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'Ozzy' the Pacific harbor seal pup rehabilitated by Crescent City volunteers KRCRTV.COMWall Street stocks recorded the best quarter in more than two decades amid a broad rally in global financial markets ignited by a barrage of central bank stimulus and hopes of a forceful economic recovery.
The S&P 500 index soared more than 20 per cent over the past three months, notching the largest rise since the final quarter of 1998. Developed and emerging market stock prices overall have jumped 17 per cent in the second quarter, according to MSCI’s All Country World index.
Europe’s Stoxx 600 gained almost 13 per cent, with MSCI’s Asia-Pacific index up 15 per cent.
Stimulus measures announced by central banks around the world, including a series of interventions by the US Federal Reserve to soothe unsteady markets, helped to lift stocks in April, said Max Kettner, strategist at HSBC. Rising hopes for a rapid recovery in major economies helped to keep the momentum going later in the quarter, he said.
“Equities rebounded significantly in the second quarter with more than three-quarters of the losses in [the] first quarter already recovered,” he said.
Still, many investors remain cautious given the uncertain trajectory of the coronavirus pandemic and questions over how quickly major economies will recover from the acute shock. The US, the world’s biggest developed market, has remained a source of particular concern given the severe Covid-19 outbreaks in several states.
“The resurgence in the virus is not a surprise,” said Ethan Harris, an economist at Bank of America. “However, downside risks are growing.”
Mr Harris said he expected “some reversal in economic activity in the hotspots as rules are reluctantly reversed and people become more cautious”. Goldman Sachs research indicates lockdowns are tightening or the easing of restrictions has been put on hold for 40 per cent of the US population.
Willem Sels, chief market strategist at HSBC Private Banking, said the key question now was whether Covid-19 flare-ups “become systemic enough to change the positive momentum in earnings revisions and economic growth, or will people take the view — as I think they currently do — that we have bottomed in terms of that”.
US equity markets extended gains on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 ending higher by 1.5 per cent and the Nasdaq Composite up 1.9 per cent. Wall Street’s gain followed a mixed session in Europe, where the FTSE 100 ended down 0.9 per cent and the Euro Stoxx 50 was little changed.
Precious metals rallied along with equities, with New York gold futures surpassing $1,800 an ounce for the first time in more than seven years as investors sought to hedge against inflation and currency debasement. Gold climbed almost 13 per cent in the second quarter, its biggest quarterly advance since 2016.
Investor sentiment was buoyed in Asia by a pick-up in activity at China’s factories, with the official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index beating economists’ predictions in June.
“The increase in PMI is consistent with a further expansion in industrial production in June in contrast with other countries in Asia,” said Mitul Kotecha, an emerging market strategist at TD Securities. “The PMI data will likely be supportive for risk assets in the near term.”
Asia-Pacific markets were broadly higher on Tuesday. Japan’s benchmark Topix index rose 0.6 per cent as Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 1.4 per cent. China’s CSI 300 index of Shanghai and Shenzhen-listed stocks was up 1.3 per cent while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 0.5 per cent.
Oil prices slipped after rallying on Monday following positive economic data from China and Europe. Brent crude, the international benchmark, fell 1.2 per cent to $41.22 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, was little changed at $39.70 a barrel.
Brent’s weakness came as Royal Dutch Shell said it would cut up to $22bn from the value of its assets as it warned that the pandemic would deal a lasting blow to demand for energy products and the global economy, sending its shares down about 4 per cent in London trading.
Additional reporting from Philip Georgiadis and Anjli Raval in London
Billionaire Citadel Founder Ken Griffin is giving $10 million to the Navy SEAL Foundation in what is the 20-year-old organization's largest gift, the foundation said in a statement.
The money will expand programming and care for the elite SEAL military personnel and their families, including support for children’s resiliency programs and a scholarship program providing tuition assistance to SEAL members seeking higher education, the foundation said. Griffin previously gave $1.5 million to the foundation in 2017, the year that it gave him its annual Navy SEAL Patriot Award.
“For nearly 60 years, the Navy SEALs and their families have made valiant sacrifices to protect our nation and defend our values,” Griffin said in the statement. “I am proud to continue to support the Navy SEAL Foundation in its mission to care for these heroic men and women and their dedicated loved ones who put their country before all else.”
The Virginia Beach, Va.-based foundation also said in the statement that its annual Patriot Award this year will go to Abbott Laboratories Executive Chairman Miles White at its annual Midwest fundraising event in September.
Char Fontan Westfall of northern St. Johns County, whose Navy SEAL husband was killed in a scene depicted in the movie "Lone Survivor," has written a book, "A Beautiful Tragedy," about his death 15 years ago.
Fifteen years ago in the mountains of Afghanistan, a rocket-propelled grenade struck an MH-47 Army Chinook helicopter that had raced to support four Navy SEALs who were outnumbered and pinned down on a rock-strewn ridge.
The helicopter exploded in flames and plunged to earth, killing all 16 aboard.
It’s a brief, crushing scene toward the end of the 2013 fact-based film "Lone Survivor," in which Mark Wahlberg plays the only one of those four SEALs who made it to safety.
For Char Fontan Westfall, though, that scene remains a nightmare all these years later, albeit a nightmare from which she has created a new, happy life — though not without much struggle along the way.
Jacques Fontan, her husband whom she met in 1996 when they were lifeguards at Naval Air Station Jacksonville’s swimming pool, was one of the men killed on board that Chinook, as was Army Chief Warrant Officer Chris J. Scherkenbach, a 40-year-old Jacksonville native.
Fontan, a member of the Navy’s elite SEALs, was 36 when he was killed, and Char was 29.
She was waiting for him in Virginia Beach, Va., where they had planned to start a family after his active duty was over.
Suddenly she was a widow being shepherded by friends to buy the funeral dresses she would need for three separate services: One in Jacksonville, one in Jacques’ hometown of New Orleans, and one for the Navy’s official ceremony for the men killed in what was known as Operation Red Wings.
She dutifully attended each one, numb, and after the services were over, she took scissors to each dress, cut them up and threw out the shredded remnants.
What? Like she was ever going to wear them again?
When they met, she was 20, a Navy brat. Jacques was eight years older, a trainer for the Navy’s Search and Rescue program.
She was used to seeing fit, handsome men at the NAS Jacksonville pool, but there was just something about him.
