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Jonathan Lekkerimäki
2021-22 Team: Djurgardens IF (SHL)
Date of Birth: Jul. 24, 2004
Place of Birth: Huddinge, SWE
Ht: 5-foot-11 Wt: 172 pounds
Shoots: Right
Position: Right Wing
NHL Draft Eligibility: 2022 first-year eligible
Rankings
NHL Central Scouting: 9 (amongst EU skaters)
FC Hockey: 16
TSN/Bob McKenzie: 12
Dobber Prospects: 9
Smaht Scouting: 16
The Hockey Writers (Forbes): 12
The Hockey Writers (Zator): 8
The Hockey Writers (Baracchini): 11
The last name sounds like it could be Finnish, but not only is Jonathan Lekkerimäki a born-and-raised Swede, but he’s also the top-ranked Swedish player in just about every rankings list you can find for the 2022 NHL Draft Class. And for good reason, too. When you look at the trajectory of his hockey career so far, one thing will jump out at you immediately; this kid loves to score goals.
His knack for finding the back of the net can be traced back to 2019-20 when he was playing for Djurgardens IF’s U16 team. He had a whopping ratio of 16 goals and four assists in 18 games and added another six goals to go along with 12 points in six playoff games that season. His production carried over to Djurgardens’ U18 team in 2020-21, where he continued to deliver with 12 goals and 16 points in eight games.
Related: 2022 THW Draft Guide
That brings us to this season, where scouts are quickly starting to learn Lekkerimaki’s name. A regular for Djurdardens’ J20 team, Lekkerimäki wasted no time proving that he deserved to be in the pros. He scored 20 goals through his first 26 games of the season and joined Djurgardens IF of the SHL around late October of 2021.
Since then, his production has dipped, but that’s to be expected for a 17-year-old prospect playing in a top European pro league. He only has nine points in 26 games, but he’s stuck to his sniper brand with seven of those points being goals. He’s also appeared in five games with Sweden’s U18 National Team and scored five goals in those games.
When it comes to analyzing his game, let’s start by addressing the elephant in the room. If you aren’t convinced already, Lekkerimaki will do quite literally anything to find the back of the net. Whether it’s a slap shot from the point that goes in before the goaltender has a chance to blink or a dirty net-front goal that finally trickles in after three or four whacks at it, Lekkerimaki wants every part of it, every time. His teammates tend to give him the Alex Ovechkin treatment on the power play, constantly trying to set him up for the one-timer at the top of the circle.
Although the assist totals might suggest otherwise, Lekkerimäki is not a puck hog. Oftentimes you’ll find him scanning the ice for an appropriate pass option as often as he’ll let it rip, and his vision is above average in that regard. And while he’s only 5-foot-11, he’s deceptively hard to knock off the puck. Not necessarily in the sense that his size works in his favour, but he moves around like a water bug and can often slip away from opposing players with ease.
Lekkerimäki could stand to improve in his own end and on the physical side of the game, but neither of these should pose as concerns for the young Swede. For a player of his size and style, these areas being his fallbacks is to be expected. On a more important note, he’s not afraid to take a hit and will do so to help his team, which is icing on the cake for all of the other areas he delivers in.
Other THW Draft Profiles
Jonathan Lekkerimaki – Draft Projection
Rankings for this year’s draft class have seen Lekkerimäki has high as a top-10 pick and as low as a top-20 pick, so, on average, that slots him around 15th overall. Personally, I’m impressed enough by his game that I could see him going in the late top-10, somewhere between eighth and tenth overall. But either way, I think you’ll see him drafted in the top-15.
Quotables
“Looking deeper into why Lekkerimäki is capable of beating goalies with ease, it begins with his patience. If Lekkerimäki doesn’t have an open lane, he waits to fire his shot or looks for a pass option. He is a natural goal scorer but his passing ability is noteworthy as well. Another part of Lekkerimäki’s goal-scoring excellence is his release time. No matter if he is net-front or shooting from a faceoff circle, he’s able to get a shot off with no hesitation.” -Alexa Potack, Dobber Prospects
“What Lekkerimäki really has going for him is a natural instinct for the creation and completion of scoring chances. He intrigues thanks to a wicked slingshot of a wrister, a zapping one-timer, and very slick mitts in tight quarters. Still nowhere near his man strength, he hasn’t needed to be to survive in the SHL this season. There are skating issues and he can naturally disappear, especially when stronger opponents are on the ice, but that’s hardly uncommon for a kid his age on a bottom-feeder.” -Chapin Landvogt, McKeen’s Hockey
“Driver of play with elite finishing ability.” -Sam Cosentino, Sportsnet
Strengths
- Shot
- Skating
- Vision
- Hockey IQ
- Puckhandling
Under Construction – Improvements to Make
- Defensive Awareness
- Physicality
NHL Potential
If all goes according to plan for Lekkerimäki’s development, including that with the team who drafts him, there’s no reason he can’t be a goal-scoring top-six winger at the NHL level.
Risk/Reward Potential
Risk 2/5, Reward 4/5
Fantasy Hockey Potential
Offense 8/10, Defense 5/10
Awards/Achievements
Lekkerimäki’s most recent accomplishments include a bronze medal at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup and a J20 SM Silver Medal, along with most goals (12) and best plus-minus (+15) in the J18 East Region league in 2020-21.
Jonathan Lekkerimäki Statistics
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WASHINGTON • Russia's economy will not recover anytime soon from sanctions imposed by Western countries over its war in Ukraine, and could see further damage if the sanctions are expanded to hit energy exports, the new chief economist of the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.
Professor Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, who joined the fund in January, said United States and Western sanctions and export bans had put the Russian economy on a "very different trajectory", making the kind of rebound often seen after economic shocks unlikely.
"As long as these sanctions are in place - and they could be in place for quite a long time - then the Russian economy is going to be on a very different growth tra-jectory," Prof Gourinchas told Reuters in an interview.
"We are viewing this as... something that is really hurting the Russian economy going forward, and could hurt it even more if the sanctions are escalated," he said. "The shock is already pretty sizeable... and we don't expect that there would be a bounceback from where the Russian economy is."
The IMF on Tuesday slashed its forecast for global economic growth by nearly a full percentage point, citing Russia's war in Ukraine, and warning that inflation was now a "clear and present danger" for many countries. It said Russia's gross domestic product was expected to contract 8.5 per cent this year, with a further drop of 2.3 per cent expected next year.
Prof Gourinchas told a news briefing earlier that Western sanctions targeting Russian energy exports could cause Russia's economic output to drop by as much as 17 per cent by next year.
Russia's economy would effectively be "thrown into autarchy" if sanctions were expanded to include energy, leaving it with only a few trading partners, he said.
While countries such as China and India have not joined sanctions on Russia, the threat of secondary sanctions was still having a chilling effect on their trade with Russia, he said. "We are seeing that, for instance, with a number of Chinese companies - there is a fear of second-rung sanctions, that if you are doing business with sanctioned entities, then you could be subject to sanctions yourself," he said.
The continued sanctions would force India and China to make difficult choices going forward, given their need to continue to trade with the rest of the world, even if they saw a chance to buy Russian oil and gas at lower prices now. "It is very important to remain in those (global) supply chains going forward," he said. "A lot of countries are going to have to ask themselves, where do we want to be in that new landscape that is emerging?"
Prof Gourinchas said a recovery in the value of the Russian rouble could not obscure general indications in the economy, including elevated inflation numbers.
At the same time, it was clear that the Russian monetary authorities had been successful in using capital controls and higher interest rates to avert bank runs, failure of financial institutions or a "complete financial meltdown".
Meanwhile, World Bank president David Malpass will host a meeting today with Ukraine's Prime Minister and Finance Minister to discuss needed assistance beyond the initial funding provided through the bank and the IMF.
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Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe has reflected on the 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace. The Magpies are now sitting on 40 points and are closer to the top 10 than the relegation zone.
United won it thanks to Miguel Almiron’s winner in the first half. Howe looked back on the game and said: "It was a very good first half. With the ball and in terms of our intensity, it was up there with one of our best performances.
“In the second half Crystal Palace came back into it, but we defended very well. We’ve had a very good shape. The players have developed a good mentality to defending, and I think we needed to because Palace played well.”
And when asked if it was a significant night for Newcastle overall, Howe said: "It’s a great night for the football club. You can forget how hard it’s been to get us into this position now. We have to look back with great satisfaction. I say it every week but his is a great place to play football. The all-round atmosphere was brilliant to experience." | https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/eddie-howe-admits-takes-great-23740646 | 2022-04-20T23:00:17Z | https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/eddie-howe-admits-takes-great-23740646 | false | 1 |
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other global financial leaders walked out of a G20 session as Russian officials were speaking on Wednesday in an effort to underscore Moscow's isolation following the invasion of Ukraine.
Yellen's counterparts from the UK and Canada joined the walkout, as did officials from Ukraine, while the session was taking place in Washington, D.C.
"The world's democracies will not stand idly by in the face of continued Russian aggression and war crimes," Canadian finance minister Chrystia Freeland said in a tweet about the walkout. "Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine is a grave threat to the global economy. Russia should not be participating or included in these meetings."
The world’s democracies will not stand idly by in the face of continued Russian aggression and war crimes. Today Canada and a number of our democratic partners walked out of the G20 plenary when Russia sought to intervene. pic.twitter.com/J67gU810sO
— Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland) April 20, 2022
The Treasury Department declined to comment on Yellen's walkout but noted that she emphasized "there will be no business-as-usual for Russia in the global economy" when she met Tuesday with Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati.
Indonesia is chairing the G20 this year.
Russia is increasingly isolated
The U.S. and its allies have imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, including preventing Moscow from accessing its foreign exchange reserves.
The U.S. has also banned imports of Russian oil, while the U.K. has targeted some of the Russian wealthy elite who live there.
"We are united in our condemnation of Russia's war against Ukraine and will push for stronger international coordination to punish Russia," said Rishi Sunak, the U.K.'s chancellor of the Exchequer, in a tweet about the walkout.
Earlier my representatives, along with US & Canadian counterparts left today’s G20 meeting in Washington as Russian delegates spoke.
— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) April 20, 2022
We are united in our condemnation of Russia’s war against Ukraine and will push for stronger international coordination to punish Russia. https://t.co/XxmscvRrRt
The gathering of G20 finance ministers was held in conjunction with the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
The IMF downgraded its forecast of global economic growth this week, saying Russia's invasion of Ukraine is largely to blame. The war has rattled global markets for energy and food.
"Beyond its immediate and tragic humanitarian impact, the war will slow economic growth and increase inflation," IMF research director Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said Tuesday.
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Which brow makeup is best?
Everyone has a favorite feature they like to highlight when they do their makeup. Whether it’s your complexion, your lips or your eyes, any makeup look can appear more balanced and proportionate with full, defined eyebrows. The ultrafine pencil tip and built-in spoolie brush in Benefit Cosmetic’s Precisely, My Brow Pencil are easy for brow pros and beginners alike to use. Here’s how to shop for the best products for your brow goals.
What to know before you buy brow makeup
Brow product types
For such a small part of your face, the number of brow products available can be intimidating. Here’s a breakdown of the most common choices:
- Brow pencils can be used to line and define brows and fill in sparse areas. They’re often paired with brushes or spoolies to help distribute product and shape brows.
- Brow pomades are made from pigments in a creamy or waxy base that’s applied with a brush. This formulation is good for bold, dramatic brows.
- Brow powders help create the appearance of fuller brows by filling in gaps in your brow line. They can look natural or dramatic depending on how much you apply.
- Brow gels are one of the most beginner-friendly choices for filling in as well as shaping brows. They also work as a finishing touch to lock in your brows after using a different brow product. They’re available clear or tinted.
How to fill in brows
Filling in sparse brows can be accomplished with a variety of eyebrow products. Eyebrow pencils are a popular choice because they’re usually the easiest to use, thanks to their fine points that can draw hair-like strokes. However, powders, pomades and tinted gels can also fill in brows depending on the volume, texture and tint you’re looking for.
Remember your brows won’t match
Nobody’s brows are perfectly symmetrical. When you’re using brow makeup, work with the natural shape of your brows, even if they look a little mismatched. Use tweezers or, if you really need them, brow scissors to enhance your natural arches.
What to look for in quality brow makeup
Brow products for beginners
Not sure where to start? A brow gel is a great choice for beginners. Pick a tinted one if you want a filled-in look or a clear gel for quick fixes to unruly brows. For more color coverage, try a pencil with an ultrafine or angled tip to easily replicate the appearance of brow hairs.
Built-in tools
Take the hassle out of doing your brows by choosing products that include the tools you need for application and blending. Many pencils feature pigment on one end and a spoolie brush (like a mascara brush) or smudger on the other. These two-in-one products are also great for traveling.
Brow product colors
Just like choosing a foundation, picking the right brow product shade is essential for a natural look. Many users can get away with taupe shades. However, it can be helpful to pay attention to the color undertones in the makeup. For example, brown eyebrow pencils can lean either red (warm) or gray (cool). If you’re blonde, choose brow makeup with warm undertones to avoid making your brows look gray.
How much you can expect to spend on brow makeup
Brow products range in price from $2-$50. Many high-quality products of any formulation can be found for $22-$30.
Brow makeup FAQ
Are brow stencils worth it?
A. Brow stencils are often suggested for beginners to help them identify where to tweeze or fill in. These flexible plastic stencils are available with or without adhesive, and they come in a variety of brow arch shapes so you can find the one that best matches your natural shape. However, they tend to have a learning curve. Even stencil kits that offer lots of different arch shapes may not have one that’s right for you.
How do I fix my overplucked eyebrows?
A. We all get overzealous with tweezers from time to time. Along with filling in sparse areas with a tinted brow gel or pomade, try a brow serum or oil to stimulate hair regrowth. Most importantly, be patient: Brow hair can take from two weeks to a few months to grow back.
What’s the best brow makeup to buy?
Top eyebrow makeup
Benefit Cosmetics Precisely, My Brow Pencil Waterproof Eyebrow Definer
What you need to know: This ultrafine-tipped pencil gives brows up to 12 hours of defined, natural color.
What you’ll love: It has a textured grip for better control and a built-in spoolie to blend out pigment. The formula is waterproof and resists transferring and smudging. It’s available in 12 shades, including gray and auburn.
What you should consider: Despite being waterproof, it can be prone to smudging. The pencil doesn’t contain a lot of product for the cost.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora and Ulta Beauty
Top eyebrow makeup for the money
Benefit Cosmetics Gimme Brow Tinted Volumizing Eyebrow Gel
What you need to know: This cult-favorite tinted brow gel now comes in 10 shades (including gray) and three sizes.
What you’ll love: Microfibers help build up fuller yet natural-looking brows. The small spoolie applicator is simple to use and allows for building up layers of product depending on how dramatic you want your brows.
What you should consider: While most users can find a perfect color match, some may prefer a product with more hold and volumizing power.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora and Ulta Beauty
Worth checking out
KVD Beauty Super Pomade Eyeliner, Shadow & Brow Pigment
What you need to know: A little goes a long way with this beauty multitasker, which can be used as brow pomade, eye shadow or eyeliner.
What you’ll love: Its vegan and cruelty-free formula includes kaolin clay for creamy, workable texture. It comes in 15 shades, including unusual colors, such as magenta and green to match dyed hair as well as white for customizing or lightening shades.
What you should consider: Its texture may make it too challenging for brow beginners. It doesn’t come with a brush.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty and Sephora
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Orla Mining Ltd. (CVE:OLA – Get Rating) Director Richard James Hall sold 25,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, April 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of C$6.31, for a total value of C$157,637.50. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now owns 2,175,000 shares in the company, valued at approximately C$13,714,462.50.
Richard James Hall also recently made the following trade(s):
- On Wednesday, April 20th, Richard James Hall sold 39,000 shares of Orla Mining stock. The shares were sold at an average price of C$6.09, for a total value of C$237,611.40.
OLA stock traded up C$1.40 during midday trading on Wednesday, hitting C$1.40. 61,016 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 113,555. Orla Mining Ltd. has a twelve month low of C$1.08 and a twelve month high of C$1.85. The company has a quick ratio of 13.00, a current ratio of 13.32 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.29. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is C$1.40. The company has a market cap of C$250.90 million and a PE ratio of -22.95.
About Orla Mining (Get Rating)
Orla Mining Ltd. operates as a mineral exploration company. The company explores for gold, silver, and copper deposits. It holds 100% interests in the Cerro Quema project with three concessions that cover an area of 14,833 hectares located on the Azuero Peninsula. The company was formerly known as Red Mile Minerals Corp.
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Ebertfest Film Festival
Roger and Chaz Ebert, could have founded a film festival anywhere but they brought it to his home town, and Chaz Ebert has honored that by giving so much time and resources as a gift to the festival and the College of Media. The festival starts as a joint production of The College of Media at the University of Illinois and Chaz Ebert. But the festival couldn’t go ahead without the support of sponsoring individuals and businesses.
The most common question I receive is who our guests will be and what movies will we show. Unfortunately, whether you’re Sundance or Ebertfest – film festivals don’t get to make schedule announcements until very late in the process. The reason for this is the movie business itself. Even when we get an agreement, we don’t get to go public with that until close to the festival. Just last week one of our headliners passed away, Gilbert Gottfried.
There are lots of festivals that show good movies, Ebertfest likes to think that we show good movies but that we inspire something good too. Roger Ebert’s idea about films was that they were empathy machines: they give us the chance to walk in another’s shoes and to see the world as they see it.
Film gives us the chance to bring people closer together and build communities – rather than creating the kinds of divisions between people we might see elsewhere. That is why there is such a family feel among the audience at the festival and why filmmakers say it is their favorite festival to visit.
There are few film festivals where Tilda Swinton dances with the audience in a conga line through the theatre!
Passes are now on sale for the 22nd Annual Ebertfest. Passes are 200 dollars each and that covers 12 films and all the encounters with our filmmaker guests – so, for close to the price of a movie at a multiplex, you get a movie at a festival with the filmmakers present and the opportunity to talk to them about the movie you just watched. If you have a film fan in your family and friends, what better gift could you give. | https://www.wcia.com/ciliving-tv/ebertfest-film-festival-back-in-2022/ | 2022-04-20T23:07:51Z | https://www.wcia.com/ciliving-tv/ebertfest-film-festival-back-in-2022/ | false | 1 |
MONACO, April 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Scorpio Tankers Inc. (NYSE:STNG) ("Scorpio Tankers," or the "Company") announced today that on Thursday, April 28, 2022, the Company plans to issue its first quarter 2022 earnings press release in the morning (Eastern Daylight Time) and host a conference call at 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time and 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time.
Conference Call Details
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time and 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time
The conference call will be available over the internet, through the Scorpio Tankers Inc. website www.scorpiotankers.com and the webcast link: https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/u6omf566
Participants for the live webcast should register on the website approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the webcast.
The conference will also be available telephonically:
US/CANADA Dial-In Number: 1 (855) 861-2416
International Dial-In Number: +1 (703) 736-7422
Conference ID: 3295797
Participants should dial into the call 10 minutes before the scheduled time.
The information provided on the teleconference is only accurate at the time of the conference call, and the Company will take no responsibility for providing updated information.
About Scorpio Tankers Inc.
Scorpio Tankers Inc. is a provider of marine transportation of petroleum products worldwide. Scorpio Tankers Inc. currently owns, finance leases or bareboat charters-in 124 product tankers (42 LR2 tankers, six LR1 tankers, 62 MR tankers and 14 Handymax tankers) with an average age of 6.2 years. The Company has recently agreed to sell six LR1 tankers, two LR2 tankers, and two MR tankers. These sales are expected to close before the end of the third quarter of 2022. Additional information about the Company is available at the Company's website www.scorpiotankers.com, which is not a part of this press release.
Forward-Looking Statements
Matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward‐looking statements. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides safe harbor protections for forward‐looking statements in order to encourage companies to provide prospective information about their business. Forward‐looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements, which are other than statements of historical facts. The Company desires to take advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is including this cautionary statement in connection with this safe harbor legislation. The words “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “target,” “project,” “likely,” “may,” “will,” “would,” “could” and similar expressions identify forward‐looking statements.
The forward‐looking statements in this press release are based upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions, including without limitation, management’s examination of historical operating trends, data contained in the Company’s records and other data available from third parties. Although management believes that these assumptions were reasonable when made, because these assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies which are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond the Company’s control, there can be no assurance that the Company will achieve or accomplish these expectations, beliefs or projections. The Company undertakes no obligation, and specifically declines any obligation, except as required by law, to publicly update or revise any forward‐looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. In addition to these important factors, other important factors that, in the Company’s view, could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward‐looking statements include unforeseen liabilities, future capital expenditures, revenues, expenses, earnings, synergies, economic performance, indebtedness, financial condition, losses, future prospects, business and management strategies for the management, the length and severity of the ongoing novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, including its effect on demand for petroleum products and the transportation thereof, expansion and growth of the Company’s operations, risks relating to the integration of assets or operations of entities that it has or may in the future acquire and the possibility that the anticipated synergies and other benefits of such acquisitions may not be realized within expected timeframes or at all, the failure of counterparties to fully perform their contracts with the Company, the strength of world economies and currencies, general market conditions, including fluctuations in charter rates and vessel values, changes in demand for tanker vessel capacity, changes in the Company’s operating expenses, including bunker prices, drydocking and insurance costs, the market for the Company’s vessels, availability of financing and refinancing, charter counterparty performance, ability to obtain financing and comply with covenants in such financing arrangements, changes in governmental rules and regulations or actions taken by regulatory authorities, potential liability from pending or future litigation, general domestic and international political conditions, potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents or political events, vessels breakdowns and instances of off‐hires, and other factors. Please see the Company’s filings with the SEC for a more complete discussion of certain of these and other risks and uncertainties.
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ATLANTA, April 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mueller Water Products, Inc. (NYSE: MWA) plans to release financial results for its second quarter ended March 31, 2022, after U.S. markets close on Monday, May 2, 2022. On Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. ET, the Company will hold a conference call to discuss earnings and business results. Interested parties are invited to listen via webcast available on the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website www.muellerwaterproducts.com. An archive of the webcast will be available for approximately 90 days following the call.
About Mueller Water Products, Inc.
Mueller Water Products, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and marketer of products and services used in the transmission, distribution and measurement of water in North America. Our broad product and service portfolio includes engineered valves, fire hydrants, pipe connection and repair products, metering products, leak detection, pipe condition assessment, pressure management products, and software technology that provides critical water system data. We help municipalities increase operational efficiencies, improve customer service and prioritize capital spending, demonstrating why Mueller Water Products is Where Intelligence Meets Infrastructure®. Visit us at www.muellerwaterproducts.com.
