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The Yankees had so much to be glad about on Monday night in Seattle. Their offense pounded Mariners starter Logan Gilbert and took a 7-2 lead into the middle of the ballgame, giving them serious hope of snapping their five-game winning streak as they seek to escape their second-half funk. But an ominous event from the early innings of the game had an ugly postscript that emerged as the team hit in the top of the sixth.
In the first inning, DH Matt Carpenter fouled a ball off his back foot and grimaced in pain. He took a few moments to complete the at-bat with a strikeout, but manager Aaron Boone pulled him in the third, as Tim Locastro took his spot in the lineup. It didn’t look pretty at the time, and the Yankees’ worst fears were confirmed: Carpenter broke his foot.
Matt Carpenter left tonight's game with a left foot fracture.
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) August 9, 2022
This is obviously a tough loss for a Yankees lineup that is already missing Giancarlo Stanton on the IL and Anthony Rizzo on the bench with back tightness, but it’s so much more difficult for Carpenter himself. Major League Baseball had seemingly left his career for dead after a grueling couple of final seasons in St. Louis, and he had to settle for a make-good minor-league deal with the Rangers in April.
Carpenter opted out of that Rangers deal in May, and with an opening at the time, the Yankees were reportedly the only team to take a flyer on him. Suddenly, the three-time All-Star’s bat came back to life, as he hit .305/.412/.727 with 15 homers in just 154 plate appearances, good for an astonishing 216 wRC+. For comparison’s sake, Aaron Judge is in the middle of an MVP season at the plate, and he entered play on Monday with a 193 wRC+. Carpenter had quickly made himself an essential part of the lineup on one of the best teams in baseball with a hotter bat than he’d shown in years.
Now, Carp’s season is likely over since broken feet don’t exactly heal in a hurry, especially when you’re nearing age-37. As Josh noted in our Slack, Tigers rookie Riley Greene broke his foot near the end of spring training on April 2nd, and he didn’t play for Detroit again until June 18th. Baseball Prospectus editor Craig Goldstein shared this chart of similar recovery timelines for this injury:
I'm gonna update this because I refined the search to exclude broken toes, which are injecting a lot of variability. Much different timeline for foot injuries proper
— Cronko Tonko (@cdgoldstein) August 9, 2022
cc @DBITLefty @pinstripealley @GaryHPhillips pic.twitter.com/sUMQFIdaf7
So maybe there’s an absolute best-case scenario where Carpenter can recover and rehab in some minor league playoff games in September (or even Arizona Fall League action like Kyle Schwarber in 2016) and tune up for the MLB postseason. After the game on Monday, Carpenter told reporters that he’s refusing to believe that this will be the end of him in 2022, but the Yankees can’t exactly bank on that at this point. We’re hoping like hell that it works out.
Nonetheless, if those 47 games were all we’ll ever see of Carpenter in pinstripes, then what an unexpected but wonderful run it was.
The Yankees will likely have to recall Miguel Andújar or someone like that in Triple-A to take his roster spot. Estevan Florial, Oswaldo Cabrera, and yes, even prospect Oswald Peraza are also candidates since they hold 40-man roster spots, but Andújar is the most likely candidate since it’s unclear why the Yankees would have bothered keeping him on the 40-man if they weren’t going to promote him to replace DH-type (particularly in a potential short-term scenario with Stanton ideally back soon). | https://www.pinstripealley.com/2022/8/9/23297848/yankees-matt-carpenter-broken-foot-injuries-hit-by-pitch-out-season | 2022-08-09T06:25:22Z | https://www.pinstripealley.com/2022/8/9/23297848/yankees-matt-carpenter-broken-foot-injuries-hit-by-pitch-out-season | true | 1 |
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 launch is tomorrow, but we already have a very good idea what to expect from this flagship foldable phone at the Samsung Unpacked event. And that's thanks to an Amazon listing that has since been taken down.
As reported by GSMArena (opens in new tab), an Amazon Netherlands listing spilled very official looking details on the Galaxy Z Fold 4, including the design, dimensions, screen sizes, multitasking features and S Pen case.
Let's start with the Galaxy Z Fold 4's size. The Amazon listing showed a photo with multiple dimensions, with the foldable measuring 155.1 x 67.1 x 15.8 mm (or 6.1 x 2.64 x x 0.62 inches) when folded (130.1mm or 5.1 inches wide when unfolded). That's shorter than the Galaxy Z Fold 3, which makes sense since the front display is supposed to be wider than last year's model.
More important, the listed weight of the Z Fold 4 is 263 grams or 9.28 ounces. That's a welcome reduction from the 9.55 ounces on the Galaxy Z Fold 3. So it looks like the Z Fold 4 should be a bit easier to carry.
The front display for the Galaxy Z Fold 4 is listed as 6.2 inches, which is the same as last year, but the aspect ratio is 23.1:9 (a bit wider than the Z Fold 3) and the main 7.6-inch display is 21.6:18. Both panels reportedly have a 120Hz refresh rate.
So what can you do with the 7.6-inch display? The deleted Amazon listing shows two windows running side by side along with a taskbar along the bottom of the screen. This presumably lets you toggle between all of your open apps. There was a taskbar on the Galaxy Z Fold 3, but it was not enabled by default.
Last but not least is a photo of a case that has a slot for the S Pen on the back. This seems to confirm that there will be no S Pen slot built in for the Galaxy Z Fold 4, and backs up previous rumors.
Other Galaxy Z Fold 4 rumors point to an upgraded camera system with a 50MP main camera, more durable design and a faster Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 chip.
Be sure to check out our Galaxy Z Fold 4 hub for all the latest rumors and leaks, and see our guide on how to watch Samsung Unpacked so you can tune in to all the big announcements. | https://www.tomsguide.com/news/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-4-amazon-listing-spills-specs-right-before-unpacked | 2022-08-09T06:25:34Z | https://www.tomsguide.com/news/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-4-amazon-listing-spills-specs-right-before-unpacked | false | 1 |
Scotiabank raised the price target for the Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE:SWN) stock from “a Sector perform” to “a Sector outperform”. The rating was released on July 25, 2022, according to finviz. The research report from BofA Securities has upgraded the stock from Neutral to Buy, with a price target set at $13. The stock was upgraded by Wells Fargo, who disclosed in a research note on July 11, 2022, from Underweight to Equal Weight and set the price objective to $12. In their research brief published June 15, 2022, The Benchmark Company analysts upgraded the Southwestern Energy Company stock from Hold to Buy with a price target of $14.
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The share price of Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE:SWN) raised 5.24% to close Friday’s market session at $6.83, higher as compared to yesterday’s close. The stock price fluctuated between $6.38 and $7.075 throughout the trading session with the volume trading being 33267994 shares, which represented a significant variation when compared to the three months average volume of 42.21 million shares. The firm’s stock price fluctuated -3.26% within the last five trades and 9.11% within the last 30 trades, which was a significant change from the beginning of this year. Despite the fact that the share price increased 50.11% in the last 6 months and -9.18% was subtracted to its value over the previous 3 months. SWN stock is trading at a margin of 4.76%, -6.66% and 13.59% apart from the 20-Day, 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average prices.
As of the close of trading, SWN deals in the Energy domain. The stock is trading -30.80 percent below its 52-week high and 79.27 percent above its 52-week low. For example, looking both at the price and the high and low measurements of 52 weeks will give you a clearer picture of the direction the price is heading. The firm’s Weighted Alpha is 29.5. A positive weighted alpha indicates the firm has done well over the course of the year, whereas one below 0 indicates that the firm has done poorly.
What Does Southwestern Energy Company’s Profitability and Valuation Ratios Tell Us About the Stock?
With regard to the profitability of the company, the operating margin is currently at 62.90 percent and the profit margin is -11.70 percent, and the company has reported a gross margin of 71.20 percent. The profit margin, also known as the revenue ratio or gross profit ratio, is an efficiency figure used to estimate the business’s profitability by comparing net income and sales. The higher the number, the more profits are generated for the company and vice versa.
The stock’s market cap achieved a total value of $7.24 billion as of the last trading session. Market capitalization is the total value of all outstanding shares of a corporation and it is used to measure a company’s market value. The price-to-earnings ratio is a method of assessing corporate values by comparing them to their per-share profit. Forward P/E stands at 3.35. Forward price-to-earnings is calculated using predicted earnings for the next financial year’s P/E determination. The stock has achieved an effective Price-to-Sales Ratio of 0.85 that mirrors the cost to be found for sales by the market. The firm managed a Price-to-Book ratio of 7.34, which equates the market value of a stock with its book value.
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Almost all investors and traders prefer to invest in shares controlled by the management of a corporation as a management company will be more likely to run the business itself and to never conduct things against the management’s desires and will always try to do what is best for their shareholders. Currently, 0.50 percent of Southwestern Energy Company shares are owned by insiders, and 89.10 percent are held by financial institutions. | https://www.bovnews.com/2022/08/08/highest-growth-lowest-cost-southwestern-energy-company-swn-stock/ | 2022-08-09T06:27:12Z | https://www.bovnews.com/2022/08/08/highest-growth-lowest-cost-southwestern-energy-company-swn-stock/ | true | 16544 |
Borr Drilling Q2 Revenue, Adj. EBITDA Top Estimates as Day Rates Rise Faster
(PLX AI) – Borr Drilling Q2 net income USD -165.3 million.Q2 revenue USD 105.3 million vs. estimate USD 103.6 millionQ2 adjusted EBITDA USD 37 million vs. estimate USD 34 millionSays compounding impact of improving day rates combined with …
- (PLX AI) – Borr Drilling Q2 net income USD -165.3 million.
- Q2 revenue USD 105.3 million vs. estimate USD 103.6 million
- Q2 adjusted EBITDA USD 37 million vs. estimate USD 34 million
- Says compounding impact of improving day rates combined with incremental activity resulting in a top-line increase of 28% with an EBITDA fall through of 73%, while still being in the early stages of this upcycle
- Says are on track to have all 23 rigs contracted by year-end
- Says day rates are currently increasing faster than previously anticipated | https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/15795999-borr-drilling-q2-revenue-adj-ebitda-top-estimates-as-day-rates-rise-faster | 2022-08-09T06:27:30Z | https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/15795999-borr-drilling-q2-revenue-adj-ebitda-top-estimates-as-day-rates-rise-faster | true | null |
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly made a stop in Wichita on Friday to hear from Wichita business leaders about their workforce challenges and economic development wins.
The roundtable discussion was part of a series of stops the governor is making around the state, which come on the heels of news that Kansas had secured a "megaproject" deal with Panasonic Corp. for an electric vehicle battery plant in De Soto, which is outside Kansas City.
"We take economic development very seriously, but we know with every win comes some challenges," Kelly said to the group that gathered Friday at the Wichita Workforce Center. "Whenever we draw a business into a community, that means we need more workers."
"We're very interested in hearing... what we’re doing right and what we can do better," Kelly said.
Hiring challenges was the dominating topic among the group of employers, who represented a wide swath of innovative industries and sectors.
Tarina Lees, project manager at Optometric Billing Solutions, said her company has about 130 on staff but could hire another 130 people and still not meet the demand. The Maize-based firm offers insurance billing for optometrists around the nation. Lees added that Optometric Billing Solutions has started offering remote work for some positions to look for talent in rural areas beyond the Wichita area.
Asked if high-speed Internet connection is a barrier to those hiring efforts, Lees said the company has been working to understand what resources are available for workers who live in rural communities. Kelly added that there will be a large tranche of funding coming in from the federal infrastructure bill to support broadband expansion.
"A fast internet connection to everybody in Kansas can do nothing but help," Lees said.
Keycentrix president Luis Rodriguez said his local software company has established a talent pipeline with the area's higher-education institutions, but the challenge is convincing tech talent to make their careers in Wichita. Keycentrix, Rodriguez said, is often a training ground for people who want to work for companies like Microsoft or Apple, "who have it in their minds that they need to not be here to reach the heights of their career."
As for the growth of the tech industry in the region, Rodriguez said there's been positive energy toward incentivizing growth the past few years. He said many companies and startups don't know the state's economic incentives are available to them — specifically the PEAK program, or Promoting Employment Across Kansas.
"There might be an argument for continuing a constant evaluation of is that working?" Rodriguez said of the PEAK program. "Is there more to do there? Would there be a return on the taxpayer dollars... ? I'm not an expert on that. I know that in other tech hub cities there are programs that feel heavier and more productive, so there's probably something to learn."
Alltite's CEO Tom Smith also participated in the Friday roundtable. Alltite, which repairs and maintains wind turbines across the U.S., is also looking to add to its local workforce.
"We're trying all that we can to find technicians because our forecast is we'd like to hire 300 more technicians over the next two years," Smith said. "... We're trying to lead the efforts here in Kansas to just step into the demand for the energy transition that the country's moving towards."
As it looks to fill those jobs, Smith said Alltite has tapped into programs to employ refugees through the International Rescue Committee, as well as second-chance hiring for those with a criminal record.
"We're also going to try to get a special plan together so that people are able to cross state lines because a lot of times parolees cannot leave the state, so that's a roadblock for us that we're working on," Smith said.
Alltite's talent pipeline is also challenged by the fact that technicians currently have to travel out of state to get training, so Smith said his company has partnered with Cowley College to submit a grant application to the state to build a global labor organization training facility in Kansas. Smith said he hasn't heard back about the application.
Graham Crain, CEO of the Crain Company, shared how his company plans to build 3D-printed homes in Kansas to address a housing inventory shortage.
"We saw a problem and a gap, and so we said, 'Let’s try to fix it,'" said Crain, whose startup, CC3D, plans to build around 100 of the 3D-printed rental homes in Valley Center.
Crain said he hopes to work with through Kansas State University and Wichita State University on materials testing, as well as training opportunities for college students to learn how to use the printers. Currently, the company employs about 45, but Crain said he's projecting to hire 400 in the next two to three years.
Crain said his company has had a lot of support so far from the state to work on "a lot of different packages" to help accelerate this project.
"That is music to my ears," Kelly told Crain. "And I hope that you are working with our Department of Commerce. We have just invested a boat load of money in housing because we recognize when we talk about workforce issues you need that housing."
Participants in the Friday roundtable also included Wichita mayor Brandon Whipple; Keith Lawing of the Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas; Sen. Mary Ware (D), whose district encompasses parts of central and western Wichita; and Wiley Smith of the state's Department of Commerce. | https://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/news/2022/08/08/gov-kelly-roundtable-wichita-industry-hiring.html | 2022-08-09T06:28:55Z | https://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/news/2022/08/08/gov-kelly-roundtable-wichita-industry-hiring.html | false | 1 |
NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Enochian Biosciences Inc. ("Enochian" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ENOB) and certain of its officers and directors. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and docketed under 22-cv-01374, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Enochian securities between September 24, 2020 and May 31, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Enochian securities during the Class Period, you have until September 26, 2022 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Enochian is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company that purportedly researches and develops pharmaceutical and biological products for the human treatment of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, influenza and coronavirus infections, and cancer.
Enochian and its top management have credited Serhat Gumrukcu ("Gumrukcu"), Enochian's co-founder and largest shareholder, as a "genius" and the "inventor" of the technology and science behind the Company's product pipeline.
Enochian has multiple consulting and licensing agreements with G-Tech Bio, LLC, a California limited liability company ("G-Tech"), and G Health Research Foundation, a not-for-profit entity organized under the laws of California doing business as Seraph Research Institute ("SRI"), both of which are controlled by Gumrukcu.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Gumrukcu was not a licensed doctor and had no verifiable degrees beyond high school; (ii) accordingly, the scientific and technological underpinnings of Enochian's product pipeline, purportedly invented by Gumrukcu, were dubious at best; (iii) accordingly, the Defendants had significantly overstated the commercial prospects for the Company's product pipeline; (iv) Enochian's senior leadership knew Gumrukcu had a criminal history that included fraud; (v) accordingly, Enochian's reliance on Gumrukcu, and its consulting and licensing agreements with G-Tech and SRI, subjected the Company to a heightened risk of reputational and financial harm, as well as threatened the integrity of the Company's scientific findings; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On May 25, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Gumrukcu had been arrested and charged in a murder-for-hire conspiracy.
On this news, Enochian's stock price fell $2.17 per share, or 36.97%, to close at $3.70 per share on May 25, 2022.
Then, on June 1, 2022, Hindenburg Research ("Hindenburg") published a report on Enochian entitled "Miracle Cures and Murder For Hire: How A Spoon-Bending Turkish Magician Built A $600 Million Nasdaq-Listed Scam Based On A Lifetime Of Lies" (the "Hindenburg Report"). The Hindenburg Report noted that the individual in whose murder Gumrukcu was implicated, Gregory Davis, "was murdered . . . just 19 days before Gumrukcu was scheduled to appear in court to defend himself against felony fraud allegations related to a 2016 deal with Davis" and that "[f]ederal prosecutors argued that the prospective merger deal that eventually resulted in Enochian going public served as a key motive for the murder." The Hindenburg Report also stated that "[u]nbeknownst to investors (but known to Enochian's senior leadership) Gumrukcu's latest arrest for a murder conspiracy is simply the most recent in a string of alleged crimes by Gumrukcu," who "was arrested based on accusations of falsely posing as a doctor" in his native Turkey in 2012 and "[i]n February 2017, Gumrukcu was arrested by authorities after the State of California accused him of a slew of white-collar crimes, including fraud, identity theft, and check kiting – a total of 14 felonies." The Hindenburg Report further stated that "[w]e have been unable to find any jurisdiction in which Gumrukcu is licensed as a medical doctor" and that "Gumrukcu looks to have purchased a fake Russian medical degree on the black market[.]"
On this news, Enochian's stock price fell $1.495 per share, or 28.42%, to close at $3.765 per share on June 1, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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Charging bison injures deputy; animal’s owner found dead
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Authorities in Kansas say the owner of a bison was found gored to death the day after a sheriff’s deputy was injured by the animal.
KWCH reports that Ellsworth County 911 received a call around 9 a.m. Monday from the aunt of 56-year-old Scott Schroeder, of Bushton, who found her nephew dead in a pen. She said she thought that a bison had killed him.
He was the owner of more than 20 bison, according to the Ellsworth County Sheriff’s Office.
Schroeder’s body was found in a row of trees north of K-4 highway and 5th Road. It was about 1/4 of a mile south of where an Ellsworth County deputy was injured by a bison Sunday night.
The deputy, who was not named, was trying to return the bison to a pasture near the highway when it suddenly charged and seriously injured him.
A Rice County deputy arrived at the scene of the attack as it occurred, and the bison was put down when it appeared that it was preparing to charge at the injured deputy.
The deputy underwent surgery Sunday night at Salina Regional Health Center and is in stable condition.
Authorities say the coroner’s preliminary cause of death, pending an autopsy, is that Schroeder had been gored by an animal. It is likely he was killed before the deputy was injured.
Both incidents are under investigation.
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Viatris (VTRS) Surpasses Q2 Earnings Estimates
Viatris (VTRS) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.88 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.81 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.98 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.
This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of 8.64%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this generic drugmaker would post earnings of $0.81 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.93, delivering a surprise of 14.81%.
Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates three times.
Viatris
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.
Viatris shares have lost about 28.1% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's decline of -13%.
What's Next for Viatris?
While Viatris has underperformed 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 Viatris: mixed. 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 #3 (Hold) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to perform in line with 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 $0.84 on $4.28 billion in revenues for the coming quarter and $3.41 on $16.87 billion 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, Medical Services is currently in the bottom 47% 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.
UpHealth, Inc. (UPH), another stock in the same industry, has yet to report results for the quarter ended June 2022. The results are expected to be released on August 15.
This company is expected to post quarterly loss of $0.07 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of +82.1%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has remained unchanged over the last 30 days.
UpHealth, Inc.'s revenues are expected to be $44.95 million, up 41% from the year-ago quarter.
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Joe Collogan, 85, of Post Falls
Joe Collogan, 85, Post Falls, Idaho (former long-time resident of Libby, Mont.) died peacefully on July 15, surrounded by family.
Joe was born in Troy, Mont. on December 30, 1936 to Joseph Patrick Collogan and Clara Cripe Collogan. He grew up in Troy and, after a stint in the Navy, graduated from the University of Montana.
Joe was married to Kay Maddux in Troy on December 17, 1961. He and Kay welcomed two daughters in the years to come.
Joe worked for many years for the Forest Service as a contracting officer and retired in 1992. After retirement, he volunteered on the Lincoln County Credit Union board as well as the Em Kayan water board where he helped to upgrade their water system.
Joe loved to bowl, camp and boat at Lake Koocanusa, and “putter” around the house. He and Kay were inseparable and enjoyed attending local concerts, cheering on high school sports teams, playing bunco with friends, and spending lots of time with family.
Joe is survived by his wife, Kay, daughters Vicki (Loberg) and Brenda (Wilbur), and four grandchildren (Anna, J.D., Kenneth and Kaylynne).
A graveside memorial will be held at 1:00 pm at the Troy Cemetery. A reception at the Osprey Pavilion at Roosevelt Park in Troy will follow. Please bring your own chairs. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to CurePSP at psp.org.
Robert B. Green Sr., 86, of Libby
Robert B. “Bob” Green Sr., 86, passed away Saturday, July 9, at Cabinet Peaks Medical Center in Libby of natural causes. He was born August 14, 1935 in Washington, Iowa to George Henry and Leona L. (Machmaer) Green.
Bob married Bonnie McQuinney on March 23, 1968 at Palmer Lake, CO. They then spent 2 years in Colorado Springs, CO prior to moving to Libby in 1971. Bob went to work for the Libby Public School District as Maintenance Supervisor and worked there until his retirement in 1997.
Bob enjoyed hunting, fishing, and snowmobiling, but his passion was traveling and camping with his family and friends. Bob was preceded in death by his parents; his son, Robert B. Green, JR; and his daughter, Linda Rae Garrison from his former marriage.
Bob is survived by his wife, Bonnie of 54 years; older brother, Leeroy Green of Amana, IA; 2 stepchildren Deseri A. McNabb and Kelly L. Green; 2 sons, Robin B. Green (Tina) and Derek D Green (Alicia) all of Libby. Bob was a proud Grandpa of 16 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Bob will be loved and remembered in our hearts always and forever.
Please join the family at the home Bob built for them on what would have been his 87th birthday for a Celebration of Life at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, August 14, 2022 at 38361 Highway 2 in Libby (at mile marker 38-turn left). Cake and a potluck dinner will follow after the celebration of life with nephew, Ray Brossman officiating. Arrangements were under the care of Schnackenberg Funeral Home of Libby. Online condolences and memories may be shared by visiting www.schnackenbergfh.com.
Patricia Warrington, 92, of Libby
After 92 years of living in the shadowlands, Pat breathed her last breath on July 19, 2022 and in the ‘twinkling of an eye’ was guided into the Land of the Life by Jesus.
Born and raised in Billings/Laurel, the third of four sisters, she moved to Libby after the class of ’48 graduated. There she met Marshall Warrington, Jr. who owned the local disposal business. He would pick her up for dates in the garbage truck. They married in 1950 and stayed that way for 72 years.
After raising 3 boys (Ken, Rob, Dave) – poor mom, and being part of the Libby community for 26+ years, they built a house on Bull Lake and enjoyed each other, family and friends there for 40 years.
Please join Marshall and their 3 sons, 2 daughters-in-law, 6 grandchildren and their families and 7 great-grandchildren in remembering “Princess Pat” of Angel Island.
No service is planned. A private family gathering will occur at a later date. Condolences and memories may be shared with the family at www.whitesittfuneralhome.com.
Daniel Ray Snyder, 67, of Libby
Daniel Ray Snyder went to be with the lord on Sunday, July 24, while surrounded by his family. Dan was born Oct. 25, 1954 in Spokane Wash. He was born to Daniel M. Snyder and Adeline White. He was raised by his Aunt and Uncle in Libby, Mont. He grew up and graduated from Libby High School in 1974. He was in wrestling, boxing and had a band; he played in with Bruce Vincent and Rod Snyder.
Dan married Colleen V. Cassidy in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho on Feb 25, 1982. Dan worked many jobs. From 1973-1976 he worked for Champion Sawmill. In 1974 he worked for David Price, hauling equipment. He also worked for Morris Knudsen in 1974. In 1975; he worked for Edward Lewis, tearing down buildings; in 1975-1976 for Canyon Logging. In 1976 he built water towers in Laurel, Mont. for TBM Construction. In 1976 for Urco Inc. – he was a powderman; 1977 SJ Orr – Garbage Truck Driver; 1978 Marion Orr – Dump Truck Driver; 1978 Ervin Hall – Radiator Repair. He worked for numerous Logging Companies – Rayson Logging, Cooper Logging, Whitmarsh Logging, Obrien Logging, and Halsey Logging & McNulty Trucking. In 2001 he worked for Marcor Remediation; in 2002 he started working out of town for Envirocon World-Wide Machinery was Dan’s last Employer as he got sick and was disabled, his boss wrote this about him yesterday:
Padder Dan, thats what all the contractors called him. When he started years ago in Raton, N.M he had run a dozer, and after a while running a padder he told me he just cannot get it down. I told him to give it a while and you are doing fine. Soon he became padder Dan who everyone wanted on their job. He cared not only about the job he did, but also about the people he worked with and on top of all that his family was first. What a great guy and God has a good one. We all have our time and it was Dan’s. I will miss him as I know so many will. May God keep Dan’s whole family in his hands as he has carried so many of us during our life.
God Bless all He had a love for the Lord and attended Libby Christian Church where he volunteered and enjoyed playing games like Hidy-Go-Seeky was one of his favorite. He volunteered in activities was helping out with the Annual Easter Egg Hunt. He was a big kid himself, so it was perfect for him.
He loved spending time with his wife, family and grandkids, fishing and camping at Howard Lake. Dan had a special unique relationship with each of his grandchildren. He loved watching Khonnor fish, and eating popsicles together, he was very proud of Easton and his wrestling skills, he told Easton to Sniderize them. Hailey spent a lot of time with him on the road, he had a snack drawer for her, and she would tell papa she was going to throw him under the bus. He would laugh.
He was always cracking jokes, eating pies, POPSICLES, playing guitar, tinkering and welding in his shop.
Dan is survived by his wife of 40 years Colleen Snyder; children, Tai Marie, (Eric) Peterson, Libby; Camron Ray Snyder (Amber);grandchildren; Khonnor Peterson, Easton Peterson & Hailey Snyder; sisters Star Williams, Libby; Cindy Jackson (Russ), Oregon; and Tammy Hovland, Wash.
He was preceded in death by a daughter Joann M Dillard-Snyder; father Daniel M Snyder; Uncle & Aunt
John & Geneva Lybyer; and step-brother Rick Curtis.
Services will be at 1 p.m., on Monday, August 1, at the Libby Christian Church. Arrangements are by Schnackenberg Funeral Home in Libby. Online condolences and memories may be shared at www.schnackenbergfh.com
Ray M. Hammons, 86, of Libby
Ray M. Hammons, 86 passed away from complications due to a fractured hip at Logan Medical Center in Kalispell, MT on July 25, 2022. He was born in Eureka, MT on July 10, 1936 to Hedge and Anna Hammons. He was raised in Ural, MT and Warland, MT graduating from Libby Sr. High School in 1954.
In 1957 he met and married Darlene Fairchild and they stayed that way for over 64 years. Together they had three daughters, Donna (1958), Debbie (1960), and Dianna (1970).
After graduating high school, he briefly work at his brothers mill, and then for the Railroad. In his 36 years of service with the US Forest Service he performed many jobs. Some of these jobs included road and bridge building, working forest fires, and prior to retirement in 1989 as fleet manager for the Kootenai National Forest.
Ray had many hobbies and interests in his life. One of his first endeavors was to build a Chris- Craft boat in the living room of their home. Through the years he had owned many boats for fishing and water sports, pulling every kid who wanted to be pulled.
Ray was very much a family man, doing everything for his family. Being the biggest kid of all, he loved ice skating, camping, hunting, cutting fire wood, family vacations. Once the kids were grown, Ray and Darlene traveled every state and province. He was an avid skier, serving on ski patrol. He was a lift operator for the old “T” bar. Plowed the road into Turner, and was president of Kootenai Winter Sports for many years. His other great sport passion was sledding. There was no hill unattainable. Weeks prior to a sledding party, Dad would help prepare the two mile route by plowing and misting road. He would ready the sleds for competition by sanding and waxing the runners. Speed and comfort were given a high priority.
When his grandsons started wrestling in AAU, and Little Guy, so began the road trips. While in the car prior to leaving, he would always say, “On the road again”, in the familiar Willie Nelson way. Throughout the years, he spent countless hours on the bleachers watching the mighty Greenchain. For 30 years they followed the Logger Greenchain to the State Wrestling tournament in Billings, MT, and all matches in between.
Ray is survived by his wife Darlene, daughters Donna Fiscus (Bob), Debbie Mickelson (Marvin), Dianna Green, and Terri Comer (Charlie); grandchildren, Brady, Christopher, Lee, Mitch, Keeli and Kaide; great grandchildren, Jaydin, Brendin, and Camryn; and nieces Sharon Osler, and LaVerna Munro.
He was preceded in death by his parents Hedge and Anna Hammons, brothers Delbert and Freddy, and nephew Dick.
