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Bank OZK (NASDAQ:OZK) went down by -0.64% from its latest closing price compared to the recent 1-year high of $51.39. The company’s stock price has collected -0.10% of loss in the last five trading sessions.
Is It Worth Investing in Bank OZK (NASDAQ :OZK) Right Now?
Bank OZK (NASDAQ:OZK) scored a price-to-earnings ratio above its average ratio, recording 8.97 x from its present earnings ratio. Plus, the 36-month beta value for OZK is at 1.55. Opinions of the stock are interesting as 3 analysts out of 9 who provided ratings for Bank OZK declared the stock was a “buy,” while 1 rated the stock as “overweight,” 5 rated it as “hold,” and 0 as “sell.”
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The average price from analysts is $53.22, which is $13.37 above the current price. OZK currently public float of 121.57M and currently shorts hold a 2.32% ratio of that float. Today, the average trading volume of OZK was 715.74K shares.
OZK’s Market Performance
OZK stocks went down by -0.10% for the week, with a monthly drop of -11.33% and a quarterly performance of -19.97%, while its annual performance rate touched 0.65%. The volatility ratio for the week stands at 2.36% while the volatility levels for the past 30 days are set at 2.83% for Bank OZK. The simple moving average for the period of the last 20 days is -5.94% for OZK stocks with a simple moving average of -9.82% for the last 200 days.
Analysts’ Opinion of OZK
Many brokerage firms have already submitted their reports for OZK stocks, with Wells Fargo repeating the rating for OZK by listing it as a “Overweight.” The predicted price for OZK in the upcoming period, according to Wells Fargo is $55 based on the research report published on June 04th of the previous year 2021.
Raymond James, on the other hand, stated in their research note that they expect to see OZK reach a price target of $28. The rating they have provided for OZK stocks is “Outperform” according to the report published on June 17th, 2020.
Citigroup gave a rating of “Neutral” to OZK, setting the target price at $26 in the report published on June 17th of the previous year.
OZK Trading at -10.34% from the 50-Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought OZK to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -22.03% of loss for the given period.
Volatility was left at 2.83%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 2.36%, as shares sank -10.78% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading -15.80% lower at present.
During the last 5 trading sessions, OZK fell by -0.10%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by -4.96% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $42.36. In addition, Bank OZK saw -13.88% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further losses.
Stock Fundamentals for OZK
Current profitability levels for the company are sitting at:
- +63.52 for the present operating margin
The net margin for Bank OZK stands at +48.78. Equity return is now at value 12.90, with 2.20 for asset returns.
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Driver ejected from car during deadly rollover crash in north Harris County
A driver died after he was ejected from his vehicle during a rollover crash in north Harris County, the sheriff’s office says.
The two-car crash occurred shortly after midnight Friday on the North Freeway service road, approaching the intersection of Rankin Road.
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Authorities say a gray Toyota was in a northbound left-turn lane, and a white Honda Accord was traveling behind it.
According to HCSO, the driver of the Honda struck the back left of the Toyota. After the impact, the Honda rolled over multiple times and came to a stop upside down.
The sheriff’s office says the driver of the Honda was not secured in a seatbelt, and he was ejected from the vehicle as it rolled over.
The Honda driver was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities say.
According to HCSO, the driver of the Toyota exhibited clues of being intoxicated and was arrested for DWI. However, investigators say he was not the at-fault driver in the crash.
The crash remains under investigation by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
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The Brooklyn subway shooting suspect has been denied bail. 4 survivors are still in the hospital
(CNN) - Four survivors were still hospitalized Thursday, two days after a mass shooting on a subway train left New Yorkers badly shaken and forced a reckoning over passenger security on the largest public transportation system in the country.
Mayor Eric Adams is due to hold a virtual news conference Friday to thank frontline workers for their handling of the shooting and its aftermath.
In court Thursday, Frank James, 62, was denied bail and did not enter a plea on charges of violating a law that prohibits terrorism and violent attacks on mass transportation. He was arrested a day earlier in Manhattan’s East Village after calling in a tip to police; hours earlier, a teenager had called Crime Stoppers to report seeing him.
Police say James boarded a train during Tuesday morning’s rush in Brooklyn, set off smoke grenades and fired a gun 33 times, shooting 10 people.
Twenty-nine people were sent to hospitals, including the 10 who were shot and 19 others who suffered injuries mostly related to smoke inhalation, falling down or having a panic attack, officials said. The four people still hospitalized Thursday were in stable condition, according to hospital representatives.
While officials have not released a motive for one of the most violent attacks to occur on the city’s subway system, they have pointed to YouTube videos in which James shares his views on violence, mass shootings and mental health.
James, who’s Black, says in the videos that he suffered from post-traumatic stress and supported hatred of African Americans and other people he believed had maligned him. In a video posted in February, he criticizes a plan by Adams’ administration to address safety and homelessness in the subway, saying it was “doomed to fail.”
City officials want to enhance security in the subway system, the mayor told CNN on Wednesday, noting the process would entail examining technology that could detect whether somebody is carrying a gun.
“But it is extremely challenging to identify every person that enters the subway system because of the vastness of our system,” he said.
On the day of the shooting, more than 3 million people rode the system, which also includes passengers who used the Staten Island Railway, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Prosecutors: Attack was ‘carefully planned’
At James’ hearing Thursday, Assistant US Attorney Sara Winik described the attack as “premeditated and carefully planned.”
Prosecutors also argued James was a flight risk and a danger to the community, according to a letter submitted by US Attorney Breon Peace to a federal judge.
“The defendant committed a premediated mass shooting on the New York City subway system and then fled the scene, with a stockpile of ammunition and other dangerous items stowed in his storage unit,” the letter says.
Defense attorney Mia Eisner-Grynberg cautioned against a rush to judgment.
“We are all still learning about what happened on that train,” she said outside the courthouse. “What we do know is this: Yesterday, Mr. James saw his photograph on the news. He called Crime Stoppers to help. He told them where he was. Initial press and police reports in cases like this one are often inaccurate. Mr. James is entitled to a fair trial, and we will ensure that he receives one.”
The shooting James is accused of carrying out took place as a train was traveling from the 59th Street station to 36th Street station in Brooklyn just before 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.
The suspected shooter was wearing a yellow hard hat, an orange reflective jacket and a surgical mask as he set off at least one smoke device and began shooting at people with a Glock pistol, according to a criminal complaint. Witnesses saw the suspect wearing a gas mask, the complaint stated.
Passengers tried to escape the smoke engulfing the train by running to one end of the car.
The doors wouldn’t open until two minutes later, when the train reached the 36th Street station, and passengers fled the train as the smoke followed them, video shows.
Other victims with bloody wounds fell to the platform as they shouted for medical care. Blood streaked the subway platform, with people sitting and lying on the platform, photos taken at the scene show.
The evidence connecting the suspect to the shooting
James was initially named a person of interest after authorities determined he rented a U-Haul van whose keys were found at the scene. Investigators declared him a suspect Wednesday morning after they learned he bought a gun that was left at the scene.
Authorities found a bag containing the Glock handgun, a plastic container with gasoline, a torch, the U-Haul key and multiple bank cards, as well as another bag containing fireworks, the complaint states.
James bought the gun in Ohio in 2011, the bank cards had James’ name on them and the U-Haul key was connected to a van James had rented in Philadelphia, according to the complaint.
A neon construction jacket left on the subway platform had a receipt for a storage unit in Philadelphia registered to James, the complaint states.
Federal prosecutors believe he went to the storage facility filled with ammunition and weapons the evening before the attack, according to court documents. A search of the unit revealed additional ammunition and “a threaded 9mm pistol barrel that allows for a silencer or suppressor to be attached.”
Hours before James was arrested, Jack Griffin, 17, said he was on a field trip with his high school photography class when he spotted the suspect sitting on a bench on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Griffin submitted the tip to NYPD’s Crime Stoppers around 10:30 a.m. And although James wasn’t captured for several more hours, the NYPD later told him the tip helped narrow their net of his whereabouts, he said.
“It’s crazy,” he said. “I was looking for things to shoot (with a camera), and I found probably one of the most wanted people.”
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Batch processing is a powerful process for applying the same operations to a set of inputs—raw text, images, and more—as a set that's cycled through instead of manually, one at a time. The first batch implementation arguably dates back to 1890, with the first punch-card-based processing of the U.S. Census. It's a constant theme in modern software, particularly when dealing with a group of like things, such as images in one file format and with the same starting parameters you need to convert.
Realmac Software's Squash is a single-minded batch-processing imaging app that offers configurable compression along with automatic application of image correction, color and monochrome grading effects, and stripping out metadata. If you work with lots of images regularly, it could hit the spot with the combination of simplicity, power, and price. Version 3, released in August 2021, is a dramatically more full-featured app than Squash 2, which solely compressed images quickly.
I've used batch-processing tools in other image editors, like Photoshop, Lightroom, and Graphic Converter. They require and reward extensive study of their options, but perhaps you didn't set out to get a master's degree in Photoshop batch operations. Squash works with drag-and-drop, switches, and sliders, and offers a built-in preview. You can import a large number of images and process them all the same way, or select sets of as few as one to apply separate corrections. (Squash references the images on import; it doesn't copy them.)
The power of many utilities is in reducing choice instead of multiplying it. Squash's processing sidebar lists Resize, Adjustments, Effects, Borders, Watermark, Compress, Metadata, Rename, Retain Dates, and Export. That's it.
Exporting happened almost instantly with my testing on an M1 Mac mini. I had applied resizing, effects, adjustments, compression, and a watermark. There was hardly time to know it had started when a sprightly sound indicated its completion. Some people online have found Squash's sound effects too invasive; I did not but you can disable them in Squash Settings. There's also a seemingly out-of-nowhere Zen menu that lets you choose to play pleasant repetitive background sounds and chants.
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If you use Squash's core features, you may use the Resize option to pick a maximum width or height, or use a fixed percentage reduction; perform some minimal adjustment to punch up the images; and then pick a file format in Compress (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, or AVIF) and compression algorithm or quality settings; and drop them in a directory specified in Export.
But there's a lot more you can do along the way. The preview window lets you select an image and view corrections, effects, compression, watermarks, borders, and other changes. (The company sells effects packs beyond a few included filters.) You can opt to use a split-screen slider to see the original and modified versions side by side or click and hold on an eye icon or press the space bar to preview changes. Previews also include a small lozenge that shows the original and target file format, resolution in pixels, and file size.
Squash strips metadata that identifies you by default. You can override this to allow either or both GPS Location (geotagging) or Camera Model in the Metadata pane. The Renaming pane is simpler than that found in most higher-end image processors but still lets you squash the name: you can renumber images and simplify the name for online use: set it all to lowercase and remove whitespace.
The watermark feature deserves a special callout, appropriate for its name. Squash builds in an array of possibilities for nature (image or text), background, color, opacity, padding, and position. You can tile an image or text across an image that you want to post or send but not allow someone to use it without your permission. You can even add multiple watermarks: you could tag it with a tiled tiny pattern or ID while also putting your copyright notice in a corner.
You might think at first—as I did—that this affordable powerhouse was missing a critical feature: a way to save your adjustments as a preset you could reuse. Presets exist but are hidden. The only way to find them is to click the sidebar icon (with no hover-over tooltip) to reveal a left-hand presets list. You can then click + Add Preset to save your currently selected combination of options. A little more exposure of presets would be welcome for new users.
With a preset selected, you can view effects and adjustments on a single image or while viewing an entire gallery you imported. Click on different presets to see the varying effects.
When preparing this review, Squash 3's documentation was thin and some parts were out date, despite the app shipping in August 2021. However, just before we published, Realmac fortuitously posted a brand-new online manual that includes a mix of menu explanations, feature walkthroughs, and instructional videos. The app is now backstopped in its non-intuitive parts with enough information to get over the hump.
The use of an orange on a cutting board as the app's icon might perplex North American users. Rather than squash as in American English, referring to gourds and pumpkins and the like, this app's squash refers to a concentrated fruit juice popular in the United Kingdom, often featuring citrus.
Squash costs $29 for a perpetual license with one year of updates; $39 includes that license plus a set of effects filters. It's also available in the Setapp subscription service. A trial version includes some features available perpetually without a purchase.
I recommend Squash without reservation for anyone processing images in bulk with particular requirements, especially if you don't own or want to learn higher-end software with a thousand other features.
Macworld reviewed Squash 2 for Mac Gems in 2017. All version 2 offered at the time was compression: no preview, adjustments, or other features. Our reviewer wrote, Squash for Mac is now the fastest, cheapest, and most versatile image optimization utility in town.
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A CHARITY memorial rugby match is set to be held in a North Yorkshire town to support a local hospice - in memory of two former players.
The Mo Stevenson Memorial Shield is set to be held at Scarborough Rugby Club on May 1 - and all proceeds raised will go towards supporting patient care at Saint Catherine's Hospice.
The fundraiser is held in memory of former players, Mo Stevenson and Keith Marshall.
On the day, there will be a tag rugby match between Staxton Cricket Club and Scarborough Valkyries, followed by a mixed senior game of past and present players, featuring Mo’s Marauders vs Keith’s Crushers.
A pre-match lunch will be served in the Qdos Suite priced at £15 per person.
A spokesperson for the event said: "Everyone associated with the club who has lost a loved one is welcome to book lunch or come along and be part of the day."
Refreshments will be available around the ground throughout the day - and commemorative t-shirts are also available to order at £10 each.
There will be fun for all the family with a bouncy castle, raffle and quiz on the day.
Entry to the event is free - and donations for the raffle prizes are welcome.
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It is with profound sadness that the family of Gary A. Davis announce his sudden passing on December 9, 2020 at the age of 73.
Gary was born in Flagstaff, Arizona on December 31, 1946 to Glenn D. Davis Jr. and Mary (Shockey) Davis. Gary grew up in Northern Arizona and graduated from Flagstaff High School in 1964. Upon graduating High School, he enlisted into the Army. He served as a Combat Engineer from 1964 - 1970 in Vietnam.
Gary returned to Arizona after his service and began working as a cowboy on various ranches in northern Arizona. Additionally, he operated heavy equipment most of his working career which led him to run his own small excavation business for several years. During his working years he also spent some time in Colorado, operating heavy equipment. After years of hard work, he was able to fulfill one of his dreams of owning and operating a cattle ranch in Northern Arizona. Gary was an exceptional Blacksmith and turned his love for blacksmithing from a hobby to a small business in his later years.
Gary had many passions in life. He loved the outdoors and anything that brought him to it. Sitting around a campfire would bring out his jokes and light hearted stories. He enjoyed hunting with family and friends. Gary had a keen eye for finding Indian artifacts where no one else could. In his retirement, Gary and Theresa spent many summers in upstate New York, where he was able to focus on his Blacksmithing, while enjoying the cool summers there.
Gary was well known for his intimidating stature, his kind heart, a strong sense of humor and full-bodied laugh. Gary's faith in the Lord brings comfort to those he has left behind, allowing us to know he is at peace.
Gary will be remembered and loved always; by his wife Theresa, children, grandchildren, great grandchild, mother, siblings, nieces, nephews and countless others that he has known in his life.
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TAMPA, Fla., April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA), the preeminent leader in one-to-one youth mentoring, appoints Ad Council Chief Equity Officer Elise James-DeCruise, and National Corn Growers Association Chief Executive Officer Jon Doggett to its Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Council, designed to support the organization's longstanding commitment to empower all young people.
James-DeCruise is an award-winning Learning & Development professional and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion practitioner with over 20 years of global experience in the marketing, strategy, design and delivery of programs and experiences for clients, partners and industry professionals within the workforce, marketplace and community. As CEO of the Ad Council, a leading nonprofit that uses the power of communications to drive social change, James-DeCruise oversees the organization's ongoing commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion – ultimately informing every aspect of the Ad Council's mission, workplace culture and public-facing communications.
Doggett brings a wealth of knowledge and public policy experience to the JEDI Council. Prior to becoming CEO of the National Corn Growers Association in 2018, Doggett served as the organization's executive vice president from 2014-2018, and prior to that he served as vice president of public policy for over 12 years, where he managed the organization's Washington, D.C. office and led its public policy efforts.
"I am pleased to welcome Elise and Jon to Big Brothers Big Sisters' JEDI Council. Their collective experience in public policy and diversity, equity and inclusion are welcome additions to the council," said Interim JEDI Council Co-Chair Jana Brown. "I look forward to working alongside them to create more equitable outcomes for the Big Brothers Big Sisters workforce, community, and young people."
Founded in 2021, BBBSA's JEDI Council supports the organization's long-standing commitment to empower all youth. The group, made up of business and nonprofit leaders and experts, brings their expertise and compassion to BBBSA to cultivate strategies, curate concepts, and advise on JEDI issues affecting young people, staff, volunteers, and communities across the country. The formation of this cohort is part of BBBSA's responsibility to create a nondiscriminatory and anti-racist approach to dismantle any inequities within its policies, systems, programs, and services, so all young people can experience a strong mentoring relationship in their lives.
"With youth empowerment at the center of all we do, BBBSA is committed to tailoring our approach to meet the diverse and evolving needs of the young people we serve. The JEDI Council helps us make sure that we continue to pursue our values of upholding justice, equity, diversity and inclusion," said Big Brothers Big Sisters of America President and CEO Artis Stevens. "I am grateful to Elise and Jon for sharing their invaluable expertise with us and look forward to working with them as new members of the JEDI Council."
"I am thrilled to bring my expertise to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America as a new member of the JEDI Council," said Ad Council Chief Equity Officer Elise James-DeCruise. "The organization's commitment to providing a fulfilling and equitable experience for Bigs and Littles is commendable. I look forward to working with the JEDI Council to help Big Brothers Big Sisters examine and enhance its policies and practices to best support the communities they serve."
"I am beyond excited to join Big Brothers Big Sisters of America's JEDI Council," said National Corn Growers Association Chief Executive Officer Jon Doggett. "The nonprofit has an outstanding reputation and I look forward to sharing my public policy experience to help the organization be the most diverse, mission-driven, youth empowerment organization in the country."
To learn more about Big Brothers Big Sisters of America's JEDI Council visit: https://www.bbbs.org/justice-equity-diversity-inclusion/.
About Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Founded in 1904, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is the largest and most experienced youth mentoring organization in the United States. The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. Big Brothers Big Sisters' evidence-based approach is designed to create positive youth outcomes, including educational success, avoidance of risky behaviors, higher aspirations, greater confidence, and improved relationships. Big Brothers Big Sisters has over 230 local agencies serving more than 5,000 communities across all 50 states. For more information, visit: www.bigbrothersbigsisters.org.
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Music and lifestyle festival Splashy Fen Music Festival has finally kicked off in the rolling hills of Underberg.
Music and lifestyle festival Splashy Fen Music Festival has finally kicked off in the rolling hills of Underberg.
There is a clear buzz of excitement in the air as the festival returns after a two-year Covid-break for its 31st edition.
Over 150 local acts are set to play across four stages over the next four days.
The musical line-up includes the likes of FREDDY-L, The Kickstands, Angel Mazibuko, Dawn Melanie, Umenzi Mbonambi, Nish Pillay, and more. Fans can also look forward to a thrilling Silent Disco on the main stage.
An updated venue layout boasts strategically designated and decorated areas for all to enjoy entertainment and chill zones, craft stalls and artisanal food vendors.
There are separate camping areas for families, teepee owners, general happy campers, and those who prefer something a bit less rustic at the Harambee Tented Village.
The ever-popular Corona River Stage on Friday will open with live music, fresh food, river frolicking, chill zones, and more of the Splashy Fen vibes that fans have been missing out on.
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At the end of the latest market close, Kilroy Realty Corporation (KRC) was valued at $74.79. In that particular session, Stock kicked-off at the price of $74.98 while reaching the peak value of $75.67 and lowest value recorded on the day was $74.25. The stock current value is $74.40.Recently in News on April 4, 2022, Kilroy Realty Announces Date for First Quarter 2022 Earnings Release and Conference Call. Kilroy Realty Corporation (NYSE: KRC, “Kilroy”) announced today it will release first quarter 2022 financial results after the market closes on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. The company will hold a conference call to discuss the results at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 28, 2022. You can read further details here
Kilroy Realty Corporation had a pretty favorable run when it comes to the market performance. The 1-year high price for the company’s stock is recorded $79.06 on 03/29/22, with the lowest value was $60.37 for the same time period, recorded on 01/28/22.
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Kilroy Realty Corporation (KRC) full year performance was 10.32%
Price records that include history of low and high prices in the period of 52 weeks can tell a lot about the stock’s existing status and the future performance. Presently, Kilroy Realty Corporation shares are logging -5.89% during the 52-week period from high price, and 23.24% higher than the lowest price point for the same timeframe. The stock’s price range for the 52-week period managed to maintain the performance between $60.37 and $79.06.
The company’s shares, operating in the sector of Real Estate managed to top a trading volume set approximately around 619679 for the day, which was evidently lower, when compared to the average daily volumes of the shares.
When it comes to the year-to-date metrics, the Kilroy Realty Corporation (KRC) recorded performance in the market was 11.95%, having the revenues showcasing 5.41% on a quarterly basis in comparison with the same period year before. At the time of this writing, the total market value of the company is set at 8.68B, as it employees total of 244 workers.
Market experts do have their say about Kilroy Realty Corporation (KRC)
During the last month, 10 analysts gave the Kilroy Realty Corporation a BUY rating, 1 of the polled analysts branded the stock as an OVERWEIGHT, 4 analysts were recommending to HOLD this stock, 0 of them gave the stock UNDERWEIGHT rating, and 0 of the polled analysts provided SELL rating.
According to the data provided on Barchart.com, the moving average of the company in the 100-day period was set at 69.68, with a change in the price was noted +4.78. In a similar fashion, Kilroy Realty Corporation posted a movement of +6.87% for the period of last 100 days, recording 712,361 in trading volumes.
Total Debt to Equity Ratio (D/E) can also provide valuable insight into the company’s financial health and market status. The debt to equity ratio can be calculated by dividing the present total liabilities of a company by shareholders’ equity. Debt to Equity thus makes a valuable metrics that describes the debt, company is using in order to support assets, correlating with the value of shareholders’ equity The total Debt to Equity ratio for KRC is recording 0.75 at the time of this writing. In addition, long term Debt to Equity ratio is set at 0.75.
Technical breakdown of Kilroy Realty Corporation (KRC)
Raw Stochastic average of Kilroy Realty Corporation in the period of last 50 days is set at 66.71%. The result represents improvement in oppose to Raw Stochastic average for the period of the last 20 days, recording 39.48%. In the last 20 days, the company’s Stochastic %K was 38.48% and its Stochastic %D was recorded 34.43%.
Bearing in mind the latest performance of Kilroy Realty Corporation, several moving trends are noted. Year-to-date Price performance of the company’s stock appears to be pessimistic, given the fact the metric is recording 11.95%. Additionally, trading for the stock in the period of the last six months notably improved by 7.37%, alongside a boost of 10.32% for the period of the last 12 months. The shares increased approximately by 2.34% in the 7-day charts and went up by 0.96% in the period of the last 30 days. Common stock shares were driven by 5.41% during last recorded quarter. | https://investchronicle.com/2022/04/15/kilroy-realty-corporation-krc-investors-are-paying-attention-to-this-stock/ | 2022-04-15T14:22:28Z | https://investchronicle.com/2022/04/15/kilroy-realty-corporation-krc-investors-are-paying-attention-to-this-stock/ | true | 19675 |
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's unemployment rate dropped by two-tenths of a point in March to 4.9%, another indication the state's jobs picture continues to strengthen.
The Labor and Industry Department said Friday the decrease mirrored the national picture, as U.S. joblessness fell by the same fraction, to 3.6%.
The labor force continued to grow, with nonfarm payrolls up by nearly 16,000 to some 5.9 million. Increases were seen widely across employment categories. Professional and business services led the growth with a gain of 7,600.
Pennsylvania unemployment is now 2.2 percentage points below where it was one year ago. Leisure and hospitality businesses have added 70,000 jobs over the past 12 months.
Labor and Industry Secretary Jennifer Berrier says the state “continues to rebound strongly” from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pennsylvania's labor force peaked at almost 6.6 million just before the pandemic began. | https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Pennsylvania-s-unemployment-rate-drops-to-4-9-17083080.php | 2022-04-15T14:23:21Z | https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Pennsylvania-s-unemployment-rate-drops-to-4-9-17083080.php | false | 12 |
For the readers interested in the stock health of MasTec Inc. (MTZ). It is currently valued at $79.75. When the transactions were called off in the previous session, Stock hit the highs of $80.33, after setting-off with the price of $78.90. Company’s stock value dipped to $77.465 during the trading on the day. When the trading was stopped its value was $78.60.Recently in News on March 30, 2022, MasTec Announces the Appointment of Ava L. Parker to its Board of Directors. MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ) today announced that Ms. Ava L. Parker has joined MasTec’s board of directors as a Class III Director. You can read further details here
MasTec Inc. had a pretty Dodgy run when it comes to the market performance. The 1-year high price for the company’s stock is recorded $99.00 on 01/05/22, with the lowest value was $71.85 for the same time period, recorded on 03/07/22.
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MasTec Inc. (MTZ) full year performance was -21.54%
Price records that include history of low and high prices in the period of 52 weeks can tell a lot about the stock’s existing status and the future performance. Presently, MasTec Inc. shares are logging -34.81% during the 52-week period from high price, and 11.00% higher than the lowest price point for the same timeframe. The stock’s price range for the 52-week period managed to maintain the performance between $71.85 and $122.33.
The company’s shares, operating in the sector of Industrials managed to top a trading volume set approximately around 611362 for the day, which was evidently lower, when compared to the average daily volumes of the shares.
When it comes to the year-to-date metrics, the MasTec Inc. (MTZ) recorded performance in the market was -13.58%, having the revenues showcasing -15.58% on a quarterly basis in comparison with the same period year before. At the time of this writing, the total market value of the company is set at 6.02B, as it employees total of 27000 workers.
Specialists analysis on MasTec Inc. (MTZ)
According to the data provided on Barchart.com, the moving average of the company in the 100-day period was set at 88.16, with a change in the price was noted -21.23. In a similar fashion, MasTec Inc. posted a movement of -21.02% for the period of last 100 days, recording 635,370 in trading volumes.
Total Debt to Equity Ratio (D/E) can also provide valuable insight into the company’s financial health and market status. The debt to equity ratio can be calculated by dividing the present total liabilities of a company by shareholders’ equity. Debt to Equity thus makes a valuable metrics that describes the debt, company is using in order to support assets, correlating with the value of shareholders’ equity The total Debt to Equity ratio for MTZ is recording 0.79 at the time of this writing. In addition, long term Debt to Equity ratio is set at 0.74.
