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Ghazipur, Jul 8: Two members of a family were killed and nine others were injured when a tempo they were travelling in was hit by a truck in Saidpur area here, police said on Friday.
The accident occurred on Thursday night when the family was returning from a marriage function, they said.
Ramji Bansphor (45) and his sister Champa Bansphor (47) were killed while nine other family members were injured, Sighauna Police outpost In charge Sunil Tiwari said.
The bodies were sent for post-mortem examination and the injured were rushed to hospital, they said.
An FIR was lodged. The truck driver has absconded, leaving the truck behind, they added. | https://www.oneindia.com/amphtml/lucknow/2-of-family-killed-9-injured-in-up-road-accident-3431125.html | 2022-07-08T10:58:52Z | https://www.oneindia.com/amphtml/lucknow/2-of-family-killed-9-injured-in-up-road-accident-3431125.html | false | null |
NEW YORK, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Unilever PLC (NYSE: UL).
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Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until August 15, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Unilever PLC issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: a) in July 2020, the board of Ben & Jerry's, one of Unilever's marquee brands, passed a resolution to end sales of its ice cream in "Occupied Palestinian Territory" ; and b) this boycott decision risked adverse governmental actions for violations of laws, executive orders, or resolutions aimed at discouraging boycotts, divestment, and sanctions of Israel adopted by 35 U.S. states.
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The United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution on Friday condemning rights violations against women and girls in Afghanistan, urging the ruling Taliban to end restrictive practices described as making them "invisible" in society.
"Restrictive measures put in place by the Taliban are making (them) ... invisible in Afghanistan society."
Czech ambassador Václav Bálek on behalf of the European Union
The Taliban seized power for a second time in Afghanistan last August as international forces backing a pro-Western government pulled out.
Critics say women's rights have since been undermined with new curbs on their clothes, movement and education, despite earlier Taliban vows to the contrary.
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"Restrictive measures put in place by the Taliban are making (them) ... invisible in Afghanistan society."
The council's decisions are not legally binding but carry political weight and can lead to official investigations.
Friday's resolution, backed by dozens of countries, was passed without a vote, although China's mission disassociated itself from the outcome, describing it as "not balanced." It is one of 11 draft resolutions under consideration on Friday.
Wide support for the resolution
Among its supporters was the Afghanistan envoy Mohibullah Taib, appointed by the previous Afghan government, who said new curbs amounted to "gender apartheid."
In rare cases, envoys of governments no longer in power can continue to address UN bodies until a credentials committee in New York decides otherwise.
The US ambassador to the council, Michèle Taylor, also voiced concern over recent measures, mentioning a new policy to punish male family members who are not enforcing restrictions that was creating an environment of "constant fear."
The resolution foresees a debate in September or October at the next council session, in which Afghan women's rights activists will have the chance to participate.
Marc Limon of the Universal Rights Group think-tank said the Taliban were unlikely to change course as a result of the condemnation but suggested the UN could have leverage if it tied women's rights to international assistance in the future. | https://www.jpost.com/middle-east-news/article-711560 | 2022-07-08T11:01:48Z | https://www.jpost.com/middle-east-news/article-711560 | false | 1 |
Fans in France of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy have expressed dissatisfaction with what they claim to be low-quality dubbing of Elliot Page‘s character in the show’s third season.
Viktor Hargreeves, portrayed by Page, was presented as a woman for the initial two seasons of the show, during which time, a cisgender woman (Jessica Monceau) performed Page’s lines in French.
In season three, however, after Page came out as a trans person in 2020, their character Hargreeves goes on an emotional journey and also begins their transition in the second episode of the season. During the third season, they are voiced in French by a cisgender man (Jean-Baptiste Manuier).
Maunier expressed his joy at being able to voice Hargreeves, saying on Instagram, “I’m very proud today to have entered the passionate world of dubbing that I have been dreaming about since childhood. I feel lucky to be the French voice of Elliot Page in The Umbrella Academy on Netflix.”
However, French fans’ reaction to the voice work was varied, with one person arguing that Netflix refused to “respect consistency and the voice of the actor.” Others believed that the change came too quickly, with Maunier voicing Page before Hargreeves had even transitioned in the second episode. Another fan felt that Jessica Monceau could have done it herself.
The season of the show in question had already been written prior to Page’s coming out, and show writer Steve Blackman rewrote the script to include it. He said, “We wanted it to not be the story of the season. We wanted it to be a story, or a part of the story. We wanted to tell a story that was really pro-trans, authentic, sensitive, and show that families can accept trans people in their lives, and it does not have to be a negative thing, as it’s often portrayed in the media. That was paramount. I talked with Elliot through the whole thing, and I’m really proud of how we did it. I thought it came across in a way that we all felt good about.” | https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/french-fans-dislike-elliot-page-dub/ | 2022-07-08T11:06:51Z | https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/french-fans-dislike-elliot-page-dub/ | true | 1 |
JUNO BEACH, Fla., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) today announced that it plans to report second-quarter 2022 financial results before the opening of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, July 22, 2022, in a news release to be posted on its website at www.NextEraEnergyPartners.com/FinancialResults. An advisory news release will be issued over PR Newswire the morning of July 22, with a link to the financial results news release on NextEra Energy Partners' website. As previously announced, NextEra Energy Partners will make available its financial results only on its website.
John Ketchum, chief executive officer of NextEra Energy Partners, Kirk Crews, chief financial officer of NextEra Energy Partners, and other members of the senior management team will discuss the second-quarter 2022 financial results during an investor presentation to be webcast live, beginning at 9 a.m. ET on July 22. Results for NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) also will be discussed during the same investor presentation.
The listen-only webcast will be available on NextEra Energy Partners' website by accessing the following link: www.NextEraEnergyPartners.com/FinancialResults. The financial results news release and the slides accompanying the presentation may be downloaded at www.NextEraEnergyPartners.com/FinancialResults, beginning at 7:30 a.m. ET on the day of the webcast. A replay will be available for 90 days by accessing the same link as listed above.
NextEra Energy Partners, LP
NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) is a growth-oriented limited partnership formed by NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE). NextEra Energy Partners acquires, manages and owns contracted clean energy projects with stable, long-term cash flows. Headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida, NextEra Energy Partners owns interests in geographically diverse wind, solar and energy storage projects in the U.S. as well as natural gas infrastructure assets in Texas and Pennsylvania. For more information about NextEra Energy Partners, please visit: www.NextEraEnergyPartners.com.
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As the dust settles on an explosive few days in Westminster, culminating in the resignation of Boris Johnson as Tory leader, talk has already turned to who will replace him as prime minister.
Few have outright declared their intention to stand, though others have been regarded as manoeuvring for this moment for considerable time.
Here are some of the early contenders for the post:
– Ben Wallace
The early frontrunner, according to many bookmakers, with some offering odds as low as 9/4 on him getting the leadership, while another firm reported more than half of all bets in that market had been placed on Mr Wallace.
The latest YouGov poll also regards him as the favourite.
The Defence Secretary is thought to have significant support among Westminster colleagues who like his straight-talking and straightforward approach, though he does not have the cross-departmental experience of his rivals.
The Johnson loyalist, who served in the Scots Guards, remains a key voice in the UK’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and this increased exposure could assist any leadership bid.
– Penny Mordaunt
Ms Mordaunt was Mr Wallace’s predecessor as defence secretary, and the first woman to hold the post before being sacked by Mr Johnson shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 2019.
Ms Mordaunt has many strings to her bow, she is a Royal Navy reservist, the current trade minister and a former reality TV contestant, having appeared on the Tom Daley-fronted diving show Splash.
She played a prominent role in the Leave campaign in the 2016 Brexit referendum, and has previously reportedly enjoyed the backing of Dame Andrea Leadsom among others.
She remains among the early favourites, and second only to Mr Wallace in the YouGov poll.
– Rishi Sunak
One of the main front-runners, attracting odds of 4/1 with several bookmakers, the former chancellor’s rise from relative obscurity to household name came as he turned on the spending taps to protect jobs through the furlough scheme when the coronavirus pandemic struck.
His calm and measured delivery during televised Covid briefings, and his viral declaration of love for a popular soft drink, will have endeared him to those perhaps not always plugged in to the political goings-on, as well as his resignation on matters of principle on Tuesday.
But his stock took a tumble more recently following disclosures that his wife had non-dom status for tax purposes, and criticism that he was too slow to respond to the cost-of-living crisis.
– Liz Truss
The Foreign Secretary kept her powder dry as the Tory top brass turned on the mortally wounded Prime Minister, despite being a Johnson loyalist, though she did cut short a foreign trip to Indonesia to head back to Westminster as he announced his resignation.
Social media aficionado Ms Truss has made little secret of her leadership ambitions, with a series of high-profile interventions and photo opportunities in which she appeared to be channelling late PM Margaret Thatcher.
She has the experience of working across many Whitehall departments, while her hard line on Ukraine, insisting Russian forces must be driven from the country, and threats to tear up the Northern Ireland Protocol with the EU play well with sections of the party.
– Sajid Javid
Undeclared, but understood to be seriously considering a leadership bid, he is perhaps buoyed by the response to his clinical farewell speech in the Commons on Wednesday, after his and Mr Sunak’s double-resignation effectively kickstarted the slew of departures from government, thus hastening Mr Johnson’s demise.
State school-educated Mr Javid, known as “The Saj” in some circles, is the son of a bus driver who arrived in England from Pakistan in the 1960s, and held ministerial roles in housing, business and culture before becoming chancellor, and then health secretary in the middle of the pandemic.
Mr Javid made it to the final four in the contest to replace Theresa May as Tory leader in 2019, but dropped out and subsequently endorsed Mr Johnson.
He told reporters after his resignation on Tuesday evening that he was looking forward to spending time with his family – but for how long?
– Nadhim Zahawi
An outside bet among the bookies, the former education secretary is regarded by some as a “safe pair of hands” if other candidates prove too divisive.
Indeed, he was the man trusted to take on the broadcast round of interviews on Wednesday morning, on his first full day in his new job as chancellor, before later urging the PM to resign.
Iraqi-born Mr Zahawi was a successful businessman and came to wider prominence as vaccines minister during the pandemic where he was credited with playing a key part in the successful rollout of the jab.
– Tom Tugendhat
Not a household name, but among the early contenders.
The multi-lingual chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee became the first to announce his intention to stand for leader should Mr Johnson be turfed out, with his declaration made in January, a position he repeated in Friday’s Daily Telegraph, saying he was putting together a “broad coalition” offering a “clean start”.
His odds shortened almost immediately as a result.
The former soldier wrote in the paper: “I have served before, in the military, and now in Parliament. Now I hope to answer the call once again as prime minister.”
A Remainer in 2016, the former soldier has been a trenchant critic of Mr Johnson, a stance that would appear to have cost him any chance of ministerial preferment under the current leadership.
– Steve Baker
Prominent Brexiteer and former minister Steve Baker, a senior Tory backbencher, confirmed on Thursday that he is seriously considering putting himself forward for the top job.
He told PA that Tory blog ConservativeHome “consistently put me in their top ten for next Prime Minister, they sometimes put me in their top five”, but said it would be “very difficult” to persuade colleagues to back him for the party-wide ballot without Cabinet experience.
Mr Baker successfully plotted to oust Theresa May as prime minister but, despite his credentials as a Brexit die-hard, he is not a household name.
– Suella Braverman
The Attorney General launched an unlikely leadership bid as support for Mr Johnson crumbled around him on Wednesday night.
Ms Braverman, who was first elected as an MP in 2015, is regarded as something of an outsider for the leadership given the party grandees already tipped to be in the running.
A Suella Braverman for PM Twitter account has sprung up, with Tory MP Sir Desmond Swayne becoming the first to tweet his support for her bid.
– Jeremy Hunt
The former foreign secretary and ex-health secretary has been a persistent backbench critic of Mr Johnson and has called on the Prime Minister to quit.
Mr Hunt is widely expected to make a fresh bid for the leadership, having been runner-up to Mr Johnson in 2019, though is seen as a bit of a Thatcher reboot.
As chairman of the Commons Health Committee, he has used his position to make a number of critical interventions on the Government’s handling of the pandemic, although his strong support for lockdown measures will not have pleased all Tory MPs.
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Shares of Tata Power rose over a percent on Friday after the Tata Group company’s management said on Thursday that the power company plans to undertake a capital expenditure of over Rs 75,000 crore in the next five years in the renewable space.
At 12:37 IST, shares of the company were trading 0.4 percent higher at Rs 215.4 on the BSE.
In FY23, consolidated capital expenditure of Rs 14,000 crore is expected to be undertaken with Rs 10,000 crore in renewables, reportedly said N Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Power, at the annual general meeting (AGM).
Chandra added that the current clean and green portfolio of the company stands at 34 percent of total capacity and the power company aims to raise it to 60 percent in the next five years.
This comes after the country’s largest private integrated power company said that it was setting up a greenfield 4GW solar cell and 4GW solar module manufacturing plant in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Tata Power has signed an agreement with the Tamil Nadu government to invest approximately Rs 3,000 crore in the plant.
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Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo died after being shot while delivering a speech in the western city of Nara in Japan, state broadcaster NHK reported.
Officials say former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has been confirmed dead. He served as the country's prime minister twice. Here is a chronology. #nhkworldhttps://t.co/CKPAs8t8uZ
— NHK WORLD News (@NHKWORLD_News) July 8, 2022
Abe was shot at about 11:30 am in the prefecture of Nara, chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said. The gun seized at the scene appears to be handmade.
Citing a senior member of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party, national broadcaster NHK said “former Prime Minister Abe died at a hospital in Kashihara city, Nara, where he was receiving medical treatment."
Expressing his grief over Abe's death, PM Modi said, "I am shocked and saddened beyond words at the tragic demise of one of my dearest friends, Shinzo Abe. He was a towering global statesman, an outstanding leader, and a remarkable administrator. He dedicated his life to make Japan and the world a better place."
"My association with Mr. Abe goes back many years. I had got to know him during my tenure as Gujarat CM and our friendship continued after I became PM. His sharp insights on economy and global affairs always made a deep impression on me."
"Today, whole India mourns with Japan and we stand in solidarity with our Japanese brothers and sisters in this difficult moment. As a mark of our deepest respect for former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, a one day national mourning shall be observed on 9 July 2022," he added.
NHK reported that the suspect worked in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force for three years until 2005. The 41-year-old suspect lives in Nara city.
There have been no further updates on Abe Shinzo's condition. Police have arrested Yamagami Tetsuya for attempted murder. Defense officials say the 41-year-old suspect worked for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force for three years until 2005. https://t.co/CVDvfYNfKm
— NHK WORLD News (@NHKWORLD_News) July 8, 2022
Earlier, Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has addressed reporters on this assassination attempt against the former PM. He said Abe was in hospital in critical condition. "We are hoping and praying that Mr Abe will survive this," he said while cancelling his remaining campaign events for Friday.
Condemning the shooting, Kishida called it “a barbaric act during election campaigning, which is the foundation of democracy.”
Reports claim Abe is showed no vital signs after being rushed to a hospital following the attack. Ex-Tokyo governor Yoichi Masuzoe in a tweet said that the 67-year-old was in a state of "cardiopulmonary arrest". The term in Japan is often used before death is officially confirmed.
Shinzo Abe twice served as Japan's Prime Minister, first in 2006 when he became the youngest post-war leader at the age of 52. He again led his Liberal Democratic Party to a landslide victory in 2012.
His family's political history stretches back decades to his grandfather, Kishi Nobusuke who served as PM between 1957 and 1960. Abe's father later served as foreign minister of the country.
The Japanese yen rose 0.5 percent soon after the news broke out as investors leapt to safe assets.
With input from agencies
(Edited by : Sangam Singh)
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MKBHD says yes to Google Glass, no to the metaverse
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Amid the heavy rainfall in Jammu and Kashmir in the last few days, a stretch of National Highway 244 in J&K's Kishtwar has been damaged due to a heavy downpour and flash flood, leaving several people stranded. The damaged stretch of the national highway in Kishtwar is particularly important for the connectivity in the region, as it connects the Kishtwar area with Sinthan. It is also important for security purposes as movements of forces also happen at this very place.
To rescue the stranded people in the vehicles, the brave Indian Army personnel along with the local J&K police force have been carrying out a rescue operation. As per the visuals, the army personnel were seen pushing the cars across the damaged stretch amid the heavy flow of water.
Along with the rescue operation, Indian army personnel are also trying to restore the damaged stretch as soon as possible. Efforts are being made by the Indian army and Jammu and Kashmir police force in Kishtwar at war footing level to restore the stretch of the National Highway 244 which was affected due to heavy rainfall and deluge.
As heavy rainfall batters several areas of J&K, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted thunderstorms with lightning along with moderate to heavy rainfall in isolated areas for the next 5 days in the region of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. It is pertinent to mention that due to heavy rainfall, several places in the last few days have reported landslides, mudslides and flood-like situations in Jammu and Kashmir.
The current spell of rainfall is likely to impact the ongoing Amarnath Yatra as well. Notably, the Yatra has been halted twice in the last 2 days pertaining to the heavy downpour in the region. As the Monsoon advances further in the country, several parts have been reporting flood-like situations amid heavy rainfall. | https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/accidents-and-disasters/j-and-k-indian-army-rescues-stranded-people-as-heavy-rainfall-damages-nh-244-in-kishtwar-articleshow.html | 2022-07-08T11:23:39Z | https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/accidents-and-disasters/j-and-k-indian-army-rescues-stranded-people-as-heavy-rainfall-damages-nh-244-in-kishtwar-articleshow.html | true | 1 |
Alvarez follows in Sane’s footsteps as Man City shirt number is revealed for £14m Argentine forward
Julian Alvarez has been confirmed as Manchester City's new No.19 for the 2022-23 season, a shirt that has been previously graced by Leroy Sane.
City completed the £14 million ($18m) signing of Alvarez on a five-and-a-half-year contract from River Plate in January 2022.
He remained on loan with the Argentine outift and after they were ousted from the Copa Libertadores on Thursday, the forward is ready to fly to Europe and join Pep Guardiola's pre-season training.
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What was Julian Alvarez's previous number at River Plate?
The forward used to wear the No.9 shirt at River Plate and also uses the same number for the Argentina national team. However, the No.9 has already been taken by Erling Haaland, so Alvarez has to settle with 19.
"I have been using the number nine until now and I wanted the number nine to be on my shirt. And it is also an important date because the 19th was my grandmother's birthday,” he told City's official website.
Alvarez feels that he is ready for the next level and cannot wait to start training under Pep Guardiola.
“I feel confident I can flourish here. The style of play Pep encourages is exciting and I can’t wait to be a part of it. City has an amazing recent history of Argentinian players and I want to put my stamp on the Club in the same way Sergio Aguero, Pablo Zabaleta and Carlos Tevez did. https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/sterling-transfer-man-city-forward-personal-terms-chelsea/blt8aee0af29a4e6107
"I want to give my best to this club, help my teammates and contribute to Manchester City’s success," he stated after completing the move to the reigning Premier League champions.
Alvarez will be unveiled to City fans at West Reception on Sunday, alongside fellow new signings Haaland, Kalvin Phillips and Stefan Ortega Moreno.
Alvarez made his River Plate debut in October 2018 and has scored 53 goals and 31 assists in 120 appearances, including a league-winning strike against Racing in November.
Who else has worn No. 19 at Manchester City?
A host of impressive players have donned the No. 19 at Manchester City. Leroy Sane wore it for three years during his stay in England. In the 2014-15 season, Dutch defender Karim Rekik used the number.
Other City players like Samir Nasri, Joleon Lescott, Gelson Fernandes also had the No. 19 at their back.
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KJ Jefferson Tops SEC’s Quarterbacks in Key Area
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Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe assassinated: Here's how it unfolded
Former Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot during a campaign speech in Nara in western Japan. We take a look at how things unfolded after the barbaric attack.
New Delhi: Former Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot during a campaign speech in Nara in western Japan, public broadcaster NHK television confirmed on Friday.
His death was also reported by other broadcasters as well as the Japanese news agencies Jiji and Kyodo.
Abe was shot from behind minutes after he started his speech. He was airlifted to a hospital for emergency treatment but was not breathing and his heart had stopped. He was pronounced dead later at the hospital.
Ten points on how things unfolded:
- Abe was shot and critically wounded at 11:25 am, local time, during a campaign speech in western Japan. He was standing on the stage when a man dressed in a grey shirt and brown trousers begins approaching from behind, before drawing something from a bag and firing, a footage broadcast by NHK showed.
- As spectators and reporters ducked, the man was shown being tackled to the ground by security. He was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, reports said.
- Abe was bleeding from the neck, witnesses said and photographs showed. He was reportedly initially responsive but subsequently lost consciousness.
- He is then airlifted to a hospital in Kashihara city, Nara region where the officials said he was not breathing and his heart had stopped.
- Local media, meanwhile, identified the attacker as 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami, citing police sources, with several media outlets describing him as a former member of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, the country's navy.
- Nara Medical University emergency department chief Hidetada Fukushima said Abe suffered major damage to his heart in addition to two neck wounds that damaged an artery, causing extensive bleeding. He was in a state of cardio and pulmonary arrest when he arrived at the hospital and never regained his vital signs.
- Abe was later pronounced dead despite emergency treatment that included massive blood transfusions, hospital officials said.
- Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his Cabinet ministers hastily returned to Tokyo from campaign events around the country after the shooting, which he called “dastardly and barbaric."
- The attacker was wielding a weapon described by local media as a "handmade gun", and NHK said he told police after his arrest that he "targeted Abe with the intention of killing him".
- News that Abe was assassinated on the campaign trail for Sunday’s upper house elections has brought the country, where gun-control laws are toughest in the world, to a standstill.With inputs from AFP and APWith inputs from agencies
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A senior official at the European Union medicines agency said Thursday that many nations in the bloc are seeing a new wave of COVID-19, driven by highly-transmissible mutations of the omicron variant.
The European Medicines Agency’s Marco Cavaleri told an online briefing that the BA.4 and BA.5 mutations are expected to become dominant across the continent, “likely replacing all other variants by the end of July.”
He said that while there is no evidence the variants make people more sick than earlier strains of the virus, “the increase in transmission among older age groups is starting to translate into severe disease.”
In April, the EMA advised people aged 80 and above to get a second vaccine booster. Cavaleri said that second booster doses are now being advised for people in the EU aged from 60-79 years and “medically vulnerable persons of any age.”
“As this new wave is unfolding over the EU, it is essential to maintain protection of vulnerable groups and avoid any postponement of vaccination,” he said.
With the pandemic in its third year, almost all European nations have dropped most coronavirus restrictions and people are using the summer break to catch up on vacations that were put on ice over the first two years of the global outbreak that has killed more than 6.3 million people worldwide.
The virus is not just spreading again in Europe. The World Health Organization said June 30 that the number of new cases rose by 18% in the previous week, with more than 4.1 million cases reported globally.
The U.N. health agency said in its latest weekly report on the pandemic that the worldwide number of deaths remained relatively similar to the week before, at about 8,500. COVID-related deaths increased in three regions: the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the Americas.
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Bally Bet goes live in New York mobile wagering market
Bally Bet became the last of nine online sportsbooks to go live in New York.
US.- Six months after the launch of New York’s mobile sports betting market, Bally Bet finally made its debut. The nine operators which are already online in the state are FanDuel, DraftKings, Caesars Sportsbook, BetMGM, PointsBet, BetRivers, WynnBET, Resorts WorldBET, and now Bally Bet.
According to CEO Lee Fenton, the main reason for the delay was the operator’s focus on updating its sports betting app. But chairman Soo Kim, also suggested that the delay was a deliberate choice to avoid the fierce competition during the initial introduction of sports betting in the state.
He said: “We have a longer-term plan. We think that the current version of sports betting is not a great business. It’s a fine business but not a great business.”
“We think that there will be a wave of consolidation that will rationalize promotions but more importantly I think people will just stop competing with free money but people will start competing with product,” Kim added.
Bally’s recently launched its 2.0 platform in Arizona. Fenton had said: “In New York, we will be cautious as we keep a keen eye on marketing spend and how to navigate a high tax environment in sports betting.”
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FanDuel, DraftKings, Caesars and BetMGM have combined for over 90 per cent of the market share and revenue share in the Empire state. Bally Bet already missed the Superbowl and March Madness, but the sportsbook will be up and running for the first full NFL season featuring legal New York online sportsbooks, which begins on September 8.
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Operators call for review of New York tax rate
Last month, operators asked legislators to review the tax rate. Mobile sportsbooks are subject to a 51 per cent tax on their gross sports betting revenue, the highest online tax rate in the country.
According to Bloomberg, operators are cutting back on their marketing and promotional offers amid ongoing losses. Companies like DraftKings and FanDuel are asking legislators to lower taxes after agreeing to them just last year.
See also: New York sports betting handle hits lowest monthly total since launch
The average sports betting tax rate in the US is 19 per cent, according to Morgan Stanley. New Jersey taxes online sports betting at 14.25 per cent, while Pennsylvania taxes at 36 per cent. New York also includes promotional credits given to players in the calculation of taxes.
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BEIJING (AP) — A former Chinese vice minister of public security went on trial Friday, accused of collecting 646 million yuan ($96.3 million) in bribes over nearly two decades.
Sun Lijun faces accusations of selling government positions, manipulating stock prices and illegally possessing firearms, in one of the most high-profile corruption trials in years.
Sun, who is also accused of abandoning his post amid the COVID-19 outbreak, has pleaded guilty, state broadcaster CCTV said in a report on the trial, which is being held at the Intermediate Court in the northeastern city of Changchun.
Sun was shown standing in the dock in a blue windbreaker, with uniformed police officers on either side of him.
It was not immediately clear when a verdict would be rendered. China's courts have a conviction rate of more than 99%. With prosecutors describing Sun's crimes as “especially serious in nature," he is likely facing a lengthy prison sentence.
President and head of the ruling Communist Party Xi Jinping has waged a decade-long campaign against corruption that has ensnared numerous serving and retired high-ranking officials in what some see as politically motivated prosecutions.
In an announcement last year on Sun's expulsion from the party, he was accused of having displayed “extremely inflated political ambition and very poor political integrity,” issuing groundless criticisms of the Party’s policies and spreading political rumors.
Sun also engaged in “superstitious activities” and led a “decadent lifestyle,” the party's disciplinary body said.
Sun is also named in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Justice Department against Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn last month to compel Wynn to register as a foreign agent because of lobbying work it says he performed at the behest of the Chinese government.
The lawsuit says the lobbying effort was done on behalf of senior Chinese government officials, including Sun, who sought Wynn’s help in trying to get a Chinese national’s visa application denied, according to the complaint. The effort was ultimately unsuccessful. | https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/China-ex-vice-public-security-minister-on-trial-17292062.php | 2022-07-08T11:40:24Z | https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/China-ex-vice-public-security-minister-on-trial-17292062.php | true | 14 |
Former Raiders CEO and Super Bowl winning CB Headline as Semifinalists for Pro Football Hall of Fame
Former Oakland Raiders CEO Amy Trask among the headlining semifinalists named to Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2023.
On Thursday, the Pro Football Hall of Fame announced the semifinalists for the seniors and coaches/contributors’ categories.
Headliners
Among the semifinalists, Super Bowl winning cornerback Lester Hayes joins Trask as the latest Raiders looking to cement their legacy in the Pro Football HOF.
Trask, who spent nearly 30 years with the Raiders organization, became the NFL's first female front office executive as she served as the Raiders CEO from 1997-2013.
A young woman who stepped into the world of football in times where not many women worked in an NFL team, nevertheless serving in the front office.
Known as the “Princess of Darkness”, Trask handled all non-football business, anywhere from finances to league compliance.
She was the late Raiders owner Al Davis’ right hand “woman” and served as the face of the franchise for many years until her resignation in 2013.
Raiders legend Lester Hayes was announced as a senior semifinalist.
The All-Pro cornerback played his entire NFL career with the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders from 1977-1986.
Known as "The Judge," Hayes was named All-Pro and AP Defensive Player of the year in 1980, and five Pro-Bowls in his career.
“He should be in the Hall of Fame because I have not seen very talented corners like Lester. He definitely deserves to get in, he should have been in already. There’s no question about it and I don’t think anybody would argue with me on that, not one single person,” said Raiders legendary cornerback Mike Haynes.
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The Raiders selected Hayes in the fifth-round of the 1977 NFL Draft as a safety. The late John Madden converted him and played cornerback since his arrival to the Raiders.
Hayes played in 149 games with 134 starts and recorded 39 interceptions for 572 yards and 4 career pick-sixes.
In 1980, he led the regular season with 13 interceptions for 273 yards and 1 TD. He was a key member of the Raiders Super Bowl XV and XVIII championship teams.
Once a Raiders, Always a Raider
Running back Roger Craig played for the Raiders for one season (1991), after spending eight seasons where he won three Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers.
Another one year wonder is former head coach Mike Shanahan who coached the Raiders from 1988-89.
The respective selection committees will vote to send 12 seniors and 12 coach/contributors to the finalists stage. The results will be announced July 27.
The Seniors Committee will meet Aug. 16 to select up to three seniors for final consideration as members of the Class of 2023.
Coach/Contributor Committee members will meet Aug. 23 to select one coach or contributor for final consideration for the Class of 2023.
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Tomike's Birthday Shoot For Her Baby's First Birthday Is Giving Mummy/Daughter Fashion Goals
- Nigerian media personality, Tomike Adeoye, recently took to social media to celebrate her daughter's first birthday
- The media personality rocked a matching tulle dress with little Tomike's cute dress while the father donned a suit
- The gorgeous looks of the cute family were styled by celebrity stylist Mimi Yina of the fashion brand, Medlin Boss
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First birthdays are very special, especially for the parents who often try to make it a memorable one for their kids.
However, when you have a fashionista mum like Tomike Adeoye, best believe looking your very best in your birthday photos is a given.
Her daughter, little Tomike, clocked one and the media personality made sure to wow her fans with photos from her birthday shoot.