"I wasn’t a believer in love at first sight, but it sure was something at first sight," Westfall writes in a soon-to-be published book, "A Beautiful Tragedy: A Navy SEAL Widow’s Permission to Grieve and Recipe for Hope" (Ballast Books). The book, which comes out in August, can be pre-ordered on Amazon.
Self-published, it’s a frank story of the couple’s courting and their marriage in 2000. It tells of the aftermath of his death and her struggle with anger — at God, at Jacques, at the universe. It also tells how she found new love, regained her faith and grew to accept what had happened there in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005.
Westfall serves on the boards of several organizations for surviving military spouses. She wanted to write the book to show others the struggles she went through, so they know they’re not alone.
"A Beautiful Tragedy" has a brief foreword by Marcus Lutrell, author of "Lone Survivor" and the SEAL played by Walhberg in the movie of the same name.
"Jacques was on the bird that came to get my teammates and I out of the hornet’s nest. He was and will always be remembered as a warrior who never quit. My admiration for Char and all of the families who lost their loved ones that horrific day will never cease," Lutrell wrote.
As a sailor, Jacques’ dream was to become a SEAL. When he finally got the chance, the oldest in his class, he pushed through the tough training and succeeded. After Sept. 11, 2001, he would be gone on several deployments, the last one to Afghanistan.
Westfall, who’s now 44, writes that she wasn’t overly concerned when he first deployed: "SEALs are the kind of people you expect will make it home."
But as time went on, she felt an "underlying dread" that grew and grew.
"I think I just got better at hiding it," she writes. "There is so much about military life nobody will tell you, and soon I would learn just how much goes unsaid."
When she and Jacques spoke on the phone, she ended every call by asking him to be careful. His frequent answer? "Oh, I’m just going to do a little helicopter flying today."
After Jacques’ death, she came home to Jacksonville, moving in with her parents. Her moods were often dark.
God is love, she heard at church. She struggled with that: "How can God love anyone and do what he did to my husband and 18 other men [including the three on the ground] back on June 28, 2005?"
Friends tried to console her.
"People told me: ‘You were really strong, God knew you could handle it.’ I got sick of that. I’m not strong. My husband’s gone, I have no kids, who’s going to want to date me?"
It turns out she found companionship with Drew Westfall, a neighbor who lived 13 houses down the street from her parents.
He was kind. Attentive. He made her laugh.
And though she writes how she had trepidation about introducing Drew to the tight-knit community of Navy SEALs that had been her life, he was eventually welcomed in by most.
They now live in northern St. Johns County and have three children, 11, 8 and 5.
Westfall said Drew was instrumental in her healing, as was her decision to seek counseling for her grief.
A key moment came when a counselor suggested she might be angry at Jacques. She resisted that, but then realized as much as she loved him, there was truth to that.
"I was angry," she said, "because I realized something I should have known about most SEALS: Being a SEAL is your first love."
With that acknowledgment came healing. That’s just who he was, and she was OK with that.
Westfall said her favorite part of the "Lone Survivor" movie is the early scenes that show the camaraderie between the SEALs as they joke and train and plan. The scene where the helicopter is hit? She can no longer watch it. But the early part? That gives her comfort in Jacques’ chosen path.
"You’ve got to love your job to do what he did, to sacrifice what you do, away from your family. He just always wanted to be a SEAL," she said. "If it wasn’t his first love, then how do you volunteer to get on that helicopter, how do you volunteer to do all that?"
Jacques had called her before his last expedition, but she missed the call. Westfall believes she knows why he had called her: He knew there was a good chance he wasn’t going to come back, but he got on the helicopter anyway.
"Defending," she said, "his first love."
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This story originally published to jacksonville.com, and was shared to other Florida newspapers in the USA TODAY Network - Florida.
The life of Navy SEAL veteran Morgan Luttrell has taken many turns — most recently starting an eco-friendly campaign signage company.
Luttrell, the twin brother of Navy SEAL veteran Marcus Luttrell, who wrote “Lone Survivor,” started his career by getting a degree in psychology and philosophy from Sam Houston State University. He then enlisted in the Navy, graduating BUD/s with class 237.
Seven years into his career, he attended Officer Candidate School and commissioned as a Naval Special Warfare officer in 2007. In 2009, he sustained back injures including major damage to his spinal cord and suffered a traumatic brain injury in a helicopter crash during training. The spinal cord damage led to his eventual medical discharge in 2014.
In search of self
When he got out, he said he traveled the country trying to figure out how to “fix” his brain. He found the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas where he participated in a clinical trial to improve his cognitive ability.
Luttrell recalls when someone asked if he had considered getting an advanced degree while he was still in the military. To that, he had replied, “absolutely not, I’m frogman to the bone and I’m done with academia.”
But after finding the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Luttrell decided he wanted to be a part of finding the best way to treat injuries to the brain.
He asked if the offer was still open to study the brain himself. They told him to apply, he was accepted and earned a master’s degree in applied cognition and neuroscience. He eventually earning a Ph.D. focusing his studies on helping veterans with PTSD and other traumatic brain injuries at UTD.
During this time, Luttrell also involved himself with non-profit organizations helping veterans. Between his neuroscience and non-profit background, he was recruited to work as a senior advisor to Secretary Perry at the Department of Energy in D.C.
As weird as it sounds to jump from neuroscience work centered around veterans to working at the DOE, Luttrell explained that it wasn’t.
“The DOE is eloquently mistitled,” he said. “It should be the department of everything. The Department of Energy touches every aspect of human existence.”
He worked with a “cross-functional” team tasked with utilizing the nation’s supercomputers to process data on traumatic brain injury — doctors, clinicians, medical institutions, and academia had all been collecting data, but there was simply too much to be processing themselves.
“We put information into our computer that would have taken 100,000 scientists 300,000 years to compute and we did it in two and a half minutes. There is how the DOE can assist mankind when it comes to the healthcare side. We crunch numbers,” he said.
Luttrell recently completed his executive education at Harvard Business School, moved back to Texas, and started a company called Stronos Industries, where he is selling eco-friendly campaign signage.
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Sign of the times
While working at the DOE, he learned a lot about how polluted the U.S. and globe are becoming. This led to a conversation with an individual who had patented a mineral coating for paperboard that makes it as durable as the plastics used for campaign signs but is environmentally sustainable — and Stronos was born.
“We supply a product that is biodegradable, made out of recycled paperboard, and is durable in inclement weather,” he said.
