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CA Los Angeles/Oxnard CA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, June 21, 2022
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Zone Forecasts for Southwestern California
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
CAZ364-230030-
Los Angeles County Beaches-
Including LAX, Long Beach, Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach,
Santa Monica, and Torrance
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight chance
of thunderstorms in the morning, then a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs from the mid to upper
70s at the beaches to the mid 80s inland. West winds around
15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the lower to mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
the mid to upper 70s at the beaches to the mid to upper 80s
inland. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog.
Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from the
lower to mid 70s at the beaches to the lower to mid 80s inland.
Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
around 60.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Night through morning low clouds and
fog, otherwise clear. Highs from the lower to mid 70s at the
beaches to the lower to mid 80s inland. Lows in the upper 50s to
mid 60s.
$$
CAZ365-230030-
Los Angeles County Inland Coast including Downtown Los Angeles-
Including Beverly Hills, Compton, Culver City, Downey, Hollywood,
Lakewood, and Norwalk
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s to around 90.
Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog.
Highs in the upper 70s to around 90. Southwest winds around 15 mph
in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 70s and 80s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 70s and 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds
and fog. Lows in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Night through morning low clouds and
fog, otherwise clear. Highs in the upper 70s and 80s. Lows in the
lower to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ087-230030-
Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands-
Including Avalon and Two Harbors
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the
afternoon. Highs from the lower to mid 70s near the coast to the
lower 80s interior. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
the lower to mid 70s near the coast to the lower to mid 80s
interior.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog.
Lows around 60.
.FRIDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
around 70 near the coast to the mid to upper 70s interior.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Night through morning low clouds and
fog, otherwise clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s. Highs from
the upper 60s to mid 70s near the coast to around 80 interior.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Night through morning low clouds and
fog, otherwise clear. Lows around 60. Highs from the lower to mid
70s near the coast to the lower to mid 80s interior.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from the
lower to mid 70s near the coast to the lower to mid 80s interior.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from the
lower to mid 70s near the coast to around 80 interior.
$$
CAZ362-230030-
Malibu Coast-
Including Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and Zuma Beach
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight chance
of thunderstorms in the morning, then a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s to lower
80s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
the mid to upper 70s at the beaches to the lower to mid 80s
inland. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog.
Highs in the 70s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Night through morning low clouds
and fog, otherwise clear. Highs in the 70s. Lows in the lower
60s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Night through morning low clouds and
fog, otherwise clear. Highs from the lower 70s at the beaches to
the lower 80s inland. Lows in the lower to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ354-230030-
Ventura County Beaches-
Including Oxnard, Point Mugu, Port Hueneme, and Ventura
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the morning, becoming partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs from the lower to mid 70s at the beaches to the lower 80s
inland. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly cloudy. Lows
in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
the upper 60s to mid 70s at the beaches to the lower to mid 80s
inland. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows around 60.
.FRIDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
around 70 at the beaches to around 80 inland. Southwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Night through morning low clouds and
fog, otherwise clear. Highs from the mid 60s to around 70 at the
beaches to the mid 70s to around 80 inland. Lows around 60.
$$
CAZ355-230030-
Ventura County Inland Coast-
Including Camarillo and East Ventura
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the morning, becoming partly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s. Chance of
precipitation 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly cloudy. Lows
around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows around 60. West winds around 15 mph in
the evening.
.FRIDAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog.
Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Southwest winds around 15 mph
in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Patchy night through morning low
clouds and fog, otherwise clear. Highs in the mid 70s to lower
80s. Lows around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Night through morning low clouds
and fog, otherwise clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the mid
70s to mid 80s.
$$
CAZ350-230030-
Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast-
Including Carpinteria, Goleta, Montecito, and Santa Barbara
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Fog locally dense with visibility one quarter mile
or less. Highs in the 70s to around 80.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly cloudy. Lows
in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 60s and 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Night through morning low clouds and
fog, otherwise clear. Highs in the upper 60s to around 80. Lows
around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in
the 70s to lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Night through morning low clouds and
fog, otherwise clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the 70s to
lower 80s.
$$
CAZ349-230030-
Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast-
Including El Capitan State Beach, Gaviota, Jalama Beach,
and Refugio State Beach
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Fog locally
dense with visibility one quarter mile or less. Highs in the mid
60s to mid 80s.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 80s. West winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 80s. Northwest winds around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s to around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s to around 60.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Night through morning low clouds and
fog, otherwise clear. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 80s. Lows in
the mid 50s to around 60.
$$
CAZ351-230030-
Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range-
Including San Marcos Pass
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning.Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
South winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 80s. Southwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the 80s to around
90. Lows in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Highs in the mid 80s to lower
90s. Lows in the upper 50s and 60s.
$$
CAZ352-230030-
Santa Ynez Mountains Eastern Range-
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the lower to mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s.
West winds around 15 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s and 80s. Southwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Highs in the upper 70s to
lower 90s. Lows in the upper 50s and 60s.
$$
CAZ548-230030-
Los Angeles County San Gabriel Valley-
Including East Los Angeles, El Monte, Pasadena, Pomona,
and San Gabriel
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, becoming mostly clear after
midnight. Lows in the mid to upper 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, becoming partly cloudy with a
20 percent chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
to mid 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Patchy night through morning low
clouds and fog, otherwise clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs
around 90.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear except for patchy low clouds and fog after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog.
Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog.
Highs in the mid 80s to around 90.
$$
CAZ547-230030-
Los Angeles County San Fernando Valley-
Including Burbank, Northridge, Universal City, and Woodland Hills
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the mid 60s to around 70.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 100.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s and 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s
and 60s. Highs 90 to 100.
$$
CAZ088-230030-
Santa Clarita Valley-
Including Castaic Lake, Newhall, Santa Clarita, and Valencia
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, becoming mostly clear after
midnight. Lows around 70. South winds 10 to 20 mph in the
evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, becoming partly cloudy with a
20 percent chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
to mid 90s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s to around 70.
Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 90s. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. Highs 93 to 100.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Highs 93 to 100. Lows in the 60s
to around 70.
$$
CAZ359-230030-
Southeastern Ventura County Valleys-
Including Moorpark, Newbury Park, Simi Valley, and Thousand Oaks
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the morning, becoming partly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s to around 90. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the 60s to around 70.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s to lower 90s. Southwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s to around 90. Southwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Highs
in the upper 70s to mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid
60s. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
50s to mid 60s. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 90s.
$$
CAZ358-230030-
Central Ventura County Valleys-
Including Fillmore, Piru, and Santa Paula
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the morning, becoming partly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the 80s to lower 90s. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to mid 90s. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 90s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
50s to mid 60s. Highs 77 to 100.
$$
CAZ357-230030-
Ojai Valley-
Including Oak View and Ojai
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the morning, becoming partly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Highs in the mid 80s to lower
90s. Lows in the mid 50s to around 60.
$$
CAZ356-230030-
Lake Casitas-
Including Meiners Oaks
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. A
20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid
70s to mid 80s.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the lower to mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 90. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to upper 80s. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Patchy low clouds and fog in the
night and morning, otherwise clear. Lows around 60. Highs in the
mid 70s to around 90.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s to
mid 60s. Highs in the mid 70s to around 90.
$$
CAZ363-230030-
Santa Monica Mountains-
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the morning, becoming partly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the 80s to around 90 except the mid to upper
70s lower coastal slopes. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the lower to mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog.
Highs in the mid 80s to mid 90s except the mid 70s to around 80
lower coastal slopes. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s except the lower to mid 70s
lower coastal slopes. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 80s to
lower 90s except the lower to mid 70s lower coastal slopes. Lows
in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Patchy low clouds and fog in the
night and morning, otherwise clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid
60s. Highs in the mid 80s to mid 90s except the mid to upper 70s
lower coastal slopes.
$$
CAZ059-230030-
Antelope Valley-
Including Lancaster and Palmdale
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s. East
winds 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, becoming mostly clear after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s to around 70. Southwest winds 15 to
25 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, becoming partly cloudy with a
20 percent chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
80s to mid 90s. West winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. West winds
15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s
to lower 70s. Highs 95 to 103.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 101.
$$
CAZ054-230030-
Los Angeles County Mountains-
Including Acton and Mount Wilson
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Highs from the 80s to around 90 at low
elevations to the 70s to around 80 at high elevations. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, becoming mostly clear after
midnight. Lows from the mid 60s to around 70 at low elevations to
the mid 50s to lower 60s in colder valleys and peaks. South winds
10 to 20 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, becoming partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs from the mid 80s
to lower 90s at low elevations to the mid 70s to lower 80s at
high elevations. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid to upper 60s at
low elevations to the mid 50s to around 60 in colder valleys and
peaks. Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 80s to lower 90s at low
elevations to the mid 70s to lower 80s at high elevations.
Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid
60s to around 70 at low elevations to around 60 in colder valleys
and peaks. Highs from the upper 80s and 90s at low elevations to
the mid 70s to lower 80s at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows from the mid 60s to around 70 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 60s in colder valleys and peaks.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs from 90 to 100 at low elevations to the
upper 70s to mid 80s at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows from the mid 60s to
around 70 at low elevations to the lower to mid 60s in colder
valleys and peaks. Highs from the upper 80s to mid 90s at low
elevations to the mid 70s to lower 80s at high elevations.
$$
CAZ053-230030-
Ventura County Mountains-
Including Lockwood Valley and Mount Pinos
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Highs from the 80s to around 90 at low
elevations to the mid 70s to around 80 at high elevations.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, becoming mostly clear after
midnight. Lows from the 60s at low elevations to the 50s in
colder valleys and peaks. South winds 10 to 20 mph in the
evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, becoming partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs from the mid 80s
to around 90 at low elevations to the mid 70s to lower 80s at
high elevations. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the 60s at low
elevations to the 50s in colder valleys and peaks. West winds
10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 80s to around 90 at low
elevations to the mid 70s to lower 80s at high elevations.
Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph shifting to the southwest in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the upper 50s and 60s at
low elevations to the upper 40s to mid 50s in colder valleys and
peaks.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Highs from 91 to 101 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 80s at high elevations. Lows from
the 60s to around 70 at low elevations to the upper 40s to mid
50s in colder valleys and peaks.
$$
CAZ353-230030-
Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains-
Including Big Pine Mountain, Figueroa Mountain,
and San Rafael Mountain
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs from the mid 80s to around 90 at low
elevations to around 80 at high elevations. Southeast winds
around 15 mph shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
from the mid to upper 60s at low elevations to around 60 in
colder valleys and peaks.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 80s to lower 90s at low
elevations to the upper 70s to mid 80s at high elevations.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid to upper 60s at
low elevations to around 60 in colder valleys and peaks.
Northwest winds around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 80s to around 90 at low
elevations to the upper 70s to mid 80s at high elevations. East
winds around 15 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 60s to around
70 at low elevations to around 60 in colder valleys and peaks.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Highs from 91 to 100 at low
elevations to the 80s at high elevations. Lows from the mid 60s
to lower 70s at low elevations to around 60 in colder valleys and
peaks.
$$
CAZ340-230030-
San Luis Obispo County Beaches-
Including Arroyo Grande, Avila Beach, Cambria, Morro Bay,
and Pismo Beach
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Fog locally
dense with visibility one quarter mile or less. Highs from the mid
to upper 60s at the beaches to the mid 70s inland.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly cloudy. Lows
in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then
sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at the beaches to the
lower to mid 70s inland. West winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog.
Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from the
lower to mid 60s at the beaches to the lower to mid 70s inland.
West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
the lower to mid 60s at the beaches to the lower to mid 70s
inland.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds
and fog. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Night through morning low clouds and fog,
otherwise clear. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at the beaches
to the mid 70s to around 80 inland. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Night through morning low clouds and
fog, otherwise clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Highs from
the mid to upper 60s at the beaches to the mid 70s to around 80
inland.
$$
CAZ341-230030-
San Luis Obispo County Inland Central Coast-
Including Lopez Lake, Nipomo, and San Luis Obispo
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog. Fog
locally dense with visibility one quarter mile or less. Highs in
the 70s to lower 80s.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly cloudy. Lows
in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog.
Highs in the 70s to lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to around 80. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then
sunny. Highs in the 70s to around 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Patchy night through morning low
clouds and fog, otherwise clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
Highs in the 70s to around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Night through morning low clouds
and fog, otherwise clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Highs in
the 70s to lower 80s.
$$
CAZ346-230030-
Santa Barbara County Central Coast Beaches-
Including Lompoc and Vandenberg Space Force Base
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Fog locally
dense with visibility one quarter mile or less. Highs from the mid
60s to around 70 at the beaches to the mid 70s to lower 80s
inland.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly cloudy. Lows
in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
the mid to upper 60s at the beaches to the mid 70s to lower 80s
inland. Northwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog.
Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Northwest winds around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from the
lower to mid 60s at the beaches to the mid 70s to around 80
inland. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Night through morning low clouds and
fog, otherwise clear. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at the
beaches to the lower to mid 70s inland. Lows in the lower to mid
50s.
$$
CAZ347-230030-
Santa Barbara County Inland Central Coast-
Including Buellton and Santa Maria
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog. Fog
locally dense with visibility one quarter mile or less. Highs in
the mid 70s to upper 80s.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the 50s to around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
70s to around 90. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the 50s to around 60. Northwest winds
around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 60s to upper 80s. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Night through morning low clouds and
fog, otherwise clear. Highs in the upper 60s to around 90. Lows
in the 50s.
$$
CAZ348-230030-
Santa Ynez Valley-
Including Lake Cachuma, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez, and Solvang
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
in the 80s to around 90. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s. West winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
Northwest winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s to around 90. West winds around
15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs in the upper 70s to mid
90s. Lows in the 50s to around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s
to around 60. Highs in the 80s to mid 90s.
$$
CAZ343-230030-
Southern Salinas Valley-
Including Atascadero, Lake Nacimiento, Paso Robles, San Miguel,
and Templeton
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s and 90s. Southeast winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, becoming mostly clear after
midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 90s. Southwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s and 90s. Southwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Highs 90 to 103. Lows in the
mid 50s to around 60.
$$
CAZ342-230030-
Santa Lucia Mountains-
Including Hearst Castle and Irish Hills
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog. Fog
locally dense with visibility one quarter mile or less. Highs in
the mid 80s to mid 90s except the mid to upper 70s lower coastal
slopes. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to mid 90s except the
lower to mid 70s lower coastal slopes. Southwest winds around
15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog.
Highs in the mid 80s to mid 90s except the lower to mid 70s lower
coastal slopes. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s to around 60.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 90 to 100 except
around 70 lower coastal slopes. Lows in the 50s to lower 60s.
$$
CAZ344-230030-
San Luis Obispo County Interior Valleys-
Including Carrizo Plain, Creston, and Shandon
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Northeast winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, becoming mostly clear after
midnight. Lows in the mid to upper 60s. West winds around 15 mph
in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, becoming partly cloudy with a
20 percent chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
80s to mid 90s. Northwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 60s to around 70.
Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 90s. Northwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s and 60s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Highs 90 to 100. Lows in the
mid 50s to around 70.
$$
CAZ345-230030-
San Luis Obispo County Mountains-
Including Caliente Range, La Panza Range,
and Santa Margarita Lake
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs from the lower to mid 90s at low elevations
to the mid to upper 80s at high elevations. North winds around
15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 90s at low
elevations to the mid to upper 80s at high elevations. West winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s and 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 90s at low
elevations to the mid to upper 80s at high elevations. West winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the 60s at low elevations
to the mid 50s to around 60 in colder valleys and peaks.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Highs from 93 to 100 at low
elevations to the mid 80s to around 90 at high elevations. Lows
from the mid 60s to around 70 at low elevations to the mid 50s to
around 60 in colder valleys and peaks.
$$
CAZ038-230030-
Cuyama Valley-
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s to mid 90s. Northeast winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Northwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Northwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 60s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Highs 92 to 101. Lows in the
60s to around 70.
$$
CAZ549-230030-
San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands-
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Fog locally
dense with visibility one quarter mile or less. Highs from the
lower to mid 60s near the coast to the lower to mid 70s interior.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog.
Highs from the mid to upper 60s near the coast to the mid 70s to
around 80 interior.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s to around 60.
.FRIDAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog.
Highs from the lower to mid 60s near the coast to the lower to mid
70s interior.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs from
the lower to mid 60s near the coast to the lower to mid 70s
interior.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to
mid 50s. Highs from the mid to upper 60s near the coast to the
lower to mid 70s interior.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Patchy low clouds and fog in the
night and morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
Highs from the mid to upper 60s near the coast to the lower to
mid 70s interior.
$$
CAZ550-230030-
Santa Cruz and Anacapa Islands-
334 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Fog locally
dense with visibility one quarter mile or less. Highs from the
upper 60s to mid 70s near the coast to around 80 interior.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows
in the mid 50s to around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny except for patchy morning low clouds and fog.
Highs from the lower to mid 70s near the coast to the lower to mid
80s interior.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to around 60.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs from around 70 near the coast to around
80 interior.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
Highs from around 70 near the coast to around 80 interior.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs from
around 70 near the coast to around 80 interior.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to
upper 50s. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s near the coast to
the upper 70s to mid 80s interior.
$$
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The Nigerian stock market on Tuesday, posted a N181 billion rebound following bargain hunting in Dangote Cement and 21 others, a turnaround after five consecutive sessions of losses.
The All-Share Index rose by 335.01 absolute points, an increase of 0.66 per cent to close at 51,091.75 points.
Overall market capitalisation value gained N181 billion to close at N27.544 trillion.
The market gain was driven by price appreciation in large and medium capitalised stocks amongst which are; Dangote Cement, MRS Oil Nigeria, Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO), SEPLAT Energy and Oando.
On market outlook, GTI Securities Limited said: “Equity market resumes a bullish trend, as investors bargain hunting on oversold stocks. We expect profit taking to continue in the domestic market through out the week.”
However, market sentiment, as measured by market breadth closed negative as 22 stocks lost, relative to 14 gainers. Livestock Feeds recorded the highest price gain of 10 per cent to close at N1.32, per share. MRS Oil Nigeria followed with a gain 9.80 per cent to close at N16.25, while Dangote Cement appreciated by 8.30 per cent to close at N270.00, per share.
NAHCO rose by 7.69 per cent to close at N8.40, while Royal Exchange appreciated by 5.56 per cent to close at 95 kobo, per share. On the other hand, Learn Africa and BUA Foods led the losers’ chart by 10 per cent each to close at N2.25 and N49.50 respectively, while Japaul Gold and Ventures followed with a decline of 9.68 per cent to close at 28 kobo, per share.
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GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria (Glaxosmith) declined by 9.22 per cent to close at N6.40, while NASCON Allied Industries depreciated by 8.56 per cent to close at N11.75, per share.
Meanwhile, the total volume of trades fell by 51.60 per cent to 166.969 million units, valued at N2.740 billion, and exchanged in 4,398 deals.
Transactions in the shares of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (Transcorp) topped the activity chart with 19.338 million shares valued at N24.392 million. United Bank for Africa (UBA) followed with 17.590 million shares worth N131.213 million, while Guaranty Trust Holding Company (GTCO) traded 17.287 million shares valued at N365.183 million.
Zenith Bank traded 12.807 million shares valued at N281.888 million, while FBN Holdings (FBNH) transacted 11.335 million shares worth N95.428 million | https://hallmarknews.com/stock-market-ends-losing-streak-gains-n181bn/ | 2022-06-22T11:20:41Z | https://hallmarknews.com/stock-market-ends-losing-streak-gains-n181bn/ | false | 3 |
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the Alpine castle of Schloss Elmau in southern Germany on June 26 and 27 to attend the annual summit of G7 that is expected to delve into pressing global challenges including the Ukraine crisis and the situation in the Indo-Pacific.
From Germany, Modi will travel to the United Arab Emirates on June 28 to pay his condolences on the passing away of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the former president of the Gulf nation.
Modi is attending the G7 summit following an invitation by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Germany is the current chair of G7, a grouping of the world's seven richest nations. It comprises the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Schloss Elmau, Germany at the invitation of Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, for the G7 Summit under the German Presidency on June 26 to 27," the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement.
Modi's last visit to Germany was on May 2 when he travelled to the country to attend the meeting of the sixth edition of the India-Germany Inter-Governmental Consultations (IGC).
US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are among the top leaders attending the summit.
"During the summit, the Prime Minister is expected to speak in two sessions that include environment, energy, climate, food security, health, gender equality and democracy," the MEA said.
In an effort to strengthen international collaboration on these important issues, other democracies such as Argentina, Indonesia, Senegal and South Africa have also been invited, the MEA said.
Modi will also hold bilateral meetings with leaders of some of the participating countries on the sidelines of the summit.
The MEA said the invitation to Modi to the G7 summit is in keeping with the tradition of strong and close partnership and high-level political contacts between India and Germany.
As chair of G7, Germany invited Modi and leaders of some other countries to the summit as guests.
"After attending the G7 Summit, the Prime Minister will be travelling to the United Arab Emirates on June 28 to pay his personal condolences on the passing away of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the former UAE President and Abu Dhabi Ruler," the MEA said.
It said the prime minister will also take the opportunity to congratulate Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on his election as the new President of UAE and Ruler of Abu Dhabi.
Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the Gulf nation, passed away on May 13 after battling illness for the last several years.
In a gesture of goodwill, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu visited the UAE to offer India's condolences over the demise of the Sheikh.
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'You rated him higher, that's why you picked him earlier': Parthiv wants 27-year-old star to play ahead of Sanju Samson
- Sanju Samson is a part of the T20I side that takes on Ireland in two T20Is on June 26 and 28.
After a 2-2 draw against South Africa in the five-match T20I series, the action moves to the United Kingdom where India take on Ireland in a two T20Is. With the series against Proteas perfectly poised for a decider, rain gods showed no mercy on the day of the decider as the final match of the series was washed out. In the T20I series against Ireland, all-rounder Hardik Pandya – who made a brilliant international return in the South Africa series – will be leading India.
One of the key aspects about India's outings in the series was their unchanged XI across all the five games of the series. Many players including Deepak Hooda, Venkatesh Iyer, and Umran Malik among others remained on the sidelines as the same XI took the field in all five matches. For the Ireland T20Is, Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer (who were part of the South Africa series) will remain absent due to their commitments with the Test team, and Sanju Samson and Rahul Tripathi were picked in their places.
However, former India wicketkeeper-batter Parthiv Patel believes that Deepak Hooda, as well as Venkatesh Iyer, should be at the front in line to replace the outgoing Pant and Shreyas in the XI, as they had been already waiting on the sidelines.
“We always talk about Sanju Samson. There's a lot of discussion about his comeback to the team. And because he's a big name, many people also want to see him play. But here, Sanju Samson was fit and he wasn't picked, which means you rate Deepak Hooda ahead of him, that's why you picked him earlier,” Parthiv said on Cricbuzz.
"Similarily, you talk about Venkatesh Iyer. The way Ruturaj Gaikwad has batted, if you want another opener in the position, you may have someone like Rahul Tripathi who can bat in all positions but you should play Venkatesh Iyer first. You need to give opportunity, you need to be consistent. I admit that when you make a team, you can get a little excited.
“Not just here, even in the games against England, if there's a chance, you need to put Deepak and Venkatesh ahead of Samson and Tripathi,” the former Indian wicketkeeper-batter further added. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/you-rate-him-higher-that-s-why-you-picked-him-earlier-parthiv-patel-wants-deepak-hooda-to-play-ahead-of-sanju-samson-101655891374103.html | 2022-06-22T11:21:35Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/you-rate-him-higher-that-s-why-you-picked-him-earlier-parthiv-patel-wants-deepak-hooda-to-play-ahead-of-sanju-samson-101655891374103.html | true | 2 |
Two Black executives at Amazon are leaving the company, the e-commerce juggernaut confirmed Tuesday, hours after CEO Andy Jassy named a new head for the company’s troubled retail business.
Alicia Boler Davis, a senior vice president who oversees the company’s warehouses, and David Bozeman, the vice president of the Amazon’s Transportation Services, have decided “to explore new opportunities outside Amazon,” John Felton, an Amazon executive who’s taking over the company’s operations organization, said in an email to employees. Boler Davis’ departure means there are no more Black executives on Amazon’s senior leadership team, which has been criticized for a lack of diversity.
“They scaled our operations, launched new capabilities and programs, and demonstrated relentless passion to make our operations better each and every day,” Felton said in the email.
Amazon did not give further details on the reasons behind the two executives leaving the company and neither could be immediately reached for comment.
News of their departure came following an announcement from Jassy earlier in the day that Doug Herrington will become the new CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, the company’s former “consumer” division that is dealing with a glut of warehouse space after a massive expansion during the pandemic. Jassy had also announced earlier Amazon’s operations organization would be united under Felton, who will manage the company’s warehouses and delivery networks and report to Herrington.
Herrington is stepping into the role after leading the company’s North American Consumer business for seven years. He replaces Dave Clark, who announced his surprise resignation from the company earlier this month after 23 years. Days later, Clark said he would join the logistics startup Flexport as its new CEO in September.
In a note to employees that was later posted on the company’s website, Jassy said Herrington “is a builder of great teams and brings substantial retail, grocery, demand generation, product development, and Amazon experience to bear,”
The change come as Jassy is looking to return a “healthy level of profitability” to the Seattle-based company amid rising costs and a slowdown in demand that has left the e-commerce behemoth with too many workers and too much warehouse space.
Amazon saw its profits soar during most of the pandemic, when homebound shoppers turned to online shopping for goods. In response, the company massively expanded its warehousing capacity.
But as COVID-19 cases eased, demand also slowed. The company now expects excess space to contribute to $10 billion in additional costs in the first half of 2022. And to mitigate some of those costs, it has reportedly been planning to end some of its leases and sublease warehouse space.
Herrington joined Amazon’s senior leadership team in 2011, six years after joining the company to build out its Consumables business, a group that focuses on consumer packaged goods. He launched Amazon Fresh in 2007.
Boler Davis joined Amazon in 2019 from General Motors, where she was also an executive. Arguably, she oversaw one of the most contentious parts of the company’s business — warehouses where workers routinely called out poor working conditions and high injury rates. The frustration led to a labor win during a union election at a warehouse on Staten Island, New York, in April. The company is currently seeking to redo the vote.
Bozeman joined Amazon in 2017 from Caterpillar, where he served as a senior vice president. | https://www.yourerie.com/news/business/ap-business/amazons-jassy-names-new-head-for-troubled-retail-business/ | 2022-06-22T11:24:28Z | https://www.yourerie.com/news/business/ap-business/amazons-jassy-names-new-head-for-troubled-retail-business/ | true | 23 |
A young dad has died aged 23 after a visit to the optician revealed a devastating cancer diagnosis. James Burrows was only 20-years-old when he was told he had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in 2019.
For the last three years, the dad-of-one has been in out and of the Christie Hospital in Manchester and has undergone various courses of chemotherapy, as doctors battled to save him. Tragically James, from Blackburn, who is father to six-year-old son Leon, passed away in early June surrounded by his family at home, Lancs Live reports.
Speaking of her brother's heartbreaking illness, his sister Amanda Catterall said James had first began noticing bruises on his legs, before suffering with blurry vision in the months before his diagnosis.
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"James started getting rashes and bruises on his legs, which we later found out were due to the low platelets but we thought it was just him knocking himself on a night out or something," she said.
"He also got blurry vision, so went to the opticians who said he had some blood clots behind his eyes. He went to his GP who said he needed blood tests, but with his age, this wasn't done for another few days before our mum actually physically took him for them.
"After the tests, an ambulance arrived for James after finding out his blood count was dangerously low and he was blue-lighted to the specialist unit in Blackpool hospital. We think they were thinking leukaemia as early as that but couldn't be sure."
James was treated at the Christie Hospital in Manchester, which Amanda describes as "his best shot at treatment." The young dad underwent intense chemotherapy treatment in the form of IVs and oral administration.
During this first year, James responded well to the treatment and was sent home, with visits to the hospital becoming less frequent.
Amanda, 34, said: "James was able to go to the hospital only a few times a month as opposed to all the time so it was getting better and he was able to take some of the course of his chemotherapy at home through tablets.
"It seemed like he was starting a normal life again. Honestly, if you didn't know he had cancer then you wouldn't have guessed. He was out and about and seeing friends."
However, it was towards the end of 2020 that things started to take a turn for the worse, as James contracted a lung infection and became severely unwell. He was sent to intensive care and the family were told to prepare for the worst.
"He was doing well and then got an infection and we were told the worst might happen," Amanda said. "However, he got better again for a short period until around December last year and January this year.
"The symptoms started, like the ones he had at the very start - fatigue, aching bones, a lot of pain, sleeping all the time. The cancer seemed to return in full force and he needed more than chemotherapy as his body couldn't take anymore of it.
"We started this therapy where they harvested his blood to be sent to a lab in America, where he'd then have it back and it would be able to fight off the illness. However, after it was harvested he relapsed and we were faced with two options, either have him undergo chemotherapy which would surely kill him or have him undergo a transplant which may kill him instantly."
Faced with an agonising decision, James' mother, Amanda and other sister Debbie eventually decided to bring James home on May 17, where he would be comfortable and surrounded by loved ones.
James passed away on June 4. His funeral took place last Wednesday (15 June) but it was fairly expensive due to the young father having no plan in place.
Now, the family are hoping to raise money in his memory in order to fund a memorial bench. Amanda said: "We are hoping to get a bench for him so that family and friends can pay their respects. We think we need to get a bench that is made out of granite due to rules at Blackburn Cemetery, which is a lot more expensive.
"Having a quick look, it may cost us around £1,500-2,000. We'll also need to pay for the land it'll be on and a plaque as he was cremated." You can donate to Amanda's Go Fund Me in memory of James Burrows, by visiting their page.
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LONDON and SAN DIEGO and NEW DELHI and BEIJING and BUENOS AIRES, Argentina and SEOUL, South Korea and HONG KONG, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Apple led the global best-selling smartphone list with five models, followed by Samsung and Xiaomi with four and one smartphones respectively, according to Counterpoint's Global Monthly Handset Sales Tracker for April 2022. The top 10 models captured 21% of the total smartphone market.
Apple models in the top 10 accounted for 89% of its total sales for the month. Owing to its slim portfolio, Apple has always had multiple models in the best-sellers list. With a broader and more diverse portfolio, Samsung's top models made-up just 22% of its total sales.
This month's best-sellers list saw an increase in the number of 5G-enabled smartphones, rising to a new high of seven models. The 5G smartphones on the list represent a third of the total 5G smartphone sales. 5G capability has become a standard offering in flagships and its presence is increasing in lower price bands as well.