The adorable little girl was clad in a gorgeous cotton pink tiered tulle dress, and her mum matched in a similar maxi dress design.
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The proud dad looked like a proper English man ina white 3-piece which saw him looking dapper in a tail coat, a sleek hat and a walking stick.
The family look was put together by @medlinboss.
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Richard Mofe-Damijo, fondly known as RMD, has continued to give a lot of younger men a run for their money when it comes to fashion.
The Nollywood veteran turned 61 on Wednesday, July 6, and in classic celebrity style, he took to his Instagram page to celebrate with some new photos.
RMD, who is one of Nollywood's hottest silver foxes, is not one to disappoint when it comes to rocking dapper looks, and this time was no different.
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Target Hospitality Corp. ("Target Hospitality", "Target" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TH), one of North America's largest providers of vertically integrated modular accommodations and value-added hospitality services, today raised the range of its previously announced 2022 financial outlook 53% primarily related to the significantly expanded and enhanced lease and services agreement ("Expanded Humanitarian Contract") supporting domestic humanitarian aid efforts, previously announced on July 6, 2022.
The Expanded Humanitarian Contract consists of a meaningful increase in scope and service offerings from the initial contract executed in March of 2021 and illustrates the benefits of Target's strategic diversification efforts. With the inception of Target's Government segment in 2014, the Company has placed increasing focus on expanding its critical hospitality services supporting domestic humanitarian aid missions serving vulnerable populations. This intentional focus has resulted in Target expanding its end market portfolio while significantly increasing minimum revenue commitments that provide enhanced revenue visibility and cash flows.
The Expanded Humanitarian Contract operates with similar structure to Target's existing government services contracts, which are centered around minimum revenue commitments supported by the United States Government. Additionally, the Expanded Humanitarian Contract includes variable services revenue that will align with monthly community population. The minimum revenue commitments, which consist of annual recurring lease revenue and nonrecurring infrastructure enhancement revenue, provide for a minimum annual revenue contribution of approximately $390 million and is fully committed over its initial contract term. The services revenue component provides for a maximum initial annual total contract value of approximately $575 million.
Including the Expanded Humanitarian Contract, approximately 73% of Target's anticipated 2022 revenue will be derived from its Government segment with a substantial portion of consolidated revenue attributed to minimum revenue commitments.
Target's critical infrastructure enhancements and expansion of hospitality service offerings reflect the transition of this community to a comprehensive solution capable of providing ongoing critical humanitarian support to aid Target's leading national nonprofit partner. Target anticipates this critical service offering, and all-inclusive super-site community, will remain an ongoing fixture in supporting domestic humanitarian aid missions.
Target will make substantial infrastructure enhancements to the existing community that encompass over 1.7 million square feet of modular structures on over 280 acres. The significantly expanded and enhanced community site will result in a transitory increase to Target's anticipated 2022 capital spending. The increase in 2022 annual capital spending will initially be balance sheet neutral with the Company anticipating a total net leverage ratio below 3.0 times, with meaningful leverage improvement by year end 2022.
As a result of operating cash flow materially exceeding the Company's initial 2022 business plan, Target's enhanced balance sheet will allow the Company to continue evaluating a range of capital allocation initiatives focused on maximizing long-term shareholder value. Additionally, Target's strong financial profile creates the optimal platform to continue pursuing strategic growth aspirations that focus on expanding the Company's long-term growth opportunities and accelerating its value creation opportunity set.
The Company continues to benefit from its strategic positioning as North America's market leader in premier vertically integrated modular and hospitality solutions serving a suite of world-class customers. This strong momentum supports Target's 2022 financial outlook and marks a 74% increase in revenue and a 152% increase in Adjusted EBITDA from full year 2021.
Approximately 99% of the Company's anticipated 2022 revenue is under contract with approximately 73% of contracted revenue having minimum revenue commitments.
These positive business fundamentals support Target's 2022 financial outlook of:
Full Year 2022 Financial Outlook:
- Total revenue between $500 and $510 million
- Adjusted EBITDA(1) between $295 and $305 million
- Interest expense(2) between $33 and 35 million
- Effective corporate cash tax rate between 13% and 15%
- Discretionary Cash Flow(1) between $320 and $330 million
- Total capital spending between $190 and $200 million, excluding acquisitions
- Maintain total net leverage(3) ratio below 3.0x throughout 2022
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Outlook:
- Total revenue between $102 and $107 million
- Adjusted EBITDA(1) between $50 and $55 million
(2) Interest expense excludes amortization of deferred financing cost and original issue discount
(3) Total net leverage ratio is defined in the credit facility as consolidated total debt to consolidated EBITDA for the preceding four fiscal quarters
The Company has scheduled a conference call for July 12, 2022, at 8:00 a.m. Central Time (9:00 am Eastern Time) to provide additional details on the Expanded Humanitarian Contract and its 2022 financial outlook.
Conference Call Details
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM ET / 8:00 AM CT
Domestic: 1-888-317-6003
International: 1-412-317-6061
Passcode: 2810328
Please register for the webcast or dial into the conference call approximately 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start time.
A replay of the conference call will be available through the Investors section of Target Hospitality's website.
About Target Hospitality
Target Hospitality is one of North America's largest providers of vertically integrated modular accommodations and value-added hospitality services in the United States. Target builds, owns and operates a customized and growing network of communities for a range of end users through a full suite of value-added solutions including premium food service management, concierge, laundry, logistics, security and recreational facilities services.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements made in this press release (including the financial outlook contained herein) are "forward looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words "estimates," "projected," "expects," "anticipates," "forecasts," "plans," "intends," "believes," "seeks," "may," "will," "should," "future," "propose" and variations of these words or similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results, and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside our control, that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Important factors, among others, that may affect actual results or outcomes include: the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic or any future public health crisis, related economic repercussions and the resulting negative impact to global economic demand; operational challenges relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus, including logistical challenges, protecting the health and well-being of our employees and customers, government imposed mandates, contract and supply chain disruptions; operational, economic, including inflation, political and regulatory risks; our ability to effectively compete in the specialty rental accommodations and hospitality services industry; effective management of our communities; natural disasters and other business distributions including outbreaks of epidemic or pandemic disease; the effect of changes in state building codes on marketing our buildings; changes in demand within a number of key industry end-markets and geographic regions; our reliance on third party manufacturers and suppliers; failure to retain key personnel; increases in raw material and labor costs; the effect of impairment charges on our operating results; our inability to recognize deferred tax assets and tax loss carry forwards; our future operating results fluctuating, failing to match performance or to meet expectations; our exposure to various possible claims and the potential inadequacy of our insurance; unanticipated changes in our tax obligations; our obligations under various laws and regulations; the effect of litigation, judgments, orders, regulatory or customer bankruptcy proceedings on our business; our ability to successfully acquire and integrate new operations; global or local economic and political movements, including any changes in policy under the Biden administration; federal government budgeting and appropriations; our ability to effectively manage our credit risk and collect on our accounts receivable; our ability to fulfill Target Hospitality's public company obligations; any failure of our management information systems; our ability to meet our debt service requirements and obligations; and risks related to Arrow Bidco's obligations under the senior notes. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
(1) Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release also contains forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures Adjusted EBITDA and Discretionary Cash Flow. Reconciliations of these forward-looking measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are unavailable to Target Hospitality without unreasonable effort. We cannot provide a reconciliation of forward-looking Adjusted EBITDA and Discretionary Cash Flow to GAAP financial measures because certain items required for such reconciliation are outside of our control and/or cannot be reasonably predicted, such as the provision for income taxes. Preparation of such reconciliations would require a forward-looking balance sheet, statement of income and statement of cash flow, prepared in accordance with GAAP, and such forward-looking financial statements are unavailable to us without unreasonable effort. Although we provide a range of Adjusted EBITDA and Discretionary Cash Flow that we believe will be achieved, we cannot accurately predict all the components of the Adjusted EBITDA and Discretionary Cash Flow calculations. Target Hospitality provides an Adjusted EBITDA and Discretionary Cash Flow outlook because we believe that these measures, when viewed with our results under GAAP, provide useful information for the reasons noted below.
Definitions:
Target Hospitality defines EBITDA as net income (loss) before interest expense and loss on extinguishment of debt, income tax expense (benefit), depreciation of specialty rental assets, and other depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA reflects the following further adjustments to EBITDA to exclude certain non-cash items and the effect of what management considers transactions or events not related to its core business operations:
- Other (income) expense, net: Other (income) expense, net includes miscellaneous cash receipts, gains and losses on disposals of property, plant, and equipment, involuntary asset conversion gains and losses, COVID-19 related expenses, and other immaterial non-cash charges.
- Transaction expenses: Target Hospitality incurred certain transaction costs during 2021, including legal and professional fees, associated with the previously announced non-binding proposal made by Arrow Holdings S.à r.l. ("Arrow"), an affiliate of TDR Capital LLP ("TDR"), to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Target Hospitality not owned by Arrow or its affiliates for cash consideration of $1.50 per share in the current period. The non-binding proposal was withdrawn by Arrow on March 29, 2021. No such amounts were incurred during 2022.
- Stock-based compensation: Charges associated with stock-based compensation expense, which has been, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, a significant recurring expense in our business and an important part of our compensation strategy.
- Change in fair value of warrant liabilities: Non-cash change in estimated fair value of warrant liabilities.
- Other adjustments: System implementation costs, including primarily non-cash amortization of capitalized system implementation costs, claim settlement, business development, accounting standard implementation costs and certain severance costs.
Target Hospitality defines Discretionary Cash Flow as cash flow from operations less maintenance capital expenditures for specialty rental assets.
Utility and Purposes:
EBITDA reflects net income (loss) excluding the impact of interest expense and loss on extinguishment of debt, provision for income taxes, depreciation, and amortization. We believe that EBITDA is a meaningful indicator of operating performance because we use it to measure our ability to service debt, fund capital expenditures, and expand our business. We also use EBITDA, as do analysts, lenders, investors, and others, to evaluate companies because it excludes certain items that can vary widely across different industries or among companies within the same industry. For example, interest expense can be dependent on a company's capital structure, debt levels, and credit ratings. Accordingly, the impact of interest expense on earnings can vary significantly among companies. The tax positions of companies can also vary because of their differing abilities to take advantage of tax benefits and because of the tax policies of the jurisdictions in which they operate. As a result, effective tax rates and provision for income taxes can vary considerably among companies. EBITDA also excludes depreciation and amortization expense, because companies utilize productive assets of different ages and use different methods of both acquiring and depreciating productive assets. These differences can result in considerable variability in the relative costs of productive assets and the depreciation and amortization expense among companies.
Target Hospitality also believes that Adjusted EBITDA is a meaningful indicator of operating performance. Our Adjusted EBITDA reflects adjustments to exclude the effects of additional items, including certain items, that are not reflective of the ongoing operating results of Target Hospitality. In addition, to derive Adjusted EBITDA, we exclude gains or losses on the sale of depreciable assets and impairment losses because including them in EBITDA is inconsistent with reporting the ongoing performance of our remaining assets. Additionally, the gain or loss on sale of depreciable assets and impairment losses represents either accelerated depreciation or excess depreciation in previous periods, and depreciation is excluded from EBITDA.
Target Hospitality also presents Discretionary cash flows because we believe it provides useful information regarding our business as more fully described below. Discretionary cash flows indicate the amount of cash available after maintenance capital expenditures for specialty rental assets for, among other things, investments in our existing business.
Discretionary Cash Flow and Adjusted EBITDA are not measurements of Target Hospitality's financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as alternatives to Net income (loss), Gross profit, Earnings per share, Net cash provided by operating activities, or other performance measures derived in accordance with GAAP. In addition, these non-GAAP measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies. Target Hospitality's management believe that Discretionary Cash Flow and Adjusted EBITDA provide useful information to investors about Target Hospitality and its financial condition and results of operations for the following reasons: (i) they are among the measures used by Target Hospitality's management team to evaluate its operating performance; (ii) they are among the measures used by Target Hospitality's management team to make day-to-day operating decisions, (iii) they are frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties as a common performance measure to compare results across companies in Target Hospitality's industry.
Investor Contact:
Mark Schuck
(832) 702 – 8009
ir@targethospitality.com
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Gibraltar's chief minister, Fabian Picardo, and deputy chief minister Dr Joseph Garcia travelled to Madrid on Wednesday morning for two days of further technical talks over the potential Treaty to determine Gibraltar's future relationship with the EU and the nearest member group, Spain. Picardo said recently he was confident that an agreement will be possible. | https://www.surinenglish.com/gibraltar/further-talks-madrid-20220708092119-ntvo.html | 2022-07-08T11:59:16Z | https://www.surinenglish.com/gibraltar/further-talks-madrid-20220708092119-ntvo.html | false | null |
Mumbai: Benchmark indices gained for the third day running Friday, with the Sensex climbing over 300 points amid mixed global market trends.
The 30-share BSE benchmark advanced 303.38 points or 0.56 per cent to settle at 54,481.84. During the day, it jumped 448.68 points or 0.82 per cent to 54,627.14.
The broader NSE Nifty went higher by 87.70 points or 0.54 per cent to end at 16,220.60.
From the Sensex pack, Larsen & Toubro, Power Grid, NTPC, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Dr Reddy’s Lab, Nestle, Bharti Airtel, Infosys and Hindustan Unilever were the major gainers.
Tata Steel, Maruti Suzuki India, IndusInd Bank, TCS and Asian Paints were among the laggards.
In Asia, markets in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul ended higher, while Shanghai settled marginally lower.
Equity markets in Europe were trading lower in mid-session deals. The US markets had ended higher on Thursday.
“The present rally is driven partly by expectations that given the steady decline in commodity prices, inflation will start showing a declining trend enabling central banks to go a bit slow on hiking rates, and partly by short covering,” said V K Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services.
Meanwhile, international oil benchmark Brent crude dipped 0.12 per cent to USD 104.5 per barrel.
Foreign institutional investors remained net sellers Thursday, offloading shares worth Rs 925.22 crore, as per exchange data. | https://www.orissapost.com/markets-extend-rally-to-3rd-day-sensex-climbs-over-300-points/ | 2022-07-08T12:03:19Z | https://www.orissapost.com/markets-extend-rally-to-3rd-day-sensex-climbs-over-300-points/ | true | 7 |
Organised Youth of Effutu has commended the Omanhene of Effutu, Neenyi Ghartey VII and the Member of Parliament for the area, Alexander Afenyo-Markin for their commitment and effort in protecting the lands against encroachers.
The youth groups are commending the two leaders and the Forestry Commission for their collaboration in dealing with encroachers particularly the Effutu Ramsar site.
Neenyi Ghartey VII in a press conference held at Ekrofu sometime ago, vowed to protest against all mining companies and especially Green Metal Resources Ltd to stay of Winneba lands.
Afenyo-Markin who doubles as Deputy Majority Leader in Ghana's Parliament has supported the Game and Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission with GH¢30,000 to mount pillars to protect the Winneba Ramsay Site.
In a press statement signed by Nana Ato Takyi Otabil, Convenor of the youth groups registered their full support for the mounting of pillars around the Ramsar site to protect it from encroachers.
The group further urges all youth of Effutu to ignore calls from any group of people who are promoting and advertising a planned demonstration.
"That upon the request and appeal of Madam Vivian Aye officer in charge of the Ramsar Site Winneba for support in mounting the pillars that would protect the areas around the Moni Lagoon. We resonate with her call for communal support in mounting the pillars on the boundaries of the Ramsar Site and the forest reserve where we go for the deer hunting expedition during the celebration of our Aboakyire festival" the statement stressed.
It added "We have come to the firm conclusion that our energies as youths of Effutu would be more useful by a collective effort of all in mounting this pillars that would protect the area against encroachers and people of mining intentions to stay off the area forever". | https://www.modernghana.com/news/1169894/cr-effutu-youth-commend-afenyo-markin-chief.html | 2022-07-08T12:06:06Z | https://www.modernghana.com/news/1169894/cr-effutu-youth-commend-afenyo-markin-chief.html | false | 1 |
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Thursday endorsed businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson to be his successor, adding his name to a growing list of mainstream conservatives looking to boost her past Donald Trump-endorsed frontrunner Kari Lake.
Robson, a political newcomer, has used her family’s vast wealth to blanket the airwaves and narrow the gap with Lake, a former television anchor who has energized the Trump base with combative attacks on journalists, Democrats and Republicans who have gone crosswise with Trump.
With Ducey on board, all of the state’s living former Republican governors have backed Robson. Jan Brewer and Fife Symington endorsed her last year. Former U.S. Rep. Matt Salmon dropped his own campaign for governor last week and is now supporting Robson.
“Karrin is the real deal — pro-life, pro-gun and pro-wall — and she’ll stand up to Joe Biden and the radical left,” Ducey said in a video announcing his endorsement. “Karrin is a strong, new leader for Arizona.”
In a debate last week, Robson agreed that her plans wouldn’t bring radical change from the Ducey era, while Lake eviscerated Ducey for closing businesses and allowing local mask mandates during the coronavirus pandemic.
Ducey is co-chairman of the Republican Governors Association, which has already reserved $10 million worth of television ad time starting next month. The organization does not endorse in open primaries like Arizona’s, but Ducey has always reserved the right to make his views known about his home state.
“I’m going to care very much about who my successor is,” Ducey told reporters at an RGA convention in Phoenix last year.
Ducey’s endorsement of Robson came on the second day of early voting with ballots set to begin arriving in voters’ mailboxes. In 2020, 90% of Arizona voters cast an early or mail ballot.
Ducey, who is term-limited, has personal experience in what can happen when a governor delays announcing an endorsement for a successor. In 2014, when Ducey was locked in a tight six-way GOP primary and neck and neck with former Mesa Mayor Scott Smith, Ducey benefited from then-Gov. Brewer’s dithering. By the time Brewer endorsed Smith just 19 days before the primary election and a week after ballots were mailed, Ducey had nailed down his party win.
Trump on Wednesday reiterated his support for Lake and took a dig at Ducey, with whom he’s feuded since the outgoing governor refused to support Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
With Lake, Trump wrote in a statement, Arizonans “have a chance to get a truly great Governor, unlike the one you have right now.”
“Make sure you return your Early Ballot for Kari Lake, or Vote in Person on August 2nd,” Trump wrote despite his history of falsely claiming that mail voting is rife with fraud. Lake has pushed to eliminate early voting and require nearly everyone to vote on election day.
On the Democratic side, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is the frontrunner against Marco Lopez, a former mayor of the border town Nogales.
Hobbs has built a national profile as a staunch defender of the 2020 election in the face of the false claims of fraud by Trump and his allies, including Lake. Hobbs has been weighed down by jury verdicts that found the state Senate discriminated against a Black Democratic staffer when Hobbs was the top Democratic leader.
Arizona was a Republican stronghold for decades, but Democrats made inroads during the Trump presidency thanks to changing demographics and backlash to the former president. | https://www.cbs17.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/arizona-gov-ducey-backs-robson-as-successor-over-trump-pick/ | 2022-07-08T12:12:07Z | https://www.cbs17.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/arizona-gov-ducey-backs-robson-as-successor-over-trump-pick/ | false | 31 |
Plans for a new licence at Pennington Flash for music events and alcohol sales have been approved after being scaled back. Wigan Council came under fire from objectors after Leigh Sports Village, the applicant, wanted to attain a licence to sell alcohol and hold music events on the popular country park in Leigh until 1am - but this was changed.
Wigan Council received dozens of complaints about the original application - which is why there was a change of heart from LSV. There was wide concern that big events could disturb wildlife in the nature reserve and bring drunken anti-social behaviour to the area.
However, the scaled back plan of a licence until 10.30pm was still not good enough for some protestors who believe licences should not be granted for
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Andrew Hogg, one objector speaking at the licensing committee meeting at Wigan Town Hall on July 4, said: “This licence application was submitted without assessing the ecological and environmental impact on the Nature reserve. There was no involvement with any of the interested parties in this licence application.
“This was extremely disappointing – there was no third party consultation with involved groups such as LOS or Pennington Flash volunteers prior to the licence application. This has resulted in a breakdown of trust with stakeholder groups and many local residents in the Leigh area. An ‘open ended’ licence is not appropriate in any Nature reserve.
“Due to the Ecological sensitivity and National importance and reputation of this site it is essential for the potential impact of any Leisure or entertainment events to be investigated thoroughly. Specific and enforceable limitations need to be put in place to protect this very special Nature reserve – which is primarily a reserve for ‘Nature’ and not for ‘Entertainment’.
“A blanket ‘flexible’ licence is not appropriate in a nature reserve, and on behalf of Leigh and Lowton residents I would urge the Sub Committee to reject the application in its entirety. I would recommend a full consultation with the local community and Stakeholder groups linked to Pennington Flash NR around Licensing and any events in the Nature reserve.”
Mr Hogg also pointed out that there are no other Licensed premises open from 11 am up to 10.30pm within a Nature Reserve anywhere in the area. The cited cafes in Delamere Forest Park, Brockholes and Martin Mere as examples.
James Winterbottom, director of Digital, Leisure and Wellbeing Services, said: “The licensing application was amended to give a more accurate reflection of our plans for the site. Nature has always been and will always remain our key priority at Pennington Flash. There is an opportunity, however, to enhance the current offer for residents and visitors with the staging of limited, well managed events at which alcohol is served.
“Residents can be assured that any such events will be developed in collaboration with Leigh Ornithological Society and will be in keeping with Pennington Flash’s status as a treasured nature reserve.”
Pennington Flash is part of a country park with the lake and surrounding marshland home to a diverse group of mammals, birds and insects, including 5 RSPB red listed birds and the protected water vole. Its importance for birds is recognised nationally, with over 230 species recorded on site, including the black-faced bunting, nightingale, cattle egret, whiskered tern and Leach’s petrel.
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July 07, 2022, Greenpro Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: GRNQ) trading session started at the price of $0.204, that was 13.44% jump from the session before. During the day, the shares moved up to $0.23 and dropped to $0.1977 before settling in for the closing price of $0.20. A 52-week range for GRNQ has been $0.18 – $2.37.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Industrials sector saw sales slided by -0.90%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at -216.10%. With a float of $45.54 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $78.67 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 55 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is +83.98, operating margin of +76.12, and the pretax margin is -486.76.
Greenpro Capital Corp. (GRNQ) Insider Updates
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Greenpro Capital Corp. stocks. The insider ownership of Greenpro Capital Corp. is 42.12%, while institutional ownership is 1.50%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 07, was worth 385,000. In this transaction Chief Financial Officer of this company sold 385,000 shares at a rate of $1.00, taking the stock ownership to the 10,650,838 shares.
Greenpro Capital Corp. (GRNQ) Performance Highlights and Predictions
This company achieved a net margin of -486.46 while generating a return on equity of -106.27. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -216.10% per share during the next fiscal year.
Greenpro Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: GRNQ) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Greenpro Capital Corp. (GRNQ) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 1.80. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 6.90.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -0.13
Technical Analysis of Greenpro Capital Corp. (GRNQ)
The latest stats from [Greenpro Capital Corp., GRNQ] show that its last 5-days average volume of 0.45 million was inferior to 0.49 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 43.51%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.03.
During the past 100 days, Greenpro Capital Corp.’s (GRNQ) raw stochastic average was set at 12.56%, which indicates a significant decrease from 35.35% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 159.24% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 101.00% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $0.3242, while its 200-day Moving Average is $0.5529. Now, the first resistance to watch is $0.2360. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $0.2491. The third major resistance level sits at $0.2683. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $0.2037, it is likely to go to the next support level at $0.1845. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $0.1714.
Greenpro Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: GRNQ) Key Stats
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CAIRO (AP) — Eight people were killed and 44 injured in a car crash on Thursday near Egypt’s southern province of Aswan, the state-run news agency reported.
The crash took place in the early morning when a passenger bus collided with a truck, on a highway linking Awsan to Abu Simbel, the seat of the ancient temples of Ramses II, MENA said.
Ambulance vehicles rushed to the scene to carry the casualties’ bodies to Aswan’s morgue and to transfer the wounded to the province’s main hospital, added the report.
Deadly traffic accidents claim thousands of lives every year in Egypt, which has a poor transportation safety record. The crashes and collisions are mostly caused by speeding, bad roads or poor enforcement of traffic laws.
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Nobody can take away 'bow and arrow' symbol from Shiv Sena, says Uddhav; dares rebels to face mid-term polls
Thackeray said the Supreme Courts verdict on the disqualification plea of 16 rebel MLAs scheduled to be given on July 11 will decide not just the future of the Shiv Sena, but also of Indian democracy.Shiv Senas Eknath Shinde - now the chief minister of Maharashtra - had last month raised a banner of revolt against the party leadership, a move that subsequently led to the fall of the MVA government comprising Sena, NCP and Congress.
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Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said nobody can take away his party's 'bow and arrow' symbol, a remark made in the wake of the rebel Sena faction's assertion that it was the real claimant of the symbol. Addressing reporters at his residence 'Matoshree' in suburban Bandra, he also dared the party rebels and the BJP to face mid-term elections in Maharashtra, saying that people should be allowed to take a stand on the toppling of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government led by him. He said if people do not favor his party in the elections, he would accept it. Thackeray said the Supreme Court's verdict on the disqualification plea of 16 rebel MLAs scheduled to be given on July 11 will decide not just the future of the Shiv Sena, but also Indian democracy.
Shiv Sena's Eknath Shinde - now the chief minister of Maharashtra - had last month raised a banner of revolt against the party leadership, a move that subsequently led to the fall of the MVA government comprising Sena, NCP, and Congress. A day after Thackeray resigned as the state chief minister on June 29, Shinde took the oath of the top post with BJP's Devendra Fadnavis being sworn in as his deputy. Shinde enjoys the support of 40 rebel MLAs of the Sena. Hardening his stand against the rebels, Thackeray asked how they can claim to love the 'Matoshree' and Thackeray's if the dissidents align with those who have subjected him and his family to the worst kind of criticism and even attempted to ''destroy his sons' lives''.
''According to the law, no one can take away the bow and arrow symbol from Shiv Sena. I am saying this after talking to constitutional experts,'' he said. Rebel Shiv Sena MLA Gulabrao Patil had on Wednesday said the faction led by Shinde was the real claimant of the party's 'bow and arrow' poll symbol. Seeking to assuage the concerns of his party workers, Thackeray said people do not just look at the party symbol while voting, but they also look at the person and also whether the candidate belongs to the Shiv Sena.
The Shiv Sena as a political party and the legislature party are two separate identities, he said, adding that even if just one, 50 or even 100 MLAs leave the party, it does not cease to exist.
''Confusion is being created. Legislature party and registered party are two different identities. No one can take along the party workers with them,'' Thackeray said.
He also demanded mid-term elections in Maharashtra, saying that people should be allowed to take a stand on the toppling of the MVA government led by him. ''There should be mid-term polls. If we have made a mistake, people will not favor us and that will be acceptable to us,'' he said.
Earlier this week, Sena leader Sanjay Raut claimed that his party will win over 100 seats if mid-term polls are held in the state.
On Thursday, the rebel faction's spokesperson had said that if there was any possibility of reconciliation with the parent party, then Thackeray should also talk to the BJP as the dissidents have aligned with that party. Thackeray hit out at the rebel group for keeping mum when the BJP targeted and ''abused'' him and his family in the last two-and-a-half years.
''You keep in touch with them and betray your party like this,'' he said without naming anyone.
He wondered whether the rebel MLAs' love for him and his family was real.
"You are sitting next to those who criticized the Thackeray family in the worst forms. You are hugging them. They tried to ruin my sons' lives...,'' he said.
He said the change of power in the state could have happened with grace and in a dignified manner in 2019 and not with ''betrayal'' as was done last week.
He was referring to the Sena and BJP's parting of ways after the 2019 Assembly poll results over the issue of the rotational chief minister.
Thackeray said the Supreme Court's verdict to be delivered on July 11 will decide not just the future of Shiv Sena but also the future of Indian democracy.
''I trust the judiciary. The Supreme Court order (on the plea on disqualification of rebel MLAs) is not restricted to Shiv Sena alone, but it will also show direction on which side the democracy is heading. The country is looking at what decision the SC gives because this will also show the future of democracy in the country and whether the four pillars of democracy are discharging their duties or now,'' he said.
Thackeray also said he would decide on which candidate to support for the presidential election after consulting the party MPs. Earlier this week, Sena's Lok Sabha member Rahul Shewale urged him to direct the party MPs to vote for the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu. During his press conference, Thackeray did not take any questions from the media.
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Exhorting party leaders to walk the extra mile to reach out to the people, Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina on Friday said the party is all set to form the government in the union territory with a ''full majority''.
Raina said the party will ensure that the nation is strengthened, both internally and externally, and is ready to lead the world.
''With dedicated efforts of the BJP leaders, the party is all set to form a government with full majority in Jammu and Kashmir on its own,'' Raina told the party members at a workshop.
The three-day workshop for office-bearers, leaders, and members is being held at a health resort at Patnitop in Udhampur district to discuss and brainstorm various issues confronting the government and the country.
Raina said these sessions carry in-depth knowledge of the party's ideology, policies, and principles.
''These training sessions lead to the steady maturity of party activists,'' he said, adding the BJP activists must reflect the party principles in or their day-to-day activities.
The BJP unit chief also spoke about the national and international policies adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government.
Elaborating on the role of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in the Indian society, its print karyavah Vikrant Sharma said, ''A need was strongly felt to unite the society which can successfully protect the boundaries of the nation in future as well.'' Senior BJP leader Mahesh Sharma explained the concept of 'Ekatma Manavvaad' or 'integral humanism' and said during the pre-and post-Independence era, a debate on the adoption of either 'Vayaktivaad' (individualism) or 'Samaajvaad' (socialism) was underway, but both concepts were incomplete and they led to conflicts.
It is at this point that Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay proposed 'integral humanism', which believed that an individual, society, universe, nature, and the supreme power are all integrated and cannot be separated.