The signs are designed to last about 90 days depending on weather — if you leave them out in a hurricane they will degrade faster, but they will last a couple months in normal weather and forever indoors.
The pricing is competitive with chloroplast signs, only with a small price-lift because a specific printer must be used to get the paint to stick to the mineral coating. Luttrell started his partnership with the printing company, Packrite LLC, with a cold call that ended up working out.
“They’re great to work with and all about it,” he said. “It’s an American based, woman owned company. So we’ve got a veteran and a woman and it’s American made, a win-win.”
Luttrell and his business partner have closed a few deals and are getting their legs underneath them. One order was with Wreaths Across America, a non-profit that hosts wreath laying ceremonies on veterans’ graves throughout the year to honor their service.
WAA has been working on a campaign called America Strong, pushing to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic with a stronger America. An idea for a campaign sign promotion came out of a conversation with Luttrell’s brother and sister-in-law, who volunteer with WAA, said Renee Worcester, the Director of Outreach and Partnerships.
She looked into Stronos Industries and was sold.
“We just really love the environmentally friendly way of life and it’s another way of supporting a veteran owned business,” she said.
Worcester said WAA was happy with a seamless process and an order that came ahead of schedule.
“It’s been a pleasure working with Morgan and just having that like-minded organization,” she said. “We can’t think of a better organization to work with to get that message out.”
Luttrell says he hopes Stronos Industries will take off with more orders and eventually have the capacity to hire some veterans.
“Once the company grows, I have some resumes and they’re just waiting for me to say, ‘hey, we’re ready for you to come on,’” Luttrell said.
He plans to fill roles in sales, logistics, networking, and even get drivers for a delivery service later on. He said “the sky is the limit on that one.”
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Florida widow of Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan 15 years ago tells story of grief and acceptance Palm Beach Post
Dozens of protesters assembled peacefully on the sidewalk overnight. They told ABC11 crews the focal point of the protest was Senate Bill 168, which mostly covers access to healthcare and mental health resources but a section related to death investigation records is buried in the middle.
Activists feel the bill hurts the Black Lives Matter movement and reduces police transparency. Protesters are asking Gov. Roy Cooper to veto the bill, which was passed by the Senate last week.
"That means that anything can happen to you while you're in police custody and the public will have no way to understand exactly what the medical records are," said Taari Coleman, who added the bill had "sinister implications." "That means Kyron Hinton's autopsy would not be available to the public. That means anything that has to do with Keith Collins' murder, because it's an investigation involving the Raleigh Police department, would no longer be available to the public. That means that Gloria Mayo doesn't have access to the records of her son's last moments of life or the officer that impacted him or anything like that."
Rapper Ice Cube tweeted about the bill on Monday. "This is so dirty," the tweet read. "You know most crooks do their crimes after midnight. Governor Cooper do not sign this into law. Don't give more cover for Killer Cops."
This is so dirty. You know most crooks do their crimes after midnight. Governor Cooper do not sign this into law. Don’t give more cover for Killer Cops. https://t.co/ymW55POPNV
— Ice Cube (@icecube) June 29, 2020
Chairs and blankets were set up on the sidewalk as spent the night. Demonstrators said they plan to be there as long as it takes for their message to reach Gov. Cooper.
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Fayetteville, N.C. — Fayetteville leaders are moving closer to removing the market house from its city seal.
Tonight they voted for a plan to remove it.
All council members voted in favor of removing the images from city flag and trash cans, but they’re working on a timeline for this project that could be pricey.
The divisive symbol is now bringing people together as people gathered in front of the Market House today to make bold statements of solidarity by painting "End Racism Now" and "Black Lives Do Matter" on the street that circles the building.
"It may bother some people, but I think what it does for other people and making them feel more included is more important," said Fayetteville resident Malia Allen.
In the nineteenth century, residents of Fayetteville sold goods at the Market House, but it also served as a spot to buy and sell slaves.
With the image of the building featured in the city seal, the city flag and trash cans, Mayor Mitch Colvin proposed having it remove. It's a move that lifelong resident Keith Collins wants to see.
"Removing this from the seal is a step in the right direction," he said.
Councilman Johnny Dawkins supports the proposal, but shared concerns over a hefty price tag to remove the images.
"I want us to do this right," he said. "[I] don't want us to come back four years from now and say, 'Oops, we missed one," he added.
Councilwoman Shakeyla Ingram suggests a new emblem should reflect the essence of Fayetteville today.
"As we move forward, this is a diverse community," she said. "We need to be mindful that we are moving with the future of the city and mindset."
City leaders want to be mindful of how much they spend to make these changes. One councilman pointed out it would cost more than $3.5 million just to replace garbage carts that bear the image.
WTOP's Jason Fraley highlights 'SEAL Team,' 'The Deer Hunter'
He has played military roles in “The Deer Hunter” (1978) and “The Thin Red Line” (1998).
Now, John Savage stars in “SEAL Team” on CBS, a patriotic show to stream this Fourth of July.
“This is a good scripted show,” Savage told WTOP. “It brings little moments out that are enlightening to us here back home, what they’re dealing with over there. … This for me is what I think the TV is bringing to us is education. I respect the writing … representing great images of service over the Middle East: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran.”
Created by Benjamin Cavell, the show follows the personal lives and dangerous missions of America’s elite Navy SEALs. Savage plays Emmet Quinn, the father of Sonny Quinn (A.J. Buckley) in four episodes of Season 3, hoping for an Emmy nod for Guest Actor.
“A.J. Buckley was incredible … and I was so grateful to work with him as a dad, him coming back to his home area,” Savage said. “[It’s] very personal but such a real image of how much people have going on in their life experience and how important and how difficult [it is] sometimes just to relate to their own issues with their family or friends.”
Savage also admires Jason Hayes’ leading role as David Boreanaz.
“It’s just incredible his ability to take on a real different character than he played earlier in his other show [‘Bones’] — a very cerebral, almost humorous intelligence operative — but this one was definitely blood and guts,” Savage said.
Born on Long Island, New York, in 1949, Savage saw plenty of family service members.
“I grew up with that around me as a kid, post Second World War and Korean War vets coming home,” Savage said. “My aunts and uncles all went into the military. … My dad was in the [Marine] Corps in the Pacific [during World War II]. … He had nightmares about trying to save lives. He lost his squad. He lost everybody. He was a gunner.”