Apple continues to do well, three of its latest iPhone 13 models capturing the top three spots. Unlike its last generation, the non-Pro iPhone 13 model has maintained a lead every month since launch and has done better than the Pro variants in terms of sales in most large markets. The recently launched iPhone SE 2022 saw triple digit MoM growth, entering the top 10 list.
Samsung captured four spots in the list, and its latest flagship, the Galaxy S22 Ultra, took the fifth spot overall. The successor to the Galaxy Note series after a gap of two years has become the go to device for existing Galaxy Note smartphone users.
Galaxy A-series devices, positioned at different price points and targeting different customers, helped Samsung capture another three spots. The newly launched Galaxy A13 looks to be replicating the success that the Galaxy A12 series had last year.
Despite flat sales in April, the Redmi Note 11 LTE, which contributed 11% to Xiaomi's total sales, retained a spot on the top 10 list in April. With a quarter of all Note 11 LTEs having been sold in CALA in April, the region is emerging as one of Xiaomi's key growth drivers. The brand has been facing supply issues and its overall sales declined by around 25% compared to April 2021.
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XIANYANG, China, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A report from CRI Online:
On June 15, 2022, "Hi SCO, This is Yangling" - 2022 Online Promotion for SCO Demonstration Base for Agricultural Technology Exchange and Training was held in Yangling, China.
This year is the third year since President Xi Jinping proposed the initiative of setting up the SCO Demonstration Base for Agricultural Technology Training and Exchange (hereinafter referred to as the "SCO Agricultural Base"). Over the past three years, Yangling has grounded its efforts in its core functional positioning of "exchange, training and demonstration" to explore new exchange and training models and mechanisms in the field of agriculture. Moreover, it has strived to build up a multi-layered international cooperation platform that integrates a wide range of fields, including technology exchange, talent training, demonstration and promotion of best practices, international trade, cross-border e-commerce, financial services and people-to-people exchanges, depicting a new blueprint for international agricultural cooperation, which "focuses on China, reaches out to SCO member states, links neighboring countries and benefits the world".
In the past three years, Yangling has successfully held over 20 bilateral and multilateral exchange events, established 16 SCO agricultural technology training bases, and put in place 13 international scientific research and innovation cooperation platforms and eight international cooperation parks, with 73 batches of 194 experts having been sent to this district. Moreover, the improved wheat varieties and the supporting cultivation techniques selected by the demonstration parks have been translated into about 16,667 hectares (250,000 mu) of overseas demonstration fields. Meanwhile, Yangling is committed to reaching partnership with other countries in multiple fields, like facility agriculture, water-saving irrigation, the planting of flowers and seedlings, and animal husbandry technology and management. With the SCO Agricultural Base as a platform, the agricultural technologies of Yangling have been adopted by and have resulted in good harvests in SCO-related countries.
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Police apprehend man accused of damaging cars, firing shots in Douglasville
Published: Jun. 22, 2022 at 6:49 AM EDT|Updated: 39 minutes ago
ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) - A man is in custody after allegedly crashing into cars and shooting at Douglasville police.
Officers responded to the Gateway Village neighborhood at around 10 p.m. after receiving reports of a person acting suspicious in the area.
Upon arrival, they found the man firing shots. Police confronted him and a short exchange of gunfire followed. Luckily, no one was injured.
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Huma Qureshi is all of us in her latest Instagram post. The actor managed to do what the best of us have done at some point in our life: rely on shopping for mental and emotional gratification.
Only, Huma’s post was peppered with humour, as she seemed to have gone on a shopping spree.
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The Ek Thi Daayan actor sat with many shopping bags — with their brand names blurred and struck out — in the boot of her car, smiling. She wore a white shirt and a pair of black pants and sneakers.
With one hand resting on her head, the actor’s expressions suggested that she had just realised she may have gone overboard with retail therapy. The caption read, “Best kind of therapy is retail therapy! #besttherapy #retailtherapy #feelgood What have I done? Hey Bhagwan… #shoptillyoudrop #joy [Sic]”
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For the unversed, retail therapy is shopping with the sole purpose of boosting the buyer’s mood. It is said that the term ‘retail therapy’ was first used in a sentence in the Chicago Tribune in 1986. The sentence read, “We’ve become a nation measuring out our lives in shopping bags and nursing our psychic ills through retail therapy.”
Interestingly, while it is not true therapy, there is some short-term euphoria associated with retail therapy — provided the buyer does not overdo it. According to an article published in clevelandclinic.org, research shows “making shopping decisions can help reinforce a sense of personal control over our environment. It can also ease feelings of sadness”.
In fact, per a 2014 study from the Journal of Consumer Psychology, retail therapy not only makes people “happier immediately”, but it can also “fight lingering sadness”.
Clinical psychologist Scott Bea was quoted as telling clevelandclinic.org, “Research suggests there’s actually a lot of psychological and therapeutic value when you’re shopping — if done in moderation, of course. Whether you’re adding items to your shopping cart online or visiting your favorite boutique for a few hours, you do get a psychological and emotional boost.”
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REHOVOT, Israel, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SIRTLab Corporation, a pioneer in the manipulation of sirtuin proteins for the treatment of severe liver diseases and longevity, today announced the appointment of Michael G. Kauffman, MD, PhD, as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Dr. Kauffman joins Boaz Misholi, Founder and Co-Chairman; Professor Haim Cohen, Founder and Chief Scientist; Hagit Ashush, PhD, Vice President, Research and Development; and Amir Shukrun, Chief Financial Officer. Dr. Kauffman's appointment follows positive proof of concept preclinical data in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and longevity models.
Dr. Kauffman, a 25-year veteran of the biotechnology industry with major contributions to the approvals of three cancer drugs (Velcade®, Kyprolis® and Xpovio®) who most recently served as the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. commented, "I am looking forward to my next chapter at SIRTLab. Having followed the sirtuin field for many years, I find the team's results compelling – not only in NASH and other severe liver diseases but also for a variety of other diseases negatively affecting longevity."
SIRTLab's lead program is focused on high level expression of sirtuin 6 (SIRT6), a key orchestrator of responses to lipids, glucose and inflammation, based largely on the work of Professor Haim Cohen, initially at Harvard University and now at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv. SIRT6 suppresses triglyceride synthesis, fat metabolism and inflammation (by suppression of NF-kB and other pathways), as well as glycolysis. Professor Cohen's lab, along with others, has shown that transgenic overexpression of SIRT6 leads to restoration of "youthful" energy homeostasis, improved metabolic profiles and significant prolongation of lifespan in mice. Furthermore, liver-specific deletion of SIRT6 in mice induces marked alterations in gene expression, leading to increased triglyceride synthesis, reduced fatty acid ß-oxidation, reduced increased glycolysis and fatty liver formation. Markedly lower levels of SIRT6 are found in the livers of patients with NASH, other forms of progressive liver dysfunction, acetaminophen overdoses and other diseases. SIRTLab has shown that elevation of SIRT6 levels using its technology normalized liver gross and histological appearance, improved liver function tests and reversed fatty liver progression.
"The recruitment of Dr. Kauffman represents a major advance for SIRTLab as we prepare to advance a completely novel class of agents for the treatment of NASH and other diseases," said SIRTLab Founder and Co-Chairman Boaz Misholi. "Michael has a long and successful record of professional achievements in the development and approval of important novel drugs and in building highly successful biotechnology companies."
As CEO and Co-Founder of Karyopharm, Dr. Kauffman led the Company from inception through commercialization of Selinexor (XPOVIO® and NEXPOVIO®). Prior, Dr. Kauffman was the CMO of Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc., which acquired Proteolix Inc., leading the development of carfilzomib, a novel proteasome inhibitor approved in 2012 as KYPROLIS®. Dr. Kauffman was President and CEO of EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (previously Predix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) from 2002 to 2008. He led the VELCADE® Development Program at Millennium Pharmaceuticals and held a number of senior positions at Millennium Predictive Medicine and Biogen. Dr. Kauffman received his MD and PhD from Johns Hopkins Medical School, trained in internal medicine and rheumatology at Beth Israel Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is board certified in internal medicine.
SIRTLab Corporation is a privately held liver diseases and longevity company headquartered in the Rehovot Science Park, Israel. Boaz Misholi and Professor Haim Cohen founded the company in 2013 based on the work of Professor Haim Cohen, which began at Harvard Medical School with Professor David Sinclair and continues in his laboratory at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv; over $40M U.S. have been invested in Professor Cohen's work. SIRTLab focuses on the pharmacological modulation of SIRT6, a key orchestrator of multiple processes involved in triglyceride and lipid metabolism, glucose, inflammation, chromosomal maintenance and cellular homeostasis. The Company anticipates that initial studies will focus on moderate to severe non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), with numerous additional applications including other chronic liver diseases, metabolic syndrome and multiple aspects of longevity.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Stephen Cecchetti, professor of international finance at Brandeis University, for a preview of Powell's testimony which follows the Fed's biggest rate hike since 1994.
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Bayern Munich sporting director Hasan Salihamidžić has been talking about wantaway striker Robert Lewandowski again and continues to insist the striker won’t leave this summer.
The Bundesliga champions will unveil Liverpool attacker Sadio Mane as their latest signing on Wednesday with a move that many thought might open to door to a Lewandowski departure.
Barcelona are rumored to be planning a new €50 million offer for Lewandowski and Salihamidžić was asked if Bayern will “remain firm in their stance” if the Catalans come calling with their improved bid.
The 45-year-old’s response was pretty strong. He told Sport Bild, “I don’t care about that. I’m expecting to see Robert in training at Säbener Straße on July 12.”
Salihamidžić also spoke a little bit about the arrival of Mane and whether the forward had been signed to replace anyone.
“We signed Sadio to increase the competition in our team. We weren’t happy with our CL exit against Villarreal. We want to strengthen the fight for spots in our team,” he said. “The signing of Mané will reshuffle the cards for every attacking player. We’ve never thought about having to let a player go when we signed Sadio”
Bayern’s sporting director was then asked if Bayern had secured Lewandowski’s future by signing Mane and answered, “I understand your question, but our position is clear: Robert has a contract until the summer of 2023.”
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MOSCOW (AP) — A drone strike caused a fire at a refinery in southwestern Russia near the border with Ukraine on Wednesday, but no one was hurt and the blaze was contained quickly, officials said.
The fire engulfed industrial equipment at the Novoshakhtinsk oil processing plant in the Rostov-on-Don region. The authorities said that dozens of firefighters extinguished the flames in a half-hour and no one was hurt.
The refinery said in a statement that the fire was caused by a strike carried out by two drones, describing it as a “terrorist” act. It didn’t give further details, but the state news agency Tass said that two Ukrainian drones flew over the plant and one of them slammed into a heat exchanger, triggering the fire.
Ukrainian officials haven't claimed responsibility for the drone strike.
A video posted on a messaging app channel showed a drone flying by and hitting what was purported to be the refinery, a giant plume of smoke rising into the sky. The authenticity of the video couldn't be independently verified.
The Rostov regional governor, Vasily Golubev, said that fragments of two drones were found on the territory of the plant.
The refinery said it temporarily suspended the operations to assess the damage.
Wednesday's attack on the refinery follows a series of explosions and fires in western Russia amid Moscow's fighting in Ukraine in an operation that began nearly four months ago.
In April, two Ukrainian helicopter gunships struck an oil depot in Belgorod, according to Russian officials, causing a massive fire.
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The life of Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, a former Georgia election worker who was the target of a conspiracy theory spread by former President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, changed after the 2020 election, with violent threats toward her and her family, forcing Moss to hide her identity and leave her job.
The fabricated accusations from Trump and Giuliani said Moss, who had been a Fulton County Elections Department employee since 2017, had processed fake ballots for Joe Biden.
Moss testified about her experiences in Congress Tuesday, at the fourth hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The hearing focused on Trump's efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the election results in his favor.
"It's turned my life upside down. I no longer give out my business card... I don't want anyone knowing my name," Moss told the committee. "I don't go to the grocery store at all. I haven't been anywhere at all. I've gained about 60 pounds. I just don't do nothing anymore," she added, wiping away a tear.
"I second guess everything that I do. It's affected my life in a major way — in every way. All because of lies."
Moss had to go into hiding and change her appearance after she started receiving threats. She eventually left her job.
Earlier this year, Moss received the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award, along with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the lead Republican on the House committee, and Rusty Bowers, the Speaker of the House in Arizona in 2020, who refused to bow to pressure from Trump to overturn the state's election results. Bowers also testified at Tuesday's hearing.
The threats Moss and her family received were racist
In a phone call leaked to reporters days before the insurrection, Trump was berating Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the state's election results. During the call, the former president mentioned Moss' mother, Ruby Freeman, who was temping as an election worker with her daughter, 18 times.
"I'll take on anybody you want with regard to Ruby Freeman, and her lovely daughter, a very lovely young lady, I'm sure. But Ruby Freeman, I will take on anybody you want," Trump said to Raffensperger.
And in a virtual hearing with GOP lawmakers in Georgia, Giuliani mentioned both Moss and Freeman.
"They should have been questioned already. Their places of work, their homes should have been searched," he said.
In his false accusations, Giuliani said that Moss handed her mother a thumb drive "like they were vials of heroin or cocaine." In reality, Moss said in her testimony that her mother had handed her a ginger mint.
Moss also said Tuesday she hadn't known about threats being made against her by those who believed Trump and Giuliani's allegations until one of her supervisors called her into his office and told her to check her Facebook account, which she said she didn't often use.
"I'm just panicky at this point, because this has never happened to me and my mom is involved," Moss told the committee. "I went to [Facebook messages] and it was just a lot of horrible things there... a lot of threats, wishing death upon me, telling me that I'll be in jail with my mother and saying things like 'Be glad its 2020 and not 1920.'"
"A lot of them were racist," Moss said of the messages. "A lot them were just hateful."
Moss and Freeman say they've lost their sense of security
Moss said she blamed herself and her career choice for the attacks on her mother, and threats toward her son and her grandmother, as well. Someone showed up at her grandmother's door and said they were there to make a citizen's arrest, Moss said.
"I felt horrible for picking this job, for being the one who wants to help," she said, "I felt it was my fault for putting my family in this situation."
While Freeman attended Tuesday's hearing, she did not testify in person but the committee played video from earlier testimony to the committee.
Freeman said that she had to be moved from her house due to threats brought on by Trump. And she doesn't use her name in public, after years of being known as "Lady Ruby" in her community and for her small business.
"I don't introduce myself by name anymore, I get nervous when I bump into someone who in the grocery store who says my name. I'm worried about who's listening. I get nervous when I have to give my name for food orders," she said.
"I've lost my name. I've lost my reputation. I've lost my sense of security," Freeman said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday will call on Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months — a move meant to ease financial pressures at the pump that also reveals the political toxicity of high gas prices in an election year.
The Democratic president will also call on states to suspend their own gas taxes or provide similar relief, the White House said.
At issue is the 18.4 cents-a-gallon federal tax on gas and the 24.4 cents-a-gallon federal tax on diesel fuel. If the gas savings were fully passed along to consumers, people would save roughly 3.6% at the pump when prices are averaging about $5 a gallon nationwide.
But many economists and lawmakers from both parties view the idea of a gas tax holiday with skepticism.
Barack Obama, during the 2008 presidential campaign, called the idea a “gimmick” that allowed politicians to “say that they did something.” He also warned that oil companies could offset the tax relief by increasing their prices.
High gas prices pose a fundamental threat to Biden’s electoral and policy ambitions. They’ve caused confidence in the economy to slump to lows that bode poorly for defending Democratic control of the House and the Senate in November.
Biden’s past efforts to cut gas prices — including the release of oil from the U.S. strategic reserve and greater ethanol blending this summer — have done little to produce savings at the pump, a risk that carries over to the idea of a gas tax holiday.
Biden has acknowledged how gas prices have been a drain on public enthusiasm when he is trying to convince people that the U.S. can still pivot to a clean-energy future. In an interview with The Associated Press last week, Biden described a country already nursing some psychological scars from the coronavirus pandemic that is now worried about how to afford gas, food and other essentials.
“If you notice, until gas prices started going up,” Biden said, “things were much more, they were much more optimistic.”
The president can do remarkably little to fix prices that are set by global markets, profit-driven companies, consumer demand and aftershocks from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the embargoes that followed. The underlying problem is a shortage of oil and refineries that produce gas, a challenge a tax holiday cannot necessarily fix.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, estimated that the majority of the 8.6% inflation seen over the past 12 months in the U.S. comes from higher commodity prices due to Russia’s invasion and continued disruptions from the coronavirus.
“In the immediate near term, it is critical to stem the increase in oil prices,” Zandi said last week, suggesting that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and a nuclear deal with Iran could help to boost supplies and lower prices.
Republican lawmakers have tried to shift more blame to Biden, saying he created a hostile environment for domestic oil producers, causing their output to stay below pre-pandemic levels.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell mocked the idea of a gas tax holiday in a February floor speech. “They’ve spent an entire year waging a holy war on affordable American energy, and now they want to use a pile of taxpayers’ money to hide the consequences,” he said.
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has previously expressed doubts about the value of suspending the federal gas tax.
Administration officials said the $10 billion cost of the gas tax holiday would be paid for and the Highway Trust Fund kept whole, even though the gas taxes make up a substantial source of revenue for the fund. The officials did not specify any new revenue sources.
The president has also called on energy companies to accept lower profit margins to increase oil production and refining capacity for gasoline.
This has increased tensions with oil producers: Biden has judged the companies to be making “more money than God.” That kicked off a chain of events in which the head of Chevron, Michael Wirth, sent a letter to the White House saying that the administration “has largely sought to criticize, and at times vilify, our industry.”
Asked about the letter, Biden said of Wirth: “He’s mildly sensitive. I didn’t know they’d get their feelings hurt that quickly.”
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Company Makes Substantial Progress on All Emission Reduction Goals While Championing Critical Role of Natural Gas
PITTSBURGH , June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT), the largest producer of natural gas in the United States, today announced the publication of its 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, highlighting the Company's significant progress in achieving net zero Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions, as well as its leadership in advocating for natural gas as an affordable, reliable and clean energy source for the U.S. and the world.
"In addition to our own positive ESG performance and significant emissions reductions, EQT inserted itself into the global conversation about the critical role natural gas plays in arresting climate change and providing energy security and independence to our allies. The benefits of affordable, reliable, clean natural gas are being recognized both domestically and internationally," said Toby Z. Rice, President and Chief Executive Officer of EQT Corporation.
Rice continued, "We are at a critical point in history. The decisions made over the next decade will shape the trajectory of our efforts to make meaningful progress in global emissions reduction. International coal is the leading source of carbon and methane emissions worldwide and it is getting worse. We believe replacing international coal with American natural gas via LNG is the largest green initiative on the planet and the world's best weapon to fight climate change, while simultaneously addressing energy security and affordability."
Environmental
• Announced plans to achieve ambitious emissions reduction targets, including a commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Production segment operations on a Scope 1 and Scope 2 basis by or before 20251
• Made substantial progress toward achieving all emissions targets, including:
° Reducing Scope 1 and Scope 2 Production segment GHG emissions to 588,533 MT CO2e,1 a 36% reduction compared to 2018
° Reducing Scope 1 Production segment GHG emissions intensity to 297 MT CO2e/Bcfe,2 a 44% reduction compared to 2018
° Reducing Scope 1 Production segment methane emissions intensity to 0.039%, a 35% reduction compared to 2018
• Obtained Equitable Origin and MiQ certification of natural gas produced from approximately 200 well pads, which collectively produce approximately 4.0 Bcf per day in gross volume, making EQT the largest producer of certified natural gas in North America as of the end of 20213
• Launched an initiative to eliminate natural gas-powered pneumatic devices – the source of 39% of 2021 Production segment Scope 1 GHG emissions – from operations by the end of 2022
• Joined the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0, a Climate and Clean Air Coalition initiative led by the UN Environment Programme, in partnership with the European Commission, the UK Government, the Environmental Defense Fund and other leading oil and gas companies
Social
• Paid $731 million in royalties to local landowners in 2021, representing a 106% increase compared to 2020
• EQT employees volunteered approximately 7,000 hours in local communities in 2021
• Corporate giving, sponsorships, and road and infrastructure investments in local communities totaled more than $28 million in 2021
• Over $3 million in grants and contributions were provided by the EQT Foundation in 2021
• Improved the racial and ethnic diversity of EQT's Board of Directors, which is now 64% racially, ethnically, or gender diverse
• Named a National Top Workplace by Energage for 2021 and 2022
Governance
• Implemented a system for digitally tracking and managing operational performance, including over 400 ESG-specific metrics
• Developed a digital framework for measuring, projecting, and analyzing emissions data, positioning EQT to capture opportunities to further enhance its ESG performance
• Added emissions reduction targets to short and long-term incentive compensation plans, directly linking compensation opportunity for management team with achievement of these important environmental goals
EQT has a long-standing commitment to ESG and is an industry leader in reducing emissions. Over the last 15 years, EQT alone has contributed to approximately 5% of the total reduction of carbon emissions in the United States.4 The Company's operations have some of the lowest GHG emissions intensities in the oil and gas industry.
EQT is committed to being at the forefront of technology, culture, and environmental performance to continue to make natural gas a viable solution in the energy transition. The Company stands ready and willing to lead the change we want to see in the world and help unlock the tremendous potential of unleashing U.S. LNG.
To view EQT's 2021 ESG Report, visit esg.eqt.com.
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Director of Communications
412-720-4500
Bridget.mcnie@eqt.com
About the EQT Corporation
EQT Corporation is a leading independent natural gas production company with operations focused in the cores of the Marcellus and Utica Shales in the Appalachian Basin. We are dedicated to responsibly developing our world-class asset base and being the operator of choice for our stakeholders. By leveraging a culture that prioritizes operational efficiency, technology and sustainability, we seek to continuously improve the way we produce environmentally responsible, reliable and low-cost energy. We have a longstanding commitment to the safety of our employees, contractors, and communities, and to the reduction of our overall environmental footprint. Our values are evident in the way we operate and in how we interact each day – trust, teamwork, heart, and evolution are at the center of all we do.
Cautionary Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Statements that do not relate strictly to historical or current facts are forward-looking. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, forward-looking statements contained in this news release specifically include the expectations of plans, strategies and objectives of EQT Corporation and its subsidiaries (collectively, the Company), including with respect to active and prospective ESG initiatives and results and performance thereof, including whether the Company will be able to achieve its emissions reduction goals in the anticipated timeframe or at all.
The forward-looking statements included in this news release involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from projected results. Accordingly, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. The Company has based these forward-looking statements on current expectations and assumptions about future events, taking into account all information currently known by the Company. While the Company considers these expectations and assumptions to be reasonable, they are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, regulatory and other risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and beyond the Company's control. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, volatility of commodity prices; the costs and results of drilling and operations; uncertainties about estimates of reserves, identification of drilling locations and the ability to add proved reserves in the future; the assumptions underlying production forecasts; the quality of technical data; the Company's ability to appropriately allocate capital and resources among its strategic opportunities; access to and cost of capital; the Company's hedging and other financial contracts; inherent hazards and risks normally incidental to drilling for, producing, transporting and storing natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and oil; cyber security risks; availability and cost of drilling rigs, completion services, equipment, supplies, personnel, oilfield services and water required to execute the Company's exploration and development plans, including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; risks associated with operating primarily in the Appalachian Basin and obtaining a substantial amount of the Company's midstream services from Equitrans Midstream Corporation; the ability to obtain environmental and other permits and the timing thereof; government regulation or action, including regulations pertaining to methane and other greenhouse gas emissions; negative public perception of the fossil fuels industry; increased consumer demand for alternatives to natural gas; environmental and weather risks, including the possible impacts of climate change; and disruptions to the Company's business due to acquisitions and other significant transactions. These and other risks are described under Item 1A, "Risk Factors," and elsewhere in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other documents the Company files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, the Company may be subject to currently unforeseen risks that may have a materially adverse impact on it.
Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made, and the Company does not intend to correct or update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
[1] Based on assets owned by EQT on June 30, 2021.
[2] Excludes emissions and production from the assets acquired from Alta Resources Development, LLC in the third quarter of 2021.
[3] Based on 2021 North American certified "responsibly sourced gas" supply estimates of 8.7 Bcf/d, as reported by Enverus on January 25, 2022.
[4] Calculated by applying relative contribution to emissions reductions impact of coal-to-gas switching on power sector emissions via https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/carbon/archive/2019/. For example, EQT represented approximately 10% of U.S. natural gas production growth from 2005-2019, allowing for corresponding coal-to-gas switching in the U.S., which reduced the U.S.'s annual carbon emissions by 525 million metric tons (approximately 10% of which, or 52.5 million metric tons, are attributable to EQT based on its production growth during the time period). Percent of total emissions reduction was calculated by dividing impact (52.5 million metric tons) by total U.S. annual emissions reduction, inclusive of non-power sector emissions (970 million metric tons).
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The experienced striker, who has made over 200 appearances for the Bannsiders over two spells, posted a message on his Twitter page on Wednesday morning which seemed to suggest his time at The Showgrounds has come to an end.
"Sometimes in football things happen that are out of your control," he tweeted.
"Would just like to thank all the players board coaches and the fans at @ColeraineFC for my time there.
"I have made memories and friends that will last a lifetime. Thanks."
'Skinner', a distinguished GAA star, joined Coleraine in 2013 and quickly became a fans' favourite.
After netting 12 goals in 27 games for Oran Kearney's side a move to Glenavon came about in 2014.
Bradley formed an effective forward partnership with fellow summer arrival Kevin Braniff as the Lurgan Blues finished third in the Premiership.
Further success was to follow in the 2015-16 season, with Bradley scoring 17 goals in the league and Glenavon once again claiming the Irish Cup.
He was to return to Coleraine in January 2017 and helped the Bannsiders reach the Irish Cup final that season, where they lost to Linfield.
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Brandon Douglas Evans, 47, of Hughesville, MD, passed away on June 10, 2022.
He leaves a huge hole in the hearts of his family and friends who were always entertained by his stories and sense of humor. He truly brought life to the party. No matter the circumstance, you’d always leave with a story of something funny/crazy Brandon did while you were with him.
Following high school, Brandon held a lifetime career in the HVAC industry. Throughout his profession, he moved up through the ranks with determination and skill from helper to Operations Manager.
After a seven-year courtship, Brandon married his best friend and soul mate, Penny in October 2003. If you asked him why it took so long, he would kindly reply with a sheepish grin “See what had happened was?”. They went on to have two wonderful sons, Brandon and Cooper. Between their two boys, Brandon’s charm, compassion, and humility will forever be present.
Brandon had a passion for cooking. Whether it was in the oven, over the campfire, or on his smoker, he had a knack for preparing foods to the precise temperature and blending ingredients until it was “just right!”. His signature dishes included homemade meatballs with spaghetti, pulled pork, salt and pepper spare ribs, and smoked potato salad.
In addition to his wife and children, Brandon is survived by his mother, Virginia (Jenny) Evans, Chapel Hill, NC, brothers John (Eric) Evans, Goose Creek, SC, Jason Evans, (wife Kathryn) Asheville, NC, and sister Stephanie Wells, (husband KJ) Leonardtown, MD. He was also survived by a host of nieces and nephews that will forever cherish his generous heart and comradery.
Brandon is predeceased by his father, John (Doug) Evans, maternal grandparents, Thomas (Lodge) and Joann Wright, and paternal grandparents, John and Delores Evans.
The family will receive friends for the Memorial Gathering on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm at Brinsfield Funeral Home & Crematory, P.A., 30195 Three Notch Road, Charlotte Hall, MD.
Condolences may be made to the family at www.brinsfieldfuneral.com
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NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MIC Global announces today that it has received approval for Lloyd's Syndicate 5183 to commence underwriting, effective immediately. Syndicate 5183 will be managed by Asta through Lloyd's syndicate in a box (SIAB) platform.
Syndicate 5183 further cements MIC Global as an international leader in providing embedded insurance solutions to platform companies – a position which is further strengthened by the appointment of Erik Johnson as Senior Underwriting Manager in support of its objectives.
Harry Croydon, CEO and Founder of MIC Global, said:
"As a syndicate of Lloyd's, MIC Global can now offer companies highly rated, relevant, and affordable insurance products which can easily be embedded into their existing digital processes. This will accelerate the delivery of micro insurance products when and where customers need them, allowing access to cover that is not readily available through traditional insurance methods."
Steve Haase, President of STP Insurance Services, LLC, a USA-based broker, spearheaded the organization of MIC Global's first two partnerships that will allow the company to underwrite business through Lloyds Syndicate 5183.
The first partnership is with InsureTEK – a Loss Control as a Service (LCaaS) platform, that helps predict and prevent catastrophic water events before they happen.
Michael P. Murphy, KM President, and CEO of InsureTEK comments:
"When we were seeking a strategic partner to help us create an embedded cover for IoT water sensor systems, we searched the market for a company that understood the need to evolve in order to stay relevant. MIC Global brought an entrepreneur's spirit matched with a technical expertise that quite simply has become a cornerstone of our business. Their innovators and professionals are second to none in matching outside the box thinking with regulatory compliance."
MIC Global's second account to be underwritten by Syndicate 5183 is h.way, a Hispanic-owned neobank built around the financial needs and issues facing the Hispanic community.
Lionel Carrasco, Founder and CEO at h.way, said:
"We have found that much of our customer base does not have health insurance. By partnering with MIC Global, we are helping our members get access to up to $1,000 for unexpected medical expenses as part of our h.way membership experience. MIC Global's value proposition clearly aligns with our company's purpose of providing equitable financial services and cultural-driven product innovation."
Julian Tighe, CEO of Asta, adds: "We are delighted that MIC Global's Syndicate has received approval from Lloyd's to commence underwriting. Entry to Lloyd's allows MIC Global to greatly expand their reach. Collaborations like this are an excellent example of how Asta can assist forward-thinking organizations like MIC Global with accessing the Lloyd's market."
Jamie Crystal, Executive Chairman of MIC Global, concludes: "We are thrilled to receive approval to provide embedded insurance solutions globally through our Lloyd's syndicate."
For press enquiries or more information about MIC Global, visit https://www.micglobal.com or email Press@MICGlobal.com
For more information about Asta, visit https://www.asta-uk.com
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Inflation is the top issue for voters as fall's midterm elections near. Biden wants Congress to suspend the gas tax until the end of September in a bid to give consumers some relief.
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Inflation is the top issue for voters as fall's midterm elections near. Biden wants Congress to suspend the gas tax until the end of September in a bid to give consumers some relief.
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Survey conducted by Deloitte and Workplace Intelligence finds nearly 70% of executives are seriously considering quitting their roles for a job that better supports their well-being compared to 57% of employees
NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Deloitte released a new report in collaboration with independent research firm Workplace Intelligence that explores the C-suite's role in organizational well-being and examines how an overall poor state of health is affecting retention for workers and executives alike.