Trends and Technical analysis: MasTec Inc. (MTZ)
Raw Stochastic average of MasTec Inc. in the period of last 50 days is set at 34.13%. The result represents improvement in oppose to Raw Stochastic average for the period of the last 20 days, recording 21.56%. In the last 20 days, the company’s Stochastic %K was 19.95% and its Stochastic %D was recorded 22.37%.
Now, considering the stocks previous presentation, multiple moving trends are noted. Year-to-date Price performance of the company’s stock appears to be encouraging, given the fact the metric is recording -13.58%. Additionally, trading for the stock in the period of the last six months notably deteriorated by -8.03%, alongside a downfall of -21.54% for the period of the last 12 months. The shares increased approximately by 1.21% in the 7-day charts and went up by -7.19% in the period of the last 30 days. Common stock shares were lifted by -15.58% during last recorded quarter. | https://investchronicle.com/2022/04/15/the-countdown-is-on-mastec-inc-mtz/ | 2022-04-15T14:23:58Z | https://investchronicle.com/2022/04/15/the-countdown-is-on-mastec-inc-mtz/ | true | 19675 |
A reported Liverpool transfer target could be set for a move to the Bundesliga after Borussia Dortmund reportedly made ‘a breakthorugh’ in their negotiations with the player’s club.
Karim Adeyemi, who is understood to have been on Jurgen Klopp’s radar for some time, could be moving to the Bundesliga next season with Sky Sports Germany claiming that Dortmund have reached an agreement over a fee with Austrian side Red Bull Salzburg.
However, that does not mean that the chances of the striker moving to Anfield are dead in the water, if the Reds decide to match or better the offer made by the German side.
Here is everything you need to know about the player and what has been reported in today’s news:
Who is Karim Adeyemi? German international striker linked with Liverpool
Karim Adeyemi is a 20-year old German striker who currently plays for Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga.
Born in Munich, the forward spent time in the youth academies of TSV Forstenried, Bayern Munich, SpVgg Unterhaching and Red Bull Salzburg before making his senior breakthrough with Die Roten Bullen in 2019.
Before that he spent time on loan at Austrian second division side FC Liefering, making 35 first team appearances and scoring 15 goals between 2018 and 2020.
He broke into the senior team at Salzburg in the 2019-20 season where he played 12 times and scored once.
Since then he has established himself as a regular starter and has scored an incredible 20 goals in 38 games this season despite only being 20-years old.
He has also won two league titles with the Austrian outfit, winning the Austrian Bundesliga in the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons as well as the Austrian Cup twice in the same two campaigns.
On the international stage Adeyemi turned out for Germany at U16, U17 and U21 level before earning his first senior cap in a 6–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification win over Armenia on September 5, 2021.
He scored on his international debut, netting Germany’s sixth goal in injury time.
Since then he has won two more caps for his country.
At youth level, he was also part of the Germany U21 side that won the 2021 UEFA European U21 Championship.
What has been reported about Karim Adeyemi signing for Borussia Dortmund? Can Liverpool still do a deal?
Sky Sports Germany are reporting that Borussia Dortmund have ‘made a breakthrough’ in their negotiations with Red Bull Salzburg but “the deal for the German national player is still shaky”.
The article, translated from German to English, reads: “According to Sky information, RB Salzburg and Borussia Dortmund have reached a basic agreement in the chewing gum negotiations about shooting star Karim Adeyemi (20). After several rounds of talks, there was finally a breakthrough between the clubs this week.”
It looks like a fee of around €35 million (roughly £29 million) is what it has taken from Dortmund for Salzburg to accept.
Crucially, the same article also reports that Adeyemi is still in talks with Liverpool as well as RB Leipzig Paris Saint Germain. | https://www.liverpoolworld.uk/sport/football/liverpool/liverpool-target-borussia-dortmund-breakthrough-3656457 | 2022-04-15T14:27:39Z | https://www.liverpoolworld.uk/sport/football/liverpool/liverpool-target-borussia-dortmund-breakthrough-3656457 | false | 1 |
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Loop Media, Inc.: Cassidy Bruce A. Sr. (Director, 10%+) (Form4)
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Musselburgh Racecourse rises to Easter occasion with ultra-competitive Queen’s Cup
Musselburgh Racecourse’s feature race in tomorrow’s opening meeting of the Flat season has attracted an ultra-competitive maximum 14-strong field.
Scottish owner Douglas Livingston will be hoping for two-in-a-row in the £100,000 Betway Queen’s Cup with last year’s winner of this 1m 6f contest Themaxwecan entered from Mark Johnston’s Middleham Moor yard.
Johnston, now sharing the licence with son Charlie, is also represented in the big race by State Of Bliss and Soapy Stevens, and is bidding for a hat-trick in the Class 2 feature having also landed the 2019 renewal with Austrian School.
One of the likely market principles is Ian Williams-trained Enemy, who has been running in Group company in Dubai during the winter, while Zero Ten is a first Musselburgh representative on the Flat for Emmet Mullins, who landed the Grand National last Saturday with Noble Yeats.
Sir Rumi was second on his seasonal comeback at Doncaster recently and his Wiltshire trainer Richard Hannon has a 50 per cent strike-rate with his previous six runners at Musselburgh. Three Scottish runners, all trained by Keith Dalgleish, include Diocletian and Heights of Abraham, with the best potentially being course and distance scorer Alright Sunshine.
The Betway Easter Saturday meeting also features six other quality races on a card which boasts almost £240,000 in prize money.
In the five furlong sprint, the £50,000 Betway Holyrood Handicap (2.39pm), shrewd trainer Mick Appleby has high hopes for Raasel who is bidding to extend a winning sequence of five races including four at Nottingham. Uplawmoor-based Jim Goldie is double-handed with Call Me Ginger and Be Proud, while Dakota Gold’s trainer Michael Dods has made a decent start to the new turf campaign.
In the £30,000 Betway Royal Mile Handicap opener (1.32pm) Mark and Charlie Johnston are triple-handed with Value Theory, Spirit Catcher and Qipao, but having cost 325,000gns as a yearling, Kevin Ryan-trained Baikal catches the eye on his second appearance in handicap company.
The seven furlong Betway Musselburgh Silver Arrow Handicap (2.04pm) has a 10-strong field and Borders handler Katie Scott will fancy her chances with Gweedore as the Galashiels raider is a three-time winner at Musselburgh.
Tennis coach Judy Murray, a strong supporter of Musselburgh Racecourse, will present The Betway Queen’s Cup to the winning connections, and said: “It’s been two years since my last visit to Musselburgh and I can’t wait to go back.
“Whether you like a wee flutter or just looking for something different to do with friends or family over the Easter weekend, Musselburgh is a superb place to be and the Betway Easter Saturday meeting is one of the highlights of the year for me.”
Musselburgh Racecourse general manager, Bill Farnsworth, said: “The quality of entries across the seven races speaks for itself and with an excellent weather forecast, the stage is set for a fantastic opening to our Flat season. We can’t wait to get started.”
Gates open at 11.30am. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/other-sport/musselburgh-racecourse-rises-to-easter-occasion-with-ultra-competitive-queens-3656532 | 2022-04-15T14:33:48Z | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/other-sport/musselburgh-racecourse-rises-to-easter-occasion-with-ultra-competitive-queens-3656532 | false | 2 |
The rise of 'hun' culture! British women have adopted 'ordinary' stars like Alison Hammond and Gemma Collins as their poster girls because they're 'more relatable and self aware' than Hollywood A-listers, experts say
- 'Hun' culture (a slang abbreviation of honey) has become a huge online sensation in recent years with meme pages racking up millions of likes
- A hun is a celebrated 'ordinary woman' and the culture revolves around idolising 'relatable' women (known as huns) - including the likes of Alison Hammond
- Huns have grown in popularity because they appeals so widely because it represents the relatable, fun side of the British celebrity, say pop culture expert
If you like sipping on echo falls, wearing fluffy socks and going on your 'holibobs', - you might be a 'hun'.
'Hun' culture (a slang abbreviation of honey) has become a huge online sensation in recent years with meme pages popping up racking up millions of likes and followers.
A hun is a celebrated 'ordinary woman' and the culture revolves around idolising 'relatable' women (known as huns) - including the likes of Alison Hammond, Gemma Collins, Ruth Langsford and many female characters in EastEnders and Coronation Street.
Hun memes are huge on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok - where accounts including Love of Huns - have racked up more than 640,000 followers.
The page celebrates small luxuries and relatable daily feelings in an unashamedly self-aware British way. It is distinctively different to the American concept of a 'basic b****' and is a rebellion against the perfection of A-listers and influencers that dominate Instagram feeds, commentators say.
Huns have grown in popularity, says pop culture expert Nick Ede, because they appeals so widely because it represents the relatable, fun side of the British celebrity.
'Hun' culture (a slang abbreviation of honey) has become a huge online sensation in recent years with meme pages popping up racking up millions of likes and followers. A hun is a celebrated 'ordinary woman' and the culture revolves around idolising 'relatable' women (known as huns) - including the likes of Alison Hammond (left), Gemma Collins (right)and many female characters in EastEnders and Coronation Street.
Ruth Langsford attends the National Television Awards 2020 at The O2 Arena - she has been named as a 'hun'
Hun memes are huge on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok - where accounts including Love of Huns - have racked up more than 640,000 followers. One meme is pictured showing Alison Hammond in a pint
The page celebrates small luxuries and relatable daily feelings in an unashamedly self-aware British way. It is distinctively different to the American concept of a 'basic b****' and is a rebellion against the perfection of A-listers and influencers that dominate Instagram feeds, commentators say. Pictured, a meme from the Love of Hun page
'The reason that the rise of hun culture has been so popular is that its so unashamedly British,' Nick explained.
'Its taking the unpolished celebrity and creating a zeitgeist that is both laughing at them but also allowing them to get in on the joke.
'The fact that the [Instagram page ] Love of Huns is so big now that it has its most popular stars following and commenting means that its now become a platform that allows celebrities who most people would suggest are Z list to gain a cult appreciation and become idolised by those who knew of them when they first came out to people only just discovering them.'
'Stars like Patsy Palmer, Lisa Scott Lee, Gemma Collins and those sisters on the X factor who hit each other are now intrinsic parts of the fabric of British popular culture and we are now elevating them to become even more famous and even more relatable.
Iconic 'hun' moments are camp and often unintentional and include Gemma Collins falling through the stage when presenting an award to Love Island at the 2017 Radio 1 Teen Awards
Alison Hammond accidentally knocked in one of her male assistants into Liverpool's Albert Dock during a live segment on This Morning, an iconic 'hun' momemnt
The culture has been celebrated on hit BBC Three show Ru Paul's Drag Race, with the season 2 song 'U K Hun' becoming a huge viral success. One verse on the song - which celebrates LGBTQ culture - sung by Bimini Bon Boulash - was nominated for a Bafta. The United Kingdolls (Tayce, Bimini, Awhora and Lawrence Chaney are pictured)
Other characters described as 'huns' by internet users include Pam from Gavin & Stacey, Kat Slater from EastEnders, Katie Price and Nadine Coyle. Kat Slater actress Jessie Wallace is pictured at the National Television Awards in 2014
'And it's the relatability of them that's the thread that's set a hun well and above a Hollywood star.
'None of really care about an A list superstar falling over but Gemma Collins screaming LOVE ISLAND and nearly breaking her neck in the process of falling through a trap door is the stuff of legends and the way that celebrities like Gemma see the irony in it all as a playful jibe means that the irony makes them themselves iconic.
'It's a very clever sub culture and every celebrity wants to be a hun.
'Hun culture is not going away and its now becoming a brand in itself like Drag Race its about taking something that people may not necessarily think is relevant and making it a part of popular culture and I'm here for it and the memes'.
Iconic 'hun' moments are camp and often unintentional and include Gemma Collins falling through the stage when presenting an award to Love Island at the 2017 Radio 1 Teen Awards and Alison Hammond knocking a male assistant into Liverpool's Albert Dock while presenting This Morning's weather segment on floating map.
Other characters described as 'huns' by internet users include Pam from Gavin & Stacey, Kat Slater from EastEnders, Katie Price and Nadine Coyle.
There's also an element of nostalgia, with many hun memes reflecting on noughties fashion and TV shows. One recent post showed 'British noughties teen starter pack' with pictures of Paul's Boutique bag, Dream Matte Mousse, and pink flip phone and Mayfair cigarettes.
Another showed a tweet from parody account Tracy Beaker - a hit noughties TV show and book - which showed a picture of actress Ruth Gemmell in Brigerton reading: 'You all doubted me when I said my mum was a Hollywood actress'.
Being a hun, according to experts, means a unashamed, unironic love for reality TV, appreciating 'jeans and a nice top' and sipping on gin while you're Friday night takeaway is ordered.
It is mostly, a rebellion against perfect A-lister and influencer culture that's seen in Hollywood. It's an anti-Kardashian, very American perfection and instead it's about relatability - crying over your ex, popping to the corner shop in your slippers and getting excited for cocktails in a can.
'I can't relate to Instagram models sitting on a beach in Bora Bora drinking coconut water and nibbling on hair gummies,' the owner of the The Love Of Huns Instagram account told Vice . 'But I can relate to Daniela Westbrook leaving Greggs with a steak bake and not a care in the world x'.
There's also an element of nostalgia, with many hun memes reflecting on noughties fashion and TV shows. One recent post showed 'British noughties teen starter pack' with pictures of Paul's Boutique bag, Dream Matte Mousse, and pink flip phone and Mayfair cigarettes.
Nigella Lawson has baffled fans with her pronunciation of microwave as 'meecro-wah-vey' in the latest episode of her BBC2 cooking show Cook, Eat, Repeat last year - but it's now been branded a 'hun' moment
Another showed a tweet from parody account Tracy Beaker - a hit noughties TV show and book - which showed a picture of actress Ruth Gemmell in Brigerton reading: 'You all doubted me when I said my mum was a Hollywood actress'.
Writing in GQ, columnist Louis Staples added that hun culture is also made up of 'very niche' pop culture references - mostly from 2000s Britain - which gives huns a sense of 'being in on the joke'.
'From Kerry Katona in a kebab shop to Nadine Coyle lying about the age on her 'forgotten' passport while appearing on Irish Popstars too young, there's a sense of being 'in on the joke' that comes from being a hun expert,' he wrote.
The culture has been celebrated on hit BBC Three show Ru Paul's Drag Race, with the season 2 song 'U K Hun' becoming a huge viral success.
One verse on the song - which celebrates LGBTQ culture - sung by Bimini Bon Boulash - was nominated for a Bafta.
Sonia from EastEnders - played by Natalie Cassidy - is also touted as a 'hun'
While on Season One of the show, drag queen Vinegar Strokes entered the Werq Room and telling cameras 'I didn’t become just a little bit of a slag, I became a total slag' -
Elsewhere, wine-in-a-can brand HUN Wines cleverly tapped directly into the culture with their launch in 2020.
More recently, Deliveroo partnered with Love of Huns to create an Alison Hammond-inspired Hunny egg after the TV personality was voted the UK's number 1 hun.
To crown the nation's ultimate Easter Hunny, Deliveroo and Love of Huns ran an Instagram poll asking Love of Huns' followers to vote for their favourite hun.
Nostalgia and niche pop culture references are a huge part of hun culture - including Bang on the Door character Groovy Chick
It was a close call, with other top huns including, 'mee-cro-wah-vay' Bafta nominee Nigella Lawson, 'Elephant in the room' songstress, Alexandra Burke, 'You ain't my mother' Eastender, Kat Slater, as well as 'The Cheek, The Nerve, The Gall, The Audacity and The Gumption' Ru Paul's Drag Race icon, all in the running.
The hun is also different to other 'low' cultures - as its camp, and self-aware.
Pop culture writer Alim Kheraj told Vice there's a 'universal hun spirit, a joie de vivre that bonds huns together. Within that, a scale: from Benevolent Hun (Martine McCutcheon) to Changeable Hun (Kerry Katona) to Fuming Hun (Pat Butcher and Peggy Mitchell in one room).'
Writer Hannah Ewens added to Vice that it 'club of sorts is for British women and gay men what lad culture was for straight men from the 90s onwards. It's an excuse to share and celebrate your most base desires: booze, food and emotions, packaged in a self-aware, British way.... huns are supposed to be girlbosses, woke, highly-educated, plugged into the #discourse, able to joke about their Fleabag-esque messy qualities but have it under control, and want it all.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10712051/The-rise-hun-culture-relatable-woman-iconic-Britain.html | 2022-04-15T14:36:04Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10712051/The-rise-hun-culture-relatable-woman-iconic-Britain.html | true | 3 |
Easter: I-G Orders Intensive Security Patrols Nationwide
Latest News, News Across Nigeria Friday, April 15th, 2022(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Usman Baba, has ordered intensive security patrols of all public spaces and critical national assets ahead of the 2022 Easter celebration.
The Acting Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.
The I-G directed Commissioners of Police (CPs)and their supervising Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) to ensure adequate deployment for the celebration.
He also ordered that police personnel and operational assets be deployed to areas of security interest within respective areas of responsibilities of the supervising officers.
The I-G directed the senior officers to ensure that confidence boosting, proactive and high visibility patrols were carried out along the highways, motor parks, train stations, airports, worship centres, recreation centres, banks and other financial institutions.
He urged the officers to take adequate measures to provide a peaceful, crime free and enabling environment for religious, cultural and other socio-economic activities to thrive.
According to him, CPs and AIGs must ensure proper supervision of men assigned for these assignments.
“They must be professional and courteous to law-abiding citizens but firm and ruthless to criminal elements who might want to take the advantage of the festive period to perpetrate their unholy acts.
“The I-G Monitoring Unit and X-Squad have been given marching orders to monitor and police activities of police officers policing the highways to ensure respect for the rights of citizens.
“The must be operational conformity with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Rules of Engagement (RoE) of the Force among officers deployed for the assignments.
“The Complaint Response Unit, vis-à-vis Public Complaint Bureau, have equally been charged to respond swiftly to complaints received from the public,” he said.
Baba felicitated Nigerians and the Christian community in particular, on the commemoration of the crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
He urged Nigerians to continue to cooperate with the Nigeria Police and other security agencies by providing timely information that would help in the prevention and detection of crimes.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams honored members of the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority on Friday following this week’s mass shooting.
Frank R. James is accused of wounding 10 people in the New York subway. He was arrested on Wednesday and faced a judge Thursday.
MTA CEO Janno Lieber credited those in the subway system for assisting each other.
“But we also saw in that moment of emergency, the way New Yorkers respond,” he said during an interview on MSNBC. “You saw people helping people who are wounded. You saw people standing over people to try to make sure they had the best chance of recovery and looking after each other.”
John Samuelson, a member of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board, credited transportation workers for evacuating trains during an interview with NPR.
“These New York City transit workers that acted so heroically today, evacuating the multiple train stations - whether any of them got hurt. And also, thankfully, none of the workers were injured,” he said. | https://www.wtkr.com/news/national/nyc-honors-transit-heroes-following-subway-attack | 2022-04-15T14:39:27Z | https://www.wtkr.com/news/national/nyc-honors-transit-heroes-following-subway-attack | true | 10 |
State and federal agriculture officials say bird flu has been found in a flock of 1.7 million hens in northeast Nebraska. Agriculture officials say the outbreak in Dixon County is the largest outbreak of the contagious virus so far in Nebraska. State Veterinarian Roger Dudley says the farm has been quarantined and the birds will be euthanized. Officials did not name the owner of the farm. The Dixon County outbreak brings the total number of affected birds in Nebraska to nearly 2.7 million. In 2015, nearly 5 million birds were destroyed on farms in Dixon County during an outbreak of bird flu. | https://www.kios.org/news/2022-04-15/dixon-county-outbreak-largest-ne-bird-flu-case-this-year | 2022-04-15T14:43:57Z | https://www.kios.org/news/2022-04-15/dixon-county-outbreak-largest-ne-bird-flu-case-this-year | true | null |
SSR Mining (SSRM) Drops 1.07% on April 14
Equities Staff Follow |Shares of SSR Mining Inc (NASDAQ: SSRM) moved 1.07% Thursday.
As of 12:15:53 est, SSR Mining sits at $24.04 and dropped $0.26 per share in trading so far.
SSR Mining has moved 14.12% over the last 30 days and has a YTD change of 37.47% based on the previous close.
The company anticipates its next earnings on 2022-05-03.
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About SSR Mining Inc
SSR Mining Inc. is a leading, free cash flow focused intermediate gold company with a producing assets located in the USA, Turkey, Canada, and Argentina, combined with a global pipeline of high-quality development and exploration assets in the USA, Turkey, Mexico, Peru, and Canada. In 2020, the operating assets produced approximately 711,000 gold-equivalent ounces.
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Sumo Logic (SUMO) Falls 2.23% on April 14
Equities Staff Follow |Today Sumo Logic Inc (NASDAQ: SUMO) is trading 2.23% lower.
The latest price, as of 12:16:13 est, was $10.75. Sumo Logic dropped $0.245 over the previous day’s close.
200,717 shares exchanged hands.
As of the previous close, Sumo Logic has moved YTD 18.88%. The company anticipates its next earnings on 2022-06-02.
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Sumo Logic, Inc. provides cloud-based log management and analytics services. The Company enables enterprises to collect and analyze machine data from virtual sources that include servers, virtualization and security infrastructure, network devices, custom applications, and databases. Sumo Logic serves customers worldwide.
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LSU gained its fourth commitment in the 2023 class on Friday with the commitment of four-star safety Ryan Yaites (Denton, Texas). Yaites is rated as the No. 128 player in the country, per the 247Sports Composite Rating, and the No. 7 safety in the 2023 class.
This is the second defensive back commitment of the week for LSU, joining fellow four-star defensive back Michael Daugherty out of Georgia. New LSU safeties coach Kerry Cooks was the lead recruiter on both as LSU prepares to sign a heavy defensive back class.
All four of LSU’s 2023 commitments rank No. 202 or higher, with No. 99 overall tight end Mac Markway (St. Louis), No. 123 overall receiver Omarion Miller (Vivian, La.) and Daugherty, No. 202.
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RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:REI.UN – Get Rating)’s share price crossed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Wednesday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of C$23.24 and traded as high as C$24.92. RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust shares last traded at C$24.83, with a volume of 674,642 shares changing hands.
REI.UN has been the topic of several research analyst reports. Canaccord Genuity Group cut shares of RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust to a “hold” rating and set a C$26.50 target price on the stock. in a research note on Wednesday, April 6th. BMO Capital Markets lifted their price target on RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust from C$25.75 to C$26.50 in a research report on Friday, February 25th. TD Securities upped their price objective on RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust from C$27.00 to C$28.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, February 24th. Royal Bank of Canada raised RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust from a “sector perform” rating to a “buy” rating and lifted their target price for the stock from C$24.00 to C$27.00 in a report on Friday, February 11th. Finally, National Bankshares lifted their price target on shares of RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust from C$27.00 to C$28.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, February 25th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have issued a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of C$25.94.
The stock has a market cap of C$7.67 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.13. The company has a quick ratio of 0.16, a current ratio of 0.61 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 84.33. The business has a 50-day moving average of C$24.92 and a 200-day moving average of C$23.25.
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English and Welsh graduates who have taken out student loans since 2012 can expect a "rollercoaster ride" when it comes to interest rates, new analysis shows.
This will mean students are charged higher rates of interest on their loans than homeowners paying off mortgages.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has calculated that because of current RPI inflation rates, the maximum interest rate on loans - paid by those earning £49,130 or more - will rise from current rates of 4.5% to an "eye-watering" 12% for half a year.
Interest rates for low earners are set to rise from 1.5% to 9%, the IFS said.
They added that this means that a high-earning recent graduate with a typical loan balance of £50,000 would incur £3,000 in interest over six months, a higher amount than a graduate earning three times the median salary for recent graduates would usually pay.
The IFS said that the maximum student loan rate was then set to fall to around 7% in March 2023, fluctuating between 7% and 9% for a year and a half.
"In September 2024, it is then predicted to fall to around 0% before rising again to around 5% in March 2025," the IFS said.
"These wild swings in interest rates will arise from the combination of high inflation and an interest rate cap that takes half a year to come into operation," they added.
They said that without the rate cap, maximum rates would be 12% during the 2022/23 academic year, rising to around 13% in 2023/24.
They said that the "interest rate rollercoaster" would cause problems, as the interest rate cap disadvantages students with falling debt balances.
It could also put students off of going to university, or push graduates to pay off loans when this would have no financial benefit for them.
The "eye-watering" rises are linked to the Retail Price Index and a rise in the cost of living.
For borrowers from the 2012 university entry cohort onwards, interest on student loans is normally linked to the Retail Prices Index (RPI).
Interest rates on student loans are usually charged between the RPI inflation rate and the RPI inflation rate plus 3%.
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But there is a lag between the RPI inflation rate and student loan interest rates, which the IFS calculates means that current high inflation rates will mean high student loan interest rates for 2022/23.
"This high reading implies an eye-watering increase in student loan interest rates to between 9% and 12%," the IFS said.
"That is not only vastly more than average mortgage rates, but also more than many types of unsecured credit. Student loan borrowers might legitimately ask why the Government is charging them higher interest rates than private lenders are offering," they added.
Student loan interest rates are not supposed to rise above market interest rates, but lags between when the market interest rate is measured and the DfE taking action mean that between September 2022 and February 2023, students will pay uncapped rates.
The situation is likely to disadvantage higher-earning graduates. Borrowers whose debt is falling over time will be charged more than those whose debts are rising.
The IFS said this would lead to "unfortunate redistribution" between graduates.
Ben Waltmann, senior research economist at the IFS, said: "Unless the Government changes the way student loan interest is determined, there will be wild swings in the interest rate over the next three years."
"The maximum rate will reach an eye-watering level of 12% between September 2022 and February 2023 and a low of around zero between September 2024 and March 2025.
"There is no good economic reason for this. Interest rates on student loans should be low and stable, reflecting the Government's own cost of borrowing.
"The Government urgently needs to adjust the way the interest rate cap operates to avoid a significant spike in September."
University and College Union general secretary Jo Grady said: "It simply cannot be right to saddle students with tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt and then subject them to the whims of volatile markets and rocketing interest rates."
"Today's news will leave those already repaying their student loans preparing for increased debt payments during a cost-of-living crisis and force others to consider whether a university education is worth the cost at all. On any level, this is a policy disaster."
A Department for Education spokesperson said: "Unlike commercial loans, student loans are protected in a number of ways.
