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NEW YORK (AP) — “Metropolis.” Bruce Lee. Woody Woodpecker. A pet cobra. All of these things have been inspirations behind Nicolas Cage performances — sometimes private homages that the actor has used like blueprints to build some of his most exaggerated, erratic and affecting characters.
A conversation with Cage, likewise, pulls from a wide gamut of sources. In a recent and typically wide-ranging interview ahead of the release of “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” Cage touched on Picasso, Elia Kazan, Timothée Chalamet and Francis Bacon. A book of interviews with Bacon, “The Brutality of Fact,” for instance, helped Cage define his attraction to intense, even grotesque performance — “that which is not obviously beautiful,” he says — rather than naturalism.
“And I’ve kind of approached my public perception, as well as the way I design my film work, as an actor with that concept in mind -- to not be afraid to be ugly in behavior or even in appearance,” says Cage. “To create a kind of taste that you have to discover."
With more than 100 films, the 58-year-old Cage — an Oscar-winner (“Leaving Las Vegas"), an action star ("Con Air") and the source of countless Internet memes for his most theatrical moments in films like “Face/Off" — has long been one of the most particular tastes in movies. Yet by being “an amateur surrealist,” as he refers to himself, Cage has emerged — even after resorting to a string of VOD releases to pay off back taxes and get himself out of debt — as one of Hollywood's most widely loved stars. As “Unbearable Weight” director Tom Gormican says, “the sight of his face sort of makes people happy.”
But for even the mercurial Cage, “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” which opens in theaters Friday, represents something different. In it, Cage plays himself. Or, rather, he plays a fun-house mirror version of himself that sometimes interacts with a younger version of himself. The movie is one big homage to Cage in which the actor somehow manages to both satirize perceptions of himself and act out those personas sincerely.
“The through line that’s always been there for me: No matter what I designed, and it has been a design whether it’s ridiculous — and it’s often ridiculous — or whether it’s sublime, it has to be informed with genuine emotional content,” says Cage.
“No matter how broad or what some folk like to call over the top, it had genuine feeling.”
But what to Cage constitutes over the top? This is the actor who, channeling Nosferatu in “Vampire's Kiss," gave one of the most bonkers recitals of the alphabet ever heard. He's fond of answering: “Well, show me where the top is and I'll tell you if I'm over it.”
“I grew up in a house where my mom would do things that if you put it in a movie, you would say that was over the top," says Cage, whose mother, Joy Coppola, was a dancer and choreographer. His father, August Coppola, brother of Francis, was a professor of literature. "But what is the top? When you want to design something and you think about different styles — naturalism, impressionism, surrealism, abstract — then you start to look at it in a different way. It’s not going to be for everybody and it’s not necessarily going to sell tickets. But that’s OK.”
“Movies are a business and it was not without peril that I took this path, but it was important to me,” he adds. “I stuck by it and, sure, I got plenty of rotten tomatoes thrown in my face. But I knew that was going to happen so it wasn’t anything I didn’t expect.”
But what's unusual about Cage is that many of those experiments HAVE sold tickets. A lot of them. Cage's films account for nearly $5 billion in worldwide box office. Still, it's been a while since he was front-and-center in a major studio film.
“The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent," which Lionsgate premiered at South by Southwest to warm reviews, allows him to play around with the notion of a comeback. In the film, he's desperate to score better parts than the birthday party he's been offered $1 million to attend. The movie was an opportunity to wrestle — usually comically, sometimes physically — with his own exaggerated mythology.
“He would come up to me and say, (lowers voice) ‘Tom, there’s a guy who wears rings and leather jackets and he lives in Las Vegas and he would never say that line,’” recalls Gormican. “And I would go, ‘Oh, you mean you.’ He’d say, ‘Yes.’ And I’d be like, ‘Well, it’s not you. It’s a character based on you.’ And he’d go, ‘But he has my name.’ I was like, ‘Come on, man, just say the line.’”
“We’d have discussions about who understood Nick Cage more,” adds Gormican, laughing.
Gormican was initially turned down several times by Cage before a heartfelt letter finally convinced the actor to make the film. The issue was that Cage, even at his most outlandish, has never put quotation marks around his performances. He tends to invest fully in even the most unhinged characters. (Werner Herzog's “Bad Lieutenant: Port of New Orleans” comes to mind.) Cage initially feared Gormican’s film would be self-mocking parody, and while it has those elements, Cage steers it in more unpredictable directions.
“Without mentioning names, there were some actors that came out of the gate that I thought were really sincere and profoundly emotional and honest in the beginning and then became too high on their own supply,” Cage says. “They started winking at the audience and, in my opinion, it lost the emotional connection. It’s a slippery slope when you make the decision that you want to be emotional and raw."
The actor does reach some gonzo heights in the film. After one scene, Gormican was honored to hear Cage say: “That was the Full Cage. You got the Full Cage.” Another scene features the two Cages making out, after which the younger exclaims, “Nick Cage smooches good!”
Cage's own exotic tastes — he once had to return a dinosaur skull he purchased that had been stolen from Mongolia — have contributed to his legend. But he insists that he is normal in his life so that he can be extreme in his work — and that some of his self-promotion, like an infamously nutty appearance on “Wogan,” was itself an act.
Cage last year married Riko Shibata, his fifth wife, and they are expecting a child. (Cage also has two grown sons; a sticking point in “Unbearable Weight” was that he not be shown as an absentee father — one fiction Cage wouldn't permit.) After an unusually introspective press tour for the film, Cage is looking forward to returning to the desert outside Las Vegas, where he lives. He could use a break from “Nick Cage.”
But “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" wraps a chapter for the actor. He's finally out of the red after making some 30 video-on-demand films over the last decade to pay off the IRS and his creditors. He makes no apologies for those films. They made him a better actor, he says.
“I was practicing. I managed to keep my access to my imagination at my fingertips. It was a much better way for me to get this financial crisis off my back than doing something like a Super Bowl commercial — and believe me they offered,” says Cage. “That was also a point for me, that I’m not a salesman, I’m an actor.”
Cage can also once again feel some mainstream momentum behind him. His performance in last year's “Pig,” as a grizzled truffle hunter with a past, earned some of his best reviews in years. It was a more naturalistic performance than Cage is generally known for — and a reminder of his limitless range. Having started professionally at 15, Cage reminds that he's been doing this a long time. To him, his path began, appropriately enough, with an audacious performance.
Cage's father, the actor says, had a massive influence on him, exposing him to books, early films and paintings. But he could cut his son down with words.
“And I just wasn’t going to take it,” says Cage. "I knew that he thought more of me than he let on. I tricked him once and I did something that I’ve never done ever again. I lied. I said, ‘Dad, I wrote this song.’ And I played him Joe Jackson’s “Is She Really Going Out With Him?” And he believed me. He said, “Wow, Nicky, that’s incredible.” Then I got the positive affirmation that I needed to believe in myself. That was the one time a lie saved me."
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Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Nicolas-Cage-faces-off-with-a-new-foe-Himself-17116986.php | 2022-04-21T17:05:55Z | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Nicolas-Cage-faces-off-with-a-new-foe-Himself-17116986.php | true | 24 |
China’s plans to boost energy security and cut carbon emissions mean this year’s sudden boom for Australian coal exporters is just a blip.
Our new research explores the double pressures of China’s plans to bolster energy security in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine while aiming to hit net zero within 40 years.
Our model suggests that if China sticks to its current climate pledges, thermal coal imports will drop by a quarter within three years from 210 megatonnes (Mt) in 2019 to 155Mt by 2025. That means Australian exports could fall by 20% by 2025, while Australian coking coal exports could fall even more. This is in stark contrast to predictions of stable demand or even continued growth by the Australian government.
How could this happen so quickly, when coal prices have roughly tripled compared to the last decade? In short, better infrastructure. China has invested in major rail projects, including a direct rail line to a major coking coal mine in Mongolia, as well as increasing use in scrap steel.
Coal’s wild ride in the volatile 2020s
The last few years have been a rollercoaster for coal producers. For Australia’s major coal exporters, it’s been a wild ride.
After falling for some years, coal prices fell sharply as the COVID pandemic and resulting lockdowns led to a sharp decline in energy consumption. Adding to the pressure, China banned the imports of coal from Australia.
Read more: Suddenly we are in the middle of a global energy crisis. What happened?
Before the disruption of the 2020s, China bought roughly a quarter of Australia’s exports of thermal coal (burned in power stations) and a similar share of coking coal exports (used in steelmaking).
In 2021, coal consumption and emissions shot back up after an unexpectedly strong economic rebound. Coal supplies were also disrupted due to COVID-related restrictions and workforce shortages. Together, these factors tripled coal spot prices to US$300 a tonne for thermal coal and US$450 a tonne for coking coal.
In China, the sudden scarcity of coal led to Australian coal held at its ports rushed through customs clearance. While the import ban formally remains in place, government data shows Australia has managed to divert most of its coal exports to countries such as India, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Chinese energy security means a drop in Australian seaborne coal
We expect all of these issues to be fairly short-lived. The big picture is China’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2060, and its interim target to peak emissions before 2030.
How will it do that? By expanding renewable power generation, increasing coal power station efficiency while reducing dependence on coal power longer term, and increased use of steel scrap. Better steel recycling will reduce demand for new steel, which requires two of Australia’s key exports, iron ore and coking coal. Reduced demand will inevitably affect China’s need to import coal.
For the next few years, coal will remain vital to China’s industrial strength and ability to power its cities. That’s where energy security comes in. China has invested heavily in freight railway capacity, in order to bring its own coal to its power and steel plants more cheaply.
It has also built rail connections to Tavan Tolgoi in neighbouring Mongolia, one of the world’s largest and cheapest sources of high-quality coking coal. With the new railway capacity, coking coal can now travel 1,200 kilometres to China’s steelmaking heartland in Hebei province, near Beijing.
We took these factors into account in modelling different scenarios for Australian coal. We assume China will follow through on its existing climate policies.
In our scenarios, the largest losses would be borne by the biggest current suppliers of thermal coal to China. Number one exporter Indonesia could see its exports almost halved by 2025, falling from 125Mt in 2019 to as low as 65Mt.
Overall, China’s thermal coal imports should fall rapidly, dropping from 210Mt in 2019 to 155Mt by 2025. That means even if the embargo on Australian coal is lifted, our exports of thermal coal to China could still fall from 50Mt in 2019 to between 40 and 30 Mt in that timeframe, depending on China’s level of climate ambition. Coking coal exports could fall from 30Mt to as low as 20Mt.
If the embargo remains in place, the drop in Chinese demand for seaborne coal will mean China’s current suppliers will shift back to competing in the global market, and push out Australian suppliers. The net effect on Australian exports will likely be comparable.
We also explored the scenario in which all of Australia’s currently planned coal mine expansions actually go ahead. We found even in this scenario, there would be little impact on the loss of market share in China. By contrast, if Mongolian mines expand, our model predicts they would readily fill Chinese market demand at the expense of Australian coking coal imports.
To get these predictions, we ran a cost optimisation model with greatly improved representations of transport networks. The model finds the lowest cost at which different mines could supply all of China’s power and steel plants. We did not factor in political choices based on energy security or concerns about “just transitions”, such as, for instance, a Chinese push to limit the pain for its substantial coal mining and trucking workforce.
Read more: China's energy crisis shows just how hard it will be to reach net zero
Overall, our model makes clear China’s demand for coal – expected to plateau or fall over the next few years – coupled with its expansion of domestic mine and transport capacity will reduce the role for Australian coal. The world’s top buyer of coal will increasingly be able to supply its power and steel plants with domestically mined coal at competitive costs.
In turn, that means it will be less costly for China to depend on what it considers to be volatile markets. It will also be easier to impose politically motivated import restrictions on suppliers from what it considers unfriendly countries.
China’s ability to cut seaborne coal imports will grow further if its government increases its decarbonisation ambitions. These plans will be a key influence on the the remaining demand for seaborne coal.
Australia’s government and investors would be wise to consider these macro-level changes and plans as they look ahead, rather than focusing on short term gains from current market volatility.
Alex Turnbull, fund manager at Keshik Capital, contributed to this article and was a co-author of the published research. He personally holds no coal stocks. | https://theconversation.com/chinas-demand-for-seaborne-coal-is-set-to-drop-fast-and-far-australia-should-take-note-181552 | 2022-04-21T17:07:21Z | https://theconversation.com/chinas-demand-for-seaborne-coal-is-set-to-drop-fast-and-far-australia-should-take-note-181552 | true | 2 |
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A series of explosions across Afghanistan on Thursday killed at least 10 people and wounded scores more, according to police and hospital officials.
No one immediately took responsibility for the deadly explosions, but they mostly targeted the country’s minority Shiite Muslims and had all the hallmarks of a deadly Islamic State affiliate known as Islamic State in Khorasan Province, or IS-K.
The worst of the three attacks occurred in northern Mazar-e-Sharif where at least 10 worshippers were killed as they knelt in prayer, said Dr. Ghawsuddin Anwari, head of the main hospital in northern Mazar-e-Sharif. Another 40 were injured. They were brought in ambulances and private cars.
The explosion at the Sai Doken mosque in northern Mazar-e-Sharif occurred as Muslims mark the holy month of Ramadan, when the faithful fast from sunrise to sunset.
Earlier Thursday in the capital, Kabul, a roadside bomb exploded and injured two children. That bomb also targeted the country’s minority Shiites, striking in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood of Kabul, dominated by Afghanistan’s minority Shiite Muslims.
Two days earlier in the same area, multiple explosions targeting educational institutions killed at least six people, mostly children, and wounded 17 others.
A third explosion Thursday, this one in northern Kunduz province, struck a vehicle carrying mechanics contracted by the ruling Taliban, according to Matiullah Rohani, head of information and culture in Kunduz province.
Thursday’s series of deadly explosions comes after months of relative calm in Afghanistan and after a crackdown against the IS-K by the country’s Taliban rulers in the first months following their sweep to power.
The IS affiliate, which has been operating in Afghanistan since 2014, is seen as the greatest security challenge facing the country’s Taliban rulers. Following their August takeover, the Taliban launched a sweeping crackdown against the IS headquarters in eastern Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, advocates for the minority Hazaras called for a stop to the killings. Hazaras, who make up around 9% of the population of Afghanistan’s 36 million people, stand alone in being targeted because of their ethnicity — distinct from the other ethnic groups, such as Tajik and Uzbek and the Pashtun majority — and their religion. Most Hazaras are Shiite Muslims, despised by Sunni Muslim radicals like the Islamic State group, and discriminated against by many in the Sunni-majority country.
The Islamic State affiliate has previously targeted schools, particularly in the Shiite-dominated Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood. In May last year, months before the Taliban took power in Kabul, more than 60 children, mostly girls, were killed when two bombs were detonated outside their school, also in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood.
Dasht-e-Barchi and other parts of western Kabul are houses to the Shiite minorities of Afghanistan which have mostly been targeted by the Islamic State affiliate loyalists, however, no one has claimed credit for the recent explosions.
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Associated Press Writers Tameem Akhgar and Rahim Faiez in Islamabad contributed to this report | https://www.ksnt.com/news/international/roadside-bomb-explosion-in-western-kabul-wounds-2-children/ | 2022-04-21T17:08:27Z | https://www.ksnt.com/news/international/roadside-bomb-explosion-in-western-kabul-wounds-2-children/ | true | 30 |
PARIS (AP) — From attacks on “wokeism” to crackdowns on mosques, France’s presidential campaign has been especially challenging for voters of immigrant heritage and religious minorities, as discourse painting them as “the other” has gained ground across a swath of French society.
French voters head to polls on Sunday in a runoff vote between centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron and nationalist rival Marine Le Pen, wrapping up a campaign that experts have seen as unusually dominated by discriminatory discourse and proposals targeting immigration and Islam.
With Le Pen proposing to ban Muslim headscarves in public, women like 19-year-old student Naila Ouazarf are in a bind.
“I want a president who accepts me as a person,” said Ouazarf, clad in a beige robe and matching head covering. She said she would defy the promised law should Le Pen become president and pay a fine, if necessary.
Macron attacked Le Pen on the headscarf issue during their presidential debate Wednesday, warning it could stoke “civil war.”
In the first-round vote, far-right candidates Le Pen and Eric Zemmour together collected nearly a third of votes. An elementary school teacher in the ethnically diverse Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on Thursday described pupils who are “scared to death” because of the campaign.
Le Pen’s National Rally party, formerly called the National Front, has a history of ties with neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers and militias that opposed Algeria’s war for independence from colonial France. Le Pen has distanced herself from that past and softened her public image.
But a top priority of her election program is to prioritize French citizens over immigrants for welfare benefits, a move that critics see as institutionalizing discrimination. Le Pen also wants to ban Muslim women from wearing headscaves in public, to toughen asylum rules and to sharply curtail immigration.
She has gained ground among voters since 2017, when she lost badly to Macron. This time around, Le Pen has put a greater emphasis on policies to help the working poor.
Saint-Denis student Yanis Benahmed, 20, said he was unconvinced by the candidate’s attempt to broader her appeal.
“We live in this city, and we know exactly how things are, the kind of people you have here,” he said. Le Pen “wants to ‘clean’ everything. With everything she’s said and her family history, we know exactly what her plan is. And Zemmour didn’t make it any better.”
The rabble-rousing Zemmour, who placed fourth in the first-round vote, boosted Le Pen’s popularity by making her seem softer. He has multiple convictions for inciting racial or religious hatred in France.
Zemmour also has promoted the baseless “great replacement” conspiracy theory, used as justification by the white supremacists who committed massacres in New Zealand’s Christchurch and in El Paso, Texas, and attacked a California synagogue.
“Eric Zemmour’s presence placed the issue (of Islam and immigration) on the side of aggressive and violent stigmatization,” Cecile Alduy, a Stanford semiologist who has studied Zemmour’s language, told The Associated Press. “Meanwhile, there is a decline in humanist values: words such as equality, human rights, fight against discrimination, or gender are qualified as politically correct or ‘wokeism’ by a large swath of media, public intellectuals, and ministers of the current government.”
For some experts and anti-racist groups in France, Macron, too, is at fault for the current climate. His administration has adopted legislation and language that echoes some far-right mottos in hopes of eating into Le Pen’s support.
Racial profiling and police brutality targeting people of color, which activists in France have long decried, have also remained a concern. During Macron’s presidency, France saw repeated protests against police violence after George Floyd, a Black American, died at the hands of police in the U.S.
Also under Macron’s watch, France passed a law against terrorism that enshrined in common law a state of emergency imposed after the deadly 2015 attacks on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and Charlie Hebdo newspaper.
The law extended the government’s right to search people, conduct surveillance, control movement and shut down some schools and religious sites in the name of fighting extremism.
Human rights watchdogs warned the law was discriminatory. “In some cases, Muslims may have been targeted because of their religious practice, considered to be ‘radical,’ by authorities, without substantiating why they constituted a threat for public order or security,” Amnesty International said.
In 2021, the government passed another law targeting what Macron labeled “separatism” by Muslim radicals. The measure extended the state’s oversight of associations and religious sites. The government’s own watchdog argued that the law’s scope was too broad.
Abdourahmane Ridouane has seen this firsthand. In February, two police officers handed him a notice of closure for the mosque he manages in the southwestern town of Pessac in Bordeaux wine country.
Authorities argued the mosque’s criticism of “state Islamophobia” allegedly encouraged and justified Muslim rebellion and terrorism. The authorities also criticized anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian posts on the mosque’s social media page.
Ridouane challenged the action and won on appeal. The appeals court found the closure was a “grave and manifest illegal infringement on religious liberty.” The state took the case to France’s highest court, which is expected to rule in the case soon.
“I felt deeply saddened by a process I deemed unworthy of a democratic state,” Ridouane told the AP.
Islam is France’s No. 2 religion, though there are no hard data on the races and religions of voters because of France’s doctrine of colorblindness, which sees all citizens as universally French and encourages assimilation. Critics say the principle allows authorities to ignore deep-seated discrimination, both on the French mainland and in overseas French territories where most voters aren’t white.
France has also seen the rise of criticism of “Islamo-leftism” and “wokeism,” and Macron’s government has commissioned a study into its presence in French universities. Yet race or colonial studies research departments don’t exist in French universities, because they are seen as contrary to French universalism.
“The election comes in this climate, the increasing right-wing and conservative discourse, a retreat into a white, universalist, colorblind discourse blind to all discriminations and systemic racism in French society,” said Nacira Guénif, an anthropology and sociology professor at Paris VIII University who focuses on race and gender.
On the left, meanwhile, “denial prevails,” Guénif said, because many left-wing French voters are “profoundly uncomfortable with the question of race because they think that talking about race makes you racist.”
The criticism of so-called “wokeism,” championed in particular by Zemmour’s campaign, is reminiscent of attacks on critical race theory in the U.S. Critical race theory is an academic framework that analyzes American history through the lens of racism. It centers on the idea that racism is systemic in U.S. institutions, which maintain the dominance of white people.
Despite concerns over some of the policies adopted in France under Macron, Ridouane, the Pessac mosque director, has no doubt for whom he will – and for whom he won’t – cast his vote for president on Sunday.
“If Le Pen manages to take the levers of power, it will be the worst thing we will have ever seen,” he said.
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Elaine Ganley in Paris and Sylvie Corbet and Alex Turnbull in Saint-Denis contributed to this report.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the French election at https://apnews.com/hub/french-election-2022 | https://www.ksnt.com/news/international/tensions-over-race-religion-in-frances-presidential-race/ | 2022-04-21T17:08:41Z | https://www.ksnt.com/news/international/tensions-over-race-religion-in-frances-presidential-race/ | false | 31 |
Sega has been in the news a lot over the last several weeks, and it looks like that will continue since a new batch of Sega Genesis titles might be coming to the Nintendo Switch later this week.
This speculation comes from scheduled maintenance for the Genesis portion of the Nintendo Switch Online subscription platform, which is scheduled to take place later today from around 7:55pm to 9pm CT.
Maintenance like this is typically only applied when new titles are being added to NSO. Two of the last three instances of this taking place resulted in the addition of several games like ToeJam & Earl and Light Crusader back in December and March. But this maintenance still shouldn’t be treated as an absolute indicator for new games since a previous update period on April 8 did not add anything. That one was shorter than the one scheduled for later tonight, however.
None of the recent leaks involving NSO have shown more Genesis games slated for an imminent arrival on the service. This doesn’t mean they aren’t coming, just that none have been spotted recently on the backend.
Related: Game Boy emulator for Switch Online reportedly leaked
With this news, some fans are hoping for Sega classics like other Sonic the Hedgehog games or Rocket Knight Adventures to finally make the leap, though the former is unlikely since the Sonic Origins collection is releasing on June 23 and remasters four games. | https://dotesports.com/general/news/new-sega-genesis-games-might-be-coming-to-nintendo-switch-online-later-today | 2022-04-21T17:10:44Z | https://dotesports.com/general/news/new-sega-genesis-games-might-be-coming-to-nintendo-switch-online-later-today | true | 1 |
On April 4, the Senate agreed to a $10 billion package to fund the Biden administration’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The negotiators heralded it as a major success, and the administration announced that it would allow vital COVID services to continue.
Yet, as with so much else that passes for “success” in this fractured and fractious political environment, the bill was in fact a stunning failure — in this case, representing a disaster for the basic principles of global pandemic response.
President Biden had initially requested over $22 billion in funding — for ongoing testing and vaccines, for medical research, and, crucially, for overseas aid, to help poorer countries ramp up their testing and vaccine regimens. In the original proposal, $5 billion was dedicated to the international response.