Mueller refers to one or more of Mueller Water Products, Inc. (MWP), a Delaware corporation, and its subsidiaries. MWP and each of its subsidiaries are legally separate and independent entities when providing products and services. MWP does not provide products or services to third parties. MWP and each of its subsidiaries are liable only for their own acts and omissions and not those of each other. Mueller brands include Mueller®, Echologics®, Hydro Gate®, Hydro-Guard®, HYMAX®, i2O®, Jones®, Krausz®, Mi.Net®, Milliken®, Pratt®, Pratt Industrial®, Singer®, and U.S. Pipe Valve & Hydrant. Please see muellerwp.com/brands to learn more.
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Graton Resort proposes major expansion; county seeks feedback from community
The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria in Sonoma County are seeking to expand the Graton Resort & Casino by as much as 50 percent, according to a notice of preparation filed by the tribe earlier this month. In addition, Sonoma County is seeking input from the community regarding the proposed...
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A University of Tennessee fraternity used baseball coach Tony Vitello's suspension for chest-bumping an umpire as a chance to raise money Wednesday for an organization serving active military members and veterans.
Vitello offered a chest bump to anyone who had $2 to donate to the Wounded Warriors Project.
The popular coach already was scheduled to appear at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon event on campus where participants could throw at a dunk tank as well.
“After what transpired last weekend, we thought it would be kind of a funny gag if he gave some chest bumps to students,” said fraternity chapter secretary and event organizer Gerard Tavoleti. “He thought it was a funny little gag, so he obliged to our request.”
The NCAA suspended Vitello for four games for chest-bumping third-base umpire Jeffrey Macias during a confrontation in the first inning of the Vols' game against Alabama last Saturday. Vitello will return to the dugout Sunday at Florida.
Vitello chest-bumped about 10 students during the 10-20 minutes he was at the event and successfully dunked a fraternity member — though it took him more than one throw. Football coach Josh Huepel needed just one throw to do the same. The chest bumps and dunk tank raised more than $1,000.
During his two-game suspension in 2018, Vitello raised money for another charity by hosting a pizza party and lemonade stand outside Lindsay Nelson Stadium while the Vols were playing Vanderbilt inside.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Frustration is building among abortion rights groups in Kentucky, where a restrictive new law has thrown the state’s only two remaining clinics into limbo.
The clinics, both in the state’s largest city of Louisville, say they were forced to halt abortions because officials haven’t had time to write guidelines for complying with the law, which the Republican-dominated legislature passed a week ago over the veto of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.
Advocates say the situation foreshadows what could happen in Republican-leaning states across the country if the U.S. Supreme Court ends up overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established a right to abortion nationwide.
Effective immediately, the new law bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, replacing the state’s previous 20-week limit — a restriction that four other states also have passed.
It also places strict new conditions on medication abortions, requiring women to be examined by a doctor before receiving abortion pills. And it contains new reporting requirements for providers. Noncompliance can result in stiff fines and felony penalties.
Attorneys for the clinics have filed federal lawsuits seeking to overturn the law.In the meantime, women in Kentucky are being forced to either travel out of state to end their pregnancies or wait for a judge’s decision on whether to temporarily block the law while the case is litigated. Many of the women affected are young and poor, advocates say.
“The mood is one of anger and frustration,” said Meg Sasse Stern, abortion fund director with Kentucky Health Justice Network, a statewide reproductive justice group. “These people know what they need. They knew as soon as they made their decision. And they know they should be able to get this care. It is safe, it is common and it should be accessible.”
Supporters of Kentucky’s new law say the goal is to protect women’s health and strengthen oversight.
But in his veto, the governor faulted the measure for not making exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest and for the lack of funding to carry out new reporting requirements. He also raised doubts about its constitutionality.
A Planned Parenthood clinic in Louisville has halted abortions pending a ruling from the judge but continues to provide other services, including health screenings, birth control and initial appointments for pregnant women. But officials worry that the law will discourage women who need help from reaching out.
“The challenging thing is, you don’t know who you’re not seeing, if women are trying to arrange things on their own,” said Dr. Kara Cadwallader, chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood in Kentucky and several other states.
“The overall picture is sort of mass confusion if you’re a patient trying to get care, especially if you have economic hurdles that make it just more difficult to access any kind of care,” she added.
Another group at the forefront of the legal fight, the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, vowed to “never stop fighting” for the right of women to make their own reproductive decisions. “The government should never have the authority to force a person to remain pregnant against their will,” the group said on Twitter earlier this week.
Kentucky’s Republican attorney general, Daniel Cameron, said he will vigorously defend the law.
“The General Assembly passed HB 3 to protect life and promote the health and safety of women, and we are prepared to earnestly defend this new law,” Cameron said last week.
The measure requires abortion providers to report more detailed information from patients, which opponents say would violate privacy. And it requires that fetal remains be cremated or buried by a licensed funeral establishment, adding to the costs.
For women who have made the decision to end their pregnancies, the sudden lack of abortion access in Kentucky has become another hardship, abortion rights supporters say.
For many Kentucky women, it’s already a long drive to the nearest clinic. They face transportation and lodging costs, and many have to make child care arrangements.
The Kentucky Health Justice Network offers financial and logistical assistance for women seeking abortions. Some women seeking the group’s help have opted to wait until a judge rules, Sasse Stern said. Others have made appointments with clinics in other states.
“For some people, it’s OK to wait, especially if they are early in pregnancy,” she said. “They may be able to delay an appointment for a couple of weeks.
“If someone is later in pregnancy or experiencing health issues that are because of that pregnancy, it can become very urgent that they get care,” she added.
Abortion rights supporters in Kentucky fear the past week could be a harbinger of things to come if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. The justices are being asked to overrule the 50-year-old decision in the context of a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks.
“I think it’s a frightening preview of what’s coming,” Cadwallader said of Kentucky’s current situation. | https://www.wkrg.com/national/kentucky-abortion-clinics-in-limbo-after-new-laws-passage/ | 2022-04-20T23:15:14Z | https://www.wkrg.com/national/kentucky-abortion-clinics-in-limbo-after-new-laws-passage/ | true | 31 |
Hot Stocks: DIS hits low; FB drops; work-at-home stocks fall; ALVR, LRN rally
Wall Street put in a mixed performance on Wednesday. Earnings from IBM helped the Dow post a gain of nearly 250 points. However, the Nasdaq sank more than 1% after Netflix reported disappointing quarterly results.
The Netflix miss had reverberations throughout the market. In response, investors cut their positions of work-from-home plays, leading to notable declines in names like Shopify (SHOP), Twilio (TWLO), Zoom Video Communications (ZM) and DocuSign (DOCU).
Meanwhile, Disney (NYSE:DIS) also suffered in the wake of the Netflix results. Worries about growth at the Mouse House's streaming service sent the stock to a new 52-week low.
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:FB) was another notable decliner on the session. The stock dropped after a report claimed the social media giant's business had further deteriorated in the current quarter.
Looking to some of the day's standout gainers, AlloVir (ALVR) posted a double-digit percentage gain on a favorable regulatory decision. Meanwhile, earnings news sent Stride (LRN) to a fresh high.
Sector In Focus
A calamitous earnings report from Netflix prompted worries about the entire work-from-home complex, as investors bet that the post-COVID opening of the economy would drain the growth prospects from many of the names that benefited during the pandemic.
Shopify (SHOP) was among the big losers in the group, falling more than 13% on the session. Twilio (TWLO) posted a double-digit percentage decline as well, falling by about 10%.
Elsewhere in the work-at-home space, Zoom Video Communications (ZM) staged a retreat of almost 7%. Meanwhile, DocuSign (DOCU) posted a 9% decline.
Standout Gainer
A major regulatory win sparked buying in shares of AlloVir (ALVR). The news sent the stock climbing nearly 16%.
The gains followed an announcement that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had granted another regenerative medicine advanced therapy designation for its T cell therapy posoleucel. This time, the FDA's RMAT tag relates to the use of the product to prevent infections from six viruses that often impact high-risk patients following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant.
This represents the third RMAT designation that posoleucel has received from the FDA.
Spurred by the news, ALVR rallied to a level of $8.51 early in Wednesday's session -- an advance of 57% compared to the previous day's close. Shares moderated significantly from there, but they still ended the day at $6.25. This represented a gain of 84 cents on the session.
With the advance, ALVR came further off a 52-week low of $5.19 set over the past couple of days. Shares remain well off a 52-week high of $26.41 set early last year. Even with Wednesday's jump, the stock remains about 75% below its levels of a year ago.
Standout Loser
Meta Platforms (FB) dropped almost 8% after a research firm presented evidence pointing to a substantial slowdown in the Facebook parent company's recent business.
Cleveland Research issued a note stating that FB's business in the current quarter has slowed even more than in the previous fiscal period. The firm based its conclusion on channel checks.
FB finished at $200.42, a decline of $16.89 on the session. Shares had fallen off a cliff in February amid a shockingly disappointing Q4 earnings report and continued to retreat to a 52-week low of $185.82 in the first half of March.
The stock saw a recovery that lasted through late March and the early days of April but has been losing ground again lately. Wednesday's slide took FB to its lowest close since March 15.
Notable New High
Earnings news sparked a rally in Stride (LRN), as increased demand for career training pushed shares of the education technology firm nearly 15% higher. The advance took the stock to a fresh 52-week high.
The company beat expectations on both its top and bottom lines, including a nearly 8% rise in revenues. The top-line figure grew to nearly $422M. LRN saw a 38% advance in enrollment for its adult career learning programs.
Bolstered by the better-than-expected results, LRN rose $5.25 on Wednesday to finish at $40.60. Shares also established a fresh intraday 52-week high of $41.20.
Notable New Low
Disney (DIS) sank to a new low, dragged down by streaming worries generated by the disastrous earnings report from rival Netflix. DIS dropped nearly 6% on the session, falling to a fresh 52-week nadir.
Late Tuesday, Netflix revealed a disappointing earnings report, sparking a 35% drop in its share price. The company revealed a decline in its subscriber base, blaming the disappointing figure on competition, a high penetration rate among potential customers and the sharing of passwords.
The overall concern about streaming saturation hit rivals like DIS as well. Shares of the entertainment giant were pulled down by fears that its Disney+ streaming service would see a similar drop-off in subscriber interest.
As a result, DIS retreated $7.33 to close Wednesday's action at $124.57. Shares also reached an intraday 52-week low of $124.11.
DIS has seen intermittent selling pressure since early November, when it traded above $175. Shares have fallen about 29% since that time.
For more on the day's biggest winners and losers, head over to Seeking Alpha's On The Move section. | https://seekingalpha.com/news/3825064-hot-stocks-dis-hits-low-fb-drops-work-at-home-stocks-fall-alvr-lrn-rally | 2022-04-20T23:17:35Z | https://seekingalpha.com/news/3825064-hot-stocks-dis-hits-low-fb-drops-work-at-home-stocks-fall-alvr-lrn-rally | false | 1 |
Dover man arrested for predatory sexual assault of child
Dover man arrested for predatory sexual assault of child. Dover, New York – On April 18, 2022, the New York State Police from the...
www.theharlemvalleynews.netDover man arrested for predatory sexual assault of child. Dover, New York – On April 18, 2022, the New York State Police from the...
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The Montgomery County Council is boosting funding for services offered to students in the county amid an escalating mental health crisis among children during the coronavirus pandemic.
The funding package also allocates $3 million for mental health programming and $3 million for portable classrooms.
Montgomery is one of many school systems across the country that has witnessed exacerbated mental health challenges among its student population. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned of the accelerating mental health crisis among youths in a report last month. A survey by the CDC found that 4 in 10 teenagers reported feeling “persistently sad or hopeless,” and 1 in 5 said they have contemplated suicide. And in October, the American Academy of Pediatrics declared a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health, noting soaring rates of depression, anxiety, trauma, loneliness and suicidal thoughts.
Northwood, Gaithersburg, Watkins Mill, Wheaton and Seneca Valley high schools already have school-based wellness centers. A sixth is being built at Kennedy High School.
Community members testified at a council meeting Tuesday that the need for additional resources in schools was urgent.
“The few centers that we have are not enough,” Carmen Centeno, who works at Northwood High’s wellness center, told the council in Spanish through an interpreter. “The challenges that young people and their families are facing today are countless. We must act now before it’s too late.”
Identity, a Rockville-based nonprofit organization, runs four of the five school-based wellness centers.
The centers offer medical care, mental health and social services to students and their families. Each center also focuses on positive youth development, a county initiative that aims to curb violence and gang activity and support families that may have been exposed to complex trauma.
Identity Executive Director Diego Uriburu said in an interview that there are tremendous mental health needs everywhere. The wellness centers have an advantage, he said, because they serve both students and their family members, who may also be struggling. The wellness centers should also help elementary-age students and middle-schoolers, he said.
“These efforts are not just to help young people heal; it also has other benefits,” he said. Citing the increase in fighting and bullying that has been reported in schools, Uriburu said that having the system make a more robust effort on mental health could help with those issues, he said.
Council member Nancy Navarro (D-District 4) spearheaded the funding effort. It was supported by the Montgomery County Board of Education and Superintendent Monifa B. McKnight, who over the past several months have heard testimony from students pushing for additional mental health support services after the pandemic kept many of them in virtual learning and away from their peers for almost two years.
McKnight has pledged to direct additional resources toward mental health services in schools. In a letter to parents and other community members Tuesday, McKnight wrote that school leaders were working on other initiatives including hiring and placing more social workers in high schools and exploring ways to add counselors and psychologists. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/20/montgomery-county-schools-mental-health/ | 2022-04-20T23:20:46Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/20/montgomery-county-schools-mental-health/ | false | 1 |
In noisy situations, your words and gestures help you to be understood
Communication seems natural to us, but there are plenty of situations where background noise makes it hard for us to understand each other. In those moments, gesturing can come in handy, particularly if conversations in your native language are taking place in the background. This has been shown in research by psycholinguist Veerle Wilms in cooperation with Susanne Brouwer and Linda Drijvers. Their paper is published on 19 April in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Suppose you want to order a drink in a busy pub or you are trying to explain something on a noisy train. You cannot always do this by just talking. Brouwer's research has already shown that background speech influences intelligibility. Drijvers has also concluded in earlier research that iconic gestures—gestures that carry meaning and where the shape of the gesture indicates what you are talking about—are useful for making yourself clear in noisy environments.
Wilms combined these findings in a new experiment. She recorded 180 videos in which an actress says a short sentence in Dutch, such as "He is ready to pray," or "She is very good at swimming."
"The last word was always an action verb; this verb was sometimes spoken by itself, or combined with an iconic gesture. The Dutch participants saw various videos with and without gestures. In the background, you could hear people speaking in Dutch or French, or nothing at all," Wilms says.
Listener benefits
Wilms wanted to test the extent to which gestures actually help with understanding words and sentences while conversations are taking place in the background, and whether it makes a difference whether the mother tongue (Dutch) or a foreign language (French) is heard in the background.
"Participants understood the verbs better when they were combined with a gesture than when no gesture was shown," says Wilms. "Furthermore, participants found words easier to understand when there were French conversations in the background, rather than Dutch ones." That is because the participants were familiar with Dutch and because the Dutch sentences and Dutch background noise are very similar. That is not the case with Dutch sentences and French background noise.
Whether in cafés, restaurants, or shops, there are a lot of situations in which this knowledge is useful. "Both speakers and listeners can benefit from this: speakers by gesticulating and listeners from paying attention to their interlocutor's hands, particularly where conversations taking place in the background are in your mother tongue."
Explore further | https://phys.org/news/2022-04-noisy-situations-words-gestures-understood.html | 2022-04-20T23:21:09Z | https://phys.org/news/2022-04-noisy-situations-words-gestures-understood.html | true | 1 |
New England Aquarium celebrates African penguin's 30th birthday
The New England Aquarium is celebrating a significant birthday for one of its African penguins, far exceeding the life expectancy of his species.
The aquarium says Lambert hatched at the Aquarium on April 20, 1992 and is celebrating his 30th birthday.
He is named for Lambert’s Bay, a small fishing town on the western coast of South Africa.
According to the New England Aquarium, African penguins have a life expectancy of 10 to 15 years in the wild.
The aquarium says Lambert has received "world-class" geriatric animal care, undergoing double cataract surgery in October 2019 and a melatonin implant last summer.
The New England Zoo says Lambert is most easily identified by the green bracelet on this left wing and a particularly thick white band of feathers on his head.
He's not the only African penguin at the aquarium celebrating a big milestone. Harlequin, a female penguin, will turn 30 in November. | https://www.wcvb.com/article/new-england-aquarium-celebrates-penguin-s-30th-birthday/39778037 | 2022-04-20T23:22:42Z | https://www.wcvb.com/article/new-england-aquarium-celebrates-penguin-s-30th-birthday/39778037 | false | null |
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) will participate in the UBS Global Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, May 24th. Mathai Mammen, Executive Vice President, Pharmaceuticals R&D, will represent the Company in a session scheduled at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time).
This webcast will be available to investors and other interested parties by accessing the Johnson & Johnson website at www.investor.jnj.com.
A webcast replay will be available approximately 48 hours after the live webcast.
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New Japan Pro Wrestling issued the following press release announcing the potential match stipulations between Shingo Takagi and Taichi for the KOPW 2022 title at NJPW’s April 25th event. Full details, including which match each man suggested, can be found below.
Monday April 25 will see a new evolution of the KOPW concept, as new holder Taichi faces Shingo Takagi in the main event, the first KOPW match not to feature Toru Yano, and with a very different vision for the trophy.
The concept behind KOPW remains to have holder and challenger present rule ideas to be voted on by the public. After a lot of speculation about just what rules both men would bring, Takagi and Taichi have reached their decisions, and have proposed rulesets that will see endurance and conviction pushed hard no matter the poll outcome.
Taichi has suggested a 30 Count Match. In this match, multiple falls will see a cumulative count from the referee. The winner is the wrestler who can get a combined 30 count on their opponent. Strategy and stamina will come to the fore in this punishing match style.
Takagi meanwhile has brought his own spin on a multiple falls match, suggesting a Takagi Style Three Falls Match. In this match, the first to three falls is the winner, but rather than being best three out of five, a competitor must get first a one count, then a two count, and then three. This will likely see a hard pace being set in the opening as both men vie to get the early one counts, before will to win really comes to the fore for the third fall.
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The Los Angeles Rams mobile app has been nominated for a Webby Award, recognizing the digital platform as one of the five best in the world in the "Apps and Software" category in the 26th Annual Webby Awards.
Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by The New York Times, The Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), is the leading international awards organization honoring excellence on the Internet.
IADAS, which nominates and selects The Webby Award Winners, is comprised of Internet industry experts including Kerstin Emhoff, Co-Founder & CEO – PRETTYBIRD; Colleen DeCourcy, President, Wieden+Kennedy; Arlan Hamilton, Founder & Managing Partner – Backstage Capital; John Hanke, Founder & CEO – Niantic; Nikole Hannah-Jones, Creator – 1619, The New York Times; Renita Jablonski, Director of Audio – The Washington Post; Mikael Jørgensen, Founder & CEO – &Co; Monica Lewinsky, Activist, Fashion Designer & Producer; Swizz Beatz & Timbaland, Music Producers & Co-Founders – Verzuz; Vanessa Pappas, COO – TikTok; Daniel Reynolds, Vice President, Digital Media – Disney; Dara Treseder, SVP, Head of Global Marketing & Communications – Peloton; and Maya Watson, Head of Global Marketing – Clubhouse.
As a nominee, the Rams are also eligible to win a Webby People's Voice Award, which is voted online by fans across the globe. From now until April 21st, Rams fans can cast their votes here. Voting will be open until Thursday, April 21 at 11:59 p.m. PT. | https://www.therams.com/news/rams-mobile-app-receives-nomination-for-webby-award | 2022-04-20T23:31:52Z | https://www.therams.com/news/rams-mobile-app-receives-nomination-for-webby-award | false | 1 |
A look at what’s happening in European soccer on Thursday:
SPAIN
Barcelona tries to regain second place and stay in position to secure a Champions League place next season when it visits sixth-place Real Sociedad in the Spanish league. Barcelona is one point behind Atlético Madrid with two games in hand. Sevilla, sitting in fourth place tied on points with Barcelona, visits second-to-last place Levante. Barcelona is coming off two consecutive home losses — to Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League and to Cádiz in the Spanish league. It hadn’t lost two matches in a row at home since 2003. Sociedad is unbeaten in five straight matches, with three victories. It is five points from the final Champions League spot. Cádiz, one point from the relegation zone, hosts eighth-place Athletic Bilbao.
ENGLAND
Burnley can move one point from safety in the Premier League by beating Southampton. It will be Burnley's first game since the firing of its long-serving manager, Sean Dyche, with the club battling to avoid relegation. Mike Jackson, Burnley's under-23 coach, will take charge against Southampton on a temporary basis. Everton occupies the spot above the relegation zone and is four points ahead of Burnley after drawing 1-1 with Leicester on Wednesday.
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Forget the silver linings playbook--it's time for J.Law to dive into the parenting playbook!
Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney have welcomed their first child together, multiple sources tell E! News.
The "Don't Look Up" actress and art dealer became parents earlier this year. On April 12, Lawrence and Maroney were seen taking a walk with their baby but have yet to speak publicly about the arrival.
The couple have largely kept their pregnancy journey private ever since Lawrence's rep confirmed the news back in September, instead allowing glimpses during multiple low-key romantic outings together in New York City and at the "Don't Look Up" premiere in December.
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In November, Lawrence told Vanity Fair it was a conscious decision that came from wanting to protect her child's privacy.
"Every instinct in my body wants to protect their privacy for the rest of their lives, as much as I can," she explained. "I don't want anyone to feel welcome into their existence. And I feel like that just starts with not including them in this part of my work."
Jennifer Lawrence & Cooke Maroney: Romance Rewind
She has spoken about her desire to be a mother in the past, telling Glamour in 2016, "Everybody has this idea: You have children, and your entire life is complete. That's how I imagine it. I imagine I'll have children and then my whole life will just seem complete."
Lawrence and Maroney first sparked relationship rumors in June 2018, less than a year after Lawrence's split from director Darren Aronofsky.
In February 2019, the couple announced that they had gotten engaged and later caused fans to speculate whether or not they had secretly tied the knot when they were spotted at an NYC courthouse in September.