He will be greatly missed by his family, friends, and by all who knew him.
Service will be at Schnackenberg Funeral Home Friday July 29th at 11:00 A.M. with burial to follow at the City of Libby Cemetery. Online condolences & memories may be shared at www.schnackenbergfh.com. | http://montanian.com/obituaries/obituaries-86/ | 2022-08-09T06:55:12Z | http://montanian.com/obituaries/obituaries-86/ | true | 1 |
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NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Weber Inc. (""Weber" or the "Company") (NYSE: WEBR). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Weber and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On or around August 6, 2021, Weber conducted its initial public offering ("IPO), selling approximately 17,857,143 shares of Class A common stock priced at $14.00 per share. Then, on July 25, 2022, Weber announced its preliminary third quarter 2022 financial results, including net sales between $525 million and $530 million. Weber advised investors that it expected to report a net loss, noting that "[p]rofitability was negatively impacted by" several factors, including "promotional activity to enhance retail sell through." Additionally, Weber announced that Chris Scherzinger "is departing" from his roles as Chief Executive Officer and director of the Company. Since the IPO, the Company's stock price has fallen sharply, damaging investors.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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Over 400 insolvency cases in real estate sector were going on as of June 2022: Government
In last financial year, 210 applications pertaining to real estate sector were admitted for CIRP under the Code. Out of them, 18 cases have been resolved, 60 have been settled or withdrawn and in 63 cases, liquidation has been ordered.
NEW DELHI: As many as 1,999 cases of corporate insolvency resolution process were going on under the insolvency law as of June this year, according to the government. The resolution for corporate debtors is done under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code which provides for resolution through a market-driven process.
In a written reply to the Lok Sabha on Monday, Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Rao Inderjit Singh said the time taken for Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) depends on several factors, including the nature of business, business cycles, market sentiments and marketing effort.
"As on 30th June 2022, total 1,999 CIRPs are ongoing out of which only 436 are in real estate sector. During COVID-19 pandemic period, there has been a general slowdown in the distressed asset market," the minister said.
He was responding to queries related to resolutions in the real estate sector.
In last financial year, 210 applications pertaining to real estate sector were admitted for CIRP under the Code. Out of them, 18 cases have been resolved, 60 have been settled or withdrawn and in 63 cases, liquidation has been ordered. The process is going on in the rest of the cases, Singh said.
Responding to another query, the minister said the realisation by creditors through CIRP under the Code is dependent on quality assets at the time of its resolution.
In a separate written reply, Singh said the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) receives complaints and grievances from Centralised Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAM), the Prime Minister's Office, the corporate affairs ministry and other authorities.
"Till 31st July, 2022, the IBBI had received 6,231 such complaints and grievances, of which 6,172 have been disposed after examination.
"Further, as per information available, Directorate of Enforcement has received one complaint against an RP (resolution professional)of one CIRP in which appropriate action under applicable law has been taken," he said.
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Alabama was voted No. 1 in the preseason USA Today coaches’ poll released Monday, with Ohio State second and defending national champion Georgia third.
The Associated Press preseason Top 25 will be released Aug. 15.
The Crimson Tide received 54 first-place votes from a panel of 66 major college football coaches. Alabama is coming off a loss in the College Football Playoff title game to Georgia.
The Buckeyes received five first-place votes and the Bulldogs got six. No. 18 Texas also received a first-place vote.
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AT LEAST 30 Palestinians have been wounded in heavy clashes as Israeli troops raided a house in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, two days after deadly fighting in Gaza was halted by a truce.
“Israeli army and special forces are surrounding the house of a wanted man in Nablus. There is exchange of fire,” the army said in a statement.
At least 30 Palestinians were wounded and at least one was in serious condition, according to the Red Crescent.
Palestinians traded gunfire with the Israeli army in the old city of Nablus, an AFP correspondent reported.
Clashes with the Israeli army also broke out in other parts of Nablus, as Palestinians hurled stones at the troops.
Heavy gunfire was heard from the ongoing clashes, as dozens of Israeli military vehicles brought traffic in one of the West Bank’s largest cities to a standstill.
Israeli security forces have conducted near-daily operations in the West Bank in recent months, focusing on militants from the Islamic Jihad group.
On Friday, Israel launched what it called a “pre-emptive” aerial and artillery bombardment of Islamic Jihad positions in the Gaza Strip, leading militants in the coastal enclave to fire more than a thousand rockets in retaliation, according to the army.
An Egypt-brokered ceasefire reached on Sunday ended three days of intense fighting that killed 46 Palestinians, 16 of them children, and wounded 360, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
Israel insists that some of children and other civilians counted in the Palestinian toll were killed by Islamic Jihad rockets that fell short or misfired.
Israel Prime Minister Yair Lapid said yesterday that the bombardment had “landed a devastating blow to the enemy”, and that the “entire senior military command of Islamic Jihad in Gaza was successfully targeted.”
Islamic Jihad said 12 of its members had been killed, including commanders Taysir al-Jabari and Khaled Mansour.
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Kareena Kapoor Khan left her fans speechless as she stepped out to promote Laal Singh Chaddha in ethnic finery. The actress, who is known to make everlasting sartorial statements, looked breathtakingly beautiful in an aqua-blue kurta set.
With on-point styling moves, Bebo further took the glam quotient a notch higher. She wore an uber-pretty pair of embellished juttis to go with the striking blue ensemble. The pair boasted a beauteous symphony of soft pastel hues and intricate embroidery details as well. Read on to find out all the details.
Take a look at the pictures first:
What Kareena wore was a kurta set worth Rs 26k from the label Devnaagri. The ensemble, featuring a kurta, straight-fit pants and a sheer dupatta, was minimally accentuated with glitzy zari and gota details. With the wedding and festival season almost at the doorstep, you must consider seeking fashion cues from Kareena’s look in this traditional ensemble.
Oh, and don’t forget to seek styling inspiration as well. Kareena doubled up the ethnic glam with a pair of statement silver earrings and a steal-worthy pair of juttis. The footwear she rocked were from the label Fizzy Goblet. The rainbow-inspired colourful base of the juttis was replete with intricately embroidered butterfly motifs.
The pair is available for purchase on the brand’s website for Rs 3,200.
On the work front, Kareena Kapoor Khan will be next seen in Laal Singh Chadha. The film is slated to hit the theatres on August 11. | https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/fashion/story/kareena-kapoor-khan-styled-elegant-blue-suit-with-rs-3k-embellished-juttis-so-pretty-1985576-2022-08-09 | 2022-08-09T07:14:17Z | https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/fashion/story/kareena-kapoor-khan-styled-elegant-blue-suit-with-rs-3k-embellished-juttis-so-pretty-1985576-2022-08-09 | false | 1 |
Last Week Tonight: John Oliver skewers HBO Max over Batgirl
There are few things we quite enjoy like watching John Oliver take HBO’s various parent companies to task on Last Week Tonight. Previously, he ripped AT&T (his “business daddy”) for a number of their questionable decisions. It was an ongoing bit that generated plenty of laughs, though we’re sure that they weren’t altogether thrilled with it.
Well, on last week’s new episode, Oliver turned his gaze to a different subject altogether: New parent company Warner Bros. Discovery. In a piece all about unused vaccines last night, the comedian made a pretty interesting comparison between that and what is going on with HBO Max — in particular, canceling Batgirl despite the project being reasonably close to completion:
We let the vaccine sit unused on a shelf in our reserves like an expired Chobani or a $90 million movie on HBO Max. By the way … Hi there, new business daddy. Seems like you’re doing a really great job. I do get the vague sense that you’re burning down my network for the insurance money, but I’m sure that [this] will all pass.”
Given Oliver’s success and numerous Emmy wins, there’s not much HBO can do about this! (Of course, the irony here is that we personally watch a lot of Oliver’s episodes on HBO Max.) Batgirl is just one of many projects shelved by Warner Bros. Discovery, as they have canceled numerous projects on TBS and we certainly wonder if other HBO Max exclusive movies are going to find themselves canceled in due time. It’s a very particular shift in strategy, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good one! We spent much of last week worrying over the fates of Harley Quinn and Our Flag Means Death, programs exclusive to the service. Luckily, it seems like they are safe for now.
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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck separate (but only for work). And social media go crazy anyway
It is yellow on the news of a lightning divorce between Jennifer Lopez And Ben Affleck, which has been bouncing on social media accounts around the world for 24 hours. In fact, an article on the Hollywood Life on their distant August after the honeymoon in Pariswith him returning to Los Angeles and her staying in Europe (a few days she was in Capri) to transform this physical separation into the news of a divorce just over three weeks after the wedding in Las Vegas.
Jennifer Lopez adds the surname Affleck and the controversy arises in America
The jokes on social media
But the couple never said they had separated and even the article from which the whirlwind of indiscretions started did not speak at all of a stop to their love story. He simply said that the paths of the two had temporarily separated for work reasons. But that was enough to unleash hundreds of thousands of jokes on Twitter, about a marriage that would melt in the sun faster than ice cream. And, given the period, in Italy there are those who (even) bring up the political situation of the center-left.
And who compares the separation of the two world stars with that of other VIPs, like Totti and Ilary, Icardi and Wanda Nara, Claudio Amendola and Francesca Neri.
Ben Affleck’s return to Los Angeles
The rumors were fueled by his return to Los Angeles in the early days of August for work commitments. “Sources close to the couple revealed a Hollywood Life exclusively that the two are absolutely in agreement on spending time apart and that this will make their love much stronger “, read the article, to then add that Ben, 49, and Jlo, 53, are in constant contact , including phone calls, messages and video calls.
Jennifer Lopez adds the surname Affleck and the controversy arises in America
“The time they spend apart from each other makes each other better. JLo loves knowing that her husband will be there for her no matter what happens,” she wrote. Hollywood Life citing a source close to Jennifer. So, what could have turned two weeks of physical but not sentimental separation into a divorce (and brought the hashtags of the two to the top of Twitter conversations around the world) is a mystery that only a few algorithms applied to social networks can explain. | https://codelist.biz/2022/08/09/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-affleck-separate-but-only-for-work-and-social-media-go-crazy-anyway/ | 2022-08-09T07:18:18Z | https://codelist.biz/2022/08/09/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-affleck-separate-but-only-for-work-and-social-media-go-crazy-anyway/ | false | 1 |
The Springboks are expecting the All Blacks to hit back in their second Rugby Championship clash at Ellis Park on Saturday, after their thumping 26-10 win at Mbombela Stadium last week.
The result was the All Blacks’ fifth loss in six games, which has seen them slip to their lowest ever spot of fifth in the World Rugby rankings, meaning they will be desperate to arrest that slide this weekend.
ALSO READ: Duane Vermeulen locked and loaded for Bok return
“The All Blacks are a very proud team and a very proud rugby nation, so obviously they will be desperate, even more desperate than they were in Mbombela,” said Bok lock Lood de Jager.
“We’ve been in that position before, where you fall to fifth or sixth in the world and you’ll do anything to get back to that top spot. I think they will definitely be in that mindset.
ALSO READ: Bok wing Kurt-Lee Arendse gets four-week ban
“For us we need to have a really good review of the game and then we are fortunate enough to play them again this weekend so we can focus on ourselves a lot, what we can still improve on, what we did well and what we can do better and the threats they will pose throughout the game,” he added.
“But they will come with everything that they have and we are expecting a massive battle on the weekend again.”
Battling for air
It was interesting to see both sets of players battling for air at times during last week’s match, with De Jager believing both teams had to get used to how the other played again.
“I think it was just the way the game went in the first half. There were long passages of ball in play at a very high intensity, so we obviously tried to bring our game and force it on them, which is mauling and the confrontational game we believe works,” explained De Jager.
ALSO READ: Win or bust for All Blacks boss Ian Foster at Ellis Park
“They then tried to force their game back on us which is a bit more expansive with the quality players they have and offloads. So it made for a very high intensity affair when the ball was in play and I think there were times when both sides were sucking diesel, trying to catch their breath,” he added.
“I think as they miss preparing against teams who bring the maul and confrontational play like South African teams, we probably don’t play against teams that play that expansively anymore.” | https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/rugby/3169297/springboks-all-blacks-second-test/ | 2022-08-09T07:19:57Z | https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/rugby/3169297/springboks-all-blacks-second-test/ | true | 1 |
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Borr Drilling Limited ("Borr", "Borr Drilling" or the "Company") announces preliminary unaudited results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022.
Highlights Second Quarter of 2022
- Total operating revenues of $105.3 million, an increase of $23.3 million or 28% compared to the first quarter of 2022
- Net loss of $165.3 million, an increase in loss of $114.0 million compared to the first quarter of 2022, mainly attributable to an impairment loss in Q2 2022 of $124.4 million due to an LOI entered into in June for the sale of three newbuild rigs, resulting in a decrease in net loss quarter on quarter of $10.4 million when excluding impairment
- Cash and cash equivalents of $29.7 million at the end of the second quarter of 2022, a decrease of $20.5 million from the end of the first quarter of 2022 of which $15.9 million was used on rig activations
- Adjusted EBITDA of $37.0 million, an increase of $15.6 million or 73% compared to the first quarter of 2022
- Raised net proceeds of $3.6 million under the At-The-Market ("ATM") program during the quarter
- Entered into a letter of intent ("LOI") to sell three newbuild rigs we have ordered from Keppel FELS Shipyard
Subsequent events
- Year to date in 2022, we have been awarded fourteen new contracts, extensions, exercised options and letters of awards ("LOAs") representing 5,610 days, or 15.4 years, and $650.2 million of potential revenue (including mobilization revenues but excluding options).
- Reached agreements in principle with all secured creditors to defer all secured debt to 2025 subject to raising equity and the boards' and credit committees' approvals and final documentation.
CEO, Patrick Schorn commented:
"Second quarter performance clearly demonstrates the compounding impact of improving day rates combined with incremental activity, resulting in a top-line increase of 28% with an EBITDA fall through of 73%, while still being in the early stages of this upcycle. Our operational team has remained very focused on bringing out additional rigs to meet our customers' requirements. We are on track to have all 23 rigs contracted by year-end and currently the day rates are increasing faster than previously anticipated. We have been working closely with our customers to ensure we provide them with the necessary assurances regarding equipment availability as many of them are valuing this over a lower day rate with operational uncertainties.
Utilization of the modern jack-up fleet (rigs built after 2000) has now surpassed 92%, representing an increase of 10 percentage points year to date, and day rates are increasing meaningfully as evidenced by our recent awards and extensions in Africa and Asia. We expect modern rig utilization to soon reach 95% as certain ongoing tenders are being awarded. With the tight availability of marketed rigs, a limited number of new builds left at shipyards, and opportunities to deploy additional rigs presenting themselves on a weekly basis, we reiterate our belief that demand for modern jack-ups is expected to outstrip supply in the coming quarters. We are confident that the current commodities' price levels in combination with the structurally under supplied oil and gas market, is the right foundation for a long-term and strong bull market for modern jack-up rigs.
Refinancing the company's capital structure has reached the final phase and we expect to be concluding this shortly. This important milestone will provide us with a sustainable financing cost, which when combined with opex, activation capex and amortization, will be in the range of approximately $90-95K per day per rig in total cash cost. This represents a cost level well below the leading day rates in contracts being awarded presently. Based on the market outlook for our available rigs, already contracted revenue, and operating costs, we anticipate generating $290-330 million Adjusted EBITDA in 2023, with an early estimate to double this number again in 2024. Our industry has shown an incredible ability to rebound from an extended downturn. We are now putting the recent challenging periods behind us and entering into a phase which will provide shareholders with the returns they expect, while we maintain our focus on providing customers with assets that are performing safely and with operational excellence."
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I love Niall Quinn as much as the next Sunderland fan, but I think that he would be the first to admit that his reign as manager did not exactly work out. Bless our legendary Irishman, but he just wasn’t capable of getting it together when he took temporary charge at the start of the 2006/2007 season.
It is important to remember that, during the summer of 2006, Sunderland AFC was in an absolute mess.
We were managerless, rudderless and going nowhere fast, despite the optimism injected by the arrival of the Drumaville Consortium.
Try as he might, however, Quinn couldn’t get a manager to take on the job.
Sam Allardyce and Martin O’Neill had already rejected it, and rumours were rife that Roy Keane had turned it down, too. With no alternative, the newly-appointed chairman took it upon himself to lead the team until a successor could be found.
On this day, Sunderland lost their league second game of the season at home to Steve Bruce’s Birmingham City.
The Blues had been relegated along with Sunderland at the end of 2005/2006, after languishing towards the bottom of the table for the entire campaign. However, they started the new season as one of the favourites to win promotion back to the top flight.
They had invested wisely during the summer and brought in future Sunderland players Sebastian Larsson and Nicklas Bendtner, among others, in order to bolster their promotion hopes. In addition, they had started the campaign brightly with a good win over Colchester United, a game in which Bendtner scored.
In contrast, Sunderland’s campaign got off to a disappointing start with an away defeat to Coventry City. Despite an early opener from Irish striker Daryl Murphy, Coventry overturned the deficit with future Sunderland player Stern John among those on the scoresheet.
In this particular game, Birmingham only needed a solitary goal to secure the victory, which came from the penalty spot. Mikael Forssell’s coolly converted spot-kick gave the visitors the points, and consigned Sunderland to their second defeat inside five days.
In fairness to Quinn and his team, the performance was certainly not appalling and we created plenty of opportunities to score.
It was clear that we lacked the creative spark that would be necessary in order to compete in the Championship, but winger Liam Lawrence was at the forefront of everything positive and creative in Sunderland’s play.
Early on, Lawrence should have put us ahead after missing a glorious headed chance from close range, as well as having a goal ruled out for offside later in the game.
It is fair to say that Clive Clarke’s Sunderland career contained very few positive memories, and his debut was no different. It was his challenge, described by the BBC as ‘reckless’, which gave Forssell the chance to open the scoring from the penalty spot just before half-time, which he duly took.
Sunderland huffed and puffed throughout the second half, but their lack of creativity was evident and Quinn highlighted this point after the game.
I’m not as disappointed as I was on Sunday because we played for the full ninety minutes against arguably the best team in the division.
The players showed me heart, and it means I can now work on a bit more creativity on the training ground.
That’s what we lacked and I’m looking to bring in players to give us that.
Unfortunately, it was going to get worse before things got better, and it would take the eventual arrival of Roy Keane to spark a change in Sunderland’s fortunes, which would lead to a truly unforgettable season.
Sunderland: Alnwick, Delap, Cunningham; Caldwell (Clarke 29), Danny Collins, Miller; Whitehead, Leadbitter, Lawrence; (Stead 74), Murphy, Elliott.
Subs not used: Wright, Ward, Kevin Smith.
Birmingham: Maik Taylor, Kelly, Tebily; N’Gotty, Sadler, Johnson; Nafti (Danns 84), Muamba (Clemence 71), Larsson; Bendtner, Forssell (Dunn 67)
Subs not used: Doyle, Martin Taylor.
Booked: Kelly, Muamba.
Goals: Forssell 40 (pen)
Att: 26,668.
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'Your impact was incredible': John Travolta, Mandy Moore and Richard Marx lead heartfelt celebrity tributes to Olivia Newton-John after Grease star passes away at 73
John Travolta has lead the celebrity tributes to Dame Olivia Newton-John following the tragic news that she has died, aged 73, after a 30-year battle with breast cancer.
The Grease star died with loved ones by her side at her ranch home in Southern California on Monday, according to her husband, John Easterling.
A Facebook post read: 'We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time.'
Touching: John Travolta has lead the celebrity tributes to Dame Olivia Newton-John following the tragic new that she has died, aged 73, after a 30-year battle with breast cancer
Her Grease co-star Travolta, 68, was among the first to pay tribute, writing: 'My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better. Your impact was incredible. I love you so much.'
He added: 'We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!'
Actress Mandy Moore, 38, shared a black and white photo of the star, with the caption 'Thank you for the joy you brought countless people around the world.'
Farewell: Her Grease co-star Travolta, 68, was among the first to pay tribute, writing: 'My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better. Your impact was incredible. I love you so much'
Joy: Actress Mandy Moore, 38, shared a black and white photo of the star, with the caption 'Thank you for the joy you brought countless people around the world'
Rest now: Singer Richard Marx, 58, posted photos of himself with the late actress, writing: 'My heart is broken. Rest now, sweet friend'
Meanwhile her other Grease co-tar Stockard Channing, 78, called Olivia 'the essence of summer' in a statement to People.
'I don't know if I've known a lovelier human being. Olivia was the essence of summer – her sunniness, her warmth and her grace are what always come to mind when I think of her. I will miss her enormously.'
George Takei, 85, also paid tribute to the actress, writing on Twitter: 'We have lost a great, iconic artist in Olivia Newton John, gone too soon from us at age 73.'
'I trust she is now is the great Xanadu beyond. Know that we are forever helplessly devoted to you, Olivia. Rest in song and mirth.'
Singer Richard Marx, 58, posted photos of himself along with the late actress, writing: 'My heart is broken. Rest now, sweet friend. You were as kind and loving a person as there’s ever been. I’ll miss you every day.'
Class act: Broke Shields, 57, shared a lovely black and white photo of her and Olivia, writing: 'A true class act whose light shines everywhere she went... she inspired us all'
Greatly missed: Scarface star Michelle Pfeiffer, 64, posted a photo of her and Olivia writing 'Thank you for your art and talent you gifted us all so graciously with. You will be so greatly missed'
Thank you: Underworld star Kate Beckinsale, 49, posted a snap of the star as Sandy, writing 'RIP, absolute icon. Thank you for the years of joy'
Heartfelt: X-Men star Hugh Jackman, 53, wrote a heartfelt message on Instagram revealing Olivia was his first 'crush' and that he kissed her poster 'every night before bed'
Beloved: Dancing With The Stars pro Peta Murgatroyd, 36, wrote: 'This has done me over today. An Aussie icon and legend, there will never be another. This is so tragic'
Gone too soon: George Takei, 85, also paid tribute to the actress, writing on Twitter: 'We have lost a great, iconic artist in Olivia Newton John'
Heavenly voice: Singer Dionne Warwick, 81, wrote 'Another angelic voice has been added to the Heavenly Choir'
Singer Dionne Warwick, 81, wrote 'Another angelic voice has been added to the Heavenly Choir. Not only was Olivia a dear friend, but one of the nicest people I had the pleasure of recording and performing with. I will most definitely miss her. She now Rests in the Arms of the Heavenly Father.'
Broke Shields, 57, shared a lovely black and white photo of her and Olivia to Instagram, writing: 'A true class act whose light shines everywhere she went... she inspired us all.'
'A wonderful mother and wife, who was grace and strength personified. Sending all of my love to Olivias family and friends. She'll never be forgotten.'
Scarface star Michelle Pfeiffer, 64, posted a photo of her and Olivia writing 'Thank you for your art and talent you gifted us all so graciously with. You will be so greatly missed.'
Dancing With The Stars pro Peta Murgatroyd, 36, shared an Instagram Story, writing: 'This has done me over today. An Aussie icon and legend, there will never be another. This is so tragic. RIP the beloved Sandy.'
Summer: Meanwhile her other Grease co-tar Stockard Channing, 78, called Olivia 'the essence of summer' in a statement to People; Pictured together in 2001
Forever: Actress Elle Fanning, 24, posted a beautiful photo of the star writing: 'Forever icon'
Forever Sandy: Actress Gabrielle Union, 49, shared a snap of Olivia from Grease
Rest in peace: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Rinna, 59, shared an autographed photo of Olivia with the words 'Rest In Peace'
Icon: 'RIP What an icon,' Katharine McPhee, 38, wrote over a photo of a younger Olivia looking radiant in a black trench coat
True icon: Fellow Australian star Rebel Wilson, 42, wrote 'You were a true icon and I absolutely adored you!'
Inspiration: Yolanda Hadid, 58, shared a tribute on Instagram: 'Rest In Peace beautiful angel, it was an honor to know you,' adding, 'thank you for decades of inspiration'
Sad news: Comedian Rosie O'Donnell, 60, took to Instagram and TikTok with a video expressing her sadness at the news
Amazing: 'She was amazing, and I lover her. It's very sad. Rest in Peace, beautiful woman,' she said
Underworld star Kate Beckinsale, 49, posted a snap of the star as Sandy, writing 'RIP, absolute icon. Thank you for the years of joy.'
'RIP What an icon,' Katharine McPhee, 38, wrote over a photo of a younger Olivia looking radiant in a black trench coat.
X-Men star Hugh Jackman, 53, wrote a heartfelt message on Instagram revealing Olivia was his first 'crush' and that he kissed her poster 'every night before bed.'
'I'm devastated to hear the news that @therealonj has passed away. One of the great privileges of my life was getting to know her. Not only was she one of the most talented people I've known... she was one of the most open hearted, generous and funny.'
'She was a one of kind spirit. It's no secret Olivia was my first crush. I kissed her (poster) every night before bed. Her legacy will only grow stronger in the years to come. A fighter for healing from cancer that knows no bounds. I love you Olivia.'
Special: Actress Goldie Hawn, 76, shared an iconic video of herself on stage with Olivia, Meryl Streep, Bette Midler, and Cher as they performed What A Wonderful World during an all-star charity concert in 1990 at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles
Her light: 'Olivia's light will continue to shine and will never flicker. Never. Rest sweetheart. Rest peacefully, you are Love,' she wrote in her caption underneath
Homage: Her daughter Kate Hudson, 43, also paid homage to the legendary star, sharing a video of herself singing Hopelessly Devoted To You, first crooned by Newton-John's character, Sandy Olsson, in Grease (1978)
Inspiration: As she cradled her three-year-old daughter, Rani Rose, in her arms, the mother-three belted out the chorus before penning a heartfelt tribute to her 'inspiration'
Actress Goldie Hawn, 76, shared an iconic video of herself on stage with Olivia, Meryl Streep, Bette Midler, and Cher as they performed What A Wonderful World during an all-star charity concert in 1990 at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles.
'A light landed on this planet 73 years ago. Her voice brought us to such joyous heights, nothing held her back, nothing. Her mind was strong and heroic. Olivia's light will continue to shine and will never flicker. Never. Rest sweetheart. Rest peacefully, you are Love,' she wrote in her caption underneath.
Her daughter Kate Hudson, 43, also paid homage to the legendary star. While paying her respects to the Australian icon, the Almost Famous star shared a video of herself singing Hopelessly Devoted To You, first crooned by Newton-John's character, Sandy Olsson, in Grease (1978).
As she cradled her three-year-old daughter, Rani Rose, in her arms, the mother-three belted out the chorus before penning a heartfelt tribute to her 'inspiration.'
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Rinna, 59, shared an autographed photo of Olivia with the words 'Rest In Peace.'
Yolanda Hadid, 58, shared a tribute on Instagram: 'Rest In Peace beautiful angel, it was an honor to know you,' adding, 'thank you for decades of inspiration.'
Her mini-me: Olivia's daughter Chloe Lattanzi, 36, shared a number of touching photos of the two of them on her Instagram profile
Baby joy: Another snap saw Olivia holding Chloe when she was a baby
Happy times: One photo showed the two women smiling as they took a selfie together
Together: Chloe also shared a photo where both her and Olivia looked incredibly dressed up and smiled for the camera
Proud mom: In another photo Olivia looked proudly at her daughter as they did an interview together
Actress Elle Fanning, 24, posted a beautiful photo of the star writing: 'Forever icon' while Gabrielle Union, 49, shared a snap of Olivia from Grease.
Fellow Australian star Rebel Wilson, 42, wrote 'You were a true icon and I absolutely adored you!'
Comedian Rosie O'Donnell, 60, took to Instagram and TikTok with a video expressing her sadness at the news.
'Oh boy, just heard about Olivia Newton-John. What a great woman she was. She fought long and hard. She had cancer a while.'
'I loved her, I almost bought her house in Florida. It didn't go through but... she was amazing, and I lover her. It's very sad. Rest in Peace, beautiful woman.'
Olivia's daughter Chloe Lattanzi, 36, shared a number of touching photos of the two of them on her Instagram profile. One black and white snap featured a young Chloe giving her mom a kiss.
Iconic: Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in the iconic 1978 movie Grease that catapulted her career
Sandy and Danny: Newton-John famously resisted the part of Sandy in the 1978 movie Grease. She was 28 at the time and thought she was too old to play a fresh-faced high school student
Another snap saw Olivia holding Chloe when she was a baby, while yet another photo showed the two women smiling as they took a selfie together.
Chloe also shared a photo where Olivia looked proudly at her as they did an interview together.
A source known to TMZ also said Monday: 'After a 30-year cancer journey, she lost her battle to metastatic breast cancer,' which was first diagnosed in 1992, more than 30 years ago. In 2013, it resurfaced before going into remission again until it reappeared in 2017.
Olivia got her big break in the 1978 movie musical as good two shoes teenager Sandy Olsen - in which she starred opposite John Travolta's hunky bad boy Danny Zuko - and originated the new song 'Hopelessly Devoted To You'.
This came after her pop career - which began in the early 70s - where Olivia made her name with a string of pop hits, such as If Not for You, Let Me Be There and the smash hit Have You Never Been Mellow.
