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Police: 1 dead, 1 in custody following shooting at East Nashville business
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One person is dead Wednesday after a shooting in East Nashville, the Metro Nashville Police Department confirmed.
It happened around 2:30 p.m. on the 700 block of Cowan St. Police arrested a suspect in the shooting, a spokesperson confirmed.
The victim and suspect were both employed at Kenny Pipe & Supply, police said.
Police have not named the victim or suspect.
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PLANO, Texas (AP) _ Ribbon Communications Inc. (RBBN) on Wednesday reported a loss of $30.2 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Plano, Texas-based company said it had a loss of 20 cents. Earnings, adjusted for amortization costs and investment costs, were 6 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 4 cents per share.
The maker of technology for telephone services over internet networks posted revenue of $205.8 million in the period.
For the current quarter ending in October, Ribbon Communications expects its per-share earnings to range from 5 cents to 8 cents.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $210 million to $225 million for the fiscal third quarter.
Ribbon Communications expects full-year earnings in the range of 18 cents to 22 cents per share, with revenue ranging from $840 million to $870 million.
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Wealth advisory firm hires two employees as part of strategic growth plan
LAFAYETTE, La., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Financial Wealth Advisors ("Summit"), one of the largest independent wealth advisory firms in Louisiana, today announced the addition of Chris Breaux, investment advisor representative, and Kim Landry, client service representative, within the growing firm's Lafayette office.
Breaux, a Lafayette native, brings a decade of financial and entrepreneurial experience to his role at Summit. After receiving his bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, followed by an MBA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, he returned to Lafayette, where he initially worked as a financial analyst before branching out on his own as a business owner.
Landry, who graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana with a degree in Business Administration, brings more than a decade of marketing and administrative experience from her work with accounting, wealth management and legal firms. She has been very active in the Acadiana community, having served 10 years on the board at Krewe of Bonaparte and six years with The Big Easel.
"We are excited to expand our team to support the growing financial needs of our multigenerational clients in Louisiana and across the Gulf Coast region," said David Daniel, Managing Partner at Summit Financial. "Chris and Kim will be valuable additions to Summit and our team-based approach to helping clients achieve their long-term financial goals."
Breaux said: "I have long respected the Summit team and I'm excited to join the firm. I look forward to helping small business owners and successful families achieve their financial goals and dreams."
Landry said: "I am thrilled to join Summit and look forward to supporting client relationships and providing solutions to address account service needs that help them fulfill their financial ambitions."
Formed as an independent team within Legg Mason in 2003, Summit Financial Wealth Advisors provides custom and comprehensive wealth management services to clients in Louisiana and across the Gulf South Region of the U.S. With additional offices in Shreveport, Monroe and Ruston, Summit is one of the largest independent wealth management firms in the State of Louisiana. For more information about Summit, please visit summit-financial.com.
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LIVINGSTON COUNTY, N.Y. (WROC) — The New York State Sheriff’s Association has launched a program that they say will allow sheriffs and deputies to come forward whenever they need help with mental health and wellness.
Through grant money, sheriffs and deputies can use AT&T FirstNet. Its a website and online resource portal, where they can easily choose from a multitude of professional services.
Livingston County Sheriff Thomas Dougherty, also president of the association, says their mission is to expand the mental health and wellness resources for members. Especially, he says, for those suffering from post-traumatic stress. With the new initiative, various leaders in sheriffs’ offices can receive training on mental health awareness: how to recognize trauma, types of trauma and other stressors members might be experiencing.
“It is the sheriffs themselves, coming forward and saying; ‘Listen it’s time to change the culture, it’s time to change the stigma,'” Dougherty said. “Making sure they understand that so when they do come forwrad they’re not judged, instead they’re supported.”
He says for a long time, the law enforcement community has strayed from the topic of mental health. These services are, in a way, retraining officer, and teaching them it’s “okay” to ask for help.
“There’s a lot of cops that feel, ‘I’ll lose my badge, my gun, I gotta support my family, I got to be strong I gotta be silent,” said Dougherty. “But when you’re off duty, our cops need the ability to decompress.”
These officer wellness issues are top of mind for Dougherty. July 21, when Officer Anthony Mazurkiewicz — a 29-year veteran with the Rochester Police Department — was shot and killed, alongside his partner, Sino Seng, who was also shot but is recovering.
“I did not know either of those two officers personally, but I feel that personally,” said Dougherty.
He says the effects of this can be unimaginable, and that’s why moving forward, he wants to find ways to heal the law enforcement community — across many other agencies — and provide the tools they need for any situation.
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"Daxton" is officially on! Never Have I Ever debuted the official season 3 trailer on Wednesday, and Devi is officially off the market!
In season 3 of the Netflix comedy, which drops Aug. 12, Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) steps into unfamiliar territory as she and Paxton (Darren Barnet) make their relationship official. Their decision to test the waters romantically -- and out in the open -- spurs a lot of stunned and jealous reactions from their peers.
The trailer opens with Devi and Paton proudly walking into school holding hands, as their schoolmates (and even teachers!) stare at them in shock at the unlikely development. As Devi discovers her new relationship status, her popularity has skyrocketed. No longer is she the outsider. She is it. So much so that she's become the one people hate! How the tables have turned.
Devi and Paxton, of course, can't keep their hands off each other as they make out everywhere and anywhere. But, as Devi realizes, being in a relationship with Paxton's abs -- ahem, Paxton -- doesn't exactly solve all your problems as she expresses doubt about why they're even together. It's a red flag for Paxton when she presents the question to him about why he likes her so much when, on paper, they shouldn't work at all.
"No one else thinks we make any sense," Devi says, her insecurities coming through.
"No, you don't think we make any sense," Paxton tells her.
And Devi isn't only facing relationship problems, Ben is still lingering in the picture (we think, though he's clearly still bitter about the Paxton of it all) and a new hottie, Des (Anirudh Pisharody), who's one of her mother's friends' "loser kids," may shift her focus away from Paxton and other ongoing problems she's bottled up inside. "Oh sh*****t," Devi says after laying eyes on Des for the first time.
We definitely smell trouble.
Watch the season 3 trailer below.
Newly announced guest stars include Deacon Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe's son, and Terry Hu.
Last July, following the sophomore finale, co-creator Lang Fisher offered a glimpse into Devi's journey in the coming season and the hurdles she'll be faced with.
"The biggest one is what's Devi going to be like as an actual girlfriend in a real relationship with someone who's much more experienced than she is?" Fisher told ET. "This has been her dream for the entire series. Day 1 she's like, 'We've got to get boyfriends.' That's all she's wanted, and now she has one and he is the most popular boy in the school. What is that going to be like? Is it going to be the dream that she had always imagined it would be or will it be more complicated? And probably it will be more complicated than that. There's still these things to explore in terms of sex and what do you do if you're a nerd who's done very little and you're dating a much more experienced guy?"
Barnet gave his perspective on how he believes things will progress between Devi and Paxton now that their feelings are out in the open.
"The most interesting thing may be how he copes with the public opinion of him dating someone that's not on his social status per se," the actor told ET. "You even see it in the glance when he's looking at his friends who are gawking at the idea of them being together. So, that's got to be a lot to do with Paxton because he is a character that does care a lot about what people think. It's going to be interesting."
Season 3 of Never Have I Ever premieres Friday, Aug. 12 on Netflix.
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WAIMEA, Hawaii, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parker Ranch seeks information and ideas to be considered as part of a potential Request for Proposals (RFP) for lessees to lease, on a long-term basis, approximately 7,600 acres of forested land in the Pa'auhau and Kalopa areas in Hamakua, Island of Hawai'i that are currently leased for a term ending in March 2025. Roughly 4,500 acres of the lands contain densely planted eucalyptus timber (spp. Grandis).
"We believe the upcoming expiration of the lease on the Pa'auhau lands presents a tremendous opportunity for a broad range of possibilities for the lands. We are excited to explore creative ideas for the highest and best uses of the lands," said Dutch Kuyper, President & CEO of Parker Ranch, Inc. "Sustainability and our strategic priorities of forestry, renewable energy, and food production will be very important to any decisions we make."
A Request for Information (RFI) will be issued in advance of a potential RFP that may involve a long-term arrangement for the forested lands on a sustainable basis, contributing to Hawai'i Island's economic growth and development, preserving and enhancing the forest resources, and helping to mitigate the effects of climate change. Parties interested in providing information in response to the RFI may contact Zachary Judd, Forestry Manager at jud.z@pri-hi.com. Responders also will have the opportunity to provide feedback on what should be included in the RFP, to meet the needs and interests of potential lessees of the lands.
Parker Ranch is one of the largest and oldest cattle ranches in the United States. Parker Ranch is operated by Parker Ranch, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parker Ranch Foundation Trust, a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose beneficiaries are Queen's North Hawai'i Community Hospital, Hawai'i Preparatory Academy, Parker School, and Hawai'i Community Foundation. To learn more, please visit www.parkerranch.com or www.prft.org.
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Keen-eyed Love Island viewers spotted one couple getting steamy under the sheets in tonight’s episode, after slamming most of the programme as ‘dry’ and ‘boring’.
After the islanders spent the day playing mummies and daddies to plastic dolls, Davide Sanclimenti and Ekin-Su Culculoglu shared what looked to be an intimate moment under the covers.
The pair, who have had their fair share of drama across the series, are favourites to win this year, after constantly being drawn back towards each other after explosive rows.
Their rollercoaster relationship reached a high a few days ago, after the Italian Stallion gave the Turkish soap star a romantic gesture in the form of a tiramisu.
Knowing that the way to a woman’s heart is through her stomach, Davide baked Ekin a tasty chocolate dessert to ask if she will be ‘his’, leading to an intense kiss and a smiley Ekin-Su saying: ‘Yes!’
And tonight, their relationship seemed to intensify as the couple, who haven’t shared too many steamy sessions once the lights are out, seemed to get hot under the covers.
While the islanders have commented on which of them ‘opened the salon’, so far Davide and Ekin-Su have shared little more than a kiss, but tonight that seemed to change.
‘At the end of the show when Ekin-Su and Davide are going to try and get ready to make their baby,’ one viewer wrote, while another added: ‘I have a strong feeling Davide and Ekin-Su might have been getting a bit too freaky there lol.’
Someone else penned: ‘Ekin-Su and Davide what’s that elevation on the bed, producers please send Ekinde to the hideaway’.
Elsewhere in tonight’s episode, Ekin-Su delivered the performance of her life as she belted out Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
Surprising the villa with her rendition, she took centre stage with her nursery rhyme performance, leaving the other islanders in hysterics.
Love Island continues tomorrow night at 9pm on ITV2.
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Neighbours star Craig McLachlan has hit out at the Australian soap for not allowing him to be part of the show's final ever episode.
The Australian soap will air its last episode on Friday, July 29 at 9pm on Channel 5 in what will be a one-hour special with the double-length episode called Neighbours: The Finale.
McLachlan played heartthrob Henry Ramsay between 1987 and 1989 and he had an integral part in one of the most-viewed weddings in soap history.
A staggering 19.8 million UK viewers tuned in to watch Charlene Mitchell - played by Kylie Minogue - tie the knot with Scott Robinson ( Jason Donovan ) in November 1988, with Henry walking his sister down the aisle.
However, McLachlan says he was not invited to partake or have any mention of his character in the programme's final scenes due to "cancel culture" due to sexual assault charges against him in 2020.
The father-of-one was cleared of the seven charges of assault and indecent assault on four women when he was in an Australian production of The Rocky Horror Show in 2014.
A spokeswoman for McLachlan said: "Henry’s dead mother is being reincarnated for the final episode — but cancel culture won’t allow her son Henry to appear or even be acknowledged.
"What Craig and his partner have endured over the past four-and-a-half years — only to come out the other side and be confronted by, among other things, the attempted permanent erasing of his part in Neighbours history — is devastating.
"Craig was not invited to take part in the closing episode or indeed to contribute in any way to the end of Neighbours."
Neighbours has been a hugely popular show in the UK since its inception in 1985 but it was confirmed earlier this year that the soap would come to an end this summer.
This was due to Channel 5 was dropping the show from its line-up to "focus is on increasing our investment in original UK drama", despite the programme being the fourth-most watched soap in the UK.
That meant the Australian soap lost a large source of its funding and had "no option but to rest the show" after 8,891 episodes.
A statement on the show's official Twitter account on March 3 read: "We are so sorry to say that after nearly 37 years and almost 9000 episodes broadcast we have to confirm that Neighbours will cease production in the summer.
"Following the loss of our key broadcast partner in the UK and despite an extensive search for alternative funding, we simply have no option but to rest the show."
Minogue and Donovan will reprise their roles in the show finale as will a host of familiar faces in Hollywood and to the Ramsay Street faithful.
Hollywood stars Guy Pearce and Margot Robbie and singer Delta Goodrem are returning to Erinsborough for the last hurrah alongside fan favourites from across the show's 37-year history such as Libby Kennedy, Stephanie Scully and Harold Bishop.
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WEST READING, Pa. (AP) _ Customers Bancorp Inc. (CUBI) on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings of $58.7 million.
The West Reading, Pennsylvania-based bank said it had earnings of $1.68 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $1.77 per share.
The results missed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.80 per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $209.1 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $177.6 million, also missing Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $178.1 million.
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Scientists develop greener, more efficient method for producing next-generation antibiotics
An international team of researchers has developed a method to alter one class of antibiotics, using microscopic organisms that naturally produce these compounds.
The findings, published July 25 in Natural Chemistrycould lead to more efficient production of antibiotics that are effective against resistant bacteria.
The team started with a microorganism genetically programmed to produce the antibiotic erythromycin. Scientists from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Chemical
Biology at Germany’s Goethe University wondered whether the system could be genetically modified to compound the antibiotic with one additional fluorine atom, which can often improve pharmaceutical properties.
“We had been analyzing fatty acid synthesis for several years when we identified a portion of a mouse protein that we thought could be used for targeted biosynthesis of these modified antibiotics, if added to a biological system that can already make the original compound,” said Martin Grininger, professor of biomolecular chemistry at Goethe University.
Working with David Sherman’s lab at the University of Michigan, which specializes in this biological assembly system, the team used protein technology to replace some of the system’s original machinery with the functionally similar mouse gene.
“It’s like taking an engine part out of a Mercedes and putting it in a Porsche to make a better hybrid engine. You get a Porsche engine that can do new things and work even better,” said Sherman, a faculty member of the UM Life. Sciences Institute and professor of medicinal chemistry at the College of Pharmacy.
“We can now take advantage of this protein technology to make new compounds with this highly desirable fluorine atom, which chemists have long struggled to add to macrolide antibiotics.”
The reason this added fluorine atom is so desirable is that it not only changes the structure of the final product, but also the product’s ability to kill bacteria and work safely on patients.
Erythromycin works by binding to and blocking the activity of the bacterial ribosome, which is essential for bacteria to survive. Some bacteria have developed ways to prevent this binding, making them resistant to antibiotic treatment. Changing the structure of the antibiotic with a fluorine atom overcomes that evolutionary advantage and restores the compound’s ability to fight bacteria.
Although chemists have developed methods to add fluorine synthetically, the process is laborious and requires the use of toxic chemical reagents. The new biosynthetic method developed by the researchers from Goethe University and UM overcomes those challenges.
“It’s a very exciting development because we can bypass all the time-consuming synthetic steps and dangerous chemicals,” Sherman said. “We’ve shown that we can basically reprogram an organism to make the fluorinated product directly.”
The researchers emphasize that the fluorinated compounds are still a few years away from being available in the clinic. But the findings offer a more efficient way forward for the development of new antibiotics and even antivirals and cancer drugs.
“Our approach has proven successful for a small number of antibiotics, but it could eventually be used to develop a wide variety of drugs with minimal use of toxic chemicals and byproducts,” Grininger said.
Protein structure provides clues to drug resistance mechanism
Alexander Rittner et al, Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Fluorinated Polyketides, Natural Chemistry (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-00996-z
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MILWAUKEE, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ademi LLP is investigating possible securities fraud claims against F45 (NYSE: FXLV). The investigation results from inaccurate statements F45 may have made regarding its business operations and prospects.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Best Buy, the nation’s largest consumer electronics chain, cut its annual sales and profit forecast Wednesday, citing surging inflation that has dampened consumer spending on gadgets.
The Minneapolis-based company echoed Walmart, which earlier this week said higher prices on basic necessities are forcing shoppers to cut back on discretionary items.
Shares of Best Buy fell more than 2% in after-market trading Wednesday.
Best Buy said it now expects this year’s sales at stores opened at least a year to be down 11%, much steeper than the 3% to 6% drop it originally forecast in May.
For the company’s fiscal second quarter, it expects comparable sales to be down 13%. Still, revenue for the quarter should be roughly 7.5% higher than the second quarter of 2020, it said.
In a statement, Best Buy’s CEO Corie Barry said the company entered the year expecting its financial results would be weaker than last year, when consumer spending was fueled by government stimulus support. But high inflation has eroded consumer sentiment, weakening demand for consumer electronics even further.
Matt Bilunas, chief financial officer at Best Buy, noted that given the economic uncertainty, it’s difficult to assess the duration of the weaker sales environment and the impact of its business.
Best Buy’s announcement comes as the Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a point for a second straight time in its most aggressive drive in three decades to temper inflation.
The Fed’s move will raise its key rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, to a range of 2.25% to 2.5%, its highest level since 2018.
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Banihal: The strategic 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway, which was shut due to mudslides and shooting stones in Ramban district early Wednesday, was opened for vehicular traffic partially, officials said.
Authorities allowed stranded vehicles, including an Amarnath Yatra convoy, to move towards Kashmir, they said.
Shooting stones struck the highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, at Mehad in Ramban besides mudslides triggered by heavy rains, the officials said.
The highway was cleared of debris at Mehad and traffic was allowed towards Kashmir, they said.
The Traffic Police issued an advisory stating that Mughal road, connecting Poonch district of the Jammu region with Kashmir’s Shopian district, was blocked between Dubjan and Peer Ki Gali due to landslides.
It also said, “People are advised not to travel on Jammu -Srinagar highway without confirmation.”
The Amarnath Yatra convoy, which was on its way from Jammu to Kashmir, was halted at Chanderkoot yatra niwas due to the highway blockade, the officials said.
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Speaking her truth. Amber Portwood expressed her grief over losing custody of her 4-year-old son, James, during a Wednesday, July 27, court ruling.
“I’ve worked so hard to better myself and improve my relationships with my children. While I’ve always been candid about my past substance abuse and struggles with mental illness, a person should have the chance to redeem themselves and not be tethered to their problems from the past,” the 32-year-old Teen Mom OG star said in a statement to Us Weekly.
The Indiana native continued, ”I’ve spent years rebuilding bridges and did everything that was required of me, including submitting 21 negative drug tests and undergoing multiple psychological evaluations, if your road has not been perfect, but you’ve worked hard to become a better, more stable and caring person today, keep moving forward as I will. I’ll never stop fighting for my children who I love more than anything.”
Portwood’s ex Andrew Glennon was granted sole legal and primary physical custody of their son, according to documents obtained by The Sun the same day as the court ruling. James will be moving from Indiana to California to live with Glennon, 38.
During the ruling, the judge advised the cinematographer to “seek out and consider the mother’s opinion before making any major decisions relating to the child’s medical treatment, education and religion.”
The former couple, who dated from 2017 to 2019, have been enmeshed in a custody battle for the past three years. Their legal drama began after Portwood was arrested for domestic battery after allegedly wielding a machete at Glennon and threatening suicide in July 2019. That October, the 16 and Pregnant alum pleaded guilty to two felony charges of domestic battery and intimidation, per the Indy Star.
The Never Too Late author is also mom to 13-year-old Leah, whom she shares with ex Gary Shirley. In a September 2021 episode of Teen Mom OG, she broke down in tears over her strained relationship with her daughter.
“It truly breaks my heart that Leah and I are drifting apart. I really think if I could go to therapy with Leah, it would bring us closer together,” the reality star said. “We’ve already talked about therapy for Leah, but Gary wasn’t for it at all. Therapy is a good thing to get you and your mother back together and having that mediator can get you to open up and understand a bit. I think she’ll be happier in life to understand a bit more of what the past was and how I am today. It’s OK to have a mom that has been through these things. You shouldn’t be ashamed about it. Therapy is something that needs to happen.”
By January, the relationship had improved. “[Our visits are] actually going a lot better,” Portwood told Us at the time. “I can’t speak for Leah, but when we’re around each other now, it’s night and day. It’s just beautiful.”
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SHREVEPORT, La. - The tropics continue on the quiet side at this time. There are a few tropical waves moving across the Atlantic. The National Hurricane Center doesn't expect any of these waves to develop into a tropical depression or storm over the next few days.
So far, we have seen 3 named storms...Alex, Bonnie and Colin. Next up is Danielle.
On average, once we reach August, September and October, the storm frequency really picks up. It peaks around September 10th.
An average year includes 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes and 4 majors. Both Colorado State University and NOAA are predicting above average seasons. Warmer than average sea-surface temperatures and a moderate La Nina could confirm those predictions.
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STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) _ Essa Bancorp Inc. (ESSA) on Wednesday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $5 million.
On a per-share basis, the Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania-based company said it had profit of 51 cents.
The bank posted revenue of $17.6 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $17.1 million.
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Asia’s richest woman loses half her fortune in property crisis
By Venus Feng
To understand the magnitude of China’s escalating mortgage crisis, look no further than Yang Huiyan.
Heading into this year, the Country Garden Holdings Co. co-chairman was far and away Asia’s richest woman. Her $US23.7 billion ($33.9 billion) fortune easily eclipsed that of fellow Chinese billionaires Fan Hongwei and Wu Yajun, both worth around $US13 billion at the time, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Yet even Country Garden, whose unfinished projects so far haven’t been affected by the 2 trillion yuan ($420 billion) mortgage boycott hitting the industry, is facing a reality check. The company once heralded as China’s “role model” builder showed the extent of its cash crunch on Wednesday, when it said it was looking to raise HK$2.83 billion ($520 million) by selling new shares at a discount.
In just seven months, Yang’s fortune has more than halved to $US11.3 billion, including a drop of almost $US2 billion on Wednesday alone, putting her spot atop the wealth rankings in jeopardy. The swift decline underscores the concerns that China’s mortgage crisis will eventually damage its financial system and funding channels, even for Country Garden, its largest property developer.
“Investors worry that the mortgage boycott will spread to Country Garden as they are seeing the boycott project numbers increasing quickly,” said Kenny Ng, a strategist at Everbright Securities International in Hong Kong. “The company still has significant debts and recorded a slower month-on-month growth in June sales even though China resumed work.”
China’s effort to rein in property prices and President Xi Jinping’s “common prosperity” campaign have brought an end to years of rapid growth for an industry that represents about 70 per cent of household wealth. The real estate crisis that first ensnared developers has taken another turn lately, with hundreds of thousands of homebuyers stopping mortgage payments on halted projects.
While Country Garden’s securities held up relatively well early in the property crisis, its shares are now heading for their worst month since 2011, and one of its bonds reached a record low last week. On Wednesday, the stock slumped 15 per cent, the most since March, ending a two-day rebound on hopes the government would help developers.
One of Country Garden’s biggest challenges is that most of its newly launched projects are in so-called tier 3 and 4 cities, where homebuyers have lower incomes and are more likely to miss payments when the economy is slow.
This “could leave it the most exposed to the downturn in the markets,” said Kristy Hung, a senior analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence.
Meanwhile, the builder’s contracted sales slumped almost 40 per cent to 185.1 billion yuan for the first six months of the year. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates the developer would need to spend up to 337 billion yuan — more than peers — to deliver the properties it pre-sold but didn’t book yet.
Last month, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Country Garden’s credit rating to junk and changed its outlook to negative, citing a deteriorating financial position and weakened access to long-term funding.
In response to questions, Country Garden said it doesn’t have any projects being abandoned unfinished, and that there’s either a shortage of homes or supply is at a reasonable level in the tier 3 and 4 cities it entered.
Co-founded in the southern city of Foshan by Yeung Kwok Keung, Country Garden has grown rapidly over the past three decades as the nation’s housing market boomed. Its catchy slogan, “get yourself a five-star home,” helped it make a name for itself in the Guangdong province bordering Hong Kong and fuelled a cross-country expansion. By the end of last year, it had more than 3,000 projects in 299 Chinese cities and a few in Malaysia.
“The mainland property crisis has sent a domino effect to the capital chain of the entire sector. Uncertainties will still linger.”
Kenny Ng, a strategist at Everbright Securities International
Yeung transferred his stake to Yang, his second daughter, in 2005 after she joined the company as his personal assistant to learn the ropes and eventually succeed him. By age 25, the Ohio State University alum was China’s richest woman. She became Country Garden’s vice chairman in 2012 and its co-chair in 2018.
Yang, now in her early forties, owns about 60 per cent of Country Garden and a 43 per cent stake in its management-services unit. Her husband, sister and cousin all sit on the company’s board and, like Yeung, have kept a low profile, avoiding media interviews.
To help defuse what may be the largest mortgage revolt in China’s history, its banking regulator has vowed to ensure property developers could complete construction of pre-sold houses, and a report said the State Council has approved a plan to set up a fund supporting some developers and real estate firms.
Yet officials have to send clear guidelines to banks on how to handle the crisis. That could prompt them to reshape their exposure to the industry and take a more cautious approach to avoid bad debt, which would make it more challenging for private builders to raise funds.
“The mainland property crisis has sent a domino effect to the capital chain of the entire sector,” said Everbright’s Ng. “Uncertainties will still linger.”
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Think Tanks
IPPR - Over £3 billion in unspent apprenticeship levy lost to Treasury ‘black hole’ new data reveal
Apprenticeships experts warn that the Treasury must be more transparent on how it spends the billions returned to its coffers
Rigid apprenticeship system blamed for billions of skills funding going unspent by businesses and being returned to the Treasury
More than £3.3 billion has returned to the Treasury in the last three years under the Government’s use-it-or-lose-it apprenticeship levy rules, according to new data collected by apprenticeships experts the London Progression Collaboration (LPC).