In 1978, he starred in Michael Cimino’s Best Picture winner “The Deer Hunter” (1978), which was divided into three distinct segments — steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, Vietnam P.O.W.s playing Russian Roulette and wounded veterans in V.A. hospitals.
“The story was taken from a true story, a book that was banned by the Communist Party that had to do with post-revolution in Russia,” Savage said. “They changed the script to make it work here … the effect on young men from a Russian-American community.”
The result was the best look at PTSD since “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946).
“[‘The Best Years of Our Lives’] was one of my favorites movies as a kid,” Savage said. “It was tough [for veterans] to get a job, a lot of times a job was hard to hold onto, you’re going through stuff where people are different than the ones you’ve been serving with. The real world, as much as you want to be a part of it, it’s not always easy.”
In 1989, he delivered a different social commentary in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” (1989), where his character scuffs the Jordans of Buggin’ Out, who tells him to go back where he came from, to which Savage defiantly declares, “I was born in Brooklyn!”
“It was a gift,” Savage said. “Spike gave me a ring. I was on my way back to South Africa actually and he said, ‘Well, let’s just put together this little scene.’ They hadn’t started filming yet. … I have family roots in old Dutch Brooklyn and it meant a lot to me. It was just one of those moments that was just captured brilliantly by a great writer-director.”
In fact, Savage sees many similarities to the Black Lives Matter protests today.
“We see the violent reactions and also tremendously strong efforts by younger people just to come together and take steps forward together,” Savage said. “I saw the need for new energy when I was young and kids sacrificed their lives in college [at] Kent State.”
Today’s movement is compounded by economic anxieties of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We’ve been through this before as a country … in the ’20s and ’30s,” Savage said. “We took very aggressive moves to save what was considered the Dust Bowl. We are all dealing with a big Dust Bowl right now. We just we have to really work on our gardens.”
Either way, he remains hopeful that the nation will bounce back.
“It’s a growing process, but we have good people out there,” Savage said. “These peace marches in the last couple of days to me [are like Hal Ashby’s] ‘Coming Home,’ I love that movie, but these TV episodes [are] the closest we are to ‘Coming Home’ of people even in the same family or same community but needing to come together.”
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'Reckoning needs to take place' | Cheverly Town Council votes to remove plantation from town seal WUSA9.comA Washington state mother says she tested positive for the coronavirus earlier this year despite taking all of the necessary precautions to avoid getting infected.
Rebecca Drobis, 43, told The Washington Post her family took the pandemic “very seriously” from the beginning.
In this June 27, 2020, photo, people are tested in their in vehicles in Phoenix's western neighborhood of Maryvale in Phoenix for free COVID-19 tests organized by Equality Health Foundation, which focuses on care in underserved communities. (AP)
She said growing up with her father, a doctor, made her “hyper-aware of germs” and washing her hands. Likewise, her infant daughter, who was 7 months old in March, made her extra vigilant.
“My parents are in their 70s, and we’re very close with them. They used to watch my daughter once a week, and we decided right away to have them stop coming over,” Drobis said.
Her family ordered masks and stayed home, leaving only for an occasional walk. While outside, she made sure to maintain social distancing at all times. The family also stopped going to the grocery, having everything delivered.
But despite her best efforts, Drobis tested positive for COVID-19 in late May.
“After the test, I pulled over, and I just started hysterically crying. I was so scared. How did this happen?” Drobis told the Post.
Drobis’ husband disinfected everything in the house, their daughter’s clothes, toys, and everything Drobis could have possibly come into contact with.
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“We figured of course my husband had it, of course I’d given it to my daughter. It was just a matter of — are we both going to get really sick? If we both get really sick, who is going to take care of Rosie?” Drobis told The Post.
Drobis’ husband tested twice for COVID-19. Both times the results came back negative. Her extended family, likewise, got tested.
To this day, she remains unsure how she became infected with the virus but has come to be “okay with not knowing how this happened.”
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“This virus doesn’t fit neatly into any kind of system of order that makes sense. The whole experience has left me with a tremendous amount of pure gratitude and relief,” Dobris said. “I understand why all of the sacrifices, small and big, are so crucial.”
The job opportunities for Red Seal welders are endless in Canada. At the moment highly skilled and certified welders are in high demand in Canada especially in British Columbia.
So how do you become an experienced and certified welder and why should you take this career path? We will be answering all of your questions in today’s article. Find out all you need to know about how to become a professional welder in Canada and how to challenge the Red Seal examination.
A welder’s job is to fuse materials together by applying heat. Materials such as metal, polymer and plastic can be joined together to build machines, structures & even sculptures. Additionally, welders inspect structures that require welding and they maintain the tools used for the job.
The welder has to monitor the process of joining materials together because too much heat can cause brittle joints that may break over time.
Furthermore, in the construction industry, welding is known as a high-risk job. Therefore people will need the proper training and experience so as not to put themselves and the people around them in danger.
The way you can become a Red Seal welder is to prepare for the examination. You will only be able to take the Red Seal exam if you meet all the requirements. Here’s what you’ll need to do for the Red Seal welder exam.
Once you’ve done your apprenticeship work and you have full knowledge of welding theory and practical work, you can apply for your Red Seal welder exam prep course. The Red Seal welder exam preparation course is designed to challenge those who have had experience in the field and would like to become a qualified professional.
The Ashton College Red Seal Welder exam preparation course is eight weeks long with two hours of online live instructions each week. Students will subsequently be encouraged to complete group activities and assignments during the course.
This course will cover the following:
Each of these comes in two-part modules. After you’ve completed your course and you are well prepared, you can then challenge the Red Seal welding exam.
In Canada, in order for you to challenge the Red Seal examination you must complete and send an application form through to your provincial or territorial certification and apprenticeship authority. Once you have been approved you will then be able to take the Red Seal welder exam.
Skilled Red Seal welders are in high demand and there are parts of Canada where it is compulsory to have a certification to operate.
Even if it is not compulsory in the territory you are from, you should still earn the Red Seal welder certificate because it is an excellent addition to your resume and you will be a superior hiring candidate with this qualification.
There are many high-end job opportunities for certified welders. If you have the experience and the skill you can work in the following fields:
A Red Seal is the national standard of excellence for welding and other skilled trades in Canada. With your Red Seal qualification, you’re able to work as a welder anywhere in Canada—especially British Columbia where the demand is so high.