Since 2020, the pandemic has raged in poorer countries such as India, but the exact scale of its carnage has often been underplayed by those countries’ governments. India, for example, claims that it has lost about 500,000 citizens to the disease. This week, however, the World Health Organization estimated that the true number was closer to 4 million. Without accurate public health data, it becomes ever harder to tailor appropriate responses to the pandemic in those countries; and without effective interventions, the risk of new, potentially more lethal variants emerging, grows by the day.
Most Americans, and the vast majority of elderly Americans, have had at least two shots against COVID, with many having also received their boosters (and many of those who aren’t vaccinated have made a conscious choice not to be, despite the widespread availability of free vaccines). By contrast, in poorer nations, vaccination rates remain perilously low, often not by choice. By the start of 2022, only about 10 percent of Africans had both the original course of vaccines and the booster shots. In many countries, such as Mali and South Sudan, Tanzania and Cameroon, only about 1 in 20 had received even their first vaccine dose. According to The New York Times global tracker, in Uganda, only 1 in 1,000 individuals have received boosters. Only 3 percent of Pakistanis have received their boosters. Only 2.2 percent of Georgians have been boosted. And the list goes on.
These are abysmal numbers, and they point to the ongoing need for massive international investments and assistance in providing vaccines to poor countries, and then in helping those countries actually get shots into arms.
Wealthy countries, which invested huge sums in mRNA vaccines, have managed to largely kick-start their economies again, and return life to relative normalcy for residents after months of lockdowns, and keep their health systems afloat even during recent surges. However, poorer countries risk ongoing health system inundation with each new surge. The U.S., U.K., and other affluent, powerful nations are now acting as if the pandemic is largely over; yet for poorer nations, largely unvaccinated nearly 30 months into the public health crisis, it is possible that the worst days of the outbreak are still to come.
At the end of the Senate negotiations, in which Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) served as the GOP negotiator, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer trumpeted a deal that made available far less than half the amount initially requested and contained exactly zero dollars earmarked for international COVID responses. If that’s a “success,” God only knows what a Schumer failure would look like.
For the past 15 months, the GOP, along with a handful of more conservative Democratic senators, have stymied almost every major spending initiative and policy priority of the Biden administration. And time and again, the White House and its Senate allies have caved, arguing that a little bit is better than nothing. It’s been a losing strategy politically: Witness the continual compromising around the Build Back Better Act, and the ultimate failure to secure any legislation on that front; witness the cascading series of failures to implement meaningful climate change policies. It has also been a losing strategy in terms of public opinion: Witness Biden’s collapsing poll ratings, especially among younger, more idealistic voters, and the broad sense among the voting public that the administration waffles away its political capital rather than truly doubling down and fighting for what it believes in.
What happened on April 4 is yet another example of the escalating ineffectiveness of an administration that has lost all ability to make the Senate tack its way on even the most common-sense of issues. It’s not as if $5 billion in international COVID assistance would break the U.S. economy: that’s about what the country spends on the military in two days. It’s about $268 billion less than what Elon Musk, the U.S.’s richest individual, is worth. That $5 billion could be funded by a miniscule tax increase on Musk and other super-rich Americans. It’s about 1/20 the average amount Americans spend on their pets annually. It’s less than a third of what Medicare spends on insulin each year.
If the political will were there, it’s inconceivable that funds wouldn’t have been easily found to cover international vaccine efforts. Yet political goodwill is in perilously short supply in Washington these days.
As if to prove the point that this was less to do with fiscal responsibility and more to do with political gamesmanship, a day after the much-heralded “bipartisan” agreement was reached, the GOP began pushing to tack on even more cost-cutting and anti-asylum seeker amendments, and the Senate moved further away from actually passing the deal that its own negotiators had reached only the previous day. By April 8, Schumer had accepted that the legislation wouldn’t be passed before the Senate recessed for Easter and announced that no vote would be held until at least April 25.
So much for Biden and Schumer’s vaunted negotiating skills. The story of the U.S.’s disengagement with the international COVID response efforts is a saga of failure and abandonment, pure and simple.
Every time Schumer trumpets a “bipartisan” agreement, the result is something that progressive Democrats hate and that the GOP views as simply a launch pad to further extremes. It’s past time for Schumer to actually fight for important political values and vital societal investments. If he can’t, or won’t, then he is simply whistling in the wind. | https://truthout.org/articles/senate-agreed-to-10-billion-covid-package-with-no-money-for-global-response/ | 2022-04-21T17:13:04Z | https://truthout.org/articles/senate-agreed-to-10-billion-covid-package-with-no-money-for-global-response/ | true | 1 |
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The Cardinals scored a 9-2 win in the second game of a doubleheader Wednesday afternoon on the road against Kilgore to salvage a Region XIV Conference split. The Cardinals fell 6-2 in Game 1.
The Cardinals, who improved to 19-31 on the season and 6-12 in conference with the Game 2 win, are scheduled to be at home Saturday against Tyler. Action at Drumgoole Field at Cain Park is set to start at 1 p.m.
GAME 1
Kilgore scored five runs in the first two innings to take command of the scoreboard and never relinquish it.
The Cardinals had four hits with Abigail Garcia, Alondra Vasquez, Lena Sellam and Karlie Cook getting one each.
Rawnie Weststrate went the distance in the circle, striking out six.
GAME 2
The score was tied 0-0 going into the fourth inning before the Cardinals blew the game open. They led 5-0 going into the sixth.
Fernanda Ocrospoma went 2-for-4 at the plate, including a home run. She drove in four runs.
Vasquez also had a home run and had three RBI.
Garcia drove in a pair of runs.
Morgan Brandon scattered five hits in a seven-inning effort in the circle. | https://www.athensreview.com/news/cardinal-softball-splits-with-kilgore/article_71a8f342-c17d-11ec-9197-b7db028b1edf.html | 2022-04-21T17:15:59Z | https://www.athensreview.com/news/cardinal-softball-splits-with-kilgore/article_71a8f342-c17d-11ec-9197-b7db028b1edf.html | true | 1 |
Alaqua Cox has confirmed that Echo, Marvel's Hawkeye spin-off show, will begin filming tomorrow (April 22).
Cox's character Maya Lopez was first introduced in Hawkeye season 1 as an antagonist for Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) and Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld).
Echo – aka Maya Lopez – is known for being able to perfectly mimic another person's movements and fighting moves, and crosses paths with the likes of the Avengers, Daredevil and Moon Knight in the comics.
The Marvel star shared a picture on her Instagram Stories of flowers and a card that had been sent to her to celebrate the series' first day of filming.
The accompanying card made reference to the upcoming show making history, as the series will mark the first Marvel Studios production led by a Deaf or Native American character.
"[Devery Jacobs] decided to surprise me with these beautiful flowers before the first day of filming tomorrow," Cox shared alongside a bouquet of white roses.
Production for the show is reportedly taking place around Atlanta. Locations will also include some smaller towns outside of the city to get a small-scale feel.
Cox previously opened up about being given the chance to lead her own show following her acclaimed performance in Hawkeye.
"It's just so crazy that I'm getting my own show after Hawkeye. That was like my first acting role, ever," she said.
"I don't know why they're giving me this opportunity, but I'm just grateful. I'm excited for the support and being able to advocate for the Deaf community. We want to have that equality and get more people involved. I'm just so grateful for all of the opportunities I've been given."
She continued: "It's crazy how much my life has already changed because I was a college dropout. I worked at a factory. I'm so excited to show people who I am and what I can do, what anybody can do."
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Giants GM Joe Schoen seemed loose, excited and at ease at Wednesday’s press conference, eight days out from his first NFL Draft as a general manager.
One reason for Schoen’s enthusiasm, it seems, is that he likes the action. He holds two high first-round picks at No. 5 and 7 overall, and Schoen says they’re in demand.
“We have received calls on both picks,” Schoen said.
He hasn’t received a hard offer or negotiated a price yet. There are plenty of possible trade-up candidates, though, including the Atlanta Falcons (No. 8), Seattle Seahawks (No. 9), New Orleans Saints (Nos. 16 and 19) and Pittsburgh Steelers (No. 20), to name a few.
“It’s too early to make any type of decision like that,” Schoen said. “Just some teams called and said, ‘Would you be willing to move?’ That’s kind of where it is right now. My comment was as the draft gets closer, we can talk more if there’s any specifics, if you’re serious about doing it.”
For now, Schoen is operating like he’s making picks at Nos. 5 and 7. The next step is for Schoen and the Giants’ personnel staff to compare their vertical board player rankings with those of Brian Daboll and the Giants coaching staff to get on the same page.
“There’s a few players where we’re gonna shut the door and lock it and have knockdown dragouts,” Schoen, 42, said with a smile. “And when we come out we’re gonna make the best decision for the Giants. But there’s not a lot of players that there’s a big separation in terms of how we see them.”
Schoen said “by Monday, you’ll find out who is serious” about trading up in this NFL Draft, though. And judging from the Giants GM’s comments on Wednesday, he’s looking forward to next week’s dance with other general managers to figure out the best scenario for his team.
“I’m perfectly fine at five and seven,” Schoen said, doing some negotiating through the media. “To me, it really wouldn’t make sense right now to do anything unless it blew the doors off, something you can’t turn down.”
Schoen could be eager to trade back based on the value he sees — or doesn’t see — on the first round draft board.
For example, while the Giants are prioritizing their offensive line this offseason, Schoen said it’s important not to reach for a player at a position of need.
“That will definitely be a priority,” Schoen said of the O-line. “It’s just the need, the value, where that is, you just gotta make sure that mirrors up or you’re gonna be in the same boat.
“If you try to force it and it’s not the right value, we’re sitting up here next year saying the same thing,” he continued. “Yeah, we needed a guard so we reached for him, but the value wasn’t right. You’ve got to make sure … those two meet and marry each other. That’s when you’re gonna make the best decisions.”
So does that mean Schoen likes offensive tackles like Mississippi State’s Charles Cross, N.C. State’s Ikem Ekwonu and Alabama’s Evan Neal, but not at the value of picks No. 5 or 7?
That’s possible, although Schoen did call Cross “a really good player” with “really good feet” and admitted “we like him.” He said all three of those players are “great players and great kids” who “all have bright futures.”
Plus, Schoen also cautioned that if you like a player, sometimes it’s better to just draft the guy than to trade back and risk losing him and slip into no-man’s land.
“I’ve been there before,” he said. “You get greedy, say let’s move back, and then that guy’s gone. Are you gonna sleep better at night knowing you got an extra sixth-round pick and you moved back four spots but you lose the guy you want? Or let’s just take the guy and not be greedy.”
Schoen said for that reason, he puts himself through exercises and scenarios to gauge how the board might fall, and which players might be available when.
“That’s why sometimes I do a vertical board like how many players are available, who do we like, if we move back ‘X’ amount of spots, are we gonna get one of these five guys? Yes? Then it makes sense and you get an extra pick,” he said.
The Carolina Panthers’ presence at pick No. 6 adds an interesting element to the entire process, too. That’s a team that could go quarterback or offensive tackle, or trade back to allow someone else to leapfrog the Giants at No. 7.
“Yeah I’ve thought about that several times,” Schoen said with a smirk. “What are they doing, trying to figure out what position they might go, because that will make a difference in what you do.
“If you’re sitting there at five and there’s somebody you really like, and there’s two other players maybe at the same position you like as well — or just two players in general that you’re happy with regardless of position — that can also factor into who you take at No. 5,” he admitted. “But we’re going through several of those scenarios, who may be there, if they are, how we’re gonna go through and make the pick and what we’re gonna do.”
This year’s draft also has been more difficult to predict due to the lack of premier quarterbacks and teams’ secrets about who they prefer.
“Nobody has shown their hands on the quarterbacks,” Schoen confirmed.
Schoen sounds like he’s preparing for the possibility of trading back, though, and it’s refreshing that he’s keeping all of those doors open.
He hasn’t slammed the door on potentially lucrative opportunities all offseason: from welcoming and taking calls on Saquon Barkley and James Bradberry to entertaining draft overtures now.
When asked if he has seven players he likes for those two top picks, Schoen couched his answer with this:
“Do I have seven right now?” He said. “Yeah… [But] we’re gonna get with the coaches and make sure we’re on board with not just seven. If there’s a move back scenario, whatever that is, do we have 10, 15, 20 players that we like and make sure we get them in the right order as football players.”
One of the motivations could be to acquire extra draft capital in 2023 — something the Philadelphia Eagles already did — which would be useful if the Giants need a quarterback.
“If it’s picks this year or picks into the future, those are cost controlled assets that young players that could really help us set the foundation here,” Schoen said. “So I’d be open to either or.”
Open is good. The next step is action. Schoen seems eager to take it when the time is right.
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In 2013, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report that stated that a slower GDP is expected to become the ‘new normal’ by 2022. Despite this, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that the fourth quarter of 2021 yielded an increase in GDP for 47 states, and an annual increase in real GDP of 6.9 per cent. This growth comes as a result of a tapering pandemic, and despite a global climate of economic uncertainty. Many European countries, despite their own economic hurdles, have developed a key interest in expanding business to the US. This expansion often leads to fruitfulness, as the US offers a unique market and set of opportunities.
When considering moving business to the US, or simply expanding an original business within a global setting, businesses need to be aware of a number of factors. Reflecting on and analyzing the market are vital to tapping into the US.
What to consider when expanding to the US
Know the timing
Many businesses make the idea of expanding to the US an integral part of their business operations. These businesses plan out products and services for the US market from the initial stages of their business formation. By starting early, there will be a significant amount of time allowed for actively planning and strategizing for the big move. Similarly, there will be time for funding to be accrued and invested. This is helpful, as an international expansion can be expensive. It is also important to allocate a great deal of time to researching and understanding the American market. This will allow the business to better grapple with the US consumers.
On the other hand, many other businesses choose to first establish themselves within the European market. This allows these businesses to build a consumer base, as well as a brand name and identity. Similarly, it allows them to develop revenue before thoughts of expansion arise. This option can be beneficial, as it does not necessitate external funding. However, planning for the expansion will take time, and will have to be done whilst running an existing business.
Choose the location
A vital aspect of expansion and tapping into the US market is considering the location, or state, in which the business will operate in. This is contingent on whether the European business decides to set up an owned subsidiary. This is recommended, as it smoothes out the process of hiring employees, and eases tax concerns.
When considering where to locate the business, companies need to analyze their potential consumer base and market. This means that consumer proximity, as well as employee proximity, are taken into account. In addition to this, businesses need to assess the tax laws surrounding their chosen location, as well as the general cost to the company, as a result of that space.
Understand LLC law
When setting up a business in the US, European companies need to assess and analyze the LLC laws and regulations of the US market, as well as the specific tax laws of each state. Understanding LLC regulations, in addition to the tax laws per state, will allow the business to understand the viability of the expansion. Similarly, it will help them choose the most appropriate and beneficial destination. Many businesses choose to use the external help of LLC services in the US. These services aid businesses in better understanding LLCs in the US, and provide a helping hand in LLC formation.
Best LLC Services has an extensive list of resources that can help European businesses better understand LLC regulations and laws within the US. This guide ranks and rates the top LLC services in the US.
Know the cost
Possibly the most important factor to consider when expanding to the US market, is the cost. This will make or break the expansion, and will affect the outcome of tapping into the consumer pool in the US.
Businesses need to be aware that employees and talent in the US come at a great cost. This is in addition to all the tax that any business will have to cover. Certain locations in the US, like California or New York, have very high employee salaries. In a similar way, certain locations will charge a much higher rate for property, land and space.
Final thoughts
Tapping into the US market can take time and large sums of money. It is important to spend a length of time analyzing and researching both the market, and all the factors that are at play when expanding to the US. These factors include, overall cost, location, time, and LLC laws. Expanding to an international market is a big economic move for any business, and recognising the most appropriate way to do it is vital. Businesses can learn more about LLC laws and regulations through the help of LLC services and agents.
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In today’s recent session, 0.55 million shares of the Avantor Inc. (NYSE:AVTR) were traded. Most recently the company’s share price was $32.41, and it changed around -$0.32 or -0.98% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $20.19B. AVTR at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $44.37, offering almost -36.9% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $29.58, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 8.73% since then. We note from Avantor Inc.’s average daily trading volume that its 3-month average coming to 4.72 million.
Avantor Inc. stock received a consensus recommendation rating of a Buy, based on a mean score of 1.60. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 18 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 4 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 1 recommended AVTR as a Hold, whereas 13 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Avantor Inc. is expected to report earnings per share of $0.36 for the current quarter.
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Avantor Inc. (NYSE:AVTR) trade information
Instantly AVTR has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -0.98% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 33.11 on Wednesday, 04/20/22 increased the stock’s daily price by 2.11%. The company’s shares are currently down -22.33% year-to-date, but still up 7.81% over the last five days. On the other hand, Avantor Inc. (NYSE:AVTR) is -5.10% up in the 30-day period.
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $44.25, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 26.76% from its current value. Analyst projections state that AVTR is forecast to be at a low of $38.00 and a high of $55.00. In order for the stock price to hit the forecast high, the stock would need to plunge -69.7% from its current level, while the stock would need to crash -17.25% from its current level to reach the projected low.
Avantor Inc. (AVTR) estimates and forecasts
Avantor Inc. share prices are performing particularly well not compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have fallen -14.39 percent over the past six months and at a 6.38% annual growth rate that is well below the industry average of 7.50%. Moreover, analysts have decided to roll up on their fiscal year 2022 revenue estimates. The rating firms predict that it will gain 2.90% in revenue this quarter, and will report an increase of 5.70% in the next quarter. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 8.30%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 14 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of $1.93 billion in revenue for the current quarter. 14 analysts expect Avantor Inc. to make $2 billion in revenue for the quarter ending Jun 2022. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were $1.7 billion and $1.74 billion respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 13.60%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 14.80%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 66.20%. Avantor Inc. earnings are expected to increase by 850.60% in 2022, but the outlook is positive 20.00% per year for the next five years.
AVTR Dividends
Avantor Inc.’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on April 28.
Avantor Inc. (NYSE:AVTR)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 1.68% of Avantor Inc. shares, and 94.87% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 96.49%. Avantor Inc. stock is held by 719 institutions, with Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc being the largest institutional investor. By Dec 30, 2021, it held 11.78% of the shares, which is about 71.87 million shares worth $3.03 billion.
Vanguard Group, Inc. (The), with 8.25% or 50.32 million shares worth $2.12 billion as of Dec 30, 2021, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Price (T.Rowe) Mid Cap Growth Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Dec 30, 2021. The former held 14.72 million shares worth $620.4 million, making up 2.41% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Price (T.Rowe) Mid Cap Growth Fund held roughly 14.33 million shares worth around $603.95 million, which represents about 2.35% of the total shares outstanding. | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/04/21/avantor-inc-nyse-avtr-the-stock-to-bet-on-for-economic-progress-in-the-months-ahead/ | 2022-04-21T17:25:38Z | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/04/21/avantor-inc-nyse-avtr-the-stock-to-bet-on-for-economic-progress-in-the-months-ahead/ | true | 706 |
Mysore/Mysuru: Member of the erstwhile Mysore royal family Pramoda Devi Wadiyar, titular head Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar and his wife Trishika Kumari Wadiyar will unveil the bust of Sri Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar atop Chamundi Hill at 9.30 am tomorrow.
Chamundi Hill Gram Panchayat President Bharath Kalaiah told Star of Mysore that Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar’s bust will be unveiled by Pramoda Devi Wadiyar at 9.30 am tomorrow. MP Pratap Simha, MLA G.T. Devegowda, Temple Executive Officer Yathiraj Sampathkumaran, Chamundeshwari Temple Chief Priest Dr. N. Shashishekar Dikshit and others will be present. As part of the inauguration, Vidwan Krishnamurthy and team will present a Nadaswara music recital, he said adding that the bust has been installed in the park located opposite the Chamundi Hill Police Outpost and Gram Panchayat Office.
Recalling the contribution made by Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1918-1974) for the overall development of the Hill and making it an international tourist attraction, Bharath said that Chamundi Hill villagers and members of the public have voluntarily contributed funds for the installation of the bust, out of great respect for the erstwhile Mysore Kings.
Stating that the granite bust has been sculpted by Mysuru-based sculptor Surya Prakash, brother of noted sculptor Arun Yogiraj, who is credited for the splendid sculpture of Adi Shankaracharya installed in Kedarnath, he said that the total height of the bust is six-and-a-half feet, with the bust measuring a height of 3.5 ft. and the pedestal 3 ft. Pointing out that the total cost of the bust including the installation cost is Rs. 8 lakh, he said that the cost includes the actual cost of the granite, construction of pedestal and steps, development of garden, installation of grills etc., he added. | https://starofmysore.com/jayachamarajendra-wadiyars-bust-unveiling-atop-chamundi-hill-tomorrow/ | 2022-04-21T17:26:09Z | https://starofmysore.com/jayachamarajendra-wadiyars-bust-unveiling-atop-chamundi-hill-tomorrow/ | true | 1 |
The friends they made. The lives they led. The memories they cherished. Here we mourn and celebrate the lives of Blue Aces who have passed, but whose legacies persist. As always, advancement via individual determination.
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Interpol fans have a lot to forward to in summer 2022.
They’re going on a spring solo tour, their first time on the road since 2019, along with feature acts Tycho and Matthew Dear from April 25 through May 21.
Then, in late summer, they’re co-headlining with Spoon on their “Lights, Camera, Faction” Tour. Australian pop trio Goon Sax will open on select dates.
Oh yeah, in between, they’re releasing their album “The Other Side of Make Believe,” the group’s first since 2018′s “Marauder.”
Plus, they’ll be at the highly anticipated ‘00s nostalgia fest Just Like Heaven along with major headliners like Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand, M.I.A., The Shins and Bloc Party.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
If you want to rock out like it’s 2004 all over again, here’s everything you need to know.
Where can I buy Interpol tickets?
Tickets to see the New York City natives are on sale wherever tickets are sold.
NJ.com readers using Vivid Seats for the first time can get $20 off ticket orders over $200 with promo code NJ20 at checkout.
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Other great ‘00s rock groups on tour in 2022
Many rock bands from the “Rock Band” era are back in a big way this year. If you’re still wearing out your iPod playlists from 2003-2007, here’s five tours that get you out of the house in the next few months.
- The Killers’ “Imploding the Mirage Tour”
- Franz Ferdinand’s “Hits To The Head Tour”
- Modest Mouse’s “Golden Casket Tour”
- The National’s “Summer 2022 Tour”
- Death Cab for Cutie
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Ukraine’s Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko walked out of a Group of 20 meeting Wednesday as Russia’s representative started talking.
Several finance ministers and central bank governors also left the room, according an official familiar with the meetings, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the event was not public. Some ministers and central bank governors who attended the meeting virtually turned their cameras off when Russian President Vladimir Putin’s representative spoke, the person said.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said of Yellen’s walkout: “Certainly we support her steps and it’s an indication of the fact that President Putin and Russia has become a pariah on the global stage.”
The incident came amid the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings, in which finance leaders try to tackle the world’s most pressing issues. The brutal effects of Russia’s war against Ukraine have taken center stage, and Treasury Department officials said earlier this week that Yellen would try to avoid contact with Russians who plan to attend some G-20 virtually.
President Joe Biden has said that Russia should not remain a member of the G-20, an international body of the world’s biggest economies that promotes economic cooperation between countries. Indonesia is the host country for G-20 summit in November.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Indonesia’s finance minister, when asked about Russia’s participation in the G-20 and the about the walkout, said that the multilateral forum is a place to “express the views of all members and invitees.”