A freedom of information request reveals that since May 2019, employers in England have been returning unspent levy funds earmarked for new apprentices to the Treasury, with businesses losing out on the equivalent of £1.1 billion per year or £95 million per month.
The LPC, which to date has helped transfer £10 million of unspent apprenticeship levy from large employers to support small businesses and create over 1,000 apprenticeships, says that it is not clear how the Treasury is making use of the £3.3 billion that it has received from businesses.
The apprenticeship experts warn that this lack of transparency means it is unclear whether the Treasury is using the unspent levy in a way that best supports the places most in need of levelling up, and whether it is helping create more entry-level apprenticeships, after numbers have plummeted in recent years.
To increase transparency, the LPC is calling on the Treasury to publish how many apprenticeships are being created through unspent apprenticeship levy, where in England that levy is being spent, at what levels and in what sectors – as well as where any surplus funds are being used.
The LPC argues that if the apprenticeship levy is to meet its objective of increasing employer investment in training, the Treasury also needs to give employers greater control over how their funds are directed, including by increasing the 25 per cent apprenticeship levy transfer cap. The LPC has seen at first hand the challenges the current system poses to businesses in their work helping firms navigate the complex apprenticeship system and transferring their unspent levy to small businesses.
These findings follow previous research by the LPC which shows that since 2014-15, ‘entry-level’ apprenticeships have fallen by 72 per cent in England, while apprenticeship starts amongst under-19s have fallen by 59 per cent, depriving those most at risk of in-work poverty and at the beginning of their careers the best start in life.
In the most recent three years that data is available, apprenticeship starts in the North have fallen most sharply, with apprenticeships falling by 26 per cent in the North East, 23 per cent in Yorkshire and the Humber and 21 per cent in the North West.
Anna Ambrose, Director of the London Progression Collaboration, said:
“Apprenticeships are vitally important for ensuring people can get on at work and businesses can fill skills gaps, but the Treasury aren’t being transparent about where billions of pounds of apprenticeship funding is being directed.
“Since 2019, over £3 billion in funds that businesses haven’t used appear to have been lost to a Treasury black hole. This transparency deficit risks undermining confidence that money for apprentices is being used in the most effective and fair way.
“The fact that so much apprenticeship funding is being lost to the Treasury is a symptom of a system that is far too rigid and confusing to navigate for businesses.
“The system should be made more flexible and firms supported to use their levy funding to boost apprenticeship opportunities or transfer their funds to smaller businesses that could benefit from the investment.”
Anna Ambrose is available for broadcast
CONTACT
- David Wastell, Director of News and Communications, IPPR: 07921 403651 d.wastell@ippr.org
- Jack Shaw, Senior Account Manager, LPC, 07447 019243, jack.shaw@ippr.org
NOTES TO EDITORS
Unspent apprenticeship levy has returned to the Treasury since May 2019. During the first year £845 million returned to the Treasury. In 2020-21 (May to April) £1.316 billion was returned, and in 2021/22 £1.161 billion was returned (May to March – the final month was not available when the Freedom of Information Request was issued). The reduction in expired levy in October 2021 and the subsequent increase in November 2021 were the result of a delay in transferring levy into employer accounts in October 2019. As a result, employers were granted an additional month to spend those funds to ensure that the 24-month window to spend funds was maintained.
Our previous research on the decline in apprenticeships starts – including a regional breakdown - can be found here: https://www.ippr.org/public/news-and-media/press-releases/lpc-apprenticeship-decline-analysis-naw2022
Introduced in 2017, the Apprenticeship Levy requires businesses to set aside 0.5 per cent of their wage bill if they pay over £3 million per year. Under Apprenticeship Levy Transfer, levy-payers can transfer 25 per cent of their Levy pot.
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Judge puts hold on North Dakota trigger law banning abortion
A North Dakota judge has put on hold the state’s trigger law banning abortion pending resolution of a lawsuit that argues the law violates the state constitution
A North Dakota judge on Wednesday put on hold the state’s trigger law banning abortion while a lawsuit moves forward that argues it violates the state constitution.
Burleigh County District Judge Bruce Romanick ruled in a lawsuit brought by the state’s only abortion clinic, Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo, that Attorney General Drew Wrigley “prematurely attempted to execute” the trigger language, which was improper until the U.S. Supreme Court issued its certified judgment on Tuesday.
The ban had been set to take effect on Thursday.
The clinic argues in its lawsuit that the North Dakota Constitution guarantees the rights of life, liberty, safety, and happiness, all of which protect the right to abortion.
Romanick’s ruling will give the Red River clinic more time to relocate a few miles away to Moorhead, Minnesota, where abortion remains legal. Clinic owner Tammi Kromenaker has said she will move there if litigation doesn’t block the North Dakota ban.
North Dakota’s law would make abortion illegal in the state except in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother.
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Whether safe on a campsite or wild camping in mountains, moors or forests, the outdoors is the best place in the world to make a meal. Food just tastes better in the wild, maybe because of the effort required to cook on a camping stove, away from the mod-cons of our kitchens.
Just think about it: the scent of the fire, the feeling of mud between your toes, a river babbling in the background and the feeling of relief as you relax into your camping chair and taste your first bite. I maintain that even a cheap hotdog tastes like a Michelin starred meal when eaten under the stars. You just have to have the best camping stove for the job.
What type of camping stove is best?
There are three basic types and it’s worth understanding their pros and cons.
Camping gas stoves, powered by screw-on or snap-on pressurised gas cylinders (usually a butane/propane mix) are available to buy from all camping shops and even supermarkets. These are very efficient to use and lightweight, with the ability to control the flame from low to high. But in cold weather they can be temperamental and it’s tricky to gauge how much gas you have left.
Liquid fuel stoves – such as the Trangia that many of us used in Scouts or on Duke of Edinburgh expeditions – use methylated spirits, paraffin and even petrol. They ignite easily, work in all weathers and the fuel is easy to source worldwide. But they don’t burn as hot as other fuels, so can take longer to cook on.
Multi-fuel stoves, like the original Kelly Kettle invented in the1890s, can use wood and twigs, dry grass, paper, cardboard and even dry animal dung. Basically, if it burns you can use it. They allow all the fun of a campfire but don’t scorch the ground, so are great for the environment. The only problem is that the flame can’t be turned up or down. (And, of course, if you can’t find anything to to use as fuel, you go hungry.)
All of these come in a range of sizes and weights. The smallest and lightest are backpacking stoves like the MSR Pocket Rocket. At the other end of the scale are camping cookers with multiple hobs, a grill and other extras, which are best for family camping trips by car.
Kids love toasting marshmallows over a fire, especially when they’ve foraged the fuel themselves, so the cheapest option is a basic mess tin in which they can cook a whole meal, under supervision of course. And if the kids (or you) are reliant on having a charged phone, you can even get a stove that charges devices via USB as it cooks.
Read on for this year’s best stoves in all the above categories, as well as some hints on how to use a camping stove. And if you’re heading off on an outdoor adventure, check out my guides to the best tents and the best sleeping bags before you go.
How I tested the best camping stoves
I love outdoor cooking so much that I wrote The Wilderness Cookbook about it. Over the last 14 years, I’ve used every type of stove out there and I’ve watched the trends change and fuel sources improve. For this review, I tested the very latest offerings from all the top stove manufacturers, from full-on cookers to pocket-sized, go-anywhere multi-fuel options. Read this and, no matter where you find yourself, you’ll be able to cook up a storm. Which is always preferable to camping in one.
Which is the best camping stove in 2022? At a glance
- Best overall – Primus Lite+
- Best camping gas stove – Campingaz Camping Chef CV Elite
- Best multi-fuel stove – Kelly Kettle
- Best backpacking stove – MSR Pocket Rocket 2
- Best portable gas stove – Jetboil Stash
Read on for the reviews in full
Best camping stoves
1. Primus Lite+
Best camping stove overall
We like: Compact design and year-round versatility. It’s also frying pan friendly
- One burner
- Uses gas canisters
- Weighs 402g
Primus made the stoves that Amundsen took to the South Pole and Hilary took up Everest and are pretty much synonymous with camping gas burners. The Lite+ is their smallest ever, sold not just as a stove but a ‘complete stove system’ – which simply means it comes with a pot as well as a burner.
The pot, burner and gas canister all lock together with a twist and there’s an inbuilt spark lighter so you don’t need matches. A single large control knob changes the flame from a simmer, for slowly heating up food, to hot enough to boil half a litre of water in less than three minutes.
Given the pot’s small capacity it’s best suited to one or two backpackers who want to make hot drinks, soup or dehydrated camping meals. That said, thanks to the nifty trio of removable metal pegs that make up part of the handle, and screw easily into the stove base, it can also safely take a frying pan or saucepan. Indeed, I cooked a pasta meal for four on the Lite+.
Further clever design features make it my number one pick: the handle can be repositioned to make it a hanging stove (using a supplied string) for when there’s no even ground; the eco-friendly cork lined sleeve insulates the contents and has an inbuilt pocket to store a spoon; the pot has handy measuring lines inside it and a pouring spout as well as an inbuilt wind-protected heat exchanger, making it ideal for use even in windy and cold weather; and the lid (made from sustainable bio-plastic) doubles up as a cup, a small bowl and a liquid drainer.
Not bad when you think this all packs in on itself, Russian doll style, to the size of a small thermos.
2. Campingaz Camping Chef CV Elite
Best camping gas stove
We like: the foldaway, flatpack design and additional grill
- Three burners
- Uses gas canisters
- Weighs 4.4kg
What is the best camping stove for families? Try this. In my opinion, when campsite cooking for more than two people you need at least two burners. You’ll want to make drinks and food at the same time and not be limited to one-pot meals. There are many double hob options available, but this one from budget brand Campingaz takes it to the next level with the added bonus of a downward burner to simultaneously grill toast too.
It’s powered by snap-on CV470 gas canisters – which are readily available worldwide and at a reasonable price (currently a pack of 4 that last for around an hour and 20 mins worth of cooking each are available from Argos for £23). Igniters are all built in for each burner, meaning you don’t need to worry about remembering matches. The control knobs are easy-to-use and control the flame making it ideal for boiling (takes around 4-5 mins), frying and cooking.
It is easy to wipe clean, though getting inside the base to do a thorough job can be a little fiddly. When not using it, the whole things folds into its own suitcase-style carry case and takes up surprisingly little room in the car (folded size 59.5 cm x 32.5cm x 8.5mm), similar to that of a pillow. While it will never be one for backpackers or lightweight enthusiasts, hitting the scale at 4.4kg, it will be favoured among campsite cooks and fans of the fry-up breakfast.
3. Kelly Kettle Base Camp 1.6 litre
Best multi-fuel stove
We like: Campfire cooking the responsible way, entertainment value for kids
- One burner
- Uses any flammable fuel
- Weighs 1.22kg
As efficient as gas is, cooking over a real fire appeals to an ancient part of us, the crackling flames a social hub for campsite conversations. However, open campfires on the ground can unwittingly wreck fragile ecosystems, not to mention inadvertently get out of hand, which is why many campsites don’t allow them. That is why the Kelly Kettle is such a fantastic invention.
Manufactured by a family firm in Ireland since the 1890s, when the great grandfather of the current directors decided he needed something reliable for his fishing trips, it’s effectively a double walled chimney with the flame from running through the centre. Water added through the spout hole is heated within these hollow walls. Because the internal surface area is so large, it boils within three to five minutes.
This is a true multi-fuel stove. You can use wood, sticks, pine cones, dry grass – even dry animal dung to get it burning in the base. Once alight, you simply feed the fire from the top of the chimney. It’s primarily good for boiling water but with the purchase of an £11 hobo stove accessory you can use the base as a traditional wood-fired campstove, a bit like a portable barbecue. I’ve also bought a £6.95 pot support, which enables you to cook food in a pan on top of the chimney while the water is boiling.
I find the Kelly Kettle great, both in the wilds to enjoy a responsible campfire and on a proper campsite for toasting marshmallows. Even better, having kids search for burnable fuel for it is a great way to keep them busy.
4. MSR Pocket Rocket 2
Best backpacking stove
We like: Tiny size and weight, perfect as a ‘just in case’ option or for backpacking
- One burner
- Uses gas canisters
- Weighs 73g
Ten years ago when MSR’s Pocket Rocket first burst onto the scene, lightweight aficionados went crazy for its fast boil time (3.5 minutes) and tiny weight of 85g. Overnight it became the definitive canister-top stove (meaning it simply screws into the gas canister and is ready to use) for backpackers.
So it’s impressive to see that the latest iteration still folds down small enough to fit inside a camping mug and boils water just as quickly, but weighs even less at just 73g. That’s less than a deck of cards. Impressively, it also has a built-in wind shield that sees it perform well even in blustery weather, sturdy fold out pot supports and a large control knob. Given its size there is no built-in lighter, so you will need to remember matches, but for those who are watching the scales, this really is worth the weight.
5. Jetboil Stash
Best portable gas stove
We like: fool-proof operation and low weight for such a complete cooking system
- One burner
- Uses gas canisters
- Weighs 200g
The Jetboil is a light, easy-to-use stove and pot combination whose launch paved the way for many other ‘complete cooking systems’ over the last two decades. The main selling points are the quick boil time of 2.5 minutes – still the fastest out there – and the way the stove and gas canister pack away inside the pot, saving space. In my experience they’re virtually foolproof to use.
The latest model is the Stash, which is 40% lighter than previous versions at 200g (230g if you include a small gas canister). Impressive when you look at the features: a pot that doubles as a bowl and measuring jug, a lid with a pour spout/liquid drainer and a Flux Ring heat exchanger base, which not only offers wind protection but also conducts heat more efficiently, meaning you use less gas.
Like the Pocket Rocket it lacks an igniter, so matches are essential, and it would be tricky to cook on this for more than one or two people. But for backpackers like me, it’s simply perfect.
6. Biolite CampStove 2+
Best USB camping stove
We like: fun to use, powers your device while cooking and has an innovative flame control
- One burner
- Uses wood sticks or pellets
- Weighs 935g
When Biolite first emerged on the scene 10 years ago it seemed like a bit of a marketing gimmick; a wood-powered, smokeless stove that uses a thermoelectric generator to simultaneously charge your smartphone. But they have caught on, not just as quirky stoves for outdoor lovers, but also to create safe, clean and sustainable cooking systems for those living in energy poverty across the world. Where four million premature deaths per year are caused by fumes from open fires, the Biolite burns fuel much more cleanly and efficiently by injecting air into its mini-furnace. (This also gives you more control over the flame for cooking.)
The latest version of this environmentally-friendly stove packs down into the size and weight of a one-litre water bottle and boils water in about 4.5 minutes. For fuel it can use small branches, twigs, pine cones or biomass pellets (£7.50), each bag of which delivers two hours of cooking time.
The orange battery pack on the side delivers three Watts at full capacity, enough to charge most phones, albeit not very quickly. I could get around 10-15% each 30 minutes. It’s also enough to power a small light (included).
Its weight means it’s more suited for car camping than multi-day backpacking. I’m not sure I’d use it to cook for a whole family – although there are accessories in the form of grills and coffee pots to tempt you.
Not quite as practical as it seems, then, but the Biolite’s sustainable credentials, plus the phone-charging capabilities, are a great selling point.
7. Cobb Premier+
Best camping cooker for families
We like: the option of cooking a roast dinner al fresco (also easy to clean)
- One burner
- Uses gas canisters
- Weighs 3.9kg
What can you cook on a camping stove? What about vegetable kebabs – or an entire chicken? Maybe you want to bake a loaf of bread while camping? For those not satisfied with the basic one-pot meals that most stoves offer, there is this behemoth from Cobb.
The company originally designed electric-free cookers for rural Africa which were powered by corn cobs – hence the name – so they’re not designed to be carried around much. As big as a footstool and weighing the same as a sack of potatoes, this one is best transported in the back of a car.
The Cobb is essentially a compact, gas-powered barbecue, but one whose flame can be very precisely controlled, so that it can be used to cook pretty much anything. It’s billed as a ‘cooker in a box’. It’s all very easy to use and I was also very impressed with how easy it was to clean, thanks to a drip catcher (which also means healthier cooking).
8. Trangia Storm Cooker 25-3 Ultralight
Best liquid fuel stove
We like: Easy to use and pack away, a lightweight classic
- One burner
- Uses methylated spirit
- Weighs 895g
Anyone who has done a DofE award will be familiar with this camping classic, which has been used for decades. Fuelled by methylated spirit, which is easy to get hold of from most hardware stores and supermarkets and has a distinctive smell, you simply fill the burner with the liquid and light it with a match.
The Swedish-made Trangia comes in a nest of pots and pans to enable you to cook pretty much anything you like, but the main drawback is the speed – boiling water can take around 9-10 minutes. You can adjust the flame to a degree with the simmer ring and with a circular cover for the burner that restricts the flow of air, but this is tricky once it’s lit.
Another mark against it is the bulk. It’s not horrendously heavy, but it does take up a lot of room at the bottom of the rucksack if you’re hiking. Still, for those who want a taste of nostalgia (in every sense), you can’t beat a Trangia.
- Phoebe Smith is an adventurer, author and host of the Wander Woman travel podcast | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/recommended/leisure/best-camping-stoves/ | 2022-07-27T23:41:10Z | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/recommended/leisure/best-camping-stoves/ | false | 1 |
DELAWARE, Ohio (WCMH) – The Delaware County Sheriff’s Office has a new “mane” staff member.
Poppy is a 1-year-old miniature therapy horse.
Poppy and her handler, corrections officer Privett, have finished their training over the last six months, making visits to schools, courtrooms, the jail, and other spots in the community as part of that training.
“You look into Poppy’s eyes and see acceptance without judgment, love without fear and pain. You pet her and you feel the warmth and peace,” Privett said in the post. “The unconditional love of a therapy animal is felt by all. They immediately change the mood of a tense or painful situation and magically provide a subtle sense of calm.”
In a social media post announcing Poppy’s “hiring,” the sheriff’s office said the therapy horse represents the rural, agricultural nature of the community. In addition, the office’s Mounted Deputy Unit has served, in addition to more traditional tasks like crowd control and rescues, served as a ceremonial and community relations unit.
“As law enforcement continues to integrate more efforts in support of mental health, the therapy horse in Delaware County only makes sense,” the sheriff’s office posted.
Poppy and Privett, a 10-year corrections officer veteran, are being trained by Seven Oaks Farms, which is the only program in the country offering a comprehensive registration program designed for miniature horses, including certification for both the horse and their handler. Stockhands Horses for Healing, a non-profit organization, has also aided in Poppy and Privett’s training.
Training is expected to wrap up in the next few weeks, at which point, Poppy will begin taking requests for special appearances and visits. | https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/delaware/meet-delaware-countys-new-mane-sheriffs-deputy/ | 2022-07-27T23:42:10Z | https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/delaware/meet-delaware-countys-new-mane-sheriffs-deputy/ | true | 1 |
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Cyber attacks are concomitant effects of our progressive expansion into cyberspace—which means we cannot completely shield ourselves from them. There will always be a new cyber threat that will make us hold our breath in fear and desperately search for a solution.
We do always find a solution. However, as soon as we think we have arrived at a “digital fortress”, we are compelled to wrap our heads around another novel attack. It has become like a ride around an endless loop in chase of chaffs floating in the wind, which can be exactly alarming and at the same time ideally exhilarating.
Therefore, in order not to lose our minds to this bittersweet reality, cybersecurity experts recommend not sharing more than necessary as the best way of maintaining conscious cybersecurity hygiene.
Conscious cybersecurity hygiene is the most potent weapon against cyber-attacks. It is, in addition to other technical measures, the habit of minimizing the unconscious revealing of sensitive information. However, individuals, mostly inadvertently, leave a behavioral pattern on cyberspace. This may be from sharing personal information on Facebook and Instagram, taking selfies in sensitive places in a company and posting them on social media for public consumption, or even writing a post on LinkedIn to congratulate a colleague who recently got promoted to a higher position.
Whichever way, individuals are constantly leaving behind digital footprints that cyber-attackers can effectively utilize to launch yet another novel attack. Since individuals constitute an active part of businesses, they inherently expose the digital assets of these businesses to cyber threats through sharing more than necessary.
Sharing more than necessary exposes both the individual as a person and the business for which they work. It lands sensitive information on the laps of cyber-attackers who do nothing but thrive on gathering information on their targets.
With this information, cyber-attackers are then able to launch more targeted attacks, like spear-phishing, on these targets—and if the targets happen to be high-profile individuals, like CEOs, CFOs, or CIOs of businesses, the attackers can then target them with whaling attacks, with which they can gain deeper access to more sensitive information of the businesses. Using extensive access, cyber-attackers can penetrate other parts of the businesses, abusing, modifying and holding to ransom their digital assets.
This method, known as social engineering, enables cyber-attackers to weaponize your information as well as your desires against you. For instance, it is easy to target you with a phishing email about phony scholarships if your digital footprint confirms the desire for a scholarship. It is easy to target you with a phishing email about how to make a huge amount of money in the shortest amount of time if your digital footprint suggests such a desire. It is easy to target you with a phishing email about bogus investment opportunities if you have shown such interest in your digital footprint. In essence, the information that the attackers weaponize against you is carved in your personal post on social media and in your browser's history.
Whether a post on social media or a harmless search with a search engine or innocent surfing of a webpage, you always leave behind a digital footprint, which cyber-attackers can comb through for information on your interests, job, activities, etc.
With this information, the attackers are able to abuse specific details about your job or interests and impersonate you using a fake profile through a method known technically as profile cloning—it is the use of your job details, interests, activities, etc. to create a profile (especially social media profile) that is like yours if you already have one, or a profile that is befitting of your person and your job. It is part of identity theft.
With social engineering, you are not the only one at risk: All of your professional, and in many cases, your private, circles are at risk too!
Take for example, if an attacker is able to clone an email from you, albeit with a malicious link attached to it, and another person in your professional communication circle receives it, they may not bother to check the email for malicious intent or to confirm if you are truly the sender, because they trust you—which makes them more or less careless. It can be a close relative or friend whom you chat with on social media that might receive the social media phishing, which poses to have come from you. As such, they will not harbor any doubt or hesitation about the contents of the message, hence are likely to fall victim to the phishing exploit.
This is why you have to quit sharing more than necessary: You are equipping the attackers with more arms and ammunition with which to further exploit you. Sharing more than necessary is a vulnerability—and like every other vulnerability, you have to patch it. You cannot maintain conscious cybersecurity hygiene when you are still sharing more than necessary. Even if you keep the operating system of your systems up-to-date, patch all vulnerabilities in your application and employ the services of new technology—as long as you are still sharing more than necessary, you and your business are still extremely susceptible to cyber-attacks. There is no panacea for them other than not sharing more than necessary.
You can think of reverse social engineering as not sharing more than necessary, not allowing cookies on websites that you are not sure of so that if there happens to be any malware on the websites, it will not be able to read your browser’s history. Reverse social engineering means misleading the attacker with phony details or information that you couldn't care less about in any way. It also means being mindful of every detail you share and knowing exactly how it might affect you. It further entails being a step ahead of the attackers by minimizing the digital footprint you unconsciously leave behind each time you are on a public network.
In essence, reverse social engineering demands that you
It is true that you cannot shield yourself from cyber-attacks, at least not technically—but you can minimize how often you experience them. You can minimize how much information you are sharing inadvertently each time. Are you sharing more than necessary? You can minimize the digital footprint you are leaving behind.
Does it bare you for attackers to party on you? All you need is reverse social engineering to enable You to maintain conscious cybersecurity hygiene in every space at all times. That way you can rest assured that any cyber-attack you might experience in the future will be owing to vulnerability in software or failure of hardware, and not from you—not from sharing more than necessary. | https://hackernoon.com/reverse-social-engineering-a-call-to-quit-sharing-more-than-necessary | 2022-07-27T23:47:11Z | https://hackernoon.com/reverse-social-engineering-a-call-to-quit-sharing-more-than-necessary | false | 1 |
World dangerously close to nuclear war, warns Britain’s top security chief
THE world is dangerously close to nuclear war, Britain’s top security chief warned yesterday.
National Security Adviser Sir Stephen Lovegrove sounded the alarm as China and Russia upgrade their weapons of mass destruction.
And he said the war in Ukraine, coupled with the secretive regimes in both Moscow and Beijing, means we are “more likely to see ‘escalation wormholes’ — sudden, unpredictable failures in the fabric of deterrence causing rapid escalation to strategic conflict”.
Speaking in Washington DC at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, he said nuclear war was averted during the Cold War only because the Soviet Union and Nato were able to speak to each other with a mutual understanding which he said does not exist today.
China and Russia have made “repeated violation” of international treaties on nukes, while North Korea and Iran also pose a nuclear risk.
He warned of “the pace and scale with which China is expanding its nuclear and conventional arsenals and the disdain it has shown for engaging with any arms control agreements”.
Sir Stephen called on Nato to be “eternally vigilant” to the prospect of rogue states developing nukes.
He warned against regional arms races emerging as a result.
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He added: “We have clear concerns about China’s nuclear modernisation programme that will increase both the number and types of nuclear weapon systems in its arsenal.” | https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/9222591/world-close-nuclear-war/ | 2022-07-27T23:49:21Z | https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/9222591/world-close-nuclear-war/ | true | 4 |
MANILA: A 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed at least five people in the northern Philippines Wednesday, toppling buildings and shaking high-rise towers more than 300 kilometers away in the capital Manila. The shallow and powerful quake struck the mountainous and lightly populated province of Abra on the main island of Luzon at 8:43 am, the US Geological Survey said.
Shallow earthquakes tend to cause more damage than deeper ones. This one left more than a hundred people injured across the hilly region, triggered dozens of landslides, damaged buildings, and knocked out power. “We felt really strong shaking. We started shouting and rushed outside,” said university student Mira Zapata in the San Juan municipality of Abra, which took the full force of the quake. “Our house is OK but houses down the hill were damaged.”