''Hence, before taking any action, we must consider its impact on all of these four aspects under integral humanism. This concept will also lead to 'Antodaya' to the last person in society, and 'Sarvodaya', ensuring benefit to every individual,'' he added.
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Chelsea fans have been surprisingly split on the signing of Raheem Sterling ever since his name was mentioned with a move to Stamford Bridge.
For a player that has 109 league goals, as a winger, with 229 goal contributions in 339 appearances for Manchester City, you would think that Blues fans would be getting out of their seat at the prospect of signing such an established player. Sterling is still just 27 and has won four of the past five Premier League titles, and football.london understands he has now agreed personal terms with Thomas Tuchel's side and could be announced ahead of Chelsea's pre-season tour of America, for which they depart later this week.
The transfer window, especially in a hypercritical environment like social media, is a tough place to spend time, but it can give a general understanding to the popularity of a transfer. Sterling is very much different though.
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Despite only Jamie Vardy, Harry Kane and Mohamed Salah having more goals since 2017/18 in the league, and only Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero being more productive under Pep Guardiola, given the disastrous record of Chelsea's recent attacking purchases, the jury on England's vice-captain is very much still out.
Here's how Blues fans have reacted on Twitter and Facebook. And there is a real split in the camp.
@kundaibenyu_: 45m?? What a bargain.
@cfc_wondaG: Taking City's best winger!
@Carefree_Jam: Lol nope, defo Richarlison over Sterling if I had to sign one for Chelsea
@Jai_Mcintosh: Raheem Sterling to Chelsea, you simply love to see it.
Daniel Deco Wuhe: I just don't like this signing
@ZaqueuQuinto: Chelsea just be ruining players careers man, this is why I’m scared for Sterling
@Chaitika: How is this guy worth £50M!? This is what Chelsea has come to. Feeding off city's scraps. £50M is fairly equivalent to what Sevilla want for Jules Kounde, but we busy lapping up 2 cast offs for £100M. Sterling is ok...not bad, but come on now!
@Drawski5: Very surprised at Raheem Sterling going to Chelsea. Perhaps he’s got a bit complacent at city but when he’s fired up, he’s one of the best attackers in Europe. If his head’s in the right place, he’s untouchable.
@donpabloe7: Sterling to Chelsea is a good deal for Chelsea tbh. What a player, so underrated
@joenazari: Sterling is a great signing.
@M35Blue: Great player but one thing Sterling is not is "clinical"
@santanDanny81: Sterling for £45m plus add ons is a great deal, a world class winger at the age of 27 with premier league experience already. Excellent move for Chelsea
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A Pennsylvania 911 operator faces a rare charge of involuntary manslaughter for failing to send an ambulance to the rural home of a woman who died of internal bleeding a day later, despite a plea from the woman's daughter that without medical help “she's going to die.”
A Greene County detective last week filed charges against Leon “Lee” Price, 50, of Waynesburg, in the July 2020 death of Diania Kronk, 54, based on Price's reluctance to dispatch help without getting more assurance that Kronk would actually go to the hospital.
“I believe she would be alive today if they would have sent an ambulance,” said Kronk’s daughter Kelly Titchenell, 38.
Price, who also was charged with reckless endangerment, official oppression and obstruction, questioned Titchenell repeatedly during the four-minute call about whether Kronk would agree to be taken for treatment.
Price was arraigned June 29 and released on bail. He did not reply to messages left at a home number listed in his name, and officials said a defense lawyer has not contacted district court.
“It has to be very clear throughout the entire state, that when you call it's not going to be conditioned on somebody on the other end of the phone saying there's going to be a service provided or not,” said Lawrence E. Bolind Jr., who represents Titchenell in a federal lawsuit filed last month. “What we're trying to do here is make this never happen to somebody else.”
In the 911 recording, an operator identified by police as Price replied to Titchenell’s description of her mother as needing hospital treatment by asking if she was “willing to go” to the hospital about a half-hour away from where she was living in Sycamore.
“She will be, 'cause I’m on my way there, so she’s going, or she’s going to die,” Titchenell told Price as she drove from her home in Mather.
Price said he would send an ambulance but then added that “we really need to make sure she’s willing to go.”
“She’s going to go, she’s going to go,” Titchenell said. “Cause if not, she’s going to die, there’s nothing else.” She said that Kronk was not thinking clearly and that she was her mother’s closest relation. When Price again asked if Kronk would in fact go, Titchenell replied: “OK, well, can we just try?”
After Titchenell told Price she was about 10 minutes from her mother's home, Price asked if Titchenell would call 911 back once she made sure Kronk was willing to go in an ambulance.
“I’m sorry,” Titchenell said, and Price replied: “No, don’t be sorry, ma’am. Just call me when you get out there, OK?”
When Titchenell and her three children arrived at the house, she said, Kronk was nude on the front porch and talking incoherently. She got her mother to put on a robe.
“She just kept saying she was OK, she's fine,” Titchenell said. “She's the mom, you know — she doesn't listen to her children.”
Titchenell said she could not call from the home because her mother's landline could not be located and there was not cell service. She also did not call on her way home, believing that her uncle would soon check on her and that another contact with 911 would be pointless.
“This is unheard of, to me. I mean, they’ll send an ambulance for anything,” Titchenell said. “And here I am telling this guy that my mom’s going to die. It’s, like, her death, and she doesn’t get an ambulance.”
Her brother found the next day that their mother had died.
The prosecutor, Greene County District Attorney Dave Russo, said he is also investigating whether there was any policy or training under which the county’s 911 dispatchers were allowed to refuse services to callers.
“We all deserve equal protections, and we all deserve access to medical services,” Russo said in an interview. “I have a major concern as to the safety of the community in regards to this.”
John Kelly, a Naperville, Illinois, lawyer who is general counsel to the National Emergency Number Association, said criminal charges against dispatchers for failing to send help are very rare but have happened.
In a case Kelly teaches in dispatcher training, a 911 operator in Detroit received a year of probation in 2008 and lost her job after, authorities said, she did not take seriously a boy’s calls to report his mother had collapsed. The 5-year-old boy testified that the dispatcher accused him of playing games and hung up on him, while the dispatcher testified that she could not hear the child.
Titchenell, on behalf of her mother’s estate, sued Price and Greene County in Pittsburgh federal court last month, along with two 911 supervisors. The lawsuit accuses Price of “callous refusal of public emergency medical services.”
Marie Milie Jones, a lawyer for the county and 911 supervisors in the federal case, said her clients plan to vigorously defend the lawsuit and do not believe they are liable for Kronk’s death. She said there are “personnel matters that are ongoing” regarding Price but declined to elaborate.
“It's unfortunate that this woman had died. Certainly, from a personal standpoint, that’s very difficult,” Jones said. “I’m not going to comment on the details of her circumstances.”
Titchenell told Price that her mother had been drinking heavily for some weeks before she died, and that Titchenell had noticed she was losing weight and was “turning yellow.” She said the autopsy concluded Kronk, who worked in home health care, died of internal bleeding.
She said she thinks about her late mother every day — how the former longtime sub shop manager loved to cook, to help people and to spoil her five grandchildren, how she would pile a mountain of presents under the tree every Christmas.
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New Delhi [India] July 8 (ANI/SRV): Impact lender, Ananya Finance for Inclusive Growth Pvt Ltd, one of the NBFCs of India is set to expand its span of operation by joining hands with Prayas Financial Services Pvt Ltd, a Micro Finance company. Ananya has announced acquiring a majority stake in its long-term microfinance partner Prayas Financial Services Pvt Ltd. Both the lenders are registered with RBI, Ananya as an NBFC, and Prayas as an NBFC-MFI.
Ananya initially picked up a ~6 per cent stake in Prayas and after receiving the requisite approvals from the regulator, has increased its stake to 55 per cent.
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Prayas has been serving women micro-borrowers in rural and urban backward areas of Gujarat and Rajasthan and the tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh through its network of 30 branches and plans to expand to 150 branches.
"The new capital investment will help Prayas in diversifying to new geographies and scale up its operation. It will strengthen Prayas to serve more women entrepreneurs who form the bottom of the economic pyramid, especially in rural and semi-urban areas", said Bhadresh Rawal, the Promoter Director of Prayas Financial Services Pvt Ltd. He further stated that the equity investment by Ananya showed its commitment to supporting its long-standing small microfinance partners.
Ananya Finance for Inclusive Growth has been extending debt capital and capacity-building support to small and mid-sized MFIs. It is now helping its small MFI partners with tech upgrades and new product introductions through BC / Co-lending partnerships. It also extends loans and capacity-building support to smallholder farmer FPOs and start-ups in the renewable energy and sustainable landscapes sectors. Ananya was promoted by FWWB-I, (a not-for-profit promoted by SEWA), and is backed by foreign impact investors Gojo & Co, Japan, and C4D Partners, Netherlands.
"Our investment is in line with the company's mission of creating a deep social impact by providing finance to women micro borrowers. This acquisition gives impetus to the company's strategy to transition from wholesale to direct retail," said Gaurav Gupta, Managing Director of Ananya Finance.
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A former Facebook staffer and Air Force veteran is suing Meta saying he was fired in retaliation for raising concerns about a protocol that let Facebook employees access deleted user data.
Brennan Lawson filed his lawsuit with a California court on Tuesday. Insider has viewed the lawsuit, in which Lawson said he was hired in July 2018 to work on Facebook’s escalations team.
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Lawson says in 2019 Facebook introduced a protocol which allowed people on his team to access Facebook Messenger data even if it had been deleted by a user.
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If ideas shape the course of history, then generations to come will soon be able to relive part of Maine’s heritage that a team from the Raymond Casco Historical Society has disassembled and will restore at the society’s museum in Casco.
Footage of the blacksmith’s forge and shop was included in a 1922 silent movie called “Timothy’s Quest” and it once was part of a thriving rural community in Casco, but over the past eight decades, the building has slowly become a crumbling relic of Maine’s past. That is, until an idea about moving the building was pitched to Frank McDermott, president of the historical society.
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“For the first time in nearly two hundred years, those traveling across Quaker Ridge in Casco will no longer start their journey with the familiar view of William Watkin’s Blacksmith Shop sitting on its knoll overlooking the village,” McDermott said. “Sitting at the intersection of the busy Bridgton-Portland Road, the Blacksmith Shop was literally at the center of local commerce and transportation. Today, the site sits empty, the result not of fire or neglect which claimed so many buildings of its era, but of a carefully planned move by the Raymond Casco Historical Society and a handful of experienced advisors and volunteers interested in preserving one of Maine’s historic treasures.”
According to McDermott, the project was launched last fall when Steve Linne, the owner of the blacksmith shop, offered to give it to the Raymond-Casco Historical Society if it could be moved by Aug. 1 of this year.
McDermott, the former Raymond Schools superintendent, who has led the historical society for the past four years, immediately saw the potential of moving the blacksmith shop to the society’s museum on Watkins Farm in Casco, restoring it and using it for live demonstrations for the public.
“I haven't been as enthusiastic about a project in many years as I am about this,” said McDermott. “I see this as the reincarnation of the Raymond-Casco Historical Society, and the reason I say that’s because I see us moving from a static museum where you go and stand and look, to rather a place where you go to both do and learn something.”
He pitched the idea to the historical society’s board of directors, and they liked the idea of relocating and turning it into a working blacksmith shop.
“I see us offering lots of things. For kids, we will offer crystal radio building workshops, or we will set up a telegraph system and teach kids about the telegraph,” McDermott said. “For adults, they can come and take blacksmithing lessons or metal casting lessons from the professional blacksmith that will be there so they can be doing things like they used to do.”
McDermott spent a good a part of last winter putting together a team of advisors that included Dr. Robert Schmick, Museum Director of 19th Century Curran Village in Orrington and a veteran of several blacksmith shop moves and Ed Somers of Bridgton, a specialist in preservation and restoration of buildings of this era. Somers agreed to take on the job of stabilizing and sectioning the building for transport and overseeing its reassembly.
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McDermott, the former Raymond Schools superintendent, who has led the historical society for the past four years, immediately saw the potential of moving the blacksmith shop to the society’s museum on Watkins Farm in Casco, restoring it and using it for live demonstrations for the public.
“I haven't been as enthusiastic about a project in many years as I am about this,” said McDermott. “I see this as the reincarnation of the Raymond-Casco Historical Society, and the reason I say that’s because I see us moving from a static museum where you go and stand and look, to rather a place where you go to both do and learn something.”
He pitched the idea to the historical society’s board of directors, and they liked the idea of relocating and turning it into a working blacksmith shop.
“I see us offering lots of things. For kids, we will offer crystal radio building workshops, or we will set up a telegraph system and teach kids about the telegraph,” McDermott said. “For adults, they can come and take blacksmithing lessons or metal casting lessons from the professional blacksmith that will be there so they can be doing things like they used to do.”
McDermott spent a good a part of last winter putting together a team of advisors that included Dr. Robert Schmick, Museum Director of 19th Century Curran Village in Orrington and a veteran of several blacksmith shop moves and Ed Somers of Bridgton, a specialist in preservation and restoration of buildings of this era. Somers agreed to take on the job of stabilizing and sectioning the building for transport and overseeing its reassembly.
VOLUNTEERS
Kerry Tottle of Limington devised a plan for lifting sections of the building over an adjacent building on the cramped worksite and led these experts. McDermott said that a small group of volunteers from Bangor, Hollis and several new members of the RCHS spent much of June preparing the building for relocation and helping load it on trailers.
Disassembly work was completed last week and now the shop sits in large pieces in a field at the RCHS’s Watkins Farm Museum site a few miles west of its original location awaiting reassembly. Work has begun on a modern foundation for the building designed to preserve it for future generations without detracting from its original appearance.
Over the next several months, new rough-cut hemlock flooring will be installed, the unique split stone foundation will be painstakingly reassembled on its own frost wall, and the ox lift will be hoisted back into place to await further restoration, McDermott said. Repairs will be made to several wall and roof sections using period materials being collected for that purpose and other structural repairs will be made.
He said that once the building has been made weather tight, work will commence to recreate the interior of the shop.
“Anyone who has ever been in an old workshop or barn has seen the shelves, brackets and old nails that appear everywhere on the walls. We needed to remove all those before we could move the building sections and reinstalling them will take time,” McDermott said. “It is also at this point that the side draft chimney will be rebuilt. The chimney collapsed a few years ago, but the bricks remain. Fortunately, a record exists of what it looked like from the silent movie of 1922.”
OLDEST BUILDINGS
Disassembly work was completed last week and now the shop sits in large pieces in a field at the RCHS’s Watkins Farm Museum site a few miles west of its original location awaiting reassembly. Work has begun on a modern foundation for the building designed to preserve it for future generations without detracting from its original appearance.
Over the next several months, new rough-cut hemlock flooring will be installed, the unique split stone foundation will be painstakingly reassembled on its own frost wall, and the ox lift will be hoisted back into place to await further restoration, McDermott said. Repairs will be made to several wall and roof sections using period materials being collected for that purpose and other structural repairs will be made.
He said that once the building has been made weather tight, work will commence to recreate the interior of the shop.
“Anyone who has ever been in an old workshop or barn has seen the shelves, brackets and old nails that appear everywhere on the walls. We needed to remove all those before we could move the building sections and reinstalling them will take time,” McDermott said. “It is also at this point that the side draft chimney will be rebuilt. The chimney collapsed a few years ago, but the bricks remain. Fortunately, a record exists of what it looked like from the silent movie of 1922.”
OLDEST BUILDINGS
The shop is historically significant and believed to predate the separation of Casco from Raymond and is likely one of the oldest existing commercial buildings in the area, Schmick said.
“These kinds of trade buildings are few and far between in the State of Maine in general, and this is probably one of the earliest I have seen,” Schmick said.
The historical society has financed the move and foundation work thanks to several generous private donations and by borrowing from endowment accounts earmarked for maintenance and society operations. Casco voters agreed at town meeting to give up to $25,000 to assist the move, with the provision that it would only match the amount if the Town of Raymond agrees to contribute.
McDermott said RCHS’s initial matching $25,000 appropriation request was made too late to be considered as part of Raymond’s town meeting warrant this spring, but in reviewing Casco’s appropriation, Raymond Selectmen agreed to schedule a special town meeting on Aug. 9 to consider it. He said the project deserves the public’s support.
“We really need to get people to understand their history, the history of where they live, and how that relates to what we’re doing today,” said McDermott.
To make a donation for the project, call 207-310-3040. <
“These kinds of trade buildings are few and far between in the State of Maine in general, and this is probably one of the earliest I have seen,” Schmick said.
The historical society has financed the move and foundation work thanks to several generous private donations and by borrowing from endowment accounts earmarked for maintenance and society operations. Casco voters agreed at town meeting to give up to $25,000 to assist the move, with the provision that it would only match the amount if the Town of Raymond agrees to contribute.
McDermott said RCHS’s initial matching $25,000 appropriation request was made too late to be considered as part of Raymond’s town meeting warrant this spring, but in reviewing Casco’s appropriation, Raymond Selectmen agreed to schedule a special town meeting on Aug. 9 to consider it. He said the project deserves the public’s support.
“We really need to get people to understand their history, the history of where they live, and how that relates to what we’re doing today,” said McDermott.
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National Museum of World War II Aviation voted ‘best of the best’ attraction in U.S.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - The National Museum of World War II Aviation in Colorado Springs has been voted as a 2022 Travelers’ Choice “best of the best” for top attractions by Tripadvisor. The Museum ranked in the top one percent of attractions.
“This recognition acknowledges the ongoing work and dedication of our more than 200 museum volunteers who lead tours, design and build exhibits, restore aircraft and artifacts, and keep the museum in top shape,” said Bill Klaers, President and CEO of the museum. “This is their award, and it’s great recognition for the jobs they do every day.”
“Based on a full year of Tripadvisor reviews, the Travelers’ Choice Award honors the best in travel, recognizing the places that delivered the most exceptional experiences,” according to the notification received by the museum. “You’re in the top 1% of things to do worldwide.”
The National Museum of World War II Aviation’s goal is to educate and present the story of World War II for people of all ages.
The Museum is located at 775 Aviation Way, Colorado Springs, CO 80916 and is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Rankings the top 25 players on Raiders roster: 6-10
Things are heating up in the list of the top 25 Raiders. Some very talented players have already been mentioned on the list and now we enter the all important top ten.
10. LB Denzel Perryman
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Perryman had a rebirth in Las Vegas. The former longtime Chargers linebacker was a late addition to the team. He was signed this offseason by the Panthers and then traded to the Raiders just prior to the start of the season. That turned out to be a great move by the Raiders as Perryman blew up and had the best season of his career, heading to his first Pro Bowl.
He catches some grief due to the fact that linebackers are asked to drop into coverage more than in years past, but that’s not where he thrives. He is a true run-stopping middle linebacker and there was a considerable and very noticeable difference in the play of the defense when he was on the field and when he was not.
9. K Daniel Carlson
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Carlson was absolutely clutch for the Raiders this season. racking up points and nailing game-winners. His kicks were crucial to the Raiders running the table to finish the season and punching their ticket into the playoffs.
In that four-game stretch, he didn’t miss a field goal, including making five field goals in the wild season-ending win over the Chargers. By the way, the Raiders’ average margin of victory in those four games? Three points.
8. QB Derek Carr
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Carr set a career-high throwing for 282.6 yards per game and helped the Raiders get back to the playoffs for the second time in his tenure as Raiders starting QB. Unfortunately, he also set new career highs with 14 interceptions and 13 fumbles while notching just 23 touchdowns.
With the addition of Davante Adams, we’ll see if Carr can lead the Raiders on their first postseason run in 20 years.
7. CB Nate Hobbs
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It speaks volumes that Hobbs is heading into his second season to land at number seven on this list. But he has been that good. The fifth-round pick was a force over the middle of the field, racking up 74 tackles. Playing nickel cornerback in the NFL these days is no easy task.
The Raiders spent several years trying to find a decent one and from the looks of it, they found themselves a star in Hobbs.
6. LT Kolton Miller
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Miller got a well-deserved extension prior to last season. The Raiders locked up the former 15 overall pick until 2025.
He may not be considered one of the elite left tackles in the league, but he is definitely one of the better blindside protectors and one any team would consider themselves lucky to have.
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Jury finds man guilty of murder of rapper Nipsey Hussle
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors found a 32-year-old man guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday for the 2019 fatal shooting of rapper Nipsey Hussle.
The Los Angeles County jury also found Eric R. Holder Jr. guilty of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter for gunfire that hit other men at the scene. Prosecutors had sought two counts of attempted murder. Holder also was found guilty of two counts of assault with a firearm on the same men.
Holder, wearing a blue suit and face mask, stood up in the small court room next to his lawyer as the verdict was read. He had no visible reaction.
A jury of nine women and three men deliberated for about six hours over two days before reaching the verdict. Most of their deliberations took place Friday, and they promptly came to their unanimous decision Wednesday, briefly reconvening after a four-day break.
Typos on the verdict form compelled jurors to briefly return to the deliberation room to correct and sign them while attorneys, reporters and others waited in the courtroom. No apparent family or friends of Hussle were in the room when the verdict was read.
Holder could get life in prison when he’s sentenced on Sept. 15.
The verdict brings an end to a legal saga that has lasted more than three years and a trial that was often delayed because of the pandemic.
Holder and Hussle had known each other for years — they grew up members of the same South Los Angeles street gang — when a chance meeting outside the rapper’s Los Angeles clothing store led to the shooting, and his death.
The evidence against Holder was overwhelming, from eyewitnesses to surveillance cameras from local businesses that captured his arrival, the shooting and his departure.
His attorney did not even deny that he was the shooter but urged jurors to find him guilty of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter.
The shooting followed a conversation the two men had about rumors that Holder had been acting as an informant for authorities. Holder’s lawyer Aaron Jansen said that being publicly accused of being a “snitch” by a person as prominent as Hussle brought on a “heat of passion” in Holder that made him not guilty of first-degree murder.
“This is a provocation that stirs up rage and powerful emotion,” Jansen told jurors Thursday.
Deputy District Attorney John McKinney argued during the trial that Holder and everyone else in the conversation that preceded Hussle’s death were so calm that the “snitching” conversation could not have been the primary motive, and that Holder must have had some previous envy or hatred for Hussle.
McKinney told jurors that the nine minutes between the conversation and the shooting allowed more than enough time for the killing to be premeditated, a requirement for first-degree murder.
The jury apparently agreed.
Hussle, whose legal name is Ermias Asghedom, died at age 33. He had just released his major-label debut album, which earned him his first Grammy nomination, when he was gunned down.
He was a widely beloved figure in Los Angeles, especially in the South LA area where he grew up and remained after gaining fame, buying property and opening businesses.
“He wanted to change the neighborhood,” McKinney said in his closing argument. “He kept the same friends. And the neighborhood loved him. They called him Neighborhood Nip.”
Hussle was mourned at a memorial at the arena then known as Staples Center, and celebrated in a performance at the Grammy Awards that included D.J. Khaled and John Legend.
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BOSTON, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jnana Therapeutics, a biotechnology company leveraging its next-generation chemoproteomics platform to discover medicines for highly validated, previously undruggable targets to treat diseases with high unmet need, will present preclinical data for its lead program, a potential first-in-class oral approach for the treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU). Data will be presented at the 2022 National PKU Alliance Conference in Vancouver, Wash. July 9 from 3-4:30 pm, as a poster titled "Inhibition of SLC6A19 as a Therapeutic Strategy for the Treatment of PKU."
Jnana's development candidate, JNT-517, is a small molecule, allosteric inhibitor of SLC6A19, a metabolite transporter responsible for reabsorption of phenylalanine (Phe) in the kidney. In people with PKU, a rare inherited metabolic disease, Phe accumulates to abnormally high levels in the blood which, if left untreated, results in progressive and severe neurological impairment and neuropsychological complications. Preclinical data to be presented at the National PKU Alliance Conference demonstrate that inhibition of SLC6A19 increases urinary excretion of Phe and, in turn, significantly reduces blood Phe levels in a mouse model of PKU.
"There are currently limited treatment options for people living with PKU," said John Throup, Ph.D., Senior Vice President & Head of Development at Jnana Therapeutics. "We are highly encouraged by these preclinical data confirming that SLC6A19 inhibition significantly reduces plasma Phe concentrations, the underlying driver of PKU disease, in a PKU mouse model. As a highly potent and selective inhibitor of SLC6A19, JNT-517 has the potential to be a first-in-class targeted oral treatment for all individuals with PKU, regardless of genetic background or age. We look forward to partnering with the PKU community to explore the therapeutic potential of JNT-517 in PKU."
JNT-517 is the first in a pipeline of potential therapies discovered by RAPID, Jnana's proprietary high-throughput screening-enabled chemoproteomics platform that uncovers unique binding sites on elusive disease targets and identifies novel small molecules to modulate them.
"JNT-517 is a prime example of the power of Jnana's RAPID platform to identify binding sites on the most challenging of therapeutic targets," said Joel Barrish, Ph.D., Co-founder, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Jnana. "We are now actively applying RAPID against other well-validated but previously undruggable targets, particularly in immune-mediated diseases and cancer, to deliver transformative treatment options to patients in need."
Based on JNT-517's promising preclinical profile, Jnana plans to initiate a Phase 1 clinical study later this year to assess safety, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of JNT-517 in healthy volunteers, followed by a PKU patient cohort to obtain key proof-of-concept data intended to support a subsequent registrational program.
Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an inherited metabolic disease caused by a deficiency of the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH). This enzyme is required for the breakdown of phenylalanine (Phe), an amino acid found in all protein-containing foods. When PAH is deficient or defective, Phe accumulates to abnormally high levels in the blood. If left untreated, these toxic levels of Phe in the blood can result in progressive and severe neurological impairment and neuropsychological complications. Inhibition of the SLC transporter SLC6A19, responsible for kidney reabsorption of Phe back into the bloodstream, may offer a novel approach for the treatment of PKU.
Jnana Therapeutics is a biotechnology company leveraging its next-generation chemoproteomics RAPID platform to discover medicines for highly validated, previously undruggable targets to treat diseases with high unmet need. Jnana is focused on developing first- and best-in-class therapies to treat a wide range of diseases, including rare diseases, immune-mediated diseases and cancer. Jnana's lead program is a potential first-in-class oral approach, targeting an allosteric site on the phenylalanine transporter SLC6A19, for the treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare genetic metabolic disease. Located in Boston, Jnana brings together scientific leaders in small molecule drug discovery and development, a highly experienced management team and the backing of leading life science investors. For more information, please visit www.jnanatx.com and follow us on Twitter and on LinkedIn.
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WEST CHESTER, Pa., June 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Verrica) ( VRCA), a dermatology therapeutics company developing medications for skin diseases requiring medical interventions, today announced that the Company held a Type A meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 27, 2022 regarding the path forward for the resubmission and potential approval of the New Drug Application (NDA) for VP-102 for the treatment of molluscum contagiosum (molluscum).
“We are pleased with our communications with the FDA leading up to and during yesterday’s Type A meeting,” said Ted White, Verrica’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “In particular, we are encouraged by the FDA’s willingness to work collaboratively with us on the amount of stability data required from an alternative contract manufacturing organization (CMO) for our bulk solution at the time of resubmission as well as our options for post-approval use of bulk solution previously manufactured. We remain confident in VP-102 as the potential first FDA-approved treatment option for molluscum, and we continue to be encouraged by the overwhelming support from caregivers and the medical community.”
About VP-102
Verrica’s lead product candidate, VP-102, is a proprietary drug-device combination product that contains a GMP-controlled formulation of cantharidin (0.7% w/v) delivered via a single-use applicator that allows for precise topical dosing and targeted administration. VP-102 could potentially be the first product approved by the FDA to treat molluscum contagiosum — a common, highly contagious skin disease that affects an estimated six million people in the United States, primarily children. If approved, VP-102 will be marketed in the United States under the conditionally accepted brand name YCANTH™. In addition, Verrica has successfully completed a Phase 2 study of VP-102 for the treatment of common warts and a Phase 2 study of VP-102 for the treatment of external genital warts.
About Molluscum Contagiosum (Molluscum)
There are currently no FDA-approved treatments for molluscum, a highly contagious viral skin disease that affects approximately six million people — primarily children — in the United States. Molluscum is caused by a pox virus that produces distinctive raised, skin-toned-to-pink-colored lesions that can cause pain, inflammation, itching and bacterial infection. It is easily transmitted through direct skin-to-skin contact or through fomites (objects that carry the disease like toys, towels or wet surfaces) and can spread to other parts of the body or to other people, including siblings. The lesions can be found on most areas of the body and may carry substantial social stigma. Without treatment, molluscum can last for an average of 13 months, and in some cases, up to several years.
About Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Verrica is a dermatology therapeutics company developing medications for skin diseases requiring medical interventions. Verrica’s late-stage product candidate, VP-102, is in development to treat molluscum, common warts and external genital warts, three of the largest unmet needs in medical dermatology. Verrica is also developing VP-103, its second cantharidin-based product candidate, for the treatment of plantar warts. The Company has also entered a worldwide license agreement with Lytix Biopharma AS to develop and commercialize LTX-315 for dermatologic oncology conditions. For more information, visit www.verrica.com.
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A three-time national champion wrestler, who battled on the mat for the University of Winnipeg, has been inducted into the Canada West Hall of Fame.
Finn Higgins had a standout career with the Winnipeg Wesmen and is the first wrestler from UWinnipeg to earn such an honour.
“Finn Higgins had an amazing career with the Wesmen, never losing a match — many of which he seemed to have already won before the referee started things,” said Dave Cook, Wesmen’s director of athletics.
“He was a pleasure to watch and get to know and it was wonderful to see him end his career with a U Sports gold medal in Winnipeg. He will forever be remembered as a Wesmen great and we’re thrilled to see him inducted into the Canada West Hall of Fame.”