Entry level welders get paid up to $33,200 per year. The average welder salary is approximately $22 per hour. Experienced welders that have been in the industry for many years can make between $68,000 and $68,300 annually.
Are you looking for a high paying and satisfying job in Canada? Then become a welder and get your Red Seal qualifications through Ashton College. What’s more is that Canada offers welder working opportunities to foreigners too. Now everyone will have an opportunity to become a skilled welder.
So are you up for the Red Seal welder exam challenge?
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In his Monday Morning Quarterback column on SI.com, Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer discussed the "impasse" between the Kansas City Chiefs and franchise-tagged DT Chris Jones.
Breer notes that the Chiefs' negotiations with Jones sharply turned when the Chiefs traded for defensive end Frank Clark.
There’s an in interesting lesson in the Chiefs’ contract impasse with Chris Jones.
Whenever a team makes a big splash by acquiring a player from somewhere else, there will be ripples coming from within. A year after K.C. traded first- and second-round picks to Seattle for pass-rusher Frank Clark, then signed him to a five-year, $105.5 million contract, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in the building that would call the move a mistake. And really, it wasn’t one. Clark made an immediate impact as the Chiefs’ once-dreadful defense improved, and was one of the best players on the field for the franchise’s first Super Bowl win in a half-century. But even now, the impact of giving Clark what they did, which is what it was always going to take to get him signed (the franchise tag set the bar for comp, and Dallas’s DeMarcus Lawrence set the bar for money), is being felt. Jones wants $21 million per year, or thereabouts, and that figure isn’t something he and his camp pulled out of the sky. When the Chiefs paid Clark, they set the floor for Jones, who, obviously, could look at what they were giving someone from the outside, and wonder what that should mean for the earning power of someone who’d actually built up some capital inside the building before it was time to actually get paid. And so if you ask me whether or not Jones is going to get a deal by the July 15 deadline for one, I think it boils down to the Chiefs’ willingness to go to $21 million per with Jones, which is a result of their willingness to go there with Clark.
As we've written about how Jones is likely looking for that $21 million-per-year number, Jones' valuation has frequently stemmed from the deal that the Chiefs gave Clark after trading for him last offseason. Now, which side is more likely to budge?
Even as Jones has leverage due to his absolutely exceptional play — I've called him the best individual player on the Chiefs' defense — current circumstances, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the July 15 extension deadline, complicate things. My hope, still, is that Jones and the Chiefs meet around the $20 million annual salary mark, perhaps with a bit more guaranteed money from the Chiefs in exchange for a lower annual number, locking Jones into a major payday and keeping him from having to go through a Coronavirus-impacted season and still-tumultuous 2021 offseason without a long-term deal.
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MENDON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A woman driving a car was killed when a strange sequence of events led a truck to swerve into her lane and hit her car.
Events unfolded around 11:40 a.m. Friday with a wheel coming off a Jeep Wrangler southbound on Silver Street near Hampton Road near Portage Lake in St. Joseph County south of Vicksburg. The wheel rolled into the northbound lane. The driver of a northbound box truck swerved into the southbound lane to avoid the wheel and struck a car driven by a woman.
The woman driver, Julie Renee Zimmerman, 21, of Sturgis, died at the scene. The driver of the Jeep was unhurt; the driver of the box truck was treated at the scene and released.
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Kathleen Marie Seal passed away after a brief illness on June 24 surrounded by her family.
Kathy (Kat) was born February 20, 1959 in Indianapolis, the second of six children, to
Thomas W. Seal and Maureen (Murphy) Seal. She graduated from Center Grove High School in 1977 where she ran track and played trumpet in the marching band.
Kathy attended college and received an Associate Degree in Surgical Technology while employed full time. Kathy was employed by (then) Johnson County Memorial Hospital as a Certified Surgical Tech for 24 years until retirement.
She loved reading, history, antiques, and family get-togethers. She enjoyed yearly trips to the Boundary Waters with friends and kept journals and pictures of their trips. She made her lifetime dream of going to Ireland come true and made the trip with family members where she met her cousin and pen pal from childhood. Kathy loved Nature and animals. She was particularly fond of her beloved cat Raoul (Momma), who lived to be 21, and her dogs Tiny, Pepper, Bailey, and Maya.
Kathy was predeceased by her father, Thomas W. Seal, her grandparents Charles and Margaret Murphy, and William and Margaret Seal.
She is survived by her mother, Maureen Seal Eaton, and her siblings; John Seal (Beckey), Karen Seal, Daniel Seal (Geri), Colleen Seal (Marge Abels), Diane Noel (Mike) and many lifelong friends.
No service is planned at this time but a Memorial/Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions in Kathy’s name may be made to Brown County Humane Society, 128 S. State Road 135, Nashville, IN 47448.
There were so many observances packed into last weekend, it slipped by me (and probably a whole lot of you) that Father's Day, June 21, was also National Selfie Day.
I found this out via an online story in which Lee Thompson — British cofounder of the Flash Pack company for solo travelers, and famous for being the first person to snap a selfie from the top of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro — waxes helpful on selfie-taking in "National Selfie Day: An expert's guide to taking epic selfies." The article was published on the Big Day by CNN Travel.
The shot Thompson took of himself was glorious. With the far-below city in the background, he looked as though a sudden gust of wind might be the end of him. But it wasn't that dangerous.
"I had permission to climb to the top of the Christ the Redeemer statue, and I stayed safe," according to Thompson, who was standing securely in a hollowed-out area atop the statue's head. "So don't even think about clambering up that Russian skyscraper. Those stunts are often illegal and preposterously dangerous, and they're no longer original."
Well, good luck with that, seeing that covid-19 rates are going back up, social distancing continues to be pushed, travel restrictions fluctuate accordingly, and so many of us were already empty of pocket. Russian skyscraper indeed.
Most of my selfies have been taken in the bathroom or in a hallway. Background hasn't been my concern. I'm just grateful that it's possible to look thinner in selfies than in photos other people take. I just need to show people I can indeed take a "one-chinner" photo.
For anyone else who might be inclined to get some social-distancing selfies from such exotic locales as the roof, patio, in the tree behind the house, in front of the young 'un's playhouse or with mask on in front of the local Walmart (OK, OK, maybe out in the park down the street) ... here are Thompson's tips:
• "Want the world to see your double chin and those haggard-looking bags under your eyes? Of course, you don't ... Hand-hold your camera and stretch your arm out as long as possible with lots of height." As one whose quest for one-chin selfies is ongoing, the Talkmistress vigorously amens this tip. Do not clutch your camera close and point it up at you, hold it at arm's length and point down. Remember all those times a portrait photographer coaxed you into raising and tilting your head a bit, and you ended up looking like you could carry your young in your chin? This isn't one of them. You can control your image's destiny here.