Across the globe, both employees and executive-level business leaders are struggling to prioritize their well-being — and for most people, work is to blame. The situation is bad enough that 57% of employees and nearly 70% of the C-suite said they are seriously considering quitting for a job that better supports their well-being.
Despite this mutual struggle, the C-suite largely doesn't recognize that workers are struggling with their well-being, and this disconnect has the potential to further feed into The Great Resignation if leaders don't do more to understand the needs of their workers and demonstrate that they truly care about their holistic well-being.
The report, "The C-suite's role in well-being: How health-savvy executives can go beyond workplace wellness to workplace well-being — for themselves and their people," digs into the link between work and well-being, discusses why a strong organizational focus on well-being is critical for employee and executive retention, and outlines how organizations can reimagine well-being at work through an emphasis on broader cultural change and health-savvy leadership.
Key findings from the report include:
- People's jobs are harming their well-being, and many say they will eventually quit as a result. Significantly, 63% of employees and 73% of the C-suite report that their job doesn't allow them to take time off from work and disconnect. Results also show that for 68% of employees and 81% of the C-suite, improving their well-being is more important to them than advancing their career right now.
- The pandemic has worsened everyone's health, but executives don't realize how much their employees are struggling — Around 1 in 3 workers and executives "always" or "often" feel exhausted, stressed, overwhelmed, lonely, or depressed. Despite this, only around half of employees and two-thirds of the C-suite report that they use all their vacation time, take breaks during the day, get enough sleep, and have enough time for friends and family.
- Despite their own struggles with well-being, executives are significantly overestimating how well their employees are doing and how supported they feel by their leaders. For example, only 65% of employees rate their physical health as "excellent" or "good," but 89% of executives believe their workers are thriving. Just 56% of employees think their company's executives care about their well-being, but 91% of the C-suite see themselves as caring leaders.
- The C-suite must take greater ownership and action around matters of health. A whopping 95% of the C-suite agree that they should be responsible for employees' well-being, but at current, these sentiments aren't translating into action — 68% admit that they're not doing enough to safeguard employee and stakeholder health. And because just 31% of employees feel that their leaders are health-savvy, it's evident that they also believe leaders should be taking greater initiative when it comes to matters of health.
Despite work often working against well-being, leaders who are health-savvy have the ability to reimagine well-being for themselves and their workforce — but they need to do more. Well-being is a top priority in today's workplace, but the journey to health-savvy leadership won't be easy. However, executives stand to gain a lot by embracing this new reality. Not only can they become better and more purpose-driven leaders, but they may discover that they're finally able prioritize their "own" well-being — a critical shift that could help them stay the course in their role and become steadfast ambassadors of a better tomorrow.
"While it's promising that so many executives feel they should be responsible for employee well-being, many also feel that they aren't taking enough action," said Jen Fisher, Deloitte's U.S. chief well-being officer. "It's time for the C-suite to become more health-savvy by embracing the expanding focus on well-being in their role. This critical shift will not only benefit their own well-being and the well-being of their people, but also the long-term success of their organizations."
"There's a global imperative for organizations to examine how their day-to-day work experience affects people's well-being," added Dan Schawbel, managing partner at Workplace Intelligence. "The Great Resignation has shown us that employees are no longer willing to tolerate a job that leaves them constantly burned out and exhausted, and our study with Deloitte highlights that executives are also fed up with the current state of affairs."
"To make well-being a reality, leaders need to first look at redesigning the work in their organization," said Steve Hatfield, Deloitte's Global Future of Work leader. "By integrating well-being into the design of work itself, organizations can strengthen the link between employee well-being and organizational performance."
"The pandemic made well-being more vivid for many of us, yet many employees and leaders are struggling to find the organizational support they need to address it," said Paul Silverglate, US Executive Accelerators leader and Deloitte's US Technology Sector vice chair. "It's clear that well-being is a top-down concern, and today's C-suite has a great opportunity to drive organizational change to create a better workplace for all."
Research findings are based on a survey conducted by Deloitte and Workplace Intelligence in February 2022 among more 2,100 employees and C-level executives across the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia. For more insights, access the full report here.
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Mollywood actress Vincy Aloshious has treated her fans to a glimpse of her character from the upcoming film Solamante Theneechakal. The actress shared a video and a poster on her Instagram handle introducing her character from the movie. The character video and poster feature Vincy in police uniform and alongside the video, she wrote, “GLYNA in solomante theneechakal…Thank you @laljosemechery for this opportunity…”
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Touted to be a romantic thriller, the film is directed by Lal Jose and written by P. G. Prageesh. Vincy will be seen in the role of police personnel with the screenname Glyna Thomas.
The film, shot by Ajmal Sabu, has music and background score by Vidyasagar. Vinayak Sasikumar and Vayalar Sarathchandra Verma have given the lyrics.
In other news, Ganesh Raj, the director of the 2016 college rom-com Aanandam, has announced a new film titled Pookkaalam with actors Vijayaraghavan, KPAC Leela, Basil Joseph, and Vineeth Sreenivasan.
Produced by Vinod Shornur and Thomas Thiruvalla, the director recently shared the first look poster from the film through an Instagram post, which features an old couple lying on different beds facing each other.
“The season of growth, change, and love. Second film, first look. :),” the caption of the post read.
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Ganesh Raj’s first directorial venture Anandam was released in 2016 and starred actors Visakh Nair, Arun Kurian, Anarkali Marikar, Roshan Mathew, Siddhi Mahajanakatti, and Annu in the lead roles.
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Filing would offer added protection to IP already submitted to USPTO
VANCOUVER, BC, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Numinus Wellness Inc. ("Numinus" or the "Company") (TSX: NUMI) (OTCQX: NUMIF), a mental health care company advancing innovative treatments and safe, evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapies, today announced that its subsidiary Numinus Bioscience Inc. ("Numinus Bioscience") has filed a patent application to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), an agency of the United Nations, for a rapid production process for Psilocybe and other fungi species containing psilocybin and other compounds.
A provisional patent application for the process was submitted to the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) on June 24, 2021. With this additional filing, international patent protection would extend to all WIPO member states that have signed the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), including Australia, Germany, Netherlands and the United Kingdom, where psychedelic research is currently active.
"The WIPO is an important global forum that provides reassurance to the patent offices of member states. Numinus is confident that the robust evidence supporting the production process will further inform regulators as they consider policy changes to make psychedelic-assisted therapies and products more accessible," said Sharan Sidhu, VP, Scientific Research, Innovation & Laboratory Operations, Numinus. "We look forward to advancing current research and paving the way for eventual commercialization and mainstream access."
The purpose of the process is to significantly increase production of therapeutics for use in psychedelic-assisted therapy, while reducing product variability, increasing production efficiency and ultimately reducing commercialization costs. Since the initial filing, data-sets validating the process for additional fungi specifies have been completed, broadening its potential application and scope from psilocybin to other active compounds.
"This application is part of Numinus' long-term IP strategic focus on scalable and sustainable production that advances research, development and delivery of innovative psychedelic-derived formulations in North America and beyond," said Payton Nyquvest, Founder and CEO, Numinus.
Numinus Wellness helps people to heal and be well through the development and delivery of innovative mental health care and access to safe, evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapies. The Numinus model – including psychedelic production, research and clinic care – is at the forefront of a transformation aimed at healing rather than managing symptoms for depression, anxiety, trauma, pain and substance use. At Numinus, we are leading the integration of psychedelic-assisted therapies into mainstream clinical practice and building the foundation for a healthier society.
Learn more at numinus.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Neither Numinus Wellness Inc., nor any of its subsidiaries is a professional corporation licensed to practice health services. In jurisdictions where health services may only be provided by a corporation if that corporation holds a valid permit to do so, Numinus and its subsidiaries operate in a management services function to affiliated professional corporations, who provide health services to patients. Numinus and its subsidiaries do provide health services directly to patients in those jurisdictions where authorized to do so.
Statements and other information contained in this press release about anticipated future events constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek", "anticipate", "believe", "plan", "estimate", "expect" and "intend" and statements that an event "may", "will", "should", "could" or "might" occur or other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and opinions of management at the date the statements are made. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements even if circumstances or management's estimates or opinions should change except as required by applicable laws. Investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
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Aziz Ansari Marries Scientist Serena Skov Campbell in Italy
Aziz Ansari, 39, is a married man, Page Six reports.
The “Parks & Recreation” alum just tied the knot with Swedish forensic data scientist Serena Skov Campbell in Tuscany, Italy.
The paper reveals the couple said “I do” in front of about 120 guests, including actor Riz Ahmed.
Ansari and Campbell, who works for PricewaterhouseCoopers, reportedly met in London following his 2018 #MeToo scandal.
The comedian moved overseas after an allegation of sexual misconduct, which Ansari has maintained was a consensual interaction.
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Britain will launch talks over a new free trade deal with six Gulf states including Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and charities warned it not to ignore human rights in its latest bid to grow non-EU ties after Brexit.
Trade minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan will visit Riyadh to begin discussions with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which is made up of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates as well as Saudi Arabia.
In 2021 total trade between the UK and the GCC was worth 33.1 billion pounds ($40.35 billion), of which 11 billion pounds in trade was with Saudi Arabia.
"I'm excited to open up new markets for UK businesses large and small, and supporting the more than 10,000 SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) already exporting to the region," Trevelyan said in a statement.
It is the fourth set of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks that Britain has launched this year after India, Canada and Mexico, as London looks to replace continuity deals it struck before it left the European Union's trading orbit with fresh post-Brexit agreements.
Britain said a deal with the GCC could reduce or remove tariffs on UK food and drink exports to the region, worth 625 million pounds last year, and also benefit financial services.
While the Gulf's substantial oil and gas reserves will not be included in any deal, manufacturing and the supply chain for the sector would be up for negotiation.
The trade ministry said the talks could help Gulf countries diversify away from a reliance on oil to other sectors, and would look to remove tariffs on items such as British wind turbine parts.
However, some charities flagged concern that any deal would not come with requirements on human rights or gender equality. Britain's trade deals with Australia and New Zealand both had chapters on gender equality.
"In Gulf countries, women face deep-rooted discrimination, while draconian curbs on free speech and bans on trade unions are common," said Allan Hogarth, Amnesty International UK's head of policy and government affairs.
"A UK-Gulf trade deal which remained silent on these issues would be wilfully ignoring serious human rights violations." | https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/britain-launches-free-trade-talks-with-gulf-countries-8722641.html | 2022-06-22T11:49:13Z | https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/britain-launches-free-trade-talks-with-gulf-countries-8722641.html | false | 4 |
The giant stingray weighs nearly 660 pounds and spans more than 13 feet — from snout to tail. Researchers even gave the ray a pet name — Full Moon — to honor its generous shape.
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The giant stingray weighs nearly 660 pounds and spans more than 13 feet — from snout to tail. Researchers even gave the ray a pet name — Full Moon — to honor its generous shape.
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Shops, markets to remain open till 10pm from 1 to 10 July ahead of Eid
The government has temporarily changed the closing hours of markets and shopping malls to 10pm instead of 8pm effective from 1 to 10 July on the occasion of the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.
The decision came on Wednesday (22 June) from the Ministry of Labour and Employment through a notice.
Earlier on 19 June, State Minister for Labour and Employment Monnujan Sufian said that shops and shopping malls will remain closed after 8.0pm from Monday to save electricity amid soaring global prices of energy.
Business leaders, however, requested the prime minister to allow activities for additional two hours in the first 10 days of this July ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. | https://www.tbsnews.net/markets/shops-markets-remain-open-till-10pm-1-10-july-ahead-eid-444858 | 2022-06-22T11:50:04Z | https://www.tbsnews.net/markets/shops-markets-remain-open-till-10pm-1-10-july-ahead-eid-444858 | false | null |
PTCL, the country’s premier Telecom and ICT services provider, has successfully deployed AirPON solution from Huawei Technologies in its Fiber Access Network.
AirPON is a unique and innovative Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) solution that leverages existing cellular mobile network infrastructure to extend fiber footprint with an improved total cost of ownership and better time to market.
AirPON employs purpose-built pre-connectorized Optical Distribution Network (ODN) components, which offers a unique, efficient, and agile deployment, that minimizes fieldwork through a plug-n-play approach, while also greatly improving the quality of installation.
The infrastructure available at cellular mobile sites is exploited for field deployment of Optical Line Terminal (OLT) equipment to serve its housing, power, and transport needs.
This solution is yet another step forward on PTCL’s roadmap for meeting rapidly growing consumer data traffic demands by expanding its Fiber Access Network in areas otherwise difficult to reach for deployment.
Jafar Khalid, Group Chief Technology Officer, PTCL Group, said, “We are committed to uplifting our customer experience through the adoption of state-of-the-art products & solutions. PTCL and Huawei achieved another milestone by successfully introducing the AirPON solution in our Network.”
He added, “We continue to invest in new technologies and products to modernize our network, with a major emphasis on expediting the reach of the high-speed fiber access network to maximum customers, and the AirPON solution will be a key enabler in meeting this ambition.”
Ahmed Bilal Masud, Huawei Pakistan Deputy CEO, stated, “Huawei is always committed to working closely with PTCL Group to explore the right solutions for meeting the evolving business requirements.”
He added, “Our goal is to offer innovative solutions to PTCL Group, while committing to minimize the deployment cost and time to market, with network simplification and emerging technologies. We believe that AirPON will pave the way for increasing fiber reach in the country, and support PTCL to offer fast internet services to its valuable customers.” | https://propakistani.pk/2022/06/22/ptcl-huawei-successfully-deploy-airpon-solution/ | 2022-06-22T11:54:11Z | https://propakistani.pk/2022/06/22/ptcl-huawei-successfully-deploy-airpon-solution/ | false | 3 |
Dynamics 365 Education – the latest training providers moving to Dynamics for apprenticeships management
Barking and Dagenham College, Pathway Group and Impact Futures are the latest training providers making the switch to efficient cloud based apprenticeships management using Dynamics 365 Education from Active.
Barking & Dagenham College
Barking and Dagenham College is an Institute of Technology college, part of a network of recognised providers leading STEM training across the UK. With over 12,000 learners, on their 290 courses, the college works with hundreds of employers providing training, apprenticeships, traineeships and work experience placements.
The college were looking for a single view for all college employer interactions, as well as a more efficient and effective way to manage Commercial relationships and their Apprenticeships provision. Our Dynamics 365 Education CRM will enable all their employer facing teams to work from one set of employer information and activity history, avoiding duplication of information and enabling a holistic view of their key data.
Equally important was the fact that we were able to integrate with existing college systems, including the college MIS, Grofar, Formie and Eventbrite.
Pathway Group
The Pathway Group have grown considerably since starting as a community venture in 2000. The Midlands based training provider is now an ESFA Prime provider, working with local and central government to deliver a comprehensive range of programmes including apprenticeships and traineeships.
We were approached by their Digital Engagement Team who were interested in Dynamics 365 Education to help them bring together information and functionality that was previously spread across multiple teams and separate systems. The goal was to set up a single CRM platform to provide efficiencies across multiple teams, and to create a better understanding across the organisation of the data they have, by viewing it all within the one joined up system.
There was also a requirement for a CRM to be used by the Marketing team who were using MailChimp, and to optimise storage by utilising D365 SharePoint.
Impact Futures
Impact Futures is a national training provider, delivering apprenticeships and vocational qualifications as well as providing apprenticeship recruitment solutions for businesses from their head Office in Slough.
Impact pride themselves on being a green organisation, and having a Cloud CRM that helps makes all of their learner and employer processes and documents virtual was a key factor.
They required a single flexible CRM platform to help them manage opportunities across the whole of the UK. The ability to set up multiple opportunities with large employers spread over many different locations was of key importance.
They also required easy integration with vacancy sites such as Facebook Jobs, Linkedin Jobs, Get My First Job and Career Map which can be managed via their Dynamics 365 Education CRM.
Christian Bowman Director at Active says “I’d like to wish a warm welcome to our three latest customers. We very much look forward to helping them all progress the development of their apprenticeships using our team of education experts and the latest in Microsoft technology.”
Further information about MS 365 Education can be found here.
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Innovative Technology Integration Allows Renters to Seamlessly Self-Tour Properties
LOS ANGELES and CAMARILLO, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rently, the leader in self touring and smart home technology, announces a platform integration partnership with Apartments.com. Renters can now schedule self-guided tours without leaving the Apartments.com website and instantly tour properties powered by Rently smart home technology solutions.
Apartments.com recently released data showing a 63% increase in renters who prefer self-guided touring options. Due to preferences for scheduling viewings during non-regular business hours and a desire for on-demand service, renters increasingly want to tour properties independently, without a manager or agent present.
By connecting renters' mobile devices with Rently's smart home technology, traditional property tours are easily transformed into secure self-guided tours.
"We believe the process of finding a new apartment should be made easy for renters and efficient for real estate operators," said Rently CEO Merrick Lackner. "With our patented self-guided touring technology, Rently streamlines rental property viewing, increases overall property touring traffic by 25%, and reduces time on market by 75%."
Lackner continued, "By integrating our self-touring platform with Apartments.com, a leader in rental property search, we are creating new property viewing options for renters and accelerating leasing cycles for managers. And, once renters move in, the same smart home technology they used for touring will be there for them to enjoy as residents."
Visit Rently at NAA's Apartmentalize 2022 (Booth 2905) and join our special events to speak to a company representative.
To learn more about how Rently's self touring and smart home solutions can benefit your leasing activities, read our blog: Smart Home Technology Optimizes the Entire Leasing Lifecycle.
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Careers support for young people: consultation, confidence and genuine commitment
The government in England has launched a consultation on the statutory guidance for schools on ‘access for education and training providers’.
Through the Skills and Post-16 Education Act 2022, schools are required to provide a minimum number of six encounters with providers of approved technical education qualifications or apprenticeships for pupils, during school years 8 to 13. For the first time, parameters are introduced around the duration and content of these encounters in an attempt to ensure they are of high quality.
These new requirements will strengthen the original provider access legislation, introduced in 2018, that requires all maintained schools and academies to publish a policy statement setting out opportunities for providers of technical education and apprenticeships to access year 8-13 pupils, and to make sure the statement is followed (Section 42B of the Education Act 1997). The consultation focuses on the statutory guidance that schools must have regard to when carrying out their legal duty. The proposed revisions explain the changes to the law and set out what schools in England must do to comply when the new law commences on 1 January 2023. The consultation also sets out proposals for a clearer process for improving compliance with the legislation, including through a ladder of support and intervention. Government is asking for views on whether there is a role for greater independent quality assurance, including through more peer and expert review. The closing date for responses is 25 July 2022.
So let’s each consider how confident we feel about the state of our nation’s careers support for young people (and adults). Since 2012, government has made several attempts to convince schools and colleges that it is their responsibility to do more in delivering career education and impartial career guidance with less resource. There is emphasis on Gatsby benchmarks using a self-assessment model. More recently, Gatsby has shifted its focus to adult guidance. The approach in England is in stark contrast to that of the three other UK home nations whereby they have adopted a consistent genuine partnership approach with trained and qualified careers specialists (guaranteed by government) in every school and college. In Scotland’s latest Careers Review Minister Jamie Hepburn states: “The all-age advice and guidance will be particularly important as we develop an enhanced lifelong skills offer that supports those who most need it.” He will set out his vision at a forthcoming virtual International Conference in early July 2022. In Wales, there’s a recognition that young people’s wellbeing and resilience must be at the forefront of careers policies. Building Brighter Futures is a public policy priority with a 5 year vision. In Northern Ireland despite recent political turmoil, the Department for the Economy has recognised the importance of transforming careers support for young people and adults.
Ten years on, investment in supporting young people’s career choices and decisions in England cannot simply be left to chance. We all know schools and colleges are facing significant fiscal and recruitment pressures that are likely to result in cost cutting activities in the coming year. A genuine commitment to supporting young people, parents and businesses who desperately need a skilled workforce requires bold ideas and brave decisions. Government has an opportunity to ‘reset the dial’ in 2022. We need more action on the ground, confidence in the careers strategy moving forward and a genuine commitment for transformation rather than endless consultations.
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Which Greenworks lawn mower is best?
Your yard’s grass is just like your hair — it grows out of its trim fast and requires regular upkeep to avoid looking overgrown. Maintaining your grass usually requires lawn mowers that need gas to power them. However, Greenworks offers electric alternatives, so you can save money on fuel while helping the environment.
The best Greenworks lawn mower is the Greenworks Pro 80-Volt 21-Inch Brushless Cordless Lawn Mower. It includes a high-capacity battery and a rapid-charging cradle to let you tackle even the biggest yards with ease.
What to know before you buy a Greenworks lawn mower
Electric vs. gas lawn mowers
Greenworks lawn mowers are exclusively electric. However, it’s best to understand the pros and cons of each fuel source to make your best decision.
- Electric mowers are cheaper to operate and make less noise. They run on either batteries or cords connected to an outlet. Corded mowers are inexpensive, light and easy to use but have limited power and range. Battery mowers are expensive and heavy but have nearly as much power as gas mowers and an unlimited range. However, the batteries rarely last long.
- Gas mowers have the power to tackle the thickest grasses and the largest yards in one go, but gas is expensive and releases dangerous emissions as it burns. They can also make enough noise to damage your hearing.
Cutting deck size
The cutting deck size on a Greenworks lawn mower ranges from 14 to 21 inches. Larger cutting decks clear your yard faster but cost more and drain batteries faster.
Grass handling
Greenworks lawn mowers typically come with two grass handling choices. You can mulch the grass back into your yard or collect the clippings in the included rear-mounted collection bag. More expensive mowers also offer side ejection.
What to look for in a quality Greenworks lawn mower
Voltage and ampere hours
Both voltage and ampere hours relay the power of a given Greenworks lawn mower.
- Voltage states the raw power. The higher the voltage, the more powerful the mower.
- Ampere hours reflect the maximum battery life and the charge time of the battery, should the mower use one. Higher ampere hours mean longer battery life but also take longer to charge. A given battery won’t have the same battery life when used with mowers of different powers.
Battery life
Better battery-powered Greenworks mowers have longer-lasting batteries. The product listing should include the maximum battery life. The best is around one hour, but keep in mind that these numbers are achieved in laboratory conditions. The effective battery life is almost always shorter. Check the user reviews to find a more accurate measurement.
Adjustable height
The best Greenworks mowers have adjustable cutting deck heights so your grass is as long or short as you want it to be. Most of the better mowers have five to seven heights.
Brushless motor
Greenworks mowers with brushless motors cost more but are equally more efficient, leading to better performance and battery life.
Self-propelling
Mowing the yard is hard work, which is why some Greenworks lawn mowers include a self-propelling feature to make it easier. However, it comes at a cost — self-propelling mowers require more power, which means less battery life.
Folding handles
Greenworks lawn mowers take up a good amount of storage space, but some come with folding handles to not take up as much.
How much you can expect to spend on a Greenworks lawn mower
Greenworks lawn mowers typically cost $150-$500. Budget corded mowers shouldn’t cost more than $200, while the most powerful battery mowers cost $400-$500. Average Greenworks mowers typically cost $250-$350.
Greenworks lawn mower FAQ
How much assembly does a Greenworks lawn mower need?
A. A little, but they rarely require anything more than hooking up batteries and attaching handles.
How do I maintain a Greenworks lawn mower?
A. Most of the maintenance of a Greenworks lawn mower comes down to double-checking that everything is clean and in the right place, plus making sure no screws are loose. You also need to sharpen the blades after a while.
What’s the best Greenworks lawn mower to buy?
Top Greenworks lawn mower
Greenworks Pro 80-Volt 21-inch Brushless Cordless Lawn Mower
What you need to know: This is among Greenworks’ most powerful mowers.
What you’ll love: The battery lasts up to an hour and the included rapid charger takes only one hour to charge back to full. It has a seven-position height adjustment. Your grass can be mulched, discharged to the side or collected in an included rear bag.
What you should consider: It doesn’t push itself and it’s heavy at 74 pounds — you need to use some elbow grease.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Greenworks lawn mower for the money
Greenworks 10-Amp 16-Inch Corded Mower
What you need to know: This inexpensive corded mower is perfect for small yards.
What you’ll love: You can mulch or collect your grass in a rear bag, plus it’s just as effective when pulled backward as when pushed forward. It has a five-height adjustment and it’s light at only 37.5 pounds. The handles fold down for better storage.
What you should consider: A few customers had issues with tripped breakers when starting it up. Others disliked how quickly the collection bag fills up.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Greenworks 40-Volt 17-inch Cordless Push Lawn Mower
What you need to know: It’s an excellent cordless mower with medium power for those looking to save money.
What you’ll love: Grass can be mulched or collected in a rear bag while cutting grass at one of five adjustable heights. The battery lasts up to 45 minutes and a charging cradle is included. It can be purchased in a bundle with one of several other Greenworks tools.
What you should consider: It works best when maintaining an already trimmed lawn. Cutting grass gone wild may require two or more rounds of trimming.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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WAPITI, Wyo. (AP) — Visitors will return to a changed landscape in Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday as it partially reopens following record floods that reshaped the park’s rivers and canyons, wiped out numerous roads and left some areas famous for their wildlife viewing inaccessible, possibly for months to come.
Park managers are raising the gates at 8 a.m. Wednesday at three of Yellowstone’s five entrances for the first time since June 13, when 10,000 visitors were ordered out after rivers across northern Wyoming and southern Montana surged over their banks following a torrent of rainfall that accelerated the spring snowmelt.
Some of the premier attractions at America’s first national park will again be viewable, including Old Faithful — the legendary geyser that shoots towering bursts of steaming water almost like clockwork more than a dozen times a day.
But the bears, wolves and bison that roam the wild Lamar Valley and the thermal features around Mammoth Hot Springs will remain out of reach. The wildlife-rich northern half of the park will be shuttered until at least early July, and key routes into the park remain severed near the Montana tourist towns of Gardiner, Red Lodge and Cooke City.
It’s unknown how many visitors will show up in the flooding’s immediate aftermath. Park managers had been bracing for throngs as the park celebrated its 150th anniversary a year after it tallied a record 4.9 million visits.
“We get a million people a month in Yellowstone in July and August,” Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly said. “You can’t get a full visitation in half the park.”
To keep visitor numbers down while repairs continue, park managers will use a system that only allows cars with even-numbered last digits on their license plates to enter on even days, while vehicles with odd-numbered last numbers can come on odd days.
Groups of visitors traveling together in different cars are exempt from the license plate system as well as people with reservations at campgrounds and hotels in the park.
If traffic along the park’s 400 miles (644 kilometers) of roads becomes unmanageable, Sholly said officials will impose a reservation system to enter the park.
The reopening comes as officials in Yellowstone are still tallying the scope of the damage. Based on other national park disasters, it could take years and carry a steep price tag to rebuild. It’s an environmentally sensitive landscape with a huge underground plumbing system that feeds into the park’s geysers, hot springs and other thermal features. Construction season only runs from the spring thaw until the first snowfall, a narrow window that means some roads could receive only temporary fixes this year.
That’s turned some Montana communities into dead ends instead of being gateways to Yellowstone, a blow to their tourism-dependent economies. They’re also still struggling to clean up damage to several hundred homes and businesses that were swamped by flooding on the Yellowstone, Stillwater and Clarks Fork rivers.
In Red Lodge, one of those gateway towns cut off from the park, most businesses are open even as flood cleanup continues. The Montana Department of Transportation is beginning repairs to the road between Red Lodge and the scenic Beartooth Highway and the National Park Service is working to restore access to some areas in the northern part of the park.
“We have to remain optimistic, but we also have to remain realistic that there’s a lot of things going on and a lot of moving pieces to make it happen,” said Tim Weamer, who does marketing for the Red Lodge Chamber of Commerce.
“We’re optimistic that we’ll survive,” he said. “We’re not going to have the summer we were hoping for.”
For others the rebound may come faster. Yellowstone tour guide Derek Draimin said he’s fully booked up Wednesday with four groups that will be headed into the park.
“I think there will be cars stacked up trying to get in, to be the first people to enter the park after the thousand-year flood,” he said.
Draimin lost about 25 tours because of the flood and says fewer visitors might come thinking that the park is badly damaged. But with most of the park expected to be accessible within weeks, Draimin said it’s also possible business could get a bump as tourists who can’t get in through the park’s northern entrances get funneled through West Yellowstone, where his company, Yellowstone Adventure Tours, is based.
“I have no idea what to expect,” he said. “I could see both things happening.”
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What was once a golf course has been transformed into something new at Lakepoint State Park.
State parks officials, local government leaders and members of the business community gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday to officially open Lakepoint State Park’s new off-road vehicle course, which is on land once occupied by the park’s former golf course.
“Lakepoint State Park has a great reputation as being a family-friendly fishing destination, and we want to provide new amenities to the park that will enhance the overall guest experience,” Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Commissioner Chris Blankenship said. “Providing this new ORV course here at Lakepoint is another example of expanding our offerings to a growing outdoor recreation segment, and if you enjoy a more relaxing golf cart cruise, you can also take a ride down our new motorized natural trail.”
Lake Eufaula – known as the “The Bass Capital of the World” – attracts thousands of visitors to Lakepoint State Park every year. Park officials are working to improve the park system to renovate existing facilities and provide new amenities to keep those visitors coming back.
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“Recently, the Alabama State Park has been able to renovate 10 cabins, and we are currently working on renovating an additional 10 cabins,” Alabama State Parks Director Greg Lein said. “Our cabins and lodges are a great way to enjoy our parks if you do not have a camper.”
The creation of the off-road vehicle course and the motorized nature trail, which is woven into the campground, provides additional amenities for visitors to Lakepoint State Park. A grant from the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs helped fund the projects at Lakepoint.
State parks officials are working toward securing off-road side-by-side vehicles that can be rented to use the course. For now, visitors must provide their own vehicle to use it.
J.R. Burke, from Polaris, spoke and the company also provided recreational off-road vehicles for Thursday’s ceremony. Polaris has a production facility in Huntsville, where the company’s popular Ranger and RZR off-road vehicles roll off the assembly line.
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Howth Sunset Cruises are perhaps one of the most tranquil evening experiences you can have in Dublin, taking you out on the water for unbeatable views of Howth, close-ups with the adorable marine life and of course, breath-taking sunset scenes.
The sunset cruises were introduced last summer while international travel was still rather restricted, showing Dubs the magic that can be experienced right on their door step.
The experience is run by Howth Cliff Cruises, a family-run company which also offers trips to Ireland's Eye and daytime cruises around the cliffs of Howth.
Read more: Beautiful north Dublin sunset paddle board tours return for summer 2022
Anne, who is the niece of company owner Mark, spoke to Dublin Live about the sunset cruises, how it began and what people can expect.