Her beloved: Newton-John's husband John Easterling announced her death on her Facebook page on Monday; Pictured 2019
Difficult time: A Facebook post read: 'We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time'
The Glee guest star had daughter Chloe Lattanzi, now 36, with her ex Matt Lattanzi, who she married in 1984 and split from in 1995.
Olivia tied the knot with John in 2008, who appealed for donations to her cancer charity in her memory.
He added on the post: 'Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer. Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer.'
'In lieu of flowers, the family asks that any donations be made in her memory to the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund (ONJFoundationFund.org).'
John concluded: 'Olivia is survived by her husband John Easterling; daughter Chloe Lattanzi; sister Sarah Newton-John; brother Toby Newton-John; nieces and nephews Tottie, Fiona and Brett Goldsmith; Emerson, Charlie, Zac, Jeremy, Randall, and Pierz Newton-John; Jude Newton-Stock, Layla Lee; Kira and Tasha Edelstein; and Brin and Valerie Hall.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11093031/John-Travolta-leads-Olivia-Newton-John-tributes-Grease-star-dies-aged-73.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-09T07:29:53Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11093031/John-Travolta-leads-Olivia-Newton-John-tributes-Grease-star-dies-aged-73.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 4 |
Ramil Ayuman is Mayor Rama’s secretary on special projects
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama appointed former Department of Social Welfare and Development assistant secretary Ramil Ayuman as his secretary on special projects, the mayor announced on Monday, August 8, 2022.
In a statement from the Cebu City Public Information Office (PIO), Rama said Ayuman will be in charge of directing the City’s “Build Back Better” projects, which are centered on the rehabilitation and recovery efforts of disaster-hit areas in the city.
“According to the mayor, the project will also expedite the City’s efforts in a sustained and integrated manner with a clear unity of command,” the PIO said.
Rama added that Ayuman will also work closely with the Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (CCDRRMC) on its various projects and initiatives.
Ayuman, with CCDRRMC head Lawyer Gerry Carillo, will also lead the recovery of the three-meter easement on Cebu City rivers and other waterways.
Meanwhile, Rama has also instructed the City’s Department of Social Welfare and Services (DSWS) to determine how the City can provide assistance to Basil Baylosis, 31, from Barangay Labangon, who was swept away by the raging waters of Kinalumsan River last August 4.
A video of Baylosis showing him being swept away by the overflowing water along with a damaged house and disappearing under a bridge in N. Bacalso Avenue after a heavy downpour that evening went viral.
Baylosis was rescued by emergency responders from the Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CCDRRMO), which Ayuman used to head.
After his experience, Baylosis urged those living near rivers and waterways to follow the City’s call to leave.
The mayor stated that he will approach shipping companies to have them lend or loan to the City container vans that would be used as temporary shelters for residents who have been displaced following the implementation of his order to enforce the three-meter easement requirement on the City’s waterways.
The mayor said the City will manage this project similarly to how it manages Sinulog Devotee City, wherein the City sets up container vans to temporarily shelter devotees.
The vans are set up for transients and those coming to the city during the Sinulog celebration but could not find or could not afford to stay in inns or hotels.
Ayuman will also help oversee this project, the mayor said.
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Brad Pitt’s ’Bullet Train’ pulls into station with $30 mln
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The stylized action romp “Bullet Train,” starring Brad Pitt, arrived with a $30.1 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates on Aug. 7 as the last big movie of Hollywood’s summer recovery landed in theaters.
The “Bullet Train” debut for Sony Pictures was solid but unspectacular for a movie that cost $90 million to make and was propelled by Pitt’s substantial star power. Even if it holds well in coming weeks, movie theaters have no major studio releases on the horizon for the rest of August, and few sure things to look forward to in early fall.
While late summer is always a quiet period in theaters, it will be especially so this year and likely to sap some of the momentum stirred by “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Jurassic World: Dominion,” “Minions: The Rise of Gru” and others.
After a comeback season that pushed the box office close to pre-pandemic levels, it’s about to get pretty quiet in cinemas.
“It’s definitely going to be quieter, like the calm after the storm,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore. “But that doesn’t mean there’s not going to be great movies out there and perhaps the good will generated by some of those films might be enough to buoy the box office until we get into the blockbuster corridor with ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ and ‘Avatar 2’ down the road. We have to expect that we’re not going to be able to keep up the pace we had this summer.”
As the last big summer movie to leave the station, “Bullet Train” hopes to keep riding for the coming weeks. That would be in line with the playbook of some other original, August-released summer movies like “Free Guy” and “Crazy Rich Asians.” Directed by David Leitch (“Atomic Blonde,” “Deadpool 2”), “Bullet Train” gathers a number of assassins (co-stars include Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry) together on a speeding train running from Tokyo to Kyoto.
As one of the few original would-be summer blockbusters without big-name intellectual property behind it, the R-rated “Bullet Train” might have come into the weekend with more momentum if reviews had been stronger. With a low 54 percent fresh rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, “Bullet Train” was only slightly better received by audiences, who gave the film a B+ CinemaScore. The film added $32.4 million in overseas box office.
The weekend’s other new wide release, “Easter Sunday,” struggled to catch on. The Universal Pictures comedy, starring comic Jo Koy as an actor attending his family’s Easter Sunday celebration, won praise for its Filipino representation but drew even worse reviews than “Bullet Train.” It opened with $5.3 million in ticket sales.
Instead, “Bullet Train” was trailed by a number of holdovers, including Warner Bros.’ “DC League of Pets.” The animated release grossed $11.2 million in its second week of release.
Jordan Peele’s “Nope,” the Universal sci-fi horror release, continued to perform well, earning $8.5 million in its third weekend. With $98 million in tickets sold, “Nope” will soon surpass $100 million at the domestic box office.
Taika Waititi’s “Thor: Love and Thunder,” for the Walt Disney Co., came in fourth with $7.6 million in its fifth weekend. It’s now up to $316.1 million, making it the highest grossing Thor movie domestically. With $699 million globally, “Love and Thunder” is less likely to catch the $854 million worldwide haul of 2017’s “Thor: Ragnarok.”
In limited release, A24’s “Bodies Bodies Bodies” launched on six screens in New York and Los Angeles with $226,525 in ticket sales, good for a per-screen average of $37,754. The horror comedy about rich 20-somethings at a remote house party, with a cast including Amandla Sternberg, Maria Bakalova and Pete Davidson, expands nationwide on Friday. | https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/brad-pitts-bullet-train-pulls-into-station-with-30-mln-175946 | 2022-08-09T07:38:20Z | https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/brad-pitts-bullet-train-pulls-into-station-with-30-mln-175946 | false | 57 |
A prisoner has now handed himself in after leaving HMP Leyhill in South Gloucestershire. Terry Game reported to a police station in Cambridgeshire yesterday (August 8) and is now in custody.
The 50-year-old was serving his sentence at HMP Leyhill but was released on a temporary licence last week. Avon and Somerset Police said he failed to return to the prison on August 5, issuing a wanted appeal to the public.
A police update late last night read: "Wanted man Terry Game, aged 50, has been arrested. He handed himself into a police station in Cambridgeshire earlier today and is now in custody.
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"Game was wanted after being released from HMP Leyhill on a temporary licence, and failing to meet the conditions of that licence.
"We’d like to thank everyone who helped share our previous appeal." HMP Leyhill is an open prison near Wotton-under-Edge, located more than 100 miles away from the Cambridgeshire border.
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Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) said an announcement would be made regarding “the martyrdom of a central leader”, but a source told AFP it was Abdul Wali, a notorious commander who used the alias Omar Khalid Khorasani.
His death may bring an end to a shaky indefinite ceasefire the TTP reached with the Pakistan government in June as peace talks mediated by Afghanistan's Taliban progressed.
Pakistan's military said yesterday four soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on a military convoy in North Waziristan, where the TTP are prominent, bordering Afghanistan.
The Pakistan and Afghan Taliban are separate groups, but share a common ideology.
The TTP source who asked not to be identified told AFP that Wali and two other commanders were killed when their car was “targeted” in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province.
“When we reached his vehicle it was on fire, but the nature of the explosion is not yet clear,” he said, adding Wali was returning from a meeting with TTP chief Noor Wali Mehsud.
Wali has been a thorn in the side of Pakistan authorities for over a decade.
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August 05, 2022, Atlas Corp. (NYSE: ATCO) trading session started at the price of $14.22, that was 22.90% jump from the session before. During the day, the shares moved up to $14.37 and dropped to $14.20 before settling in for the closing price of $11.57. A 52-week range for ATCO has been $10.12 – $16.49.
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Annual sales at Financial sector company grew by 13.40% over the past five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 151.80%. With a float of $186.24 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $247.02 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 6200 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is +57.11, operating margin of +42.73, and the pretax margin is +26.33.
Atlas Corp. (ATCO) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Atlas Corp. stocks. The insider ownership of Atlas Corp. is 26.06%, while institutional ownership is 66.30%.
Atlas Corp. (ATCO) Latest Financial update
Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 3/30/2022, it has been observed that the corporation posted $0.39 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was less than consensus figure (set at $0.4) by -$0.01. This company achieved a net margin of +24.32 while generating a return on equity of 10.77. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.4 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 151.80% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 21.00% during the next five years compared to 21.70% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Atlas Corp. (NYSE: ATCO) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Atlas Corp. (ATCO) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.40. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.73.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.51, a number that is poised to hit 0.38 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.71 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Atlas Corp. (ATCO)
Atlas Corp. (NYSE: ATCO) saw its 5-day average volume 2.15 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 0.73 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 84.57%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.49.
During the past 100 days, Atlas Corp.’s (ATCO) raw stochastic average was set at 74.39%, which indicates a significant decrease from 96.05% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 84.84% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 50.26% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $11.55, while its 200-day Moving Average is $13.45.
Atlas Corp. (NYSE: ATCO) Key Stats
There are 247,735K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 2.91 billion. As of now, sales total 1,647 M while income totals 400,500 K. Its latest quarter income was 408,100 K while its last quarter net income were 169,400 K. | https://newsdaemon.com/2022/08/08/atlas-corp-atco-recent-activity-suggests-a-positive-outlook-with-the-last-weeks-performance-of-21-75/ | 2022-08-09T08:10:55Z | https://newsdaemon.com/2022/08/08/atlas-corp-atco-recent-activity-suggests-a-positive-outlook-with-the-last-weeks-performance-of-21-75/ | false | 6580 |
CT Albany NY Zone Forecast for Monday, August 8, 2022
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I found out about the website and app Nabati from a vegan friend of mine, it’s an online grocery store that specializes in only vegan products. They check the ingredients for each and every product they sell to make sure that what they’re selling is totally vegan making the shopping experience super convenient for vegans.
My two best friends are vegan, well one is an ex-vegan now but I’ve spent a lot of time shopping with them to know it’s a slow process of having to read the ingredients of items they haven’t purchased before to check and see if they’re vegan or not. Having a store where you know everything they’re selling is vegan-friendly takes a lot of hassle out of shopping.
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Bayern Munich star Serge Gnabry knows that a team can have all different types of leaders.
For on-field instruction, players can look toward Thomas Muller. For fire and brimstone-type antics, Joshua Kimmich is the pace-setter. For Gnabry, the Germany international prefers to simply lead by example and do more one-on-one mentoring of younger players.
“It comes more and more with age and experience, also with the standing you have in the team. But it also depends on what kind of guy you are. Not everyone shows it that way,” Gnabry told FCBayern.com. “That distinguishes me from Joshua Kimmich, for example, who is very loud on the pitch. But of course you try to help the younger players, give tips and cheer them up. We were all in the same situation and the older players also supported us at the time.”
More important than anything for Gnabry, however, is the desire to win more hardware — and to have the opportunity to do so with players like Kimmich and Leon Goretzka.
“A lot of it is trust. We’ve known each other since we were young, which makes us a well-rehearsed team. You know what you have in the other person and you can always rely on him. When you have good friends in the team, it’s not like you go to work and back — and then it’s over,” Gnabry said. “We also have a lot in our private lives to do with each other, which strengthens the relationship again.” | https://www.bavarianfootballworks.com/2022/8/9/23288102/bayern-munich-serge-gnabry-kimmich-goretzka-mane-sane-coman-musiala-nagelsmann-transfer-muller-sule | 2022-08-09T08:13:53Z | https://www.bavarianfootballworks.com/2022/8/9/23288102/bayern-munich-serge-gnabry-kimmich-goretzka-mane-sane-coman-musiala-nagelsmann-transfer-muller-sule | true | 1 |
Dozens of supporters of former President Donald Trump gathered outside his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday after FBI agents raided it looking for classified documents.
Protesters flocked to Palm Beach, Florida after the former president released a statement about the attack. The DOJ is investigating whether Trump smuggled classified documents into his personal residence, sources close to the matter told Fox News.
Fox News Digital’s Matt Leach spoke to several supporters who denied the attack.
JD Kennan traveled across the state of Florida to support the former president.
Trump says Mar-a-Lago home in Florida ‘under siege’ by FBI agents
“As soon as I saw it, I drove here from Tampa. It was nuts,” Cannon said. “We all know what you’re trying to do, DOJ. You’re trying to create some kind of charge so he can’t run for re-election.”
Another Trump supporter, Mike Buffumo, expressed similar suspicions about the Justice Department.
“They’re going to do whatever they can to get him. They’re scared of him,” Buffumo said. “And it’s for no other reason than the policies he supports: America First policies.”
Supporters also objected to the raid taking place when Trump was not on the premises — the former president was in New York City when agents executed the search warrant.
The DOJ is reportedly investigating Trump’s conduct and communications as part of the 2020 election probe
“What they’re doing to the president is wrong. They’re not going to investigate anything else, but they’re going to investigate him when he’s not even in the dark in his house,” said Ashley, a supporter.
Matthew, another pro-Trump protester, agreed. “What they’re doing is so sick. They literally invaded this man’s home when he was in another state.”
While many of the former president’s supporters have flocked to the estate, the real estate mogul has some detractors. An anti-Trump protester displayed obscene messages written on his sign, mask and clothing.
While many have criticized the search, at least one supporter has a positive takeaway from it.
Click here to get the Fox News app
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UNLEASH World returns to Paris for its 10th Anniversary from 12-13th October 2022
LONDON, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After a three year hiatus, UNLEASH World is back with a bang in Paris this October, gathering Europe's HR thinkers, strategists and innovators in person to mark its tenth anniversary.
As HR continues to transform, UNLEASH World 2022 is bringing together la crème de la crème to showcase the next wave of breakthrough technologies and global innovators changing the future of work. Despite everything, the heart and soul of HR remains the same – people, passion and purpose.
Held at the Paris Convention Centre, UNLEASH World will be the epicentre of the ultimate HR experience, hosting over 200 inspirational speakers and exhibitors sharing their expertise and thoughts on the people challenges that organisations face today.
UNLEASH will roll out the red carpet for some of the brightest minds of the business world, including:
- Q Hamirani, Global Head of Live and Work Anywhere - Airbnb
- Josh Novelle, Global Director of Digital Learning Solutions - Warner Music Group
- Beatriz Jaén Caparrós, Director People Technology and Analytics - Virgin Media O2
- Costas Markides, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship - London Business School
- Béatrice Guillaume-Grabisch, CHRO - Nestle
- Hannah Fry, Mathematician and BBC Television Presenter
- Shakti Jauhar, Head of Global Digital HR Transformation and People Experience - McDonald's
Other people leaders taking the stage include Elisa Bassi, Global Learning Director for Transformation at L'Oreal, Antonio Bebba, DE&I Regional Operations Lead (Europe) at Pfizer, Peter Hinssen, Founder of nexxworks, Erin Mayer, Professor of Management Practice from Insead and Claude Silver, Chief Heart Officer at VaynerMedia, plus many more.
Visitors can also expect to hear exclusive announcements live at the event from Avature, Benify, Crunchr and Remote.com.
Marc Coleman, CEO and Founder of UNLEASH:
"With the success of UNLEASH America back in May under our belts, we cannot wait to host our flagship event in Paris and deliver an in-person HR experience like none other. The last few years have been a whirlwind for the HR community, reinventing itself in the face of the challenges of the pandemic. However, we want to put the focus back on how the heart and soul of HR remains untouched with people, passion and purpose at its core. Our ultimate objective is for UNLEASH World to shine a light on HR superpowers shaping the future of work."
For more information on UNLEASH World, or to join the best HR experience of your career, visit: https://www.unleash.ai/unleashworld/.
About UNLEASH
UNLEASH is a global digital media and events business that brings the latest news, analysis and market trends to HR, technology, learning and recruitment leaders.
Since 2011, UNLEASH has served the global HR community. It drives transformation and pushes the industry forward. UNLEASH exists to inspire, connect and empower HR leaders worldwide to stay one step ahead in the fast-changing world of work.
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In a career spanning six decades, Olivia Newton-John was a woman for all seasons: singer and songwriter, actress, activist, mother and health advocate. Searching her life for a single snapshot to frame, we turn easily to Sandy Olsson, the Australian schoolgirl who romantically upended the all-American Rydell High School in the film Grease.
To generations of fans, it was the capstone of her career, where everyone who saw her became hopelessly devoted. It reflects the many ways people related to her, and now grieve for her. Olivia was a sister, a best friend, a secret crush and, for one glittering moment in Hollywood history, the new girl at school. As Rydell’s cheer queen Patty Simcox would have said, wasn’t she the most?
But the irony of trying to sum up a life with 110 minutes of American musical celluloid is that Olivia was so much more. In a stellar singing career, she gave voice to a stream of hits, among them, I Honestly Love You, Long Live Love, Xanadu and Physical, and courtesy of Grease, Summer Nights, Hopelessly Devoted To You and You’re the One That I Want.
Those songs formed the soundtrack to our lives. Which makes Monday, when Olivia passed away surrounded by family and friends including husband John Easterling at her horse ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley, outside Santa Barbara, California, a loss that cuts deeply. For many, a day the music died. Olivia was 73.
Olivia was born in 1948 in Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, but when she was six her family emigrated to Melbourne, and for the rest of her life she would be seen by the world as one of Australia’s greatest cultural assets. As her music career began to soar, she competed for the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest, finishing fourth behind winners ABBA. 1974 was, as they say, a very good year.
American fame, however, would be more elusive, at least initially. Her first solo album, If Not for You, cracked only 168th place on the US charts. And her second album, Olivia, was not even given a US release. But Newton-John lived to fight another day, a textbook case of third time lucky: in 1973, the US release of her single Let Me Be There landed in the top 10 and everything changed overnight.
That single won her a Grammy Award for best female country performer and an Academy of Country Music award for most promising female vocalist. And the double win would be the match that lit the fire of an American ascendancy that would endure for decades.
When she arrived at Hollywood’s doorstep, she was in the mix for the role of Sandy in Grease, tasked with gliding into the chaos of Rydell High, re-meeting her summer romance Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and embarking on an all-singing, all-dancing transformation from doe-eyed backyard swing-sitter, belting out Hopelessly Devoted To You, to a leather-clad vamp, for You’re The One That I Want.
But it was not Olivia’s first movie. That was Toomorrow, a 1970 British science fiction musical from James Bond producer Harry Saltzman which landed with a thud. It took two years to make and lasted only a week in cinemas. Asked about it by American interviewer Mike Douglas, on the eve of the premiere of Grease, Olivia spoke with typical Australian frankness: “It was pretty bad.”
Even Olivia’s stellar turn in Grease might itself have never come to pass: she was not producer Alan Carr and director Randal Kleiser’s first choice for the role of Sandy. Carrie Fisher (Star Wars) and Susan Dey (The Partridge Family) were. The role was also offered to Marie Osmond, of Donny & Marie fame, who passed because she was uncomfortable with Sandy’s transformation from sweet to sexy in the film’s dénouement.
Like many Hollywood stories, however, the hand of fate intervened. Another legendary Australian, the singer Helen Reddy, threw a dinner party in Los Angeles and invited Carr who ended up sitting across the table from Olivia. As Carr tells it, the moment they started speaking he knew he had found his Sandy.
It was Olivia, Carr would later say, who needed persuading to say yes. She had been burned by her experience on Toomorrow and did not want to jeopardise a successful music career with another roll of the dice on silver screen fame. To persuade her, Carr changed Sandy from an American (as she is in the Broadway show) to an Australian, allowing Olivia to use her native accent.
“She had a brilliant voice, and I didn’t think there could be any more correct person for Sandy in the universe,” Travolta would later tell Vanity Fair. “I never let up on it. I insisted that we cast her”.
After Grease’s success – The New York Times′ Vincent Canby described the film as “a larger, funnier, wittier and more imaginative-than-Hollywood movie with a life that is all its own” – Olivia’s American star was properly lit.
Her films were not always commercially successful, though. Xanadu and Two of a Kind, which reunited her with Travolta, were notable failures at the time, but Olivia somehow spun musical gold out of box office straw. The Xanadu soundtrack, a collaboration between Olivia and the Electric Light Orchestra, was a hit. And Two of a Kind gave her three more hits: Twist of Fate, Take a Chance and Livin’ in Desperate Times.
Then there was Physical, which came with a provocative neon-powered music video that encapsulated the 1980s in just three minutes and 44 seconds. And Koala Blue, a retail empire that began with a single store on LA’s trendy Melrose Avenue and grew to 60 stores worldwide.
Like many things about the 1980s, however, as the blue eyeshadow faded, so did the business model. In the third act of her life, Olivia divided her time between Australia and California and focused on health and wellness, in part due to her own cancer diagnosis. She still wrote and recorded music, releasing work that was perhaps her most artful and creatively nuanced, even if it could never match the commercial enormity of Grease’s infectious, campy hits.
The measure of her legacy is the outpouring of love and reflection which followed the announcement of her death. “You made all of our lives so much better,” her Grease co-star John Travolta said. “Your impact was incredible. I love you so much. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Yours, from the moment I saw you and forever. Your Danny, your John”.
Another longtime friend, singer Lorna Luft, who played the Pink Lady Paulette Rebchuck in Grease 2, described Olivia as an angel on earth. “We shared being part of the Grease family, we also shared our battle [with cancer]. [You] brought awareness, dignity, honesty, knowledge and class to [your] fight and no one fought harder. [Your] phenomenal talent, generosity and friendship was unequalled.”
Grease director Kleiser said he was heartbroken. “She was one of a kind, and so very kind,” he said. “For over four decades of our friendship she exuded nothing but love to everyone she met. Olivia was exactly the way you imagined her.” And her Grease co-star Stockard Channing spoke of “her sunniness, her warmth and her grace. I don’t know if I’ve known a lovelier human being.”
The actress Viola Davis thanked Olivia for creating “eternal memories”. And Olivia’s friend, the pop star Rod Stewart, described her as “the perfect lady, gorgeous, with great poise and with a certain Aussie sophistication.” Australia’s own Kylie Minogue reflected on how, since she was a child, she “loved and looked up to Olivia Newton-John. She was, and always will be, an inspiration to me in so many, many ways.”
My own encounters with her were often unexpected and always delightful. We sat next to each other at British producer Nigel Lythgoe’s wedding in Las Vegas. And we shared a mutual friend in Luft. On one occasion, when the three of us were together, at Sydney’s Mardi Gras, Olivia and Lorna took great delight in introducing themselves to strangers as “Grease 1” and “Grease 2″.
Olivia will always be something specific and personal to each of us. In beloved motion pictures, like Grease and Xanadu, which evoke memories of our shared childhoods. And in still images, where her innocence and gentle demeanour, and her radiant beauty, are frozen in time. Olivia Newton-John and Sandy Olsson, forever, one and the same.
As a tribute to Olivia Newton-John’s life, Grease is airing on Channel 9 and 9Now at 8.45pm on Tuesday.
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SOHU.COM REPORTS SECOND QUARTER 2022 UNAUDITED FINANCIAL RESULTS
BEIJING, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sohu.com Limited (NASDAQ: SOHU) ("Sohu" or the "Company"), China's leading online media, video, and game business group, today reported unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Second Quarter Highlights
- Total revenues were US$195 million[1], down 5% year-over-year and up 1% quarter-over-quarter.
- Brand advertising revenues were US$25 million, down 32% year-over-year and up 5% quarter-over-quarter.
- Online game revenues were US$157 million, up 4% year-over-year and flat quarter-over-quarter.
- GAAP net income[2] attributable to Sohu.com Limited was US$9 million, compared with net income of US$22 million in the second quarter of 2021 and net income of US$3 million in the first quarter of 2022.
- Non-GAAP[3] net income attributable to Sohu.com Limited was US$12 million, compared with net income of US$25million in the second quarter of 2021 and net income of US$9 million in the first quarter of 2022.
Dr. Charles Zhang, Chairman and CEO of Sohu.com Limited, commented, "In the second quarter of 2022, COVID-19 and related prevention measures disrupted normal economic activity nationwide. We met the challenge proactively, by refining our products and technology and exploring a range of monetization opportunities. Our brand advertising revenue met the high end of our previous guidance during the quarter. Thanks to the solid performance of our online game business, our profitability exceeded guidance. For Sohu Media Portal and Sohu Video, we continued to generate and distribute reliable news and premium content, reinforcing our competitiveness and credibility as a mainstream media platform. Leveraging the differentiated advantages of the Sohu product matrix, we extended our live broadcasting to a greater number of scientific fields and to various online and offline events. For online games, our performance was stable during the quarter, with revenues in line with our guidance."
Second Quarter Financial Results
Revenues
Total revenues were US$195 million, down 5% year-over-year and up 1% quarter-over-quarter.
Brand advertising revenues were US$25 million, down 32% year-over-year and up 5% quarter-over-quarter.
Online game revenues were US$157 million, up 4% year-over-year and flat quarter-over-quarter.
Gross Margin
Both GAAP and non-GAAP gross margin were 73%, compared with 76% in the second quarter of 2021 and 75% in the first quarter of 2022.
GAAP gross margin for the brand advertising business was 4%, compared with 27% in the second quarter of 2021 and 2% in the first quarter of 2022. Non-GAAP gross margin for the brand advertising business was 4%, compared with 28% in the second quarter of 2021 and 2% in the first quarter of 2022. The margin decrease was mainly due to the decrease in brand advertising revenues.
Both GAAP and non-GAAP gross margin for online games were 84%, compared with 89% in the second quarter of 2021 and 86% in the first quarter of 2022.
Operating Expenses
GAAP operating expenses were US$132 million, up 1% year-over-year and flat quarter-over-quarter. Non-GAAP operating expenses were US$130 million, up 2% year-over-year and flat quarter-over-quarter.
Operating Profit
GAAP operating profit was US$10 million, compared with an operating profit of US$25 million in the second quarter of 2021 and an operating profit of US$13 million in the first quarter of 2022.
Non-GAAP operating profit was US$11 million, compared with an operating profit of US$28 million in the second quarter of 2021 and an operating profit of US$14 million in the first quarter of 2022.
Income Tax Expense
GAAP income tax expense was US$17 million, compared with income tax expense of US$11 million in the second quarter of 2021 and income tax expense of US$17 million in the first quarter of 2022. Non-GAAP income tax expense was US$16 million, compared with income tax expense of US$9 million in the second quarter of 2021 and income tax expense of US$17 million in the first quarter of 2022. Income tax expense in the second quarter of 2021 included a one-time tax benefit of US$9 million recognized after final settlement of income tax due for 2020.
Net Income
GAAP net income attributable to Sohu.com Limited was US$9 million, or net income of US$0.25 per fully-diluted ADS, compared with net income of US$22 million in the second quarter of 2021 and net income of US$3 million in the first quarter of 2022.
Non-GAAP net income attributable to Sohu.com Limited was US$12 million, or net income of US$0.36 per fully-diluted ADS, compared with net income of US$25 million in the second quarter of 2021 and net income of US$9 million in the first quarter of 2022.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of June 30, 2022, cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments and long-term time deposits totaled approximately US$1.46 billion.
Supplementary Information for Changyou Results[4]
Second Quarter 2022 Operating Results
- For PC games, total average monthly active user accounts[5] (MAU) were 2.3 million, an increase of 7% year-over-year and 13% quarter-over-quarter. Total quarterly aggregate active paying accounts[6] (APA) were 1.0 million, an increase of 15% year-over-year and 6% quarter-over-quarter. The increases in both MAU and APA were mainly from TLBB Vintage, which was launched on the WeGame platform during the quarter.
- For mobile games, total average MAU were 2.0 million, an increase of 7% year-over-year and a decrease of 14% quarter-over-quarter. The year-over-year increase was mainly from games launched during recent quarters, including Little Raccoon: Heroes and Bright Stars. The quarter-over-quarter decrease mainly resulted from the natural decline of Bright Stars. Total quarterly APA were 0.4 million, a decrease of 13% year-over-year and 20% quarter-over-quarter. The year-over-year decrease was mainly due to the natural decline of older games, including TLBB Honor and Legacy TLBB Mobile. The quarter-over-quarter decrease was mainly from Bright Stars.
Second Quarter 2022 Unaudited Financial Results
Total revenues were US$159 million, an increase of 3% year-over-year and flat quarter-over-quarter. Online game revenues were US$157 million, an increase of 4% year-over-year and flat quarter-over-quarter. Online advertising revenues were US$2 million, a decrease of 30% year-over-year and 2% quarter-over-quarter.
GAAP and non-GAAP gross profit were both US$133 million, a decrease of 2% year-over-year and 3% quarter-over-quarter.
