despair."
TERRORIST LIST:
The Foreign Minister in his speech stated that “The list of designated individuals, groups and entities under the United Nations Regulation No.1 of 2012 is being reviewed. As of now 318 individuals and 04 entitles are proposed to be delisted. This is a continuing exercise.” This is not only a continuing exercise, it is a continuing joke. In 2014, the Sri Lankan Government designated 424 individuals and 16 groups as “terrorist entities.” In 2015, the Sri Lankan Government played with the number, sanctified and removed 8 groups and 259 individuals from the list. GOSL again in 2021, played with the numbers and added 7 more groups and banned 389 individuals as “terrorist entities”. The Foreign Minister’s latest statement before the UNHRC shows that they continue to play this game.
This Sri Lankan Government’s number game demonstrates the abuse of U.N Regulation No.1 of 2012. The Sri Lankan Government’s game also undermines the credibility of the U.N itself. Unfortunately, the continuing designation of the LTTE as a “terrorist organization” by some foreign powers, in spite of the absence of any violent incident since the end of war 13 years ago, has enabled the government of Sri Lanka to continue to play this game.
CONTINUING ABUSES AGAINST TAMIL PEOPLE: .
The huge military presence of the Sri Lankan armed forces in Tamil areas contributes to continuing the Sri Lanka states effort to destroy the identity of the Tamils. It also contributes to the human rights abuses faced by the Tamil people. For example, recently the military and police attacked Tamils protesting the building of a Buddhist Temple on an ancient site that as originally a Hindu Temple, despite a Court order preventing such actions. A Tamil Member of Parliament was also injured in the attack.
With racism rife in Sinhala civil society and government, Tamils need protection more than ever. Protection can be there only if there is an end to the impunity of the Sri Lankan politicians and military personnel for their crimes against the Tamils. The UNHRC can help to end impunity by demanding full accountability for mass atrocities by the Sri Lankan state.
And as the IMF, World Bank and other multilateral organizations, and governments get ready to help restructure Sri Lankas foreign debt they should first advise the Sri Lankan government to downsize the military and remove it from the Tamil homeland. Multilateral institutions and governments should also use their leverage to make funding to Sri Lanka dependent on ensuring Sri Lanka's accountability for mass atrocities.
REQUEST TO UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCI:
In conclusion, TGTE also reiterates the call made by the U.N High Commissioner for Human Rights, Honorable Michelle Bachelet, on January 12th, 2021, to refer Sri Lanka to the International Criminal court (ICC). This call was subsequently endorsed by all four former UN high Commissioners for Human Rights, four former high officials of the UN, nine former special Rapporteurs who had visited and written reports on Sri Lankan, and all three members of the UN secretary- General’s panel of experts on Sri Lanka.
The Tamil victims expect the Human Right’s Council, at its next session in September when resolution 46/1 expires, to take a decisive action towards accountability.
ABOUT THE TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL EELAM (TGTE):
The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) is a democratically elected Government of over a million strong Tamils (from the island of Sri Lanka) living in several countries around the world.
TGTE was formed after the mass killing of Tamils by the Sri Lankan Government in 2009.
TGTE thrice held internationally supervised elections among Tamils around the world to elect 135 Members of Parliament. It has two chambers of Parliament: The House of Representatives and the Senate and also a Cabinet.
TGTE is leading a campaign to realize the political aspirations of Tamils through peaceful, democratic, and diplomatic means and its Constitution mandates that it should realize its political objectives only through peaceful means. It’s based on the principles of nationhood, homeland and self-determination.
TGTE seeks that the international community hold the perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide against the Tamil people to account. TGTE calls for a referendum to decide the political future of Tamils.
The Prime Minister of TGTE is Mr. Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, a New York based lawyer.
Follow on Twitter: @TGTE_PMO
Email: pmo@tgte.org
Web: www.tgte-us.org
BACKGROUND
Tamils in the island of Sri Lanka faced repeated mass killings in 1958, 1977, and 1983 and the mass killings in 2009 prompted UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to appoint a Panel of Experts to report on the scale of the killings.
According to UN internal review report on Sri Lanka, over 70 thousand Tamils were killed in six months in early 2009 and Tamil women were sexually assaulted and raped by the Sri Lankan Security forces.
International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) in February 2017 handed over details to UN of Sri Lankan Military run "Rape Camps", where Tamil women are being held as “sex slaves”. Also, according to UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office report on April 2013, there are over 90 thousand Tamil war widows in Sri Lanka.
Thousands of Tamils disappeared, including babies and children. UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances stated in 2020 that the second highest number of enforced disappearance cases in the world is from Sri Lanka.
According to this UN report, the killings and other abuses that took place amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Independent experts believe that there are elements of these abuses that constitute an act of genocide.
Members of the Sri Lankan security forces are almost exclusively from the Sinhalese community and the victims are all from the Tamil community.
Tamils overwhelmingly voted in a Parliamentary election in 1977 to establish an independent and sovereign country called Tamil Eelam. This Parliamentary election was conducted by the Sri Lankan Government.
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“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?” Jeremiah 12:5 NIV
I would have to say this is the first Scripture I ever memorized, and I came across it even before I became a Christian believer. It was posted in the window of a ticket booth of an old abandoned movie theater on a cold, harsh, wet winter’s night.
After a series of missteps, bad decisions and runaway anger fits, I found myself homeless, unemployed and broke. All the old movie posters and such had long been removed from the display cases. The only thing visible to read was this Scripture on a small card in the window of that ticket booth.
On that card, along with the words, was also the address — Jeremiah 12:5.
Not having any church experience, I didn’t really know what that meant. But the words were an encouragement, kinda like, “It could be worse.”
Later, when I became a believer in Christ, I came across a Scripture that whirled me back to that moment on a dark harsh night. The Scripture was Isaiah 55:11 – “So is My word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”
For me, in that moment, it was an epiphany!
That whole idea of one person planting, one watering and one harvesting — it not only happened in my life, but it was so basic even I recognized it!
The second Scripture I memorized — Psalm 51:10 — I actually intended to commit to memory. The first one was Jeremiah 12:5. I hadn’t actually intended to memorize that verse. It was mostly based on my situation in those moments.
Psalm 51:10 was written on the wall in a kid’s nursery that I cleaned every week. Which just so happened to be half way through my cleaning of the church and coincided with my coffee break. So, I sat on the kid’s table drinking coffee looking at that verse. After doing that for several weeks, having memorized it, I one day put the coffee down, walked into the sanctuary and prayed: “Create a clean heart in me Oh God and renew a right spirit in me. Cast me not from Thy presence, take not Thy Holy Spirit from me, but restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation.”
I wasn’t able to do the whole thing, probably didn’t do it right. But I’m convinced God heard my humble prayer because the next Scripture verse to be written upon my heart was Psalm 27:4.
“One thing I ask of the Lord, and this is what I seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple.”
I wouldn’t dare compare myself or my life to that of the Apostle Paul. I do relate to a portion of this verse in 2 Timothy 1:12: “Because I know whom I have believed.”
On June 14, I began my 25th year as an officer in the ranks of The Salvation Army, an ordained minister of the Gospel of Christ Jesus. While that’s not great, earth-shaking news, it’s my testimony of God’s forgiveness, mercy and grace. The fruit of answered prayer.
If anyone was to ask me my life’s verse, I would say 1 Timothy 1:12: “I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has given me strength, that He considered me faithful, appointing me to His service.”
If by chance someone was to ask me which Scripture I share with others the most, I’d have to say 3 John 1:2: “Beloved, I wish above all things, that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.”
I’m on the verge of entering my 30th year as a Christian. I’ve seen much of the good, the bad and the ugly. I’ve also experienced love, joy and peace. What I know in my heart of hearts is God has been faithful in spite of myself. I’ve been helped by many in many ways and been privileged to help others as well. May it also be with you.
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EAST LANSING, MI — Now you can grab up 2022 Michigan State football season tickets and see all seven home games at Spartan Stadium this season. New season tickets, which went on sale Thursday, June 16, are $343 for the seven-game home season ($49 per game) plus the scholarship seat premium amount in certain sections, according to a press release. The seven-game home schedule includes five Big Ten contests in East Lansing. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2635234265231/lansing-arts-council-plans-public-mural | 2022-06-17T21:13:37Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2635234265231/lansing-arts-council-plans-public-mural | true | null |
Integrity Financial Corp WA acquired a new stake in Comcast Co. (NASDAQ:CMCSA – Get Rating) during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor acquired 6,781 shares of the cable giant’s stock, valued at approximately $341,000.
A number of other hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Migdal Insurance & Financial Holdings Ltd. bought a new position in shares of Comcast during the 3rd quarter valued at $26,000. AHL Investment Management Inc. bought a new position in shares of Comcast during the 4th quarter valued at $30,000. Sandy Cove Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Comcast during the 4th quarter valued at $31,000. Core Alternative Capital lifted its holdings in shares of Comcast by 86.9% during the 4th quarter. Core Alternative Capital now owns 684 shares of the cable giant’s stock valued at $34,000 after buying an additional 318 shares during the period. Finally, Rise Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Comcast during the 4th quarter valued at $36,000. 83.33% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Several equities research analysts have recently commented on CMCSA shares. TD Securities reduced their price objective on Comcast from $70.00 to $65.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, April 29th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reduced their price objective on Comcast from $62.00 to $60.00 in a research note on Friday, April 29th. Pivotal Research reduced their price objective on Comcast from $62.00 to $57.00 in a research note on Thursday, April 28th. StockNews.com upgraded Comcast from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Friday, June 10th. Finally, Barclays reduced their price objective on Comcast from $56.00 to $48.00 in a research note on Friday, April 29th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have issued a hold rating, fourteen have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $58.38.