She revealed: "It was thanks to TikTok that the sunset cruises took off. We launched it in June last year. Somebody who was on the cruise made a TikTok and it blew up from there.
"Last year, we would have had a lot of people from Dublin on the tours. It's a nice mix at the moment. We get a lot of young people and pairs going on dates.
"It's not something you always think of doing in Ireland. Howth in the summer months has some of the most stunning sunsets.
"Last year, we were trying to encourage people to discover what was right on their doorstep. Dublin has so much to offer other than going into town or heading to the pub. You don't need to go on a holiday abroad to see a beautiful sunset."
Recently, Howth Cliff Cruises have introduced an attractive package which sees them team up with local foodie favourite Findlater's. For €50, you can get the sunset cruise experience along with a main and dessert at Findlater's either before or after the trip.
The regular sunset cruise costs €35 per adult and €15 per child and can be booked here. For a limited time, customers can use the code DublinLive15 for a discount when booking one of the three cruises (excluding the food and drink package).
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It’s a “Shore” thing.
Blake Horstmann exclusively told Page Six that finding romance with alum Giannina Gibelli while filming Paramount+’s “All Star Shore” was a “nice surprise.
“Nothing was forced. That was one of the coolest things because I’ve been on some other shows where things aren’t necessarily forced but … you’re put in situations where they want a certain result,” the Bachelor Nation star, 33, said during a virtual junket for the new reality show.
“And for this, it was almost the opposite. It was like, ’Stop, get away from each other. This is a competition show.’ So that was pretty fun and it felt a lot more real and a lot more genuine, so I really enjoyed that.”
Horstmann — who previously competed for Becca Kufrin’s heart on “The Bachelorette” Season 14 and later emerged as a Casanova on “Bachelor in Paradise” Season 6 — admitted that he “was waiting for the other shoe to drop” during production.
“But it never did. So it was a nice surprise,” he said, gushing over Gibelli. “And she was a nice surprise and what we built throughout the show was a very nice surprise.”
The “Love Is Blind” alum — who stepped in and out of Horstmann’s Zoom frame during the presser, though they sat down for this interview in different rooms — seems equally smitten these days.
Gibelli told Page Six that she couldn’t resist Horstmann’s charms while shooting “All Star Shore” in the Canary Islands of Spain.
“I definitely wasn’t expecting to find someone that I genuinely connected with and that I genuinely wanted to see every day … And then suddenly I have this gorgeous man in front of me,” she said.
Gibelli suggested that intimate interactions during “risky games” only made her attraction to the Colorado-based DJ stronger.
“I think at the end, you’ll feel what we felt which was just a very genuine and very true thing that you’ll have to tune in and watch,” she teased.
For his part, Horstmann found it easier to form a connection with the social media specialist without the pressure of a looming engagement.
“On ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘Bachelorette,’ getting engaged in two or three months or whatever it is, it is an added pressure. It really is,” he said. “They want to see it, the audience wants to see that. You think you’re ready at the time, but honestly most of the time you’re not. And so that pressure wasn’t here.”
Horstmann added, “There wasn’t even pressure to find a girlfriend, so it was very refreshing and it was just so, so different.”
Page Six confirmed in January that the reality TV personalities were dating. By April, Horstmann and Gibelli went Instagram-official with their relationship.
Gibelli posted a pic of herself posing with Horstmann during a European getaway via her Story. In the sweet snap, he could be seen wrapping his arms around her, while she slightly blocked his face with her hand.
The lovebirds star on “All Star Shore” alongside American and international personalities from seven different unscripted series.
“Jersey Shore” OG Angelina Pivarnick and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” fan favorite Vanessa “Vanjie” Mateo are among the notable names who are participating.
The cast also includes Bethan Kershaw, James Tindale and Chloe Ferry of “Geordie Shore,” Joey Essex of “The Only Way Is Essex,” Johnny Middlebrooks and Trina Njoroge of “Love Island,” Karime Pindter and Luis “Potro” Caballero of “Acapulco Shore,” Marina Gregory of “The Circle: Brazil” and Ricardo Salusse of “Rio Shore.”
“All Star Shore” — which Paramount+ calls the “first-of-its-kind party competition” — features wild challenges with names like “Party Pong” and “Shots and Found.”
The show will see the group vacation together, where they will battle it out for a cash prize and global bragging rights — and maybe even fall in love like Horstmann and Gibelli.
“All Star Shore” premieres Wednesday, June 29, on Paramount+. | https://pagesix.com/2022/06/22/blake-horstmann-romance-with-giannina-gibelli-was-nice-surprise/ | 2022-06-22T12:20:25Z | https://pagesix.com/2022/06/22/blake-horstmann-romance-with-giannina-gibelli-was-nice-surprise/ | false | 1 |
COVID-19: Hospitalisation increases marginally in Delhi
With a surge in COVID-19 infections in Delhi, hospitals are also witnessing a slight increase in admissions, but most of these patients, doctors say, have comorbid conditions.According to the Delhi Corona app, out of 9491 designated COVID-19 beds, 263 2.77 per cent are occupied while 24 out of 1178 ICU beds with ventilators have patients.On June 15, 182 1.9 per cent patients were in hospitals while on June 8, 85 0.88 per cent beds were occupied.
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With a surge in COVID-19 infections in Delhi, hospitals are also witnessing a slight increase in admissions, but most of these patients, doctors say, have comorbid conditions.
According to the Delhi Corona app, out of 9491 designated COVID-19 beds, 263 (2.77 per cent) are occupied while 24 out of 1178 ICU beds with ventilators have patients.
On June 15, 182 (1.9 per cent) patients were in hospitals while on June 8, 85 (0.88 per cent) beds were occupied. Within a fortnight, the hospitalisation has increased by over two times. Dr Sumit Ray, head of the department of critical care medicine at the Holy Family Hospital, said that there was no need to panic.
''The infection is obviously all around. The number of admissions has increased while the ICU patient numbers have remained steady. We have two patients on the ventilator. The floor admissions have increased but only one patient is on oxygen support while the patients on ventilators have comorbidities,'' he said.
His views were endorsed by Dr Subhash Giri, medical director at the GTB Hospital, who said that the number of suspected COVID-19 patients at the fever clinic has seen a rise and the lab positivity rate is also reflective of the increase in cases in the national capital.
''Two weeks back, there were a total of two patients in the COVID area and those too were incidental cases. They had been diagnosed with other conditions but during investigations, they were found to be COVID-19 positive. Presently, there are around 14 patients in our hospital,'' he said.
He said that barring two, the others patients admitted to the hospital have different primary illnesses while COVID-19 is a secondary condition.
''Some had a severe infection and a few patients were put on ventilator also. There have been mortalities, but COVID-19 was not the primary reason for the deaths. The cases are coming in clusters in a family or in neighbourhood,'' he added.
The senior doctor also stated that people who are unvaccinated or partly vaccinated have had a severe illness and mostly came from rural areas where there is not much awareness about it. He urged people to exercise caution and get inoculated.
Ray said that they also have a couple of paediatric patients.
''Some of the patients had gastrointestinal symptoms and required IV interventions. I have a few young people with fever, diarrhoea, and vomitting due to COVID-19-19 more than cough. We have a couple of paediatric patients not because they required oxygen but because of dehydration. Even the elderly have faced this issue,'' he said.
Ray said that patients who have developed severe illnesses are those who are either immunosuppressed or unvaccinated or partially vaccinated. ''In some cases, family members also got the patients hospitalised out of sheer fear since they had comorbidities, but there was no severe illness in them,'' he said.
Delhi reported 1,383 fresh COVID-19 cases and one more death due to the viral disease in a span of 24 hours, while the positivity rate was recorded at 7.22 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department on Tuesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing at least 920 people and injuring 600 others in the deadliest temblor in two decades, authorities said. Officials warned that the already grim toll would likely rise.
Information remained scarce on the magnitude 6.1 temblor near the Pakistani border, but quakes of that strength would be expected to cause severe damage in the remote area, where homes and other buildings are poorly constructed and landslides are common.
Rescue efforts are likely to be complicated since many international aid agencies left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover of the country last year and the chaotic withdrawal of the U.S. military from the longest war in its history. Rescuers rushed to the area by helicopter.
Neighboring Pakistan’s Meteorological Department said the quake’s epicenter was in Afghanistan’s Paktika province, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) southwest of the city of Khost. Buildings were also damaged in Khost province. The U.S. Geological Survey, which recorded the magnitude at slightly lower at 5.9, put the depth at just 10 kilometers (6 miles) — another factor that could increase the damage.
Footage from Paktika showed people being carried into helicopters to be airlifted from the area. Others were treated on the ground. One resident could be seen receiving IV fluids while sitting in a plastic chair outside the rubble of his home and still more were sprawled on gurneys. Some images showed residents picking through clay bricks and other rubble from destroyed stone houses.
The death toll, given by Afghan emergency official Sharafuddin Muslim, made it the deadliest quake since 2002, when a 6.1 magnitude temblor killed about 1,000 people in northern Afghanistan immediately after the U.S.-led invasion overthrew the Taliban government following the 9/11 attacks.
Earlier, the director-general of state-run Bakhtar news agency, Abdul Wahid Rayan, wrote on Twitter that 90 houses have been destroyed in Paktika and dozens of people are believed trapped under the rubble.
“We urge all aid agencies to send teams to the area immediately to prevent further catastrophe,” Bilal Karimi, a deputy spokesman for the Taliban government, wrote on Twitter.
In Kabul, Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund convened an emergency meeting at the presidential palace to coordinate the relief effort for victims in Paktika and Khost.
The “response is on its way,” the U.N. resident coordinator in Afghanistan, Ramiz Alakbarov, wrote on Twitter.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif in a statement offered his condolences over the earthquake, saying his nation will provide help to the Afghan people. At the Vatican, Pope Francis offered prayers for all those killed and injured and for the “suffering of the dear Afghan population.”
In just one district of Khost province, the earthquake killed at least 25 people and injured over 95 others, local officials said.
Some remote areas of Pakistan saw reports of damage to homes near the Afghan border, but it wasn’t immediately clear if that was due to rain or the earthquake, said Taimoor Khan, a disaster management spokesperson in the area.
The European seismological agency, EMSC, said the earthquake’s tremors were felt over 500 kilometers (310 miles) by 119 million people across Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
Mountainous Afghanistan and the larger region of South Asia along the Hindu Kush mountains has long been vulnerable to devastating earthquakes.
In 2015, a major earthquake that struck the country’s northeast killed over 200 people in Afghanistan and neighboring northern Pakistan. In 1998, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tremors in Afghanistan’s remote northeast killed at least 4,500 people.
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Associated Press writers Rahim Faiez and Munir Ahmed in Islamabad and Jon Gambrell and Isabel DeBre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report. | https://www.wkrn.com/news/international/official-afghanistan-earthquake-kills-at-least-920-people/ | 2022-06-22T12:23:16Z | https://www.wkrn.com/news/international/official-afghanistan-earthquake-kills-at-least-920-people/ | true | 15 |
Trading from its Bridge of Don site since 1991, the Sterling Home store had been closed for four months to undergo a major transformation. The new 75,000-square-foot “home of inspiration” outlet promises shoppers a “unique, forward-thinking” shopping experience.
The new-look store will also incorporate a 4,000 sq ft BoConcept space within the premises, featuring the “best in contemporary Danish furniture”.
Doors are due to reopen in July with an array of launch events to be announced soon.
Gordon Mearns, managing director of Sterling Home, said: “This is an exciting new chapter for our family-owned business.
“We hope you can see the ways in which we’ve not only invested in the store, but our incredible staff who are fully-fledged experts in the industry.
“Creating and nurturing opportunity is at the heart of what we do, so we are delighted to welcome 15 new recruits to join our team and to work with us at our Sterling concept store.
“Furniture is still very much at our core, but we have reimagined our brand to also offer a much wider range of non-furniture products to suit all budgets.
“We are looking forward to welcoming both familiar faces and new customers through our doors next month.”
The store will stock items from homeware and furniture brands including Le Creuset, LSA, Laura Ashley, Timorous Beasties, Wax Lyrical, G-plan, Natuzzi, Nicoletti, Xoon and Venjakob. | https://www.scotsman.com/business/huge-aberdeen-home-interiors-store-to-reopen-after-ps2-million-revamp-and-new-jobs-3741259 | 2022-06-22T12:25:13Z | https://www.scotsman.com/business/huge-aberdeen-home-interiors-store-to-reopen-after-ps2-million-revamp-and-new-jobs-3741259 | true | 1 |
Michael McAleer
Half of the electric car charging points in the European Union are concentrated in just two countries – the Netherlands and Germany – according to new data from the motor industry.
Despite making up less than 10 per cent of the EU in terms of size, the two countries dominate the EV charging infrastructure. According to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) the gap between countries at the top and bottom of the rankings for charging points is massive.
Its figures show the Netherlands has 1,600 times more charging points than 23 EU member states combined.
“When it comes to the distribution of infrastructure, there is a clear split between central and eastern European countries on the one hand and western European countries on the other. For instance, a sizeable country like Romania – seven times larger than the Netherlands – only has 0.4% of all the EU’s charging points," the ACEA said in a statement.
Ireland has a surface area representing 1.7 per cent of the EU, but has a 0.5 per cent share of the total EU charging points.
Although there has been a strong increase in the number of charging points in the EU over the past five years – up 180 per cent - the total number (307,000) falls far short of what is required, according to the ACEA.
“While some countries are powering ahead when it comes to infrastructure rollout, the majority are lagging behind,” stated ACEA director general, Eric-Mark Huitema. | https://www.echolive.ie/nationalnews/arid-40901339.html | 2022-06-22T12:25:54Z | https://www.echolive.ie/nationalnews/arid-40901339.html | false | 1 |
EE is DOWN: Network crashes leaving users across the UK unable to use their mobile internet
- According to Down Detector, the mobile network has been down since 12:56 BST
- The majority of users appear to be having problems with mobile internet
- MailOnline has contacted EE for comment
It's one of the most popular mobile networks across the UK, but it appears that EE is experiencing issues this afternoon.
According to Down Detector, the mobile network has been down since 12:56 BST, with issues affecting users across the UK.
While the reason for the outage remains unclear, of those who reported issues, 43 per cent said they were having problems with mobile internet, 38 per cent had no signal, and 19 per cent were experiencing a total blackout.
EE is yet to comment ont he outage.
According to Down Detector, the mobile network has been down since 12:46 BST, with issues affecting users across the UK
So far, more than 900 problems have been logged on Down Detector, with reports coming in from London, Manchester, Birmingham and Coventry
So far, more than 900 problems have been logged on Down Detector, with reports coming in from London, Manchester, Birmingham and Coventry.
While EE is yet to comment, many frustrated users have taken to Twitter to discuss the outage.
One user wrote: 'EE is there an outage I have no network connection on my mobile. I have rebooted my phone also.'
Another added: 'EE any chance you can sort your network out. Not a day goes by that it does go down.'
And one joked: 'Not EE going down just before i need to leave the house.'
MailOnline has contacted EE for comment.
The outage comes as millions of Brits have been forced to work from home due to the national rail strikes.
It is unclear what is causing the issue, and whether it is related to widespread internet outages yesterday that affected websites and services including Outlook and Cloudflare - a content delivery network upon which much of the internet relies. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10941831/EE-Network-crashes-leaving-users-UK-unable-use-mobile-internet.html | 2022-06-22T12:27:33Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10941831/EE-Network-crashes-leaving-users-UK-unable-use-mobile-internet.html | false | 3 |
-Glass Lewis Joins ISS in Recommending Shareholders Elect the Entire Independent Slate
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eileen Drake (the CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD)) and the other members of the Committee For Aerojet Rocketdyne Shareholders and Value Maximization today announced that leading independent proxy advisory firm, Glass Lewis, has recommended that shareholders elect the entire Drake Independent Slate at the special meeting of shareholders scheduled for June 30, 2022.
Glass Lewis is the second leading independent proxy advisory firm to recommend that shareholders vote "FOR" the Drake Independent Slate. As previously announced, Institutional Shareholder Services ("ISS") has also recommended that shareholders vote "FOR" the entire Drake Independent Slate.
Ms. Drake commented: "We are very gratified to have received Glass Lewis' full support for our Independent Slate. We now have the validation of the two leading independent proxy advisory firms, and look forward to shareholders casting their vote at the June 30th special meeting."
In supporting Ms. Drake and her Independent Slate, Glass Lewis made the following observations:
Drake and the Independent Slate
- "…Ms. Drake — working against challenging time constraints and with far fewer resources than those we expect were available to the Steel Faction — has assembled an experienced and well-rounded slate of candidates in short order, an outcome which seems to speak volumes to Ms. Drake's ability to attract credible, independent nominees to her cause."
- "[W]e consider [the Drake nominees] each appear credible and independent, with the slate collectively offering well-rounded experience in the aerospace and defense industry."
- "[W]e note Ms. Drake is a sitting CEO who, in our view, has already demonstrated strategic and operational credibility and reasonable value-creation bona fides. We do not believe Mr. Lichtenstein has been successful in reshaping that narrative, and would, as a result, question the need for Ms. Drake to essentially reinvent the operational wheel simply to impress the Steel Faction at this juncture."
- "[W]e note Ms. Drake's go-forward agenda … contains a number of favorable action items, including elimination of the executive chair role, establishment of an independent board chair, increased accountability in relation to ARD's underfunded pension fund and, by virtue of the Drake Faction slate, enhanced gender and racial diversity."
- "[T]he Drake Faction commits to considering all alternatives prospectively available to the Company — up to and including a prospective sale — alongside the continued pursuit of ARD's stand-alone strategic platform. We view this framework favorably."
Lichtenstein's Lack of Independence and Accountability
- "[S]upport for the Steel Faction would portend a considerable step back in terms of reliable, progressive corporate governance, in all cases in favor of a sitting chair recently inclined to delay shareholder votes, privately pursue personal objectives irrespective of board directives, sensationally misrepresent key developments and, perhaps most critically here, circumvent personal culpability."
- "…[W]e are concerned Mr. Lichtenstein's late-stage slate change still leaves the Steel Faction list stacked with nominees personally or professionally proximate to Mr. Lichtenstein, including CEO-in-waiting Mark Tucker."
- "The larger question, however, is a pointed one that falls in line with doubts raised throughout our commentary: if the operational issues at ARD are so pervasive — and, to be clear, we do not believe that they are — why then has Mr. Lichtenstein, as a long-serving and highly compensated employee of the Company, not previously accepted responsibility, signaled the need for change or more aggressively posited strategies and alternatives comparable to those included in the Steel Faction's existing materials?"
- "[T]he circumstances smack of procedural convenience, with Mr. Lichtenstein selectively abdicating himself of his existing responsibilities where it suits the Steel Faction campaign. Unsurprisingly, we consider this methodology hardly signals a willingness by Mr. Lichtenstein or his cohort to accept responsibility for any failure to achieve the operational targets and governance objectives contained in the Steel Faction plan."
- "…Mr. Lichtenstein is a named executive officer who sits at the top of ARD's summary compensation table. In absolute candor, we remain confounded by the notion that historical critiques of executive staff — persuasive or not — are viewed as a winning tack by the Steel Faction. In the service of absolute clarity, we would firmly emphasize again that this approach to accountability and responsibility disconcertingly reinforces Mr. Lichtenstein's willingness to shirk fault, even when his own arguments expressly indicate he is part of the problem."
Findings of Internal Investigation on Lichtenstein's Conduct
- "While the result of this investigative process is, in our view, already fairly damning, we consider Mr. Lichtenstein's oddly dismissive response and material recharacterizations are just as problematic."
- "…Mr. Lichtenstein has continually sought to reframe his unauthorized engagements [with CEO candidates] as, "proper contingency planning," purportedly consistent with his duties as executive chair. The conceptual lift here is nothing short of heroic, as Mr. Lichtenstein seems to be extolling his own virtues for attempting to surreptitiously circumvent board directives in a manner which opened ARD — and, by extension, its investors — to harm."
- "In a very damaging theme for the Steel Faction, we again find this sets a very troubling precedent in terms of accountability, transparency and candor, and is, in our view, nearly disqualifying on its own."
Delaware Opinion
- "As it relates to the recent opinion issued by the Delaware Court of Chancery, it arguably comes as limited surprise that the Steel Faction again adopts a fairly aggressive representation of available fact patterns. … [W]e consider a fair read of the published opinion offers a much more muted tone with substantially less relief than was originally sought by Mr. Lichtenstein: the court failed to find any major violations of the TRO, failed to find defendants in contempt, declined to invalidate any delivered proxies and declined to award a reimbursement of plaintiff's attorneys' fees."
- "[C]omments included in the Court's opinion — taken together with the rather modest awards secured by the Steel Faction — hardly add up to the more calamitous representations offered in the Steel Faction's recent materials, particularly given the Drake Faction purportedly offered to make the same curative disclosures prior to the foregoing proceeding."
Conclusion
"Our confidence in [our] recommendation is also carved in relief by the Steel Faction platform, the bulk of which suggests Mr. Lichtenstein has a strong preference for personal and professional affiliates, a disinterest in competing voices and a questionable approach to accountability."
Ms. Drake and the other members of the Committee for Aerojet Rocketdyne Shareholders and Value Maximization encourage all investors to review and consider the recent presentation materials posted on the Committee's website addressing many of Mr. Lichtenstein's false statements and mischaracterizations available here.
The Independent Slate Urges All Shareholders to Support its Highly Qualified Nominees by Voting "FOR" on the WHITE Proxy Card at the Upcoming Special Meeting on June 30.
Shareholders with questions can contact our solicitor: D.F. King & Co., (212) 269-5550 (collect) or via e-mail at AJRD@dfking.com.
Important Information
This communication is being made in the participants' individual capacity, and not by or on behalf of the Company. No Company resources were used in connection with these materials. We have neither sought nor obtained consent from any third party to use any statements or information indicated herein. On June 1, 2022, Eileen P. Drake, General Kevin Chilton, USAF (Ret.), General Lance Lord, USAF (Ret.) and Thomas Corcoran (the "Incumbent Directors") filed a definitive proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the solicitation of proxies for a special meeting of stockholders of the Company to be held on June 30, 2022.
Contact:
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A 24-year-old Massachusetts man now facing kidnapping charges jumped from a second story balcony and led police on a chase Tuesday, the Foxborough Police Department said.
The man, whose name was not released, is expected to be arranged Wednesday in Wrentham District Court on charges of strangulation, kidnapping, assault and battery on an intimate partner, negligent operation, failure to stop for a police vehicle and obstruction of justice.
At around 1:38 p.m. on Tuesday, the police department received a call about a possible fight inside an apartment in Foxborough, according to a statement from the police department.
“Officer Dion arrived on scene and was let in by a distraught victim,” the Facebook post read. “The suspect, who was still inside, struggled with Officer Dion then jumped from a second floor balcony.”
Police said the man then got in a car. While police followed him, he drove to Mansfield but police stopped following him due to safety reasons, the department said.
He was then located and stopped by the Massachusetts State Police. But he quickly sped off again and headed to Sharon.
Police said the man exited the highway in Sharon but then returned and the two police departments were able to pull him over.
“He eventually stopped and was safely taken into custody,” police said.
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With the constant advancements in technology, the education sector is upscaling its processes and educating the masses to a whole new level. In today’s cut-throat competition, where everyone is striving to make their indelible mark in the professional realm, only a few are able to prove their expertise in their desired field. The emergence of new-age technologies is initiating a drastic shift in the education ecosystem as a whole. Nothing beats the fact that whether one is preparing for their JEE Mains, NEET, or any other competitive exams, coaching is quintessential as it offers students proper guidance and support until they conquer their goals.
The education landscape in India has witnessed a drastic shift this past Covid-19 pandemic. Coaching institutes and schools have taken a 360° turn and are moving towards the ed-tech education system. Additionally, because so many options are available and the online education market is expanding exponentially, students frequently struggle with making decisions. Students often face numerous challenges due to the pressure to perform well in competitive entrance examinations, and the uncertainty surrounding choosing the “correct” coaching facility puts pressure on them.
Vishal Joshi is one such pioneer in the education realm who is pushing the boundaries and challenging the standard norms present in the existing world. He has been successfully training students and has enlightened aspirants with his profound knowledge in the field of inorganic chemistry. Vishal Joshi, co-founder, and HOD of a renowned institute like Nucleus Education based in Kota, has set a benchmark that is helping students to break out of their comfort zone and get top rank in their field of interest.
Vishal Joshi has started his journey with Bansal coaching classes as an educator of Inorganic chemistry. Thereafter nothing has been able to stop him from achieving remarkable achievements that have given him the opportunity to establish himself as a renowned name in the education industry. Moreover, he has gained more prominence after becoming the Director and Co-Founder of Nucleus Education Kota. The counselor has been recognized as a mentor of ICHO Gold medalist Kshitz Gargm, mentor of ICHO Silver medalist Sharvik Mittal, mentor of ICHO Silver medalist Ayush Kadam, mentor of ICHO Bronze medalist Kushal Babel, and a mentor of Yash Mishra recipient of PradhanMantri Bal Shakti Puraskar 2020.
Former HOD of Inorganic Chemistry at Allen Kota, Vishal Joshi, says, “Transformation is often referred to as reformation. In the same way, education in India is a sign of growth. However, it is actually reforming gradually and slowly. India’s educational system has undergone significant change in the past ten years. How students engage with the educational content has evolved as a result of the introduction of blended learning, online courses, and experiential learning.”
Post-Pandemic education has evolved to a greater extent. To come out with flying colors, it is of utmost importance to have a focused, determined, and disciplined mindset to achieve top rank in the competitive exams. Engineering professions are increasing due to the emergence of progressive and tenacious attitudes. Therefore, many educational institutions are coming forward to help students clear the IIT-JEE exams and get expertise in Inorganic chemistry. Vishal Joshi is one such leader who is dominating the realm of education by not only becoming the most-watched teacher in the online education platform through ‘Unacademy’ but by also imparting education through excellent physical training to the future leaders. | https://www.outlookindia.com/outlook-spotlight/vishal-joshi-becomes-influential-education-leader-through-his-excellent-training-techniques--news-203900 | 2022-06-22T12:31:43Z | https://www.outlookindia.com/outlook-spotlight/vishal-joshi-becomes-influential-education-leader-through-his-excellent-training-techniques--news-203900 | true | 1 |
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Novartis commits additional $17.7 million to create Clinical Trial Centers of Excellence at Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, bringing total planned grants to $50 million over 10 years
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Sanofi and Merck sign on to Beacon of Hope to conduct clinical trials through the four Historically Black Medical School clinical trial Centers of Excellence
Novartis offers Beacon of Hope Summer Fellowship program at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research to train students for careers in drug discovery and clinical research
EAST HANOVER, N.J., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Novartis and the Novartis US Foundation are proud to announce significant progress on Beacon of Hope, our 10-year collaboration with 26 Historically Black Colleges, Universities (HBCUs) and Medical Schools, Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), Coursera and the National Medical Association, to co-create programs that address the root causes of disparities in health and education, and create greater diversity, equity, inclusion and trust across the research and development ecosystem.
"Within one year of launching this unique collaboration, we have made tangible progress in tackling social determinants of health like education and discrimination, and creating enduring solutions for increasing diversity and inclusion in clinical trials," said Patrice Matchaba, MD, Head of US Corporate Responsibility at Novartis and President of the Novartis US Foundation. "Last year we issued a call to action to other like-minded companies and organizations to join us in creating this paradigm shift in health equity, and we are honored and humbled that Merck and Sanofi have answered the call."
New collaborations to increase diversity in clinical trial participants and investigators
Novartis and the Novartis US Foundation are working with Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science to create Clinical Trial Centers of Excellence at each school to conduct trials by investigators and trial managers of color among participants from underrepresented populations to more accurately represent the US population and improve health outcomes.
The three new clinical trial Centers of Excellence will be established with grants totaling $17.7 million over 10 years from the Novartis US Foundation, bringing our commitment in Beacon of Hope initiatives to more than $50 million over 10 years.
Howard, Meharry and Charles Drew will work together with the Clinical Trial Center of Excellence already established at Morehouse School of Medicine to form a consortium under the Beacon of Hope. Together they will collectively strengthen clinical trial capabilities and improve the quality and inclusivity of clinical trials to contribute to improved health outcomes for communities of color and help rebuild their trust in the healthcare system.
"Howard University College of Medicine plays a critical role in the pursuit of groundbreaking research that significantly impacts health outcomes for the African American community who have historically been overlooked for practices like clinical trials that are integral to medical research," said Howard University President Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick. "By making it our mission to encourage research that has a particular impact on African Americans, and especially that which impacts overall public health, Howard University College of Medicine continues to serve as a leader and innovator in our community. This contribution to the creation of a Clinical Trial Center of Excellence will inform the work of Howard's National Research Center on Health Disparities allowing us to create robust collaborations with pharmaceutical and biomedical companies that lead to better-informed solutions to some of the world's most challenging public health issues. We are tremendously grateful to Novartis and the Novartis US Foundation for partnering with us to realize this vision."
"The Novartis team has truly risen to the occasion to accelerate diversity in clinical trials and the research and development ecosystem across our nation," added Dr. James E.K. Hildreth, President and CEO of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN. "We are grateful for the many critical next steps this initiative will take, which include fostering new groundwork for discovery through new clinical trial Centers of Excellence and increased access to resources to train the next generation of Black health care leaders at the four HBCU medical schools."
"Health equity isn't just a goal, it's a right," declared Dr. David M. Carlisle, President and CEO of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles. "But like so many rights we now enjoy, sheparding it from idea to movement to reality takes a concerted effort, unyielding will, and strong partnerships. That's why we value our relationship with Novartis, the Novartis US Foundation, and all other Beacon of Hope participants as we work together towards a healthier tomorrow for everyone."
Pharmaceutical companies working together to run trials with the Centers of Excellence
Merck and Sanofi have signed on to the Beacon of Hope to run their clinical trials through the four Clinical Trial Centers of Excellence.
"We as an industry have an obligation to address health disparities through our research and development. To make sure all patients can benefit from our medicines, we must understand how these medicines work in diverse populations, especially in groups that have been historically underrepresented in clinical trials," said Dietmar Berger, Chief Medical Officer, Global Head of Development at Sanofi. "We are excited to join the Beacon of Hope collaboration and look forward to working with the Clinical Trial Centers of Excellence to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in our clinical trials."
"Merck is proud to participate in a collaboration focused on improving enrollment of underrepresented people into clinical trials with the common goal of ensuring these trials appropriately reflect the diversity of the patients we serve worldwide," added Andy Lee, Merck's head of global clinical trial operations.