As buildings shook and walls cracked in the municipality of Dolores, people ran outside, Police Major Edwin Sergio told AFP. “The quake was very strong,” Sergio said, adding that windows of the local market were broken. In Bangued, the provincial capital of Abra, a 23-year-old woman was killed after a wall fell on her, police said. At least 78 were injured in the province.
A video posted on Facebook and verified by AFP showed cracks in the asphalt road and ground in Bangued. “Some of the buildings here show cracks,” police chief Major Nazareno Emia added. “Power was cut off and internet as well.” Two construction workers in the nearby landlocked province of Benguet died in separate incidents, police said.
Another person was killed when boulders smashed into the building site where he was working in Kalinga province, police said. Six other workers were injured. Police said an elderly woman in Suyo municipality in Ilocos Sur province suffered fatal injuries after she was buried by a landslide while out walking. In Vigan City, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Ilocos Sur, centuries-old structures built during the Spanish colonial period were damaged, police said.
Ring of Fire
The Philippines is regularly rocked by quakes due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, an arc of intense seismic activity that stretches from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin. Wednesday’s quake was one of the strongest recorded in the Philippines in years and was felt across swathes of Luzon island, the most populous in the archipelago. It was followed by nearly 300 aftershocks, the local seismological agency said. Several of the subsequent quakes measured from magnitude 4.7 to 5.2, according to USGS.
Residents and office workers in Manila were evacuated from high-rise buildings. “I grabbed money and our belongings and then I went out with my parents,” said Christina Gonzales, 19, after fleeing a city hotel. Verified video footage posted on Facebook showed the Bantay Bell Tower in the popular tourist destination of Vigan partially crumbling.
Two visitors suffered minor injuries from falling debris, an official said. Other buildings in the city were also damaged. “We can’t rule out the possibility of another strong earthquake,” said Renato Solidum, director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, whose family stronghold is in the north, said he would delay visiting the region to avoid causing disruption. He urged people to remain in emergency shelters until their homes have been checked for damage.
Military personnel have been deployed to Abra to help with rescue operations. At least 58 landslides have been reported , Interior Secretary Benjamin Abalos said. National disaster agency spokesman Mark Timbal said road-clearing operations were under way. There had been no reports of damage to local dams. In October 2013, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Bohol Island in the central Philippines, killing more than 200 people and triggering landslides.
Old churches in the birthplace of Catholicism in the Philippines were badly damaged. Nearly 400,000 were displaced and tens of thousands of houses were damaged. The powerful quake altered the island’s landscape and a “ground rupture” pushed up a stretch of ground by about three meters, creating a wall of rock above the epicenter. In 1990, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in the northern Philippines created a ground rupture stretching over a hundred kilometers. Fatalities were estimated to reach over 1,200, with major damage to buildings in Manila. – AFP | https://www.kuwaittimes.com/powerful-earthquake-hits-north-philippines/ | 2022-07-27T23:56:28Z | https://www.kuwaittimes.com/powerful-earthquake-hits-north-philippines/ | true | 2 |
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Today’s Wordle Answer (July 28th, 2022): Puzzle 404 Hints, Clues, and Solution
Wordle not foundWhen you’ve had enough, put your foot down and take a look at today’s Wordle answer for July 28th, 2022.
When the solution to Puzzle 404 is “not found”, it’s easy to get disheartened, but when you’re only working with a maximum of 6 guesses there’s more strategy involved than you might think.
While you’re not trying to narrow down many vowels this time, that only means there are more consonants to uncover. There are a couple of slightly less common ones in there that could throw you off, and the target word itself is a little unusual, so it might not be the first thing that comes to mind.
To make your task more manageable, we’ve come up with some Wordle hints and clues to help you stumble towards the solution. We’ve also updated our running list of recent solutions from the last month to give you a few ideas.
Clues and hints for Today's Wordle Answer
No matter how good your plan going into a Wordle is, it only takes a couple of unfortunate guesses to trample all over your ambitions of a good score. But rather than take your frustrations out by crushing something under your shoe, it’s always better to channel that into something productive.
To save your streak for another 24 hours, here are some Wordle hints to get your guessing started.
Your clues for Puzzle 404 are:
- The answer contains 1 vowel in the middle position
- The 1st and 2nd letters are next to each other in the alphabet, as are the 3rd and 5th
- The middle letters spell out a man’s name associated with a cat and mouse duo, cruises, and thumbs
Previous Wordle Answers
Take a look at this list of recent Wordle solutions and take note of what to avoid. While you could use these words to eliminate any tough to remove letters, your best bet is to give them a wide berth. As always, words only ever appear once in Wordle, but there are still thousands more possibilities.
- #374 – Droll – June 28
- #375 – Gawky – June 29
- #376 – Hutch – June 30
- #377 – Pinto – July 1
- #378 – Egret – July 2
- #379 – Lilac – July 3
- #380 – Sever – July 4
- #381 – Field – July 5
- #382 – Fluff – July 6
- #383 – Agape – July 7
- #384 – Voice – July 8
- #385 – Stead – July 9
- #386 – Berth – July 10
- #387 – Madam – July 11
- #388 – Night – July 12
- #389 – Bland – July 13
- #390 – Liver – July 14
- #391 – Wedge – July 15
- #392 – Roomy – July 16
- #393 – Wacky – July 17
- #394 – Flock – July 18
- #395 – Angry – July 19
- #396 – Trite – July 20
- #397 – Aphid – July 21
- #398 – Tryst – July 22
- #399 – Midge – July 23
- #400 – Power – July 24
- #401 – Elope – July 25
- #402 – Cinch – July 26
- #403 – Motto – July 27
Today’s Wordle Answer July 28th
The Wordle answer today is stomp.
As you might expect, the word stomp is closely related to the word stamp. In fact, it’s a variant of stamp that was first recorded around 1800.
Stamp was originally recorded much earlier in the time of Middle English, and comes from the German verb “stampfen”, which means the same as it does in English.
Why the variant, stomp, first came about isn’t well known, but it could be due to a very common form of word formation: onomatopoeia. This is where a word mimics the sound of the thing it describes like “bang”. When you bring your foot down heavily on the floor, doesn’t it sound a bit like stomp?
With that puzzle out of the way, it’s time to take on a new challenge with these Wordle alternatives! | https://www.vg247.com/wordle-answer-july-28 | 2022-07-27T23:59:38Z | https://www.vg247.com/wordle-answer-july-28 | true | 1 |
MARIPOSA, Calif. — Nearly 3,000 firefighters and first responders have flooded the Sierra foothills of Mariposa County battling the explosive Oak fire, but it’s the guys in camouflage fatigues and surplus war vehicles that have most alarmed some evacuees and monitors of extremist groups.
As fire crews made headway Tuesday against a blaze that has roared through 18,000 acres, destroyed 25 homes and forced thousands to flee their homes, the presence of a self-described militia whose members handed out food and offered help to evacuees has raised concerns among some.
Calling itself the Echo Company of the California State Militia’s 2nd Regiment, the group had set up a field kitchen off Highway 140 recently and told the Merced Sun-Star it was offering food, water and a place to stay for those in need. Online, the group posts videos of members training with rifles, shields and other equipment, along with the group’s tagline: “We who dare.”
The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office announced on Facebook on Sunday that it had been “made aware” of the presence of a local militia in the area. “We appreciate their efforts and any of the efforts of other private groups or entities helping our community,” the statement read.
But those who monitor extremist groups questioned whether their actions were truly altruistic.
Self-described militia groups have often inserted themselves into natural disaster zones, they said. Sometimes the groups claim to provide help and supplies, while actually promoting right-wing extremist ideologies, anti-government sentiment and conspiracy theories.
“It puts these groups in a positive light and extends to them a type of de-facto authority that they really don’t have under the law, which poses significant issues,” said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino. “When you have a system that allows unregulated extremists to cosplay at times of disaster, you get, well, unqualified extremists cosplaying at times of disaster.”
The Sheriff’s Office had not requested the militia’s presence and said members were acting on “their own courteous accord.”
“The public should be aware that the militia has not been activated or requested to act for any purpose by the Sheriff’s Office or any agency working the Oak fire,” the agency said on Facebook. “We are not unsupportive of groups helping those affected by the Oak fire, however, it is important that we inform the community of resources available to them by the incident and Mariposa County.”
The group’s presence came as firefighters appeared to make significant gains, even after the fire had destroyed 41 structures and kept thousands from their homes.
The northeast side of the fire was continuing to push against steep terrain and was at risk of bumping around the 2018 Ferguson fire burn scar, which could then ignite new brush and forest and make the fire harder to control, said Escondido Fire Department public information officer Dominic Polito, who was working with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection on the blaze.
“If it runs up around the Ferguson scar, then we’re off to the races,” he said. “If not, then we’re looking very good.”
By Tuesday, the fire reached 26% containment, according to Cal Fire. Several residents were allowed to return to their homes by Friday evening as evacuation orders for some areas were reduced to fire advisements.
Still, about 1,440 buildings remained threatened as the fire continued to press on the eastern boundary, and firefighters continued to fight through steep terrain.
“The terrain is very slippery,” said Fresno Fire Capt. Chris Garcia. “Even putting firefighters up there is very hazardous. What can happen when walking is a dislodged rock can hit another firefighter, and we’re currently hitting a lot of snags, which is what we call a burnt out tree that ends up falling.”
Those residents that had been forced to flee were still reeling from the blur of packing up what they could and leaving their homes in uncertainty.
“I had never seen [smoke] that close before,” said Richard Perez, a 40-year resident of Mariposa County.
He and his wife packed their belongings and stuffed them into two cars, including their dogs and chickens.
“That’s my dream home, you know,” he said, “I worked my whole life to finally get a place.”
They ushered their three German shepherds into one car, and 11 of their chickens in the other. After one night at a local hotel, they stayed at the American Red Cross shelter at Mariposa Elementary along with about 40 other evacuees.
“I’ve been there for 20 years, and to lose everything,” he said, his voice trailing off. “It’s just material stuff, but it’s home.”
It’s residents like Perez that the uniformed militia group said it was looking to help.
Daniel Latner, a member of the group, told the Mercury News that around 20 members arrived with large military-surplus vehicles to help feed residents. Members, he said, were not armed.
Yet some residents found their presence unsettling.
“The last thing I’m going to do is take a free tri-tip sandwich from a right-wing extremist group,” a woman, who declined to be identified citing fear of provoking the group, told the Mercury News.
The group in Mariposa County had once been affiliated with a larger militia with a similar name, but the larger militia cut ties with Echo Company because of an incident in 2020, it said, when they inserted armed members between Black Lives Matter supporters and pro-police groups in a protest in Atwater.
In a 2020 statement, the larger group wrote online that it disavowed Echo Company because of “potential legal liability in light of the continued militant activities of other units,” and called the actions “inciteful.”
The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to requests for comment.
The presence of militia in natural disaster zones can seem well-intentioned, but can in fact be harmful because members are taking on actions that can interfere with trained government agencies that are coordinating a response, Levin said.
Many extremists groups are also known to use similar incidents to gain media attention and recruit new members.
Militia groups have also gained newfound scrutiny after the involvement of similar groups in the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington, D.C. Members of groups including the Oath Keepers — which years earlier had appeared at hurricane zones and conducted trainings for local residents to prepare for natural disasters — have been indicted for their alleged role in the attack.
Levin said he is also concerned that, even if the group is providing assistance to residents, law enforcement’s subtle approval raises questions about the public’s interaction with them.
“If it turns out there’s extremists within those ranks, that’s a critical juncture where people are at their most vulnerable,” he said. “Vulnerable people at vulnerable times require a qualified response, and they don’t need to be exposed to the possibility of extremism.” | https://www.mankatofreepress.com/fire-crews-make-gains-in-massive-oak-fire-as-presence-of-uniformed-militia-sparks-furor/article_9d8ecc9e-0ddf-11ed-ba9a-d79e078438e2.html | 2022-07-28T00:05:30Z | https://www.mankatofreepress.com/fire-crews-make-gains-in-massive-oak-fire-as-presence-of-uniformed-militia-sparks-furor/article_9d8ecc9e-0ddf-11ed-ba9a-d79e078438e2.html | false | 3 |
CHENEY — Eastern Washington University has announced the students earning Dean’s List honors for Fall Quarter 2021.
Undergraduate students who earn 12 quality hours and receive a GPA of 3.5 or better are placed on the Dean’s List.
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CHENEY — Eastern Washington University has announced the students earning Dean’s List honors for Fall Quarter 2021.
Undergraduate students who earn 12 quality hours and receive a GPA of 3.5 or better are placed on the Dean’s List.
Sunnyside: Xavier Estrada, Yulianna Godinez, Oscar Jimenez, Carina Lopez, Arcelia Madrigal, Husai Moreno, Mariah Saenz, Kyleeanna Schenck, and Hannah Sullivan.
Benton City: Rachel Harper.
Grandview: Joel Adame, Jessica Avalos, Jennifer Castaneda, Ruben Cohetzaltitla, Agustin Cortes, Kimberly Regis, and Daniela Tello.
Prosser: Ian Campuzano, Karen Cuevas Jimenez, Nate Dixon, Katelyn Greene, Rachel Hudak, Elizabeth Humberstad, Avree Littleton, Kassandra Lopez, Andrea Orozco-diaz, Daisy Palencia, Aspen Peters, and Lino Rivera.
Toppenish: Zoraida Dominguez, Samantha Escamilla, Jonathan Lomeli, and Joel Ramirez.
Wapato: Teia Curtis, Armando Garcia, Bert Hinojosa, Cooper Paulsen, and Jade Rivera.
Zillah: Angelica Cortes.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Torey Lovullo’s offensive mantra through six seasons in the desert has been to build innings by getting runners on base, move them around and wait for someone to get a big hit. A bunt single, a safety bunt and a homer — the Arizona Diamondbacks followed their manager’s plans to perfection in the seventh inning against San Francisco. Jose Rojas homered after the Diamondbacks scored two runs on Jose Herrera’s squeeze bunt in the seventh inning, extending the Giants’ losing streak to seven games with a 5-3 win on Wednesday. “It’s it’s not easy to execute the way we did with that that safety squeeze,” Lovullo said. “I’m looking for just one run in that situation, advance runner to third base with one out. We got we got the bonus because it head’s up baserunning, just a good aggressive play.”
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Atricure (ATRC) Gains in Active Trading for July 27
Equities Staff Follow |Shares of Atricure Inc (NASDAQ:ATRC) traded 5.94% higher on July 27 to close at $47.97.
312,694 traded hands. Their current average 30 day volume is 247,902 shares.
Atricure has moved 34.88% year-to-date in 2022.
The company is set to release earnings on 2022-08-02.
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About Atricure Inc
AtriCure, Inc. provides innovative technologies for the treatment of Afib and related conditions. Afib affects more than 33 million people worldwide. Electrophysiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons around the globe use AtriCure technologies for the treatment of Afib and reduction of Afib related complications. AtriCure's Isolator ® Synergy™ Ablation System is the first and only medical device to receive FDA approval for the treatment of persistent Afib. AtriCure's AtriClip ® Left Atrial Appendage Exclusion System products are the most widely sold LAA management devices worldwide.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
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How to Watch Cameron Champ at the Rocket Mortgage Classic: Live Stream, TV Channel
Cameron Champ hits the links July 28-31 in the 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic at TPC Twin Cities after a 16th-place finish in the 3M Open in the last competition he appeared in.
How to Watch Cameron Champ at the Rocket Mortgage Classic
- Date: July 28-31, 2022
- TV: Golf Channel
- Location: Detroit, Michigan
- Course: Detroit Golf Club
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Champ's Statistics
- Over his last eight rounds, Champ has finished below par four times, while also carding four rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has carded a top-five score once in his last eight rounds.
- Over his last eight rounds, Champ has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round twice, and within five strokes of the top score for the day three times.
- Champ did not make the cut when he last played the course at Detroit Golf Club (2021).
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SEATTLE (AP) — People in Washington state’s most populous county should soon be able to drop off unwanted guns and ammunition at any sheriff’s office or storefront location, assured of its safe disposal.
The Metropolitan King County Council unanimously approved legislation Tuesday to create a permanent program within its Sheriff’s Office that allows people to voluntarily return firearms and ammunition, The Seattle Times reported.
The legislation asks the county executive to evaluate the feasibility of allowing drop offs and allowing people to request a sheriff’s deputy to pick up an unwanted firearm.
People also could drop off guns at locations in the 10 contract cities where the county sheriff provides police services. And the legislation asks the sheriff to look for partnerships with other cities to expand access for people looking to turnover guns or ammunition.
The measure emerged following mass shootings in May in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.
“Reducing the number of guns in circulation will reduce the number of accidents, injuries and deaths caused by guns,” Councilmember Rod Dembowski, the lead sponsor, said. “And we know from past experience that people welcome the opportunity to turn unwanted guns over to a responsible party for disposal.”
During a 2013 gun buyback program coordinated by King County and the City of Seattle, 716 firearms were surrendered to law enforcement in exchange for gift cards.
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The principal of the Texas school where the nation’s deadliest classroom shooting in a decade happened on Wednesday disputed some key findings of a legislative report on the attack, including that doors were left unlocked and there was lax enforcement of rules.
In a statement issued by her attorney, Mandy Gutierrez rejected a legislative committee’s finding that a “culture of complacency” over safety at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde allowed a gunman to enter the school and kill 19 children and two teachers. She also said the lock on the door to the fourth-grade classroom where the May 24 shooting happened worked when a custodian checked it the night before.
School Superintendent Hal Harrell suspended Gutierrez with pay on Monday pending a performance review pertaining to school security.
The legislative report placed the most fault with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, which took more than an hour to enter the classroom where the shooter was and kill him as parents outside the school begged officers to do something and dispatchers took 911 calls from inside the school. Surveillance footage of police officers in body armor milling in the hallway while the gunman carried out the massacre led to rage from families of victims, who have demanded accountability.
In the statement addressed to the three members of the Texas House committee that issued the report after its investigation, Gutierrez also said the teacher in charge of the classroom where the shooting happened complained that because the school's only printer was in his classroom, other teachers often interrupted his teaching to unlock the door so they could retrieve their printed documents.
As for reports that the door had to be closed forcefully to engage the locked latch, Gutierrez said: “This is the condition of many doors in an aged building." She also said that neither she nor her predecessors had any recollection that the classroom teacher had complained that the door would not lock.
Gutierrez disputed that spotty school Wi-Fi prevented school personnel from receiving an alert to a security breach.
Finally, she rejected the finding that complacency had set in because of frequent lockdowns prompted by nearby law enforcement pursuits of migrants trying to flee.
“We were trained to treat every alert from any law enforcement agency as a situation with a high potential to escalate into a dangerous episode for students, teachers and administrators,” she said in the statement issued by attorney Ricardo Cedillo of San Antonio.
Gutierrez said her most recent performance review rated her as “Accomplished” in creating “a safe school environment that ensures the social, emotional and physical well-being of staff and students."
“I will live with the horror of these events for the rest of my life," she concluded. “I want to keep my job not only so I can provide for my family but so that I can continue to be on the front lines helping the children who survived, the families of all affected and the entire Uvalde community that I love and want to continue to protect.”
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MakeMyTrip (NASDAQ: MMYT)
Q1 2023 Earnings Call
Jul 27, 2022, 7:30 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Vipul Garg
Hello, everyone. I'm Vipul Garg, vice president, investor relations at MakeMyTrip Limited. And welcome to our fiscal year 2023 first quarter earnings webinar. Today's event will be hosted by Deep Kalra, our company's group chairman and chief mentor.
Joining him is Rajesh Magow, our co-founder and group chief executive officer, and Mohit Kabra, our group chief financial officer. As a reminder, this live event is being recorded by the company and will be made available for replay on our IR website shortly after the conclusion of today's event. At the end of these prepared remarks, we will also be hosting a Q&A session. Furthermore, certain statements made during today's event may be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of safe harbor provision of the U.S.
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Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are not guarantees of future performance, are subject to inherent uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. Any forward-looking information relayed during this event speaks only as of this date, and the company undertakes no obligation to update the information to reflect changed circumstances. Additional information concerning these statements are contained in the Risk Factors and Forward-Looking Statements section of the company's annual report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC on July 12, 2022.
Copies of these filings are available from the SEC or from the company's investor relations department. I would like to now turn over the call over to Rajesh. Over to you, Rajesh.
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Vipul. Welcome everyone to our first quarter earnings call of fiscal 2023. We are glad to report a robust quarter-on-quarter growth of 63.3% in gross bookings on constant currency basis signaling strong recovery in travel sentiment and demand post the third wave of COVID-19 infections in India. I shared earlier we have built significant operating leverage in our business over the last few years, which has helped us deliver our highest quarterly adjusted operating profit of over $16.5 million compared to about $12 million in the last recorded quarter.
It is heartening that after two years of being under the impact of COVID-19 pandemic this new fiscal year has started on a strong note with public behavior and sentiment back to pre-pandemic normal given the comfort of strong vaccination coverage in India, and the latest variants of COVID-19 reporting milder infection with minimal hospitalization and fertility rate. Accordingly, we have seen strong recovery in leisure travel in domestic destinations as well as improving demand in short haul international destinations in Southeast Asia, UAE, and Nepal, etc. Globally, and in India, governments and central banks have increased the efforts recently to tame inflationary pressures that had built up over the last few quarters. As the effect of these measures become more visible in the coming quarters, there is likelihood that airfares, which have been higher than normal during Q1 due to high oil prices, will become more attractive leading to improved domestic and international travel demand.
Further considering the consumer sentiment for travel is still very positive. With work patterns gradually getting back to pre-pandemic normal while we have seen increased demand for office commute during the quarter. We also expect corporate travel demand momentum to further pick up in the coming quarters, aiding overall demand recovery for the travel industry. Overall, our current estimate is that travel both domestic and international should recover fully to pre-pandemic levels by the end of this year.
Apart from the short term positive outlook on demand recovery, we believe there are significant tailwind supporting robust growth in travel industry over the medium term of next three to five years. Firstly, due to the pandemic, the travel industry saw a significant temporary decline and hence the pent up demand is likely to drive accelerated growth with the return of normalcy. Secondly, post the pandemic there is a permanent shift in how people perceive travel with a propensity to travel being much higher, and experiences becoming even more important. Thirdly, there is also a secular uptick in the online buying behavior, which bodes very well for us as most segments of the Indian travel industries have traditionally had low online penetration.
Lastly, and most importantly, India is still an under penetrated travel market with a huge scope of growth. Some of the factors favoring these growth trends are expansion of infrastructure, increasing per capita income, increasing disposable incomes, and higher willingness to travel and book online among the young working population. As per the Ministry of Civil Aviation estimates, Indian aviation will become world's third largest aviation market by 2024. Development of new airports, highways, and addition of hotels will help grow domestic tourism many fold in coming years.
Almost all the airlines are placed orders for new planes over the years. On the other hand, few hospitality chains have also announced their expansion plans which should add to capacity and fuel domestic travel growth. As a comprehensive travel service provider, we hope to leverage these macro growth trends. Let me now talk about the performance in the key travel segments.
And I would then share the prospects on some of the future growth areas both on the supply side and demand side. Coming to business segments. In our air business, we continue to maintain our leadership position and market share. We are recovering faster than the market.
During the quarter we witnessed over 90% recovery as compared to pre-pandemic levels. This is majorly on account of travel demand opening and more people traveling during the summer holiday season. I talked about high air fares earlier. This has affected recovery momentum to some extent, leisure destinations like Srinagar, Deheradun, Leh have shown more than 100% recovery, while business in metro destinations like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, etc.
have lagged a bit due to high fares and corporate demand still short of full recovery.On international travel short haul destinations like Southeast Asia, Maldives, UAE, and Nepal witness strong recovery. In the next few months as the visa backlog gets cleared, and new visa issuances for European and American destination get streamline, we expect to see stronger demand recovery in these long haul destinations as well. Coming to our hotels packages and alternative accommodation business. We witnessed a strong recovery driven by leisure travel.
Supply side services have now stabilized. In the top selling hotels 90% of the rooms are open and almost all chain hotels are now fully functioning. In many of the leisure destinations we are now seeing growth over pre-pandemic levels, which have helped taking the overall volumes recovery in the segment to around 87% of the pre-pandemic volumes. Accommodations are focused on building home stay supply has helped us improve supply leisure cities such as Rishikesh, Srinagar, Shimla, Manali, Missouri McLeodGanj, and Leh, which has helped us get past pre-pandemic volumes in this category.
We also launched Home stay Awards, which are one of its kind in the country, and we'll help popularize this category further. The awards attracted nominations for up to 2,500 plus home stays across the country, consumer voting is going on, and more than 4,60,000 votes have already been cast by the users. We continue to add more properties on our platform and increase our supply mode. It is encouraging to see that more and more properties in smaller towns are keen to come on our platform and sell online.
In Q1 we sold rooms in over 43,000 properties spread over 1,900 plus cities which reflects the extensive support being provided to small accommodation service providers, particularly in the remote towns and building deeper engagement with suppliers and customers in larger part. Coming to our bus ticketing business, we maintained our recovery momentum in the seasonally strong quarter. Demand and supply recovery has been lagging in certain states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala. In the coming quarters, reopening of offices and gradual move away from remote working in the corporate sector, especially in the IT sector, should help drive full restoration of demand.
On the product side, we launched a project aimed at increasing the last minute booking share of Red Bus through targeted interventions on select routes by ensuring price competitiveness and pricing advantage with offline channels. Additionally, intervention such as keeping the booking window open at a boarding point till the actual time of departure based on real time bias delays, as well as showing the earliest available bus at the nearest boarding points have helped improve conversion rates for us. We launched new initiatives to differentiate our driver experience. Seven Red Bus lounges across top boarding points pan India including four Cafe Coffee Day lounges in Bangalore are now functional.
Let me now share more details on the current areas of investment which would be growth drivers in the next few years as a scale up. These include both supply side initiatives and demand side initiatives apart from small inroads in adjacent markets like GCC. On the supply side, our investments are primarily toward bringing more and more small service providers and accommodations onto our platform and ground transport services like rail and intercity cabs. We now have accommodation service providers in about 1,900 cities up from 1,600 cities earlier.