However, the couple were officially wed just one month later, in a dreamy October ceremony at the Belcourt of Newport in Rhode Island that saw Kris Jenner, Adele, Ashley Olsen, Emma Stone, Nicole Richie, Joel Madden, Cameron Diaz and more stars in attendance.
"It was an all-night party," an eyewitness told E! News about the event. "Jennifer and Cooke didn't leave Belcourt until 5:30 a.m. They were the last guests to leave. The looked very happy but tired. Jennifer had on a long-sleeved jeweled dress. Her hair was up with strands framing her face." | https://www.nbcmiami.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/jennifer-lawrence-gives-birth-welcomes-first-baby-with-cooke-maroney/2741008/ | 2022-04-20T23:37:49Z | https://www.nbcmiami.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/jennifer-lawrence-gives-birth-welcomes-first-baby-with-cooke-maroney/2741008/ | true | 11 |
Having no ‘Defeat Day’ in its calendar – an oversight the Kremlin would do well to rectify – the Kremlin is already rehearsing for its annual Victory Day parade on May 9. This is the annual spectacle intended to celebrate the founding myth of Putin’s Potemkin regime – victory in The Great Patriotic War – and showcase Russia’s armed forces and military hardware. It’s a display of discipline and gallantry quite at odds with the savagery of the barbaric hordes currently sweeping across the Donbas.
I’ve seen a sneak preview of the running order and roll call of dishonour.
Covidfest
Roll call of dishonour
So how will Putin line up his toy tanks and model soldiers this year? Given the shortage of manpower so evident in the Ukrainian theatre, who is there left to march? There’s a high probability the first responsibility of the new batch of conscripts, just drafted by the army and unfamiliar with drill, will be to goose-step, eyes right, privates on parade, round Red Square. Prepare, then, for an element of unintentional slapstick. Still, from their perspective it’s better than being subjected to the dedovschina hazing or being asked to commit war atrocities in Mariupol.
Next up: the Looters’ Battalion. Flatbed trucks proudly display their ‘requisitioned’ washing machines, children’s toys, mobile phones and laptops in lieu of more conventional trophies of war.
Spoils of war?
Following on is the Rapists’ Brigade, shuffling a bit because their trousers are lowered already out of respect for the Young Pioneers’ slogan ‘Vsegda Gotov!’ (‘Always prepared!’).
Ranks of men in white coats fall in behind. This is the Poisoners Tactical Group, on whom huge resources are foisted to develop chemical weapons. Trailing clouds of phosphorus do they come, their pockets bulging with phials of Novichok. In their wake, deadly weapons – keyboards – tucked under their arm, the motley assortment of cyber-hackers, bots and trolls who prosecute the information war. Finally, bringing up the rear, the Mobile Crematoria Squadron, Grim Reapers at the wheel.
Final solution?
Giving it the big’un
There’s nothing a dictator loves more than rocking a gaudy uniform, all epaulettes, aiguillettes and unearned medals, donning a pair of Aviator shades and peacocking on a platform while generals jostle for position beside him. Below, the projection of hard power trundles by and the massed ranks file past, infecting each other with the coronavirus, in 2021 at least. The spectacle is a shop-worn cliché containing an immutable truth: short men want to look big.
Putin has no qualifications for commander-in-chief. In the Soviet era, his ‘military’ experience consisted of spying on people and snitching on them afterwards.
Victory in disguise
Seduced by the power of symbolism, much store has been set by the prediction that Putin wants to complete the complete annexation of the Donbas before his annual pageant. This way he can present May 9 as a celebration of the victory over Ukrainian Nazism. Irrespective of how gross this misrepresentation may be, since he curates his own reality, enough Russians will buy it to perpetuate the myth of victory, of ethno-nationalist triumph. No alternative realities are available for most.
At the nadir of Soviet military fortunes in 1941, Stalin ordered a colossal military parade in Red Square from which many soldiers marched directly into battle against the Germans besieging Moscow. It was a propaganda coup and statement of defiance but many of them were killed straight afterwards. Putin and his cronies won’t allow details like this to spoil the party.
I have no formal qualifications as a military strategist, but you don’t need Sun Tzu to tell you the chances of Putin succeeding in his new Donbas offensive within the next fortnight are gossamer-thin.
The full-scale mobilisation of all Russia’s considerable resources and pulverising the region could perhaps overcome Ukraine’s dogged opposition but that tactic requires a declaration of war. This means admitting the “Special Military Operation” was a flop. So while victory is improbable, defeat is unacceptable. There are very few examples in history of fascist dictators prostrating themselves and declaring: ‘Maxima mea culpa. I surrender’. Putin won’t be one of them.
After the frozen conflict of the last seven years, the most likely outcome now of two evenly matched adversaries slugging it out is simply a bigger, cryogenically frozen conflict. Russia has materiel but not enough manpower. Ukraine has manpower but not enough materiel – yet.
Not having achieved a victory never prevented a fascist dictator from declaring “I won”, though. (cf US elections, November 2020). On May 9, then, Putin may well inform his subjects that they have been successful with their demilitarisation and denazification and that the latest phase of his military operation has ended. He may calculate a pause in the barbarism could head off the oil and gas embargo that seems inevitable at some point otherwise.
May 9 for Putin, whether the Donbas offensive has gone well or badly, is a defining moment in his presidency. Its importance for the projection of his personal authority cannot be overestimated.
What the world needs now
In opposition, what the West needs then on May 9 is to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine, unity among its supporting coalition and the supremacy of Western, liberal democratic principles. European capitals should explicitly demonstrate their backing for Ukraine is unwavering with protests, rallies and marches. The public needs to horsewhip its own politicians into expressions of unambiguous alignment with Ukraine. Russia must see that the West is fully committed to Ukraine’s freedom and sovereignty.
The alternative to making this manifest on May 9 is to encourage Russia that it can behave with impunity, that its petrostate belligerence will go unpunished.
International support for Ukraine needs a focal point lest war fatigue kicks in, before the language of tragedy and outrage is debased and words like genocide and atrocity are filleted of meaning by repetition, not freighted with it. Send a clear message to Russia that the civilised world is not weakening its stance, its opprobrium is absolute. Disprove the maxim, ‘The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must’. | https://www.intellinews.com/rimmer-victory-day-241938/ | 2022-04-20T23:41:50Z | https://www.intellinews.com/rimmer-victory-day-241938/ | true | 4 |
HENDERSON, Colo., April 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MYR Group Inc. ("MYR Group") MYRG, a holding company of leading specialty contractors serving the electric utility infrastructure, commercial and industrial construction markets in the United States and Canada, announced it will attend Oppenheimer's virtual investor conference. MYR Group's Chief Executive Officer, Rick Swartz, and Chief Financial Officer, Betty Johnson, will virtually meet with institutional investors during Oppenheimer's 17th Annual Industrial Growth Conference on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. This event is only available to Oppenheimer clients.
About MYR Group Inc.
MYR Group is a holding company of leading, specialty electrical contractors providing services throughout the United States and Canada through two business segments: Transmission & Distribution (T&D) and Commercial & Industrial (C&I). MYR Group subsidiaries have the experience and expertise to complete electrical installations of any type and size. Their comprehensive T&D services on electric transmission, distribution networks, substation facilities and clean energy projects include design, engineering, procurement, construction, upgrade, maintenance and repair services. T&D customers include investor-owned utilities, cooperatives, private developers, government-funded utilities, independent power producers, independent transmission companies, industrial facility owners and other contractors. Through their C&I segment, they provide a broad range of services which include the design, installation, maintenance and repair of commercial and industrial wiring generally for airports, hospitals, data centers, hotels, stadiums, convention centers, clean energy projects, manufacturing plants, processing facilities, water/waste-water treatment facilities, mining facilities, intelligent transportation systems and roadway lighting. C&I customers include general contractors, commercial and industrial facility owners, government agencies and developers. For more information, visit myrgroup.com.
Contacts
Betty R. Johnson, Chief Financial Officer, MYR Group Inc., (847) 290-1891, investorinfo@myrgroup.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is filing an appeal seeking to overturn a judge’s order that voided the federal mask mandate on planes and trains and in travel hubs, officials said Wednesday.
The notice came minutes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked the Justice Department to appeal the decision handed down by a federal judge in Florida earlier this week.
A notice of appeal was filed in federal court in Tampa.
The CDC said in a statement Wednesday that it is its “continuing assessment that at this time an order requiring masking in the indoor transportation corridor remains necessary for the public health.”
It remained unclear whether the Biden administration would ask the appeals court to grant an emergency stay to immediately reimpose the mask mandate on public transit. An emergency stay of the lower court’s ruling would be a whiplash moment for travelers and transit workers. Most airlines and airports, many public transit systems and even ride-sharing company Uber lifted their mask-wearing requirements in the hours following Monday’s ruling.
A federal judge in Florida had struck down the national mask mandate for mass transit on Monday, leading airlines and airports to swiftly repeal their requirements that passengers wear face coverings. The Transportation Security Administration said Monday that it would it will no longer enforce the mask requirement.
The CDC had recently extended the mask mandate, which was set to expire Monday, until May 3 to allow more time to study the BA.2 omicron subvariant, which is now responsible for the vast majority of U.S. cases. But the court ruling Monday had put that decision on hold.
The CDC said it will continue to monitor public health conditions to determine if a mandate would remain necessary. It said it believes the mandate is “a lawful order, well within CDC’s legal authority to protect public health.”
Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said Wednesday night that the department was filing the appeal “in light of today’s assessment by the CDC that an order requiring masking in the transportation corridor remains necessary to protect the public health."
After a winter surge fueled by the omicron variant that prompted record hospitalizations, the U.S. has seen a significant drop in virus spread in recent months, leading most states and cities to drop mask mandates.
But several Northeast cities have seen a rise in hospitalizations in recent weeks, leading Philadelphia to bring back its mask mandate. | https://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/news/world_news/article_5f69eba0-063d-51ab-ae2f-14359f368657.html | 2022-04-20T23:44:32Z | https://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/news/world_news/article_5f69eba0-063d-51ab-ae2f-14359f368657.html | true | 49 |
Second suspicious car fire near Christchurch red zone campsite
A second car has been gutted in a suspicious blaze near a dwindling occupation in Christchurch’s red zone.
Firefighters were called to Stour Drive, in the Burwood part of the former residential red zone, shortly after 9pm on Wednesday.
Fire and Emergency shift manager Jill Higgison said the fire was well-involved when crews arrived.
It was being considered suspicious, and had been referred to police.
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On April 9, firefighters were called to the same stretch of road for another suspicious car fire.
Crews arrived to find a car well involved in fire, which had spread to a nearby tree.
The blaze was out within 30 minutes, but that fire was also considered suspicious and police had been notified.
Both were within 100 metres of a controversial “freedom village” campsite, which first appeared earlier this month.
Some at the site are understood to have earlier been at the anti-mandate camp in central Christchurch’s Cranmer Square.
The occupation has attracted the ire of both locals and iwi, who have accused them of “antisocial” and “aggressive” behaviour towards residents, and of making “a clear attack on the authority of Ngāi Tūāhuriri'”, which holds mana whenua status over the land.
The Christchurch City Council declared it in breach of its bylaws, and about half of the group left after being asked by staff. | https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/128414356/second-suspicious-car-fire-near-christchurch-red-zone-campsite | 2022-04-20T23:46:53Z | https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/128414356/second-suspicious-car-fire-near-christchurch-red-zone-campsite | true | 1 |
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A domain name is your website name - the internet address where people can access your website. Think of a domain as the address to the online version of your business. Every domain is one-of-a-kind. No website has the same web address as another website.
Ideally, your domain name should be an exact match to your brand name. Think of your favorite companies. Odds are, their domain name is identical to their brand name. Apple's domain name is Apple.com; Amazon's domain name is Amazon.com. Having a matching domain ensures that people can easily find your brand online.
What are the benefits of a premium business name?
What can a top brand name with a matching .com do for your business? Here are few of the many advantages of owning a premium business domain:
Trust - Online, there are subtle clues that all of us subconsciously take into consideration to determine whether or not a business is legitimate and trustworthy. Having a great business name paired with a matching .com (by far the most trusted domain extension) signals to customers that you care about and are willing to invest in your brand. It makes your business and your brand messaging easier to trust.
Authority - Owning a .com version of a fantastic brand name is a big signal to the world that your business means business, right out of the gate. This can lead to accelerated customer acquisition, more industry partnership opportunities, and press attention.
SEO - Having a business domain that matches what customers are using in searches can lead to increased SEO, higher page ranking, and better quality traffic.
Retention - Brand retention is critical for organically acquiring and keeping customers. A short, catchy, and unique business name makes your brand easier to remember, and having a matching .com means that consumers who hear about you offline will find you easily online.
Save on marketing spend - Investing in a premium domain can save you a fortune in marketing spend down the line. You'll spend less of your valuable marketing budget and efforts on brand awareness, as your name will do much of the work for you.
How does BrandBucket price domains?
Our customers are primarily entrepreneurs looking for a quick and easy way to find a great brand name for their company. That's why when evaluating and appraising domain names, our central focus is whether they would also make great business names.
What makes a great brand name? Here are some of the branding and linguistic traits we take into consideration:
- Length - Great names are concise and to the point. The shorter, the better!
- Common phrase/expression - Names that are based on real phrases and expressions make great brand names because of their built-in familiarity and inherent catchiness.
- Letter order - Some letters are more valuable than others and better together, especially when it comes to the first letters of a name.
- Pronunciation and spelling - Names should be easy to say and understand. It should also be spelled as it sounds.
- Industry match - Names should be a good fit for a particular industry, or be broad enough to attract buyers from multiple sectors.
- Longevity - Great brand names are broad enough in scope to grow with a company as it expands and not die when trends fade.
- Uniqueness - Great brand names are easy to spot because they stand out in a crowd.
- Memorability - A brand name is no good unless people can easily remember it.
These criteria, along with historical sales data and current marketplace conditions, are used to determine whether a name is accepted to our marketplace, and how it's priced. Every name on our marketplace must score high in most or all of these categories to even be accepted. With an acceptance rate of only 10% of names submitted to our marketplace, BrandBucket sets a very high bar for the names we select.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
4-1-2-2, FIREBALL: 5
(four, one, two, two; FIREBALL: five)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
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Booking Holdings Inc.: GOULDEN DAVID I (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER) Sells 183 @ Avg Price: $2210.00 (Form4)
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota officials estimated that last week’s blizzard caused the state’s daily oil output to drop by 25%.
North Dakota Pipeline Authority Director Justin Kringstad told the Bismarck Tribune that wintry weather expected this weekend could prolong the slowdown. It typically takes one to three weeks for the state’s oil industry to recover from an extreme weather event, he said.
Winter storms pose issues for the oil industry, as impassible roads can prevent trucks from accessing well sites.
Last week's storm also caused at least one significant spill and fire in the oil fields. A representative of McKenzie Energy Partners said it appears snow inundated an electrical panel at a saltwater disposal site southeast of Keene, starting the fire.
Todd Thurman, director of midstream for McKenzie, said it took workers and local firefighters two days to reach the site, due to snow-covered roads.
No one was injured, but the incident prompted a spill of 2,400 barrels or 100,800 gallons of saltwater, also known as brine or produced water. An additional 50 barrels or 2,100 gallons of oil also spilled. The fluid was contained to the site, and the company is working on cleanup, Thurman said.
State officials reported one other sizable spill in the oil fields last week, though it was not clear if weather was a factor. | https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Blizzard-prompts-drop-in-North-Dakota-s-oil-17110886.php | 2022-04-21T00:00:15Z | https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Blizzard-prompts-drop-in-North-Dakota-s-oil-17110886.php | true | 11 |
How to Watch Baltimore Orioles at Oakland Athletics: Live Stream, TV Channel, Start Time
The Orioles have had a difficult start to their 2022 campaign. They are just 3-7 through 10 games and on the bottom of the AL East.
They did see a little life in their last series where they split a four-game series 2-2 with the Yankees.
How to Watch Baltimore Orioles at Oakland Athletics today:
Game Date: April 20, 2022
Game Time: 9:30 p.m. ET
TV: NBC Sports California
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In their last win on Sunday, they were able to score five runs in the eighth inning on two RBIs from Rougned Odor, two from Kelvin Gutiérrez, and one from Jorge Mateo.
Jordan Lyles will take the mound for Baltimore — he is 0-1 this season with a 5.23 ERA.
The Athletics didn't start off their season hot but they have since caught fire. They started out losing 2 of 3 games to the Phillies. Since then they have gone 3-1 against the Rays and 1-2 against the Blue Jays on the road.
They got the win in the first game these two teams played Monday.
Daulton Jefferies will get the start for Oakland. He is 1-1 already this year with a 1.93 ERA through 9.1 innings pitched and four strikeouts.
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River Rock at the Amp’s 2022 outdoor concert series schedule announced
There will be sweet emotions at the River Rock at the Amp this summer. Draw The Line, an Aerosmith tribute band, will perform at the Warren venue July 9. Sunrise Entertainment LLC on Tuesday announced the outdoor concert series’ 2022 schedule. This season will also include tributes to Queen, AC/DC, Bon...
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Data shows deadly crashes in New York City are up 44% compared to last year
NEW YORK -- Sobering statistics have been released on traffic-related deaths in New York City.
This year is on pace to be the deadliest since Vision Zero began eight years ago.
In the first three months of 2022, crashes killed 59 people. That's up 44% from the same time last year.
Twenty-four percent of those killed were children.
The data was collected by Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets. To read more, click here.
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China has called on Western states to refrain from freezing the foreign reserves of other nations, saying that the measure undermines world economic stability.
The Chinese ambassador to the UN, Zhang Jun, made the remarks at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine on Tuesday. The call comes a month after roughly half of Russia's foreign exchange reserves, worth over $300 billion, were frozen by Western countries as part of sanctions over Moscow's military operation in Ukraine.
"Arbitrary freezes of foreign exchange reserves of other countries also constitute a violation of sovereignty, and is tantamount to weaponizing economic interdependence," Zhang said.
"Such practices undermine the foundation of world economic stability, and bring new uncertainties and risks to international relations," the envoy said, adding that they should be abandoned as soon as possible.
Zhang also called for "eliminating the negative impact of sanctions," saying that all-dimensional and limitless economic penalties entail "serious spillover effects, with developing countries bearing the brunt." The envoy criticized unnecessary export restrictions as well.
The diplomat called on the West to stop sending offensive weapons to Ukraine, warning that this would only escalate the current conflict and worsen the humanitarian crisis in the country.
In early March, Zhang Jun criticized Washington's "ruthless freezing or misappropriation" of Afghan assets. The US froze over $9 billion worth of assets belonging to the Afghan central bank after the Taliban seized control of the country last August. In April, US President Joe Biden ordered that half of the assets should be diverted to compensate the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the country, triggering protests across Afghanistan.
The Chinese ambassador to the UN, Zhang Jun, made the remarks at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine on Tuesday. The call comes a month after roughly half of Russia's foreign exchange reserves, worth over $300 billion, were frozen by Western countries as part of sanctions over Moscow's military operation in Ukraine.
"Arbitrary freezes of foreign exchange reserves of other countries also constitute a violation of sovereignty, and is tantamount to weaponizing economic interdependence," Zhang said.
"Such practices undermine the foundation of world economic stability, and bring new uncertainties and risks to international relations," the envoy said, adding that they should be abandoned as soon as possible.
Zhang also called for "eliminating the negative impact of sanctions," saying that all-dimensional and limitless economic penalties entail "serious spillover effects, with developing countries bearing the brunt." The envoy criticized unnecessary export restrictions as well.
The diplomat called on the West to stop sending offensive weapons to Ukraine, warning that this would only escalate the current conflict and worsen the humanitarian crisis in the country.
In early March, Zhang Jun criticized Washington's "ruthless freezing or misappropriation" of Afghan assets. The US froze over $9 billion worth of assets belonging to the Afghan central bank after the Taliban seized control of the country last August. In April, US President Joe Biden ordered that half of the assets should be diverted to compensate the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the country, triggering protests across Afghanistan.
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April 21 (Reuters) - The cost of a comprehensive car insurance policy in Britain touched an 18-month high in the first quarter and will continue to increase on the back of rising inflation and regulatory changes, a survey showed on Thursday.
UK motorists now have to pay about 550 pounds ($718.08) for a comprehensive car insurance premium, according to the latest index from price comparison site Confused.com in association with insurance broker Willis Towers Watson .
Car insurance premiums had fallen for a year till the autumn of 2021 as lockdowns kept motorists off the roads and competition in the UK car insurance industry intensified.
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"As people return to more normal patterns of work and life, we are seeing those reductions in premiums gradually unwind," said Tim Rourke, UK Head of P&C Pricing, Product, Claims and Underwriting at WTW.
Rourke also expects premiums to continue rising through 2022 as Britain battles high inflation and insurers face new rules by the Financial Conduct Authority that ensure consumers renewing policies are not charged more than new customers. read more
Britain's annual inflation rate climbed to 7% in March, its highest since 1992. read more
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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Verizon cell phone services are out of action across large areas of the United States, according to customer reports.
Some cell phone calls on the Verizon network made since the outage was detected seem unable to connect. First reports of the service being down were received around 2:30 p.m. CT on Wednesday.
On Twitter, Verizon Support said they “are aware some customers in your [Fresno] service area may be experiencing issues and our network teams are looking into this.”
According to Downdetector, issues with Verizon services aren’t just limited to the Fresno, California, area. The problems were being reported most in cities like Los Angeles, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Seattle, as well as Denver and New York.
The outage is impacting some emergency crews. For example, a post on the Clovis Police Department’s Twitter page confirms that 911 services are still operating, but dispatch is unable to call back for 911 hangups from cell phones.
In another tweet, Verizon Support noted “an issue impacting voice calls for some Verizon customers.”
“Our engineers are engaged, and we are working quickly to identify and solve the issue.”
Shortly after 6 p.m. CT, the Washington State Emergency Management shared that Verizon officials informed them that the “network should be operational again.”
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CALIFORNIA, USA — In a major shift for early education, California is expanding its transitional kindergarten program to eventually include all 4-year-olds. While most districts will receive additional dollars for the expansion, 15% will not — and are facing tough budget choices as they comply with the new fall mandate.
Some of those districts — among the most affluent in California — say they are stretching existing budgets to create classrooms, moving money around to hire new teachers and trying to figure out how to fund renovations that include tiny toilets and preschool playground equipment.