Morehouse COE initiates first clinical trial
Morehouse School of Medicine's Clinical Trial Center of Excellence is now operational and will initiate its first study with Novartis on a clinical trial evaluating a cholesterol management pathway in patients on maximally tolerated statin therapy who have also experienced a recent acute coronary syndrome event. The Center of Excellence is evaluating additional Novartis clinical trials including cardiovascular, breast cancer and prostate cancer trials, and soon will begin to evaluate Merck and Sanofi clinical trials as well.
"Morehouse School of Medicine is proud to be the first Historically Black Medical School to establish and operate a Beacon of Hope Clinical Trial Center of Excellence. Through this collaboration, MSM has expanded our longstanding leadership in the creation and advancement of global health equity," said Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG, President and CEO of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. "Beacon of Hope opens new doors for Morehouse School of Medicine students and researchers, who are innovating new treatments for chronic, acute, and emerging medical conditions to directly improve the health and wellbeing of patients and communities now and for generations to come."
Improving access to high-quality education and promising jobs
The Beacon of Hope collaboration also has made significant progress in empowering the next generation of African-American and Black students to become healthcare leaders. The parties have created several programs to address gaps in generational wealth by eliminating barriers and creating pathways through mentorship and training, including:
- Beacon of Hope Summer Fellowship at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research – Novartis has created a 10-week paid summer fellowship program for 17 Historically Black Medical School students to learn drug discovery, data analytics and clinical research practices. Each student will be paired with a Novartis scientist mentor to gain first-hand experience running innovative research, science and technology projects. The program is expected to continue annually for 10 years, with the goal of training up to 250 scientists.
- TMCF-Novartis US Foundation HBCU Alliance Scholarship and Mentorship program – In August, TMCF and Novartis US Foundation will award three-year scholarships of $10,000 a year to 120 students at 26 Historically Black Colleges, Universities and Medical Schools. Each scholarship recipient will be paired with a Novartis mentor for three years to help them navigate their academic career and professional future. TMCF and Novartis US Foundation will award additional three-year scholarships again in 2025 and 2028. An additional 280 students will be paired with mentors in each three-year cohort, with the goal of training up to 1,200 students over 10 years.
- TMCF-Novartis US Foundation HBCU Alliance Faculty grants – In May, TMCF and Novartis US Foundation awarded ten $25,000 grants to HBCU faculty for research substantiating key drivers of health disparities and informing areas for change. TMCF and Novartis US Foundation plan to continue to award 10 research grants annually for 10 years.
- Coursera virtual training courses – Coursera and Novartis have co-developed online programs to support STEM training in underserved communities and increase exposure to biomedical research career opportunities. The first three courses – training for clinical trial leaders, community health workers, and pharmaceutical research and development – will launch in 2023, with additional courses to follow.
About Beacon of Hope
Launched in July 2021 as a $33.7 million commitment from Novartis and the Novartis US Foundation, Beacon of Hope began as a 10-year collaboration with Morehouse School of Medicine and 26 other Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Coursera, and the National Medical Association, to work together to increase diversity among clinical trial participants and investigators; improve access to high-quality education and promising jobs; address inherent bias in the data standards used to diagnose and treat disease; and find actionable solutions to environmental and climate issues that disproportionately affect health among communities of color.
A guiding principle of Beacon of Hope is a recognition that achieving consequential changes in health and education equity at population scale, and addressing the systemic racism that has caused decades of disparity, is a long-term endeavor that will take sustained, collective effort from industry, academia and the communities. For more information on Beacon of Hope programs, please visit: https://www.novartis.us/corporate-responsibility/beacon-hope
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Kellogg Company announced today that it will separate into three independent public companies, including its North American cereal and plant-based food businesses, via tax-free spin-offs. The Board of Directors' approved plan says that the new companies are each better positioned to unlock their full standalone potential. The three companies, whose names will be determined later, would be the following:
- "Global Snacking Co.," with about $11.4 billion in net sales, will include global snacking, international cereal and noodles, and North America frozen breakfast, with strong underlying growth momentum and profitability;
- "North America Cereal Co.", with about $2.4 billion in net sales, will sell cereal in the U.S., Canada, and Caribbean, with a portfolio of iconic, world-class brands and compelling opportunities for investment and profit growth; and
- "Plant Co.", with about $340 million in net sales, will be a profitable, pure-play plant-based foods company, anchored by the MorningStar Farms brand, with a significant opportunity to capitalize on strong long-term category prospects by investing further in North America penetration and future international expansion.
"Kellogg has been on a successful journey of transformation to enhance performance and increase long-term shareowner value. This has included re-shaping our portfolio, and today's announcement is the next step in that transformation," said Steve Cahillane, Kellogg Company's chairman and chief executive officer. "These businesses all have significant standalone potential, and an enhanced focus will enable them to better direct their resources toward their distinct strategic priorities. In turn, each business is expected to create more value for all stakeholders, and each is well positioned to build a new era of innovation and growth."
The "North American Cereal Co." and "Plant Co." will still be headquartered in Battle Creek, but "Global Snacking Co." will have locations in both Battle Creek and Chicago.
Strategic rationale
In recent years, the Company has transformed its portfolio into one that has expanded geographically and shifted toward growing businesses, particularly in snacking categories. To achieve this, it has directed resources and investments toward growth categories and markets around the world, made several acquisitions and partnerships in emerging markets, and strengthened its snacks business through acquisitions, divestitures, and the freeing up of resources by exiting from direct-store delivery. The successful execution of these actions has expanded Kellogg's portfolio, resulting in a scaled global snacking business and significant emerging markets presence, complemented by strong and profitable breakfast and plant-based foods businesses. The outcome of these strategic actions has been improved growth in recent years, with momentum sustained into 2022.
After several years of transformation and improving results, the Company believes it is the right time to separate these businesses so they may pursue their particular strategic priorities.
As independent companies, all three businesses will be better positioned to:
- Focus on their distinct strategic priorities, with financial targets that best fit their own markets and opportunities;
- Execute with increased agility and operational flexibility, enabling more focused allocation of capital and resources in a manner consistent with those strategic priorities;
- Realize improved outlooks for profitable growth; and
- Shape distinctive corporate cultures, rooted in Kellogg Company's strong values, and rewarding career paths for employees of each company.
The three companies, discussed under temporary names, will be:
Global Snacking Co.
The planned separations will result in a Global Snacking Co. that is expected to enhance its leadership position in the global snacking, international cereal and noodles, and North America frozen breakfast categories, by focusing investments and capital toward building upon its strong growth momentum and profitability.
Kellogg Company's three international regions—Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa ("AMEA")—will remain almost entirely intact within Global Snacking Co. Steve Cahillane will remain chairman and chief executive officer of Global Snacking Co.
- Global Snacking Co. had estimated 2021 net sales of $11.4 billion and estimated EBITDA of approximately $2.0 billion on an adjusted basis, based on preliminary allocation assumptions.
- Nearly 60% of its net sales come from global snacks, participating in growing categories and led by brands including Pringles, Cheez-It, Pop-Tarts, Kellogg's Rice Krispies Treats, Nutri-Grain, and RXBAR, among others.
- Less than a quarter of its net sales come from cereal in international markets, featuring world-class brands such as Kellogg's, Frosties / Zucaritas, Special K, Tresor / Krave, Coco-Pops, and Crunchy Nut, among others. By remaining with Global Snacking Co., this international cereal business provides scale, continuity, and growth for the company's Europe, Latin America, and AMEA Regions.
- About 10% of its net sales come from noodles in Africa, a rapidly expanding business.
- The remainder, less than 10% of its net sales, comes from frozen breakfast and the world-class Eggo brand.
- Geographically, North America will represent just under half of net sales, emerging markets about 30% of net sales, and developed international markets more than 20% of net sales.
- This business is expected to be a higher-growth company than today's Kellogg Company, featuring a more growth-oriented portfolio and aided by more focused resources and attention to brand building, innovation, and international expansion of world-class brands, and to building scale in emerging markets.
- This business is expected to expand profit margins through operating leverage, revenue growth management, productivity, and increasing emerging-markets scale.
North America Cereal Co.
The Company plans to separate North America Cereal Co. as an independent business through a tax-free spin-off. North America Cereal Co. will offer beloved brands, a heritage of innovation, and more than a century of operational success. As a standalone company, North America Cereal Co. will have greater strategic focus and operational flexibility, and will direct capital and resources toward unlocking growth, regaining category share, and restoring and expanding profit margins.
- North America Cereal Co. had estimated 2021 net sales of $2.4 billion and estimated EBITDA of approximately $250 million on an adjusted-basis, based on preliminary allocation assumptions.
- The business is focused on ready-to-eat cereal in the U.S., Canada, and Caribbean.
- North America Cereal Co.'s portfolio is comprised of brands such as Kellogg's, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, Mini-Wheats, Special K, Raisin Bran, Rice Krispies, Corn Flakes, Kashi and Bear Naked.
- Near term, North America Cereal Co. will be focused on the restoration of inventory, profit margins, and share position following 2021 supply disruptions.
- Longer term, it will focus resources and strengthen the business through enhancing its portfolio, operating capabilities, and productivity.
- This business is expected to generate stable net sales over time, with improving profit margins that will drive profit growth, higher cash flow, and increased return on invested capital.
Plant Co.
The Company intends to separate Plant Co. as an independent business through a tax-free spin-off, while also exploring other strategic alternatives, including a possible sale.
Anchored by the MorningStar Farms brand, Plant Co. will be a profitable, pure-play, plant-based foods company. This business offers a full portfolio of plant-based offerings across multiple product segments and eating occasions. Kellogg has grown MorningStar Farms steadily since its acquisition over 20 years ago, and the brand now has the highest share and household penetration in the frozen vegetarian/vegan category.
Plant Co. had estimated 2021 net sales of $340 million and estimated EBITDA of approximately $50 million on an adjusted-basis, based on preliminary allocation assumptions.
- The business is currently focused on the U.S., Canada, and Caribbean.
- As an independent business, Plant Co. will have the opportunity to build on its strong base of growth and profitability, focusing its resources and investments towards capitalizing on strong category prospects, by building awareness and penetration in North America, and expanding internationally in the future.
- The business is expected to accelerate net sales growth over time, from previously disclosed portfolio-segment assumptions.
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MILWAUKEE, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harley-Davidson, Inc. ("Harley-Davidson") (NYSE:HOG) today announces the appointment of Tralisa Maraj as Chief Financial Officer at LiveWire.
Effective today, Maraj joins LiveWire with extensive experience in leadership, corporate governance, accounting and finance. Maraj formerly served as both Chief Financial Officer & Corporate Secretary for CGX Energy Inc. ("CGX") and previously served as Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to CGX, Maraj served as Corporate Controller at Remora Energy Management. Maraj started her career at PWC, holding various roles over fourteen years at the firm.
"It's great to have Tralisa join the team at such an exciting point in LiveWire's journey to becoming the first publicly traded EV company in the US," said Jochen Zeitz, Chairman, CEO and President, Harley-Davidson.
LiveWire is the future in the making for the pursuit of urban adventure and beyond. Drawing on its DNA as an agile disruptor from the lineage of Harley-Davidson and capitalizing on a decade of learnings in the EV sector, LiveWire's ambition is to be the most desirable electric motorcycle brand in the world. With a dedicated focus on EV, LiveWire plans to develop the technology of the future and to invest in the capabilities needed to lead the transformation of motorcycling. LiveWire benefits from Harley-Davidson's engineering expertise, manufacturing footprint, supply chain infrastructure, and global logistics capabilities. Innovating by design and attracting industry-leading talent, LiveWire is headquartered virtually, with initial hubs in Silicon Valley, CA (LiveWire Labs) and Milwaukee, WI.
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Harley-Davidson, Inc. is the parent company of Harley-Davidson Motor Company and Harley- Davidson Financial Services. Our vision: Building our legend and leading our industry through innovation, evolution and emotion. Our mission: More than building machines, we stand for the timeless pursuit of adventure. Freedom for the soul. Since 1903, Harley-Davidson has defined motorcycle culture with an expanding range of leading-edge, distinctive and customizable motorcycles in addition to riding experiences and exceptional motorcycle accessories, riding gear and apparel. Harley-Davidson Financial Services provides financing, insurance and other programs to help get Harley-Davidson riders on the road. Learn more at www.harley-davidson.com.
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In connection with the Business Combination, HoldCo and ABIC have filed on February 7, 2022 a registration statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-262573) (as may be amended from time to time, the "Registration Statement") as co-registrants that includes a preliminary proxy statement/prospectus of ABIC and a preliminary prospectus of HoldCo, and after the Registration Statement is declared effective, ABIC will mail a definitive proxy statement/prospectus relating to the Business Combination to ABIC's shareholders. The Registration Statement, including the proxy statement/prospectus contained therein, when declared effective by the SEC, will contain important information about the Business Combination and the other matters to be voted upon at a meeting of ABIC's shareholders to be held to approve the Business Combination (and related matters). This communication does not contain all the information that should be considered concerning the Business Combination and other matters and is not intended to provide the basis for any investment decision or any other decision in respect of such matters. Harley-Davidson, HoldCo and ABIC may also file other documents with the SEC regarding the Business Combination. ABIC shareholders and other interested persons are advised to read, when available, the preliminary proxy statement/prospectus and the amendments thereto and the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed in connection with the Business Combination, as these materials will contain important information about Harley-Davidson, LiveWire, HoldCo, ABIC and the Business Combination.
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Black Stag Coffee expanding distribution across all major retail channels
NEENAH, Wis., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trilliant Food & Nutrition, a leading U.S. manufacturer of shelf stable, ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee beverages, announced today that new distribution growth of its premium Black Stag coffee continues across all major retail channels. In July, shoppers will find their favorite Black Stag ready-to-drink coffees at their nearest Walmart, Food Lion, and Walgreens stores. Select Black Stag items are also now available at most Sam's Club and BJ's Wholesale Club locations.
"Consumer demand for ready to drink coffee remains strong and Black Stag RTD coffee is one of the fastest growing brands in the category due to its premium formulation and excellent bold coffee flavor," said Tom Lehocky, Vice President of Sales for Trilliant Food & Nutrition. "Our retail partners also value that we manufacture Black Stag in our own production facility which eliminates many of the supply challenges other brands are experiencing," added Lehocky.
Black Stag RTD coffees are available to enjoy in bottles and cans as Premium Lattes, Energy Lattes, and Espresso with Cream beverages.
Trilliant Food & Nutrition is a manufacturer of ready-to-drink coffee and shelf stable beverages. From bean to bottle, we focus on creating quality in our vertically integrated facilities. Our team of experts deliver consistent, high quality, shelf stable products across most coffee formats. For more information, visit Trilliantfood.com.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tuya Inc. ( "Tuya" or the "Company") (NYSE: TUYA), a global leading IoT cloud development platform, today announced the launch of its global offering (the "Global Offering") of 7,300,000 Class A ordinary shares of the Company, which comprises a Hong Kong public offering of initially 730,000 Class A ordinary shares (the "Hong Kong Public Offering") and an international offering of initially 6,570,000 Class A ordinary shares (the "International Offering"), both commencing on June 22, 2022 Hong Kong time, and dual-primary listing of its Class A ordinary shares on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Hong Kong Stock Exchange") under the stock code "2391."
The Company's American depositary shares (the "ADSs"), each representing one Class A ordinary share of the Company, will continue to be listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE"). Investors in the Global Offering will only be able to purchase Class A ordinary shares and will not be able to take delivery of ADSs. Upon listing of the Class A ordinary shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Class A ordinary shares listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange will be fully fungible with the ADSs listed on the NYSE.
The initial number of Class A ordinary shares under the Hong Kong Public Offering and the International Offering represent 10% and 90% of the total number of Class A ordinary shares initially available under the Global Offering, respectively, subject to reallocation and over-allotment. Subject to the level of oversubscription in the Hong Kong Public Offering and pursuant to the clawback mechanism as described in the Hong Kong prospectus issued by the Company in Hong Kong dated June 22, 2022, the total number of Class A ordinary shares available under the Hong Kong Public Offering could be adjusted to up to a maximum of 3,650,000 Class A ordinary shares, representing 50% of the Class A ordinary shares initially available under the Global Offering. In addition, the Company expects to grant the international underwriters an over-allotment option to require the Company to issue up to an additional 1,095,000 Class A ordinary shares in the International Offering, representing not more than 15% of the total number of Class A ordinary shares initially available under the Global Offering.
The offering price for the Hong Kong Public Offering (the "Hong Kong Offering Price") will be no more than HK$22.80 per Class A ordinary share (the "Maximum Hong Kong Offering Price"), or US$2.90 per Class A ordinary share (equivalent to US$2.90 per ADS). The offering price for the International Offering tranche of the Global Offering (the "International Offering Price") may be set higher than the Maximum Hong Kong Offering Price. The Company will set the International Offering Price on or about June 27, 2022, Hong Kong time, by taking into consideration, among other factors, the closing price of the ADSs on the NYSE on the last trading day on or before June 27, 2022 and investor demand during the marketing process. If the International Offering Price is set at or lower than the Maximum Hong Kong Offering Price, the final Hong Kong Offering Price must be set at such price which is equal to the International Offering Price. In no circumstances will the final Hong Kong Offering Price be set above the Maximum Hong Kong Offering Price or the International Offering Price. The shares will be traded in board lots of 200 Class A ordinary shares.
The Company plans to use the net proceeds from the Global Offering for enhancing IoT technologies and infrastructure; enhancing its product offerings; improving sales and marketing; pursuing strategic partnerships, investments and acquisitions; and for working capital and other purposes.
China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited, Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Limited and Morgan Stanley Asia Limited are the joint sponsors for the proposed Global Offering, and China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited, Morgan Stanley Asia Limited and Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Limited are the joint global coordinators, joint bookrunners, and joint lead managers for the proposed Global Offering. CMB International Capital Limited and Tiger Brokers (HK) Global Limited are the joint bookrunners and joint lead managers for the proposed Global Offering.
The International Offering is being made only by means of a preliminary prospectus supplement dated June 22, 2022 and the accompanying prospectus included in an automatic shelf registration statement on Form F-3 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on May 31, 2022, which automatically became effective upon filing. The registration statement on Form F-3 and the preliminary prospectus supplement are available at the SEC website at: www.sec.gov.
The proposed Global Offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the Global Offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the Global Offering. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer or an invitation to buy any securities of the Company, nor shall there be any offer or sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction. This press release does not constitute a prospectus (including as defined under the laws of Hong Kong) and potential investors should read the prospectus of the Company for detailed information about the Company and the proposed Global Offering, before deciding whether or not to invest in the Company. This press release has not been reviewed or approved by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited or the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong.
The price of the Class A ordinary shares of the Company may be stabilized in accordance with the Securities and Futures (Price Stabilizing) Rules (Chapter 571W of the Laws of Hong Kong). The details of the intended stabilization and how it will be regulated under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong) will be contained in the Hong Kong prospectus of the Company dated June 22, 2022.
About Tuya Inc.
Tuya Inc. (NYSE: TUYA) is a global leading IoT cloud development platform with a mission to build an IoT developer ecosystem and enable everything to be smart. Tuya has pioneered a purpose-built IoT cloud development platform that delivers a full suite of offerings, including Platform-as-a-Service, or PaaS, and Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, to businesses and developers. Through its IoT cloud development platform, Tuya has enabled developers to activate a vibrant IoT ecosystem of brands, OEMs, partners and end users to engage and communicate through a broad range of smart devices.
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ROSELAND, N.J., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ADP (NASDAQ: ADP), a leading global provider of Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, is scheduled to release its financial results for the fourth fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2022 before the opening of the Nasdaq on Wednesday, July 27, 2022.
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(The Hill) – Former President Trump’s campaign to press GOP state officials to overturn the results of the 2020 election violated state laws, defied the Constitution and led directly to violent threats against those figures that continues to this day, a number of those Republicans testified Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
Appearing before the House committee investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Republican election officials said Trump’s team, led by the president himself, made fantastic allegations of voter fraud — all of them false — and asked numerous state figures to break the law to keep Trump in power despite his clear defeat.
“The numbers are the numbers and the number’s don’t lie,” said Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, whom Trump had pressed to “find” 11,780 votes — the number that would have made him the winner.
Raffensperger noted that three separate recount efforts in the Peach State all found Joe Biden to be the winner by a “remarkably” similar margin.
“What I knew is we didn’t have any more votes to find,” he said.
Their testimony provided the latest affirmation of the select committee’s central accusation against the former president: that Trump had abused the powers of the White House to promote a lie — that the election was stolen — and nullify the wishes of voters in several key states where the margins were slimmest. It was that campaign, in the committee’s telling, that led directly to the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“The President’s lie was and is a dangerous cancer on the body politic,” said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a member of the select committee. “If you can convince Americans that they cannot trust their own elections, that any time they lose it is somehow illegitimate, then what is left but violence to determine who should govern.”
To make their case, the committee returned to a tactic that’s practically defined the public-hearing phase of their investigation: allowing Republicans to provide the details of Trump’s alleged wrongdoing.
The GOP officials — representing Arizona and Georgia, two battlegrounds that became a focus of Trump’s efforts — said they all supported Trump’s reelection, but couldn’t comply with his demands for the simple reason that they were illegal.
Central to Trump’s campaign was the farming out false claims of election fraud to state officials asking them to intervene in delaying the certification of vote totals, a move that included an effort to send fake certificates to Washington signed by “alternate” electors.
The committee showed Trump played a central role in that effort.
Ronna McDaniels, head of the Republican National Committee, told investigators that it was the former president who initiated a call asking the RNC to help with the fake electors scheme. His chief of staff Mark Meadows called or texted 18 times to arrange Trump’s now infamous call with Raffensperger. And it was Trump, along with personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who reached out to Arizona Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers (R) asking him to “replace” electors.
“I didn’t want to be used as a pawn,” Bowers said.
“You are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath when I swore to the Constitution to uphold it, and I also swore to the Constitution and the laws of the state of Arizona. And this is totally foreign as an idea or a theory to me, and I would never do anything of such magnitude without deep consultation with qualified attorneys,” Bowers said.
Bowers said Trump and Giuliani phoned him directly after the election with claims that, between undocumented immigrants and dead people, hundreds of thousands of illegal votes had been cast in the Grand Canyon state. Giuliani, Bowers said, claimed to have ready evidence of the fraud, but never provided it. And he later acknowledged that there was no evidence, only “theories.”
“[Giuliani] said, ‘We’ve got lots of theories. We just don’t have the evidence,’” Bowers said. “And I don’t know if that was a gaffe or maybe he didn’t think through what he said.”
Other Trump campaign attorneys acknowledged as much, testifying they sought to distance themselves as Giuliani and another pro-Trump lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, pushed what they deemed to be illegal.
Trump campaign lawyer Justin Clark said he told others, “I don’t think this is appropriate or, you know, this isn’t the right thing to do. I don’t remember how I phrased it, but I got into a little bit of a back and forth,” he said, before adding “I’m out.”
Another campaign attorney, Matt Morgan, had an associate reach out to Chesebro “politely to say, ‘This is your task. You are responsible for the Electoral College issues moving forward.’ And this was my way of taking that responsibility to zero.”
Those roped into the false elector scheme voiced regret — and resentment — to the committee.
Robert Sinners, who was Trump’s election day operations director in Georgia, said he and others involved were just “kind of useful idiots or rubes at that point.”
“I’m angry. I’m angry because I think in a sense no one really cared if people were potentially putting themselves in jeopardy,” Sinners said in a taped deposition.
But Sinners was unaware that many of the campaign lawyers had advised against the strategy.
“I absolutely would not have [participated] had I known that the three main lawyers for the campaign that I’d spoken to in the past and were leading up were not on board.”
Andrew Hitt, a former Wisconsin Republican Party chair who was subpoenaed due to his role in the scheme in January, said he was told the fake certificates “would only count if a court ruled in our favor.”
“So that would have been using our electors — well, it would have been using our electors in ways that we weren’t told about and we wouldn’t have supported,” he said in a video clip of his deposition shared by the committee.
Other revelations offered by the committee Tuesday were the previously unknown efforts by two lawmakers the morning of Jan. 6 in forwarding the false electors scheme, which were evidently going to be flown to D.C.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) tried to hand deliver two of the certificates to Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, as he arrived at the Capitol that morning to oversee the electoral vote count, according to one of the select committee’s lawyers.
“Johnson needs to hand something to VPOTUS please advise…alternate slate of electors for MI and WI because archivist didn’t receive them,” Johnson aide Sean Riley texted to a Pence staffer in an exchange the committee displayed.
“Don’t give that to him,” Chris Hodgson, Pence’s aide responded.
A spokeswoman for Johnson tweeted Tuesday that Johnson had “no foreknowledge” of the scheme and called the texts “a staff to staff exchange.”
Bowers also testified that he heard from Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) that morning.
“He asked if I would sign on both to a letter that had been sent from my state, and/or that I would support the decertification of the electors,” Bower said.
“I said I would not,” Bowers added.
The officials also described how their decision to buck Trump’s demands led to a fierce backlash from Trump’s supporters, including protests outside their homes, violent threats against themselves and their families — including death threats — and a wave of calls, emails and texts that have forced them to reimagine how they conduct their everyday lives.
One poll worker in Georgia, whom Trump and Giuliani wrongly accused of cheating the system to pad Joe Biden’s numbers, said she’s afraid to go to the grocery store for fear of being recognized, won’t give out business cards and gained 60 pounds.
“This turned my life upside down,” said Wandrea Arshaye Moss. “All because of lies. For me doing my job.” | https://www.kron4.com/news/state-republicans-say-trump-wanted-them-to-break-law-to-keep-him-in-power/ | 2022-06-22T12:53:27Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/state-republicans-say-trump-wanted-them-to-break-law-to-keep-him-in-power/ | true | 24 |
New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI): In order to provide relief to telecom service providers the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has scrapped 3 per cent floor rate on spectrum usage charges.
"For spectrum acquired through auctions held after 15 September 2021 in different access spectrum bands, no SUC (Spectrum Usage Charges) shall be charged," the DoT said in an order dated June 21, 2022.
The weighted average of SUC rates across all spectrum assigned to an operator in all access spectrum bands including the Broadband Wireless Access spectrum in 2300 MHz/2500 MHz band acquired in 2010 auction shall be applied for charging SUC.
"The weighted average is to be derived by the sum of the product of spectrum holdings and applicable SUC rate, divided by total spectrum holding. The weighted average rate should be determined operator-wise for each service area, the DoT said in the order.
The Department of Telecommunications order will give relief to the telecom service operators.
"We welcome and thank the Government and Minister of Communications for the much-awaited DoT order regarding the levy of SUC charges for spectrum in 600 MHz, 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 MHz 2500 MHz, 3300 MHz and 26 GHz bands. The order will provide clarity to telecom service providers for the upcoming auctions," said S P Kochhar, Director General, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI).
For the purpose of calculation of spectrum usage charges, the Department of Telecommunications said, "there shall be a minimum/presumptive AGR which shall be not less than 5 per cent of the bid amount."
The calculation of spectrum usage charges shall be on the basis of minimum/presumptive AGR or the actual AGR whichever is higher, the DoT said.
The weighted average rate shall be kept to two decimal points by the rounding off the second decimal figure to the next higher digit. The rounding off shall be made to next higher digit at two decimal points even if the third decimal point is less than 5, the DoT noted in the order. (ANI) | https://www.aninews.in/news/business/dot-gives-relief-to-telcos-scraps-spectrum-usage-charge-floor-rate20220622173931/ | 2022-06-22T12:54:00Z | https://www.aninews.in/news/business/dot-gives-relief-to-telcos-scraps-spectrum-usage-charge-floor-rate20220622173931/ | true | 3 |
Dinesh Karthik makes massive jump in T20I rankings after exploits against South Africa
Veteran India wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik has leaped a whopping 108 spots in the ICC T20 rankings for batters. Karthik, who has found a new lease of life as a finisher, is now ranked 87th, having played his first international series in three years when India hosted South Africa.
Meanwhile, India opener Ishan Kishan remains the only batter in the top 10 of the rankings. Kishan finished the series with two half centuries against South Africa and was the leading run scorer with 206 runs at an average of 41. That form catapulted the left-hander up one spot to sixth on the latest T20 rankings for batters.
Karthik has been in excellent form since the 2022 Indian Premier League (IPL), in which he was one of the standout players due to his blazing knocks for Royal Challengers Bangalore down the order. He won player of the match in the 4th T20I after smashing 55 off 27 balls, which was crucial in India winning the game and levelling the series.
Pakistan captain Babar Azam still holds the top spot on the T20 batting rankings.
Among the bowlers, Yuzvendra Chahal was the biggest mover on the T20 rankings with the India spinner jumping three places to 23rd following his six wickets during the South Africa series.
Josh Hazlewood maintains his position as the top ranked T20 bowler, with Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan (joint third) and Sri Lanka tweaker Wanindu Hasaranga (sixth) both moving up a place inside the top 10.
Meanwhile, Ravindra Jadeja maintains his top position in the Test all-rounders' list with 385 rating points. He is currently in the UK for India's upcoming Test against England, a spill over of last year's five-match series, which could not be completed owing to a COVID-19 outbreak.
Former India captain Virat Kohli (742) maintained his 10th position in the Test batting chart, while seasoned off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (850) and pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah (830) occupied the second and third positions in bowling respectively.
Australian quick Pat Cummins leads the Test bowlers' list with 901 rating points. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/dinesh-karthik-makes-massive-jump-in-t20i-rankings-after-exploits-against-south-africa-101655899554090-amp.html | 2022-06-22T12:54:14Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/dinesh-karthik-makes-massive-jump-in-t20i-rankings-after-exploits-against-south-africa-101655899554090-amp.html | false | 2 |
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Source: GNA
A simulation exercise to test the country's readiness to respond effectively in times of major earthquakes is ongoing.
The exercise dubbed “Lignite Coast Preparedness 2022, Exercise Shikpon Wosomo” is being carried out by the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and its security agencies in collaboration with the Government of the United States of America and the North Dakota National Guard.
It is being funded by the Government of the United States of America through its embassy in Accra to test the level of preparedness of the various emergency response agencies and the cooperation and collaboration between these agencies.
The exercise is also to test the resources available to these agencies and their effectiveness should disaster strike the country.
The Tema exercise focused on roles of the Ghana Police Service, the National Ambulance Service, and the Ghana National Fire Service in protecting victims during earthquake disasters in Ghana.
The exercise was carried out at the Canoe Village and the Fish Market, at the Tema Fishing Harbour with all the security agencies and the Ghana Health Service actively supporting its each other to save lives and evacuate “casualties” of the victims for treatment.
Professor Ahmed Nuhu Zakaria, the Chief Executive Officer, National Ambulance Service, commended the efforts of the various response agencies and described the exercise as successful.
He said the police are the first to arrive at every disaster scene to condone and secure the place, followed by the fire service to decontaminate casualties from the spillage before handing them over to the emergency ambulance service to evacuate the victims for treatment.