We aim to have accommodation supply in over 2,000 cities before the end of this fiscal year. On airport transfer use case, we recently piloted to promote carbon efficient services particularly in the metro cities, starting with a partnership with Blue Smart Ride sharing company with electrical vehicles, offering our customers hassle free guaranteed and on time pickup and drop experience at Delhi airport. We are looking to expand the supply at the other locations through similar partnerships. One of the key objectives around our ground transport services is to acquire customers particularly in the hinterland and eventually get them to buying other travel services on our platforms.
Our key initiatives on the demand segments as shared earlier are focused on catering to the corporate travel demand [Inaudible] and Quest2Travel, Q2T platforms as well as improved outreach to customers in the hinterland by tapping into the small travel agents across the country for last leg booking facilitation via our MyPartner, a platform and through our franchise stores. Our target is to double the booking contribution coming from these demand segments from about 7% last year to about 15% over the next few quarters. According to our estimates, we are now the largest OTA powering the travel demand from Indian corporate via MyBiz platform targeting with the SMEs and Q2T platform for large corporate when we added notable clients like CI Infotech, Grant Thornton, Gati logistics, etc. during the reported quarter.
Coming to our foray into the GCC market. Our first focus has been UAE market, and it continues to scale. Q1 has been a good quarter for us with market showing strong recovery post Omicron wave and seasonal customer demand around Eid holidays, during Q1 our gross bookings growth 2.3 times quarter on quarter organically, albeit in low base. We have made significant progress in building supply strength and automation.
Our first target is to be the leading OTA in UAE by the end of this fiscal year. Before I wind up, I would like to reiterate that the outlook for travel industry has improved considerably. And we have started the fiscal on a strong note with robust top line recovery and growth in profits. With this, let me now hand over the call to Mohit for financial highlights of the quarter.
Over to you Mohit.
Mohit Kabra -- Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Rajesh. Hello, everyone. I hope you're all staying safe and keeping healthy. During the last two years under the pandemic, we have been focused on tight cost control to get to operational profitability while being in the business recovery phase.
This year, the objective will be to improve profitability, along with the strong bookings growth over the previous year. Before getting into the financial highlight, I'd like to call out two specific things. One, while our operating business is largely in Indian currency our financial reporting is in U.S. dollars.
Significant weakening of the INR versus USD during the quarter have a translation or restatement impact, and hence that focus on growth in constant currency to reflect the stronger underneath growth in the operating currency. The year-on-year growth metrics during this reported quarter look very high because Q1 last year was significantly impacted by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and therefore focus on quarter-on-quarter growth to reflect the continued strong momentum in travel demand recovery. I'm glad to report that during the reported quarter, we posted very strong growth and profit numbers. We have achieved 63.3% quarter-on-quarter growth in bookings on a constant currency basis apart from posting our highest quarterly adjusted operating profit or adjusted EBIT of $16.5 million adding for non cash expense the adjusted cash operating profit or adjusted EBITDA is stood at about $20.1 million.
During the quarter, our air ticketing adjustment margin has stood at $60.6 million registering a 38.7% growth over the previous quarter on constant currency basis. We're glad to share that our domestic flight segments have nearly recovered to pre-pandemic levels of same quarter in fiscal year 2019-2020, although the recovery on international flights is still around the halfway mark for mostly the reasons that are already been called out by Rajesh. The air ticketing margins for the quarter were unexpected lines at about 6.1% in view of the high air fare and therefore you can see that the average selling price in domestic flights was up almost 18.6% versus last quarter. And just in margin, in our hotel and packages business, they stood at $66.9 million, witnessing a growth of 62.3% quarter on quarter in constant currency terms.
We witnessed a surge in bookings this quarter, aided by the holidays or vacation seasonality. The margins in the segment came in line with our expectations at about 17.2%. The average selling price for domestic hotels was up almost 11.5% over the previous quarter. In our bus ticketing business, the quarterly adjusted margin stood at about $20.8 million registering very strong quarter-on-quarter growth of about 72.3% in constant currency terms.
The margins were in line with our expectations at about 8.8% and the average selling price increase in the domestic bus ticket rate was about 15.6% over the previous quarter. Adjusted margin in our other businesses was $7.9 million, which is a 42% quarter-on-quarter growth in constant currency terms. Coming to our operating costs. We continue to be prudent with our variable expense, especially the customer acquisition costs.
Marketing and sales promotion expenses stood at about 5.1% of gross bookings in line with the 5.1% reported during the last fiscal year. While it has been reported earlier, during the quarter, we took a majority stake in India's leading online ForEx provider Book My ForEx to help build ancillary ForEx services as a part of a trip money FinTech platform to meet the growing needs of our travel customers. As international travel picks up, this will allow us the opportunity to service the ForEx requirements of our customers. We will continue to leverage our strong brands and cash position to drive investments in the areas of future growth already outlined by Rajesh.
With that, I'd like to turn the call back to Vipul for Q&A.
Vipul Garg
Thank you, Mohit. [Operator instructions] First question is from the line of Vijit Jain of Citi. Vijit you may please ask your question now.
Vijit Jain -- Citi -- Analyst
Thank you. Can you hear me? OK. Thanks Vipul. Congratulations on great numbers.
My first question is just the average ticket size of the air transactions, how much of it is being driven by the price increases in domestic aviation and how much of an impact from international improvement, and if you can clear, if you can talk about overall, how much has international improved on a Q2 basis?
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
So like it called out on the domestic side the domestic fares on an average have increased by about 18.6% over the previous quarter. So that's the kind of increase in trends that we're seeing on the domestic side. International, clearly, the recovery has been kind of muted, like I called out, international recovery is kind of in a more in the 50s right now. And therefore, kind of lagging.
Couple of reasons over the while we're kind of doing quite well on the short haul destinations, individual destinations, like Southeast Asia, etc., we are doing well, however, recovery in the long haul destinations particularly Europe, U.S., etc., is yet to pick up. And multiple reasons over there, including high air fares, and also the fact that issuances of new Visa has been kind of severely impacted because of the large backlog that these embassies are kind of. So, I believe the improvement of recovery in the long haul destinations will actually be something that we look forward to in the coming quarters.
Vijit Jain -- Citi -- Analyst
Correct. Thanks. My second question is within the domestic hotel business, also, is budget segments are lagging relative to the premium segment, because there's a fairly decent jump in average ticket size there as well? And just a clarification question to what Rajesh said earlier. You mentioned new channels.
You aim to have their contribution doubled from 7% to 15%. I just wanted to understand what are you including in that 7% number?
Deep Kalra -- Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Sure, I could take both. I mean when it comes to the domestic hotels also, there has been a bit of a kind of inflationary impact like I called out DSPs have increased by about 11.5%. As far as recovery is concerned again, while the budget segment was lagging very significantly over the last fiscal year, or the last two years, it's actually kind of now improving. So while pre-pandemic, it used to be more in the 40s to kind of close to the 2% mark.
It's already gotten into the 30s. So I would say it's more the inflationary impact rather than the kind of mix impact which is reflected in the ASPs. So that's more on the hotel side. The second question, if you could just repeat that.
OK. So the 7% going to 15, like we should get called out, we kind of tapping into a lot of new demand segments. And as Rajesh has called out in a narrative that we'll be looking at three channels of new demand segments to kind of tap into one is the corporate segment, which is being catered to by MyBiz platform for small corporates and Q2T by large corporates. The second one is the entire the franchisee network that we've kind of been looking at kind of an expanding and the third is the entire small travel agent, kind of network being tapped into along with kind of powering a lot of the affiliate channels.
So looking at all of these channels together, because traditionally, they've been more focused on the retail customer, which kind of comes in directly and books on the app or the platforms. So these new demand segments that we're tapping through the non-retail kind of platform. These we believe, should kind of keep increasing in the mix. And these were counting close to about 7% last year.
We believe we can kind of possibly look at doubling the entire mix coming in from these new demand segments.
Questions & Answers:
Operator
Thank you Vijit. The next question is from the line of Amol Desai. Amol, please ask your question now. Amol, you will have to unmute yourself and ask question.
While Amol comes back, we will take the next question, which is from Guarav Rateria of Morgan Stanley. Gaurav you may please ask your question now.
Guarav Rateria -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Congratulations on great performance in this quarter. So a couple of questions. Firstly on advertising and sales promotion. Mohit you have always intended to go back to 6% to 7% while 1Q has kind of remained much lower than that despite cross booking improving quite a bit.
So how should one think about this number going forward? Has there been any material change in the competitive intensity which kind of changes your view? Second related question is you had made remarks on the investment. So how do you think about balancing those investments and operating leverage benefit? You earlier had given an outlook of EBIT margins closer 2.5% of gross bookings. Does that change after what you have done in 1Q?
Mohit Kabra -- Chief Financial Officer
Well, I'm going to take both of these. On the first one, which is on customer acquisition costs like I called out during the quarter, these are largely trended at similar levels to the previous fiscal year at about 5.1%. We've been calling out that, we do expect that this could kind of slightly go up. And this will be linked to a couple of things.
One, it will be linked to kind of the overall business mix getting restored to pre-pandemic levels where hotels used to contribute almost like 50% plus of the mix. Right now, hotels is still in the 40s because generally the recovery pattern we've seen air leads the kind of recovery, and the other segments kind of tend to lag a little bit. So as this mix gets restored over the next few quarters, I think we should possibly see this kind of number increasing, because the amount of kind of customer division costs that we incur on the hotel side, are slightly higher, in line with the larger margins that we make in those businesses. The second point is we're also kind of not getting into any significant brand kind of expenses which are more longer term in nature keeping in mind that we still not kind of cross the pre-pandemic kind of volumes, and once we kind of getting beyond the pre-pandemic volumes, I think there will be a requirement to kind of if we start on the, on the brand expenses, and therefore, these two factors, keeping in mind is where we have called out that we could see a little bit of increase coming in the marketing, kind of costs.
But the good part is, we should also see, with the improvement in the mix, toward hotels we should also see the blended margins going up marginally as well. So some part of the increase in the promotional expenses will be offset from the improved blended margins as well. Moving on to the second question, on the investment, like we've said I think that the business now firmly kind of having established which kind of profitability, and the cost levers, kind of well in control, also the fact that the larger investment in terms of opening up the larger segments, like air ticketing, or for instance, hotels, etc., that investment is already behind us. What we are now curating is a variety of demand segments, which will kind of be very useful from the longer term growth point of view.
And secondly, getting into a lot of interesting kind of travel services or travel related services again where in both of these kinds of demand and supply side kind of increases, we don't necessarily need to kind of invest in a big way. So, the size and scale of investments is going to be much lower compared to the kind of investments we have been doing say for instance, over the last four or five years in the hotels business. So I think, a large part of these investments practical will keep getting funded out of the operating cash profit generation that we'll see on a quarter-to-quarter basis. And keeping that in mind is where we have kind of pretty much given a broader guidance that we do believe we should be able to see overall EBITDA getting to kind of close to about the 1% levels of cross booking and kind of, give me kind of, it'll be good if we can establish that kind of profitability, and then we'll gradually look at scaling it up further.
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
And maybe, Mohit, another thing to add, Gaurav, just one more point on the marketing spend. I think that's an important one, I thought it'd be interesting to sort of call out that as well. See, we have also seen the organic traffic growth in the last quarter, which has been very robust. I mean, at these marketing spend levels that and that's how we're sort of evaluating if we have to up the ante on the marketing spend on all just keep, just looking at what the traffic trends are.
So quarter on quarter, our traffic growth on these spends which is a large part of our traffic is organically as we mentioned it earlier as well, was about 40%. So which was very, very robust quarter on quarter. And just keeping that in mind and also the fact that just the overall, like I called out earlier as well, the macro headwind on high fares sort of look at that and look at the organic traffic growth that is already happening we ended up sort of balancing our overall marketing spend which is what we ended up doing in this reported quarter.
Guarav Rateria -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Thanks for the detailed responses. Just a follow up, Mohit, you said 1% of gross bookings. Is it for EBITDA or is it for adjusted EBIT number? Just wanted to clarify that?
Mohit Kabra -- Chief Financial Officer
Yes. I mean, that additionally, EBITDA, I mean, although the EBITDA, kind of GAAP will not be very large going forward. It's usually around three billion mark per quarter. So, that may not be very material going forward.
But yes, more in terms of EBITDA.
Guarav Rateria -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Secondly, just wanted to get a sense on the cash balance came down quarter on quarter. So what's kind of going on there? Ideally, it should have gone up with the strong positive adjusted EBIT number. Thirdly, question for Rajesh on the market share, if you had shared I kind of missed out on the airline domestic air segment, what is the market share this quarter compared to what you shared last quarter? And last year data point, just a bookkeeping question, how should one like look at the UAE bookings. Is this a part of the overall booking number on the respective segment for us, and how big is that any quantification there if possible? Thank you.
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Sure. So in terms of cash balance, Gaurav, actually, a large part of the increase that will otherwise come through is kind of getting impacted because of the translation kind of with the rupee weakening. So, the balances that we have in India, and the kind of the payables, intercompany payables that India has to some of the other kinds of overseas companies in the group, that is what is kind of creating a translation issue and a drop in the cash balance. Otherwise, and this is more a notional kind of one, because, guess what, none of these payments are due anytime soon.
So, therefore, this is more a temporary kind of a drop coming in because of the change in exchange rate, the INR dollar exchange rates vary significantly during the quarter. So that voting should kind of integrate course corrected over the next few quarters. Moving on to the market share again, it's kind of remain around the 30% mark and like get called out. We kind of are more in terms of making sure that we are able to retain a strong market share in the segment and not necessarily looking at very significant gains in the market share on a year-on-year basis.
It will be very different approach and some of the under penetrated segments like hotels accommodation, or a bus ticketing, etc., where we are clearly looking at significant market share gains and the growth is kind of far outpacing the growth not just in the market, but also in the online market. Lastly, on your question on UAE again like I said, this is, again, more foray into the adjacent market where we believe we have a reasonable kind of a brand resonance, and therefore, the approach is to kind of do a kind of a gradual, slow investment kind of buildup rather than a big bang kind of a market entry, and therefore, the kind of looking at this being part of our respective segment reporting and so, you will see those numbers kind of coming in as part of the respective segments and therefore, the declining segments also kind of combined with the overall operating metrics being shared for segments.
Guarav Rateria -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Thank you. I'll get back in the queue for further questions. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you, Gaurav. The next question is from on the line of Ruchi Seth. Ruchi, please ask your question now.
Unknown speaker
Hi, my question was on the hotel segment. I just wanted to understand as part of the overall market, what is the current market share that we have in the hotel segment and specifically the divided hotel segment into budget. What is the market share there and how are we looking to gain share over there especially given some of the material competitors in the budget segment maybe scaling back their marketing efforts?
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
And maybe I could take that, Ruchi. Ruchi, I think it will be suffice to say, I guess in line with our previous quarters comments as well, that we do have a leading market share and the online market across the hotel segments. But quantifying that is very, very hard given the fragmented nature of the market, especially now, as we call it out our focus also increasingly, to build a supply on the alternative accommodation side as well done whether it is home stays, or the apartments or the villas or the hostels. Now if you start looking at all this even more fragmented nature of the supply, it becomes very hard to be able to sort of overall quantify, but we do know sort of the data that we sort of estimate and collect from the supply side with our partners on our basis, various discussions and conversations, etc., that our wallet share across the segments has only been improving.
Operator
Thank you, Ruchi. The next question is from the line of Mithun of GC Ventures. Mithun, you may please ask your question now.
Unknown speaker
Yes. Congratulations on good numbers. So I have a couple of questions starting with hotels and business to want to understand if you're going to give the picture, how has the mix change compared to last year in terms of the combination for us and in the same way and how do we see it changing over the next one or two years? One question also seeing that they are also pushing a lot more directly booking through their own website. How do you see that impacting our business and in the same way with Google also trying to give the pricing packages, price comparisons on their platform.
How does it change the business dynamics for us?
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yes. Mithun, your line was really poor. But I think I got your question. So let me just make an attempt to respond to that.
The various segments how are mixed changed in this quarter between the premium segments and the mid segments or the budget segments, as I were just sort of mentioning in response to the earlier question. What we have witnessed during the COVID, as the recovery was happening in between after wave one and wave two, and after that for the last couple of quarters now, when the COVID restrictions are lifted, and businesses coming back to normal. What we have seen is that are actually wallet share, which is sort of defined more as what percentage of sort of bookings that we end up doing as part of the different sort of segment of hotels, at a defined occupancy level has only improved across the segments. Now it is not necessarily only on premium segment and not necessarily on a mid segment or independent hotels, as well as the budget segment.
As Mohit mentioned earlier, and we reported that out earlier as well, that budget segment growth was or the recovery rather was lagging behind that also is as we've seen in April, May June quarter. That's also come back nicely. And hopefully, the momentum will continue going forward as well. So I guess net-net, I would say mix hasn't really changed significantly.
Now coming to the direct to hotel supply bookings on the Marriott's and the others who try to push direct bookings on their platform push direct bookings on their platform this has been the phenomena for forever actually global phenomena to some extent even in India. But from the way we have seen our numbers sort of growing as an intermediary like literally quarter on quarter over the years I think both the platforms have their own sort of independent role to play. There is a set of value that we bring it for the customers clearly in the form of selection, choice and convenience, and hopefully, the best pricing. And just from brand loyalty standpoint every hotel chain, global chain will have their own loyalty sort of program as well, to attract their customer directly on their platform, we haven't really, over the years, seen this queue moving toward it, given the fact that the customers end up sort of doing selection where they want to see, especially in the market like India, compare it with many other hotels before they sort of make their decision to book.
We've seen our platform growing much, much faster than what our understanding is on the supplied direct growth. During the difficult times, we've seen the chain of hotels, in fact, across the board working a lot more closely, a lot more deeply with us, in terms of just sort of leveraging the traffic that we get on our platform, which is huge. And to get the benefit of them and doing all those promotions, etc., on our platform rather than sort of doing their own platform. So, and from a priority standpoint, we end up getting parity to their platform as well.
So I'm not necessarily concerned about that given and largely on the back of the value proposition that we bring it to our partners. I guess, these were your two questions.
Deep Kalra -- Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Yes. And onto this all the same point like in my recent experiences, as I keep doing the research on MMT, or Make My Trip product, what I've observed is that during this good period when there was a lot of demand a lot of these hotels even the single or the good properties in each of the locations, they were not giving enough rooms is what I understood or they were almost they will say, OK, not enough rooms on our platform, maybe they were directly selling. Is there something like a big or they were selling through the other channels? Is this something more worrisome in the medium to long term?
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
And it could be a fair observation, and I don't really no more details, maybe we can take it offline to just more understand of what period did you actually observe that, but because our model is the allocation model, and we get inventory allocation. We haven't really seen any such examples where we were short of supply from any particular hotel or the partners would have come back and said that we don't want to give, in fact, the way it works is that as we sell, we keep getting them in the rooms sort of replenished automatically. We don't really need to, there's no manual process involved here. And we didn't see any sold out.
What might have happened, having said all of this, so as a trend, we don't see any of that. But what might have happened sometimes what happens is when a peak destination during the leisure or heavy holiday season period, and very short period. We don't have in our country too many sort of long periods, like that were in a particular hyper location that market would be genuinely sold out, that market would be genuinely sold out across channels. And if I may just add one more point, we now not only have all three our platforms, online platforms, we also have our B2B platforms platform called MyPartner and we've got the corporate platform.
So from partner standpoint, there are more than one platforms that they can actually offload their inventory and get different-different demand segments. So I don't think and they may be some anecdote that you might have observed, but as a trend, I don't see any of that.
Unknown speaker
So just coming to just finish this point. Basically, I try, we keep doing as internally you know, compare with Make My Trip and booking.com as a comparison, to see how are things how our pricing, how is it compared to Google, that. Now one.
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
No, I understand that. I mean, we do that as well. So I understand.
Unknown speaker
Now my question is in Europe, alternative accommodation on booking platform is quite a big business for them. How do we see that for us over the next three to five years? You have already said, but if you can give some more color as to what will be the proportion, what can be the proportion of that for us?
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yes, Mithun. No, that is absolutely right. And that is the reason why we started focusing on this segment now for last several quarters. And we've been and that's like 360 degree, sort of focus.
We've been building supply, we've been getting all the kind of alternative accommodations from Pan India, and premium, super premium, mid segment budget segment and all of them together, it is the classical home stays, the cottages or the apartments or the or the hostels and all. And I would, I could just tell you directionally from an opportunity standpoint I think it's a big opportunity. And it just early days of evolution in India, but catching up really fast in terms of just the emerging trend in consumers mind. And part of that was also, in fact, ironically thanks to pandemic as well where people were looking for safe, secluded sort of stays that they wanted to get in.
But I can tell you on our platform we've been adding sort of accommodations like hundreds every quarter literally and also in terms of bookings from our pre-pandemic, last year level, we have already in this segment, we've done sort of 125% growth on that. Of course, it's a smaller base. It's not comparable to the hotel base that we have, but directionally, it is very, very encouraging. And last, but not the least, I will make the point or even on our platform, given that you're quite familiar with our product, you will notice that we actually have a dedicated funnel for this called home stays, which will give the customer experience specific to these sorts of property types with the differentiated experience.
It's a journey. There are a few things that we've already done. Few features that we've already included, and there are many, many more that are waiting to come on that funnel for.
Unknown speaker
Fair. And one last question, if I can. Now to discounts, and it has come back a little bit, both in the hotel segment, and primarily the hotel segment. So should we say that this is now the new base? Because now we are almost there in the market, like full fledged or there is still the scope for the discounts or the promotion expenses to go up in the hotel segment?
Mohit Kabra -- Chief Financial Officer
Mithun, I think I just kind of answered that one of the earlier questions possibly from Vijit.
Operator
The next question is from the line of Aditya Chandrashekhar of UBS Securities. Aditya, you may please ask your question now.
Aditya Chandrashekhar -- UBS -- Analyst
Just a very quick question from my side. So when we look at adjusted margin percentage so for air, it's down from around 7.1, last quarter to 6.1. And hotels, it's down from 17.7 to 17.2. I understand this is because obviously, the transaction sizes have increased a bit this quarter.
How do we look at this number going ahead, because as long haul international kind of grows, etc., transaction sizes are probably going to increase further. Is there some kind of way to think ahead?
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Sorry, Aditya. You kind of broke out a little in between, but I think I got the question. You broke up in the last few seconds. But I think if it's about the trends on the existent margins Yes, you're absolutely right.
That is kind of largely kind of moving in tandem with the change in the average selling prices. If you look at on the international side also, margins are largely in line with the domestic market and there also unless there is a very significant change in the ASP the overall kind of take rates would kind of largely remain on similar lines. So don't expect too much of a change. Overall if the fares come down as is expected, hopefully with some relief on the crude oil side and therefore kind of the impact passing through in terms of ETF costs and therefore on the overall phase, then I believe we should, we could possibly see an optical kind of increase on the air ticketing margins.
Coming on the hotel side again there has been like I called out almost like 11.5% quarter-on-quarter impact on pricing, which has come in, but hotels overall, we do believe will kind of remain in that broad range of about 17% to 19%. So I think so long as we are in that range, this seems pretty much in line or in line with expectations.
Aditya Chandrashekhar -- UBS -- Analyst
Just a quick follow up maybe. So, on the hotel side, it used to be between, say, 20% to 22%, odd pre-COVID, right. But that has kind of come down to the 17%, 18%. So this is the sustainable number kind of going ahead, or how do we look?
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Around 2018 about 23% and get called out back then that we would gradually want to bring it down to about into the high teens, rather than being in the 20s. Because you don't want high take rates being an issue in our line entry for other platforms to kind of make inroads with the suppliers. And therefore, this was a conscious attempt to kind of integrate it into the 17 to 19 range over the last few years. And this is also happening in tandem with the significant shift in the promotion expense that we're doing in that category.
So as we can reduce the quantum of promotional expense but we are incurring, we kind of pass on some part of that back into the margin relief to the suppliers as well because guess what, the suppliers are now kind of front ending a lot of these consumer promotions. So we've got to kind of keep looking at it in that context. So yes, pretty much happening in an organized manner.
Operator
Thank you Aditya. The next question is from the line of Santosh Sihna of Capital. Santosh Sinha, please ask your question now.
Unknown speaker
Thank you. My question is regarding the finance cost actually. It has gone up during this quarter. So can you tell me the reason for that and also, on the employees side, what is the outlook of the company, because you'd had optimized the employees to enter in FY '21, so ready to add back to employees? And the third question is regarding cash spending.
So what exactly is the plan of the company regarding the cash balance that the company has, whether it plans to give dividend or want to invest into the company? So these are my three questions.
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
I will take those. On the finance cost, like I had called out. And our other significant impact this quarter has been the translation impact of the INR balances into dollar because the INR became vary significantly. So there's almost 11.5 million, kind of a ForEx restatement of liabilities, which is sitting in the finance cost, and that's the reason that you see the overall finance cost at a high of about $16 million.
So, it's more of a one off for the quarter, because of the significant weakening of the rupee. And again these are largely intercompany kind of payables and therefore, not a realized kind of a cost, more like a translation cost. So, that is one part of it. On the employee side, like we had called out the only place where we had kind of done a little bit of a pruning on the overall employee numbers was on our flying channel.
We used to have close to about 20 stores across the country. And we were already kind of in a program where we were trying to kind of convert many of them into franchisee stores and also onboard new franchisee stores. So as part of that effort was accelerated when we kind of, when the COVID pandemic heaters and therefore, quite a few of these stores are actually now turned into franchisee stores for us. So they've not gone out of the system completely.
But yes they're no longer kind of the folks over there are no longer on the payrolls of the employer, but I kind of working on franchisee model. So that was predominantly the kind of change in the employee kind of structure that we have done through the pandemic. We are not looking at any kind of significant changes to the employee strength. We would have possibly marginal kind of increase in headcount as the volume picks up, but nothing in large numbers.