Others say they have no plans to add transitional kindergarten, despite parent pleas, unless they get state funding.
Reed Union School District in the Bay Area town of Tiburon is one of the districts that won’t be getting state money for transitional kindergarten. Reed Union hasn’t offered the program in years but is planning to add it in the fall.
“For districts without any additional funding coming in it is a big financial commitment,” said Superintendent Kimberly McGrath. “It is fantastic for kids in our community to have an additional year of exceptional learning. We are going to embrace it and see it as working toward universal preschool.”
Reed Union is one of the 15% of districts statewide known as basic aid districts.
Most California districts are funded through a state funding formula allocated on a per-student basis. But basic aid districts serve areas where local property taxes generate more money than the districts would receive if they took state funding.
Last year, the state committed more than $1 billion in the current budget to begin phasing in the expansion of transitional kindergarten, eventually including all 4-year-olds by 2025-26. None of that money will go to basic aid districts.
“I can see why basic aid districts might make an argument that the state has changed the rules substantially,” said Deborah Stipek, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. “But I don’t know how you’d address it. They can’t have it both ways.”
Transitional kindergarten has been available to 4-year-olds with birthdays between September and December since 2012. It was created when kindergarten was limited to those who turned 5 by September. Previously, 4-year-olds could enroll in kindergarten in the fall if they turned 5 by December.
Last year’s decision to expand the program to all 4-year-olds means 500,000 children will be eligible by the end of the rollout. Starting this August, children who turn 5 between Sept. 2 and Feb. 2 will be able to enroll. Each school year the enrollment window will widen to include more students until 2025-26, when all 4-year-olds will be eligible.
Some districts don’t offer programs
Basic aid districts tend to be smaller districts, mostly coastal or rural with clusters in coastal San Diego County and the Bay Area. In all, there are about 150 basic aid districts among California’s approximately 1,000 districts, according to data from the California Department of Education.
At least a dozen basic aid districts have not offered transitional kindergarten in recent years and some of them say they still won’t add the new grade despite the mandate.
“We do not plan to offer it because we are not receiving any funding from the state,” said Chris Delehanty, assistant superintendent of business services for Del Mar Elementary School District. “To add it would mean reducing or eliminating something we are already offering, increasing class size or reducing STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) offerings for our students or professional learning for our teachers.”
The district has eight elementary schools and serves nearly 4,000 students. Delehanty said if the district enrolled as many 4-year-olds as it does kindergartners each year, about 500, the district would have to add around 25 classrooms and hire twice that number of teachers and aides to meet state-required teacher-student ratios, which are generally smaller than those for older students. The estimated price: $4 million to roll out the program to all 4-year-olds.
Transitional kindergarten, like kindergarten, is optional and experts say not all children who are eligible will enroll. Families may choose to stay in their subsidized or private preschool or child care or keep their kids at home.
There are four other small coastal districts in San Diego County that are basic aid districts and also do not offer the program, including Solana Beach, Encinitas Union, Rancho Santa Fe and Cardiff school districts.
“We have all been advocating and lobbying for this mandate to be funded for all children,” said Andrée Grey, superintendent of Encinitas Union School District. “We recognize the value and appreciate the intent behind universal transitional kindergarten. However, it is critical that community-funded districts be able to access the funding that has been set aside, and there is not currently a mechanism for us to do that.”
But Stipek, the Stanford professor, said schools often have to reassess spending based on enrollment, policies, shifting focus and existing and new programs.
“Anytime you have to do something new, you have to do a redistribution of resources,” Stipek said. With transitional kindergarten, known as TK, she said, “your kids are going to learn more, do better, develop the kind of social skills that they need. So the benefits of having kids in TK will compensate for any reductions you have to make in other kinds of services.”
It’s unclear what happens if districts ignore the mandate. The California Department of Education refused to say whether it can enforce the mandate or how many schools are not providing transitional kindergarten.
Instead, it issued the following statement: “Basic aid districts should be offering TK if they offer kindergarten. In terms of enforcement, the CDE is continuing to work with basic aid districts that are not offering TK on issues” including what districts have to do to receive or keep their funding.
Several basic aid districts in San Mateo and Marin counties said the mandate was the driving force behind their decision to create new transitional kindergarten. Those districts include Mill Valley, Reed Union, Hillsborough City Elementary, Menlo Park City Elementary and Miller Creek school districts. They all plan to offer transitional kindergarten programs in the fall.
Even so, the financing is challenging. They need the state to provide money for the rollout in the coming years, several superintendents said.
Becky Rosales, superintendent of Miller Creek School District, noted in an email that her district, in San Rafael, receives just enough in property taxes to be classified as basic aid. “I am hopeful that there will be some consideration at the state level of a remedy to support districts like ours.”
At Reed Union in Tiburon, the district, which has just three schools, will add two transitional kindergarten classrooms to serve up to 40 children, McGrath said.
The price tag: around $300,000 for the first year.
“If funds were provided it would have an enormous impact,” McGrath said. “Even if just some up-front grant funds because while there are some ongoing costs there are a lot of one-time costs – equipment material purchases, planning time, playground equipment, facilities.”
In the midst of Kern County’s oil fields, where McKittrick Elementary School District offers transitional kindergarten when it is needed, said Barry Koerner, who is both superintendent and principal. The district has only one school and 86 students.
This year the school had its first 4-year-old in transitional kindergarten. Koerner hired an aide for the nine-student combo transitional kindergarten and kindergarten classroom to accommodate the one child.
“If I didn’t have resources built up we would have to cut,” he said. “We are rarely the ones they consider when making these big changes. We are doing everything we can to fight to keep our heads above water.”
Transitional kindergarten has been a pillar of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s agenda to eventually offer universal preschool to all children in California. The move is intended to benefit children eligible for subsidies who are waitlisted by fully enrolled-preschools or child care programs and those whose families can’t afford hefty tuition for private early childhood programs.
Legislators supported the plan, citing studies that say children do better in school if they attend preschool, and that preparation can help close the achievement gap.
“The evidence for the benefits of preschool, transitional kindergarten is strong enough now that we want all kids to have access to it — and that’s not the case right now,” said Stipek, who is part of a state task force to help the Commision on Teacher Credentialing create guidelines for teachers in early childhood.
There are other reasons supporters push for transitional kindergarten.
Moving 4-year-olds into public schools sooner opens up seats in private and state subsidized preschool programs, child care centers and family-based child care homes for younger children. It also helps increase the overall number of students in public schools as many California districts continue to see a drastic drop in enrollment.
In San Diego County, parent Lynette Jaiswal has been carefully tracking the discussion in both Del Mar and Solana Beach, as she owns homes in both places. She lives in Solana Beach but would have moved to her home in Del Mar if the district offered the program.
Last year, when it was time to find a transitional kindergarten program for her son, she said she was told to apply to an outside district. But that didn’t work out for her family because it was too far away.
“I’m not the only parent struggling to find a place for my transitional kindergarten child,” she said. “I did find placement for my child but it’s very frustrating when you have a school district that can do something but they refuse to.”
Solana Beach School District officials did not return calls or emails seeking comment.
While many basic aid communities are considered affluent, there are also families in need of low-cost child care and preschool, said Jaiswal, who is a real estate agent. She said within the district there are hundreds of low-income housing units for families that typically rely on public schools. Also, many middle-class families have experienced COVID hardships and could benefit from a free public option for 4-year-olds.
Basic aid school districts, education organizations and some state legislators are advocating for the state to provide dedicated funding for basic aid districts.
Santa Barbara Democratic Sen. Monique Limón, who served on a school board when transitional kindergarten was first created, wrote a letter signed by 22 other legislators asking the Newsom administration to help the districts.
“We want TK to be successful,” she said. “To be successful you have to have the staff, you have to have the classroom and I’m not sure it should come at the expense of increasing class sizes for everyone else or cutting co-curricular programs and cutting curricular programs.”
If the state can’t offer funding, then districts may need more time to implement the expansion, she said.
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Actor Johnny Depp, testifying in a defamation case against his former wife Amber Heard, says she was the one who became violent in their relationship and that her false accusations cost him “nothing less than everything”.
In a second day on the witness stand in a Virginia courtroom on Wednesday, Depp said the couple had frequent arguments that included “demeaning name calling” and “bullying” by Heard.
“It seemed like pure hatred for me,” Depp said.
“If I stayed to argue, eventually, I was sure it was going to escalate into violence, and oftentimes it did.”
The Pirates Of The Caribbean star, 58, is suing Heard, 35, for $US50 million ($67 million), alleging she accused him of abuse.
Depp said it was Heard who would “strike out” with a slap or shove. During one argument, Heard threw a vodka bottle at Depp’s hand, cutting off the top of his right middle finger and exposing bone, he said.
The actor said he felt like he was suffering some kind of breakdown and began writing on the wall with blood from the injury. He said he wrote reminders of “lies” Heard had told him.
“She has a need for violence. It erupts out of nowhere,” he said.
In a similar legal case in Britain, Heard denied throwing a bottle and severing Depp’s finger. She said she threw things only to escape when he was beating her, and once punched him because she feared he would push her sister down a flight of stairs.
On Wednesday, Depp described an incident in which he said Heard repeatedly punched him. The actor said he put his arms around her to calm her, and their foreheads touched.
According to Depp, Heard accused him of “head butting” her and breaking her nose, returning minutes later with a tissue she said was stained with blood. Depp said he later retrieved the tissue and found the red stain came from nail polish.
The actor said he would remove himself from heated arguments, sometimes locking himself in a bedroom or bathroom, and never struck Heard.
“My main goal was to retreat,” he said.
Depp has accused Heard of defaming him when she penned a December 2018 opinion piece in the Washington Post about being a survivor of domestic abuse.
The article did not mention Depp by name, but his lawyer Benjamin Chew told jurors it was clear Heard was referencing the Hollywood leading man.
Depp said Heard’s allegations cost him “nothing less than everything.” A new Pirates movie was put on hold, and Depp was dropped from the Fantastic Beasts film franchise, a Harry Potter spinoff.
“When the allegations were made, were rapidly circling the globe, telling people I was a drunken, cocaine-fuelled menace who beat women – suddenly in my 50s – it’s over,” he said.
“I lost then. No matter the outcome of this trial, I will carry this for the rest of my days.”
Lawyers for Heard, who started their cross-examination of Depp late on Wednesday, have argued that she told the truth and that her opinion was protected free speech under the US Constitution’s First Amendment. In opening arguments, Heard’s lawyers said Depp physically and sexually assaulted her while abusing drugs and alcohol.
A state court judge in Fairfax County, Virginia, is overseeing the trial, which is in its second week and is expected to last six weeks.
Less than two years ago, Depp lost a libel case against British tabloid The Sun, which labelled him a “wife beater”. A London High Court judge ruled he had repeatedly assaulted Heard.
Depp’s lawyers have said they filed the US case in Fairfax County, outside the nation’s capital, because the Washington Post is printed at a facility there. The Post is not a defendant in the case.
Depp and Heard, known for her roles in Aquaman and Justice League, were married for about two years. Their divorce was finalised in 2017.
Heard has brought her own libel claim against Depp, saying he smeared her by calling her a liar. Heard’s counterclaim, seeking $US100 million ($A134 million), will be decided as part of the trial.
-AAP | https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/2022/04/21/johnny-depp-court-testify/ | 2022-04-21T00:25:13Z | https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/2022/04/21/johnny-depp-court-testify/ | true | 15 |
Changes to Brackenridge Park drew attention as San Antonio City Council got its first look at a draft map of new district boundaries.
Just north of downtown on 343 acres between Broadway and U.S. 281 — the park is split between San Antonio City Council districts 1 and 2. That would change under the proposal from San Antonio’s redistricting advisory committee, the group of appointed residents tasked with shifting City Council district boundaries to even out population growth tracked in the U.S. Census.
The draft map isn’t final. It could still change based on public input through next month. The committee is scheduled in June to adopt a final recommendation, which will then go to City Council for a vote. The new districts will be in effect for the 2023 city election.
Brackenridge Park moves entirely to District 1 in the current proposal. At first, District 2 Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez thought that was a good idea — it could be easier for a cultural asset to get the attention it needs with one dedicated councilperson to represent it. Redistricting generally tries to keep such assets together.
Now, he’s changed his mind and would like to see it remain split between districts 1 and 2.
“Because Brackenridge is so unique in its impact and its proximity to a border and some borders of neighborhoods, it makes sense that this might be different … from my original assessment,” McKee-Rodriguez said.
The East Side councilman lately has worked with District 1 Councilman Mario Bravo on concerns coming from neighbors near the park. In recent months, residents have protested renovations to the Sunken Garden Theater and asked to protect heritage trees during upgrades at the park.
Now, McKee-Rodriguez would like District 2 to maintain some representation over the park so that the council office can better help nearby neighborhoods like Mahncke Park and Government Hill.
He was the only council member to speak directly about the draft map during a City Council briefing Wednesday. Most stuck to talking about the engagement process for the redistricting committee, as it’s the first time San Antonio has asked citizens to draw the map in an attempt to separate elected officials from the process of choosing their voters. Mayor Ron Nirenberg has indicated he wants a straight yes or no vote with no changes to the committee’s work.
McKee-Rodriguez said he felt comfortable talking about Brackenridge Park because it involves a community asset, not a population of voters.
While Brackenridge Park is the only suggested change to District 2, other districts — particularly on the North Side — will see more adjustments if the draft map moves forward.
District 3 on the South Side is the only City Council district with no changes under the draft map. Southwest Side’s District 4 would see very little change.
Some neighborhoods have to move
The proposal also moves some residents of Los Jardines neighborhood from the Far West Side District 6 to the near West Side District 5, splitting the community.
The shift — affecting residents south of Highway 90, north of Castroville Road and east of TX-151 — moves Cuellar Park into District 5. It keeps IDEA Monterrey Park charter school in District 6, where it sits right on the border.
Neither District 5 nor District 6 representatives were entirely happy with the changes in the area, but they agreed on the compromise after it was clear neither would get all of what they wanted. District 6 wanted to hold onto the Old Highway 90 community, which recently worked with its representative — Councilwoman Melissa Cabello Havrda — to rename the historic road.
“While the committee was working with numerical components … we were keenly aware we were dealing with people,” said committee co-chair Bonnie Prosser Elder.
District 5 has to grow — it contains the lowest population of all City Council districts in the 2020 U.S. Census count. To balance the numbers, the redistricting committee pushed the boundaries of District 5 farther west.
The district also is slated to take in a good portion of downtown, its boundary shifting over Interstate 35 and incorporating an area west of downtown from District 1, bringing in communities around Alazan Creek.
The Greater Harmony Hills neighborhood would move into District 1 from District 9. Neighborhood association leaders have protested that shift, saying they feel more connected to suburban District 9. Committee representatives have said it’s the most logical way for District 9 to lose the population it needs to without diluting the Hispanic vote in District 1.
The discussion over Greater Harmony Hills is likely to continue after the neighborhood association drew up its own proposal to shift population and keep their community in District 9.
In other changes, District 7 is set to gain from District 8 parts of the Northwest Side inside Loop 1604 just north of Bandera Road near Helotes.
The city is launching an informational campaign with advertising in Spanish. City outreach plans include yard signs and door hangers in areas affected by the draft map.
Residents can share feedback on the new map by visiting SASpeakUp.com, calling 311 or emailing saspeakup@sanantonio.gov. They can also view the draft map in person at the following libraries:
· Carver Library, 3350 E Commerce St.
· Central Library, 600 Soledad St.
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· La Palmas Library, 515 Castroville Road
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· Mission Library, 3134 Roosevelt Ave.
· Westfall Library, 6111 Rosedale
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Three Indianapolis 500 winners spun while coming out of the pits Wednesday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and four-time race champion Helio Castroneves hit the second turn wall with about 80 minutes left in an unusually chaotic testing session.
Castroneves was taken to the track's infield medical center where he was checked and cleared to drive shortly after the crash. The Brazilian won last year's race in the same car that hit the wall.
“Very strange,” Castroneves said. “I wasn't pushing, I wasn't even trying. It was very unusual. I don't know if you guys saw but I was like I can't believe what just happened.”
The testing session was delayed early in the day for about 90 minutes following rain. After the track dried, temperatures in the high 40s and warmed up into the low 60s as drivers took to the track
Castroneves wasn't the only veteran who had trouble with the chilly, breezy conditions.
Alexander Rossi, who won the 500 in 2016, and Will Power, the 2018 champion, also spun in the warmup lane.
While neither hit the wall, Power's car forced Colton Herta to go high through the first turn and Herta wound up slamming into the wall. Swedish driver Marcus Ericsson barely avoided hitting the Andretti Autosport driver as Herta's car stopped.
Power couldn't explain it, either.
“It scared the absolute daylights out of me," Power said. “I feel terrible for Colton because he crashed because of me. But I had zero warning. Zero. It felt like water.”
Shortly after the second crash, series officials halted testing for the day so they could give the track a more thorough inspection. IMS, IndyCar and Firestone, the tire supplier for the series, said they were working to evaluate the warmup lane in turns one and two.
Another testing session is scheduled for Thursday.
The 22-year-old Herta, like Castroneves, was quickly released from the infield medical center and leared to drive.
“I wasn’t sure how far up the track Will was but I had to go wide,” hee said. “I was close to having nowhere to go.”
Six-time series champ Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing posted the fastest lap of the day at 227.187 mph. Conor Daly of Ed Carpenter Racing was second at 226.985 and rookie Callum Ilot of Juncos Hollinger Racing was third at 226.308.
“The first thing I said was the warmup lane felt slick and then I saw Alex spinning so it made sense,” Daly said. “I think the more we go, it will get better. It’s unfortunate but I think we can run if we’re just a little bit cautious with it.”
Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson, driving with a bandaged hand in his first IndyCar season driving ovals, was 25th at 218.785 after recording the eighth-fastest non-tow speed in the first of the three two-hour windows.
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HOMES Under The Hammer host Martel Maxwell has seen enough houses go to auction to know their best selling points.
The bubbly TV personality joined Martin Roberts and Dion Dublin on the BBC show in 2017.
And over the past five years, the Scots property expert has picked up countless hacks and tips to add value to properties.
Speaking to Gethin Jones and Katie Thistleton on BBC's Morning Live, she explained you don't have to move to get your dream home - but if you do want to buy, there are easy ways to make sure you get the best price for your existing property.
She added: "There are loads of ways you can do that and it doesn’t have to bust the bank."
Here, we round up her top six tips - and they're surprisingly simple...
Redecoration
TV star Martel says the idea of redecorating "sounds simple" but reminds homeowners that "nice and neutral" can add to your property's value.
She added: "But what do we mean by that? It’s creating your blank canvas so there’s nothing too garish.
"So wooden floors, or a plain carpet, you can add pops of colour and making sure that everything that dates the place like your textured wallpaper, textured ceilings, swirly orange and brown carpets - which are great if you’re happy in your home, but if you want a pair of fresh eyes to come in and say ‘this is for me’ - modernise it.
"So go to your local carpet dealer and see if he has got the end of a line which he’s offering a bargain on and that can freshen the place up."
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Kitchen
The Homes Under The Hammer presenter revealed another great way of adding a "wow factor" to your home is with a new kitchen.
But she reassured viewers this doesn't mean forking out tens of thousands of pounds on a whole new room.
Instead, she suggested: "Keep the units, but replace the doors or paint the doors. New handles, new flooring, think about tiling.
"Also tiny wee things as well like lighting. Think about the light bulbs. If it’s too dim change it, that costs a few pounds."
And Martel said the difference in value it can make is "unquantifiable".
She added: "That’s when you get bidding wars. If you open a dark back of house with patio doors and a lovely kitchen people will come in and they might be prepared to put ten, twenty maybe thirty on top of what you’re asking for."
Outside
In another tip, Martel told fans that the first impression is key when prospective buyers pull up outside your home.
She said: "Most people do make up their minds about a property before they set foot in it."
She advised homeowners to look at their home with a "fresh pair of eyes", adding: "Think 'is the garage door needing replaced?'
"'Are the timber frames around the windows peeling?'
"You need to sort all of these things because these negative niggly bits make a lasting impact."
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Planning permission
Martel, 45, also touched on the subject of planning permission and how that can add to the value of your home.
The telly star said renovations such as loft conversions and basement work rarely require planning permission, but it is often needed for extensions.
And she said you can add value to your home without even completing the work.
She said: "A great tip here is to do none of the work of the building of an extension but get the planning permission in place so the prospective buyer looks at it and thinks ‘ooh I could do this with it’.
"Again you’re adding maybe 10-15% to what you could get with none of the work but you do have a bit of the outlay with architects and things like that."
Repurposing rooms
The property expert also revealed what not to do if looking to get extra cash for your home.
She said: "If you get rid of a bedroom and create a bathroom, that’s fine if it’s your dream home but you are getting rid of a bedroom which might decrease the value.
And depending on the location of the bathrooms, with some revamped ones accessed only through a bedroom, Martel added: "You don’t want a prospective buyer just leaving with the overriding feeling, they’re scratching their heads, about how they’re going to change it."
Bathroom
In her final tip to viewers, Martel urged them to always keep a bath, and a standalone and separate shower if possible.
She added: "I think it’s really desirable to have a wee soak in the evening."
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Senator Kevin Cramer joined us to discuss the Biden Administrations’ resumption of oil and gas drilling on federal lands.
President Biden ran with the promise of ending all oil and gas drilling on federal public lands. He is now facing pressure from Americans for the price they’re paying at the pump and how that price reverberates through everything and raises the cost of living for everyone.
This is the first time new leasing will be available since Biden took office ten months ago, but only a fraction of eligible acres will be available. Cramer says the move is one step in the right direction followed by two steps in the wrong direction.
“He’s only considering 20% of the eligible BLM acres for leasing. And on top of that, he’s adding to the price of doing it, he’s adding to the royalty price. royalties are based on a percentage of the revenue created by drilling on the land. So he’s creating a disincentive to drill on the land. Because there’s a big difference between getting a lease and drilling, they’re not the same thing that the lease is the only the very first step. And if you open up for some leases, but then disincentivize, the drilling, you really haven’t accomplished anything,” explained Cramer.
In addition to making only a fraction available, the Department of Interior announced they are raising the royalty rate from 12.5% to 18.75%.