Psaki reiterated the administration’s position that “we can’t have business as usual” at the G-20 and other international forums when it comes to Russia. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/yellen-ukraine-official-walk-out-of-russias-g-20-remarks/ | 2022-04-21T17:29:12Z | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/yellen-ukraine-official-walk-out-of-russias-g-20-remarks/ | false | 31 |
Ascend Rochelle Park is now selling to both adult-use and medical consumers
NEW YORK, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Ascend Wellness Holdings, Inc. ("AWH" or the "Company") (CSE: AAWH.U) (OTCQX: AAWH), a multi-state, vertically integrated cannabis operator focused on bettering lives through cannabis, today announced the commencement of recreational cannabis sales at their Ascend dispensary in Rochelle Park, New Jersey, located at 174 NJ-17 N.
This announcement follows AWH's recent approval by the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission ("CRC") as one of seven Class 5 Retailer Licenses now permitted to sell recreational cannabis to consumers in New Jersey. To ensure adequate access for both medical and recreational visitors, consumers over 21 can now access a separate adult-use menu featuring a wide selection of products, including flower, edibles, vapes and more.
To provide a streamlined retail experience, Ascend Rochelle Park will require adult-use customers to reserve a 20-minute shopping appointment at letsascend.com ahead of visits. To preserve the same excellent service level our medical patients have become accustomed to, Ascend will now provide medical patients with a host of dedicated services, including the dispensary's medical express lane, direct access to the front entrance, private consultation rooms, and designated parking spots.
"Ascend Rochelle Park has served thousands of New Jersey medical patients since opening last year," said Chris Melillo, Chief Revenue Officer of AWH. "Existing patients can rest assured that they remain a priority and will continue to enjoy our top-tier services without disruption as we welcome adult-use consumers to the New Jersey Ascend community. We are excited to serve all New Jersey cannabis consumers and look forward to commencing recreational sales in our other locations across the Garden State. We look forward to continuing to partner with the town of Rochelle Park and bring great jobs to this dynamic area."
Please note, that the Rochelle Park store is open from 8 am to 8 pm daily, but the first hour and the last hour of the day are reserved for medical patients.
AWH is a vertically integrated operator with assets in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. AWH owns and operates state-of-the-art cultivation facilities, growing award-winning strains and producing a curated selection of products. AWH produces and distributes its in-house Ozone, Ozone Reserve, and Simply Herb branded products. For more information, visit www.awholdings.com.
This news release includes forward-looking information and statements, which may include, but are not limited to, information and statements regarding the plans, intentions, expectations, estimates, and beliefs of the Company. Words such as "expects", "continue", "will", "anticipates" and "intends" or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on the Company's current projections and expectations about future events and financial trends, and on certain assumptions and analysis made by the Company in light of experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments and other factors management believes are appropriate.
Forward-looking information and statements involve and are subject to assumptions and known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause actual events, results, performance, or achievements of the Company to be materially different from future events, results, performance, and achievements expressed or implied by forward-looking information and statements herein. Such factors include, among others: the risks and uncertainties identified in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and in the Company's other reports and filings with the applicable Canadian securities regulators and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Although the Company believes that any forward-looking information and statements herein are reasonable, in light of the use of assumptions and the significant risks and uncertainties inherent in such information and statements, there can be no assurance that any such forward-looking information and statements will prove to be accurate, and accordingly, readers are advised to rely on their own evaluation of such risks and uncertainties and should not place undue reliance upon such forward-looking information and statements. Any forward-looking information and statements herein are made as of the date hereof, and except as required by applicable laws, the Company assumes no obligation and disclaims any intention to update or revise any forward-looking information and statements herein or to update the reasons that actual events or results could or do differ from those projected in any forward-looking information and statements herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or results, or otherwise, except as required by applicable laws.
The CSE has not reviewed, approved or disapproved the content of this news release.
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Which XL face masks are best?
When choosing the best mask to keep yourself and those around you safe from airborne pathogens, it’s critical to buy the one most able to filter particles from the air. But another big part of selecting the right face covering is picking something that you’ll wear consistently, wash regularly and dispose of when it’s lost its effectiveness. It can be challenging for those with large heads or prominent facial hair to find something that works well and remains comfortable for long periods.
With that in mind, the best XL face mask is the Kore Lyfe KF94. It’s practically identical to an N95 in terms of performance and it sports a Korean-made filter that adheres to the country’s strict filtration requirements.
What to know before you buy an XL face mask
The right mask can protect both you and others
Standard surgical masks help prevent the spread of droplets and airborne respiratory pathogens by slowing down and lightly filtering the air you exhale. The same can be said for fabric masks, which many people find more comfortable than surgical masks.
Unfortunately, those two types don’t do a ton to protect the wearer from pathogens around them (although they can do a little). Respirators such as N95, KN95 and KF94 masks do the best job of preventing the wearer from spreading and being exposed to airborne particles.
The more layers, the better
One layer is better than none, three layers are better than one, and five layers are the best of all. Many simple cloth masks have just a single layer of cotton, which isn’t incredibly effective. Many professional-grade respirators have up to five layers, which enables them to filter 95% of particles from the air you breathe. More layers also mean a mask will seem slightly more difficult to breathe through at first but rest assured that a properly fitted mask won’t lower your oxygen levels or cause you to inhale excess CO2.
Reusable masks must be washed regularly
No matter what kind of mask you use, start by not touching the main part of the mask any more than necessary to keep it as clean as possible. If you opt for a reusable cloth mask, make sure to have several on hand and wash each day’s mask immediately after using it for the best possible protection.
What to look for in a quality XL face mask
Adjustable ear loops
If a mask isn’t comfortable, you won’t want to wear it. If it doesn’t fit snugly on your face, it won’t be very effective. Therefore, ear loops with adjustable tension are the best bet for a consistent fit that doesn’t dig into your skin too much.
Unfortunately, some of the most effective extra-large respirators don’t have adjustable ear loops or the same reliable head straps offered by many premium N95 masks. In those cases, you can use head straps (also called ear savers) to secure the mask firmly and avoid hurting the backs of your ears.
Filter pockets on cloth masks
Some cloth masks have sewn-in sleeves for holding PM2.5 particulate filters. While these replaceable filters still don’t bring fabric masks up to the protection level of true respirators, they can make a difference. Luckily, they’re also highly affordable.
Adjustable nose wires
One of the most frustrating parts of masks for glasses-wearers is that your lenses will inevitably fog up. Even if you don’t wear glasses, it gets annoying if your mask keeps slipping. In addition to getting a properly fitting mask, a metal nose piece can go a long way toward minimizing fog and slippage.
How much you can expect to spend on an XL face mask
Disposable surgical masks cost about a quarter each, and disposable respirators such as KF94s are usually under $2 a piece. Reusable cloth masks generally cost a few dollars, and replacement PM2.5 filters cost a few cents.
XL face mask FAQ
Are disposable masks reusable?
A. According to the Center for Diseason Control and Prevention, you can reuse respirators such as N95 masks up to five times as long as they don’t show visible signs of damage like discoloration or fraying. To ensure they’re mostly decontaminated before reuse, hang them in a dry area for 48 hours. It is safer to avoid reusing them if possible, but if mask supplies are low in your area, a reused one can be almost as effective as a fresh one.
On the other hand, you should not reuse simple blue surgical masks.
Do masks work if I have a beard?
A. If your entire beard fits under the mask and the mask holds tightly to your skin, you’re in the clear. Unfortunately, facial hair that sticks out from under a mask will significantly reduce effectiveness. The bushiest and robust beards can render even the best respirators barely useful. Still, any mask is better than no mask.
Are masks safe to wear if I have asthma?
A. Yes. In almost every case, masks are safe and effective for those with asthma. In fact, asthma patients must wear a mask due to complications that can arise from viral or bacterial respiratory illness.
Do I still need to wear a mask if I’m vaccinated?
A. Yes. Aside from specific requirements in some regions, buildings and modes of transport, no vaccine is 100% effective. Wearing a clean, properly fitting mask can significantly reduce the chances of transmitting a respiratory disease in close quarters with other people, even if you’re fully vaccinated.
What’s the best XL face mask to buy?
Top XL face mask
What you need to know: Made in Korea to a stringent high standard, they work about as well as the best N95 masks.
What you’ll love: If you need the best possible protection, these black-colored masks are right for you. They come in a pack of 10, and if you’re careful, you can reuse each one a few times. They also come in a white version.
What you should consider: Unlike USA-made N95s, they use ear loops instead of cords that go around your entire head.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top XL face mask for the money
What you need to know: These durable cloth face masks can be washed and reused many times.
What you’ll love: They have all the features you need for comfortable wear, including bendable metal nose wires, adjustable earloops and a pocket for inserting a PM2.5 filter. You can choose from plain black, floral patterns, or a simple white and blue pattern.
What you should consider: Cloth masks like these aren’t quite as effective as actual respirators.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This is one of the few options you can customize to meet your needs.
What you’ll love: You can select from XL and 2XL sizes in addition to various other options such as a filter pocket, nose wire and S-clip ear saver.
What you should consider: Since it’s made by hand, it’s somewhat pricey and lacks a perfect consistency that machine-made masks offer.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Wilmington theater production highlights HIV/AIDS epidemic victims
The four-show run kicks off this weekend
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A Wilmington theater group is preparing to debut a new play honoring those affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The production is called Quilt Stories, put on by Mouths of Babes Theatre (MoB).
The idea began in 2019 as an oral history project based around HIV survivors. After the LGBT Center of the Cape Fear Coast brought the AIDS Quilt to Wilmington for an exhibit, the focus of the project shifted.
MoB interviewed former and current members of the NAMES Project, which creates and maintains the AIDS Quilt. The finished product is a monologue play based on interviews from people who lost loved ones due to the AIDS crisis. Each panel of the Quilt represents a life lost, and each Quilt tells a story.
“It’s so large now that it can’t actually be displayed in one place, and it’s toured all over the country, all of the world really throughout the year,” said MoB Director Trey Morehouse. “It has been in Wilmington since December. Once we premiere our play this Saturday, you’ll be able to see panels there as well, panels of the quilt.”
The play opens Saturday, with a total of four shows over two weekends.
You can read more about the play and buy tickets here. | https://www.wwaytv3.com/wilmington-theater-production-highlights-hiv-aids-epidemic-victims/ | 2022-04-21T17:30:42Z | https://www.wwaytv3.com/wilmington-theater-production-highlights-hiv-aids-epidemic-victims/ | true | 1 |
Re: ‘Honestly, it’s hell on earth’ — April 13Re: ‘I’m not going’: Municipalities try to balance help for those in encampments with concerns of residents — April 12
Re: ‘No one that cares enough can do anything and nobody that can do anything cares enough’ — April 11
Our thanks to The Record for Paige Desmond’s recent articles on homelessness, which personalize and explain the housing crisis with both empathy for currently unhoused individuals and an understanding of the broader, complex social issues affecting those that are currently unhoused.
Although we often hear the statistics of the crisis concerning the 1,000 people experiencing homelessness in our region, rarely are we reminded that these are human beings with whom we share the same emotions and needs: love, sorrow and a desire for belonging and safety.
However, this crisis is a structural problem. Housing has become financialized, as it’s now an investment asset, and the market, as it stands now, is not providing housing for those living in poverty. Sky-high rents make finding a place to live impossible for many people, such as Eddy from Paige Desmond’s latest article.
As all aspects of the housing market become unaffordable, more people will become homeless. We are also beginning to see those considered middle-class being priced out of decent, affordable housing.
All levels of government must work together to ensure safe, affordable housing for those who are most vulnerable and it needs to happen now. | https://www.therecord.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editors/2022/04/21/records-stories-on-homelessness-show-urgency-of-the-problem.html | 2022-04-21T17:31:37Z | https://www.therecord.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editors/2022/04/21/records-stories-on-homelessness-show-urgency-of-the-problem.html | true | 1 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration’s failure to notify Capitol Police about a parachute stunt at a nearby baseball stadium led to an alert and urgent evacuation of the U.S. Capitol, a law enforcement official said Thursday. The FAA said it was reviewing the communications breakdown.
The police alert about the plane, which was transporting members of the U.S. Army Golden Knights who later parachuted into Nationals Park for Military Appreciation Night, sent congressional staffers fleeing the Capitol and legislative buildings on Wednesday evening
A law enforcement official said the FAA did not provide the required notification to the Capitol Police that a plane would be circling overhead, prompting the alert and blaring sirens at the Capitol to evacuate the complex.
The incident was a stunning communications failure, all the more remarkable because of Washington’s focus on improving security since the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., promised a congressional review of the FAA’s “apparent failure,” which she called “outrageous and inexcusable.”
Capitol Police on Thursday called the decision not to alert the force “extremely unusual,” and said officers followed the policies and procedures necessary to ensure the safety of congressional staff.
“The United States Capitol Police must make split-second decisions that could make the difference between life and death,” the Capitol Police statement said. “The decision to evacuate the campus is not one we take lightly.”
In an overnight statement, the FAA said it “takes its role in protecting the national airspace seriously and will conduct a thorough and expeditious review of the events this evening and share updates.” The agency said it knows its actions affect others, “especially in our nation’s capital region, and we must communicate early and often with our law enforcement partners.”
Kelli LeGaspi, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Army Recruiting Command, which was behind the Golden Knights’ pregame demonstration, said in a statement, “We are reviewing all aspects of the event to ensure all procedures were followed appropriately to coordinate both the flight and the parachute demonstration.”
Many people who work on Capitol Hill have remained on edge more than a year after hundreds of pro-Trump rioters pushed their way past overwhelmed police officers, broke through windows and doors and ransacked the Capitol as Congress was voting to certify Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election win.
In Wednesday’s incident, the aircraft, a twin-engine plane, took off from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland and had been circling inside heavily restricted airspace close to the Capitol when the alert was sent. Radar tracking data shows the plane, a De Havilland Twin Otter, remained clear of the prohibited airspace over the Capitol building and other government complexes at all times. Air traffic control recordings capture the army plane coordinating its flight with the control tower at nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Investigators were still working to determine why the event wasn’t properly coordinated with law enforcement officials in Washington, the law enforcement official and another U.S. official familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Multiple federal agencies began scrambling officials as the plane circled overhead.
The capital region is defended by several surface-to-air missile sites, as well as military aircrews on round-the-clock alert. It did not appear that any of those systems was scrambled.
Officials believe, based on a preliminary review, the pilot may have not properly reported taking off or had appropriate clearance, the officials familiar with the matter said. They were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity.
Pelosi, in a Wednesday evening statement, said, “Congress looks forward to reviewing the results of a thorough after-action review that determines what precisely went wrong today and who at the Federal Aviation Administration will be held accountable for this outrageous and frightening mistake.”
The plane landed back at Andrews around 6:50 p.m. after the parachutists descended into the middle of the field at Nationals Park, a little more than 1 mile (1.61 kilometers) from the U.S. Capitol.
One witness to the chaos at the Capitol was Eireann Dolan, the wife of Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle. “I was walking the dogs past the Dirksen Senate Office Building,” Dolan tweeted. ”People started streaming out all at once. They told me to turn around and get away as fast as possible. Some people were calm but many were genuinely panicked. I know I was.”
Buildings on the Capitol complex were reopened a little after 8 p.m.
The Washington Nationals lost the game to the Arizona Diamondbacks 11-2.
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The Florida House of Representatives has given final passage to a bill to dissolve a private government that Walt Disney World has been allowed to operate on its properties for more than five decades.
House lawmakers approved the measure on Thursday. The passage is a victory for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. He has lashed back at the entertainment giant after it publicly declared its opposition to a new law backed by the governor that critics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.”
In response to the law, Disney suspended its political donations in the state after LGBTQ advocates who work for the company criticized CEO Bob Chapek for what they said was his slow response speaking out against it.
The Disney bill would eliminate the self-governed districts by June 2023. But it does allow the districts to be reestablished in the future, leaving the door open for further negotiations.
Before Disney World opened its gates, Walt Disney proposed to state lawmakers the theme park should have governing authority over the land. Months after his death, the state granted the company the establishment of the Reedy Creek Improvement District in 1967.
If it's repealed, Disney's central Florida land would fall under Orange and Osceola counties, since it stretches into both. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/florida-legislature-votes-to-strip-disney-self-government-after-disney-objected-to-dont-say-gay-legislation | 2022-04-21T17:33:33Z | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/florida-legislature-votes-to-strip-disney-self-government-after-disney-objected-to-dont-say-gay-legislation | true | 10 |
Failure of a car manufacturer to provide an airbag system should be subject to punitive damages which can have a deterrent effect, the Supreme Court has said.
"The failure to provide an airbag system which would meet the safety standards as perceived by a car-buyer of reasonable prudence, in our view, should be subject to punitive damages which can have a deterrent effect.
"And in computing such punitive damages, the capacity of the manufacturing enterprise should also be a factor," said a bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Aniruddha Bose.
The bench said that a consumer while buying a car would assume that the airbag would open automatically in case of collision.
Further, a consumer is not meant to be an expert in physics calculating the impact of a collision on the theories based on velocity and force, the top court said.
The observation came while hearing an appeal filed by Hyundai Motor India Limited against an order of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) which dismissed the appeal sustaining the compensation awarded by the State Commission.
The appellant is a vehicle manufacturer and the appeal arises out of a complaint made by a car buyer concerning a defect in a vehicle, particularly concerning its safety features originating from its vehicle model Creta 1.6 VTVT SX+.
The vehicle, purchased on August 21, 2015, came with two front airbags and met with an accident on the Delhi--Panipat highway on November 16, 2017, resulting in substantial damage to the car.
The complainant suffered head, chest as also dental injuries which he attributed to non- deployment of airbags at the time of the accident.
The state commission awarded a compensation of Rs two lakh for medical expenses and loss of income, Rs.50,000 for mental agony, and Rs 50,000 as the cost of litigation.
The state commission also said that failure in replacing the vehicle of the appellant will also attract an interest of seven per cent per annum of the value of the vehicle from the date of default.
The top court in its order said that the fact that the consumer has got the car repaired on insurance money would not impact the quantum of damages, which is partly punitive in nature in this case.
"We accordingly do not want to interfere with the decision of the National Commission. We do not find the reasoning of the Commission or the operative part of the order awarding damages to be perverse," the bench said.
"The failure to provide an airbag system which would meet the safety standards as perceived by a car-buyer of reasonable prudence, in our view, should be subject to punitive damages which can have a deterrent effect.
"And in computing such punitive damages, the capacity of the manufacturing enterprise should also be a factor," said a bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Aniruddha Bose.
The bench said that a consumer while buying a car would assume that the airbag would open automatically in case of collision.
Further, a consumer is not meant to be an expert in physics calculating the impact of a collision on the theories based on velocity and force, the top court said.
The observation came while hearing an appeal filed by Hyundai Motor India Limited against an order of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) which dismissed the appeal sustaining the compensation awarded by the State Commission.
The appellant is a vehicle manufacturer and the appeal arises out of a complaint made by a car buyer concerning a defect in a vehicle, particularly concerning its safety features originating from its vehicle model Creta 1.6 VTVT SX+.
The vehicle, purchased on August 21, 2015, came with two front airbags and met with an accident on the Delhi--Panipat highway on November 16, 2017, resulting in substantial damage to the car.
The complainant suffered head, chest as also dental injuries which he attributed to non- deployment of airbags at the time of the accident.
The state commission awarded a compensation of Rs two lakh for medical expenses and loss of income, Rs.50,000 for mental agony, and Rs 50,000 as the cost of litigation.
The state commission also said that failure in replacing the vehicle of the appellant will also attract an interest of seven per cent per annum of the value of the vehicle from the date of default.
The top court in its order said that the fact that the consumer has got the car repaired on insurance money would not impact the quantum of damages, which is partly punitive in nature in this case.
"We accordingly do not want to interfere with the decision of the National Commission. We do not find the reasoning of the Commission or the operative part of the order awarding damages to be perverse," the bench said.
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Long-Term Gas Deals Become Pricey
Liquefied natural gas suppliers are asking clients to pay much higher rates for new long-term contracts, as a global effort to cut Russian imports is expected to keep the market tight for the next decade.
The industry’s top suppliers are offering 10-year contracts that start in 2023 at rates about 75% above the price of similar deals signed just last year, according to traders with knowledge of the matter. Volatile spot prices and a worsening supply deficit outlook triggered a rush by importers to negotiate long-term deals.
LNG spot rates from Asia to Europe surged to records last month as the war in Ukraine exacerbated an already tight market. Prices are expected to remain elevated for years as Europe boosts imports of LNG to curb dependence on Russian pipeline gas, outpacing additional supplies.
Contracted LNG supply linked to the price of oil -- a practice dating back to the 1970s -- is currently much lower than the cost of buying a shipment from the spot market. But that discount is shrinking as available supplies dwindle.
War, the energy transition, severe weather and surging demand are creating a period of upheaval that is tightening supply like never before in the natural gas industry. The global LNG market could be short nearly 100 million tons per year by the middle of the decade if the world moves to cut Russian gas, according to a Credit Suisse report last month.
Pricier long-term LNG contracts threaten to boost electricity and heating rates, adding to inflation fears. It could also make the fuel unattainable for some cash-strapped emerging nations, like Pakistan.
Suppliers including major producers and portfolio players are offering to sign 10-year LNG deals that start next year at 16%-18% of the price of Brent crude. For comparison, Qatar was signing supply agreements to Chinese customers in the low-10% range early last year. Beijing Gas Group Co. inked a deal just below 13% this January.
While no deal has yet to be signed at 18% the price of Brent, such a rate would likely be among the most expensive ever signed, according to traders.
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As restaurants opened back up for on-site dining following COVID restrictions last year, many put in place a time limit—often 60, 90, or 120 minutes, depending on the establishment—for how long guests could linger at their tables. My immediate reaction was, “How dare they tell me how long I can take to eat a meal?” But then I thought about it a little more, and I realized that there is an ideal amount of time to spend at a sit-down restaurant, regardless of pandemic restrictions.
How much time does it take to eat a meal?
If I compare the mealtime ritual that takes place at home versus the process of dining out, the actual amount of time spent eating is the same. When I dine at home, I flip through TV channels and streaming services until I find something to watch, and only then do I actually eat. The eating part really only tends to take up about 15 to 20 minutes of the program. The rest of the time is usually spent watching the screen or chatting with the person I’m eating with. This means that if you did, in fact, time out how long it takes for me to finish the average meal, I’d only reach about the 30-minute mark, and that’s being generous.
The same measurement applies to dining out. The amount of time it takes to be seated, order our food, and then wait for it to arrive is roughly same amount of time spent scrolling through streaming options. Once I actually start eating, especially if I’m hungry, the table is practically silent for a bit, and the meal is done about 10 minutes later. From there, it’s just about enjoying the atmosphere and the pleasure of the other person’s company.
How long should you take to finish your meal at a restaurant?
If you’re a party of two, seated and served promptly, 55 minutes at a sit-down place is the sweet spot. For parties of four, I’d estimate about 75 minutes are needed. For parties of six or more, the typical restaurant standard of 90-120 minutes does make sense, since it’ll take longer for everyone to make decisions about what to order, and for all the meals to be prepped so that they land on the table at the same time.
Unless the person you’re dining with has a physical condition that requires extra time (and if so, the restaurant should definitely accommodate that), I don’t think it’s unreasonable that a party of two can be seated, eat their meal, enjoy some conversation, and be out the door within 55 minutes, without feeling rushed at all. Depending on the speed of the service and how busy the restaurant is when you go, that window of time might even allow for more than one round of drinks.
I’m not trying to rob you of your relaxing dining experience. I’m just saying you don’t need to guard your table for three whole hours, preventing others from getting a table and preventing your server from earning more tips for the night. Sticking to a reasonable window of time is also a good way to keep pace with your fellow diners; it’s a bit annoying to finish your meal and notice the person across from you is so busy talking or checking their phone that they haven’t even taken a bite. Restaurants that impose time limits know what they’re doing, and if you stick to that limit, it probably won’t feel like a time crunch.