Lastly, on the cash balances, we kind of have a good cash balance and also we kind of are creating cash like I had called out in every quarter, we will continue to kind of remain in the scouting mode for any investment opportunities. And we've already called out a few in the last few quarters and we'll keep kind of remain open to that. No real kind of plans or thoughts around any dividend payouts currently.
Operator
Thank you, Santosh. The next question is from the line of Brian of Maximum Asset Management. Brian, you may please ask your question now.
Unknown speaker
Thank you very much for the presentation. Congratulations on the strong results. I have two questions, please. First one is on the air ticket economics again.
Could I please clarify, how does this work, is it fixed fee per booking or is it a percentage of transaction basis? And the second one is on domestic accommodation supply especially as it relates to hotels? Could I please ask, what are the plans to grow domestic hotel supply? And why have the number of domestic accommodations been flat since FY 2019? Thank you.
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
I can think the first one, on the side like I mentioned the changes are largely because our peak rates are largely flat. And therefore as the SP kind of the selling price kind of increases, optically the peak rate percentage goes down, or the margin percentage goes down. So that's to address to your point whether this is largely the effect of the increase in the selling price. Yes, it is likely coming in from there.
On the second point, I think clearly through the pandemic, there has been some amount of disruption. And we kind of seeing most of the top selling kind of hotels have now kind of been a comeback on the platform. And we continue to kind of increase more and more, particularly on the budget side and also on the alternative accommodation side.
Deep Kalra -- Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Yes. And if I may just add, Brian, just turn on top of what Mohit said, on the hotel supply. There are absolutely no plans on slowing down on that. I don't know which number you're looking at pre-pandemic, but like I was just sharing it earlier.
Today, our Pan India, city level coverage has gone up from 1,600 cities to actually 1,900 cities. So we do have more additional coverage of properties coming in from all kinds of properties, including hotels coming in from 300 more cities and like Mohit was pointing out, it was during the pandemic, there obviously, hospitality sector went through a huge amount of disruption. It slowly and gradually sort of coming back some of the properties. Last quarter, they became operational and functional.
And as it gets to the steady state, which is now increasingly getting to where our momentum will further pick up on the supply side. So there's absolutely no slowdown on adding more and more supply on our platform.
Operator
Thank you, Brian. We'll take the last question now from the line of Kalpit of Allianz Global. Kalpit, you may please ask your question now.
Unknown speaker
Hello. Hi. Congratulations on a good set of numbers and thanks for taking my question. So my first my question, which, sorry, I might have missed this answer.
But so this margins on the air ticketing have come off 100 bibs QoQ right? So this 6.1% kind of number where do you see that settling? Given the pricing trends in the air market? So the 6% margins where do you see it settling QoQ if you could answer that?
Mohit Kabra -- Chief Financial Officer
I can kind of repeat that once more. Kalpit like I mentioned, this is largely happening because our margins on the air ticketing side are largely flat in nature. They're not necessarily a percentage of the overall selling price. And therefore, in a higher fare regime the optically the margin percentage kind of looks lower and in a no-fare regime optically the margins can are going to look a lot more robust or a lot more a lot better.
So that's the reason for this change. Directionally we've been calling out that we do believe that the margins kind of should stabilize in the 6% to 7% kind of a range.
Unknown speaker
So just a follow up is it possible to share any kind of, what is it like, for every booking you get, like 30, 40 bucks or something like that? Is that how it works? And how is it negotiated with the airline?
Mohit Kabra -- Chief Financial Officer
So actually, even the margin has kind of multiple revenue streams coming in. This will include what we get as commissions or incentives whether it is a friend incentives or incentives from the airlines, it will include the service fee or convenience fee that will be on the customers, it could also include the fee that we might receive from our GDS partners, or the distribution partners. So there are multiple kinds of streams that kind of make up for these, what I was saying is mostly these are largely flat in terms of per ticket, kind of amounts that we make and therefore the percentage varies a bit in keeping with the overall fare regime.
Unknown speaker
Great. Thanks, Mohit. And one more question from my side. So on the margins, so this quarter, you were at, about like 1% of EBIT margin, adjusted EBIT margins on a gross bookings basis, right? And you're guiding going forward also potentially 1% at the EBITDA level, right? So just to understand if, so if you see, a marketing expense is going up or 100 bips or say 6% to 7% from this right these levels, so then another 100, 150 bips in fees and marketing expenses.
So which cost items or say on the mix side if can you offset it by and is it possible to give some kind of margin work where you can offset this 100% marketing, 100 bips increase on marketing?
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yes. That's the reason I was saying that, while you're apparently in this quarter also we've been actually been able to kind of get too close to about one percentage points gross booking it might kind of vary slightly going forward, depending upon how the recovery patterns kind of going to shape out. And as we kind of build here on, we will also want to kind of restart some of the investments that we typically do on the brand side. So the brand campaigns, those are more like slightly longer term impact expenses that you need to incur which you have been avoiding for the last, I would say, two years under the pandemic.
And this is something that will kind of possibly start incurring as we get to kind of going back to pre-pandemic levels or recovering or even kind of growing from there. I don't think we kind of looking at offsetting this company or the other cost lines, although one part of it would get offset from the fact that as we build growth here onwards, our mix should start improving on the hotel side and hotels as a better margin structure, which would mean that the blended margins could also slightly improve. And that will partially offset the increase coming in from the brand specs.
Vipul Garg
Thank you, Kalpit. We are almost out of time. This brings us to the end of the call. Rajesh, any closing remarks, and then we can close the call.
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Vipul. I think the good, all good set of questions. So thank you, everyone. Thank you for your patience.
Thank you for your time.
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Call participants:
Vipul Garg
Rajesh Magow -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Mohit Kabra -- Chief Financial Officer
Vijit Jain -- Citi -- Analyst
Deep Kalra -- Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Guarav Rateria -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Unknown speaker
Aditya Chandrashekhar -- UBS -- Analyst
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West Midlands Based Community Cast Announced For China Plate and Birmingham Hippodrome's TO THE STREETS
Performances will take place between 19 – 28 August.
China Plate and Birmingham Hippodrome have announced that the full West Midlands based community cast has been found for To The Streets!, an uplifting new musical inspired by the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott, a pivotal moment in the UK's civil rights history.
Following an open audition talent search in June, 18 men and women aged between 16 - 65 from the city and across the region, will perform alongside the previously announced principal cast. The cast and creative team will be supported by a team of associate creatives, Nyasha Gudo (Associate Director), Melody Sinclair (Associate Choreographer) and Aron Sood (Associate Musical Director), and Naomi Thompson (Associate Costume Designer), all of whom are based in the West Midlands.
When asked what drew them to audition, responses included:
Keilah, 23, from Handsworth: "I wanted to challenge myself and pursue my passion of singing in areas I haven't before. I want to break the barriers and encourage those that are afraid to step out of other peoples' expectations of themselves and let their light shine."
Nancy, 25, from Rubery: "Thought it was a fantastic opportunity to connect with others in Birmingham as well as take part in a such a diverse show."
Robert, 64, from Sandwell: "I have been regularly engaged in story telling driven by music for a number of years now and relished the thought of being part of such an important production charting as it does how a significant shift in British life and so its self-understanding was arrived at."
To The Streets! special concert performances will take place between 19 - 28 August at Handsworth Park in Birmingham, Windmill Hill, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, and West Park, Wolverhampton, as part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival. Ahead of the concert performances, which will be family friendly and accessible to all, audience members will be invited to enjoy food, drink, DJ sets, plus music and entertainment from local arts organisations.
Christopher Haydon said, "To The Streets! is a story of popular protest and the need for people from all walks of life to take action. So, it is thrilling to be working with such an enormously talented community ensemble who will perfectly embody that collective spirit."
Dannielle 'Rhimes' Lecointe said, "This show is about the greatness of community coming together, and so it's exciting to be breathing life into the Bristol Bus Boycott with a fantastic community cast."
To the Streets! is based on an original idea and directed by Christopher Haydon, with book by Roy Williams, music and lyrics by Tim Sutton, design by Soutra Gilmour, lighting design by Arnim Friess, sound design by Gareth Fry, video design by Duncan McLean, and with choreography from Dannielle 'Rhimes' Lecointe. Ian Oakley is Musical Director, Pearson Casting are casting directors, and the show is produced in association with Warwick Arts Centre, City of Wolverhampton Council and DRPG Creative.
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Council of Yukon First Nations developing first Yukon First Nations Birth Worker Program
KWANLIN DÜN FIRST NATION AND TA'AN KWÄCH'ÄN COUNCIL TRADITIONAL TERRITORY, YT, July 27, 2022 /CNW/ - Indigenous Services Canada
Ensuring cultural safety, prioritizing Indigenous knowledge and supporting Indigenous-led health services are central to achieving the goal of eliminating anti-Indigenous racism in health systems. That is why the Council of Yukon First Nations is developing the first Yukon First Nations Birth Worker Program.
Indigenous Services Canada is supporting this initiative with a total of $200,000 in 2021-2022. This new program will bring together Yukon First Nations to share and reclaim traditional birthing practices and develop culturally relevant Yukon First Nations prenatal resources. Part of this initiative will include the creation of two Council of Yukon First Nations positions to support families with funding for eligible training opportunities and for all 14 Yukon First Nations to participate in training.
This program is the first of its kind for Yukon First Nations, and it will mean that families and new parents in Yukon First Nations communities have culturally relevant supports to help nurture and welcome the next generations of their families, while working to foster a healthcare system free of anti-Indigenous racism.
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"Programs like the Birth Workers Program will keep Indigenous knowledge at the forefront of healthcare delivery, and combat anti-Indigenous racism in the healthcare system that creates so much suffering. By supporting more Indigenous people to take on roles in the healthcare system, services will be transformed to be culturally inclusive and accessible for generations of families to come. Congratulations to the Council of Yukon First Nations for the important work they are doing to help mothers, and those expecting, to access culturally safe and relevant supports during these important moments in life."
The Honourable Patty Hajdu
Minister of Indigenous Services
"Council of Yukon First Nations is pleased to be a recipient of federal funding to support the integral work of developing Yukon First Nations prenatal resources and programming that incorporate Yukon First Nation ways into the resources and program delivery."
Grand Chief Peter Johnston
Council of Yukon First Nations
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Penn State head football coach James Franklin brought quarterback Sean Clifford, safety Ji’Ayir Brown and defensive tackle PJ Mustipher to the annual Big Ten Media Days held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, In. Wednesday.
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Exterran (EXTN) Gains in Light Trading for July 27
Equities Staff Follow |Exterran Corp (NYSE:EXTN) stock was among today's market movers, finishing trading up 6.07% to $4.02 on July 27.
146,810 shares were traded today compared to the 30-day daily average of 225,485 shares.
The company's stock has climbed 27.18% so far in 2022.
Exterran shares have fluctuated between $2.67 and $7.70 over the past twelve months.
The company anticipates its next earnings on 2022-08-08.
For technical charts, analysis, and more on Exterran visit the company profile.
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Exterran Corporation is a global systems and process company offering solutions in the oil, gas, water and power markets. The company is a leader in natural gas processing and treatment and compression products and services, providing critical midstream infrastructure solutions to customers throughout the world. Exterran Corporation is headquartered in Houston, Texas and operates in approximately 25 countries.
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CALGARY, AB, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The Board of Directors of TransAlta Corporation (TSX: TA) (NYSE: TAC) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.05 per common share payable on October 1, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 1, 2022.
The Board of Directors also declared the following quarterly dividend on its Cumulative Redeemable Rate Reset First Preferred Shares for the period starting from and including June 30, 2022 up to but excluding September 30, 2022:
*Please note the quarterly floating rate on the Series B and Series D Preferred Shares will be reset every quarter.
All currency is expressed in Canadian dollars except where noted. When the dividend payment date falls on a weekend or holiday, the payment is made the following business day.
About TransAlta Corporation:
TransAlta owns, operates and develops a diverse fleet of electrical power generation assets in Canada, the United States and Australia with a focus on long-term shareholder value. TransAlta provides municipalities, medium and large industries, businesses and utility customers with clean, affordable, energy efficient and reliable power. Today, TransAlta is one of Canada's largest producers of wind power and Alberta's largest producer of hydro-electric power. For over 111 years, TransAlta has been a responsible operator and a proud member of the communities where we operate and where our employees work and live. TransAlta aligns its corporate goals with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and its climate change strategy with CDP (formerly Climate Disclosure Project) and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations. TransAlta has achieved a 61 per cent reduction in GHG emissions since 2015.
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MINNEAPOLIS _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Minnesota Lottery's "NORTH5" game were:
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TexAmericas Center Named No. 5 Best Industrial Park in the U.S.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The owner of an underwater oil pipeline that spilled some 25,000 gallons of crude into the ocean off Southern California last year will pay nearly $1 million in cleanup costs.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to accept a proposed claim settlement with Amplify Energy Corp. over the costs of dealing with last October's spill off of Huntington Beach.
The ruptured pipeline spilled the oil, equal to about 94,600 liters, about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) offshore. While less severe than initially feared, the spill shuttered beaches for a week and fisheries for more than a month, oiled birds and threatened wetlands that Orange County communities have been striving to restore.
Investigators believe the San Pedro Bay Pipeline that ferried crude from offshore oil platforms to the coast was weakened when a cargo ship’s anchor snagged it in high winds in January 2021, months before it ultimately ruptured Oct. 1
Houston-based Amplify Energy sued two container ship operators and an organization that helps oversee marine traffic, saying they failed to prevent the spill. The suit alleges that in January 2021 two ships dragged their anchors across the pipeline.
The $956,352 settlement with Orange County includes about $238,000 for the county Public Works Department, which built sand berms and placed booms to prevent oil from polluting sensitive wetlands, the Orange County Register reported.
Money also will go to the county's health agency, the Sheriff's Department that operates the Harbor Patrol, and reimburse the county for legal costs and the hiring of contractors and environmental consultants.
Meanwhile, Amplify and two subsidiaries were indicted by a federal grand jury last year on a misdemeanor count of illegally discharging oil. The indictment alleges that fatigued workers failed to properly act when repeated alarms signaled an offshore pipeline rupture and continued operating the pipeline for hours.
Amplify has said company workers on and offshore believed they were responding to false alarms from a malfunctioning system. | https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/Pipeline-company-to-pay-nearly-1M-over-17333720.php | 2022-07-28T00:44:06Z | https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/Pipeline-company-to-pay-nearly-1M-over-17333720.php | true | 24 |
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A look at what's happening around the majors on Thursday:
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SHOHEI'S STRIKEOUTS
Los Angeles Angels two-way force Shohei Ohtani has struck out at least 10 batters in five straight starts going into this outing at home against Texas.
Ohtani (9-5, 2.80) has joined Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan as the only pitchers in Angels history to have such a streak. Ryan set a franchise-record string of seven in a row in 1977, and also a six-game run of double-digit strikeouts spanning 1972-73.
Ohtani has fanned 134 in 93 1/3 innings this season. The reigning AL MVP is 0-1 in two starts against the Rangers this year.
A GIANT SKID
Joc Pederson, Brandon Belt and San Francisco hope to regain their winning touch when they return home after an 0-7 road trip.
The Giants won five of their six games before the All-Star break, but hasn’t won since. They suffered a four-game sweep by the Dodgers in Los Angeles for the first time since 1995 over the weekend and then stumbled in Arizona.
It was the Giants' first 0-7 road trip since 1985.
Lefty Alex Wood (6-8, 4.21 ERA) faces Cubs left-hander Justin Steele (4-6, 4.02 ERA) in the series opener.
CALLING AN ANGEL
Angels star Mike Trout has a “rare” spinal condition that could affect him for the rest of his career. But he received a cortisone injection last week and plans to play again this season.
After Angels trainer Mike Forstad talked about Trout’s condition on Wednesday, the reaction was swift — and over the top, according to the 10-time All-Star.
“I got back and my phone was blowing up: ‘My career is over,’” Trout said, smiling at the absurdity of the overreactions he had seen online. “It’s just rare for a baseball player. I just have to stay on top of it.”
Trout left a game against Houston on July 12 with what was first called back spasms, then went on the injured list a week later with what was called rib cage inflammation.
BACK IN THE BRONX
After playing their first seven games since the All-Star break on the road (four against first-place teams), major league home run leader Aaron Judge and the Yankees welcome struggling Kansas City to the Bronx.
Jameson Taillon (10-2, 3.93 ERA) pitches for New York against Brady Singer (4-3, 3.82) in the opener of a seven-game homestand. Taillon walked a season-high three in a season-low 2 2/3 innings last Friday at Baltimore. The right-hander is 1-0 with a 0.47 ERA in three career starts versus the Royals.
New York swept a three-game set in Kansas City from April 29 to May 1 and is 31-12 against the Royals since 2015, winning each of the past 12 series (minimum two games) since May 25, 2015. The Yankees are 107-46 (.699) versus Kansas City this century, their best record against any AL opponent during that span.
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- Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) would support a repeal of a Texas law banning sexual activity between individuals of the same sex, a spokesperson for the senator confirmed to Changing America in a statement first reported by the Dallas Morning News.
- Texas is one of 14 states with sodomy bans still on the books. Those laws have been unenforceable since 2003, when the Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that such bans are unconstitutional.
- Cruz is not known for being an ally of the LGBTQ+ community. The senator last week said the Supreme Court was “clearly wrong” in its landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has voiced support for repealing a decades-old Texas law that criminalizes sexual conduct between consenting adults of the same sex.
In a statement to Changing America, a spokesperson for Cruz said the senator agreed with a 2003 opinion by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas that the state’s law against sodomy is “uncommonly silly.”
“Consenting adults should be able to do what they wish in their private sexual activity, and government has no business in their bedrooms,” the spokesperson said. The news was first reported by the Dallas Morning News,
A section of Texas’ penal code passed in 1973 defines “homosexual conduct” as “deviate sexual intercourse” that constitutes a Class C misdemeanor, a fine-only offense punishable by a penalty of up to $500.
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The law has been unenforceable since 2003 when the Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that criminal punishment for those who commit sodomy are unconstitutional.
Despite Justice Thomas’ earlier opinion, in a separate opinion following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last month, Thomas argued that the court should reconsider its substantive due process precedent in Lawrence, as well as in other landmark cases safeguarding access to contraceptives and the right of same-sex couples to marry.
In June, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said he would defend Texas’ sodomy ban.
“My job is to defend state law and I’ll continue to do that, that is my job,” he said in an interview with NewsNation. Texas is one of 14 states with sodomy bans still on the books.
Cruz’s position on the law is a shift from earlier comments made by the senator about LGBTQ+ rights. Last week, Cruz on his podcast “The Cloakroom,” which he hosts with conservative political commentator Liz Wheeler, said the Supreme Court was “clearly wrong” in its landmark 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
“Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation’s history,” Cruz said. “Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.”
On a July 23 episode of his podcast, “The Verdict with Ted Cruz,” Cruz doubled down on his comments, telling co-host Michael Knowles that the Supreme Court “invented a brand new right” in a move that circumvented the democratic process.
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WASHINGTON, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a pair of briefings on Wednesday, Aug. 3, and Friday, Aug. 5, to preview the upcoming Artemis I lunar mission. The agency is currently targeting no earlier than Monday, Aug. 29, for the launch of the Space Launch System rocket to send the Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back to Earth. The mission will take place over the course of about six weeks to check out systems before crew fly aboard on Artemis II.
The first briefing will provide an overview of the Artemis I mission, and the second briefing will dive deeper into the Artemis I mission timeline and spacecraft operations. Both briefings will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, the agency's website.
Briefing participants include (all times Eastern):
Wednesday, Aug. 3
11 a.m. – Artemis I mission overview briefing with the following participants:
- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson
- Bhavya Lal, associate administrator for technology, policy, and strategy, NASA Headquarters
- Mike Sarafin, Artemis I mission manager, NASA Headquarters
- Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Artemis I launch director, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida
- John Honeycutt, Space Launch System program manager, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama
- Howard Hu, Orion program manager, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston
This event will air live on NASA TV and media may join by telephone to ask questions. To participate by phone, media must send their full name, media affiliation, email address, and phone number no later than two hours prior to the start of the event to: kathryn.hambleton@nasa.gov.
Friday, Aug. 5
11:30 a.m. – Artemis I detailed mission briefing with the following participants:
- Debbie Korth, Orion program deputy manager, NASA Johnson
- Rick LaBrode, lead Artemis I flight director, NASA Johnson
- Judd Frieling, Artemis I ascent/entry flight director, NASA Johnson
- Melissa Jones, Artemis I recovery director, NASA Kennedy
- Reid Wiseman, chief astronaut, NASA Johnson
- Philippe Deloo, Orion European Service Module program manager, ESA (European Space Agency)
This event will air live on NASA TV and media may participate in person at Johnson or by phone. To participate in the briefings by phone, media must contact the Johnson newsroom by 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4. U.S. media interested in participating in person at Johnson must contact the Johnson newsroom no later than 5 p.m. Friday, July. 29, by calling: 281-483-5111 or emailing: jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.
Along with the briefings, NASA will host an Artemis I media day at Johnson Friday, Aug. 5, to showcase Artemis I mission hardware and offer interviews. Media attending will get an in-person look at development mockups, design simulators, flight control operations, and hardware in development for lunar exploration.
Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test, the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to the Moon.
Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone to send astronauts to Mars.
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Heardle answer today for 28th July: What is the song today for 154?
How to narrow down and solve today's Heardle.The Heardle answer for today, 28th July, takes the form, as always, of a short, snappy song preview.
Heardle is a music game inspired by Wordle - where instead of guessing a word, you hear the opening of a song, with each failed guess extending the preview to help you solve the title and artist in question.
If you fail to guess once you have heard the complete preview, then you'll break your streak - which is why discovering today's Heardle answer is so important for players, especially as some song intros are more elusive than others.
Interested in learning more about music in games once you have solved the Heardle for today? We have interviewed Remute, a techno producer who makes albums for retro consoles, and discussed what Debussy can tell us about mood in games.
On this page:
Clues for today's Heardle answer
Instead of going straight to the answer, you might only need a few hints to get you over the line:
- The first snippet of the song you recieve will be complete silence, so, unless you truly know your music, you'll have to skip ahead.
- This song was released in 2009.
- The track name for this song consists of a single word.
- This song was the lead single on a fifth studio album.
Still not sure? Read on for the answer.
The Heardle answer for song 154 on 28th July, 2022
Even with the above clues, still not sure and want to keep that streak going?
The Heardle answer for today is Uprising by Muse, released on their 2009 album, The Resistance. You can give it a listen below:
Now you have the answer, do not spoil it for others! Remember, you can share your results spoiler-free in the form of a grid.
Of course, no one has to know you came to this page to work it out. Maybe put in two or three fake guesses first to throw them off the scent, perhaps?
Want to read more about Heardle ahead of the next answer?
Heardle is perhaps the most well known inspiration of Wordle, the word game that saw million of players check in every day within months of its arrival in late 2021.
The most significant development in Heardle's history is its purchase by Spotify for an undisclosed amount in July 2022.
Though Heardle remains free and the game itself unchanged, the acquisition has seen a few changes, including a shift away from SoundCloud as its player of choice to Spotify - which now allows players to listen to the full track once the game has concluded.
It's this, in part, why Spotify was interested in Heardle. "We are always looking for innovative and playful ways to enhance music discovery and help artists reach new fans," said Jeremy Erlich, global head of music at Spotify.
It hasn't been a smooth transition, however - with the game only available in select countries immediately following the acquisiton (UK, US, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and that players have reported streaks disappearing.
Wordle, for those who don't know, went through something similar - with streaks resetting for some players following its purchase by the New York Times.
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On early Monday morning, just before the break of dawn, a 23-year-old Afghan journalist packed her bags, said quiet goodbyes to her family and left her home in a carefully mapped and cautiously executed plan.
"My heart was beating so fast for the whole journey, till I reached a safe place. I was escaping the Taliban's brutality and I was afraid they would capture me," she shared. The journalist asked to be identified only with her initials – F.J. – because her family is still under Taliban surveillance inside Afghanistan.
She was escaping threats of a forced marriage with a local Taliban fighter in her district in northern Afghanistan and relocating to another country. "One of their commanders who was only being referred to as 'maulavi' [a title given to a religious leader] demanded that my parents marry me to him. They wanted to control and punish me for my work against them," F.J. said, referring to her reporting critical of the Taliban's treatment of women and minorities.
"When I refused, they were offended and at first threatened to kill my parents, but then they threaten to kidnap me," she told NPR, speaking from the location where she is in hiding.
F.J. said that she knows girls from her community, including one of her neighbors, who had been kidnapped and forced into marriage with Taliban fighters in the past year.
Report: Women are trapped in a web of restrictions
A new report released by Amnesty International on Tuesday, titled "Death in Slow Motion: Women and Girls Under Taliban," corroborates her claim, stating that "the rates of child, early and forced marriage in Afghanistan appear to have surged" under the Taliban rule.
The report, which included interviews with 90 Afghan women and 11 girls across 20 of the 34 Afghan provinces, details "a web of interrelated restrictions and prohibitions" that left many Afghan women trapped, with no agency over their work, their education, their freedom to move about, their clothing – and marriage options.
The report also covers a range of issues affecting Afghan women living under the Taliban, including restrictions on education, employment, clothing and even movement. The report also draws attention to the lack of legal avenues for to women to address gender-based violence and protection of their rights following the collapse of existing institutions systems and safeguards since the Taliban takeover.
"Our report documents, how in less than a year, the rights of women and girls have been decimated by the Taliban," said Nicolette Waldman, researcher at Amnesty International and one of the authors of the report.
Waldman said that report was "harrowing to research."
"What really came through during the research was how all of the restrictions on women and girls are so interconnected. I would start out documenting a case of forced marriage and then realize I was also documenting a violation of the right to work or to move or any number of other violations that just one woman would be facing in her daily life," she said, adding the Taliban's restrictions are like a "spider web, trapping and entangling women and girls."
Child marriages and forced marriages
The number of child and forced marriages is a critical part of the newly released document.