“Markets respond to signals and signals include things like demand, and it includes things like price, the cost of doing the business, the regulations that surround it. And so again, while he opens up a modest number of acres for leasing, he sends all the other signals it says don’t drill here. Just as an example, once you get a lease, first thing you have to determine is whether or not there’s even minerals underneath it. Now North Dakota, I think we have pretty good sense of where our oil is, and even on federal lands, but then you have to do an application for a permit to drill. And the Bureau of Land Management has expanded the time it takes to get that permit, every day that it takes to get a permit really becomes a disincentive. Because you’ve gone on private land someplace, you’re going to access some face and you don’t have to go through that. They have more than doubled the days it takes to get a permit from what it was in the previous administration. So, you know, again, one step forward, two steps back then consider all the other signals that are sent to the marketplace things like the nominees for Federal Reserve and Comptroller of the Currency. And, people that have pledged to shut down the fossil fuel industry, people have pledged to change the entire system in the United States of America. You know, every agency is sending the wrong signals for this and then consider a shutdown of pipelines and the transportation means to move the oil to market. So I think the President is trying to score some political points with this gimmick and it isn’t really serious about America getting back to being energy dominant energy independent,” said Cramer.
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We’re trying to move house but our neighbour has built a shed on our land – what are my rights?
A HOMEOWNER is struggling to sell their house after they discovered a neighbour had built a shed on their property.
While you might assume the neighbour is in the wrong for building on land they don't own, when it comes to property rights, the rules can be murky.
Th disgruntled homeowner wrote to the Irish Times seeking advice on a property pickle she found herself in.
Ms LH said she was clearing our her late mother's back garden when she discovered a brick shed that had been erected by the neighbour.
The outbuilding had previously gone unnoticed as it was hiding behind 30-years worth of brambles - making it impossible to know how long it's been there for.
Ms LH addressed the matter with the neighbour directly, but he refused to remove the building.
She said: "My mum has passed away and we're worried about selling the place with this issue.
"If we have to go to court, the legal costs will eat up our mum’s inheritance."
Unfortunately, there's no single rule to determine whether a structure can be forcibly taken down - no matter how invasive and unfair it may seem.
Property boundaries have to be taken into consideration, among other things such as the length of time the building has been up.
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How do I find my property boundaries?
To determine who owns which segment of land, you'll need to check your property deeds.
If you don't already have these, they're available to purchase from the Land Registry for a small £3 fee on the government's website.
There's nothing stopping you from buying the deeds to your neighbour's property too, which may help outline additional information that isn't noted in yours.
In this case, the homeowner had done just that.
Ms LH said: "We have checked Land Registry maps and the shed is very clearly 80% on my mother’s land."
Can the shed be taken down if it's partly on my land?
You may have grounds to request the shed to be taken down for a number of reasons, but not always.
These include:
- If the building is posing a safety hazard;
- If it's been there for less than four years;
- If it's blocking more than half of the natural light in one room;
- If you believe it requires planning permission.
If any of these apply, it's worth explaining to your neighbour in a friendly conversation to avoid confrontation.
Hayley White, senior planner at JLL, said: "If the shed has been in situ for four or more years, than the building is lawful and cannot be challenged in planning terms.
"If it's less than four years old, there is room to challenge the building and the council may request that it is removed, or invite the owner to submit a planning application so it can be properly assessed."
She said an investigation can be done to determine how long it has been there by conducting an aerial or satellite view search.
If all else fails, you can log the issue with your local council and ask it to intervene - though councils typically don't like getting involved.
Councils have the power to force homeowners to take down a structure, or at least order them to apply for retrospective planning permission, according to Paula Higgins, founder of the HomeOwners Alliance.
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) provides a mediation service to neighbours at a cost, which is a good place to start if you find you can't agree - especially as it will be cheaper than going to court.
And speaking of RICS, yesterday it released a new consumer's guide explaining whether sheds, fences or extensions can be removed under little known rules.
In a similar situation to Ms LH, another homeowner worried that their neighbour's new shed would cause damage to their property.
Meanwhile, one person was threatened with legal action by their neighbour after supposedly stealing parts of their garden.
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Season 2 of “The Flight Attendant” begins on HBO Max on Thursday, April 21 at 3 a.m. ET (midnight PT).
The second season of the HBO Max original series “finds Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco) living her best sober life in Los Angeles while moonlighting as a CIA asset in her spare time,” according to an official description. New episodes of the series detail an overseas assignment that leads Cassie to witnessing a murder.
The first season of “The Flight Attendant” was based on the novel of the same name by author Chris Bohjalian. The cast of the series includes Kaley Cuoco (who is also the show’s executive producer), Michiel Huisman, Rosie Perez, Zosia Mamet, Michelle Gomez, T.R. Knight, Colin Woodell, Merle Dandridge, Griffin Matthews and Nolan Gerard Funk.
Where can I watch ‘The Flight Attendant’?
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This week, residents of Blue River got free Wi-Fi hotspots as part of a project to bring reliable high-speed internet to the community. Even before the devastating Holiday Farm Fire, the community’s connectivity was spotty.
A 60-foot-tall solar-powered telecommunications tower has been constructed above Blue River. It’s a more resilient infrastructure. Matt Sayre, with the non-profit Onward Eugene, said it provides a cellular network with internet service to the community.
“Internet matters,” he said. “It matters more than it ever has before as it relates to access to health care, access to loved one, and you know, it matters a lot in terms of access to education”
Sayre says even before the Holiday Farm Fire burned through the McKenzie River Corridor in September 2020 internet coverage was not reliable. Blue River was one of seven communities across the country to get a $300-thousand grant from the National Science Foundation for the project.
The project is a collaboration of Onward Eugene, Elevate Technology Group, and the McKenzie School District. McKenzie district students and families were the first to receive nearly 100 WI-FI hotspots this week as part of the pilot phase of the project.
Sayre said this project shows that it’s possible to bring reliable broadband infrastructure to rural communities.
“The digital divide is absolutely solvable and it would be great to fix it,” he said. “And then folks like myself and others who’ve spent time solving this problem can move on to other problems.”
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AdvanSix (ASIX) Dips More Than Broader Markets: What You Should Know
AdvanSix (ASIX) closed at $53.04 in the latest trading session, marking a -0.82% move from the prior day. This change lagged the S&P 500's daily loss of 0.06%. At the same time, the Dow added 0.72%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 0.47%.
Heading into today, shares of the polymer resins producer had gained 2.2% over the past month, lagging the Basic Materials sector's gain of 5.04% and outpacing the S&P 500's gain of 0.17% in that time.
Investors will be hoping for strength from AdvanSix as it approaches its next earnings release, which is expected to be May 6, 2022. In that report, analysts expect AdvanSix to post earnings of $1.70 per share. This would mark year-over-year growth of 73.47%. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $481.77 million, up 28% from the year-ago period.
Looking at the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of $7.44 per share and revenue of $1.98 billion. These totals would mark changes of +54.68% and +17.28%, respectively, from last year.
Investors might also notice recent changes to analyst estimates for AdvanSix. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
Our research shows that these estimate changes are directly correlated with near-term stock prices. Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This model considers these estimate changes and provides a simple, actionable rating system.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. Within the past 30 days, our consensus EPS projection remained stagnant. AdvanSix is currently a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
Digging into valuation, AdvanSix currently has a Forward P/E ratio of 7.19. This valuation marks a discount compared to its industry's average Forward P/E of 16.13.
The Chemical - Specialty industry is part of the Basic Materials sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 154, putting it in the bottom 40% of all 250+ industries.
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Motorcyclist dies in horror crash as key Loch Lomond route closes for hours
A MOTORCYCLIST has died in a horror crash on a major Scots road.
Emergency services raced to the A82 near Tarbet at around 4:15pm this afternoon to reports of a crash involving a motorcycle and a lorry.
The motorcyclist - a 31-year-old man - was pronounced dead at the scene.
The lorry driver was uninjured.
The road remains closed between Tarbet and Inveruglas, as cops continue their enquiries.
Sergeant Hugh Niccolls, from Dumbarton Road Policing Unit, said: “At this time, our thoughts are very much with the family and friends of the deceased.
“I’d like to thank the public who stopped at the scene and have provided statements to officers.
"We continue to appeal for any further witnesses to come forward.
“If you have any information on this incident, please call police on 101, quoting incident 2388 of 20 April.”
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Elsewhere, in a separate incident, we told how tributes have been paid to a "wonderful" dad who passed away at the age of 35.
Kirill Kokorev died following a fatal crash on the A723 Carfin to Holytown link road, Motherwell.
The incident happened around 5.45am on Tuesday, 12 April, and involved a black Mercedes car and a Brown UPS heavy goods vehicle.
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Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra's baby daughter's name revealed to be Malti Marie... three months after her premature birth via surrogate
The name of Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra's baby daughter has finally been revealed.
According to the birth certificate obtained by TMZ, the couple named their little girl Malti Marie Chopra Jonas.
Nick and Priyanka welcomed Malti Marie via surrogate on January 15 just after 8PM at a hospital in San Diego, California, the certificate also revealed.
Revealed: The name of Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra's baby daughter has finally been revealed. According to the birth certificate obtained by TMZ , the couple named their little girl Malti Marie Chopra Jonas; the couple pictured in 2020
Shortly after her arrival, DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that Malti Marie was born at just 27 weeks, which was 12 weeks earlier than her April due date.
The baby was to remain in hospital until she was healthy enough to return home with her parents, a source close to the couple said.
It is unclear whether or not Malti Marie has been officially released from hospital.
'Malti' is considered a popular girls name in the Hindu community and has several meanings, including a 'small fragrant flower' or 'jasmine flower' and 'moonlight.'
Growing family: Nick and Priyanka welcomed Malti Marie via surrogate on January 15 just after 8PM at a hospital in San Diego, California, the certificate also revealed; Nick and Priyanka pictured in 2019
Priyanka, who was born and raised in India, is a practicing Hindu, while Nick belongs to the Christian faith.
Nick, 29, and Priyanka, 39, who tied the knot in 2018, surprised fans with news of their growing family in a statement shared on social media on Friday, January 21.
'We are overjoyed to confirm that we have welcomed a baby via surrogate. We respectfully ask for privacy during this special time as we focus on our family. Thank you so much (heart emoji),' the pair wrote.
They did not reveal further details about the sex or name of their daughter at the time.
Announcement: Nick, 29, and Priyanka, 39, who tied the knot in 2018, surprised fans with news of their growing family in a statement shared on social media on Friday, January 21
DailyMail.com's insider dished in January that the A-list couple had been wanting to have a baby together for 'quite sometime,' but their schedules had gotten in the way of their family planning.
They eventually contacted an agency to explore their options and were connected with a woman in SoCal who they believed was a good match.
'Priyanka doesn't have any fertility issues preventing her from having a baby, but she is 39 now so it's not getting any easier,' the source said.
'Their busy work schedules also mean that it's difficult for them to physically be together to conceive when she is ovulating, so some time ago they went down the surrogacy route.
Prepared: Priyanka gave a peek at their baby's nursery in an image shared to Instagram in February
Premature: Shortly after her arrival, DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that Malti Marie was born at just 27 weeks, which was 12 weeks earlier than her scheduled due date. She was to remain in hospital until she was healthy enough to return home with her parents, a source close to the couple said; Priyanka and Nick pictured in 2021
'This is the woman's fifth surrogacy. They met her and really liked her. The baby had been due in April but the surrogate ended up giving birth on Sunday, so she was very premature,' the insider added.
Nick and Priyanka waited for the baby to be healthy enough to move to a hospital in Los Angeles.
The source continued: 'Priyanka had been trying to get her filming all done before the baby was due in April - but obviously this has completely thrown her plans.
Goal: DailyMail.com's insider dished in January that the A-list couple had been wanting to have a baby together for 'quite sometime,' but their schedules had gotten in the way of their family planning; the pair pictured Sunday
'There were rumors and speculation that the marriage was in trouble and that they might divorce, but that's total nonsense. Nick and Priyanka are very happy together.'
After the birth of their daughter was revealed, People reported that the couple spent 'months renovating' and baby proofing their Los Angeles home in the Encino neighborhood ahead of Malti Marie's arrival.
'When they bought the house together, they had children in mind,' an insider told the outlet at the time. 'They were hoping to have kids and needed a place with a lot of outdoor space and greenery.'
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Analysts predict that The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD – Get Rating) will announce $36.59 billion in sales for the current fiscal quarter, Zacks Investment Research reports. Ten analysts have issued estimates for Home Depot’s earnings, with the lowest sales estimate coming in at $34.60 billion and the highest estimate coming in at $37.56 billion. Home Depot reported sales of $37.50 billion during the same quarter last year, which would suggest a negative year over year growth rate of 2.4%. The business is scheduled to report its next quarterly earnings report before the market opens on Monday, January 1st.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Home Depot will report full year sales of $153.10 billion for the current financial year, with estimates ranging from $150.86 billion to $154.77 billion. For the next fiscal year, analysts expect that the firm will post sales of $158.70 billion, with estimates ranging from $155.36 billion to $161.09 billion. Zacks’ sales calculations are an average based on a survey of research firms that follow Home Depot.
Home Depot (NYSE:HD – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February 22nd. The home improvement retailer reported $3.21 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $3.20 by $0.01. Home Depot had a net margin of 10.87% and a return on equity of 2,082.76%. The business had revenue of $35.72 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $34.85 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $2.74 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 10.7% compared to the same quarter last year.
In other news, EVP Hector A. Padilla sold 504 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, March 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $309.80, for a total value of $156,139.20. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Company insiders own 0.18% of the company’s stock.
Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in HD. Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its position in Home Depot by 4.3% during the fourth quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 16,921,581 shares of the home improvement retailer’s stock valued at $7,002,662,000 after purchasing an additional 701,811 shares in the last quarter. Morgan Stanley lifted its position in Home Depot by 3.8% during the third quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 11,938,903 shares of the home improvement retailer’s stock valued at $3,919,065,000 after purchasing an additional 433,190 shares in the last quarter. Norges Bank purchased a new position in Home Depot during the fourth quarter valued at $4,325,629,000. Alliancebernstein L.P. lifted its position in Home Depot by 3.8% during the third quarter. Alliancebernstein L.P. now owns 10,303,981 shares of the home improvement retailer’s stock valued at $3,382,385,000 after purchasing an additional 372,867 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Fisher Asset Management LLC lifted its position in Home Depot by 4.6% during the fourth quarter. Fisher Asset Management LLC now owns 7,830,978 shares of the home improvement retailer’s stock valued at $3,249,934,000 after purchasing an additional 346,970 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 69.52% of the company’s stock.
NYSE:HD traded up $7.34 on Wednesday, hitting $315.14. The stock had a trading volume of 4,652,225 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,054,671. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 35.47, a quick ratio of 0.24 and a current ratio of 1.01. The stock has a market cap of $325.65 billion, a P/E ratio of 19.83, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.95 and a beta of 1.04. Home Depot has a 1 year low of $293.59 and a 1 year high of $420.61. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $321.26 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $359.26.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, March 24th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, March 10th were paid a $1.90 dividend. This is an increase from Home Depot’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.65. This represents a $7.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.41%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, March 9th. Home Depot’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 48.97%.
About Home Depot (Get Rating)
The Home Depot, Inc operates as a home improvement retailer. It operates The Home Depot stores that sell various building materials, home improvement products, lawn and garden products, and décor products, as well as facilities maintenance, repair, and operations products The company also offers installation services for flooring, cabinets and cabinet makeovers, countertops, furnaces and central air systems, and windows.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn’t going to provide more details about his government’s pledge to send a new round of military aid to Ukraine — at least not yet.
The prime minister said Wednesday that he doesn’t want to outline the specifics of what will be sent, and where the government is getting it from, because of security concerns.
Trudeau said he wants to be careful about what he publicizes about the delivery of military equipment in the context of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
He said he hopes to share more in the coming days about what is being sent to Ukraine.
“People understand that delivery of military equipment in the context of an illegal war by Russia is something that we have to be a little bit careful about — what we broadcast and publicize and what we’re doing,” Trudeau said during a media availability in Kitchener, Ont.
“But in the coming days, I certainly hope to be able to share more about what is being sent and what was sent.”
Trudeau first announced Tuesday that Canada will send heavy artillery to Ukraine in response to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s request.
Earlier this month, Zelenskyy released a list of equipment he said the Ukrainian military needed to fight Russia, including 155-millimetre heavy artillery guns and ammunition.
“If we had access to all the weapons we need, which our partners have and which are comparable to the weapons used by the Russian Federation, we would have already ended this war,” Zelenskyy said in the text of an address posted online Tuesday.
The Liberal government has previously dipped into the Canadian Armed Forces inventory to provide lethal aid to the Ukrainian military as it fights a Russian invasion that started in late February and has so far killed thousands of people.
But Defence Minister Anita Anand has suggested the military’s spare inventory is tapped out, and that the government — which set aside $500 million in military assistance for Ukraine in its latest budget — planned to buy equipment from vendors.
Trudeau said that while the government was pledging more equipment for Ukraine, it would ensure the Canadian military could contribute fully to NATO operations in Europe.
“As we support Ukraine, including with military equipment and munitions, we are also making sure that Canada continues to have the capacity to operate — not just to defend Canada but to participate fully in NATO operations as well,” he said.
Trudeau spoke with U.S. President Joe Biden and other NATO allies on Tuesday, one of several meetings this week focused on the war in Ukraine, including one for G20 finance ministers and central bankers.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tweeted Wednesday afternoon that Canada and “a number of our democratic partners” walked out of the G20 meeting when Russia, which is a member of the group of nations, “sought to intervene.”
Among those in the picture put out from Freeland’s feed were U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem, Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, and Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank.
“This week’s meetings in Washington are about supporting the world economy — and Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine is a grave threat to the global economy. Russia should not be participating or included in these meetings,” Freeland tweeted.
“The world’s democracies will not stand idly by in the face of continued Russian aggression and war crimes.”
—The Canadian Press
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After a two-year pandemic hiatus, Vancouver’s famed 4/20 protest is back in all its blazing glory.
Stoners from the four corners of Canada descended on the Vancouver Art Gallery to enjoy all things cannabis. This year’s celebration featured over 100 vendors selling every kind of cannabis imaginable.
A new feature of the 28-year event was the growing presence of magic mushrooms. There’s a growing movement in Vancouver to establish mushroom dispensaries — similar to the model that was used for illicit cannabis dispensaries prior to legalization.
For Pratty Vastban, being back at Vancouver 4/20 was a great feeling.
“It’s so good. This is the best ever,” she said.
That sentiment was shared by Vancouver hip-hop artist Kass 1. He’s no stranger to the event, having performed twice at Vancouver 4/20 in the past.
“It’s amazing to be back. It’s a great atmosphere and it’s so good to have everyone come together,” he said.
Dana Larsen, a long-time cannabis advocate and a founder of Vancouver 4/20 told the crowd that although the day was a celebration of cannabis and the freedoms Canadians enjoy by being able to purchase and consume cannabis legally, there’s still a long way to go.
“What we have done in Vancouver as activists and members of the cannabis culture to push for our freedom and liberty has changed Canada and it is changing the world. Vancouver is a beacon of hope and freedom for those who love cannabis.”
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Josh Buster of West Burlington bought five easy-ticket plays for the Mega Millions' lottery.
However, the cashier accidentally only printed one play from the terminal and then offered to print four additional plays on a different ticket.
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Buster said that move likely changed the numbers he would have originally received.
It resulted in a $1 million check.
The 40-year-old chef says he will likely pay off some bills and put some money away for retirement.
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Controversial Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene is set to testify Friday over her involvement in the Jan. 6 capitol insurrection. It’s all part of an effort by a voter group to disqualify her from running again in 2022.
We get the latest from Sam Gringlas, politics reporter for WABE in Georgia.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Las Vegas police said a distinctive tattoo of rosary beads with a cross led them to a shooting and kidnapping suspect named Jesus.
Jesus Colmenares, 29, faces charges of battery with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, assault and owning or possessing a gun by a prohibited person, records showed.
On March 18, police responded to reports of a person shot at a convenience store on Valley View Boulevard between Sahara Avenue and Desert Inn Road, they said. Responding officers found the victim with several gunshot wounds to his legs, they said.
The shooting victim said he “was walking… to a friend’s house… when his knees went numb.”
While at the convenience store, a witness approached police, saying he was in the parking lot at the time of the shooting and had been kidnapped.
The kidnapping victim told police he had gotten off work and was in the parking lot playing on his phone. The man said he heard the gunshots and then a man came up to his window and pointed a gun at him, police said.
The man with the gun then got into the passenger seat and told the kidnapping victim to drive, police said.
The kidnapping victim drove the man, who police now say is Colmenares, to another convenience store near downtown Las Vegas.
Police pulled video from the convenience stores, noting the suspect had tattoos on both of his hands.
A week later, a sergeant reported a member of his patrol squad had found a Facebook page for Colmenares.
“In the pictures, Jesus has some distinctive tattoos,” police wrote in an arrest report. “On his right hand, he has [a] rosary bead neckless with cross tattooed.”
Police noted Colmenares has prior convictions for felony assault and domestic battery.
“Based on the tattoos visible on Jesus’ pages, I further reviewed the surveillance from [the gas station] to look for any distinct tattoos,” the investigating officer wrote in their arrest report. “Based on the quality surveillance allowing me to see Jesus’ distinct right-hand rosary tattoo, I have probable cause to believe Jesus is the suspect in this shooting and kidnapping incident.”
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SEATTLE — A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops — including a pistol-whipping, gunshots and killings in Washington state last month — is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target.
“It makes absolutely no sense that legal businesses are being forced to operate entirely in cash, and it’s dangerous — and sometimes even fatal — for employees behind the register,” Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press.
Although 18 states have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, and 37 allow its medical use, it remains illegal under federal law. Because of that, big banks and credit card companies have long been reluctant to work with the industry, leaving the businesses heavily reliant on cash and making them attractive marks for robbers.
On the annual 4/20 marijuana holiday Wednesday, Murray held a news conference at a suburban Seattle cannabis store to say she will prioritize marijuana banking reform as part of her work as a key negotiator on a conference committee that is ironing out differences in House and Senate versions of a major federal competitiveness and innovation bill.
Cannabis industry activists said they consider her announcement an important signal that after years of work, the banking issue might finally get resolved this year, allowing financial institutions to handle marijuana money in states where it is legal without fear of federal prosecution, loss of their federal deposit insurance or other penalties.
There recently has been a massive spike in the robberies for reasons that aren't entirely clear. Dozens of cannabis businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area were hit last fall in a wave of attacks that sometimes appeared coordinated. Industry trackers in Washington state have reported at least 80 so far this year, mostly in the Puget Sound region.