Higgins, known as Mr. Perfect, won three straight national championships from 2015 through 2017, winning gold in 2015 at 90 kilograms at both the Canada West and U Sports levels before moving up to 100 kg the following year and capturing conference and national gold. In 2017, Higgins went undefeated and completed a three-for-three run of perfection capped off with yet another conference and national gold medal.
Higgins, a product of Heritage Hall, Okla., came to the Wesmen after transferring from NCAA Division I Wyoming and after a standout high school career at Heritage Hall Prep, where he was the Class 3A state champion his senior year.
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The festival of Eid al-Adha will be celebrated on July 10 and it is celebrated every year with great fervour among the community. Also known as Bakri Eid, this is the second most important festival of the Muslim community. It marks the honour of the willingness of Ibrahim (Prophet Abraham) to sacrifice his son Ismail (Ishmael) as an act of obedience to Allah's command.
People celebrate this festival by preparing some delicious food and buying new clothes, and women also apply henna on their hands. Applying henna to your hands helps in soothing your body and tensed nerves. It also makes your body and mind feel a lot more relaxed and calm. Take a look at some beautiful henna designs to take inspiration from.
If you are looking for a simpler mehndi design, then this design is best for you. Moreover, it will not take time like other mehndi designs and is easy to make.
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This is a much simpler design, which will hardly take 15 minutes to make. You just have to flower on one side of the palm and add some leaves to make it more beautiful.
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This design is very stylish and simple, but also looks beautiful. First, you have to make a flower design on your index finger, then make a half flower design in the centre and make another flower on your wrist. Then make a chain to make a beautiful design.
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If you like your hands filled with beautiful henna, then this design is for you. You can take inspiration from this design and make flowers, lines and leaf patterns to make your design even more beautiful.
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If you like your palms filled with beautiful henna designs, but also don't want to spend so much time making the design, then this is perfect for you. You just have to make some big flower patterns and lines to make beautiful designs.
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TCS accelerates return-to-office programme for employees
2 min read . 06:23 PM IST- The company's about 20% workforce now working from office. TCS touched a milestone with employees headcount crossing the 6 lakh mark.
IT giant TCS gradually accelerated its return to office program for the first quarter ending June 30, 2022 (Q1FY23). The company's about 20% workforce is now working from the office. The company gradually accelerated its return to office program in Q1, with about 20% of the workforce now working from office, TCS said in its result filing. In the quarter under review, the company's IT services attrition was 19.7% on the last twelve months basis.
IT giant TCS gradually accelerated its return to office program for the first quarter ending June 30, 2022 (Q1FY23). The company's about 20% workforce is now working from the office. The company gradually accelerated its return to office program in Q1, with about 20% of the workforce now working from office, TCS said in its result filing. In the quarter under review, the company's IT services attrition was 19.7% on the last twelve months basis.
TCS touched a milestone with employees headcount crossing the 6 lakh mark. In Q1FY23, TCS headcount stood at 606,331 - a net addition of 14,136 during the quarter. The workforce continues to be very diverse, comprising 153 nationalities and with women making up 35.5% of the base.
TCS touched a milestone with employees headcount crossing the 6 lakh mark. In Q1FY23, TCS headcount stood at 606,331 - a net addition of 14,136 during the quarter. The workforce continues to be very diverse, comprising 153 nationalities and with women making up 35.5% of the base.
On the quarterly result, N Ganapathy Subramaniam, Chief Operating Officer, and Executive Director said, "We are pleased with our execution during the quarter wherein we successfully delivered several transformation programs. The investments we made on people, upskilling efforts, and select lateral hiring et al helped manage the talent turnover with minimum impact on our operations."
"During the quarter, we have resumed in-person meetings and hosted several clients at our facilities. We are bringing in more of our associates back to our development centres, and it is steadily increasing at all levels," Subramaniam added.
Further, Subramaniam said, "on the sustainability front, we have signed our commitment to SBTi version 5 standards during the quarter and are making steady progress towards our net-zero journey with tremendous alignment to this initiative across our associates."
Meanwhile, Milind Lakkad, Chief HR Officer of TCS said, "our investment in strategic talent development initiatives and the linking of learning to career development have energized our workforce. Following our annual compensation review, employees received salary increases of 5 to 8%, with top performers getting even bigger hikes."
In Q1FY23, TCS employees' costs stood at ₹30,327 crore rising from ₹25,649 crore in the same quarter last year.
TCS recorded a consolidated net profit of ₹9,519 crore in Q1FY23 up from ₹9,031 crore in the same quarter last year. However, Q1 PAT declined compared to ₹9,959 crore in the previous quarter.
Consolidated revenue climbed to ₹52,758 crore up from ₹45,411 crore in Q1FY22 and ₹50,591 crore in Q4FY22.
On BSE, TCS shares closed at ₹3,264.85 apiece down by ₹22.10 or 0.67%. | https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/tcs-accelerates-return-to-office-programme-for-employees/amp-11657279330130.html | 2022-07-08T13:04:32Z | https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/tcs-accelerates-return-to-office-programme-for-employees/amp-11657279330130.html | false | 2 |
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TCS Q1 Results: Net profit jumps 5% YoY to Rs 9,478 cr; Rs 8 per share dividend declared
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Friday reported a 5.21 per cent year-on-year (YoY) rise in consolidated net profit at Rs 9,478 crore in the June quarter compared with Rs 9,008 crore in the same quarter last year. Consolidated revenue for the quarter grew 16.2 per cent YoY to Rs 52,758 crore compared with Rs 45,411 crore in the year-ago quarter. The board of the IT firm has announced an interim dividend of Rs 8 per share.
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Walla Walla on track to become America’s Best Wine Region
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — With two weeks left to vote, Walla Walla is on track to become “America’s Best Wine Region” for the third consecutive year.
Walla Walla Valley is currently in first place for America’s Best Wine Region in the USA TODAY 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards.
The winner is decided by public voting, which closes at 9 a.m. PDT on Monday, July 18.
Walla Walla Valley has won the honor in 2021 and 2020 and could be the first region to win in three consecutive years.
“We are humbled once again by the outpouring of support we have received, particularly in light of the competition, which includes many of the country’s other iconic wine regions,” said Robert Hansen, executive director of Visit Walla Walla and Walla Walla Valley Wine. “If the first two weeks of voting are any indication, the Walla Walla Valley has a large and passionate fanbase. We hope those who love this region and its wines will continue the momentum over the final two weeks of voting.”
Walla Walla Valley will be one of 20 finalists in 2022, marking the fifth straight year the region has made the final round of voting.
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Global Surgical Robots Market to Surpass US$ 15,700.5 Million by 2030, Says Coherent Market Insights (CMI)
/EIN News/ -- Seattle, July 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to Coherent Market Insights, the global surgical robots market is estimated to be valued at US$ 5,721.6 million in 2022 and is expected to exhibit a CAGR of 13.4% during the forecast period (2022-2030).
Key Trends and Analysis of the Global Surgical Robots Market:
Major players operating in market are focusing on adopting strategies such as partnerships and agreements to advance robotic systems development. For instance, in May 2022, VirtaMed, a leader in medical simulation training, and MMI S.p.A., a robotics company dedicated to improving clinical outcomes for patients undergoing microsurgery, announced a partnership where surgeons using MMI’s Symani Surgical System will have access to surgical simulations, leading to advanced skill development and robotic system enhancements.
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Key Market Takeaways:
Global surgical robots market is expected to exhibit a CAGR of 13.4% during the forecast period due to increasing approvals from the regulatory bodies to key players for surgical robotic systems. For instance, in January 2019, Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., a leader in musculoskeletal healthcare, announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance of the ROSA Knee System for robotically-assisted total knee replacement surgeries. ROSA Knee features 3D pre-operative planning tools and real-time, intraoperative data on soft-tissue and bone anatomy designed to improve bone cut accuracy and range of motion gap analysis to potentially improve flexion and restoration of natural joint movement.
Among product types, the Robotic Systems segment is expected to dominate the segment growth over the forecast period, owing to increased product launches by key players operating in market. For instance, in July 2021, Health Minister of India, M.A. Subramanian launched a fourth generation four-armed surgical robotic system, Da Vinci Surgical System-Xi, at the Apollo Proton Cancer Centre, Tamil Nadu, India the first and only proton therapy centre in South Asia and Middle East. This fourth generation robotic system provides the surgeon with a 10x magnified, high definition, 3D-image of the body.
On the basis of surgeries, the Gynecology Surgery segment is expected to dominate the segment growth over the forecast period, owing to increasing adoption of surgical robotic systems for carrying out gynecological procedures. For instance, in July 2021, Medtronic, the leader in medical technology, announced the first gynecological (GYN) procedures with the use of Hugo robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system
Competitive Landscape:
Key players operating in the global surgical robots market include Intuitive Surgical, Think Surgical, Asensus Surgical US, Inc., Zimmer Biomet, Stryker, Smith & Nephew, Novus Health Products, and Medtronic
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Market Segmentation:
- Global Surgical Robots Market, By Product Type:
- Instruments & Accessories
- Robotic Systems
- Da Vinci Surgical System
- Rosa
- Mako Rio
- Robodoc
- Others
- Global Surgical Robots Market, By Surgery:
- Gynecology Surgery
- General Surgery
- Urology Surgery
- Cardiovascular Surgery
- Neurosurgery Surgery
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Other Surgeries
- Global Surgical Robots Market, By Region:
- North America
- By Country
- U.S.
- Canada
- By Country
- Latin America
- By Country
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Argentina
- Rest of Latin America
- By Country
- Europe
- By Country
- Germany
- U.K.
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Russia
- Rest of Europe
- By Country
- Asia Pacific
- By Country
- China
- India
- Japan
- Australia
- South Korea
- ASEAN
- Rest of Asia Pacific
- By Country
- Middle East
- By Country
- GCC
- Israel
- Rest of Middle East
- By Country
- Africa
- By Region/Country
- South Africa
- Central Africa
- North Africa
- By Region/Country
- North America
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Healthcare Robotics Market, by Product Type (Systems (Surgical Robots, Rehabilitation Robots, Non-invasive Radiosurgery Robots, Hospital and Pharmacy Robots, and Others) and Instruments & Accessories), by End User (Hospitals, Pharmacies, Rehabilitation Centers, and Home Care Settings), and by Region (North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa) - Size, Share, Outlook, and Opportunity Analysis, 2022 – 2028
Abdominal Surgical Robots Market, By Product Type (Remote Control and Voice Control), By Type (General Surgery, Urologic Surgery, Gynecological Surgery, and Others), by End Users (Hospitals, Clinics, Ambulatory Surgical Centers, and Others), and By Region (North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Africa) - Size, Share, Outlook, and Opportunity Analysis, 2022-2028
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New Delhi: With the national capital recording a rise in the registration of electric vehicles, some environmentalists raised doubts whether the transition to EVs will actually help fight the global climate crisis in the long run and said there is an urgent need to opt for
renewable energy alongside it.
Since electric vehicles rely on regular charging from a local electricity network, it is quite obvious that coal is being used at another source, one of them said.
According to official data, there are 1,39,945 registered electric vehicles in Delhi as of March 21, 2022. This year electric vehicles accounted for more than nine per cent of all vehicles registered in the national capital, up from nearly three per cent in 2018.
Though electric vehicles are expected to cut oil consumption and lower carbon dioxide emission, they said it alone will not help fight the global climate crisis.
There is an urgent need to ensure 100 per cent renewable energy alongside electric vehicles to tackle the climate crisis, Greenpeace India's Avinash Chanchal said.
Chanchal told PTI that since the transportation sector is one of the major contributors to climate change, a paradigm shift in the sector is needed to phase out internal combustion engine cars.
"Changes in transport need to go hand in hand with changes in the wider energy system. We must increase reclamation and recycling in the batteries sector and see much more research and investment in battery technology. We also need to reduce the number of cars on the road and understand that 'car as a system' is not good for cities. It is manifesting the increasing social and economic gap in the urban space," he said.
He further said that in their Greenpeace India campaign, they have been demanding renewable energy-fuelled electric buses that have great potential not only for reducing CO2 emission but also for improving air quality and noise protection in cities.
Environmentalist Bhavreen Kandhari said that since EVs rely on regular charging from a local electricity network, it is quite obvious that coal is being used at another source.
"Fossil fuels are 'dirty' and renewables like wind and solar energy and electric vehicles are 'clean' - has become a fixture of policy assumptions in developed countries. In that case, questions also arise that from where the rare earth metals or minerals required to manufacture EV cars will be mined? How will the dangerous battery pollutants of an EV at end of its life be disposed off? And from where will additional power come for charging new EVs?" Kandhari asked.
Ten-year-old globally recognised climate activist Licypriya Kangujam told PTI that electric vehicles alone will not solve the global climate crisis and that subsidising and investing on fossil fuels need to be stopped.
"We need to replace all the coal power plants and thermal power plants by solar power plants. We need to see more bicycles on roads instead of more motor vehicles. Planting trees are the ultimate solution to fight the climate change besides reducing our emissions," Kangujam told PTI.
She said that inclusion of climate education must be made mandatory school curriculum to fight the climate change from the grassroots.
"We need climate education to find the climate solution. Children living in this world deserve to have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink and clean planet to live," she said. | https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/renewable/need-to-ensure-100-per-cent-renewables-alongside-electric-vehicles-to-tackle-climate-crisis-environmentalists/92751651 | 2022-07-08T13:17:27Z | https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/renewable/need-to-ensure-100-per-cent-renewables-alongside-electric-vehicles-to-tackle-climate-crisis-environmentalists/92751651 | true | 9 |
Two weeks after a landmark Supreme Court ruling reversed abortion rights nationwide, President Joe Biden will sign an executive order in hopes of curtailing state bans or restrictions, the White House said.
Biden is expected to sign the executive order at 11:30 a.m. Friday from the White House.
The Biden administration said the president will direct the Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to protect access to abortion medication and contraception and ensure emergency medical care for pregnant women suffering from pregnancy loss.
He also asks agencies to develop strategies to protect abortion patients’ privacy. That step would be in an effort to protect abortion patients from potential prosecution in states where abortions are illegal or restricted.
Part of Biden’s order is to direct Attorney General Merrick Garland to lead a task force that would “provide technical assistance to states affording legal protection to out-of-state patients as well as providers who offer legal reproductive health care,” the White House said.
While leaders of Republican states might challenge these edicts in court, the executive order might not go far enough for some. There have been calls by abortion-rights advocates to use federal land for abortion clinics. Those calls, however, have been rebuffed by the White House.
According to the Associated Press, abortions are banned or restricted in more than 20 states. | https://www.kztv10.com/news/national/president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-on-abortion-access | 2022-07-08T13:20:01Z | https://www.kztv10.com/news/national/president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-on-abortion-access | true | 12 |
Wall Street wavers ahead of opening bell, June jobs report
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is wavering ahead of the opening bell Friday before new hiring data is released for June, which is expected to show a pullback by employers compared with the post-virus outbreak boom of the past two years.
Futures for the Dow Jones industrials wavered between gains and losses of less than 0.1%, while the S&P 500 declined 0.2%.
The Labor Department is expected to report that the nation gained 275,000 jobs last month, according to economists surveyed by the data provider FactSet. That would be the lowest monthly gain of the past year, during which the job market has sustained a vigorous recovery from the pandemic recession. Before the pandemic struck in early 2020, monthly hiring that large would have been seen as a robust gain.
On Thursday, Labor data showed the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits topped the 230,000 mark for the fifth consecutive week. It was the highest level in almost six months.
Tokyo’s main stock market index ebbed following the assassination of former Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, but stayed in positive territory for the day. Abe, 67, died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan.
The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo was up 0.6% at 26,654.15 at midday after a gunman shot Abe during a campaign event in the western Japanese city of Nara. The index was up 1.4% before the attack.
Abe, who oversaw an economic stimulus effort dubbed Abenomics, stepped down as prime minister in 2020.
The Shanghai Composite Index advanced 0.2% to 3,370.28 after Bloomberg News reported China might add 1.5 trillion yuan ($220 billion) to spending on public works construction this year to stimulate economic growth. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong added 0.2% to 21,694.17.
The Kospi in Seoul rose 0.9% to 2,346.14 and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 was 0.6% higher at 6,689.30.
India’s Sensex opened up 0.5% at 54,462.63. New Zealand and Southeast Asian markets advanced.
In Europe at midday, London’s FTSE was down 0.5% one day after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation following a series of departures from his Cabinet by members of his Conservative Party.
Germany’s DAX climbed 0.8% and France’s CAC rose 0.1%.
On Wall Street Thursday, the S&P 500 rose to 3,902.62 for its fourth daily increase. Roughly three-fourths of the stocks in the index gained.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.1% to 31,384 and the Nasdaq composite advanced 2.3% to 11,621.35.
There is unease over aggressive U.S. and European interest rate hikes that being deployed to cool inflation because it runs the risk of derailing global economic growth.
Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index rose 1.5% on Thursday after a member of the Fed panel that sets interest rates, James Bullard, said a “soft landing” for the economy was the most likely scenario. Another panel member, Christopher Waller, said “fears of a recession are overblown.”
“Investor recession fears ebbed,” said Robert Carnell and Iris Pang of ING in a report.
Bullard, who is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, said “it would make a lot of sense” to raise the U.S. central bank’s key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point, or triple the usual margin, at its meeting this month. That would repeat the dramatic mid-June rate hike, the Fed’s biggest in 28 years.
Waller, speaking at a separate event, said he also supported a 0.75-percentage-point hike. He said the Fed might risk “causing some economic damage,” but with a strong labor market, that shouldn’t be too big.
Bloomberg News reported China’s Ministry of Finance was considering a plan to allow local governments to raise money from bond sales to spend on building roads and other public works.
It wasn’t clear whether that represented additional spending or was future bond sales brought forward to help shore up economic growth some forecasters say fell close to zero in the quarter ending in June after anti-virus controls shut down Shanghai and other industrial centers.
Markets also have been on edge about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which sent oil and other commodity prices soaring in recent months.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude reversed course, losing 22 cents to $102.51 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract jumped $4.20 to $102.73 on Thursday. Brent crude, the price basis for international trading, was essentially unchanged at $104.97 per barrel in London. It advanced $3.96 the previous session to $104.65.
The dollar declined to 135.91 yen from Thursday’s 136.11 yen. The euro edged down to $1.0145 from $1.0156.
Shares of GameStop, which jumped 15% on Thursday after it announced a 4-for-1 stock split, slid more than 5% in premarket trading after Michael Recupero, the chief financial officer at the video game retailer, was ousted abruptly. | https://kesq.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/07/08/wall-street-wavers-ahead-of-opening-bell-june-jobs-report/ | 2022-07-08T13:21:28Z | https://kesq.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/07/08/wall-street-wavers-ahead-of-opening-bell-june-jobs-report/ | false | 10 |
'Yu-Gi-Oh!' manga creator Kazuki Takahashi found dead at sea
Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of the “Yu-Gi-Oh!” manga comic and trading card game, has died, apparently while snorkeling in southwestern Japan, the coast guard said Friday.
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The body of Takahashi, 60, was found Wednesday floating about 330 yards off the coast of Okinawa, by a person running a marine leisure business, according to an official at the Naha Coast Guard Nago station.
The coast guard and the fire department went by boat and watercraft and found the body, face down and wearing a snorkeling mask. He may have been dead for a day or two, according to the coast guard official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because their job did not allow them to be quoted by name.
The body showed signs of being attacked by a marine creature, possibly sharks, but the cause of death was still under investigation, the official said.
Takahashi was identified after police in another part of Okinawa contacted the coast guard Thursday, saying a rented car had been found abandoned on a beach. The car had a driver’s license, confirming the identity. Takahashi’s real first name was Kazuo. His family was contacted and identified him, the coast guard official said.
“Yu-Gi-Oh!” debuting in Shonen Jump magazine in 1996, became a hit, selling more than 40 million copies as manga, although the number of cards out in the world is far greater, in the billions.
The official card game went on sale in 1999. A TV show and video games, as well as figures and toys, were also part of the franchise.
There was an outpouring of mourning on social media.
Eric Stuart, the American actor who did the animation voiceover, said he was saddened by the news.
“An amazingly talented man. Sensei created a role that would help define my voice acting career,” Stuart said on Twitter, using the Japanese word for “teacher.”
Fans around the world posted their cards and manga images online. Some noted that was how they had become interested in Japan. People recalled how the cards had helped them make their first friends.
“We are deeply grateful for the wonderful ‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’ universe that he has created, and our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time,” the London-based YuGiOhNews account said on Twitter and on its official site.
The ambassador to Japan from Georgia, Teimuraz Lezhava, said “Yu-Gi-Oh!” evoked a distinct world.
“I will never forget the excitement of playing the game,” he said on his official Japanese Twitter.
Takahashi’s work had children, and the young at heart, collecting the cards, decorated with mechanical monsters and wizard-like creatures, with a frenzy. The prices of some shot up during the height of the fad.
When a “Yu-Gi-Oh!” event was held at a Tokyo baseball stadium in 1999, so many children and parents came to buy the cards, game-maker Konami, the organizer, had to call in riot police.
“Yu-Gi-Oh!” is played by having two people facing off and placing cards from their deck with different powers to try defeat the other. Each player starts out with 8,000 “life points,” which get chiseled away as your cards lose.
The main character is a doe-eyed boy with spiky blond hair called Yugi Muto, an expert at card games. “Yu-Gi-Oh” means “king of games.”
The more expensive cards, the ones literally with glitter, are powerful in the game, called “super rare” and “secret rare.” But they weren’t that easily found, so people bought more packs, or cartons, of the cards.
The success of “Yu-Gi-Oh!” in the West was similar to that of other Japanese animation and game works like Pokemon. | https://www.kcci.com/article/yu-gi-oh-manga-creator-kazuki-takahashi-found-dead/40555444 | 2022-07-08T13:24:12Z | https://www.kcci.com/article/yu-gi-oh-manga-creator-kazuki-takahashi-found-dead/40555444 | true | 39 |
Goodbye Martino, the DT who is in Europe and already said yes to Tri before the World Cup
Gerardo Martino has become one of the most criticized characters in the Mexican team after the poor results achieved throughout the qualifying rounds and friendly matches that El Tri faced.
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Although in the statistics the numbers are cold and it would seem that Mexico, hand in hand with father Martino, has a higher balance than other elections, the problem is that El Tri has had painful defeats against World Cup teams that will go to Qatar.
If Gerardo Martino fails in the friendlies that he will hold in the month of September prior to the Qatar World Cup, Femexfut could consider leaving the detergent and not and would already have a DT ready that would arrive from Europe, since he said yes to the selection Mexican.
Who will be Gerardo Martino’s replacement at El Tri?
Interview for Hugo Sánchez The former coach of the Mexican national team and current DT of Majorca, Javier ‘Vasco’ Aguirre, commented that the Mexican National Team can never be told no, so if Yon de Luisa requires it, he would gladly go to El Tri.
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They saw him as Jiménez’s successor, Juventus sought him out, now he’s getting out of the World Cup | https://codelist.biz/2022/07/08/goodbye-martino-the-dt-who-is-in-europe-and-already-said-yes-to-tri-before-the-world-cup/ | 2022-07-08T13:25:25Z | https://codelist.biz/2022/07/08/goodbye-martino-the-dt-who-is-in-europe-and-already-said-yes-to-tri-before-the-world-cup/ | false | 1 |
AXS Investments selected for its innovation and "democratization of investing" for individuals and financial advisors
NEW YORK, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AXS Investments, a leading asset manager providing access to alternative investments for growth, income and diversification, today announced that it has been named by Financial Service Review (FSR) to its prestigious list of "Top 10 Investment Firms of 2022" as a pioneer and groundbreaker in financial services, asset management and disruptive innovation in the fund industry.
FSR cited the trailblazing work of AXS in "democratizing investing" by creating new access for individuals to important investment exposures that traditionally were available to only institutional and ultra-high net worth investors. As a "pure-play" focused on bringing differentiated alternative investments to the broader investing public, AXS was named to the FSR list through a rigorous and competitive selection process.
"We are thrilled to be named to the prestigious list of Top 10 Investment Firms for 2022" said Greg Bassuk, CEO of AXS Investments." We founded the firm with the vision and mission of creating new access for individuals to investment exposures that traditionally were available only to institutional and ultra-high net worth investors. Our fast growth and success are a testament to the market's embracement of our products and thought leadership, and we look forward to continuing to innovate in financial services and asset management."
FSR's editorial board's selection process is highly rigorous and includes a wide universe of nominations from industry executives, FSR subscribers and its own internal research. Among the factors considered by FSR are strong company growth, disruptive innovation in financial services, and products or services that break new ground in the industry.
The AXS selection as a Top 10 Investment Firm comes on the heels of several major milestones for the firm, including recent acquisitions such as:
- Change Finance ESG ETF (CHGX), the industry's first carbon neutral ETF.
- AXS Income Opportunities Fund (OIOIX), which provides access to a broadly diversified portfolio of preferred stocks of exchange-listed real estate companies.
The AXS ETF business also is rapidly expanding with several successful launches of first-of-their-kind ETFs, including:
- AXS Astoria Inflation Sensitive ETF (PPI), the first ETF exposure to both investments that mitigate the devaluation effects of inflation, and that also enable the possibility for growth in price-rising environments.
- AXS 2X Innovation ETF (TARK), the first two times (2x) daily exposure to a portfolio of companies involved in transformational industries, such as genomics, autonomous vehicles and next-gen internet
- AXS Short China Internet ETF (SWEB), the first 1x daily short exposure to a portfolio of China-based Internet-related companies.
As evidenced by this series of acquisitions and launches, AXS is committed to being a trusted provider of alternative and differentiated investment products for investors looking to add important into their portfolios.
About AXS Investments
AXS Investments is a leading alternative investment manager providing a diversified family of alternative investments for growth, income and diversification. The firm empowers investors to diversify their portfolios with investments previously available only to the largest institutional and high net worth investors. The investor-friendly AXS funds are time-tested, liquid, transparent and managed by high pedigreed portfolio managers with long and strong track records. For more information, visit www.axsinvestments.com.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release corrects a prior version published on July 7, 2022 to update the timing for effectiveness of the registration statement. Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) ("Trulieve" or "the Company"), a leading and top-performing cannabis company in the U.S., announced that it filed a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (the Registration Statement) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on July 7, 2022 to register a base shelf prospectus and to register for resale select subordinate voting shares of the Company. The Registration Statement is expected to become effective upon its acceptance by the SEC.
The Company became eligible to file the S-3 registration statement following one year of reporting under the previously filed registration statement and associated amendments on Form S-1. The S-3 filing provides a shelf registration which may provide the Company with additional flexibility in its future financing opportunities. The specific terms of any securities to be offered pursuant to the base prospectus will be specified in a prospectus supplement. The resale prospectus covers the resale registration by Selling Shareholders of up to 72,288,199 subordinate voting shares. Selling Shareholders may offer, sell or distribute all or a portion of their Subordinate Voting Shares publicly or through private transactions at prevailing market prices or at negotiated prices. However, the registration of the securities covered by the Registration Statement does not necessarily indicate that the Company and/or Selling Shareholders will offer or sell any Subordinate Voting Shares in connection with such registration or within any specific timeframe.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities.
The Company has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for the registration of shares to which this communication relates. You should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents the Company has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Company and any applicable offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the Company and any participant in any applicable offering will arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by calling toll-free 1-844-878-5438.
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Trulieve is an industry leading, vertically integrated cannabis company and multi-state operator in the U.S. operating in 11 states, with leading market positions in Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Trulieve is poised for accelerated growth and expansion, building scale in retail and distribution in new and existing markets through its hub strategy. By providing innovative, high-quality products across its brand portfolio, Trulieve delivers optimal customer experiences and increases access to cannabis, helping patients and customers to live without limits. Trulieve is listed on the CSE under the symbol TRUL and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol TCNNF. For more information, please visit Trulieve.com.
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Two pitchers trending in the right direction will oppose each other when the Atlanta Braves host the Washington Nationals in the opener of a three-game series on Friday.
Atlanta’s Charlie Morton (4-3, 4.34 ERA) will face Washington’s Erick Fedde (5-5, 4.29) in a battle of veteran right-handers.
The Braves just took three of four games from the St. Louis Cardinals, losing the finale 3-2 in 11 innings on Thursday, and have won seven of 10. The Nationals have lost seven of their past eight and were beaten 5-3 by the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday.
Atlanta is 4-2 against Washington this season, having swept a three-game series last month.
Morton has been impressive over his past four starts, posting a 1.35 ERA with 35 strikeouts. In his latest outing, against the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday, he pitched seven scoreless innings and allowed one hit and one walk while striking out 10.
“Charlie’s been good the last few times out,” Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said. “He’s starting to get in his groove. That’s how I would characterize it. He feels good and confident and the ball has been coming out of his hand good the whole time.”
Morton has made 13 career starts against the Nationals, going 4-6 with a 5.23 ERA. He has not appeared against Washington this season.
Fedde is 2-1 with a 3.21 ERA over his past five starts, during which time opponents hit only .196 against him. He has a 2.12 ERA and a .140 opposition batting average over his past three starts. In his start against the Miami Marlins on Sunday, Fedde gave up two runs in six innings, allowing three hits and three walks while fanning six.
“What I did notice when he got to two strikes, he tried to hump up and throw that really nasty pitch,” Washington manager Dave Martinez said. “And I talked a little bit when he came out of the game just about not doing that, just stay within yourself and make a good pitch.
“Just make a good pitch, don’t try to make the turbo pitch, and you might get out of those situations in three or four pitches.”
Fedde has a horrible record against the Braves in nine appearances (eight starts): 0-5 with a 9.97 ERA. He faced the Braves on June 15 and took the loss after allowing three runs on seven hits and three walks, with four strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings.
A Braves-Nationals series always shines the spotlight on the rivalry between young stars Ronald Acuna Jr. of Atlanta and Juan Soto of Washington.
Acuna had a rough series against St. Louis, going 2-for-17 and come up hitless in his last 13 at-bats. His last home run came on June 21 against the San Francisco Giants.