There’s a balance to be struck here, and I think about an hour is perfect for two. | https://thetakeout.com/the-ideal-amount-of-time-to-spend-at-a-restaurant-1848823547 | 2022-04-21T17:39:30Z | https://thetakeout.com/the-ideal-amount-of-time-to-spend-at-a-restaurant-1848823547 | true | 1 |
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GRAID Technology, the multi award-winning data protection provider and developer of the only RAID card to deliver the full performance capability of NVMe SSDs, and AIC, a leading provider of both OEM/ODM and COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) and server and storage solutions, today announce a cooperative agreement to partner in customer engagements. The relationship will be focused on AIC's strength, the worldwide system integrator market.
"There is a tremendous amount of upside for both companies in this new relationship," said Leander Yu, CEO and President of GRAID Technology. "AIC has long been considered a key player in the configurable platform market and we are excited to be closer aligned with them and their partner community where together we will have an unbeatable combination."
The extreme flexibility and scalability of AIC products provides the ideal platform to leverage the simplicity and scalability of GRAID's SupremeRAID™ SR-1000 offering. The combination of AIC and GRAID will offer system integrators an easy to configure option that drives a lower cost of deployment along with improved customer satisfaction.
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Zambian student is arrested in Russia for 'Nazism' after TWERKING in front of a war memorial - and faces three years in jail
- Rebecca Ziba, 21, detained by Russian authorities for dancing by war memorial
- Ms Ziba, a student from Zambia, posted a clip in Khanty-Mansiysk on Instagram
- She apologised in a video shared by officials and remains under investigation
Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation against a student from Zambia for dancing in front of a war memorial.
The woman, identified by local media as Rebecca Ziba, 21, posted a clip of herself 'shaking a**' next to the Memorial of Glory in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk.
She is now suspected of committing a crime under Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation which 'provides for the responsibility for the rehabilitation of Nazism'.
In a video shared by the Russian Investigative Committee for Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra, she said: 'I want to apologise to everyone for the video that I posted on April 16'
The woman, identified by local media as Rebecca Ziba, 21, posted a clip of herself 'shaking a**' next to the Memorial of Glory in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk
While the original Instagram post seems to have been taken down, a clip on Twitter suggests that it was captioned: 'Shaking a** for the dead, (I'm) sure they are sleeping (well) tonight.'
Ms Ziba, who appeared to be twerking in the post, was detained and has profusely apologised to Russian authorities.
In a video shared by the Russian Investigative Committee for Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra, she said: 'I want to apologise to everyone for the video that I posted on April 16.
'I posted...without knowledge of what it actually meant and knowing who it's going to hurt or upset.
'I posted a video of me dancing on a monument and I did not mean to be...the video that I posted, I didn't intend for it to be offensive.
Ms Ziba added that she 'didn't mean to offend anyone or to be disreseptful to 'those people that died'.
'And I because I did not know exactly what it meant and I never thought it would be this big,' she said.
The woman, identified by local media as Rebecca Ziba, 21, posted a clip of herself 'shaking a**' next to the Memorial of Glory in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk
'I'm very very very sorry to everyone. I didn't know. And if I knew, I was never going to post it. I hope I'm understood and forgiven.'
Ms Ziba faces up to three years in a jail and a fine of up to 3 million rubles (£28,888) if she is found guilty, Euronews reports.
A statement from officials said: 'The Khanty-Mansiysk Interdistrict Investigation Department of the Investigation Department of the Russian Investigative Committee for Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra initiated a criminal case against a 21-year-old citizen of a foreign state.
'She is suspected of committing a crime under Part 4 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (desecration of the symbol of military glory of Russia).
Ms Ziba faces up to three years in a jail and a fine of up to 3 million rubles (£28,888) if she is found guilty, Euronews reports
'According to the investigation, on April 16, 2022, the suspect, while in the Victory Park of the city of Khanty-Mansiysk at the Memorial of Glory to the soldiers of the district who died during the Great Patriotic War, performed an obscene dance against the backdrop of the Eternal Flame, a video of which she posted on her page in one of the social networks, accompanied by an offensive inscription.
'The day before, the suspect was detained with the participation of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra, and interrogated by the investigator on the circumstances of the incident, during the interrogation she repented and apologized for her actions.
'A complex of investigative actions aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the incident is being carried out in the criminal case. The investigation is ongoing.'
The conditions Ms Ziba is being detained in are not clear. MailOnline has reached out to the Zambian Embassy in Moscow for more information. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10740029/Zambian-student-arrested-Russia-Nazism-TWERKING-war-memorial.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-04-21T17:42:15Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10740029/Zambian-student-arrested-Russia-Nazism-TWERKING-war-memorial.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true | 3 |
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Patricia Mae Dennison
Kewanee - Patricia Mae Dennison, 79, of Kewanee, formerly of Galva, passed away at 5:10 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at Betty's Garden Memory...
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Haskell Funeral & Cremation Services
Published in Haskell Funeral & Cremation Services on Apr. 13, 2022.
Friday, April 8, 2022
Pamela M. Foley (Whaley)
Pamela M. Foley, 57, of Galva, passed away on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, in the emergency room of St. Luke Medical Center, Kewanee. Funeral services...
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Stackhouse-Moore Funeral & Cremation Services - Galva Chapel
Published in Stackhouse-Moore Funeral & Cremation Services - Galva Chapel on Apr. 8, 2022.
Friday, April 1, 2022
Janet A. Elgin
Janet Elgin's passing at the age of 82 on Thursday, March 31, 2022 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Kewanee in Kewanee, IL....
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Rux Funeral Home - Kewanee
Published in Rux Funeral Home - Kewanee on Apr. 1, 2022.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Carol E. Dustin
Carol Dustin's passing at the age of 87 on Monday, March 21, 2022 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Galva in Galva, IL. Legacy...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in Rux Funeral Home - Galva on Mar. 22, 2022.
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Judy L. Anderson
Judy Anderson's passing on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 has been publicly announced by Watson-Thomas Funeral Home and Crematory - Galesburg in Galesburg...
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Watson-Thomas Funeral Home and Crematory - Galesburg
Published in Watson-Thomas Funeral Home and Crematory - Galesburg from Mar. 17 to Mar. 30, 2022.
Saturday, March 5, 2022
Randi Lynn Hepner
Randi Hepner's passing at the age of 63 on Thursday, March 3, 2022 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Galva in Galva, IL. Legacy...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in Rux Funeral Home - Galva on Mar. 5, 2022.
Saturday, February 26, 2022
Jean Burnett
Jean Burnett's passing at the age of 81 on Thursday, February 24, 2022 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Galva in Galva, IL...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in Rux Funeral Home - Galva on Feb. 26, 2022.
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Irene L. Gargano
Irene L. Gargano February 14, 1930-February 5, 2022 MOLINE-Irene L. Gargano, 91, of Moline passed away February 5, 2022 at Hope Creek Care Center in East Moline. A memorial visitation will be 4-7pm Friday, February 18, 2022 at Schroder Mortuary, Silvis. A celebration of...
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Schroder Mortuary - Silvis
Published in The Rock Island Dispatch Argus on Feb. 16, 2022.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Shirley Riner Craig
Shirley Craig's passing at the age of 94 on Sunday, January 9, 2022 has been publicly announced by Clugston-Tibbitts Funeral Homes in Macomb...
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Clugston-Tibbitts Funeral Homes
Published in Clugston-Tibbitts Funeral Homes on Jan. 25, 2022.
Friday, December 17, 2021
Janet B. Chonsky (Hepner)
Janet Chonsky's passing at the age of 68 has been publicly announced by Stackhouse-Moore Funeral & Cremation Services in Cambridge, IL. Legacy...
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Stackhouse-Moore Funeral & Cremation Services - Cambridge Chapel
Published in Stackhouse-Moore Funeral & Cremation Services - Cambridge Chapel on Dec. 17, 2021.
Roger D. Conrad
Roger Conrad's passing at the age of 81 has been publicly announced by Stackhouse-Moore Funeral & Cremation Services in Cambridge, IL. Legacy...
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Stackhouse-Moore Funeral & Cremation Services - Cambridge Chapel
Published in Stackhouse-Moore Funeral & Cremation Services - Cambridge Chapel on Dec. 17, 2021.
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Karol B. Ault
Karol Ault's passing at the age of 71 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Galva in Galva, IL. Legacy invites you to offer condolences...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in Rux Funeral Home - Galva on Dec. 15, 2021.
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Gary E. Ault
Gary Ault's passing at the age of 72 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Galva in Galva, IL. Legacy invites you to offer condolences...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in Rux Funeral Home - Galva on Dec. 14, 2021.
Friday, December 10, 2021
Evelyn Mae Bates
Evelyn Mae Bates's passing at the age of 97 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Galva in Galva, IL. Legacy invites you to offer...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in Rux Funeral Home - Galva on Dec. 10, 2021.
Friday, December 3, 2021
Kathryn A. Hoffman
Kathryn A. (Kathy) Hoffman, 61, of Princeville passed away around 2 a.m. on Tuesday, November 23, 2021, at her home on Evans Mill Road. Kathy...
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Weber-Hurd Funeral Home
Published in Weber-Hurd Funeral Home on Dec. 3, 2021.
Monday, November 8, 2021
Roger D. Conrad
Roger D. Conrad October 15, 1940-November 6, 2021 CAMBRIDGE-Roger D. Conrad, 81, of rural Cambridge, passed away on November 6, 2021, at his home surrounded by his family. Graveside committal services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 10th, at Liberty Cemetery...
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Stackhouse-Moore Funeral & Cremation Services - Cambridge Chapel
Published in The Rock Island Dispatch Argus on Nov. 8, 2021.
Rosalie K. Watt
Rosalie K. Watt, 79 of Altona, passed away on Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 5:53 AM at OSF St. Mary Medical Center, Galesburg. Rosalie was born...
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Hurd-Hendricks Funeral Homes - Knoxville
Published in Hurd-Hendricks Funeral Homes - Knoxville from Nov. 8, 2021 to Jan. 4, 2022.
Sunday, November 7, 2021
Janet B. Chonsky
Janet B. Chonsky September 16, 1953-October 30, 2021 MINOT, ND-Janet B. Chonsky, 68, of Minot, North Dakota, passed away on Saturday, October 30, 2021, at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics in Iowa City. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, November...
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Stackhouse-Moore Funeral & Cremation Services - Cambridge Chapel
Published in The Rock Island Dispatch Argus on Nov. 7, 2021.
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Wayde Brian Buck
Wayde Buck's passing at the age of 62 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Galva in Galva, IL. Legacy invites you to offer condolences...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in Rux Funeral Home - Galva on Nov. 3, 2021.
Saturday, October 16, 2021
Dwain E. Jacobson
Dwain Jacobson's passing at the age of 92 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Galva in Galva, IL. Legacy invites you to offer...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in Rux Funeral Home - Galva on Oct. 16, 2021.
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Stanley E. Hall
Stanley Hall's passing at the age of 74 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Galva in Galva, IL. Legacy invites you to offer condolences...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in Rux Funeral Home - Galva on Sep. 30, 2021.
Ernest R. Hulstrom
Ernest Hulstrom's passing at the age of 60 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Galva in Galva, IL. Legacy invites you to offer...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in Rux Funeral Home - Galva on Sep. 30, 2021.
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Richard L. Gartin
Richard Gartin's passing at the age of 63 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Galva in Galva, IL. Legacy invites you to offer...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in Rux Funeral Home - Galva on Jul. 31, 2021.
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Kendra Pahlow
Kendra Pahlow's passing at the age of 79 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Galva in Galva, IL. Legacy invites you to offer condolences...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in Rux Funeral Home - Galva on Jul. 22, 2021.
Monday, July 19, 2021
Martha Thomson
Martha Thomson Galva - Martha K. Thomson, 87, of Galva, passed away on Sunday, July 18, 2021, at her home with her husband, her children and their spouses by her side. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, July 22nd, at the Galva Chapel of Stackhouse-Moore Funeral...
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Stackhouse-Moore Funeral & Cremation Services - Galva Chapel
Published in The Register-Mail from Jul. 19 to Jul. 20, 2021.
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Mary Beth Greenstreet
Mary Beth Greenstreet June 22, 1950-July 11, 2021 GALESBURG-Mary Beth Greenstreet, 71, of rural Galesburg, died at 7:20 p.m. Sunday, July 11, 2021 at home surrounded by her family. Mary Beth was born June 22, 1950 in Galesburg, the daughter of Wayne Leslie and Anna Elizabeth...
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Watson-Thomas Funeral Home and Crematory - Galesburg
Published in The Rock Island Dispatch Argus on Jul. 14, 2021.
Monday, July 12, 2021
Mary Beth Greenstreet
Mary Beth Greenstreet Galesburg - Mary Beth Greenstreet, 71, of rural Galesburg, died at 7:20 p.m. Sunday, July 11, 2021 at home surrounded by her family. Mary Beth was born June 22, 1950 in Galesburg, the daughter of Wayne Leslie and Anna Elizabeth (Oldenburg) Engstrom. She married...
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Watson-Thomas Funeral Home and Crematory - Galesburg
Published in The Register-Mail from Jul. 12 to Jul. 13, 2021.
Monday, June 21, 2021
Cheryl R. Glisan
Cheryl R. Glisan Galva - Cheryl R. Glisan, 70, of Galva, died at 9:27 p.m., Saturday, June 19, 2021 at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 24 at Rux Funeral Home in Galva with Pastors Josh Ryner and Bob Curry officiating...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in The Register-Mail from Jun. 21 to Jun. 22, 2021.
Saturday, June 5, 2021
Agnes Roseland
Agnes Roseland August 9, 1926-June 1, 2021 DEWITT-Mrs. Agnes Roseland, 94, died Tuesday evening, June 1, 2021, at home. Agnes Elaine Gustafson was born August 9, 1926, to the late Henry Martin and Mabel (Johnson) Gustafson in Orion, Illinois. She graduated from Galva High...
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Schultz Funeral Home - DeWitt
Published in The Rock Island Dispatch Argus on Jun. 5, 2021.
Agnes Roseland
Agnes Roseland August 9, 1926-June 1, 2021 DEWITT-Mrs. Agnes Roseland, 94, died Tuesday evening, June 1, 2021, at home. Agnes Elaine Gustafson was born August 9, 1926, to the late Henry Martin and Mabel (Johnson) Gustafson in Orion, Illinois. She graduated from Galva High...
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Schultz Funeral Home - DeWitt
Published in Quad-City Times on Jun. 5, 2021.
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Lewis L. "Louie" Nelson
Lewis L. "Louie" Nelson December 12, 1927-May 21, 2021 BISHOP HILL-Lewis L. "Louie" Nelson, 93, of Bishop Hill, IL, passed away on Friday, May 21, 2021 at Genesis Medical Center, Davenport, IA. Cremation has been accorded and a celebration of his life is due to be held...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in The Rock Island Dispatch Argus on May 25, 2021.
Monday, May 24, 2021
Lewis Nelson
Lewis Nelson Bishop Hill - Lewis L. "Louie" Nelson, 93, of Bishop Hill, IL, passed away on Friday, May 21, 2021 at Genesis Medical Center, Davenport, IA. Cremation has been accorded and a celebration of his life is due to be held at a later date. Rux Funeral Home of Galva, IL is...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in The Register-Mail from May 24 to May 25, 2021.
Monday, April 26, 2021
Anthony Clark Strom
Anthony Clark Strom Victoria - Mr. Anthony Clark "Tony" "Bone" Strom, 58, of Victoria, Illinois passed away at 9:00 pm Friday, April 23, 2021 at OSF St. Mary Medical Center. Tony was born October 16, 1962 in Galesburg the son of Arthur and Barbara Ann (Seiboldt) Strom. He is survived...
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Hinchliff-Pearson-West, Inc., Galesburg
Published in The Register-Mail from Apr. 26 to Apr. 27, 2021.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Arthur E. Sandberg
Arthur E. Sandberg Galva - Arthur E. Sandberg, 94, of Galva, Illinois, died Friday, April 2, 2021, after a brief illness. Cremation will take place at Trimble Crematory, Moline, under the direction of Cremation Society of the Quad Cities. Memorial service will be held at First United...
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Trimble Funeral Home & Crematory - Moline
Published in The Register-Mail from Apr. 7 to Apr. 8, 2021.
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Donald Wilson
Donald Wilson's passing at the age of 89 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Galva in Galva, IL . Legacy invites you to offer...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in Rux Funeral Home - Galva on Mar. 23, 2021.
Saturday, March 6, 2021
Nancy Jane Ingels
Nancy Jane Ingels GALVA - Nancy Jane Ingels, 81, of Galva died at 4:29 a.m. on Friday, March 5, 2021, at the Kewanee Care Home. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 9, at Rux Funeral Home in Galva, with Fr. Johndamaseni Zilimu officiating. Visitation will be...
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Rux Funeral Home - Galva
Published in Peoria Journal Star from Mar. 6 to Mar. 8, 2021.
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Sherm Raley
Sherm Raley August 30, 1938-January 18, 2021 GALVA - Sherm Raley, 82, of Galva, died at 2:15 p.m., Monday, January 18, 2021 at OSF Saint Luke Medical Center in Kewanee. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, January 23 at St. John Catholic...
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James Raley
James Raley's passing at the age of 82 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Galva in Galva, IL . Legacy invites you to offer condolences...
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Debbie Wittmeyer's passing at the age of 62 on Monday, December 28, 2020 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Kewanee in Kewanee...
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Marian Jean Doubet
Marian Jean Doubet Madison - Mrs. Marian Jean "GG" Nelson Doubet, age 96, of Madison, Indiana formerly of Darlington entered this life on August 28, 1924 in Galva, Illinois. She was the daughter of the late Frank and Myrtle Anderson Nelson. She was raised in Galva and graduated in...
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Janice R. Evans Galva - Janice R. Evans, 82, of Galva, died at 10:46 a.m., Sunday, December 27, 2020 at her home. A public visitation will be held from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m., Thursday, December 31 at Rux Funeral Home in Galva. Private family services will follow. Burial will be in...
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Dorothy "Dottie" Cook
Dorothy "Dottie" Cook Galva - Dorothy "Dottie" Cook, 86, a resident of Marigold Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Galesburg, formerly of Galva, died at 4:51 p.m., Wednesday, December 17, 2020 at the center. Visitation will be held from 9:00-10:30 a.m., Monday, December 21...
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Ronald Carrasca
Ronald Carrasca's passing at the age of 74 on Monday, December 07, 2020 has been publicly announced by Rux Funeral Home - Kewanee in Kewanee...
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Coles M. Johnston August 31, 1931 - December 8, 2020 Coles M. Johnston, 89, of Cambridge, died Tuesday, December 8, 2020, at Hope Creek Care Center in East Moline. Cremation has been accorded and a graveside committal service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, December...
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Dixie Ann Moore PEORIA – Dixie Ann Moore, 83, of Peoria passed away at home in Independence Village on Tuesday, October 27, 2020, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Dixie was born on February 6, 1937, in Sheffield, IL, to Clarence and Mary E. (Scott) Hansen. She married...
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Helen Goodale October 10, 1947-October 1, 2020 BETTENDORF-Helen Goodale, 72, of Bettendorf, Iowa, died Thursday, October 1, 2020, at Highland Park Hospital, Highland Park, Illinois. Cremation will take place at Trimble Crematory, Moline, under the direction of Cremation...
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George Kirby Collinson
VICTORIA – George Kirby Collinson, 88, of rural Victoria, died at 8:35 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at his home. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, at Victoria Cemetery, where military rites will be accorded by the Victoria American Legion. In lieu of...
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Chatterton Linda Godfrey Chatterton LInda Godfrey Chatterton, passed away on April 14, 2022 at 82, surrounded by family. She was born to Bernard and Hazel Godfrey on 11/10/1939 in Logan Utah. She had two older brothers, Valden and Kelton, with a younger sister, Judith. She attended school in Pocatello, Idaho and was very proud to be a Poky Indian. Linda has 5 sons, Daniel, Michael, Jay, Brett and Bart. She has 10 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren, her family was her life and she loved them all so much! She enjoyed camping, motorcycle riding, volleyball, animals, and especially dogs. She loved to read, dabbled in writing, and was excellent with her transcription skills. She loved teaching children, and for years ran her own pre-school. She was a butterfly fanatic, and loved to have anything butterfly around her. She was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and served in many leadership positions, but her favorite was as a Primary President. While working at Idaho State University in financial aid, she loved helping students, and they loved her, many even called her Mom or Grandma. Linda married Vaughn Chatterton on March 16, 2013, and Vaughn treated her like a queen, they had a very happy life together, often going for rides, singing together, as well as traveling. She was a very kind, compassionate and beautiful lady. We want to thank Encompass Hospices for their tender care & kindness they showed to her and our family. There will be a viewing Thurs., April 21, 2022 from 6-8pm at Manning-Wheatley Funeral Home. The funeral will be held at 10am Fri. April 22, 2022 at L.D.S. Chapel on West Cedar St. with a viewing one hour prior. Internment will be in the Clarkston, Utah Cemetery at 2pm. _______ | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2578112501641/schenk-stanley | 2022-04-21T17:44:41Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2578112501641/schenk-stanley | true | 2 |
Texas woman drops lawsuit claiming Jerry Jones is her father
DALLAS (AP) — A 25-year-old Texas woman who sued Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, alleging he is her biological father, has dropped her lawsuit.
Alexandra Davis said in court papers filed Wednesday that she now wants genetic testing to verify her claim, The Dallas Morning News reported.
“Alexandra has just decided that she wants to go ahead and proceed with parentage and DNA testing,” said Jay Gray, one of Davis’ lawyers. “She wants to remove any doubts that Jerry’s her father.”
Jones’ attorneys had asked in court filings that the suit be dismissed but did not address the paternity claim. A representative for Jones declined to comment.
The lawsuit alleged that Jones had a relationship with Davis’ mother, Cynthia Davis, who was working as a ticket counter agent for American Airlines in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the time. Alexandra Davis was born in 1996.
Davis and her mother reached a settlement in which Jones would support them financially as long as they didn’t publicly identify him as her father, according to court documents. At the time of the agreement in 1998, Jones denied he was the father.
Jones and his wife, Gene, married in 1963. They have three children, and all have a front-office role with the Cowboys. Jerry Jones is the team president and general manager.
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Ahmedabad, Apr 21 (PTI) India has many languages, but all of them carry the same 'bhav' or feeling, which is the source of the country's solidarity, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said here on Thursday.
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He also said that India has always believed that there is no need to be alike to remain united.
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Bhagwat's remarks on languages comes amid allegations that efforts were being made to impose Hindi language on non-Hindi speaking states in the country.
The RSS chief was here to confer awards instituted by Gujarat Sahitya Academy to the books in Sanskrit language, and to launch the Gujarati translation of Odia book 'Ananya Jagannath Anubhutima.'
"Whatever the language - because in the end, there are many languages. It is said there are around 3,800 languages, including dialects, and it is difficult to understand the same language spoken in a different way. I have heard Gujarati spoken in Saurashtra, which requires an effort to understand. But even if languages are different, the 'bhav' after all is the same. This is India's solidarity," he said.
He said that there is no other country like India, and while people the world over say that one has to be alike to remain united, India has believed, since ancient times, that there is no need to be the same to be united.
"We have been saying 'unity in diversity', but all of us have to use some more words and say, 'Ekta ki vividhata' (diversity of unity)," he said.
The RSS chief said there are many languages in the country, but all of them carry the same 'bhav' (feeling).
"There is Ramayana, Mahabharata in all the languages...Proverbs of the same meanings, traditions of all the languages express this same bhav," he said.