“We have seen cordial cooperation and collaboration from all the emergency response agencies throughout all levels of the exercise and l can say it was a very successful event,” he added.
Alhassan Mohammed Massawud, the Incident Commander for the exercise, National Ambulance Service, said their major challenge was the unavailability of open space to stage their equipment to give first aid to victims before evacuating them for treatment.
He also reiterated the need for the mandated authorities to make conscious efforts to create more open spaces within their authority to cater for future disasters.
Ghana is not immune to earthquake events. The last destructive earthquake recorded in the country happened in 1939 and claimed 17 lives in Accra and several buildings were razed down.
The last simulation exercise involving the Ghana Armed Forces will be held at Trade Fair Center, La. | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/NADMO-organises-earthquake-simulation-exercise-to-test-Ghana-s-preparedness-1566782 | 2022-06-22T12:54:29Z | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/NADMO-organises-earthquake-simulation-exercise-to-test-Ghana-s-preparedness-1566782 | false | 2 |
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas returned to his Washington DC residence and was shocked to find a squad of 10 soldiers living there.
Ginni Thomas, Justice Thomas’ wife, informed him the infantrymen arrived several hours earlier. Army Specialist Andrew Canard obtained entry by circumventing the security system.
After gaining access to the residence they set up a command center in the living room and decided where they were going to sleep. They chose the master bedroom, guest bedroom, and guest house, leaving the Thomas’ the rumpus room in the basement.
“When I arrived home from the MAGA event, I was quite surprised,” Ginni Thomas confided to reporters. “But the paperwork was in order, so what could I do?”
Her husband was less understanding.
He immediately ordered the young men out of his home and called law enforcement. From the police report, he called the interlopers “scoundrels” and “Democrats.”
It took 45 minutes for Ginni to explain to her husband that quartering soldiers in private residences is now 100% perfectly legal. The recent SCOTUS decision in Carson v Markin effectively nullifies the Third Amendment of the US Constitution.
She then had to explain what the Third Amendment actually says.
Eventually, Justice Thomas admitted that maybe the conservative court had gone a little too far in destroying the liberties guaranteed to citizens under the US Constitution.
“You start off wanting to control women’s bodies and promoting Christianity, and you end up with soldiers sleeping in your own waterbed,” he sighed as he prepared the cot downstairs.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Katie Britt won the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama Tuesday, defeating six-term Rep. Mo Brooks in a primary runoff after former President Donald Trump took the unusual step of rescinding his initial Brooks endorsement.
The loss ends a turbulent campaign that pit Brooks, a conservative firebrand who has spent more than a decade in Congress, against someone who has never held elected office. Brooks ran under the banner “MAGA Mo" and fully embraced Trump’s election lies. But that wasn’t enough for the former president, who initially backed Brooks in the race to replace Britt's former boss, retiring Sen. Richard Shelby, but then pulled his support as Brooks languished in the polls.
The race was among a handful of contests held Tuesday at the midpoint of a primary season that has been shaped by Trump’s effort to influence the GOP.
By the time Trump backed her earlier this month, Britt was already considered the favorite in the race. She emerged as the top vote-getter in the state's May 24 primary, but just missed the threshold that triggered a runoff. Still, Tuesday's result gives Trump a win at a time when his influence over the GOP has come under scrutiny.
The former president has had a mixed record of success in backing candidates this election season, helping lift Senate contenders in Pennsylvania and Ohio while floundering elsewhere, particularly in Georgia. Voters in the onetime Republican stronghold rejected his efforts to unseat the state’s GOP governor and secretary of state, both of whom rebuffed his extraordinary pressure to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. And his trouble in the crucial swing state deepened Tuesday as two of his endorsed congressional candidates faltered in their GOP run-off elections.
In the 6th District in Atlanta’s northern suburbs, emergency room physician Rich McCormick beat Trump-backed lawyer Jake Evans. And in the 10th District east of Atlanta, trucking company owner Mike Collins bested Democrat-turned-Republican Vernon Jones.
Trump persuaded Jones to run for the seat and drop his long-shot bid for governor to clear the field for his chosen candidate, former Sen. David Perdue. Perdue lost to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who endorsed Collins. The seat is being vacated by Republican Rep. Jody Hice, who also lost his bid to unseat Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, another top Trump target.
Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser won the Democratic nomination to serve another term, fending off a pair of challengers amid concerns over rising crime and homelessness.
But the Alabama Senate runoff had drawn particular attention because of the drama surrounding Trump's endorsement and because the winner, who will face Democrat Will Boyd in November, is considered the overwhelmingly favorite in the Republican state.
Britt, 40, cast herself as part of a new generation of conservative leaders while disparaging Brooks, 68, as a career politician. If victorious in November, Britt will be the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama and one of its youngest members. The state’s previous female senators had been appointed.
“Alabama has spoken. We want new blood. We want fresh blood,” she said at her victory party. “We want someone who will fight for Christian conservative values, who will fight for the freedoms and liberties this nation was founded on and will fight for the American dream for the next generation and the next generation.”
That argument seemed to resonate with some voters Tuesday.
“She’s young. She’s smart,” said 86-year-old Carolyn Bowman. “That’s what we need in Congress.”
Brooks, who is known for his bombastic oratory style, described the race as a battle for the soul of Republican Party, pitting the “true conservative” wing against establishment members of the GOP. He disparaged Britt, 40, as a RINO — the GOP pejorative meaning “Republican in name only” — and maintained he was the only one with a proven conservative record.
The founding member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, Brooks has a history of bucking party leadership and made his opposition to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a pillar of his campaign, embarking on a “Fire McConnell Tour” of town halls.
In his concession speech Tuesday night, Brooks told supporters he respected the race’s outcome. But in a sign of the contentious race, he accused voters of having been seduced by false advertising and congratulated high-dollar donors and “special interest groups” for funding Britt’s campaign.
“We are sending to Washington, D.C., the exact opposite of what we need in the United States Senate. But the voters have spoken. They might not have spoken wisely,” he groused.
Brooks was initially considered the frontrunner when he announced his Senate candidacy, and Trump quickly offered his support, rewarding an ally who had been an ardent supporter of Trump’s false claims of election fraud. Brooks voted against certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential election victory and delivered a fiery speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally that proceeded the U.S. Capitol insurrection, telling the crowd, “Today is the day that American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass.”
But their relationship soured as Brooks struggled to gain traction. Trump eventually pulled his support in March, accusing Brooks — one of the most conservative members in Congress — of going “woke” for saying at a rally that it was time to move on from litigating the 2020 presidential election.
Brooks clawed his way into a second-place finish in the May primary and tried once again to get Trump to back him. But Trump instead threw his support to Britt 11 days before the runoff she was widely expected to win.
Elsewhere, in Virginia, Republicans chose a pair of Trump-aligned congressional candidates to take on two of the most vulnerable Democrats in the fall.
In the coastal 2nd District, state Sen. Jen Kiggans won the Republican race to try to unseat Democrat Elaine Luria, a retired Naval commander and member of the Jan. 6 committee, in the general election. And in central Virginia’s 7th District, Yesli Vega emerged from a competitive six-candidate field to face Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger.
At the polls Tuesday in Virginia Beach, Nanci Eves, 70, said she voted for Kiggans in part because she believes the candidate is best positioned to win in November.
“We need someone who can beat Elaine Luria,” said Eves, a retired nurse who lives in Virginia Beach and who thinks Democrats have made “a mess” of the country while in power. | https://www.carolinacoastonline.com/national/article_a7d4e2b2-f217-11ec-af80-f33ba5ed9846.html | 2022-06-22T12:54:36Z | https://www.carolinacoastonline.com/national/article_a7d4e2b2-f217-11ec-af80-f33ba5ed9846.html | true | 25 |
Texas lawmaker first Mexican-born woman to join Congress
Published: Jun. 22, 2022 at 7:15 AM CDT|Updated: 43 minutes ago
(CNN) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi swore in the newest member of Congress on Tuesday.
Mayra Flores of Texas, a Republican, is the first Mexican-born woman to be elected as a representative.
She won a special election for Texas’ 34th Congressional District.
Flores’ term only runs through January. She will have to win the November general election to remain in office.
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This Michigan Lavender Labyrinth Is Clearly Seen on Google Maps
Depending on your age, when you hear the word 'labyrinth', images of David Bowie in a fantastic mullet or strange monsters may come to mind thanks to both Labyrinth (1986) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006).
However, it seems that Michigan has its very own and much more pleasant labyrinth on the coast of Lake Michigan.
I recently learned about this thanks to the Facebook group A Michigan Thing Group and I can't believe I hadn't heard of this before.
The Lavender Labyrinth, in Shelby, has been a part of Cherry Point Farm & Market for at least 20 years. And, it is stunning.
Aside from being visually pleasing, this labyrinth has to smell heavenly too. According to Cherry Point Farm & Market's website, at the center of the labyrinth lies an herb garden that includes over 30 beds filled with a number of different kinds of herbs. Plus, the path is outlined by blossoming lavender plants which smell delightful, in my opinion.
Judging by the website, there doesn't seem to be any sort of charge to see the labyrinth either which makes it even more incredible.
Can't visit in person? That's a bummer but, thanks to drones and their ability to capture stunning footage, you can see a little glimpse and learn more about the labyrinth below:
Cherry Point Farm & Market operates as a market for fresh baked goods, a tea room on Tuesdays, and a spot for lunch on the weekends. Make sure to make your visiting plans now as they're open seasonally from May until October.
You can stay up to date on everything happening with the farm and the labyrinth, like how they now have their own puzzles, on their website or Facebook page:
If you love getting outdoors during the summer months and are looking for things to do, check this out. It's an arboretum in Illinois that features giant, hand-carved sculptures:
Check Out These Stunning Sculptures at the Morton Arboretum in Illinois
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CPG Marketers Now Have Access to Deeper Data, Analytics & Measurement Capabilities to Underscore Positive Impact of Sponsorship Investments on Sales
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shopper intelligence leader Catalina is partnering with FanAI, whose data platforms provide insights into the power of sponsorships for some of the biggest brands in sports and entertainment, to help CPG brands better understand—and measure—how their sponsorship investments directly drive sales for their products.
With sponsorship investments again on the rise following pandemic-induced restrictions and cancellations of many live events over the past two years, Catalina's real-time purchase insights and highly scaled US shopper household graph are enabling FanAI to provide CPG brands with multi-channel brand sponsorship and sales lift measurement analyses to justify the return on their investments (ROI) and return on ad spend (ROAS).
"Leading brands once considered sports sponsorship to be more of a brand awareness tactic in their marketing arsenal, but with the advent of smart, multi-channel, connected digital devices, TVs and content, brands can now link sponsorship and consumer engagement to offline purchase activity, loyalty and incremental sales," said Brian Dunphy, SVP of Strategic Partnerships at Catalina. "We're excited that FanAI will leverage Catalina's data insights to help CPG brands get the most out of their sponsorship investments. Together, we can provide these brands with in-market sales strategies and execution throughout the marketing mix funnel to drive incremental sales or maximize sales in sluggish markets."
Added John Abreu, Director of Partnerships at FanAI: "CPG brands play a major role in sports sponsorship today, but such investments need to do more than enhance visibility. Integrating data from Catalina on CPG purchases will enhance our ability to provide brands and agencies with a more holistic and granular look into how their sponsorship dollars are performing and how they can be optimized to drive sales and revenue growth."
- Benchmark sales ROI across a brand's portfolio to identify both strong and weak markets for a sponsorship, helping to inform the renewal value as well as decisions on where to allocate activation spend
- Provide insights into the distribution of customers and spend to support goals of acquisition, retention, and/or increased basket size
- Provide insights into the success of a specific activation or advertising, providing real-time snapshots of what drives the most sales
- By connecting audience insights from ticket sales, digital behavior and television and streaming viewing exposure, with anonymized shopper purchase data, marketers can connect real transactions to real audiences to better drive sales and garner an accurate view into the ROI delivered by their sports sponsorship investments.
Proving ROI and sales lift are critically important for sponsorship rights holders to remain a significant line item on a brand's marketing budget.
The proliferation of digital platforms sports fans can now access to consume content presents both an opportunity for increasingly customized brand partnerships as well as new challenges with respect to cross-channel measurement. CPG brands will require data-driven insights and granular cross-channel measurement to validate their investments. This opens up opportunities for sponsorship rights holders who can further segment their sponsorship offerings to entice new CPG marketers to sponsor channels that are most relevant to their consumers.
"Expect closer cooperation between rights holders and sponsors going forward, with data-driven digital fan engagement more crucial than ever. Both sides want to gather as much data as possible to measure brand engagement and evaluate key metrics like brand awareness, purchase intent and leads generated. Moreover, they will be able to target specific customer groups both demographically and/or geographically, reaching their audience in a more effective way and seeing how successful their campaigns are. That's a remarkable measure I like to call 'Return on Sponsorship'," said Catalina's Dunphy.
Catalina is a leader in shopper intelligence and highly targeted in-store, TV, radio and digital media that personalizes the shopper journey. Powered by the world's richest real-time shopper database, Catalina helps retailers, CPG brands and agencies optimize every stage of media planning, execution and measurement to deliver $6.1 billion in consumer value annually. Catalina has no higher priority than ensuring the privacy and security of the data entrusted to the company and maintaining consumer trust. Catalina has operations in the United States, Costa Rica, Europe and Japan. To learn more, please visit www.catalina.com or follow us on Twitter @Catalina.
FanAI enables marketers to connect real transactions to real audiences for an accurate view into ROI, through the combining of audience data, such as ticket sales, social data and television and streaming viewing exposure, with customer purchase data. FanAI also provides media channel segmentation for a view into where fans are watching target sports events and which fans are spending. Marketers can gain a view into competitor sports sponsorship ROI and compare sponsorships by team to estimate potential effectiveness of their buys. FanAI matches exposure data against customer purchase data for ROI analysis. Brands can also integrate their own first party sales data into the platform. The analysis enables brands to align their marketing strategy regarding sports sponsorships against business objectives, optimize performance and monetize activation for increased sales. For more information, visit www.fan.ai.
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MOSCOW (AP) — A drone strike caused a fire at a refinery in southwestern Russia near the border with Ukraine on Wednesday, but no one was hurt and the blaze was contained quickly, officials said.
The fire engulfed industrial equipment at the Novoshakhtinsk oil processing plant in the Rostov-on-Don region. The authorities said that dozens of firefighters extinguished the flames in a half-hour and no one was hurt.
The refinery said in a statement that the fire was caused by a strike carried out by two drones, describing it as a “terrorist” act. It didn’t give further details, but the state news agency Tass said that two Ukrainian drones flew over the plant and one of them slammed into a heat exchanger, triggering the fire.
Ukrainian officials haven’t claimed responsibility for the drone strike.
A video posted on a messaging app channel showed a drone flying by and hitting what was purported to be the refinery, a giant plume of smoke rising into the sky. The authenticity of the video couldn’t be independently verified.
The Rostov regional governor, Vasily Golubev, said that fragments of two drones were found on the territory of the plant.
The refinery said it temporarily suspended the operations to assess the damage.
Wednesday’s attack on the refinery follows a series of explosions and fires in western Russia amid Moscow’s fighting in Ukraine in an operation that began nearly four months ago.
In April, two Ukrainian helicopter gunships struck an oil depot in Belgorod, according to Russian officials, causing a massive fire.
Several other explosions and fires hit refineries, oil depots, and an ammunition storage facility. Ukraine hasn’t officially taken responsibility for the incidents, but some Ukrainian media have lauded them as a result of Ukrainian strikes. | https://fox40.com/news/international/ap-international/drone-strike-hits-russian-refinery-near-ukraine/ | 2022-06-22T13:03:48Z | https://fox40.com/news/international/ap-international/drone-strike-hits-russian-refinery-near-ukraine/ | false | 63 |
Former Skullcandy CMO brings blend of passion, purpose and innovation
AMERICAN FORK, Utah, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KT Tape®, the leader in drug-free pain relief products, today announced that after a national executive search, the company's board of directors has appointed Jessica Klodnicki as its new chief executive officer. Klodnicki is a recognized transformative leader in the outdoor brands and consumer products industry with a personal and professional passion for helping others pursue their athletic journey.
"We are thrilled to welcome Jessica to KT Tape," said Mark Schwartz, Director and CEO of Palladin Consumer Retail Partners, KT Tape's majority shareholder. "Her extensive industry expertise, leadership prowess and collaborative energy make her the perfect choice to lead the company through its next chapter of continued growth and innovation."
Prior to joining KT Tape, Klodnicki most recently served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Skullcandy, the original lifestyle audio brand at the intersection of music and action sports based in Park City, UT. Her work at Skullcandy earned her a spot on the 2022 Forbes Entrepreneurial CMO top 50 list, and she helped drive omni-channel growth through revitalizing the brand with a unique "content to commerce" program. She also led the brand's launch into climate advocacy and its sustainability programming.
Her additional career highlights include serving as the general manager for a leading portfolio of outdoor brands for Vista Outdoor including CamelBak, Bell Helmets, Blackburn Accessories, Raskullz & Krash helmets, Co-Pilot child trailers, Camp Chef outdoor cooking and more. She formerly worked with Mizuno USA as vice president of marketing and brand management across their portfolio of golf, running and team sports equipment, footwear, accessories and apparel. Klodnicki has also led product and marketing across a variety of consumer products categories.
"I am honored to join the brand that revolutionized drug-free pain and injury treatment with its leading kinesiology tape and recovery products," said new CEO of KT Tape Jessica Klodnicki. "As an avid outdoor enthusiast myself, I am excited to work with the team to grow the brand to help athletes at all levels continue to perform and enjoy the sports they love across the full spectrum of their fitness journey."
Klodnicki is also deeply committed to philanthropy and volunteerism, and currently serves on the board of directors for Gathr Outdoors, a portfolio company of outdoor brands including Cascadia Vehicle Tents, Klymit, GCI Outdoor, Orca Coolers and more. She also serves on the board of venture-backed The Pro's Closet, a circular commerce retailer for the cycling industry, and on the board of directors for IMBA (the International Mountain Bicycling Association). She has previously served on the board of directors for several other non-profit organizations – Protect Our Winters, People for Bikes, Camber Outdoors and the Park City Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau. She holds a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of West Florida and an MBA from Emory University.
For more information about KT Tape, visit KTTape.com or KT Tape's Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more updates and information on its full line of drug-free pain relief, performance and recovery products.
Based in American Fork, Utah and founded in 2008, KT Tape® has revolutionized the sports medicine industry with the introduction of the most advanced and recognized kinesiology tape and recovery products. KT Tape is recognized as a leader in sports related pain and injury treatment. The mission of the company is to develop breakthrough solutions to help enable athletes to compete at their best.
Palladin Consumer Retail Partners is a private equity firm with extensive experience investing in and building leading consumer brands. Founded in 1998, the firm prides itself on working closely with management teams to create value through strategic and operational initiatives. Its principals have previously held CEO and other senior executive roles at several wholesale, retail, and related companies, and have invested in, financed, or managed over 100 public and private companies. Other current and former investments include Leapfrog Brands, Decowraps, Tailwind Concessions, PB Metro, Nic+Zoe, InMotion Entertainment, J. McLaughlin, Things Remembered, Restoration Hardware, Spencer Gifts, Jamba Juice, Worldlynx, Multi-Flow, and Kwik-Tek.
For more information, visit www.kttape.com and www.pcrp.com.
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Former Skullcandy CMO brings blend of passion, purpose and innovation
AMERICAN FORK, Utah, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KT Tape®, the leader in drug-free pain relief products, today announced that after a national executive search, the company's board of directors has appointed Jessica Klodnicki as its new chief executive officer. Klodnicki is a recognized transformative leader in the outdoor brands and consumer products industry with a personal and professional passion for helping others pursue their athletic journey.
"We are thrilled to welcome Jessica to KT Tape," said Mark Schwartz, Director and CEO of Palladin Consumer Retail Partners, KT Tape's majority shareholder. "Her extensive industry expertise, leadership prowess and collaborative energy make her the perfect choice to lead the company through its next chapter of continued growth and innovation."
Prior to joining KT Tape, Klodnicki most recently served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Skullcandy, the original lifestyle audio brand at the intersection of music and action sports based in Park City, UT. Her work at Skullcandy earned her a spot on the 2022 Forbes Entrepreneurial CMO top 50 list, and she helped drive omni-channel growth through revitalizing the brand with a unique "content to commerce" program. She also led the brand's launch into climate advocacy and its sustainability programming.
Her additional career highlights include serving as the general manager for a leading portfolio of outdoor brands for Vista Outdoor including CamelBak, Bell Helmets, Blackburn Accessories, Raskullz & Krash helmets, Co-Pilot child trailers, Camp Chef outdoor cooking and more. She formerly worked with Mizuno USA as vice president of marketing and brand management across their portfolio of golf, running and team sports equipment, footwear, accessories and apparel. Klodnicki has also led product and marketing across a variety of consumer products categories.
"I am honored to join the brand that revolutionized drug-free pain and injury treatment with its leading kinesiology tape and recovery products," said new CEO of KT Tape Jessica Klodnicki. "As an avid outdoor enthusiast myself, I am excited to work with the team to grow the brand to help athletes at all levels continue to perform and enjoy the sports they love across the full spectrum of their fitness journey."
Klodnicki is also deeply committed to philanthropy and volunteerism, and currently serves on the board of directors for Gathr Outdoors, a portfolio company of outdoor brands including Cascadia Vehicle Tents, Klymit, GCI Outdoor, Orca Coolers and more. She also serves on the board of venture-backed The Pro's Closet, a circular commerce retailer for the cycling industry, and on the board of directors for IMBA (the International Mountain Bicycling Association). She has previously served on the board of directors for several other non-profit organizations – Protect Our Winters, People for Bikes, Camber Outdoors and the Park City Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau. She holds a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of West Florida and an MBA from Emory University.
For more information about KT Tape, visit KTTape.com or KT Tape's Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more updates and information on its full line of drug-free pain relief, performance and recovery products.
Based in American Fork, Utah and founded in 2008, KT Tape® has revolutionized the sports medicine industry with the introduction of the most advanced and recognized kinesiology tape and recovery products. KT Tape is recognized as a leader in sports related pain and injury treatment. The mission of the company is to develop breakthrough solutions to help enable athletes to compete at their best.
Palladin Consumer Retail Partners is a private equity firm with extensive experience investing in and building leading consumer brands. Founded in 1998, the firm prides itself on working closely with management teams to create value through strategic and operational initiatives. Its principals have previously held CEO and other senior executive roles at several wholesale, retail, and related companies, and have invested in, financed, or managed over 100 public and private companies. Other current and former investments include Leapfrog Brands, Decowraps, Tailwind Concessions, PB Metro, Nic+Zoe, InMotion Entertainment, J. McLaughlin, Things Remembered, Restoration Hardware, Spencer Gifts, Jamba Juice, Worldlynx, Multi-Flow, and Kwik-Tek.
For more information, visit www.kttape.com and www.pcrp.com.
Media Contact:
Andrea Lynn
alynn@tbc.us
443.995.3989
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Perpetua Resources receives Clean Air Act Permit to Construct, a significant project milestone.
The Clean Air Act Permit is one of many permits the Company is seeking in parallel with the NEPA process.
BOISE, Idaho, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Perpetua Resources Corp. (Nasdaq: PPTA ) (TSX: PPTA) ("Perpetua Resources" or "Perpetua" or the "Company") received the Clean Air Act Permit to Construct ("Air Permit") for the Stibnite Gold Project ("Project") from the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality ("IDEQ") on June 17, 2022. The Air Permit mandates compliance with state and federal air standards and regulates emissions from construction and operation of the Project.
"Receipt of our first permit marks a significant milestone for the Stibnite Gold Project," said Laurel Sayer, President, and CEO of Perpetua Resources. "The approval demonstrates our commitment to comply with state and federal standards and the dedication of our team to fulfill the requirements of the permitting process."
During the Air Permit review process, IDEQ assessed the proposed air emissions and prescribed enforceable requirements to reduce air quality impacts from the Project. The final Air Permit is designed to ensure protection of public health and the environment. The emissions allowed by the Air Permit are consistent with the mine plan currently under review in the federal permitting process. The Air Permit is one of many permits Perpetua is seeking in parallel with the National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA") process, and the Company continues to anticipate the release of a Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement ("SDEIS") in the third quarter of 2022.
Perpetua submitted the Air Permit application to IDEQ in 2019. During the review process, IDEQ invited the public to comment on drafts of the Air Permit in September 2020, February 2021, and January 2022. Perpetua engaged experts in mining emissions and air quality to support the rigorous additional evaluations undertaken by IDEQ in response to public comments. The final Air Permit was published on June 21, 2022.
Website: www.perpetuaresources.com
Perpetua Resources Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is focused on the exploration, site restoration and redevelopment of gold-antimony-silver deposits in the Stibnite-Yellow Pine district of central Idaho that are encompassed by the Stibnite Gold Project. The Project is one of the highest-grade, open pit gold deposits in the United States and is designed to apply a modern, responsible mining approach to restore an abandoned mine site and produce both gold and the only mined source of antimony in the United States. Further advancing Perpetua Resources' ESG and sustainable mining goals, the Project will be powered by the lowest carbon emissions grid in the nation and a portion of the antimony produced from the Project will be supplied to Ambri, a US-based company commercializing a low-cost liquid metal battery essential for the low-carbon energy transition. In addition to the company's commitments to transparency, accountability, environmental stewardship, safety and community engagement, Perpetua Resources adopted formal ESG commitments which can be found here.
Statements contained in this news release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking information" or "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "Forward-Looking Information") within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-Looking Information includes, but is not limited to, disclosure regarding possible events, next steps and courses of action including, our ability to comply with the Air Permit and obtain other permits related to the Stibnite Gold Project; our and Ambri, Inc.'s ability to perform under the supply agreement, which agreement is subject to certain conditions, including identification of one or more refiners to transform our antimony concentrate into antimony metal, and mutual agreement on certain material terms, including volume and pricing; the public review process and SDEIS will proceed in a timely manner and as expected and that all requisite information will be available in a timely manner; and the Stibnite Gold Project and the success of such project. In certain cases, Forward-Looking Information can be identified by the use of words and phrases or variations of such words and phrases or statements such as "anticipate", "expect" "plan", "likely", "believe", "intend", "forecast", "project", "estimate", "potential", "could", "may", "will", "would" or "should". Forward-Looking Information in this news release, including assumptions that the current development, environmental and other objectives concerning the Stibnite Gold Project can be achieved and that its activities will proceed as expected, are based on certain material assumptions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Perpetua Resources to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the Forward-Looking Information. Such risks and other factors include those factors discussed in Perpetua Resources' public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and its Canadian disclosure record. Although Perpetua Resources has attempted to identify important factors that could affect Perpetua Resources and may cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in Forward-Looking Information, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that Forward-Looking Information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on Forward-Looking Information. For further information on these and other risks and uncertainties that may affect the Company's business, see the "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections of the Company's filings with the SEC, which are available at www.sec.gov and with the Canadian securities regulators, which are available at www.sedar.com. Except as required by law, Perpetua Resources does not assume any obligation to release publicly any revisions to Forward-Looking Information contained in this news release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Primior announces UNITED STATES PROPERTY COIN (USPC), a real estate backed cryptocurrency project created by Johnney Zhang, CEO of Primior.
USPC aims to be a superior store of value. Created in response to the volatility associated with the inflation-impacted U.S. Dollar, dollar-backed stablecoins, utility tokens, and algorithmic-backed coins, USPC offers a real world, real estate asset-backed alternative by securitizing physical, income producing properties located throughout U.S. urban markets. While fiat currencies and stablecoins pegged to such currencies are subject to devaluation, USPC would benefit from current cash flow income as well as long-term capital appreciation of real estate in the United States.
USPC is positioned to emerge as a viable alternative medium of exchange from a combination of current income generation with long-term appreciation of U.S real estate and the 24/7 peer-to-peer instant exchange network enabled by blockchain technology.
USPC was founded by California real estate developer, Primior. For over a decade, Primior has been a leading real estate investment, development, and management firm. "We are extremely excited to collaborate with our passionate and ambitious community to launch this project and look forward to working with our strategic partners, composed of established stalwarts of the real estate industry and pioneering crypto-visionaries," said Johnney Zhang, CEO and founder of Primior."
USPC (United States Property Coin) is a cryptocurrency project backed by physical real estate assets located in high-demand markets throughout the U.S. Sponsored and funded by Primior, a leading real estate investment, development and management firm based in Southern California, USPC's mission and vision is to provide investors with a more transparent, liquid, asset-backed solution and better store of value. USPC is a security token designed to provide fractionalized ownership in a diversified portfolio that is expected to benefit from current income and the long-term appreciation of real estate assets, and function as a more reliable store of value and medium of exchange.
For more USPC project information, please visit our website at www.upsc.io. Join our community, sign up for the USPC twitter and discord groups.
This news release is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute a prospectus, an offer document, an offer of securities, a solicitation for investment, or any offer to sell any product, item, or asset (whether digital or otherwise). The information set out in this release is only conceptual and describes potential future development goals of USPC and is being shared in order to outline some of the company's project plans.
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Russia tries to revive twice-bumped biometric surveillance net, put it near Ukraine
A biometric surveillance system that was only partially built across Russia before being shut down might get a new life thanks to the Ukraine war. It has been pitched as a way to deter and prosecute acts of terrorism.
State officials want to put cameras and other sensors in Crimea and other Russian-controlled areas bordering Ukraine, according to translated coverage by Kommersant. (Russia’s government has biometric plans for finance firms, too.)
Kommersant is owned by Russian metals and mining oligarch Alisher Usmanov.
If the 18-month, 15 billion-ruble (US$279 million) safe city plan is approved, it would be another indication of how long the central government thinks the war will continue. If Ukraine is conquered quickly, as the government has said will happen, there would be no more need for biometric surveillance in surrounding territory than anywhere else in the nation.
But there are numerous international sanctions and bans in place designed to make Russia reverse its announced intention to absorb Ukraine, a notable industrial, cultural and agricultural center in the world. It had previously been ruled by the Soviet Union before that government fell to become the Russian Federation.
The Kommersant story points out that three tech vendors unilaterally decided to stop selling to or in Russia – South Korea’s Samsung and Dell and Intel, both based in the United States. Their absence and that of other hardware and software firms will not make a difference, according to a named Russian official.
Domestic production, warehoused goods previously bought from foreign firms and purchases from Southeast Asian companies would fill the needs, according to the Kommersant article.
Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations in 2014 announced the creation of the Safe City program in 2014, to be operated by conglomerate Rostec (or, Russian Technology). Six years later, preliminary biometric surveillance projects had been launched for 16 billion ($297 million) rubles.