GAAP operating expenses were US$49 million, a decrease of 23% year-over-year and 10% quarter-over-quarter. Non-GAAP operating expenses were US$48 million, a decrease of 23% year-over-year and 10% quarter-over-quarter. The year-over-year decrease was mainly due to a decrease in marketing and promotional spending for online games, as well as a decrease in bonus expenses. The quarter-over-quarter decrease was mainly due to a decrease in outsourcing and licensing fees related to product development.
GAAP operating profit was US$84 million, compared with an operating profit of US$73 million for the second quarter of 2021 and US$83 million for the first quarter of 2022.
Non-GAAP operating profit was US$85 million, compared with a non-GAAP operating profit of US$75 million for the second quarter of 2021 and US$85 million for the first quarter of 2022.
Business Outlook
For the third quarter of 2022, Sohu estimates:
- Brand advertising revenues to be between US$25 million and US$28 million; this implies an annual decrease of 17% to 26%, and a sequential increase of nil to 12%.
- Online game revenues to be between US$138 million and US$148 million; this implies an annual decrease of 11% to 17%, and a sequential decrease of 6% to 12%.
- Non-GAAP net loss attributable to Sohu.com Limited to be between US$35 million and US$25 million; and GAAP net loss attributable to Sohu.com Limited to be between US$38 million and US$28 million.
For the third quarter 2022 guidance, the Company has adopted a presumed exchange rate of RMB6.75=US$1.00, as compared with the actual exchange rate of approximately RMB6.47=US$1.00 for the third quarter of 2021, and RMB6.61=US$1.00 for the second quarter of 2022.
This forecast reflects Sohu's management's current and preliminary view, which is subject to substantial uncertainty, particularly in view of the potential ongoing impact of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, which remains difficult to predict.
Non-GAAP Disclosure
To supplement the unaudited consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP"), Sohu's management uses non-GAAP measures of gross profit, operating profit, net income, net income attributable to Sohu.com Limited and diluted net income attributable to Sohu.com Limited per ADS, which are adjusted from results based on GAAP to exclude the impact of share-based compensation expense; changes in fair value recognized in the Company's consolidated statements of operations with respect to equity investments with readily determinable fair values; an impairment charge recognized for an investment unrelated to the Company's core businesses; and interest expense recognized in connection with the Toll Charge imposed by the U.S. TCJA. These measures should be considered in addition to results prepared in accordance with GAAP, but should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, GAAP results.
Sohu's management believes excluding share-based compensation expense; changes in fair value recognized in the Company's consolidated statements of operations with respect to equity investments with readily determinable fair values; the impairment charge recognized for an investment unrelated to the Company's core businesses; and interest expense recognized in connection with the Toll Charge from its non-GAAP financial measure is useful for itself and investors. Further, the impact of share-based compensation expense; changes in fair value recognized in the Company's consolidated statements of operations with respect to equity investments with readily determinable fair values; the impairment charge recognized for an investment unrelated to the Company's core businesses; and interest expense recognized in connection with the Toll Charge cannot be anticipated by management and business line leaders and these expenses were not built into the annual budgets and quarterly forecasts that have been the basis for information Sohu provides to analysts and investors as guidance for future operating performance. As the impact of share-based compensation expense, changes in fair value recognized in the Company's consolidated statements of operations with respect to equity investments with readily determinable fair values, and the impairment charge recognized for an investment unrelated to the Company's core businesses does not involve subsequent cash outflow or is reflected in the cash flows at the equity transaction level, Sohu does not factor this impact in when evaluating and approving expenditures or when determining the allocation of its resources to its business segments. As a result, in general, the monthly financial results for internal reporting and any performance measures for commissions and bonuses are based on non-GAAP financial measures that exclude share-based compensation expense, changes in fair value recognized in the Company's consolidated statements of operations with respect to equity investments with readily determinable fair values, and the impairment charge recognized for an investment unrelated to the Company's core businesses, and also excluded the interest expense recognized in connection with the Toll Charge.
The non-GAAP financial measures are provided to enhance investors' overall understanding of Sohu's current financial performance and prospects for the future. A limitation of using non-GAAP gross profit, operating profit, net income, net income attributable to Sohu.com Limited and diluted net income attributable to Sohu.com Limited per ADS excluding share-based compensation expense; changes in fair value recognized in the Company's consolidated statements of operations with respect to equity investments with readily determinable fair values; and interest expense recognized in connection with the Toll Charge is that these excluded items have been and will continue to be significant recurring expenses in Sohu's business for the foreseeable future and similar impairment charges may also recur. In order to mitigate these limitations Sohu has provided specific information regarding the GAAP amounts excluded from each non-GAAP measure. The accompanying tables include details on the reconciliation between the GAAP financial measures that are most directly comparable to the non-GAAP financial measures that have been presented.
Notes to Financial Information
Financial information in this press release other than the information indicated as being non-GAAP is derived from Sohu's unaudited financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. It is currently expected that the Business Outlook will not be updated until release of Sohu's next quarterly earnings announcement; however, Sohu reserves right to update its Business Outlook at any time for any reason. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Sohu's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current plans, estimates and projections, and therefore you should not place undue reliance on them. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. We caution you that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, instability in global financial and credit markets and its potential impact on the Chinese economy; exchange rate fluctuations, including their potential impact on the Chinese economy and on Sohu's reported U.S. dollar results; recent slow-downs in the growth of the Chinese economy; the uncertain regulatory landscape in the People's Republic of China; fluctuations in Sohu's quarterly operating results; the possibilities that Sohu will be unable to recoup its investment in video content and will be unable to develop a series of successful games for mobile platforms or successfully monetize mobile games it develops or acquires; Sohu's reliance on online advertising sales and online games for its revenues; the impact of the U.S. TCJA; the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy in China in general and on Sohu's business in particular; and the possibility that, unless an accommodation is reached between the SEC and the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act and rules of the SEC thereunder may cause the SEC to prohibit trading of Sohu's ADSs on Nasdaq, any other U.S. stock exchange, or the U.S. over-the-counter markets beginning in 2024 or, if currently pending legislation becomes law, 2023. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Sohu's annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021, and other filings with and information furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Conference Call and Webcast
Sohu's management team will host a conference call at 7:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time, August 8, 2022 (7:30 p.m. Beijing/Hong Kong time, August 8, 2022) following the quarterly results announcement. Participants can register for the conference call by clicking here, which will lead them to the conference registration website. Upon registration, participants will receive details for the conference call, including the dial-in numbers and a unique access PIN. Please dial in 10 minutes before the call is scheduled to begin.
The live Webcast and archive of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of Sohu's Website at http://investors.sohu.com/.
About Sohu.com
Sohu.com Limited (NASDAQ: SOHU) was established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of China's internet pioneers, in the 1990s. As a mainstream media platform in China, Sohu is indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese, providing a network of web properties and community based products which continually offer a broad array of choices regarding information, entertainment and communication to the vast number of Sohu users. Sohu has built one of the most comprehensive matrices of Chinese language web properties, consisting of the leading online media destinations Sohu News App, mobile news portal m.sohu.com, PC portal www.sohu.com; online video website tv.sohu.com; and the online games platform www.changyou.com/en/.
Sohu provides online brand advertising services as well as multiple news, information and content services on its matrix of websites and also on its mobile platforms. Sohu's online game business, conducted by its subsidiary Changyou, develops and operates a diverse portfolio of PC and mobile games, such as Tian Long Ba Bu ("TLBB"), one of the most popular PC games in China. Changyou also owns and operates the 17173.com Website, a game information portal in China.
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[1] On a constant currency (non-GAAP) basis, if the exchange rate in the second quarter of 2022 had been the same as it was in the second quarter of 2021, or RMB6.46=US$1.00, US$ total revenues in the second quarter of 2022 would have been US$199 million, or US$4 million more than GAAP total revenues, and down 3% year-over-year.
[2] Following the completion on September 23, 2021 of the transaction with Tencent related to Sogou, Sohu no longer has any ownership interest in Sogou. Unless indicated otherwise, results presented in this release exclude results from Sogou operations. For historical statements, the results of operations of Sogou and the gain from its disposal are presented in separate line items as discontinued operations.
[3] Non-GAAP results exclude share-based compensation expense; changes in fair value recognized in the Company's consolidated statements of operations with respect to equity investments with readily determinable fair values; an impairment charge recognized for an investment unrelated to the Company's core businesses; and interest expense recognized in connection with the one-time transition tax (the "Toll Charge") imposed by the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law on December 22, 2017 (the "U.S. TCJA"). Explanation of the Company's non-GAAP financial measures and related reconciliations to GAAP financial measures are included in the accompanying "Non-GAAP Disclosure" and "Reconciliations of Non-GAAP Results of Operation Measures to the Nearest Comparable GAAP Measures."
[4] "Changyou Results" consist of the results of Changyou's online game business and its 17173.com Website.
[5] Monthly active user accounts refers to the number of registered accounts that are logged in to these games at least once during the month.
[6] Quarterly aggregate active paying accounts refers to the number of accounts from which game points are utilized at least once during the quarter.
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Dogs Employed To Sniff Out Crude Oil on Texas Beaches
Researchers at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi employed two pups to sniff out crude oil on Texas beaches.
Poppy, an English Springer Spaniel, and Bin, a German Shorthaired Pointer, use their snouts to perform a valuable job. Researchers hope this study eventually provides Texas with a novel tool to conduct oil surveys on beaches. They also want to grow the number of oil detection canine teams throughout the State.
Big Jobs for Good Dogs
As part of the new Oil Detection Canine study, researchers train Bin to differentiate between naturally occurring weathered oil and fresher crude oils up to three feet below the sand. They train Poppy, the control canine, to detect any occurrence of oil.
The dogs wear a “working dog’ vest,” anti-sand goggles to protect the eyes from high wind situations, and paw pads to protect against hot sand. Baxter told the Alice Echo News Journal , “If the conditions are not fit for a person to work in, they are not fit for the dogs either.”
“Canines are extremely precise and can detect very small quantities of oil in austere conditions,” said Aaron Baxter, CCS Research Specialist II and the principal investigator for the study. Baxter adds that canines cover large areas quickly and locate surface and buried oils better than any machine or human. “A canine can process a one acre area in three minutes while a team of humans must dig pits every 10 meters to determine if there’s any oil,” he continued.
Plans to Certify More Dogs
According to Baxter, the four-week training process is time-intensive, but much of it can be completed virtually. The field training portion requires time on the beach with a professional trainer to earn certification. CCS plans to train members of the public as citizen scientist volunteers. These individuals would also act as “forever homes” to the dogs.
If the study is successful, the handler/dog team, once certified, can also assist in oil spills all over the world.
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Updated August 8, 2022 at 10:43 PM ET
Former President Donald Trump said on Monday that FBI agents had searched his Mar-a-Lago club and residence in Palm Beach, Fla., and opened his safe.
The FBI and Department of Justice declined to comment, although Eric Trump said Monday night that he was told the search was related to the possible mishandling of government secrets the Justice Department is known to be investigating after the National Archives retrieved White House records from Mar-a-Lago.
"The purpose of the raid was, from what they said, was because the National Archives wanted to corroborate whether or not Donald Trump had any documents in his possession," the former president's son told Fox News. "And my father has worked so collaboratively with them for months. In fact, the lawyer that's been working on this was totally shocked. He goes, 'I have such an amazing relationship with these people and all of a sudden, on no notice, they send 20 cars and 30 agents?'"
The younger Trump said he got a call about the search being executed on Monday morning and informed his father.
The search, which would have required a court order from a federal judge, signals the former president is under greater scrutiny from federal investigators than was previously known.
In a statement put out by his political action committee, Trump said Mar-a-Lago was "under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents."
"After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate," the statement said.
Trump went on to blame Democrats who don't want him to run for president in 2024 for the incident, and said the same people also want to stop Republicans from winning in the midterm elections.
Search would likely need top DOJ approval
While there is no indication that prosecutors are on the verge of charging Trump, or that he will ultimately be charged, the search marks a significant step. In order to get a warrant, investigators would have had to demonstrate to a judge that there was probable cause to believe that a crime had been committed and that evidence of the crime was at Mar-a-Lago.
A search of a former president's home would likely need to be approved at the highest levels of the Justice Department. A department spokeswoman declined to comment whether Attorney General Merrick Garland had signed off on the Mar-a-Lago search.
A White House official said they did not receive notice of the search, and referred questions to the Justice Department.
Earlier this year, the National Archives and Records Administration said it had recovered 15 boxes of White House records and other items from Trump's Florida club, sparking a Justice Department investigation.
Trump's announcement of the search sparked a firestorm on the right, with Republicans accusing Democrats of weaponizing the federal bureaucracy.
"The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement. He promised oversight of the department, should Republicans win the House in November, and warned Garland, "preserve your documents and clear your calendar."
Trump's 2024 plans may weigh on prosecutors
Monday's action also comes as the Justice Department was ramping up its investigations into Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election — though there have not been reports of an investigation into Trump himself.
As Trump teases another run at the White House, former federal prosecutor Brian Jacobs told NPR that another Trump candidacy could weigh on DOJ prosecutors, but wouldn't impact any potential investigations.
"I think prosecutors in the Department of Justice all know that they are not allowed to select the timing of investigative steps or criminal charges for the purpose of affecting any election," Jacobs said.
Trump was not in Florida on Monday. While Mar-a-Lago is his official residence, it's a seasonal club and the former president spends the summer months primarily up north, often at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. He was seen outside Trump Tower in New York City on Monday evening.
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MONDAY, Aug. 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) — In 2017 to 2019, Black and Hispanic individuals were less likely than Whites to undergo coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention for non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, according to a study published in the June 21 issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Tarry Tertulien, M.D., from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and colleagues identified individuals presenting with incident, type I non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction from 2017 to 2019. Participants were categorized according to race and ethnicity. The rates of coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention were examined by race and ethnicity and income categories.
A total of 87,094 individuals were identified: 2.6, 13.4, 11.2, and 72.7 percent Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White, respectively. The researchers found that compared with Whites, individuals of Black race were less likely to undergo coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (odds ratios, 0.93 and 0.86, respectively). Hispanic individuals were also less likely than Whites to undergo coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (odds ratios, 0.88 and 0.85, respectively). Differences in the receipt of coronary angiography across all racial and ethnic groups were attenuated by higher annual household income.
“An American Heart Association presidential advisory and the Center for Disease Control’s Healthy People 2030 initiative have asserted that addressing racial disparities is a priority, yet there is still more work to be done regarding the persistent racial and ethnic disparities in the management of heart disease,” Tertulien said in a statement.
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The Met Office has issued a health alert for parts of the country as temperatures are once again set to climb into the thirties this week.
While the heat is not expected to be as extreme as July’s sweltering weather which saw the hottest day on record, temperatures across the UK are expected to reach heatwave territory this week. The Met Office has put out a Level 3 Heat Alert for southern and central England, areas which will see highs of a scorching 36C, with the UK Health Security Agency advising people to look out for those who may be particularly vulnerable to the heat including older people, young children and people with underlying health conditions.
The health alert will be in place from midday today, Tuesday, until 6pm on Saturday. There is also very little rain in the UK-wide forecast - following the pattern of last month which saw the driest July since 1935 - with forecasters warning that wildfires could break out in the heat, The Mirror reports.
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While the North East is set to avoid the highest temperatures this week, the region will still see a spell of particularly warm and dry summer weather - with the heat set to peak on Wednesday at a blistering 29C in some areas. The Met Office is predicting ‘unbroken sunshine’ for most, with an onshore breeze along the coast.
Temperatures will vary across the North East, with Newcastle forecast to reach a balmy 26C on Wednesday before cooling down slightly to 23C on Thursday and 20C on Friday and Saturday. Sunderland will be even cooler at a more comfortable 22C on Wednesday, 21C on Thursday and 19C on Friday and Saturday.
But Durham will be among the hottest places in the region, hitting the regional peak of 29C on Wednesday and 28C on Thursday, followed by 26C on Friday and Saturday according to Met Office predictions. Dry and sunny spells are forecast to continue into next week, though some areas may see cloud and patchy rain as temperatures begin to drop back down to normal levels.
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LONDON: Pfizer Inc. on Monday agreed to pay $5.4 billion in cash for sickle cell disease drugmaker Global Blood Therapeutics, as it looks to capitalize on a surge in revenue from its COVID-19 vaccine and treatment.
Pfizer will pay $68.50 per GBT share, which represents a 7.3 percent premium to its Friday closing price. The deal is at a more than 40 percent premium where GBT was trading before the Wall Street Journal reported that Pfizer was in advanced talks to buy it on Thursday.
Pfizer’s 2021 revenue of $81.3 billion was nearly double the mark from the previous year, due to COVID-19 vaccine sales. With the addition of its COVID-19 antiviral pill Paxlovid, Pfizer is expected to generate around $100 billion in revenue this year, but sales from both products are expected to decline going forward.
Pfizer has been on the lookout for acquisitions that could bring in billions in annual sales by the end of the decade.
“We have very deliberately taken a strategy of diversification in our M&A deals,” Aamir Malik, Pfizer’s top dealmaker, said in an interview. He said the company was focused on improving growth for the second half of the decade, rather than large deals that generate value through cost cuts.
“We think that there are opportunities across all therapeutic areas that we’re active in,” Malik said, noting that the company was also agnostic about size for future deals.
In May, Pfizer struck an $11.6 billion deal for migraine drug maker Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding and recently also completed a $6.7 billion deal to buy Arena Pharmaceuticals.
With the acquisition of Global Blood Therapeutics, Pfizer adds sickle cell disease treatment Oxbryta, which was approved in 2019 and is expected to top $260 million in sales this year. It will also pick up two pipeline assets — GBT601 and inclacumab — targeting the same disease.
Pfizer said if they are all approved, it believes GBT’s drugs could generate more than $3 billion in sales annually at their peak.
Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated 70,000 to 100,000 people in the United States.
GBT Chief Executive Officer Ted Love said that Pfizer’s resources and multinational infrastructure will allow the company to launch Oxbryta in additional markets and boost its uptake.
“We really have no infrastructure outside of that (US and western Europe) and it takes time and money to build out those infrastructures and Pfizer already has all of it,” Love said.
Shares of Global Blood rose 4.5 percent following the deal announcement.
Flush with cash, Pfizer buys Global Blood Therapeutics in $5.4bn deal
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- New entry-level CNG variant
- Costs Rs 50,000 less than the XZ variant
Tata Motors has launched a more affordable XM variant in the Tata Tigor CNG line-up. Positioned below the XZ variant, the new XM variant costs Rs 50,000 less and is priced at Rs 7.40 lakh (ex-showroom). The higher XZ and XZ+ variants are available for Rs 7.90 lakh and Rs 8.50 lakh, both prices ex-showroom.
The XM variant is the entry-level trim and gets features such as a Harman infotainment system with four speakers, power windows, central locking, and rear parking sensors. It can be had in Daytona Grey, Opal White, Arizona Blue, and Deep Red colour shades. However, if opting for higher XZ and XZ+ variants, these offer additional features like a touchscreen infotainment system, a dual-tone black and beige interior theme, a rear parking camera, front fog lamps, a cooled glovebox, and electrically-adjustable ORVMs.
The Tata Tigor CNG makes use of the 1.2-litre, three-cylinder, petrol engine that is tuned to produce 72bhp and 95Nm of peak torque. The motor is paired to a five-speed manual gearbox. Tata Motors also claims a fuel efficiency of 26.49 kmkg. We have driven the Tata Tigor i-CNG and here you can read our detailed driving review.
Commenting on the launch, Rajan Amba, Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Customer Care, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd., said, “The Tigor has been an extremely special product for us and the addition of the iCNG variant has propelled our momentum further in the segment. Currently, more than 75 per cent of the customer bookings of the Tigor are coming from the iCNG variant which is a testament to the robust demand of this technology in the Tigor portfolio. With the growing popularity of the Tigor iCNG and in line with our New Forever brand philosophy, the new Tigor XM iCNG will help us cater to new set of customers who have been wanting to experience our iCNG technology with an entry level trim.” | https://www.carwale.com/news/tata-tigor-icng-xm-variant-launched-in-india-at-rs-740-lakh/ | 2022-08-09T08:46:56Z | https://www.carwale.com/news/tata-tigor-icng-xm-variant-launched-in-india-at-rs-740-lakh/ | false | 1 |
Health Catalyst Welcomes Chief Medical Officer Dr. Melissa Welch and Chief Population Health Officer and Senior Vice President Dr. Edward Sheen to Leadership Team
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Catalyst, Inc. ("Health Catalyst," NASDAQ: HCAT), a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, today announced the addition of Chief Medical Officer Dr. Melissa Welch and Chief Population Health Officer and Senior Vice President Dr. Edward Sheen to the executive leadership team.
Dr. Welch will be the physician voice supporting new and current client growth–driving data-informed healthcare improvements across all areas of the business. Dr. Sheen will lead all value-based care initiatives and help Health Catalyst clients to advance their population health management journeys. Both are fully committed to Health Catalyst's mission to be the catalyst for massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvements for all, including vulnerable populations.
"We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Welch and Dr. Sheen to Health Catalyst's executive leadership team," said Health Catalyst CEO Dan Burton. "Their personal, lifelong commitments to the values and principles we espouse at Health Catalyst will energize our teams and further our mission of healthcare transformation. We are deeply grateful for their expertise and unwavering passion for improving healthcare for everyone."
As a primary care trained internist with a background in public health epidemiology and more than 20 years of experience in the private sector, Dr. Welch is uniquely positioned to understand the challenges facing both public and private sectors, drive strategy, and bring thought leadership to all departments of Health Catalyst. She founded Perspectives of Differences Diversity Training and Consultation for Health Professionals and will bring her experience as a diversity and cultural competence trainer to the position as well.
Dr. Welch joined Health Catalyst because her life mission aligns closely with the company's. "My lifelong pursuit has been to find a way to help everyone in healthcare and I believe the way to do that is by having a disciplined approach to data and technology usage that drives value-based care results," said Dr. Welch. "What first attracted me to Health Catalyst was their focus on the immeasurable value of every individual and respect for every single team member's contribution. Combine that with the proven effectiveness of their data and analytics technology, professional services, and care partnerships and I'm excited to see how we can positively transform healthcare for all moving forward."
As a practicing physician, educator, and medical school professor with a background in public policy, business, and public health, Dr. Sheen has worked with healthcare systems and payers in 25 states championing initiatives to accelerate their journey to value-based care, including higher quality care, better patient experience, greater care provider engagement, and lower total costs of care. He has held leadership roles across private, government, non-profit, and academic organizations to improve healthcare systems for patients and providers. He has a long-standing commitment to mentoring and has established programs to support the leadership development of future change agents.
Dr. Sheen was also attracted to Health Catalyst's mission, values, and principles. "My mission is to achieve accessible, equitable, innovative, high-performing, and patient-centered healthcare for all. I'm grateful to be part of a company that shares that mission," said Dr. Sheen. "Health Catalyst has been a national leader in developing meaningful solutions to better serve patients. I'm thrilled to work with this tremendous team to transform care delivery, advance health equity, and lower costs for health systems across the country."
About Health CatalystHealth Catalyst is a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations committed to being the catalyst for massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvement. Its customers leverage the cloud-based data platform—powered by data from more than 100 million patient records and encompassing trillions of facts—as well as its analytics software and professional services expertise to make data-informed decisions and realize measurable clinical, financial, and operational improvements. Health Catalyst envisions a future in which all healthcare decisions are data informed.
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Garry Roney Aldridge
Garry Roney Aldridge, 67, of Stephens City, passed away on Friday, August 5, 2022, in the Blue Ridge Hospice Care Center.
Garry was born June 14, 1955, in Nuremberg, Germany Army Base; the son of the late Edelwina (Winnie) and Jack Aldridge.
Garry is survived by a daughter, Wendy Robinson of Bunker Hill, WV; two grandchildren, Anaya Robinson and Natalia Gleaves; one brother, Ralph Aldridge of Lenoir, NC; and one nephew, Steven Aldridge of Hickory, NC.
Garry worked at VDO Instruments for 25 years. He enjoyed fishing, basketball, football, baseball, collecting baseball cards and time spent with family.
A Memorial Celebration will be held on Friday, August 12, 2022, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm at Jones Funeral Home located at 228 S. Pleasant Valley Rd., Winchester, VA 22601.
Memorial contributions, in lieu of flowers, may be made to Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 W. Cork Street, #405, Winchester, VA, 22601.
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Donald Trump’s mansion in Florida raided by FBI
Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida has been raided by the FBI as part of a probe into presidential records.
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Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer and the founder of the namesake fashion brand, has died aged 84.
The fashion icon died of hepatocellular carcinoma after a long health battle.
Miyake's global career spanned more than half a century before his untimely death at 84.
His death was announced by an employee at his office in Tokyo Tuesday.
The fashion designer's employee told AFP: "He died on the evening of August 5."
Miyake's funeral had already taken place, with 'only relatives participating' in line with his wishes.
The employee also confirmed that the fashion designer's family have no plans to organise a public ceremony - despite Miyake being one of the most talented in his field in Japan.
Issey Miyake became a huge part of a wave of young Japanese designers who made their mark in Paris from the mid-1970s - and since then his stellar career has spanned decades.
The talented star pioneered high-tech, comfortable clothing, and insisted on side-stepping the grandiosity of haute couture in favour of what he called simply 'making things'.
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Missing 16-year-old possibly abducted from party, authorities say
TRUCKEE, Calif. (KCRA) - The case of a missing 16-year-old girl from California is being investigated as a possible abduction after she didn’t come home from a party.
Kiely Rodni, 16, was reported missing Saturday morning after she didn’t come home from a party at a campground in Truckee. The Placer County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Sunday night that her disappearance is now being treated as a possible abduction case.
“I asked her to wake me up when she got home, like she always does, and she said, ‘OK’ and ‘Thanks, Mom. I love you,’” said Rodni’s mother, Lindsey Rodni-Nieman. “And that’s the last I ever heard from her.”
An anonymous tip line has been established, and a $50,000 reward is being offered to help find the 16-year-old.
Sami Smith, one of Rodni’s good friends, says she and Rodni were at a party Friday night along with hundreds of other high school and college kids from the Bay Area all the way to Nevada. The party took place at an open area near the Prosser Family Campground that is known to local young people as “the Sanctuary.” It’s a common place for parties.
Rodni was last seen about 12:30 a.m. Saturday. Her phone has been out of service since the party.
“My head is all over the place. I’m terrified. Bad thoughts are very strong and hard to keep at bay. But I’m trying to hold out hope that we’ll find her, that she’ll come home,” Rodni’s mother said.
Smith and Rodni’s family want to know how no one saw her leave in her 2013 silver Honda CRV, which is still missing. It has a California license plate number of 8YUR127.
“I can’t believe it. There has to have been one person. There were people sitting in cars. There were people everywhere around this place,” Smith said.
Smith organized crews of community members, who were looking for the teen across the Tahoe Region.
Rodni is described as being about 5 feet, 7 inches and 115 pounds with blonde hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing green pants and a black tank top. She also has numerous piercings and a tattoo of the number 17 on her ribs.
Detectives are asking people who were at the party to come forward. Anyone with information about Rodni’s whereabouts is asked to call the tipline 530-581-6320, option 7.
The teen’s friends and family have also set up a website, findkiely.com, and an email address, findkiely@gmail.com.
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Marape returns after injunction fails to delay election result further
James Marape has been returned as Papua New Guinea’s leader after a national election marred by violence and fraud allegations.
Marape was declared prime minister on Tuesday afternoon after receiving a unanimous 97 votes in the post-election parliamentary sitting. He will lead a coalition of at least 17 parties.
His rival and predecessor Peter O’Neill sought to delay the sitting as some vote counting has not been finalised in the election which commenced on July 4. But the Supreme Court injunction was not successful.
Roughly 50 election-related deaths have been reported this year, down from 204 deaths documented in the 2017 vote.
Marape said his main aim would be to stabilise and grow the economy, put in place sustainable debt financing and roll out government programs for education, health, and law and order.
“We will not be wasting time,” he said in the statement posted online.
Marape first became PNG’s leader in May 2019.
The general election, held every five years, is among the world’s most challenging due in part to difficult terrain, extreme weather, poor transport infrastructure, and linguistic and cultural diversity.
Voting ran from July 4 to 22, but counting was extended until Friday because of special circumstances including security issues, attacks on ballot boxes and logistical challenges, the electoral commission said.
International election observers reported problems ranging from interference in counting by scrutineers and double voting to large numbers of names missing from electoral rolls.
O’Neill, leader of the People’s National Congress, had applied to the Supreme Court to delay parliament’s return on Tuesday saying the electoral roll problems meant “millions of our people have not voted.”
The Melanesian Spearhead Group, in an observer report, said the election’s “many challenges” included unexplained delays of up to three days before counting started in some electorates, scrutineer interference, and failure to check voter identity documents.
In some cases, up to half of names of eligible voters were not on electoral rolls, a Commonwealth Observer Group said.
Police Commissioner David Manning last week that there were ongoing investigations into “some candidates who are believed to have been inciting their supporters to fight with opponents, and arrests will be made.”