"There are many languages, many sects, customs and traditions, but since ancient times, India is the same. It is united not because someone made it so, nor will it break because someone attempts to do so," he said.
Bhagwat said the natural expression of India's national feeling is to help countries in distress and not to wage a war.
"India has become big. After becoming big, did India go to war?...It supplied water to Maldives, evacuated people trapped in other nations at war, twice and thrice, supplied rice to Sri Lanka which is facing a crisis. What is this? It is a natural expression of our 'rashtriya bhav' (national feeling)," he said.
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New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Global supergroup Swedish House Mafia, the trio of Steve Angello,
Sebastian Ingrosso, and Axwell, have just released their long awaited debut full length Paradise Again via Republic Records, just as the trio head back to the California desert for a landmark headlining performance with The
Weeknd to close out this weekend's Coachella Festival.
Paradise Again came together in the wake of rediscovering their musical synergy on the band's 2019 reunion tour, spending countless hours in the studio over the course of the subsequent years, exorcizing new sonic palettes, textures, and tones from an arsenal of analog synths. While the new batch of material is recognizably Swedish House Mafia, it also represents an ambitious broadening of their musical scope, as evinced by the wide ranging roster of collaborators and guests, including The Weeknd, A$AP Rocky, Sting, Ty Dolla $ign, 070 Shake, Jacob Mühlrad, Seinabo Sey, Mapei, and English singer-songwriter Connie Constance on the soaring album cornerstone "Heaven Takes You Home." "There's always new ground to break," states Angello. "However, the biggest challenge was to do what nobody expected us to. We needed to find sounds in the studio we had never heard before and were excited about. It's super inspiring for me to be in a band where we actually want to challenge ourselves. This is definitely one of the most exciting times for us, because we're having fun like 15-year-olds again."
The album was initially teased in a cover story for Billboard Magazine last Summer, which kicked off a momentous run of album singles including "Redlight (with Sting)," "It Gets Better," "Lifetime (with
Ty Dolla $ign & 070 Shake)," and their hit collaboration with pop auteur The
Weeknd "Moth To a Flame." The intervening year has been riddled with other highlights, including a performance on The
Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, contributing production to the new
Weeknd album Dawn FM (including the smash single "
Sacrifice"), a nomination for iHeartRadio's Dance Artist of the Year for 2021, a career spanning cover story for SPIN, and much more.
In the wake of their Coachella performance,
Swedish House Mafia will head out on their first proper international tour since 2012, including arenas across the United States and
Europe - full dates below.
Stream Paradise Again
https://swedishhousemafia.lnk.to/ParadiseAgainPR
Watch the video for "Redlight (with Sting)"
https://youtu.be/D64a2fb72sE
Watch the video for "Moth To a
Flame (with The Weeknd)"
https://youtu.be/u9n7Cw-4_HQ
Watch the video for "It Gets Better"
https://youtu.be/xxqy7Wz22Gs
Watch the video for "Lifetime (with
Ty Dolla $ign & 070 Shake)"
https://youtu.be/t0RwGmzFCdA
PARADISE AGAIN TRACK LIST
1. Time (feat. Mapei)
2.
Heaven Takes You Home (with Connie Constance)
3. Jacob's Note (feat. Jacob Mühlrad)
4. Moth To A
Flame (with The Weeknd)
5. Mafia
6. Frankenstein (with A$AP Rocky)
7. Don't Go Mad (feat Seinabo Sey)
8. Paradise Again
9. Lifetime (with
Ty Dolla $ign & 070 Shake)
10.
Calling On
11. Home
12. It Gets Better
13.
Redlight (with Sting)
14. Can U Feel It
15. 19:30
16. Another Minute
17. For You
SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA 2022 TOUR DATES:
Fri Jul 29 - Miami, FL - FTX Arena
Sun Jul 31 - Orlando, FL - Amway Center
Wed Aug 3 - East Rutherford, NJ - MetLife Stadium
Fri Aug 5 - Toronto, ON - Scotiabank Arena
Sun Aug 7 - Montreal, QC - îleSoniq Festival
Tue Aug 9 - Boston, MA - TD Garden
Wed Aug 10 - Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
Thu Aug 11 - Washington, DC - Capital One Arena
Sat Aug 13 - Chicago, IL - United Center
Wed Aug 17 - Detroit, MI -
Little Caesars Arena
Fri Aug 19 - St Paul, MN - Xcel
Energy Center
Sun Aug 21 - Denver, CO - Ball Arena
Thu Aug 25 - Austin, TX - Moody Center
Fri Aug 26 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
Sat Aug 27 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center
Tue Aug 30 - Phoenix, AZ - Footprint Center
Fri Sep 2 - Las Vegas, NV - T-Mobile Arena
Sun Sep 4 - San Diego, CA - Pechanga Arena
Tue Sep 13 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena
Wed Sep 14 - Seattle, WA - Climate Pledge Arena
Fri Sep 16 - San Francisco, CA - Chase Center
Thu Sep 29 - Manchester, UK - AO Arena
Fri Sep 30 - Glasgow, UK - OVO Hydro Arena
Sun Oct 2 - London, UK - The O2
Thu Oct 6 - Dublin, Ireland - 3Arena
Sat Oct 8 - Birmingham, UK - Utilita
Arena Birmingham
Mon Oct 10 - Paris, FR - Accor Arena
Fri Oct 14 - Madrid, Spain - IFEMA Madrid Live
Sat Oct 15 - Lisbon, Portugal - Altice Arena
Tue Oct 18 - Milan, Italy - Mediolanum Forum
Wed Oct 19 - Zurich, Switzerland - Hallenstadion
Fri Oct 21 - Krakow, Poland - Tauron Arena
Sat Oct 22 - Prague, Czech Republic - O2 Arena
Tue Oct 25 - Cologne, Germany - Lanxess Arena
Thu Oct 27 - Munich, Germany - Olympiahalle
Sat Oct 29 - Antwerp, Belgium - Sportpaleis
Mon Oct 31 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Ziggo Dome
Thu Nov 3 - Vienna, Austria - Stadthalle
Sat Nov 5 - Frankfurt, Germany - Festhalle
Sun Nov 6 - Berlin, Germany - Mercedes-Benz Arena
Tue Nov 8 - Hamburg, Germany - Barclaycard Arena
Wed Nov 9 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Royal Arena
Fri Nov 11 - Oslo, Norway - Telenor Arena
Sun Nov 13 - Tampere, Finland - Uros Arena. | https://top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=174605 | 2022-04-21T17:49:10Z | https://top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=174605 | true | 3 |
By Thursday morning, the video of Weatherford College pitcher Owen Woodward, a sophomore, sprinting toward North Central Texas College's Josh Phillips and tackling him to the ground had been viewed at least 3.6 million times on Twitter.
The viral moment shocked announcers as you can hear the tone from one of them change from regular game calling to shock.
"North Central has taken the lead here in game one. Oh! Oh my. Oh no. Oh no," he said as the attack unfolded. "That was out of nowhere. Woodward just attacking Phillips right there."
On Wednesday, Weatherford, west of Fort Worth, hosted NCTC.
In the top of the sixth inning, Phillips, a freshman from the Cypress area, hit a go-ahead home run.
As he was rounding the bases and celebrating with his third base coach, Woodward threw down his glove, charged and hit him, knocking off Phillips' helmet.
Phillips got back up and made it to home plate anyway, and umpires suspended the game.
After the hit, Phillips' teammates ran out to third base, with some piling on top of Woodward.
But the hit from Woodward may prove costly.
Weatherford College released a statement saying that Woodward will face potential disciplinary action up to and possibly including expulsion.
Weatherford College Police Department is also investigating, along with both schools.
Jeff Lightfoot, Weatherford's head baseball coach and assistant athletic director, said he was "shocked and disappointed" by what happened.
"We are completely embarrassed by this incident, and we apologize to North Central Texas College and the fans of WC baseball. This type of behavior cannot be tolerated," Lightfoot said in part.
The coach added that Woodward had not been involved in any incidents like this before.
A statement regarding today's incident at the WC baseball game. pic.twitter.com/QbKiaK63vs
— WC Coyote Athletics (@WCCoyotes) April 20, 2022
NCTC's chancellor Dr. Brent Wallace also commented, adding, "NCTC expects our student athletes to exhibit the highest levels of sportsmanship both on and off the field. The unfortunate events at Weatherford College will be used as a teaching moment for our student athletes to help ensure these incidents do not occur in the future."
As of Thursday, the teams are set to face each other again on Saturday at noon and 3 p.m. in 7-inning and 9-inning games respectively.
It's unclear at this time what caused Woodward's reaction.
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Citation
Maguire A, Ross E, O'Reilly D. Epidemiol. Psychiatr. Sci. 2022; 31: e25.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2022, Cambridge University Press)
DOI
10.1017/S2045796022000063
PMID
35438075
Abstract
AIMS: Suicide is a major public health concern. Identifying those most at risk is vital to ensure the implementation of effective interventions. Mental health (MH) is known to have a genetic component and parental MH is associated with offspring MH. However, little is known about the effect of parental psychopathology on offspring suicide risk. The aim of this study is to determine if children living with parents with poor MH are at an increased risk of poor MH, or death by suicide. METHODS: This population-wide cohort study linked data from the 2011 Northern Ireland Census to 6 years' death records (2011-2016). Information on MH status, in addition to other individual and household-level attributes, was derived from the 2011 Census. Logistic regression was utilised to examine the association between parental poor MH and offspring MH and suicide risk, with adjustment for socio-demographic characteristics. RESULTS: Overall, 11.6% of the cohort of 618 970 individuals were residing with parents who reported poor MH; 1.6% reported poor MH themselves, and 0.04% (n = 260) died by suicide. Living with a parent with poor MH increased the odds of offspring poor MH (OR = 2.80, 95% CI 2.59-3.03). After adjustment for age, gender, physical illness, socio-economic status and own MH, children living with 1 parent with poor MH were 76% more likely to die by suicide compared to children of parents who did not report poor MH (OR = 1.76, 95% CI 1.31-2.36). The effect size increased for children living with 2 parents with poor MH, and was higher in children aged under 24 years. CONCLUSIONS: Living with a parent with poor MH is a significant risk factor for offspring poor MH and suicide, even after adjustment for personal MH status. When treating mental ill-health in parents, potential interventions for their children should also be considered.
Language: en
Keywords
Child; Humans; Risk Factors; epidemiology; Cohort Studies; suicide; Adolescence; Mental Health; *Child of Impaired Parents/psychology; *Suicide/psychology; Parents/psychology; poor mental health; record-linkage study | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_714353_12 | 2022-04-21T17:51:19Z | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_714353_12 | true | 1 |
Shaun Wright-Phillips visited India with the Premier League trophy.
Image: Vibhushita Singh/The Quint
Manchester City, with Pep Guardiola at the helm, since 2016, have won the Premier League title thrice, and is hoping to clinch an overall eighth this season. The team from the blue half of Manchester though are locked in a tight title race with Liverpool, the second most successful in England.
Nonetheless, former Manchester City attacker Shaun Wright-Phillips believes, that despite Liverpool’s progress and prowess, the Citizens are in pole position to come away with their fourth title in five seasons.
“The Premier League title race being neck and neck is good for the neutral fan, but for me as a City fan, like the other City fans, hope Liverpool lose the next two and Man City win theirs. I think Man City are in a fabulous position,” said Wright-Phillips on his first trip to India.
“We’ve seen it before that City can deal with the pressure and what’s going on behind. They always focus on what they’ve got to do and not worry about the other teams.”
Both teams have 6 more games to go with Man City one point ahead of Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool. Both sides also have the UEFA Champions League semi-finals coming up soon.
Racism has often reared its ugly head at the highest level in sport, with the England men’s football team being among target last year after the Euros. That, of course, hasn’t been the end of it in football, with incidents cropping up in the sport at various places. Wright-Phillips, who is happy about the way the game’s authorities are dealing with the situation, also made his point about what he’d do.
“We’ve seen some punishments go out and some people spend time in jail. We’ve seen people get banned from stadiums for life, which is my way, that’s the way I’d handle it.”
“I’d ban them from football in general, they can go watch it at a pub or somewhere and keep that sort of language away from children, who don’t need to hear it,” he asserted.
“I think they’re taking the right steps and the players are too, the more people keep pushing, the quicker hopefully it will go away.”
City’s first Premier League title came in the year 2011/12, when a certain Sergio Aguero, broke the hearts of Manchester United fans, with a winner in the final seconds of the title race. Wright-Phillips, who was on the opposite team, Queens Park Rangers on that fateful day of 13 May, 2012, said that the iconic goal set the pace for Man City, paving the way for their domination in recent years.
Kun Aguero, who won 5 Premier League titles at Man City, finished his career at the Etihad with a record 260 goals from 390 games. The Argentine was recently also inducted in the Premier League Hall of Fame as well.
“(Sergio) Aguero’s goal was very important because of the timing. If that doesn’t happen, then maybe years down the line, things turn out completely different. That kind of set the pace and belief that now we can do this over and over again.”
“The time that he did it, it was immaculate, I remember playing in that game, and the last person we wanted the chance to fall to is Kun Aguero, because he is cold as ice. City lift the trophy and it was massive,” Wright-Phillips recalled.
When asked about what he found most special in players like Kevin de Bruyne and the young Phil Foden, the former England man explained that both never second guess their abilities.
“With Kevin de Bruyne, whatever he sees, he can do, he doesn’t question it and never second guesses, believes in his ability. More times than not, it will always work out. He’s there to create chances and its fantastic that he does that.”
“With Foden, he’s a different class, people underestimate how quick Foden actually is. When you think you have the ball, he already knows you can’t get the ball and that’s when skips around you, and once he does that, he’s away,” Wright-Phillips said.
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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II is marking her 96th birthday privately on Thursday, retreating to the Sandringham estate in eastern England that has offered the monarch and her late husband, Prince Philip, a refuge from the affairs of state.
Elizabeth is expected to spend the day at the estate’s Wood Farm cottage, a personal sanctuary where she also spent her first Christmas since Philip’s death in April 2021. Philip loved the cottage, in part because it is close to the sea, she said in February when hosting a rare public event at Sandringham.
“I think the queen’s approach to birthdays very much embodies her keep calm and carry on attitude,” said Emily Nash, the royal editor at HELLO! magazine. ”She doesn’t like a fuss.”
This birthday comes during the queen’s platinum jubilee year, marking her 70 years on the throne. While Thursday will be low-key, public celebrations will take place June 2-5, when four days of jubilee festivities have been scheduled to coincide with the monarch’s official birthday.
The day marks yet another milestone in a tumultuous period for the monarch, who has sought to cement the future of the monarchy amid signs of her age and controversy in the family. After recovering from a bout of COVID-19 earlier this year, the queen’s public appearances have been limited by unspecified “mobility issues.” Prince Andrew’s multi-million-pound settlement with a woman who accused him of sexual exploitation also caused unwanted headlines for the royal family.
But the queen got an early birthday treat last week, when grandson Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, paid her a joint visit for the first time since they stepped away from frontline royal duties and moved to California in 2020. Harry, in an interview with NBC, said his grandmother was “on great form,” though he added that he wanted to make sure she was “protected” and had “the right people around her.”
Britain’s longest-serving monarch, Elizabeth has spent much of the past two years at Windsor Castle, west of London, where she took refuge during the pandemic.
It’s been a little over a year since the death of Philip, her spouse of more than 70 years.
The queen said goodbye during a scaled-down funeral in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. Coronavirus restrictions in place at the time limited the service to 30 mourners and forced the monarch to sit alone — a poignant reminder of how she would spend her remaining years.
Last month, with the pandemic on the wane and restrictions eased, the queen shrugged off recent health issues to attend a service of thanksgiving for Philip at Westminster Abbey, entering the abbey on the arm of Andrew, her second son.
Her choice of escorts was seen as a vote of support for Andrew following his legal settlement.
But the in-person appearance was rare. The Queen has increasingly relied on Prince Charles to take on public engagements in the twilight of her reign, most recently offering alms to senior citizens at the Royal Maundy service at St. George’s Chapel.
Charles took on the traditional task of distributing specially minted coins to pensioners who were being recognized for service to the church and the local community.
This year, 96 men and 96 women received the coins, one for each year of the queen’s life.
“She has a lot coming up in the next few months, so it absolutely makes sense that she enjoys her birthday quietly, privately at Sandringham,″ Nash said. “She will no doubt have quite a lot of time to reflect on her happy times there with Prince Philip over the years. But this is really someone whose focus is still on the future, even at the age of 96.” | https://www.wcia.com/news/queen-elizabeth-ii-marks-96th-birthday-in-private-she-doesnt-like-a-fuss/ | 2022-04-21T17:52:46Z | https://www.wcia.com/news/queen-elizabeth-ii-marks-96th-birthday-in-private-she-doesnt-like-a-fuss/ | true | 27 |
From now until the 2022 NFL Draft takes place, we hope to scout and create profiles for as many prospects as possible, examining their strengths, weaknesses, and what they can bring to an NFL franchise. These players could be potential top 10 picks, all the way down to Day 3 selections and priority undrafted free agents. Today, I’ll be profiling the top receiver from a team in the ACC.
#11 Tre Turner, WR, Virginia Tech (R-Jr.) — 6013, 184 lbs.
Senior Bowl/Combine
Pro Day Measurements
The Good
— Quickness to get off the line of scrimmage
— Uses hands well within routes
— Most route usage on short and deep levels
— Reliable hands and tracks the deep ball well
— Very good body control and ability to adjust around his frame
— Solid on contested catches
— Over 50 carries in his career
— Patience to use his blockers as a runner
The Bad
— Lacks top end speed to run away from defenders
— Route running needs to be tightened up
— Physical defenders may give him issues
— Didn’t see a lot of reps against a defender jamming at the LOS
— Not a lot of usage on the intermediate levels
— Played in a run heavy offense
— Not explosive after the catch
— Some injury history the last two years
Bio
— Career – 134 receptions, 2,292 yards, 17.1 YPR, 14 TD; 53 carries for 456 yards, 8.6 YPC, 4 TD
— 2021 – 40 receptions, 675 yards, 16.9 YPR, 3 TD; 12 carries for 64 yards, 5.3 YPC
— 44 games, 36 starts
— 2021 led team in receiving yards
— Blocked a punt for TD in 2018
— Also played basketball in high school
— Brother P.J. Hairston played for the Charlotte Hornets and Memphis Grizzlies
— Majoring in public health
— Senior Bowl Invitee
Tape Breakdown
In the draft season, players want to show as much as they can to prospective teams. So why do one Pro Day when you can do two on the same day. Tre Turner did the positional drills at the Virginia Tech Pro Day but earlier that day he was at the Liberty Pro Day catching passes for Malik Willis. The Steelers had a full contingency there to see Malik Willis so they did get an additional look at Turner. He is a lean, lanky receiver who played outside and in the slot in a run heavy offense for the Hokies.
As a receiver, he has solid up field acceleration verses Off coverage and good quickness at the line of scrimmage against Press coverage without a jam to get a clean release. Within the route he uses his hands well to slap at the defenders hands to keep them off of him. He has good quickness and solid speed to get a step on deep routes. On short area throws his is solid at creating separation and is solid dropping his hips and coming back really selling it on stop and go routes.
Vs Notre Dame, Turner (11) does a nice job to sell the post before breaking to the outside for the easy catch.
Vs Notre Dame, here is a really nice sell with the hip drop to get over the top but the ball was slightly overthrown.
Vs Pittsburgh, he works back to the ball and makes the first guy miss to get the extra yards.
As a pass catcher, his hands are quality; he tracks the deep ball well and is solid making contested catches. His body control is very good able to twist and contort his body to make difficult catches and adjust around his frame. He was used mostly in the short and deep areas as well as consistent usage on fly/touch passes behind the LOS. After the catch he can make the first guy miss and is solid adding yards after the catch.
Vs North Carolina, they liked to use him on the touch/fly passes and he turns it into a good gain.
Vs North Carolina, this is a straight go route that he tracks the ball nicely over his shoulder.
At Miami, Turner (wearing 25 in this game) displays a good showing of his ability to twist his body to adjust to the ball on this touchdown.
At Miami, he runs a post route making the contested catch from the slot.
In the running game, he was used often in his career with over fifty carries. Most of it was of the fly motion, hand off variety and he showed good patience to let his blockers on the outside engage before he made his decisions. He was a willing blocker and was solid getting himself in a good position to help teammates with a block on the second and third level.
Vs North Carolina, late in the game and needing a first down they run a fly sweep and he makes a good decision to cut back and get up field quickly.
Vs Notre Dame, here is another fly run and I liked his patience to use his blockers to set up his running lane.
At Miami, Turner playing with the upper body injury makes and nice block from the slot on the overhang defenders.
He lacks the top end speed to run away from defenders. As a route runner, he is a bit loose and doesn’t really have sharpness or explosiveness out of his break. Physical defenders are going to be a test for him to see if he can get through his route. He wasn’t used often on the intermediate routes in the games watched. After the catch he isn’t explosive and didn’t show the ability to create big plays after the catch but some of that could be on the quarterback play.
Conclusion
Overall, Turner was used on the outside and in the slot mostly in the short and intermediate areas. He has quickness at the line of scrimmage, uses his hands well within the route and drops his hips well. His hands are good, tracks the ball well, has very good body control and was solid in contested catch areas. He also has a good amount of experience running the ball on fly sweeps.
Areas to improve include adding play strength, tightening up his route running and improving his ability to separate consistently. Adding to his route tree and creating more after the catch would be beneficial as well.
Turner is an interesting player coming from a run heavy offense. Could he be more productive with better quarterback play? Probably, there is potential there and his experience running the ball is a plus. He has had some injuries the past two seasons (plantar fasciitis in his right foot and sports hernia in 2020 and an upper body injury late in 2021) which could add some concern.
He has a chance to be a slot receiver at the next level and possibly as a Z as well. For a comp, I’ll go with Ihmir Smith-Marsette who has similar potential to be a gadget receiver who needs to add strength and improve route running.
Projection: Undrafted Free Agent
Depot Draft Grade: 6.0 Undrafted Free Agent (UDFA)
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Montana’s Matson’s Laboratory on forefront of wildlife dental data
Thu., April 21, 2022
Carolyn Nistler demonstrates with a digital microscope how to identify and count growth rings in a tooth at Matson’s Laboratory in Manhattan, Mont. (THOM BRIDGE/Independent Record)
MANHATTAN, Mont. – With the microscopic image projected onto a screen, Carolyn Nistler quickly tallied up age rings resembling the contoured elevation lines of a topo map, arriving at the age of 14 for this northern European lynx.
“If they all looked like this, our jobs would be so much easier,” she said. “That’s just gorgeous growth, you couldn’t ask for a better example.”
Nistler owns Matson’s Laboratory in Manhattan, which specializes in cementum age analysis of wildlife teeth. As a tooth grows, tissue called cementum forms on the outer layer of the root. Much like the growth rings on a tree, environmental stressors cause dark layers of cementum, forming rings called annuli. Under a microscope and using the body of knowledge about how species or regional animal populations grow and when certain teeth “erupt” from the gumline, Matson’s cementum age analysis provides accurate data used to track wildlife populations or learn more about individual animals.
In 1969, Gary Matson opened Matson’s Laboratory in Milltown, Montana, developing many of the techniques still used today. Nistler, who holds a master’s degree from Montana State University, was running a wildlife consulting business when she met Matson at an aviation conference in 2013 – they are both pilots.
From that meeting, Nistler would learn techniques from Matson and buy the lab in 2015, moving it to the Manhattan location just off Interstate 90. There she has cultivated an atmosphere that feels more storefront than laboratory – workers wear no lab coats, and the quiet beat of 1990s hip-hop thumps on speakers – but here some of the foundational work of wildlife management and research is taking place.