• "The more photos you take, the more likely one of them is going to be tweetworthy." Amen to this one, too. But don't take a thousand shots of that same expression. Go big-eyed, bedroom-eyed and in between. Tilt your face at different angles. Alternate some Mona Lisas with some grins 'like a mule eating briars." Look aloof in some shots, Gomer-Pyle friendly in others. You're even more likely to get at least one pic you'll like ... and if you're shooting yourself in public, passers-by will definitely leave you alone.
• Be prepared to go blind. "Make sure the light is in front or to the side of you and not behind," writes Thompson. "The last thing you want to do is be silhouetted by the sun." No, you don't want to look like an image in the opening sequence of an Outer Limits or Twilight Zone episode. Try not to blink as you face the sun, take your shot, and hope the shadow of your arm, hand and/or phone doesn't end up plastered across you.
• "Use a big depth of field. You need to make sure that the prospective audience of your selfie can see the background." Er, you may want to manipulate that camera enough to fool people into thinking you're somewhere more epic than you are.
• "Creating a sense of vertigo, claustrophobia or simply wonderment will bring about a reaction and will always leave a lasting impression. Show some discretion, though." Riiight. If you decide to shoot a selfie in front of a major disaster or a riot, you're liable to get called out. Just find a way to make that roof picture or inside-the-playhouse shot look jaunty.
• Don't use that selfie stick. Saith Thompson: "The secret to my picture was that it looked much scarier than it actually was. The hole in the head that I stood out of was big and safe to stand in, but my shot made it appear like I was teetering on the edge of the statue."I agree: Don't go and buy something you'll never use anyway because, like your umbrella, you'll keep misplacing the thing.
And if you're bummed about missing out on National Selfie Day pics, don't be. Maybe by next June 21, you'll have the clearance and the coinage to get somewhere epic-selfie-
worthy.
In the meantime ... where's that ladder?
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Fifteen years ago in the mountains of Afghanistan, a rocket-propelled grenade struck an MH-47 Army Chinook helicopter that had raced to support four Navy SEALs who were outnumbered and pinned down on a rock-strewn ridge.
The helicopter exploded in flames and plunged to earth, killing all 16 aboard.
It's a brief, crushing scene toward the end of the 2013 fact-based film "Lone Survivor," in which Mark Wahlberg plays the only one of those four SEALs who made it to safety.
For Char Fontan Westfall, though, that scene remains a nightmare all these years later, albeit a nightmare from which she has created a new, happy life -- though not without much struggle along the way.
Jacques Fontan, her husband whom she met in 1996 when they were lifeguards at Naval Air Station Jacksonville's swimming pool, was one of the men killed on board that Chinook, as was Army Chief Warrant Officer Chris J. Scherkenbach, a 40-year-old Jacksonville native.
Fontan, a member of the Navy's elite SEALs, was 36 when he was killed, and Char was 29.
She was waiting for him in Virginia Beach, Va., where they had planned to start a family after his active duty was over.
Suddenly she was a widow being shepherded by friends to buy the funeral dresses she would need for three separate services: One in Jacksonville, one in Jacques' hometown of New Orleans, and one for the Navy's official ceremony for the men killed in what was known as Operation Red Wings.
She dutifully attended each one, numb, and after the services were over, she took scissors to each dress, cut them up and threw out the shredded remnants.
What? Like she was ever going to wear them again?
When they met, she was 20, a Navy brat. Jacques was eight years older, a trainer for the Navy's Search and Rescue program.
She was used to seeing fit, handsome men at the NAS Jacksonville pool, but there was just something about him.
"I wasn't a believer in love at first sight, but it sure was something at first sight," Westfall writes in a soon-to-be published book, "A Beautiful Tragedy: A Navy SEAL Widow's Permission to Grieve and Recipe for Hope" (Ballast Books). The book, which comes out in August, can be pre-ordered on Amazon.
Self-published, it's a frank story of the couple's courting and their marriage in 2000. It tells of the aftermath of his death and her struggle with anger -- at God, at Jacques, at the universe. It also tells how she found new love, regained her faith and grew to accept what had happened there in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005.
Westfall serves on the boards of several organizations for surviving military spouses. She wanted to write the book to show others the struggles she went through, so they know they're not alone.
"A Beautiful Tragedy" has a brief foreword by Marcus Lutrell, author of "Lone Survivor" and the SEAL played by Walhberg in the movie of the same name.
"Jacques was on the bird that came to get my teammates and I out of the hornet's nest. He was and will always be remembered as a warrior who never quit. My admiration for Char and all of the families who lost their loved ones that horrific day will never cease," Lutrell wrote.
As a sailor, Jacques' dream was to become a SEAL. When he finally got the chance, the oldest in his class, he pushed through the tough training and succeeded. After Sept. 11, 2001, he would be gone on several deployments, the last one to Afghanistan.
Westfall, who's now 44, writes that she wasn't overly concerned when he first deployed: "SEALs are the kind of people you expect will make it home."
But as time went on, she felt an "underlying dread" that grew and grew.
"I think I just got better at hiding it," she writes. "There is so much about military life nobody will tell you, and soon I would learn just how much goes unsaid."
When she and Jacques spoke on the phone, she ended every call by asking him to be careful. His frequent answer? "Oh, I'm just going to do a little helicopter flying today."
After Jacques' death, she came home to Jacksonville, moving in with her parents. Her moods were often dark.
God is love, she heard at church. She struggled with that: "How can God love anyone and do what he did to my husband and 18 other men [including the three on the ground] back on June 28, 2005?"
Friends tried to console her.
"People told me: 'You were really strong, God knew you could handle it.' I got sick of that. I'm not strong. My husband's gone, I have no kids, who's going to want to date me?"
It turns out she found companionship with Drew Westfall, a neighbor who lived 13 houses down the street from her parents.
He was kind. Attentive. He made her laugh.
And though she writes how she had trepidation about introducing Drew to the tight-knit community of Navy SEALs that had been her life, he was eventually welcomed in by most.
They now live in northern St. Johns County and have three children, 11, 8 and 5.