Soto, meanwhile, is heating up. He has reached base safely in 17 straight games and has consecutive multi-hit games for just the second time this season. After batting .224 through the end of June, Soto is hitting .429 (6-for-14) in July despite being slowed by a sore left calf.
Luis Garcia has been a big addition since the Nationals called him up from the minors on June 1. He is hitting .326 with 11 doubles, two homers and 14 RBIs in 34 games. The shortstop is 14-for-39 (.359) over his past 11 games.
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Attapol Charoenchansa, director-general of the department, said Natural Resources and Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa had assigned him to participate in the online meeting of environment minsters from five Asean nations on Monday.
The four other countries joining the 23rd meeting on cross-border smog were Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
During the meeting, each country reported its preparations to prevent forest fires and subsequent smog in lower Asia, Attapol said.
Attapol reported the preparations Thailand was making to prevent peat swamp forest fires in the southern provinces.
Attapol said he also demonstrated the use of a weather model to predict the air quality seven days in advance from July to October.
The meeting also deliberated on a joint strategic and sustainable plan to manage peat swamp forests in lower Asia, Attapol said.
He said peat swamp forest fires could happen from July to September as it is a dry season for lower Asia and fires in southern Thailand and on Indonesia’s Sumatra island would cause smog that could affect Thailand and other nations in lower Asia.
To cope with such a situation, the department has joined hands with other government agencies under the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry to try to prevent forest fires at peat swamps, Attapol said.
He said Varawut has instructed all agencies of his ministry to integrate operations to try to prevent forest fires.
The agencies were also instructed by Varawut to seek cooperation from local people to prevent the fires by establishing a fire alert network. The local people were told that swamp forest fires would hurt both their health and tourism, Attapol added.
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NEW YORK (AP) — It took four seasons for Shohei Ohtani to join the biggest major league stars of the last eight decades.
To commemorate Baseball Digest’s 80th anniversary, the publication selected 80 iconic players essential to telling the story of the game from 1942-2021.
Even though he didn’t arrive in the big leagues from Japan until 2018, the two-way phenom has made such an astounding impact as a hitter AND pitcher that Ohtani was one of 10 active players chosen by a 12-member panel of longtime MLB observers and participants.
The others spotlighted in the July/August issue were Mookie Betts, Miguel Cabrera, Bryce Harper, Clayton Kershaw, Yadier Molina, Albert Pujols, Max Scherzer, Mike Trout and Justin Verlander.
Ohtani, who turned 28 on July 5, was the AL MVP last year and the 2018 AL Rookie of the Year. No player since Babe Ruth has been such a force both at the plate and on the mound.
Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrier in April 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers was picked as the greatest of 30 iconic moments in the magazine’s history.
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Ruth Shaber, MD, the founder and president of the Tara Health Foundation, which promotes health, well-being, and opportunity for women and girls through innovative evidence-informed programs, is also a renowned impact investor and author of the new book, The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk.
In a recent Q&A with Women’s eNews, she discusses how the overturning of Roe v. Wade will not only transform women’s reproductive health, but also the US economy.
WEN: Where do you believe the gender-divide in investing stems from, where women do not envision successful roles as investors?
RS: This is a multifactorial issue. Historically, women haven’t had role models in the financial industry and haven’t been encouraged to pursue careers in finance. Financial institutions have not been intentional about hiring and promoting women into seats of real decision making thereby making the mid-office roles more female dominated. Furthermore, investing for quick returns is a male tendency. With the recent growth in ESG investing which tends to value longer term gains, we will see women in asset allocation and investing seats.
WEN: Why do you believe that gender-inclusive teams are more profitable?
RS: Diverse teams bring new skills and experiences to the decision making rooms. All people have blind spots (based on their own experiences and exposures) – when people with diverse backgrounds are analyzing a problem or building a solution, they are more likely to recognize risks and see opportunities that others might overlook. Gender inclusive teams will likely identify different opportunities and manage downside risks better resulting in increased profitability.
WEN: What skills do you believe women uniquely contribute to successful investing, that men do not?
RS: The following are tendencies, and not absolutes. Women tend to be more collaborative and less driven by ego. They tend to evaluate risk differently than men and are less willing to sacrifice long term gains for short term rewards. These are skills that enhance rigorous financial assessments.
WEN: Are there specific industries where female founders perform better than males and, if so, why?
RS: At the founder level, we know that women excel when they have adequate capital because they tend to run operations in a capital efficient manner. We would expect that women would also excel when the products or services are addressing issues where they are closest to – for instance in healthcare, education, the care economy, etc. But, in all cases, the results will be the best when teams are gender diverse – rather than being all men or all women.
WEN: Since women are clearly more successful than men as investors, CFOs and founders of companies, why do you believe they still face more challenges/objections than men when taking on these roles?
RS: Our data indicates that gender-diverse teams outperform across a number of metrics relative to male-only peers. The challenges that women face in financial leadership are institutional and cultural – including the absence of role models or mentors and different evaluation standards or expectations.
In her book, Ruth also discusses how and why Roe v. Wade will affect women’s role in the workforce and as a result, a business’s bottom line, including:
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The jukebox musical features the songs of British rock band Queen
Attention Queen fans. Blue Water Theatre Company is prepping a musical you won’t want to miss.
“We Will Rock You” is the latest production from the Wayzata-based youth theater group. The jukebox musical, comprised entirely of songs by the famed British rock band Queen, follows two revolutionaries as they try to save rock ‘n’ roll in a post-apocalyptic world.
At the helm for her second Blue Water show is Maridee Slater, the company’s new artistic director who was hired earlier this year following the departure of Charlie Leonard. Originally from Colorado, Slater has a broad range of experience in theater, having directed, taught, produced and performed across the country.
“It’s been great ... and really fulfilling. I’m super happy to be here,” she said.
For “We Will Rock You,” Slater has encouraged the cast and crew to offer their input in shaping the story of the musical, which she said they’ve set in a sort of “post-apocalyptic First Avenue.”
“They get to have a little bit of fun and input and freedom with what the story is and how they approach it, which is cool,” Slater said.
Of course, all the recognizable songs will be there for audiences to rock out to, including “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Killer Queen,” “We Will Rock You,” “Somebody To Love” and more.
And many of the songs have already proved to be intergenerational, the director said.
“It’s funny, during the first rehearsal I put on ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and everyone in the cast sang the entire thing. They knew all the lyrics. I was like, oh wow, okay, so it resonates with you,” Slater said.
Among the many Queen fans in the cast is Wayzata High School junior Kailey Archbold, whose role in the musical will mark her first show with Blue Water. The self-described “theater nerd” said she joined the company as a way to continue acting in the summer outside of school.
“I had heard a lot about how good the community is, and I thought it would be really nice to reach out and meet new people and try more things. And their summer shows were such a great opportunity,” she said.
Archbold will play the role of Scaramouch, a character named after a line in the song “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
“There’s this dystopian society where everyone’s locked in uniformity and everyone’s the same, and Scaramouch is one of the people who is different,” Archbold said. “She uses her own expression.”
Lance Hoover, who will be a senior this fall at Benilde-St. Margaret’s, has been with Blue Water since he was in elementary school. After taking a break these past few years due to the pandemic, the young actor said he’s ready and excited to return for his first Blue Water show since 2019.
For “We Will Rock You,” Hoover will play the character Buddy, who is named after rock icon Buddy Holly.
“Everyone in the bohemian group is based off of a rock legend,” Hoover said.
The actor said it’s been an exciting experience stepping into the role while working with Slater in her first year with Blue Water.
“I love her directing style so much,” he said. “It’s something that I had never been exposed to before.”
And with opening night just days away, Hoover said he’s especially looking forward to inviting in audiences who are ready to sing along with their favorite Queen songs.
“There are several moments throughout the show where we need audience participation, so we’ll need all the fans we can get for sure,” he said.
If you go:
Blue Water Theatre Company presents “We Will Rock You”
When: 7 p.m. Friday, July 8; 7 p.m. Saturday, July 9; 2 p.m. Sunday, July 10; 7 p.m. Thursday, July 14; 7 p.m. Friday, July 15; 7 p.m. Saturday, July 16 and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 17
Where: Blue Water, 605 Rice St. E., Wayzata
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FORT WAYNE, Ind., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Corsica Technologies, recognized as one of the top managed IT and cybersecurity providers, is delighted to announce the joining of Kyle Nix as the new Director of Professional Services.
Kyle joins Corsica Technologies with over 25 years of experience in building and leading Professional Services teams and organizations. Before joining Corsica Technologies, Kyle served as Director at CBI Cybersecurity Solutions, a cybersecurity advisor.
Nix holds extensive certifications in IT and project management. He is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE), Certified Identity Management Professional (CIMP), and is currently completing his certification as a PMP. He is also ITIL v3 certified.
Peter Rodenhauser, COO at Corsica Technologies, said "Kyle's proven track record of building and leading Professional Services teams made him a great fit for Corsica. I look forward to Kyle's leadership providing high impact and secure services to Corsica's growing customer base."
Corsica Technologies offers a highly-skilled and certified team knowledgeable in both IT and cybersecurity to help organizations create a secure foundation and leverage technology so their businesses can thrive. Using innovation technology, the dedicated experts at Corsica Technologies protect clients and respond to cyber incidents 24x7x365 from two Security Operations Centers (SOC), as well as provide a full suite of IT management and digital transformation solutions.
Kyle Nix, the new Director of Professional Services for Corsica Technologies, said "In today's increasingly complex world of technology (and assorted challenges/threats), it is an invaluable asset for companies to have a trusted IT and Cybersecurity partner to help navigate those challenges, drive strategic objectives and deliver optimal outcomes, and maximize business potential. Corsica Technologies is that trusted partner and MSP of choice for businesses across all verticals."
He added "It is an honor to join the Corsica Technologies Professional Services team, and to provide our clients with world-class service and technology leadership!".
Consistently recognized as one of the top managed IT and cybersecurity service providers, Corsica Technologies helps organizations leverage technology as a competitive business advantage. Our integrated IT and cybersecurity services protect companies and enable them to succeed.
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GPS Wealth Strategies Group LLC increased its position in shares of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ – Get Rating) by 10.7% during the first quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 14,886 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 1,442 shares during the quarter. GPS Wealth Strategies Group LLC’s holdings in Johnson & Johnson were worth $2,638,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Other hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Winthrop Advisory Group LLC raised its holdings in shares of Johnson & Johnson by 3.7% during the first quarter. Winthrop Advisory Group LLC now owns 9,090 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,611,000 after acquiring an additional 325 shares during the period. Allied Investment Advisors LLC raised its holdings in shares of Johnson & Johnson by 8.2% during the first quarter. Allied Investment Advisors LLC now owns 47,721 shares of the company’s stock valued at $8,458,000 after acquiring an additional 3,635 shares during the period. Five Oceans Advisors increased its stake in Johnson & Johnson by 1.9% in the 1st quarter. Five Oceans Advisors now owns 4,384 shares of the company’s stock valued at $777,000 after buying an additional 83 shares during the period. RB Capital Management LLC increased its stake in Johnson & Johnson by 1.8% in the 1st quarter. RB Capital Management LLC now owns 9,626 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,706,000 after buying an additional 169 shares during the period. Finally, BLB&B Advisors LLC increased its stake in Johnson & Johnson by 0.4% in the 1st quarter. BLB&B Advisors LLC now owns 131,323 shares of the company’s stock valued at $23,274,000 after buying an additional 486 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 68.78% of the company’s stock.
In other Johnson & Johnson news, CAO Robert J. Decker sold 8,462 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, May 26th. The shares were sold at an average price of $180.00, for a total value of $1,523,160.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief accounting officer now directly owns 15,473 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,785,140. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, EVP Kathryn E. Wengel sold 40,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, June 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $173.00, for a total transaction of $6,920,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 71,311 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $12,336,803. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 78,161 shares of company stock valued at $13,895,302. 0.35% of the stock is owned by insiders.
NYSE JNJ opened at $178.50 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 1.39, a quick ratio of 1.14 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.39. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $176.93 and a 200 day simple moving average of $173.98. The company has a market cap of $469.71 billion, a P/E ratio of 24.06, a P/E/G ratio of 3.52 and a beta of 0.63. Johnson & Johnson has a 1 year low of $155.72 and a 1 year high of $186.69.
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April 19th. The company reported $2.67 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.60 by $0.07. The business had revenue of $23.43 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $23.62 billion. Johnson & Johnson had a net margin of 20.90% and a return on equity of 36.59%. Johnson & Johnson’s quarterly revenue was up 5.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $2.59 EPS. Equities research analysts forecast that Johnson & Johnson will post 10.23 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, June 7th. Investors of record on Tuesday, May 24th were issued a dividend of $1.13 per share. This is an increase from Johnson & Johnson’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.06. This represents a $4.52 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.53%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, May 23rd. Johnson & Johnson’s dividend payout ratio is currently 60.92%.
About Johnson & Johnson (Get Rating)
Johnson & Johnson, together with its subsidiaries, researches and develops, manufactures, and sells various products in the healthcare field worldwide. The company's Consumer Health segment offers baby care products under the JOHNSON'S and AVEENO Baby brands; oral care products under the LISTERINE brand; skin health/beauty products under the AVEENO, CLEAN & CLEAR, DR.
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Wall Street wavers ahead of opening bell, June jobs report
Roughly three-fourths of the stocks in the index gained.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.1 per cent to 31,384 and the Nasdaq composite advanced 2.3 per cent to 11,621.35.There is unease over aggressive US and European interest rate hikes that being deployed to cool inflation because it runs the risk of derailing global economic growth.Wall Streets benchmark SP 500 index rose 1.5 per cent on Thursday after a member of the Fed panel that sets interest rates, James Bullard, said a soft landing for the economy was the most likely scenario.
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Wall Street is wavering ahead of the opening bell Friday before new hiring data is released for June, which is expected to show a pullback by employers compared with the post-virus outbreak boom of the past two years.
Futures for the Dow Jones industrials wavered between gains and losses of less than 0.1 percent, while the S&P 500 declined 0.2 percent. The Labour Department is expected to report that the nation gained 275,000 jobs last month, according to economists surveyed by the data provider FactSet. That would be the lowest monthly gain of the past year, during which the job market has sustained a vigorous recovery from the pandemic recession. Before the pandemic struck in early 2020, monthly hiring that large would have been seen as a robust gain. On Thursday, Labour data showed the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits topped the 230,000 mark for the fifth consecutive week. It was the highest level in almost six months.
Tokyo's main stock market index ebbed following the assassination of former Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, but stayed in positive territory for the day. Abe, 67, died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan.
The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo was up 0.6 percent at 26,654.15 at midday after a gunman shot Abe during a campaign event in the western Japanese city of Nara. The index was up 1.4 percent before the attack.
Abe, who oversaw an economic stimulus effort dubbed Abenomics, stepped down as prime minister in 2020.
The Shanghai Composite Index advanced 0.2 percent to 3,370.28 after Bloomberg News reported China might add 1.5 trillion yuan (USD 220 billion) to spending on public works construction this year to stimulate economic growth. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong added 0.2 percent to 21,694.17.
The Kospi in Seoul rose 0.9 percent to 2,346.14 and Sydney's S&P-ASX 200 was 0.6 percent higher at 6,689.30. India's Sensex opened up 0.5 percent at 54,462.63. New Zealand and Southeast Asian markets advanced.
In Europe at midday, London's FTSE was down 0.5 percent one day after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation following a series of departures from his Cabinet by members of his Conservative Party.
Germany's DAX climbed 0.8 percent and France's CAC rose 0.1 percent.
On Wall Street Thursday, the S&P 500 rose to 3,902.62 for its fourth daily increase. Roughly three-fourths of the stocks in the index gained.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.1 percent to 31,384 and the Nasdaq composite advanced 2.3 percent to 11,621.35.
There is unease over the aggressive US and European interest rate hikes that are being deployed to cool inflation because it runs the risk of derailing global economic growth.
Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 index rose 1.5 percent on Thursday after a member of the Fed panel that sets interest rates, James Bullard, said a "soft landing" for the economy was the most likely scenario. Another panel member, Christopher Waller, said "fears of a recession are overblown." "Investor recession fears ebbed," said Robert Carnell and Iris Pang of ING in a report.
Bullard, who is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, said "it would make a lot of sense" to raise the US central bank's key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point, or triple the usual margin, at its meeting this month. That would repeat the dramatic mid-June rate hike, the Fed's biggest in 28 years.
Waller, speaking at a separate event, said he also supported a 0.75-percentage-point hike. He said the Fed might risk ''causing some economic damage," but with a strong labor market, that shouldn't be too big.
Bloomberg News reported China's Ministry of Finance was considering a plan to allow local governments to raise money from bond sales to spend on building roads and other public works. It wasn't clear whether that represented additional spending or was future bond sales brought forward to help shore up economic growth some forecasters say fell close to zero in the quarter ending in June after anti-virus controls shut down Shanghai and other industrial centers.
Markets also have been on edge about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which sent oil and other commodity prices soaring in recent months.
In energy markets, benchmark US crude reversed course, losing 22 cents to USD 102.51 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract jumped from USD 4.20 to USD 102.73 on Thursday. Brent crude, the price basis for international trading, was essentially unchanged at USD 104.97 per barrel in London. It advanced from USD 3.96 in the previous session to USD 104.65.
The dollar declined to 135.91 yen from Thursday's 136.11 yen. The euro edged down to USD 1.0145 from USD 1.0156.
Shares of GameStop, which jumped 15 percent on Thursday after it announced a 4-for-1 stock split, slid more than 5 percent in premarket trading after Michael Recupero, the chief financial officer at the video game retailer, was ousted abruptly.
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Former iconic India captain Sourav Ganguly is celebrating his 50th birthday on Friday, July 8, 2022. The Indian cricket community woke up to a few heartwarming videos of Ganguly’s birthday bash in England, as birthday wishes for the legend started flowing in on Twitter. Meanwhile, several former teammates of the legendary skipper also took to their social media handles to convey to him their best wishes.
Former India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh was one of the first cricket personalities to wish Ganguly, as he hailed the former cricketer as his captain. “A great player, a superb leader, the @BCCI President, and my captain. Wish you a very happy birthday @SGanguly99, Dada 🤗 Have a wonderful year ahead. Love always!,” Harbhajan wrote on Twitter.
A great player, a superb leader, the @BCCI President, and my captain. Wish you a very happy birthday @SGanguly99, Dada 🤗 Have a wonderful year ahead. Love always! pic.twitter.com/Ejh33skeHG
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) July 8, 2022
Former India cricketer Suresh Raina, who made his international debut under Ganguly’s captaincy, also posted an emotional message for the 50-year-old. Raina said, “Wishing @SGanguly99 a birthday filled with love and happiness May all the joy that you have spread to others come back to you a hundredfold. Have a blessed year ahead Dada #HappyBirthdayDada”.
Wishing @SGanguly99 a birthday filled with love and happiness ❤️ May all the joy that you have spread to others come back to you a hundredfold. Have a blessed year ahead Dada #HappyBirthdayDada
— Suresh Raina🇮🇳 (@ImRaina) July 8, 2022
Indian veteran wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik, alongside, other current Team India stars Cheteshwar Pujara and Shikhar Dhawan also wished the iconic cricketer on Twitter. “One of the players who changed the face of Indian cricket forever. Wishing you a very happy birthday Dada,” Karthik wrote.
One of the players who changed the face of Indian cricket forever.
— DK (@DineshKarthik) July 8, 2022
Wishing you a very happy birthday Dada 🎂 pic.twitter.com/U210p1oh6P
In the meantime, Pujara said, “A very happy birthday to a great leader, @SGanguly99 Wishing you good health and happiness on your special day. Have an amazing year ahead!”. On the other hand, Dhawan tweeted saying, “Happiest Birthday Dada @SGanguly99 Wishing you good health and serene birthday filled with endless blessings!,” alongside a picture of him receiving an award from Ganguly.
A very happy birthday to a great leader, @SGanguly99 🤗 Wishing you good health and happiness on your special day. Have an amazing year ahead! pic.twitter.com/q8nSqUcaMp
— cheteshwar pujara (@cheteshwar1) July 8, 2022
Happiest Birthday Dada @SGanguly99
— Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25) July 8, 2022
Wishing you good health and serene birthday filled with endless blessings! pic.twitter.com/PSQi1bJsz7
Former India cricketer Wasim Jaffer and veteran batter Robin Uthappa also put out tweets, wishing the former India captain. “Time to raise the bat, Happy 50th birthday dada @SGanguly99.Wish you a healthy and prosperous year ahead,” Jaffer wrote on Twitter.
Time to raise the bat, Happy 50th birthday dada @SGanguly99 🎂 Wish you a healthy and prosperous year ahead 🤗 pic.twitter.com/hN0BfvNnv7
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) July 8, 2022
At the same time, Uthappa said, “Many happy returns of the day, Dada @SGanguly99 A great career on the field and now the heart and soul of @BCCI, you have inspired many in your journey. Wishing you good health and a blessed year ahead. Lots of love!”. Meanwhile, Bengal cricketer Manoj Tiwary also put a message for Ganguly.
Many happy returns of the day, Dada @SGanguly99 🤗 A great career on the field and now the heart and soul of @BCCI, you have inspired many in your journey. Wishing you good health and a blessed year ahead. Lots of love! pic.twitter.com/q7orI1oPno
— Robin Aiyuda Uthappa (@robbieuthappa) July 8, 2022
Many many happy returns of the day dada @SGanguly99 🎉 Have seen ur video where u r dancing while celebrating, great to see that. Keep rocking and have a blessed year ahead 😊 #SouravGanguly pic.twitter.com/U3jmtmWOPv
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Inside Venezia FC's 2022-23 rebrand
Last year, a relatively small Italian team made waves far beyond its home city. Newly-promoted Venezia FC turned heads after unveiling both its home and away kits. The two jerseys, designed alongside Kappa, mixed its traditional black, green and orange in innovative new patterns, celebrating the club and its world-famous home city.
The kits, and the way they were unveiled, helped earn Venezia FC the nickname of "the world's coolest club." "It's slightly uncomfortable when that's thrown around," says Ted Philipakos, the club's New York-born Chief Marketing Officer, "We don't want people to think that was our goal, because it wasn't."
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Instead, the kits were part of a wider aim, helping to recontextualize the club within Italian football. "We're just looking to represent the club and city with real importance, which should be unconditioned by whether we're winning or losing games," Philipakos continues.
"The club has a 114-year history, and it has seen highs and lows through the divisions, but it should always be a source of pride and something to rally around. All the details are out of respect and in service of that mission."
The latest evolution of this mission has been a partnership with renowned cultural consultancy Bureau Borsche. Venezia FC recently worked with the agency to launch a complete rebrand – including an updated version of its crest – and has also recruited them to design their kits for the 2022-23 season.
The decision to collaborate with Bureau Borsche – who have worked on projects for Supreme, Balenciaga and Nike – began after the company signed on to design an identity for the Venice Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
"[It] was a modern take on the lion of Saint Mark, the symbol of Venice and of Venezia FC," Philipakos says, "so they had all the context you would want to approach this project with Venezia."
For Philipakos, and Venezia more widely, the work alongside Bureau Borsche has built on the shared values at the heart of the club.
"We both care deeply about history, tradition and the community, so we were on the same page in the importance of research and attention to detail," he adds. "The outgoing crest was obsolete. It was not popular with our local fans, it was not in line with the heritage of the club, and it was not in line with the evolution of the club's aesthetic or modern design in general. Now, our new identity checks all those boxes."
The relaunched badge – a central part of Bureau Borsche's rebrand for the club – has helped strengthen the bond between Venezia FC and the city of Venice, highlighting some key characteristics of the city.
"The winged lion returning to its original gold, as it had almost always been throughout the club's 114-year history, was very significant," says Philipakos. "And the abstract wing serving as a reference to the Venetian gondola's iron prow was a clever touch. Overall, the new identity has been extremely well received in Venice."
The latest stage of the collaboration between Venezia and Bureau Borsche is the design of the team's 2022-23 kits. This began with a training range, unveiled alongside the rebrand, and has now extended to the club's home kit. In many ways, the design of the kit – alongside technical partners Kappa – is an embodiment of Philipakos' vision for Venezia, helping to update the club by celebrating its heritage and deepening the ties to its home city.
"Taking inspiration from the aesthetics of the 1990s, which was an important era in the history of the club, we wanted to give a contemporary update to a vintage look, blending the past and present," he explains. "So, we've featured long sleeves and collars in the collection, and the home shirt's taping is also a traditional element, but it has come together with a very clean modern look, which should feel relevant on and off the pitch.
"The home shirt is finished with gold embellishments that add a sense of importance to the shirt, while gold also has a historical significance to the city and club and always fits very well with the club's traditional orange, black, and green. Bureau Borsche and Kappa have been excellent partners on the project, in design and production, respectively."
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THREE Spanish friends have been spared jail for an €18,000 graffiti attack on Dart carriages at a Dublin train depot.
Luis Garcia Diaz (30), Francisco Espinosa (27) and Jonay Gallo (25), described as "talented" artists, caused "massive inconvenience and expense" to Irish Rail when they defaced the two trains with spray paint, a court heard.
Suspending sentences, Judge Pauline Codd said it was not acceptable to use trains as a "canvas" for some "misguided artistic endeavour."
The three pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to criminal damage charges.
Diaz, a Madrid factory worker of no fixed address and Espinosa, a construction worker from Seville with an address at Susan Terrace, Dublin 8 were each given two-year suspended sentences.
Gallo, a waiter from Burgos living at Mount Shannon Road, Dublin, was given a longer two-and-a-half year suspended sentence because he had also recorded the graffiti on his phone.
Garda Richard Ledwidge said four carriages on two separate side-by-side trains were sprayed with tags at Fairview Dart Depot on October 10 last year.
The cost of the damage was €12,193, with a loss of revenue of €6,554 as the carriages could not be used for two days - the total was €18,747.
The court heard a security guard saw “four guys” spray painting the carriages while monitoring CCTV at 2.59pm.
He went onto the tracks and saw one of the men recording the others. When told the gardai would be called, they kept spraying. He followed them as they crossed the tracks and dumped their bags in a ditch.
Gardai arrived and the four split up and fled down roads in East Wall. Gallo and Diaz ran down a dead end and sat down when they were told to get on the ground.
Espinosa kept running and was chased before being caught and brought to the ground.
The fourth man was not apprehended.
Video and photos of the spray painting were found on Gallo’s phone. Only Diaz said anything of evidential value in interview, telling gardai: “I didn’t come especially for painting trains… I did not come intentionally to cause trouble.”
He took responsibility for a “Skab” tag on one train.
None of the accused had any prior convictions and all had apologised.
Gallo has a degree in graphic design and had worked in the field in Madrid before coming to Ireland to learn English, his barrister Oisin Clarke said. He was a “talented individual” with an interest in street art but had used his talent on the day to do something that was “inappropriate” and a criminal offence in a “very foolish endeavour.”
He had lost his job here as a content moderator for Facebook as a result of publicity from the case.
Judge Codd asked if the video he took was to be posted on the internet “for a lark.”
Mr Clarke said there was “no real, good explanation” and it was “one afternoon of madness.”
This kind of offending was a much more minor offence in Spain, he said.
Judge Codd said it seemed to be “some kind of misguided and misplaced artistic endeavour” using Irish Rail’s trains as “a canvas”.
Luigi Rea, for Diaz, said there had been artistic content that some might regard as graffiti while others would regard it as art.
“If the word "Banksy" had been on the carriage it would be worth millions at this stage,” he remarked.
He said the activity was more commonly engaged in on the continent and in a sunny climate there might be a “more attractive” aspect to it than in a “wet dreary Irish winter.”
The offence was a “misdirected application of (Diaz’s) passion for art onto the carriages of Irish Rail.”
Diaz had come "late to the party", arriving in Ireland for the weekend at the time.
Espinosa had worked as a lifeguard and was in Ireland to learn English, his barrister Tom Horan said. He had a passion for art and had been paid to paint the sides of buildings in Spain. He accepted what he did on this occasion was “absolutely inappropriate".
It was all very well for people to have artistic temperaments, but it was not acceptable to use the property of others as a canvas, Judge Codd said.
“There has to be a disincentive to people carrying out this kind of handiwork, however talented they are,” the judge said.
Each of the accused had considerable artistic talent but there had to be a deterrent to expressing it in this way, she said.
Partial compensation was paid by each accused and Judge Codd gave them a year to pay the balance, totalling €12,000. She said she was not requiring them to pay the full amount because of their limited means.
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Dog lovers know the joys of dog ownership, but with that comes a certain responsibility. Dog owners everywhere know they need to pick up after their dogs, but the issue of dog fouling is still one that plagues our county.
While the vast majority of dog owners are responsible and clean up after their pets, there are instances of dog fouling on streets and in green spaces and on our beaches on an ongoing basis around Fingal.
Dog poo is harmful to people’s health and particularly dangerous for children. It is a dog owner’s responsibility therefore to clean up after their pet.
To highlight the issue of dog fouling, Fingal County Council has developed a new campaign to remind dog owners to pick up after their dog wherever they are.
The campaign features the adorable “Scally” in a series of videos which highlight the consequences of not picking up the poop. Whether under the cover of darkness, in a field or on the beach remember “Your dog’s poop could end up anywhere! Always Pick it up!”
Speaking at the launch of the campaign, Mayor of Fingal, Cllr Howard Mahoney said: “Fingal County Council continues to look for new and innovative ways to help combat the issue of dog fouling, and over the last number of years has engaged in radio and cinema adverts to increase awareness around the issue of dog fouling.
"Help Scally to carry on the message and bin the poo responsibly. It’s the least we can do for our best friends.”
Fingal County Council have been previously involved in similar campaigns, most notably the “Leave Only Paw Prints” in conjunction with the UCD Acclimatize Project, and the other Dublin Councils, and the “Green Dog Walkers” initiative, a regional programme involving most of the Local Authorities in the Leinster area.