Rates were already exceptionally high in the country even before the Taliban takeover, with nearly 28% of Afghan women and girls between the ages of 15 to 49 years were married before age 18, according to UNICEF.
While there has not been a nationwide assessment to determine trends in early and forced marriages, the report stated that there are several indicators pointing to increasing rates, including research from human rights and humanitarian organizations such as UNICEF and the Danish Refugee Council. "During its research, Amnesty International received several other reports from protection actors and local activists that child, early and forced marriage rates had spiked in their areas, whether rural or urban," the report stated.
Often these marriages are a result of the economic and humanitarian crises and widespread starvation, forcing many families to marry their daughters younger in exchange for the "bride price" that can help sustain them.
"In Afghanistan, it's a perfect storm for child marriage. You have a patriarchal government, war, poverty, drought, girls out of school – with all of these factors combined ... we knew child marriage was going to go through the roof," Stephanie Sinclair, director at Too Young To Wed, an organization working to prevent forced and child marriages, told Amnesty International.
The report documents two cases of forced marriages to Taliban fighters and commanders and received credible reports of several other cases.
"What we read in these reports is only a fraction of the crimes the Taliban are committing against the women in Afghanistan, who are living their darkest hours," Huda Khamosh, an Afghan activist-in-exile who was arrested by the Taliban for protesting, earlier this year, told NPR. "It is difficult to conduct thorough investigations under Taliban, We hear of many cases of women committing suicide to escape the Taliban's brutality," she said, referring to reports of women's in Afghan media.
The Amnesty report also interviewed family members of girls and women who said the Taliban used their positions of influence and power to force a marriage — despite the Taliban's decree banning forced marriages. A decree issued by Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhunzada in December 2021 stated: "Both men and women are equal and no one can force women to marry by coercion or pressure."
Former humanitarian worker Mohammad Farooq shared a story he knew of from his community. "About eight months ago, the Taliban district governor, who must be close to 45 years of age, married one of the young girls from the district who was 17 years old. She was against the marriage, but the Taliban are powerful and have full control of the area. They also paid her father one million Afghani." Farooq requested his location be kept discreet because revealing his location would put him at risk.
Farooq added that he knows of 10 such forced marriages in his district alone in the past year.
Not blaming the families of the brides
However, he refuses to judge the families harshly. "The kind of pressure they face from the Taliban is unimaginable. The Taliban not only have power but are also not against using force if they need to. Families don't have the choice to say no," he explained, adding that there were no mechanisms left to complain. "The religious scholars, judges and village elders who could have previously intervened are also afraid of the Taliban. So then who can a woman being forced to marry approach?"
F.J., the journalist who fled her home, agrees with his point of view. "They [the Taliban fighters forcing girls to marry] had the support of their leadership because they were so confident when they do this [threats and kidnapping].
"I was lucky to escape for now to a neighboring country, but my life is in limbo as I could be deported anytime. But there here are so many women I know who had to marry Taliban because it is not easy to leave if you are a woman," she said.
A call for change, worries about the future
Waldman urged Taliban to "urgently change course" while asking the international community to intervene. "The international community should develop and implement a coordinated strategy that pressures the Taliban to do this — and they must send a clear message to the Taliban that their discriminatory policies against women and girls will never be accepted. They should impose consequences on the Taliban for their conduct, including targeted sanctions or travel bans applied through a U.N. Security Council Resolution that could influence the Taliban without harming the Afghan people," she recommended.
Meanwhile, F.J. remains deeply concerned about the safety of her family, who remain under Taliban's surveillance. "They know I have left and they are harassing and shaming my family because of it. I am so afraid they will hurt my parents or kill them for supporting my freedom," she added, choking back tears.
"I am in a very bad mental state; I used to be the voice of Afghan women, and overnight, I became voiceless, with no rights, and no one to fight and defend my rights. I wish no women has to ever go through what I experienced," she added.
Ruchi Kumar is a journalist who reports on conflict, politics, development and culture in India and Afghanistan. She tweets at @RuchiKumar
Hikmat Noori is an Afghan journalist who covers the intersection of culture and politics in South Asia. He tweets at @noori1st
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Market Movers: Freshpet (FRPT) Gains 6.03% to Close at $49.44 July 27
Equities Staff Follow |Shares of Freshpet Inc (NASDAQ:FRPT) moved 6.03% higher on July 27 to close at $49.44.
638,954 exchanged hands. Their current average 30 day volume is 794,051 shares.
Freshpet is down 51.05% year-to-date in 2022.
The company is set to release earnings on 2022-08-08.
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About Freshpet Inc
Freshpet's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats through the power of fresh, real food. Freshpet foods are blends of fresh meats, vegetables and fruits farmed locally and made at its Kitchens in Bethlehem PA. The Company thoughtfully prepares its foods using natural ingredients, cooking them in small batches at lower temperatures to preserve the natural goodness of the ingredients. Freshpet foods and treats are kept refrigerated from the moment they are made until they arrive at Freshpet Fridges in local markets.
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NEW YORK: Former Weber Shandwick CFO and COO Frank Okunak pled guilty on Wednesday to embezzling more than $16 million from the firm over a period of a decade.
Okunak pled guilty to one count each of wire fraud and falsification of corporate books and records. Each count has a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. He has agreed to forfeit more than $10.8 million and pay restitution of $16 million.
“[Okunak] admitted today to illegally embezzling over $16 million of the firm’s assets to pay for his posh lifestyle. Okunak now awaits sentencing for his decade-long fraud scheme,” said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams of the U.S. Southern District of New York, in a statement.
Okunak embezzled from Weber, and ultimately holding company Interpublic Group, by preparing and causing others to create materially false accounting books and records. They included invoices that purported to be used on behalf of the firm, but were actually for Okunak’s personal business or that of his personal business associates, according to a statement from the Justice Department.
From 2011 to 2020, Okunak caused Weber to make unauthorized payments for his own personal and business ventures that were unrelated to agency business, including for tickets to sporting events and donations to his alma mater, according to the DOJ. He also prepared or caused others to prepare false and misleading invoices to suggest the money was used for legitimate agency business.
Okunak left the firm in 2020.
Weber cooperated with the investigation, according to the DOJ. Since the fraud was discovered in early 2020, Okunak has not been a part of the agency. Current global CFO Deb Nichols has overseen its financial systems and processes and worked closely with its leadership team to manage global operations, according to a Weber spokesperson.
“This discovery was extremely disappointing,” the spokesperson said. “In an industry built on trust, it is distressing when that trust is broken in this way.”
An Interpublic spokesperson said that the holding company suspended and fired Okunak after internal financial reviews alerted its leadership to possible irregularities and it investigated and alerted authorities. No client funds were misused and the embezzled amounts of money were not material to financial statements in any reporting period and did not affect earnings results, the spokesperson said.
“Mr. Okunak made important contributions to Weber Shandwick during his long career at the company. He has been fully cooperating with the government’s investigation of this matter,” said Okunak’s lawyer, Paul Krieger, via email. “Mr. Okunak has accepted full responsibility for his conduct, deeply regrets his wrongdoing and is doing all he can to move forward in a positive manner.” | https://www.prweek.com/article/1794305/former-weber-shandwick-coo-frank-okunak-pleads-guilty-embezzling-firm | 2022-07-28T01:17:39Z | https://www.prweek.com/article/1794305/former-weber-shandwick-coo-frank-okunak-pleads-guilty-embezzling-firm | true | 1 |
Market Movers: Inmode (INMD) Gains 5.44% to Close at $29.28 July 27
Equities Staff Follow |Shares of Inmode Ltd (NASDAQ:INMD) traded 5.44% higher on July 27 to close at $29.28.
1,920,528 were traded today. Their current average 30 day volume is 2,105,622 shares.
Inmode is down 60.65% year-to-date in 2022.
The company is set to release earnings on 2022-07-28.
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About Inmode Ltd
InMode is a leading global provider of innovative medical technologies. InMode develops, manufactures, and markets devices harnessing novel radiofrequency ('RF') technology. InMode strives to enable new emerging surgical procedures as well as improve existing treatments. InMode has leveraged its medically accepted minimally-invasive RF technologies to offer a comprehensive line of products across several categories for plastic surgery, gynecology, dermatology, otolaryngology, and ophthalmology.
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Wells was removed from Wednesday's start against the Rays with lower-back discomfort, Roch Kubatko of MASNSports.com reports.
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Driver killed after being ejected from Jeep in crash that closed part of I-70 in KC
One person was killed in a crash that closed Interstate 70 for about 90 minutes during rush hour Friday morning, the Kansas City Police Department said.
Around 7:30 a.m., a white Jeep Liberty was heading west at a high speed on I-70 when the driver lost control near 23rd Street. The vehicle crossed three lanes of traffic and collided with a concrete median, according to Sgt. Jake Becchina, a spokesman for the Kansas City Police Department.
The Jeep flipped over, ejecting the driver as the vehicle hit a concrete pillar, Becchina said. The driver landed on the left shoulder of the highway and the vehicle landed on its roof in a traffic lane.
The driver was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a local hospital, Becchina said.
His identity has not yet been released.
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Who Killed the KLF?, filmmaker Chris Atkins’ controversy-sparking documentary about the legendary British electronic act, will have its Australian premiere in Melbourne next month, and also have a limited screening in Sydney in September.
The film will show in August twice as part of this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival, with screenings at the Capitol on Saturday, 13th August and Hoyts on Friday, 19th August. In Sydney, the doco will be shown at Sydney’s Golden Age Cinema on Friday, 2nd September.
Watch the Trailer for Who Killed the KLF?
Atkins’ unauthorised film attempts to provide a portrait of The KLF, who pioneered the genre of stadium house and were notorious for stunts like firing machine gun blanks into an audience at the 1992 BRIT Awards, and burning one million pounds sterling in 1994.
Archival footage and old interviews with band members Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond are used, interspersed with dramatic reconstructions of some of the band’s biggest public actions, interviews with the likes of Paul Oakenfold and Carl Cox, and snippets of the band’s music used under the fair dealing copyright defence.
The band were initially opposed to the film, with Cauty likening the project to an “archaeological dig through the past” in a 2016 interview. Lawyers for the band attempted to block its release on the grounds of copyright infringement for the snippets of songs used. Atkins, in response, pointed to the band’s own history, acknowledging their heavy use of uncleared samples on early tracks.
In a piece he wrote for The Guardian in April, Atkins indicated that Cauty and Drummond might have changed their feelings on the documentary. According to him, he met up for a coffee with the pair earlier this year, with Drummond telling him, “We’ve seen it and we love it.”
Who Killed the KLF? is one of many music-related films screening as part of this year’s MIFF, which runs between August 4th and 21st in cinemas, and 11th to 28th online. See the full program here.
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Global Bovine Hide Collagen Peptide Market Research Report 2022
The research report includes specific segments by region (country), by manufacturers, by Type and by Application. Each type provides information about the production during the forecast period of 2017 to 2028. by Application segment also provides consumption during the forecast period of 2017 to 2028. Understanding the segments helps in identifying the importance of different factors that aid the market growth.
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1.1 Product Overview and Scope of Bovine Hide Collagen Peptide
1.2 Bovine Hide Collagen Peptide Segment by Type
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1.2.2 Powder
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1.3 Bovine Hide Collagen Peptide Segment by Application
1.3.1 Global Bovine Hide Collagen Peptide Consumption Comparison by Application: 2022 VS 2028
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1.5.4 China Bovine Hide Collagen Peptide Estimates and Forecasts (2017-2028)
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2 Market Competition by Manufacturers
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Thousands of North Carolina felons can now register and vote
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Tens of thousands of people serving punishments for felony convictions in North Carolina but who aren’t behind bars can now register to vote and cast ballots this fall after an appeals court ruling.
Expanding the scope of those able to register and vote began Wednesday, the State Board of Elections said — the day after local elections were held in more than a dozen localities.
The change proceeds from litigation challenging a 1973 law that prevents someone convicted of a felony from having voting rights restored while they are still on probation, parole or post-release supervision.
More than 56,000 people in North Carolina were prevented from registering under the challenged law, according to evidence cited in a 2021 trial.
North Carolina has more than 7.3 million registered voters, and statewide elections in the presidential battleground state are often close affairs. So any influx of voters could make a difference this fall, when the ballot will feature statewide races for U.S. Senate and the state Supreme Court.
The voter registration expansion “means you’ve got a voice,” Daryl Atkinson, the lead attorney for civil rights groups and ex-offenders who sued over the law in 2019, said while celebrating the change at an event behind the state Legislative Building in Raleigh. “Imagine if 56,000 had something to say. But they’re going to have something to say in November.”
A panel of trial judges struck down the 1973 law in March, declaring it violates the state constitution largely because it discriminates against Black residents.
The state Supreme Court agreed in May to hear an appeal of that decision, and the case remains pending. The date for oral arguments has not been set.
But the justices didn’t touch a Court of Appeals ruling that prevented registration requests from the felons who weren’t in prison or jail from being fulfilled only through Tuesday. So these applicants — for now and unless the Supreme Court reverses the trial court ruling — will be able to vote, beginning with the November general election.
The Rev. William Barber of Goldsboro, a co-chair of the national Poor People’s Campaign, also spoke at Wednesday’s event, attended by about 100 people. A coalition of groups is organizing an “Unlock Our Vote Freedom Summer Tour” that will include voter information and registration drives, as well as other outreach efforts to potential voters.
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There is always a flight to financial safety when there is an uncertain economy. With interest rates driving higher and the stock market looking like a bad electrocardiogram, many nonprofit managers are relying more on the local bank. You must be able to have answers for these five questions:
Is The Bank Secure?
Too big to fail is not always the case. Banks fail all the time. Nonprofits managers are asking questions about a bank’s financial security since the economic downturn. Ensuring that the bank is strong and checking for Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insurance isn’t being pushy. It’s doing your due diligence to make sure your funds are protected.
How Will The Bank Partner With Your NPO?
A bank shouldn’t just be an institution where you store your money. Your organization deserves a partner. A banker should never be too busy for you. Walk away if you try to make an appointment and believe you aren’t given time and sound advice.
What Does The Bank Do Within The Community?
You should ask about partnerships with the larger community. Thing about people, the planet and profit. Finding a bank that incorporates your mission values, such as sustainability or community objectives, with secure financial strategies would be a win-win.
How Can Exchange Rates Impact Your Work?
Many nonprofit managers are looking beyond their own backyards to make the world a better place. With these global missions comes the need to understand how currency will impact the work. Currencies are ever fluctuating based on global markets. It doesn’t matter whether you work in areas that use the dollar or the Tanzanian shilling. Currency is a moving target. It would also be prudent to know what the historical range of the currency is against the dollar.
What You Should Know About Lines Of Credit?
Lines of credit should be used for temporary timing differences in the borrower’s cash cycle. If you receive payments monthly, as one would in a point of service nonprofit, and you have payroll twice per month, then you should I would need a line approximate to half of you monthly budget.
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Univest (UVSP) Q2 Earnings Lag Estimates
Univest (UVSP) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.45 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.59 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.71 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.
This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of -23.73%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this holding company for Univest Bank and Trust Co. Would post earnings of $0.59 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.68, delivering a surprise of 15.25%.
Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates two times.
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The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call.
Univest shares have lost about 11.5% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's decline of -17.7%.
What's Next for Univest?
While Univest has outperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock?
There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately.
Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions.
Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for Univest: unfavorable. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to underperform the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is $0.68 on $74.41 million in revenues for the coming quarter and $2.59 on $286.93 million in revenues for the current fiscal year.
Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Banks - Northeast is currently in the top 7% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1.
Bridgewater (BWB), another stock in the same industry, has yet to report results for the quarter ended June 2022.
This company is expected to post quarterly earnings of $0.41 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of +7.9%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has been revised 3.5% higher over the last 30 days to the current level.
Bridgewater's revenues are expected to be $32.95 million, up 18.1% from the year-ago quarter.
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PHILADELPHIA, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Legendary trial and civil rights attorney William "Billy" Murphy Jr. and Malcom Ruff of Murphy, Falcon & Murphy, Martell Harris of the Trial Law Firm, and Jason Duncan of Duncan Legal Group announced today the filing of a class action lawsuit against the owners and operators of Sesame Place Philadelphia, SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment, Inc. and SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment LLC, for discriminatory practices against African American children.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleges that costumed Sesame Street characters, "Elmo," "Ernie," "Telly Monster," and "Abby Cadabby" wrongfully refused to engage with African American children during "Meet and Greet" events, intentionally discriminating against the youngsters, while, at the same time, shaking hands, hugging and high-fiving white children.
"The behavior of Sesame Place's costumed park workers is reprehensible. Class members, some as young as 5 years old, adore these characters, and to be shunned by them so brazenly will have a lasting negative affect on their sense of self-worth. Sadly, discriminatorily behavior like this knows no bounds and can target even the most innocent," said Murphy.
The lawsuit alleges class representatives, Quinton Burns and his five-year-old daughter, Kennedi, traveled from Baltimore to Sesame Place Philadelphia to celebrate Father's Day, June 18, at the fun park only to be ignored by costumed characters during "Meet and Greet" events along with other African American guests. These same costumed park workers readily engaged with white patrons, according to the lawsuit.
The class action lawsuit comes on the heels of recent viral video clips depicting nearly identical behavior directed towards other Black youth at the park. The lawsuit seeks $25,000,000.00 in damages from the owners and operators of Sesame Place for civil rights violations, breach of contract and other causes of action on behalf of the class, which includes "[a]ll African American persons who entered contracts with SeaWorld for admission into Sesame Plaine Philadelphia from July 25, 2018, until the present, and who suffered disparate treatment from SeaWorld and/or its agents and/or employees, by their refusal to interact with African American children while openly interacting with similarly situated white children."
Murphy, Falcon & Murphy is a Baltimore-based law firm specializing in complex civil, criminal, and civil rights litigation. Our powerhouse legal team has a history of unrelenting dedication to its clients in Baltimore and across the country. Our team of seasoned trial lawyers has extensive experience in a wide variety of cases with success rates that dwarf national averages and is dedicated to providing smart strategies and creative approaches to complex litigation. Our team is driven and strategy-focused —characteristics that have helped us secure more than $900 million in verdicts and settlements, including over $75 Million in police cases throughout the country. Our attorneys have won some of the largest verdicts in high-profile, high-stakes cases in some of the toughest jurisdictions around the country. The firm represented Freddie Gray, Jr. and William H. Green, achieving historic settlements of $6.4 million and $20 million, respectively, for federal and state civil rights violations that led to their deaths.
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Danish Superliga outfit, FC Copenhagen are attempting to hijack Cyriel Dessers’ move to Serie A club, Cremonese, reports Completesports.com.
Cremonese are reportedly in talks with Belgian Pro League outfit, KRC Genk for the transfer of the Nigerian.
Copenhagen, who are in the market for a new striker are keen to lure Dessers to Denmark.
Danish website bt.dk reported that Dessers was in Denmark on Tuesday to meet with FC Copenhagen coach, Jess Thorup and the club’s sports director, Peter Christiansen.
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Dessers is well known to Thorup as the latter coached the Nigerian during his brief spell as Genk manager during the 2019/20 season.
The 27-year-old spent last season on loan at Eredivisie club, Feyenoord Rotterdam.
Dessers caught the eye with his impressive displays in the UEFA Europa Conference League where he scored 10 goals in 12 appearances.
The former Utrecht player was on target in Genk’s 3-2 defeat to champions Club Brugge…
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Kazakhstan reports 1.9fold growth in weekly COVID-19 cases
NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - Cities of Almaty and Nur-Sultan as well as Karaganda region are responsible for 70% of the country's weekly COVID-19 cases, Kazinform correspondent reports.
«Kazakhstan has been observing a rise in COVID-19 infections since June 20. There has been a 1.9 times growth in cases over the past week. Up to 2,700 cases with a positive test result and above 20 with a negative test result are reported daily,» said Aizhan Yessmagambetova, Vice Minister of Health, chief public health officer of Kazakhstan.
She went on to say that the country has been observing few COVID-19 fatalities since March. The country has seen three COVID-19 deaths in July.
Yessmagambetova added that 70% of the country's weekly COVID-19 infections have been registered in Almaty and Nur-Sultan cities as well as in Karaganda region. | https://www.inform.kz/en/kazakhstan-reports-1-9fold-growth-in-weekly-covid-19-cases_a3959788 | 2022-07-28T02:01:35Z | https://www.inform.kz/en/kazakhstan-reports-1-9fold-growth-in-weekly-covid-19-cases_a3959788 | false | null |
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Luis Castillo pitched seven effective innings in likely his final start with Cincinnati, leading the Reds to a 5-3 victory over the Miami Marlins on Wednesday night.
Castillo is one of the top players on the market ahead of Tuesday's trade deadline. The Reds are last in the NL Central, and the talented right-hander could help push a contender over the top.
Castillo (4-4) allowed three runs — including JJ Bleday's first big league homer — and six hits. He also struck out eight and walked one in his first start since July 14.
He gave Cincinnati fans one last moment after Jesús Sánchez's RBI double for Miami left runners on second and third with none out in the seventh.
Castillo responded with three straight strikeouts — all swinging. He walked off the mound to a standing ovation, took off his cap, and gestured to the crowd.
Nick Fortes also homered for Miami, which has dropped seven of 10. Braxton Garrett (2-4) struck out eight in five innings, but was charged with five runs and seven hits.
Cincinnati grabbed control with four runs in the first. Kyle Farmer hit a two-run double and scored on Donovan Solano's double. Matt Reynolds tacked on an RBI single.
Fortes led off the third with his fourth homer, and Bleday opened the fourth with a drive to right in his fifth big league game.
The 29-year-old Castillo signed a one-year, $7.35 million contract in March, avoiding arbitration. He missed all of spring training due to a right shoulder strain and didn’t make his season debut until May 9. But he is rolling now, improving to 2-0 with a 1.58 ERA in his last five starts.
After Castillo departed, Alexis Díaz got three outs before Hunter Strickland earned his sixth save.
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Reds: OF Albert Almora Jr. was sent to Triple-A Louisville for a rehab assignment. He has been on the COVID-19-related injured list.
Marlins: SS Miguel Rojas felt something in his back during warmups and was held out of the lineup. ... RHP Zach Pop left his outing on Monday with a blister on his throwing hand. He is getting laser light treatment and plans to throw off the mound Thursday. ... RHP Max Meyer had an MRI on Monday which is still being evaluated by doctors. There was no update on the extent of his injury.
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Hard-throwing rookie Graham Ashcraft (4-2, 4.70 ERA) makes his 12th start for Cincinnati in the finale of the four-game series. Ashcraft has 40 strikeouts in 59 1/3 innings. The Marlins have not announced their starter for Thursday.
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Veterans toxic exposure bill delayed as cloture attempt rejected
Senators couldn't muster the votes to end debate on benefits bill, despite bipartisan support
An effort to give millions of veterans easier access to health and disability benefits suffered another surprising setback Wednesday on the Senate floor when supporters couldn’t muster the 60 votes needed to limit debate.
The 55-42 procedural vote on cloture derailed, at least temporarily, a sweeping expansion of veterans benefits that appeared to be heading to President Joe Biden’s desk this week.
The vote marked the second time the bipartisan legislation hit an unexpected snag. The bill had to be revised — and receive a second vote in both chambers — to remove an obscure tax provision that raised a constitutional concern in the House. The House passed the revised version two weeks ago on a 342-88 vote and the Senate planned to pass it this week.
A nearly identical bill, without the tax tweak, passed the Senate on a lopsided 84-14 vote last month with strong bipartisan support. But Republicans mounted an 11th-hour challenge to the legislation and decided not to let the revised bill advance Wednesday.
Some conservatives have raised objections to the bill because it would reclassify nearly $400 billion in current-law VA spending from discretionary to mandatory accounts, thereby potentially freeing up more budget authority to increase discretionary spending on other domestic programs.
“It’s about a budget gimmick that’s designed to allow hundreds of billions of dollars in additional unrelated spending, having nothing to do with veterans,” said Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, R-Pa., who voted against the cloture motion.
[Amended veterans toxic exposure bill teed up in House]
Toomey used a floor speech Tuesday night to urge his fellow Republicans to join him in blocking the bill because of its potential for allowing more discretionary spending than would otherwise be permitted under budget caps. “It’s about Congress hiding behind an important veterans care bill a massive unrelated spending binge,” he said.
Toomey on Wednesday offered to get rid of the mandatory funding shift by unanimous consent. "We can fix this tonight… once that’s done, this bill sails through this chamber,” he said.
'Sad day'
But the move infuriated Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Jon Tester, who had been pushing for speedy passage of the long-sought legislation for weeks.
“This is a sad day in the United States Senate,” the Montana Democrat said on the floor. “This is the biggest issue facing our veterans today. Make no mistake about it…. So we can make up all sorts of excuses about how this is going to move money around, but let me tell you something: we’re the ones that decide that.”
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said the bill would need another fix before it can become law.
“What we're hoping for is there will be a negotiation to eliminate some of the mandatory spending in the bill,” he said. “And then the bill can pass. But this is a cloture vote to provoke a conversation … but I expect it ultimately will pass in some form or another."
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, who supports the bill, voted against cloture Wednesday to preserve his right to bring the bill back to the floor. He filed a motion to reconsider the cloture vote.
The vote came just as Schumer announced an agreement with Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., on the latest Democratic effort to assemble a downsized budget reconciliation package that Republicans oppose. But there was no evidence that the timing of that announcement played a role in the Republican obstruction on the veterans bill.
Despite the partisan fight over mandatory spending, there remains strong bipartisan support for the underlying effort to help more than 3.5 million veterans who were exposed to toxic substances while on overseas deployments.
At its core, the bill would make servicemembers who contracted any of 23 conditions — from brain cancer to hypertension — after being deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and other combat zones automatically eligible for VA health care and disability benefits. That's a change from current law, which requires veterans to prove their illnesses were a direct result of their deployments rather than some other factor.
Supporters said the measure is a long-overdue fix for millions of veterans suffering illnesses likely caused by exposure to toxic chemicals from open-air burn pits used at military bases in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere to dispose of trash and hazardous waste. An inability to prove the link between those toxins and illnesses has prevented an estimated 3.5 million veterans from receiving benefits to which they are otherwise entitled.