Amid the voting, Manning said he had been sickened by election violence in Enga province, where people were killed, and schools, bridges, homes and livestock were destroyed.
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WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 9, 2022
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127 AM PDT Tue Aug 9 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IS CANCELLED...
* WHAT...High temperatures in the mid 90s to near 100 degrees.
* WHERE...Malott, Okanogan, Quincy, Winchester, Mansfield, Brewster,
Waterville, Monse, Omak, Nighthawk, Bridgeport, Nespelem, Ephrata,
Palisades, Oroville, Chelan, Cashmere, Othello, Entiat, Moses
Lake, and Wenatchee.
* WHEN...Until 11 PM PDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures will significantly increase the
potential or heat related illnesses, particularly for those
sensitive to heat. Residents without air conditioners will
experience a build up of heat within their homes during the
afternoon and evening hours.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of
the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.
* WHERE...Grand Coulee, Coulee City, Odessa, Creston, Ralston,
Electric City, Lamona, Stratford, Harrington, Coulee Dam,
Ritzville, and Wilbur.
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures in the 95
to 103F range.
* WHERE...Peck, Clarkston, Pomeroy, Gifford, Clarkston Heights,
Lapwai, Culdesac, and Lewiston.
* IMPACTS...Excessive heat will significantly increase the potential
or heat related illnesses, particularly for those working or
participating in outdoor activities. Residents without air
conditioners will experience a build up of heat within their homes.
Take extra precautions when outside. Wear lightweight and loose
fitting clothing. Try to limit strenuous activities to early morning
or evening. Take action when you see symptoms of heat exhaustion and
heat stroke.
To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent rest breaks in
shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone overcome by heat
should be moved to a cool and shaded location. Heat stroke is an
emergency! Call 9 1 1.
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...High temperatures Tuesday will be in the mid 90s to around
100F.
* WHERE...Portions of North and North Central Idaho. Portions of
North Central, Northeast, and Southeast Washington.
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CoinSwitch, a cryptocurrency investing application, has announced the launch of its Web3.0 Discovery Fund, the company’s corporate venture capital initiative. The company plans to use the set of funds to invest in and incubate early-stage startups building blockchain solutions for the Web3.0 landscape.
According to the company, its Web3.0 Discovery Fund will curate portfolio startups and provide access to investor partners such as Tiger Global, Ribbit Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, Woodstock Fund, Elevation Capital (ex-SAIF partners), and incubation partner Buidlers Tribe. CoinSwitch’s Web3.0 Discovery Fund intends to be an AWS Activate Provider, through which early-stage portfolio startups can apply for AWS Activate Portfolio, and receive AWS credits, technical support, training, resources, and more to accelerate their growth. Further, the portfolio startups can benefit from access to CoinSwitch’s in-house capabilities, ecosystem network, and 18 million-strong user base, accelerating their product life-cycle strategy.
“The venture program is a result of our belief that India can be the launchpad for population-scale Web3.0 projects. To realise this vision of #MadeinIndia Web3.0, we have to identify and enable entrepreneurs and early-stage startups leveraging the potential of cryptocurrency to solve real-world problems unique to India. That’s the raison d’être of the Web3.0 Discovery Fund. I look forward to work with Tiger Global, Ribbit Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, Woodstock Fund, Elevation Capital, and Buidlers Tribe toward this mission,” Ashish Singhal, co-founder and CEO, CoinSwitch, said.
Founded in 2017 by Ashish Singhal, Govind Soni, and Vimal Sagar Tiwari, and backed by blue chip investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital India, Ribbit Capital, Paradigm, and Coinbase Ventures, CoinSwitch is aiming to be a wealth-technology destination for Indians. The company is on a mission to ‘Make Money Equal for All,’ and seeks to create an ecosystem that simplifies cryptocurrency. CoinSwitch claims to be trusted by over 18 million registered users
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- Through its combined forces, Sartorius and Albumedix will accelerate the availability of critical components for the manufacture of advanced therapies and next-generation biopharmaceuticals, globally.
- The Albumedix Campus in Nottingham, UK will be established as a bio-innovation and cGMP-compliant manufacturing Centre of Excellence in Sartorius.
- Life science group Sartorius will acquire all outstanding shares in Albumedix Ltd. for approx. £415 million.
NOTTINGHAM, England, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Albumedix Ltd. (´Albumedix´), a recognized leader in recombinant human albumin-based solutions, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by life science group Sartorius, an international leader in laboratory and bioprocessing technologies for the biopharmaceutical industry. Through this acquisition, Albumedix and Sartorius expand their solution space with complementary technologies and synergetic competencies, to deliver science-enabled solutions for the entire advanced therapy value chain.
With a recombinant human albumin heritage stretching close to four decades, Albumedix has worked alongside its life science partners, to innovate and help enable the availability of numerous safer and more stable pharmaceutical products. The company will continue to be led by Albumedix' CEO Jonas S. Møller and its Executive Management team, who remain dedicated to servicing the life science industry.
The acquisition confirms a general market shift towards fully defined and high-quality solutions for the manufacturing of advanced therapy products, in which recombinant human albumin is an essential component. Albumedix will become part of the Bioprocess Solutions Division within Sartorius, with the growing Albumedix Campus in Nottingham, UK being established as a centre of excellence in Sartorius dedicated to bio-innovation and GMP-compliant manufacturing of critical raw materials. Sartorius will look to rapidly invest in the expansion of Albumedix' innovation capacities and proprietary recombinant protein production platform.
"We are delighted to be joining forces with Sartorius and look forward to accelerating our ambitious growth plans in delivering critical solutions to our global customers. We have been highly impressed with Sartorius' knowledge and capabilities in the bioprocessing markets, and we are excited to join this purposeful journey. We believe Sartorius will bring tremendous value by strengthening our market reach and broadening our innovation capacity, as well as significantly scaling up our existing platform. We look forward to continuing our promise of empowering excellence in the life science industry," said Jonas S. Møller, CEO of Albumedix.
"Albumedix will be an important addition to Sartorius' advanced therapy solutions, particularly regarding our cell culture media business, as it will enable us to strengthen our position as a relevant supplier of innovative chemically defined media and critical ancillary materials. This market offers high growth potential due to the increasing regulatory requirements as well as rising demand for the use of recombinant human albumin in near-patient applications. Albumedix will also add important formulation excipients to our vaccine production solutions, allowing us to expand our existing customer relationships and forge new ones," said René Fáber, member of the Executive Board for the Bioprocess Solutions Division of Sartorius.
Under the terms of the agreement, Sartorius, through its French listed subgroup Sartorius Stedim Biotech, will acquire all outstanding shares of Albumedix Ltd. for an agreed purchase price of approximately £415 million. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close before the end of the third quarter of 2022.
William Blair acted as financial advisor to Albumedix, and Eversheds Sutherland provided legal counsel. Milbank LLP provided legal counsel to Sartorius in this transaction.
About Albumedix
Albumedix is a science-driven company and recognized leader of best-in-class albumin-enabled solutions. Established in the UK in 1984, with a mission to empower excellence, Albumedix has supported its life-science partners to deliver hundreds of million safe doses of clinical and marketed therapeutics, globally. Albumedix' solutions include the world's only USP-NF compliant recombinant human albumin (Recombumin®), client-centric development and compliance services and drug-enhancing technologies (Veltis®). By always striving for more and collaboratively challenging status quo, Albumedix enables the development and commercialisation of advanced therapies and next-generation biopharmaceuticals to the benefit of people worldwide.
About Sartorius
The Sartorius Group is a leading international partner of life science research and the biopharmaceutical industry. With innovative laboratory instruments and consumables, the Group's Lab Products & Services Division concentrates on serving the needs of laboratories performing research and quality control at pharma and biopharma companies and those of academic research institutes. The Bioprocess Solutions Division with its broad product portfolio focusing on single-use solutions helps customers to manufacture biotech medications and vaccines safely and efficiently. The Group has been annually growing by double digits on average and has been regularly expanding its portfolio by acquisitions of complementary technologies. In fiscal 2021, the company earned sales revenue of some 3.45 billion euros. At the end of 2021, nearly 14,000 people were employed at the Group's approximately 60 manufacturing and sales sites, serving customers around the globe.
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The Navy identified the sailor assigned to the guided-missile destroyer Arleigh Burke who died falling overboard into the Baltic Sea on Aug. 1. Seaman Recruit David L. Spearman, originally from North Carolina, joined the Arleigh Burke in April after wrapping up training at Surface Warfare Engineering School Command at Great Lakes, Illinois.
Navy Confirms Overboard Death of 19-Year-Old Sailor in Baltic Sea
The U.S. Navy on Thursday identified the sailor who was lost overboard while serving aboard a naval destroyer in the Baltic Sea earlier this week as Seaman Recruit David Spearman. The 19-year-old sailor was stationed on the USS Arleigh Burke, which was near Helsinki on Monday, when he fell off the ship. Search and rescue efforts were launched for the North Carolina native, but had ceased by late Tuesday. “This bright, young man made an oversized, positive impact on Arleigh Burke,” said the destroyer’s commanding officer, Cmdr. Pete Flynn. Spearman, who originally hailed from the Asheville area, enlisted last November. He was from a family that boasted several generations of Navy sailors, according to WLOS. After completing basic training, he had reported to the USS Arleigh Burke in April, and was on his first assignment when he was lost.Read it at WLOS | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2694815194719/us-army-is-developing-a-tactical-bra-for-its-female-soldiers | 2022-08-09T09:34:02Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2694815194719/us-army-is-developing-a-tactical-bra-for-its-female-soldiers | false | 1 |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — WEATHER HEADLINES
- Comfortable summertime temperatures with lower humidity the next 2 days
- A big warm up is expected over the weekend
- Another sign of a cool down with a stronger summer front middle of next week; Until then, staying dry
KANSAS CITY'S FORECAST
Tuesday: Mostly sunny and warmer. Humidity stays comfortable. Wind: NE 5 mph High: 86°
Tonight: Mostly clear and refreshing. Wind: E-SE 5 mph. Low: 62°
Wednesday: Mostly sunny and warmer after a comfortable start. Wind: SE 5-10 mph High: 88°
Thursday: Sunny skies with an increase in heat & humidity. Wind: SE 5-10 mph Low: 65° High: 89°
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Kurt Lauber and Richard Lehner from Zermatt are legendary mountain-hut wardens and guides. Every day, they face the consequences of climate change. At the same time, their customers want more and more luxury in the Alps.
Those who climb to the heights from Zermatt are rewarded. There are 38 4,000-meter peaks in the area – Dufourspitze, Dent Blanche, Zinalrothorn or Weisshorn. And of course: the Matterhorn, the mountain that first made the Valais village an international tourism brand, immortalized on souvenirs and the Toblerone package.
But the «Horu» – as it is called in local dialect – is not doing well. «The north wall is almost black. The last 200 meters , which were always covered in snow and ice, are almost dry,» says Kurt Lauber. The calculation is simple: Less ice equals more crumbling rock equals more danger. Lauber knows what he is talking about.
For 24 years he had one of the most exclusive jobs in Switzerland. As hut warden of the Hörnlihütte, he was the guardian of the Matterhorn until 2018, determining with a strict regime which rope team was allowed to set off first in the morning. As a mountain guide, he himself stood on the summit over 400 times. As a mountain rescuer, he went out more than 1,000 times to rescue alpinists in distress.
Lauber is now 61 years old. He has moved his home to 2,300 meters above sea level, where he and his wife run the Ze Seewjinu, a mountain lodge directly on the Grünsee between Gornergrat and Sunnegga, surrounded by Swiss stone pines and mountain ranges, including a view of the Matterhorn.
Also arriving at Lauber’s on this hot July afternoon is Richard Lehner, also an institution in Zermatt. The mountain guide has descended from the Monte Rosa hut, which he manages. He made a name for himself rescuing alpinists on Annapurna in Nepal – at 7,000 meters above sea level, a world sensation.
«You can join the conversation with the journalists right away,» Lauber calls out to him. «Richi» joins us. People at this level are on a first-name basis.
A huge avalanche of rock and ice recently brought death and devastation to the Marmolata in the Dolomites. Is it only a matter of time before something like this also happens in the Swiss Alps?
Kurt Lauber: Glacier breaks have occurred from time to time. On the Marmolata the great misfortune was that at the worst moment there were so many people below the glacier. But the persistent warmth up to the highest altitudes is a huge problem. Also here in Zermatt.
Richard Lehner: From the condition of the glaciers and the snow line, we are four to five weeks ahead of the normal annual schedule. When the zero degree line rises above 4,000 or even 5,000 meters, as it is doing now, the dangers increase. The permafrost is slowly dissolving. The rock starts to slide, rockfall increases. Fortunately, there have not yet been any large rockslides in the Alpine region.
For tours in the high mountains, there was always an important rule of thumb: Leave early in the morning and be back by noon. Is that over?
Lehner: Due to the high temperatures, more and more tours are not possible at all at the moment, for example the classic on the 4,000-meter peak Pollux. It no longer freezes properly at night. This increases the risk of being hit by loose rocks or falling into a crevasse.
Lauber: The situation is reminiscent of the heatwave summer of 2003. But it’s not that bad yet.
At that time, rock masses as heavy as four single-family houses broke off at the Hörnligrat. Eighty-four alpinists had to be evacuated. The news went around the world.
Lauber: I was on the scene as a rescuer and on the phone for hours afterward. Everyone wanted to know something, from tiny papers to the New York Times. It was all about the Matterhorn. Rockfalls also occurred at the same time on Dent Blanche and in Chamonix. Almost no one cared. We closed the mountain for three days because we had to clear all unstable areas by hand. If someone had been killed during this action, we would have been liable.
Are lockdowns a possibility again?
Lauber: How are you going to enforce that, with the police? Alpinism is a private matter, nature is for everyone.
Lehner: After all, if you were to close off entire mountains, that would mean opening them up again when they were safe. But there is no such thing as total safety in the mountains.
Especially not when the mountain world is changing so rapidly because of global warming.
Lehner: Many areas that were still covered in snow and ice in 2003 are now open – that is, free of snow. I have been a mountain guide for 25 years now and see the consequences of climate change directly. It’s striking. And scary.
Lauber: I am most concerned about the long-term effects. In the old days it regularly snowed down to 3,500 meters in summer. The snow remained, became firn over the years and then turned into glaciers. I’m afraid that these firn fields will never form again, and therefore there will be no more glaciers. Today there is again a half a meter of snow, but a week later it will be gone again.
Lehner: If then also in winter little snow falls, it becomes precarious for the mountain huts. Around 90 percent of them draw their water reserves from snow. If things continue like this, certain lodges will have to be closed. Because of the thawing permafrost, the foundations of some huts are also at risk. At worst, they may have to be moved or abandoned.
This fate threatens the Ze Seewjinu hut, which means «To the lakes» in Valais German, rather less. This mountain house is not aimed at alpinists, but at hikers and skiers who are content at 2,300 meters above sea level, and want to take it easy. The hut is easy to reach. A ride on the Gornergratbahn or the Sunnegga cable car and a short hike is all it takes to reach it.
The only people who spend the night here and get up as early as 5 a.m. are the mechanics from South Tyrol who are carrying out repairs on a nearby cable car. The rest of the guests turn over once again in their double, triple and quadruple rooms with private or shared bathrooms. Even the rising of the sun, which bathes the Matterhorn in a bright red light, is a gift most people give themselves.
More and more people are drawn to the mountains. Many know little and take unnecessary risks. Do they feel too safe?
Lauber: In Switzerland, it’s very often the case that people just go for it. You have a cell phone with you and can call Air Zermatt or Rega if something goes wrong.
Lehner: When I’m on standby duty as a mountain rescuer in the summer, 70% to 80% of the emergency calls come in via cell phone. People call because they are exhausted, because the terrain is too difficult or because the weather is changing. These are all factors that should have been taken into account in serious tour planning.
How do you react?
Lehner: It always depends on the situation. If someone is not seriously injured and the temperatures allow it, we do not take the risk of a night mission with the helicopter, for example. We mountain rescuers should not put ourselves in unnecessary danger. The understanding is often not there among mountain goers. They then insist on being flown out immediately.
Lauber: Before the cell phone age, tourers sat down and waited until it was light enough to descend to the valley on their own. Today, people call throughout the night and then try to make you believe they are about to die. I say in each case: We’ll come get you if it’s an emergency. However, if it is not an emergency, then you get to help pay for the rescue mission. Often it is then suddenly not so bad.
What about the much-vaunted personal responsibility in the mountains?
Lehner: In theory, always the best.
Lauber: Shall I tell you an anecdote about personal responsibility?
Go ahead.
Lauber: When I was still at the Hörnlihütte, I once observed a Spanish climber scooping water from the toilet bowl to save money. I told him the water was not drinkable. He told me to mind my own business. A few hours later I had to go to a mountain rescue on the summit of the Matterhorn: There the Spaniard lay with his comrades, with bad stomach cramps.
You both had hundreds of missions as mountain rescuers. How do you keep it up psychologically?
Lauber: Of course, you see a lot of bad things, the most serious injuries, cases where only the body bag can be filled. But the work is also very satisfying when, for example, you can save the life of someone with a fractured pelvis in a 10-hour mission.
Lehner: Such rescues compensate for many things. It is only demoralizing if we have to go out for trifles and possibly endanger ourselves in the process.
How has the clientele on the mountain changed in recent decades?
Lehner: At the Monte Rosa Hut, those spending the night are now 80% hikers and 20% mountaineers. Just 20 years ago, the ratio was exactly the opposite. The age structure has also changed: There are more students and more fit retirees today than in the past. I also notice that many people are coming to us who only discovered hiking during the coronavirus pandemic and are now venturing higher and higher.
With insufficient equipment?
Lehner: Such cases have become rare. The tendency is rather to over-equip: only the latest and best material from the specialized trade. Many mountain walkers carry heavy backpacks and a lot of equipment that is not necessary.
Lauber: After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Alps were flooded with tourists from the Eastern Bloc. Most of them were miserably equipped. During those years, there were quite a few bad accidents. Now the people who grew up with the wet-floor signs are out and about.
What do you mean by that?
Lauber: That’s what I call people for whom there has to be a warning label everywhere. Once the sign is not there, they are overwhelmed. It used to be mostly Americans, but now it’s the same for many Europeans. I have also taken people like that off the mountain. They then complain that at the base of the Matterhorn, there were no signs pointing out that an ascent would be dangerous.
Lehner: Another problem is that many of the mountaineers have educated themselves on the subject of alpinism, but are quickly overwhelmed in the terrain, because they have not mastered basic techniques, and go off track.
Lauber: Today, there are more and more academics and fewer and fewer practitioners. We also notice this as mountain guides. You can’t learn everything from books. If someone can’t hammer a nail with a hammer, he’ll have trouble using an ice axe properly in the field. It takes experience to move safely in the mountains.
With the masses on the mountain, the demands on accommodation have also changed. The mountain huts look more and more like hotels – with four-course menus, rooms for two and down comforters.
Lauber: Some of our guests do not agree with these changes at all. They would rather have it simple like it used to be. But we have to adapt to the guests, respond to the increased expectations. It does not work the other way around. This means that we equip huts at over 3,000 meters with showers, offer more comfort, offer more than a plate of spaghetti to eat.
Today, you’ll ask guests about their dinner intolerances.
Lauber: Twenty years ago at the Hörnlihütte, of the 170 tourists who stayed with us, maybe two were vegetarians. Everyone else was annoyed with them. Now there are many more. But if someone is vegan and thinks that the cottage must adapt to him, then I can only shake my head.
How is it handled at the Monte Rosa Hut?
Lehner: Vegetarians are no problem, but for vegans it becomes difficult. For some of them you can’t use a pan in which someone has cooked with butter. Before the Monte Rosa hut, I ran the Gandegg hut, which, apart from the beds, was still the same as it was 100 years ago. People no longer accepted this standard. The Monte Rosa hut is perhaps the most modern hut in Switzerland. With all the bells and whistles. The guests are enthusiastic and we have gained new customers. Many hikers would not be satisfied with the simple hut magic of the past.
The changes in the huts has meant that logistics have become much more complex. The watchword is sustainability. Doesn’t that lead to discussions among the guests?
Lauber: I am sometimes amazed at people’s ignorance. They barely think about where the water comes from or where the waste goes. Some proudly tell me they don’t eat meat because it’s bad for the environment. They don’t realize that their vegetables also have to be flown to the hut by helicopter. Of course, there are also debates. But the catch is that no one wants to cut back as long as it’s about their own lifestyle.
Lehner: Every mountain hut in Switzerland is basically very exclusive. Actually, the accommodations should be much more expensive than in the valley. Many mountain goers forget how costly construction and operation are. The prices in the SAC huts are only so low because they are heavily subsidized by membership fees.
What makes a good hut warden?
Lauber: Strong nerves. In the past, hut wardens were usually mountain guides who had little to no experience in the hospitality industry. That has changed completely. Especially because the demands of the guests have increased so much.
Today, as a hut warden, you are all sorts of things: Guide, alpinist, meteorologist and first waiter.
Lehner: Don’t forget psychologist! You have to be an all-rounder. Technological progress has also made things easier in the huts, for example the energy supply. The transport flights by helicopter make the complex logistics possible in the first place.
Lauber: One should not imagine the work as a hut warden too romantically. There are always people applying who want to get out of their traditional job and work on a hut for a season. They usually imagine it too easy and too idyllic: the seclusion of the mountains, the sunrises, the exciting guests. But it’s a back-breaking job.
In what way?
Lauber: It’s very long working days, you often work two weeks at a time until you have time off in the valley again. It’s very close quarters. You are together day and night. At the old Hörnlihütte, my employees were only allowed to shower once a week. That’s how scarce the water was. Moreover, the guests are impatient.
Are there recruitment problems?
Lehner: It is becoming increasingly difficult to find good hut wardens, especially for lodgings on somewhat less famous mountains. The workload is enormous, I can only confirm that. You practically run a 24-hour operation: By the time the last ones go to bed, the first ones are about to get up. The first rope teams want to leave at 4 a.m., so breakfast must be ready at 3 a.m. The most difficult thing is to find cooks.
The problem of a lack of workers in the restaurant and catering industry is evident throughout Switzerland.
Lehner: With a Hörnli hut or a Monte Rosa hut, we have the advantage that they are famous names that also look good on a resume. There are still very capable people coming forward. This is a bigger problem at other lodges. They just can’t find anyone anymore!
Does a top destination like Zermatt generally have fewer problems?
Lauber: Not at all. For a hotspot like Zermatt to run smoothly, it needs a lot of well-trained staff. And high added value.
Lehner: We have another problem. We suffer not only from the lack of professionals, but also from the lack of accommodation for the staff. Those apartments and studios that do exist are completely overpriced because real estate and rental prices have risen massively in recent years. With earnings in the restaurant business and a family, you can hardly afford it.
Climate change, shortage of skilled workers, looming energy crisis: Where will Zermatt be in 20 years?
Lauber: Man has always had to adapt. In Switzerland, we are extremely fixated on security. This makes us inflexible. More snow cannons will certainly not be the solution. Glaciers will continue to recede. But we will have snow for a long time. And the mountains will remain.
Lehner: I am not too worried either. Mountain guides will no longer be able to offer certain tours, but we will offer something else. If you look at tourism in Zermatt, you see that it has always changed, and it has always gone on – and successfully.
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Anne Heche has not regained consciousness since shortly after she crashed her car in Los Angeles on Friday.
Initial reports about the actor’s condition said she was “stable” and firefighters said she had spoken to rescuers as she was pulled from the wreckage.
However, on Monday a spokesperson for Heche, 53, said: “Despite previous reports that Heche was stable, shortly after the accident, [she] became unconscious, slipping into a coma and is in critical condition.”
Heche’s representatives added: “At this time Anne is in extreme critical condition. She has a significant pulmonary injury requiring mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention.
On Saturday Heche’s publicist had said that her condition was “stable” and her family asked for “thoughts and prayers”. The previous morning, reports suggested Heche had been driving at speed down a street before crashing into a house.
This caused what the Los Angeles Fire Department described as a “heavy fire”, which took a number of firefighters an hour to extinguish.
The occupant of the house escaped without injury but the building was deemed uninhabitable. A fundraising page has been set up to help the owner replace her belongings and home.
The nextdoor neighbours told Fox News that the car had ploughed right through the house. “The windows were broken, so I opened the back door of the car. She [Heche] answered and said she was not OK, so that was tough. I know they didn’t get her out of the car until the fire was pretty much put out.”
Heche, who has one son, is best known for her roles in films such as Psycho, Donnie Brasco, Six Days and Seven Nights and Cedar Rapids. | https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/09/anne-heche-is-in-a-coma-and-has-not-regained-consciousness-since-car-crash | 2022-08-09T09:39:58Z | https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/09/anne-heche-is-in-a-coma-and-has-not-regained-consciousness-since-car-crash | true | 2 |
Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers has confessed he would have loved to sign Ademola Lookman on a permanent deal after his side were held to a 2-2 draw by Brentford in their Premier League season opener on Sunday.
The Foxes surrendered a two-goal lead to draw against the Bees at King Power Stadium.
The 24-year-old Nigeria international was on loan with the Foxes last season where he managed 13 goals in all competitions.
However, Leicester who had an option to make his move permanent this summer failed to do so and the Super Eagle signed for Serie A club Atalanta on a four-year contract from parent club RB Leipzig.
"I would have loved to have signed Ademola [Lookman], who was great here last season and got over 10 goals and assists but we weren’t able to do that," Rodgers confessed as quoted by LeicestershireLive when asked if City are going to be able to make signings.
"Unfortunately that means we then have to look at the squad and the team and try to adapt, and then put them out to be as best organised as they can be.
"At this moment in time, I would say no. That was the frustration for us, that with Barnesy out, we didn’t have a direct replacement."
Last season in the Premier League, Lookman made 26 appearances and scored six goals. He was selected in the starting XI in 16 of these appearances across 38 fixtures and entered as a substitute on 10 occasions.
He last appeared in a top-flight game on May 22, playing 13 minutes for Leicester against Southampton in a 4-1 victory. While on loan at Fulham in the previous season, Lookman played 34 matches, scored four goals and provided four assists.
He will hope to be involved when Atalanta kick off their Serie A campaign with an away game against Sampdoria at Luigi Ferraris on Saturday. | https://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/lookman-rodgers-admits-leicester-city-would-have-loved-to/blt4c9ec7717eb26cb6 | 2022-08-09T09:41:03Z | https://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/lookman-rodgers-admits-leicester-city-would-have-loved-to/blt4c9ec7717eb26cb6 | true | 8 |
WATERFORD WEATHER: A dry sunny day ahead with highest temperatures hitting 26 degrees
Any mist and fog will clear away this morning to leave a dry and sunny day. Warm with highest temperatures of 22 to 25 or 26 degrees in mostly light southwesterly or variable breezes.
Dry and clear tonight with some mist and fog developing in near calm or calm conditions. Temperatures generally won't fall below 7 to 12 degrees.
Mist and fog this morning will clear from most areas to leave a dry and sunny day ☀️
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) August 9, 2022
Coastal fog may linger for much of the day in places. ️
Highs of 20 to 26 degrees in light breezes.️ pic.twitter.com/FAAnOyeoMb
Pollen Forecast
Moderate on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid tributes to those who participated in the Quit India movement and said it brought together people from all sections of society.
The decisive campaign against the British rule was launched this day in 1942 on Mahatma Gandhi's call at the Bombay session of the Congress on August 8 in his famous "do or die" speech.
An alarmed British government arrested the top leadership of the Congress but people embraced Mahatma Gandhi's call.
"Remembering all those who took part in the Quit India Movement under Bapu's leadership and strengthened our freedom struggle," PM Modi tweeted, posting a clip of his earlier address in which he had spoken about it.
Remembering all those who took part in the Quit India Movement under Bapu's leadership and strengthened our freedom struggle. pic.twitter.com/cWWB7KX57G
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 9, 2022
PM Modi also shared great socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan's remark "August 9 has become a burning symbol of our national revolution".
"August 9 has become a burning symbol of our national revolution" said Loknayak JP.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 9, 2022
Inspired by Bapu, the Quit India Movement witnessed remarkable participation from people across all sections of society including greats like JP and Dr. Lohia. pic.twitter.com/zEldZhkRHp
"Inspired by Bapu, the Quit India Movement witnessed remarkable participation from people across all sections of society including greats like JP and Dr. Lohia," PM Modi tweeted.
The Prime Minister also posted a picture of Mahatma Gandhi at the start of the Quit India movement in Bombay.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pm-narendra-modi-remembers-freedom-fighters-on-quit-india-movement-anniversary-3238340 | 2022-08-09T09:44:55Z | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pm-narendra-modi-remembers-freedom-fighters-on-quit-india-movement-anniversary-3238340 | false | 2 |
PARIS (AP) — Efforts to feed a dangerously thin Beluga whale that has strayed into the Seine River in France have failed so far and experts are now trying to get the whale out of the river lock where it is stuck, environmentalists said Monday.
The marine conservation group Sea Shepherd France tweeted Monday that “feeding attempts are continuing in parallel to finding a solution to get it out of the lock in the best conditions.”
Experts at the site have warned that the beluga should not stay too long in the warm, stagnant water between lock gates.