NASDAQ CMCSA traded up $0.55 on Friday, hitting $38.46. The stock had a trading volume of 1,825,198 shares, compared to its average volume of 20,186,348. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $43.19 and its 200 day moving average price is $46.67. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.02, a current ratio of 0.86 and a quick ratio of 0.86. Comcast Co. has a 52-week low of $37.56 and a 52-week high of $61.80. The stock has a market cap of $174.35 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.23, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.84 and a beta of 0.96.
Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 28th. The cable giant reported $0.86 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.80 by $0.06. Comcast had a net margin of 11.96% and a return on equity of 15.92%. The business had revenue of $31.01 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $30.40 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.76 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 14.0% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that Comcast Co. will post 3.62 EPS for the current year.
The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, July 27th. Investors of record on Wednesday, July 6th will be given a dividend of $0.27 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, July 5th. This represents a $1.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.81%. Comcast’s dividend payout ratio is presently 34.84%.
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In Jerusalem, the brother of slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is calling for a U.S. investigation to provide answers on how his sister was killed while covering an Israeli military raid.
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INSEAD launches LEAD - its first 12-month transformational flagship online programme
The innovative enhanced learning journey prepare executives to Lead, Engage, Advance, Drive (LEAD) — in an increasingly complex and rapidly changing world
FONTAINEBLEAU, France and SINGAPORE and SAN FRANCISCO, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- INSEAD, The Business School for the World, today announced the launch of LEAD, its first 12-month flagship online executive education programme to help executives lead in an increasingly complex and rapidly changing world.
As the world's leading pioneer in leadership development, the INSEAD LEAD programme is built to offer a transformative, rigorous and impactful learning journey for executives to respond to volatile and ambiguous contexts, looking beyond short-term gains to understand the larger context and create sustainable value and impact for various stakeholders.
The INSEAD LEAD advantage:
- LEAD yourself, your team and your organisation
The programme goes deeper and further than many other executive education offerings, and is laser-focused on competencies of organisational leadership and aims to thoroughly transform participants' critical competencies and their ability to deliver global impact.
- ENGAGE with world-renowned INSEAD faculty, coaches and an international peer community
The rich and diverse cohort of faculty and coaches will challenge and encourage participants to advance how they navigate through business complexities, and lead with meaningful and sustainable impact.
- ADVANCE your understanding and your personal development
The programme leverages INSEAD's proficiency in online, virtual and blended learning to deliver high-impact, multi-dimensional and interactive learning experiences. Participants will explore critical business areas and continuously rethinking what it means for them to lead.
- DRIVE sustainable value and meaningful change in your leadership and across your organisation
The world is currently facing multiple disruptions, from supply chains challenges to geopolitical and energy crises. Where leaders sometimes struggle is discerning the real trends and shifts that are affecting business. The programme offers the tools and techniques to help participants know precisely where to focus energy and resources –by basing on three core pillars: Sensing Value, Delivering Value, and Sustaining Value.
Charles Galunic, Programme Director for INSEAD LEAD and Professor of Organisational Behaviour, says, "As leaders grapple with today's complex world, they look to create lasting value amidst all the noise and obstacles. INSEAD LEAD enables executives to gain specialised tools to expand their capabilities, and to develop their vision to create enduring value and impact for their stakeholders. The impactful and rigorous 12-month learning journey helps executives to see the world through multiple lenses and drive meaningful impact and relevant results."
Severine Guilloux, INSEAD Chief Marketing Officer, comments, "INSEAD has always been at the forefront of innovation and is one of the leading business schools in the world dedicated towards delivering immersive online executive education experiences, which has resulted in outstanding completion rates and strong engagement of the participants. This programme design reflects the two years that we spent closely looking at the changing needs of executives, not only from the point of view of what they learn, but how they learn. The unique learning design is an excellent fit for busy executives looking to advance their career and make an impact. It will be a truly transformational experience."
Flexible and high-impact learning experience
One big advantage of LEAD is that participants can learn at a pace convenient to their schedules. Complex concepts are delivered in short snippets in the most comprehensible way though online and asynchronous delivery. The learning journey is further enhanced by live (synchronous) touchpoints, live virtual presentations, and an in-person capstone at INSEAD Europe campus.
Learn more about the INSEAD LEAD Programme here. The first intake begins 29 Nov 2022.
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Staffing and bed deficits at University Hospital Limerick a major risk to patient safety – David Cullinane and Maurice Quinlivan
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Health David Cullinane TD has expressed concern at HIQA’s Report on University Hospital Limerick’s Emergency Department, which deemed that the hospital was not compliant with HSE patient safety and patient dignity standards or with workforce capacity standards.
Sinn Féin TD for Limerick Maurice Quinlivan called for a comprehensive plan to deal with the severe capacity deficits in the University of Limerick Hospital Group and Community Healthcare Group 3, which covers the same area.
He said these management units needed to be completely amalgamated and resourced to tackle the many severe capacity deficits in the midwest.
They added that, based on HIQA’s report, UHL had not improved sufficiently since the 2019 Independent Review of Unplanned Care which the HSE had previously decided was no longer relevant to publish. The HIQA report outlines how the emergency department resuscitation room was being used for Covid-19 and overflow patients, a practice which was clearly not conducive to staff or patient safety.
Teachta Cullinane said:
“We are extremely concerned by HIQA’s Report on University Hospital Limerick’s Emergency Department, which is not compliant with patient safety and dignity standards or with workforce capacity standards.
“The HIQA review outlines how the emergency department resuscitation room was being used for Covid-19 and overflow patients.
“That is clearly not an acceptable practice in terms of staff or patient safety.
“Emergency departments across the State are not capable of handling the demand they are facing.
“Patients are left waiting far too long almost everywhere, but the overcrowding is particularly severe in Limerick.
“The midwest health region needs a serious, multi-annual plan to tackle capacity deficits and implement reforms across care sectors.
“The midwest, and all regions, also need a clear pipeline of nursing graduates and specialists to fill the staffing gaps which HIQA identified.”
Teachta Quinlivan said:
“This damning report confirms what I have been saying for years that the current set up, structures, and management practice at UHL are not fit for purpose.
“The government and HSE have been failing patients, their families, and staff for far too long.
“We need fundamental change, and this can only come from an immediate government intervention. No other hospital in the state has been abandoned like UHL has been for years.
“The previous ED closures were not followed up with the investment that was needed in UHL, and now the hospital is a single point of failure in the region.
“Based on HIQA’s report UHL has not improved since the 2019 Independent Review of Unplanned Care.
“Limerick deserves better healthcare planning. The HIQA report identifies a clear need for more beds and more specialist nurses in the emergency department.” | https://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/63836 | 2022-06-17T21:17:52Z | https://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/63836 | false | 1 |
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Canisius College basketball recruit Sarion McGee was denied bail on Friday, five days after campus police arrested him for having two handguns, a shotgun and numerous high-capacity magazines outside the school’s indoor athletic complex.
Questioning why McGee needed “three guns and hundreds of bullets to go play basketball," Buffalo city court judge Andrew LoTempio declined to grant bail, saying that decision should be left with a state supreme court judge. McGee’s lawyer, Michael Seibert, said he plans to have a bail hearing scheduled for Tuesday.
The 23-year-old McGee was arrested on Sunday, a day after arriving in Buffalo, and faces 15 weapons-related charges, with a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
McGee’s arrest comes in the wake of numerous mass shootings around the country, including one in Buffalo, where an 18-year-old white man is alleged to have killed 10 Black people in at a supermarket last month. That shooting took place a little over a mile from the Canisius campus.
A campus police officer was checking cars parked illegally in the Canisius athletics lot when he saw a high-capacity .22-caliber magazine in the passenger seat of what was determined to be McGee’s car, according to court documents. Soon after, McGee left the facility and upon approaching his car asked, “What did I do?”
He told officers he was carrying two loaded handguns and additional magazines in his fanny pack, according to the documents. Police eventually found more loaded magazines stored in his glove box, and a 12-gauge shotgun in the trunk of the car.
Seibert told the judge the guns and ammunition were purchased legally in Wisconsin and Illinois. He said McGee had just arrived in Buffalo and had all of his possessions in his car because he had not yet found a place to live.
LoTempio referred to McGee’s stash of weapons and ammunition as “an arsenal.” Noting how gun-related issues are being debated across the country, he questioned how anyone could be unaware that each state has different gun laws, with New York’s being among the most strict.
Seibert said McGee bought the guns for protection because he previously grew up and lived in dangerous neighborhoods, while also noting Canisius’ proximity to the recent supermarket shooting.
“I disagree with what the judge said when he said he sees no reasons for someone to carry a weapon,” Seibert said after the hearing. “If you’re going to be staying two to three blocks away from where that mass shooting took place, I would want to protect myself, too.”
McGee was handcuffed and dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit while attending the hearing, and broke down in tears at one point. Upon leaving the courtroom, he turned to his mother in the gallery and said, “I love you.”
McGee is from Milwaukee. He was transferring to Canisius of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference after spending last year at Logan Community College in Illinois. The 6-foot-8 player spent the 2020-21 season at Grambling State, where he started 15 games and majored in criminal justice.
Other than saying McGee was being recruited to play at Canisius, the school declined to comment.
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Fusion Dance Solana Beach presents ‘It’s Showtime’
Fusion Dance Solana Beach held “It’s Showtime” on June 5 at Solana Beach Towne Center. Fusion Dance presented four shows throughout the day in front of large audiences at an outdoor stage. About 350 students (ages 2-18 years old) performed at the annual event, showcasing their many talents and hard work over the last year. Visit www.fusiondancesolanabeach.com for more information.