The central government cut its losses when officials asked for another 150 billion rubles ($2.8 billion) to finish the project, according to the article. There was a subsequent unsuccessful attempt to resurrect it in more peaceful times.
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Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc. [NASDAQ: TRHC] stock went on an upward path that rose over 27.69% on Tuesday, amounting to a one-week price decrease of less than -6.36%. The company report on June 21, 2022 that Tabula Rasa HealthCare Agrees to Sell its PrescribeWellness Business to Transaction Data Systems.
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The Companies also Agree to a Strategic Multi-Year Partnership.
Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc.® (TRHC) (NASDAQ: TRHC), a leading healthcare technology company advancing the safe use of medications, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its PrescribeWellness business, a provider of best-in-class patient relationship management solutions, to Transaction Data Systems (TDS).
Over the last 12 months, TRHC stock dropped by -93.84%. The one-year Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc. stock forecast points to a potential upside of 62.86. The average equity rating for TRHC stock is currently 2.60, trading closer to a bullish pattern in the stock market.
The market cap for the stock reached $94.74 million, with 23.87 million shares outstanding and 22.15 million shares in the current float. Compared to the average trading volume of 671.97K shares, TRHC stock reached a trading volume of 12873212 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.
Guru’s Opinion on Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc. [TRHC]:
Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for TRHC shares is $8.32 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on TRHC stock is a recommendation set at 2.60. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.
Robert W. Baird have made an estimate for Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc. shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Neutral, with their previous recommendation back on February 01, 2022. While these analysts kept the previous recommendation, Jefferies raised their target price to Hold. The new note on the price target was released on December 02, 2021, representing the official price target for Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc. stock. Previously, the target price had yet another raise to $53, while Robert W. Baird analysts kept a Outperform rating on TRHC stock. On March 01, 2021, analysts increased their price target for TRHC shares from 41 to 42.
The Average True Range (ATR) for Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc. is set at 0.53, with the Price to Sales ratio for TRHC stock in the period of the last 12 months amounting to 0.29. The Price to Book ratio for the last quarter was 2.03, with the Price to Cash per share for the same quarter was set at 0.47. Price to Free Cash Flow for TRHC in the course of the last twelve months was 118.42 with Quick ratio for the last quarter at 3.70.
TRHC Stock Performance Analysis:
Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc. [TRHC] fell into the red zone at the end of the last week, falling into a negative trend and dropping by -6.36. With this latest performance, TRHC shares gained by 15.73% in over the last four-week period, additionally sinking by -80.74% over the last 6 months – not to mention a drop of -93.84% in the past year of trading.
Overbought and oversold stocks can be easily traced with the Relative Strength Index (RSI), where an RSI result of over 70 would be overbought, and any rate below 30 would indicate oversold conditions. An RSI rate of 50 would represent a neutral market momentum. The current RSI for TRHC stock in for the last two-week period is set at 46.17, with the RSI for the last a single of trading hit 47.26, and the three-weeks RSI is set at 44.96 for Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc. [TRHC]. The present Moving Average for the last 50 days of trading for this stock 3.67, while it was recorded at 2.89 for the last single week of trading, and 12.47 for the last 200 days.
Insight into Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc. Fundamentals:
Operating Margin for any stock indicates how profitable investing would be, and Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc. [TRHC] shares currently have an operating margin of -20.24 and a Gross Margin at +15.15. Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc.’s Net Margin is presently recorded at -23.86.
Return on Equity for this stock declined to -70.50, with Return on Assets sitting at -15.28.
Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc.’s liquidity data is similarly interesting compelling, with a Quick Ratio of 3.70 and a Current Ratio set at 3.80.
TRHC Stock EPS
The progress of the company may be observed through the prism of EPS growth rate, while Wall Street analysts are focusing on predicting the 5-year EPS growth rate for TRHC. When it comes to the mentioned value, analysts are expecting to see the 5-year EPS growth rate for Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc. go to 30.00%.
Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc. [TRHC] Insider Position Details
There are presently around $46 million, or 78.80% of TRHC stock, in the hands of institutional investors. The top three institutional holders of TRHC stocks are: BLACKROCK INC. with ownership of 1,679,222, which is approximately -54.541% of the company’s market cap and around 7.10% of the total institutional ownership; VANGUARD GROUP INC, holding 1,519,723 shares of the stock with an approximate value of $3.68 million in TRHC stocks shares; and MACQUARIE GROUP LTD, currently with $3.32 million in TRHC stock with ownership of nearly -22.968% of the company’s market capitalization.
Positions in Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc. stocks held by institutional investors increased at the end of May and at the time of the May reporting period, where 81 institutional holders increased their position in Tabula Rasa HealthCare Inc. [NASDAQ:TRHC] by around 6,387,311 shares. Additionally, 83 investors decreased positions by around 9,274,138 shares, while 17 investors held positions by with 3,276,267 shares. The mentioned changes placed institutional holdings at 18,937,716 shares, according to the latest SEC report filing. TRHC stock had 42 new institutional investments in for a total of 3,214,713 shares, while 40 institutional investors sold positions of 5,102,919 shares during the same period. | https://dbtnews.com/2022/06/22/tabula-rasa-healthcare-inc-trhc-revenue-clocked-in-at-321-70-million-down-79-40-ytd-whats-next/ | 2022-06-22T13:12:44Z | https://dbtnews.com/2022/06/22/tabula-rasa-healthcare-inc-trhc-revenue-clocked-in-at-321-70-million-down-79-40-ytd-whats-next/ | false | 589 |
Choice Wealth Advisors LLC grew its stake in Schwab US Large-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHX – Get Rating) by 62.0% during the 1st quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 23,030 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 8,813 shares during the quarter. Schwab US Large-Cap ETF accounts for 1.0% of Choice Wealth Advisors LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 13th biggest holding. Choice Wealth Advisors LLC’s holdings in Schwab US Large-Cap ETF were worth $1,225,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Other large investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. FMR LLC increased its position in shares of Schwab US Large-Cap ETF by 11.3% during the first quarter. FMR LLC now owns 51,711 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,496,000 after acquiring an additional 5,260 shares in the last quarter. Eagle Capital Management LLC raised its stake in shares of Schwab US Large-Cap ETF by 3.1% in the second quarter. Eagle Capital Management LLC now owns 29,616 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,079,000 after purchasing an additional 886 shares during the last quarter. Ironwood Wealth Management LLC. boosted its position in shares of Schwab US Large-Cap ETF by 1.1% during the second quarter. Ironwood Wealth Management LLC. now owns 10,041 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,044,000 after buying an additional 112 shares during the last quarter. Morgan Stanley increased its holdings in Schwab US Large-Cap ETF by 3.8% in the 2nd quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 386,198 shares of the company’s stock worth $40,153,000 after buying an additional 14,172 shares in the last quarter. Finally, BlackRock Inc. raised its position in Schwab US Large-Cap ETF by 2.7% in the 3rd quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 15,983 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,663,000 after buying an additional 414 shares during the last quarter.
SCHX opened at $44.53 on Wednesday. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $48.32 and a 200-day moving average price of $51.88. Schwab US Large-Cap ETF has a twelve month low of $43.02 and a twelve month high of $57.49.
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Three people were hospitalized with minor injuries Tuesday after the landing gear of a Red Air flight from the Dominican Republic collapsed as it landed at the Miami International Airport, spokesman Greg Chin told CNN.
The flight was arriving from Santo Domingo at 5:30 p.m. when the gear collapsed and caused a fire.
Chin said 126 passengers were on board the plane. Three people were taken to a hospital with minor injuries, he said.
"The plane was like jumping and jumping and jumping," passenger Paola Garcia told CNN affiliate WSVN.
"I thought I was going to die," Garcia said.
The plane's windows broke, and there was fire, passengers told WSVN.
Dominican Republic-based airline Red Air said in a statement there were 130 passengers and 10 crew members on the aircraft. It's unclear why there's a discrepancy in the number of people who were on the plane.
When fire crews arrived on scene, they saw the wing of the aircraft was on fire, said Erika Benitez, a spokesperson for Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue.
Crews used specialized foam trucks and conducted a primary search to ensure all passengers were off the aircraft.
Crews also worked to mitigate fuel spillage, Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue said.
The airline said the plane "had technical difficulties after landing at the Miami International Airport (MIA)," but did not provide further details about the incident.
"At RED Air we express our absolute solidarity with the passengers and crew of the aircraft," the company said in the statement.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, and it will send a team of investigators to the incident site Wednesday. The Dominican Civil Aviation Institute is also investigating and working with Miami authorities, Red Air said.
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SUMMIT, N.J., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG), a leading operator of specialty insurance brokerages and underwriting facilities, announced today that Eli Orozco has joined as Director of Marketing.
Eli brings over 18 years of experience in project management, digital marketing, marketing strategy, branding and marketing operations. Prior to joining SPG, he served as Marketing Director at Bretford, a provider of mobile solutions, and has held positions in marketing strategy, demand generation and served as the center of excellence for digital marketing.
Eli will report to Chris Lamitola, SPG's Chief Sales Officer, to lead the SPG businesses in marketing strategy and digital transformation. "Eli brings deep expertise in digital marketing and has extensive experience developing digital marketing strategies and coaching marketing teams at a global scale," said Lamitola. "He will be a true asset to SPG and our companies as we enhance our digital marketing capabilities."
"Eli's expertise in digital strategy and implementation will be valuable to our leadership team as we strengthen our digital focus," said Chris Treanor, President & CEO of Specialty Program Group.
Headquartered in Summit, NJ, Specialty Program Group is a fully licensed holding company established to acquire and scale best-in-class insurance underwriting facilities and specialty businesses throughout North America. SPG has 18 portfolio companies and is over 1.8 billion in premium. For more information, please visit www.specialtyprogramgroup.com.
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New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity is helping rebuild between 40 and 60 homes in Lafitte, a town 20 miles southwest of New Orleans that was severely damaged in Hurricane Ida.
The $4.5 million rebuilding effort is a two-year initiative for the nonprofit. NOAHH says it will put a warehouse, construction center and satellite operations base in Jean Lafitte and partner with homeowners to design, build and fund the homes, which will be new construction on the same land where their previous homes stood.
Over 90% of homes in Jean Lafitte were damaged in the August 29, 2021 hurricane, according to a news release from NOAHH.
The nonprofit is starting construction on the first home this week. It will have two bedrooms and two bathrooms and front and back porches, the release said. It is expected to be complete and move-in ready on Aug. 29, weather permitting.
NOAHH’s typical model includes a homeowner purchasing a home and its property from Habitat and paying a mortgage that is usually less than what they were paying to rent. NOAHH acts as the lender and charges no interest. In lieu of a cash down payment, the homebuyer works 250 volunteer hours helping others become homebuyers through NOAHH.
In Jean Lafitte, the homebuyers already own the land the home will be built on. Cost of construction will vary from home to home, pending insurance claims, grants, individual design preferences and other variables, the release said. The average monthly house mortgage will be in the $500 range, it said.
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Iran movie feted by Cannes critics banned at home
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Tehran (AFP) – Authorities in Iran have banned an Iranian movie about the struggles of a family in the sanctions-hit country after it was feted at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
"Leila's Brothers" by director Saeed Roustaee has been banned until further notice by the Cinema Organisation of Iran, Culture Minister Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaili told state news agency IRNA.
The movie "broke the rules by being entered at international film festivals without authorisation," the COI said.
"Leila's Brothers" missed out on the Cannes festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, last month but won the award of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI).
The film has been denied a cinema release in Iran because of its director's refusal to "correct" it in the manner requested by the ministry, the COI said.
Roustaee, 32, had already wowed critics abroad with his 2019 police thriller "Just 6.5".
From a working class district of Tehran, he told reformist newspaper Shargh: "I have a social commitment to the class in which I live... Nothing in my films is symbolic."
For all the challenges imposed by Iranian authorities the country has long had a thriving cinema scene, with figures like Jafar Panahi and Asghar Farhadi scooping awards around the world.
Iran's Zar Amir Ebrahimi won this year's Cannes award for best actress for "Holy Spider", in which she plays a journalist trying to solve the serial murders of prostitutes in the Shiite shrine city of Mashhad.
Ebrahimi, 41, lives in exile following a smear campaign about her love life.
Her award infuriated Iranian authorities who accused Cannes organisers of "committing a biased and political act by praising a false and disgusting film".
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Olivia Stevens & Co will be at the venue on Friday, July 8 at 8pm, promising “a smokin' hot blend of bone-deep emotion and upbeat positivity as both a songwriter and performer.”
She will also be offering a solo gig for the Festival of Chichester on Saturday, June 25, 8pm. Bella! – again at The Chichester Inn, a show billed as "Billie meets Ella & Amy” as well as other legendary jazz icons.
She is promising “toe-tappers and torch song balladry.”
Linking both gigs is the fact that Ruby is no more.
For a number of years Olivia performed under the name Ruby Tiger, but as Olivia says, the time came to put Ruby to bed.
“Ruby has gone to fly somewhere. She needed to be put into mothballs.
"She was a moth and I didn't want to be a moth any more.
"During lockdown I did a lot of thinking and I realised I just didn't need her any more. I wanted to be me. I write the material and I co-write the material and I spearhead everything.
“Really I had Ruby because I was lacking confidence at the beginning. I had a nervous breakdown but now I want to show people how you can come back from that.
"The real crisis point was when I had an absolute panic attack when I was on stage when I was doing poetry and so then I became Ruby Tiger.
"I thought it might be easier to stand there under that moniker as something to hide behind.
“But that's why it's really important to me now to put Ruby to bed, to say thank you to her and say that now I am me because everybody else is taken! It's a very positive thing. It's very liberating but is also a bit scary.”
Olivia performed as Ruby & The Revelators.
“But the band fell apart. Sometimes I want to go back to Ruby but really I just want to be a creative singer songwriter and not just fronting a blues and soul band.
"I want to be an artist and I was quite frightened to acknowledge that but now I'm not and I have realised that Olivia Stevens is enough.”
Olivia has been working with guitarist Stefan Rajic: “I met him when he was very young and very shy but I saw the talent. I watched him and I thought wow.
"He was really, really a cut above the rest and I've been working with Stefan for four years now. I think we had about a year and a bit before the lockdown.”
As for the songs: “The songs are all about the things that you would expect them to be about really, just moments and reflections on life and joy and fun.
"I've written a song called Howl about a woman being seduced by a man with the metaphor of a wolf.
"It's a fun song that really tells a story. Most of the songs are true but sometimes there is nothing wrong with telling a story that is a little bit embroidered! But in all the songs there is always an element of my own life and my own experience.”
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Women will be allowed to take part in the main Viking-inspired torchlight procession on the remote Scottish island of Shetland for the first time next year, organizers said on Wednesday.
The committee in charge of the "Up Helly Aa" festival, which commemorates the end of the Christmas season, said that it was time to lift restrictions on women taking part in the traditionally male-only procession.
"The decision means the festival in Lerwick on Tuesday January 31, 2023 will have a different dimension to it, but we have no doubt that its essence and spirit will remain the same," committee secretary Robert Geddes said.
The event, which is popular among tourists, traditionally involved around 1,000 male participants known as guizers in Viking dress, dividing into squads to parade through the town.
The walk is led by the "Guizer Jarl" or "chief guizer", and culminates in the participants using their flaming torches to set ablaze a replica Viking longship.
The modern event, first held in 1881, is famous for its festive parties which often involve traditional Shetland dancing and copious alcohol consumption.
Rural "Up Helly Aa" processions on Shetland, which lies in the middle of the North Sea some 400 miles (640 kilometers) from Edinburgh, started allowing women to take part in 2015.
But the Lerwick committee stood firmly against allowing female participants to get involved in celebrating the island's Norse heritage.
"We felt that it was time to give squads a choice over their guizers, including allowing female participation," Geddes said.
The other criteria for participation -- that guizers be older than 16 and have lived in Shetland continuously for five years -- remains the same for the event, which has not been held since 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, June 22, 2022
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National Weather Service OXNARD CA
507 AM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of north central Los
Angeles County through 530 AM PDT...
At 505 AM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Pasadena, moving northeast at 55 mph.
HAZARD...Frequently lightning. Winds in excess of 40 mph.
Pea sized hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Acton...
Pasadena...
Alhambra...
Burbank...
Altadena...
Glendale...
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Eagle Rock...
Highland Park...
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Sierra Madre...
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Sun Valley...
and Tujunga.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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I'm using Athom ESPHome smart plugs to start playing with per-device power monitoring in Home Assistant. It's working really well so far; I got 4 plugs and have put them on my fridge, freezer, washer, and dryer. I've just ordered 4 more. They are pretty bulletproof and arrived in NZ in less than 2 weeks.
I'm in the middle of a reno, with wires run but no sockets in yet, so I am planning to put Shellys everywhere I can and am working with my great electricians to sort this. I've added a few Shelly 1 units to single-gang simple light switches myself already and they're also working well - Shellys are great!
I want to wire in "permanent" power monitoring for the new locations of fridge, ovens, dishwasher. I could use more Athom smart plugs but I don't anticipate ever wanting to turn any of these devices OFF from the switches during normal use so it seems like overkill to use a smart switch, even if they are cheap and easy. I'm interested in the Shelly options: is anyone using a Shelly 1PM or Shelly EM for this type of use case?
(I'm sad that the Athom plugs won't fit on the industrial weatherproof 3-pin outlet in line with the "not-smart" 8 amp charger I use for my Leaf - that would be too easy!) | https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=73&topicid=295314 | 2022-06-22T13:35:54Z | https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=73&topicid=295314 | false | 1 |
Cars.com released Tuesday its annual study of the most American-made vehicles sold domestically. The results, representing 95 vehicles built in America during the calendar year 2021, placed Honda and Tesla in the top 10 more often than other automakers including Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. The study noted that among customers surveyed, a surging number of Americans are interested in purchasing fully electric or hybrid vehicles, and just the same, many want them to be built in the United States.The study's primary ranking determined which individual models are the most American-made by equally weighing the national origin of their engine, transmission, and parts content alongside their assembly locations and factory job numbers. The most American vehicle for 2021 was the Tesla Model Y, followed by the Tesla Model 3. The No. 3 position was filled by the Lincoln Corsair, which was then backed up by an additional two Teslas, the Model X and S.
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Daniel Duron got a rare opportunity to work on his bachelor's degree while in prison. Early release means he'll have to finish his final semester as a college student on the outside.
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Daniel Duron got a rare opportunity to work on his bachelor's degree while in prison. Early release means he'll have to finish his final semester as a college student on the outside.
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Martha Stewart has tested positive for COVID-19. The lifestyle guru and media mogul shared the news to Instagram on Tuesday evening.
"This evening, I planned to host a garden party at The Plaza on behalf of my favorite skincare line, @mariobadescu. But I’m sad to report that I tested positive for Covid-19," Stewart wrote in the caption of a video showing part of the display set up at the planned garden party.
Stewart, 80, told fans, "I am feeling fine but I am sticking to the rules and isolating," which means she wasn't able to attend the function as planned.
"I’m heartbroken to be missing the celebration of over 50 years of amazing skincare and the launch of ‘The Martha Facial’ at their NYC flagship - which is a special offer of the facial I’ve been receiving there for more than forty years!" she added. "Cheers to what I’m sure will be a fabulous event."
In January 2021, Stewart took to social media to share that she'd gotten vaccinated for the coronavirus, and encouraged others to do the same.
On Monday, actress and Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik announced she has tested positive for COVID-19 as well and took to Instagram to share an update on her condition and warn followers that the virus is "no joke."
Check out the gallery below for more on the big-name stars who have gone public with their battles with COVID-19.
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LITTLETON, Colo. (KDVR) — From the grocery store to the gas pump to housing costs, Americans are paying a lot more and it’s causing a lot more concern. The soaring inflation is also crippling some small businesses, including in Colorado.
A long-time Littleton store announced it’s closing its doors at the end of the month.
The store, Once Upon A Child, is a Colorado franchise, but its Littleton location has been owned by a local couple for nearly two decades and is a staple in the community. After recovering from the harsh impacts of COVID-19 and still dealing with severe staffing shortages, rising inflation was the final straw for the owners.
Once Upon A Child in Littleton is located in Bowles Marketplace and is an affordable and practical option for parents. Parents and caregivers shop there for discounted children’s clothing, items and toys.
Eunice Kinrade’s daughter and son-in-law own the store, but Kinrade has been helping manage it with them for years. Loyal customers were surprised at a post that popped up on the store’s Facebook page that said ”Going Out of Business.”
“The prices keep going up, and we’re really pinching our pennies to make ends meet,” Kinrade said.
She said that the store closed for four months during the pandemic, and they managed to stay afloat and have just recovered. The business is currently dealing with staffing shortages, and being able to provide competitive salaries to retain and recruit new hires and now the soaring inflation has pushed the business over the edge.
Kinrade said the rent has significantly increased along with storage costs, utility costs and more and that has a domino effect on their profit margin, which is shrinking fast.
Inflationary pressures on businesses steadily rising
Once Upon A Child in Littleton is not alone in its struggle. According to a Goldman Sachs national study, 88% of small business owners say inflationary pressures on their businesses have increased since January of 2022.
So, for the community staple store, it’s goodbye for now as they prepare to close the shop. General Manager Dee Wood said it’s a sad time, but she has really enjoyed her seven years of employment there.
“It’s been a fantastic place to come to work,” Wood said. “I had a little boy in here today, probably 8 or 9, and he was just weeping. His mom just kept saying, ‘He’s just so sad you’re closing. It’s his favorite store.'”
The Littleton location is having large sales right now trying to clear everything out. Kinrade said there is still a last-minute chance that someone could buy the store in the new few days, but if not, the store will close on July 1 and its last day of business will be June 30. | https://kdvr.com/news/once-upon-a-child-littleton-closing-inflation/ | 2022-06-22T13:43:37Z | https://kdvr.com/news/once-upon-a-child-littleton-closing-inflation/ | false | 3 |
Adam Houghton chats to Brian Ellison, who will try to realise a lifetime ambition with victory in Saturday's Northumberland Plate at Newcastle.
Based at Spring Cottage Stables in Malton, Brian Ellison has now been training in North Yorkshire for over 20 years, but it’s fair to say that he will always call Newcastle upon Tyne home.
The hugely successful dual-purpose trainer certainly doesn’t need a second invitation to go back there, his various horseboxes a common sight on the A1 northbound.
For context, Ellison has saddled more runners (425) and more winners (35) at Newcastle than at any other Flat racecourse in Britain since the start of the 2017 season.
Ellison is a frequent visitor to the National Hunt meetings staged at Gosforth Park as well, one of which provided him with a particularly memorable day when Sam’s Adventure won the Eider Handicap Chase in February 2021.
The Eider is one of the most prestigious races run all year at Newcastle, whether that be on the Flat or over jumps. It was first run in 1952 which, coincidentally, was also the year in which Ellison was born, so both trainer and the race itself had been going for around 69 years when Sam’s Adventure collected the first prize of nearly £44,000 for winning the 2021 edition.
The coincidences between Ellison’s birth date and the racing calendar at Newcastle don’t end there either. Indeed, it turns out that Ellison was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 28 June 1952, the same day red-hot favourite, Souepi, won the Northumberland Plate.
Ellison didn’t divulge that nugget of information to me directly – I must thank the About Us section on the trainer’s website for that – but it’s clear from our conversation just how much he would love to win the Northumberland Plate, or the Pitmen’s Derby as it is popularly known.
“It would be nice to cross it off the bucket list,” Ellison admits. “We’ve come close to winning it before – we’ve finished second and we’ve finished third in it.”
Ellison certainly has come close before, pretty much as close as you can come back in 2016. That year it looked all over when Ellison’s Seamour quickened clear inside the final two furlongs, trading at the minimum price of 1.01 in-running on the Betfair Exchange, but he was worn down in the final strides as Antiquarium came from the clouds to win by a length and a quarter.
That was a defeat which clearly still haunts Ellison, who admitted as much whilst basking in the glory of Sam’s Adventure’s Eider success.
“I could see the other horse still going well, but when we jumped the second-last I thought we’d won,” Ellison said at the time. “Of course, he then blew the last and I thought ‘not again!’”
“Gut-wrenching” is the word Ellison uses today to describe the feelings he went through after coming so close to realising one of his biggest ambitions in racing before having it snatched away.
For any trainer, jockey or owner who suffers a near miss in a big race like that, part of the pain is not knowing whether you’ll get another chance as good as that, but Ellison is optimistic that 2022 could be the year for redemption.
Ellison has four entries in the Northumberland Plate at the five-day stage, three of which are perhaps unlikely to get a run. However, there are no such concerns for Onesmoothoperator, who is number 17 on the entry list and features in the top half dozen in Sky Bet’s ante-post market at 10/1.
Onesmoothoperator is an improving sort very much in the mould of Seamour, or even Tashkhan, who delighted Ellison when finishing fifth in last week’s Gold Cup at Royal Ascot.
Seamour won his first handicap from a BHA mark of 85 before reaching a high of 104 in the year of his narrow Northumberland Plate defeat, while Tashkhan made his debut for Ellison from a BHA mark of just 70. He is now up to 115 and was beaten just five lengths in the most prestigious staying event in the sport on Thursday.
Admittedly, Onesmoothoperator hasn’t yet climbed as far or as high as that pair just yet, but the four-year-old has been a model of consistency since joining Ellison towards the backend of last year.
After registering his first success for the yard at the second attempt at Southwell in December, he was then placed on his next four starts, delighting Ellison in a sequence which culminated with a good third in the All-Weather Marathon Championships Conditions Stakes, staged over the Northumberland Plate course and distance on Good Friday.
“Onesmoothoperator is consistent, and he runs well at Newcastle,” Ellison summarised. “He’s gone up the weights a bit, but you can’t knock him – he’s been running really well.
“He probably ran his best race on Good Friday, because he wasn’t well-in with the first two. It was good prize money, that’s why he went there, and he ran really well to finish third.”
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In his three starts in between winning at Southwell and running on Good Friday, Onesmoothoperator was twice turned over at short odds at Newcastle, including when beaten just a short head over this course and distance again in March.
That defeat had echoes of Seamour as Onesmoothoperator looked all over the winner throughout the final two furlongs but somehow lost out at the line to one who showed a good attitude to battle back.
Whether it was a lack of application or concentration that cost him, it’s hard to know, but it certainly wasn’t the biggest surprise to see him fitted with cheekpieces when he ran in a Listed event at York last time, albeit it wasn’t a race which taught his connections much.
Ellison explained: “I don’t think the cheekpieces made much difference to him at York – I don’t think he’ll wear them again on Saturday.
“It was a bit of a farce at York, they went very slow. And he had never run on grass, so it was a bit of an experiment to find out whether he’d go on it. He actually ran very well, and the handicapper put him up 3 lb for it.”
Onesmoothoperator showed borderline smart form at York, passing the post only four and a quarter lengths behind the winner despite finishing last of the six runners, and he is essentially 3 lb well-in in the Northumberland Plate given that he can race from his old mark.
If he is going to win a big handicap, then Ellison will he hoping desperately that Saturday is the day.
It would certainly be a deserved success for the horse, not to mention a hugely popular one for his trainer, for whom victory would bring to fruition a plan hatched in October when Onesmoothoperator was picked up for 65,000 guineas at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses-in-Training Sale.
Ellison added: “It would be nice to see him get his head back in front. He keeps going up for getting beaten – he was rated 81 when we bought him and he’s off 98 now.
“We had this race in mind when we bought him, so hopefully he can go close.”
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Red Bull Racing Suspends Junior Driver Juri Vips for Using Racial Slur
Red Bull Racing has suspended junior driver Juri Vips pending an investigation after the Estonian used a racial slur during a live stream, the team announced Tuesday.
“Red Bull Racing has suspended Juri Vips from all team duties with immediate effect, pending an investigation into the incident,” the team said in a statement posted on Twitter. “As an organization we condemn abuse of any kind and have a zero-tolerance policy to racist language or behaviors within our organization.”
On Monday, Vips was playing Call of Duty: Warzone with Liam Lawson, another junior driver for Red Bull, who was streaming the game live on Twitch. During the live stream, Vips cursed and said the n-word, according to the Washington Post.
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In a statement posted on Instagram, the 21-year-old Vips apologized “for the offensive language” he used during the live stream and said he would fully cooperate with Red Bull’s investigation.
“This language is entirely unacceptable and does not portray the values and principles that I hold,” Vips wrote. “I deeply regret my actions and this is not the example I wish to set.”
Vips, who drives for the British-based Hitech Grand Prix team in Formula Two, is currently seventh in the standings. Last month, he drove for Red Bull’s Formula One car during a Friday practice session ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix.
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Ghislaine Maxwell Touts Her Clinton Connection in Bid for Lighter Prison Sentence: Report
Convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell cited her connections to former President Bill Clinton in a request for a lesser sentence for her crimes.
The 60-year-old accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will receive her sentencing on June 28.
In a 77-page court filing, Maxwell cited her involvement in Clinton’s philanthropic work as why she must be handed a lesser sentence of four years’ imprisonment, The Daily Mail reported.
The court filing argued that prosecutors were “scapegoating” Maxwell and treating her as a “proxy” for Epstein’s crimes.
The filing further argued that Maxwell demonstrated a “desire to do good in the world” because she helped kickstart the Clinton Global Initiative, The Daily Mail reported.
“Ms. Maxwell has always worked hard,” the document stated, citing Maxwell’s “many educational, occupational and avocational accomplishments.”
These “accomplishments,” according to the filing, include “becoming an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), a helicopter pilot, a submersible pilot, a banker; partnering with the Cleveland Clinic to establish a telemedicine platform to enable people in remote areas to obtain quality medical treatment; helping develop the Clinton Global Initiative; and supporting a variety non-profit and charitable organizations.”
Maxwell is not an “heiress, villain or vapid socialite,” the filing said. Instead, the filing said, Maxwell had “energy, drive, commitment, a strong work ethic and desire to do good in the world,” The Daily Mail reported.
“She has supported friends and family through tough times and personal crisis and currently is assisting women in her unit at the MDC,” the filing stated. “She has endeavored to contribute to society … (by) helping launch the Clinton Global Initiative.”
Maxwell was convicted in December last year of five counts related to luring teenage girls and women for sex.
The charges included two counts of violating the Mann Act, which prohibits the transport of people across state borders for unlawful sexual activity.
She was also hit with two counts of conspiracy to violate the Mann Act.
Prosecutors alleged that during her time with Epstein, Maxwell served as his madam, helping him find vulnerable women and minors to satisfy his and his often powerful and influential clients’ sexual tastes.
In the filing seeking a lesser sentence, Maxwell’s lawyers wrote that Maxwell’s “treatment” while in confinement awaiting sentencing was “unnecessarily and intentionally degrading and threatening,” The Daily Mail reported.