“The beluga still doesn’t eat but continues to show curiosity,” Sea Shepherd France tweeted. Overnight the whale “rubbed itself on the lock’s wall and got rid of patches that had appeared on its back. Antibiotics may also have helped.”
The lost Beluga was first seen in France’s river, far from its Arctic habitat, earlier this week. Drone footage shot by French fire services showed the whale gently meandering in a stretch of the river’s light green waters between Paris and the Normandy city of Rouen, many dozens of kilometers (miles) inland from the sea.
Experts since Friday have tried to feed the beluga with dead herrings and live trouts, with no success. Sea Shepherd fears the whale could slowly starve in the waterway and die.
Local authorities said veterinarians have given the whale vitamins and products to stimulate its appetite, as well as some medical treatment. | https://www.fox46.com/news/world-news/efforts-to-feed-beluga-whale-in-frances-seine-fail-so-far/ | 2022-08-09T09:48:57Z | https://www.fox46.com/news/world-news/efforts-to-feed-beluga-whale-in-frances-seine-fail-so-far/ | true | 35 |
BERLIN (AP) — BioNTech, which teamed with Pfizer to develop a powerful COVID-19 vaccine, has reported higher revenue and net profit in the first half of the year and expects demand to grow as it releases updated vaccines to target new omicron strains.
The German pharmaceutical company said Monday that revenue hit about 9.57 billion euros ($9.76 billion) in the first six months of 2022, up from nearly 7.36 billion euros in the same period a year earlier. But revenue dropped to about 3.2 billion euros in the second quarter from 5.31 billion euros in April through June of last year.
BioNTech said the dynamic nature of the pandemic has led to changes in orders and revenue but that it expects a strong end to the year. It said it plans to release revamped vaccines tailored to the latest omicron variants as early as October, which could lead to a fall booster campaign.
“With our initiatives around variant-adapted COVID-19 vaccine candidates, we expect an uptake in demand in our key markets in the fourth quarter of 2022, subject to regulatory approval,” Jens Holstein, chief financial officer of BioNTech, said in a press release.
Moderna, another major COVID-19 vaccine producer, also is working on updated versions of its shots to release this fall.
BioNTech expects to report revenue of 13 billion to 17 billion euros from COVID-19 vaccines this year.
The German company’s net profit also was higher for the first half of the year compared with the same period of 2021 — 5.37 billion euros vs. 3.92 billion euros — and lower for the second quarter — 1.67 billion euros vs. 2.79 billion euros.
For partner Pfizer, sales of COVID-19 vaccine and treatment in the second quarter propelled the pharmaceutical giant to the largest quarterly sales in its history. It said last month that it earned $9.9 billion from April through June. | https://www.wnct.com/on-your-side/health-watch/biontech-reports-strong-first-half-expects-demand-to-grow/ | 2022-08-09T09:49:51Z | https://www.wnct.com/on-your-side/health-watch/biontech-reports-strong-first-half-expects-demand-to-grow/ | true | 33 |
Microvast (NASDAQ:MVST – Get Rating) is scheduled to be releasing its earnings data after the market closes on Thursday, August 11th. Analysts expect Microvast to post earnings of ($0.15) per share for the quarter. Microvast has set its FY 2022 guidance at EPS.Parties that wish to listen to the company’s conference call can do so using this link.
Microvast (NASDAQ:MVST – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, May 16th. The company reported ($0.15) earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.17) by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $36.67 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $33.35 million. On average, analysts expect Microvast to post $-1 EPS for the current fiscal year and $-1 EPS for the next fiscal year.
Microvast Trading Up 1.1 %
Shares of MVST stock opened at $2.76 on Tuesday. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $2.78 and its 200-day moving average price is $4.83. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.11, a current ratio of 3.60 and a quick ratio of 3.28. Microvast has a twelve month low of $2.00 and a twelve month high of $15.91.
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Hedge Funds Weigh In On Microvast
A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in MVST. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. grew its position in shares of Microvast by 33.4% during the first quarter. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. now owns 9,680 shares of the company’s stock worth $65,000 after buying an additional 2,425 shares in the last quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. grew its position in shares of Microvast by 71.2% during the first quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 441,347 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,958,000 after buying an additional 183,506 shares in the last quarter. Citigroup Inc. boosted its holdings in Microvast by 1,107.1% in the first quarter. Citigroup Inc. now owns 30,092 shares of the company’s stock valued at $202,000 after purchasing an additional 27,599 shares in the last quarter. First Trust Advisors LP acquired a new position in Microvast in the first quarter valued at approximately $14,591,000. Finally, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. boosted its holdings in Microvast by 2.7% in the first quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 1,195,890 shares of the company’s stock valued at $8,013,000 after purchasing an additional 31,150 shares in the last quarter. 32.20% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Microvast Company Profile
Microvast Holdings, Inc designs, develops, and manufactures battery systems for electric vehicles and energy storage systems. The company offers a range of cell chemistries, such as lithium titanate oxide, lithium iron phosphate, and nickel manganese cobalt version 1 and 2.It also designs, develops, and manufactures battery components, such as cathode, anode, electrolyte, and separator.
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Babcock & Wilcow Enterprises (BW) Lags Q2 Earnings and Revenue Estimates
Babcock & Wilcow Enterprises (BW) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.02 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.03 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.02 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.
This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of -33.33%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this power generation equipment company would post a loss of $0.05 per share when it actually produced a loss of $0.11, delivering a surprise of -120%.
Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates two times.
Babcock & Wilcox
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.
Babcock & Wilcox shares have lost about 7.9% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's decline of -13%.
What's Next for Babcock & Wilcox?
While Babcock & Wilcox 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 Babcock & Wilcox: mixed. 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 #3 (Hold) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to perform in line with 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 $0.15 on $246.6 million in revenues for the coming quarter and $0.29 on $938.8 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, Electronics - Power Generation is currently in the bottom 29% 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.
Another stock from the broader Zacks Computer and Technology sector, Synchronoss (SNCR), has yet to report results for the quarter ended June 2022. The results are expected to be released on August 9.
This mobile services company is expected to post break-even quarterly earnings per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of +100%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has remained unchanged over the last 30 days.
Synchronoss' revenues are expected to be $66.16 million, down 7.5% from the year-ago quarter.
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The suspension period of a senior Kerala police officer, who was found to have a close link with a fraudster, has been extended. The suspension period of IG G Lakshman, who was suspended for his relationship with Monson Mavunkal, the prime accused in the antiquities scam case, has been extended by three months. The Intelligence ADGP had informed the government that six more months were required to complete the investigation against Lakshman.
A high-level committee formed to review the action against the officer was of the view that it was not right to reinstate the officer while the investigation is underway. The government accepted the committee's recommendation to extend the suspension for another 90 days.
The committee chaired by Chief Secretary V P Joy has Administrative Reforms Additional Chief Secretary Asha Thomas, Home Additional Chief Secretary Dr V Venu and Public Administration Principal Secretary K R Jyothilal as members.
Lakshman was suspended on November 10, 2021 based on the investigation report of Crime Branch ADGP S Sreejith. The crime branch had found that the IG continued his relationship with Mavunkal despite taking a fraud case against him and tried to subvert the case against him.
The suspension was initially for two months. Later the suspension was extended for another four months. In the next phase, the suspension period was to be extended for six months, but it was extended only for three months. This suspension period ends on August 10.
Lakshman, a 1997 batch IPS officer, was suspended while serving as the IG in charge of social policing and traffic. Lakshman, who was supposed to take over as ADGP in January, has service till 2033. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/09/suspension-of-ig-lakshman-extended-monson-mavunkal-links.html | 2022-08-09T09:53:35Z | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/09/suspension-of-ig-lakshman-extended-monson-mavunkal-links.html | true | 2 |
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that Nigeria’s mineral production grew by 39.19% in 2021, from 64.29 million tons recorded in 2020 to 89.48 million tons in 2021.
This was disclosed by the NBS in a report on Monday titled, ‘Mineral production Statistics’ for 2021.
The report added that the most mined mineral in Nigeria remains Granite at 22.3 million tons.
What the NBS is saying
According to the NBS, “The aggregate production of mineral products in Nigeria in 2021 grew by 39.19% from 64.29 million tons recorded in 2020 to 89.48 million tons in 2021, indicating an improvement in production.
“On state profile analysis, Ogun state recorded the highest production in 2021 with 32.04 million tons, followed by Kogi with 18.40 million tons and Cross River with 11.64 million tons. The least was recorded in Borno with 231 tons. Moreover, limestone, granite, and laterite were the three biggest minerals mined in 2021.
The 4 most mined minerals in Nigeria are granite at 22.3 million tonnes, laterite at 7.3 million tonnes; limestone at 44.7 million tonnes and sand, at 1.6 million tonnes.
On aggregate, Mineral production in Nigeria grew by 39.19% in 2021, from 64.29 million tons recorded in 2020 to 89.48 million tons in 2021, indicating an improvement in production.
Read the full Mineral Production report for 2021 here: https://t.co/2eH5I5uXtQ pic.twitter.com/iJB6xMuiJX— NBS Nigeria (@NBS_Nigeria) August 8, 2022
What you should know
- Recall Nairametrics reported last year that Nigeria’s mineral production in the mining and quarrying sector rose by 17.95% amounting to 64.3 million tons in 2020 from 54.5 million tons in 2019.
- The top three states with the biggest share of production in 2020 were Kogi (12.5 million tons), Ogun (12.1 million tons), and Cross River (8.9 million tons). Borno, on the other hand, had the lowest total of 5,060 tons.
- In 2020, the most mined minerals were limestone, sand, and granite, while limestone, granite, and laterite were the top three largest minerals in 2019. | https://nairametrics.com/2022/08/09/nigerias-mineral-production-rises-to-89-48-million-tonnes-in-2021-national-bureau-of-statistics/ | 2022-08-09T09:54:56Z | https://nairametrics.com/2022/08/09/nigerias-mineral-production-rises-to-89-48-million-tonnes-in-2021-national-bureau-of-statistics/ | true | 1 |
Gene sequencing developer, Element Biosciences, bucks industry trends by committing to not increase price of reagents
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Element Biosciences Inc., developer of the Element AVITITM System, a new and disruptive DNA sequencing platform, announced today it will implement no price increases to the entire range of AVITI reagents, including the sequencing kit, the AdeptTM and ElevateTM kits. This effort to democratize their technology and make it more broadly available and affordable, will take effect immediately for all current and future customers of the AVITI system.
Element has departed from industry norms by setting consistent and transparent pricing. The current industry standard is to offer different discounts to different customers, leading some customers to pay significantly more for the same product on top of standard annual price increases. This opaque pricing is one source of frustration among the scientific community. Reagent costs are one of the main drivers of a lab's operational budget and a key reason most customers "batch" samples. To realize the most economical price per gigabyte, labs wait to fully fill a flow cell before sequencing on existing systems. Depending on the sequencing platform used and the throughput of samples coming in, it can sometimes take several weeks to fill a flow cell. This causes inherent delays in the end-user obtaining their results.
"Our zero price increase commitment is core to our mission to enable more science to be done faster and cheaper by the global scientific community. The AVITI system delivers unprecedented data quality and flexibility, now at even better value with added assurance of lifetime affordability," explains Molly He, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Element Biosciences.
Element Bioscience's published price for one 300-cycle sequencing kit is $1,680 and the company will keep this price flat for the lifetime of the AVITI system. This will also apply to the 150-cycle kit, priced at $1,080, which will launch by the end of 2022. With current market volatility and inflationary pressures, the efforts announced today will allow researchers to more accurately plan and resource sequencing costs for the future.
"Having been at the bench myself, it is very valuable for a scientist or lab director to have future visibility of their reagent costs, which is a big part of their ongoing operational costs. Keeping prices flat in the highest inflation period of the past 40 years shows our deep commitment to our mission and confidence in our product and innovation roadmap. This is one of many steps Element plans to take in our laser-focused commitment to drive down the cost per genome while leading with the best data quality," said He.
Element AVITITM System
The AVITITM System operates two random access flow cells that enable independent run start flexibility of each flow cell, and the AVITI operating software features tunable read throughput control for additional run time flexibility. Element's proprietary Avidity Sequencing™ chemistry enables exceptional accuracy and cost efficiency that is unmatched by other benchtop systems. Full product features, specifications, and pricing can be found here.
About Element Biosciences, Inc.
Element Biosciences is a multi-disciplinary life science company currently focused on developing disruptive DNA sequencing technology for research and diagnostic markets. Through innovating every fundamental element of a sequencing system, Element will empower customers with affordable high-quality data and an improved user experience, which in turn will accelerate scientific discoveries and broaden the use of genomic medicine. To learn more about Element, please visit elementbiosciences.com.
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Unbeknownst to many Americans, the Chinese Communist Party has been buying our farms, land, and even our homes for decades. why So they can take our food, technology and other resources for themselves.
What’s worse – it’s completely legal. That’s why I’ve introduced a bill to ban Chinese Communists – and those who work on their behalf – from buying another handful of American soil.
In recent years, China has rapidly increased its holdings of American land, especially agricultural land. Between 2010 and 2020, China increased its agricultural land by nearly 2,500% to include more than 350,000 acres of American land. Communists have not only bought up farms and ranches in rural America, but have also taken control of food processing companies such as Virginia-based pork giant Smithfield.
Chinese Communists are undermining American agriculture in part because China cannot feed itself. China is home to about 20% of the world’s population, but has less than 10% of the world’s arable land. As a result, Beijing is forced to look elsewhere for food, especially meat and other sources of protein.
Tucker Carlson: As China Buys American Farmland, Our Food May Run Out
And CCP’s purchases in the US have paid off big. At the height of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, Smithfield made sure China would get the pork it needed — while American grocery stores ran short. By taking our land and food processing companies for themselves, the Chinese Communists take advantage of their own people and gain monopoly power over the United States.
But that’s not the only reason China is putting down roots in the United States. In some cases, they use our land as a strategic outpost to steal advanced American seeds and farming technology. In other cases, they have purchased large tracts of land near US military bases.
In North Dakota, a Chinese firm bought 300 acres just a few miles from a US Air Force base, home to some of America’s most sophisticated military drone technology. The base is also known as the “backbone of all US military communications around the world”. Similarly, in Texas, a former Chinese military official purchased more than 130,000 acres of land near Laughlin Air Force Base on the US-Mexico border.
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As young Americans leave family farms and their elderly parents retire from business, China may buy more. Millions of acres are expected to change hands over the next decade. We must be careful that they do not fall into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.
But Communists aren’t just taking over American farmland—they’ve also bought up a surprising amount of American real estate. Between 2010 and 2020, the American Realtors Association estimates that Chinese nationals purchased more than $200 billion worth of American real-estate, more than any other country in the world.
China’s 300,000-plus residential purchases in the United States since 2010 pose an unknown national-security threat, in addition to fueling the rising cost of living in places like California, where Chinese nationals buy in large numbers. For America, allowing China to buy our land is a losing proposition.
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The biggest enemy of our country should not be allowed to buy our motherland and turn it into real enemy territory. We would never have allowed the Russian Communists to take over our land in the last Cold War, and we must not allow the Chinese Communists to do so in this Cold War.
We must not allow any new tender of communist influence to take root on American soil. We must now ban communist land purchases.
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CymaBay Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CBAY – Get Rating) is scheduled to release its earnings data after the market closes on Thursday, August 11th. Analysts expect CymaBay Therapeutics to post earnings of ($0.30) per share for the quarter. Investors interested in listening to the company’s conference call can do so using this link.
CymaBay Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CBAY – Get Rating) last released its earnings results on Thursday, May 12th. The biopharmaceutical company reported ($0.32) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.31) by ($0.01). During the same period in the prior year, the business earned ($0.25) earnings per share. On average, analysts expect CymaBay Therapeutics to post $-1 EPS for the current fiscal year and $-1 EPS for the next fiscal year.
CymaBay Therapeutics Price Performance
CBAY opened at $4.03 on Tuesday. CymaBay Therapeutics has a 52-week low of $1.67 and a 52-week high of $4.74. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.73, a current ratio of 13.68 and a quick ratio of 13.68. The business’s fifty day moving average is $2.85 and its 200-day moving average is $2.83.
Insider Transactions at CymaBay Therapeutics
Hedge Funds Weigh In On CymaBay Therapeutics
A number of hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in CBAY. Renaissance Technologies LLC grew its stake in CymaBay Therapeutics by 113.1% during the first quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 459,535 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $1,429,000 after purchasing an additional 243,915 shares during the period. Affinity Asset Advisors LLC grew its stake in CymaBay Therapeutics by 13.4% during the first quarter. Affinity Asset Advisors LLC now owns 1,272,244 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $3,957,000 after purchasing an additional 150,000 shares during the period. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP grew its stake in CymaBay Therapeutics by 18.4% during the first quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 940,806 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $2,926,000 after purchasing an additional 145,965 shares during the period. BlackRock Inc. grew its stake in CymaBay Therapeutics by 2.7% during the first quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 5,466,209 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $16,998,000 after purchasing an additional 142,081 shares during the period. Finally, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. grew its stake in CymaBay Therapeutics by 32.1% during the first quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 564,116 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $1,754,000 after purchasing an additional 136,996 shares during the period. 78.34% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
Several analysts have recently issued reports on CBAY shares. Oppenheimer reduced their target price on CymaBay Therapeutics to $12.00 and set a “na” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, May 16th. StockNews.com lowered CymaBay Therapeutics from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 10th. B. Riley reduced their target price on CymaBay Therapeutics from $10.00 to $8.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, May 18th. Finally, HC Wainwright dropped their price objective on CymaBay Therapeutics from $12.00 to $10.00 and set a “na” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, May 16th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have issued a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, CymaBay Therapeutics presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $10.80.
CymaBay Therapeutics Company Profile
CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing and providing therapies to treat liver and other chronic diseases. Its lead product candidate is seladelpar (MBX-8025), a selective agonist of peroxisome proliferator activated receptor delta that is in phase III clinical study for the treatments of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), as well as has completed Phase 2b clinical study to treat patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
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Manchester United have reportedly agreed personal terms with Bologna striker Marko Arnautovic.
The Austria international is emerging as a surprise transfer target for Man Utd this summer, despite not playing at a particularly high level in recent years.
Arnautovic previously impressed in his time in the Premier League with Stoke City and West Ham, but few would have had him down as the kind of player United would be likely to go after this summer.
Despite his previous experience in English football, Arnautovic has recently spent time in the Chinese Super League, and hasn’t exactly set the world slight in Serie A.
Still, it seems this deal is edging closer, according to Tancredi Palmeri…
Manchester United has reached a deal on personal terms with Arnautovic.
Talks still ongoing with Bologna
— Tancredi Palmeri (@tancredipalmeri) August 9, 2022
Arnautovic might make sense as a backup option for United, but it’s hard to imagine this is the kind of signing that will really take the club back to where they want to be.
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Erik ten Hag has a huge job on his hands at Old Trafford, and he surely won’t be too pleased with how this transfer window has gone so far.
Many big names have been linked with the Red Devils, but so far not enough changes have been made, even if Christian Eriksen and Lisandro Martinez look like promising additions to the squad. | https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/08/09/marko-arnautovic-manchester-united-transfer-terms-agreed/ | 2022-08-09T10:03:43Z | https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/08/09/marko-arnautovic-manchester-united-transfer-terms-agreed/ | false | 1 |
CHICAGO (AP)Keegan Thompson pitched six effective innings, rookies Nelson Velazquez and Christopher Morel homered in the third inning, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Washington Nationals 6-3 Monday night.
Thompson (9-5) didn’t walk a batter for the second time in three starts while scattering five hits over six innings. Luke Voit hit a homer with one out in the sixth to end Thompson’s shutout bid.
Thompson has posted a 6-2 record and 2.40 ERA in eight starts at Wrigley Field. Cubs starting pitchers have posted a 2.87 ERA and nine quality starts in 19 games since July 16.
”I think the conditions tonight with the wind blowing in, I think I got lucky with that a few times here,” Thompson said. ”That always helps when the wind is blowing in. You just keep pounding the zone and let the defense work because the ball usually doesn’t fly when the wind is blowing in. I think that’s been advantageous for me here.”
Velazquez’s homer highlighted the first three-hit game of his career.
”It feels amazing,” Velazquez said. ”A dream come true, my first home run at Wrigley Field. First at-bat, get the lead for the team, feels incredible.
”I did hit the ball pretty hard. I didn’t know it was going to be a homer, that’s why I started running hard.”
The Cubs (44-64) won for the third time in four games. The Nationals (36-75) dropped their sixth straight game and have been outscored 51-20 during that span.
Anibal Sanchez (0-5) pitched five-plus innings, the longest outing by a Nationals starter during their losing streak. But Sanchez was pulled after surrendering singles to Seiya Suzuki and Patrick Wisdom to start the sixth. Nico Hoerner then hit reliever Steve Cishek’s first pitch for a single to center field to score Suzuki.
Sanchez retired the first six batters before Velazquez homered to left against a stiff wind. Following the first of two walks to Nick Madrigal, Morel smacked a two-run shot into the left field bleachers. It was his 10th of the season and his first since July 7 at Dodger Stadium.
”A lot of it has to do with getting behind hitters, and having to throw strikes,” Nationals manager Davey Martinez said of Sanchez’s penchant for allowing homers. ”We’ve got to start working ahead of hitters. We’ve been doing that really well. And put guys ahead in counts. When Anibal does that, he’s really good. He can mix things up and get guys off-balance. When he’s behind, he’s got to get more in the strike zone.”
Morel, nursing a tight right hamstring, made his second start at third base. He committed a throwing error that placed runners at second and third with two out in the seventh, but reliever Michael Rucker struck out Victor Robles to end the threat.
The Cubs capitalized in the bottom of the inning as Willson Contreras hit an RBI single, and Suzuki hit a sacrifice fly.
That loomed larger as pinch-hitter Joey Meneses hit a two-run homer off Cubs left-handed reliever Brandon Hughes with two out in the eighth. Hughes had allowed one earned run in his 13 previous innings prior to Meneses’ homer.
Rowan Wick pitched a scoreless ninth to earn his fifth save in seven chances.
TRANSACTIONS
The Cubs claimed OF Franmil Reyes off waivers from the Guardians with the hope he can regain his power stroke and help a feeble offense. Reyes, 27, hit a career-high 37 home runs with the Padres and Guardians in 2019 and produced 30 homers and 85 RBIs with the Guardians last season. Reyes, however, batted only .213 with nine home runs and 28 RBIs in 70 games before he was optioned to Triple-A Columbus on Aug. 2 and designated for assignment Saturday. ”We have him under control for a couple years, and we’re lacking in the power department,” said Jed Hoyer, Cubs President of Baseball Operations. ”For the whole year we’ve done a good job getting on base, but we’ve done a poor job of converting that into runs. Some of that is hitting the ball on the ground, some of that is the lack of power.” The Cubs rank 10th in the NL with 106 homers. First baseman Frank Schwindel was optioned after Monday’s game to make room for Reyes.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cubs: The Cubs are awaiting results of an MRI on RHP Kyle Hendricks (right shoulder strain) that could dictate whether he pitches again this season. ”The most important thing for us is he gets healthy for next year,” Hoyer said. ”I’d love it if he pitches again this year, but I wouldn’t want to push anything to do so.” Hendricks hasn’t pitched since July 5. . LHP Wade Miley (left shoulder strain) is expected to start a minor league rehab assignment later this week, manager David Ross said.
UP NEXT
The Nationals will send RHP Paolo Espino (0-4, 4.20) to the mound Tuesday night against the Cubs. Espino allowed five runs in four innings in a 5-4 loss Thursday to the Phillies. The Cubs will counter with RHP Marcus Stroman (3-5, 4.00), who allowed three runs in 6 2/3 innings Thursday in a 4-3 loss to the Cardinals.
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With Netflix’s ‘Indian Matchmaking,’ the viewers get an inside view of the complicated process before the glamourous desi weddings. Created by Smriti Mundhra, the Indian reality series follows Sima Taparia, a professional matchmaker from Mumbai, India, and her clients. Arranging marriages is a long-held tradition in India, and she tries her best to provide the modern generation with what they want through her matches. Throughout each episode, several Indians, based within and outside the country, placed their trust in the matchmaker to find a perfect partner.
Given the variety of people on the show, the audience became familiar with different issues that may crop up while looking for a potential spouse. One story that fans were especially invested in was Ankita Bansal’s; her foray into the search for a husband brought several elements that fans could not help but relate to. The show first aired in 2020, and people are curious to know what Ankita is up to nowadays. Luckily, we are here to explore the same!
Ankita Bansal’s Indian Matchmaking Journey
A resident of Delhi, India, Ankita Bansal appeared in season 1 of ‘Indian Matchmaking’ at the age of 30. The fiercely independent woman was candid about her struggles in trying to look for a partner. She explained that during her and her family’s initial search for a groom, many people, including relatives, brought her confidence down by negatively commenting about her looks and physique. Though hurt, Ankita soon decided to grow past it and established herself as a strong and confident woman.
Given Ankita’s modern take on the marriage process, Sima Taparia decided to contact one of her colleagues, Geeta, in Delhi. The matchmaker explained that while she generally deals with people with a traditional outlook, she felt Ankita would benefit from someone who may have closer access to people with a similar mindset, such as Geeta.
Eventually, Ankita decided to meet Kshitij Mittra, the date Geeta set up for her. The two seemed to have had a good time at first, yet it all fell apart with a casual Google search by the businesswoman’s friend. Feeling betrayed by Geeta, who Ankita thought had hidden crucial information from her, the Delhi resident approached Sima once again and explained her point of view.
Sima realized that Ankita could gain better insight from a Life Coach and referred her to Dr. Varkha Chulani, a psychologist; the Delhi businesswoman seemingly explored a lot about herself through the process. Though there was no partner in sight for her at the end of the first season, Ankita was rather happy to focus more on herself and her career. Now, if you want to know what she is up to these days, we have your back!
Where is Ankita Bansal Today?
As of writing, Ankita Bansal seems more than content with her life, particularly in the professional sphere. The businesswoman may not have found a groom on season 1 of ‘Indian Matchmaking,’ but her denim business, THERE!, apparently saw a boom in sales due to her appearance on the reality series. “We had to figure out international shipping within four days of the show’s launch,” Ankita told Forbes. “We had no idea the impact this show was going to have on our business.”
In the reunion video posted by Netflix India after the first season, Ankita admitted to having better clarity about herself and being happily single. Furthermore, she is more than grateful for her family and friends and cherishes them from the bottom of her heart. Presently, Ankita is dedicated to self-care and often shares videos of working out with her fans. While she did not make an appearance in season 2 of the reality series, she does seem thankful for her time on ‘Indian Matchmaking.’ We wish Ankita and her close ones the best in life and hope they have a wonderful future ahead.
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I worked at Argos – here’s why you should start your Christmas shopping in SUMMER & never bring your kids into the store
EVER had to search high and low before Christmas only to find the toys your kids want are sold out everywhere?
Now one former Argos employee has revealed the secret to getting hold of all the top toys before they run out - and grab a huge discount at the same time.
The insider has lifted the lid on the retail giant, divulging why you should leave your kids at home when shopping at Argos and explains why it can take ages for items you've ordered to come up to the tills.
As part of Fabulous’ new series, Talking Shop, we’re finding out what it’s really like to work in your favourite high-street stores.
This week we meet Sarah Tulley, 35, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, who worked at Argos for over a year in 2013.
Here Sarah, who now works as a customer service advisor and lives with hubby Chris, 37, and their son, 15, reveals just how you can snag the best bargains and avoid queues.
"We tried to make the most out of working over Christmas - I would wear a Santa outfit over my uniform but it was always mad busy - especially on the three for two toy sale days.
Those days were a nightmare with queues right out the door, loads of parents with kids screaming and whining.
The sales had really good discounts and people only have a day or two to pick up their items so you can understand why it gets so busy.
But you'd get people moaning because things had sold out.
To make it worse we had to ask every single customer if they needed batteries or if they needed insurance - which slowed everything down. Doing those offers was a right pain.
I think some parents appreciated it because they didn't always realise that the toy didn't have any batteries and then if you're going to open that Christmas day and you don't have any batteries that's a bit of a nightmare.
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But when people are in such a rush, you don't want to have to say that to them as well.
My advice if you want to avoid that Christmas rush but still get a bargain, is you could shop on Boxing Day sale where you'll get lots of bargains.
I know that's a long time in advance for Christmas, but moneywise you won’t get presents cheaper than that.
We used to know the timings of the sales but we weren't allowed to tell anyone - but nowadays you can go online on different forums and insiders will share when the sales are likely to start.
One thing that not many people know is you can actually order your items online before the sale is announced, then pay when you pick them up once the sale has started.
That way you should get the toys you want before they go.
But I'd say the best thing to do for Christmas is go to the three for two sale in the summer, because then you could save money and because it's quite time in advance, you don't have to worry about certain toys being sold out.
We often had parents complaining on the three for two Christmas sale that certain toys had sold out - but it's bound to happen, it's on offer so it's going to go plus the kids often all want the same toy.
I hated customers who bought a load of kids with them - kids don't like shopping. They always whined or cried.
You had a lot that came in with kids and I know you might not always have a choice, but they would come in demanding, 'Where's my order?'.