While dispensaries are frequent targets for robberies, the spate in Washington is helping drive the national conversation about banking reform. Last month, a suspect shot and killed an employee at a cannabis store in Tacoma; an ID checker shot and killed a robber in Covington; Seattle police shot and killed a suspect following a robbery in Bellevue; and a robber pistol-whipped a worker at an Everett shop.
In the last few days, police have arrested a 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy in the killing of employee Jordan Brown, 29, at Tacoma's World of Weed. Authorities said the pair were responsible for at least 10 other armed robberies, including several at pot shops.
“The number of these robberies is shocking,” said David Postman, the chairman of the Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board.
The board in the past month has held public safety discussions with retailers, recruited law enforcement to talk to retailers about best practices, and worked with state financial regulators to highlight local banks and credit unions that work with the industry as well as third-party vendors that cannabis retailers can use to conduct cashless phone transactions.
Marijuana shops that can afford it have hired private security guards, sometimes at costs of more than $50,000 a month for a round-the-clock detail, said Adán Espino, executive director of the Craft Cannabis Coalition, which represents more than 60 retail stores in Washington. Some of the businesses have tried to hire guards, only to find that security companies are completely booked, he said.
Espino said he's pushing for state lawmakers to give tax credits to cannabis stores that have to shell out money for security.
Mary Mart, a cannabis outlet in Tacoma, hired armed security in March after it was robbed twice in two months — including, police say, by the two teens who days later killed Brown. Budtender Amara Barnes, who was not present for either robbery, said she and other employees had their hours cut to help offset the cost.
“It's scary. I had worked here for four years without any kind of incident,” Barnes said. “To have a couple kids come in and do that, it really shakes the confidence."
Officials and industry advocates say hiring security and training employees on best practices won't solve the problem the way federal approval of cannabis banking would.
Colorado Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter introduced the SAFE Banking Act in 2013 soon after Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize the regulated sale of marijuana. The bill would keep federal regulators from penalizing banks that work with licensed cannabis businesses.
The House has passed it half a dozen times with bipartisan support, but it has never passed the Senate, where it has 42 co-sponsors, including nine Republicans. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, has insisted that he would prefer to see federal legalization of marijuana, along with measures to redress harms caused by the war on drugs, before addressing banking.
Schumer, however, recently announced that his marijuana legislation would not be ready to introduce this month as originally planned.
Supporters of fixing the banking problem first now see an opportunity, especially with Murray announcing that she will prioritize it in her work. David Mangone, director of policy and government affairs for The Liaison Group, a Washington, D.C.-based cannabis lobbying firm, called news of Murray's statement “a reasonably big deal.”
In a letter to Schumer and other senators Tuesday, Perlmutter cited the robberies and deaths in Washington state in support of approving banking reform as soon as possible. He called the banking reform “an immediate solution to get cash off our streets and ensure state-legal, legitimate businesses can operate like any other type of business." | https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/pot-shop-robberies-deaths-fuel-calls-for-us-banking-bill/281-0e5f0a56-9ead-4dfb-af28-5fbba9fe91b4 | 2022-04-21T01:07:13Z | https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/pot-shop-robberies-deaths-fuel-calls-for-us-banking-bill/281-0e5f0a56-9ead-4dfb-af28-5fbba9fe91b4 | true | 25 |
The U.S. economy expanded at a moderate pace from mid February through early April but there was little respite for businesses from high inflation and worker shortages, a Federal Reserve report showed on Wednesday.
The latest anecdotal evidence from U.S. firms paints a picture of an economy which received a boost from falling COVID-19 cases and remains resilient despite high inflation amid gummed up supply chains. But it also points to ongoing problems that show no signs of easing as the Fed gears up to more rapidly tighten borrowing costs to put the economy on a more even keel.
Inflation continues to be a worry, with demand still far outstripping the supply of everything from labor to goods, not helped by recent lockdowns in China to restrict the spread of COVID-19 and a spike in food and energy costs due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"Supply chain backlogs, labor market tightness, and elevated input costs continued to pose challenges on firms' abilities to meet demand," the Fed said in its survey, known as the "Beige Book," which was conducted across its 12 districts through April 11. "Outlooks for future growth were clouded by the uncertainty created by recent geopolitical developments and rising prices."
The Fed raised interest rates in March for the first time in three years but they still remain low, currently in the target range of between 0.25% and 0.5%.
It is expected to raise rates by a half percentage point at its next policy meeting on May 3-4 and continue with a series of hikes this year designed to make a hefty dent to high inflation. Consumer inflation rose last month to 8.5%, the highest level since 1981.
The central bank will also in May likely decide to begin the process of reducing its balance sheet, which has ballooned to include roughly $8.5 trillion of U.S. Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities as the Fed sought to keep consumer borrowing costs low during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For now, most firms appear to be able to swiftly pass on higher input costs and most districts expected price pressures to continue over the coming months, the Fed's report said, although contacts in a few districts saw fewer sales as a result of higher prices.
COFFEE AND 'DECORATIVE IMPROVEMENTS'
U.S. job openings remain near record highs, the unemployment rate is at a two-year low of 3.6% and wages have been boosted at a healthy clip, even if for most workers they have not kept up with inflation.
"Many firms reported significant turnover as workers left for higher wages and more flexible job schedules," the Fed's report said, noting strong wage growth as "footloose" workers willing to change jobs drove up pay. A scattering of contacts, however, reported early signs the robust pace of wage gains had begun to slow.
In St. Louis, the push and pull in the current labor market was on clear display as some firms offered "a new coffee shop, decorative improvements, more collaborative spaces and an arcade-style area" to try to entice workers back to the office, while others were so "at odds" over worker demands the local chamber of commerce set up special seminars to try to talk them through the conflict.
INFLATION, INFLATION, INFLATION
Still the heat in everything from price pressures to jobs to consumer demand to the housing market was palpable, and helps explain why Fed policymakers have so quickly pivoted to support faster rate hikes.
A residential real estate contact in South Dakota told the Minneapolis Fed that "anything 'remotely close to good condition' sells in less than 24 hours without having to list."
The St. Louis Fed reported a trailer manufacturing contact saying that they "could double their sales if they had the workers."
Yet there were also signs the Fed's anticipated actions, which have already tightened financial conditions, may be beginning to bear fruit, at least in housing.
Most homebuilders reported that demand for new homes held steady, but as costs rise many customers are shifting toward smaller, less pricey homes, the Philadelphia Fed reported. Contacts also noted that some potential buyers are searching for more affordable housing options in more remote locations and in mobile home parks, or by remaining in rental properties.
But the report also flashed a warning sign for a Fed concerned about a potential wage-price spiral if inflation does not begin to abate soon. "Among those planning to hold the line on wage increases this year, it was noted that sustained higher inflation could push them to re-think their plans," the Atlanta Fed reported.
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First Lady to speak at 2022 Rx and Illicit Drug Summit, deliver Hazelden Betty Ford commencement address
ATLANTA, Ga. – North Dakota First Lady Kathryn Burgum will share her personal journey from addiction to long-term recovery and her platform for eliminating the shame and stigma surrounding the disease of addiction today at the 2022 Rx and Illicit Drug Summit in Atlanta.
Established in 2012 under the leadership of Operation UNITE and U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers of Kentucky, the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit is the largest national collaboration of professionals from local, state and federal agencies, business, academia, treatment providers and allied communities impacted by prescription drug abuse and heroin use.
Burgum will deliver a plenary address alongside Monty Burks, director of faith-based initiatives at the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, and Dr. Rahul Gupta, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
In her address, Burgum will highlight the work being done through Recovery Reinvented including the North Dakota Addressing Addiction stigma survey, share her lived experience of 20 years of long-term recovery, and emphasize that storytelling is one of the most powerful advocacy tools available for eliminating stigma and fostering cultures of empathy and support for those in or seeking recovery.
“This Summit is an incredible opportunity to share the innovative work North Dakota is leading around ending the stigma of addiction,” Burgum said. “We believe our statewide movement is a blueprint for how other states and communities can empower supportive cultures for recovery.”
Burgum will also deliver the 23rd Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies commencement address on Friday, April 22, at Hamline University in St. Paul.
“It is a tremendous privilege to speak to this distinguished group of Hazelden Betty Ford graduate students and help honor their hard work, sacrifice and love for the people and families they will serve for years to come,” said Burgum, who also is a member of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s Board of Trustees. “Hazelden Betty Ford’s graduates are a force of healing and hope wherever they go, taking with them knowledge, expertise and a recovery-oriented spirit that our communities need now more than ever.”
Almost 80 new graduates will be recognized for earning master’s degrees in “Addiction Counseling: Integrated Recovery for Co-occurring Disorders” and “Addiction Counseling: Advanced Practice” – enabling them to provide integrated, comprehensive addiction and mental health care consistent with best practices. | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/569298959/first-lady-to-speak-at-2022-rx-and-illicit-drug-summit-deliver-hazelden-betty-ford-commencement-address | 2022-04-21T01:13:27Z | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/569298959/first-lady-to-speak-at-2022-rx-and-illicit-drug-summit-deliver-hazelden-betty-ford-commencement-address | true | 3 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
01-05-06-15-25
(one, five, six, fifteen, twenty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $100,000
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
01-05-06-15-25
(one, five, six, fifteen, twenty-five)
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LSU’s Brian Kelly had rough start, but as his swamp legs get under him, he sounds like Nick Saban
Brian Kelly arrived at LSU doing a southern accent so badly that he will get a starring role when they do The Big Easy remake. Then he tried to dance in a recruiting video and nailed “the white man’s overbite” from Billy Crystal in When Harry Met...
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According to Article 38 of the Turkish Constitution, findings that are acquired unlawfully cannot be used as evidence. In this respect, using personal data as evidence in disputes requires a legal assessment on whether the personal data is collected lawfully or not. In principle, evidence that are obtained unlawfully shall not be allowed in legal proceedings.
As known, the main legislation related to protection of personal data is the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (the "DPL"). In this regard, whether a personal data is collected lawfully or not should be assessed primarily in accordance with the DPL. In general, under Article 28 of the DPL, data processing of personal data by judicial authorities or execution authorities for investigation, public prosecution, litigation or execution are exempt from the DPL. Therefore, the provisions of the DPL shall not apply to the collection of evidence in respect of judicial or execution authorities.
As the DPL is the fundamental law aiming to regulate all aspects and principles in personal data protection, the exemptions set out under the DPL should be interpreted narrowly. Therefore, it should not be possible to say that personal data contained in evidence submitted by parties or third parties in respect of investigation, prosecution, litigation or execution proceedings are exempt from the assessment on whether their collection is lawful or not in accordance with the DPL. Submission of personal data collected in contradiction with the DPL to a court case as evidence can be regarded as unlawful data transfer and unlawful processing of personal data. On the other hand, certain obligations under the DPL clearly impose some challenges for the data controllers who are willing to rely on evidence containing personal data in order to prove their claims.
The Constitutional Court evaluated this issue in its decision dated 3 February 2022 with the application number 2019/204731 not from the perspective of the DPL but in respect of the criminal offenses that directly concern the protection of personal data under the Turkish Criminal Law ("TCL"). Turkish Personal Data Protection Board ("Board") also has several decisions which may give rise to different interpretations on this topic.
Evaluation of the Constitutional Court's Decision
The Constitutional Court examined an individual application numbered 2019/20473 in its decision dated 3 February 2022, and in brief, it stressed that whether using personal data collected unlawfully as evidence would constitute a criminal offence under the TCL in terms of the protection of personal data should be investigated and prosecuted efficiently.
In the relevant case, the applicant claimed in the pending divorce suit that the applicant's migraine attacks increased after getting married and the applicant's spouse aggravated this situation. As argued in the application subject to the Constitutional Court's decision, the applicant's spouse detected that the applicant used to have migraine attacks and psychological disorders even before their marriage upon an investigation the spouse conducted to prove the opposite of the applicant's allegations in the divorce suit. In this regard, the applicant's spouse accessed the applicant's previous medical reports and treatment records by using its professional privileges and influence of being a doctor.
The applicant filed a criminal complaint against her spouse for obtaining her health data and submitting the same as evidence to a court file on grounds that he committed the criminal offenses of misconduct, violation of private life, unlawful collection and sharing of personal data. In the complaint petition, the applicant emphasized that her health data have been obtained and submitted to the court file in breach with her right to privacy and protection of personal data, the TCL and the Regulation on Patient Rights.
That said, the public prosecutor rendered a non-prosecution decision after its criminal investigation. The reasoning of the decision included that spouse has a right to access the personal and health data of the other spouse for being a first degree relative. For this reason, the public prosecutor did not consider the suspect's actions as a violation of confidentiality and privacy of personal life and ruled that submission of such evidence should be protected under the privilege of claims and defences in the divorce suit between the parties.
On the other hand, the Constitutional Court accepted the applicant's individual application on grounds that the applicant's right to privacy of life, protection of personal data and a fair trial have been violated due to the lack of an efficient investigation and prosecution.
The Constitutional Court evaluated at first that health data used by the applicant in scope of the dispute should be qualified as personal data, and therefore the collection, use and processing of such data falls under the right to protection of personal data. The Constitutional Court further underlined that the applicant did not disclose the information concerning its treatment to the spouse before their marriage, and the applicant did not give explicit consent for the transfer of these personal data to anyone including the spouse. Thus, the Constitutional Court emphasized that the public authorities failed to fulfil their positive obligations in terms of conducting an efficient and diligent investigation as the public prosecutor failed to provide sufficient reasoning, and the applicant's right to protection of personal data has been hereby violated.
The Constitutional Court's decision contains an implication manifesting that personal data presented as unlawful evidence can be qualified as unlawful data transfer and therefore, it can be subject to criminal investigation and prosecution in scope "unlawful collection or transfer of data" which is a criminal offense under the TCL.
Evaluation of the Board's Decisions
Although the Constitutional Court does not make a separate evaluation about the DPL, as of 7 April 2016, the assessment on whether the personal data – other than those obtained by judicial authorities or execution authorities for their duties– are collected lawfully or not should be made in light of the DPL. On the other hand, the Board's decisions sometimes give rise to ambiguities in practice.
In the decision dated 11 March 2021 and numbered 2021/2302, the Board discussed a case where the complainant's personal data is inquired and shared with judicial authorities by the complainant's ex-spouse working as a public officer. In the said decision, parallel to the Constitutional Court's determination, the Board decided that the matter can be evaluated in scope of the DPL as well and that the collection of the complainant's personal data by way of an inquiry made by the spouse without the complainant's request and sharing of the same with the court violated the data security obligations. In this regard, the Board deemed the processing of personal data by an officer working at a data controller for another purpose than fulfilling the obligations and public services in breach with the DPL. In respect of this data processing activity which does not rely on any of the legal grounds stipulated under the DPL, the Board particularly stressed the data controller status of the institution at which the individual who collected the evidence unlawfully worked. Also, the Board specifically stated that the said officer working at the data controller must be subjected to disciplinary sanction. The Board further instructed the institution to take the necessary measures for preventing the officers to access to any personal data processed by the institution out of purpose they are being processed. Since the data controller was a public institution, the Board imposed no administrative fines.
On the other hand, in the decision dated 18 February 2020 and numbered 2020/1383, the Board provided certain evaluation which were criticized in terms of the DPL. In the case discussed by the Board, the employer as the data controller unilaterally terminated the employment contract of one of its employees and wanted to rely on a health report included in the employee's personnel file as evidence in the re-instatement case initiated by the employee. The employee stressed that the employer filed his sensitive personal data to the case file without the court's request and argued that this was an unlawful processing of personal in accordance with the DPL. As result of its examination, the Board ruled that sharing of the relevant information was exempt from the DPL pursuant to Article 28 of the DPL as the court requested an approved copy of the employee's full personnel file from the defendant data controller with a writ issued during the course of the proceedings. In this regard, the Board decided to impose no sanctions on the employer. The Board could have made a different evaluation if there were no requests by the court. In any case, the Board failed to discuss whether the employee was provided with a sufficient pro and the data was collected lawfully when added to the personnel file in the first stage.
Conclusion and Remarks
In light of our explanations above, submission of personal data that are collected or shared by lawyers or judicial authorities during legal proceedings as evidence in contradiction with the DPL may lead to administrative sanctions to be imposed on data controllers and criminal investigations to be initiated against the real persons and representatives of legal entity data controllers.
For instance, when a data controller (i) uses unlawfully collected personal data as evidence in a dispute, (ii) shares irrelevant personal data to the subject in dispute to prove their claims even though such data are collected lawfully or (iii) submit especially sensitive personal data to case without a judicial authority's request and the related individual's explicit consent, these cases may be subject to further evaluation and risks from the perspectives of the DPL and the TCL. With regard to the individual criminal responsibility and non-applicability of criminal sanctions to legal persons, the liability arising from the TCL may come into question for representatives or the relevant employees of data controllers. Also, legal persons qualified as data controllers can be subject to security measures.
It is extremely crucial to collect personal data in accordance with the DPL and to ensure the data subjects be provided with sufficient privacy notices explaining to the relevant data subjects whether their personal data can be used as evidence to exercise and protect the rights in a potential dispute when their personal data are collected.
In addition, the applicable legal grounds for processing sensitive personal data, particularly the data related to health and sexual life, are much more limited, and explicit consent may also be required to use such data as evidence. Although the process is more manageable in terms of the personal data already being processed during the operations of the data controller, the compliance with the DPL in terms of the data collected especially during the investigations for a potential dispute and during the course of the dispute may come as a challenge. The exemption under Article 28 of the DPL clearly applies only to the evidence requested or investigated exclusively by the respective judicial authorities. In this respect, the personal data which are being considered to be used as evidence in a dispute and require a legal assessment on a case-by-case basis in order to determine the roadmap for the compliance with the DPL.
Footnotes
1. Published in the Official Gazette (31782) dated 18 March 2022.
2. For the summary of the decision, please see: https://www.kvkk.gov.tr/Icerik/7119/2021-230
3. For the summary of the decision, please see: https://www.kvkk.gov.tr/Icerik/6887/2020-138
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Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s ambitious vision of turning New Orleans into a "smart city" with internet-connected streetlights and more public Wi-Fi is under fire from City Council members, amid signs of ties between winning bidders on a city contract, outside consultants and Cantrell administration officials.
City Council President Helena Moreno, who has warned that a pending "smart city" agreement between the city and telecom giant Qualcomm, an investment firm co-founded by basketball great Magic Johnson and other vendors may be illegal, is planning to introduce a resolution Thursday calling for a formal investigation into the bidding process.
The Mayor’s Office has argued the agreement with the consortium will lay the groundwork for a city-directed fiber network and expanded internet access, particularly for low-income residents.
Moreno, however, has said the administration’s plans are vague on specifics. On Wednesday, she said the council would likely take legal action if the city proceeds with a move to scale down a 15-year agreement that requires City Council approval to a one-year deal that does not — which she views as circumventing council authority.
Moreno said she’s grown increasingly concerned about what officials knew about links between the winning consortium and a “pro bono” city consultant, and whether any city officials stood to personally gain.
On Wednesday, a city spokesman acknowledged that two city officials intimately involved in the procurement process also had an outside relationship with Qualcomm, which he described as “pro bono technical assistance.”
“I don’t know how we move forward with this proposal. I think it’s too tainted,” Moreno said before the city acknowledged the officials’ link to Qualcomm. After learning of the ties, Moreno responded: "Wow. This now leaves me with so many more questions."
Ties to winner
Previously, council members' concerns about the planned agreement with Qualcomm and other vendors centered on their business relationship to a consulting firm called Ignite Cities, which advised City Hall ahead of an April 2021 “smart cities” solicitation.
On Wednesday, the city said that Qualcomm also had a relationship with two city employees through an outside corporate entity.
Jonathan Rhodes, the director of the Mayor's Office of Utilities, helped craft the "smart city" solicitation. Christopher Wolff, a member of the City Hall technology staff, sat on the contract's selection committee.
Both men are connected to an entity called Verge Internet that was organized in Delaware in 2020 — after Rhodes began working for Cantrell — and through that company, they worked with the winning "smart city" bidder, Qualcomm. Rhodes lists himself as cofounder of Verge Internet on his LinkedIn page, and Wolff is listed in corporate filings as its CEO. City Hall spokesman Beau Tidwell rejected the idea that Verge Internet constituted outside employment, however.
"As experts in the field with a mission to promote digital equity, Verge Internet was asked to provide pro bono technical assistance related to building highspeed wireless networks for Qualcomm’s digital equity proposal for the city of Los Angeles," said Tidwell.
"There is not and has not been outside employment," he said. "Verge operates on a pro bono basis, does not have any employees, has never paid a salary, and does not receive revenue or compensation."
Internet for everyone?
Rhodes and Wolff’s link to Qualcomm is the latest development to raise questions about a nearly year-old contracting process that has yet to produce a firm agreement that would lay out the benefits of the “smart city” project for residents.
“Smart cities” projects have been in vogue with cities across the country, and while their scope varies, they typically entail some mix of expanded broadband, internet-connected infrastructure and other features.
In press releases and a series of news conferences, New Orleans officials have trumpeted it as a way to give the city control of high-capacity internet fiber, provide free access to low-income residents, get real-time traffic updates and save the city on maintenance costs.
The city went broad in an April 2021 solicitation, asking for plans “to deploy advanced wireless and wireline infrastructure and address the digital divide” and “partner to provide a fully integrated suite of streetlights, sensors, networks, and data analytics platforms.”
While city officials were crafting that request, they received advice about “smart cities” from a Chicago-based consulting firm called Ignite Cities, emails released this week under a subpoena from Moreno show.
The document release follows a series of articles by investigative-reporting nonprofit The Lens that raised questions about the project and the bid process.
Consultant's links questioned
The Mayor’s Office of Utilities has denied that Ignite Cities played any role in specifically writing the solicitation.
"The City has no official engagement with, nor does it provide compensation to, Ignite Cities or any of its members," said Tidwell. "Ignite Cities serves as an informal advisor, providing the city with information and connecting the city with partners around innovation, technology and smart city solutions."
Still, the emails show a months-long, close conversation between city officials and the consultancy that centered on “smart cities” initiatives.
In the weeks leading up to the city’s formal announcement of its request for proposals, Rhodes asked the founder of Ignite Cities, George Burciaga, for his “insight on the attached Scope of Services for a comprehensive smart city program.”
That request was made in January 2021. Two months later, Rhodes emailed a version of the request for proposals to Burciaga, three weeks before it was formally issued.