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YORKVILLE – Since his arrest on murder charges in connection with a deadly drive-by shooting in Boulder Hill well over a year ago, Jaquarance Handley has been racking up additional charges during his confinement in the Kendall County jail.
Handley, 33, of Joliet and James E. Brown, Jr., 28, of North Aurora each have been indicted on charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery and aggravated discharge of a firearm.
In what police described as an attempted gangland hit, the two allegedly used an AR-15 assault rifle to shoot into a home on Sierra Road in the unincorporated Boulder Hill community late on the morning of Nov. 11, 2020, resulting in the death of two women.
Cassandra Chatman died shortly afterward at a nearby hospital, while her grown daughter, Changina Chatman, succumbed to her injuries several months later.
The intended target of the shooting escaped, Kendall County Sheriff Dwight Baird said.
Brown and Handley were arrested within hours of the shooting and have remained in custody at the Kendall County jail on $2 million bond. They are expected to be tried separately later this year.
Earlier in this month, a jury found Handley guilty of aggravated battery to a corrections officer in connection with a 2021 incident in which he threw human excrement at a jail guard.
The jury found Handley not guilty on another aggravated battery charge alleging that he spit at a guard.
Handley has been charged 10 times, for aggravated battery or criminal damage to property since arriving in the jail, according to Kendall County First State’s Attorney Mark Shlifka.
Sources said Handley has repeatedly smeared human waste on the walls of his jail cell.
On June 17, Kendall County Presiding Judge Robert Pilmer set another trial date for Handley.
Court records show Handley was indicted on a charges of aggravated battery to a peace officer in connection with an incident on Nov. 8, 2021 in which he allegedly kicked a jail guard in the shin and spit in his face, and another on Jan. 26, 2022 in which he allegedly slapped a guard on the chin.
Handley declined to appear in court, either in person or electronically, so Pilmer walked across the large parking lot between the Kendall County Courthouse and the jail, accompanied by Shlifka and Public Defender Chris Wheaton, along with a court reporter, sheriff’s deputy and other courthouse personnel.
The group entered a holding area with several sheriff’s deputies on hand. Handley stood at the window of a holding cell, shouting objections to the proceedings.
Although the lower portion of Handley’s body was obscured by the cell door, he did not appear to be wearing any clothing.
Unflappable, Pilmer calmly read Handley the charges and his rights before setting a July 13 trial date. As the judge continued, Handley stopped yelling and seemed to start paying attention.
The entire proceeding lasted only a few minutes. A trial date on the murder charges has yet to be set.
On June 14 a trial date for Brown was to have been set during a courthouse hearing but defense attorney Joseph Lopez of Chicago sought additional time to meet with his client.
Pilmer granted Lopez’ request, scheduling an Aug. 22 hearing to set the trial date.
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Jan. 6 hearings: What we’ve learned, and what’s next
In its first three hearings, the House panel investigating the Capitol insurrection has laid out the beginnings of its case against former President Donald Trump — that his lies about the 2020 election, and his pressure on his vice president to overturn it, directly led to the violence on Jan. 6, 2021.
The committee’s June hearings — at least two more are scheduled — come after a yearlong probe and more than 1,000 interviews. The panel has featured both live witnesses and video, including from interviews with many of Trump’s closest advisers who tried to dissuade him from his efforts to stay in power. The committee has also showed video from the violent attack that day, some of which had never been seen before.
In methodically laying out their initial findings, members of the nine-member panel say they are trying to remind a weary public of what was at stake that day, and what could have happened if Vice President Mike Pence and others had not rebuffed Trump’s efforts to overturn his defeat. They are also compiling a huge trove of evidence that the Justice Department wants to use in its own investigations.
A rundown of what we’ve learned so far from the public hearings of the select Jan. 6 committee — and what’s next:
PENCE UNDER PRESSURE
The committee’s Thursday hearing focused on Trump’s pressure on his vice president after all 50 states certified President Joe Biden’s win and courts across the country had rejected his campaign’s attempts to legally challenge the results. As the president ran out of options, he and a small group of allies turned toward the final congressional certification on Jan. 6.
The vice president presides over that session every four years in a ceremonial role. Prodded by a constitutional law professor named John Eastman, Trump pressured Pence to defy the law, and hundreds of years of precedent, by stepping in to object to or delay the count.
Greg Jacob, a counsel to Pence, said the vice president was resolute from the beginning that he would not carry out the plan. “Our review of text, history — and frankly, just common sense — all confirm the vice president’s first instinct on that point, there is no justifiable basis to conclude that the vice president has that kind of authority,” Jacob told the committee in live testimony on Thursday.
But Trump ramped up his pressure in the days before the certification, culminating with a call that aides described as “heated” between the two men on the morning of Jan. 6, a shout out for Pence to “do the right thing” at a huge rally of his supporters that morning and finally with a tweet saying that Pence did not have “courage” as a violent mob was already breaking into the building. The committee chronicled that timeline with video interviews from White House aides, clips from Trump’s speech and footage of the angry crowd calling for Pence’s assassination.
In one video played by the committee, a Trump supporter said he had heard reports that Pence had “caved,” and if he did they were going to drag “politicians through the streets.” The crowd called for Pence’s hanging as they broke into the building.
The panel also filled in new details about Pence’s hasty evacuation from the Senate as the rioting started. California Rep. Pete Aguilar, a Democrat on the committee who led Thursday’s hearing, told Jacob that the group was at one point only 40 feet from the rioters.
TRUMP AIDES SPEAK OUT
Though some of Trump’s top allies defied subpoenas to testify, the committee spoke to many of his top aides, including several who were in the White House that day and were in meetings in the weeks beforehand as Trump, Eastman and lawyer Rudy Giuliani, among a small group of others, pushed the scheme to overturn Trump’s defeat.
The panel played clips of video testimony in which the aides say they disagreed with the plan or tried to talk the president out of it – even though few of them spoke out publicly at the time.
Those efforts to persuade Trump started on election night, when the race was still too close to call and Giuliani pushed the president to declare victory. Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said in one interview clip played by the panel that he told Trump it was “way too early” to make a prediction like that, but Trump went out to the press room and did it anyway, telling reporters that the early results were “a fraud on the American public” and that “frankly, we did win this election.”
The committee has also shown video from testimony by Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner. In a clip played from her interview earlier this year, Ivanka Trump told the panel that her father’s call with Pence the morning of Jan. 6 was “pretty heated” and had “a different tone than I had heard him take with the vice president before.” Others described vulgarities they said the president used.
The committee has not released the full transcripts of the interviews.
NO EVIDENCE OF FRAUD
In Monday’s second hearing, the panel showed evidence that Trump’s claims of widespread fraud in the election were false. While election officials across the country certified the results and courts rejected Trump’s many lawsuits, the president and his allies repeatedly maintained that it was true.
The committee used video clips of testimony from former Attorney General Bill Barr, who resigned after telling the president his claims were “bullshit.” Barr said he had looked into the allegations and found no evidence that any of them were true. He described his interactions with the president as he tried to convince him of the facts, telling the panel that Trump was becoming “detached from reality.”
In-person witnesses at the committee’s hearing on Monday talked about Trump and Giuliani’s pressure to try to overturn the results in their states. BJay Pak, a former U.S. attorney in Atlanta who resigned as Trump pressured Georgia officials, said his office investigated Giuliani’s “reckless” claims about fraud in the state and found them to be “simply untrue.”
WHAT’S NEXT
The committee has two additional hearings scheduled this month, and more are expected. A hearing on Tuesday is expected to focus on state officials who were contacted by Trump and the White House as he tried to overturn the results. Additional hearings will look at Trump’s pressure on the Justice Department to declare the election “corrupt” and on what was happening inside the White House as the violence unfolded.
After the hearings, the investigation will continue. The panel expects to issue final reports by the end of the year. Investigators still haven’t said whether they will try to call Pence or Trump to testify, either privately or publicly.
SHARING TRANSCRIPTS
The Justice Department has ramped up its own investigation, and has asked the Jan. 6 panel to provide transcripts from its 1,000 interviews. The committee has so far declined, but said it is engaged in a “cooperative process” with the department.
“We believe accountability is important and won’t be an obstacle to the department’s prosecution,” committee spokesman Tim Mulvey said in a statement on Friday.
In a letter Wednesday, the Justice Department said the panel was complicating its investigations by not sharing,
“It is now readily apparent that the interviews the Select Committee conducted are not just potentially relevant to our overall criminal investigations, but are likely relevant to specific prosecutions that have already commended,” federal prosecutors wrote to Tim Heaphy, chief investigative counsel for the committee.
Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the Jan. 6 panel, told reporters Thursday that lawmakers will formally respond to the prosecutors. But, he added, “We’re not going to stop what we’re doing to share information that we’ve gotten so far with the Department of Justice.”
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Associated Press writer Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report.
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This offseason the Raiders have been busy locking up their own players on extensions and adding other players on long term deals. But a closer look at the deals they’ve made reveals a specific timeline.
The first deal the Raiders made was the one they gave Davante Adams after acquiring him in trade from the Packers.
That deal initially had everyone freaking out about how big it was. A five-year, $140 million deal. But it’s really at most a three-year deal. At signing, only one year is fully guaranteed. The next two years are guaranteed if he’s still on the roster come March. After the third year of his deal, he has no guaranteed money and his cap hit jumps to over $40 million. In other words, he will never see that money.
The way Adams’s contract maps out is nearly identical to that of his quarterback.