Westfall said Drew was instrumental in her healing, as was her decision to seek counseling for her grief.
A key moment came when a counselor suggested she might be angry at Jacques. She resisted that, but then realized as much as she loved him, there was truth to that.
"I was angry," she said, "because I realized something I should have known about most SEALS: Being a SEAL is your first love."
With that acknowledgment came healing. That's just who he was, and she was OK with that.
Westfall said her favorite part of the "Lone Survivor" movie is the early scenes that show the camaraderie between the SEALs as they joke and train and plan. The scene where the helicopter is hit? She can no longer watch it. But the early part? That gives her comfort in Jacques' chosen path.
"You've got to love your job to do what he did, to sacrifice what you do, away from your family. He just always wanted to be a SEAL," she said. "If it wasn't his first love, then how do you volunteer to get on that helicopter, how do you volunteer to do all that?"
Jacques had called her before his last expedition, but she missed the call. Westfall believes she knows why he had called her: He knew there was a good chance he wasn't going to come back, but he got on the helicopter anyway.
"Defending," she said, "his first love."
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Simba SC coach Sven Vandenbroeck has praised the mental strength of his squad as they head into an important match in their 2019-20 Mainland Premier League campaign on Sunday.
After Azam FC dropped points on Saturday following a 1-1 draw against Biashara United, the Wekundu wa Mzimbazi now need just a draw from their away fixture against Tanzania Prisons in Mbeya town to be crowned the champions.
Azam were headed for a narrow win when Frank Domayo scored in the second minute of the second half but conceded a goal in the fourth minute of added time, when Gershon Kabeja scored to ensure they lose the second spot to Yanga SC, who beat Ndanda FC 3-2.
Simba are at the top of the 20-team league table on 78 points, 18 more than second-placed Yanga while Azam have 59 points. A draw for Simba will see them reach an unassailable tally and thus clinch a third straight league title.
The Belgian tactician has praised the character of his players heading into the decisive clash, insisting they are not looking at the results of their opponents and want to complete the job they launched at the start of the season in Mbeya.
“We are not bothered with how Azam played because our main job is to make sure we beat Tanzania Prisons to win the title,” Vandenbroeck told Goal ahead of Sunday's battle.
“The boys have been longing for such a day when they have to win or get a point to be declared champions, they are looking sharp and good in training, they know they have a huge job ahead of them and are ready for the task, I am very impressed with how they have been responding since our last match in the league.
“It is our biggest match of the season because we will celebrate if we win and the boys are aware of that, we must stay focused and do our job without looking at what happened to our opponents, it is all about us, it is all about how we play and finish the job and I have confidence in the squad.
“I'm sure tomorrow [Sunday] we will play a good game. Every player is ready for the game and that is a good thing for the coach to choose any player. We will play to win and if the result is positive we will get something extra and that's our goal.”
With the return of midfielder Jonas Mkude, Vandenbroeck has a fully-fit squad to pick from against Prisons at Sokoine Stadium.
BARKING SANDS — Wildlife officials almost made it to the beach in time on June 22, when a citizen reported a Hawaiian monk seal in distress near the U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands near Kekaha.
The three year-old male seal known as RJ36 hauled out on the beach and was reportedly in distress Monday, when a citizen spotted it and called the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to report the animal. After being notified by NOAA, PMRF staff biologists rushed to the scene, but the seal died before biologists arrived.
The cause or causes of death appear to be a combination of ingested fishing line and a hook, according to the initial investigation. NOAA’s Kaua‘i Marine Mammal Response Coordinator Jamie Thomton said a post-mortem exam is pending and will “fully evaluate the impact of the hook and other potential factors related to RJ36’s death.”
“The seal had hauled out on the beach at PMRF with six feet of fishing line trailing from the mouth ending in a pigtail swivel, which is commonly used for slide-bait fishing,” Thomton said. “Ingested hooks can be fatal for some seals, for example if the hook pierces vital organs.”
RJ36 was born to the well-known female RK30 on Napali Coast in 2017. Over the next three years, he became a somewhat regular seal on the south and west shores, easily identified by his red J36 and J37 plastic flipper tags.
While public reporting of RJ36’s condition tipped off experts just a bit too late this time around, NOAA emphasizes it’s an important step in safeguarding the endangered mammals.
“Public reporting of hooked seals often alerts response teams early enough that lifesaving interventions are possible,” said Thomton.
Both state and federal officials encourage the public to follow the guidelines for fishing around seals and turtles, which includes watching gear closely and temporarily removing lines if seals are in the area, never feeding seals, and using barbless hooks.
Anyone who does hook a seal should cut the line as close to the animal as possible to remove trailing gear and then report it to NOAA at 888-256-9840.
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Jessica Else, editor-in-chief, can be reached at 245-0457 or jelse@thegardenisland.com.
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Based on job site concerns regarding Coronavirus, the ICS safety management team has created a COVID 19 Exposure, Prevention, and Response plan as a new part of the ICS Safety Manual
BALTIMORE, Md., June 28, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As critical and non-critical construction sites continue to open throughout the Mid Atlantic and Northeast, Industrial Caulk and Seal has created a COVID 19 Exposure, Prevention and Response plan to keep employees and job sites safe in the current pandemic.
"Employee and job site safety have always been a critical part of the ICS philosophy," states Tim Stouffer, Safety Manager, Industrial Caulk and Seal, "COVID 19 has introduced a whole new threat to the health and welfare of our employees and subcontractors, and that threat needed to be addressed."
In creating the COVID EPR plan, the ICS safety team relied on both CDC guidelines and the help of sample plans which have appeared throughout the construction industry. The new ICS COVID EPR plan has become a critical part of the overall ICS safety manual, and outlines benchmark processes for dealing with COVID exposure and prevention. In light of the written plan, the ICS safety team has also introduced dozens of new procedures to the Industrial Caulk and Seal team.
The written ICS COVID EPR plan is the written culmination of new procedures and processes that Industrial Caulk and Seal adopted at the very beginning of the pandemic, and these procedures and processes have kept the ICS team safe and coronavirus-free despite an extreme workload throughout the Eastern US over the last 120 days.
About Industrial Caulk & Seal: ICS is a nationally recognized commercial contractor serving the Mid-Atlantic and North East. Founded in 2001, ICS has worked aggressively to set the industry standard in commercial concrete polishing, commercial caulking and semi-rigid joint fillers, commercial flooring and coatings, and comprehensive floor repair and restoration. Please visit http://www.industrialcaulkandseal.com for additional information.