It is a non-confrontational, friendly way to change attitudes about dog fouling.
Failure to pick up after your dog is an offence under the Litter Management Acts 1997-2009 and could result in an on-the-spot fine of €150. The maximum court fine is €3000.
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BJP legislators skip Jyoti Basu memorial event in Bengal Assembly
By IANS | Published: July 8, 2022 06:45 PM2022-07-08T18:45:02+5:302022-07-08T18:55:16+5:30
Kolkata, July 8 As the 109th birth anniversary of veteran Marxist and longest serving West Bengal Chief Minister, ...
Kolkata, July 8 As the 109th birth anniversary of veteran Marxist and longest serving West Bengal Chief Minister, Late Jyoti Basu was being observed in the Assembly on Friday, the BJP leaders remained conspicuous by their absence.
Slamming the saffron camp for their absence, state Transport Minister and Kolkata Mayor, Firhad Hakim, in his address on the occasion, quoted the words used by Basu once about BJP after the demolition of Babri Mosque.
"The observation of Jyoti Basu was that BJP is party of hooligans and barbar. There can be differences in political ideologies and beliefs. But it is our duty that we all pay homage to the departed soul on such occasions," he said.
Incidentally, Basu's memorial event was held in a house where currently neither his party CPI-M nor the Left Front has a single representative after the 2021 Assembly Elections.
Assembly Speaker, Biman Banerjee, in his speech, lamented the total absence of the Left's voice in the house. "I really feel bad that the Left parties, whose unquestionable leader was Jyoti Basu, do not have a single representative in the house. The Left Front ruled the state for 34 years. We had clashes of ideology with them. But still it is unfortunate that there is no Left voice in the assembly," he said.
Referring to the positive sides of Jyoti Basu as a leader, Banerjee said that be it as a Chief Minister or as the Leader of the Opposition before 1977, Basu's role as a leader was very constructive and positive.
"There are documents in the state assembly that Jyoti Basu travelled together with his predecessor and legendary Congress Chief Minister, Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy to New Delhi to voice the demands for West Bengal. He did not even hesitate to refuse the chair of the Prime Minister of the country following the decision of his own party. There lies his greatness," the Speaker said.
State BJP leaders, however, refused to make any comment on the absence of their legislators on the occasion.
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SuChin Pak broke barriers when, in 2001 at 25 years old, she became the first Asian American correspondent for MTV News.
For the next 12 years, she covered everything from celebrity red carpets to presidential elections for the network. Pak, now 45, tells CNBC Make It she hit a "turning point" when she launched "My Life (Translated)," a documentary series that followed teens from immigrant families through dating, prom, college and young life.
It was the first time she could talk about being Korean American "in the absolute sense," Pak says, and it would be "accepted" and "celebrated."
But while MTV launched Pak's journalism career and made waves for AAPI representation onscreen, it's also where she experienced racism and sexism from colleagues. Decades later, she's still unpacking it all.
Reconciling work success with trauma
In spring of 2021, following the racially motivated Atlanta spa shootings that killed six women of Asian descent, Pak opened up on Instagram about an encounter in the MTV newsroom, when a white male co-worker made inappropriate comments about her appearance.
"I overheard a colleague of mine, while watching me do the news that evening, tell a room full of people that I looked like a 'me sucky sucky love you long time' whore," Pak wrote, referencing a line spoken by a Vietnamese sex worker in the 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket." "I was young, afraid as usual to cause a fuss or be seen as difficult or too 'sensitive,' being the only female in the newsroom, so I didn't say anything in the moment."
Pak says she didn't have any allies in the newsroom or resources beyond the workplace.
"Most of my career at MTV was outside of being connected to an Asian American community," Pak tells CNBC Make It. "I did a lot of things in a vacuum."
The internet was in its infancy and social media didn't yet exist, she adds. "I can't even imagine what it would have been like if I had Instagram, or the feedback or bond that we can now have as strangers sharing this big identity together," Pak says.
She didn't really think about that experience again until the rise of anti-Asian violence during the pandemic, Pak told The Cut in 2021, and she felt compelled to finally speak up: "I never made the connection between how these small, everyday cuts can lead to something so violent and so big. But if we don't make those connections, then none of this matters."
MTV did not respond to CNBC Make It's request for comment.
Support through community and representation
Pak says an MTV executive reached out after her Instagram post and expressed a responsibility to heal the damage. Shortly after, MTV asked Pak to contribute the introduction to a new book, "My Life: Growing Up Asian In America."
"It definitely wasn't an immediate yes," Pak says, but she decided to move forward with it and be that resource she wanted for her younger self. The book features the works of 30 writers who contributed their own essays, poems and art.
"There's something really comforting being one of 30 voices," Pak says, "so that you didn't have to feel like you had to answer that question for anyone else, but just yourself."
Pak may have been the first Asian face of MTV, but she's no longer the only one. Representation of AAPIs in pop culture and news media has increased slowly over the years. She's also found support among groups committed to newsroom diversity. In 2019, Pak even met her "Add to Cart" podcast co-host Kulap Vilaysack in the AAPI breakout group of Time's Up Entertainment.
Pak says writing about the racism and sexism she experienced early in her career helped her see courage in a different way.
"For me, this is the most courageous work of all: dismantling and reconciling my former shame and guilt while also honoring them," Pak writes in her intro. "For many years, I lived in this emotional space, wondering who I was and who I was supposed to be. I still lose my way all the time, trying to answer those questions. In the past, I let others answer them, but I'm at a place now where the answers are my own."
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- Amidst the five year completion of the Goods and Services Tax ("GST") regime in India, the GST Council ("Council") held its 47th Meeting on June 28, 2022 and June 29, 2022 in Chandigarh. The Council has made a slew of recommendations, some in line with industry expectations and some with a view to close out litigative positions and bring clarity to business. The digital ecosystem was also waiting with bated breath to see the recommendations which would affect them as various issues still require the attentions on the indirect tax side such as treatment of virtual digital assets (VDA), this entire exercise has been deferred. Further, considering the Group of Ministers ("GoM") recommendation of tax at the highest rate on online games and some other crucial valuation issues, there was no mention of these in the final recommendations. It appears that the GoM has been asked to review their position again. While the present Alert covers in detail and lists out the recommendations, it is noteworthy to highlight some key announcements and their impact.
- To begin with, to aid small sellers and the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises ("MSME") group, the Council has recommended relaxed provisions for supplies made through E-commerce Operators ("ECO") including a waiver of mandatory registration for some suppliers. With an eye on aiding businesses, the Council has also recommended changes in the formula for calculation of refund in inverted duty structures. This flows from the directive of the Supreme Court to consider the calculation mechanism so that industries suffering from inverted duty structure will have some respite. Additionally, further rates have been increased for certain goods to remove this anomaly.
- Some other key recommendations which will drive up prices in some areas include GST on hospital room rent (excluding ICU) exceeding INR 5000 will now attract GST at 5% without input tax credit ("ITC"), 12% GST will be levied on hotel accommodation upto INR 1000. LED lamps, lights, fixtures will now attract a higher rate of 18%.
- Some of the recommendations are in the nature of clarifications to settle either existing disputes or pending cases, such as in vitro fertilization and assisted reproductive technology has been recommended to be covered under the definition of healthcare, thus, will get an exemption now. Further, sale of land after levelling and laying of drainage pipes will be outside the purview of GST. Another interesting recommendation is on food items and grains, where previously exemption was applied for unbranded items or where the assessee was forgoing their rights over the brand. The Council has now suggested revising the scope of the exemption and it may now exclude prepackaged and prelabelled retail packs (as understood under the Legal Metrology Act, 2009).
- The Council has made a host of recommendations relating to
changes in GST rates on supply of goods and services (please note
that all the rate changes are to be made effective from July 18,
2022) and changes related to law and procedure. While the
notifications are being issued, GST council discussed and approved
the following:
- Recommendations relating to GST rates on certain goods and services.
- Clarifications on GST rate of goods and services and withdrawal of exemptions and rate; rationalisation on certain items.
- Measures for trade facilitation; and
- Other measures.
- RATE CHANGES
6.1 Rate rationalisation to remove the inverted duty structure:
6.2 Other GST rate changes recommended by the Council amongst others are as follow
- EXEMPTION WITHDRAWAL AND RATE RATIONALISATION
7.1 Withdrawal of exemptions and rate rationalisations on various good was announced. Some of which are listed below:
7.2 Withdrawal of exemptions on certain services are also announced. Some of which are listed below:
- Exemption on transport of passengers by air to and from Northeast states of India and Bagdogra is being restricted to economy class;
- Transportation by rail or a vessel of railway equipment and material;
- Services by Reserve Bank of India, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority, Securities and Exchange Board of India ("SEBI"), Food Safety and Standards Authority of India ("FSSAI") and Goods and Service Tax Network ("GSTN");
- Renting of residential dwelling to business entities (registered persons);
- Hotel accommodation priced upto INR 1000 per day shall be taxed at GST rate of 12%
- Room rent (excluding ICU) exceeding INR 5000 per day per patient charged by a hospital shall be taxed at the GST rate of 5% (no ITC);
- Fumigation in a warehouse of agricultural produce; and
- Services provided by the cord blood banks by way of preservation of stem cells.
7.3 Following clarifications are provided among others:
- Electric vehicles whether or not fitted with a battery pack are eligible for a concessional rate of GST at 5%
- Sewage treated water is exempted from GST and is not the same as purified water provided in S. No. 99 of notification 2/2017-CT(Rate). The word 'purified' is being omitted to make this amply clear.
- GST rate on all forms of mango under Customs Tariff Head 0804 including mango pulp attract GST at the rate of 12%. Entry is also being amended to make this amply clear. Raw mangoes continue to be exempt.
- Nicotine Polarilex Gum attracts GST at the rate of 18%.
- Sale of land after levelling, laying down of drainage lines etc. is sale of land and does not attract GST.
- Renting of motor vehicles for transport of passengers to a body corporate for a period is taxable in the hands of body corporate by reverse charge mechanism ("RCM").
- Services in the form of ART/ IVF are covered under the definition of healthcare services for the purposes of exemption under GST.
- Due to ambiguity in GST rates on supply of ice-cream-by-ice-cream parlours, GST charged at the rate of 5% without ITC on the same during the period July 01, 2017 to October 05, 2021 shall be regularized to avoid unnecessary litigation.
- Application fee charged for entrance or for issuance of eligibility certificate for admission or issuance of migration certificate by universities is exempt from GST.
- Renting of vehicle with operator for transportation of goods on time basis is classifiable under Heading 9966 (rental services of transport vehicles with operators) and attracts GST at 18%. GST on such renting where cost of fuel is included in the consideration charged is being prescribed at 12%.
- Activity of selling of space for advertisement in souvenirs published in the form of books is eligible for concessional GST at 5%.
- Services associated with transit cargo both to and from Nepal and Bhutan are covered by exemption under entry 9B of notification No. 12/2017-CT® dated June 28, 2017.
7.4 The other miscellaneous changes are as following:
- Goods transport agency is being given the option to pay GST at the rate of 12% or 5% on forward charge basis. This option to be exercised at the beginning of the financial year. RCM option to continue.
- Services provided by an Indian tour operator to a foreign resident for a tour partially in India and partially outside India is to be subjected to tax proportionate to the tour conducted in India subject to the condition that this concession does not exceed half of tour duration.
- All taxable service of department of posts of India would be subject to forward charge. Hitherto certain taxable services of department of post of India were taxed on reverse charge basis.
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The Congress party has resorted to using the unfortunate assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for political purposes. After Abe was shot by a man in Nara city in Japan, Surendra Rajput, National Media Panellist of the Congress Party, rushed to Twitter and stated that the murderer of Shinzo Abe was a member of the Japanese Self Defence Forces (SDF), which he compared with the Agnipath scheme announced by the Indian Armed Forces in collaboration with the Government of India.
In the tweet, Rajput said, “Shinzo Abe #ShinzoAbeShot the shooter #tetsuyayamagami Yamagami He had worked in Japan’s SDF i.e. Army without pension.”
The Japanese Self Defence Forces are the military forces of Japan, which includes Japan Ground Self-Defence Force, Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force, and Japan Air Self-Defence Force. The personnel in the Japanese defence forces receive an one-time payment after their retirement, but there is not a regular pension scheme for them. Therefore, the Congress leader tried to equate SDF with Agnipath, to score political points over an assassination that has been condemned by leaders from all across the world.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has slammed this statement by Surendra Rajput, a spokesperson of the Congress party. BJP National Spokesman Shehzad Poonawalla condemned the remarks, saying that the official spokesperson of Congress picked even Shinzo Abe’s terrible death to engage in petty politics.
There has to be a limit to this . This is embarrassing & quite disgusting. It is devoid of fact but it is devoid of morality & any sense of propriety to politicise the death of a great world leader & India’s true friend . I hope Congress will act on him without delay pic.twitter.com/roCW2ZqVhz
— Shehzad Jai Hind (@Shehzad_Ind) July 8, 2022
Shehzad said, “There has to be a limit to this. This is embarrassing & quite disgusting. It is devoid of fact but it is devoid of morality & any sense of propriety to politicise the death of a great world leader & India’s true friend. I hope Congress will act on him without delay.”
Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo was shot by a miscreant in the city of Nara on Friday. While addressing a rally in western Japan, Abe was shot from behind. He was immediately transported to the hospital and was being treated. He has, however, been declared dead.
Notably, the recently announced Agnipath scheme by the Armed Forces in collaboration with the Government of India has come under attack from opposition parties throughout the country, including the Congress party. Pressure groups across the country worked to influence the decisions made by authorities in this regard. | https://www.opindia.com/2022/07/congress-spokesman-targets-agnipath-scheme-using-death-of-shinzo-abe/ | 2022-07-08T13:49:49Z | https://www.opindia.com/2022/07/congress-spokesman-targets-agnipath-scheme-using-death-of-shinzo-abe/ | false | 1 |
VIDEO: Plane makes heart-stopping emergency landing on western NC highway
Published: Jul. 8, 2022 at 8:28 AM EDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
SWAIN COUNTY, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - A heart-stopping emergency plane landing on a highway in Swain County was caught on camera and the video is going viral.
The Swain County Sheriff’s Office said the pilot’s GoPro recorded the incident Sunday on Highway 74.
No one was hurt in the landing, but the video shows the pilot narrowly avoiding power lines and cars on the highway.
The emergency aboard the aircraft is unclear, but the Swain County Sheriff commended the pilot on an “outstanding job” landing the plane safely.
“There were so many things that could have been catastrophic but they didn’t happen,” Sheriff Curtis Cochran said on Facebook.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen this month will visit the Indo-Pacific for the first time since taking over the department and will use the trip to make the U.S. case for a price cap on Russian oil aimed at reducing revenue to the Kremlin as it presses ahead with its attack on Ukraine.
Yellen will address the economic and humanitarian challenges wrought by Russia’s war in Ukraine as she represents the U.S. at Group of 20 finance minister meetings on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali and makes additional stops in Tokyo and Seoul, South Korea. During the July 12-19 trip, Yellen will notably avoid visiting China, although she did hold a call with China’s vice premier on Monday.
Yellen has been a critic of China’s economic relationship with Russia — urging China to use its “ special relationship with Russia” to persuade Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
Unlike the Group of Seven finance leader meetings in April, the G-20 will involve participant countries that are not united in taking action in opposition to the war in Ukraine. China, India, South Africa and Brazil have largely resisted signing on to efforts by the U.S. and its allies to punish Russia for its invasion. Russia is expected to participate as well.
Yellen will also tour an LG factory in South Korea and deliver a speech about the importance of strong international partnerships in building supply chains. LG in April announced plans to build a $1.4 billion battery plant in Queen Creek, Arizona.
Yellen’s trip to Asia will come days after the death of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation’s most powerful and influential figures, was shot from behind during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, according to NHK public television. | https://www.wate.com/news/politics/ap-politics/yellen-to-push-price-cap-on-russian-oil-during-asia-visit/ | 2022-07-08T13:51:19Z | https://www.wate.com/news/politics/ap-politics/yellen-to-push-price-cap-on-russian-oil-during-asia-visit/ | true | 33 |
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The "Optical Imaging Techniques - Global Market Trajectory & Analytics" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
Global Optical Imaging Techniques Market to Reach $3 Billion by 2027
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Optical Imaging Techniques estimated at US$1.5 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$3 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 10.2% over the analysis period 2020-2027. Optical Coherence Tomography, one of the segments analyzed in the report, is projected to record a 10.1% CAGR and reach US$2.3 Billion by the end of the analysis period. After an early analysis of the business implications of the pandemic and its induced economic crisis, growth in the Hyperspectral Imaging segment is readjusted to a revised 10.3% CAGR for the next 7-year period.
The U.S. Market is Estimated at $717.3 Million, While China is Forecast to Grow at 14.4% CAGR
The Optical Imaging Techniques market in the U.S. is estimated at US$717.3 Million in the year 2020. China, the world`s second largest economy, is forecast to reach a projected market size of US$215.2 Million by the year 2027 trailing a CAGR of 14.4% over the analysis period 2020 to 2027. Among the other noteworthy geographic markets are Japan and Canada, each forecast to grow at 7.9% and 9.8% respectively over the 2020-2027 period. Within Europe, Germany is forecast to grow at approximately 9% CAGR.
Near-infrared Spectroscopy Segment to Record 9.3% CAGR
In the global Near-infrared Spectroscopy segment, USA, Canada, Japan, China and Europe will drive the 8.9% CAGR estimated for this segment. These regional markets accounting for a combined market size of US$90.9 Million in the year 2020 will reach a projected size of US$164.9 Million by the close of the analysis period. China will remain among the fastest growing in this cluster of regional markets. Led by countries such as Australia, India, and South Korea, the market in Asia-Pacific is forecast to reach US$190.4 Million by the year 2027, while Latin America will expand at a 11.4% CAGR through the analysis period.
Key Topics Covered:
I. METHODOLOGY
II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1. MARKET OVERVIEW
- Influencer Market Insights
- World Market Trajectories
- Impact of Covid-19 and a Looming Global Recession
- An Introduction to Optical Imaging
- Optical Imaging: Current Market Scenario and Outlook
- Developed Regions: Dominant Consumers of Optical Imaging Technologies
- World Optical Imaging Market by Region: Percentage Breakdown of Revenues for Developed and Developing Regions (2019 & 2025)
- Developing Regions to Spearhead Future Growth
- World Optical Imaging Market - Geographic Regions Ranked by CAGR (Value) for 2018-2025: China, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, Canada, USA, Europe, and Japan
- Key Factors Driving Demand for Medical Imaging Services in Developing Regions
- Growing Healthcare Awareness
- Increased Access to Healthcare and Surge in Number of Hospitals & Clinics
- Proliferation of Medical Tourism
- Optical Coherence Tomography: Major Optical Imaging Technique
- Robust Opportunities for Hyperspectral Imaging
- Near-infrared Spectroscopy Gains Traction
- Photoacoustic Tomography Set to Make Gains
- Optical Imaging Techniques - Global Key Competitors Percentage Market Share in 2022 (E)
- Competitive Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial for Players Worldwide in 2022 (E)
2. FOCUS ON SELECT PLAYERS
3. MARKET TRENDS & DRIVERS
- Hospitals & Clinics: Dominant Consumers of Optical Imaging Solutions
- Optical Imaging Remains Highly Relevant in Research Laboratories
- Rising Prominence of Optical Imaging Technologies for Pharmaceutical & Biotech Firms
- Growing Investments in Healthcare & Lifescience Sectors Create Conducive Environment for Growth of Optical Imaging Market
- World Healthcare Spending & Growth (in US$ Trillion) and % Real GDP Growth for the Years 2012 through 2018
- High Growth Opportunities in Oncology Care
- Worldwide Incidence of Cancer (2012, 2018 & 2040): Number of New Cases Diagnosed
- Growing Adoption in Cardiology Applications Bodes Well
- Demographic Factors Favor Growth
- Market Stands to Gain from Expanding Geriatric Population
- Global Aging Population (in Thousands) by Age Group: 1975-2050
- Elderly Population (60+ Years) as a Percentage of Total Population (2015 & 2050)
- Life Expectancy at Birth in Years of People in Select Countries (2017)
4. GLOBAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE
Companies Mentioned
- Abbott Laboratories
- Agfa-Gevaert Group
- ASE Optics Europe
- Canon U.S.A., Inc.
- Carl-Zeiss Meditec AG
- ChemImage Corporation
- Cytoviva Inc.
- Headwall Photonics, Inc.
- Heidelberg Engineering GmbH
- Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Leica Microsystems GmbH
- Optical Imaging Ltd.
- PerkinElmer, Inc.
- Topcon Corporation
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Dear Savvy Senior,
What can you tell me about electric trikes for semi-seniors? I used to cycle a lot in my younger years but have some balance problems and don’t trust myself on a two-wheeler anymore. I’ve read that electric powered trikes are a good option for older riders but could use some help choosing one.
Unsteady Eddie
Dear Eddie,
Electric powered adult tricycles — also known as e-trikes — are a great cycling option for older adults with balance or stamina issues because they’re safe and super fun to ride, and easy on an aging body. Here’s what you should know, along with some tips to help you shop for one.
Safer cycling
If you’re interested in cycling, but worry about falling or injuring yourself, e-trikes are a great choice because of the three-wheeled stability they provide. With a trike you can ride as slow as you want without ever losing your balance, which is very reassuring for most older riders.
E-trikes also come with a small electric powered motor to enhance the riding experience, so when you saddle up and apply the throttle the motor will give you a boost when pedaling, or it will do all the work for you. This makes it much easier to whiz up hills and ride into headwinds without gassing yourself or taxing your knee joints.
In addition, most adult e-trikes are also made with a low “step through” design making mounting and dismounting easier; they typically come with big tires that ensure a smooth ride; have ergonomic handlebars that are easy to reach and grip; and offer oversize seats (some even have backrests) for comfort and support.
There are many different types of adult e-trikes to choose from with prices ranging anywhere from around $2,000 up to $7,000. To shop for one, contact some bike shops in your area to see what they offer, or you may need to order one online.
When shopping for an e-trike, pay special attention to the motor, which determines how fast it will go, and the battery, which determines how far it will go between charges.
Most e-trikes can reach speeds of anywhere between 15 and 28 miles per hour, and typically go somewhere between 20 and 55 miles on a single charge, depending on how much pedaling you do. Battery charge times will vary too, ranging anywhere from three to eight hours.
How to choose
To help you figure out the right kind of e-trike for you, ask yourself how and where you plan to ride it. If you’re primarily interested in a leisurely ride around the neighborhood for pleasure, fitness or running errands, an upright cruiser e-trike that has a rear cargo basket would be a nice choice.
Some popular options in this category include: Addmotor’s M-340 Electric Fat Trike and M-360 Semi-Recumbent Trike (both $3,000, addmotor.com); Emojo Caddy Pro ($2,900, emojobike.com); Sixthreezero EVRYjourney 250W Tricycle ($2,200, sixthreezero.com); EWheels EW-29 ($2,000, ewheelsdealers.com); and Buzz Cerana T ($1,700, buzzbicycles.com).
Or, if you’re looking to take longer road rides a recumbent e-trike may be a better option. These are aerodynamic, low-to-the-ground stretched-out frame trikes that allow you to recline with your legs positioned in front of you. Catrike (catrike.com) and TerraTrikes (terratrike.com) are two of the biggest U.S. companies that make recumbent tadpole-style trikes (the two wheels are in front) and they both offer electric assist options at prices ranging from $5,000 to $,7000.
There are also folding e-trikes, which are practical if you have limited home storage space or would like to take your trike with you when traveling. Some good options here include the Liberty Trike ($1,600, libertytrike.com) and Eunorau New-Trike ($2,500, eunorau-ebike.com).
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2.21 million visitors so far this year
published : 8 Jul 2022 at 16:45
writer: Online Reporters
Thailand has welcomed 2.21 million visitors so far this year, with generated revenue of 125 billion baht, according to official figures. The largest number have come from India.
Spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration Taweesilp Visanuyothin said the Tourism and Sports Ministry reported to Friday's meeting that a total of 30,947 foreigners arrived in Thailand on July 6.
The top five countries they came from were Malaysia (5,315), India (3,077), Singapore (1,814), Vietnam (1,667) and Australia (1,369).
The total number of visitors from Jan 1 to July 6 was 2,214,132, generating 125 billion baht in revenue for the country.
The latest number came from India, 249,466. Bangkok had the highest number of foreign visitors, Dr Taweesilp said. | https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2342472/2-21-million-visitors-so-far-this-year | 2022-07-08T13:58:31Z | https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2342472/2-21-million-visitors-so-far-this-year | true | null |
Lewis Hamilton believes he is close to winning again while Carlos Sainz Jr. is hungry for another Formula One victory heading into this weekend’s Austrian Prix.
It took Sainz 150 races to finally win at a crash-marred Silverstone last Sunday, when Hamilton collected a second straight podium to underline how the Mercedes upgrades are paying off.
The seven-time F1 champion has won at least one race in each of the past 15 seasons in F1 and needs one more win to eclipse Michael Schumacher and set another record, to go with 103 wins and 103 pole positions. But Hamilton’s Mercedes team struggled to adapt to the new F1 rules and “ground effect” — where the floor generates aerodynamic grip and causes bouncing.
Back-to-back podiums make him confident a first win is approaching, after last winning 12 races ago at the penultimate race of 2021 in Saudi Arabia.
“With a little bit more digging and a little bit more hard work hopefully we can get a bit closer. I truly believe we can get a race win this year,” Hamilton said. “Earlier this year definitely I wasn’t sure we would ever get a win in this car.“
His pace at Silverstone, where a safety car thwarted possible victory, further underlined this. But he still feels Sainz’s Ferrari and the Red Bull of championship leader Max Verstappen are faster.
“Definitely at Silverstone there was potential to win the race, but with our current performance we’re not at exactly the same level as the two teams ahead,“ he said. “We needed everything to align (at Silverstone) so we didn’t need that safety car at the end. I think things all happen for a reason. I think it was Carlos’ weekend, it was written he’d get his first win.”
Sainz’s father is Carlos Sainz Sr. — a two-time rally champion with 26 race wins.
Now his son knows how it feels to join the winners’ circle, and he wants more.
“This win has given me more and more hunger to do it again as soon as possible, and to keep fighting for wins,” the 27-year-old Sainz said. “It’s very personal and it’s difficult to describe what goes inside someone’s head. I can just tell you that it feels great, that it has sunk in little by little.”
SCHUMACHER’S FIRST
Schumacher’s son — Mick Schumacher — also got a first taste of success last weekend.
Well, of sorts, since it was the first time the 23-year-old German scored points in F1 after starting 31 races.
His eighth-place finish earned him four points and he almost overtook Verstappen at the end. Four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel, a family friend, was cheering behind him in the final laps. Afterward, Schumacher’s sister interrupted her younger brother’s post-race interview and sprayed him with Champagne.
Schumacher said he’s been floating with “a nice and happy attitude“ since then.
Little wonder.
It was a performance he really needed, after two DNF’s in the three previous races led to some observers questioning his F1 future, and even more impressive considering he started from 19th.
“At the end it made those points so much sweeter,“ Schumacher said.
UNITED FERRARI?
Charles Leclerc left the British GP bitterly disappointed and struggling to contain his frustration.
He thought teammate Sainz had not moved aside quickly enough earlier in the race and later on, following a safety car, was baffled his team kept him out for track position rather than bring him in for faster tires.
Team principal Mattia Binotto even appeared to give him a talking to afterward, rather than consoling him.
It’s the second time this season Leclerc has been bemused by team calls, following the decision to pit him for new tires when he led in Monaco — the hardest track for overtaking — and ended up fourth at his home race.
Following a dinner with Binotto in Monaco this week, Leclerc insists there are no divisions within Ferrari.
“This is really untrue. And I wish I didn’t have to get (into this) because this is the exact question I’ve got everywhere else. We are extremely united,“ Leclerc said. “There’s some kind of disappointment, too. But there’s not any kind of division inside the team, that’s for sure.”
Leclerc does think Ferrari needed to improve “the communication throughout the race” after what happened at Silverstone and in Monaco.
Silverstone was exasperating for Leclerc because Verstappen dropped points by finishing seventh and Leclerc could have better closed the gap — rather than being 43 points behind heading into Austria.
Leclerc won two of the first three races of the season to pull clear of Verstappen but he’s now third overall. His last podium was second in Miami and since then he’s had two DNF’s, placed fourth twice and fifth once.
“The last five races have been quite hard on me,” Leclerc said. “I just wanted to stay home (after Silverstone), disconnect a bit from everything.”
SPRINT FOR POINTS
Austria is the second race this season featuring a sprint race, where the winner collects eight extra points. Verstappen overtook Leclerc to win it in Imola then won the race with a fastest lap bonus for a maximum of 34 points overall.
The starting order for the sprint race was decided by a qualifying session later Friday after the traditional first practice session led by Verstappen. The finishing order of sprint races then sets the grid for Sunday’s GP.
FIRST PRACTICE
Verstappen, who has won four times at the Red Bull ring in Spielberg, topped the charts ahead of Leclerc and Mercedes driver George Russell.
Zhou Guanyu, the only Chinese driver in F1, finished 18th for Alfa Romeo, days after emerging unscathed from a crash at Silverstone.
The hour-long practice was twice briefly red-flagged — first when McLaren driver Lando Norris pulled over then after some debris was removed from the track.
The race weekend is sold out with 300,000 fans attending over the three days at the circuit nestled among the rolling hills of Styria.
Zhou’s teammate Valtteri Bottas will start from the back on Sunday after going over an allocated number of engine-part changes.
BUDGETS AND BOUNCING
Team budget caps of $140 million will be increased by a maximum 3.1 percent in 2023 to allow teams to cope with rising inflation, F1 said following a commission meeting.
The 2021 cap of $145 million was reduced again to help smaller teams better compete.