Derek Carr’s deal is only fully guaranteed for this season. And if he’s on the roster on the third day of the 2023 league year (three days after the Super Bowl) his salary for 2023 and a portion of his contract for 2024 will be guaranteed as well. So, once again, a three-year deal.
Even Maxx Crosby’s deal is on a three-year plan. Same as Carr and Adams where his salary for the 2023 and 2024 seasons will have guarantees that kick in if he’s on the roster come next March.
Another of Carr’s targets got a new deal this offseason. Hunter Renfrow signed an extension. His deal is more straightforward. It’s simply a two-year extension for a total of three years.
Likewise Chandler Jones signed a three-year deal. Additionally, Kolton Miller and Daniel Carlson will have no more guaranteed money on their contracts following the 2023 season.
The one man still looking for a contract is Darren Waller. It will be interesting to see what kind of deal they give him, but I’d bet his contract that it will have no guaranteed money past 2024.
Let’s be clear here, that this is not to say the Raiders are headed for blowing up the team in three years. If all goes well, many of these guys will get new deals after their guarantees are up. But if all does *not* go as hoped, they will have put themselves in position to go back to the drawing board and start building toward another window. | https://sports.yahoo.com/raiders-opening-window-3-plan-210928749.html?src=rss | 2022-06-17T21:25:52Z | https://sports.yahoo.com/raiders-opening-window-3-plan-210928749.html?src=rss | false | 2 |
Alaska officials release new details on milk, sealant mix-up
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — School district officials in Alaska investigating how students at a summer program were served floor sealant instead of milk say the two products were not on the same pallet as first believed.
Tuesday’s incident at a summer program in Juneau remains under investigation.
The Juneau School District says it now understands that in the spring of 2021, a pallet of sealant was mistakenly delivered to a food commodity warehouse at the same time as four pallets of shelf stable milk.
The district says the pallet of floor sealant remained untouched in storage with other food products until this week, when the district’s food service contractor “ran short on milk and sent staff to retrieve shelf stable milk.”
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Flood Advisory issued for Fairfield, New Haven by NWS
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(The Hill) – Republican Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) deleted a tweet Thursday that accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of allowing CNN, or as Steube put it the “Communist News Network,” to build a TV set in Statuary Hall. CNN had actually used a green screen displaying that section of the U.S. Capitol.
“In case you forgot the sham #January6thcommitteehearings are purely for TV ratings, Pelosi let The Communist News Network build a full TV set where Abraham Lincoln’s desk once stood,” Steube wrote.
Steube’s tweet attached a picture of CNN anchor Jake Tapper and others discussing the third publicly released hearing by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in front of the Statuary Hall green screen.
The hearing, televised during prime time Thursday evening, explored tensions between former President Trump and former Vice President Pence over Trump’s pressure campaign to get Pence to throw out the results of the 2020 election.
Trump and Pence experienced a rift when Pence resisted Trump’s urgings for the then-vice president to block the certification of electoral votes that elected President Joe Biden to his office, an action that lawyers told the Trump administration was unconstitutional.
Pence was the target of threats and insults during the Jan. 6 insurrection, when people marched on the Capitol chating “hang Mike Pence.” The committee said he was “unwavering” in his resistance to Trump’s belligerent calls to abuse his position.
“We’re fortunate for Mr. Pence’s courage on January 6th,” said committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) in the hearing. “Our democracy came dangerously close to catastrophe.”
Trump and Pence have experienced further turbulence in their relationship since the end of the Trump administration, which came to head when both figures supported opposing candidates in the Georgia Republican gubernatorial primary.
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Aussie Spithill out to lead US SailGP win
Sailing on Lake Michigan in front of home crowds on Chicago's Navy Pier would provide the perfect backdrop for Australian skipper Jimmy Spithill and his Team USA to claim their first SailGP regatta victory.
The United States Sail Grand Prix will be SailGP's Chicago debut as well as the first freshwater competition in the three seasons of the global league.
Spithill is in his second season in SailGP and while he's reached some podium races, the Americans have never yet won a SailGP regatta.
While his compatriot Tom Slingsby and Team Australia have dominated the circuit since it started in 2019, Spithill and crew will definitely be the rooting favourites as the foiling 50-foot catamarans with wingsails zip above the waves at close to highway speeds.
"It's awesome mate, just the amount of people coming down checking out the boats as they're going in the water, out on the water. There's a massive amount of support for the US team," Spithill said.
"Chicago, it really is a big sports fan town, all those iconic teams. For sports fans, they're really going to enjoy this. It's not typical sailing. This is F1 on the water.
"It's pretty much like auto racing and it's fast, races are quick, and they're right in front of Navy Pier. It'll be a really good scene."
The 42-year-old Sydneysider Spithill, a two-time America's Cup champion, lives full-time in San Diego with his American wife and their two sons.
But Slingsby is once again the skipper to beat in the nine-boat fleet after a dominating win in the Season 3 opener in Bermuda last month.
The Aussies have won the championship and $US1 million ($A1.4 million) prize each of the first two seasons.
Three fleet races Saturday and two more on Sunday will decide the top three boats for the podium race.
While the Windy City lives up to its nickname, the skippers say the breeze can be inconsistent from day to day, with it sometimes coming off the city front and the next day coming from offshore.
"For Chicago it's really a prepare-for-anything type of venue," said Slingsby, an Olympic gold medalist and an America's Cup champion.
"It's not a very consistent venue for predicting what's going to happen so we're just trying to be ready for anything.
"We're going to get a full variety of conditions here and hopefully there's plenty of breeze so the boats are up and zipping around."
Team Australia have won four straight SailGP regattas and six of the last seven.
"Ideally, we'd love to win it," said Slingsby, who recently signed on with the New York Yacht Club's American Magic for the 2024 America's Cup.
"We've been on a great winning streak lately but we know that winning streak's going to come to an end eventually.
"We've just got to put it off as long as we can. If we have a good top-three finish here in Chicago, I think the whole team will be pretty happy."
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The chairman of the Nashville Predators has agreed to sell the majority of his stake in the NHL team to former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam.
The Predators announced the agreement Friday. No details of the purchase price were disclosed for a franchise valued recently at $680 million by Sportico.
Haslam, whose brother Jimmy owns the NFL's Cleveland Browns and the MLS' Columbus Crew, will buy majority of Nashville chairman Herb Fritch's share in what the Predators described as a “multi-phased purchase transaction” that will make Haslam the team's majority owner.
“From the time our ownership group, made up of day one season ticket holders, gathered together in 2007 to purchase and guarantee the franchise’s future in Nashville, the goal has been to ensure that stewardship of the team is in strong local hands,” said Sean Henry, president and chief executive officer of the Predators and Bridgestone Arena.
Henry said adding Haslam to the ownership group solidifies local stewardship of the team for years to come. Forbes estimated Haslam is worth approximately $2.3 billion.
“We are excited and appreciative that he has agreed to join the ownership team,” Henry said.
The final paperwork is being drawn up. The sale still must be approved by rest of the Predators' organization, which includes 16 co-owners, and also the NHL. First elected as Tennessee's governor in 2010, Haslam will become a minority owner within the next few months and gradually become the majority owner over “the next few years, according to the team's statement.
Fritch took over as chairman of the Predators in January 2019. He has been a member of the Predators Holdings LLC that bought the team and the management group that runs the arena in December 2007 from original owner Craig Leipold, who bought the Minnesota Wild a year later.
The local ownership group kept the franchise in Nashville after Leipold tried to sell the team to Jim Balsillie in May 2007. That sale fell through when Balsillie, the co-CEO of Blackberry makers Research in Motion Ltd., started taking season-ticket deposits in Hamilton, Ontario, after telling NHL commissioner Gary Bettman he didn’t intend to move the team.
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Harris County Precinct 4 invites the community to come meet the adoptable dogs of Harris County Pets on Sunday, June 26, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Richard and Meg Weekley Park, 8440 Greenhouse Road in Cypress.
Join us for doggie meet-and-greets, fun crafts, temporary tattoos, snacks, and live music. All newly adopted dogs will receive goodie bags with essential items for their new homes.
As an open intake facility, Harris County Pets is required to accept all surrendered animals that come through its doors. Although the shelter can comfortably house 200 to 225 dogs, populations rose to more than 340 this summer. This adoption event will help alleviate dangerous overcrowding at the shelter and kick off a series of similar events this summer.
Regular adoption fees are $50 and include spaying and neutering, microchipping, a one-year Harris County pet license, and age-appropriate vaccinations.
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‘A simple protest that got out of hand’: Trump defends role in Capitol attack
Washington: Donald Trump has defended his role in the US Capitol attack, denying that he incited the riot while accusing his former vice president and attorney-general of being too weak to help him overturn the 2020 election.
In his first public appearance since the January 6 congressional hearings began, Trump also branded the investigation against him as a “sham”; described what happened at the Capitol that day as a “simple protest that got out of hand”; and insisted there was “not one shred of evidence” to support the view that he engaged in an unlawful conspiracy.
“There’s no clearer example of the menacing spirit that is devouring the American Left than the disgraceful performance being staged by the Unselect Committee,” Trump said, using the nickname he has given the January 6 Select Committee, which consists of seven Democrats and two Republicans. “They’re con artists.”
Speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference in Tennessee, Trump also gave one of his strongest signals yet that he was planning another tilt at the White House in 2024, seemingly undeterred by the probe against him.
“Would anybody like me to run for president?” he asked, as the crowd roared with enthusiasm.
Later, he added that “if I become president some day” he would consider issuing pardons to some of the people who have been charged for their role in the Capitol attack, saying they were being treated worse than murderers.
The comments came a day after the January 6 committee held its third public hearing into the insurgency, using the session to drive home the pressure Trump had placed on his then vice president, Mike Pence, to overturn Biden’s election victory – despite being told this was illegal.