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Alaska SeaLife Center takes on 6 rescued harbor seal pups KTVA
The Bundesliga finale was wild as the final set of results saw goals pour in and the final standings for the 2019-20 season is set.
‘Gladbach sealed their Champions League spot with a win to pip Bayer Leverkusen to fourth place, while Werder Bremen hammered Cologne to move up into the relegation playoff place and relegate Fortuna Dusseldorf who lost to
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There were 34 goals scored across the nine games on the final day of the Bundesliga season, with champions Bayern Munich hammering Wolfsburg, Borussia Dortmund hammered by Hoffenheim and wins for Bayer Leverkusen, Leipzig, Frankfurt and Freiburg.
It is safe to say the Bundesliga finale did not disappoint.
Overall, the final few months of the Bundesliga were a huge success as Germany’s top-flight was the first to restart and finish during the coronavirus pandemic.
Below is a roundup of the matches during the Bundesliga finale, with the result and final standings for the 2019-20 season.
Werder Bremen 6-1 Cologne
Werder saved themselves from relegation in emphatic fashion as they hammered Cologne and continued their superb finish to the season. USMNT striker Josh Sargent jumped off the bench to score the sixth and final goal after Yuya Osako scored twice, plus Milot Rashica, Niclas Fullkrug and Davy Klassen each had a goal. Bremen will now play Heidenheim or Hamburg on July 2 and July 6 in the relegation playoff, with the 2. Bundesliga season finale on Sunday.
Union Berlin 3-0 Fortuna Dusseldorf
Werder’s win combined with a defeat for Fortuna means that Uwe Rosler’s side were relegated to the 2. Bundesliga. USMNT goalkeeper Zack Steffen (on loan from Man City) and Alfredo Morales are relegated, as Union cruised to victory. A disappointing end to the season for Fortuna, after they hung in there for the final few weeks.
Borussia Monchengladbach 2-1 Hertha Berlin
Gladbach are back in the Champions League as they held on to beat Hertha on the final day. Marco Rose’s exciting young side finished in fourth as Jonas Hoffman opening the scoring, while Breel Embolo made it 2-0 late on. Vehad Ibisevic scored in stoppage time to set up a nervy finish but Gladbach held on to seal Champions League qualification.
Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 Mainz
Leverkusen did their job but they finish in fifth, as the future of Kai Havertz and others is up in the air with a lack of Champions League action next season. Kevin Volland scored the winner after two minutes but due to Gladbach’s win, Leverkusen will play in the Europa League next season.
Wolfsburg 0-4 Bayern Munich
Thomas Muller set a new assist record for the Bundesliga with 21, as he set up Kingsley Coman for the opener then made it 3-0 himself. Youngster Mickael Cuisance made it 2-0 with a stunner for his first Bundesliga goal. Lewandowski scored a penalty kick to take his tally to 34 goals for this season, as Bayern scored 100 goals this season. Coach Hansi Flick led an incredible turnaround in the second half of the season for his first Bundesliga title, as Bayern won 19 of their final 20 Bundesliga games (drawing once in that run) and they will now focus on winning the German Cup and Champions League.
Augsburg 1-2 RB Leipzig
Timo Werner scored twice and became Leipzig’s all-time leading goalscorer in his final game before his transfer to Chelsea. Augsburg equalized with just under 20 minutes to go but Werner scored the game-winner late on to end his time at Leipzig in style as they finished in third.
Borussia Dortmund 0-4 Hoffenheim: Shock win for Hoffenheim who clinched a Europa League group stage spot to finish sixth, with second-place Dortmund battered.
Eintracht Frankfurt 3-2 Paderborn: Frankfurt finish season in ninth after five wins in their last seven games, as they beat already-relegated Paderborn.
SC Freiburg 4-0 Schalke: What a season for Freiburg, who finished in eighth place and smashed sorry Schalke. Since the restart, David Wagner’s side failed to win and they ended the season without a win in 16 games. Ouch.
| Team | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Home | Away | PTS |
| Bayern Munich | 34 | 26 | 4 | 4 | 100 | 32 | 68 | 13-2-2 | 13-2-2 | 82 |
| Borussia Dortmund | 34 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 84 | 41 | 43 | 11-3-3 | 10-3-4 | 69 |
| RB Leipzig | 34 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 81 | 37 | 44 | 7-8-2 | 11-4-2 | 66 |
| Mönchengladbach | 34 | 20 | 5 | 9 | 66 | 40 | 26 | 12-2-3 | 8-3-6 | 65 |
| Bayer Leverkusen | 34 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 61 | 44 | 17 | 9-4-4 | 10-2-5 | 63 |
| 1899 Hoffenheim | 34 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 53 | 53 | 0 | 7-1-9 | 8-6-3 | 52 |
| VfL Wolfsburg | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 48 | 46 | 2 | 4-7-6 | 9-3-5 | 49 |
| SC Freiburg | 34 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 48 | 47 | 1 | 9-2-6 | 4-7-6 | 48 |
| Eintracht Frankfurt | 34 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 59 | 60 | -1 | 8-4-5 | 5-2-10 | 45 |
| Hertha BSC Berlin | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 48 | 59 | -11 | 6-3-8 | 5-5-7 | 41 |
| 1. FC Union Berlin | 34 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 41 | 58 | -17 | 8-3-6 | 4-2-11 | 41 |
| FC Schalke 04 | 34 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 38 | 58 | -20 | 5-7-5 | 4-5-8 | 39 |
| FSV Mainz 05 | 34 | 11 | 4 | 19 | 44 | 65 | -21 | 5-2-10 | 6-2-9 | 37 |
| 1. FC Köln | 34 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 51 | 69 | -18 | 6-4-7 | 4-2-11 | 36 |
| FC Augsburg | 34 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 45 | 63 | -18 | 5-5-7 | 4-4-9 | 36 |
| Werder Bremen | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 42 | 69 | -27 | 2-3-12 | 6-4-7 | 31 |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf | 34 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 36 | 67 | -31 | 4-6-7 | 2-6-9 | 30 |
| SC Paderborn | 34 | 4 | 8 | 22 | 37 | 74 | -37 | 2-2-13 | 2-6-9 | 20 |
Bundesliga: ‘Gladbach seal UCL spot; Werder relegate Fortuna originally appeared on NBCSports.com
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