"Monthly repayments for student loans are linked to income not to interest rates, or the amounts borrowed, and borrowers earning below the relevant repayment threshold make no repayments at all."
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Already one of Jacksonville's highest-paid government employees, Chief Administrative Officer Brian Hughes gained $60,740 worth of compensation on top of his $313,500 salary in the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic after Mayor Lenny Curry declared an emergency situation, according to city records.
Hughes and Marlene Russell, who logged $59,473 of emergency compensation time, were the top two earners of the reward that several thousand city workers received in 2020. Russell, whose salary was nearly $179,000, picked up her comp time for work spread over six months.
The city required "essential employees" to keep working after Curry declared the emergency in March 2020 and effectively compensated them at double their usual hourly amount.
Others in the top 10 of earners accumulated comp time worth $38,619 to $55,755 each on top of their regular salaries.
Among all city of Jacksonville employees, the total of the extra compensation added up to nearly $64 million in financial obligations incurred by the city.
The steep cost, which the Times-Union reported in February, prompted City Council member Ron Salem, who is chairman of the council's Finance Committee, to work with city administrators in March on adding a requirement that the mayor must make regular assessments of the compensation rate during long-term emergencies.
“I don’t have any question that there were people on the fourth floor (of City Hall) and others who were working some long hours," Salem said.
He said going forward, he wants to make sure there is "consistent review" of the running cost during such emergencies. In the past, weather-related emergencies have been usually been over in a matter of days, but the pandemic stretched far longer.
A new provision added March 30 to the policy for appointed officials and employee says if an emergency lasts longer than 15 business days, the mayor must determine whether to scale back the emergency comp time for that group of employees.
The mayor would have to continue assessing that cost every two weeks.
"Everyone understands we were under some very unique circumstances, but I wanted to set up a process where if this ever happens again, we're looking at comp time every pay period once the emergency event goes beyond 15 days," Salem said.
Mayor Curry uses authority to make exceptions to compensation plan
Regardless of that addition to the policy, the mayor always has had the ability to end the extra compensation at any time for appointed officials and employees, which Curry did in 2020 for almost all appointed employees after about two months.
Curry also has used his authority as mayor to make exceptions for some employees so they could gain the financial benefit of emergency comp time while they continue to work for the city, rather than having to wait until they leave city employment to sell those hours for cash.
Over the past two years, those exceptions have allowed sizeable early cash pay-outs for some employees.
For instance, Curry allowed Hughes to sell a portion of his emergency compensation time for $14,999 in May 2020. Others in the mayor's office who got Curry's permission to sell a chunk of their emergency comp time while still working for the city were former deputy chief administrator Stephanie Burch and former chief of staff Jordan Elsbury, according to city records.
While Curry has discretion over appointed employees, other workers represented by unions have labor contract provisions that award extra compensation if they are deemed essential in emergencies. The greatest share of all emergency compensation time awarded during the pandemic went to union members, mainly in the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and the fire department.
The stepped-up compensation during emergencies has been in place over multiple mayoral administrations. When the mayor declares an emergency, employees deemed non-essential will stay home and collect their usual pay. Essential employees continue working at the higher compensation rates.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought a flurry of activity to City Hall as Curry and top administrators prepared for the biggest global health crisis to strike Jacksonville since the Spanish flu a century earlier.
Curry, who did not receive extra compensation, gave daily briefings about the virus, similar to sessions that accompany heavy storms.
The city ramped up one of the state's first testing sites, rolled out a program with VyStar for small business relief grants, and kicked off $1,000 relief payments to Duval County residents who lost jobs or pay because of the pandemic and had household income of less than $75,000.
President Donald Trump announced a "15 days to slow the spread" campaign that ground much of the economy to a halt, but beyond that 15-day target, little was understood about how long the pandemic would last.
After Curry declared an emergency on March, 13, 2020, appointed employees deemed essential received one hour of emergency comp time for each regular hour of work they did in a 40-hour work week.
In addition, the emergency declaration triggered a provision that appointed employees who usually do not get anything for work beyond 40 hours would get emergency compensation time for such overtime hours.
Curry reduced the amount of extra compensation to appointed employees after three weeks, giving them half an hour of comp time for each hour worked.
Curry ended the extra compensation on May 9, returning almost all appointed employees back to their regular compensation. Hughes wrote in an email at the time that in comparison to weather-related emergencies. the length of the pandemic made it financially unstainable to continue the additional compensation.
Top 10 earners of emergency compensation time
Hughes earned his $60,740 worth of emergency compensation time for hours he worked over that two-month period.
Russell, an appointed employee who worked in the mayor's office at that time, earned her $59,473 worth of emergency compensation time over a longer six-month period. Even though Curry turned off the additional compensation for appointed employees on May 9, he continued it for Russell while she was working to carry out city-run relief programs for residents.
Russell and 15 other employees involved in direct contact with residents applying for relief payments were able to keep logging the emergency comp time, according to the city.
In response to emailed Times-Union questions, the city said Russell and the other employees continued to get emergency comp time because they were working in conditions that brought them face-to-face with residents who came to get relief assistance, creating some risk of catching the COVID-19 virus.
The city's emailed response to questions said Russell and the 15 other employees administered $40 million of relief by handing out $1,000 debit cards to 40,000 people for mortgage, rent and utilities.
"The distribution required many hours of direct contact with those tens of thousands of city residents at a time when the science of COVID was still very much unknown," the city said in its response.
Russell was the only city employee who got extra compensation in the month of September 2020, according to city records. Her last day to earn comp time on Sept. 17, 2020 also marked the end of any employee receiving it. The city said that was more than a month before the assistance program at the city's Ed Ball Building wrapped up on Oct. 28.
The third-highest amount of emergency compensation time went to Bradley Elias, medical director for the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department, who earned $55,755 worth of extra compensation.
Others with the highest amount of emergency compensation were:
• Todd Smith, division chief of the Emergency Preparedness Division in the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department. He logged $47,382 of comp time.
• Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Lt. James Ricks received $44,522 of comp time. He earned it as a union-represented employee.
• Steve Woodard, director of the Emergency Preparedness Division within the fire department, earned $43,855 of comp time.
• David Castleman, division chief of rescue for the fire department, logged $40,109 worth of comp time.
• Burch, assistant chief administrative officer, earned $39,378. She left city government in February.
• Fire Chief Keith Powers totaled $38,885 of emergency comp time.
• Charles Moreland earned $38,620 of emergency compensation. He was the city's director of international and community affairs and now is deputy chief administrative officer. Moreland and Burch worked with Hughes to spearhead the city's testing and economic relief programs.
Early cash-outs allowed for some employees based on hardship
The city's policy for emergency compensation time is that employees can bank it and use it to take time off during their employment, but they cannot gain the cash value of the comp time until they exit from their city jobs.
But over the past two years, some employees have been able to cash out a portion of their emergency comp time while they continued to work for the city, including some of those who logged the highest amount of comp time.
Curry has determined on a case-by-case basis whether employees who requested an early cash-out could receive it, using the authority he has to make exceptions to the city's salary plan for appointed officials and employees.
In May 2020, Curry allowed Hughes to sell a portion of his emergency compensation time for $14,999.
Curry approved two early cash-outs for Castleman after he applied to sell $14,999 of his emergency comp in September 2020 followed by $12,871 in October 2021.
Burch received approval for early cash-outs in the amounts of $14,999 and $14,979, according to city records. Elsbury, who was the mayor's chief of staff until he left city employment in November, sold emergency comp time for $14,983 while he still was working for the city.
City treasurer Randall Barnes, who still works for the city, was able to cash out $14,999 in October 2020. Teresa Eichner, capital and budget operations administrator, sold a chunk of her emergency comp for $14,994 in February 2021.
Robin Smith, chief of engineering construction management in the public works department, got permission in May 2020 to sell hours he'd banked for $13,961.
This year, Angie Dixon, ombudsman for the city, received approval to sell $11,204 of her emergency comp time. Jackie Edwards, manager of personnel services, cashed out $6,725.
Pat Mayes, who works in the city's finance department, also got approval to sell her hours, but city records obtained by the Florida Times-Union do not show what the cash payment was. Mayes earned $2,356 of emergency comp time during the pandemic.
Property Appraiser Jerry Holland and Tax Collector Jim Overton, who have appointed employees working in their offices, said they were not aware the city offered the option of applying for early cash out of emergency comp time.
City Council member Garrett Dennis said the city should provide written communication to appointed employees so they know applying for an early cash-out is an option.
"It needs to be fairly, evenly and equitably used across the board," he said.
In emailed responses to Times-Union questions, the city's communications office said an early payment for emergency comp time is an exception to the usual process, and as an exception, "there is no broadly advertised process" for employees to make such requests.
According to the city's explanation, employees experiencing a hardship due to unexpected financial challenges can reach out to employees services, the payroll department, or their managers "for guidance and assistance" about available options.
The employees who received early cash-outs in the past two years all followed that process for review of their requests, the city's response said.
The city said the "ultimate approval or denial is based on the presentation of need, the cost to the budget, and the governing rules and ordinances with the employees' managers in the organization chain of command."
Administration officials have told City Council they expect the Federal Emergency Management Agency will reimburse the city for the cost of pandemic-related emergency compensation time, but so far, the city has not received any funding from FEMA for that financial obligation.
As it stands, the expense of the emergency compensation falls squarely on city taxpayers, so the impact could spill over for years as employees who banked emergency comp time either obtain permission for early cash-outs or eventually sell unused hours when they exit city employment. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/politics/jacksonvilles-mayor-top-admin-earned-extra-pandemic-money/77-bd07dad0-38f2-48b2-9a7c-382a722ac9c5 | 2022-04-15T14:51:46Z | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/politics/jacksonvilles-mayor-top-admin-earned-extra-pandemic-money/77-bd07dad0-38f2-48b2-9a7c-382a722ac9c5 | false | 1 |
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Until a few days ago, Volodymyr Musyak was on the front lines defending Ukraine from Russia’s devastating assault on his nation. Now he’s preparing to pick up a bow and arrow in the Invictus Games archery competition.
The sporting event for active service personnel and veterans who are ill, injured or wounded opens Saturday and ends April 22 in this Dutch city that calls itself the global center of peace and justice.
Those concepts seem a world away to the team of 19 athletes from Ukraine and their supporters as they settle in The Hague for the games.
“I think that emotionally it’s something that requires time … because we come from a very disturbed area as we come from the areas where the actual killings every day are happening, the shelling, the bombing, we hear sirens every day,” said Oksana Horbach, Ukraine’s Invictus Games National Coordinator.
One of the team, Taira Paievska, did not even make the trip after being taken hostage by Russian forces in Mariupol where she worked as a paramedic, Horbach said.
Four Ukrainians who were not due to participate in the games but were active in the worldwide community of injured servicemen and women died in March, two while on active duty and two in rocket attacks, Invictus Games organizers said on their website.
Pavlo Kovalskyi, who is participating in rowing, archery, wheelchair basketball and possibly also sitting volleyball, said that, as well as competing, he wants to spread the word about the harsh realities of war in his homeland.
Traveling to the games gives the 31-year-old a chance “better to tell, convey information to the audience, our friends, our new acquaintances, just fellow athletes, what is happening now,” he said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the team on via a video link after their arrival.
“Victory is important for us, it is important to prove that we are all unconquered,” he told the participants. “And your team is part of the spirit of indomitability of Ukraine, the Ukrainian people and each of us.”
The Ukrainians are among some 500 competitors from 20 nations participating in the Invictus Games that begin with an opening ceremony Saturday and end April 22. Russia has never taken part in any of the previous games and does not have a team in The Hague.
The event is the brainchild of Britain’s Prince Harry, who will be in The Hague with his wife, Meghan, for the opening days of the games, which were twice delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The first edition of the games was held in London in 2014, followed by Orlando in 2016, Toronto in 2017 and Sydney in 2018.
Service personnel compete in athletics, archery, cycling, indoor rowing, powerlifting, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair basketball, and wheelchair rugby as well as a driving challenge organized by one of the event’s official partners, car maker Jaguar Land Rover.
For the Ukrainians, the games are a brief respite from the grim realities of life in wartime and an opportunity to highlight the plight of their nation.
“The death, the destruction, the rapes, everything, this is something that my competitors and team staff members experience every day,” Horbach said. “So it needs to be heard, it needs to be told. It is very important for us that we, as Ukrainians, have that voice, have a platform to voice who we are, what we do and what we experience every single day since Feb. 24.”
Musyak, who suffers from the a concussion caused by a mine blast, is competing in events including archery, but has to prepare without his coach, Dmytro Sydoruk, who died in the war.
“On the eve of our departure, he died,” Musyak said. “Whether military or civilian, every loss for us, especially when our children are killed, when civilians are killed, when women are killed, is an irreparable loss.”
And while Musyak is competing in The Hague, his mind is elsewhere.
“We are only the second day here, we got here from the front line and, until now, I’m mentally with my brothers in arms, of course,” he said. “After the end of the competition, we return to the front line to defend our country.”
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China said its military staged exercises Friday to reinforce its threat to use force to bring Taiwan under its control, as U.S. lawmakers visiting Taiwan made a pointed and public declaration of their support for the self-governing island democracy while issuing a warning to China.
The six lawmakers met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday morning and were also scheduled to meet with the island’s defense minister.
The military drills conducted by the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command in areas opposite Taiwan were “a countermeasure to the recent negative actions of the U.S., including the visit of a delegation of lawmakers to Taiwan,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said.
China would “continue to take strong measures to resolutely safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Zhao added.
China is against any official exchanges between Taiwan’s government and other foreign governments because it claims Taiwan is part of its national territory and not an independent country. China and Taiwan split after a civil war in 1949.
The Eastern Theater Command described the exercises in a statement as “a necessary action based on the present security situation in the Taiwan Strait and the need to safeguard national sovereignty.”
“Taiwan is a sacred and inalienable part of Chinese territory. There is no room for any foreign interference on the Taiwan issue,” the statement said.
As part of the delegation of visiting U.S. lawmakers, Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey gave a speech Friday praising Taiwan’s democracy and its global status as a manufacturer of semi-conductor chips used in everything from cars to smartphones, and warned of consequences if that status were jeopardized.
“It is a country of global significance, of global consequence, of global impact, and therefore it should be understood the security of Taiwan has a global impact for those who would wish it ill,” said Menendez, the head of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, in a speech at Taiwan’s Presidential Office.
He emphasized that “we seek no conflict with China as I believe Taiwan seeks no conflict with China.”
The delegation, led by Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, also includes Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Sen. Robert Portman of Ohio, Sen. Benjamin Sasse of Nebraska and Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas.
Tsai said she welcomed their visit and hoped it would help to further deepen US-Taiwan cooperation.
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has proven that democracies must bolster their alliances and collectively we can defend ourselves from the threats posed by authoritarian nations that seek to disrupt regional peace,” said Tsai.
The U.S. is the democratic island’s biggest unofficial ally and has stepped up weapons sales to Taiwan in past years. By law, the U.S. is bound to help Taiwan with arms that are defensive in nature. However, the question of whether the U.S. would intervene in the case of a military invasion by China remains open. | https://www.wavy.com/news/world/us-lawmakers-signal-support-for-taiwan-in-visit/ | 2022-04-15T14:52:43Z | https://www.wavy.com/news/world/us-lawmakers-signal-support-for-taiwan-in-visit/ | true | 26 |
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In a busy start to April 2022 for the British chancellor, Rishi Sunak announced his intention to make the UK a “global hub for cryptoassets technology”. Put simply, this means he wants the country to be an attractive place for cryptocurrency companies to operate.
For the government, this requires a delicate regulatory balance between preventing financial crime and protecting consumers, and allowing cryptocurrencies to flourish. If all goes to plan, greater engagement with the sector could result in a welcome boost to the UK economy.
It’s early days of course, and many central banks and economists remain unsure of the role cryptocurrencies should play in a nation’s financial makeup. But Sunak’s plans featured some eye-catching proposals, including removing tax barriers, and developing a non-fungible token (NFT) with the Royal Mint.
But the key element was a proposal to bring a particular element of cryptocurrencies, “stablecoins”, within the scope of existing UK banking regulation. Stablecoins are widely considered to be at the safer end of the sector, where the notorious volatility of other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is replaced with something more reliable.
So where Bitcoin’s value is derived purely from levels of confidence and demand, stablecoins are backed by other assets. Usually this means traditional currencies (usually the US dollar), but some are attached to commodities like gold. Either way, the aim is the same – to keep their value as close to constant as possible, making stablecoins more useful as a reliable medium of exchange.
Stablecoins may also have attracted the UK government because they offer fast transactions, at low cost and without borders. This allows users to make speedy global transactions with individuals and businesses, without the need to exchange currencies into a local tender.
Other appealing factors of stablecoins include their transparency, in that every single transaction is recorded and publicly visible. They are also (largely speaking) under centralised control, in the same way that traditional banks have control over customers’ accounts.
It makes sense then, that as the UK dips its toe into cryptocurrencies, it is stablecoins which have most appeal. An alternative approach would be to introduce a central bank digital currency, as China is doing, but this is time consuming and expensive. A well-regulated stablecoin space will at least get the UK involved in the sector while the Bank of England decides whether or not to commit to a digital currency of its own.
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But the lack of detail around the UK proposals – what regulation will look like and what it hopes to gain – remains a concern. So too is its recent lack of progress in dealing with a huge part of the modern financial world.
For example, there have been promises since 2015 about regulating of cryptoassets, with little beyond tax issues and preventing money laundering being forthcoming – and both have had a restrictive impact on the sector.
The UK’s financial services regulator meanwhile, has indicated recently that it is more focused on preventing risk than helping crypto technology to flourish. Perhaps then, the UK is not as welcoming to innovation and crypto technology as it makes out.
Nor has the treasury provided any clear detail about what stablecoin regulation would actually involve. Yet to encourage wider use of stablecoins it would at least need to bring in some kind of registration system and a mechanism for consumer compensation should the stablecoin ever fail. Without this, a stablecoin could indeed fail, causing major damage to the economy, the wider crypto sector and to individual investors.
It is also questionable to what extent the UK can become a global crypto leader, as the most successful stablecoins all peg, to some degree, to the US dollar. (Although this could change as the US and EU adopt tougher stances on cryptocurrencies.)
The UK may well hope to gain a greater foothold in the relatively safe (and controllable) world of stablecoins and enjoy the potential benefits for the pound as an underpinning currency. But in reality, it will take much more than the measures announced so far to make any meaningful progress. They sound instead like a vague attempt not to be left behind by other countries, without committing too much in the way of investment and resources. | https://theconversation.com/plan-to-become-a-cryptoassets-hub-may-just-be-the-uk-government-hedging-its-bets-180717 | 2022-04-15T14:53:16Z | https://theconversation.com/plan-to-become-a-cryptoassets-hub-may-just-be-the-uk-government-hedging-its-bets-180717 | true | 3 |
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BEIJING, April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bairong Inc ("Bairong" or "the Company", 6608.HK), a leading independent AI-powered technology platform in China, announced that the Company has been granted a new patent for its smart method and system for marketing strategy generation, an industry-leading solution designed to help financial institutions address challenges in precision marketing and enable them to engage their customers with high accuracy and personalized strategies.
Bairong's precision marketing solution is a three-layer strategy ecosystem, with cloud-based SaaS fintech and smart analytics platforms serving as the foundation that grants technological capacities to Bairong's services and strategy outputs. Bairong's service matrix is built on four pillars, which consist of operational diagnostics, system implementation, smart analytics, and customer operations. The top layer — strategy outputs — offers systematic solutions based on the information filtered through the two lower layers, delivering optimized and fine-tuned strategy as well as actionable implementation plans.
A pioneering innovation capable of elevating customer experiences and boosting conversion rate and sales, the one-stop solution, which is built on Bairong's unmatched smart analytics ability, harnesses AI and cloud-based technology to provide multi-dimensional customer insights, holistic diagnostic tools as well as a package of bespoke and targeted services, empowering the financial sector to accelerate toward digital transformation.
The purpose-built solution helps financial institutions quickly shift to a customer-oriented strategy in establishing a full life-cycle customer management system incorporated with predictive analytical tools that cut through the complexity of targeting customers, helping them acquire new customers, boost high-value customer retention, reduce customer attrition.
Customers are the most strategic resources for financial institutions, with customer management sitting at the core of their business operations. However, their long-standing reliance on the product-oriented marketing strategy has hindered their ability to stay ahead of diverse customer demands and expectations in the digital age, which require real-time responses and differentiated marketing approaches. With its expertise in AI and cloud computing, Bairong has been spearheading the development of a strategy-driven precision marketing solution that can help users to seize new opportunities in what author Brett King calls, the era of "Bank 4.0."
As financial institutions are adopting the multi-channel approach in order to maximize customer reach, Bairong has built a unified and diversified marketing system integrated online and offline channels. The closed-loop system features data collection, analysis, decision-making, precise delivery, interaction, and dynamic feedback, creating a one-stop marketing hub that helps users to refine the management for different customer groups.
With a human-centric design, Bairong's solution is able to provide a personalized service experience for every customer. The Company leverages marketing engines to optimize the tagging system for customers, products and services, which, coupled with a smart decision-making capability based on expert rules and data models, can enable financial institutions to significantly increase labor efficiency in terms of customer acquisition, product recommendation, and service delivery. It can also establish multi-dimensional customer classification that pinpoints the needs of an individual, providing targeted services and comprehensively enhancing customer experience.
Digitized banking and financial services have become the norm in the Bank 4.0 era, but a lack of engagement in the non-human interaction that automated services provide often leads to confusion and low satisfaction rates. Bairong precision marketing solution tackles this pain point by offering powerful tools featuring highly intelligent robotic technologies that can deliver the customer experience on a par with human assistants, allowing financial institutions to refocus on expediting digitalization while simplifying complex service procedures and improving customer loyalty.
Looking forward, Bairong will continue to sharpen its focus on innovation and product optimization and develop a holistic solution integrated with software, strategy, models, and data, joining forces with its business partners and clients to drive the digital transformation of finance.
About Bairong Inc.
Founded in March 2014, Bairong is a leading independent AI-powered technology platform in China serving more than 5,700 financial services provider clients. Bairong was the largest independent financial big data analytics solutions provider in China. Adhering to the mission of empowering every financial services provider in China with smart and comprehensive data analytics, Bairong has built a cloud-native technology platform that supports the full business cycle of FSP clients, including smart analytics, decision-making support, smart consumer operation and wealth management solutions, enabling them to improve risk management ability, promote user activity and operational efficiency. Bairong also provides precision marketing and insurance distribution services that enable FSP clients to reach and serve their target customers more effectively.
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What TV channel is Ulster vs Toulouse on? Kick-off time, teams, live stream and odds for Champions Cup second-leg clash
ULSTER are on the brink of history ahead of their Champions Cup last 16 second-leg clash with Toulouse.
The Northerners have one foot in the quarter-finals following an impressive 26-20 win over Antoine Dupont and co. last week.
Here's everything you need to know about the match.
When is it on and what time is kick-off?
It'll be on on Saturday evening at Kingspan Stadium with kick-off at 8 pm.
What TV channel is it on and can I stream it?
The match will be shown live on BT Sport 2, with coverage starting at 7.45 pm, and will be streamed via NowTV.
What are the teams?
Ulster: M. Lowry, R. Baloucoune, J. Hume, S. McCloskey, E. McIlroy, B. Burns, J. Cooney; A. Warwick, R. Herring, M. Moore, A. O'Connor, I. Henderson, M. Rea, N. Timoney, D. Vermeulen.
Toulouse: T. Ramos, D. Delibes, T. Nanai-Williams, P. Ahki, M. Lebel, R. Ntamack, A. Dupont; R. Neti, P. Mauvaka, C. Faumuina, R. Arnold, R Arnold, R. Elstadt, S. Tolofua, A. Jelonch.
What are the odds?
Despite carrying a 26-20 lead into the second-leg, Ulster are still underdogs to finish what they started, and are priced at 11/8.
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Toulouse, meanwhile, are valued at 4/6 to salvage the win, with the draw at 17/1.
What happened in the first-leg?
Robert Baloucoune was the star of the show in Ulster's first win over Toulouse.
Days before being awarded a new contract, the winger scored a hat-trick of tries as Dan McFarland's men stunned their French hosts.
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Brandon Coe’s pair of assists carried him past the century mark to 101 points on the season in a 4-1 Battalion win against the Generals.
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‘Fantastic Beasts’ turns ‘The Secrets of Dumbledore’ into too much of a snore
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN
Despite the enticing subtitle “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” the second sequel to J.K. Rowling‘s Wizarding World franchise mirrors the first, which is to say that it feels like an extended prologue for a better movie that’s yet to materialize. In hindsight, Rowling should have funneled her Harry Potter prequel into a limited series, where leisurely pacing is more the norm.
In theory, a “young Dumbledore” movie would address some of the “Fantastic Beasts” shortcomings, providing a more dynamic anchor than the shy and halting Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). Moreover, Rowling has added more A-list help this time around, teaming not only with director David Yates but co-writer Steve Kloves, another veteran of the Harry Potter franchise.
Still, the storyline essentially handcuffs Dumbledore (Jude Law), or at least ties his wand behind his back for too much of the movie, by virtue of his romantic bond with the evil Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen, ably stepping in for Johnny Depp), who — in classic authoritarian fashion — intends to take over the magical world and wage war against Muggles. (The references to their past relationship are relatively chaste, but were apparently still too much for Chinese censors.)
Because Dumbledore can’t directly confront Grindelwald and his minions, he must recruit not only Newt but an eclectic group of wizards and witches, as well as Newt’s Muggle pal Jacob (Dan Fogler). But other than Jessica Williams’ enhanced role as Eulalie (Lally) Hicks (sporting a ’40s gangster accent that takes some getting used to), they’re a fairly nondescript bunch.
Foremost, the latest “Fantastic Beasts” unfolds with no great sense of urgency, sending the gang on a series of adventures and detours building toward an anticipated showdown to thwart Grindelwald’s plans.
Having played villains in James Bond, Marvel and now Harry Potter movies, Mikkelsen advances his bad-guy Hall of Fame credentials, and when he sneers, “With or without you, I’ll burn down their world,” he introduces a sense of menace that outshines most everything else in the film.
Yet even with that contribution and the characteristically impressive production design and effects, “Fantastic Beasts” seldom sparks to life. In hindsight, the real misstep might have come when Warner Bros. (like CNN, part of Warner Bros. Discovery) let Rowling outline a five-movie format, as opposed to at most a more conventional trilogy, although Variety has reported the fourth and fifth installments could depend on how well “Secrets of Dumbledore” performs at the box office.
Whatever the commercial verdict, the creative one delivers another mixed bag that tempers enthusiasm for more, barring promises to both pick up the pace and enhance Law’s role in a more definitive manner.