For more than two hours on Thursday, witnesses testified that Trump had put Pence’s life at risk by embracing an elaborate plot, spearheaded by renegade lawyer John Eastman, to stop the certification of electoral college votes.
Multiple other Trump advisers, including former attorney-general Bill Barr, had revealed earlier in the week how they repeatedly tried to debunk Trump’s claims of a stolen election.
But in a grievance-fuelled address lasting almost 90 minutes, Trump said he simply wanted Pence to send the votes back to state legislatures because of the electoral “fraud” he claims took place.
“He had a chance to be, frankly, historic,” Trump said of Pence. “But just like Bill Barr and the rest of these weak people … he did not have the courage to act.”
The former president also took aim at the committee itself, accusing the group of editing video depositions and taking witness statements out of context in order to create a “fake and phony narrative and a chilling attempt to weaponise the justice system against their political opponents”.
“What happened on January 6 was a simple protest that got out of hand,” he said. “And they never show the size of the crowd. I believe it was the largest number of people I’ve ever spoken to. I’m not talking about the very small percentage of people who went down to the Capitol, many of whom did nothing wrong ... I’m talking about the crowd I spoke to before [at the rally that preceded the attack].”
Trump’s speech was the seventh time he appeared at the Faith and Freedom conference, an annual conservative gathering that bills itself as America’s “premiere pro-faith, pro-family event” and is designed to “empower conservative activists to fight for their values at the polls”.
But with only five months until the midterm elections, it comes at a critical juncture for the former president, who has repeatedly said he would wait until after the midterms – when the Republicans are expected to regain control of Congress – to announce if he will run for president again.
The findings of the committee’s probe could end up having an impact on such an announcement, particularly if it leads to a criminal investigation into Trump by the Department of Justice.
Others in Trump’s orbit have already found themselves in legal turmoil as a result of the committee’s work, such as former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, who pleaded not guilty to contempt of Congress charges on Friday after not co-operating with the January 6 investigation.
The committee’s fourth hearing will take place on Tuesday and is likely to feature testimony from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his top deputy Gabriel Sterling.
Raffensperger is the electoral official who famously rebuffed Trump’s pressure to simply “find” enough votes to help reverse his defeat in Georgia – the once Republican state that ultimately handed Biden control of the White House after it flipped to the Democrats in 2020. Sterling, meanwhile, was an outspoken critic of Trump’s claims of fraud.
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WorldHotels™ Poised to Welcome International Travelers as Testing Requirements Lifted
PHOENIX, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WorldHotels announced today that it expects a surge in international travel in the coming weeks due to the decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to lift Covid-19 testing requirements for inbound travelers to the United States. Not only will this result in a boost in summer travel to the United States, but it will also enable U.S. citizens to travel abroad without needing to show proof of a negative test upon re-entry. According to the U.S. Travel Association, the repeal of this restriction will bring nearly than 5.4 million visitors to the U.S. and an additional $9 billion in travel spending in the remainder of 2022. With nearly 200 upper upscale and luxury properties in key destinations around the world, WorldHotels is well-positioned to welcome travelers to their properties.
"We are already experiencing a strong summer at our hotels with occupancy surpassing 2019 levels in many parts of the world," said Ron Pohl, President, WorldHotels. "The decision by the CDC to repeal the unnecessary restriction for travelers to show a negative Covid test upon entering the United States will certainly make it easier for travelers this summer. WorldHotels looks forward to welcoming guests at our exquisite properties in iconic destinations across the world and providing the unforgettable experiences that are at the heart of our brand."
Envisioned by hoteliers dedicated to unique luxury and lifestyle, WorldHotels has curated a collection of the finest independent hotels and resorts in popular destinations like Miami, New York City, Chicago, Bangkok, Rome and Madrid. To welcome visitors back and cater to the unique needs and preferences of guests, WorldHotels and its collection of curated hotels are ramping up operations across these destinations.
Below is selection of a few of WorldHotels properties in key cities:
Eden Roc (Miami Beach)
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Royal Garden Hotel (London)
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Hotel Quirinale (Rome)
Hotel Villa Real (Madrid)
Hotel Kung Carl (Stockholm)
Goodwood Park Hotel (Singapore)
SereS Springs Resort & Spa (Ubud)
Carlton Hotel Bangkok Sukhumvit (Bangkok)
Caravelle Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)
Sir Stamford at Circular Quay (Sydney)
For more information on these hotels and other distinguished WorldHotels properties, visit www.worldhotels.com.
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Sisodia inspects Delhi's Kirti Nagar, meets traders for ‘markets revamp plan’
Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Friday inspected the Kirti Nagar Market -- one of Asia’s largest furniture markets and one of the five shopping hubs that the city government plans to redevelop. On June 13, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said the Delhi government will revamp five iconic markets in the national capital -- Lajpat Nagar, Kamla Nagar, Sarojini Nagar, Khari Baoli, and Kirti Nagar markets.
“The Kirti Nagar furniture market is popular across the world for its good quality products. We will work to give the market a modern look, and provide a better experience to both the buyers and traders. We will do a complete facelift of the market -- all the overhead power transmission systems will be underground; and a modern infrastructure will be set up to create a business-friendly ambience. The Delhi government is carrying out the redevelopment project in cooperation with the traders,” Sisodia said while interacting with the traders, adding that the Delhi government will provide some basic infrastructure and facilities that the market lacks.
“A plan to redevelop the Kirti Nagar Market is being prepared, keeping the suggestions of the traders in mind. Government teams are studying all the amenities required in the market to make it a better place,” said Sisodia.
The redevelopment agenda also focuses on rebranding the market at national and international levels, and educating youths engaged in various activities in the market through skill training programmes. The objective is to enhance “shopping” experience for the customers, and make these markets tourist destinations through comprehensive redevelopment of infrastructure such as roads, sewage, lighting, and parking among others.
An official privy to the matter said the Kirti Nagar Market and the four other markets to be redeveloped will be known as the “pride of Delhi”. The tourism department and the Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation (DTTDC) will facilitate works being done by all the departments and authorities concerned, as directed by the Delhi government, said the official, requesting anonymity.
On Wednesday, Sisodia inspected the Kamla Nagar Market, and said that the Delhi government will work on the shortcomings in the market in terms of hygiene and sanitation, public utilities, parking space and traffic congestion. He also said that the five markets have been selected for phase 1 of the “markets redevelopment” programme, an initiative that the Delhi government unveiled in its annual budget for 2022-23. It is also part of the larger plan of the state government to create 2 million jobs in the next five years. Other major markets in the national capital will be taken up for redevelopment in the next phase. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/delhi-news/delhi-deputy-cm-inspects-kirti-nagar-market-meets-traders-as-part-of-markets-revamp-plan-101655499327914-amp.html | 2022-06-17T21:42:35Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/delhi-news/delhi-deputy-cm-inspects-kirti-nagar-market-meets-traders-as-part-of-markets-revamp-plan-101655499327914-amp.html | true | 1 |
Delhi’s monsoon prep: 5 lakh litre sump ready on Ring Road, road level raised
The public works department (PWD) has set up a sump -- a pit or reservoir serving as a drain -- to hold 5 lakh litres of run-off rainwater, besides a series of remedial measures at the water-logging hot spot near ITO, on the stretch from IP Estate Ring Road till the police headquarters.
While the inspecting these interventions on Friday, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, who also holds the PWD portfolio, said a stormwater drain has been constructed under IPGCL’s plant for drainage along with a sump with a 5 lakh litre capacity. “The height of the road (near WHO building) has also been raised so that the problem -- of the kind that was seen last year -- does not arise. A total of nine pumps have been installed at the site to flush out lakhs of litres of water in the event of heavy rain,” Sisodia said.
This Ring Road site is among seven critical water-logging points in the city, where multiple interventions have been undertaken by the PWD. The other points are Minto bridge, Pul Prahladpur underpass, below Zakhira Flyover, Loni Road roundabout, Jahangirpuri Metro station road, and Karala Kanjhawala Road.
Sisodia said Minto Bridge, considered a water-logging hot spot, has been rectified. “In the past two years, the Delhi government has worked on it and there was no water logging at Minto Bridge last year. Last year, this place (IP Estate Ring Road) emerged as a new hot spot and several important steps have been taken by the PWD to deal with water-logging here,” he said.
A senior PWD official said the flood control order will be issued the coming week. “At the vulnerable site near WHO building, our earthen drain channel will become functional in another seven days. The road level has been raised by 300mm and will be further raised by 150mm to ensure that no water-logging takes place,” the official said, asking not to be named.
Sisodia tweeted, “The road in front of WHO building near ITO became a hotspot for waterlogging last year, people faced a lot of trouble. This time the PWD engineers have made complete arrangements to prevent waterlogging on the road anywhere in this area. The road has also been raised, and arrangements have also been made to remove lakhs of litres of water from the road simultaneously (sic)”
A government official claimed that Delhi usually receives a maximum 25-30mm of rain a day during monsoon but last year, the city recorded 110mm of rainfall a day on a few occasions. “The preparation at seven most vulnerable locations include construction of drains, sumps, raising the level of roads, installation of new motors, pumps, CCTV cameras and alarm systems,” the official said.