“We want people to come, we want to share what we do with them, because it’s so important to the wildlife in our state and the wildlife everywhere,” Nistler said. “We really believe in what we do and why the data is important.”
The bulk of Matson’s teeth come from wildlife managers or research projects. Biologists use age data to monitor or study wildlife populations, removing a tooth from sedated animals or hunter harvests. The information may be used to justify hunting seasons, adjust quotas or learn more about age structure or reproduction.
Teeth arrive at the lab in envelopes – beluga whales from Canada, brown bears from Croatia, whitetail deer and black bears from across the United States – where technicians begin the weekslong process. Teeth are sorted, cleaned and decalcified in a partially proprietary process, emerging in a rubbery state that allows razor-thin cross sections to be cut. These cross sections are placed on slides, stained and receive a cover slip before going under expert eyes for aging.
“It’s very niche, but it’s very cool because – even though it is so specific and particular – it gives us a chance to be involved in wildlife research and conservation throughout the world right here from our little lab in Manhattan,” Nistler said.
The lab processes about 400 teeth a day and 110,000 each year. Matson’s is closing in on a milestone of 3 million teeth since Matson opened the lab, expected to be eclipsed this year.
Matson’s has continued to improve its process and build species profiles to aid in aging. That includes updates on technology, usually in the form of incorporating automation for certain steps in the process such as placing cover slips on the slides.
“(Technology’s) been helpful, but one of the things we’ve learned that’s really important is that there’s a lot of this stuff machines can’t do,” Nistler said. “You still need a human to check because each species takes up the stain a little bit differently.”
Nistler removed the slide from the 14-year-old lynx and replaced it with a new slide.
Unlike the first cat, this specimen was far more ambiguous and took her bulk of knowledge of the species to arrive at an age range of 2-3. When an exact age is not definitive, Matson’s assigns an age range as its best determination.
“Sometimes we can tell in a split second,” she said. “And sometimes I spend 5 or 10 minutes on a sample trying to assign the correct age because that’s just the nuance.”
Nistler counts river otters and mountain lions among the more difficult wildlife teeth to analyze. Knowing not only the typical characteristics of a species, but also differences in range, is a major part of arriving at an accurate age. In Texas white-tail deer for example, the annuli are less distinguishable, while deer living through the harsh winters of northern latitudes display clearer growth rings.
Sexes can also vary, and females may display differences in years where they produce young. Nistler suspects either hormones or the sapping of the mother’s resources accounts for those distinctions.
Most teeth come from state wildlife agencies, but Matson’s has seen a surge in teeth provided by individual hunters in recent years who simply want to learn about the animals they pursue. Matson’s offers detailed instructions for how to remove a tooth and submit it for aging and charges $75 for up to five animals.
“We’re hunters, we believe in hunting as a conservation tool,” Nistler said. “Hunters are definitely wanting to become more informed of the role they play, and age is part of that.”
Shannon Bell is an avid hunter from Helena and a Matson’s customer. He recalled shooting an older mule deer buck in Montana and a massive bull moose in Alaska that had him wondering about age – Matson’s put the buck at 7 and the moose at 12. Hunters often look at physical characteristics of animals such as body size to estimate age, but having those assumptions verified helps him better understand what he is seeing in the field.
“Just as a hunter, it’s very interesting to understand more about your quarry,” he said. “You think about how many winters he made it through … and I think it just educates the hunter. We’re stewards of the animals and, to be honest, it’s also super cool and was just really fun.”
While cementum aging is Matson’s primary work, Nistler also offers several other services, including ovary analysis, which can estimate size of litter and timing of pregnancy, and tetracycline biomarker screening used in rabies vaccine tests for raccoons and mark-and-recapture studies for black bears.
The lab also provides skeletochronology preparation, primarily for amphibians, which cross-sections toe bones found to have growth rings.
Matson’s is using skeletochronology to analyze python and black bear rib bones as well.
“Every living animal has some part of their body that’s influenced by annual growth cycles, it’s just figuring out where it is,” Nistler said.
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South Africa has become the 17th signatory to the Jeddah Amendment to the Djibouti Code of Conduct (DCoC), according to IMO's release. The Jeddah Amendment was adopted in 2017 to broaden the scope of the DcoC, which was developed and adopted in 2009 by countries in the Western Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden as an important tool to combat piracy and armed robbery against ships in the region.
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A record-tying front nine score carried the team of David Lipsky and Aaron Rai to the early first-round lead Thursday morning in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
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READ MORE: Twitter board of directors adopt ‘poison pill’ defense against Musk takeover bid The Tesla CEO said Thursday in documents filed with U.S. securities regulators that he’s exploring what’s known as a tender offer to buy all of the social media platform’s common stock for $54.20 per share in cash. Under a tender offer, Musk, who owns about 9% of Twitter shares, would take his offer directly to other shareholders, bypassing the board. But Musk hasn’t decided yet whether to do that. The documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission say San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. has not responded to Musk’s proposal. Twitter said in a statement Thursday that it has received Musk’s updated proposal and its “new information on potential financing.” The company said its board is “committed to conducting a careful, comprehensive and deliberate review to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the company and all Twitter stockholders.” Last week Twitter’s board adopted a “poison pill” defense that could make a takeover attempt prohibitively expensive. The financing would come from Morgan Stanley and other financial institutions. Other banks involved include Barclays, Bank of America, Societie Generale, Mizuho Bank, BNP Paribas and MUFG. Morgan Stanley is one of Twitter’s biggest shareholders, behind Vanguard Group and Musk. Musk said that $13 billion in financing came from Morgan Stanley and the other banks, as much as $12.5 billion would be loans secured by his Tesla stock, and committed $21 billion in equity, “directly or indirectly” from him, although he didn’t say what the source of those funds would be. The filing says that the equity commitment could be reduced by contributions from others or additional debt taken on. Musk is the world’s wealthiest man, according to Forbes, with a nearly $279 billion fortune. But much of his money is tied up in Tesla stock — he owns about 17% of the company, according to FactSet, which is valued at more than $1 trillion — and SpaceX, his privately held space company. It’s unclear how much cash Musk has. Electric car and solar panel maker Tesla allows executive officers to use shares as collateral for loans, but limits the borrowing to 25% of the value of the pledged shares. Musk owns 172.6 million shares worth $176.47 billion. Just over 51% of his stake already is pledged as collateral, according to a Tesla proxy statement. That means Musk could use the remaining stake to borrow about $21.5 billion. Getting financing from big banks brings a lot of credibility to Musk’s bid, said Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives. “This isn’t just Musk antics,” Ives said. “Banks were going to line up for this deal from the richest person in the world. The fact they they pulled it together this quick shows that Musk isn’t joking around. This is a real bid.” Ives said the tender offer puts more pressure on Twitter’s board to find a second bidder or go to the negotiating table with Musk. “It’s a way to get around the poison pill and let shareholders speak,” he said. A Delaware corporation named X Holdings 1 was formed at the direction of Musk and some affiliates who intend to “acquire, directly or indirectly, all of the outstanding equity interests of, or directly or indirectly merge with Twitter Inc.,” according to a financing commitment letter the company submitted. Shares of Twitter fell slightly to $46.57 in Thursday midday trading after the financing became public. The share price is $7.63 below Musk’s offer. Musk “is seeking to negotiate a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Twitter … and is prepared to begin such negotiations immediately,” the documents say. With a tender offer, Musk would try to get other shareholders to pledge their stock to him at a certain price on a certain date. If enough shareholders agree, Musk could use that as leverage to get the board to drop the poison pill defense. Experts say the poison pill essentially would spell the end of Twitter if Musk or another investor acquires 15% or more of the company. Under the poison pill, stockholders would get rights to buy preferred stock at $210. If someone acquires a 15% stake, the stockholders would get $420 in Twitter stock or assets, more than Twitter could afford to pay. Musk signaled the possibility of a tender offer several times this week in tweets using the word “tender.” Tali Arbel contributed from Phoenix. Krisher reported from Detroit. O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island. By — Tom Krishner, Associated Press Tom Krishner, Associated Press By — Matt O'Brien, Associated Press Matt O'Brien, Associated Press
Elon Musk says he has lined up $46.5 billion in financing to buy Twitter, and he’s trying to negotiate an agreement with the company. Last week, Musk announced an offer to buy the social media company for $54.20 per share, or about $43 billion. At the time, he did not say how he would finance the acquisition. READ MORE: Twitter board of directors adopt ‘poison pill’ defense against Musk takeover bid The Tesla CEO said Thursday in documents filed with U.S. securities regulators that he’s exploring what’s known as a tender offer to buy all of the social media platform’s common stock for $54.20 per share in cash. Under a tender offer, Musk, who owns about 9% of Twitter shares, would take his offer directly to other shareholders, bypassing the board. But Musk hasn’t decided yet whether to do that. The documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission say San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. has not responded to Musk’s proposal. Twitter said in a statement Thursday that it has received Musk’s updated proposal and its “new information on potential financing.” The company said its board is “committed to conducting a careful, comprehensive and deliberate review to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the company and all Twitter stockholders.” Last week Twitter’s board adopted a “poison pill” defense that could make a takeover attempt prohibitively expensive. The financing would come from Morgan Stanley and other financial institutions. Other banks involved include Barclays, Bank of America, Societie Generale, Mizuho Bank, BNP Paribas and MUFG. Morgan Stanley is one of Twitter’s biggest shareholders, behind Vanguard Group and Musk. Musk said that $13 billion in financing came from Morgan Stanley and the other banks, as much as $12.5 billion would be loans secured by his Tesla stock, and committed $21 billion in equity, “directly or indirectly” from him, although he didn’t say what the source of those funds would be. The filing says that the equity commitment could be reduced by contributions from others or additional debt taken on. Musk is the world’s wealthiest man, according to Forbes, with a nearly $279 billion fortune. But much of his money is tied up in Tesla stock — he owns about 17% of the company, according to FactSet, which is valued at more than $1 trillion — and SpaceX, his privately held space company. It’s unclear how much cash Musk has. Electric car and solar panel maker Tesla allows executive officers to use shares as collateral for loans, but limits the borrowing to 25% of the value of the pledged shares. Musk owns 172.6 million shares worth $176.47 billion. Just over 51% of his stake already is pledged as collateral, according to a Tesla proxy statement. That means Musk could use the remaining stake to borrow about $21.5 billion. Getting financing from big banks brings a lot of credibility to Musk’s bid, said Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives. “This isn’t just Musk antics,” Ives said. “Banks were going to line up for this deal from the richest person in the world. The fact they they pulled it together this quick shows that Musk isn’t joking around. This is a real bid.” Ives said the tender offer puts more pressure on Twitter’s board to find a second bidder or go to the negotiating table with Musk. “It’s a way to get around the poison pill and let shareholders speak,” he said. A Delaware corporation named X Holdings 1 was formed at the direction of Musk and some affiliates who intend to “acquire, directly or indirectly, all of the outstanding equity interests of, or directly or indirectly merge with Twitter Inc.,” according to a financing commitment letter the company submitted. Shares of Twitter fell slightly to $46.57 in Thursday midday trading after the financing became public. The share price is $7.63 below Musk’s offer. Musk “is seeking to negotiate a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Twitter … and is prepared to begin such negotiations immediately,” the documents say. With a tender offer, Musk would try to get other shareholders to pledge their stock to him at a certain price on a certain date. If enough shareholders agree, Musk could use that as leverage to get the board to drop the poison pill defense. Experts say the poison pill essentially would spell the end of Twitter if Musk or another investor acquires 15% or more of the company. Under the poison pill, stockholders would get rights to buy preferred stock at $210. If someone acquires a 15% stake, the stockholders would get $420 in Twitter stock or assets, more than Twitter could afford to pay. Musk signaled the possibility of a tender offer several times this week in tweets using the word “tender.” Tali Arbel contributed from Phoenix. Krisher reported from Detroit. O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island. | https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/musk-claims-46-5b-in-financing-lined-up-to-buy-twitter | 2022-04-21T18:15:40Z | https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/musk-claims-46-5b-in-financing-lined-up-to-buy-twitter | false | 10 |
Women abused by Larry Nassar file negligence claims against FBI over botched investigation
Thirteen women who were sexually assaulted by USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar are asking the FBI for $130 million for investigation failures.
Thirteen women who were sexually assaulted by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar are asking the FBI for $130 million in compensation, nearly a year after a federal investigation found two agents in Indianapolis committed "fundamental errors” for not acting sooner on allegations of abuse.
Federal tort claims filed Wednesday by attorneys representing the women say they suffered "significant and irreparable personal injuries" because of the FBI's failure to act when it first received allegations that Nassar was sexually abusing gymnasts.
"To know the FBI could have helped to avoid this trauma — it disgusts me, and it hurts me," Nassar survivor Grace French said during a Thursday news conference.
French and former Michigan State University gymnast Lindsey Lemke are among the 13 women. The rest are anonymous.
Claims come after scathing DOJ report
Nassar was sentenced to more than 100 years imprisonment in 2018. More than three years later, the Justice Department’s Inspector General released a scathing report that found W. Jay Abbott, former head of the FBI’s Indianapolis Field Office, and an unidentified FBI agent took eight months to respond when the first allegations against Nassar arrived at their office in 2015.
'FBI failed survivors':Massive systematic failures uncovered in DOJ's Larry Nassar report
While their investigation lingered Nassar sexually assaulted at least 120 women and children, according to John Manly, an attorney who represents Nassar survivors.
IndyStar has requested comment from the federal government on the tort claims filed this week.
Pressure on the federal law enforcement agency started to rise after IndyStar first exposed the allegations against Nassar in 2016. When the Inspector General began to review how the Indianapolis FBI conducted its investigation, Abbott and the other agent made false statements "to make it appear that they had been diligent,” according to the federal government.
Abbott was also criticized for exhibiting “extremely poor judgment” because he discussed a job opportunity with USA Gymnastics at the same time his agency was looking into the Nassar allegations.
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The Justice Department declined to bring criminal charges against the agents.
'The FBI failed survivors'
"It's obvious that the FBI failed survivors in all of this," French told IndyStar in July 2021, when the Justice Department investigation was released. "They put financial gain and the possibility of an opportunity for future employment in front of athletes, of children, of survivors — and that's incredibly disappointing to me.”
The report focused heavily on the Indianapolis Field Office, but it also pointed to failures by three other agency divisions in Detroit, Los Angeles and Portland, Maine.
With no criminal sanctions in the works, legal experts previously told IndyStar that Nassar survivors might have success with a lawsuit against the FBI.
Re:Failings of Indianapolis FBI in Nassar investigation cast a cloud over other cases
Federal law provides broad protections that shield government agencies and their employees from lawsuits, but survivors could argue that the agents’ actions — particularly their false statements to the Office of Inspector General — eroded that shield.
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"It would be an uphill battle," Indiana University law professor Jody Madeira said, “but not insurmountable."
A tort claim is the first step survivors must take if they want compensation from the federal government. Once the FBI issues a response, they can decide if they want to file a lawsuit in federal court.
Attorney Jamie White said Thursday they already have a lawsuit drafted.
He also said he expects more survivors will soon follow the 13 women.
"I do think that we're going to see several more claims," White said.
A copy of the Inspector General's investigation can be found below.
IndyStar reporter Tim Evans contributed.
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Djokovic celebrates second successive comeback win in Belgrade
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Belgrade (AFP) – Novak Djokovic came back from a set down against a Serbian compatriot for the second successive day to reach the Belgrade semi-finals on Thursday.
The world number one saw off in-form Miomir Kecmanovic, ranked at 38 in the world, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Djokovic, chasing a third title at the Serbia Open and a fourth ATP Tour title overall in his home city, will face either third seed Karen Khachanov or Brazilian qualifier Thiago Monteiro for a place in the final.
Djokovic had also needed three sets to beat Lazlo Djere in his opening round on Wednesday as he gears up towards the defence of his French Open title in Paris next month.
The Belgrade event is only Djokovic's third of 2022 after he was deported from Melbourne - and denied the chance to defend his Australian Open title - after entering the country unvaccinated.
He was also barred from playing at the Indian Wells and Miami Masters over his controversial Covid-19 stance.
The 34-year-old made the last-eight in Dubai in February and then lost his opening match at the Monte Carlo Masters last week.
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Ninety out of the 600 attendees at a recent California high school prom tested positive for COVID-19.
According to KGO-TV, students at San Mateo High School gathered for the prom at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. Masks were optional for the event, which organizers said followed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance.
While many schools canceled proms in 2020 and 2021, San Mateo High, like many schools across the U.S., decided to hold a 2022 prom amid the pandemic.
“This has been a really hard year for kids and we need to keep having as many activities as we can,” Kevin Skelly, district superintendent, told KGO.
Because of this outbreak, however, Skelly said further events will need additional precautions.
"We're going to be more careful about activities. We're going to test more students beforehand to make sure they're not going into the dance COVID positive,” Skelly said.
The district said none of the students are experiencing severe symptoms.
Some students say despite the outbreak, attending prom was worth it.
"Overall, I think it was worth it. It was a great, fun time,” student Parker Del Balso told KGO. | https://www.ktvq.com/news/national/coronavirus/california-high-school-has-covid-19-outbreak-following-prom | 2022-04-21T18:17:23Z | https://www.ktvq.com/news/national/coronavirus/california-high-school-has-covid-19-outbreak-following-prom | true | 11 |
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Jennifer Novak opened the original location of Cider Belly Doughnuts, in downtown Albany, in 2014 with her brother and business partner, Andy Novak. Another shop, on Fuller Road in Colonie, opened in February of this year, in a building previously home to fast-food restaurants.
Q: Two years ago, before the pandemic, you were selling about 2,000 doughnuts a day. How badly were you affected?
Jennifer Novak: At the lowest, we were off by 79 percent. We've gradually worked our way back up, but we're still down by about 20 percent.
Q: How may varieties have you developed over the years?
JN: About 500. On any given day we're doing 40, and they rotate seasonally.
Q: What's the best-seller?
Andy Novak: Still the classic Sugar Daddy, with cinnamon and sugar.
Q: Are there any you want to put on the menu but you think would be too weird for most people?
AN: One doughnut that we've done only very occasionally is the Mother Clucker. It has turkey, mashed potatoes, peas and corn. It's delicious — like chicken and biscuits. I'm so sad that it wasn't selling.
Q: What's on the horizon as you come out of the pandemic?
JN: Without giving it away until we're ready to announce, we're looking at new flavor profiles and working with local purveyors for new products that we can use as a cross-promotion. We like to keep things fun and interesting.
Q: Any reflections on making 10,000 doughnuts a week for eight years?
JN: Well, I've put on 30 pounds — but it really wasn't from the doughnuts. It was life.
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WEATHERFORD, Texas — A junior college pitcher in Texas is facing possible expulsion from school for tackling a baserunner who hit a home run off of him.
The moment, which was captured on video, happened Wednesday during the sixth inning in a game between Weatherford College and North Central Texas College, the Associated Press reported.
According to ESPN, North Central Texas College player Josh Phillips hit a go-ahead homer off Weatherford pitcher Owen Woodward. As Phillips is rounding third base, Woodward, a 195-pound sophomore, runs off the mound and tackles Phillips.
Phillips' teammates immediately rush out of their dugout to peel Woodward off of him.
It wasn't immediately clear why Woodward tackled Phillips or if anyone was injured.
Umpires suspended the game.
Weatherford issued a statement following the incident, saying the school was investigating what happened and that Woodward could be expelled.
The school's police department is also investigating the incident.
“We are shocked and disappointed at what happened in our game today,” Weatherford coach Jeff Lightfoot said in a statement. “We do not condone this type of behavior. We have worked hard to build a program with the highest of standards. We are completely embarrassed by this incident, and we apologize to North Central Texas College and the fans of WC baseball. This type of behavior cannot be tolerated.”
North Central Texas College Chancellor Brent Wallace also issued a statement, saying he hopes the "unfortunate events at Weatherford College will be used as a teaching moment for our student-athletes to help ensure these incidents do not occur in the future.” Wallace continued “we appreciate the integrity of the Weatherford Administration in communicating with NCTC and will be working in conjunction with them to determine the full extent of this event.”
On Thursday, the North Texas Junior College Athletic Conference announced that Phillips, Woodward, NCTC players and coaches, four Weatherford players, and assistant coaches were all suspended two games for what occurred Wednesday, the AP reported.
The AP reported that the teams are scheduled to play a doubleheader on Saturday. | https://www.wxyz.com/sports/texas-juco-pitcher-faces-possible-expulsion-after-tackling-baserunner | 2022-04-21T18:25:01Z | https://www.wxyz.com/sports/texas-juco-pitcher-faces-possible-expulsion-after-tackling-baserunner | false | 11 |
‘I thought he was an Arsenal fan’ – Max Verstappen aims dig at Lewis Hamilton after F1 rival’s Chelsea takeover bid
FORMULA ONE world champion Max Verstappen has ripped into Lewis Hamilton over his shock role in Chelsea's takeover bid.
The Mercedes driver and tennis star Serena Williams have joined a bid to buy the Blues - spearheaded by Sir Martin Broughton.
According to Sky News, the duo are each investing around £10million into Broughton's offer.
Should Broughton's bid for Chelsea be successful, it's said Hamilton will become involved in efforts to "promote diversity, equity and inclusion".
The news has come as a surprise given the fact that Hamilton is a huge Arsenal fan.
There has been a mixed reaction from Gunners supporters after his involvement become public.
And now the 37-year-old's rival Verstappen has weighed in on the topic of conversation.
Speaking to PA, the Dutchman remarked: "I am a PSV fan and I would never buy Ajax.
“And if I was going to buy a football club I would want to be the full owner and to take the decisions myself, not own just a tiny percentage.
“I thought he was an Arsenal fan?
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"And if you are an Arsenal fan going for Chelsea, that it is quite interesting.
“But everyone does what they want with their money so let’s see what comes out of it.”
Broughton's group are one of three parties left in the running to buy Chelsea from sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
LA Dodgers owner Todd Boehly and Boston Celtics chief Stephen Pagliuca are also bidding for ownership of the European champions. | https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/18332761/max-verstappen-lewis-hamilton-arsenal-chelsea-f1/ | 2022-04-21T18:25:36Z | https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/18332761/max-verstappen-lewis-hamilton-arsenal-chelsea-f1/ | true | 3 |
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Airlines want to bring back passengers banned over masks
DALLAS (AP) — Airlines have banned several thousand passengers since the pandemic started for refusing to wear masks. Now they want most of those passengers back.
American, United and Delta have all indicated that they will lift the bans they imposed now that masks are optional on flights.
“We have talked to them individually,” United CEO Scott Kirby told NBC on Thursday. “Many of them assure us that now that the mask mandate is off, everything is going to be fine, and I trust that the vast majority of them will.”
American Airlines Chief Government Affairs Officer Nate Gatten told reporters that “in most cases,” people who were banned over masks will be allowed back.
“In cases where an incident may have started with face mask non-compliance and escalated into anything involving something more serious — certainly an assault on one of our team members or customers — those passengers ... will never be allowed to travel with us again,” Gatten said.
Delta Air Lines spokesman Morgan Durrant said the airline will restore flying privileges after a case-by-case review and the customer’s understanding of expected behavior.
“Any further disregard for the policies that keep us all safe will result in placement on Delta’s permanent no-fly list,” he said.
Airlines have reported more than 7,000 incidents of disruptive passengers to the Federal Aviation Administration since the start of 2021, when unruliness aboard planes seemed to take off. More than two-thirds of those cases involved passengers who refused to wear a mask.
Several thousand passengers wound up on airline no-fly lists, although the exact number is unclear because American and Southwest have never disclosed how many people they banned.