The measure is expected to cost nearly $280 billion over a decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
While both chambers had passed nearly identical measures in recent months, a second vote was deemed necessary to remove an obscure tax provision added by the Senate that drew objections from the House. Since the House had never considered the tax provision, it ran afoul of a constitutional requirement that all revenue measures must originate in the House.
The revised bill strips out that provision, which would have let doctors, nurses and other health care providers receive tax-free buyouts of their contracts if they agree to work for the VA at rural veterans’ clinics.
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Columbus teenager wanted in death of woman caught in shootout
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Police are seeking a teenager wanted in connection with the death of a woman caught in a shootout.
Columbus police secured an arrest warrant Friday for Kyrim Curenton, 16, whose address was listed as being in the 1600 block of Cleveland Avenue, in the South Linden neighborhood.
Why mask advisory is returning for ColumbusOn July 16, police were called out to a shooting in the 3200 block of East Broad Street, which falls in a section of Columbus between Bexley and Whitehall, and found Lelia King, 30, had been struck after being trapped in a shootout between two groups.
Police say King, a mother of a 5-year-old, was in a car when she was struck. Despite the efforts of at least one bystander and medics from Columbus and Whitehall, King died less than three hours later after she was taken to Mount Carmel East hospital.
On Friday afternoon, police released surveillance images that they said showed persons of interest in the case. Police did not indicate which of the people show may have been Curenton.
Police are asking anyone with information on where Curenton may be or the other people in the photos to contact the homicide unit at 614-645-4730.
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LUXEMBOURG, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Swiss Insured Brazil Power Finance S.à r.l., a private limited liability company (société à responsabilité limitée), incorporated and existing under Luxembourg law, having its registered office at 16, rue Eugène Ruppert, L – 2453 Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, registered with the Luxembourg Register of Commerce and Companies under number B 217648 (the "Company"), previously launched a consent solicitation (the "Consent Solicitation") in relation to its 9.850% Senior Secured Notes due 2032 with ISIN USL8915MAA38/US870880AA90 (the "Notes") pursuant to the consent solicitation statement, dated July 20, 2022, as supplemented by the Supplement to the Consent Solicitation Statement, dated July 21, 2022 and extended by the announcement made by the Company on July 27, 2022 (as supplemented and extended, the "Statement"). Capitalized terms used, but not defined, in this announcement (the "Announcement") have the meanings assigned to them in the Statement.
The Company further announces today that it has (a) further extended the scheduled expiration time for the Consent Solicitation from 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on July 27, 2022 (the "Existing Expiration Time") to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on July 29, 2022 (as so extended, the "Expiration Time") and (b) increased the Consent Payment payable to Holders who validly deliver (and do not revoke) their Consent at or prior to the Expiration Time, such that the aggregate Consent Payment will be 1.00% of R$3,201,500,000 initial aggregate principal amount of Notes (the "Original Face Value"), or R$32,015,000, to be shared by all such consenting Holders. Specifically, the Consent Payment will be an amount, per R$1,000 of Original Face Value of Notes for which Holders have validly delivered (and not revoked) Consents prior to the Expiration Time, equal to the product of R$10.00 multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Original Face Value of the Notes outstanding as of the Expiration Time and the denominator of which is the Original Face Value of Notes for which Holders have validly delivered (and not revoked) Consents prior to the Expiration Time. As a result, the Consent Payment for the Notes will range from R$10.00 per R$1,000 (if all Holders consent) to approximately R$19.51 per R$1,000 (if Holders of 51.25% of the Original Face Value of Notes consent). Payment of the Consent Payment to consenting Holders is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the other conditions to the Consent Solicitation set forth in the Statement, including the receipt of the Requisite Consents (as defined in the Statement).
D.F. King & Co., Inc., as Information and Tabulation Agent, informed the Company that, as of the Existing Expiration Time, Holders of R$1.44 billion aggregate principal amount of Notes, or 45.10% of the Original Face Value, have provided their Consent in the Consent Solicitation. Furthermore, as of the date hereof, the holder of 100% of the loans under the Uninsured Loan Agreement has consented to the CELSE Consent and Amendment Authorization; therefore, the Requisite Consents threshold will be met if Holders representing at least 51.25% in aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Notes validly deliver (and do not revoke) Consents in the Consent Solicitation. Accordingly, Holders of an additional R$196.9 million, or 6.15% of the Original Face Value, would be required to Consent (and not revoke) in the Consent Solicitation in order for the Company to obtain the Requisite Consent.
Upon receipt of the Requisite Consents in the Consent Solicitation (such time, the "Consent Effective Time"), the Company will instruct the Fiduciary Agent to consent to effectuate and/or enter into the Proposed Consent and Amendments and to consent to and do any other acts necessary to give effect to the CELSE Consent and Amendment Authorization, and upon receipt of all other consents required under the Intercreditor Agreement, the Debenture Indenture and the Project Intercreditor Agreement, the CELSE Consent and Amendment Authorization will become effective once the other conditions thereto have been satisfied. At the Consent Effective Time, the consent to the Proposed Consent and Amendments and the CELSE Consent and Amendment Authorization will be effective and operative as to all Holders, whether or not such Holders delivered a Consent or otherwise affirmatively objected to the consent to the Proposed Consent and Amendments; provided that, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, unless the Consent Payment has been made on or prior to the Outside Date, each Consent provided pursuant to the Consent Solicitation shall be ineffective and deemed revoked and the Proposed Consent and Amendments and the CELSE Consent and Amendment Authorization and any amendments or consents resulting therefrom shall be void ab initio. The Company will give written or oral notice to DTC and make a public announcement of the occurrence of the Consent Effective Time by press release by 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the next business day following the Consent Effective Time. Previously delivered valid Consents will not be automatically revoked by this Announcement, and may not be validly revoked after the earlier of (i) the Consent Effective Time and (ii) the Expiration Time.
The Original Face Value of Notes was R$3,201,500,000, and the Notes have subsequently had principal paydowns to R$2,841,891,512.50 as of July 26, 2022. As of July 26, 2022, the outstanding principal amount of the Notes is approximately 88.77% of the Original Face Value. The Consent Payment is calculated using the Original Face Value of the Notes. The Consent Payment is denominated in Brazilian Reais but will settle in U.S. dollars as converted based on the prevailing Reais / U.S. Dollar spot rate on the close of business on the Expiration Date of the Consent Solicitation as shown on the Bloomberg "BRLUSD Curncy" screen (provided that if such spot rate is not available on the Bloomberg "BRLUSD Curncy" screen, then the Bloomberg FXIP screen shall be used or such other source as mutually agreed by the Company and the Solicitation Agent).
Except as set forth in this Announcement, all aspects of the Statement remain unchanged. The Company expressly reserves the right to amend, extend or terminate the Consent Solicitation or waive any unsatisfied conditions to the Consent Solicitation, in each case, in accordance with the terms set forth in the Statement. Holders are urged to review the Statement for the detailed terms of the Consent Solicitation and the procedures for providing their Consent. This Announcement is for information purposes only and is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes or any other securities. No recommendation is being made as to whether Holders should Consent pursuant to the Consent Solicitation. The Consent Solicitation is not being made in any jurisdiction in which, or to or from any person to or from whom, it is unlawful to make such solicitation under applicable state or foreign securities or "blue sky" laws. The Notes are currently listed on the Official List of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (the "LuxSE") and admitted to trading on the Euro MTF market of the LuxSE.
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Attention: Liability Management Group
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There's a new woman representative in Washington, D.C.
A statue of Amelia Earhart — the pioneering aviator who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in — was unveiled at the National Statuary Hall inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
Earhart became an overnight celebrity in 1928 — a sort of aviating pop/reality star — after becoming the first woman to complete any transatlantic flight.
On that first voyage she was mostly a passenger, accompanied by a pilot and a mechanic. The public's obsession with her reached frenzied levels four years later when Earhart made that journey on her own, becoming first female pilot to make the trip. Three years later she'd become the first woman to fly from the Hawaiian Islands to the mainland.
Ticker-tape parades were held in her honor, and she was so popular that crowds would swarm around her when she made public appearances. They'd grab at her iconic goggles and leather helmet to get a tiny piece of her gravity-defying magic.
The unveiling of the statue at the Capitol fell a little short of that type of mania — but it was joyous nonetheless. The honor guard from the Kansas Air National Guard played the national anthem, people crossed their right hands over their hearts in the pledge of allegiance, and the gathered crowd cheered and woo-hoo'd when the black drape was dramatically removed from the figure.
The statue is one of two to represent Kansas in the Capitol's Statuary Hall Collection. Each state gets to choose a pair to represent them. Earhart, who was born in Atchison, Kansas, is replacing Kansas Senator John James Ingalls. That makes her the 11th woman in the collection.
Earlier this month a marble statue of civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune was added, representing Florida. Bethune is the first Black person to represent a state in the collection.
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly touched on what she hopes Earhart's addition will mean for future visitors.
"Amelia was a dreamer. Her dreams went far beyond the banks of [the Missouri] river and far beyond the prescribed gender roles of her time," Kelly said. "Let it be an inspiration for all, particularly our young girls, for generations to come. Let them stare up at this work of art and think that they, like Amelia, can dream the impossible dream."
The bronze cast of the famed flier looks like what one might expect: She's wearing a leather bomber jacket, her short hair is mussed — as if there's wind blowing through it — and she's got a popped collar and a scarf fluttering around her neck.
The sculpture has been in the works for more than two decades, and actually took seven years to make. It was crafted by artist brothers George and Mark Lundeen from Colorado. The two won a competition to capture the aviator pioneer's spirit, ABC affiliate WJLA reported.
Earhart's place in American history as a trailblazer is unimpeachable. Not only did she crush aviation records, breaking through the glass ceiling in the sky, she also was a best-selling author, a poet, a military nurse and a social worker. She was a champion for making space for women in science, and for closing the gender gap in all aspects of American life.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quoted from John Gillespie Magee's poem about Earhart, "High Flight," at the ceremony .
Pelosi added: "When girls and boys come to the Capitol and see Amelia, they will visit here and set their sights higher, knowing too that they can reach for the sky. And when they see this statue, when it's quiet here in the Capitol, they will hear the sound of wings."
The arrival of the statue at the Capitol comes just weeks after the 85th anniversary of Earhart's mysterious disappearance on a doomed voyage around the world in 1937. (It's also three days after the 125th anniversary of her birth.)
Several theories abound about what happened to Earhart, who was only 39 at the time she vanished along with her navigator Fred Noonan. Despite numerous searches, scientists have been unable to locate the wreckage of the Lockheed Electra 10E the pair was flying.
In 2018 an anthropologist affiliated with the University of Tennessee's Forensic Anthropology Center said a new analysis suggested that bones found on Nikumaroro Island in 1940 actually belonged to the adventurous aviatrix. Unfortunately actual bones themselves have long since disappeared.
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- The book introduces 15 recipes, including dishes BTS members like to cook or enjoy eating, along with Korean cooking expressions and detailed explanations of Korean food culture
- CAKE is diversifying educational content and plans to introduce K-POP IP educational content through its app within the year
SEONGNAM, South Korea, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Language learning edutech company CAKE — a subsidiary of SNOW, an affiliate of NAVER Corp. (KRX: 035420) — announced today the publication of 'BTS RECIPE BOOK' in Korean, English and Japanese, following 'BTS LYRICS INSIDE', which was published last June. With the new book, readers can learn how to cook dishes that BTS members like to eat and learn Korean at the same time. This is part of CAKE's efforts to further diversify educational content based on K-pop artist's intellectual property (IP).
'BTS RECIPE BOOK' introduces the story of BTS related to 15 dishes with recipes. CAKE previously published this content as a video, but adapted it into a book due to popular demand from fans. It contains Korean expressions about food and cooking as well as explanations about Korean food culture. The book also includes a food taste survey that BTS participated in so that global fans can learn Korean expressions and recipes in a more fun way.
'BTS RECIPE BOOK' provides details about cooking methods and includes vegan and gluten-free recipe options to meet the dietary needs of diverse readers. Also, QR codes are included for readers to easily access videos showing all cooking processes, allowing beginners to easily follow and enjoy the content.
"'BTS LYRICS INSIDE' sold out in Japan and the United States within a day of its launch in June, showing how CAKE's educational content has received a lot of attention from readers around the world," said a CAKE representative. "Based on various artist IPs, CAKE will continue to grow as an edutech company that can lead education content not only in Korean but also in other languages from around the world."
CAKE is actively expanding the field of educational content using artist IPs. CAKE has launched videos, such as 'BTS Fashion in Korean' and 'WORKOUT with BTS', and educational books, such as 'BLACKPINK IN YOUR KOREAN' and 'Learn! KOREAN with BTS'. CAKE also provides original lessons and short clips of everyday English expressions performed by native speakers through its app. CAKE plans to introduce various educational content using K-pop artist IPs as a mobile app this year.
About SNOW
SNOW, an affiliate of NAVER Corporation, is creating a new market as an innovative venture builder, aiming for the global stage. CAKE is a language learning mobile app operated by CAKE Corporation, a subsidiary of SNOW. In March 2022, CAKE Corporation acquired HYBE EDU, a subsidiary of HYBE, and announced its entry into the Korean education content market.
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Warnings of a recession have been prevalent for a while now, and while J.P. Morgan’s global markets strategist Marko Kolanovic thinks one could well be on the way, he believes the market is already reflecting that possibility.
“While recession odds are increasing,” Kolanovic said, “a mild recession appears already priced in based on the YTD underperformance of Cyclical vs. Defensive equity sectors, the depth of negative earnings revisions that already matches past recession moves, and the shift in rates markets to price in an earlier and lower Fed Funds peak. With the peak in Fed pricing likely behind us, the worst for risk markets and market volatility should also be behind us.”
In fact, with this in mind, Kolanovic makes the case for the battered tech segment. “We have been arguing to tactically favor Growth over Value, which can also be expressed through a better showing of the Tech sector,” he further explained.
Taking Kolanovic’s outlook and turning it into concrete recommendations, JPMorgan tech expert Doug Anmuth has tagged two tech stocks he sees as primed for over 100% growth. Anmuth holds a top rating from TipRanks, and is ranked among the top 3% of all analysts covered. Let’s find out what JPM’s go-to tech guru has to say.
Nerdy (NRDY)
Let’s start with Nerdy, an education/tech company that uses an interactive digital platform to deliver online learning programs. The company uses its proprietary platform, powered by AI, to personalize learning experiences for students at all levels, from kindergarten through primary and secondary ed, out to professional enrichment. Courses are available in more than 3,000 subjects, in a variety of formats, including one-on-one tutoring, small and large group classes, and self-directed study.
Nerdy, which was founded in 2007, entered the public trading markets last year, through a SPAC transaction with TPG Pace Tech Opportunities. The transaction was approved on September 14, and the NRDY ticker started trading on September 21. The transaction brought more than $575 million in gross proceeds to Nerdy, which was valued at the time at $1.7 billion. Since then, reflecting the market woes, the stock has fallen ~80%.
During that time, however, Nerdy has managed to reach company-record revenue levels. In 1Q22, Nerdy’s top line hit $46.9 million, while the company also recorded $48.5 million in bookings. Per management, these results were up 36% and 30%, respectively, from the year-ago quarter. The company’s Small Class and Group Instruction segment lead the gainers with a 243% year-over-year increase in revenue, to $6.4 million.
On an equally impressive note, Nerdy finished Q1 with no debt on the books and with $141.7 million in cash and liquid assets, putting the firm in a solid position to pursue further growth.
In his note for JPMorgan, Anmuth sees multiple positives supporting Nerdy going forward, writing: “We believe Nerdy’s best-in-class Experts and AI/ML algorithm leveraging 100+ attributes and 80M+ data points to match Active Learners/Experts differentiates the platform from other online learning peers. We believe Nerdy is well positioned for sustainable 20%+ revenue growth driven by 1) US DTC learning TAM expanding from $47B in 2019 to $75B+ by 2025; 2) further expansion of Varsity Tutors for Schools to penetrate the $24B+ ARP learning loss funding; 3) recovery of COVID-driven learning loss; and 4) product innovation— format and subject expansion should create cross-selling opportunities.”
To this end, Anmuth rates Nerdy an Overweight (i.e. Buy), and his $6 price target implies a one-year upside potential of a hefty 183%. (To watch Anmuth’s track record, click here)
With 8 recent analyst reviews, breaking down 6 to 2 favoring Buys over Holds, NRDY shares hold a Strong Buy consensus rating from the Street’s stock pros. The shares are priced at $2.12, and their average price target of $5.13 suggests a robust upside of 142% in the next 12 months. (See Nerdy stock forecast on TipRanks)
Uber Technologies (UBER)
The next JPMorgan pick we’ll look at is Uber, the company that turned the taxi industry inside out and made ride-sharing a household term. Uber pulled up to our front curb back in 2009 offering an easier way for commuters to hire a ride; today the company has expanded its services to include ‘seamless’ employee travel, food deliveries, and even freight bookings. Uber now operates in over 10,000 cities in 72 countries, boasts 115 million monthly active users taking 19 million rides daily, and has paid out a cumulative $180 billion to passenger and delivery drivers.
A month into the third quarter, with the Q2 numbers set for release next week, we can take stock of Uber’s reported results so far this year. The company’s share price is down 45% year-to-date, although revenues are up, having shown a mostly consistent pattern of increases since the corona pandemic crisis hit in 2Q20. The top line in 1Q22 came in at $6.9 billion, for a year-over-year increase of 136%. This number came in higher than the gross bookings; bookings rose y/y by 35%, to reach $26.4 billion.
While Uber has usually posted net quarterly losses, the loss in 1Q22 was unusually large at $3.04 per share. This was a dramatic increase from the 6-cent loss of the year-ago quarter. Uber management attribute the loss to a one-time hit, a $5.6 billion pre-tax charge, relating to various of the company’s equity investments. Uber does not expect the deep loss to continue in further quarters, but rather to moderate back to previous ranges.
In looking at Uber, Doug Anmuth sees a company that is strongly positioned to lead its niche and bring value to investors – and even to cope well with the current inflationary environment.
“We continue to believe Uber is emerging stronger from the pandemic as it focuses on product innovation (Upfront Fares, UberX Share, Hailables) & cross platform advantages (Uber One, accelerated earner onboarding)… Inflationary pressures are harder to gauge as consumers already bear the brunt of higher prices. But elevated living costs could attract more drivers & create greater supply, which could actually help bring down rideshare prices. We recognize Delivery could be more at risk, but Mobility will be the bigger mover on the bottom line. Uber remains a top pick,” Anmuth opined.
As a ‘top pick,’ Uber gets an Overweight (i.e. Buy) rating from Anmuth, who also sets a price target of $48, showing his confidence in a 108% upside for the coming year.
Ever since its founding, Uber has been great at generating buzz, and in the past few months the company has continued to draw attention – in the form of 30 Wall Street analyst reviews. These include 27 Buys against just 3 Holds, for a Strong Buy consensus, and the $46.86 average price target implies ~103% upside from its current trading price of $23.09. (See Uber stock forecast on TipRanks)
To find good ideas for stocks trading at attractive valuations, visit TipRanks’ Best Stocks to Buy, a newly launched tool that unites all of TipRanks’ equity insights.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the featured analyst. The content is intended to be used for informational purposes only. It is very important to do your own analysis before making any investment. | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/j-p-morgan-thinks-these-2-tech-stocks-could-more-than-double-from-here/277336/ | 2022-07-28T02:26:23Z | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/j-p-morgan-thinks-these-2-tech-stocks-could-more-than-double-from-here/277336/ | false | 3 |
Wealthy dentist denies killing wife on African safari trip
By COLLEEN SLEVIN
Associated Press
DENVER (AP) — A wealthy dentist accused of shooting and killing his wife in their cabin at the end of an African safari trip has denied that he killed her. Larry Rudolph took the stand Wednesday at his murder trial in Denver federal court. He said an unfamiliar shotgun they brought with them accidentally went off, wounding Bianca Rudolph as she packed in a hurry to leave and return home. Prosecutors allege Rudolph killed his wife of 34 years to be with his girlfriend. But Rudolph testified that he and his wife had an open marriage and he didn’t face pressure to leave his wife. | https://ktvz.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/07/27/wealthy-dentist-denies-killing-wife-on-african-safari-trip/ | 2022-07-28T02:32:00Z | https://ktvz.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/07/27/wealthy-dentist-denies-killing-wife-on-african-safari-trip/ | false | null |
TOKYO, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Investor Communications Japan (ICJ), a joint venture by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. (TSE), announced today that the number of share-issuing companies on its electronic proxy voting platform (the Platform) has exceeded 1,700 listings, an increase of 499 companies since June 2021.
As of June 2022, over 1,600 companies listed on the Prime Market of the TSE participate in the Platform, representing 87% of the companies in that market or 98% by market capitalization. In addition, over 100 companies listed on the Standard Market and over 20 companies listed on the Growth Market participate in the Platform, and in June of this year, over 1,200 of all companies listed on the TSE that held general meetings of shareholders participated in the Platform (up by over 300 companies).
"Increasing numbers of listed companies and institutional investors are seeking to ensure sufficient time to exercise voting rights based on constructive dialogue and the Platform better enables this process," said ICJ President, Shigeo Imakiire. "This increase in companies joining the Platform is proof that the voting environment has dramatically improved to facilitate the objectives of Japan's Corporate Governance and Stewardship codes."
"ICJ will continue working to strengthen the competitiveness of Japan's capital markets and advance corporate governance through the digitalization of general shareholder meeting processes. ICJ aims to support effective dialogue between companies and investors, and the realization of greater operational efficiency and provision of valuable services for general shareholder meeting participants."
Digitizing and Streamlining
"Broadridge is proud to support the ongoing growth of electronic proxy voting in Japan, by providing innovative digital technology solutions to benefit issuers and investors and help modernize the industry," said Demi Derem, managing director of International Investor Communication Solutions at Broadridge. "Through our collaboration in the Japan market, we enable greater issuer and shareholder participation, market wide transparency, and set the standard for proxy communications and voting."
The ICJ Platform digitizes the processes of general shareholders meetings to streamline operations and contribute to the competitiveness of Japan's capital markets. It helps listed companies engage constructively with institutional investors by providing the opportunity for well-informed engagement before, during, and after shareholder meetings.
Increased Interest
Listed Japanese companies using the platform increased substantially following its March 2006 launch and accelerated after the implementation of the Corporate Governance Code in 2015 and the recommendation to use the Platform by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Study Group on Promoting Electronification of Processes for Shareholder Meetings in 2016.
More recently, a revision made to the Corporate Governance Code in 2021 that requests Prime Market-listed companies promote the use of electronic voting platforms further accelerated this trend. After almost 18 years, the Platform has become a key part of the infrastructure of Japan's capital markets.
ICJ is part of Broadridge's local market commitments to enhance corporate governance and increase shareholder democracy at a national level in markets around the world. Broadridge's infrastructure serves as a global communications hub, enabling higher standards of corporate governance and investor stewardship by linking thousands of public companies and mutual funds to tens of millions of individual and institutional investors around the world.
About Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with $5 billion in revenues, provides the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance, and communications to enable better financial lives. We deliver technology-driven solutions that drive business transformation for banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and public companies. Broadridge's infrastructure serves as a global communications hub enabling corporate governance by linking thousands of public companies and mutual funds to tens of millions of individual and institutional investors around the world. Our technology and operations platforms underpin the daily trading of more than $9 trillion of equities, fixed income and other securities globally. A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 13,000 associates in 21 countries. For more information about us, please visit www.broadridge.com.
About ICJ
Investor Communications Japan, Inc. (ICJ) is exclusively providing electronic proxy voting platform services for Japanese issuers and global institutional investors. The participants on ICJ platform are: 1,738 Japanese issuers, 6 transfer agents, 3 master trusts banks, 6 subcustody banks, 17 global custody banks and about 4,500 institutional investors worldwide. ICJ delivered 36 % of all voting shares of ICJ participating issuers in June 2022 AGM peak season. For more information of ICJ and participating issuers, please visit www.icj-co.jp.
Media contact:
Ashton Consulting: broadridgejapanpr@ashton.jp
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GROVELAND — Local police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two people who stole items from a King Street farmstead on Tuesday before taking off in a red minivan.
Police officers responded to the farmstead about 3:15 p.m. after receiving word that the pair stole a red cooler containing chicken eggs and expensive cooler packs from the unstaffed farmstand. They were then spotted leaving in a red Honda Odyssey minivan.
“There are many small farmstands in Groveland, and we urge the owners of these stands to secure all items of value in the hopes of preventing any future property loss,” Police Chief Jeffrey Gillen said.
Police also learned the thieves attempted to steal a metal lockbox containing money.
As police continue their investigation, they encourage residents to keep an eye out for the older model red Honda Odyssey, which is believed to have a loud, defective exhaust system.
Anyone with information on this incident or who sees suspicious activity in town should call the Groveland Police Department at 978-521-1212.
Dave Rogers is the editor of the Daily News of Newburyport. Email him at: drogers@newburyportnews.com. Follow him on Twitter @drogers41008. | https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/local_news/groveland-pd-investigating-farmstand-burglary/article_0c789aa6-0dc0-11ed-9a56-034aee26c9ba.html | 2022-07-28T02:33:12Z | https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/local_news/groveland-pd-investigating-farmstand-burglary/article_0c789aa6-0dc0-11ed-9a56-034aee26c9ba.html | true | 1 |
Participation in Investor Communications Japan's (ICJ) Proxy Platform Surpasses 1,700 Listed Companies
TOKYO, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Investor Communications Japan (ICJ), a joint venture by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. (TSE), announced today that the number of share-issuing companies on its electronic proxy voting platform (the Platform) has exceeded 1,700 listings, an increase of 499 companies since June 2021.