And they wouldn't want to wait for it but you can only get it as quick as you can get it.
We didn't know what was going on in the collection team at the back.
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We did have some stuff out on shelves that kids could look at but there is pretty much nothing for them to do so it was a nightmare. I mean, I've got a son myself, he's older now but I never really brought him shopping that much.
I would advise people to leave their kids at home if they can.
You can't concentrate if they are whining especially in Argos when you have to write the numbers down and everything. I don't know how people manage it.
And then there's the waiting.
A lot of people order online and then pick it up in store so that's not as bad, but you still have to wait around a bit for your order to come out.
So unless you're gonna take something like a colouring book or something to keep them occupied while you wait because you could be there a while and they will get bored.
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It wasn't just parents with kids, we did have some customers who would shout and get quite aggressive when their order didn't come up straight away - but that's not going to make it come up any quicker.
In general smaller items could be up within five minutes, maybe less, because it depends on the location in the collections room, but smaller things were usually easier to get to.
On busier days, bigger items or items that have been located further away could take 20 minutes to half an hour to come up.
If you want to avoid waiting too long, early mornings are best but it's probably best to avoid weekends if you can come on a weekday about an hour after opening, it is really quiet.
Of course that's not always possible but you're gonna get yourself in and out much faster when it's quiet.
On the whole I enjoyed working at Argos the interview was straightforward and I was made to feel very at ease, it was better than some I've had before.
The best thing about working there was I made a lifelong friend and I enjoyed helping the nice customers.”
The Sun reached out to Argos for comment. | https://www.thesun.ie/fabulous/9224964/talking-shop-argos-christmas-shopping-summer/ | 2022-08-09T10:17:41Z | https://www.thesun.ie/fabulous/9224964/talking-shop-argos-christmas-shopping-summer/ | false | 4 |
Abu Dhabi (Union)
Yas horses for the management of horse races belonging to His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, took the first and second places through “Elaf” and “Tima” in the Liwa International Stakes for the first category dedicated to fillies and mares aged four years and over For a distance of 2,000 metres, with a total prize money of 50,000 euros, sponsored by the 14th edition of the Racing Festival of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, which was held at the French “Latest de Bosch” track.
The races are in implementation of the strategy of the festival, which is an important international event, which is being organized in many countries, with the aim of promoting purebred Arabian horse racing all over the world.
The horse “Elaf”, Lias, for the management of horse racing, under the supervision of Thomas Dumello, imposed its control from beginning to end led by jockey Anthony Krastos, and the daughter of “Rabah de Carrier” remained at the fore until she was able to secure her position, ending the race in a time of 2:11. :14 minutes.
After a great deal of effort in the competition, she came in second place, 1.5 lengths away from the representative of “Yas” the mare “Tima”, a descendant of “Baby de Carrier” led by the jockey Ortiz Mendesable, while she came in third place, 5 lengths behind the mare “Raysk Tot” to Dhafi. Al-Marri, under the supervision of Charles Jourdin, and led by Fabrice Ferron.
In the same ceremony, the filly, Fleur de Soleil, of Liagli Ranch, under the supervision of coach Elizabeth Bernard, and led by Gary Sanchez, outperformed the males, when she snatched the title of the Stallion’s Cup Race – Bre Arca, for a distance of 1600 meters, with a prize of 16,000 dirhams for horses at the age of four years. Just.
The champion, descended from the “Mengez” line, rushed to the top in the final stages, surpassing “Al-Faisal” by Sheikh Faisal bin Hamad Al-Thani, under the supervision of Charles Jourdin, and led by Maxime Jeune, while he came in third place with a difference of 1.5 length “Shaham”. The Levant” by Linda Moussalli, under the supervision of Thomas Forsey and led by Margot Romare.
The festival is supported and sponsored by the Department of Culture and Tourism, the Abu Dhabi Sports Council, the National Archive and Library, the main partner, Etisalat, the official partner, National Feed, the strategic partner, and Emirates Airlines, the official carrier. The Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, the Viola Company, the Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club, and the Emirates Arabian Horse Association.
#Yas #Horses #excel #category #challenge #France | https://pledgetimes.com/yas-horses-excel-in-the-first-category-challenge-in-france/ | 2022-08-09T10:27:18Z | https://pledgetimes.com/yas-horses-excel-in-the-first-category-challenge-in-france/ | false | 1 |
Kanye West Loses Yet Another Divorce Attorney Amid Kim Kardashian Case
Kanye West is being forced to bid adieu to yet another one of his divorce attorneys amid proceedings with Kim Kardashian .
Ahead of Friday (August 5)'s trial-setting conference between Kim and Ye, Samantha Spector asked a judge to relieve her as counsel, according to TMZ . She was originally set to withdraw next week, but the judge allowed her to head out early on Friday. Spector said her relationship with Kanye was "irretrievably broken," but didn't disclose why.
Spector is the fifth divorce attorney to call it quits and now Kanye is lawyer-less.
Kim was declared legally single back in March , but these proceedings are regarding custody and property, TMZ reported.
As far as their relationship goes, they're "getting along" now and have been spotted supporting their children together at sporting events and family gatherings . | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2694802103386/kanye-west-loses-yet-another-divorce-attorney-amid-kim-kardashian-case | 2022-08-09T10:28:20Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2694802103386/kanye-west-loses-yet-another-divorce-attorney-amid-kim-kardashian-case | true | 2 |
A mum who lost her baby at four months pregnant is working to help parents going through the same ordeal.
Millie Wylie, 23, from Skelmersdale, lost her son Lenny at Liverpool Women's Hospital in September 2021 after a scan revealed he had no heartbeat. Millie - who has two other children, Sonny, four, and Louie, two - now wants to establish a registered charity that improves support for pregnant women who have to deliver their miscarried babies.
She told LancsLive: “I knew about baby loss, but I did not know it was that common."
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Regarding her own experience, she said: "It was very traumatic and very sad as I was almost four months pregnant. The scan was at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, and they said, there's no heartbeat.
"They told me, and then we got a second opinion, and then they took me through the early pregnancy ward where everyone was talking about pregnancy. They should have support wards and more support.
“They offered me to go home and let Lenny pass in his own time, but I chose medical management, and went in for that. Once I had given birth, I had forty minutes to say my goodbyes.
“I was frozen. I didn’t know what to do, and it didn’t hit me until about a month ago. People suffer with grief in different ways, and I didn’t know what to think. There was no one to speak to about it.
“It’s absolutely crazy, the whole approach to baby loss is so stigmatised - that was my personal experience. Yet I can’t fault the hospital at all – that was the approach towards baby loss itself. It needs to be more acknowledged – there’s no official help around baby loss. I still don’t think they know enough about it.”
Millie wants to set up the charity - called 'Lenny's Love' - to provide support and materials such as special ‘comfort bags’ for parents receiving treatment for baby loss in hospitals. The ‘comfort bags’ aimed at parents currently going through baby loss will include toiletries, pyjamas, underwear, clay babies with angels, a leaflet containing Millie’s own story, a personal notepad and a list of support contacts.
There will also be memorial bags for people who have suffered previous baby loss, and Millie also aims to work with hospitals and set up a website for her charity. The organisation needs to raise £5,000 in order to become a registered charity. Millie said: “It will be so nice to keep a child’s name alive. This is Lenny’s legacy to the world.”
In a statement, she said: “I’m fundraising on behalf of our charity we are raising to register, Lenny’s Love. Lenny’s Love aims to provide and distribute comfort bags to maternity hospitals around the north west and gradually move around the UK to many more hospitals.
“Comfort bags are designed to bring a little comfort to bereaved parents suffering the loss of a baby through pregnancy, stillbirth, ectopic, and terminations for medical reasons. We aim to provide counselling & retreats for mental health in regards to baby loss and would love to help support the funds of funeral flowers and/or headstones.
These funds are vital to help us register as a charity in which to receive a charity number and so we can provide much needed vital support around. Please support us, we cannot do this without you all.”
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: “Every pregnancy loss is a tragedy, and ensuring grieving families have access to the support they need is one of our highest priorities. We are expanding access to psychological and talking therapies within specialist perinatal mental health services, including by rolling out 33 new Maternal Mental Health Services across England by March 2024.
“The first ever government-led Women’s Health Strategy for England was published on 20 July and pregnancy loss is a priority area within the strategy.”
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust was approached for comment by the ECHO. To find out more, go to Millie's Go Fund Me page, entitled 'Lenny's Love,' which is here.
- A fundraising event is set to take place at The Buffs, a community club on Ormskirk Road in Digmoor, Skelmersdale, on Sunday, August 28 from midday to 7pm. It will feature games, stalls, raffles, music, dancing and a moving tribute tree for baby loss.
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Shahbaz Gill has been taken into custody from the Bani Gala Chowk, Islamabad on Tuesday.
As reported, Former PM Imran Khan’s chief of staff Shahbaz Gill was arrested after calling for mutiny within Pakistan’s armed forces.
While appearing on a news channel talk show he had called on the ranks to disobey orders of the military leadership.
The clip of Shahbaz Gill’s conversation is being shared on social media and reportedly, the ARY News channel’s transmission was suspended in wake of this program.
Former PM Imran Khan’s chief of staff Shahbaz Gill arrested after calling for mutiny within Pakistan armed forces, he had called on the ranks to disobey orders of the military leadership pic.twitter.com/GU1RAwBBor
— Murtaza Ali Shah (@MurtazaViews) August 9, 2022
Meanwhile, PTI leader Fawad Chaudhary said that Shahbaz Gill was ‘kidnapped by unknown men in unmarked vehicles’ from near Bani Gala chowk.
شہباز گل کو بنی گالا چوک سے بغیر نمبر پلیٹ گاڑیوں میں آئے لوگوں نے اغواء کر لیا ہے
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) August 9, 2022
PTI leader Murad Saeed reiterated the claim.
In a tweet, he claimed that the windows of Gill’s car were smashed while his assistant was also assaulted.
شہباز گل کی گاڑی پر حملہ آور ہوئے،اسٹنٹ پر تشدد کیا، شہباز گل کو اغوا کر لیا گیا۔ pic.twitter.com/9KBdkAsXGI
— Murad Saeed (@MuradSaeedPTI) August 9, 2022 | https://www.oyeyeah.com/news/shahbaz-gill-taken-into-custody-from-bani-gala-chowk/ | 2022-08-09T10:32:10Z | https://www.oyeyeah.com/news/shahbaz-gill-taken-into-custody-from-bani-gala-chowk/ | true | 1 |
NEW YORK (AP) — David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, has died. He was 89.
McCullough died Sunday in Hingham, Massachusetts, according to his publisher, Simon & Schuster. He had been in failing health and died less than two months after his beloved wife, Rosalee.
“I think because of David a lot of us feel a twin obligation,” fellow historian Jon Meacham said Monday. “One is to the historical record and to the analysis. And the other is to the reader who would like to be transported, both intellectually and viscerally.”
A joyous and tireless student of the past, McCullough dedicated himself to sharing his own passion for history with the general public. He saw himself as an everyman blessed with lifelong curiosity and the chance to take on the subjects he cared most about. His fascination with architecture and construction inspired his early works on the Panama Canal and the Brooklyn Bridge, while his admiration for leaders whom he believed were good men drew him to Adams and Truman. In his 70s and 80s, he indulged his affection for Paris with the 2011 release “The Greater Journey” and for aviation with a best-seller on the Wright Brothers that came out in 2015.
Beyond his books, the handsome, white-haired McCullough may have had the most recognizable presence of any historian, his fatherly baritone known to fans of PBS’s “The American Experience” and Ken Burns’ epic “Civil War” documentary. “Hamilton” author Ron Chernow once called McCullough “both the name and the voice of American history,” while on Monday Burns tweeted that McCullough was a friend and “gifted teacher” to him.
McCullough’s celebrations of the American past also led to the toughest criticism against him — that affection turned too easily to romanticization. His 2019 book “The Pioneers” was faulted for minimizing the atrocities committed against Native Americans as 19th century settlers moved westward. In earlier works, he was accused him of avoiding the harder truths about Truman, Adams and others and of placing storytelling above analysis.
“McCullough’s specific contribution has been to treat large-scale historical biography as yet another genre of spectatorial appreciation, an exercise in character recognition, a reliable source of edification and pleasant uplift,” Sean Wilentz wrote in The New Republic in 2001. Interviewed that same year by The Associated Press, McCullough responded to criticism that he was too soft by saying that “some people not only want their leaders to have feet of clay, but to be all clay.”
But even peers who found flaws in his work praised his kindness and generosity and acknowledged his talent. And millions of readers, and the smaller circle of award givers, were moved by his stories. For years, from a wireless cottage on the grounds of his house on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, McCullough completed works on a Royal Standard typewriter that changed minds and shaped the marketplace.
He helped raise the reputations of Truman and Adams, and he started a wave of best-sellers about the American Revolution, including McCullough’s own “1776.” Well into his 80s, his books remained popular and seemed to inspire renewed interest in the subject.
“Often, as I wrote on an old typewriter in the small shed in which I work, I would think of David, writing on an old typewriter in a small shed very like mine, and feel a sense of comradeship,” Robert Caro wrote in an email statement to The Associated Press. “I have lost a friend. The world has lost a great man of letters.”
McCullough received the National Book Award for “The Path Between the Seas,” about the building of the Panama Canal; and for “Mornings on Horseback,” a biography of Theodore Roosevelt; and Pulitzers for “Truman,” in 1992, and for “John Adams” in 2002. “The Great Bridge,” a lengthy exploration of the Brooklyn Bridge’s construction, was ranked No. 48 on the Modern Library’s list of the best 100 nonfiction works of the 20th century and is still widely regarded as the definitive text of the great 19th century project. Upon his 80th birthday, his native Pittsburgh renamed the 16th Street Bridge the “David McCullough Bridge.”
McCullough also was a favorite in Washington, D.C. He addressed a joint session of Congress in 1989 and, in 2006, received a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Politicians frequently claimed to have read his books, especially his biographies of Truman and Adams. Jimmy Carter cited “The Path Between the Seas″ as a factor in pushing for the 1977 treaties which returned control of the Panama Canal to Panama, and politicians on both sides of the issue cited it during debate. Barack Obama included McCullough among a gathering of scholars who met at the White House soon after he was elected.
“David brought some of the most important people and events of our past back to life with rich research, vivid writing, and his wonderful, recognizable, trustworthy voice,” former President George W. Bush said in a statement. “While we and our country will miss David, we need only reach for the bookshelf to be with him again.”
The historian was non-partisan for much of his life, but spoke out against Donald Trump in 2016, leading a group of peers that included Burns and Chernow in denouncing the Republican presidential nominee as a “monstrous clown with a monstrous ego.” McCullough also had one emphatic cause: education. He worried that Americans knew too little about history and didn’t appreciate the sacrifices of the Revolutionary era. He spoke often at campuses and before Congress, once telling a Senate Committee that because of the No Child Left Behind act “history is being put on the back burner or taken off the stove altogether in many or most schools, in favor of math and reading.”
Impassioned about the past, McCullough was active in the preservation of historical regions. He opposed the building of a residential tower near the Brooklyn Bridge and was among the historians and authors in the 1990s who criticized the Walt Disney Company’s planned Civil War theme park in a region of northern Virginia of particular historical significance.
“We have so little left that’s authentic and real,” McCullough said at the time. “To replace what we have with plastic, contrived history, mechanical history is almost sacrilege.”
McCullough took on a few rascals in his books, notably the conniving New York politicians involved with the Brooklyn Bridge, but he preferred to write about people he liked, comparing it to the choice of a roommate. Revulsion at the private life of Pablo Picasso drove him to abandon a planned book on the artist, while his biography on Adams was originally supposed to be on Adams and Thomas Jefferson, whose character also proved too flawed.
McCullough, whose father and grandfather founded the McCullough Electric Company, was born in Pittsburgh in 1933. He loved history as a child, recalling lively dinner conversations, portraits of Washington and Lincoln that seemed to hang in every home and the field trip to a nearby site where Washington fought one of his earliest battles. He majored in English at Yale University and met playwright Thornton Wilder, who encouraged the young student to write. McCullough worked at the United States Information Agency, Sports Illustrated and the American Heritage Publishing Company before deciding that he wanted to try a book about an event that took place in his home state in 1889 — the Johnstown Flood, which killed more than 2,000 people and was as much a disaster in its time as Hurricane Katrina was more than a century later.
McCullough researched the book in his spare time, and pleaded in vain with Little, Brown and Company to publish him. He ended up with Simon & Schuster, which released the book in 1968 — for an advance of $5,000 — and remained his publisher for the rest of his career.
“The Johnstown Flood” was successful enough that McCullough worried he would be typecast as an author of failure, “Bad News McCullough.” Publishers were asking him to write about the Chicago Fire and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. So for his next book, “The Great Bridge,” he told a story of success. “That I knew little or nothing about civil engineering, that I had never done well in math or physics or had much interest in things mechanical didn’t deter me in the least,” he later wrote. “I was too excited. There was so much I wanted to know.”
McCullough followed with “The Path Between the Seas”; and “Mornings on Horseback,” published in 1981 and praised by Gore Vidal as “part of a new and welcome genre: the biographical sketch.” “Mornings on Horseback” won the National Book Award, but, Vidal noted, was overshadowed by the release of Edmund Morris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.” It would be the last time a McCullough book received second billing.
He had considered a biography of Franklin Roosevelt, but instead related to Roosevelt’s less dynamic, more forthright successor, Harry Truman. McCullough spent the next decade writing the book, living for a time in Truman’s hometown, Independence, Missouri, and making a daily routine, as the former president did, of a morning walk.
“Truman,” published in 1992, was a million seller that capped and confirmed a long rise in the standing of a man who had left office 40 years earlier with an approval rating under 30% and now was virtually canonized as an honest and tenacious leader. Among the book’s fans were presidential hopeful Ross Perot, who bluntly compared himself to Truman, and the first President Bush, who even consulted with McCullough during his unsuccessful bid for re-election.
“John Adams,” published in 2001, was just as popular and just as helpful to its subject, with Congress passing legislation later that year to build a monument in honor of the second president. “1776″ came out in 2005, followed by an illustrated edition two years later. An HBO miniseries based on “John Adams,” starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, aired in 2008. Tom Hanks was planning a miniseries based on McCullough’s book on the Wright brothers.
McCullough had five children and an affinity for happily married politicians such as Truman and Adams that could be traced to his wife, Rosalee Barnes, whom he married in 1954 and who died in June. She was his editor, muse and closest friend. At his home in Martha’s Vineyard, McCullough would proudly show visiting reporters a photograph of their first meeting, at a spring dance, the two gazing upon each other. | https://www.wjbf.com/lifestyle/u-s-world-entertainment/ap-entertainment/david-mccullough-pulitzer-winning-historian-dies-at-89/ | 2022-08-09T10:32:14Z | https://www.wjbf.com/lifestyle/u-s-world-entertainment/ap-entertainment/david-mccullough-pulitzer-winning-historian-dies-at-89/ | false | 36 |
Manchester United's calamitous summer transfer window has suffered another blow with the news that Slovenian striker Benjamin Sesko has joined German club RB Leipzig for €24 million.
He will join the Bundesliga club in the summer of 2023 and remain on loan at Austrian club Red Bull Salzburg.
The 19-year-old striker had been linked with a move to Erik ten Hag's side after scoring 12 goals in 39 matches for Salzburg.
United are in need of attacking re-enforcements with Cristiano Ronaldo looking to leave the club and Anthony Martial being the only other recognised striker on the books at Old Trafford.
After Sunday's opening loss the Brighton, United have been linked with moves for Austrian striker Marco Arnautovic and Juventus midfielder Adrien Rabiot.
Christian Eriksen, Tyrell Malacia and Lisandro Martinez have been the only new signings made so far, with the long-running pursuit of Barcelona's Frenkie de Jong reportedly in danger of proving fruitless.
#RBLeipzig confirm the signing of Benjamin Šeško! 🔴⚪
— RB Leipzig English (@RBLeipzig_EN) August 9, 2022
The 19-year-old will join the club in summer 2023 🤝#WeAreLeipzig
After becoming the latest player to thread the well-worn path from Salzburg to Leipzig, Sesko said: "I’m very happy to be able to make the move to RB Leipzig in 2023 and that the transfer is now confirmed. RB Leipzig are one of the best clubs in Germany and are establishing themselves as one of the best in Europe year on year. A success story has been written here in just a few years and I want to be a part of it in the future.
"The club’s philosophy of placing trust in young players and playing attractive, attacking football is a perfect fit for me. The city, the stadium and the whole infrastructure at RB Leipzig, as well as the many good discussions with the club, convinced me that this move is absolutely the right decision. My focus is now on the season with Salzburg, that I want to use to continue developing and be as successful as possible." | https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-40936316.html | 2022-08-09T10:34:14Z | https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-40936316.html | true | 1 |
SEOUL – Some of the heaviest rain in decades swamped South Korea’s capital region, turning Seoul’s streets into car-clogged rivers and sending floods cascading into subway stations. At least eight people were killed — some drowning in their homes — and seven others were missing, with more rain forecast, officials said Tuesday.
More than 43 centimeters (17 inches) of rain was measured in Seoul’s hardest-hit Dongjak district from Monday to noon Tuesday. Precipitation in the area exceeded 14 centimeters (5.5 inches) per hour at one point Monday night, the highest hourly downpour measured in Seoul since 1942.
Deserted cars and buses were scattered across streets as the water receded on Tuesday. Workers cleared uprooted trees, mud and debris with excavators and blocked off broken roads. Landslide warnings were issued in nearly 50 cities and towns, and 160 hiking paths in Seoul and mountainous Gangwon province were closed.
Emergency crews worked overnight to restore most subway service as of Tuesday morning, but a route linking towns north of Seoul was shut Tuesday evening as continuing rain flooded some stations.
Dozens of roads, including major expressways near the swollen Han River, were closed because of rising water levels or partial flooding.
“The heavy rainfall is expected to continue for days … we need to maintain our sense of alert and respond with all-out effort,” President Yoon Suk Yeol said at the government’s emergency headquarters.
The military was prepared to deploy troops to help with recovery efforts if requested by cities or regional governments, Defense Ministry spokesperson Moon Hong-sik said.
The rain began Monday morning and strengthened through the evening.
By nightfall, people were wading through thigh-high waters in streets in Gangnam, one of Seoul’s most bustling business and leisure districts, where cars and buses were stuck in mud-brown waters. Commuters evacuated as water cascaded down the stairs of the Isu subway station like a waterfall. In the nearby city of Seongnam, a rain-weakened hillside collapsed into a university soccer field.
Rescue workers failed to reach three people -– two sisters in their 40s and a 13-year-old girl -– who called for help before drowning in a basement home in the Gwanak district of southern Seoul on Monday night. Another woman drowned in her home in the nearby Dongjak district, where a public worker died while clearing fallen trees, likely from electrocution. Choi Seon-yeong, an official from the Dongjak district office, said it wasn’t immediately clear whether the death was caused by a damaged power source or equipment the man was using.
Three people were found dead in the debris of landslides and a collapsed bus station in the nearby cities of Gwangju and Hwaseong.
Four people were missing in southern Seoul’s Seocho district, the home of Yoon, who, according to his office, spent hours on the phone receiving briefings and issuing instructions overnight as rain flooded streets near his high-rise apartment complex.
Nearly 800 buildings in Seoul and nearby cities were damaged and at least 790 people were forced to evacuate from their homes, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said.
The country’s weather agency maintained a heavy rain warning for the Seoul metropolitan area and nearby regions on Tuesday and said precipitation may reach 5 to 10 centimeters (2 to 4 inches) an hour in some areas. It said around 10 to 35 centimeters (4 to 14 inches) of additional rain was expected across the capital region through Thursday.
Rainstorms also pounded North Korea, where authorities issued heavy rain warnings for the southern and western parts of the country. North Korea's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper described the rain as potentially disastrous and called for measures to protect farmland and prevent flooding on the Taedong River, which flows through the capital, Pyongyang. | https://www.local10.com/news/world/2022/08/09/rains-in-s-korea-turn-seouls-roads-to-rivers-leave-7-dead/ | 2022-08-09T10:35:25Z | https://www.local10.com/news/world/2022/08/09/rains-in-s-korea-turn-seouls-roads-to-rivers-leave-7-dead/ | false | 46 |
An assault on a woman in Tralee last night has been described as shocking and disturbing.
The incident took place in the Ballymullen area between 11pm and midnight.
A woman in her 20s was taken to University Hospital Kerry; her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
It’s reported the woman had to flee to the roof of a building to escape the attack and was rescued from the roof by the emergency services.
Two men have been arrested in connection with the alleged assault.
Sinn Féin councillor for the Tralee Municipal District Deirdre Ferris says everyone has the right to be safe on our streets:
Meanwhile, Gardaí say investigations into the assault are ongoing.
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I’m a gardening expert and here are the bugs you WANT in your garden – they’ll even help get rid of other pests
ALTHOUGH a lot of us freak out when we see a creepy-crawly anywhere near us, it turns out that there are certain bugs that are essential for your garden.
So if you are green-fingered and want your garden to look fabulous this summer, gardening experts have informed us which insects are most beneficial for keeping pests at bay.
Particularly as the weather warms up, you will find that your garden becomes alive with all kinds of insects, but not all of them are your enemies.
Quite the opposite - most of them are completely harmless and even beneficial, as they eat the pests that feed on your plants and crops.
The experts at GardeningExpress.co.uk have shared the bugs that you should look out for in your garden, as they will effectively help to maintain the garden by eliminating unwanted pests and pollinating flowers.
Chris Bonnett, from GardeningExpress.co.uk said: “Encouraging the right type of bugs to take residence in your garden provides a long-term pest control solution, which is a good alternative to using chemical pesticides.
“This will allow you to grow your plants and vegetables organically, it’s good for the environment and it also keeps the garden maintenance costs down.
“You can attract the beneficial bugs into your garden by creating an optimal environment for them to thrive in.
“A few examples of how to make your garden insect-friendly is growing a diverse selection of plants, letting part of your garden grow wild or creating a compost heap.”
So if you want your garden to grow organically, here are some of the bugs you should welcome in your garden.
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Ladybirds
Despite their colourful look and sweet name, ladybirds are predatory insects who like to feast on pests - they devour about 50 aphids per day.
These little bugs with a big appetite are one of the best options for natural pest control.
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Green lacewings
Similar to ladybirds, lacewings enjoy munching on aphids, especially black flies, who are very damaging to your vegetable plot.
Lacewing larvae are especially useful because they can consume up to 200 aphids per week.
Ground beetles
Ground beetles are good for getting rid of soft-bodied pests like snails and slugs.
On top of that, they also feed on weed seeds, making them your best pals if you’re struggling with removing weeds from your garden.
Spiders
Although many people get uncomfortable with the idea of welcoming spiders into their living spaces, these little creatures are actually very beneficial in your garden.
Spiders are not picky when it comes to their diet, so they will eat a variety of insects and are not interested in your vegetable crops.
Butterflies
Butterflies are one of the most important pollinators, which means that they help plants to reproduce.
They also attract other beneficial insects to the garden.
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Bees
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Hoverflies
Hoverflies act as both pollinators and pest controllers, making them extremely useful to have in your garden.
In their larval stages they ferociously consume aphids, thrips, scale insects and eggs and when they reach to an adult stage they feed off pollen and nectar. | https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/19458641/gardening-expert-bugs-garden-get-rid-pests/ | 2022-08-09T10:48:40Z | https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/19458641/gardening-expert-bugs-garden-get-rid-pests/ | false | 4 |
IndexIQ Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. (NYSE:HPP – Get Rating) in the first quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm acquired 14,436 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock, valued at approximately $401,000.
A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Anchor Capital Advisors LLC raised its holdings in shares of Hudson Pacific Properties by 25.1% during the first quarter. Anchor Capital Advisors LLC now owns 3,254,997 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $90,326,000 after acquiring an additional 652,483 shares during the period. CPR Investments Inc. raised its position in Hudson Pacific Properties by 50.5% during the first quarter. CPR Investments Inc. now owns 16,458 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $457,000 after acquiring an additional 5,524 shares in the last quarter. National Bank of Canada FI bought a new stake in shares of Hudson Pacific Properties in the 1st quarter valued at about $3,041,000. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Hudson Pacific Properties by 29.8% during the 1st quarter. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. now owns 18,570 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,316,000 after acquiring an additional 4,267 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Victory Capital Management Inc. raised its position in shares of Hudson Pacific Properties by 5.4% in the first quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 1,407,550 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $38,900,000 after purchasing an additional 71,568 shares during the period. 96.48% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
HPP has been the subject of a number of recent research reports. Piper Sandler cut their price objective on shares of Hudson Pacific Properties to $18.00 in a report on Monday, July 4th. Credit Suisse Group started coverage on Hudson Pacific Properties in a research note on Wednesday, June 22nd. They set an “underperform” rating and a $16.00 price target on the stock. Jefferies Financial Group reduced their target price on Hudson Pacific Properties from $28.00 to $16.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, June 30th. Bank of America downgraded shares of Hudson Pacific Properties from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and dropped their target price for the company from $25.00 to $20.00 in a research report on Wednesday, June 22nd. Finally, Scotiabank lowered their target price on Hudson Pacific Properties from $24.00 to $18.00 in a research report on Friday, July 8th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have issued a hold rating and two have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $20.18.