Otherwise, like “The Crimes of Grindelwald,” “Secrets of Dumbledore” is handsomely done but ultimately too much of a dumble-snore. And somehow, its appealing pieces, old and new, again add up to a less-than-magical movie.
“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” premieres in US theaters on April 15. It’s rated PG-13.
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A review study published on Tuesday (12) in the scientific journal The Journal of Headache and Pain brings an update of the respected Global Burden of Morbidity (GBD) study regarding the headaches. Based on 357 publications analyzed by the authors, it was possible to determine that 52% of the world population is affected by some type of headache every year, with 14% complaining of migraine, a chronic pain.
As the GBD conclusions are based on epidemiological studies (published and unpublished) with a wide variety of methodologies and estimates, the research team focused on updating the headache documentation, summarizing global prevalence estimates for all types of headache. headache, as well as for migraines, tension headaches (TTH) and the so-called 15-day headaches (H15).
In addition to comparing its updated data with GBD estimates, the study also analyzed how the methodological factors employed influenced the observed prevalence estimates.
Are headaches increasing in the world?
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In the 357 publications published between 1961 and the end of 2020, most of them originating from high-income countries, the team of scientists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) found an estimated global prevalence of active headache of 52%. In addition, there is also a predominance of migraine (14%), CTT (26%) and H15 (4.6%). The data was based on the GBD2019 report, the latest in the series.
According to the study’s lead author, Lars Jacob Stovner, a professor at NTNU, although it is premature to conclude that headaches are increasing worldwide, what was clear in the current study is that their prevalence is high and that they constitute “a heavy burden” for health services. Every day, 15.8% of the world’s population has a headache, the survey says.
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Market Mover: Huntsman (HUN) Loses at Midday April 14
Equities Staff Follow |Huntsman Corp (NYSE: HUN) has dropped $0.64 (1.83%) and is currently sitting at $34.50, as of 12:01:48 est on April 14.
497,121 shares have exchanged hands.
The Company has risen 1.07% over the last 5 days and shares have fallen 10.79% over the last 30 days.
Huntsman expects its next earnings on 2022-04-28.
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Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals with 2019 revenues of approximately $7 billion. Its chemical products number in the thousands and are sold worldwide to manufacturers serving a broad and diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets. It operates more than 70 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 9,000 associates within its four distinct business divisions.
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Indiana man charged with shooting at State Rep. Jake Teshka in December
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A South Bend man has been arrested and charged with multiple felonies for a December shooting that shattered two of State Rep. Jake Teshka's car windows while he was driving.
Edmande Hill, 51, and Teshka were reportedly driving next to each other on the St. Joseph Valley Parkway Dec. 8 when multiple shots struck Teshka's white GMC Acadia. Teshka said he was trying to pass Hill's vehicle because he witnessed "unsafe" driving behavior, according to charging documents.
Shooting: State Rep. Jake Teshka says someone shot at his car
A bullet passed through the passenger side and driver's side windows, shattering both and exiting the vehicle "just inches away from the driver's head," according to court documents. Teshka's head was cut by a shard of glass.
The St. Joseph County Prosecutor's Office has charged Hill with attempted battery by means of a deadly weapon, a Level 5 felony, and criminal recklessness, a Level 6 felony. He could spend anywhere from one to 8½ years in prison.
According to court documents, when Hill was interviewed by police, he admitted being in the area at the time of the incident and said he saw windows of a vehicle traveling beside him shattering. He said that he believed the shots came from two male parties standing on the side of the bypass in some bushes shooting. Hill speculated that they were possibly hunting rabbits.
Hill was arrested Thursday in Porter County and is being held there. He will soon be transferred to the St. Joseph County Jail.
Teshka, 33, is a former South Bend Common Council member and St. Joseph County Republican Party vice chair. Last year he was elected to the legislature.
Email South Bend Tribune city reporter Jordan Smith at JTsmith@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter: @jordantsmith09
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Wall Street analysts expect that Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX – Get Rating) will post $3.59 earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter, according to Zacks Investment Research. Eight analysts have issued estimates for Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ earnings, with the lowest EPS estimate coming in at $3.32 and the highest estimate coming in at $3.83. Vertex Pharmaceuticals posted earnings of $2.98 per share in the same quarter last year, which would suggest a positive year-over-year growth rate of 20.5%. The firm is scheduled to report its next earnings results on Monday, January 1st.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Vertex Pharmaceuticals will report full-year earnings of $14.58 per share for the current financial year, with EPS estimates ranging from $14.12 to $15.23. For the next fiscal year, analysts forecast that the business will report earnings of $15.34 per share, with EPS estimates ranging from $14.14 to $17.51. Zacks Investment Research’s earnings per share averages are a mean average based on a survey of research firms that that provide coverage for Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, January 26th. The pharmaceutical company reported $3.18 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $2.91 by $0.27. Vertex Pharmaceuticals had a net margin of 30.92% and a return on equity of 32.33%. The firm had revenue of $2.07 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.99 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $2.22 earnings per share.
In other Vertex Pharmaceuticals news, EVP Ourania Tatsis sold 325 shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals stock in a transaction dated Friday, February 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $230.95, for a total transaction of $75,058.75. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, Director Yuchun Lee sold 2,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, April 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $267.72, for a total value of $535,440.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 50,623 shares of company stock worth $13,527,514. 0.70% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Several large investors have recently made changes to their positions in VRTX. Pensionfund Sabic purchased a new stake in shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals during the fourth quarter worth about $2,525,000. Hudson Bay Capital Management LP lifted its stake in shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals by 13.6% in the 3rd quarter. Hudson Bay Capital Management LP now owns 62,500 shares of the pharmaceutical company’s stock valued at $11,337,000 after purchasing an additional 7,500 shares during the last quarter. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC lifted its stake in shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals by 3.9% during the 3rd quarter. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC now owns 52,448 shares of the pharmaceutical company’s stock worth $9,514,000 after acquiring an additional 1,945 shares during the last quarter. B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. Holding AG lifted its stake in shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals by 5.4% during the 3rd quarter. B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. Holding AG now owns 19,463 shares of the pharmaceutical company’s stock worth $3,530,000 after acquiring an additional 1,000 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co increased its holdings in Vertex Pharmaceuticals by 16.1% during the 3rd quarter. Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co now owns 7,422 shares of the pharmaceutical company’s stock worth $1,346,000 after purchasing an additional 1,030 shares during the period. 90.30% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
VRTX stock opened at $287.97 on Tuesday. The firm has a market cap of $73.59 billion, a PE ratio of 31.89, a PEG ratio of 1.42 and a beta of 0.62. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05, a quick ratio of 4.30 and a current ratio of 4.46. Vertex Pharmaceuticals has a one year low of $176.36 and a one year high of $292.75. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $248.40 and its 200-day moving average price is $219.45.
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, a biotechnology company, engages in developing and commercializing therapies for treating cystic fibrosis. The company markets SYMDEKO/SYMKEVI, ORKAMBI, and KALYDECO to treat patients with cystic fibrosis who have specific mutations in their cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene; and TRIKAFTA for the treatment of patients with CF 6 years of age or older who have at least one F508del mutation.
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Valerie L. Anderson, 39, of 179 Woodcrest Drive, was charged about 10:30 p.m. Thursday by Greeneville police with domestic assault, child abuse and neglect and vandalism after officers were called to the address. An alleged victim told police Anderson was trying to pick up a juvenile relative, who refused to go with her. Anderson followed the alleged victim into a bedroom and pulled her hair while trying to get her to leave with her, Officer Charles Story said in a report. Anderson slapped another alleged victim in the face and “vandalized things around the residence while leaving,” the report said. Anderson was held without bond pending a first appearance in court.
Terry L. Deyton, of 211 N. Highland Ave., was charged early Friday by Greeneville police with possession of drug paraphernalia and public intoxication. Police were called about 12:45 a.m. Friday to the 200 block of North Highland Avenue. Deyton was on the front porch of a house putting on a jacket, Officer Charles Story said in a report. Deyton told officers he saw some clothing on the porch “so he was checking them out,” the report said. Deyton allegedly admitted to taking Suboxone earlier in the night. He had difficulty answering questions and was determined to be a danger to himself if left alone, the report said. A syringe was found on Deyton after he was taken into custody. Deyton was held on bond pending a first appearance in court.
Three air compressors, power tools and other possessions were stolen between Tuesday night and Wednesday from a box trailer in the 5500 block of McDonald Road, sheriff’s Deputy Bryan Shelton said in a report. The owners have been working at the address and had a locked trailer on the property. The lock had been cut off the box trailer, the report said. Items stolen also include two weed trimmers, a leaf blower, a socket set and two circular saws. The combined value of the items exceeds $13,000.
Two welders were stolen Tuesday from a workshop attached to an apartment in the 5900 block of Old Snapps Ferry Road in Limestone. a sheriff’s department report said. The victim received a call Tuesday night from a neighbor stating the back door to the apartment was open. He checked the workshop on Wednesday and found two welders were missing. The back door had been pried open and kicked in, the report said. A set of vehicle tracks led to the back of the building. One welder is valued at $2,500. The other is worth $250. The welders “were extremely heavy and would require several people to load onto a pickup truck,” the report said.
Makenzie A. Hartley, 23, of 211 Mayor Ave., was charged about 3 a.m. Thursday by Greeneville police with driving under the influence and having no proof of vehicle insurance following a traffic stop on West Church Street. The traffic stop was made because one of the brake lights on the car driven by Hartley was not working, Officer Megan Tomblin said in a report. Officers smelled alcohol on Hartley’s breath after the traffic stop. Hartley did poorly in field sobriety tests. She allegedly admitted she had been drinking earlier. Empty liquor bottles were found in the car, the report said. Hartley was also cited for a light law violation. She was held on bond pending a first scheduled appearance Friday in court.
Johnathon E. Davis, 28, of 106 Chapel St., was charged about 5:15 p.m. Wednesday by Greeneville police with aggravated domestic assault. The alleged victim told police that he was confronted by Davis while he was working on a lawn mower, “demanding to know where his toiletries were,” Officer Courtney Mikels said in a report. When the alleged victim told Davis he did not know, Davis threw an “unknown blunt object” at him, striking him in the head. The object caused a head injury to the alleged victim. Davis fled on foot. He was located nearby and taken into custody. Davis was held without bond pending a first scheduled appearance Friday in court.
Jaron L. Early, 20, of 1120 Arnold Road, was charged Wednesday afternoon by Greeneville police with domestic assault. Police investigated a disturbance call at the address and spoke with the alleged victim, who said a relative spit on her and pushed her to the ground, causing a leg abrasion. Early was determined to be the primary aggressor, Officer Matthew Stanley said in a report. Early was held without bond pending a first scheduled appearance Friday in court. | https://www.greenevillesun.com/news/it_happened_here/it-happened-here/article_78407f80-a406-5d14-86f6-6f9c7f0f6605.html | 2022-04-15T15:19:52Z | https://www.greenevillesun.com/news/it_happened_here/it-happened-here/article_78407f80-a406-5d14-86f6-6f9c7f0f6605.html | false | 1 |
In recent weeks the City of Vancouver has unveiled plans to add significant density to areas that are already rich with rental housing, much of it affordable. But questions are rising as to why the areas targeted are the ones already vibrant with affordable housing, while low density areas of the west side are left untouched.
Areas such as Mount Pleasant, Fairview, South Granville and Kitsilano have renter populations of around 60 per cent. And because the buildings are older, they’re generally larger units at an affordable rent, with many long-term tenants.
The 30-year Broadway Plan is in the draft stage and goes to council for a decision in May. The current iteration, released a little over a week ago, shows an additional 24,000 to 30,000 homes and a swath of 30- to 40-storey towers around Skytrain stations and 20- to 30-storeys in shoulder areas off Broadway. The plan, which doesn’t yet offer a lot of details, is to house an additional 50,000 residents in 485 city blocks. But many wonder what the cost will be for those already living in the neighbourhoods.
About one-quarter of the city’s purpose-built rental buildings are within the Broadway Plan, which was the consequence of the Broadway Subway Project, a 5.7-kilometre extension of the Millennium Line that is being built from Clark Drive on the east side to Vine Street in Kitsilano.
In existing apartment neighbourhoods, the plan says buildings will undergo “careful renewal of the aging rental stock over the long term,” with requirements for below-market rents and policies for tenants who are displaced.
Julie Guerette and Gretchen Stuart live in South Granville, on West 12th Avenue near Fir Street. Their 1960s three-storey walkup falls within an area designated for mid-to high-rise towers. The couple opened a hair salon in Kitsilano in the last year, so they are close to their work. They live in separate rental units in the building and have three dogs between them, which would make relocation difficult. Ms. Guerette pays $1,675 for her apartment and Ms. Stuart, who’s been in her unit six years longer, pays $1,250. They say their landlord had been renovating suites in the building as they came available, until the draft plan was released.
Now it’s likely that the building will be redeveloped instead. The couple worry about the loss of affordable housing, the loss of trees along West 12th Avenue and the loss of livable, large apartments, as well as community. Their apartments each have about 850 square feet of living space.
“I was renovicted from my last place, so it feels like it’s happening again,” says Ms. Stuart, who is 40.
“They will go bigger and develop more and they’ll say it’s newer and nicer, and so I’d probably pay double what I’m currently paying,” adds Ms. Guerette, 38. “Just based on what happened with Cambie Street. That didn’t bring prices down, it drove it up,” she says, referring to the Canada Line extension.
“If anyone has a family they are trying to support, or start, I feel like you take the lifeblood out of communities. … You’re taking away the main people who drive the city.”
If the plan were approved, Ms. Guerette and Ms. Stuart would live for the next few years with the uneasy feeling of future displacement. According to city protection measures, Ms. Stuart will get five to six months’ rent as compensation in the event of eviction. Ms. Guerette would get about four months’ rent. When redevelopment is complete, they have right of first refusal to move back into the building. However, the only break they get is 20 per cent off whatever the new market rent turns out to be, and that could be much higher than what they are paying now. They wonder how their elderly neighbours would afford it.
Housing experts wonder why the city would target affordable apartments for redevelopment and risk displacing tenants, causing upheaval and replacing homes with what will undoubtedly be smaller apartments at higher rents.
Thom Armstrong, chief executive officer of the Co-operative Housing Federation of B.C., said that supplying affordable housing is becoming an impossible effort. For every provincially subsidized affordable housing unit that was developed between 2015 and 2019, he says, another three affordable units were lost due to redevelopment. Those are units in the $750 to $1,000 a month range, and those figures were obtained from census data.
He took issue in particular with institutional investment, such as real estate investment trusts and pension funds, buying up older rental apartment blocks and redeveloping them, or holding onto the units as income, and then renovating each unit as it becomes vacant, then raising the rents.
“We went to [the province] and said, ‘we are going to max out your investment in new supply and get units into the ground, and we’re still going to be behind – because for every one we have built we lose three,’” Mr. Armstrong said.
The draft Vancouver Plan, released last week, runs parallel with the Broadway Plan land use strategy. It is the second time in the city’s history that such a comprehensive plan has been created, at a cost that could top out at around $11-billion, according to city staff in a virtual press conference held on April 5. Council will consider that plan in June, after the Broadway Plan.
Taken together, the two plans will transform the city.
Critics say the plans stick to a rigidly held principle in Vancouver – giving the more expensive neighbourhoods a pass when it comes to taking on significant density.
Cameron Gray was the city’s housing director for 20 years, and he argues that the city could have targeted several areas capable of taking on significant density without causing displacement.
For example, towers built along Dunbar, Arbutus, MacDonald and West 10th in Point Grey make sense due to the high cost of land on the west side.
“When you have a very high-value single family stock, you have to have high density if you want to see it transformed.”
Phasing in density in low-density areas should be done prior to densifying affordable neighbourhoods, he says.
“If they really want to increase supply and improve affordability they would be doing towers along those west side streets. That’s where they could get some substantial density,” Mr. Gray said.
“Right now, it seems to me, the tradition – which is decades old – of preserving the west side at all costs, seems to be a consequence if not a motivation for what they are trying to do. That seems to be quite counter productive and at some point I think they are going to have to face the music, that some density is going to land west of Granville and south of 16th Avenue.
“Those streets they could increase supply dramatically without the loss of affordability, and in fact, probably improve it, whereas now, they want to densify the already dense [areas]. It seems to me a bit of a contradiction.”
Mr. Gray said that he read through the Vancouver Plan and it seems there is a financial motive behind such dramatic changes to the city’s built form.
“Clearly, the City is under financial stress and is looking to enhance its tax revenues, which development would do.”
At the press conference, Theresa O’Donnell, director of planning and general manager of planning, urban design and sustainability, did not explain why the west side was not given more consideration for greater density. Instead, she spoke about policies that would balance out redevelopment.
“[That question] is one that we continue to kind of grapple with as we look for more opportunities. Some of the most affordable housing that exists in the city are some of these low density garden style apartments built in the 70s and 80s and those are very attractive redevelopment sites for many landowners and developers. So we have to come up with rate of change policies and density policies that can balance that, so that we are not displacing the most vulnerable residents. It’s something that we will continue to work on,” Ms. O’Donnell said.
A community plan should work with existing residents, not aim to displace them, said Andy Yan. The urban planner and director for Simon Fraser University’s city program spoke at the Grandview-Woodland Area Council’s annual general meeting earlier this month.
“In Chinatown, in the 50s and 60s, the City denied the existence of those living there with the promise of urban renewal. I loathe those words that ‘it’s an emerging neighbourhood’ as opposed to, actually acknowledging a neighbourhood that’s already there. We don’t need to place-make, we need to have place-stewardship, acknowledge and work with the social fabric that is there. That’s a skill for the planners to take up, and also ask, ‘is the responsibility and civic sacrifice shared as far as development that occurs across the city?’”
In an interview later, he commented on the release of draft Vancouver Plan: “It reduces communities to a transactional unit. … It’s about land use, not people.”
Carole Lewis is a grandmother who lives with her daughter and granddaughter a block off W. Broadway in a co-op housing townhouse at 717 West 8th Ave., on city-owned land. Their lease expires in August, 2026, and Ms. Lewis, who is the co-op board president, said city staff has notified them their 36-unit complex may be redeveloped, depending on the outcome of the Broadway Plan. The new development would likely be a tower with the co-op designated for the lower floors. Their concern is that the new replacement units will be smaller and they’d lose their courtyard, which is a gathering space for the community of 66 adults and about two dozen kids.
“It’s a fantastic community. The courtyard is the hub of the co-op. So that would be a big loss.”
Ms. Lewis wonders why affordable housing isn’t built on empty or underused city-owned lots, instead of livable properties such as her own. She said they asked the city to give them a 10-year extension on their lease.
“They said [they couldn’t] because people are desperate for affordable housing. My question is, ‘if they are desperate for affordable housing why can’t they build on these city lots?’
“It’s a big question: why are they not building some new ones and leaving the existing affordable housing in place until there is more built?”
Ms. Stuart says that renters are at a disadvantage because they have less collective power. She points to the concurrent planning underway for Jericho Lands, the prized low-density 36-hectare site in Point Grey that has massive redevelopment potential. Towers have been proposed for the site, which is a joint venture partnership between First Nations’ MST Development Corporation, which oversees more than $1-billion worth of property, and federal government crown corporation Canada Lands Company.
“One of the bigger stories coming up is the Jericho Village area, and the residents there are fighting any kind of redevelopment, and I don’t disagree with the residents, because that’s why you moved to these areas, because you like the feel of the place. If you put in towers that would change it.
“But there is quite a bit more land available, and they’re not displacing people by building there. But they have more money and I think they come out in larger numbers than the people who live in rentals.”
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Baylor freshman Jeremy Sochan will enter the 2022 NBA draft and forgo his remaining college eligibility by hiring agents, he told ESPN on Friday.
"I am fortunate enough to be declaring for the 2022 NBA draft," Sochan, the No. 14 prospect in the ESPN 100, told ESPN.
He said he would sign with Jim Tanner and Deirunas Visockas of Tandem Sports.
Sochan was named Big 12 Sixth Man of the Year, All-Big 12 honorable mention and made the Big 12 All-Freshman team after averaging 9.2 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 25 minutes per game last season. He helped Baylor to a 27-7 record and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, establishing himself as one of the best defenders in the college game along the way.
"This season had a lot of ups and downs," Sochan said. "We were unlucky with injuries, but it was a great opportunity for me to grow and an opportunity to show the NBA my toughness and versatility on both ends. I came into this season with intentions to make myself better and help the team win."
Sochan was born to an American father and a Polish mother in Oklahoma, where his parents played basketball at Division II Panhandle State. Sochan moved to England at a young age, spending the majority of his life thus far there.
He had his breakout at the FIBA U16 European Championship Division B in 2019, winning MVP honors and guiding Poland to a first-place finish. He moved to La Lumiere School in Indiana shortly thereafter but, due to the pandemic, he elected to return to Europe, joining Ratiopharm Ulm in Germany for his senior year. He then committed to Baylor over offers from Kansas, Michigan State, Arizona and others.
Sochan became the youngest player in history to play for the Polish senior national team at the FIBA Eurobasket qualifiers in February 2021, scoring 18 points in a win over Romania.
"I may be the only player in this draft who played at an American high school, in Europe versus men and in college at the NCAA level," Sochan said. "This experience has been extremely useful for me both on and off the court. I think my ability to work hard, learn and adapt quickly will make it easier for me to evolve."
Sochan, who is 6-foot-10 and 229 pounds and has a 7-0 wingspan, played a variety of roles for Baylor, sliding among the small forward, power forward and center positions as injuries forced the Bears to shuffle lineups and adjust their style of play.
Although Sochan was not initially considered a surefire one-and-done candidate, his energy, competitiveness, defensive versatility and toughness helped him emerge as a potential lottery pick in Big 12 play. He was regularly tasked with switching onto guards and wings in Baylor's aggressive defensive schemes, while showing increasingly polished flashes as a ball handler, passer and shooter that hint at good things to come down the line.
"I always knew that I'll be in the NBA, whether it took one year or four," Sochan said. "I have my own game that takes from many different players and positions. Some players that I think I can learn a lot from are Mikal Bridges, Bam Adebayo, Draymond Green, Jaylen Brown, Aaron Gordon, Boris Diaw, just to name a few."
One of the youngest players currently projected to be drafted, having yet to turn 19, Sochan grew several inches in the past few years, allowing him to see some minutes as a Diaw-style modern small-ball center with perimeter skill and giving him upside to tap into as his career moves forward.
"I'm looking forward to showing NBA teams how mature my game is for my age and l how I learn and adapt to new places quickly," Sochan said. "Also my shot consistency and how I can contribute on the offensive end."
The NBA draft combine will be held May 16-22 in Chicago, and the draft will be June 23 in New York City.
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Shares of Direxion Daily Travel & Vacation Bull 2X Shares (NYSEARCA:OOTO – Get Rating) traded up 10.8% during mid-day trading on Wednesday . The stock traded as high as $17.19 and last traded at $17.15. 218,488 shares were traded during trading, an increase of 8% from the average session volume of 201,658 shares. The stock had previously closed at $15.48.
The firm has a 50-day moving average of $17.48 and a two-hundred day moving average of $18.97.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of OOTO. Citadel Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of Direxion Daily Travel & Vacation Bull 2X Shares in the 4th quarter worth $249,000. Susquehanna International Group LLP purchased a new position in shares of Direxion Daily Travel & Vacation Bull 2X Shares in the 4th quarter worth $291,000. Finally, Wolverine Trading LLC purchased a new position in shares of Direxion Daily Travel & Vacation Bull 2X Shares in the 4th quarter worth $404,000.
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The wait is finally over. More than seven months after announcing the arrival of their second child, Cardi B and Offset revealed the name of their youngest son on April 14. "WAVE SET CEPHUS," the Migos rapper wrote on Instagram while sharing a photo of his smiling son enjoying bath time at home with plenty of bling.
Cardi B also shared a rare photo of her stylish family member wearing a light blue beanie, a matching fur jacket, sneakers and a silver chain around his neck. She captioned the photo with a dinosaur, wave and teddy bear emoji. So, what made the couple finally share details about their 7-month-old baby? It appears the entire family will grace the cover of ESSENCE's 52nd anniversary issue. According to the magazine, the issue will highlight the profound endurance of love. It will also feature family portraits with the Cardi B and Offset's youngest child.
Back in September, the couple confirmed they had welcomed a baby boy, making Kulture Kiari Cephus, 3, a big sister. Offset is also a father to Jordan Cephus, 12, Kalea Marie Cephus, 7, and Kody Cephus, 7, from previous relationships.
"We are so overjoyed to finally meet our son," Cardi and Offset told E! News in a joint statement. "He is already loved so much by family and friends and we can't wait to introduce him to his other siblings."
For Cardi B, parenthood changed her life -- but not necessarily her sense of self. The Bodak Yellow performer said she was determined to seep working hard and follower her dreams. At the same time, she had a child to look out for and have as some extra motivation.
"I could shake my ass, I could be the most ratchet-est person ever, I could get into a fight tomorrow, but I'm still a great mom," Cardi told Vogue in December 2019. "All the time I'm thinking about my kid. I'm shaking my ass, but at the same time I'm doing business, I'm on the phone with my business manager saying, make sure that a percentage of my check goes to my kid's trust."
And before any critic tries to shame the rapper, Cardi B is quick to say she gives her daughter so much love. In fact, she works so hard to ensure Kulture has a successful life as she grows up.
"I'm setting her up for a future," she said. "I want to tell her that a lot of the s--t that I have done in life--no matter what I did, knowing that I wanted to have kids made me go harder to secure a good future for my kids."
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WSDA looks to improve ag industry with new training program
WENATCHEE — Ofelio Borges will tell you that a lot of farm work supervisors are promoted because they are good, reliable workers - not because they know very much about managing workers or complying with state law.
“Prior to me coming to work for the Washington State Department of Agriculture, I worked as a farm supervisor and management,” said Borges, now the manager of WSDA’s Technical Service and Education Program. “After coming to work for WSDA, I was inspecting different farms and found out that many supervisors, managers like me back in the day, we lacked a lot of training, especially in the leadership aspect of things.”
Fast workers tend to be promoted into supervisory or managerial roles because they excel at what they do, Borges said. However, managing personal resources and managing employees’ resources are very different, he said. Learning those aspects of a management role can be a challenge.
“Many supervisors and farm managers are being placed in those positions without the proper training,” Borges said.
Borges has long wanted to change that and create a program to develop leadership skills among farmworkers similar to that in other industries, to help leader and managers do their jobs better, he said.