Alaska Airlines said this week that banned passengers won’t be welcomed back. Southwest said a judge’s ruling that struck down the federal mandate won’t change its decision to bar an undisclosed number of passengers.
There have been enough twists this week in the mask-mandate story to make even a seasoned flyer a bit airsick. On Monday, a federal judge in Florida struck down the mandate, which dated to February 2021 and also covered public transportation including trains, subways and buses. She said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t follow proper rule-making procedures.
Within hours, most airlines rushed to make masks optional. When the Transportation Security Administration announced a few hours later that it wouldn’t enforce the rule, many — but not all — airports and public transit systems also made masks voluntary.
Late Wednesday, the Justice Department announced that it will appeal the Florida judge’s ruling. However, the Biden administration did not indicate whether it plans to seek an immediate stay of the ruling — which could allow the TSA to resume enforcing the mask rule.
In the meantime, the FAA’s acting administrator, Billy Nolen, said the agency is making its zero-tolerance policy against unruly passengers permanent. Under the policy, the FAA can seek fines without first issuing warnings to disruptive passengers.
Reaction has been mixed to the end of the mask mandate. On Monday, many passengers cheered when told in mid-flight that they could remove their masks. Other people took to social media to say they didn’t want to fly if other passengers were unmasked.
United’s Kirby and American’s chief commercial officer, Vasu Raja, said they have seen no indication yet that the demise of the rule is affecting ticket sales one way or the other.
Airline officials believe that any increase in customers happy over not needing a mask will be offset by people who choose not to fly because other passengers won’t be masked.
With the rule gone for now, airlines are training their lobbying efforts on eliminating the requirement that international travelers pass a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding a flight to the U.S. Airline officials believe that rule is making Americans hesitate to book international travel because they could be stranded away from home if they contract the virus on their trip.
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USWNT to face Colombia in friendlies ahead of Concacaf Championship
The USWNT will play Colombia in two friendlies in June as they finalize their plans for the Concacaf Championship.
The matches will take place on June 25 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado and on June 28 at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah.
The Concacaf W Championship, which takes place in Mexico in July, will also act as qualification for 2023 Women’s World Cup and 2024 Olympics.
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Speaking about the Colombia doubleheader, U.S. head coach Vlatko Andonovski said: “Colombia has a good chance to make it to the World Cup and both teams will be in our final preparations for our qualifying tournaments, so I expect some highly competitive matches between players who are competing to represent their countries in some really important games.
“When we get to Colorado, we’ll be coming off a stretch of more than two months that the players have been with their clubs and away from the national team environment, so we’ll be looking to get maximum value out of our last days and games together before we go to Mexico for qualifying.”
After the two friendlies Andonovski’s side will then take on Haiti, Jamaica and Mexico in Group A at the Concacaf W Championship.
The top two teams from each group automatically qualify for the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, while the tournament winner automatically qualifies for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
For Colombia, the matches will serve as preparation for the 2022 Copa America Femenina, which it will host in July.
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SPEEDWAY, Ind. — IndyCar officials and representatives of tire manufacturer Firestone worked into early Thursday morning repairing Indianapolis Motor Speedway's warmup lane to add more grip to the area after three Indianapolis 500 winners spun during the first of two days of testing.
Drivers were caught off-guard by the conditions leaving pit road.
Will Power, the 2018 Indy winner, said it felt like water when he ran through the area that sent him spinning toward the first turn. Power's car forced promising 22-year-old Colton Herta to drive higher onto the track, sending Herta's car into the wall.
Following that crash, the second in less than an hour, series officials stopped the testing to conduct a more thorough inspection by series and track officials. What they determined was the Rapid Penetrating Emulsion applied last fall provided less grip in the track's apron than on the track.
The solution: Dragging tires through the warmup lane through the first two turns — where all three spins occurred — in hopes of producing a less eventful second round of testing.
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“We did some tire dragging till about 1 o’clock last night," speedway president Doug Boles said at the start of Thursday's broadcast. "The eye test tells you the grip level will be back up, the tennis shoe test tells you it will be.”
But early morning rain forced dryers onto the track and delayed the start of the testing. It's not the first time cars have had trouble at Indianapolis.
Only six Formula One cars started the 2005 U.S. Grand Prix over concerns that Michelin's tires would not last longer than 10 laps. Three years later, NASCAR's Brickyard 400 was marred by a similar problem with its Goodyear tires. Both of those races were held on the Brickyard's historic 2.5-mile oval.
Then last year, Cup drivers ran on Indy's road course for the first time and that race was marred by a problem with deteriorating curbing that sent some cars airborne and damaged others late in the race.
After the race was stopped, track workers removed the curb so the 200-mile race could finish.
Then came Wednesday.
Alexander Rossi, the 2016 Indy winner, spun coming out of the pits for their first laps of the day. With about 80 minutes left in the third and final two-hour test session, Brazil's Helio Castroneves, one of four four-time Indy winners, also spun. It sent him sliding through the grass and into the wall in the second turn.
Castroneves and Herta were both examined at the track's infield medical center and released shortly after they hit the wall. Both were cleared to drive for Thursday's test session.
“Very strange,” said Castroneves, who was driving the same car he used to win last year's race. “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.’”
Boles said he called Castroneves to apologize.
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Russia makes 'digital' rouble, home-grown credit card push
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April 21 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday it plans to have a "digital" rouble capable of making international payments ready by next year and also wants to expand the number of countries that accept its Visa- and Mastercard-style banking cards that are administrated by the central bank.
With Western sanctions cutting off Russia from large parts of the global financial system, Moscow is looking for alternative ways to make key payments both at home and abroad.
The country's central bank governor, Elvira Nabiullina, said the bank plans for real-world "digital" rouble transactions to be possible next year, and that the digital currency could be used in some international settlements.
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"The digital rouble is among the priority projects," Nabiullina told Russia's lower House of Parliament. "We have fairly quickly created a prototype ... now we are holding tests with banks and next year we will gradually have pilot transactions."
Russia, like many other countries around the world, has been developing digital money over the last couple of years to modernise its financial system, speed up payments and head off the threat of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin gaining influence. read more
Some central bank experts have also suggested the new technologies mean countries would be able to deal more directly with each other, making them less dependent on Western-dominated payment channels such as the SWIFT system.
The Bahamas was the first to launch a national digital currency back in 2020, while China is the most advanced among major economies having carried out a mass trial of a digital yuan at the Beijing Winter Olympics this year. read more
Nabiullina also said Russia aims to extend the number of countries that accept the central bank's MIR banking cards, an alternative to Visa Inc (V.N) and MasterCard Inc (MA.N) which have joined other Western firms and suspended operations in Russia. read more
MIR and China's UnionPay are among the few options left for Russians to make payments abroad since Russian banks were isolated from the global financial system in response to what Moscow calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine.
Efforts by the West to close possible routes for circumventing sanctions continued on Thursday.
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, said it was deactivating the accounts of Russian nationals and companies based there that hold the equivalent of more than 10,000 euros ($10,900).
Those affected would still be able to withdraw their money but they will now be banned from making new deposits or trading, a move Binance said was in line with European Union sanctions.
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Jesse is still wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for abduction in contravention of a custody order.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday announced an additional $800 million in military aid to help Ukraine fight back in its strong but increasingly difficult battle against the Russian invasion, but he also warned that Congress will need to approve even more assistance if the U.S. is to keep up its crucial support.
The new military package includes much needed heavy artillery, 144,000 rounds of ammunition and drones for the escalating battle in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. It builds on roughly $2.6 billion in military assistance that Biden had previously approved.
The aid, Biden said, will be sent “directly to the front lines of freedom.”
“Putin is banking on us losing interest,” Biden said. The Russian president is betting that "Western unity will crack ... and once again we’re going to prove him wrong.”
Biden underscored the need for the United States and Western allies to remain resolved in their support for Ukraine amid signs that Americans may becoming more wary of the war.
A poll published Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows Americans’ desire to get involved has waned somewhat. Some 32% say the U.S. should have a major role in the conflict. That’s ticked down from 40% last month, though it’s slightly higher than the 26% who said so in February. An additional 49% say the U.S. should have a minor role.
Biden also announced that all Russian-affiliated ships would be barred from U.S. ports.
And he said the United States would provide an additional $500 million in direct economic assistance to the Ukrainian government. That raises the total U.S. economic support to $1 billion since Russia’s invasion began nearly two months ago.
Biden said that $6.5 billion in security assistance that Congress approved last month as part of a $13.6 billion package for Ukraine could soon be “exhausted." With the latest military aid announced Thursday, Biden has approved about $3.4 billion in military aid since Feb. 24. Congress' overall total also included about $6.8 billion in direct economic assistance to care for refugees and provide economic aid to allies in the region impacted by the war — and additional funding for federal agencies to enforce economic sanctions against Russia and protect against cyber threats.
“Next week, I’m going to have to be sending to Congress a supplemental budget request to keep weapons and ammunition deployed without interruption,” Biden said.
Congress has signaled it is receptive to further requests and has been expecting there would be a need for further help for the Ukrainians.
“We want to do more,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters at the Capitol, during an appearance with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. She said lawmakers would learn more about Biden’s latest funding request “in the next day or so, to be taken up as soon as we can. Next week.”
Biden did not detail how much additional funding he would request, adding that he was consulting with defense officials.
Biden spoke on the new assistance, and more broadly about the situation in Ukraine, hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed victory in the strategic city of Mariupol. Putin, however, ordered his troops not to risk more losses by storming the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the war’s iconic battleground.
Biden in a brief exchange with reporters following his remarks called Russia’s claim on Mariupol “questionable.
Russian forces have destroyed much of southeastern port city, which has witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of the war. By Russian estimates, about 2,000 Ukrainian forces remain holed up in a sprawling steel plant, even as Russian forces continue to pound the industrial site and repeatedly issue ultimatums for Ukrainian forces' surrender.
Earlier this week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country will send heavy artillery to Ukraine. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the Netherlands will send more heavy weapons, including armored vehicles.
The new U.S. military assistance is expected to include 72 155mm howitzers, 144,000 artillery rounds, 72 vehicles used to tow to the howitzers onto battlefields, and over 121 Phoenix Ghost tactical drones, as well as field equipment and spare parts.
The 72 howitzers are in addition to the 18 announced last week the U.S. was transferring to Ukraine.
Biden’s decision to quadruple the number pledged in an arms package announced just last week reflects what is shaping up as a major ground battle in the contested Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
The Russians have been deploying additional artillery there in recent days as they aim to expand their offensive and attempt to take full control of the Donbas after retreating from a failed attempt to capture Kyiv, the capital. Heavy weaponry like artillery is expected to play a key role in the fighting in the relatively confined Donbas area where Ukrainian and Russian-backed separatists have been battling since 2014.
A senior U.S. defense official said training of Ukrainian personnel on American 155mm howitzers has begun in a European country outside Ukraine.
The announcements on new aid came against the backdrop of International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings this week dominated by conversations over how to manage the spillover from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Ahead of his remarks, Biden met with Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmyhal. The Ukrainian leader also met on Thursday with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as well as Pelosi.
Kristalina Georgieva, the International Monetary Fund's managing director, said at a news conference on Wednesday that Ukraine's financial ministry officials have estimated they will need $5 billion in international assistance per month for the coming months to help cover essential government services and keep the country's economy going.
Yellen at a news conference after meeting with Shmyhal said the economic aid the U.S. and allies have sent “is only the beginning of what Ukraine will need to rebuild.” She added that she'd be discussing efforts to further aid Ukraine with her Western counterparts this week.
“I think we stand united in recognizing we’ve got to find ways to meet Ukraine’s needs,” Yellen said.
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The "Dental Practice Management Software Market Research Report by Deployment (Cloud-based and On-premise), Application, Region (Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa) - Global Forecast to 2027 - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The Global Dental Practice Management Software Market size was estimated at USD 624.54 million in 2021, USD 685.06 million in 2022, and is projected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 9.86% to reach USD 1,098.41 million by 2027.
Competitive Strategic Window:
The Competitive Strategic Window analyses the competitive landscape in terms of markets, applications, and geographies to help the vendor define an alignment or fit between their capabilities and opportunities for future growth prospects. It describes the optimal or favorable fit for the vendors to adopt successive merger and acquisition strategies, geography expansion, research & development, and new product introduction strategies to execute further business expansion and growth during a forecast period.
FPNV Positioning Matrix:
The FPNV Positioning Matrix evaluates and categorizes the vendors in the Dental Practice Management Software Market based on Business Strategy (Business Growth, Industry Coverage, Financial Viability, and Channel Support) and Product Satisfaction (Value for Money, Ease of Use, Product Features, and Customer Support) that aids businesses in better decision making and understanding the competitive landscape.
Market Share Analysis:
The Market Share Analysis offers the analysis of vendors considering their contribution to the overall market. It provides the idea of its revenue generation into the overall market compared to other vendors in the space. It provides insights into how vendors are performing in terms of revenue generation and customer base compared to others. Knowing market share offers an idea of the size and competitiveness of the vendors for the base year. It reveals the market characteristics in terms of accumulation, fragmentation, dominance, and amalgamation traits.
The report provides insights on the following pointers:
1. Market Penetration: Provides comprehensive information on the market offered by the key players
2. Market Development: Provides in-depth information about lucrative emerging markets and analyze penetration across mature segments of the markets
3. Market Diversification: Provides detailed information about new product launches, untapped geographies, recent developments, and investments
4. Competitive Assessment & Intelligence: Provides an exhaustive assessment of market shares, strategies, products, certification, regulatory approvals, patent landscape, and manufacturing capabilities of the leading players
5. Product Development & Innovation: Provides intelligent insights on future technologies, R&D activities, and breakthrough product developments
The report answers questions such as:
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2. What are the inhibiting factors and impact of COVID-19 shaping the Global Dental Practice Management Software Market during the forecast period?
3. Which are the products/segments/applications/areas to invest in over the forecast period in the Global Dental Practice Management Software Market?
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5. What are the technology trends and regulatory frameworks in the Global Dental Practice Management Software Market?
6. What is the market share of the leading vendors in the Global Dental Practice Management Software Market?
7. What modes and strategic moves are considered suitable for entering the Global Dental Practice Management Software Market?
Market Dynamics
Drivers
- Prevalence of Dental Disorders Owing to the Changing Lifestyle and Food Habits
- Increasing Awareness About Oral Healthcare Coupled With Rising Dental Healthcare Expenditure
- Rising Need for Mobile Health
Restraints
- Dependency on Internet Connection and Redundancy Are Crucial
- High Set-Up Cost and Scalability
Opportunities
- Rising Investments in Dental Practice Management
- Increasing Technological Advancements in the Dental Healthcare Industry
Challenges
- Shortage of Skilled It Professionals
Market Segmentation & Coverage:
This research report categorizes the Dental Practice Management Software to forecast the revenues and analyze the trends in each of the following sub-markets:
- Based on Deployment, the market was studied across Cloud-based and On-premise.
- Based on Application, the market was studied across Clinical Applications, Insurance and Claim Tools, and Patient Management & Billing.
- Based on Region, the market was studied across Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa. The Americas is further studied across Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States. The United States is further studied across California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The Asia-Pacific is further studied across Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. Europe, Middle East & Africa is further studied across France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom.
Companies Mentioned
- ACE Dental Software
- Benco Dental Supply Company
- Carestream Dental LLC
- Curve Dental, Inc.
- DentiMax LLC
- Dentisoft Technologies
- DSN Software, Inc.
- Henry Schein, Inc.
- MOGO Inc.
- NextGenHealthcare Information Systems, LLC
- Open Dental Software
- Oryx Dental Software LLC
- Patterson Companies, Inc.
- Planet DDS Inc.
- Ultimo Health Technology
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A Sign of the Times….the return of OOH activity and what this means for marketers
By Craig Gunn 21/04/2022Head of Assignments Craig Gunn, talks about the return of pre-pandemic life and how this has impacted the Out-of-Home advertising world positively. Despite many feeling the effects of the cost of living and this having a knock-on effect to the PR and Marketing world – Craig explains how there is room for optimism with the mass return of OOH advertising – an area of marketing that had little love over the lockdown.
As UK households feel the pinch of the rising cost of living, increased taxation, and impending inflation hikes, the latest IPA (Institute of Practitioners In Advertising) Bellwether Report – 2022 Q1* shares a more optimistic view today on the marketing and advertising industries. Marketing executives are predicting a rise in their budget spending close to an eight-year high as businesses adjust to living with COVID-19.
According to Bellwether data, total marketing budgets were upwardly revised by nearly one-quarter of panellists (24.1%). By contrast, 10.0% of companies recorded budget cuts, yielding a net balance of +14.1% (vs. +6.1% in Q4 2021), which was the highest since Q2 2014 and marked a fourth successive quarter in which marketing expenditure has expanded.
One of the real boom areas we have been capturing at PA Media Assignments in the last 2 years, throughout the pandemic, has been the rise in Out-of-Home (OOH) advertising. These installations can reach millions of people as their go about public spaces Including roadside billboards, digital screens in shopping centres, and on buses and their shelters. Some of the more eye-catching are 3-D-based video productions, like the BBC’s recent David Attenborough installation my team captured in Piccadilly Circus, or Coral betting showing racing horses in the central London location ahead of the Cheltenham and Aintree festivals.
At the back end of 2021, the UK Out-of-Home revenue report recorded increases across the board with both traditional and digital OOH revenues increasing 339% and 247% respectively. As a consequence, digital’s share of total revenue stands at 63%, significantly above its pre-pandemic level of 53%.
Outsmart and PwC expressed a broad expectation that the recent recovery will continue through the autumn.
Reacting to the findings Alistair MacCallum, CEO UK, Kinetic Worldwide said: “These figures are testament to the transformation seen across the industry to make OOH smarter, faster, and more adaptive throughout COVID, and its unique ability to publicly and inclusively, reach and engage audiences at scale.
“With the UK returning to ‘real life’ in large numbers, there’s every reason to be hugely optimistic as both classical and digital OOH return to the sustained growth path we were seeing in the years before the pandemic.”
A study by US-based OneScreen.ai found 92% of marketers will boost Out-of-home budget in 2022 as digital ad returns decline. Revenue increased 16.7% in 2021 compared to the previous year, accounting for $7.1 billion, based on figures released by the Out of Home Advertising Association of America.
Whilst these various reports and data suggest a growing and expanding market the doom that remains on the horizon both in the UK and the rest of the world is raising inflation and the pressures of the Ukraine war. However, advertiser and marketers are at the forefront of innovation and digital evolution and will outride any storm as anecdotally demonstrated by the Covid bounce-back.
If you are planning an OOH installation in the UK, please get in touch with PA Media Assignments here and we can help capture your latest innovative advertisement with some dynamic video and photography assets.
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https://www.digitalsignagetoday.com/news/out-of-home-ad-revenue-jumps-167-in-2021/
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Boris Johnson faces a fresh investigation over Partygate – this time over whether he misled MPs by repeatedly denying Covid laws were broken in Downing Street.
What is the privileges committee?
The special body known as the committee of privileges looks into allegations that an MP has committed contempt of parliament.
Misleading the Commons, as opposition parties have alleged Johnson has done, comes under this category.
While the committee has conducted numerous investigations before, the sitting prime minister has never previously been referred to it for scrutiny.
Who sits on it?
A cross-party group of seven MPs make up the committee. They are the exact same members as sit on the standards committee, given the two used to be combined until 2010.
But unlike the standards committee, the privileges committee does not have any extra lay members – independent people who are not politicians – appointed to sit on it.
There is an in-built government majority, with the four Conservative MPs consisting of Alberto Costa, Bernard Jenkin, Andy Carter and Laura Farris. Labour has two spots, held by Yvonne Fovargue and Chris Bryant, while the Scottish National party has one, Allan Dorans.
It is one of only two committees that House of Commons rules dictate must have a Labour chair, currently occupied by Bryant. However, Bryant was a vocal critic of the government and Johnson over Partygate so has recused himself from the impending investigation. Jenkin, as the acting vice-chair, is expected to take his place.
How will its investigation work?
The motion that set up the investigation said committee members “shall not begin substantive consideration of the matter until the inquiries currently being conducted by the Metropolitan police have been concluded”.
So while the committee may meet fairly soon to rubber stamp that they will act in accordance with the motion being passed, it will have relatively little to do until Scotland Yard’s inquiry, known as Operation Hillman, is completed.
That is at least some weeks away, given the Met has said it will not provide any further updates until after the local elections on 5 May. The police investigation may well drag on longer, and MPs may also want to wait for the final report about the Whitehall investigation run by Sue Gray to be released.
But the committee will look into something quite different from the other two investigations. It is not intended to examine the extent of law-breaking but whether Johnson deliberately misled parliament. Doing so is a cardinal offence, given the ministerial code that bears the prime minister’s signature states clearly that ministers who do so are expected to offer their resignation.
The committee will have wide-ranging powers to call for papers and other evidential documents – such as photographs, which could prove particularly damning for Johnson – and summon witnesses.
The difficulty they will face, though, is that it may prove tricky to prove without equivocation that Johnson knowingly misled parliament about his knowledge of law-breaking.
What would happen next?
After all the work has been completed, the committee can recommend a sanction – including suspension or expulsion of an MP from parliament. Crucially, whatever sanction is recommended would need the approval of the Commons.
So some allies of Johnson still believe he would have a chance of surviving. Though others argue that voting down the recommendations of a cross-party committee tasked with looking through all the evidence would be politically impossible. | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/21/what-is-the-commons-privileges-committee-and-how-powerful-is-it | 2022-04-21T18:58:31Z | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/21/what-is-the-commons-privileges-committee-and-how-powerful-is-it | false | 2 |
Over 45? Here’s how often you should be screened for these health conditions
Published 1:30 pm Thursday, April 21, 2022
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Over 45? Here’s how often you should be screened for these health conditions
No one wants to run into a health problem that they could prevent. Correctly timed screening tests can detect diseases or health disorders before symptoms show, helping you get ahead of problems earlier. They also give you a deeper ownership of your own state of well-being.
Early detection helps inform lifestyle changes and monitoring. These changes reduce the risk of disease and can significantly increase your chances of finding effective treatments. For example, cases of colorectal cancer in the United States have been declining by approximately 1% every year due to better awareness of screening and lifestyle choices—though this is largely a reflection of adults over 65. Rates for adults aged 50-64 have been rising, and the generally advised age for colonoscopy has dropped from 50 to 45 in recent years in hopes that early detection will also improve outcomes.
Generally, doctors advise people under 50 with no medical problems to have a check-in visit every three years to make a general assessment of health. Yet, about half of Americans have skipped or delayed medical care because the cost is a significant barrier. Other reasons are lack of awareness, insurance coverage issues, and lack of trust in service providers.
About eight out of every 10 adults in the United States visited a doctor as of 2020. The frequency of their visits depends on age and underlying health status. While this figure is encouraging, there remains a significant gap in screening frequency for older adults for several health conditions of concern. In an effort to plug that information gap, Guava Health outlines how frequently you should be screened for 10 health conditions and diseases, citing research from the Preventative Health Task Force, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and medical journals.
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Diabetes
Diabetes is a deceptively common disease; about one out of five people with diabetes are unaware that they have it. This makes screening for diabetes very important. Among U.S. adults, it is the leading cause of kidney failure and new cases of blindness, and is closely associated with increased risks of cardiovascular disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and nonalcoholic inflammation of the liver. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening every three years. This is especially advised for adults over 35 or people with one or more risk factors—particularly those who have obesity or are generally overweight. To make a diagnosis, a doctor takes a blood sample for an A1c test, which shows the average blood sugar level for two to three months.