As of June 2022, over 1,600 companies listed on the Prime Market of the TSE participate in the Platform, representing 87% of the companies in that market or 98% by market capitalization. In addition, over 100 companies listed on the Standard Market and over 20 companies listed on the Growth Market participate in the Platform, and in June of this year, over 1,200 of all companies listed on the TSE that held general meetings of shareholders participated in the Platform (up by over 300 companies).
"Increasing numbers of listed companies and institutional investors are seeking to ensure sufficient time to exercise voting rights based on constructive dialogue and the Platform better enables this process," said ICJ President, Shigeo Imakiire. "This increase in companies joining the Platform is proof that the voting environment has dramatically improved to facilitate the objectives of Japan's Corporate Governance and Stewardship codes."
"ICJ will continue working to strengthen the competitiveness of Japan's capital markets and advance corporate governance through the digitalization of general shareholder meeting processes. ICJ aims to support effective dialogue between companies and investors, and the realization of greater operational efficiency and provision of valuable services for general shareholder meeting participants."
Digitizing and Streamlining
"Broadridge is proud to support the ongoing growth of electronic proxy voting in Japan, by providing innovative digital technology solutions to benefit issuers and investors and help modernize the industry," said Demi Derem, managing director of International Investor Communication Solutions at Broadridge. "Through our collaboration in the Japan market, we enable greater issuer and shareholder participation, market wide transparency, and set the standard for proxy communications and voting."
The ICJ Platform digitizes the processes of general shareholders meetings to streamline operations and contribute to the competitiveness of Japan's capital markets. It helps listed companies engage constructively with institutional investors by providing the opportunity for well-informed engagement before, during, and after shareholder meetings.
Increased Interest
Listed Japanese companies using the platform increased substantially following its March 2006 launch and accelerated after the implementation of the Corporate Governance Code in 2015 and the recommendation to use the Platform by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Study Group on Promoting Electronification of Processes for Shareholder Meetings in 2016.
More recently, a revision made to the Corporate Governance Code in 2021 that requests Prime Market-listed companies promote the use of electronic voting platforms further accelerated this trend. After almost 18 years, the Platform has become a key part of the infrastructure of Japan's capital markets.
ICJ is part of Broadridge's local market commitments to enhance corporate governance and increase shareholder democracy at a national level in markets around the world. Broadridge's infrastructure serves as a global communications hub, enabling higher standards of corporate governance and investor stewardship by linking thousands of public companies and mutual funds to tens of millions of individual and institutional investors around the world.
About Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with $5 billion in revenues, provides the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance, and communications to enable better financial lives. We deliver technology-driven solutions that drive business transformation for banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and public companies. Broadridge's infrastructure serves as a global communications hub enabling corporate governance by linking thousands of public companies and mutual funds to tens of millions of individual and institutional investors around the world. Our technology and operations platforms underpin the daily trading of more than $9 trillion of equities, fixed income and other securities globally. A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 13,000 associates in 21 countries. For more information about us, please visit www.broadridge.com.
About ICJ
Investor Communications Japan, Inc. (ICJ) is exclusively providing electronic proxy voting platform services for Japanese issuers and global institutional investors. The participants on ICJ platform are: 1,738 Japanese issuers, 6 transfer agents, 3 master trusts banks, 6 subcustody banks, 17 global custody banks and about 4,500 institutional investors worldwide. ICJ delivered 36 % of all voting shares of ICJ participating issuers in June 2022 AGM peak season. For more information of ICJ and participating issuers, please visit www.icj-co.jp.
Media contact:
Ashton Consulting: [email protected]
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ASHLAND Fingers crossed, the demolition of the old Ashland Oil building will be on time and on budget, according to City Engineer Steve Cole.
With floors seven, six, five and four already ripped out, Cole said the crews from O’Rourke are on track to finish up tearing down 1401 Winchester Ave. by October, with a final completion date in November.
He said crews are taking about two to three weeks to finish up each floor.
Like anything, Cole said getting started was the most challenging part of the job — the main issue crews had to contend with was dealing with the HVAC system and working on the roof.
“The type of roof it was made it so where they couldn’t have too much equipment on one particular part of the roof,” Cole said. “So they had to rip it out a section at a time.”
As crews were working on the third floor this week, they are now contending with the wall of the building adjacent to the Delta by Marriott. While it might seem like the two buildings share the wall, Cole said they are completely separate structures with “the smallest of gaps between them.”
“It’s a tight job and what they’ll have to do is work their way into that wall and make sure it falls in away from the hotel,” Cole said. “As they do that final peel-away, they’ll probably have to make some adjustments.”
So far, O’Rourke has been able to stay within the budget of the $2.4 million contract it was awarded to perform the job, Cole noted. That’s a rarity in local government, Mayor Matt Perkins said.
“It’s been one of the smoothest projects we’ve seen a while,” Perkins said. “You usually don’t get it to stay in budget.”
Perkins likened the demolition — and plans for a future convention center — to a “phoenix rising from the ashes.”
“The plans for this has been on the shelf since 2013,” Perkins said. “Now we are in a position to actually do it.”
City Manager Mike Graese noted a feasibility study will be prepared to study the economic impact, the physical scope and the scale of a convention center in the space next to the city’s downtown hotel. The release date on that study is expected in October or November, around the time the crews will be buttoning up the demolition.
Perkins said the city has already lost out on opportunities for conventions in the past.
“We’ve had conventions go to smaller cities than us because we don’t have a convention center,” Perkins said. “We’re the largest city in eastern Kentucky. Our community deserves this and our city deserves this.”
Perkins said he hopes a convention center will capture seminars, conventions and get togethers for organizations that aren’t looking for big city atmospheres.
“Not everyone wants to go to Lexington or Cincinnati,” Perkins said. “They’re looking to see what smaller communities have to offer as well.”
Commissioner Marty Gute said he hopes King’s Daughter Medical Center’s partnership with University of Kentucky will bring seminars to the convention center in the future.
“They can come here and learn,” Gute said.
Back in the day, Gute — who said he saw Led Zeppelin in 1969 at the Charleston Civic Center when he was in the eighth grade — recalled the Ashland Oil building as center of bustling activity, until noon.
“That’s when they’d go to lunch and it would be a mad-dash of people shopping, eating and what have you until one,” Gute said. “But things change and everything has a shelf life. We have to adapt.” | https://www.dailyindependent.com/news/ashland-oil-demo-on-time-on-budget/article_b9eb3ce0-0dd7-11ed-a7b9-a3f19027705b.html | 2022-07-28T02:41:35Z | https://www.dailyindependent.com/news/ashland-oil-demo-on-time-on-budget/article_b9eb3ce0-0dd7-11ed-a7b9-a3f19027705b.html | true | 1 |
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A global competition to test one's skills with some of the most used names in word processing, spreadsheets and presentation has selected its winners after a list of contestants turned out to show off their competitive office skills for the challenge.
The Microsoft Office Specialist World Championships 2022 competition held in Anaheim, California, calls itself a "global competition" to test students' skills on software that many of us have on our resumes but might not necessarily be proficient enough to compete against masters. Well, these students are ready!
Students with high proficiency in the various pieces of software are invited to compete and represent their countries at the World Championship, with some students required to compete in National Championships first before being invited.
- The first place winner this year for Microsoft Word, in Microsoft 365 and Office 2019 is Gabriel Stanciu of Romania.
- Tristan Pesqueira of the United States took home the first place spot for competing with Microsoft PowerPoint.
- The first place winner in Microsoft Excel is Duy Phong Nguyen of Vietnam
- Rohan Matthias Vargas of Ireland took home first place for the version of Microsoft Word found in Office 2016
- Cong Minh Bui of Vietnam took home first place for the version of Microsoft PowerPoint found in Office 2016
- Ondrej Cach of Czech Republic won first place for the version of Microsoft Excel that is found in Office 2016
Ray Murray, Vice President and General Manager, Certiport said, “The pandemic put our live MOS Championship events on hold. We are so thrilled to be able to return to in-person competitions.”
Murray said, “It is inspiring to see students from 21 countries come together to ‘speak Microsoft’. The winners receive extra praise, but every single student who entered has earned a valuable workforce credential that will help them find success in college and in their career. The last two years have highlighted the importance of IT skills for tomorrow’s professionals and it’s incredible to see so many young people get introduced to IT certifications through the MOS World Championship.” | https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/competitive-work-environment-2022-microsoft-office-specialist-world-championship-names-winners | 2022-07-28T02:51:58Z | https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/competitive-work-environment-2022-microsoft-office-specialist-world-championship-names-winners | true | 10 |
Price Alert: Shares of Independence Contract Drilling (ICD) Trade 5.59% Higher at Midday July 27
Equities Staff Follow |Independence Contract Drilling Inc (NYSE: ICD) has gained $0.18 (5.59%) and sits at $3.41, as of 11:56:44 est on July 27.
46,227 shares have exchanged hands.
The Company fell 0.92% over the last 5 days and shares gained 0.63% over the last 30 days.
Independence Contract Drilling anticipates its next earnings on 2022-08-04.
For technical charts, analysis, and more on Independence Contract Drilling visit the company profile.
About Independence Contract Drilling Inc
Independence Contract Drilling provides land-based contract drilling services for oil and natural gas producers in the United States. The Company constructs, owns and operates a fleet of pad-optimal ShaleDriller rigs that are specifically engineered and designed to accelerate its clients' production profiles and cash flows from their most technically demanding and economically impactful oil and gas properties.
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Uddhav camp moves SC over LS Speaker’s decision on floor leader
The Uddhav Thackeray faction filed a fresh plea in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, challenging Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla’s decision accepting Rahul Shewale as the floor leader of Shiv Sena in the lower house. Shewale belongs to Uddhav’s rival Eknath Shinde camp.
The plea is expected to be mentioned before Chief Justice of India NV Ramana during the week, posting it along with the bunch of other cases relating to the recent political developments in Maharashtra that are coming up on August 1.
On Monday, the Uddhav faction had filed an application for restraining the Election Commission of India (ECI) from deciding whether the Eknath Shinde camp represents the “real Shiv Sena” and should be allowed to use the bow and arrow as its election symbol.
At present, there is a court-ordered curb on disqualifying MLAs from both Maharashtra CM Shinde and Uddhav camps by the Maharashtra Speaker. But there is no judicial embargo on determination by the ECI as to which of the two factions is the real Shiv Sena, entitled to use bow and arrow as its symbol.
The top court is currently seized of a batch of six petitions filed by Shinde and Uddhav factions in relation to disqualification proceedings against the MLAs of both camps, election of Rahul Narwekar as new Speaker of the assembly, recognition of a new party whip for Shiv Sena, and the governor’s directive to Uddhav for proving majority on the floor of the house and subsequently inviting Shinde to form the new government in the state.
While the first two petitions in the Supreme Court were filed by the Shinde faction to stop the deputy speaker (there was no speaker at the time) from disqualifying them as MLAs, the Uddhav-camp also approached the apex court later, challenging the actions of the governor in directing Uddhav to prove the majority on the floor of the House as well as inviting Shinde to form the government in the state. The Uddhav camp further challenged Narwekar’s decision to recognise Shinde as the leader of Shiv Sena and appointment of a new chief whip of the party.
The interim order passed by the Supreme Court on June 27 put in abeyance the disqualification petitions pending against Shinde and 15 other MLAs till July 12. However, after Uddhav resigned on June 29 and the Shinde faction subsequently nominated its chief whip in the assembly, disqualification petitions were also filed against MLAs of the Uddhav-camp for not voting in favour of Shinde during the trust vote on July 4. These MLAs from the Uddhav camp also approached the top court, taking the tally of petitions to six.
On the last date of hearing, a three-judge bench had remarked that a larger bench may be required to settle the points of law surrounding the dramatic take-over of Shinde as the Maharashtra chief minister in the wake of certain crucial constitutional issues emerging in the matter.
“Some of the issues are important constitutional issues which should be settled...Some of the issues such as consequences of removal of Para 3 (of Tenth Schedule which did away with immunity from disqualification for a split in a party) and absence of split concept; whether a minority party leader has right to disqualify majority party leaders...these are some of the issues which will require a decision,” the bench had observed on July 20.
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Laptops are often used for their portability and convenience. Even though standalone tablets and smartphones are convenient, a laptop is the best device for drafting research papers, watching movies, and playing games.
Most laptops have outstanding features and specifications, making it difficult to choose the best model. If you wish to purchase a laptop, you should plan and consider your intended usage. Since laptops are an investment, we have chosen the best ones under ₹75,000 that will not disappoint you.
Top 10 laptops under ₹75,000
1. Lenovo Legion 5
The Lenovo Legion 5 features a Ryzen 5 4600H processor and a GTX 1650 GPU, which performs reasonably well. The build quality is also excellent. It features an FHD IPS panel with support for a 120hz refresh rate. It offers great value for money.
2. HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop
The Ryzen 5 5600H and GTX 1650 power the HP Pavilion gaming laptop. It is great for gamers and productivity users with 8GB DDR4 RAM and 512GB NVME storage. It weighs 2.5 kg, so you might want to consider that before buying.
3. Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 Pro
The Lenovo Ideapad Slim 5 pro is a capable machine with an 11th Gen Tiger lake processor and a slightly underpowered MX 450 GPU. The 16GB system memory and the 512GB SSD are a great addition to the laptop. To top it all, it comes with a three-year warranty and a 16:10 display, which is the highlight of this laptop.
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It is no secret that Dell produces excellent workstation laptops, and the Inspiron 5518 is no different. Powered by an 11th Gen i5 processor and an MX 450 GPU, it comes at just under 1.65 kg. The battery backup is also great, giving you 8 hours of usage on a single charge.
5. MSI Bravo
The Bravo laptop from MSI comes equipped with the Ryzen 5 5660H processor. Coupled with RX5500M and 8GB of DDR4 RAM, it delivers consistently due to an efficient cooling solution. The 144hz refresh rate FHD, IPS-based panel, looks absolutely beautiful. MSI does not often make thin and light laptops, but the Bravo is an exception.
6. Lenovo Yoga 6
The Lenovo Yoga 6 is a powerful laptop with a Ryzen 7 CPU. The biometric sensor ensures secure access to the laptop. The overall build quality is excellent, albeit with some keyboard flex. The laptop comes in at 1.31 kg, and is a powerhouse, providing 8-10 hours of battery life on a single charge.
7. ASUS Vivobook S15 OLED (2022)
The ASUS Vivobook S15, apart from carrying a stunning design, is a fantastic machine featuring a 12th Gen i5 processor and onboard integrated graphics. It also comes with an innovative screen pad solution pioneered by ASUS. However, the battery life could use some improvement.
8. HP Pavilion (2021)
The HP Pavilion is powered by an 11th gen i5 processor and MX 450 graphics. It could use a better GPU, given the price point. The matte finish on the display means that outdoor visibility is not the best. It does offer a large touchpad and excellent connectivity.
9. Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3
Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 is one of the most popular budget gaming laptops. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800H processor in the laptop delivers a powerful performance, and is ideal for gaming and working.
10. MSI GF75 Thin Gaming
The MSI GF75 is one of the best budget gaming laptops out there, as it features a 10th gen i5 processor coupled with a GTX 1650. It is incredibly efficient, and credit goes to MSI's great thermal design choices. The battery backup could improve since it lasts for just five hours, even with light usage.
Best 3 features for consumers
Buying a laptop can be complicated if you do not know which features to look for. Here are the three most important factors for you to consider before purchasing a laptop under ₹75,000:
1. Processor: The importance of a powerful processor cannot be emphasised enough. A better processor can help speed up your processes, from gaming and video editing to just web browsing.
2. Build quality: Build quality is of the utmost importance, given that a laptop with poor build quality can render a laptop with great specs unusable.
3. Display: Make sure your laptop's display is as comfortable as possible because you will be staring at it for long periods. A higher-resolution display is something that you must prefer. Apart from the resolution, you must also take a look at screen sizes. For instance, a productivity-focussed buyer would prioritise getting a 13-inch laptop, while a gamer would want to go for the 16-inch option.
Best value for money
If you are looking for a laptop that you will use for work or gaming, theHP Pavilion Gaming Laptop is the best. The laptop's strong, full-length, and ergonomically designed backlit keyboard allows you to work for prolonged periods with the utmost convenience. With an AMD Ryzen 5 5600H 5th Gen processor running at 2.4 GHz, this laptop enables you to multitask without lag or interruptions.
Best overall
When it comes to cutting-edge laptops, theASUS Vivobook S15 OLEDis the best choice. This stylish laptop has a DisplayPad 2.0. Despite being larger than other ultrabooks, its subtle design and the matte display are perfect for enjoying high-quality visuals.
The VivoBook S15 boasts a superb selection of ports despite being only 19 millimetres thick. The laptop has USB 2.0 ports, a microSD card slot, a DC jack, USB 3.1 port, an HDMI port, and a headphone/mic combo jack. If this wasn’t enough, the laptop also has a 180-degree hinge, allowing you to lay it flat while working!
How to find the perfect laptop for under ₹75,000?
There are a lot of factors to consider when purchasing a laptop, which is why its specifications are essential. Here are two things you should consider when purchasing a laptop under ₹75,000:
1. Requirements: The primary factor to consider must be your needs. It is essential to consider your workload and what kind of specs it demands. You should also consider who will be using the device and for which applications.
2. A comprehensive view: When purchasing a laptop, you must take a holistic view. A laptop with chassis or keyboard flex can reduce your typing speed. Therefore, it is best to consider all the components.
FAQs
1. Which is the best laptop brand?
It is challenging to pick the best laptop brands because each laptop has unique features, such as board design, software, keyboards, and even warranty coverage. India's most popular laptop brands are HP, Apple, Acer, Asus, and Lenovo.
2. Which is the best laptop under ₹75,000?
The Asus VivoBook S15 S533FA is a mid-range laptop with a large screen. The Asus Vivobook S15 S532F stands apart in the segment of high-end laptops, thanks to its ScreenPad and 180-degree hinge.
3. How much does a laptop cost?
In India, good laptops cost between ₹50,000 and ₹2 lakhs for flagship-grade specifications. The prices vary quite a lot depending on the brand. You can get a great budget-friendly laptop for around ₹90,000 to ₹1,00,000.
4. Are laptops better than PCs?
From a pure value standpoint, laptops are significantly better than PCs because they are portable. While PCs perform better, focusing on productivity, they are not portable.
5. Are SSDs better than HDDs?
Faster installation, booting, and screen loading are all made possible by solid-state drives (SSDs). The lack of moving parts in SSDs makes them significantly more reliable than HDDs (Hard Disk Drives). If you are buying a laptop in 2022, you should choose a laptop with an SSD.
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Why rising inflation means you should ditch supermarkets for your local farmers market
Let's face it: Groceries are a lot more expensive than they used to be. The cost of eating at home has increased by 12.2% since June 2021, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index (CPI). That's part of an overall 10.4% increase to the cost of food,...
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LEXINGTON, Ky., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AXP Energy Limited (ASX: AXP, OTC US: AUNXF), ('AXP', 'Company') provides this summary of activities for the quarter ended 30 June 2022 (all in USD unless stated otherwise).
HIGHLIGHTS
- Quarterly net revenue of $7,513,165, up ~51.4% on previous quarter ($4,961,817);
- Net customers receipts were $6,595,000, up ~49.8% on the prior quarter ($4,403,000);
- AXP delivered positive operating cashflow of $1.61M for the quarter - a circa 9-fold increase on last quarter's $186K;
- Net cash increased by ~$950K with cash and cash equivalents at quarter end of $3,386,000 ($2,438,634 last quarter);
- Unsold oil inventory held at quarter end totalled 16,558 barrels of oil (previous quarter: 17,715 barrels of oil);
- Gross production was 194,863 BOE, up 1.64% on the previous quarter (191,713 BOE). Production growth was modest due to recurring downstream outages in the first 2 months of the quarter, offset by improved oil production volumes (up 19.4%) in the quarter;
- AXP's focus is to use its growing cash balance to increase production through larger well recompletions and ongoing workovers in leases linked to reliable midstream and downstream infrastructure;
- AXP continues to challenge and collaborate with existing and prospective midstream partners with the aim to improve system reliability, production efficiencies and decrease costs.
CEO Tim Hart commented: "AXP's performance for the quarter is encouraging and indicates that we are starting to turn the business around. Net cash is up by almost $1M to approximately $3.4M and this has been driven by increased oil production and better contract terms secured for a large percentage of our natural gas sales. Whilst we are pleased with this quarter's performance, there is considerable scope to deliver further upside and we are not yet satisfied with our gas production which has a lot of room for improvement."
"We continue to focus on building natural gas sales channels tied to reliable transport and processing infrastructure, and this is now occurring with additional production through, for example, the KayJay project work. This quarter we will continue initiatives to streamline oil transport and logistics to enhance sales and monetise our ~16,500 oil inventory and optimise our gas contracting to take advantage of strong gas prices."
"Most importantly, our focus in the current quarter is to utilise our strengthening cash position to carry out more low-cost workovers and commence work on two higher impact and larger well recompletions which are aimed at materially adding to production volumes. AXP has a number of key developments in the pipeline, as outlined above, and we look forward to delivering more updates in respect of these developments as the quarter unfolds."
FINANCIAL & CORPORATE OVERVIEW
Net revenue increased primarily due to favourable hydrocarbon prices but also improved oil production volumes which were up almost 20% quarter-on-quarter' and significantly higher NGL revenues as a result of the resale of approximately 1.3M US Gallons of additional NGLs purchased in order to blend with the Company's produced NGLs. Such blending is required so that the NGLs can be transported safely and volumes purchased increased significantly in the quarter due to the warmer weather. The purchase and sale of such blending material is uneconomic and AXP is currently working on various alternative solutions, not only to eliminate this unfavourable impact but also to improve NGL margins.
The Company was operating cashflow positive for the quarter with inflows of ~$1.6M; a material improvement on the $186K last quarter. Net cash used in investing activities was $398K due to ongoing legacy payment plan expenses of $150K for the quarter and a $100K security deposit payment for a new credit facility.
AXP remains well funded with cash and cash receivables at quarter end of $3.39M and minimal debt ($292K).
PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS OVERVIEW
Natural gas production declined for the fourth consecutive quarter predominantly due to ongoing midstream (pipeline network) and downstream (gas processing plant) reliability issues in the first two months of the quarter. AXP noted an improvement in reliability from late-May and anticipates better reliability moving forward.
As reported, 30% of AXP's gas production comes from leases tied into reliable infrastructure and the Company plans to increase this percentage in subsequent quarters. AXP is in negotiations with several parties to secure acceptable pricing and contractual terms for gas produced by the DPI-2605 well which will add to sales volumes in these leases. New well workovers and larger recompletions within these leases have also been earmarked.
Oil production increased 19.4% quarter-on-quarter from 23,790 barrels to 28,404 barrels and barrels of oil per day increased from 264 to 312. Daily oil production experienced a pleasing increase in the June with the successful recompletion of the DPI-2605 well which was brought online late in the quarter and is currently producing ~50 barrels of oil per day. More wells in and around this lease have been identified for similar recompletions and fracture stimulation. AXP has invested in added storage capacity and haulage vehicles to ensure that oil sales keep up with the increased production.
With respect to the Elite Mining business, where AXP intends to sell gas to power Elite's crypto-mining operation, revenue generated for the quarter was nil, the amount of government grants and tax incentives accrued during the quarter was nil, expenditure for the quarter (including development, operations, staff & administrative & corporate expenditure) was $8,340, capital & investment expenditure incurred was $23,302 and other income generated/expenditure incurred was nil. All equipment is now on site with the generator testing underway. Despite further delays experienced in the quarter, the first of the Elite Mobile Units is expected to be operational in the next two weeks.
EXPLORATION AND FIELD DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
During the quarter, work focused on bringing the DPI-2605 well on pump with natural gas still being flared until tie-in to existing infrastructure is completed and contractual terms are agreed with a potential off-taker. Pipeline repairs, tie-ins to shut-in wells and swabbing of wells was also undertaken on the KayJay project and gains from this development activity will be realised this quarter.
As reported last quarter, AXP is focused on a field development program on leases that contain 165 wells, diverse sales channels and where no material service or development work has occurred since 2007. The KayJay project sits within such a lease. Updates on the work program and the planned well recompletions will be provided as the program advances.
E&E expenses of $31,642 were incurred during the quarter, related to site preparation works for the Elite Mining crypto mining operation. D&P expenses for the quarter were $399,999, related to the DUC (DPI-2604 and DPI 2605) completions.
HEALTH, SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT
No Lost Time Injuries, Recordable Injuries or Reportable Loss of Containment incidents were recorded in the quarter.
TENEMENT SCHEDULE
AXP's leases held at the end of the quarter are available by clicking the following link:
There were no changes to tenements or farm-in or farm-out arrangements during the period.
PAYMENTS TO RELATED PARTIES
Outstanding Directors fees of $80,248 were paid in the quarter.
This announcement has been authorised by the Board of AXP Energy Limited.
ABOUT AXP ENERGY LIMITED
AXP ENERGY Limited (ASX: AXP) (formerly Fremont Petroleum Corporation Limited) is an oil & gas production and development company with operations in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. AXP's focus is to aggressively grow daily production by improving current asset performance and opportunistically acquiring onshore USA oil & gas assets with the following characteristics: producing conventional oil & gas wells; production that can be enhanced through low-cost field operations and workovers; leases which are held by production and which do not require ongoing drilling commitments; and economies of scale which can be achieved by acquiring and carrying out similar enhancement strategies on contiguous or nearby fields with similar characteristics.
DISCLAIMER
This announcement contains or may contain "forward looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of1933 and Section 21B of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Any statements that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, goals, assumptions or future events or performance are not statements of historical fact and may be "forward looking statements." Forward looking statements are based on expectations, estimates and projections at the time the statements are made that involve a number of risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those presently anticipated. Forward looking statements in this action may be identified through the use of words such as "expects", "will," "anticipates," "estimates," "believes," or statements indicating certain actions "may," "could," or "might" occur. Hydrocarbon production rates fluctuate over time due to reservoir pressures, depletion, down time for maintenance and other factors. The Company does not represent that quoted hydrocarbon production rates will continue indefinitely.
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