“We haven’t heard of a program like that in the agriculture industry,” Borges said. “A group of us agreed that this was something that was needed.”
It took a while, working with the Washington State Tree Fruit Association, Washington State University, the Washington Farm Bureau and the Washington Department of Labor and Industries, but Borges said the WSDA had finally put together the state’s first Agricultural Leadership Program. The management training is designed to develop skilled and qualified leaders and managers to oversee and supervise work in the state’s orchards.
“The entire industry sees the need in these programs,” said Jacqui Gordon Nunez, WSTFA director of training, education and member services. “It’s an effort of the entire industry that has identified the need for a program that only gives people the tools and the skills they need to become effective leaders but also helps the industry retain their workers.”
Nunez said farmwork as a whole is plagued by a high turnover rate, largely because the work is difficult, but also because leadership is not as good as it could be.
The three-month Agricultural Leadership Program, which begins teaching its first class in May, aims to change that by assessing each trainee’s leadership skills, teaching different kinds of leadership styles and focusing on developing communication skills, conflict management, worker safety, laws and regulations. It also will be teaching students how to foster trust with workers. All of these things will be taught over the course of 40 hours, during which participants will also have actual assignments in the field and receive guidance from a mentor skilled in fair management, Nunez said.
“They identify strategies to implement a vision in their workplace, they work with their team and then they implement that strategy. And when the three months ends, they will come back to us,” Nunez said. “They will do a quick presentation about what changes they implemented in their workplace and how the program helped them become better leaders.”
Each class will be taught on Fridays, limited to 15 students in order to keep sessions as interactive as possible, and will be taught in English and Spanish, Nunez said.
“We want the instructors to teach them the (tools), but we want them to apply the tools in the classroom, to do group exercises, to do roleplay (and) to do icebreakers,” she said.
Applying management skills in the workplace will be vital to the program’s success, Borges said.
“And that’s why we want to have a mentor during a three-month period, so that they can get the guidance that they need to implement what they learn during the 40 hour workshop,” Borges said.
By implementing those skills, Borges said the WSDA believes they can help take Washington agriculture to the next level.
Right now, the leadership program is specific to the fruit tree industry, but Borges said WSDA hopes to expand this other area of agriculture where there is a need for skilled supervisors and managers.
Nunez also said the WSTFA hopes to see the program made sustainable. Currently, costs are covered by a grant, but she said the WSTFA hopes to be able to train two groups each year.
“Because we know there is a need and we know there are companies that will want to sign up,” she said.
For more information on the Agricultural Leadership Program, contact Nunez at jacqui@wstfa.org or Borges at oborges@agr.wa.gov.
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Gemini Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:GMTX) went down by -2.52% from its latest closing price compared to the recent 1-year high of $12.95. The company’s stock price has collected 2.65% of gains in the last five trading sessions.
Is It Worth Investing in Gemini Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ :GMTX) Right Now?
Opinions of the stock are interesting as 0 analysts out of 4 who provided ratings for Gemini Therapeutics Inc. declared the stock was a “buy,” while 0 rated the stock as “overweight,” 4 rated it as “hold,” and 0 as “sell.”
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The average price from analysts is $1.88, which is $0.33 above the current price. GMTX currently public float of 38.34M and currently shorts hold a 5.38% ratio of that float. Today, the average trading volume of GMTX was 321.79K shares.
GMTX’s Market Performance
GMTX stocks went up by 2.65% for the week, with a monthly jump of 7.64% and a quarterly performance of -24.39%, while its annual performance rate touched -86.21%. The volatility ratio for the week stands at 13.32% while the volatility levels for the past 30 days are set at 7.72% for Gemini Therapeutics Inc.. The simple moving average for the period of the last 20 days is 6.99% for GMTX stocks with a simple moving average of -50.69% for the last 200 days.
Analysts’ Opinion of GMTX
Many brokerage firms have already submitted their reports for GMTX stocks, with H.C. Wainwright repeating the rating for GMTX by listing it as a “Buy.” The predicted price for GMTX in the upcoming period, according to H.C. Wainwright is $20 based on the research report published on December 15th of the previous year 2021.
SVB Leerink, on the other hand, stated in their research note that they expect to see GMTX reach a price target of $25. The rating they have provided for GMTX stocks is “Outperform” according to the report published on April 08th, 2021.
Jefferies gave a rating of “Buy” to GMTX, setting the target price at $23 in the report published on March 03rd of the previous year.
GMTX Trading at 2.40% from the 50-Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought GMTX to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -88.03% of loss for the given period.
Volatility was left at 7.72%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 13.32%, as shares surge +6.90% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading -14.36% lower at present.
During the last 5 trading sessions, GMTX rose by +2.65%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by -76.04% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $1.4538. In addition, Gemini Therapeutics Inc. saw -46.74% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further losses.
Insider Trading
Reports are indicating that there were more than several insider trading activities at GMTX starting from Leonard Braden Michael, who purchase 191,769 shares at the price of $1.52 back on Apr 13. After this action, Leonard Braden Michael now owns 5,000,000 shares of Gemini Therapeutics Inc., valued at $291,604 using the latest closing price.
Leonard Braden Michael, the 10% Owner of Gemini Therapeutics Inc., purchase 203,744 shares at $1.42 during a trade that took place back on Apr 12, which means that Leonard Braden Michael is holding 4,808,231 shares at $290,193 based on the most recent closing price.
Stock Fundamentals for GMTX
Equity return is now at value -48.40, with -43.70 for asset returns.
The liquidity ratio also appears to be rather interesting for investors as it stands at 9.44. | https://newsheater.com/2022/04/15/is-gemini-therapeutics-inc-gmtx-a-keeper/ | 2022-04-15T15:29:23Z | https://newsheater.com/2022/04/15/is-gemini-therapeutics-inc-gmtx-a-keeper/ | true | 17415 |
SVB Financial Group (NASDAQ:SIVB) went down by -2.61% from its latest closing price compared to the recent 1-year high of $763.22. The company’s stock price has collected 1.36% of gains in the last five trading sessions. Barron’s reported on 09/13/21 that Here’s a Rare Bank Stock That’s a Play on Growth
Is It Worth Investing in SVB Financial Group (NASDAQ :SIVB) Right Now?
SVB Financial Group (NASDAQ:SIVB) scored a price-to-earnings ratio above its average ratio, recording 16.06 x from its present earnings ratio. Plus, the 36-month beta value for SIVB is at 1.84. Opinions of the stock are interesting as 13 analysts out of 24 who provided ratings for SVB Financial Group declared the stock was a “buy,” while 2 rated the stock as “overweight,” 9 rated it as “hold,” and 0 as “sell.”
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The average price from analysts is $738.64, which is $267.53 above the current price. SIVB currently public float of 58.55M and currently shorts hold a 1.35% ratio of that float. Today, the average trading volume of SIVB was 561.23K shares.
SIVB’s Market Performance
SIVB stocks went up by 1.36% for the week, with a monthly drop of -8.93% and a quarterly performance of -28.75%, while its annual performance rate touched -2.29%. The volatility ratio for the week stands at 4.47% while the volatility levels for the past 30 days are set at 4.06% for SVB Financial Group. The simple moving average for the period of the last 20 days is -7.77% for SIVB stocks with a simple moving average of -18.91% for the last 200 days.
Analysts’ Opinion of SIVB
Many brokerage firms have already submitted their reports for SIVB stocks, with Janney repeating the rating for SIVB by listing it as a “Neutral.” The predicted price for SIVB in the upcoming period, according to Janney is $700 based on the research report published on January 21st of the current year 2022.
Morgan Stanley, on the other hand, stated in their research note that they expect to see SIVB reach a price target of $985. The rating they have provided for SIVB stocks is “Overweight” according to the report published on January 11th, 2022.
SIVB Trading at -11.47% from the 50-Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought SIVB to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -33.56% of loss for the given period.
Volatility was left at 4.06%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 4.47%, as shares sank -10.21% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading -16.60% lower at present.
During the last 5 trading sessions, SIVB rose by +1.36%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by -8.87% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $546.89. In addition, SVB Financial Group saw -25.24% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further losses.
Insider Trading
Reports are indicating that there were more than several insider trading activities at SIVB starting from DRAPER MICHELLE, who sale 269 shares at the price of $603.58 back on Mar 01. After this action, DRAPER MICHELLE now owns 3,318 shares of SVB Financial Group, valued at $162,363 using the latest closing price.
Beck Daniel J, the Chief Financial Officer of SVB Financial Group, sale 2,900 shares at $595.08 during a trade that took place back on Feb 28, which means that Beck Daniel J is holding 4,210 shares at $1,725,732 based on the most recent closing price.
Stock Fundamentals for SIVB
Current profitability levels for the company are sitting at:
- +48.28 for the present operating margin
The net margin for SVB Financial Group stands at +31.02. Equity return is now at value 16.40, with 1.00 for asset returns.
The liquidity ratio also appears to be rather interesting for investors as it stands at 0.08. | https://newsheater.com/2022/04/15/svb-financial-group-sivb-skating-on-thin-ice-we-know-the-answer/ | 2022-04-15T15:30:30Z | https://newsheater.com/2022/04/15/svb-financial-group-sivb-skating-on-thin-ice-we-know-the-answer/ | true | 17415 |
KYIV: Ukraine said Friday that Russian strikes had killed five people in the east of the country after President Volodymyr Zelensky(pix) said Moscow’s forces were aiming to “destroy” the region.
In a report issued by the presidency, Kyiv said two people had been killed and two more wounded in the eastern Lugansk region while another three had been killed and seven wounded in the neighbouring Donetsk region.
The presidency said “fighting was continuing along the entire front line” in Donetsk.
In a late-night address Thursday, Zelensky said that “Donbas is the main target for Russia.”
“It’s Donbas that Russia wants to destroy. It is the Lugansk and Donetsk regions that Russian troops are destroying so that only stones remain and so there are no people left at all”.
The statement Friday added that explosions were heard in the Vasylkiv area outside the capital and that according to initially available information air defences had been activated.
Since Russian troops began withdrawing from regions of the capital last month, air sirens have been heard less frequently. They have instead focused on gaining control of the eastern Donbas region.-AFP | https://www.thesundaily.my/home/ukraine-says-5-dead-in-russia-strikes-blasts-near-kyiv-HN9078867 | 2022-04-15T15:32:57Z | https://www.thesundaily.my/home/ukraine-says-5-dead-in-russia-strikes-blasts-near-kyiv-HN9078867 | true | 4 |
Segments Food Network star and all-around solid fella Guy Fieri filmed in Cleveland during NBA All Star weekend will begin hitting the air tonight.
Fieri, during his swing through the Forest City, stopped by Astoria, Mabel's and the Rowley Inn.
Rowley's spin on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives debuts tonight at 9 p.m. in an episode titled "Pickin' Up and Chowin' Down," and the segment, per the Food Network, will feature the Tremont bar and restaurant's monster tots and Loco Moski, a Hawaiian-Polish mashup with pierogies and a burger.
Next Friday,
Fieri's segment with Michael Symon at Mabel's hits the air in an episode called "Food Network Super Chefs" that will include Symon's pork belly and loaded baked potato.
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British Airways stopped Ukrainian family from boarding flight to the UK despite turning up with the correct travel documents - because grandmother had lost her passport
- Ukrainian family banned from boarding Heathrow flight in Warsaw, Poland
- Group travelled 800 miles and were coming under Homes for Ukraine scheme
- But Vira Rybalchenko, 68, had lost her passport during evacuation of Kharkiv
- She was wrongly told by BA staff that she needed a physical copy before flying
British Airways has apologised after family of Ukrainian refugees were barred from boarding their flight despite all three passengers having the correct documentation.
The family, which included an eight-year-old girl, had fled their home in Kharkiv, northeast Ukraine, which has faced some of the most devastating attacks from Russian troops since the invasion began on February 24.
Despite Vira Rybalchenko, 68, losing her passport during the evacuation, she was told by the British embassy she could still travel because she had retained paper copies and a UK visa.
The group had travelled more than 800 miles to Warsaw in Poland, where they had been due to fly to the London with BA under the government's maligned Homes for Ukraine scheme.
They passed through security without issue, but shortly before they were due to depart British Airways' staff wrongly informed Ms Rybalchenko she would not be allowed to fly without the original passport.
Her daughter, Hanna Zakhovaieva, described the experience as 'horrible' and said they were left without 'explanation or apology' by BA at the time of the incident.
The airline has since offered a public apology and a full refund as compensation for the confusion, reports the Guardian.
British Airways has apologised after a Ukrainian family fleeing war were barred from boarding their flight bound for London Heathrow despite all three passengers having the correct documentation. [File image]
The family had arrived at Warsaw airport for 6am for their 8.25am flight bound for London Heathrow.
But to their dismay, and the shock of visa officials at the airport, they were turned away after Ms Rybalchenko could not produce a physical copy of her lost passport.
Ms Zakhovaieva, 37, said: 'This was a horrible experience and my mum was absolutely shocked. I couldn't leave my mum in Poland because she doesn't understand the language and doesn't know anyone or have anywhere to stay.'
Eight-year-old Sofiaa had been left 'very traumatised' by the Russian invasion, and still speaks to her father, Konstantin, each day in Kharkiv to ensure he is 'still alive'.
Ms Zakhovaieva claims she saw another family being turned away by BA staff. The airline has yet to confirm how many Ukrainian families have been turned away in similar circumstances.
The visa centre at the airport 'were shocked that BA didn't allow us to board', she added. 'They said this is a massive issue that a lot of families will face.'
The family, which included an eight-year-old girl, had fled their home in Kharkiv, (pictured) which has faced some of the most devastating attacks from Russian troops since the invasion began on February 24
BA said in a statement: 'We're very sorry for the genuine error made by our team when trying to follow Home Office guidance and we've put measures in place to ensure this doesn't happen again.
'We're making contact with the family to apologise and will be providing a full refund of their tickets.'
Eventually, they were allowed to board an 8pm flight to the capital via LOT Airlines, after an employee with Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air created a temporary travel document for them.
Ms Zakhovaieva, her daughter and mother are now living with their host family in Surrey.
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The internet began speculating that the pair had split yesterday, but sources are shutting the gossip down.
No need to panic – Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are doing just fine, sources say. If you were online yesterday, you may have heard the rumours floating around that the "F*ckin' Problems" hitmaker was allegedly caught in an act of infidelity, prompting his pregnant girlfriend to break up with him, but as TMZ reports, that's simply not the case.
A source "directly connected to both artists, [and] who has regular interaction with them" has told the outlet that neither claim is true. "100% false on both counts," they shared. "1 million percent not true. They're fine."
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It was said that Rocky was cheating with Amina Muaddi, a shoe designer who's previously collaborated with the 34-year-old on her LVMH Fenty brand, which was shuttered back in 2021.
As the rumour mill began turning yesterday, Muaddi shared recent photos snapped of her famous gal pal out and about in West Hollywood, which would've been an odd move on her part if she really was up to no good behind the scenes.
Strangely enough, the gossip surfaced days after Rih graced the cover of American Vogue, and in her interview, she opened up about her relationship with her baby daddy, revealing that it wasn't easy for him to get out of the friend zone with her.
During the conversation, the soon-to-be mother of one admitted that they first connected a decade ago as she was performing "Cockiness" at the 2012 VMA's when he "grabbed [her] ass on stage," which wasn't a part of their initial rehearsal – read more about that here, and tap back in with HNHH later for more celebrity updates.
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Can gunshot detection devices help fight crime in Palm Springs' Desert Highland Gateway Estates?
Palm Springs Police are exploring whether a system that can detect and report gunshots could be used to fight crime in the Desert Highland Gateway Estates neighborhood.
The system has proven controversial in other cities, however, and some Palm Springs residents are already raising concerns about privacy and whether certain policing methods are fair.
Police have become increasingly motivated to explore new ways of addressing policing in Desert Highland Gateway Estates — which is historically Black and has been plagued by violent crime — about how police can work with residents to create a safer environment. At least seven officers visited about 100 homes on March 3 to ask about crime in the neighborhood, where two people were killed in shootings just days apart in February.
On Feb. 19, Elisa Dorsey, a 36-year-old Palm Springs resident, was found dead in the 600 block of Rosa Parks Boulevard. Her death was ruled a homicide, though authorities have not said the exact cause. On Feb. 25, 45-year-old Cabazon man Jermaine Hamilton, was found dead after he was shot while driving in the area of Rosa Parks Road and Granada Avenue.
The department says of the approximately 50 residents police spoke to, more expressed support for the gunshot detection system than some other options mentioned by police, including security cameras.
Still, police continue to run into what Araiza described as a lack of participation and trust in law enforcement. At least five people did not want to speak with the officers who came to their homes, Araiza said.
Among those who questioned the idea of instituting the technology in the neighborhood is resident Sonnie Williams, who asked "why don't they let us police our own neighborhood?"
He said he had not heard about the police visits prior to being approached by The Desert Sun and did not necessarily believe that police had done them.
"You know they are going to exaggerate and say they did some [expletive] they didn't do," he said. "I don't think what we are doing out here is that important to them."
Araiza said in early April that the proposal would only move forward with community support. He said the department has yet to plan a ShotSpotter demo.
The Desert Highland Gateway Estates Community Action Association declined to provide comment for this story.
System uses sensors to locate gunshots
The ShotSpotter technology, which police say could both deter and help deal with crime, uses devices and trained personnel to determine and verify that a gunshot has been fired and notify police.
The system uses acoustic sensors that are placed on buildings and lampposts throughout a neighborhood, according to a video on the ShotSpotter website. When a gun is fired anywhere in the area multiple sensors detect and timestamp the sound with the sensors triangulating the location of the gunshot based on the amount of time it takes for the sound of the gunshot to travel to each individual sensor.
The system then generates an alert where trained acoustic experts analyze a recording of the sound to determine if the shot is gunfire or another sound. That analysis involves trained reviewers playing back the audio from multiple sensors, analyzing the visual waveforms to see if they match the typical pattern of gunfire, and either publishing the incident as gunfire or dismissing it as non-gunfire.
If the sound is determined to be a gunshot, the alert and location is then sent to police, with the whole process taking less than 60 seconds, according to the video.
Ron Teachman, the director of public safety solutions at ShotSpotter, told The Desert Sun that the company was aware Palm Springs was considering ShotSpotter.
“ShotSpotter is excited about the opportunity to serve the Palm Springs community and to provide the Palm Springs Police Department with a critical tool that enables officers to better protect their communities, save victims, and to have a greater impact on gun violence," he said.
Crime increasing in neighborhood
A 2021 Desert Sun analysis of Palm Springs crime data reported to the FBI between 2010 and 2021 showed that an uptick in violent crimes in the Desert Highland Gateway Estates area started several years ago.
The analysis found that between late 2019 and summer 2021, police reported five fatal shootings in the area. Three involved teenagers.
A 17-year-old boy was fatally shot in July 2020 in the area of Palm Vista and Granada Avenue. A 15-year-old boy was killed in August 2020 in the area of North Granada Avenue and Bon Air Drive. A 19-year-old Indio woman was fatally shot at that same intersection last July.
Araiza said the increase in crime is not just a Desert Highland Gateway Estates issue or even a Palm Springs issue but one that parallels increases in crime nationwide.
In his view, that increase has resulted in part from a situation that worsened during the pandemic and has seen "a lot of people getting charged with crimes and getting sent to jail but there is no bail and they are getting released."
"It's almost like this vicious cycle for our staff where they are going out and making arrests and they are dropping the suspect off at jail but then [the suspect] is getting released and put back on the streets and then in most cases they are dealing with the same person again," he said.
Araiza said he personally is also concerned about "a lack of accountability for one's actions these days" which has been compounded by a pandemic in which people's frustrations levels have risen.
"I'm sure there is a lot of science we can dig into but it isn't just specific to our city," he said.
Lt. William Hutchinson told The Desert Sun at the start of March that many of the homicides have been tied to the Gateway Posse Crips gang, which has been active in the neighborhood since the 1980s.
About two years ago, there was an increase in violence and shootings back and forth between members of that gang and another gang based out of the Santiago Sunrise Village mobile home park, which is located east of the neighborhood on San Rafael Road, Hutchinson said.
Resident blames willingness to kill, go to prison
Williams said he sees the crime as the product of several factors.
"We have always had crime, that's nothing new to us," he said. "We learn how to live with it, but we are a people that if you don't bother us we won't bother you. But if you do bother us we are going to get at you."
The problem, however, comes in when people begin to think it is OK to kill, he said.
"There's a proper way to fight...," he said. "If you are just going to fight then fight, OK, because you can live another day. But once you kill somebody you can't take that life back and that's another life that's wasted."
There's also a problem with kids in the community thinking of prison "like its college," he added.
"You've got to stop looking at it like it's some great thing to go to prison," he said. "Some of the young cats have had that put in their head and they don't fear prison until they get there and they find out it's a whole different story. What you need to do is learn that if I have to prove you to that I am a fool than I am one."
Williams believes that there is still a lot of work to be done in the neighborhood and much of it starts with how young people grow up.
"Education is key, knowing who you are is the most important thing and that you are somebody," he said. "If you know that and have self-respect for yourself, you will respect somebody else and I think if you do that it will cut down on a whole lot of stealing and a whole lot of killing and whole lot of [expletive] in general. And we could interact with other people just as well as we could interact on our own."
Schezarone Carter, the pastor at the Ajalon Missionary Baptist Church on the north side of the neighborhood, said he doesn't have a problem with the use of gunshot detection technology, which he thought was already being used in the community in some fashion. However, he also said it is important that people in the community are treated fairly.
Carter said he is "definitely against crime and against wrongdoing" and doesn't know why people would be reluctant about a tool that could help put a stop to them.
"I am not in favor of covering [for] criminals," he said. "I support our police and I definitely don't believe in defunding the police, they need all the resources they can to deal with crime. We just want to make sure people are treated fairly and want justice."
Carter added that it can be hard for someone like him to evaluate if people are being treated fairly because he is not a police officer and has not had run-ins with police. Instead, his interactions have been limited to community meetings and similar events.
The ShotSpotter technology has also been brought up by department leaders who have attended monthly meetings of the Desert Highland Gateway Estates Community Action Association, an organization dedicated to addressing issues in the community.
Araiza said that when officers talk to people in the community, they often are unable to get much information about crime because there is a culture that discourages snitching, and has left residents worried they are putting their own safety at risk if they provide information to police.
"We know that people know what's going on but they don't want to talk to us," he said. "All we are told is 'go do your job.' The only way we can do our job like that is go out there and find minor violations and pull people over and that gets interpreted as harassment... So we were kind of trying to come up with different ideas and this was one of them."
False positives, privacy issues among concerns
While ShotSpotter's proponents point to data showing the technology reduces crime and leads to arrest, the technology has also been subject to criticism by some who say the technology has a history of false positives and presents privacy issues. Among the groups raising those concerns has been the ACLU.
Last August, ACLU policy analyst Jay Stanley published an article on the ACLU website about two investigations into ShotSpotter technology.
Those investigations were conducted by the Inspector General for the city of Chicago and the McArthur Justice Center, a public interest law firm focused on advocating for human rights and social justice through litigation. ShotSpotter has issued refutations of both investigations.
The article concluded with Stanley stating that it remained the ACLU's position that "we don’t think any police technology should be deployed or used unless affected communities clearly want them."
Stanley also wrote that the investigation identified several concerns with ShotSpotter technology. Among the cited concerns were that ShotSpotter alerts have resulted in thousands of incidents in which police initially responding to ShotSpotter alerts found no incident involving a gun, which Stanley argued suggests that many of those alerts are false alarms that could result in innocent people being put at risk.
"Given the already tragic number of shootings of Black people by police, that is a recipe for trouble," the article said.
However, ShotSpotter has disputed the accuracy of that study, which it says "draws erroneous conclusions from researchers’ interpretation of police report categorizations, falsely equating them with no shots fired."
The company points to an audit of the study conducted by Edgeworth Analytics that found that the company has a 97% accuracy rate of reliably detecting gunshots as well as a 0.5% false positive rate. That study relied on ShotSpotter customers to report potential identification errors, but was controlled to account differences in the amount of potential errors reported by various customers, the company said.
The company also notes that police are not always able to confirm that some legitimate gunshot incidents occurred because some incidents occur when no witnesses are around and gunshots fired by some weapons leave no physical proof.
Other concerns raised include alleged incidents in which ShotSpotter analysts intentionally misclassified sounds that were not made by guns as gunshots, which Stanley said is problematic because ShotSpotter data has been used as evidence in courts.
However, ShotSpotter told The Desert Sun that allegation is also false and that the company categorically denies any allegations that they manipulate any details of an incident at the request of the police.
"We follow the facts and data for our forensic analysis and reports," the company said in a statement to The Desert Sun. "ShotSpotter evidence and expert witness testimony have been successfully admitted in 200 court cases in 20 states across the country."
The company says that reported incidents of the seeming changing of addresses are often the result of a misunderstanding of the reality that ShotSpotter provides two data sources about verified gunshots: the nearest postal address and precise latitude and longitude coordinates.
The company website states that "in the majority of cases, the postal address is very close to the latitude/longitude location. However, when an alert happens near a large parcel, such as a park, the single physical address for that parcel can be far from the actual location where the gunfire occurred."
In response to additional information provided by ShotSpotter CEO Ralph Clark following the initial publication of his report, Stanley wrote that questions he had about the accuracy and reliability of the artificial intelligence technology used by ShotSpotter had been effectively responded to by Clark, leading Stanley to write that "inaccuracies in such an algorithm might result in some missed gunshots but aren’t going to lead to unfair evidentiary judgments."
Stanley also wrote that the ACLU has in the past scrutinized the company and its technology from a privacy perspective, noting that "placing live microphones in public places raises significant privacy concern." However, Stanley wrote that "after looking at the details of ShotSpotter’s system, we didn’t think it posed an active threat to privacy, but we were concerned about the precedent it set (and others agreed).
A ShotSpotter spokesperson said that ShotSpotter sensors are activated only when three or more sensors hear loud, impulsive sounds – pops, booms, and bangs. The company added that the risk of ShotSpotter sensors picking up human voices is “extremely limited” as verified by an independent audit conducted by the New York University Policing Project. It also said ShotSpotter has implemented numerous technical and process improvements to further minimize the chance for a human voice to be captured in the system.
There is no direct access to extended audio pre- and post-incident by any parties and audio of the incident is limited to short ‘snippets' that are transmitted to reviewers at ShotSpotter’s Incident Review Centers, according to the company. These snippets include only a few seconds of gunfire and one second before and after to establish an ambient noise level. Any sounds picked up by ShotSpotter sensors are stored for only 30 hours and then overwritten.
Chicago has become an epicenter of discussion around ShotSpotter technology because of multiple high-profile deaths that have taken place in the city.