Also, the application of technical directives aimed at further addressing bouncing issues has been moved from the July 22-24 French GP to the Aug. 26-28 Belgian GP, following the summer break. F1 said this gives teams more time to make “updates to plank and skid assemblies.”
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FERNDALE, Wash. (AP) — The Ferndale Police Department has identified and is searching for a man suspected of shooting and killing a Ferndale business owner Thursday afternoon.
Ferndale police are searching for 49-year-old Todd D. Andersen on suspicion of first-degree murder, according to a news release from the city of Ferndale. Andersen is believed to be driving a rented silver 2020 Dodge Charger with Oregon license plates, according to the release.
Andersen is suspected of shooting and killing 58-year-old Douglas Scoggins of Ferndale, the release states, according to the Bellingham Herald.
Ferndale police were called at 12:04 p.m. Thursday for the report of a shooting at a business on Portal Way, according to the release. Officers arrived to find Scoggins dead after being shot multiple times.
“The suspect is considered armed and dangerous,” the Ferndale release stated. “Members of the public who have information about Mr. Andersen’s whereabouts are encouraged to contact the Ferndale Police Department by calling 911. “This is an active homicide investigation and more details will be released as they become available to the public.” | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Ferndale-police-search-for-man-who-fatally-shot-17292159.php | 2022-07-08T13:59:27Z | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Ferndale-police-search-for-man-who-fatally-shot-17292159.php | true | 12 |
Sigma Planning Corp boosted its stake in Nutrien Ltd. (NYSE:NTR – Get Rating) by 28.7% during the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 4,640 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 1,035 shares during the quarter. Sigma Planning Corp’s holdings in Nutrien were worth $483,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in NTR. Norges Bank bought a new stake in shares of Nutrien in the fourth quarter worth about $381,038,000. Black Creek Investment Management Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of Nutrien during the 4th quarter worth approximately $381,254,000. Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd grew its holdings in shares of Nutrien by 61.7% in the fourth quarter. Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd now owns 4,563,128 shares of the company’s stock valued at $343,147,000 after purchasing an additional 1,741,558 shares in the last quarter. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale raised its stake in Nutrien by 407.9% during the fourth quarter. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale now owns 1,534,374 shares of the company’s stock valued at $115,784,000 after purchasing an additional 1,232,290 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Alberta Investment Management Corp lifted its position in Nutrien by 93.3% during the fourth quarter. Alberta Investment Management Corp now owns 1,874,204 shares of the company’s stock valued at $141,075,000 after purchasing an additional 904,521 shares during the last quarter. 64.39% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Several research analysts recently commented on NTR shares. Barclays set a $126.00 price target on Nutrien in a research report on Monday, June 13th. Scotiabank lowered Nutrien from a “sector outperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating in a report on Monday, March 28th. Raymond James lifted their price objective on shares of Nutrien from $105.00 to $125.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 4th. The Goldman Sachs Group increased their target price on shares of Nutrien from $85.00 to $121.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, March 16th. Finally, Morgan Stanley lifted their price target on shares of Nutrien from $75.00 to $100.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Thursday, March 17th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and fourteen have given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $110.06.
Nutrien (NYSE:NTR – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, May 2nd. The company reported $2.70 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.59 by $0.11. The firm had revenue of $7.66 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $7.77 billion. Nutrien had a return on equity of 20.55% and a net margin of 14.34%. Equities analysts anticipate that Nutrien Ltd. will post 16.93 earnings per share for the current year.
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, July 15th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 30th will be issued a $0.48 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, June 29th. This represents a $1.92 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.49%. Nutrien’s dividend payout ratio is currently 25.16%.
Nutrien Company Profile (Get Rating)
Nutrien Ltd. provides crop inputs and services. It offers potash, nitrogen, phosphate, and sulfate products; and financial solutions. The company also distributes crop nutrients, crop protection products, seeds, and merchandise products through approximately 2,000 retail locations in the United States, Canada, South America, and Australia.
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Even English-speaking visitors will have to learn some New Orleans yatspeak and slang to understand everything they hear in the city. I was constantly delighted by the new words and usage I heard during my month’s stay. Despite speaking “English,” between the various colorful dialects and the words I’d never heard before, I was constantly trying to figure out what I’d just heard and what did it mean?
I heard many words, sayings, and phrases in New Orleans that I had to look up, figure out or ask someone about. Most of these words derive from other languages, disciplines – like architecture- or cultural activities unique to New Orleans. You’ve likely heard of a few of them. I’m from the Midwest, so much of it was new to me, though we have unique words and phrases too. I laughed with one of my tour guides about it and she said “Yeah, it’s dat yatspeak. Ya get used to it doh.” Even the slang has slang.
BANQUETTE
A banquette is a sidewalk – if you’re lucky enough to have one – it’s the concrete strip between the house or business and the street. I had to ask what this was the first time someone said it to me. You might hear someone say, “I saw him this mornin’ walkin’ down the banquette.”
BAYOU
I learned this one during alligator hunting. Kidding! I wasn’t hunting; I was hiding. A bayou, while appearing swamp-like, is a slow-moving river. A swamp is just a piece of spongy land saturated with stagnant water. Cajuns hang out on the bayous. (see below)
BEADS
To people outside of the city, when referencing beads, we’re probably talking about jewelry making, but in New Orleans, they’re more likely talking about the many-colored plastic beaded necklaces commonly referred to as Mardi Gras beads.
BEIGNET
A beignet is a French doughnut covered in powdered sugar. You eat them by the dozen. Wait, maybe that’s just me. Pair with chicory coffee for an authentic New Orleans breakfast. Repeat daily.
BIG EASY
The big easy is a slang term for the city and its laid-back way of life that comes from survival, celebration and knowing how to have fun. That’s just life in the big easy.
CAJUN
It’s not just a spice. Cajuns are descended mainly from French Canadians from Acadia who settled in southern Louisiana in the bayou areas. Cajuns are a white subset of Creoles derived from African, French, Spanish and Native American peoples. My bayou boat captain was a Cajun.
CAMELBACK
We’re you thinking the opposite of a camel toe? No. It’s a shotgun house (see below) with a second-story addition only on the back. If you go on a Garden District tour, the guides will tell you all about the different house styles.
CARNIVAL
Not the weekend companies that pull into town and sell super expensive tickets for dubious mechanical rides. In New Orleans, it’s the party season weeks beginning in January (Twelfth Night) and leading up to Mardi Gras.
CHER
Pronounced like the famous singer, but not her. Cher is a term of endearment. You can use it for someone you love, or if you’re a service provider, anyone you’re providing service to. Same as “hon,” “sweetie,” and “dear.”
CREOLE
Also, not just a spice. They’re people of French, Spanish, and Caribbean origins.
CREOLE COTTAGE
A Creole Cottage is a typical New Orleans single-story house with French and Caribbean influences, making it both fancy and colorful.
CRESCENT CITY
I didn’t hear anyone call it this, but you’ll see it on the water caps and niknaks sold around town, nicknamed the Crescent City because the Mississippi River bends in a crescent shape as it passes through New Orleans Parish.
DOUBLOONS
Krewe maskers toss doubloon coins, stamped with the krewes logos, from parade floats. You can’t spend them, but people scramble for them anyway. Wait, I take that back. Since they’re popular collector items, you could sell them, so in theory, you can spend them.
DOUBLE PARLOR
We didn’t even have one parlor where I grew up, but in New Orleans, having two is so common they named a house after it. This is a big house with a big parlor that separates into two via pocket doors. Guys and gals, if ya please.
FAUBOURG
There are a lot of French words in New Orleans usage. Faubourg is a French word for a suburb outside the original city limits, such as Faubourg Marigny or Faubourg Tremé. I’ve studied French many times throughout my life. I’m still not any good.
FLEUR DE LIS
You may be familiar with the three-petal lily symbol seen adorning everything everywhere in the city, but did you know it’s called a fleur-de-lis? Literally “lily flower.” French royalty has used it to represent Catholic saints, purity, light and, surprise, it’s the badge of France.
GALLERY
If you’re not from New Orleans, you probably call those glorious cast-iron balconies “balconies,” but they’re galleries. You can only stand on a balcony, re: Juliet. But a gallery is a long, second-story outdoor walkway.
GO-CUP
A go-cup is what you ask for when you want to take your alcohol with you to leave the bar. This is why people love New Orleans. Just kidding, it’s only one reason.
GRIS-GRIS
A gris-gris (gree-gree) is a voodoo spell or amulet. Typically created by a voodoo priestess, they can be used for good luck or to send evil wishes to someone else. You’d call it “putting a gris-gris” on someone in the bad case. (So don’t piss me off ; )
KING CAKE
This oval ring cake is sort of like a cinnamon Danish but covered in purple, green and gold icing and sugar. A plastic baby is baked inside the cake (yep) and if you get the piece with the baby, you get to host the party the next year! Or at least buy the cake, something like that.
KREWE
A krewe, not unlike the famed hairband of yore, “Motley Crue,” is a social club that host a parade, parties, or other events. Actually, they have nothing to do with the hair band; it’s just they’re just the only other “krewe” I know. There are 70+ krewes in New Orleans and, thus, many parades and parties!
LAGNIAPPE
A lagniappe (lan-yap) is a Cajun-French-inspired word meaning “a little extra.” It’s usually something good and typically free, like pretzels with your beer.
LAISSEZ LES BON TEMPS ROULER
The phrase Laissez les bon temps rouler is all over the city. On flags, towels, t-shirts, shot glasses, and even public buildings. It’s the city motto, of sorts, if not actually. It’s a Cajun expression meaning “let the good times roll.”
LIVE OAK
As kids in Michigan, they taught us to identify an “oak leaf,” and I feel really cheated. They never mentioned the southern live oak. It’s an evergreen that always has comparatively tiny leaves. Plus, it grows long, wild branches that bend and bow over whatever the hell they want to. They’re spectacular.
MAKIN’ GROCERIES
In New Orleans, they don’t shop for groceries. They make them. The first time I heard it, I thought it was an error, the second time, I looked it up. Like most things in the big easy, it comes from French: “Faire son marché,” meaning to shop. But it got lost in translation and “faire” meaning “to do” or “to make,” and eventually, it broke down into makin’ groceries.
Speaking of groceries, there’s an entire lexicon on New Orleans food. What’s the difference between a gumbo, jambalaya, and a boil? Plenty. And about a million French food terms that you’ll have to go to culinary school to understand.
MASKER
You call a person on a float a masker. And they’re supposed to be anonymous and always keep their mask on. Like Jason Voorhees or Michael Meyers, but more friendly.
MUFFULETTA
In New Orleans, they love to call a sandwich anything except a sandwich. They get specific. A muffuletta (mu-fa-latta) is a round Italian sandwich with ham, salami, provolone cheese, and olive salad. It’s the size of a medium pizza.
NEUTRAL GROUND
To anyone not from New Orleans, it is a median. The area of grass or earth in between two streetcar lines or streets. Someone said it started on Canal Street and had to do with old, old-school land disputes during times around Lousiana Purchase (remember learning about that?) Now, people like to jog there.
NOLA OR N’AWLINS
Said quickly like a name, “Nola” is abbreviated for New Orleans, Louisiana. If you’re in a hurry and saying New Orleans or typing it repeatedly is too much work, “N’awlins” also works.
PARISH
In other places, a parish is called a county. Louisiana has parishes because of its French and Spanish history. Parish comes from the French word “paroisse.”
PICAYUNE
Seeing and hearing are two different things. Picayune (Pic-ee-yoon) is something small. Also used to describe someone as being nit-picky. I learned how to pronounce it when I heard a woman say, “It’s a picayune, but it bothas me.”
PO’ BOYS
It’s a sandwich, in this case, a long one. You might call it a sub with good bread. Yum, bread. When you order one “dressed,” you want mayonnaise (mynez), lettuce, pickles and tomatoes on top. If you prefer plain, you’ll have nuttinonit.
PORTICO
A portico is a porch, though architecturally speaking, it’s a covered porch. However, I even heard it used to describe the seating area outside of a business, “They’re tables out on the portico near the banquette.”
PRALINE
This one got me because I have always called it a “pray-line,” but in New Orleans, they called it a “praw-leen,” and I didn’t know what they were talking about until I saw it. It’s brown sugar and pecan candy patty. De-lish-ous.
SHOTGUN
No, not a gun, it’s a house. It’s a long, narrow house like a trailer, but they’re lovely and often feature old wood and charming Victorian embellishments.
SECOND LINE
The second line is the group of people that follow behind the main part of the parade – which is the first line. Sometimes the parades are so fun that people can’t help but join in off the streets.
SNOWBALL
In Michigan, we threw them. In New Orleans, they eat them. It’s finely shaved ice with flavored syrup. It’s the closest they’ll ever get to the real thing in the balmy south. Where I come from, it’s not a good thing when one’s brother makes you eat a snowball, but here. Yum.
STREETCARS
I’m from the Motor City, so to me, a “street car” is for racing. In New Orleans, a “streetcar” is a vintage form of train transportation that is affordable, reliable, and environmentally friendly. Who would have thought 200-year-old transit could be so smart? Someone tell Ford and Telsa.
THROW
Anything tossed or handed to you from a Mardi Gras parade float is a throw. It could be beads, doubloons, plastic cups, or other trinkets.
THROW ME SOMETHING, MISTA!
This is a popular phrase you’ll hear a lot during Carnival and Mardi Gras parades from people begging in the streets for throws. I ain’t too proud.
VIEUX CARRÉ
Some people and maps use Vieux Carré, which is French for “old square,” which is confusing because you probably know the area they’re referencing as the French Quarter.
WARD
Sometimes people will tell you what “ward” a place is located. Huh? Wards are the 17 areas within New Orleans’ Parish.
WHERE Y’AT?
As a Detroiter, I was familiar with this one, but in New Orleans, they say it less literally – not just asking “where are you” but also “how are you?” They might ask it while you’re standing right in front of them. I had a tour guide ask me “Where y’at” when she greeted me, so I looked for the street sign to tell her. This is also where the phrase “yatspeak” comes.
WHO DAT?
Said and heard a lot so it’s worth mentioning. If you’re an American football fan, you probably know it’s a chant for New Orleans Saints fans: “Who dat? Who dat? Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?” I learned this from my ma, who was a huge football fan.
Y’ALL
A shorter, better way to say “you all” which you hear around all parts of the south. But ya’ll really do need ta get down to N’awlins because you’re gonna love it.
There are at least a dozen more odd pronunciations, words, vernacular, terms and phrases, especially about food, places and conversation, but I think you get my point. In New Orleans, yatspeak is real, slang rules, and talking is just as colorful as everything else.
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MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — The U.S. women’s national team qualified for the 2023 World Cup on Thursday night at the CONCACAF W Championship.
The United States defeated Jamaica 5-0 at Estadio BBVA but had to wait until Haiti downed Mexico 3-0 in the late game to secure a spot in next summer’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
With two victories at the W Championship, the United States was atop its group and became the first team to win one of the region’s four World Cup berths up for grabs. The U.S. women have qualified for every World Cup, winning the last two tournaments and four overall.
Sophia Smith had two goals for the United States in the opening eight minutes against the Reggae Girlz.
Rose Lavelle scored in the 59th minute and Kristie Mewis added a goal in the 83rd. Some three minutes later Trinity Rodman, daughter for former NBA player Dennis Rodman, scored her second international goal.
“Obviously, being a young player on this team, it can be a little bit intimidating, but I think I’ve found my confidence and I’ve just felt I can be myself on the field,” said Smith, who has eight international goals. “That’s just what I’ve been doing and my team has been super supportive of that.”
Megan Rapinoe was not available for the match because she was at the White House on Thursday to receive the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
“We didn’t play well,” Jamaica coach Lorne Donaldson said. “You’re not going to play the world’s champ and play that bad and expect anything to come out of the game. We weren’t good.”
Roselord Borgella and Nerilia Mondesir converted penalty kicks and Sherly Jeudy added a goal for Haiti in the victory over Mexico, stunning the tournament hosts.
The Americans will face Mexico and the Reggae Girlz will play Haiti in their final group matches on Monday. Haiti could clinch its first World Cup berth with a tie or win over Jamaica.
Eight teams were playing in the W Championship, divided into two groups. The top two teams in each group qualify for the World Cup. The two third-place teams will advance to an intercontinental playoff in New Zealand in February.
The winner of the W Championship will also qualify for the 2024 Olympics.
Canada, Costa Rica, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago are in the other group.
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From the four and a half years he spent at the head of the ECOWAS Commission, Jean-Claude Brou, who left his post at the end of June, would like to be remembered above all for his economic achievements. “The political crises are more visible and unfortunately tend to overshadow the great work done by all the teams,” he explains. And the 69-year-old Ivorian, a former industry minister, lists the projects he believes he has successfully completed.
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– Preliminary results of second cohort in the first-in-human Phase 1a allow Company to proceed to 32 mg/kg dose of WP1122 in third cohort toward establishing maximum tolerated dose (MTD) –
– Multiple ascending dose (MAD) cohort to commence after completion of at least 3 successful SAD dosing cohorts –
HOUSTON, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Moleculin Biotech, Inc., (Nasdaq: MBRX) ("Moleculin" or the "Company"), a clinical stage pharmaceutical company with a broad portfolio of drug candidates targeting highly resistant tumors and viruses, today reported preliminary results from the second cohort of the Company's first-in-human Phase 1a study of WP1122. This cohort consisted of 8 subjects dosed with 16 mg/kg or placebo in the dose escalation trial evaluating the safety and pharmacokinetics (PK) of WP1122 in healthy volunteers in the United Kingdom (UK). Based on the overall results in Cohort 2, the Company deemed the cohort dose safe and well-tolerated and began its SAD Cohort 3 with a dose escalation to 32 mg/kg.
The Phase 1a, first-in-human, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, overlapping SAD and MAD is investigating the effects of WP1122 administered as an oral solution in healthy human volunteers. It is the first step in a planned investigation of WP1122 for the treatment of COVID-19. Dose escalation will take place in sequential SAD cohorts, and MAD will start as soon as SAD has successfully completed at least 3 dosing cohorts. This study in healthy volunteers will explore safety and PK, and subsequent antiviral clinical development is expected to be in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 to further evaluate safety and establish a favorable risk/benefit profile. The Company expects to enroll approximately 80 subjects in this trial.
Walter Klemp, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Moleculin commented, "We continue to be encouraged by the safety data demonstrated by WP1122 in the SAD portion of our first-in-human Phase 1a study of WP1122. With two of the SAD cohorts now completed with promising preliminary results, we are working to enroll and complete Cohort 3 at 32 mg/kg in order to proceed to the MAD phase of the trial toward establishing a maximum tolerated dose. To date, WP1122 has demonstrated no dose escalating stopping criteria, and we look forward to taking the next step in studying the potential of WP1122 for the treatment of certain viral diseases, including COVID-19, and cancers."
During the SAD portion of this study, dose escalation will proceed up to a maximum dose of 64 mg/kg as a single dose. Dosing of WP1122 began in SAD at 8 mg/kg as a single dose and has escalated in two-fold increments (i.e., to 16 and now to 32 mg/kg as single doses, etc.) in subsequent cohorts. Dosing of WP1122 in the MAD cohorts will start after a dose of 32 mg/kg has been shown to be safe in the single dose cohort. The first dose administered in MAD will be 16 mg/kg every 12 hours (32 mg/kg/day) for 7 days and dosing in the second MAD cohort will escalate to 32 mg/kg every 12 hours (64 mg/kg/day) for 7 days.
For more information about the study, please visit clinicaltrials.gov and reference identifier NCT05195723. Moleculin is also in the process of identifying additional countries where potential future Phase 2 COVID-19 clinical studies could occur.
WP1122 was developed as a 2-DG prodrug to provide a more favorable pharmacological profile and was found to have greater potency than 2-DG alone in preclinical models where tumor cells require higher glycolytic activity than normal cells. WP1122 has also been shown to have a greater antiviral effect than 2-DG against SARS-CoV-2 in MRC-5 cells in culture. The improved pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) profile of WP1122 compared to 2-DG was noted in female mice following oral dosing at equimolar (i.e., equivalent levels of 2-DG) doses.
While the Company is in the process of identifying additional countries where potential future Phase 2 COVID-19 clinical studies might occur, the volatility and unpredictability of COVID-19 incidence in various countries may limit the ability to recruit certain subjects and could make it infeasible to conduct a Phase 2 clinical trial in a given country. Additionally, Moleculin recently received IND clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a Phase 1 study of WP1122 for the treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM). The Company is seeking collaborators with the intent to commence clinical trials of WP1122 in cancer indications including GBM, pancreatic cancer and others.
Moleculin Biotech, Inc. is a clinical stage pharmaceutical company focused on the development of a broad portfolio of drug candidates for the treatment of highly resistant tumors and viruses. The Company's lead program, Annamycin, is a next-generation anthracycline designed to avoid multidrug resistance mechanisms with little to no cardiotoxicity. Annamycin is currently in development for the treatment of relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and soft tissue sarcoma (STS) lung metastases.
Additionally, the Company is developing WP1066, an Immune/Transcription Modulator designed to be capable of inhibiting p-STAT3 and other oncogenic transcription factors while also stimulating a natural immune response, targeting brain tumors, pancreatic and other cancers; and WP1220, an analog to WP1066, for the topical treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Moleculin is also engaged in the development of a portfolio of antimetabolites, including WP1122, for the potential treatment of COVID-19 and other viruses, as well as cancer indications including brain tumors, pancreatic and other cancers.
For more information about the Company, please visit www.moleculin.com and connect on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Some of the statements in this release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, without limitation, whether the results of Moleculin's preclinical models can be replicated in human trials, Moleculin's ability to conduct a potential future Phase 2 COVID-19 clinical study, Moleculin's ability to identify and attract collaborators for additional clinical trials of WP1122, and the ability for WP1122 to be shown safe and effective in humans. Although Moleculin believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date made, expectations may prove to have been materially different from the results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Moleculin has attempted to identify forward-looking statements by terminology including 'believes,' 'estimates,' 'anticipates,' 'expects,' 'plans,' 'projects,' 'intends,' 'potential,' 'may,' 'could,' 'might,' 'will,' 'should,' 'approximately' or other words that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking statements. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, including those discussed under Item 1A. "Risk Factors" in our most recently filed Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and updated from time to time in our Form 10-Q filings and in our other public filings with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements contained in this release speak only as of its date. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release to reflect events or circumstances occurring after its date or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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Jenene Thomas
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Should First Trust Mid Cap Core AlphaDEX ETF (FNX) Be on Your Investing Radar?
Designed to provide broad exposure to the Mid Cap Blend segment of the US equity market, the First Trust Mid Cap Core AlphaDEX ETF (FNX) is a passively managed exchange traded fund launched on 05/08/2007.
The fund is sponsored by First Trust Advisors. It has amassed assets over $904.24 million, making it one of the average sized ETFs attempting to match the Mid Cap Blend segment of the US equity market.
Why Mid Cap Blend
Mid cap companies have market capitalization between $2 billion and $10 billion. They usually have higher growth prospects than large cap companies and are less volatile than small cap companies. These types of companies, then, have a good balance of stability and growth potential.
Blend ETFs usually hold a mix of growth and value stocks as well as stocks that exhibit both value and growth characteristics.
Costs
Cost is an important factor in selecting the right ETF, and cheaper funds can significantly outperform their more expensive counterparts if all other fundamentals are the same.
Annual operating expenses for this ETF are 0.59%, making it one of the more expensive products in the space.
It has a 12-month trailing dividend yield of 1.33%.
Sector Exposure and Top Holdings
ETFs offer a diversified exposure and thus minimize single stock risk but it is still important to delve into a fund's holdings before investing. Most ETFs are very transparent products and many disclose their holdings on a daily basis.
This ETF has heaviest allocation to the Financials sector--about 21.20% of the portfolio. Industrials and Consumer Discretionary round out the top three.
Looking at individual holdings, The Mosaic Company (MOS) accounts for about 0.60% of total assets, followed by Apa Corporation (APA) and Antero Resources Corporation (AR).
The top 10 holdings account for about 5.38% of total assets under management.
Performance and Risk
FNX seeks to match the performance of the Nasdaq AlphaDEX Mid Cap Core Index before fees and expenses. The NASDAQ AlphaDEX Mid Cap Core Index is an enhanced index which employs the AlphaDEX stock selection methodology to select stocks from the NASDAQ US 600 Mid Cap Index.
The ETF has lost about -16.57% so far this year and is down about -11.96% in the last one year (as of 07/08/2022). In the past 52-week period, it has traded between $82.08 and $107.11.
The ETF has a beta of 1.21 and standard deviation of 29.26% for the trailing three-year period, making it a medium risk choice in the space. With about 451 holdings, it effectively diversifies company-specific risk.
Alternatives
First Trust Mid Cap Core AlphaDEX ETF carries a Zacks ETF Rank of 3 (Hold), which is based on expected asset class return, expense ratio, and momentum, among other factors. Thus, FNX is a good option for those seeking exposure to the Style Box - Mid Cap Blend area of the market. Investors might also want to consider some other ETF options in the space.
The Vanguard MidCap ETF (VO) and the iShares Core S&P MidCap ETF (IJH) track a similar index. While Vanguard MidCap ETF has $47.77 billion in assets, iShares Core S&P MidCap ETF has $57.52 billion. VO has an expense ratio of 0.04% and IJH charges 0.05%.
Bottom-Line
While an excellent vehicle for long term investors, passively managed ETFs are a popular choice among institutional and retail investors due to their low costs, transparency, flexibility, and tax efficiency.
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Sartori takes home a gold medal for Tennessee Whiskey BellaVitano®.
PLYMOUTH, Wis., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Team Sartori's Tennessee Whiskey BellaVitano took home Gold at the International Cheese & Dairy Awards in the "Cheese with Alcohol" category. In addition, Sartori's SarVecchio® Parmesan was awarded Silver in the "Cheese with Health Benefits" category.
"We've been excited about Tennessee Whiskey from the first wheel of BellaVitano we soaked," said Erin Radtke, Master Cheesemaker Apprentice at Sartori Cheese. "The team has worked very hard since our first batch to develop a product worthy of an award like this. It's rewarding to see that hard work pay off."
The International Cheese & Dairy Awards is the world's largest cheese and dairy contest with over 5,500 entries every year. According to the ICDA, "Winning one of these prestigious awards means being part of an elite group and 125-year-old tradition of the very best in class."
Information on where to buy Tennessee Whiskey BellaVitano and other world award-winning Sartori cheese can be found at www.sartoricheese.com.
Sartori, a fourth-generation family-owned company, has proudly produced award-winning, artisan cheese for customers worldwide since 1939. Rooted in Plymouth, Wisconsin, Sartori's emphasis on a high-quality and handcrafted approach to cheesemaking is a timeless family tradition. For more information, please www.sartoricheese.com or email press@sartoricheese.com.
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HARTFORD, Conn., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtus Convertible & Income Fund II (NYSE: NCZ), a closed-end fund, announced today that it will begin to process its monthly distribution of $0.0375 per common share, which was previously scheduled to be paid on July 1 to shareholders of record as of June 13, 2022.
In addition, the Fund's Board has declared the monthly distribution of $0.0375 per common share for payment on August 1 to shareholders of record as of July 11, 2022 (ex-dividend date of July 8, 2022).
About the Fund
Virtus Convertible & Income Fund II has an investment objective to provide total return through a combination of capital appreciation and high current income. Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. is the investment adviser of the fund and Allianz Global Investors manages the fund in a subadvisory capacity. For more information, contact shareholder services at 866-270-7788, by email at closedendfunds@virtus.com, or through the closed-end fund section of virtus.com.
Fund Risks
An investment in a fund is subject to risk, including the risk of possible loss of principal. A fund's shares may be worth less upon their sale than what an investor paid for them. Shares of closed-end funds may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value. For more information about each fund's investment objective and risks, please see the fund's annual report. A copy of the fund's most recent annual report may be obtained free of charge by contacting "Shareholder Services" as set forth at the end of this press release.
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– Company Secures Top Awards for Kentucky and Ohio –
WHEELING, W.Va., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WesBanco, Inc. (Nasdaq: WSBC), a diversified, multi-state bank holding company, announces, for the fourth year, that its affiliate, WesBanco Bank, Inc., has been named to the Best-In-State Banks List by Forbes. This ranking was based on customer satisfaction and feedback, and WesBanco received strong scores across the survey, including high scores for 'trust', 'branch services', 'terms and conditions', 'customer service', 'digital services', and 'financial advice'. WesBanco was ranked the #1 bank in Ohio and the #2 bank in Kentucky.
"WesBanco is honored to have been named one of the top banks in the states of Kentucky and Ohio," said Todd F. Clossin, WesBanco President and Chief Executive Officer. "This follows our also being recognized by Forbes as the only midsize bank ranked in the top ten of both America's Best Banks for our strong financial performance and Best Midsize Employers for our employee focus. WesBanco was also ranked as one of the World's Best Banks based on customer satisfaction by Forbes. These top rankings are a strong testament to the outstanding efforts and dedication of our employees. We are honored to be recognized by our customers for our trust and service."
Mr. Clossin continued, "WesBanco prides itself on delivering large bank capabilities with a community bank feel. Our customer-centric service culture is focused on building long-term customer relationships by pledging to serve our customers' personal financial needs and help grow their businesses. WesBanco is focused on delivering long-term, sustainable growth through solid execution upon our distinct strategies, including the opening of loan production offices in major markets adjacent to our footprint and investing in innovative digital technology to make banking easier."
WesBanco's financial services include business and personal transaction account options; competitive business and personal lending services; a full range of online and mobile banking options; a full suite of commercial banking products and services; and trust, wealth management, securities brokerage, and private banking services through our century-old Trust and Investment Services department.