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Humankind Investments LLC lifted its position in General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS – Get Rating) by 7.8% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 8,043 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 585 shares during the period. Humankind Investments LLC’s holdings in General Mills were worth $542,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Other hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. NuWave Investment Management LLC bought a new position in General Mills in the 4th quarter worth $28,000. Ellis Investment Partners LLC raised its holdings in General Mills by 81.7% in the 4th quarter. Ellis Investment Partners LLC now owns 447 shares of the company’s stock worth $30,000 after purchasing an additional 201 shares during the period. HWG Holdings LP bought a new position in General Mills in the 4th quarter worth $30,000. TAP Consulting LLC bought a new position in General Mills in the 4th quarter worth $37,000. Finally, Quent Capital LLC bought a new position in General Mills in the 4th quarter worth $37,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 74.63% of the company’s stock.
A number of research firms have commented on GIS. StockNews.com raised General Mills from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, March 24th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. decreased their price target on General Mills from $67.00 to $64.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, March 22nd. Piper Sandler raised their price target on General Mills from $74.00 to $75.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, March 24th. UBS Group initiated coverage on General Mills in a report on Wednesday, March 30th. They issued a “neutral” rating and a $69.00 target price on the stock. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft lifted their target price on General Mills from $73.00 to $75.00 in a report on Thursday, May 26th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, six have assigned a hold rating, three have issued a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, General Mills currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $67.30.
Shares of NYSE:GIS traded down $0.30 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $66.45. 81,164 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 3,100,532. General Mills, Inc. has a 1 year low of $56.67 and a 1 year high of $73.99. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $70.09 and a 200-day moving average price of $67.93. The firm has a market capitalization of $40.02 billion, a P/E ratio of 17.58, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.23 and a beta of 0.45. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.09, a current ratio of 0.74 and a quick ratio of 0.49.
General Mills (NYSE:GIS – Get Rating) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, March 23rd. The company reported $0.84 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.77 by $0.07. General Mills had a return on equity of 23.10% and a net margin of 12.36%. The business had revenue of $4.54 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $4.55 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.82 earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up .4% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, equities analysts predict that General Mills, Inc. will post 3.83 earnings per share for the current year.
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General Mills, Inc manufactures and markets branded consumer foods worldwide. The company operates in five segments: North America Retail; Convenience Stores & Foodservice; Europe & Australia; Asia & Latin America; and Pet. It offers ready-to-eat cereals, refrigerated yogurt, soup, meal kits, refrigerated and frozen dough products, dessert and baking mixes, bakery flour, frozen pizza and pizza snacks, snack bars, fruit and salty snacks, ice cream, nutrition bars, wellness beverages, and savory and grain snacks, as well as various organic products, including frozen and shelf-stable vegetables.
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Letterkenny University Hospital was treating 27 Covid-19 patients on Friday morning
Letterkenny University Hospital is in high escalation due to high attendances at its emergency department which are leading to significant wait times.
Management said 135 people attended the emergency department on Thursday, which followed 176 registrations on Tuesday, one of the highest ever recorded.
There has been a significant increase in Covid-19 cases, with 27 patients with the disease being treated in the hospital on Friday morning. Management said there has been an outbreak in one ward of the hospital.
In a statement, the Saolta Hospital Group said the hospital is preparing for all eventualities due to the Donegal International Rally, but “there is huge pressure on bed availability which is resulting in significant delays being experienced by patients who are waiting for a bed to become available on a ward”.
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Aviation expert expands contribution to industry with latest appointment
BALTIMORE, June 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) Annual Meeting of the Membership held June 16, 2022, in conjunction with its Aviation Leadership Conference in Washington, DC, Jessie Naor, GrandView Aviation President joined two others as newly elected members of the association's Board of Directors.
"I'm thrilled to continue supporting NATA's mission of advancing aviation infrastructure and services in the US. GrandView Aviation transports private charter passengers and organ transplant teams to communities without airline services around the country," said Ms. Naor. "Our essential service cannot succeed without access to the over 5,000 airports and thousands of other aviation business that NATA advocates for."
Jessie Naor was named President of GrandView Aviation in 2022 after serving as its Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer. In addition to her leadership of GrandView, she was elected to the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) Board of Directors and serves as Vice Chairman of the Air Charter Safety Foundation Board of Governors and former Chairman of the Part 135 Committee; she was a member of the FAA's Duty & Rest Aviation Rule Making Committee; sits on the Board of Governors' for the Air Charter Safety Foundation; writes a monthly aviation safety column for Aviation Week and a National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Top 40 under 40 in 2020. Jessie's speaking engagements include presentations at Women in Aviation International (WAI) and the Organization for Donation and Transplant Professionals (NATCO). Jessie holds an Associate's Degree in Air Traffic Control (Summa Cum Laude), CCBC Catonsville, and a BA in Aviation Business Administration (Cum Laude), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and an MBA in Management & Finance from The Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School.
"NATA is thrilled to have Jessie as a strong voice for the Part 135 community on NATA's Board of Directors. Her enthusiasm, knowledge, and experience are invaluable to furthering NATA's mission to advance the safety and success of all aviation businesses," stated NATA President and CEO Timothy Obitts. See NATA's press release
GrandView Aviation is a private aviation charter operation serving VIP clients and medical transplant transport missions. The company's fleet of Phenom 300 private charter jets and Sikorsky helicopter gives access to departure points across the United States from the company's 8 bases in Baltimore/DC, Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and Phoenix. GrandView Aviation is a FAA Part 135 certificated aircraft operator and carries the elite Wyvern Wingman safety rating. The company was recently acquired by Global Medical Response (GMR) and operates under AirMed International, part of the GMR family. For more information about GrandView Aviation, please visit www.flygv.com. For information about GMR, visit www.GlobalMedicalResponse.com.
With more than 36,000 team members, Global Medical Response delivers compassionate, quality medical care, primarily in the areas of emergency and patient relocation services in the United States and around the world. GMR was formed by combining the industry leaders in air, ground, managed medical transportation, and community, industrial/specialty and wildland fire services. Each of our companies has a long history of proudly serving the communities where we live: American Medical Response (AMR), Rural Metro Fire, Air Evac Lifeteam, REACH Air Medical Services, Guardian Flight, Med-Trans Corporation and AirMed International. For additional information, visit us on LinkedIn or at www.GlobalMedicalResponse.com.
The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) has been the voice of aviation business for more than 80 years. Representing nearly 3,700 aviation businesses, NATA's member companies provide a broad range of services to general aviation, the airlines and the military and NATA serves as the public policy group representing the interests of aviation businesses before Congress and the federal agencies. For information about NATA visit www.nata.aero.
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KAMPALA — I&M Bank Uganda has signed onto TradeClear, an umbrella platform with 14 other banks, to ease and boost interbank trade within the country.
TradeClear is an interbank trading platform managed by financial services company Frontclear and is regulated by Bank of Uganda and overseen by the Uganda Bankers Association’s Treasurers Forum.
“TradeClear Uganda is expected to dislodge the logjam of market segmentation in the interbank money market. This umbrella guarantee facility will cover the risk of interbank defaults. If a borrowing bank fails to pay the lender in a secured transaction, Frontclear will stand ready to pay back the funds advanced by the lender,” Deputy Governor Michael Atingi-Ego said while officiating at the signing ceremony at Sheraton Kampala Hotel on Wednesday.
“For long, some players in the local interbank money market have been relegated to fishing in shallow waters, while others hauled in the big catches from the deep waters. The existence of counterparty credit limits, which were set at zero in some cases, have constrained the fluid flow of liquidity among banks,” the Deputy Governor said.
Commenting on the developments, I&M Bank Uganda’s Executive Director and Chief Operations Officer Sam Ntulume said banks will offer more competitive pricing and product solutions to their clients.
“Our customers will benefit from more specialised treasury solutions for their investments,” he said.
I&M Group acquired Orient Bank and rebranded it to I&M Bank Uganda, late last year.
According to Ntulume, the acquisition has opened up the bank to regional markets backed by a strong brand with reputable shareholders. Signing onto the Tradeclear platform makes the bank’s operation even more robust.
Charles Katongole from Uganda Bankers Association’s Treasurers Forum noted that banks getting onto Tradeclear had the benefits of improving liquidity and more efficient management of capital.
I&M’s Head of Treasury Denis Damba signed on behalf of the bank.
Atingi-Ego noted that participation in the TradeClear program is voluntary and based on the informed assessment and judgement of the participating financial institutions. However, Frontclear CEO Philip Buyskes is optimistic that more banks will join the platform.
“We have onboarded 15 of the 23 banks in the country and expect others to join,” he said.
Some of the banks that have joined the platform include Standard Chartered Bank, Stanbic Bank, Centenary Bank, Absa, Housing Finance, ABC Capital, Finance Trust Bank, Dfcu and Exim Bank.
The onboarding of the banks is a climax to a Memorandum of Understanding BoU signed with Frontclear in 2019 to boost local money markets in Uganda.
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Amber Heard grilled by Savannah Guthrie over being ‘caught in a lie’ about donating $7m divorce settlement
Aquaman actress came under intense scrutiny during the six-week defamation trial after it emerged that she had not yet donated the full $7m settlement to charity
Amber Heard is grilled by Savannah Guthrie over pledge to donate divorce settlement
Amber Heard was grilled by Savannah Guthrie about being “caught in a lie” over her pledge to donate her $7m divorce settlement to charity, in the actor’s first sitdown interview since her bombshell defamation trial with ex-husband Johnny Depp.
The NBC Today host put Ms Heard on the spot over the discrepancies between her pledge and the actual payments made, questioning whether this raised doubts about her “credibility” among the jury.
“Do you think to the jurors sitting there that was you getting caught in a lie?” probed Ms Guthrie, whose husband works for Mr Depp’s legal team, in a clip from the interview aired Wednesday.
Ms Heard defended the furore over the charitable donation, saying that the trial was used to try to paint her as “a liar” and arguing that she shouldn’t have had to pledge her entire settlement in the first place for people to believe her accusations of abuse against her ex-husband.