One of those deaths occurred last year after 13-year-old Adam Toledo was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer responding to an alert from the system. Toledo’s hands were empty when the fatal shot was fired, though he was seen on the officer’s body-worn camera holding a pistol a moment earlier, according to the Chicago Sun Times. Activists urged the city not to renew its contract with ShotSpotter, but the city did so for two more years in August.
ShotSpotter is used, controversial in California
ShotSpotter is currently used in over 125 cities, including 13 in California. Those communities range from major cities such as San Francisco and Sacramento to smaller communities such as San Pablo in the Bay Area.
The company said the technology has proven effective at helping law enforcement make communities safer in California. It points to data showing Oakland saw a 66% reduction in gunfire incidents per square mile after the installation of ShotSpotter while San Pablo saw a 74% reduction in gunfire incidents from 2011-17, the company said.
The closest city to Palm Springs currently using the service is Pasadena, which began using it earlier this year.
San Diego previously used the service but is not doing so currently while the city develops a privacy board to monitor its use, the company confirmed.
ShotSpotter technology was first implemented in four neighborhoods in southeast San Diego in 2016. The city considered renewing its contract with ShotSpotter for five more years last year at a cost of $1.1 million. However, city staff eventually asked that the item be pulled from the city council agenda, according to NBC San Diego.
A 2020 story published by the Voice of San Diego online news website stated that San Diego police had classified 12.3% of the 584 ShotSpotter activations that had occurred since the start of the contract as unfounded with police just making two arrests in four years when responding to activations.
On March 31, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported the San Diego City Council is scheduled to consider the establishment of a Privacy Advisory Board that would provide advice and technical assistance to the council on surveillance technology issues like its prior use of the ShotSpotter gun detection system.
But just as San Diego was taking a pause on the technology, the Los Angeles Times reported in October that the Sacramento Sheriff's Office had announced it would be expanding its use to two more areas of the city.
Earlier this year, Pasadena also became the first city in Los Angeles county to implement the technology at a cost of $640,000 for three years, according to Pasadena Now.
What's next
Araiza said the next step likely would involve taking a look at whether ShotSpotter is something the city could realistically afford to implement in the neighborhood. If the department did move forward, it would then have to go to the city council, which would make a decision after getting community input.
Araiza said earlier in April that he had not heard anything that led him to believe the department would be getting the technology.
Beyond the use of ShotSpotter or other technologies, Desert Highland residents also shared several other ideas for how to improve safety and policing in the neighborhood.
Those ideas included having police involved in more activities with neighborhood residents and particularly kids so that those kids see and know them.
"A lot of the community members my group spoke with felt like they constantly saw different officers, they didn't know by first name," he said.
Many also said they wanted to see more officers driving through the neighborhood when they aren't responding to specific calls. Araiza said a lack of staffing has currently placed the department in a situation where it is being reactive to crime rather then proactive, not just in Desert Highland Gateway Estates but citywide.
Paul Albani-Burgio covers breaking news and the City of Palm Springs. Follow him on Twitter at @albaniburgiop and via email at paul.albani-burgio@desertsun.com.
Reporting from Desert Sun reporter Jonathan Horowitz was used in this report. | https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2022/04/15/can-gunshot-detection-devices-help-fight-crime-palm-springs-desert-highland/7246597001/ | 2022-04-15T15:40:22Z | https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2022/04/15/can-gunshot-detection-devices-help-fight-crime-palm-springs-desert-highland/7246597001/ | false | 2 |
Pune Police arrest three for abduction of woman
Pune police have arrested a man and his two associates for allegedly abducting his wife as he suspected her character and wanted to murder her. Based on a complaint by the 26-year-old woman, Chandan nagar police station has arrested her husband identified as Amol Devrao Khose (24), a native of Partur in Jalna, and Mahadev Nivruti Khanapure (22) and Dnyaneshwar Baban Panjge, also from Partur.
According to the FIR, the couple was in a live-in relationship before marriage. Later, the duo used to have frequent fights as Amol suspected his wife’s character, forcing the latter to live separately.
Around 10 am on Wednesday, the accused forcefully put his wife in a car near a housing society in Kharadi when the woman was at her house. She raised an alarm and threw her phone during the melee. A passer-by informed the police control room.
The investigation team rushed to the spot and scanned CCTV camera footage and carried out technical analysis of phone call records. The team learnt that the accused were in Phaltan and a team nabbed the three accused.
The arrests were made under the guidance of deputy commissioner of police (zone 4) Rohidas Pawar, ACP Kishore Jadhav and senior inspector Sunil Jadhav. The team included Sachin Kute, Bunty Saswadkar, Sandeep Yelle, Ganesh Handagar and Subhash Awhad. Jadhav said, “The accused confessed to the abduction and are in police custody.” | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/pune-news/pune-police-arrest-three-for-abduction-of-woman-101650036354356-amp.html | 2022-04-15T15:43:11Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/pune-news/pune-police-arrest-three-for-abduction-of-woman-101650036354356-amp.html | false | 1 |
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Colonnade Arch (Five Hole Arch) area - San Rafael Desert - Emery County, Utah – In a tragic update, the Emery County Sheriff's Office shared that the body of a missing Montana man was discovered near Colonnade Arch.
Jonathan Baker, 53, was reported missing on April 10 and was last heard from on April 7. His last known location was at Moonshine Wash South of Green River in Emery County.
Baker was reported missing when he did not pick up his son in Salt Lake City to return back home to Bozeman.
Authorities from multiple agencies as well as Baker's family and friends checked many trailheads and other popular areas with no success. Due to bad weather, a helicopter search was not authorized immediately.
On Tuesday, the Emery County Sheriff's Office went on social media to ask for the public's aid in finding Baker. A Salt Lake City man saw the article published by FOX 13 News and recalled that he had seen the truck on a recent trip.
The man told authorities he and his friend had seen the truck on the road to Colonnade Arch and that they noticed a man who they thought was sleeping on the slick rock near as they hiked along the overlook at Horseshoe Canyon.
With that information in mind, the Department of Public Safety helicopter checked the area and found Baker's truck. His body was located about one-half of a mile from his truck.
Foul play is not suspected in his death.
In a press release Thursday, officials said in part, "Emery County Sheriff’s Office expresses sincere condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Jonathan Baker, and appreciation to all who aided in the search and recovery."
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Midday Report: Old Second (OSBC) Shares Fall for April 14
Equities Staff Follow |Today Old Second Bancorporation Inc. (NASDAQ: OSBC) is trading 2.15% down.
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Senator Bassey tasks FG on rekindling TINAPA
The federal government has been tasked to do its part in activating the TINAPA Business Resort built by Donald Duke’s government in Cross River State.
Senator Gershom Bassey made the call in Calabar when he spoke to PDP enthusiasts and stakeholders.
He said the Federal Government failed to follow the processes of establishing the resort because of the lack of political will.
Senator Bassey said the key success factors for Tinapa were the responsibility of the Federal Government.
He said if these factors were not put in place, Tinapa could never work because of three factors, including road, air and sea.
“How do you access Tinapa? There are three ways such as by road and of course, the road even from Uyo to Tinapa is very bad. So, no road accessing Tinapa. The second factor is by air and the Margaret Ekpo International airport has the shortest runway in the whole of Nigeria. The other one is by sea and we have an inland waterway that is not dredged.
“These three critical factors were in the blueprint and planning of the Tinapa Business Resort project, which I was a critical part of when Donald Duke was governor.
“In fact, the federal government had guaranteed these three factors to Duke when he was building Tinapa.
“The Olusegun Obasanjo administration personally guaranteed the provision of good access to Tinapa by road, air and sea …” the Senator further revealed.
He emphasized that lack of political will was not at the state level but at the Federal level.
“The Federal Government must show a sustained commitment towards developmental objectives of States under the Federation.
“Federal Government must rekindle its promise and commitment to undertake the provision of access to Tinapa by road, air and sea in order to achieve the set objectives of the project and to sustain the costs and maintenance of those infrastructures over time.”
He contended that the amount and zeal applied in the pursuit of the Calabar Deep Sea Port should have been used to concentrate on the dredging of the Cross River channel leading to the Calabar port.
Senator Bassey alleged that a current governor in the Southeast who was then in charge of NPA has refused to give an account of the dredging of the Calabar channel.
Bassey concluded that “If we must solve the problems of TINAPA, we must go to the fundamental root and principles of the foundation to solve them. If sufficient political will exists on the part of the Federal Government to meet their public commitments to Cross River State, the Tinapa dream will be rekindled”. | https://dailypost.ng/2022/04/15/senator-bassey-tasks-fg-on-rekindling-tinapa/ | 2022-04-15T15:50:08Z | https://dailypost.ng/2022/04/15/senator-bassey-tasks-fg-on-rekindling-tinapa/ | false | 1 |
BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — The trail network at Maine's Acadia National Park is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The National Park Service said Thursday the listing recognizes 109 trails that cover 117 miles. The trail network becomes the largest system of trails listed on the register.
The park service said the trail system was recognized because of its historic significance and ties to the history of Mount Desert Island, where the park is located. Kevin Schneider, superintendent of Acadia National Park, said in a statement that the recognition "is a testament to not only the historic significance of these trails, but also the incredible dedication of the National Park Service staff, partners and volunteers who continue to preserve them.”
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Cricket
Pakistan police arrest man for threatening to conduct terror attack on Australian cricket team
The Australian cricket team concluded its tour of Pakistan early this month
Police in Pakistan's Punjab province have arrested a suspect for issuing a threat to carry out a terror attack on the Australian cricket team during its Lahore tour early this month.
The Australian cricket team concluded its tour of Pakistan early this month in which it played three tests and as many ODIs, and one T20. Following a threat call to the Australian interior ministry that the team would be attacked in Lahore, the Pakistani intelligence agencies launched an investigation into it.
"On Thursday, police traced the man who made the terror attack threat to the Australian interior ministry, and arrested him," police officer concerned Mubashir Maken told reporters. He said the suspect, Irfan Naseer, was arrested from Toba Tek Singh, some 200 kilometres from Lahore.
"A case has been registered against him under Anti-Terrorism Act and Telegraph Act," he said, adding that the police and intelligence agency traced the suspect through his mobile phone data.
The officer said the police are also probing his link with any banned outfit. Australian spinner Ashton Agar, who was part of the test squad during Pakistan's tour, was also the subject of a death threat on social media. Later, it was found that the threat was issued from a fake Instagram account. | https://thebridge.in/cricket/pakistan-police-arrest-man-threatening-terror-attack-australian-cricket-team-30705 | 2022-04-15T15:59:35Z | https://thebridge.in/cricket/pakistan-police-arrest-man-threatening-terror-attack-australian-cricket-team-30705 | true | 1 |
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BOISE, Idaho — Idaho officials have warned Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin if she was unable to avoid a budget deficit in her office, her salary would be withheld.
McGeachin was ordered to pay around $29,000 in court costs and legal fees after losing her public records battle with the Idaho Press Club in 2021.
The $29,000 was on top of a $750 fine she was issued by a judge for her "bad faith" violations of the Idaho Public Records Act. McGeachin ended up paying the fine out of her office's budget.
On March 11, the Division of Financial Management sent McGeachin's office an email stating her Fiscal Year 2022 budget shortfall would be estimated at more than $22,000.
Since receiving the initial email, McGeachin has received several other emails from various state entities detailing her projected budget deficit. During that time, vendor payments have stopped and her staff has been let go in order to save money.
Even with the savings from letting her staff go, McGeachin still found herself in a budget deficit.
Idaho's Lt. Gov. has received bi-weekly updates from the State Controller's Office. As of April 7, McGeachin's projected deficit stood at around $2,300.
Also on April 7, the Division of Financial Management requested that McGeachin produce a plan on how to avoid a deficit by the end of the day on Wednesday, April 13.
"It is hereby made the duty of every department, officer, board, commission, or institution receiving appropriations from the legislature to furnish upon demand any and all information so requested by the administrator of the division," Idaho code states.
That request is consistent with Idaho code and requires McGeachin to respond.
Alex Adams, the administrator for the division, sent McGeachin an email Wednesday morning, reminding her of her 5 p.m. Wednesday deadline. Adams said she did not meet that deadline.
McGeachin did respond to Adams via email, at 11:45 a.m. Thursday, stating she has "always been transparent" with her finances.
She also said if there is a shortfall in the final month of the fiscal year, "that amount may be withheld from my final paycheck as needed to balance my accounts."
McGeachin also said "of course, DFM already has access to all of my office's accounting and expenditure records, making this exercise a rather pointless formality."
Using the term "pointless" is questionable because there are other issues at hand, such as vendor payments and specifically with health insurance premiums. No decision on that hold could lead to a gap in health insurance coverage.
Adams said they have given McGeachin a new deadline of Monday, April 18 to respond to those requests.
KTVB reached out to McGeachin for comment, but has not heard back. Idaho's fiscal year ends June 30.
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My dad and I boarded the F train at the crack of dawn so that we could join an endless line that wrapped around an entire block of Soho. The object of our pursuit? The fabled, internet-famous cronut. Dominique Ansel’s innovative croissant-donut crossover was my first exposure to fusion foods, and it was certainly the sweetest. Little did we know, a ring-shaped croissant would continue the global tradition of blending culture through cuisine — a catalyst for the explosion of fusion foods in the twenty-first century.
Fusion foods captured the zeitgeist of American food culture in the 2010s. Soon after the Cronut made its massively successful debut, Keizo Shimamoto’s Ramen Burger became the subject of many a hipster foodie’s Instagram post. Then came the sushi burrito. Most recently, I tried out a TikTok “hack” that involved tucking leftover Chipotle into a sheet of rice paper and rolling it, burrito style, into a Vietnamese-Mexican-American Frankenroll. The novelty of it was life changing, on a very minor scale.
Despite the virality of foods like the ramen burger, fusion foods aren’t just a gimmicky invention of the age of the internet. Myriad commonly-known dishes are the culmination of a rich, international culinary history. The french baguette and pâté found in a bánh mì are a product of French colonialism in Vietnam. Cuban-Chinese food arose as a result of Chinese people working on Cuban sugar plantations in the mid-19th century.
But these modish mashups aren’t necessarily what comes to mind when one pictures fusion food. A relatively common understanding of the term “fusion” relates to the abundant Asian fusion restaurants that populate suburban America.
The concept of the Asian fusion restaurant has always struck me as odd. To be fair, the invention is a pretty fantastic business opportunity — the prospect of ordering wonton soup and green curry from the same establishment is hard to beat. But the practice of reducing the diverse and distinct cuisines of dozens of countries to a single menu consisting of pad thai and fried rice is undoubtedly questionable. At the very least, the European fusion restaurant should be popularized too. Personally, I wouldn’t mind having fish and chips and paella within the same meal.
Asian fusion as it is understood today just seems like a bitterly missed opportunity to emulate the novelty and innovation of fusion foods such as the Cronut. Considerations of practicality aside, imagine a kimchi jjigae-filled xiaolongbao! Or a hot pot just for pho!
Being, in a sense, somewhat Asian fusion myself, I’ve been privileged with the upbringing and palette to explore this opportunity in my own cooking. Allow me to explain — growing up in a Korean-Jewish household, I lack a comprehensive understanding of either Korean or Jewish cooking. What I do understand, however, is how to cook and eat in ways that just make sense to me. I prefer to eat my meals out of a bowl with chopsticks and a spoon. Around Passover, I’ll switch out bread for matzo in my avocado toast. I honestly think that gefilte fish (if it’s not for you, please keep that to yourself) would taste amazing in a seafood-y Korean stew. I’m dreaming about red bean and sesame babka as I write.
“Modern” takes on ethnic cuisines are a sensitive subject in the food world. Alison Roman’s infamous #TheStew is a wonderful illustration of this phenomenon. When executed with care, however, the concept of mixing together dishes from different cultures opens up endless pathways for culinary innovation. It is not only natural but also practical to develop and adopt new culinary practices that optimize accessibility to cooking and challenge creativity.
But creating fusion foods doesn’t have to be — and certainly shouldn’t always be — an individual endeavor. A fundamental function of cooking is to share food with other people. Like music and art, food is a medium through which to unite communities and spread ideas. The boundaries that separate different cultural cuisines are both time-honored and deserving of respect, but we shouldn’t allow them to limit the cross cultural connections and insights that sharing food with others can foster. Food can and should trailblaze societal progress, not just reflect it.
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(NEXSTAR) – If you watch MLB games closely, you might notice not a single player wears No. 42. There’s one exception to this, when every MLB player wears No. 42 on the same day – Jackie Robinson Day.
Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947, as he took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers. While those playing in the MLB weren’t even alive when Robinson made his debut, the league honors his legacy every year on April 15.
On Jackie Robinson Day, every player and on-field personnel don the number Robinson wore, 42, which was retired by the league in 1997. This year, to mark the 75th anniversary of Robinson’s debut, the No. 42 on every team’s jersey will be Dodger blue, regardless of the team’s primary colors.
The MLB has been honoring Jackie Robinson Day every year since 2004, with all players and on-field personnel wearing No. 42 on April 15 every year since 2009.
There will be additional tributes throughout the day on Friday as well. In New York, 42nd Street will temporarily be named Jackie Robinson Way. A sign will be placed at 42nd and Broadway in the afternoon and will then be taken to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
In Los Angeles, Jackie’s widow, Rachel (who’s turning 100 this year), will be in attendance at Dodgers Stadium as the Dodgers play the Cincinnati Reds. Before the game, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts will bring his team to the Robinson statue outside the main, center-field entrance to pay tribute to Robinson, Nexstar’s KTLA reports.
Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., in 1919. He attended college at UCLA, where he was named to the All-American football team, but was forced to leave due to financial difficulties, the biography on his website reads. Robinson then enlisted in the Army, but his career was cut short after being court-martialed for objecting to “incidents of racial discrimination.” He ultimately left with an honorable discharge.
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In 1945, Robinson played in the Negro Baseball League for the Kansas City Monarchs. Two years later, Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers.
After nine seasons with the Dodgers, Robinson retired following the 1956 season. He went on to work as the vice president for personnel at Chock Full O’ Nuts, a restaurant chain in New York, and became a Civil Rights icon, according to the Library of Congress.
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, April 15, 2022
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Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
1107 AM EDT Fri Apr 15 2022
...ELEVATED RISK OF WILDFIRE SPREAD THIS AFTERNOON IN CENTRAL NEW
YORK...
Relative humidity will drop as low as 20 to 30 percent this
afternoon. Southwest winds will increase to 15 to 25 mph with
gusts to 40 mph. The highest winds will be in the Finger Lakes.
These dry and breezy conditions will pose an elevated risk for
wildfire spread this afternoon. Be sure to heed the New York
State Burn Ban which remains in effect until May 14.
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New York State Common Retirement Fund trimmed its position in CONMED Co. (NYSE:CNMD – Get Rating) by 10.9% during the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund owned 332,021 shares of the company’s stock after selling 40,577 shares during the period. New York State Common Retirement Fund’s holdings in CONMED were worth $47,067,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Huntington National Bank acquired a new position in shares of CONMED in the 3rd quarter valued at $26,000. Whittier Trust Co. acquired a new position in shares of CONMED in the 3rd quarter valued at $28,000. First Horizon Advisors Inc. grew its position in CONMED by 6,987.5% during the 3rd quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 567 shares of the company’s stock worth $31,000 after purchasing an additional 559 shares during the period. Manchester Capital Management LLC grew its position in CONMED by 900.0% during the 3rd quarter. Manchester Capital Management LLC now owns 240 shares of the company’s stock worth $31,000 after purchasing an additional 216 shares during the period. Finally, Fifth Third Bancorp grew its position in CONMED by 42.4% during the 4th quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp now owns 252 shares of the company’s stock worth $36,000 after purchasing an additional 75 shares during the period.
In other CONMED news, Director Brian Concannon sold 12,984 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, February 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $135.73, for a total value of $1,762,318.32. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, EVP John Jed Kennedy sold 7,714 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, March 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $144.28, for a total transaction of $1,112,975.92. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 32,041 shares of company stock worth $4,543,840 over the last ninety days. 1.10% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
NYSE:CNMD opened at $144.13 on Friday. CONMED Co. has a 52 week low of $117.62 and a 52 week high of $159.11. The company has a quick ratio of 1.16, a current ratio of 2.34 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.86. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.24 billion, a PE ratio of 74.29, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.19 and a beta of 1.53. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $143.01 and its 200-day moving average price is $140.83.
CONMED (NYSE:CNMD – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, January 26th. The company reported $1.07 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $1.05 by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $273.97 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $277.45 million. CONMED had a net margin of 6.19% and a return on equity of 13.20%. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.84 EPS. Sell-side analysts expect that CONMED Co. will post 3.7 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, April 5th. Investors of record on Tuesday, March 15th were paid a $0.20 dividend. This represents a $0.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.56%. The ex-dividend date was Monday, March 14th. CONMED’s dividend payout ratio is presently 41.24%.
About CONMED (Get Rating)
CONMED Corporation, a medical technology company, develops, manufactures, and sells surgical devices and related equipment for surgical procedures worldwide. It offers orthopedic surgery products, including TruShot with Y-Knot All-In-One Soft Tissue Fixation System, Y-knot All-Suture Anchors, and PopLok Knotless Suture Anchors, which provide unique clinical solutions to orthopedic surgeons for the repair of soft tissue injuries, as well as supporting products that enable surgeons to perform minimally invasive sports medicine surgeries.
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It’s not over: COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in US
(AP) - Yet again, the U.S. is trudging into what could be another COVID-19 surge, with cases rising nationally and in most states after a two-month decline.
One big unknown? “We don’t know how high that mountain’s gonna grow,” said Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University.
No one expects a peak nearly as high as the last one, when the contagious omicron version of the coronavirus ripped through the population.
But experts warn that the coming wave – caused by a mutant called BA.2 that’s thought to be about 30% more contagious – will wash across the nation and push up hospitalizations in a growing number of states in the coming weeks. And the case wave will be bigger than it looks, they say, because reported numbers are vast undercounts as more people test at home without reporting their infections or skip testing altogether.
At the height of the previous omicron surge, reported daily cases reached into the hundreds of thousands. On April 14, the seven-day rolling average for daily new cases rose to 39,521, up from 30,724 two weeks earlier, according to data from Johns Hopkins collected by The Associated Press.
Dr. Eric Topol, head of Scripps Research Translational Institute, said the numbers will likely keep growing until the surge reaches about a quarter the height of the last “monstrous” one. BA.2 may well have the same effect in the U.S. as it did in Israel, where it created a “bump” in the chart measuring cases, he said.
Keeping the surge somewhat in check, experts said, is a higher level of immunity in the U.S. from vaccination or past infection compared with early winter.
But Ray said the U.S. could wind up looking like Europe, where the BA.2 surge was “substantial” in some places that had comparable levels of immunity. “We could have a substantial surge here,” he said.
Both experts said BA.2 will move through the country gradually. The Northeast has been hit hardest so far — with more than 90% of new infections caused by BA.2 last week compared with 86% nationally. As of Thursday, the highest rates of new COVID cases per capita over the past 14 days were in Vermont, Rhode Island, Alaska, New York and Massachusetts. In Washington, D.C., which also ranks in the top 10 for rates of new cases, Howard University announced it was moving most undergraduate classes online for the rest of the semester because of “a significant increase in COVID-19 positivity” in the district and on campus.
Some states, such as Rhode Island and New Hampshire, saw the average of daily new cases rise by more than 100% in two weeks, according to Johns Hopkins data.
Joseph Wendelken, spokesperson for the Rhode Island Department of Health, said despite rising cases, hospitalizations remain relatively low, and that’s the metric they are most focused on right now. About 55 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized, compared with more than 600 at one point in the pandemic.
Officials credit high vaccination rates. State statistics show 99% of Rhode Island adults are at least partially vaccinated and 48% have gotten the booster dose that scientists say is key in protecting against severe illness with omicron.
Vermont also has relatively high levels of vaccination and fewer patients in the hospital than during the height of the first omicron wave. But Dr. Mark Levine, the health commissioner there, said hospitalizations and the numbers of patients in intensive care units are both up slightly, although deaths have not risen.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control shows that new hospital admissions of patients with confirmed COVID-19 were up slightly in New England and the New York region.
On the West Coast, modelers from Oregon Health & Science University are projecting a slight increase in hospitalizations over the next two months in that state, where cases have also risen steeply.
As the wave moves across the country, experts said states with low rates of vaccination may face substantially more infections and severe cases that wind up in the hospital.
Ray said government leaders must be careful to strike the right tone when talking to people about protecting themselves and others after COVID restrictions have largely been lifted. Philadelphia recently became the first major U.S. city to reinstate its indoor mask mandate after a sharp increase in infections. But Vermont’s Levine said there are no plans to bring back any of the restrictions that were imposed earlier during the pandemic.
“It’s going to be hard to institute restrictive, draconian measures,” Ray said. “Fortunately, we have some tools that we can use to mitigate risk. And so I hope that leaders will emphasize the importance for people to watch the numbers,” be aware of risks and consider taking precautions such as wearing masks and getting vaccinated and boosted if they’re not already.
Lynne Richmond, a 59-year-old breast cancer survivor who lives in Silver Spring, Md., said she plans to get her second booster and keep wearing her mask in public as cases rise in her state and nearby Washington, D.C.
“I never really stopped wearing my mask…I’ve stayed ultra-vigilant,” she said. “I feel like I’ve come this far; I don’t want to get COVID.”
Vigilance is a good strategy, experts said, because the coronavirus is constantly throwing curveballs. One of the latest: even more contagious subvariants of BA.2 found in New York state, known as BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1. And scientists warn that new and potentially dangerous variants could arise at any time.
“We shouldn’t be thinking the pandemic is over,” Topol said. “We should still keep our guard up.”
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Associated Press reporter Wilson Ring contributed from Stowe, Vermont.
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Twitter Employees in Total Panic at Thought of Elon Musk Taking Over Company: 'S*** Show'
Progressives can’t defend their ideas in an open debate. They also can’t honestly explain away the horrible results of their policies.
That is why leftists rely on censorship to advance their agendas. Blocking opposing voices means no debate happens before or during their actions, and there is no accountability for their failures afterward.
The internet is the new public square, and Big Tech colludes to quash free speech.
Now, however, free speech advocate Elon Musk seems intent on changing that. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO became Twitter’s largest stockholder on April 4 when he bought 9.2 percent of the social media giant — and he has positioned himself to go much further.
Unsurprisingly, the company’s embedded progressive employees are melting down at even the possibility that more liberty might invade their “safe space.”
Before Musk’s purchase, he created a Twitter poll on March 25 that could be seen as a shot across the bow.
“Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy,” he said. “Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?”
More than 2 million people responded, and 70.4 percent indicated Twitter was a communications platform that was unprincipled about communication. That’s an organization in need of reform.
Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.
Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 25, 2022
Of course the partisans of the censorious status quo feel threatened.
As reported Monday by Bloomberg, a director from Twitter’s AI research team, Rumman Chowdhury, tweeted, “Musk’s immediate chilling effect was something that bothered me significantly.”
The Twitter board tried to corral the company’s new largest shareholder by getting Musk to join the board of directors. CEO Parag Agrawal announced it on April 5 as if it were a done deal.
I’m excited to share that we’re appointing @elonmusk to our board! Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board.
— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) April 5, 2022
Being a board member would have limited Musk to owning 14.9 percent of the company’s stock — and might have encouraged him to tone down his public criticisms.
Instead, Musk turned down the board membership, giving him flexibility for further actions, even those that confront the existing corporate culture.
That gave Twitter’s disgruntled employees even more to worry about. Musk is known for erratic behavior and has enough money not to worry about consequences.
Musk sent a series of now-deleted tweets that seemed designed to troll the concerned workers. He mused about turning the corporate headquarters into a homeless shelter and shaking up the way authentication checkmarks are awarded, and even made a crude joke about removing the W from the brand name, according to The Washington Post.
He could force his ideas onto the company by increasing his stock ownership or aligning with other unhappy shareholders.
Bloomberg described Twitter staffers as “super stressed” with some saying they were “working together to help each other get through the week.”
The report said multiple employees referred to the situation as a “s*** show.”
I think it’s hilarious. They are afraid of losing the usurped power they held over society. Twitter manipulates narratives instead of supporting open dialogue.
Twitter abused the public trust. It took an active part in blocking honest discussions about COVID-19, the 2020 election, political class corruption and so much more. It censored the president of the United States. The platform needs a major overhaul.
It remains to be seen if there is even enough left to salvage. On Saturday, Musk himself wondered if Twitter was dying based on the low activity on major accounts.
This year, Trump Media and Technology Group — whose chairman is former President Donald Trump — launched a competing platform, TRUTH Social. Its CEO, former GOP Rep. Devin Nunes, described Twitter as “a ghost town” and observed, “Once you get rid of the bots and the trolls, you really have a house of cards.”
Twitter employees are worried Musk might prevent them from acting as the Thought Police. Time will tell if he is serious about making it a responsible, neutral platform again.
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Two new Wawa stores opening in Pennsylvania this year could make a trip to the convenience chain just a little more convenient thanks to the company’s experimental drive-thru concept, Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens said in a new interview.
Gheysens told the Philadelphia Business Journal that Wawa is expanding its standalone drive-thru stores — which it first launched during the pandemic — with two locations opening in Pennsylvania, before bringing the store format to Florida next year.
Wawa’s drive-thru locations have a smaller, limited menu based on the store’s most popular offerings. Pre-packaged, grab-and-go snacks (such as Tastykakes) and items like gallons of milk aren’t available.
“The drive-thru is primarily about convenience and speed of service, and if we made the entire offer available it would be hard to be able to meet the metrics for speed of service and convenience,” Michael Sherlock, Wawa senior vice president and chief marketing officer, told The Inquirer when it opened its first drive-thru in New Jersey in 2020.
The drive-thru expansion plan follows a similar trajectory to the brand’s expansion overall.
Wawa first opened its doors in Folsom, Pa., in 1964. From there, it moved into New Jersey and Delaware, and in just under 15 years, 200 Wawa stores were open throughout the region, later creeping into the Virginia and Maryland area. The company made its biggest leap in 2012 when it opened its first store in Florida. As the store continued to grow its presence in the Sunshine State, first in the Orlando area and later around Miami, locals’ reactions have ranged from excitement to indifference, with one person in 2019 calling it “just a cool gas station.”
Across the Philly region — Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware — and throughout Washington, Virginia, and Florida, Wawa has 965 stores, the Journal reports.
Gheysens told the Journal that Wawa plans to open traditional stores in North Carolina next. That’s building on the brand’s success in Chesapeake, Va., which he positioned as a top performer in “adjacent markets.”
In the future, Wawa aims to open about 100 new stores every year (Gheysens said it’s currently opening about half that number annually), building up to a network of almost 2,000 stores by 2030. | https://www.inquirer.com/business/wawa-drive-thrue-pa-store-expansion-plans-20220415.html | 2022-04-15T16:15:23Z | https://www.inquirer.com/business/wawa-drive-thrue-pa-store-expansion-plans-20220415.html | true | 1 |
PHILS GIVING ROMAN QUINN ANOTHER SHOT IN THE MINORS
The Phillies are bringing back Roman Quinn on a minor league deal, per Matt Gelb of The Athletic. Quinn was drafted by the Phillies back in 2011 and spent a decade with the organization. He was long viewed as...
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Honda e review: Electric city car puts form ahead of function
Urban EV is good looking and fun to drive but let down by poor range and astronomical price
I’ll be honest from the outset. The Honda e is not a car aimed at someone like me who lives in the country and has a family of gargantuan freaks to ferry around.
It’s for people who live and drive in urban environments and never have to transport more than a vente macchiato and a pain au chocolat. It’s a teeny tiny electric city car with a teeny tiny range, head-turning looks and an emphasis on style over substance.
The e is positioned squarely up against the retro megastars that are the Mini Electric and Fiat 500. It shares some of their old-school inspired aesthetic (there are shades of the original Honda Civic in its design) but with a more modern high-tech twist to its clean boxy styling. Some people might find its cuteness overpowering but against the Mini and Fiat it feels suitably in tune without being derivative of either.
The interior follows a similar pattern. With its big clear physical controls, gloss plastic and wood trim, it has a sort of cool retro 70s hi-fi vibe but undercuts that with a full-width digital screen setup that screams 21st century. It also screams “trying too hard”. The digital instrument display is fine but there’s no need for two 12-inch touchscreens spanning almost two-thirds of the dashboard, especially when the interface and menu system is an ugly and substandard mess.
Thankfully the rest of the cabin is better resolved with a simple user-friendly feel and neat touches like the fabric phone pouched tucked out of the way next to the USB ports. It also feels pleasingly robust, with a sturdiness often missing from city cars.
If you were in any doubt that the e is a city car, a glance at the two rear seats will convince you. Like the Mini and Fiat, there’s very little space and they are really for emergency use only. At least, unlike the other two, the e features rear doors to make access easier. The boot is a similar story. At 171 litres it’ll hold a few days’ groceries but not much more.
Beneath the floor of the tiny boot lies the e’s compact motor which in the more powerful Advance spec produces 152bhp. That’s plenty for such a small car and provides it with a pleasingly punchy performance, especially in the cut and thrust of a traffic-clogged city. That rear-drive setup also helps with the e’s agility and comically tight turning circle, which are both also a blessing in tight urban environments. Yet it never feels lightweight or flimsy in the way some city cars can.
In the battle of the three electric city cars, the Honda is more powerful than the Fiat but loses out to the Mini. And it lags behind both in terms of range, despite having a larger battery than the Mini. With just 35.5kWh of capacity, the e is good for an official range of 137 miles, compared with 145 for the Mini and 199 for the Fiat.
That tiny battery means the e is more vulnerable to the impact of things like driving style and weather. On a previous and shorter summertime drive in one I saw an impressive 4.1 miles/kWh. In the depths of a Scottish winter my average over a week was a poor 2.8m/kWh. In a car with a big battery, that’s less of an issue but in the e, it translated into a real world range of just 100 miles.
Around town and with access to home charging, that’s not a big deal but it significantly limits the e’s use outside those narrow parameters, as does its restricted passenger and boot space.
That wouldn’t be the end of the world if the e was priced close to a regular city car but with a starting price of £34,365 for the basic car and £36,865 for the Advance it’s shockingly expensive especially when compared with the Mini and Fiat, both of which start at less than £30,000.
The e is the kind of car that will appeal to buyers that are happy to drop hundreds of pounds on a tiny designer handbag or a pair of shoes that you can only walk 20 yards in. Impractical but unarguably stylish. There is no sound financial or practical argument for getting one. If you’re after a sensible, good value EV then look elsewhere. But if you have cash to burn and a desire for something quirky, stylish and individual, the e could be the ideal city runaround for you.
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Price: £36,865; Motor: Single synchronous motor; Battery: 35.5kWh; Power: 152bhp Torque: 232lb ft; Transmission: Single-speed, rear-wheel-drive; Top speed: 90mph; 0-62mph: 8 seconds; WLTP range: 137 miles; Consumption: 3.6 miles/kWh; Charging: Up to 100kW | https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/lifestyle/cars/honda-e-review-electric-city-car-performance-price-range-3653262 | 2022-04-15T16:23:53Z | https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/lifestyle/cars/honda-e-review-electric-city-car-performance-price-range-3653262 | false | 14 |
DUNDALK, Md. (AP) — Detectives in Maryland shot and wounded a driver after the person rammed a police vehicle, officials said.
The incident happened Thursday afternoon in Baltimore County as detectives were attempting to arrest a suspect in connection with a 2021 homicide, Baltimore County police said in a statement.
“During his apprehension, a vehicle on scene began ramming a police vehicle at which time detectives discharged their firearms striking the driver inside the vehicle,” the statement said.
Officers gave aid to the victim, who was taken to a local hospital, police said. News outlets reported Thursday that the person's condition was unknown.
A police spokeswoman said the person shot was not a suspect police were looking to arrest, The Baltimore Sun reported.
The spokeswoman didn't immediately respond to an inquiry Friday on the suspect's condition and whether the suspect had been identified.
The officers involved are on routine administrative leave. They were not injured, news outlets reported. | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/Maryland-police-Officers-shot-driver-who-rammed-17083509.php | 2022-04-15T16:26:34Z | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/Maryland-police-Officers-shot-driver-who-rammed-17083509.php | true | null |
Johnny Depp will need to pull "a rabbit out of a hat" to win his US defamation case against his former wife Amber Heard, and the result of another legal loss could be career-ending, a media lawyer has said.
Alex Wade, legal partner at Wiggin LLP, said the trial in Virginia was the actor's "last throw of the dice", but that jury trials came with an "inherent unpredictability."
Mr Depp is suing Ms Heard for libel over a 2018 article she wrote in The Washington Post, which his lawyers say falsely implies he physically and sexually abused the Aquaman star.
It comes after the actor lost a similar defamation case in the UK, which he brought against the publishers of The Sun, News Group Newspapers (NGN) for publishing an article that referred to him as a "wife-beater" in the headline.
Following a 16-day trial in July 2020, a judge found the content of the article to be "substantially true" and Mr Depp was later refused permission to appeal against the decision at the Court of Appeal.
"This is absolutely his last throw of the dice," Mr Wade told the PA news agency, as the first week of the US trial concluded.
"If he loses this it's impossible to see him making a comeback, I think, as an actor.
"Hollywood likes a bad boy, absolutely, but in the wake of hashtag MeToo, the way in which we view these things in today's world is that you can't just be a bit of a bad boy any more.
"This is abuse. This is active misogyny.
"I personally find it very difficult to see how a Hollywood studio would employ Depp again if he loses this case."
Mr Wade said the actor "needs a rabbit out of a hat" but it was "possible" that his large legal team, several of whom have flanked him at court, had one to produce.
Mr Wade and his colleague Matthew Dando, also a partner at Wiggin LLP, said there were several differences in the US trial that may play more favourably with Mr Depp and his legal team.
As well as being held in front of a jury of 11 members of the public, proceedings are being broadcast live from the court, which is permitted in the US.
Mr Dando said that although televised hearings would not affect the outcome of the trial, it would have an effect on the media coverage and public opinion.
"It will inevitably mean that the advocates are not just playing to the people in the courtroom, but directly through television... they're playing directly to the public," he told PA.
"So it affects the dynamic of the trial."
Mr Wade added: "I think Depp's team have got to come up with some remarkable evidence.
"There's got to be something that radically changes this, that could really persuade people that Heard was lying, or at least a liar on a given important occasion.
"Juries come with an inherent unpredictability, and that's why if this were being heard again by purely a judge alone you'd probably expect it to go the same way as the UK case.
"But as Matt says, the various counsel in the US will play to the jury."
During the trial in London Ms Heard was brought as a witness to testify on allegations of physical abuse against Mr Depp, though her US legal team say she also suffered "sexual violence at the hands of Depp".
A specific incident was referenced by the actress' lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, during her opening statement on Tuesday, which Mr Wade says was "calculated".
"I don't think that (Bredehoft) would have inadvertently mentioned that," he said.
"She's setting the scene very much for a new avenue of allegation against Depp... it's a whole new kettle of fish.
"To me it's very, very clever and well judged, she's just dropped in a little time bomb... I'm sure that was quite calculated."
Mr Dando added: "Not least because you know you need to win at the end, not the beginning.
"If you use your best cards and you get your quick impact, by the end of the trial it may have waned, and the impact may be less and therefore it's less to your benefit.
"I think Alex is probably right that it was clever it was dropped there...There's an intrigue about it."
The trial, which is set to last a total of seven weeks, continues on Monday April 18 at the Fairfax County District Courthouse.
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Since 1982, the host family program has been a staple of a San Jose Giants season. Now, 40 years later, its future remains uncertain.
Major League Baseball instituted a new policy regarding Minor League housing standards before the 2022 season. Though host families are allowed under the policy, the San Francisco Giants have chosen to provide furnished housing to their minor leaguers.
San Jose’s program was the first in the California League, according to league historian Chris Lampe.
The host family program began when the San Jose Giants were still a co-op team, according to Linda Pereira, San Jose’s former director of player personnel and creator of the program.
“We had independent players who weren’t making very much money and, even at that time, could not afford the rents in the Bay Area,” Pereira explained.
There are families who have hosted players from its inception to 2019, Pereira said, before the 2020 season was canceled and coronavirus concerns pressed the Giants to provide housing for players. In order to become a host, an application was submitted and Pereira would interview them to make sure they’re a good fit.
“It was not somebody who just wanted a player to have a player,” Pereira said. “You had to open up your heart, as well as your home, to have these people in your house.”
These days, though, the idea of host families is a concept that many players have long since outgrown.
Travis Ishikawa, San Jose’s hitting coach and former San Francisco postseason hero, recognized how helpful host families were when he was a minor leaguer, given the cost of California living. Having a host family allowed him to focus on baseball.
However, Ishikawa also thinks it’s great that teams are providing housing now because it lessens the number of stressors for players.
“It’s not something you have to worry about,” Ishikawa said. “You’re not worried about how far away from the field, how you’re gonna get to the field if you don’t have your car with you, things like that. So definitely anything that’s going to help just make the focus be on the baseball field obviously is going to be better.”
Matt Paré, former San Francisco Giants minor league catcher and Advocates for Minor Leagues co-founder, echoed this sentiment. While he acknowledges and recognizes host families’ generosity and hospitality, he also said that there were times he felt like he was inconveniencing his host family because of different schedules and routines. He thinks that having a space of your own as a player is something that would lessen worries.
“The organization should not only be responsible for sheltering these players, but it’s in their best interest to make sure that the [living] conditions are optimal for them to perform on the field,” Paré said.
Though Paré is grateful and remains in contact with his host family from his San Jose days, he said that teams should not ask so much of their fans.
“It comes from the generosity of fans and their love for the game, love for the sport, love for the players,” Paré said of the cost of providing housing as a host family. “But ultimately, it shouldn’t fall on them.”
Harry Marino, executive director for Advocates for Minor Leaguers, said that they find the use of host families completely unacceptable.
“Billion-dollar Major League Baseball teams should not be relying on the generosity of fans to ensure their players have a roof over their head,” Marino said. “Minor League players are adults who want and deserve their own private living space.”
Paré said host families provide more than the roof over the heads of players, whether the costs are financial or otherwise.
“Whenever you have someone staying in your home, there’s costs that go along with that – utilities, etc.,” Paré said. “Also having someone else in your home, in your personal space.”
Host families are often not compensated monetarily, but they get different perks such as season tickets in exchange. Pereira recalled times when this was brought up through the application process.
“I had people who would call and say, Well, I want $900 a month,” Pereira said. “And I’d say well, this guy makes $700 a month, so that is why we want you to do it.”
There are some families who love hosting players, regardless of the cost.
Tiffany Fuentes recalled reading an ad in the Mercury News and had a few extra bedrooms, coming to the conclusion that hosting would be something she and her husband Dan would be interested in. Their family has had about 15 host sons to date.
To them, hosting ballplayers requires minimal effort.
“We love baseball so that’s, to me, not effort because we love the game and we love it more when we have a player on the field or on the team,” Tiffany said. “If there was any additional effort it would be like staying up a little later at night past our bedtime to cook, maybe not every night but some nights, [and] stay up […] just to see them because you don’t see them a whole lot even though they live in your home.”
Dan said that he would try to cook what the players liked and leave a plate for them in the refrigerator to eat after a game. Tiffany, who works at Costco, would ask players if there was anything she could get them from there. They’ve helped players out with different errands players can’t get to because of the demanding baseball schedule, but they’ve also just hung out socially, watching TV or barbecuing together.
The Fuentes family has remained in contact with most of their host sons, including going to see them play when they make the major leagues. Pereira said host families were taken to a game in San Francisco once a year and got “welcome San Jose Giants host families” read on the scoreboard.
“It’s a lot of fun,” Dan said. “It’s just very rewarding to watch them work hard at the career that they’ve chosen.”
Dan believes that it would be nice if host families were made an optional choice in the future, a sentiment echoed by Tiffany and Pereira.
“It’s a question of survival at this level,” Pereira said. “These host families provide them not only with a place to live, but moral support. A lot of times a car. It’s just nice to look up in the stands and see your host family sitting there.”
The relationships built between players and host families can last the rest of a player’s career, and that element will be missing as the organization provides housing.
“I think the home atmosphere is huge, because living with their teammates, it’s kind of like you get no break from baseball,” Tiffany said. “A big part of baseball is the mental part and being able to relax and unwind and have a home-cooked meal and have interaction with people other than the people that you’re seeing on the field every day.” | https://www.paradisepost.com/2022/04/15/end-of-an-era-host-family-programs-disappear-from-minor-league-baseball-landscape/ | 2022-04-15T16:30:03Z | https://www.paradisepost.com/2022/04/15/end-of-an-era-host-family-programs-disappear-from-minor-league-baseball-landscape/ | false | 11 |
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SEI Investments Company (NASDAQ:SEIC)’s traded shares stood at 0.5 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.06. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $57.61, to imply a decrease of -0.43% or -$0.25 in intraday trading. The SEIC share’s 52-week high remains $65.22, putting it -13.21% down since that peak but still an impressive 6.21% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $54.03. The company has a valuation of $7.92B, with average of 678.30K shares over the past 3 months.
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After registering a -0.43% downside in the last session, SEI Investments Company (SEIC) has traded red over the past five days. The stock hit a weekly high of 59.33 this Thursday, 04/14/22, dropping -0.43% in its intraday price action. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -1.00%, and -2.78% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -5.46%.
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Looking at statistics comparing SEI Investments Company share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has outperformed competitors. SEI Investments Company (SEIC) shares are -5.97% down over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate higher than industry average at 11.02% against -1.30%. Revenue is forecast to grow 11.60% this quarter before jumping 11.20% for the next one. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 13.10% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 6 analysts is $487.4 million. Meanwhile, for the quarter ending Mar 2022, a total of 5 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to $493.02 million.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in $443.72 million and $455.69 million respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 9.80% before jumping 8.20% in the following quarter.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 13.40% for the past 5-year period. While 2022 is set for a 27.10% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 12.00% annually.
SEIC Dividends
SEI Investments Company has its next earnings report out between April 19 and April 25. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. SEI Investments Company has a forward dividend ratio of 0.80, with the share yield ticking at 1.39% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 0.00%.
SEI Investments Company (NASDAQ:SEIC)’s Major holders
SEI Investments Company insiders hold 17.56% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 70.11% of the shares at 85.05% float percentage. In total, 70.11% institutions holds shares in the company, led by Loomis Sayles & Company, LP. As of Sep 29, 2021, the company held over 13.88 million shares (or 9.95% of shares), all amounting to roughly $823.23 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) with 11.96 million shares, or about 8.58% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on Sep 29, 2021, these shares were worth $709.12 million.
We also have Eaton Vance Atlanta Capital SMID-Cap Fd and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the SEI Investments Company (SEIC) shares. Going by data provided on Sep 29, 2021, Eaton Vance Atlanta Capital SMID-Cap Fd holds roughly 5.11 million shares. This is just over 3.66% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $302.99 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 3.57 million, or 2.56% of the shares, all valued at about 211.93 million. | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/04/15/sei-investments-company-nasdaq-seic-is-a-chance-for-risk-tolerant-investors/ | 2022-04-15T16:38:51Z | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/04/15/sei-investments-company-nasdaq-seic-is-a-chance-for-risk-tolerant-investors/ | true | 699 |
Creative Realities (CREX) Drops 2.82% on April 14
Equities Staff Follow |Today Creative Realities Inc (NASDAQ: CREX) is trading 2.82% lower.
The latest price, as of 11:20:53 est, was $0.72. Creative Realities has moved $0.021 in trading today.
57,973 shares have traded hands.
As of the previous close, Creative Realities has moved YTD 46.71%. The company expects its next earnings on 2022-05-12.
For technical charts, analysis, and more on Creative Realities visit the company profile.
About Creative Realities Inc
Creative Realities helps clients use the latest omnichannel technologies to inspire better customer experiences. Founded over 15 years ago, CRI designs, develops and deploys consumer experiences for high-end enterprise level networks, and is actively providing recurring SaaS and support services for more than fifteen diverse vertical markets, including but not limited to Automotive, Advertising Networks, Apparel & Accessories, Convenience Stores, Foodservice/QSR, Gaming, Theater, and Stadium Venues. The Company acquired Allure Global Solutions, Inc. in November 2018, expanding the Company's operations to five offices across North Americawith active installations in more than 10 countries.
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Daiwa Securities Group Inc. lessened its position in shares of CVS Health Co. (NYSE:CVS – Get Rating) by 1.2% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 99,226 shares of the pharmacy operator’s stock after selling 1,221 shares during the quarter. Daiwa Securities Group Inc.’s holdings in CVS Health were worth $10,236,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of the company. Bell Investment Advisors Inc bought a new stake in CVS Health in the third quarter valued at about $26,000. Steph & Co. increased its holdings in CVS Health by 138.7% in the fourth quarter. Steph & Co. now owns 358 shares of the pharmacy operator’s stock valued at $37,000 after purchasing an additional 208 shares during the last quarter. Lowe Wealth Advisors LLC increased its holdings in CVS Health by 35.8% in the fourth quarter. Lowe Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 383 shares of the pharmacy operator’s stock valued at $39,000 after purchasing an additional 101 shares during the last quarter. Maryland Capital Advisors Inc. bought a new stake in CVS Health in the fourth quarter valued at about $39,000. Finally, Tower View Investment Management & Research LLC bought a new stake in CVS Health in the third quarter valued at about $42,000. 76.18% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
In other CVS Health news, EVP Daniel P. Finke sold 55,359 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, April 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $100.13, for a total transaction of $5,543,096.67. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, COO Jonathan C. Roberts sold 68,482 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, January 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $107.50, for a total value of $7,361,815.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last quarter, insiders have sold 226,147 shares of company stock worth $23,949,067. 0.69% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
CVS Health (NYSE:CVS – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 9th. The pharmacy operator reported $1.98 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $1.94 by $0.04. The company had revenue of $76.60 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $76.01 billion. CVS Health had a return on equity of 15.15% and a net margin of 2.71%. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.30 earnings per share. Research analysts anticipate that CVS Health Co. will post 8.24 EPS for the current year.
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, May 2nd. Stockholders of record on Friday, April 22nd will be paid a dividend of $0.55 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 21st. This represents a $2.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.12%. CVS Health’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 36.91%.
A number of equities research analysts recently commented on CVS shares. Mizuho upped their price objective on CVS Health from $110.00 to $115.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, December 20th. Tigress Financial increased their price target on CVS Health from $122.00 to $125.00 in a report on Thursday, April 7th. BMO Capital Markets increased their price target on CVS Health from $108.00 to $120.00 in a report on Thursday, February 10th. Raymond James downgraded CVS Health from a “strong-buy” rating to an “outperform” rating and increased their price target for the stock from $115.00 to $120.00 in a report on Friday, February 11th. Finally, Edward Jones upgraded CVS Health from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, January 10th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, eighteen have given a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, CVS Health has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $113.09.
About CVS Health (Get Rating)
CVS Health Corporation provides health services in the United States. The company's Health Care Benefits segment offers traditional, voluntary, and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services. It serves employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, health care providers, governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups, and expatriates.
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Disneyland is introducing a new virtual queuing system so guests can reserve a spot to watch the World of Color nighttime spectacular.
The popular show is returning to Disney California Adventure park on April 22, and like all shows at the theme park, is sure to draw in big crowds.
Viewing areas for nighttime spectaculars usually fill up quickly. With the new virtual queue system, guests will able to secure their spots to watch the show hours before it begins.
Guests will have to use the Disneyland mobile app, where distribution times for the virtual queue enrollment will begin at noon every day.
To be able to join the virtual queue, guests will need to have entered the theme park beforehand.
Those who are able to nab a spot in the virtual queue will get a notification from the app to enter the designated World of Color viewing area about 45 minutes before the show begins, according to Disney.
Slots will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis through the app.
If the virtual queue reaches capacity, guests will just have to head to the Paradise Bay viewing area shortly before the show begins and check in with a cast member for walk-up viewing options.
“Joining the virtual queue for World of Color is not required to view the spectacular, but it is highly recommended,” Disneyland said in a news release.
It’s not the first digital queuing system at Disneyland.
Late last year, Disneyland debuted Disney Genie+, a $20 service that helps holders skip the lines. It replaced FastPass and can be bought as an add-on with new ticket.
The World of Color nighttime spectacular aims to bring Disney characters to life with an extravagant show that features fire, fog, water jets, lasers and pyrotechnics.
During the spectacular, dancing fountains and a veil of mist become a movie screen, showing scenes from WALL-E, Pocahontas exploring the river bend and and Pirates of the Caribbean.
The Main Street Electrical Parade and the Disneyland Forever fireworks show will also be back on April 22. Another popular offering, Fantasmic!, is set to return on May 28.
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The deals on these 4K televisions are as good as Black Friday deals
Updated: 12:24 PM EDT Apr 15, 2022
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VOL. 46 | NO. 15 | Friday, April 15, 2022
News publisher Lee faces renewed pressure from hedge funds
Updated 7:13AM
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is facing renewed pressure from a hedge fund to speed up its transition to digital publishing and consider adding new digital-savvy leaders to its board after successfully fighting off a hostile takeover from a different hedge fund.