Hudson Pacific Properties Price Performance
Hudson Pacific Properties Dividend Announcement
The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, June 30th. Investors of record on Monday, June 20th were issued a dividend of $0.25 per share. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 7.02%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, June 16th. Hudson Pacific Properties’s dividend payout ratio is currently -526.32%.
About Hudson Pacific Properties
Hudson Pacific is a real estate investment trust with a portfolio of office and studio properties totaling nearly 19 million square feet, including land for development. Focused on premier West Coast epicenters of innovation, media and technology, its anchor tenants include Fortune 500 and leading growth companies such as Netflix, Google, Square, Uber, NFL Enterprises and more.
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Gauteng township retailers to receive support
Gauteng Premier David Makhura has announced a R100 million fund that is aimed at supporting businesses in the township retail sector.
He was speaking at the launch of the Gauteng Township Retail Programme at Sam Ntuli Stadium in Thokoza on Monday morning.
The Premier said although the provincial government is committed to supporting township enterprises to grow, those living in the townships also have to begin buying from local shops.
“We have implementing partners all around the townships so the township businesses must be organised. It [makes it] easier for us to support a group or association [of retailers] than doing it on an individual basis. When the businesses are organised, you are more powerful.
“[The community] must also buy from each other. We must spend the money that we have in the township. Buy the bread made next door - you will get a good price and you will also be helping to grow the township economy,” he said.
Makhura said women business owners will specifically be targeted for support.
“There can be no township economy without women. The women's businesses... are the largest in our townships. Most of the people who are selling and involved in business in the township are women. So we must have a specific target ... [that says] of this R100 million, how of much of that will be for women-owned businesses,” he said.
Makhura explained that revitalising and building stronger sectors of the township economy will take some hard work.
“If we want to fix the township economy, we must start with those small retail businesses and make sure they are supported by government. [We] are already supporting some township businesses in order to help them grow. We want the people in the township – for generation after generation – to be the ones running these businesses,” he said.
The announcement of the fund comes at least 100 days since Makhura signed the Township Economy Development Act into law.
The law requires, among other interventions, provincial government departments to procure at least 40% of goods and services from township businesses where possible.
“This is the implementation of the Township Economy Act. That law must not just be a policy, it must be implemented. It must not be shelved or put away in offices in must be implemented so that we can feel the township economy [growing].
“There are many people in the township who are working hard…who don’t sleep to make sure they make proper businesses to support and feed their children. The township development act is about supporting those businesses,” he said.
Makhura said other sectors – township manufacturers and township real estate – will also be receiving attention. – SAnews.gov.za | https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/gauteng-township-retailers-receive-support | 2022-08-09T10:59:03Z | https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/gauteng-township-retailers-receive-support | true | 3 |
'Comedy is a healer', says Tumi Morake on new comedy special
With rolling blackouts, skyrocketing fuel and food prices, and the often unbelievable things happening in the news every day, some would say South Africa is like a comedy show.
But through all the bleakness and the despair, we know South Africans have a good sense of humour and indeed, we are in need of a good laugh right now.
In celebration of Women’s Month, comedy lovers can look forward to a new special 'Laugh Mosadi', featuring an all-female powerhouse line-up hosted by comedian, actress, and writer Tumi Morake.
The show will feature a stellar team of female stand-ups such as Angel Campey, Khanyisa Bunu, Lihle Msimang, and Nina Hasting, to name a few, and will take place at Emperors Palace's Theatre of Marcellus on Saturday, 13 August.
Speaking to Bongani Bingwa, Morake said she believes comedy is a healer and "the best pill to swallow the truth".
We have a lot to laugh about. Celebrating us, our relationships with our bodies and our relationships with the world we live in.
Tumi Morake, comedian, actress, and writer
In a world becoming increasingly sensitive to stereotypes around racial, gender, religious, cultural identities, comedians believe the art form is under immense pressure. The recent backlash over jokes made by US comedians Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle is one example of how the comedy scene is changing.
Right now, comedy is under attack. The woke and social police want to regulate what people say on stage. As women, we just got the platform and now they want to police. Threaten to cancel me, but I'm going to say what needs to be said. We have to laugh.
Tumi Morake, comedian, actress, and writer
But Morake feels comedy should not be censored as it's meant to hold a mirror to society.
Comedy is supposed to be where you say what cannot be said in the streets, what you cannot say in the news, or in front of your people. You have to get on stage and say in the safety of a place of comedy, let's talk about this.
Tumi Morake, comedian, actress, and writer
That's why on the comedy stages in South Africa and in America, the big gags will be about black and white. Because there's still that racial tension we still have to work through and comedy helps you through it. When you listen to the gags around poverty, it's something everyone struggles with. It's about truth and pain... we take our pain to stage.
Tumi Morake, comedian, actress, and writer
Tickets to Laugh Mosadi start from R150 can be bought at here.
Listen to the full interview below.
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Westlake Village, California-based team to be integrated under SageView name
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SageView Advisory Group ("SageView"), one of the nation's leading independent RIA firms, today announced it completed the acquisition of Summit Financial Consultants, and successfully transitioned its business to SageView.
"Summit Financial has thrived under Neil's, Kimberly's and Cody's leadership, and we are grateful they will further this journey as members of the SageView family," said Randy Long, SageView's Founder and Managing Principal. "We look forward to supporting their continued growth as they deliver for their clients across Southern California."
Neil Elmouchi founded Summit Financial Consultants, an RIA, in 1985 as a retirement and comprehensive financial planning firm. The firm has $321 million in assets under management (AUM) as of the closing.
Mr. Elmouchi said, "During this process, I've found that Randy shared my deeply held belief that if you put people first, your practice and clients will win. SageView continues to demonstrate this value in its approach to building upon its leadership at the intersection of wealth management and retirement, and I'm grateful my team is now part of that endeavor."
The Summit Financial acquisition is the sixth completed by SageView since July 2021 as part of its M&A growth strategy. SageView, which established a partnership with leading financial services and technology-focused private equity firm Aquiline Capital Partners in January 2021, is a longstanding leader in serving retirement plan sponsors across the country, with over $170 billion in retirement plan assets.
Cody Klein, Partner and Senior Wealth Advisor at Summit, said, "Our integration into SageView has been seamless, and our clients have already seen the benefits of our partnership. We are thrilled to be part of SageView's stronger presence in Southern California."
Kimberly Lau, Partner and co-CEO at Summit, added, "We were lucky to have several options as we considered the best path forward for our firm and after a meaningful due diligence process, we found our partner in SageView. Our similar investment approaches and shared corporate culture made it clear that we had found the right home for our team."
SkyView served as the exclusive financial advisor to Summit Financial Consultants.
About SageView Advisory Group
SageView Advisory Group is an SEC-Registered Investment Advisory firm (RIA) serving retirement plan sponsors and individuals throughout the United States since 1989. SageView advises on 401(k), 403(b), 457, defined benefit and deferred compensation plans, and provides comprehensive wealth management services to individuals and families. SageView is headquartered in Newport Beach, California, and has more than 30 offices nationwide advising on over $170B of retirement assets (AUA) and $4 billion of advisory assets under management (AUM).
SageView Advisory Group, LLC is a Registered Investment Advisor. Advisory services are only offered to clients or prospective clients where SageView Advisory Group, LLC and its representatives are properly licensed or exempt from licensure. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. No advice may be rendered by SageView Advisory Group, LLC unless a client service agreement is in place.
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New Day, Old Forecast; Plus Watching the Tropics
Little change in the day to day forecast the next few days with relatively quiet mornings, but afternoons and evenings are more active with random, scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms. As in recent days, the showers and storms will be slow movers, producing heavy rain, strong gusty winds, and lots of lightning. As is common this time of year, rainfall distribution will remain very uneven and it won’t rain everywhere; but odds of any one spot getting wet are in the 50-70 percent range. Highs this week will range from the upper 80s to lower 90s, which is pretty close to average for early to mid August in Alabama. This pattern holds through Thursday so keep an eye on radar trends each day.
FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND: A surface boundary looks to push into Alabama Friday bringing drier air as we roll into the weekend. Expect fewer showers and storms with more sun than clouds with temperatures remaining the on either side of the 90° mark. Though rain chances are lower, we will still need to mention the chance of a few isolated afternoon showers and storms in the forecast these three days. The better rain chances will remain across southern sections of the state.
TROPICS: A tropical wave continues to produce a large area of disorganized cloudiness and thunderstorms over the eastern tropical Atlantic a few hundred miles south-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands. Gradual development of this system is possible and a tropical depression could form around the middle to latter portion of the week before environmental conditions become less favorable by this weekend. This system is expected to move westward to west-northwestward at 15 to 20 mph across the tropical Atlantic during the next several days.
NHC gives it a 40 percent chance of development over the next five days. If anything does form in that region, most likely it will recurve into the open Atlantic well before getting close to the U.S. The Gulf of Mexico remains quiet. Next name up is Danielle.
NEXT WEEK: We will stick with a typical summer forecast through the week. Partly sunny days with afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms in random, scattered spots. Highs will remain in the low 90s… no sign of any excessive heat issues for our state anytime soon thankfully.
Make today better than yesterday!!!
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rosie Torres of Robstown, Texas, is no Washington lobbyist, but she’s been making the long trek to Capitol Hill for some 13 years, knocking year after year on lawmakers’ doors. Her mission: Alert them — convince them — that something awful has been happening to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans as a result of constant exposure to toxic military burn pits.
Torres’ husband, Le Roy, suffers from constrictive bronchitis, a respiratory condition that narrowed his airways and made breathing difficult. Rosie is sure it’s from his exposure to burn pits on his base in Iraq. But last week, even with the Senate just hours away from boosting health and disability benefits for veterans like her husband, she still wasn’t sure she had won over lawmakers, despite earlier votes indicating the bill was on the right track.
“It was still too good to be true,” Torres said. “Even when my senators voted, I said, ‘Something is up.’”
Torres was among the veterans and family members camped out at the Capitol last week, refusing to leave until the Senate passed the bill by a final vote of 86-11. That vote, lopsided at the last, was a momentous victory for a movement that has been years in the making but gained serious traction only during the current Congress.
President Joe Biden is scheduled to sign the bill into law on Wednesday.
The White House ceremony culminates an effort that began with the vets themselves and their harrowing stories, eventually amplified for public attention by comedian-activist Jon Stewart and personally embraced by the president, who has voiced his suspicion that burn pits led to his elder son’s death.
In the end, the bill received unanimous support from Democrats and a majority of Republicans despite its hefty price tag, estimated at roughly $280 billion over 10 years.
‘LET’S FULL-THROTTLE AND GET THIS GOING’
Another Texan, former Marine Tim Jensen, who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, was also part of the gathering outside the Capitol last week. He said he lost his best friend, Sgt. Frank Hazelwood, to lung cancer, and two other battalion colleagues to illnesses he attributes to serving near burn pits.
“They were all cancers of the brain and the lungs, and these were not cancers typical of that age group,” Jensen said.
He got actively involved some four years ago after a phone call with Torres, who had started an advocacy organization with her husband — Burn Pits 360. The organization serves as a clearinghouse for grim stories related by veterans and their families about the impact they believe burn pits have had on their lives.
What are these burn pits? Big, smelly and nothing anyone would want to breathe, they were commonly used by the military until several years ago to dispose of such things as chemicals, tires, plastics and medical and human waste.
Former Marine Jensen said a pivotal moment in the quest for federal help occurred when Stewart joined the effort, bringing the publicity that comes with celebrity attention.
“Rosie Torres and Burn Pits 360 have been working on this for over 10 years and they were getting very little traction,” Jensen said. “They needed some bigger push, right, to get it into a national conversation.”
Then the White House invited Danielle Robinson, the widow of Sgt. 1st Class Heath Robinson of Ohio, to attend Biden’s State of the Union address in March. During the address, Biden raised the possibility that being near burn pits led to the death of his son Beau.
“We don’t know for sure if a burn pit was the cause of his brain cancer, or the diseases of so many of our troops,” Biden said in the speech. “But I’m committed to finding out everything we can.”
Jensen said, “That’s when we knew we now have the attention and let’s full-throttle and get this thing going.”
“That certainly energized Democrats in the Senate and the House to move,” said Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, the ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.
On the House side, Rep. Mark Takano, chairman of that chamber’s Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, announced in early 2021 that helping veterans who experienced toxic exposure would be one of the panel’s priorities for the coming Congress. That was not long after Biden had taken the oath of office.
Takano, a California Democrat, recalled on the House floor last month how he briefed the president. He said Biden leaned over and started talking about Beau, who died from brain cancer at age 46. He had served in Iraq for about a year in 2008 and 2009.
“It was during that meeting when I knew I had a partner in President Biden,” Takano said.
The congressman was intent on avoiding a piecemeal approach. He didn’t want the legislation to pit vets from one war against those of another in a fight for limited Department of Veterans Affairs resources.
The bill not only expands health and disability benefits for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans but contains provisions to aid more Vietnam-era vets exposed to Agent Orange. It also provides support to veterans exposed to water contamination at North Carolina’s Camp LeJeune and to radiation in Palomares, Spain, site of one of the largest nuclear disasters in history, and Enewetak Atoll of the Marshall Islands, where the U.S. conducted numerous nuclear tests.
The House passed the first iteration of the bill in March. The vote was 256-174 with most Republicans opposing. They cited costs and the strain it would cause on a VA already struggling to meet current workloads.
‘DO YOUR DUTY AND PASS THIS’
A few weeks after the House vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., joined Stewart, veterans advocates and Danielle Robinson for a news conference in which she described what it was like being with her husband, for whom the bill is named, in his final moments as he died from lung cancer.
“I ask you to do your duty and pass this,” she implored.
Schumer promised the bill would get a vote in the Senate. “Everyone is going to have to show where they stand, and whose side they are on,” he said.
The Senate was at work on its own version of the bill. Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, said the veterans groups were clear that the bill was the panel’s No. 1 priority.
Tester had cooperative partners in Moran and Republican John Boozman of Arkansas, with their discussions focused on making sure the VA would be ready for the workload.
“We were talking with the VA. … Are we setting you up for failure? Is this something you can deliver on?” Tester said. “And they assured us they could. There were a few changes we had to make and we made them.”
Those changes included staggering the start for some of the benefit enhancements and providing more flexibility for hiring staff. The changes also helped trim tens of billions of dollars in spending from the House version, giving more Republicans reason to support the final product once it went back to the House.
The slightly trimmed bill ended up passing both chambers with significant bipartisan support. But then lawmakers discovered it contained a revenue-related provision that had to originate in the House, requiring a do-over for a technical fix.
That’s normally a formality, but the do-over was complicated when Republicans unexpectedly blocked the burn pits bill from advancing last month. That was shortly after Schumer announced he had reached agreement with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on a party-line health and climate package paid for in part with higher taxes on corporations. Republicans were angry about that. Veterans were angry, too, that their burn pits bill was blocked, some felt, in retaliation.
Many would spend the next days camped out at the Capitol, taking shifts in Washington’s oppressive humidity and thunderstorms. They got a celebratory ending last week when the Senate passed the measure after giving Republicans a chance to vote on amendments, all defeated.
Moran said the vote reaffirmed to him the Senate could work.
“I’ve never worked or been a United States senator when the Senate functioned well. I missed the days in which that was the case,” he said. “It’s a pleasing circumstance that every so often there are issues and people that come together.” | https://www.nbc4i.com/news/politics/ap-politics/burn-pits-recognition-for-veterans-took-decade-of-struggle/ | 2022-08-09T11:03:38Z | https://www.nbc4i.com/news/politics/ap-politics/burn-pits-recognition-for-veterans-took-decade-of-struggle/ | true | 39 |
Virtual Conference Featuring Leading Companies Provides Opportunities for Investors To Gain Insight Into Key Industries
NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. ("Oppenheimer") – a leading investment bank, wealth manager, and a subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings (NYSE: OPY) – announces its 25th Annual Technology, Internet and Communications Conference. The two-day virtual event will gather more than 120 companies across the software, cloud, emerging technology and services industries; as well as firms in the fintech and specialty finance, internet, SaaS/applications software and semiconductor spaces to meet with investors. Companies participating in the conference include Datadog, Etsy, The Trade Desk, Checkpoint, Atlassian, Paypal, and Digital Ocean, along with over 30 private companies including Databricks, Gong and AppsFlyer.
Robin Graham, Managing Director, Head of Technology Investment Banking at Oppenheimer, said, "Innovations in the technology sector continue to define the direction of social, commercial and industrial processes, as U.S. economic fundamentals indicate growth remains strong thanks to consumer demand, business investment and government spending. At a time when economies continue to reopen around the globe, technology companies at the forefront of the digital revolution's next phase can be expected to sustain considerable progress despite uncertainty and the risk of a recession. Oppenheimer looks forward to the productive conversations that will take place during 1-on-1 meetings among participants and investors at our 25th Annual Technology, Internet and Communications Conference."
Members of the Oppenheimer equity research team in attendance include:
- Dominick Gabriele, CFA, Executive Director and Senior Analyst, Fintech and Specialty Finance
- Chris Glynn, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, Industrial Multi-Industry
- Jason S. Helfstein, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, Internet
- Timothy Horan, CFA, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, Cloud and Communication Services
- George Iwanyc, Director, Analytics, Collaboration and Infrastructure Software and Communication Technology Solutions
- Noah Kaye, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, Sustainable Growth and Resource Optimization
- Jed Kelly, CFA, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, Online Travel & Internet
- Ittai Kidron, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, Analytics, Data, Security and Infrastructure Software
- Colin Rusch, Managing Director, Senior Research Analyst, Head of Sustainable Growth and Resource Optimization
- Richard E. Schafer, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, Semiconductors
- Brian Schwartz, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, SaaS / Applications Software
- Ken Wong, CFA, Managing Director, SaaS / Applications Software
- Martin Yang, CFA, Senior Analyst, Emerging Technologies and Services
- Ian A. Zaffino, CFA, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, Special Situations
The conference comes as investors weigh their options on tech companies to determine whether a potential economic downturn could yet again lift demand for tech services. Meaningful exposure to developed and emerging-market stocks are expected to remain key to allocation as concerns around supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and high inflation subside amid adjustments to monetary policy, and solid U.S. economic fundamentals provide the back support growth-oriented companies need to expand their market presence.
Erica L. Moffett, Head of Research Marketing Services and Associate Director of Equity Research at Oppenheimer commented, "The past two pandemic years have demonstrated that cloud-based services, online consumer platforms, and enterprise information management software companies are resilient in the face of tremendous changes. While a number of risks remain and the market faces new challenges from COVID-19 variants, delayed re-openings and higher commodity prices, investors are aware there are timely and relevant opportunities for companies poised to take advantage of the ever-evolving economy. As Oppenheimer continues to build on its powerful reputation of thought leadership across sectors, we welcome all attending our 25th Annual Technology, Internet and Communications Conference."
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) _ RadNet Inc. (RDNT) on Tuesday reported profit of $7.9 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Los Angeles-based company said it had profit of 13 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 15 cents per share.
The operator of medical diagnostic imaging centers posted revenue of $354.4 million in the period.
RadNet expects full-year revenue in the range of $1.36 billion to $1.41 billion.
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TORONTO, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Hydro One Limited (TSX: H), announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend to common shareholders of $0.2796 per share to be paid on September 29, 2022 to shareholders of record on September 14, 2022.
Unless indicated otherwise, all common share dividends paid by Hydro One Limited to shareholders are designated as "eligible" dividends for the purpose of the Income Tax Act (Canada) and any similar provincial legislation. Such quarterly dividends, unless and until changed, are only payable as and when declared by Hydro One Limited's Board of Directors and there is no entitlement to any dividend prior thereto.
Hydro One Limited, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, is Ontario's largest electricity transmission and distribution provider with approximately 1.5 million valued customers, approximately $30.4 billion in assets as at December 31, 2021, and annual revenues in 2021 of approximately $7.2 billion.
Our team of approximately 9,300 skilled and dedicated employees proudly build and maintain a safe and reliable electricity system which is essential to supporting strong and successful communities. In 2021, Hydro One invested approximately $2.1 billion in its transmission and distribution networks, and supported the economy through buying approximately $1.7 billion of goods and services.
We are committed to the communities where we live and work through community investment, sustainability and diversity initiatives. We are designated as a Sustainable Electricity Company by the Canadian Electricity Association.
Hydro One Limited's common shares are listed on the TSX and certain of Hydro One Inc.'s medium term notes are listed on the NYSE. Additional information can be accessed at www.hydroone.com, www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov.
For more information about everything Hydro One, please visit www.HydroOne.com where you can find additional information including links to securities filings, historical financial reports, and information about the Company's governance practices, corporate social responsibility, customer solutions, and further information about its business.
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Platform offers free data storage for backups, collaboration, and file sharing.
PALM BAY, FL / ACCESSWIRE / August 8, 2022 / Sollensys Corp (OTCQB:SOLS), one of the first major cybersecurity companies built on blockchain technology, today announced the launch of a new remote data storage and file sharing platform developed for consumers and professionals. Sollensys' goal is to provide an easy-to-use and low-cost data sharing platform which allows individuals and businesses to manage remote copies of their data files. The platform is compatible with Sollensys' private blockchain known as Sollensium and allows the user to choose their own level of security protection for their data.
The Store and Share platform is available at:
The new platform is a free, robust, feature-packed file data storage and sharing service that allows users to store up to 15 gigabytes of multiple file types at no cost, even video, with an option to upgrade to full blockchain protection with a digital safety deposit box and/or additional storage capacity. The blockchain option functions as a immutable data archive that securely recalls a perfect copy of a customers unviewed, uncorrupted, and unchanged data from any browser.
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Large corporations, with a need for deep data security and with significant resources, have been utilizing state-of-the-art blockchain technology to secure their most valuable digital assets. However, many smaller businesses and individuals cannot afford to deploy blockchain to safeguard their own data, leaving them the less desirable option of uploading their data to far less secure cloud-based solutions. This disparity, created by costs and access to computational horsepower, affords unlimited and immutable data security to a select few large corporate giants and government agencies, while no such general purpose, easy-to-access solutions exists for the masses.
"The mission of our company is to democratize blockchain technology and create a safer world. In many cases, cybercriminals are looking to create chaos and uncertainty by hijacking what's important to you or your profession, whether it's something you cannot recreate like a video of a baby's first steps or something difficult to replace like customer contact files," said Don Beavers, CEO of Sollensys Corp. "We built a new platform that offers an easy to use drag and drop user interface that works with every browser and every file type. Sollensys is dedicated to bringing the typically expensive, high-end data solutions to individual consumers in an affordable and efficient manner. There is no reason that consumers cannot have the same access and security as the Fortune 500. Today we are excited to introduce our new store and share platform. Consumers can choose their own level of protection, including the opportunity to affordably bring the impenetrable vault of blockchain security to one of the most popular and needed applications used by individuals and small business."
ABOUT SOLLENSYS CORP
Sollensys Corp is a math, science, technology, and engineering solutions company offering products that ensure its clients' data integrity through collection, storage, and transmission. Our innovative flagship product is the Blockchain Archive Server, a turnkey, off-the-shelf, blockchain solution that works with virtually any hardware and software combinations currently used in commerce, without the need to replace or eliminate any part of the client's data security that is being utilized. The Company recently introduced its second product offering-the Regional Service Center-which offers small businesses the same state of the art technology previously available only to large or very well-funded companies.
The Blockchain Archive Server encrypts, fragments, and distributes data across thousands of secure nodes every day, which makes it virtually impossible for hackers to compromise. Using blockchain technology, the Blockchain Archive Server maintains a redundant, secure and immutable backup of data. Redundant backups and the blockchain work together to assure not only the physical security of the database but also the integrity of the information held within.
The Blockchain Archive Server protects client data from "ransomware"-malicious software that infects your computer and displays messages demanding a fee to be paid for your system to work again. Blockchain technology is a leading-edge tool for data security, providing an added layer of security against data loss due to all types of software specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system (i.e., malware).
Uniquely, the Blockchain Archive Server is a turn-key solution that can stand alone or seamlessly integrate into an existing data infrastructure to quickly recover from a cyber-attack. The Blockchain Archive Server is a server that comes pre-loaded with the blockchain-powered cybersecurity software, which can be delivered, installed, and integrated into a client's computer systems with ease.
For more information, please visit: https://www.sollensys.com and http://www.sollensium.com.
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At least eight people have died in and around Seoul, South Korea overnight, after torrential rain knocked out power, caused landslides and left roads and subways submerged.
The southern part of the national capital received more than 100 millimetres of rain per hour on late Monday, with some parts of the city hit with 141.5 millimetres, the heaviest rainfall in decades, according to Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA).
President Yoon Suk-yeol on Tuesday visited a semi-basement apartment where three family members had died the night before after swift moving flood waters filled the space.
The dangers of such underground flats, called banjiha, were famously depicted in a flooding scene in the 2020 Oscar-winning film Parasite.
Mr Yoon told the area’s residents he would try to ensure their lives returned to normal as quickly as possible, and he instructed officials to look at measures to better ensure housing safety, according to a statement from his office.
At least five people had died in Seoul and three others in the neighbouring Gyeonggi Province by early Tuesday, the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters said.
Four, including the three family members, had died after being drowned in flooded buildings, one was believed to have been electrocuted, another person was found under the wreckage of a bus stop, and the others two died in a landslide, it said.
At least nine people were injured, while seven were missing.
The heaviest rain ever measured in the history of Seoul, pop 25 million.
This is what happens when you warm a planet pic.twitter.com/mGabbUHjPK— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) August 9, 2022
In the glitzy, dense Gangnam district, some buildings and stores were flooded and were without power, while cars, buses and subway stations were submerged, leaving people stranded.
Data showed at least 765 facilities had been damaged. About 52 highways and roads have been blocked.
About 391 people were displaced in the greater Seoul area, most of whom had to stay at local schools and gyms. A further 399 had temporarily moved to community centres and schools, according to the data.
The headquarters raised the crisis alert to the highest and requested organisations adjust their working hours.
The KMA issued heavy rain warnings across the capital and the metropolitan area of 26 million as well parts of Gangwon and Chungcheong Province.
The KMA expects heavy rainfall for the central part of the country to continue until at least Wednesday.
South Korea often experiences heavy rains in summer, but “such sharp increase in precipitation and frequent torrential rains cannot be explained without the big trend of climate change,” a KMA official, who spoke in condition of anonymity, told Reuters.
“This phenomenon is seen occurring more often due to climate change that has resulted in a prolonged summer.” | https://thenewdaily.com.au/weather/2022/08/09/eight-dead-torrential-rain-seoul/ | 2022-08-09T11:15:54Z | https://thenewdaily.com.au/weather/2022/08/09/eight-dead-torrential-rain-seoul/ | true | 1 |
Profit margins for tillage farmers are under threat from the high fertiliser prices at present, the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has warned.
Speaking this morning (Tuesday, August 9), Kieran McEvoy, the association’s grain chairperson, noted that, so far, decent crop yields and output prices have helped farmers stave off the increase in input costs.
Notwithstanding that, he highlighted that future output prices for 2023 are set to be lower than in 2022, while fertiliser prices show no signs of a meaningful decrease.
“Satisfactory yields and higher prices have enabled farmers to weather the input cost surge in 2022. However, at present, future prices are €40/t to €50/t lower than 2022 and fertiliser prices on the whole will be higher for next season.
“Any further falls in world grain markets after planting this autumn will leave margins very tight or non-existent,” McEvoy claimed.
So far this year, he noted, weather conditions have given rise to a good harvest in general.
“A warm, dry month of July ensured grain moistures were much lower than normal and straw has been easier to bale. After a mixed winter barley harvest, yields have improved for other crops,” the IFA grain chair explained.
“Winter oilseed rape is yielding 15% better than is perhaps typical. This is positive news given the 4,500 extra hectares planted last autumn.”
He said that winter barley, winter oats and winter oilseed rape are now all complete, except for some small pockets in the country, with farmers moving towards the harvesting of spring crops this week.
Approximately 35% of the national area has now been harvested, with farmers just starting into winter and spring barely.
According to McEvoy, the spell of good weather will likely see spring barley being cut more widely in south Leinster, while the wheat harvest will also commence in the mid-eastern counties. However, it is too early for an assessment on winter wheat and spring barely yields, he said.
“Progress is greater in the south and southeast, which is to be expected with the harvest of spring barely underway in the last few days. Rainfall has hindered harvesting progress for some farmers in Co. Donegal.”
In terms of output prices, McEvoy remarked: “Prices remain volatile, especially with news of grain vessels leaving Ukraine last week. They have fallen significantly throughout the summer, but current prices still remain at historically high levels.”
He welcomed the uptake of the Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM), noting that some 52,000ha has been chopped under the scheme, and highlighted that some farmers are chopping additional straw outside of the scheme this year to reduce offtake of phosphorus and potassium nutrients. | https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/ifa-highlights-fertiliser-price-threat-to-tillage-margins/ | 2022-08-09T11:16:04Z | https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/ifa-highlights-fertiliser-price-threat-to-tillage-margins/ | true | 2 |
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