When the couple’s $7m divorce settlement was reached back in August 2016, Ms Heard had said she would split the entire payout equally between the ACLU and the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
During the six-week trial, the Aquaman actress came under intense scrutiny over the pledge after it emerged that the ACLU had so far received less than half of the $3.5m payment it was promised.
“You had promised to donate $7m of your divorce settlement to charity,” said Ms Guthrie.
“It was revealed at trial that you haven’t done so yet however they played a tape where you state on air that you have donated it.”
She asked: “Do you think that raised questions as to your credibility with the jury?”
During the trial, jurors were shown a clip from Ms Heard’s appearance on Danish TV show RTL Late Night in October 2018, where she said that “$7m was donated in total”.
“I split the amount between the ACLU and CHLA. ACLU is a prominent non-profit organisation in the US and they work on the behalf of marginalised communities on the ground, and in legislative reform,” she said on the show.
“I wanted nothing.”
During her NBC interview, Ms Heard doubled down on her defence at trial that the plan had always been for the donations to be paid out over time.
“I made a pledge and that pledge is made over time by its nature,” she said.
At this point, Ms Guthrie interjected that to use the term “donated” people expect the money to have been paid out.
“You say donated you know that everybody thinks you’d donated – not that you’ve pledged it,” probed the TV host, questioning whether she feels she “got caught in a lie”.
Ms Heard pushed back that “so much of the trial” was used to try to “cast aspersions” on her credibility.
“I don’t know because so much, I feel like so much of the trial was meant to cast aspersions on who I am as a person, on my credibility, to call me a liar in every way you can,” she said.
Ms Guthrie fired back: “That was the trial, it was a credibility contest – that was it.”
Ms Heard responded: “This is another one of those examples if you pull back and you think about it I shouldn’t have had to have donated it in an attempt to be believed.
“I shouldn’t have had to earmark the entirety of it in order to –”
The NBC host interrupted her comments once again, telling her “you shouldn’t have but once you said you did”.
Ms Heard replied: “Right and that was where it was intended to go.”
At the defamation trial, jurors heard testimony from ACLU Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel Terence Dougherty that the charity had so far received less than half of the $3.5m promised.
Mr Dougherty said that $350,000 had been paid directly by Ms Heard, $100,000 paid through Mr Depp, $500,000 paid by Elon Musk through a donor-advised fund, and that $350,000 was also paid via a donor-advised fund (which is also believed to be from Mr Musk) – for a total donation of $1.3m.
The court was shown a 2016 email which detailed a 10-year plan for Ms Heard to make the donation.
The ACLU executive testified that the charity had not received any money from Ms Heard since 2019 because the actor “was having financial difficulties”.
Ms Heard was accused of “lying” about the donations under an intense cross-examination from Mr Depp’s legal team.
At one point, she told the court that she had been unable to complete the payments because of legal costs arising from her ex-husband’s lawsuit.
She also claimed that she uses the terms “pledged” and “donated” interchangeably.
Ms Heard’s grilling from Ms Guthrie over the topic comes days after the NBC host admitted that her husband worked as a consultant for Mr Depp’s legal team.
Ms Guthrie is married to Michael Feldman, a public relations consultant and one-time Democratic political adviser who worked on Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign.
She made the disclosure about the connection last week when she interviewed Mr Depp’s attorneys Camille Vasquez and Benjamin Chew on the Today show.
“A quick disclosure, my husband has done consulting work for the Depp legal team, but not in connection with this interview,” she said.
Ms Guthrie also previously interviewed Ms Heard’s attorney Elaine Bredehoft on the Today show the morning after the verdict was announced.
Ms Heard’s sitdown with Ms Guthrie marks the first time the actor has given an interview since she lost the defamation case with her ex-husband and was ordered to pay him $8.35m in damages.
Mr Depp sued his ex-wife for defamation over a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post where she described herself as a victim of domestic abuse and spoke of feeling “the full force of our culture’s wrath for women who speak out”.
Following an explosive six-week trial, a jury of seven determined that Ms Heard had defamed him on all three counts.
Amber Heard is seen on the witness stand during intense cross-examination in the trial
Jurors awarded Mr Depp $10m in compensatory damages and $5m in punitive damages, before Fairfax County Circuit Judge Penney Azcarate reduced the latter to the state’s legal limit of $350,000.
Ms Heard won one of her three counterclaims against her ex-husband, with the jury finding that Mr Depp – via his lawyer Adam Waldman – defamed her by branding her allegations about a 2016 incident “an ambush, a hoax”.
She was awarded $2m in compensatory damages but $0 in punitive damages, leaving the Aquaman actor $8.35m out of pocket.
Ms Heard described the verdict as “a setback” for women who speak up with allegations of abuse and has said she plans to appeal.
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U.S. regulators on Friday authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week.
The Food and Drug Administration’s action follows its advisory panel’s unanimous recommendation for the shots from Moderna and Pfizer. That means U.S. kids under 5 — roughly 18 million youngsters — are eligible for the shots. The nation’s vaccination campaign began about 1 1/2 years ago with older adults, the hardest hit during the coronavirus pandemic.
There’s one step left: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends how to use vaccines. Its independent advisers began debating the two-dose Moderna and the three-dose Pfizer vaccines on Friday and will make its recommendation Saturday. A final signoff is expected soon after from CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky.
At a Senate hearing Thursday, Walensky said her staff was working over the Juneteenth federal holiday weekend “because we understand the urgency of this for American parents.”
She said pediatric deaths from COVID-19 have been higher than what is generally seen from the flu each year.
“So I actually think we need to protect young children, as well as protect everyone with the vaccine and especially protect elders,” she said.
The FDA also authorized Moderna’s vaccines for school-aged children and teens; CDC’s review is next week. Pfizer’s shots had been the only option for those age groups.
For weeks, the Biden administration has been preparing to roll out the vaccines for little kids, with states, tribes, community health centers and pharmacies preordering millions of doses. With FDA’s emergency use authorization, manufacturers can begin shipping vaccine across the country. The shots are expected to start early next week but it’s not clear how popular they will be.
Without protection for their tots, some families had put off birthday parties, vacations and visits with grandparents.
“Today is a day of huge relief for parents and families across America,” President Joe Biden said in a statement.
While young children generally don’t get as sick from COVID-19 as older kids and adults, their hospitalizations surged during the omicron wave and FDA’s advisers determined that benefits from vaccination outweighed the minimal risks. Studies from Moderna and Pfizer showed side effects, including fever and fatigue, were mostly minor.
White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha predicted the pace of vaccinations for kids under 5 to be far slower than it was for older populations and said the administration doesn’t have any internal targets for the pace of vaccinations.
“At the end of the day, our goal is very clear: We want to get as many kids vaccinated as possible,” Jha told The Associated Press.
In testing, the littlest children developed high levels of virus-fighting antibodies, comparable to what is seen in young adults, the FDA said. Moderna’s vaccine was about 40% to 50% effective at preventing infections but there were too few cases during Pfizer’s study to give a reliable, exact estimate of effectiveness, the agency said.
“Both of these vaccines have been authorized with science and safety at the forefront of our minds,’’ Dr. Peter Marks, FDA’s vaccine chief, said at a news briefing.
Marks said parents should feel comfortable with either vaccine, and should get their kids vaccinated as soon as possible, rather than waiting until fall, when a different virus variant might be circulating. He said adjustments in the vaccines would be made to account for that.
“Whatever vaccine your health care provider, pediatrician has, that’s what I would give my child,’’ Marks said.
The two brands use the same technology but there are differences.
Pfizer’s vaccine for kids younger than 5 is one-tenth of the adult dose. Three shots are needed: the first two given three weeks apart and the last at least two months later.
Moderna’s is two shots, each a quarter of its adult dose, given about four weeks apart for kids under 6. The FDA also authorized a third dose, at least a month after the second shot, for children who have immune conditions that make them more vulnerable to serious illness.
Both vaccines are for children as young as 6 months. Moderna next plans to study its shots for babies as young as 3 months. Pfizer has not finalized plans for shots in younger infants. A dozen countries, including China, already vaccinate kids under 5, with other brands.
Immediately upon hearing of the FDA’s decision, Dr. Toma Omofoye, a Houston radiologist, made appointments for her 4-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son. Without the shots, her family has missed out on family gatherings, indoor concerts, even trips to the grocery store, she said. During a recent pharmacy stop, Omofoye said her daughter stared and walked around like it was Disneyland, and thanked her.
“My heart broke in that moment, which is why my heart is so elated now,” Omofoye said.
But will other parents be as eager to get their youngest vaccinated? By some estimates, three-quarters of all U.S. children have already been infected. And only about 30% of children aged 5 to 11 have gotten vaccinated since Pfizer’s shots opened to them last November.
The FDA officials acknowledged those low rates and said the government is committed to getting more older kids vaccinated and having better success with younger kids.
“It’s a real tragedy, when you have something free with so few side effects that prevents deaths and hospitalization,’’ said FDA Commissioner Robert Califf.
Roughly 440 children under age 5 have died from COVID-19, federal data show.
Dr. Beth Ebel of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, said the tot-sized vaccines would be especially welcomed by parents with children in day care where outbreaks can sideline parents from jobs, adding to financial strain.
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Joey King put her body through a grueling experience while filming Hulu's The Princess. Her hips, legs and hand were banged up but when it was all said and done, she wouldn't have had it any other way. Why? It was "kind of addicting how much fun" she had.
The 22-year-old actress opened up about the experience while on the red carpet of the premiere of her action-packed film, telling ET's Cassie DiLaura why she pushed her body so hard during the "intense" training. King said that, going into filming, she had a cast on her right hand following surgery on her wrist, but that didn't deter her from going full throttle during training sessions. In fact, she insisted on nailing the combat training given she had one huge goal in mind.