In July 2021, the city selected as the winning bidder the consortium called Smart+Connected NOLA. Its partners include Qualcomm, the investment firm co-founded by Johnson, and a “smart kiosk” company called IKE Smart City.
Cox protests
The losing second-place bidder, Cox Communications, soon filed an administrative protest. It alleged numerous links between Ignite Cities, Qualcomm and JLC Infrastructure, the firm controlled by Johnson.
One joint press release from the three entities in June 2020 announced JLC’s plans to “to allocate an initial $75 million in capital for investment in projects developed in collaboration” with Qualcomm and Ignite Cities.
Additionally, a Qualcomm executive, Sanjeet Pandit, identified Ignite Cities as a Qualcomm partner in smart city endeavors in several cities, including New Orleans, in a blog post on the Qualcomm website less than a week after the solicitation was published.
Email exchanges produced from the subpoena also show Burciaga copying his business partners in correspondence with administration officials in the months leading up to the solicitation.
Burciaga and members of the consortium did not respond to requests for comment.
A City Hall Meeting
In addition to seeking input from Burciaga on the city’s smart cities proposal in early 2021, Rhodes also arranged a meeting with Cantrell and Burciaga a little more than three months before the request was published. When Rhodes asked Burciaga who else should be invited to the meeting, Burciaga replied with email addresses for representatives of Qualcomm and JLC.
Tidwell said that during the meeting, “the city and the mayor met with Qualcomm and JLC to discuss at a high level how New Orleans could become a smart city. It was determined that in order to launch a Smart City project it would have to go through a public procurement process. However, Qualcomm and JLC had no role in conceiving the specific project and/or the (request for proposals).”
While Tidwell noted that Cox also met with city officials, Cox claimed Ignite’s relationships with Qualcomm and JLC amounted to a conflict of interest, since Ignite was “acting as a governmental agency.”
In its response, the city says that there was no conflict because Ignite Cities is not a member of the consortium, has acted only as a “pro bono” consultant for the city and played no role in writing the request for proposals. City officials formally denied Cox's protest.
Despite that denial, Tidwell said Wednesday that city is “continuing to investigate any issues of concern related to the (request for proposals) to make sure there were no unfair advantages.”
Contract steering?
Moreno said that after reading the emails, she had serious concerns about the links between Ignite Cities and the winning vendors.
“It seems like what they were really doing here was just coming here and promoting the companies that pay them. They were like non-profit lobbyists for their companies and steered this contract their way,” she said.
Adding to Moreno’s concerns: IKE Smart Cities, the vendor for the “smart kiosks” requested by the city in its solicitation, is represented by a lobbyist who is also the managing director of Ignite Cities, the Illinois TV station WCIA reported earlier this month.
The city wasn’t previously aware of that link between IKE Smart Cities and Ignite Cities, according to Tidwell.
In recent days, the Cantrell administration has walked back from its initial plan for a multi-year agreement with Qualcomm and JLC that would have required City Council approval. But it announced earlier this month that it still hopes to forge ahead with a one-year pilot pact.
Tidwell said, “the goal of starting with a one-year CEA was so that the partners could demonstrate the solutions clearly to the public and the City Council. Since there had been questions about what data might be collected, a one-year demonstration project would be the best way to show how the technology works and troubleshoot any issues before signing up for a 15-year agreement.”
Questions for Rhodes
Moreno says the shorter agreement is likely illegal, and in addition to the emails and other bidding documents Moreno requested under subpoena, she has also summoned Rhodes to appear at an April 27 hearing for questioning under oath.
Moreno said she plans to question Rhodes on whether he steered the contract to the winning consortium, and how much he knew about the ties between Ignite Cities and the other companies. The City Council will also look into Wolff’s role in the process, Moreno said.
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SEATTLE – Three-time All-Star reliever Greg Holland was designated for assignment by the Texas Rangers after allowing three home runs in his five appearances this season.
The 36-year-old Holland, who made the opening day roster after going to spring training on a minor league contract, had a 7.71 ERA in his 4 2/3 innings. The right-hander struck out five and walked one.
He began the season with 9 years, 163 days of major league service. A full service year is 172 days, giving Holland enough days to days to reach 10 years of service and fully vest in the MLB pension plan.
Texas made the move before its game in Seattle, clearing a roster spot for No. 1 starter Jon Gray to be activated from the injured list and start the series opener against the Mariners. Gray signed a $56 million, four-year deal with Texas last December after his first seven big league seasons with Colorado.
Gray started the season opener for the Rangers, facing the minimum nine batters through three innings at Toronto on April 8, then allowed three runs in his fourth and final inning before departing with a blister on his right middle finger. The right-hander got a no-decision and went on the 10-day injured list the following day. Tuesday was the first day he could be activated.
Holland had eight saves and a 4.85 ERA in 57 appearances last season for Kansas City, with 8.57 strikeouts per nine innings and a .229 opponent batting average. He spent the past two seasons with the Royals, his second stint with the organization.
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Last week, The Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnihotri announced his next project, Delhi Files. However, the filmmaker has not confirmed the plot details, but there are reports saying that the film will be based on the anti-Sikh riots that happened in 1984.
On Monday, days after Vivek Agnihotri announced The Delhi Files, Maharashtra Sikh Association stated that filmmakers should ‘desist from disturbing the uneasy calm in the society.'
According to PTI, in a press release, the Maharashtra Sikh Association said it expresses “strong reservation against the exploitation and commercialisation of unfortunate tragic chapters of human mankind like Sikh riots by people in the name of creative expression and personal profiteering.”
While talking about the same, Vivek Agnihotri replied that he had ‘right to express himself’. He stated, “I have no idea which organisation is this. I'm an Indian, I live in a sovereign state which gives me full right to express myself in whichever manner I want. I will make what I need to make, what my conscience tells me to make. I am not a servant to anybody's demands or organisations.”
“I have not even announced what I'm making, why I am making it. People are making assumptions, which they can keep making. But ultimately it is only for the CBFC to decide what kind of film I make and if it should be allowed to release or not,” he said.
The association, which calls itself a nodal body actively involved in the social, cultural, education sports and religious activities in the state related to its close-knit Sikh community, said Agnihotri, "emboldened with the controversy and hype" created by "The Kashmir Files" is intending to "commercialize tragedy of human mankind like the 1984 riots".
"There is already polarization in the society and hatred among various communities and vivid depiction of unfortunate tragic incidents of the history in a commercial way will only foment the ill feelings and fragile peace. India is a land of unity in diversity and people professing different faiths have tried to live in harmony and peace with each other and the Sikh community is trying to forget the dark chapter in the history of sikh community," their statement read.
The association said the riots and destruction of lives have been widely condemned, with many documentaries being made and books being published, but "these sagas of organized programs against the Sikh community were never commercialized".
The association said slowly, the wounds are healing and the Sikh community is “trying to forget the past and move ahead”.
“Many of the culprits have either died or are behind the bars. Justice has come with delay, but it has come. Even the then Government had apologized for these riots in the Parliament."
“By extracting profits by depicting deaths in gory details will only result in poisoning the minds of the new generation, who might have heard about it but now seeing them on screen will boil their blood, and fume hatred against others... It would be a deliberate attempt to reopen the wounds of the old and vitiate the fragile peace in the society. This is neither correct nor ethical," it added.
In the statement, the association said if a film has to be made, it should be about "fostering unity, harmony, brotherhood and national integration.”
"The creative pursuits depicting the teachings of our revered Gurus will send a positive message in the society. Maharashtra Sikh Association joins the voice of Indian diaspora worldwide and the Sikh community in particular in asking the makers of 'Kashmir Files' to desist from disturbing the uneasy calm in the society," the statement concluded. (With inputs from PTI) | https://www.dnaindia.com/bollywood/report-vivek-agnihotri-reacts-after-the-delhi-files-faces-objection-from-maharashtra-sikh-association-2947458 | 2022-04-21T01:56:20Z | https://www.dnaindia.com/bollywood/report-vivek-agnihotri-reacts-after-the-delhi-files-faces-objection-from-maharashtra-sikh-association-2947458 | true | 3 |
French company to build 100 new Melbourne trams under $1.85 billion deal
The Victorian government has inked a $1.85 billion deal with French rolling stock manufacturer Alstom to build 100 accessible trams in Melbourne’s south-east.
The trams, which will be known as the G class, will feature 65 per cent of locally manufactured components and come off the production line in 2025.
They will replace some of Melbourne’s A, B and Z models, which have high floors and are less accessible for people with disabilities.
The project is expected to create about 1900 jobs in manufacturing, the supply chain and the construction of a depot and maintenance facility in Maidstone.
Premier Daniel Andrews said the contract was about jobs and securing the future of the manufacturing and rail industry in Victoria, which was “on its knees”.
“What [manufacturers] need to secure their future is long-term certainty,” Andrews said.
“They need orders not just for boom and bust, but a solid order book that gives them the ability to hire, to train, to invest, and to deliver a fantastic product.
“This is the biggest ever investment in trams and one of the most significant investments in rolling stock.”
Andrews said production would begin at Alstom’s facility in Dandenong next year, with the first trams to join the network in 2025.
The new models will be fitted with on-board power battery systems which will make them less reliant on the grid and reduce the need to upgrade substations and the power supply.
Public Transport Minister Ben Carroll said the trams, which will be fitted for deployment to any part of the state’s network, were a game-changer for the industry.
“It is a real steep change in terms of accessibility and energy efficiency,” he said.
“The power propulsion, the regenerative braking means we can put these trams anywhere, we don’t have to build substations don’t have to retrofit any part of the network also.”
Carroll said the trams will be twice as spacious as current models to encourage social distancing and provide space for wheelchairs and mobility aids, and significantly quieter.
The design will be refined in consultation with accessibility advocates, passengers, and tram divers following a tender process.
Alstom has become the key rolling stock manufacturer in Victoria after it acquired Melbourne’s former tram maker Bombardier in 2020. Bombardier built the VLocity trains that run on the V/Line network.
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Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe. Almost 400 people have died in flooding in South Africa’s eastern coastal city of Durban. With roads and bridges washed away, rescuers have battled to deliver supplies, and some residents have gone without power or water since 11 April. Parts of KwaZulu-Natal province recorded almost their average annual rainfall in just 48 hours – a deluge that took the weather forecasters by surprise. Informal settlements have been particularly badly hit. But neither has the flooding spared shopping malls and businesses that had only recently recovered from politically inspired looting. Toppled containers also forced the closure of the country’s largest port for 36 hours – a key trade route for landlocked neighbours including Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. President Cyril Ramaphosa was visibly shocked when he toured the area on 13 April. He blamed climate change for the devastation; yet more dangerous storms are forecast for this weekend. Durban has a progressive climate action plan, but years of underspending on basics like the maintenance of city infrastructure and stormwater systems have undermined those ambitions. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2576945572276/south-africa-launches-relief-for-durban-flooding-448-dead | 2022-04-21T02:01:38Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2576945572276/south-africa-launches-relief-for-durban-flooding-448-dead | false | 9 |
GILROY, Calif. (AP/KOIN) — A victim of the serial murderer dubbed the Happy Face Killer has been identified nearly 30 years after her body was left near a California highway.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office says genetic genealogy was used to match DNA to Patricia Skiple — an Oregonian. She was found dead in 1993 on the side of California State Route 152 in the Gilroy area.
According to the SCCSO, Skiple was a long-term resident of Colton, Oregon. She was a mother who was known as “Patsy” to her family and friends.
Skiple would’ve been about 45-years-old at the time of her death.
Keith Hunter Jesperson is serving several life sentences in Oregon for the 1990s murder of eight women in California, Washington, Oregon, Florida, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
He was dubbed the Happy Face Killer because of smiley faces on letters he wrote to police and the media. | https://www.wtnh.com/news/national/happy-face-killer-victim-idd-as-oregon-woman-after-29-years/ | 2022-04-21T02:03:13Z | https://www.wtnh.com/news/national/happy-face-killer-victim-idd-as-oregon-woman-after-29-years/ | false | 29 |
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GILROY, Calif. (AP/KOIN) — A victim of the serial murderer dubbed the Happy Face Killer has been identified nearly 30 years after her body was left near a California highway.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office says genetic genealogy was used to match DNA to Patricia Skiple — an Oregonian. She was found dead in 1993 on the side of California State Route 152 in the Gilroy area.
According to the SCCSO, Skiple was a long-term resident of Colton, Oregon. She was a mother who was known as “Patsy” to her family and friends.
Skiple would’ve been about 45-years-old at the time of her death.
Keith Hunter Jesperson is serving several life sentences in Oregon for the 1990s murder of eight women in California, Washington, Oregon, Florida, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
He was dubbed the Happy Face Killer because of smiley faces on letters he wrote to police and the media. | https://www.wate.com/news/happy-face-killer-victim-idd-as-oregon-woman-after-29-years/ | 2022-04-21T02:07:01Z | https://www.wate.com/news/happy-face-killer-victim-idd-as-oregon-woman-after-29-years/ | false | 29 |
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The Warriors have reached out to Canterbury to offer assistance during the Belmore club’s COVID crisis, which could result in the first loan deal of the season being struck.
Bulldogs supremo Phil Gould asked the NRL for permission to approach the Warriors and Titans for a standby player should further players in an already-ravaged squad test positive ahead of Friday’s clash with Brisbane. Jake Averillo, Brent Naden, Ava Seumanufagai and Reece Hoffman have been ruled out after providing positive PCR tests, but there are fears of further scratchings given the squad has trained and socialised together this week.
The Bulldogs’ ability to adequately replace the quartet has been further compromised after potential call-ups Creedence Toia, Josh Stuckey and Ryan Gray also tested positive, while a bulging injury ward already contains Raymond Faitala-Mariner, Matt Doorey, Braidon Burns, Jack Hetherington, Paul Alamoti, Isaac Lumelume and Chris Patolo.
To date, the blue and whites have been able to fill only 19 of the requisite 24 spots for the Suncorp Stadium encounter.
Speaking on Wide World of Sports’ Six Tackles with Gus podcast on Wednesday, Gould was adamant the game must go ahead as scheduled, but said he may require assistance for that to happen. He hoped that could come in the form of a potential standby player from the Warriors or Titans should his squad suffer more infections.
The Warriors, who have a strong relationship with Gould after his brief stint as a consultant to the club, were quick to offer support.
“I don’t know if we are in a position to, but I certainly texted Gus yesterday to say he should let me know if there’s anything we can do to assist,” Warriors CEO Cameron George told the Herald.
“We’d do that, one, because it’s Gus, and two, because we’ve been in that situation ourselves for various reasons and clubs were great to us.
“I don’t know whether we could because we’re light on players ourselves, but at the end of the day I said ‘If you need anything, give us a call and we’ll work it out from there.‘”
The Warriors were the main beneficiaries when a loan system was first introduced to help the club deal with the coronavirus situation. Daniel Alvaro, George Jennings and Albert Hopoate were among the players loaned to the New Zealand club during its stay in Australia.
George said he was pleased to potentially now be in a position to help.
“Gus [Gould] was really appreciative and said he would keep an eye on the situation,” George said.
“We’ll see where it all lands, but I have a pretty close relationship with him and I told him to ring us if there’s anything we can do while we’re based in Queensland.
“What that is I don’t know, I don’t even know if we could give them players because of our situation.
“But I’d hate not to at least try after everything he’d done for our footy club and also for the game.
“He’s only got to ring us and say ‘this is what we need.’
“If we can help him, we’ll help. If not, we can’t, but the offer is there.“
Titans CEO Steve Mitchell added that his club was also amenable to offering assistance.
“We haven’t had any dialogue with the Bulldogs at this time ... but collegially it’s an issue the game has to address,” Mitchell said.
“We’re all in this together.”
Asked if he was open to providing a lower-grader as a standby player if required: Mitchell said: “I think there is merit in that. At the moment it’s the Bulldogs in that position, but any of us could be in that position.
“To ensure the game is protected, there’s probably some merit in that. We have to learn to adapt.”
Jacob Kiraz and Billy Tsikrikas are in line to make their NRL debuts for the Bulldogs, but others could be in line for a first-grade promotion if there are more positive results.
Regardless, Canterbury coach Trent Barrett is hopeful the team pull off an upset and register just their second victory of the season.
“We’ve put together a side we know will be competitive and we’re going up there expecting to win,” Barrett said.
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Rays first. Brandon Lowe walks. Wander Franco grounds out to shortstop, Jonathan Villar to Frank Schwindel. Brandon Lowe to second. Randy Arozarena doubles to left field. Brandon Lowe scores. Ji-Man Choi walks. Josh Lowe strikes out on a foul tip. Francisco Mejia homers to center field. Ji-Man Choi scores. Kevin Kiermaier pops out to shallow left field to Nico Hoerner.
4 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 0 left on. Rays 4, Cubs 0.
Rays second. Taylor Walls singles to center field. Brett Phillips strikes out on a foul tip. Brandon Lowe reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Taylor Walls out at second. Wander Franco doubles to deep left field. Brandon Lowe scores. Randy Arozarena grounds out to second base, Nick Madrigal to Frank Schwindel.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rays 5, Cubs 0.
Cubs third. Seiya Suzuki called out on strikes. Jonathan Villar singles to right field. Ian Happ singles to right center field. Jonathan Villar to third. Frank Schwindel doubles to left field. Ian Happ to third. Jonathan Villar scores. Nick Madrigal grounds out to shallow right field to Ji-Man Choi. Frank Schwindel to third. Ian Happ scores. Jason Heyward strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rays 5, Cubs 2.
Rays fifth. Randy Arozarena reaches on error to shallow infield, advances to 2nd. Throwing error by Jonathan Villar. Ji-Man Choi called out on strikes. Josh Lowe triples to right center field. Randy Arozarena scores. Francisco Mejia doubles to center field. Josh Lowe scores. Kevin Kiermaier doubles to shallow left field. Francisco Mejia scores. Taylor Walls strikes out swinging. Brett Phillips strikes out swinging.
3 runs, 3 hits, 1 error, 1 left on. Rays 8, Cubs 2. | https://www.chron.com/sports/article/Tampa-Bay-Chicago-Cubs-Runs-17115153.php | 2022-04-21T02:14:27Z | https://www.chron.com/sports/article/Tampa-Bay-Chicago-Cubs-Runs-17115153.php | true | null |
Tesla has reported first-quarter net earnings over seven times greater than a year ago.
The electric vehicle and solar panel company reported strong sales despite global supply chain kinks and pandemic-related production cuts in China. Tesla made a record $3.32 billion from January through March.
Excluding stock-based compensation, the Austin, Texas, company made $3.22 per share. According to data provider FactSet, that soundly beat Wall Street estimates of $2.26 per share. Revenue for the quarter was $18.76 billion, also beating estimates of $17.85 billion. | https://www.fox4now.com/news/national/tesla-first-quarter-earnings-were-reportedly-7-times-more-than-a-year-ago-citing-strong-sales | 2022-04-21T02:15:15Z | https://www.fox4now.com/news/national/tesla-first-quarter-earnings-were-reportedly-7-times-more-than-a-year-ago-citing-strong-sales | false | null |
On this same day in 2018, Santa Monica released God of War, which that same year would win the “Game of the Year” award at The Game Awards. The Californian studio shared a message to celebrate the occasion and to bring news about the development of God of War: Ragnarök.
Through twitter, the company published a video where Cory Barlog, director of the 2018 title, talks about the game’s anniversary and comments on the progress of the sequel. First of all, the dev says it’s “an amazing thing” and “a great feeling” that Kratos and Atreus’ adventure is four years old. Then he guarantees: he will bring news from Ragnarök when the time is right.
Ragnarok. We don’t talk much about it, because we all work so hard, we’re perfectionists. Everyone is polishing the graphics… There’s been something going on right now that I wanted to share with you, but it’s not ready to be shown. But I assure you: the moment we have something ready to share, we will. We don’t want to hold anything. So know that something cool is coming!
See the full video:
4 years ago, God of War (2018) released! We’re grateful to all of you who joined Kratos and Atreus on their journey, and we’re so proud of the team who worked to bring it to life.
While we’re not ready to share an update about what comes next, here’s a quick message from Cory! pic.twitter.com/Z5PHpKQppY
— Santa Monica Studio – God of War Ragnarök (@SonySantaMonica) April 20, 2022
The latest in-game footage of God of War: Ragnarök was made public at PlayStation Showcase 2021, when gameplay was released. Since then, Santa Monica and Sony have been reiterating that the game’s launch will take place in 2022, to minimize any rumors of an alleged delay.
God of War: Ragnarok may have similar mechanics to throwing the Leviathan ax
Beau Anthony Jimenez, sound designer at PlayStation, recently suggested that God of War: Ragnarök will feature a mechanic similar to throwing the Leviathan axe. Read it all here! | https://playcrazygame.com/2022/04/21/god-of-war-turns-4-years-old-news-about-ragnarok-coming-soon/ | 2022-04-21T02:20:58Z | https://playcrazygame.com/2022/04/21/god-of-war-turns-4-years-old-news-about-ragnarok-coming-soon/ | false | 2 |
Florida man recovering after being mauled by two tigers
COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. (WBBH) - A Florida man is recovering after being mauled by two tigers at an Everglades airboat tour company last month.
The victim was a mechanic with the company, but he was not supposed to have any close contact with Daisy, an 18-year-old Siberian tiger, and Duruba, a 15-year-old Bengal tiger.
Their caretaker had just finished feeding them when Ignacio Meabe saw a piece of chicken left sitting in their cage.
He says he “got down on the ground” to throw the tigers the chicken.
Daisy bit his left hand after he pet her head. Meabe tried using his right hand to beat her away, but that is when Duruba clenched on.
Meabe was asked why he did it even though he was not supposed to be around the tigers.
“I’m just crazy. I don’t know what happened,” he said.
The “crazy” idea led to catastrophic wounds.
He remembers looking at his arms before his memory went dark.
“My bone. I couldn’t move my hand,” Meabe said. “The rest of the day, I don’t remember.”
Getting close to a big cat is a bad idea.
“It’s just asking for trouble to get into a cage with one of them,” said “Tiger King” star Carole Baskin.
Baskin says she has been following Meabe’s story.
“It’s wrong on so many levels,” she said. “For someone to feel so comfortable walking in and touching a tiger, tells you that all of that education around zoos has not worked.”
Last December, a cleaner at Naples Zoo was attacked after he tried to feed a tiger there. The tiger died after being shot by deputies.
After a weeks-long stay in the hospital, Meabe is home.
He is still recovering but has full motion of both arms. His worst injury was losing the tip of his middle finger.
“Doctors say everything is good,” Meabe said.