“While in isolation, a high-ranking prison guard told Ms. Maxwell that there was concern that she would be shot by a sniper,” the document stated.
“Putting aside the reason and propriety of dispensing this alarming information, the diminution of security concerns resulting in her transfer to general population appears correlated to Ms. Maxwell having been sufficiently safeguarded to fill Epstein’s empty seat.”
“On information and belief, one of the female inmates in Ms. Maxwell’s housing unit told at least three other inmates that she had been offered money to murder Ms. Maxwell and that she planned to strangle her in her sleep. The inmate who made the threat has been moved to the SHU (special housing unit), presumably to protect Ms. Maxwell.”
“This incident reflects the brutal reality that there are numerous prison inmates who would not hesitate to kill Ms. Maxwell – whether for money, fame or simple ‘street cred,'” the court filing stated.
Maxwell’s attorneys wrote in court documents published Wednesday that Maxwell should receive a sentence lesser than the 50-year maximum.
The lawyers stated that giving Maxwell a higher sentence would be “absurd” and that she did not present a “containing danger to the public,” according to The Daily Mail.
“In sentencing Ms. Maxwell, the Court cannot be influenced by this inexorable drumbeat of public condemnation calling for her to be locked away for good.”
‘The Court cannot heal the wounds caused by Epstein by heaping on Ms. Maxwell’s shoulders the pain of every one of his victims, the outrage of society, the public scorn of the community, and then driving her out of the community forever,” the lawyers wrote.
“While that may assuage the public and give the perception that ‘justice was done,’ that is not justice. That is scapegoating. Ms. Maxwell must be sentenced on the record before the Court and not these external pressures,” the filing stated.
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Here's The 411 on TikTok's New Face Taping Trend and Why You Should Steer Clear
From liquid blush to powerful exfoliants, we're loving the product recommendations we've gotten from TikTok, but sometimes, viral tricks can do more harm than good.
The latest skin care craze to hit TikTok is face taping, a trend that promises to smooth fine lines before they become wrinkles.
Across the app, we've seen creators stick everything from surgical-grade tape to Scotch Tape onto their foreheads, claiming that sleeping an entire night with tape adhered to their faces can smooth out fine lines.
In a viral video from @theaussierapunzel, we see the hack in action, and it does seem as if the hack appears to be working after six days of overnight use.
Now, we may not be scientists, but we like to do our research when it comes to skin care hacks and trends that claim to miraculously transform anything—what exactly is happening here?
"By putting tape on your forehead, it reminds you not to elevate your brow so high to create lines. It's just a way to remind yourself to limit the movement of your eyebrows, and that's why her wrinkles seem to get better, but putting tape on your forehead, just in general, is not going to make your wrinkles better," explains Doctor Anthony Youn, a plastic surgeon with over 7 million followers on TikTok, who frequently debunks beauty myths.
Essentially, it's not the tape that does anything, it's the lack of movement. If you never moved your face muscles again, you also wouldn't get wrinkles.
However, the tape hack is only temporary. While you may see a slight difference immediately after removing, the effects will disappear throughout the day.
In addition to its non-permanent results, the tape craze can also do some serious damage to your skin if you regularly use an adhesive tape, which could lead to skin barrier damage, hyperpigmentation and even a scarring.
If you really want to try the trend, stick to water-activated patches that have less adhesive and keep in mind that results will only be temporary.
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Record Series A Round Will Be Used to Further Develop the AI-based Technology and Expand Business Within the U.S. and Abroad
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanas, the world's first real-time accent translation technology company, today announced a $32 million Series A, the largest Series A round in history for a speech technology company, led by Insight Partners with participation from GV, Assurant Ventures and angel investor Gokul Rajaram. Existing investors Human Capital, General Catalyst, Quiet Capital and DN Capital also participated in the round. Alorica, one of the largest BPOs in the world, has announced a strategic partnership with Sanas to take this groundbreaking technology to their 100,000 employees and 250 enterprise customers across the globe.
Sanas' accent translation technology allows for deeper personal choice when it comes to people's voices, can help increase foreign language fluency and addresses communication challenges between global teams and customers. It allows people to choose the accent they want to use in real time and preserve the speaker's authenticity, an experience that beta users and investors have described as "magical." Now, anyone can sound local on a global scale in different languages and regions – highlighting a breakthrough for multinational enterprises.
"The goal of Sanas has always been to bring people closer together and allow people to have a choice when it comes to their communication style – something that was previously only possible through extensive speech language pathology," said Maxim Serebryakov, CEO of Sanas. "Similar to how social media platforms allow users to control the way they physically appear online, this technology enables anyone to have that same control in a digital setting – but for the way they sound. With this funding, we'll be able to further our mission and build on our AI, which is taking advantage of a cutting-edge space in machine learning untapped until Sanas."
Sharath, Cofounder of Sanas highlights the high individuality of the software – explaining that it can only be used by an individual speaker, thus allowing them to control their voice, and only their voice on their sole command. The local-run software also allows for 800+ communication app capability and enterprise-grade data security. Sanas describes that there are many different reasons why one would want to manipulate their accent – beta users describe everything from fluency in foreign language, higher connection to their roots, bias elimination or simply for fun.
"We are excited to invest in our strategic partnership with Sanas and leverage their powerful linguistic translation capabilities to provide the very best CX outcomes possible in real time, at scale and without barriers, regardless of native accents and dialects," said Andy Lee, Founder and Executive Chairman of Alorica, a trusted global leader in digital customer experience (CX) solutions. "Alorica is constantly developing and investing in cutting-edge technologies that empower our 100,000 employees worldwide to deliver exceptional experiences on behalf of our clients."
One key initiative with the fresh funds is to open an Indian headquarters, bolstering Sanas' global reach and tapping a wealth of developer talent. The office will be led by demand generation and international expansion expert, Ashish Kanoongo. With the majority of the world's call centers and many R&D centers being located in the Asia-Pacific region, the company's innovative accent-translation technology will propel the wider telecom industry into the future, drastically improving how effectively global teams, contact centers, and more interact on a day-to-day basis.
A portion of the round is earmarked for talent acquisition to further R&D efforts and add to the growing team of AI and technology all-stars assembling at the company, which include recent additions Sharath Keshava Narayana as co-founder and COO, Marty (Massih) Sarim as president, Pavan Karnam as vice president of data and analytics and Dr. BalaKrishna Kolluru as vice president of engineering. These executives are among the key hires that have expanded Sanas' team by 300% in Q2 2022 alone.
As part of the round, Ganesh Bell, managing director of Insight Partners will join the board, bringing with him over 25 years of experience building and operating startups, high-growth scaleups and global conglomerates such as General Electric, SAP, PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards. Also joining the board is industry stalwart and accented founding member Ram Gupta, who has experience working with teams that have created market capitalization of over $15B, including participating in three IPOs and nine acquisitions. Ram has held board positions across many forward-thinking technology companies including Postman Inc., Nexus Venture Partners, ThinkGeek and Neeyamo, and has worked for massive global names such as IBM and WebMD.
"Insight Partners is thrilled to deepen its relationship with Sanas on such cutting-edge and transformative technology," said Bell. "As the company comes out of its stealth phase, I look forward to working with this immensely talented and passionate team to build a product that will, among many things, help eliminate the unfortunate biases and discrimination experienced by those who speak English as a second language, which includes many of Sanas' employees."
Launched in August 2021, Sanas has already captured the attention of the Fortune 500, including welcoming Assurant as one of the company's first enterprise customers.
"Sanas' real-time speech engine has the potential to disrupt and revolutionize communication," said Assurant Chief Strategy and Risk Officer Bob Lonergan. "As a global Fortune 500 company that currently serves 15 of the 50 most valuable global brands and with more than 300 million end customers, Assurant is making significant digital investments to differentiate our customer experience. Part of these investments include strategic funding and support of disrupters within connectivity, digitalization and AI automation. That's why creating a value-added partnership with Sanas is a great fit."
About Sanas
Sanas was established by three Stanford students coming out of the renowned Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) with the aim of increasing individual choice when it comes to the form people speak a native or foreign language powered by real-time accent translation. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., Sanas' members and advisors include some of the top speech machine learning scientists in the world. For more information, visit sanas.ai.
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Operation Dudula says the law should take its course if any of its members are found to be responsible for causing a fire at the Yeoville Market in Johannesburg.
This follows claims by some traders that members of Operation Dudula are responsible for the blaze that gutted part of the market in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
More than twenty shops were affected. Some traders say members of the organisation came to the market last week threatening to close it, but were prevented by the police.
The cause of the fire is yet to be determined and police are investigating.
Operation Dudula’s Zandile Dabula, “We are saying that if its one of our members that burnt the market the law must take its cause but for now I would say its not anyone from Operation Dudula that caused the fire.” | https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/operation-dudula-calls-for-investigation-before-finger-pointing-in-yeoville-market-fire/ | 2022-06-22T13:52:44Z | https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/operation-dudula-calls-for-investigation-before-finger-pointing-in-yeoville-market-fire/ | false | null |
The Clássico-Rei, with a century-old history, carries enormous weight in its history. There are countless historic clashes for the State, Northeast Cup, Brazilian Championships and more recently, for the Brazil Cup 2021.
And fate wanted the two to cross once again for the national knockout competition for the second year in a row, opening this Wednesday (22), at 8 pm in Castelão, the first leg of the round of 16, with command of the Tricolor. The return game will be on July 13th, ordered by Grandpa.
Pre-match Fortaleza vs Ceará today; see details
What time is Fortaleza vs Ceará
The game starts at 20:00 this Wednesday (22)
Where to watch Fortaleza vs Ceará
The match will have Amazon Prime live streamVerdinha and real time in Diário do Nordeste.
guesses for the game
PROBABLE SCHEDULES FOR FORTALEZA X CEARÁ:
Strength
Boeck; Ceballos, Benevenuto, Titi; Pikachu, Felipe, Zé Welison, Lucas Lima, Capixaba; Moses and Romero. Technician: Vojvoda
Ceará
João Ricardo; Nino Paraíba, Messias, Luiz Otávio, Pacheco; Richardson, Richard Coelho, Fernando Sobral; Vina, Lima and Cleber. Technician: Marquinhos Santos
Fortaleza and Ceará moment
And the confrontation has a special aspect, with different perspectives for Fortaleza and Ceará. For Leão, it’s a chance to gain morale in the fight to escape the Serie A relegation zone and repeat 2021, when eliminated Grandpa in two games (1×1 and 3×0). As for Grandpa, and to affirm the good moment, with 12 games unbeaten, 9 of them for Serie A, and of course, to pay back the rival for elimination last year.
In addition, the two rivals are involved in 3 competitions and will need a lot of breath to overcome the marathon of games. In addition to the Copa do Brasil and Série A, the two clubs will play next week for international competitions: Leão for Libertadores, against Estudiantesand Grandpa for the South American, against The Strongest. Thus, this Wednesday’s confrontation for the Copa do Brasil marks the return of 2022 gaming marathon.
As it is a game under the control of Fortaleza, the tricolor crowd will have 70% of the crowd, while Vovô’s will have 30%.
Controversy
And days before the King’s Classic, the referee’s scale caused a lot of controversy. The CBF arbitration commission appointed the referee Wagner do Nascimento Magalhães (FIfa-RJ) for the match, which was involved in controversial bids in Goiás and Ceará, for Série A and target of formal complaint from Alvinegro and the Ceará Football Federation (FCF).
On Monday, the Alvinegra board sent a letter requesting the change of the referee for the match, but it was not answered by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF).
Fortaleza’s embezzlement and how the team arrives
The Tricolor de Aço comes with renewed spirit after reacting in Série A of the Brazilian, beating América/MG 1-0 at Castelão, last Sunday, for the 13th round. The Lion came out of the lantern and reduced the distance to exit the Z-4 to 5 points (see Serie A standings). The club skirted the tense week of protests, assault on striker Robson and Lucas Crispim’s departure and seeks against the rival Ceará, keep the good moment.
For the duel, coach Vojvoda will not have Tinga and Hercules everyone in the medical department. landázuri also should not return after experiencing flu-like symptoms before the last game. Who is available for the coach is midfielder Lucas Crispim, who was reinstated.
The tricolor coach spoke about the expectation of the Clássico-Rei: “These are very special matches, both because it is a classic, we know what a classic means here to the State, and it is also the Copa do Brasil and there are two matches. The main thing is who qualifies, That’s the most important thing. But they’re going to be hard-fought matches. And the fans will suffer and enjoy it like every classic. And the passion of Ceará football must always continue within the normality, the party that the people of Ceará respect in every game they play’ , declared the tricolor commander.
Ceara’s embezzlement and how the team arrives
Vozão arrives for the Clássico-Rei defending an unbeaten run of 12 games in the season, 9 of them in Serie A of the Brazilian Championship. There are 5 victories and 7 draws, with the last two equalities already with the coach Marquinhos Santos. With the new coach, the Vozão drew 0-0 with Atlético Mineiro in Castelão and Cuiabá at Arena Pantanal. Thus, Ceará seeks the first victory with the new coach, who replaces Dorival Júnior.
The coach will not have the Colombian Mendoza for a muscle injury and should only come back in 20 days. Already Vina trained normally and is available for the Clássico, after being spared against Cuiabá last Saturday.
Richardson highlighted the importance of the confrontation, rejecting Ceará’s favoritism: “Clásico never has a favorite, regardless of the moment. I’ve even experienced moments here when we were down and there was the classic and we managed to turn it around. We have to respect our rival that, despite being in a difficult situation in the Brazilian, it’s another competition, it’s a knockout game, a game of 180 minutes. There’s the first match tomorrow, you have to be very focused,” he said.
TECHNICAL SHEET | Fortaleza vs Ceara
- Brazilian Championship – Copa do Brasil
- Location: Arena Castelão, in Fortaleza (CE)
- Date/Time: June 22, 2022 at 8pm
- Referee Wagner do Nascimento Magalhaes (FIFA) – RJ
- Assistant 1: Guilherme Dias Camilo (FIFA) – MG
- Assistant 2: Thiago Henrique Neto Correa Farinha – RJ
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SAN DIEGO, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Youngevity International, Inc. (OTCM: YGYI), ("YGYI" or the "Company"), a multi-channel lifestyle company operating in three distinct business segments, including a commercial coffee enterprise, a direct marketing enterprise, and a nutraceutical manufacturing enterprise, today reported financial results for the quarters ended March 31, June 30, and September 30, 2020.
Steve Wallach, Chairman and CEO of Youngevity International stated, "We are making progress toward reaching fully reporting status with the filing of our 10-Qs for the first 3 quarters of 2020. Becoming fully reporting remains a top priority for the business."
Bill Thompson, CFO of Youngevity International stated, "We anticipate filing the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, shortly and then moving on to expedite the filing of our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2021, June 30, 2021, and September 30, 2021, and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. Our goal remains to become current on all filings prior to the end of the year."
Youngevity International, Inc. (OTCMKTS: YGYI), is a multi-channel lifestyle company operating in 3 distinct business segments including a commercial coffee enterprise, a commercial hemp enterprise, and a multi-vertical omni direct selling enterprise. The Company features a multi country selling network and has assembled a virtual Main Street of products and services under one corporate entity. YGYI offers products from the six top selling retail categories: health/nutrition, home/family, food/beverage (including coffee), spa/beauty, apparel/jewelry, as well as innovative services. For investor information, please visit YGYI.com. Be sure to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "should," "potential," "continue," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are based on management's expectations and assumptions as of the date of this press release and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations and assumptions from those set forth or implied by any forward-looking statements, and include statements regarding filing our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, shortly, expediting the filing of our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2021, June 30, 2021 and September 30, 2021, and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and our goal of becoming current on all filings prior to the end of the year. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, among others, our ability to file our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2021, June 30, 2021 and September 30, 2021 and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 when anticipated,, our ability to become current on all filings prior to the end of the year, our ability to improve our profitability, expand our liquidity, and strengthen our balance sheet, the acceptance of the omni-direct approach by our customers, our ability to expand our distribution and the other factors discussed in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and our other filings with the SEC. The information in this release is provided only as of the date of this release, and we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release on account of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law.
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Increased customer adoption for Infor hospitality-specific applications and the cloud contribute to success
NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Infor®, the industry cloud company, today announced its continued innovation and momentum over the past 12 months in its hospitality business unit at HITEC 2022. Infor Hospitality delivers end-to-end functionality in the cloud, serving every tier of the industry: from hotels of all sizes to casinos and specialty resorts. It delivers proven capabilities in key areas such as revenue optimization, property management, event and food service management, business intelligence, social collaboration, and mobility. The suite allows users to easily share data such as revenue management recommendations, scheduling, and customer information in real time, ultimately allowing employees to focus on improving guest service and enhancing the bottom line.
Infor HMS updates include:
- Improving the online guest experience – Hoteliers can offer guests the ability to request digital keys, update their contact, passport and ID information, as well as complete the entire check-in and check-out process from their mobile device. In addition, the application offers customization to leverage a property's branding such as images, fonts, colors and styling guides. Fields and screens of the online guest experience are now configurable for each guest type, providing hotels an additional level of service focused on loyalty level or tier. This will help users create exceptional guest experiences, improve guest loyalty, hotel revenue, and lead to improved profitability.
- Putting more emphasis on learning and training – Another enhancement to Infor HMS is the addition of new e-learning courses, via Infor Campus. These new courses can be accessed on any device at any time, allowing teams to work the way they live and interact with technology, benefiting from at-home access, on-site, or a blended version. These new e-learning courses will help make the onboarding process more efficient and allow team members using the Infor HMS applications to access basic and refresher trainings at the time they are needed.
- Fast, direct access to Infor support – Infor also released a new in-app chat feature that allows users to chat live directly with HMS support experts, in their preferred language, from any page in HMS to get immediate help. This targeted technology allows customers to pull up a virtual stool and talk with a support analyst at the peak point when help is needed. Provided alongside the usual channels, such as phone calls and the support portal, this tool provides an immediate line of communication to get questions answered in real time without leaving the page or picking up another device. It also automatically creates an incident for future reference so no need to log an incident.
- The ability to be more involved in future product releases – The Enhancement Request System (ERS), part of Infor Concierge customer support center, offers a portal where users can easily log enhancements and new feature and design change requests directly for Infor Product Management review. Much like a support incident being logged and coming into a support consultant's queue for review and resolution, the items logged in ERS go into the Product Management and Strategy teams queue for review and possible placement in a future docket. With this system, users can appeal and advocate for individual requests, creating a more direct line between the end user and Infor teams.
Infor Sales & Catering updates include:
- Infor has added an Event Room Diagramming module to its Sales & Catering solution. This feature will enable hospitality venues to generate event room diagrams (to scale) for their clients and set-up teams. The diagrams are generated dynamically using details from the event to save time for users. The new module is included in the core functionality, which enhances profitability for venues by eliminating subscription charges from other third-party applications. The functionality also includes self-service features for building room templates to help reduce the cost of professional service fees.
Infor Kiosk technology updates include:
- Lastly, the new food service Point of Sale Kiosk ordering supports multiple revenue centers from a single device. This is an excellent option for properties with multiple food service outlets on-site. From a single kiosk, customers can select their desired outlet from which to order. Their order details and revenue will then flow to the appropriate point-of-sale system for fulfillment. Kiosk ordering delivers higher customer satisfaction and higher check totals. Infor Kiosk enables the operator to invest in systems more efficiently, spreading the cost and benefits of a single device between multiple outlets. Infor Kiosk delivers contactless ordering, higher average check, increased customer satisfaction, reduced labor costs, and lower capital cost per outlet through a new Multi-Revenue Center feature.
- Infor's hospitality solutions drive new levels of usability, connectivity, and insight. Customers across the globe benefit from rapid scalability to accommodate brand expansion and acquisition and multi-currency financials with powerful performance analysis by region, market and property.
- "Infor is a top choice for the hospitality industry because we are constantly investing and innovating in our suite of solutions to mirror and anticipate ever-evolving guest expectations," said Jason Floyd, Infor Hospitality general manager. "From sales to service to product to leadership, we are a dedicated team of subject matter experts that truly understands what a hotelier needs from a technology standpoint to operate in a complicated market. Infor's cloud-based hospitality solutions are built to connect and seamlessly integrate, empowering staff to deliver superior services and help foster long-lasting relationships with guests."
Learn more about Infor Hospitality: www.infor.com/industries/hospitality
About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. Infor's mission-critical enterprise applications and services are designed to deliver sustainable operational advantages with security and faster time to value. We are obsessed with delivering successful business outcomes for customers. Over 60,000 organizations in more than 175 countries rely on Infor's 17,000 employees to help achieve their business goals. As a Koch company, our financial strength, ownership structure, and long-term view empower us to foster enduring, mutually beneficial relationships with our customers. Visit www.infor.com.
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Following the rally seen in the previous session, stocks are likely to give back ground in early trading on Wednesday. The major index futures are currently pointing to a sharply lower open for the markets, with the Dow futures down by 451 points.
Lingering concerns about inflation, interest rates and a possible recession may inspire traders to cash in on yesterday's strong gains.
In a research note, Citigroup put the odds of a global recession at 50 percent, citing signs of consumers pulling back on spending.
"The experience of history indicates that disinflation often carries meaningful costs for growth, and we see the aggregate probability of recession as now approaching 50%," said Citigroup.
Traders are also likely to keep a close eye on remarks by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who is due to testify before the Senate Banking Committee this morning.
Powell's testimony comes after the Fed raised interest rates by 75 basis points last week and indicated further rate hikes are likely in the coming months.
Ahead of Powell's remarks, CME Group's FedWatch tool is currently pointing to 90.9 percent chance of another 75 basis point rate hike next month.
With traders returning to their desks following the long holiday weekend, stocks moved sharply higher during trading on Tuesday. The major averages all showed strong moves to the upside after ending last Friday's volatile session mixed.
The major averages pulled back off their best levels going into the close but still posted substantial gains. The Dow jumped 641.47 points or 2.2 percent to 30,530.25, the Nasdaq surged 270.95 points or 2.5 percent to 11,069.30 and the S&P 500 spiked 89.95 points or 2.5 percent to 3,764.79.
In overseas trading, stock markets across the Asia-Pacific region moved mostly lower during trading on Wednesday. Japan's Nikkei 225 Index fell by 0.4 percent, while China's Shanghai Composite Index slumped by 1.2 percent.
The major European markets have also shown significant moves to the downside on the day. While the German DAX Index has tumbled by 2 percent, the French CAC 40 Index is down by 1.8 percent and the U.K.'s FTSE 100 Index is down by 1.3 percent.
In commodities trading, crude oil futures are plunging $6.05 to $103.47 a barrel after jumping $1.53 to $109.52 a barrel on Tuesday. Meanwhile, an ounce of gold is trading at $1,842.90, up $4.10 compared to the previous session's close of $1,838.80. On Tuesday, gold slipped $1.80.
On the currency front, the U.S. dollar is trading at 135.89 yen compared to the 136.57 yen it fetched at the close of New York trading on Tuesday. Against the euro, the dollar is trading at $1.0517 compared to yesterday's $1.0533.
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A police probe has been launched after a boy was seen "hysterically begging for his life" while being chased through a supermarket by a knife-wielding gang.
Shoppers at the Lidl store in Blackpool said it was "the most terrifying thing you could imagine".
The victim, believed to be around 16 years old, ran into the shop at around 2.30pm on Monday "screaming for help", Lancs Live reports.
as he was chased around the aisles by the gang wearing balaclavas.
One mum, who was shopping at the store with her five-month-old child, said the gang were "pushing everything and anyone out of their way in the process".
She described how they ran into the stock room "where they all caught up with him" and one of the gang "dropped a knife on the way out and it wasn't small".
In a post on Facebook, she said: "Do you know where your son is right now? Because I've just had to witness the most terrifying thing you could imagine, whilst shopping with my baby in Lidl.
"One young lad on his own, running barefoot around the shop screaming for help being chased by a gang of lads wearing balaclavas with knives. Pushing everything and anyone out of their way in the process, my 5 month old nearly got thrown out of her pushchair.
"He run into the stock room where they all caught up with him unfortunately, I'm not sure how he is currently. One of them dropped a knife on the way out and it wasn't small.
"The sound is something that will honestly haunt me for the rest of my life. I'm shaken and it wasn't even me.
"Genuine cries and pleads, hysterically begging for his life, he must have been 16, 17 at a push. That's someone child.
"And as for the culprits, also someone's child. If you don't know the whereabouts of your children right now, I'd do something about it."
Witnesses reported the youths fled the store on electric bikes and the boy was kept in a store room until police arrived at the scene.
Lancashire Constabulary said: "We are aware and the matter is under investigation at this time." Anyone with information should call police on 101 quoting log 0732 of June 20.
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Big Question for Candidates: "What sustainable practices should continue and be implemented to protect Arizona's air, land, and water and foster a high quality of life for all?"
PHOENIX, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of releasing survey findings on water issues important to voters earlier this week, Center for the Future of Arizona (CFA) today released additional environmental findings as part of their ongoing reveal of the Arizona Voters' Agenda, which identifies what likely voters in the general election want to hear about from candidates as they campaign for their votes.
The newly released data from the Arizona Voters' Agenda emphasizes Arizonans' strong desire to ensure sustainable practices that preserve and protect Arizona's natural environment. Voters identified specific priorities, including spending and policy measures to prevent forest fires and improve air quality. These are in addition to securing long-term water supplies, revealed as a top priority earlier this week.
"Arizonans know our natural resources and environment are interconnected to the quality of life in our state. The environment was also a top issue with broad consensus in CFA's Gallup Arizona Survey in 2020," said Dr. Sybil Francis, President & CEO of CFA. "As voters are making their decision about whom to support, they want to hear about what candidates are going to do to make sustainable gains on environmental concerns affecting our everyday lives and the future economic vitality of our beloved state."
Amid Arizona's all too real and devastating fire season, the Arizona Voters' Agenda shows that voters across the state consider preventing forest fires a high priority. In fact, 93% of likely voters support "increasing spending and measures to prevent forest fires on state land," including 90% Republican support, 93% independents/unaffiliated support, and 95% Democratic support. The survey was conducted in April, before the recent wildfires reported in the news.
While forest fires are a contributing factor to the air quality in Arizona, voters are also clear that improving the quality of air overall is important. In all, 88% of likely voters support the policy position of "improving air quality," including 80% Republican support, 98% independents/unaffiliated support, and 99% Democratic support.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Powell answers questions from a Senate committee Wednesday. He's sure to be asked about inflation and possible fallout from the Fed's efforts to bring prices under control.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Powell answers questions from a Senate committee Wednesday. He's sure to be asked about inflation and possible fallout from the Fed's efforts to bring prices under control.
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World View and Rainforest Partnership Team Up to Protect One of the World’s Greatest Wonders
World View continues its commitment to Earth advocacy pledging support to Rainforest Partnership’s forest conservation efforts in Peru and Ecuador
TUCSON, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In support of World Rainforest Day, June 22, World View, the industry leading stratospheric ballooning and space tourism company, announces a new alliance with Rainforest Partnership, an impact-driven international nonprofit that uses the power of community-centered collaboration to protect rainforests—crucial components in the global climate crisis—in some of the most critical places on Earth for biodiversity and climate.
World View’s space tourism flight from Spaceport Amazonia, one of its Seven Wonders of the World Stratospheric Edition TM, will provide explorers with a deeper appreciation for tropical rainforests and distinctive learning opportunities about the integral role they play in regulating Earth’s climate. Through this partnership, World View will donate five percent of all sales from World View’s forthcoming Amazonia merchandise line to Rainforest Partnership in support of indigenous and local-led forest conservation projects in Peru and Ecuador. The two organizations will continue to collaborate to identify opportunities for World View to work alongside and support local communities.
“Through both our space tourism and remote sensing divisions, we are committed to identifying ways to share new perspectives that encourage the preservation of our planet,” says World View CEO Ryan Hartman. “We’re excited to share the immense beauty of the tropical rainforest from the edge of space to help more people understand its wonder and fragility from a new vantage point while inspiring them to take action to protect this critical resource.”
As part of the 2022 World Rainforest Day Global Summit on June 22, Hartman will host a virtual fireside chat with environmentalist, actor, UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador, Adrian Grenier to discuss how mission-first companies focused on corporate social responsibility can drive revenue while also supporting awareness about Earth’s resources, like rainforests, and contribute to a healing planet. Grenier also serves as World View’s Chief Earth Advocate, where he supports the organization’s mission to inspire earth activism.
The theme for the virtual Summit—The Time is Now—emphasizes the immediate need for action and impact to achieve net zero deforestation by 2030. Summit events include panel discussions, workshops, and film screenings focused on conservation, community engagement, innovative technology, finance, youth climate action, storytelling, sustainable business/corporate social responsibility, ecotourism, ecology, and more. All events are free and open to the public; registration is available at https://www.worldrainforestday.org
“World View shares our vision for protecting precious natural resources like tropical rainforests,” says Rainforest Partnership CEO Niyanta Spelman. “We are grateful for support that helps us create long-term, sustainable rainforest protection and restoration as part of our direct work with Amazonian indigenous and local communities. Partnerships with purpose-driven organizations such as World View will accelerate the scale of impact for tropical rainforests and the entire planet.”
ABOUT WORLD VIEW
World View is the leading stratospheric exploration company on a mission to inspire the global community to rediscover Earth. Through both its legacy Stratollite imaging and newly launched space tourism and exploration businesses, World View is working to ensure its ultimate objective: honor the planet so that future generations will feel blessed to call it home. For more information, visit worldview.space.
ABOUT WORLD RAINFOREST DAY
World Rainforest Day highlights rainforests and their critical role in stabilizing our climate, inspires individual and collective actions around the world, and showcases innovative ideas. Created by the nonprofit Rainforest Partnership in 2017, World Rainforest Day spreads awareness about the importance of rainforests, encourages global action to protect these critical ecosystems, and creates a pathway for collaboration. Visit http://WorldRainforestDay.org to learn more and amplify with #WorldRainforestDay.
ABOUT RAINFOREST PARTNERSHIP
Rainforest Partnership is an impact-driven international nonprofit, founded in 2007 in Austin, Texas, that uses the power of community-centered collaboration to protect rainforests—critical components in the global climate crisis—in some of the most critical places on Earth for biodiversity and climate. Visit http://rainforestpartnership.org to learn more.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Three Chicago police officers have been injured breaking up fights after a man was shot at the city's North Avenue Beach.
The shooting occurred about 9 p.m. Tuesday and fights erupted nearby as crowds were cleared from the beach, police said.
The shooting victim was taken to a hospital. Another man was arrested in connection with the shooting and a gun was recovered.
One officer suffered scrapes and arm lacerations, while a second was hit in the eye shortly before 11 p.m., police said.
The third officer was taken to a hospital after being struck in the back of the head by an object.
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