The Best-In-State Banks list is based on an independent survey of approximately 26,000 U.S. consumers who were asked to rate banks at which they have, or previously had, checking accounts. Participants made recommendations regarding overall satisfaction; they also assessed banks in the following areas: Trust, Terms & Conditions, Branch Services, Digital Services, Customer Service, and Financial Advice. Across all states, just 133 banks were recognized, representing less than 3% of all U.S. banks. The awards list can be viewed on the Forbes website.
About WesBanco, Inc.
Founded in 1870, WesBanco, Inc. (www.wesbanco.com) is a diversified and balanced financial services company that delivers large bank capabilities with a community bank feel. Our distinct long-term growth strategies are built upon unique sustainable advantages permitting us to span six states with meaningful market share. Built upon our 'Better Banking Pledge', our customer-centric service culture is focused on growing long-term relationships by pledging to serve all personal and business customer needs efficiently and effectively. Furthermore, our strong financial performance and employee focus has earned us recognition by Forbes as both one of America's Best Banks and Best Midsize Employers – the only midsize bank making the top ten of both rankings. In addition to a full range of online and mobile banking options and a full-suite of commercial products and services, WesBanco provides trust, wealth management, securities brokerage, and private banking services through our century-old Trust and Investment Services department, with approximately $5.4 billion of assets under management (as of March 31, 2022). WesBanco's banking subsidiary, WesBanco Bank, Inc., operates 205 financial centers in the states of Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Additionally, WesBanco operates an insurance agency, WesBanco Insurance Services, Inc., and a full service broker/dealer, WesBanco Securities, Inc.
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Resolute Forest Products, Inc. (NYSE:RFP) Q4 2018 Results Earnings Conference Call January 31, 2019 9:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Silvana Travaglini - Treasurer, and Vice President, Investor Relations
Yves Laflamme - President and Chief Executive Officer
Remi Lalonde - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Paul Quinn - RBC Capital Markets
Hamir Patel - CIBC Capital
Sean Steuart - TD Securities
Operator
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Resolute Forest Products Fourth Quarter 2018 Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the presentation we will conduct a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this call is being recorded today January 31st, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
I would now like to turn the meeting over to, Ms. Silvana Travaglini, Treasurer and Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Silvana Travaglini
Good morning. Welcome to Resolute's Fourth Quarter Earnings Call. Today, we'll hear from Yves Laflamme, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Remi Lalonde, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
You can follow along with the slides for today's presentation by logging onto the webcast using the link in the Presentation and Webcast page under the Investor Relations section of our website or you can also download the slides.
Today's presentation will include certain non-U.S. GAAP financial information. A reconciliation of those non-GAAP numbers to US GAAP financial measures is included in our press release and in the appendix to the slides. We will also make forward-looking statements. Forward looking information is based on our current assumptions, beliefs and expectations, all of which involve a number of business risks and uncertainties and can change as conditions do. Please review cautionary statements in our press release in the slide two of today's presentation.
I would now turn the call over to Yves.
Yves Laflamme
Good morning. Thank you for joining us today. We generated $105 million of EBITDA in the fourth quarter, down from $189 million in the third quarter. While prices continued to be strong for market pulp and paper grades, the effect was more than offset by the $110 per thousand board feet drop in lumber prices, as well as production restrictions, plant maintenance, seasonally higher energy expenses and higher wood costs, due to extremely wet weather mainly in the US Southeast.
By segment, we reported quarterly adjusted EBITDA of $46 million in Market Pulp, down $18 million; Tissue was unchanged at minus $5 million; Wood Products generated $1 million, down $52 million; Newsprint $45 million, down $3 million; and $28 million in Specialty Papers, a decrease of $10 million against the previous quarter.
For the year, our adjusted EBITDA rose by $210 million to $574 million. With the positive pricing momentum for pulp and paper grades, as well as for lumber during the first half of the year, we generated $435 million of cash from operations, a year-over-year increase of over $275 million.
In the fourth quarter, we completed the sale of our Catawba and Fairmont facilities for over $360 million, maximizing the value generation of these assets. Without Catawba, we estimate that EBITDA would have been about $35 million lower in 2018, but the transaction allowed us to achieve attractive valuation for conversion-ready assets. With the Fairmont divestiture, we can optimize recycled pulp production at our Menominee Mill and improve our overall profitability.
The asset sales and our solid operating results enabled us to return $136 million to shareholders through a special dividend and further reduced our leverage by $225 million shortly after year-end.
With the strong balance sheet, we are well positioned to fuel growth in our business. Let's review our individual segments, starting with Market Pulp. World shipments of chemical pulp grew 1% in 2018 compared to the prior year.
Shipments to China were up 2% for the year, but were down 11% in the fourth quarter when compared to the third quarter. Western Europe shipments were also up 2% for the year, while shipments to North America fell by 5%.
Softwood pulp shipments were 3% lower during the same period, while world shipments of hardwood rose 4%. Softwood mills ran at 88% shipments-to-capacity ratio and hardwood mills were at 89%, largely reflecting industry production disruptions, as well as recent softening in Chinese buying activity.
Pulp markets remained strong in the fourth quarter leading to further reported price increases in October and November across all our pulp grades. Our realized price rose to $809 per metric ton in the quarter, up $123 year-over-year.
Shipments were lower, however, largely due to scheduled maintenance downtime at Coosa Pines soft pulp mill and our Thunder Bay kraft mill and the reduction in recycled pulp capacity following the sales of the Fairmont facility.
Our production was also negatively impacted by wood shortages in Calhoun due to extremely wet weather, as well as recovery bar of [ph] issue at the same mill. Weather-related fiber shortages continued to be a headwind going into the first quarter.
Total tissue consumption in the US grew by 2.7% through November compared to the same period last year. Converted product shipments increased 2.1%, led by away-from-home sales of 3.3%, while at-home improved 1.5%. Our sales growth has been on target this year, reflecting a refocus on our market entry and growing Resolute Tissue brand awareness in the marketplace.
While the ramp up with our Calhoun Tissue project has not been as rapid as we had originally expected, we have been significant in encouraging [ph] progress in the fourth to improve quality and productivity. We therefore expect Calhoun Tissue to become profitable in the first half of 2019.
Housing starts in US were 5% higher on a seasonally adjusted basis through November compared to 2017, averaging 1,264,000 units, which reflects an 8% increase in multi-family starts and a 3% decrease in single-family starts.
But in the quarter lumber prices dropped to multi-year lows. Our average transaction price fell to $347 per thousand board feet, its lowest level in two years, essentially reducing our EBITDA to breakeven.
Given challenging market conditions, combined with extremely wet weather affecting transportation and log cost, we temporarily curtailed 10% of our production capacity during the quarter. Despite the lower production, sales volume improved slightly compared to the previous quarter.
North American newsprint demand fell by 11% in 2018 compared to last year, reflecting a 14% drop in demand from newspaper publishers and a 7% reduction from commercial printers. The North American shipments-to-capacity ratio remained strong at 94% unchanged from 2017.
Global demand for newsprint was down 8% through November compared to the same period last year, with Western Europe down 11%, North America 9% and Asia 8%. The world newsprint shipment-to-capacity ratio was 90%.
Out sales continue to increase in the quarter, with realized pricing reaching $634 per metric ton. Shipments were seasonally higher and also reflected higher international sales, largely timing related.
North American demand for uncoated mechanical paper was down 6% in 2018 compared to the prior year. Lower demand for standard grades drove this decline, decreasing 9%, while the demand for supercalendered grades was down only 1%. Compared to 2017, the shipment-to-capacity ratio improved from 90% to 92%.
Coated mechanical demand was down 8% in 2018 compared to the prior year. The industry shipment-to-capacity ratio was 95%, unchanged from 2017. With the sale of Catawba, we have exited coated mechanical grades.
Our average transaction price rose by $19 per short ton compared to the previous quarter, supported by the continued implementation of previously announced price increases across all grades and a further price increase announced for supercalendered papers in the quarter. Shipment remains relatively unchanged as higher seasonal demand for supercalendered paper was offset by production downtime largely at our Catawba mill.
As we look at the whole year, I am proud to report that, in 2018, not only did we deliver strong financial performance, but our employees also improved on our excellent 2017 safety performance by achieving a world-class OSHA incident rate of 0.46.
We also managed to reduce environmental incidence by a further 10% in addition to the significant reduction in 2017. In 2018, our overall business and sustainability leadership has received significant recognition with over 35 awards and distinction on a regional, North American and global business.
I will now have Remi discuss our financial performance, before I conclude with our priorities and outlook for 2019.
Remi Lalonde
Thank you, Yves, and good morning everyone. Today we reported net income of $4 million in the fourth quarter or $0.04 per share, excluding special items. This compares to net income of $14 million or $0.15 per share in the fourth quarter of 2017 and $96 million, or $1.03 per share in the third quarter.
Special items in the fourth quarter include, non-operating pension and OPEB credits of $12 million, gains on the sale of Catawba and Fairmont facilities for $141 million,; and non-cash impairment charge of $120 million against the goodwill and long lived assets originally recorded with the 2015 acquisition of Atlas Paper Holdings.
Despite helping to pave our entry into the tissue business and making significant safety and operational improvements, this acquisition has not lived up to our expectations.
Our total sales in the fourth quarter were $932 million, down by $42 million from the third quarter. While we realized higher prices in the pulp and paper segment, the real story was the $110 per thousand board feet or $49 million drop in lumber prices. Overall volume was also lower as a result of a 25,000 metric ton drop in pulp shipments.
After removing the effects of volume and foreign exchange, manufacturing costs increased by $45 million from the third quarter, including higher costs associated with scheduled outages and production disruptions, including a turbine failure in Thunder Bay, and the recovery boiler outage in Calhoun, seasonal increase in energy pricing and consumption aggravated by the national gas distribution interruption in Calhoun, and higher wood costs in US Southeast due to weather-related fiber shortages.
Compared to the third quarter, market pulps all-in cash cost increased by $64 to $673 per metric ton, largely due to scheduled outages, production disruptions, as well as higher weather-related wood costs and an increase in energy cost.
Pricing in this segment rose by $25 per metric ton, but the impact was not enough to make up for the higher costs, driving EBITDA down by $18 million to $46 million or $136 per metric ton.
Cash costs in our tissue segment were unchanged and elevated as we continue with the ramp up of Calhoun. EBITDA was unchanged at minus $5 million in the quarter.
In wood products, the cash costs increased by $9 per thousand board feet to $346, reflecting higher maintenance and log costs, combined with the 24% drop in pricing, EBITDA dropped by $52 million to $1 million this quarter.
Newsprints cash costs increased by $19 per metric ton to $518 in the quarter, largely due to the lower contribution from Thunder Bay co-generation assets following a turbine failure.
Despite the 6% rise in sales, EBITDA declined slightly from $48 million to $45 million or $116 per metric ton. The cash costs in specialty papers rose by $57 per short ton to $661.
Higher costs due to operational disruptions, the annual maintenance of the Dolbeau co-generation assets, as well as higher wood and energy costs more than outweighed the $19 per short ton price increase in the quarter. EBITDA decreased to $28 million or $95 per short ton compared to $38 million in the previous quarter.
With our asset-based optimization over the years, we were able to deliver a strong performance in 2018, including generating $435 million of cash from operations in the year, and $84 million in the quarter. This helped to pave the way to return $136 million to shareholders with a special dividend in December.
Together with the $334 million of proceeds from asset sales in the quarter, our year-end cash position rose to $304 million. With liquidity improving to $821 million at year-end, we elected to repurchase $225 million of our senior notes, which we were able to execute at par. Accordingly, our net debt-to-EBITDA improved to 0. 6 times.
We spent $61 million in capital expenditures in the quarter, $20 million more than in the previous quarter. At $155 million for the year, we came in slightly above the 2018 target of $150 million.
For 2019 we expect to invest $160 million in capital expenditures, including the next phase in our organic capacity growth project at Saint-Felicien, and a number of investments to improve productivity and yields at our sawmills.
For the quarter, we paid $15, 1-5, million in softwood lumber duty deposits. We now have $103 million recorded on the balance sheet. For SC paper we have received substantially all of the $61 million cash deposits, including $35 million in the fourth quarter. For the uncoated groundwood case, we expect the $6 million of cash deposits to be refunded with interest.
We contributed $27 million to pension plans in the quarter, with an expense of $10 million included in adjusted EBITDA. For the year, consistent with our guidance we made $121 million of pension contributions and $30 million of OPEB payments with an associated expense of $40 million in adjusted EBITDA.
In December, we elected to exit the special funding relief regulations in Ontario. As such, beginning on January 1st, 2019, our Ontario pension plans are subject to the Ontario Pension Benefits Act, which provides for funding pension deficits on a going concern basis rather than on a solvency basis.
This essentially puts us in the same position as with our Quebec plan, where we exited from funding relief in December 2016. Considering the improved position of the Ontario plans, we are not required to make contributions in 2019, thus reducing our annual contribution by CAD9 million.
Accordingly, we expect to make total pension contribution of $100 million and OPEB payments of $15 million in 2019, with an associated expense of $30 million in adjusted EBITDA. This represents a decrease of $60 million in annual pension contributions compared to the 2016 baseline.
Despite an increase in the applicable discount rate, the net pension and OPEB liability on our balance sheet increased by $182 million in the quarter to $1.3 billion. This largely reflects the negative equity market returns late in the year. Based on applicable funding regulations, our funding deficit stands at $586 million at the end of 2018, more than $530 million lower than the net accounting liability.
I will now turn it back to Yves for concluding remarks.
Yves Laflamme
Thank you, Remi. Our key business priorities in 2019 are as follows, first, build on the late year momentum with the Calhoun Tissue operation to increase productivity and enhance product quality, second, improve operational efficiencies and limit production disruptions across our network to maximize the value generation from our existing assets, reduce costs and further strengthen our competitiveness, third, focus on acquisitions and organic opportunities to further our business transforming strategy, finally, we will continue to build on our world-class safety performance for our thousands of employees and support work force attraction and retention.
Following a year of positive market trends across most of our business segments, we enter 2019 with cautious optimism. Despite weaker lumber markets, favorable economic conditions and the recent production curtailments give us reason to believe that markets will gradually improve in 2019. Accordingly, our long-term view for lumber is unchanged. We believe in the underlying fundamentals and growth prospects for this market.
Even with the recent softening in Chinese buying activity, we expect the fundamentals for market pulp to remain positive given the limited capacity addition over the medium term.
In 2019, pulp maintenance outages are scheduled at three of our mills, which will decrease our pulp production by approximately 25,000 metric tons. Given lower seasonal demand, as well as the continued structural decline, we expect lower paper shipments in the first quarter.
For tissue, we are very focused on improving productivity and quality at Calhoun as indicated earlier, as well as continuing to build our market presence with our attractive range of products. We are targeting positive earnings generation in the first half of 2019 and we remain optimistic about the long-term growth prospects for our tissue business.
Capitalizing on favorable market trends and value-added divestitures, we are entering 2019 with a strong balance sheet which provide us with significant financial flexibility and positions us with well for future growth opportunities.
We also announced today the appointment of Suzanne Blanchet to serve on Resolute's Board of Directors. Madam Blanchet has spent over 30 years with Cascades, including as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development from 2014 to 2017.
From 1997 to 2014, she was President and Chief Executive Officer of Cascades Tissue Group and the only female President in Canada's paper industry. On behalf of Resolute's Board of Directors and executive team, I would like to formally welcome Suzanne to our organization. We are very pleased she has joined the Board and we look forward to benefiting from her experience and expertise.
Silvana Travaglini
This concludes our formal presentation. Operator, we will now open the call for questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] And your first question comes from the line of Paul Quinn from RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Paul Quinn
Yeah. Thanks very much. Good morning, gentlemen.
Yves Laflamme
Good morning.
Remi Lalonde
Hey, Paul
Paul Quinn
Hey. So I'm a little confused on the tissue segment, just in your commentary you've got, sales growth is on target and then you're highlighting that you've made significant progress in Q4 on quality and productivity. So EBITDA is flat, but is that basically mean that pricing realizations have come down to balance the positives with the negative or the flat EBITDA?
Yves Laflamme
I think that we, Paul, we made significant improvement on operation, mostly in the last month of the quarter, so we see - on quietly we're talking about the tissue machine and the caliper side, at least more pointed converting. This is why we haven't seen the benefit of that right now. So we are testing with new products, we have some productivity testing. I would say that lowered the volume somehow in production. And also for the Florida tissue, so pulp cost was also higher, which is why we don't see the impact right now. So we're expecting better results in the next quarter.
Paul Quinn
Okay. And then maybe you could just spend a minute on the quality, especially at the new machine, just because it's new technology there. Are you able to do the super premium or what type of grade output are you achieving at the facility?
Yves Laflamme
Yes. So the FDC machine in Calhoun, we're definitely progressing in the right direction. I think that's the best tissue, we are really where we should be. We're still - I think on the premium side on the towel, we're getting there, so - but not really where we'd like to be. But we can compete with pretty good quality on the towel as well.
So - but, yes, we think we're where we want to be, and this is part of the improvement we're talking about. We've worked very hard over the quarter with suppliers of the tissue machine and when I'm talking about the caliper, this is exactly what I'm saying, now we're meeting exactly at least on the back and close to the towel the quality we wanted to meet.
Paul Quinn
Okay. And then, just switching over to lumber segment, I mean, the drop in contribution was expected given the pricing drop. Just wondering if you could give us a forecast on log costs, what you're seeing and where you are with curtailments currently?
Yves Laflamme
As far as curtailment, we have put it back on track since the beginning of the year. So I mean back to where we were before we curtailed over the last quarter. So productivity is okay, but as you know, winter is always tougher so forecast on the first quarter should be okay, but maybe not as good as without - I was looking, as an example, at the sawmill at Atikokan this morning, the weather was minus 41 before wind factor.
So it's pretty - so the other half, as far as the costs, we said that log costs went higher. As you know, the Quebec new regime system that seem new, but it's been there for few years now, is more connected to the market. And so when the market went high like it did in the first half of the year and it was pretty good also the previous year in 2017, stumpage and wood cost are adapting to that, and there is always a lag.
So now when the price went down as fast as it went, of course, the cost didn't readjust that fast. So this is where we had a significant gap between the lumbers selling price right now and the wood costs. So that is a pretty significant add-back on our EBITDA as you can see at this moment.
Paul Quinn
Okay. And then, just lastly, you've got a number of facilities that are down right now and I think we saw something in the news around Fort Frances and I guess Thorold is also out there. Maybe you could give us an update on what your plans are with those facilities?
Yves Laflamme
Yes. As far as Thorold, we're still looking for -- we explored everything we could to restart that mill, but we came at the conclusion that it was not an easy thing to do even with different products. And we have some prospect to sell the mill. We're still looking at this. We don't have anything solid right now to announce, but we're working on it.
As far as for Frances, I think it's been pretty public about what's happening with this potential new interest with, call, Repap. So - and so we haven't had one communication with those guys so far and it's all we've done. I mean as far as what they're doing or what they want to do, we're pretty much like you. We're reading them on the newspaper and the news. What we are doing than talking to them right now.
Paul Quinn
Well, I wish you luck then. Thanks very much.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Hamir Patel from CIBC Capital. Please go ahead.
Hamir Patel
Hi, good morning.
Yves Laflamme
Good morning, Hamir.
Hamir Patel
Yves, we've seen a lot of uncoated freesheet capacity slated to come out of the market and it looks like pricing could be strong there for maybe the next 18 months. How much competing grades could you produce if you wanted to ramp that up? And would you have to spend any money to do so?
Yves Laflamme
For us, I think we're pretty much where we can be right now with the mills we have. I don't think we see a way to adding any capacity right now. But the thing is that, with the uncoated freesheet going up and some time there is downgrade in the paper from uncoated freesheet that gives up some opportunities in the other grades, and that we're feeding that right now.
So it means that when we have other grades, that the demand is going down that there is no, let's say, closure of capacity, it helps to cover the other fives and we've been feeling that right now. So that brings solid pricing as you said and not just on that grade, so which is good for us. But as far as adding capacity, it's more preventing to curtail capacity right now.
Hamir Patel
Okay. Fair enough. And Remi just a question for you on the pension deficit. The I guess, 18 it shows the funding purpose figure at $586 million. Is that after taking effect of the switch to it going concern basis in Ontario?
Remi Lalonde
Yes. It is, Hamir.
Hamir Patel
Okay. Great. That's all I had. I will turn it over. Thanks.
Yves Laflamme
Thank you.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Sean Steuart from TD Securities. Please go ahead.
Sean Steuart
Thanks. Good morning. Couple of questions. I just want to follow-up on tissue and with respect to Paul's question, you gave some context on the Calhoun progress. And I guess I just want to reference the Atlas assets and you've written it off effectively and you referenced the frustration you have. Is there any fix for those assets, whether it's CapEx related or capital-light initiatives to turn that performance around?
Yves Laflamme
I think as far as the performance was - Remi was saying is that, of course, it's a surprise that it didn't perform what we felt when we acquired that. But as far as improving the Atlas assets, we've been pretty good. I mean, as far as housekeeping, safety and productivity, we're definitely heading to the right direction. I mean it's a big difference compared to when we bought.
And also as far as investing, we've made significant changes over the quarter. We closed two converting lines in Sanford moving that to Miami and using - stopped using an external warehouse and using the space we have at Sanford to see if we can save it from that way as well.
And we're looking, of course, at other opportunities, but I mean, the assets we bought, as we speak today are definitely much different than the ones that we've seen at the beginning. So this is all I can say for now.
Remi Lalonde
Yeah. Maybe if I can add too, Sean. I mean what we wrote off was $81 million of goodwill and then the long-lived assets was about $39 million.
Sean Steuart
Okay. Got it. And when you say you expect to be profitable at Calhoun over the first half, are you talking operating earnings profitable or positive EBITDA?
Yves Laflamme
Well, you know, I am going to start [ph] with EBITDA for now, so hopefully and then, hopefully, I can do both. But we didn't necessarily target one particular, we just want to be profitable and hopefully we're going to start with EBITDA. So, we'll see what we can do.
Sean Steuart
Okay. And for the 2019 CapEx budget, you safely say I suppose that that CapEx is fully embedded in 2019? The spending you have for the sawmills, should we think of that as a multi-year plan to optimize those assets or is it 2019 weighted?
Yves Laflamme
I believe in 2019 we're going to be pretty much done of those sides as well. As you know, sawmill projects are usually completed in about 12 months, so we think the ramp up, it's something different, but as far as completing the project, I would say that the one has been approved so far is going to be completed in 2019.
Sean Steuart
And can you remind us of the expected capacity pickup in the sawmill assets once that capital is spent?
Yves Laflamme
Yeah. So the goal is to have an improvement in productivity of about $40 million to $50 million more through the year. So, of course, when you see what we've done in the last quarter, when you curtail because of the market and logs, but as - if everything goes well, we're still aligned to meet that capacity so that should be about what we had before.
Sean Steuart
Okay. That's all I have. Thank you.
Yves Laflamme
Thank you.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Your next question comes from the line of Roger Spitz from Bank of America. Please go ahead.
Unidentified Analyst
Hi. This is Pill on for Roger. Thank you for taking our questions. Do you expect any further near term asset sales?
Yves Laflamme
I mean it's hard to say. I wouldn't say that. Maybe for Frances and Thorold, but other than that if there are opportunities, as any company we would look at everything as we did with the two last ones that we sold, but to say that we have something that we're really looking at right now on our core assets, the answer would be no, as we speak.
Unidentified Analyst
Got it. Thank you. And how do you see working capital in Q1 ‘19 and full year 2019? Do you see it as a use or a source of cash?
Remi Lalonde
It's probably going to be a use. We tend to build logs, log inventory over the course of the winter so that we have enough raw materials for the spring part, but net-net over the year it should be - it should work itself out.
Unidentified Analyst
Got it. Thank you. And last question, how do you see 2019 sales and admin expenses versus the $165 million in 2018?
Remi Lalonde
Sorry you said the SG&A?
Unidentified Analyst
Yes
Remi Lalonde
Do you want to take it?
Yves Laflamme
Yeah. I think on the SG&A, we expect to be lower than where we were this year. Of course, with the Fairmont and Catawba being away as far as sale and expenses, so we expect a reduction in 2019.
Unidentified Analyst
Great. Thank you very much.
Yves Laflamme
You’re welcome.
Operator
Your next question comes from Paul Quinn of RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Mr. Quinn, your line open. Please go ahead.
Paul Quinn
Yes, sorry. I was on mute. Of the $160 million in CapEx in '19, what are we expecting to spend on the lumber operations?
Remi Lalonde
I think it's about - is it - about $40 million, yes, about $40 million.
Yves Laflamme
$40 million, yes.
Paul Quinn
Okay. And then you outlined the 40 million, 50 million board feet tick up in production. When do you expect the cost to come down? Like if we look at...
Yves Laflamme
Yes, of course. We expect, yes -- so the answer is yes. If we achieve the -- everything like it is today, like wood cost and everything, it would go down. So -- but hopefully, we expect to have lower cost coming more from the log side than the 40 million board feet. Because 40 million board feet out of -- about 2 million capacity still that day.
So -- but yes, hopefully, with the lag I was talking about in price compared to stock-base, it's going to shorten a little during the next year or so, at least in the quarter.
Paul Quinn
All right. That’s all I had. Thanks.
Operator
There are no further questions at this time. I turn the call back over to management for closing remarks.
Silvana Travaglini
Yes. So this concludes today's conference call. I would thank you all for joining us today. Thank you.
Operator
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KIM Kardashian has updated her previously deleted post about her eldest child, North, holding up a "STOP" sign at her show at Paris Fashion Week.
The reality star decided she had something else to say about the photo.
Kim reposted the snap of her daughter sitting in the crowd at the Jean Paul Gaultier show.
The nine-year-old donned twist-style braids in her hair, dark oval sunglasses on, and a hoop on her nose to match Kim's ensemble.
She also sported a pinstriped suit vest with a white button-down shirt as she sat next to her mother.
In the photo, North held up a handwritten sign with "STOP" written in all capital letters.
The pre-teen had an annoyed look on her face as she stared directly at the camera.
Kim made light of her daughter's actions by recaptioning the post.
"Ummm I didn't realize until afterwards but North I guess had it with the people taking pictures of her so she wrote on her invite STOP and held it up to the people taking pics and wanted them to just focus on the show...swipe to the last slide," she wrote.
The mom-of-four reshared the buzzed-about photo, despite previously deleting the snap.
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When Kim originally posted the photo, she captioned it: "For anyone who knows North knows how funny she finds the last slide!
"North I guess had it with the people taking pictures of her so she wrote on her invite STOP and held it up and wanted them to just focus on the show…"
ONLINE BACKLASH
Social media users noticed the changeup and blasted the 41-year-old for joking about the situation.
"This isn’t the flex she thinks it is. How sad for north," one person commented.
"How sad that she takes it as a joke .." another replied.
"it is lowkey funny, but also pls listen to your daughter Kimberly. she’s 9 & apparently did not want to deal with paps," a third remarked.
"She’s been saying “no pictures” since she could literally talk," a fourth fan said.
"This is gross. Her mom should be protecting her, not lol’ing at her frustration with exploiting her at such a young age," a fifth added.
"This is incredibly depressing. She's a child. I feel like she's being presented as a celeb recently, Kim is definitely exposing her more and it just makes me so sad for her," chimed in another.
MORE BACKLASH
Kim received similar backlash the first time she posted the snap, as many thought she should have removed her daughter from the situation.
"I feel bad for North. This is not okay and Kim should put a stop to that," wrote one.
"Kim doesn’t care to stop it, she encourages it," wrote another.
"She should point that sign at her mother, the person who drags her to these events as a prop," ripped a third.
"This is sad though, and Kim doesn't give a damn because she's gonna just push the 'she's just like her dad' agenda," wrote a fourth, referencing Kim's ex-husband and North's father, Kanye West.
"Kim totally sees it, she thinks it’s cute and adds to their fame lol," wrote a fifth.
A sixth sadly observed: "Poor kid. Now we know she keeps a pen handy in those little purses she carries."
RUNWAY DEBUT
Kim walked the runway for Balenciaga's Haute Couture show earlier this week along with Bella Hadid, 25, Nicole Kidman, 55, and Dua Lipa, 26
The TV star stayed stoic and poised as she modeled one of designer Demna's newest stylings for Balenciaga's 51st couture collection during her Paris Fashion Week debut.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum posted a snippet of her walk to her Instagram Stories.
Fans set Twitter ablaze as many rushed to compare Kim's "dead stare" to Real House Wives of New York City's Ramona Singer's wild-eyed gaze.
A very intense Ramona famously appeared like a deer caught in headlights as she once attempted to take on the catwalk.
But that enjoyable comparison aside, fans felt there was a throughline.
PROUD MAMA
Kris, 66, shared a video of Kim's Paris Fashion Week debut on her Instagram.
The clip was captioned: "The most incredible @balenciaga Haute Couture show in Paris today!! So proud of you @kimkardashian" and also featured Naomi Campbell, Dua Lipa, and Nicole Kidman.
While fans joked about Kris living vicariously through Kim as she celebrates her daughter's successes, it seems less funny given some comments in hindsight.
One wrote an online thread: "Kris exploits all her children, ESPECIALLY Kim. It's the reason Kim is starting to treat North the exact same way Kris treated her as a child."
While a second commented: "She is using North [for] more than just for her creativity. She is using [her] because she is a mini Ye and has the West name."
Kim had started posting much more content about her firstborn child, who recently had a questionable wilderness-themed birthday party before she was jetted off to Europe. | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/19135707/kim-kardashian-deletes-updates-post-north-disturbing-clip/ | 2022-07-08T14:26:03Z | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/19135707/kim-kardashian-deletes-updates-post-north-disturbing-clip/ | false | 2 |
New evacuations for communities near California forest fire
JACKSON, Calif. (AP) — Evacuation orders were expanded Tuesday for remote California communities near a wildfire that may have been sparked by fireworks or a barbecue on the Fourth of July in a mountainous region that’s a top tourism destination. The Electra Fire in Sierra Nevada Gold...
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