"I've never done something like this before, so I was very nervous," King tells ET. "It was very scary to jump into this headfirst that I’d never done before. But I did know for a fact that I wanted to get to a point in my training process where I was able to do most of my own fighting most of my own stunts. And everyone on the stunt team, every single person that trained me -- my stunt doubles who helped train me every day -- they supported me so much and they lifted me up so much to the point where 85 to 90 percent of what you see on the screen is actually me. I couldn’t have done that without everyone that lifted me up."
In The Princess (streaming July 1 on Hulu), King is a strong-willed young royal who refuses to wed the cruel sociopath to whom she is betrothed, and is kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father’s castle. With her scorned, vindictive suitor intent on taking her father’s throne, King's character must protect her family and save the kingdom.
It's apparent how proud King is about the intense training she mastered for the film. She posted a glimpse of her training session on Instagram, looking quite the stunt pro herself during rehearsals. Yes, there were long, painful days but she says it was all worth it.
"I have bad hips in general too so I'd be sitting there Thera-gunning my legs at night crying," she quipped. "I did have a cast at the beginning. I had wrist surgery. I wound up sword fighting with my right hand. There was a lot of blood, sweat, tears. But honestly, the pain and the stuff that my body went through throughout all this its as kind of addicting how much fun I had. I wouldn’t change anything."
King's a busy actress these days. She's also part of a star-studded cast in Bullet Train that includes Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock. The action film is about five assassins aboard the same bullet train out of Tokyo, which is based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka. So, what'd King learn from Pitt himself?
"Brad is just so agile and impressive and gorgeous," King said. "There's a lot to learn from someone who can pull off all of those things at the same time."
And, speaking of being a busy bee, King's also set to star next year alongside Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman in a new comedy for Netflix. With that in mind it's worth asking: does King have any time to do wedding planning?!
"Right?!" she responded. "I don't know. I'm just honestly getting into the thick of wedding planning but also, I’m just like so enjoying being engaged because we always say -- me and Steven [Piet] -- we’re always like you know you’re engaged only once for a very short period of time in your life, and once you’re married you’re married forever. We’re so excited to be engaged."
Back in March, the Kissing Booth star announced on Instagram that Piet proposed to her, and she said yes! Piet popped the question on 2/2/22, so it's safe the man knows what he's doing when it comes to planning romantic gestures.
King confirmed as much when she said Piet threw her a curve ball when he asked her if she wanted to be part of the ring shopping process (duh!). She also teased a bit of what to expect from her wedding.
Hint: King likes the idea of dramatics!
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PARSIPPANY, N.J., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PBF Energy Inc. (NYSE:PBF) today announced that members of its management team will participate in the J.P. Morgan Energy, Power and Renewables Conference on June 22, 2022.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The chairman of the Nashville Predators has agreed to sell the majority of his stake in the NHL team to former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam.
The Predators announced the agreement Friday. No details of the purchase price were disclosed for a franchise valued recently at $680 million by Sportico.
Haslam, whose brother Jimmy owns the NFL's Cleveland Browns and the MLS' Columbus Crew, will buy majority of Nashville chairman Herb Fritch's share in what the Predators described as a “multi-phased purchase transaction” that will make Haslam the team's majority owner.
“From the time our ownership group, made up of day one season ticket holders, gathered together in 2007 to purchase and guarantee the franchise’s future in Nashville, the goal has been to ensure that stewardship of the team is in strong local hands,” said Sean Henry, president and chief executive officer of the Predators and Bridgestone Arena.
Henry said adding Haslam to the ownership group solidifies local stewardship of the team for years to come. Forbes estimated Haslam is worth approximately $2.3 billion.
“We are excited and appreciative that he has agreed to join the ownership team,” Henry said.
The final paperwork is being drawn up. The sale still must be approved by rest of the Predators' organization, which includes 16 co-owners, and also the NHL. First elected as Tennessee's governor in 2010, Haslam will become a minority owner within the next few months and gradually become the majority owner over “the next few years, according to the team's statement.
Fritch took over as chairman of the Predators in January 2019. He has been a member of the Predators Holdings LLC that bought the team and the management group that runs the arena in December 2007 from original owner Craig Leipold, who bought the Minnesota Wild a year later.
The local ownership group kept the franchise in Nashville after Leipold tried to sell the team to Jim Balsillie in May 2007. That sale fell through when Balsillie, the co-CEO of Blackberry makers Research in Motion Ltd., started taking season-ticket deposits in Hamilton, Ontario, after telling NHL commissioner Gary Bettman he didn’t intend to move the team.
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There is a new music studio located inside the Little Lake Grange in Willits, owned by vocalist and music teacher Abigail Strock. She is currently offering individual piano and singing lessons and plans to expand to include group lessons next month.
The length of the lesson varies between 45-60 minutes for voice lessons and 30-60 minutes for piano lessons. Young beginner lessons may be 20-30 minutes long.
While the music studio is new to Willits, Strock is not new to teaching music. Pre-pandemic she taught in the Bay Area for six years. She moved back to her hometown of Fort Bragg in 2019 and began teaching online, transitioning to in-person classes at the grange last month.
Although she teaches all ages, Strock explained, “I tend to work with a lot of younger beginners. I think I have a lot of patience with the younger beginners.” In fact, at the studio she has been working for for a decade, she has become the go-to teacher for virtual young beginner lessons. However, she also has experience working with adults and more advanced levels and enjoys teaching at a variety of levels.
For now, lessons are available Tuesday and Friday afternoons. She has several performances on the Mendocino Coast coming up with the Mendocino Music Festival in the choir and Symphony of the Redwoods as a soloist. She stated, “It is great to be performing and have those opportunities.”
After the performances, she will offer lessons Saturday mornings as well and said she might offer ukulele lessons, too. She plans to offer a group class for young beginners, 4- or 5-year-old children who are not quite old enough for individual lessons. She said, “That class is a lot of just learning the basics of music. We play fun songs and games.”
She has taught the class previously and helped develop the curriculum while working in the Bay Area. She explained that starting in the group at a young age gets children engaged and makes transitioning to individual lessons as they get older smoother.
The Summer Singing Class will run Tuesdays from 4:45-5:30 p.m. July 12- Aug. 16. This class is for children ages 7-12 years old. The Music for Young Kids class will run Saturdays 11-11:30 a.m. This class is for children ages 4-5 years old.
Strock offers the first individual lesson for children at no cost, to meet the child and figure out the best approach to future lessons.
Strock has been interested in music since a young age and explained that her grandfather was very involved with musical theater. She saw her first musical when she was 4 years old. She explained she was always singing at home and from a young age, when asked what she wanted to do when she grew up she responded, “I want to be a singer!”
She began piano lessons at the age of 6 years old and continued them through high school. She also sang in school choirs including honor choirs at the regional, state and national level that allowed her to travel around doing what she loved. She grew up in Fort Bragg and attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for college and Holy Names University in Oakland, where she received a masters degree in voice teaching. She said, “I have pretty much always been very music focused.”
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Spiritual wellness focus of new downtown business
Inside the new Breckenwitch store in Steamboat Springs customers will find a variety of products that focus on spiritual wellness and skin care, as well as some magic and mystery. All items are a reflection of owner Gretchen Opichka.
“Everything I sell is small batch, and I don’t sell any mass-market products,” said Opichka, who opened her store three weeks ago at 57 10th St., unit A, in downtown. “It is an upscale, witchy boutique with a little bit of everything from organic, small-batch skincare, to body care, to magic and mystery stuff.”
Opichka said customers will find a lot of different, cool stuff including products from companies like Hydra Bloom Beauty, Bet and Rose, and Honua Skincare which use organic, non-toxic ingredients in their products. Breckenwitch also offers a long list of products from Colorado companies including Katari Beauty, Native Nectar Botanicals, Lunam Love and Intelligent Elixirs.
“I’m currently just adding some more stuff now and I’m constantly getting new products in, which is really cool,” Opichka said. “So, it kind of keeps a nice flow.”
Opichka started selling the soaps she made in 2018 at a spa in Breckenridge where she worked as an esthetician. That’s where she came up with the name Breckenwitch. She moved to Steamboat a couple of years ago and felt the timing was right to open her own store.
A store, which is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, offers ritual crafts like tarot cards, spell kits and sage bundles, along with handcrafted witch and wizard hats from Spain and other art.
There is also a selection of stones, gems and crystals from the Manitou Springs area, a wide selection of candles made from nontoxic soy oil and coconut oil along with air plants, earrings, and magic fairy dust.
“This is a hobby for me, and something I’ve always wanted to do,” Opichka said. “Idle hands are dangerous for me, and it’s just the right time. I want to be able to give back my knowledge and the stuff that I love back to the people and they seem to love that. It’s just it’s just a cool shop.”
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“If you feel different, then you drive different,” was the message of PennDOT and law enforcement as an event was held on June 17 against impaired driving for the Fourth of July holiday.
The Pennsylvania DUI Association’s DUI Victims’ Memorial was on display at the Millcreek Community Church as part of the Drug and Alcohol Conference.
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Law enforcement said they want to make it know that they will be actively seeking out individuals that may be driving impaired for the Fourth of July holiday.
Statewide, there were over 430 crashes that were drug and alcohol-related, with 58 fatalities over the previous 2021 holiday.
“The problem with impaired driving is that it doesn’t discriminate and it doesn’t care. Whoever happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. That’s why the consequences are so long compared to the actual action,” said Craig Amos, Regional DUI Program Administrator.
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