Meabe wants everyone to know that no one asked him to go in the cage. He did that on his own.
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FIRST ALERT FORECAST: Warm-up continues through the weekend
Published: Apr. 20, 2022 at 10:25 PM EDT|Updated: 5 minutes ago
ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) - The temperature bounced back into the 70s on Wednesday and the warm-up rolls on for the next few days. There will be some clouds around Thursday morning before sunshine burns through midday and afternoon. The temperature will reach the mid to upper 70s.
Great weather is in the forecast for from Friday through the weekend. Highs will be near 80 and lows will be near 60.
The next chance for rain is not until late Monday or Tuesday, and it looks like just scattered showers.
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Long before the term vibe became standard in the lexicon of multiple generations, South Carolina’s low country essentially owned the rights to its essence. Imagine being the tournament that follows the first major of the year, and that major just happens to be the Masters. The week actually opens on Masters Sunday, when the band formerly known as Hootie and the Blowfish hosts the Monday After The Masters pro-am event in Myrtle Beach. On its heels comes the RBC Heritage on Hilton Head Island, a bit farther south in the Palmetto state. Both events have a calm to their demeanor, and they allow golf fans and competitors to segue from the intensity of a Grand Slam event to a sequence of tour events. In their honor, we should call this week’s installment Tour Strolldown. Let’s take a stroll and recap the week’s professional golf. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2577002061983/robert-garrigus-confirms-request-to-compete-in-first-liv-golf-tournament | 2022-04-21T02:35:08Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2577002061983/robert-garrigus-confirms-request-to-compete-in-first-liv-golf-tournament | true | null |
Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic has described Wimbledon’s decision to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from competition this year as crazy and says sport and politics do not mix well.
Djokovic joined tennis great Martina Navratilova and Australia’s John Millman, among others, in speaking out against the All England Club’s decision.
“I will always be the first one to condemn the war,” he told reporters in Belgrade after a win at the Serbian Open. “As a child of war, I know what kind of emotional trauma a war leaves. Us in Serbia, we know what was happening here in 1999.
“Ordinary people always suffer – we’ve had lots of wars in the Balkans. That being said, I cannot support the Wimbledon decision. It is crazy. It’s not the athletes’ fault. When politics interfere with sport, it usually doesn’t turn out well.”
Navratilova, a winner of 18 grand slam singles titles, said exclusion was not the way to go and the All England Club was missing the big picture.
“Exclusion like this, through no fault of these players, is not the way to go ... I think it’s the wrong decision. Tennis is such a democratic sport. It is difficult when you see politics destroy it.
“And as much as I feel for the Ukrainian players and the Ukrainian people – it’s just horrific what’s going on – I think this is just going further than needed.
“[The players] are on the wrong side of politics ... Hopefully this is only a one-off and won’t escalate any further. This decision was made in a vacuum by the All England Club ... I don’t think they are seeing the big picture in a more global way.”
Millman said financial help for Ukraine would have been more useful than banning players and the decision was based on optics.
“I feel like Ukraine would be better served if Wimbledon donated their entire profit in support aid instead of banning Russian and Belarusian players,” he said.
“I’m in total support of Ukraine and its people. I just feel like Wimbledon is doing this more for their own gain, for good optics rather than to actually help.”
However, Ukrainian players Elina Svitolina, Marta Kostyuk and Sergiy Stakhovsky called for other international events to follow Wimbledon’s lead.
“We demand to exclude and ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing in any international event, as Wimbledon has already done
“In times of crisis, silence means agreeing with what is happening. We noticed that some Russian and Belarusian players at some point vaguely mentioned the war, but never clearly stating that Russia and Belarus started it on the territory of Ukraine.
“The very silence of those who choose to remain that way right now is unbearable as it leads to the continuation of murder in our homeland.”
Alexandr Dolgopolov, a retired Ukrainian tennis player, agreed.
“Any sport or business or really anything should take the same stance, until Russian people stand up and stop their bloody leader and all these war crimes and crimes against humanity. Wimbledon and UK showing leadership to stop all this madness.”
Reuters
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A married woman accused of having an affair was publicly flogged and forced to “marry” her lover.
The horrific scene unfolded in the Indian village of Madhya Krishnapur in West Bengal on Saturday night, April 16, and saw the woman hospitalised after she collapsed, according to local police.
Teliamura Sub-divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Sonacharan Jamatia told news agency Press Trust of India: “We will send a team to meet the victim to know the actual incident.
“The police has not received any written complaint yet, but there will be an inquiry into the alleged incident”.
The woman told reporters that her husband led a group of fifteen men to a field while accusing her of having an extra-marital affair and began beating her, leading her to lose consciousness.
Her suspected lover was also physically harassed.
A video circulated on social media showed her surrounded by villagers after regaining consciousness, with them forcing her to exchange garlands with her…
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By Peter S. Goodman
New York Times
During a normal spring, the sight of orchards bursting with clusters of almonds is a boon throughout California’s Central Valley. Here is money growing on trees.
Not this year.
As Scott Phippen looked out on his orchard on a recent afternoon, he felt a sense of foreboding tinged with rage. His warehouse is stuffed with the leftovers of last year’s harvest — 30 million pounds of almonds stored in wooden and plastic bins stacked to the rafters and overflowing into his yard. Orders assembled for customers sit in giant white plastic bags and cardboard cartons arrayed across pallets, awaiting ships that can carry them across the water to Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
The almonds are here, the customers are over there, and the global shipping industry is failing to span the divide.
Every week, Phippen, 67, a compulsively organized overseer of his family business, Travaille & Phippen, peers hopefully at a calendar showing confirmed bookings on container vessels sailing to points worldwide from the port of Oakland, 65 miles to the west on San Francisco Bay. Every week, he absorbs all manner of disheartening news: No shipping containers available, no vessel arriving, no space on board.
“My warehouses are already bulging at the seams,” Phippen said. “It scares the crap out of me, because in five months I’m going to get a new crop in the door. There’s no timeout in farming.”
Beyond a logistical torment, the crisis assailing almond producers is inflicting deep financial consequences, from diminished revenues to higher costs for storage. The same can be said for a broad array of other American agricultural exporters — from wheat growers in North Dakota to soybean producers in Nebraska — as shipping crops to customers has become maddening to the point of futility.
Most of the almonds stuck in Phippen’s warehouses have already been purchased by buyers across the water, but he cannot collect payment until they make it onto a ship.
“Those almonds aren’t worth squat in the warehouse,” he said. “They are worth a lot of money in Dubai.”
The exasperation of agricultural exporters amounts to the latest chapter of the Great Supply Chain Disruption, the tumultuous reordering of international trade and transportation amid the worst pandemic in a century. At the center of the story is the shipping container: the steel box that revolutionized commerce, allowing unfathomable quantities of goods to be carried around the planet.
Shipping companies — which last year collectively secured profits reaching $190 billion — harvested especially enormous returns on their routes from Chinese ports to the West Coast of the United States.
Traditionally, carriers unload containers arriving from China at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and then ship empties up to Oakland, where they are reloaded with almonds and other agricultural crops.
But in recent months, the carriers have put growing numbers of empty containers back on ships immediately. The companies can make more money sending the valuable containers directly back to Asia, where they are refilled with goods destined for American consumers.
Almond growers like Phippen have been left with limited options to deliver their wares to customers abroad. Throughout California, more than 1.1 billion pounds of almonds from last year’s harvest are sitting in warehouses, a volume roughly one-third larger than this time last year, according to the Almond Alliance of California, an industry trade group.
“Foreign carriers are being allowed to disrespect us, and we can’t do anything about it,” said Aubrey Bettencourt, the association’s president. “We have no recourse.”
As the Biden administration contends with public anger over inflation, the president has seized on the shipping industry as a central part of the explanation. President Joe Biden used his State of the Union address to excoriate carriers for mistreatment of “American businesses and consumers,” while vowing a “crackdown.”
Daniel Maffei, chair of the Federal Maritime Commission, which regulates the shipping industry, promises to hold the carriers to account.
“Government should stand on the side of those facing an unfair advantage when they have a legitimate grievance against big, powerful companies,” said Maffei, who has served on the commission since 2016 and was named chair last month by Biden. The commission is “actively looking to investigate cases where exporters are being pushed around by carriers or, worse, ignored by them,” he added.
Recently passed bills in the House and Senate would bolster the commission’s authority to investigate complaints and take action.
“The market is dysfunctional from the standpoint of American exporters,” said Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., who sponsored the legislation in the House.
But the shipping industry counters that it is being scapegoated for the broad turmoil unleashed by the pandemic amid booming demand for goods produced in Chinese factories, from exercise bikes to kitchenware. Despite floating traffic jams at major ports, a supposed shortage of truck drivers and a dearth of warehouse space, the carriers have managed to move record volumes of cargo.
“There’s a frustration that really complex problems are getting sound-bited to the point where policymakers aren’t dealing with the structural challenges,” said John Butler, president of the World Shipping Council, a trade association in Washington.
He blamed changes in supply and demand for rising shipping costs, while warning that federal intervention could worsen troubles.
“Do people really believe that having the federal government on the dock with a clipboard saying, ‘That box goes on the ship; that one doesn’t,’ is more efficient and fair than letting the market sort it out?” Butler said.
Crossing the Water
Most of the time, James Blocker would be cheering on an argument like the one the shipping industry is making: Let the markets decide. But his predisposition against bureaucratic intervention has been tested by his predicament. As an exporter, his job is to move Phippen’s almonds across the ocean. Right now, booking passage on ships is bordering on impossible.
“I feel helpless,” he said.
Blocker’s company, Valley Pride, is among the largest exporters of almonds in California, the most bountiful agricultural economy in the United States.
Every year, California farmers produce more than 3 billion pounds of almonds, or about 80% of the world’s supply. Nearly all those nuts are harvested on more than 6,000 farms in the Central Valley — a flat, arid zone characterized by relentless sunshine, furnacelike summer heat and some of the most prodigious soils on earth.
Blocker grew up in the Valley, on the same land that his great-grandfather purchased after arriving nearly a century ago, in the aftermath of the Dust Bowl that ravaged his native Oklahoma. He spent his childhood roaming the rural fringes of what is today greater Fresno, one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the country, and a community centered on the business of growing food.
Fresh from college at Fresno State, Blocker worked as a commodity trader for Cargill, the agribusiness conglomerate. In 2013, he started Valley Pride.
The business includes an orchard and a packing plant, but its heart is an enormous sales and distribution operation that buys almonds from growers throughout California and exports them around the world.
Last year, Valley Pride sold 140 million pounds of nuts while securing revenues reaching $350 million.
Although Valley Pride is generally compelled to pay its growers no later than a month after an outbound shipment arrives at a port, the company does not itself get paid until the almonds make it to their final destination.
The chaos roiling shipping has widened the time between those two events. That has forced the company to tap its credit line, expanding what it has borrowed to about $8 million from less than $2 million, Blocker said.
Tall and sinewy, Blocker, 41, is a study in the contrasts of modern agribusiness. He drives a pickup truck, has a thick beard and wears cowboy boots, while holding up his faded jeans with a giant silver rodeo-style belt buckle. He crouches in the dirt at his orchard, tending to a leak in the irrigation system. Yet he spends most of his days inside a glassed-in office in a compound in North Fresno, across the street from a state office building. Trophies from his hunting trips — deer skulls with antlers — are mounted over his desk, above photos of his wife and three children.
“I’m pretty redneck,” he said. “The big city, the glitz and glamour doesn’t really do much for me.”
Blocker’s partner, Sunny Toor, was born in the Indian state of Punjab, worked as a banker in Canada and travels the world finding new markets for California almonds. Valley Pride’s senior vice president for sales, Sorbon Sharifov, grew up in Tajikistan and speaks five languages — Persian, Russian, Arabic, Tajik and English — which is useful as the company pushes into Central Asia.
But lately, the shipping industry has impeded that expansion.
Last July, a major buyer in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, signed a contract to purchase two 40-foot containers’ worth of almonds that were supposed to be shipped in October. Valley Pride booked passage on a vessel operated by Mediterranean Shipping Co. — the world’s largest container carrier — for a journey from Oakland to Malta via the Panama Canal, and then on another ship bound for Dubai through the Suez Canal.
But the containers did not make it onto a carrier until Feb. 14. By the time the almonds reached Dubai in March, their value had dropped by $50,000. The buyer claimed that the initial contract had expired and demanded a discount.
Toor and Sharifov spent most of February in Dubai, dining with customers to mollify their anger over delays and fend off demands for price breaks.
In a typical week, Valley Pride dispatches 50 containers full of almonds, the vast majority out of Oakland. In recent weeks, the company has struggled to confirm just five bookings. Even those have tended to be “rolled over,” in shipping parlance — bumped to a later date — when loading day arrived and no containers could be found.
“That’s happening week after week,” Blocker said. “They tell us, ‘We don’t have equipment.’ What I hear is, ‘We do have equipment, but we’re not going to give it to you.’”
Before the pandemic, about 40% of all containers leaving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were loaded with goods and the rest were empty, according to Sea-Intelligence, a shipping consultancy based in Copenhagen, Denmark. But over the past year, carriers have shipped more empties back to Asia, with the share of outbound loaded containers dropping to 30% at Long Beach and 21% at the port of Los Angeles.
Carriers have also bypassed Oakland with increasing regularity — something that occurred only about 1% of the time two years ago, according to Sea-Intelligence, yet was happening nearly 25% of the time by late last year.
Meanwhile, carriers have raised shipping rates. In June, Mediterranean Shipping was charging $1,400 to move a 40-foot container from Oakland to Dubai. This month, the carrier raised the fare to $7,700, while refusing to honor previous rates on bookings that had been repeatedly rolled.
Last year, Valley Pride had logged about $100 million in revenue by the end of March. This year, it has tallied half that.
“I’m pulling my hair out,” Blocker said. “We’re in a panic situation.”
A Different Route
Just after 8 on a recent morning, Blocker and Toor held a conference call with Peter Friedmann, a former Capitol Hill staffer who runs the Agriculture Transportation Coalition, a Washington advocacy and lobbying group representing exporters.
With the studied patience of a professional wise man, Friedmann listened to their laments and assured them, by way of consolation, that their problems are a nearly universal affliction.
Hay farmers, who send bales across the Pacific to feed livestock in Asia, are not even bothering to cut their crops this year, given the near-impossibility of finding room on ships.
Valley Pride has looked into hauling almonds east to the port of Savannah, Georgia. But the train passage across the country alone could take two weeks.
Blocker had just returned from a reconnaissance trip to Houston, where containers are more abundant. He lined up warehouse space and was looking into trucking his cargo there, then shipping out of the Gulf of Mexico.
Trucking to Houston will add $2,800 to the cost of sending a container. And his logistics team discovered that there were no bookings available from Houston to Dubai until the middle of June. Plus, they entailed “premium” charges of $5,200, more than double the going rate of $2,400.
Still, this seemed worth pursuing. The alternative was staring at bags of almonds stuck in warehouses.
Friedmann said he has pressed Biden administration officials to force the carriers to pick up exports in Oakland. He suggests the White House could implore the heads of shipping carriers to make this problem go away, or prepare for executive branch intervention. Some carriers are already expanding export capacity.
Still, he notes that agricultural exporters are competing for space on ships with enormous importers like Amazon and Walmart. They traditionally incur much higher rates than exporters and can afford to pay the premiums carriers are demanding.
That spread has been widening. Before the pandemic, importers shipping goods from China to the West Coast of the United States paid two to three times as much as American agricultural exporters shipping goods in the opposite direction, according to Freightos, a cargo booking platform. Now importers are paying 10 times as much.
Blocker grimaced.
“I like free enterprise,” he said. “I hesitate to get the government and bureaucracy involved. But we are at that point where we are desperate, and we’ve run out of options.”
One of his logistics people popped into the office. She managed to book five containers from Oakland to Dubai for a couple of weeks forward.
“It’s a piss in a big ocean,” Blocker said. “I just feel like we’re in the land of the forgotten.”
A Sick Feeling
The next day, Blocker drove 110 miles north to Manteca to visit his most important customer, Phippen.
Low gray clouds hovered over the Valley as his truck threaded a vast expanse of orchards — newly planted almond trees giving way to brushy orange trees, and then a grid of pistachio trees whose branches wove mischievously skyward, like a garden fit for a haunted house.
The towns along the route displayed the centrality of farming in the Central Valley. He passed a well and pump company, a tractor showroom, a seed distributor.
Phippen greeted him in a conference room tucked in a utilitarian building on the outskirts of town.
A third-generation Central Valley farmer, Phippen has sunburned cheeks that attest to the hours he spends outside, even well into his seventh decade.
“There isn’t anything in this business that I haven’t done personally,” he said.
He presides over a 2,500-acre orchard, a shelling plant that squeezes almonds out of their armored enclosures, a processing plant that pounds nuts into powdered form, a pair of warehouses and a mountain of discarded shells that he sells as feed to surrounding dairy farms.
Much of almond processing amounts to shaking trees, using heavy equipment to scoop up the resulting rain of material and then feeding the harvest into a diabolical assortment of machines that separate out the valuable bits from the detritus — pebbles, glass shards, twigs.
Phippen, meticulous about seemingly everything, stopped and frowned as he wandered around his warehouse, noticing one bag of almonds that was sagging ever so slightly to the left.
“I want them standing up straight,” he said.
“I’m a control freak,” he added — not by way of apology but as a point of pride. “When I have to count on other people to do things for me, I just don’t trust it will get done right.”
His attention to detail has allowed him to cater to the most lucrative markets like Japan and Dubai, where buyers are famously discerning and where the appearance of his almonds — free of scuffs, no broken pieces — has allowed him to charge a premium.
Phippen delights in the process and disdains transactions with customers, which he finds stressful and distracting, leaving that part to Blocker. The two men talk every day, sometimes more than once.
What they talk about lately is how to get containers onto ships. Phippen’s warehouse is now full of enough almonds to fill 678 containers.
In the busiest months of the year, he needs about 100 containers to handle his usual flow of exports. In January, he shipped 66. In February, 55, and in March, fewer than 50.
He flashed a look of incomprehension, of indignation.
“You get to the point where you’re defeated before you even get to work,” he said. “It’s a sick feeling.”
He has shelled out $820,000 to buy 3,000 more storage bins for his warehouses. He is spending another $700,000 to build an additional warehouse.
But he cannot shake the suspicion that he has become a rube in a global economy run for the benefit of others.
“There’s a lot of people taking advantage of the situation,” he said. “Somebody’s screwing with us. We’re getting jacked around here.”
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jay Wright shocked college basketball Wednesday night with his immediate resignation at Villanova, the Big East program he led to two national championships and four Final Fours in a Hall of Fame career.
The 60-year-old Wright guided Villanova to titles in 2016 and 2018 and just led the Wildcats to the Final Four, where they lost to national champion Kansas. He went 520-197 in 21 seasons at the school and 642-282 overall, also coaching Hofstra from 1994–2001.
“It’s time for us to enter a new era of Villanova basketball,” Wright said in a statement. “After 35 years in coaching, I am proud and excited to hand over the reins to Villanova’s next coach. I am excited to remain a part of Villanova and look forward to working with (Villanova) and the rest of the leadership team.”
Kyle Neptune, who served on the Villanova coaching staff before accepting the head coaching position at Fordham in 2021, returned to replace Wright.
“When looking for a successor, we wanted a candidate who could navigate the changing landscape of collegiate athletics and keep Villanova in a position of strength — now and in the future,” Villanova athletic director Mark Jackson said. “After meeting with several exceptional candidates, we found all those attributes and more in Kyle Neptune. Kyle quickly stood out for his basketball knowledge, recruiting savvy and natural ability to connect with student-athletes and coaches.”
Wright’s decision was unexpected and there was no immediate word the move was health related or that he was leaving for the NBA. He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021.
Wright will remain at Villanova and stay involved in fundraising, advising, education and more.
He joined North Carolina’s Roy Williams and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski as the third coach with multiple championship to step down over the last two years.
Before he arrived, Villanova was known for upsetting Georgetown in the 1985 national championship game and the occasional trip to the NCAA Tournament.
Wright needed three years to build a foundation before Villanova broke through with a trip to the 2005 Sweet 16. An Elite Eight appearance followed the next year and the Wildcats reached the Final Four in 2009.
Villanova won its first national title under Wright in 2016 on Kris Jenkins’ buzzer-beater and decimated the NCAA Tournament field in 2018, winning every game by double digits on its way to the national title.
He was selected AP coach of the decade in 2020.
The 37-year-old Neptune was on Wright’s staff for the 2009 Final Four team, then later spent three seasons as an assistant at Niagara before he returned to the Wildcats in 2013. He went 16-16 in his lone season at Fordham.
“I think he’s more ready to be a head coach than most young guys X’s and O’s-wise and I think he’s got great character, great leadership skills, I think he’s going to be an outstanding head coach,” Wright said when Neptune was hired at Fordham.
Wright’s decision comes after another successful season:
— He reached 25 or more victories for the 10th time in his 22 seasons.
— The Wildcats have won a regular-season or postseason conference championship in each of the nine seasons since the Big East reconfigured in 2013.
— The Wildcats earned a No. 1 or No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the eighth time under Wright.
During Wright’s tenure, he coached several future NBA stars, including Kyle Lowry, Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges, and Saddiq Bey.
“Ohhhhhhh thats tough !!! @kyleneptune WELL DESERVED,” Bridges, now a star with the Phoenix Suns, tweeted.
Wright was hired as head coach at Hofstra and went 207-122 with two NCAA Tournament appearances in seven seasons. Hired in 2001 to replace Steve Lappas, the Wildcats went to the NIT in Wright’s first three seasons.
“Simply a remarkable career,” said former Villanova AD Vince Nicastro, who hired Wright. “Will be regarded as one of the best coaches in college basketball history – and even better person. Has won with integrity, class and grace. And has served as a great role model for his players and colleagues.”
The Wildcats finished 30-8 this season and Wright’s final game was an 81-65 loss to Kansas in the Final Four.
Wright, a Churchville, Pennsylvania native, played college basketball at Bucknell and started as an assistant at Rochester and Drexel. He spent five seasons at Villanova as Rollie Massimino’s assistant, then followed him to UNLV for another two years before taking the head coaching job at Hofstra in 1994.
He rejected numerous NBA and other college overtures through the years and remained steadfast in his dedication to the Wildcats. Wright had stints coaching teams in the Pan American Games and World University Games; and served as an assistant coach under San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich for Team USA.
Wright was scheduled to discuss his decision at a press conference on Friday.
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