Lee's largest shareholder, Cannell Capital, this week disclosed buying nearly 20,000 more of the company's shares, giving it a 9.1% stake. The fund's head, Carlo Cannell, said he thinks Lee needs new board members and executives with experience running a digital publishing business.
"I have some confidence in (Lee's) management — not a lot," Cannell said in an interview. "I have great or very little confidence in the board depending on which board member you are referring to."
Cannell Capital has been prodding Lee to make changes for several years. That includes running a 2019 campaign encouraging shareholders to vote against three board members, including Lee Chairman Mary Junck, and announcing last September that it planned to vote against all incumbent Lee board members.
Cannell Capital and another hedge fund that owns a large stake in Lee, Praetorian Capital, also questioned the amount Lee spent on advisors as it was fending off a $24 per share takeover offer from another hedge fund, Alden Global Capital. But the investor who leads Praetorian, Harris Kupperman, has indicated that he is more comfortable with the company's current direction.
Cannell estimated that Lee spent somewhere between $3 million and $5 million on advice from investment bankers and lawyers during the proxy fight with Alden — an amount he suggested might have been better spent on the company's journalists. Kupperman agreed.
"I think the shareholders would have voted for the current guys, and they could have saved a few million dollars," Kupperman said.
Lee publishes dozens of newspapers including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Buffalo News, Omaha World-Herald and nearly every other daily newspaper in Nebraska. The chain expanded significantly in 2020 when it bought all of Berkshire Hathaway's newspapers and Warren Buffett endorsed Lee as the best long-term steward for the publications.
Lee executives have defended the progress they are making in the company's digital transition. Lee representatives declined to respond to Cannell's questions Thursday, but the company will update investors again next month when it releases its next earnings report.
Lee said last quarter that it had 450,000 digital-only subscribers and it expects that number to grow to 900,000 by 2026. The Davenport, Iowa-based company said its digital ad and subscription revenue grew 17%, although its profit in the three-month period that ended Dec. 26 declined nearly 20% to $13.2 million.
Kupperman said he is making a long-term investment with his 7.3% stake in the business and he thinks Lee is "on the right path in terms of growing the digital subscribers."
The pressure on Lee isn't likely to let up anytime soon, said Tim Franklin, senior associate dean of Northwestern University's Medill journalism school and the former president of the Poynter Institute, the media think tank and nonprofit owner of the Tampa Bay Times. He noted hedge funds aren't known for their patience in waiting for companies to grow their stock prices or profit margins.
But he said Lee — like all print media companies — is in the middle of the difficult transition from relying on print publication revenue to digital. The newspaper industry has been contracting for years as more readers shift online and companies cut back on print ads.
"All news organizations, including Lee, are trying to walk this balancing act of preserving as much of their print revenue as they possibly can at the same time that they're trying to grow digital revenue," Franklin said. "And that needs to be done with great delicacy because the fate of news organizations may hang in the balance of getting this right."
Lee fought strongly against Alden's takeover bid because the New York-based hedge fund has a reputation for imposing extreme cost cuts and deep layoffs at the newspapers it owns, which includes all the Tribune papers it bought last year.
Alden hasn't said what its plans are for its 6.3% Lee stake after its takeover bid failed, and an Alden spokeswoman didn't respond to questions this week. The two other hedge funds with larger stakes in Lee have said they believed the company is worth significantly more than what Alden offered.
Rick Edmonds, Poynter's media analyst, said it appears that investors expected Alden to raise its bid or a bidding war to break out because Lee's share price soared to $44.43 early this year before falling back to $25.51 Thursday. That might open the door for another potential buyer. | http://www.tnledger.com/editorial/article.aspx?id=152484 | 2022-04-15T16:50:46Z | http://www.tnledger.com/editorial/article.aspx?id=152484 | true | 23 |
It has been three years since the Warriors have been in the playoffs — the real playoffs, not the play-in format they were relegated to last season.
That alone is a reason for celebration.
There are many questions about the Warriors heading into this postseason and the pursuit of a fourth championship in eight years, but before they are presented, let’s acknowledge what this team already has accomplished.
No, the Warriors didn’t maintain their torrid early-season pace — they started 11-1 and crested at 41-13, 28 games over .500 — and they lost their grip on the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference.
But through six months of tumult best told by the fact that Steph Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson played only 11 minutes together all season, the Dubs finished with the third-best record in the NBA (53-29) and are a legitimate championship contender.
So don’t poo-poo the No. 3 seed. This team could have gone the route of the Lakers, who despite a Hall of Fame roster led by LeBron James finished 33-49 and out of the playoffs.
In the dynastic years past, the Warriors would treat the first round of the playoffs as a warmup. The team’s talent was so prodigious during its run to five consecutive NBA Finals that the Warriors would round into form against their first-round opponents.
They will not be afforded the same grace this time around. The Warriors are rightly favored against the Denver Nuggets in the seven-game series that opens Saturday at home. But they will need to be on their game from the opening tip. The Warriors’ margin for error this postseason has never been smaller in Steve Kerr’s eight seasons as coach.
That’s bad news for a team that is only optimistic — not certain — if Curry (foot sprain) will be ready for Game 1.
The Nuggets, the No. 6 seed with a record of 48-34, are more than capable of ending the Dubs’ season early, as they present two issues that could prove difficult to summit.
The first is altitude. Yes, these are some of the finest athletes in the world, but The Mile High City has 17 percent less oxygen in the air than San Francisco. Adjustment to that environment is never easy. How long it takes the Warriors to catch their breath could be a significant factor in the length of this series.
The other factor is Nikola Jokic, the 6-foot-11 do-it-all Serbian and the favorite to win a second-straight MVP award. Jokic averaged 27 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists and added defense to his game this season.
Despite his size — he carries 284 pounds on his 6-foot-11 frame — he had an effective field goal percentage of 62, the second-best mark by a high-volume, 3-point shooting player in the modern history of the game. No. 1? Curry, who had an effective field goal percentage of 63 in the season he won MVP on a unanimous vote.
Jokic, 27, is a singular force in this league. An offensive weapon without compare. A dead-eye shooter, low-post maestro, and arguably the greatest passing big man in the history of the NBA.
The Nuggets don’t match up with the Warriors at four positions, but at center, Denver’s advantage is so significant, that it will unquestionably be the fulcrum of the series.
Golden State has struggled with size all season. The Warriors have one true center on the roster — Kevon Looney. Behind him on the depth chart are a variety of small-ball options and Green.
If Jokic’s impact can be mitigated by that group, the Warriors will advance to the second round with ease.
If the MVP has a field day against Looney & Co., this could prove to be a long showdown for the Dubs.
In the end, I expect Golden State to win.
After Denver, the Memphis Grizzlies and the Phoenix Suns loom heavy.
The Grizzlies, the No. 2 seed at 56-26, are young and brash and talented. They really don’t like the Warriors, who are perceived as the league’s old guard. My, where does the time go?
Specifically, the Grizzlies don’t like Warriors forward Andre Iguodala, who was traded to Memphis three seasons ago and refused to play for them. The Grizzlies players and the city of Memphis haven’t forgotten and they are not keen to forgive.
Warriors-Grizzlies could be a classic that goes a full seven games, with plenty of the NBA’s trademark drama to go along with top-flight basketball.
And if the Warriors were to advance — I’d like their odds there — the Suns would likely be next.
Phoenix (64-18) was the best team in the NBA this year, bar none. I would likely favor Phoenix in a seven-game series with a trip to the NBA Finals on the line, but the Warriors played the Suns well this season.
This postseason will be tight all the way to the end. Remember the Giants’ playoff “torture?” I think it’s about to move down the street.
But the Warriors have a marked advantage should these playoffs prove to be close-quarter combat: Their core players have more experience winning than any other team in the field.
So while the Nuggets present problems, the Grizzlies are out to settle old scores, and the Suns might be the team to beat, the Warriors have Steph, Klay, and Dray.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Month by month, more of the roughly 40 million Americans who get help buying groceries through the federal food stamp program are seeing their benefits plunge even as the nation struggles with the biggest increase in food costs in decades.
The payments to low-income individuals and families are dropping as governors end COVID-19 disaster declarations and opt out of an ongoing federal program that made their states eligible for dramatic increases in SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps. The U.S. Department of Agriculture began offering the increased benefit in April 2020 in response to surging unemployment after the COVID-19 pandemic swept over the country.
The result is that depending on the politics of a state, individuals and families in need find themselves eligible for significantly different levels of help buying food.
Nebraska took the most aggressive action anywhere in the country, ending the emergency benefits four months into the pandemic in July 2020 in a move Republican Gov. Pete Rickett said was necessary to “show the rest of the country how to get back to normal.”
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Since then, nearly a dozen states with Republican leadership have taken similar action, with Iowa this month being the most recent place to slash the benefits. Benefits also will be cut in Wyoming and Kentucky in the next month. Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota and Tennessee have also scaled back the benefits.
Republican leaders argue that the extra benefits were intended to only temporarily help people forced out of work by the pandemic. Now that the virus has eased, they maintain, there is no longer a need to offer the higher payments at a time when businesses in most states are struggling to find enough workers.
But the extra benefits also help out families in need at a time of skyrocketing prices for food. Recipients receive at least $95 per month under the program, but some individuals and families typically eligible for only small benefits can get hundreds of dollars in extra payments each month.
The entire program would come to a halt if the federal government decides to end its public health emergency, though President Joe Biden’s administration so far hasn’t signaled an intention to do so.
For Tara Kramer, 45, of Des Moines, the decision by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to end the emergency payments starting April 1 meant her monthly SNAP benefit plunged from $250 in March to $20 in April. Kramer, who has a genetic disorder that can cause intense pain, said the extra money enabled her to buy healthier food that made her feel better and help her to live a more active life.
“My heart sank,” Kramer said. “All the memories from before the emergency allotment came rushing back.”
Alex Murphy, a spokesman for Reynolds, noted the extra benefits were always intended to help people who lost jobs because of the pandemic and said, “we have to return to pre-pandemic life.” Murphy pointed out that Iowa has over 86,000 job openings listed on a state unemployment website.
But Kramer said she’s not able to work and that even getting out of her apartment can be a struggle at times.
Vince Hall, who oversees public policy for the nationwide food bank network Feeding America, said ending the extra benefits ignores the reality that even as the pandemic wanes there hasn’t been a decline in demand at food banks.
Wages have been increasing in the United States and the national unemployment rate in March dropped to 3.6%, but those gains have been offset by an 8.5% increase in inflation compared to a year ago. Food is among items rising the fastest, leaving many families unable to buy enough groceries.
“The COVID pandemic is giving way to a hunger pandemic,” Hall said. “We’re in a real, real struggle.”
Feeding America, which represents 200 food banks, reports that demand for food has increased just as these organizations are seeing individual donations dwindle and food costs rise. The organization estimates the nation’s food banks will spend 40% more to buy food in the fiscal year ending June 2022 as in the previous year.
For people like Annie Ballan, 51, of Omaha, Nebraska, the decision by Ricketts to stop participating in the program reduced the SNAP payments she and her son receive from nearly $500 a month to $41. Both have health problems and can’t work.
“From the middle of the month to the end of the month, people have no food,” Ballan said, her voice rising in anger. “This is all the governor’s fault. He says he loves Nebraskans, that Nebraskans are wonderful, but he’s cut off our food.”
The demand on food banks will only grow as more states reduce their SNAP payments, which typically provide nine meals for every one meal offered by food banks, Hall said.
Valerie Andrews, 59, of St. Charles, Missouri, said the SNAP benefits that she and her husband rely on fell from $430 a month to $219 when Missouri ended the extra payments in August 2021. Andrews, who is disabled, said she tries to budget carefully and gets food regularly from a food pantry but it's difficult.
“We’re barely making it from paycheck to paycheck,” she said. “It gets pretty rough most of the time.”
Officials at food banks and pantries said they will do their best to meet increased demand but there is no way they can fully offset the drop in SNAP benefits.
Matt Unger, director of the Des Moines Area Religious Council network of food pantries in Iowa’s capital city, noted the pantry's cost for a 5-ounce can of chicken as jumped from 54 cents in March 2019 to a current price of $1.05.
“Costs are just going through the roof,” he said.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina prisoner scheduled to be the first man executed in the state in more than a decade has decided to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair later this month, according to court documents filed Friday.
Richard Bernard Moore, 57, is the also first state prisoner to face the choice of execution methods after a law went into effect last year making electrocution the default and giving inmates the option to face three prison workers with rifles instead.
Moore has spent more than two decades on death row after being convicted of the 1999 killing of convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg. If executed as scheduled on April 29, he would be the first person put to death in the state since 2011.
The new law was prompted by the decadelong break, which corrections officials attribute to an inability to procure the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections.
In a written statement, Moore said he didn’t concede that either method was legal or constitutional, but that he more strongly opposed death by electrocution and only chose the firing squad because he was required to make a choice.
“I believe this election is forcing me to choose between two unconstitutional methods of execution, and I do not intend to waive any challenges to electrocution or firing squad by making an election,” Moore said in the statement.
Moore’s attorneys have asked the state Supreme Court to delay his death while another court determines if either available method is cruel and unusual punishment. The attorneys argue prisons officials aren’t trying hard enough to get the lethal injection drugs, instead forcing prisoners to choose between two more barbaric methods.
His lawyers are also asking the state Supreme Court to delay the execution so the U.S. Supreme Court can review whether Moore’s death sentence was a disproportionate punishment compared with similar crimes. The state justices denied a similar appeal last week.
The state corrections agency said last month that it finished developing protocols for firing squad executions and completed $53,600 in renovations on the death chamber in Columbia, installing a metal chair with restraints that faces a wall with a rectangular opening 15 feet (4.6 meters) away. In the case of a firing squad execution, three volunteer prison workers will train their rifles on the condemned prisoner’s heart.
South Carolina is one of eight states to still use the electric chair and one of four to allow a firing squad, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center.
Moore is one of 35 men on South Carolina’s death row. The state last scheduled an execution for Moore in 2020, which was then delayed after prison officials said they couldn’t obtain lethal injection drugs.
During Moore’s 2001 trial, prosecutors said Moore entered the store looking for money to support his cocaine habit and got into a dispute with Mahoney, who drew a pistol that Moore wrestled away from him.
Mahoney pulled a second gun, and a gunfight ensued. Mahoney shot Moore in the arm, and Moore shot Mahoney in the chest. Prosecutors said Moore left a trail of blood through the store as he looked for cash, stepping twice over Mahoney.
At the time, Moore claimed that he acted in self-defense after Mahoney drew the first gun.
Moore’s supporters have argued that his crime doesn’t rise to the level of a death penalty offense. His appeals lawyers have said that because Moore didn’t bring a gun into store, he couldn’t have intended to kill someone when he walked in.
The last person executed in South Carolina was Jeffrey Motts, who was on death row for strangling a cellmate while serving a life sentence for another murder.
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FSB Premier Wealth Management Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ:FISV – Get Rating) during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund bought 762 shares of the business services provider’s stock, valued at approximately $79,000.
Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in FISV. Bell Investment Advisors Inc bought a new position in Fiserv in the 3rd quarter valued at $31,000. Trust Co. of Vermont bought a new position in Fiserv in the 4th quarter valued at $31,000. Missouri Trust & Investment Co bought a new position in Fiserv in the 4th quarter valued at $31,000. Arlington Partners LLC bought a new position in Fiserv in the 4th quarter valued at $33,000. Finally, MV Capital Management Inc. grew its position in Fiserv by 73.1% in the 4th quarter. MV Capital Management Inc. now owns 315 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $33,000 after acquiring an additional 133 shares during the last quarter. 96.80% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
In other news, COO Guy Chiarello sold 12,592 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, January 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $101.35, for a total value of $1,276,199.20. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 31,000 shares of company stock valued at $3,159,439. Company insiders own 1.60% of the company’s stock.
Fiserv stock opened at $99.67 on Friday. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $98.57 and a two-hundred day moving average of $102.37. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.65, a quick ratio of 1.03 and a current ratio of 1.03. Fiserv, Inc. has a one year low of $89.91 and a one year high of $127.34. The stock has a market cap of $64.99 billion, a PE ratio of 50.09, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.13 and a beta of 0.82.
Fiserv (NASDAQ:FISV – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February 8th. The business services provider reported $1.57 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.55 by $0.02. Fiserv had a return on equity of 11.60% and a net margin of 8.22%. The company had revenue of $4.26 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $4.24 billion. During the same period last year, the business posted $1.30 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue was up 11.1% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that Fiserv, Inc. will post 6.44 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Fiserv Company Profile (Get Rating)
Fiserv, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides payment and financial services technology worldwide. The company operates through Acceptance, Fintech, and Payments segments. The Acceptance segment provides point-of-sale merchant acquiring and digital commerce services; mobile payment services; security and fraud protection products; Carat, an omnichannel commerce solution; Clover, a cloud-based point-of-sale and business management platform; and Clover Connect, an independent software vendors platform.
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Are you ready for the return of Britain’s Got Talent?
Simon Cowell has concerned fans after he was spotted wearing a wrist support brace ahead of his return as a judge on Britain’s Got Talent. The TV personality was badly hurt after being thrown off his bike in London several weeks ago, where he was taken to hospital with a suspected concussion and a broken arm.
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America's Got Talent star Sofia Vergara previously shared the extent of the music mogul's injuries after posting a snap of herself alongside Simon, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel, where Simon wore a black wrist cast. Despite still suffering with his wrist, Simon appears in good spirits, pulling a thumbs up pose to the camera, before sitting back into the plush sofa beside his colleagues and smiling contentedly at Heidi Klum.
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This isn't the first time that Simon has been in a bike crash, as he fell off his bike in Malibu back in 2020. Speaking to The Sun about the impact his e-bike injuries had, he said: "I considered therapy for the first time when I broke my back because I was very, very, very, low. I felt very depressed because I didn't know how to explain it to Eric. I couldn't do all the things I wanted to with him. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to walk again, to ever play football with him."
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The 62-year-old was snapped wearing a bright green neon brace ahead of the return of the popular reality series, which is back on Saturday. However, it seems that he is only wearing it as extra support, as the latest trailer for the new show sees him looking fully recovered without a brace as he greeted his fellow judges.
The judge is returning to Britain's Got Talent
In the funny new clip, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and David Walliams all greet each other before seeing Simon, who told David that he missed Alesha, Amanda, and Ant and Dec the most while the show was off the air. Fans were loving the clip, with one writing: "David was so happy to see Simon again," while another added: "WOOOOOOO WE’RE FINALLY BACK."
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Jack Rose showed Thursday that in addition to being an All-State basketball player, he’s pretty good at baseball, too.
The Central High School senior shortstop helped fuel a big first inning and finished with four RBIs as the Falcons completed a two-game sweep of Kenosha County rival Wilmot with an 8-2 victory on a blustery day at Wilmot.
Rose, who did not play baseball last spring, made his presence known early as Central (5-0, 3-0 SLC) scored five runs in the top of the first inning. Rose went 2 for 3 with a double, triple and four RBIs.
Rose earned Associated Press All-State high honorable mention for basketball this past season.
Central added one run in the top of the second and two more in the fourth.
While Rose took care of the offense, junior pitchers Adam Switalski and Scott Schultz kept the Panthers (0-4, 0-4) in check on the mound.
Switalski (2-0) went the first four innings and Wilmot scored two first-inning runs, but got nothing else. Switalski allowed just four hits, walked two and struck out eight. Schultz pitched no-hit ball the last three innings.
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Juniors Nick Argersinger and Seth Brankey each walked three times and Argersinger scored two runs for the Falcons, who beat the Panthers 6-2 on Monday.
For Wilmot, Cody Pappadakis hit a two-run double in the first inning that drove in Jake Christiansen (2 for 4) and Will Kunz, and Pappadakis also walked twice.
Panthers pitchers Garrett Luoma and Jackson Ticha allowed a combined six hits, but walked six batters each and struck out a combined five batters.
Softball
CENTRAL 24, DELAVAN-DARIEN 0 (3 INNINGS): Freshman Meghan Lampos and senior Ashlynn Day combined on a three-inning no-hitter, and Lampos had a perfect day at the plate in the Falcons’ rout of the Comets in a Southern Lakes Conference game Thursday in windy conditions at Delavan.
The game ended after three innings on the 15-run rule.
Central (2-1, 2-0 SLC), which no-hit Delavan-Darien 18-0 on Tuesday, jumped on Comets’ pitching for 11 runs in the first inning.
The Falcons batted around and Lampos, who went 4 for 4 with four RBIs and four runs scored, had three RBIs in the first, driving in Delaney Koltanowski in her first at-bat and bringing home Koltanowski and Lila McNeill in her second at-bat. Rubie Steinmetz had a two-run single in the inning as well.
Central scored six runs in the second and seven in the third.
Hailey Luedtke went 2 for 3 with three RBIs, Allison Loucas went 2 for 4 with a double and four RBIs, McNeill went 3 for 3 with a double, two RBIs and three runs scored, and Coda Shebenik went 2 for 3 with an RBI and three runs scored.
"We had a better night tonight than the first game (against Delavan-Darien),” Falcons co-head coach Tom Lampe said. “Our focus at the plate was much better. That's even more significant considering the weather.”
Lampos threw just 27 pitches in her two innings, striking out four and walking one. Day threw 15 pitches in the third, striking out two and walking one.
“Meg did a great job of just pounding the zone today,” Lampe said.
Girls soccer
WHITEFISH BAY 5, CENTRAL 0: The Falcons had their six-match unbeaten streak snapped Thursday in a nonconference loss to the top-ranked Blue Dukes at Whitefish Bay.
Central (5-1-1), which opened the season with a tie and then won five straight, had its chances, but couldn’t get the ball in the net against the No. 1-ranked team in the state in Division 2 in the Wisconsin Soccer Coaches Association state poll.
The Falcons trailed 2-0 at the half and the Blue Dukes (2-1-1) scored three more goals in the second half.
“Whitefish Bay advertises themselves as a tough team and definitely deserve their reputation,” Central coach Vlatko Minic said. “They were everything we expected them to be — tough, fast, strong and incredibly talented.
“Even so, we had some moments where everything clicked and we looked dangerous. Kiley Cummings, Caroline Hill, and Kate Denman put in incredible work tonight.” | https://www.kenoshanews.com/sports/high-school/high-school-roundup-centrals-rose-shows-baseball-skills-in-win-over-wilmot/article_2af62378-bc7a-11ec-ba79-7f858ceb28c2.html | 2022-04-15T17:07:12Z | https://www.kenoshanews.com/sports/high-school/high-school-roundup-centrals-rose-shows-baseball-skills-in-win-over-wilmot/article_2af62378-bc7a-11ec-ba79-7f858ceb28c2.html | true | 1 |
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State funds for Kansas’ public schools have been held up as Republican lawmakers push for policies critics say would punish educators for court rulings that forced the GOP-controlled Legislature to boost its spending.
A legislative proposal ties $6.4 billion in spending to policies pushed by conservative Republicans, including an “open enrollment” proposal to allow parents to send their children to any public school with enough space. Another provision would restrict surveys of students' families, their beliefs, mental health, or drug or alcohol abuse. A third would expand a state-funded college scholarship program to students outside Kansas.
Republicans drafted the measure before lawmakers began their annual spring break earlier this month, to settle differences between the House and Senate. When legislators reconvene April 25, they must decide whether to add more money for special education programs and whether to link dollars to policy changes.
Conservatives argue they are trying to make schools more accountable for how they spend state money. They've been linking money to policy since 2014, when the Kansas Supreme Court issued the first of seven rulings in an education funding lawsuit filed against the state by four school districts.
“It’s our responsibility to make sure that student outcomes are improving,” said state Rep. Kristey Williams, an Augusta Republican who chairs a House committee on education spending. “It’s important to always pair funding with an obligation on the schools' part to provide back the accountability that they need to.”
But Democratic lawmakers, teachers and other educators see the bill combining funding and policy as imposing unnecessary new tasks that hinder teaching. Marcus Baltzell, spokesman for the state's largest teachers union, sees policy proposals as the “heavy toll” that Republicans want schools to pay for winning the funding lawsuit.
Kansas is set to spend 57% more on direct aid to its public schools during the 2021-22 school year than it did in 2011-2012, according to budget documents. With the pending measure, that figure would increase again by more than 6% for the 2022-23 school year, to $5.3 billion, including funding for educators' pensions.
“If these folks are actually interested in fully funding public schools, they should just do that,” Baltzell said. “They shouldn’t have to attach special interest policy in order for kids to have all the resources that they deserve.”
Even with the additional funds, some districts expect to have budget shortfalls because state funding is tied to student numbers, and those numbers declined during the pandemic.
Also, the measure before lawmakers wouldn't hit the goal set in state law for funding special education programs. The State Department of Education is asking Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly to support another $155 million for special education — 30% above the $520 million lawmakers had planned to spend for 2022-23.
“Because special education services are mandated by federal and state statute, school districts must make up this shortfall by reducing funding in their operating budgets for other necessary educational programs,” Deputy Education Commissioner Craig Neuenswander said in a letter to Kelly's budget director.
It's not clear yet how much policy will remain tied to funding. While Williams argues that negotiators struck a deal and should keep the package together, Senate Education Chair Molly Baumgardner, a Louisburg Republican, suggested that GOP leaders may separate some proposals from the money.
Senators would vote first on the package, and Baumgardner said she's heard from senators in both parties who who don't want to open up the college scholarship program to people outside Kansas, given that scholarships are capped at $10 million a year.
Williams said the goal is to attract people to Kansas, but Baumgardner said, “That is a real sticking point for the Senate.”
Meanwhile, Republicans argue that it's necessary to restrict surveys in which students are asked about their personal beliefs and lives, so the surveys don't take time away from classroom lessons and parents know beforehand what their children will be asked. Educators say such surveys provide valuable data and can help schools find at-risk children.
The open enrollment proposal split Republicans enough that one version barely passed the House last month. The proposal would require districts to take students after determining how much space they have.
Williams and other supporters argue that the proposal would increase choices for parents. However, Mark Tallman, a lobbyist for the Kansas Association of School Boards, said that with decisions left to local officials, most districts take outside students and, “That system has worked well."
Other critics said open enrollment could cause headaches for quickly growing school districts. And Rep. Jarrod Ousley, a Merriam Democrat, said better-off families in urban and suburban areas would benefit most, because parents would have to provide their own transportation.
“It creates the opportunity for — for lack of a better term — white flight,” Ousley said.
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