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High cholesterol
High blood cholesterol increases one’s risk of heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, as well as stroke. Unfortunately, high cholesterol is asymptomatic, which makes regular blood screening crucial to its detection and treatment. Children and teenagers should get their cholesterol levels checked at least once when they’re between ages 9 and 11 and then every five years thereafter. Doctors recommend that adults check their cholesterol levels every four to six years. People with conditions like diabetes or heart disease and those with a family history of high cholesterol are advised to get screened more frequently.
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Chronic kidney disease
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around one in seven American adults have chronic kidney disease. More alarming, the CDC estimates as much as nine of 10 adults do not realize they have the disease. Blood pressure monitoring, urinalysis, and blood tests help a doctor estimate a patient’s glomerular filtration rate, or how well your kidneys are filtering waste. The United States Preventive Services Task Force reported that extra research is needed to recommend routine screening. Other sources like the National Kidney Foundation suggest annual tests.
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Colon cancer
In the United States, colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in both men and women each year. To detect and prevent colon cancer early, routine screening should start at the age of 45. However, people with inflammatory bowel disease, a history of colon cancer, or a genetic disposition toward colorectal disease should start screening earlier. The United States Preventive Services Task Force suggests screening methods like stool tests, a CT colonography, a flexible sigmoidoscopy, or a colonoscopy.
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Lung cancer
Lung cancer accounts for one in every four cancer deaths, making it the most common cause of mortality among cancer patients. According to the American Cancer Society, those with a smoking history—including those currently smoking or those who have quit in the last 15 years—should screen yearly with a low-dose CT scan through age 74. Those with a 30 pack-year smoke history are also advised to screen—a pack-year is defined as one year of smoking one pack of cigarettes each day. The United States Preventive Services Task Force gives a similar recommendation. They recommend screening for adults between the ages of 50 to 80 who have a 20 pack-year history.
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Breast cancer
In the United States, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women after skin cancer, which is generally quantified across multiple skin cancer forms. Breast cancer is commonly diagnosed in women between the ages of 55 and 64. According to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), age is the most important risk factor. Based on this, the USPSTF recommends women aged 50 to 74 with an average risk for breast cancer have a mammography once every two years. Other organizations suggest screening once every year or once every two years for women aged 50 and above. As women get older, the number of breast cancer deaths prevented by screening rises. Mammography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are the most common screening tests for breast cancer.
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Cervical cancer
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for nearly half of all cervical cancers, and 80% of sexually active women will have this virus. This is the basis of the recommendations given for screening women for cervical cancer. The most common test performed to screen for cervical cancer in women is the Pap test, or Pap smear. As reported by the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society (ACS) updated recommendations for cervical cancer screening in 2020. ACS recommends cervical cancer screening with an HPV test every 5 years for anyone with a cervix from age 25 to age 65. If HPV testing alone is not available, an HPV/Pap co-test every 5 years or a Pap smear every 3 years is recommended. One significant change to the ACS’ recommendation here is that the prior recommendation for a Pap test every three years for women ages 21-24 was removed.
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High blood pressure
High blood pressure, also called hypertension, tends to have no symptoms and a diagnosis must be made by a medical professional. Testing for high blood pressure is important because the condition increases the risk of stroke. The American Heart Association considers blood pressure numbers within normal range if it measures 120/80 mm Hg—120 is how much pressure your blood pushes against your artery walls as it beats and the 80 indicates the pressure when it rests between beats. The association recommends screening tests for adults 20 years and older with blood pressure at or below the normal range every two years, with the frequency of follow-up depending on one’s risk level. More frequent screening tests are recommended when blood pressure is higher than normal range. An at-home kit is an efficient tool for monitoring your blood pressure—especially if you have high blood pressure.
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Sexually transmitted diseases
This category comprises a number of diagnosable diseases, including but not limited to gonorrhea, chlamydia, hepatitis B and C, HIV, and syphilis. CDC recommendations vary for each. In general all people 13-64 should be tested for HIV at least once. Sexually active women younger than 25 years should be tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia every year, and pregnant women should be tested for syphilis, HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C starting early in pregnancy, with additional tests as needed depending on risk factor. CDC further recommends all sexually active gay and bisexual men be tested yearly for syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea, as well as HIV.
Overall in this category, screening recommendations are based less on age bracket than behavior, therefore regardless of age, adults over 45 should follow CDC guidelines based on their individual lifestyles.
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Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is the most common bone disease in the United States and is most prevalent among women. It is brought on by low bone mass that leads to weakening of bone tissue, structure, and strength over time. A study reported by the National Institutes of Health showed that women 65 years and older with healthy bone density can have a screening interval of 15 years after their initial test. According to the United States Preventive Services Task Force, while there is limited evidence of the advantages of screening for osteoporosis in males, bone measurement testing to prevent osteoporotic fractures in women is strongly recommended. Other factors that can influence screening frequency include age-specific diseases or when patients take certain medications.
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Human activity could lead to ‘insect apocalypse,’ study says
(CNN) – Some areas of the world could be heading toward an “insect apocalypse.”
Researchers at the University College London released a new study looking at 20 years of data from more than 6,000 locations.
They also studied nearly 18,000 insect species including butterflies, grasshoppers, dragonflies and bees.
Researchers found that extreme land use combined with warming temperatures are pushing some insect ecosystems toward collapse.
Some areas around the world have already seen a nearly 50% drop in insect populations, with the number of species cut by 27%.
The study’s lead author Charlotte Outhwaite says losing insect populations would threaten global food production due to the important role they play in local ecosystems.
Scientists also say they don’t know when the point of no return is but the findings could be the tip of the iceberg due to limited data in some regions.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNW) — Governor Laura Kelly has not given up on the idea of putting money back in the hands of Kansas taxpayers.
On Thursday, she announced an additional $460 million through a Governor’s Budget Amendment (GBA) to pay a one-time $250 tax rebate for all Kansans who filed a 2020 tax return last year. Married Kansans who filed jointly will be eligible for a $500 direct payment.
The governor’s office said more than 1.2 million Kansans would be eligible for the rebate.
“Our strong economic growth would not be possible without the hard work of Kansas taxpayers, and I want to return this money to the people who earned it,” Kelly said in a statement. “Especially right now, when we are all experiencing the impact of rising costs at the pump and the grocery store, the state can make an immediate and direct impact to help Kansas families pay their bills and save for the future.”
Last December, she called for the rebate, but the House and Senate rejected funding it. However, Kelly said other states have passed similar bipartisan plans, including Missouri.
She said the proposal would be paid for with Kansas’ current budget surplus. A new fiscal forecast predicts Kansas will collect $760 million more in taxes due to inflation.
Kelly wants to eliminate the state’s 6.5% sales tax on groceries, while Republican lawmakers are proposing to phase it out over three years. | https://fox4kc.com/news/kansas-news/governor-again-calls-for-250-tax-rebate-for-kansans/ | 2022-04-21T19:09:13Z | https://fox4kc.com/news/kansas-news/governor-again-calls-for-250-tax-rebate-for-kansans/ | false | 2 |
Paul Bussetti, the South Norwood man who posted a “disgusting” and “abhorrent” video of a Grenfell Tower model on social media, has been given a 10-week suspended jail sentence after admitting his crime.
Bussetti, 49, pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
The video clip, recorded at a Bonfire Night party in November 2018, shocked the public when it went viral a little more than a year after the Grenfell Tower fire in which 72 people were killed.
At a two-day trial in August 2019, Bussetti was found not guilty of posting the video, but the Crown Prosecution Service appealed against the verdict. Bussetti’s acquittal was later quashed by the High Court. Judge Lord Justice Bean said then that he did not accept Bussetti’s argument – that the figures in the bonfire were his friends – as a defence.
At the latest hearing this week, chief magistrate Paul Goldspring said of the video that, “it was offensive to almost everybody who has an ounce of decency about them”.
Goldspring said he was “horrified” when he saw the film. “It was disgusting, it was disrespectful, it was abhorrent and it was – by the nature of the charge – grossly offensive.”
In court, Bussetti gave his address as Sundial Avenue, off South Norwood Hill. He and some of his associates involved in the notorious party were known to be members of the South Norwood Conservative Club.
When the video first appeared, community groups, including the South Norwood Tourist Board, organised a silent march to show their solidarity with the survivors of the Grenfell fire and the families who lost loved ones, as well as to protest against Bussetti’s actions.
The magistrates court this week heard that Bussetti filmed the footage and posted it in two WhatsApp groups.
The court heard direct and indirect references were made in Bussetti’s footage about the residents of Grenfell Tower.
According to the BBC, the comments included: “Who’s jumping?”, “Don’t worry, stay in your flats”, and “Jump out of the window”.
The court heard Bussetti said: “That’s what happens when you don’t pay the rent.” He could also be heard making siren noises.
Another person, who was not the defendant, could be heard making a racist comment in the video, while others could be heard laughing.
Bussetti handed himself in to police when the footage went viral. He is said to have told police: “It was all over the telly and so we thought it was better to tell the truth.
“It was terrible, definitely offensive to people, it was just complete stupidness, one of those stupid moments.”
A victim impact statement on behalf of the Grenfell victims said “the overall reaction of the Grenfell community was one of shock, horror and outrage” at the video.
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CROYDON LABOUR IN CRISIS: There’s probably a reason that Val Shawcross has neglected to publish details of who is working on her very well-funded Mayoral election campaign: it includes seven councillors who helped to bankrupt the borough. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES
With just two weeks until election day on May 5 and Labour’s “New Direction” candidate to become Croydon’s first executive Mayor has yet to publish full details of who is working in her campaign team.
But Inside Croydon has obtained a list of members of Shawcross’s inner circle and can reveal that it is full of long-term supporters of Tony Newman, the discredited former council leader who bankrupted the council.
“I’ll make a clean break with the financial problems of the past and run a tight ship,” the Labour candidate has promised in her election literature.
Yet that “clean break” has seen her include no fewer than seven past or present Croydon Labour councillors who all worked closely with Newman in the years leading to the council’s financial collapse.
Under Newman, the Labour-run council neglected long-suffering residents in mould-infested council flats, prompting a national scandal; it had the borough’s children’s services declared “dangerous” by Ofsted; and they oversaw the financial disasters of the failed Brick by Brick building company, despite lending it £200million, and the £67million Fairfield Halls refurb – which is being investigated for possible fraudulent conduct.
Just in the past few months, these same Labour council figures have agreed to cut Meals on Wheels to the elderly, axed the council’s grafitti team, closed the Purley Leisure Centre, reduced many of Croydon’s libraries to two-days-a-week opening, and cut Council Tax Support for 20,000 of the poorest households while hiking council rents by 4.1per cent.
According to sources, Shawcross’s team was pulled together three months ago and “represents the structures in the party”.
Although Inside Croydon approached Shawcross in February to request the names of her campaign committee or to be advised when she might publish the identity of its members on her website, we have never received a reply, nor has the website been updated to identify her “team”.
It is now clear why: Shawcross’s campaign is not so much the promised “New Direction for Croydon”, but more of the same old Croydon Labour stooges and hacks who created the mess in the first place.
It is barely six months since most of those on Shawcross’s campaign team were out knocking on doors telling the Croydon public not to vote for a change to the Mayoral system. Steve Reed OBE, the MP for Croydon North, even made videos about the perceived dangers of a “fat cat mayor” (how that must have delighted Labour Mayors such as Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham), while Labour leaflets featured pictures of burning £20 notes.
In her campaign literature, Shawcross promises, “Value for money”, though as far as getting elected is concerned, there’s no expense spared by the Labour campaign.
Labour is out-spending all rivals in these local elections, with around £80,000 to lavish on leaflets and letters to try to get Shawcross elected, with 30 or more candidates expected to be carried along on her coattails to the Town Hall as councillors for the next four years.
Half of the Shawcross campaign budget has been drawn from an impost on the borough’s existing 40 Labour councillors’ special allowances. So effectively, £40,000 of Shawcross’s budget is being paid for by the same Council Tax-payers who will be picking up the bills for the Brick by Brick and Fairfield Halls disasters for years to come.
And while Shawcross has emphasised, publicly and privately, the need for councillors and candidates to follow the Nolan Principles of Conduct in Public Life – “Learn them,” she told one of her early campaign meetings – her own campaign team is full of chancers, incompetents and buffoons, and at least one self-admitted law-breaker.
Here, for the first time, Inside Croydon is able to name the members of Val Shawcross’s campaign team when it was formed earlier this year.
Joel “Bodger” Bodmer: Chair. The acolyte of MP Steve Reed, Bodmer also chairs the Local Campaigns Forum which blundered its way through a chaotic candidate selection process, managing to include among council candidates someone who the High Court ruled was not fit to be a trustee of a charity, and another who issued a slew of racist tweets without anyone in his party bothering to check.
Maddy Henson: Campaign secretary and in charge of social media. Councillor since 2014, her seat in Addiscombe East is under threat from the Tories on May 5.
After eight years as a councillor, the best that a Katharine Street colleague could offer about Henson’s skills was, “She makes an OK cup of tea, I suppose.”
A Newman loyalist throughout her time at the Town Hall, Henson was rewarded by having two years in civic robes as the ceremonial deputy mayor and then mayor, with a few bob in extra allowances thrown her way.
With husband Mark Henson (also on the Shawcross campaign committee; see below), their family business supplies IT services to the Labour Party, after General Secretary David Evans gave them the gig without any competitive tender, an arrangement that Labour sources maintain was entirely above board and where there was nothing dodgy about it whatsoever.
It was Evans’ Croydon-based firm, The Campaign Company, that was handed £200,000-plus worth of council contracts shortly after he helped Newman and his numpties win the 2014 election campaign. All above-board and nothing dodgy about that, either.
We will need to wait until the election expenses are published to find out how much the Hensons “donated” to the Shawcross campaign.
Mark Henson: Data analysis. Was desperately disappointed when Labour members in Addiscombe East rejected his application to be a candidate alongside Maddie Henson. Has never yet been selected to stand in a safe Labour ward. But has been included in Shawcross’s inner circle.
Carole Bonner: Treasurer. Like Bodger Bodmer, another who has presided over the clusterfuck that has been the rarely-convened LCF. In the middle of a campaign. Bonner acts as treasurer at the LCF, too.
Until she stood down in 2018, Bonner was a councillor in New Addington, where she worked closely with key Newman aide, Simon Hall, the cabinet member for finance who crashed the council’s finances.
Hall has been suspended by the Labour Party since early 2021 while his conduct in the borough’s financial collapse is investigated.
Stooge Collins: Print. A councillor since 1993, he was Tony Newman’s deputy leader from 2014 to 2020, during which time he will have received around £300,000 in “special responsibility allowances”, and accordingly never uttered a peep of dissent.
Thirsty Fraser: Group whip. From 2018, Fraser was Newman’s “enforcer” at Croydon Town Hall, as the Labour group chief whip, receiving additional special allowances. Was implicated, with Newman, in the cover-up of the violent sexual assault of a young woman by one of his Labour councillor colleagues, Niro Sirisena, and more recently has boasted publicly of further law-breaking over the illegal handling of stolen data.
Campaigned vigorously against “Fat Cat Mayors”.
Julie Setchfield: Central Croydon liaison with Sarah Jones. A candidate in Fairfield ward. Has never been a councillor before.
Anthony Ellis: Croydon North liaison. The paid employee of the Labour Party, laughably described as a “borough organiser”. Actively tried to encourage Labour members to vote multiple times on an online poll on this website (a ploy that failed, miserably), though that now appears to have been adopted as Croydon Labour policy, with election candidates openly encouraging the public to “vote early, vote often”. Which, of course, is illegal and a serious breach of electoral law.
John Sailing: a grass-roots member.
Chris Clark: Union liaison. Croydon councillor (Fairfield ward) since 2018, was appointed by Newman as the chair of planning. Also implicated in the Sirisena cover-up as well as fixing the selection of candidate for the November 2019 Fairfield council by-election.
Patsy Cummings: Councillor since 2017, serving under Newman. Was Labour’s London Assembly candidate for Croydon and Sutton last year.
Appu Dhamodaran: Community outreach. Probably would have liked to have become a Newman numpty, had he been given the chance by being selected for a winnable ward in 2018.
This time around, has been selected for safe Labour ward Norbury Park.
The president of the Croydon Tamil Sangam and secretary of Steve Reed’s Constituency Labour Party.
Sherwen Chowdhury: Typical time-serving councillor, having first been elected in 2006. Newman loyalist. Survived deselection this year to scramble back on the allowances gravy train after the LCF cocked up the candidates in another ward.
Diva Poonaswamy
Rowenna Davis: Standing for election to Croydon Council for the first time in 2022, in Waddon ward, where she lives in a £1million Gothic mansion. Was part of the “slate” of candidates put together by Jamie Audsley. Whatever happened to him?
Blue Labour who thinks that writing for The S*n is somehow a good thing. Said to have had a significant role in drafting Shawcross’s manifesto.
Grassroots Labour members and activists have been thin on the ground so far in the campaign, many disaffected by the shift to the right made by the party nationally under Keir Starmer and Reed, but also because of the deep embarrassment felt over the way Newman and his numpties ran the borough into the ground.
As one told Inside Croydon today, “Val’s campaign is all about ‘plausible deniability’. But her campaign is being run by Newman supporters and those who are close to Steve Reed.
“Does she think the public are stupid to believe that this is somehow a ‘clean break’? Putting the same people in charge who bankrupted the borough will really go down badly with voters.”
Read more: Labour axed Meals on Wheels service to save just £24,000
Read more: Labour council benefit cuts will hit 20,000 ‘horrendously’
Read more: Mayor candidate Shawcross’s ‘new’ direction not so new at all
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To The Daily Sun,
It makes me sick when I hear Dr. Anthony Fauci tell us that we the people just don't understand the scientific process to give cover for their ever-changing directives. Please, it's not that we don't understand the scientific process. We understand it. It's an ever-changing process. We get it. If you scientists submit to that process — alright. But don't act like God and try to force us, a free people, to submit to your ever-changing process. You, scientists, are corrupt men and women. Don't take offense. "All have gone astray. There is none righteous, no not one." That's you too scientists. You lie. You hide the truth. You bear false witness. Yet you want us to submit to you as if you are our lords and we are your slaves. Sirs, we live in a free country, a constitutional republic where we have constitutional guarantees. We have the right to a representative government that will respond to our will as we see it as right. We are a nation under God and we will not submit to your sophism and your tyranny.
John Demakowski
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Encourages Carl Icahn to Participate in Process
LAS VEGAS, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SWX) ("Southwest Gas" or the "Company") today issued the following statement commenting on an open letter to Southwest Gas stockholders published by Carl Icahn ("Mr. Icahn") on April 21, 2022.
When we state that we began this process because we received an indication of interest well in excess of Mr. Icahn's $82.50 per share offer, it is a fact. Our objective is to have as robust a process as possible, so we continue to invite and encourage Mr. Icahn to participate in the sale process. The Southwest Gas Board is focused on one thing only – the maximization of value for Southwest Gas stockholders.
On April 18, 2022, Southwest Gas announced that, as a result of the receipt of an indication of interest well in excess of Mr. Icahn's $82.50 per share offer, the Southwest Gas Board has authorized the review of a full range of strategic alternatives to maximize stockholder value.
Lazard is serving as financial advisor to Southwest Gas and Morrison & Foerster LLP and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP are serving as legal advisors.
Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the business of purchasing, distributing and transporting natural gas, and providing comprehensive utility infrastructure services across North America. Southwest Gas Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary, safely and reliably delivers natural gas to over two million customers in Arizona, California and Nevada. The Company's MountainWest subsidiary provides natural gas storage and interstate pipeline services within the Rocky Mountain region. Centuri Group, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, is a strategic infrastructure services company that partners with regulated utilities to build and maintain the energy network that powers millions of homes and businesses across the United States and Canada.
This communication does not constitute a solicitation of any vote or approval in connection with the 2022 annual meeting of stockholders of Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") (the "Annual Meeting"), scheduled to be held May 12, 2022. In connection with the Annual Meeting, the Company has filed a definitive proxy statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which the Company has furnished to its stockholders in connection with the Annual Meeting. The Company may furnish additional materials in connection with the Annual Meeting. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING DECISION, WE URGE STOCKHOLDERS TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT (INCLUDING ALL AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND WHITE PROXY CARD AND OTHER DOCUMENTS WHEN SUCH INFORMATION IS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY, BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPANY AND THE ANNUAL MEETING. The proposals for the Annual Meeting are being made solely through the definitive proxy statement. In addition, a copy of the definitive proxy statement may be obtained free of charge from www.swgasholdings.com/proxymaterials. Security holders also may obtain, free of charge, copies of the proxy statement and any other documents filed by Company with the SEC in connection with the Annual Meeting at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov, and at the Company's website at www.swgasholdings.com.
Important Information for Investors and Stockholders: This communication does not constitute an offer to buy or solicitation of an offer to sell any securities. In response to the tender offer for the shares of the Company commenced by IEP Utility Holdings LLC and Icahn Enterprises Holdings L.P., the Company has filed a solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule 14D-9 with the SEC. INVESTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS OF SOUTHWEST GAS HOLDINGS ARE URGED TO READ THE SOLICITATION/RECOMMENDATION STATEMENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY IN THEIR ENTIRETY BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Investors and stockholders may obtain a free copy of these documents free of charge at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, and at the Company's website at www.swgasholdings.com. In addition, copies of these materials may be requested from the Company's information agent, Innisfree M&A Incorporated, toll-free at (877) 825-8621.
Forward-Looking Statements: This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements include, without limitation, statements regarding Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") and the Company's expectations or intentions regarding the future. These forward-looking statements can often be identified by the use of words such as "will", "predict", "continue", "forecast", "expect", "believe", "anticipate", "outlook", "could", "target", "project", "intend", "plan", "seek", "estimate", "should", "may" and "assume", as well as variations of such words and similar expressions referring to the future, and include (without limitation) statements regarding expectations with respect to a separation of Centuri, the future performance of Centuri, Southwest Gas's dividend ratios and Southwest Gas's future performance. A number of important factors affecting the business and financial results of the Company could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated in the forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the timing and amount of rate relief, changes in rate design, customer growth rates, the effects of regulation/deregulation, tax reform and related regulatory decisions, the impacts of construction activity at Centuri, whether we will separate Centuri within the anticipated timeframe and the impact to our results of operations and financial position from the separation, the potential for, and the impact of, a credit rating downgrade, the costs to integrate MountainWest, future earnings trends, inflation, sufficiency of labor markets and similar resources, seasonal patterns, the cost and management attention of ongoing litigation that the Company is currently engaged in, the effects of the pending tender offer and proxy contest brought by Carl Icahn and his affiliates, and the impacts of stock market volatility. In addition, the Company can provide no assurance that its discussions about future operating margin, operating income, COLI earnings, interest expense, and capital expenditures of the natural gas distribution segment will occur. Likewise, the Company can provide no assurance that discussions regarding utility infrastructure services segment revenues, EBITDA as a percentage of revenue, and interest expense will transpire, nor assurance regarding acquisitions or their impacts, including management's plans or expectations related thereto, including with regard to Riggs Distler or MountainWest. Factors that could cause actual results to differ also include (without limitation) those discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and in the Company's and Southwest Gas Corporation's current and periodic reports, including our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, filed from time to time with the SEC. The statements in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, even if subsequently made available by the Company on its Web site or otherwise. The Company does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise.
Participants in the Solicitation: The directors and officers of the Company may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in connection with the Annual Meeting. Information regarding the Company's directors and officers and their respective interests in the Company by security holdings or otherwise is available in its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC and the definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC in connection with the Annual Meeting. Additional information regarding the interests of such potential participants is included in other relevant materials filed with the SEC.
Contacts
For investor information, contact: Boyd Nelson, (702) 876-7237, boyd.nelson@swgas.com; or Innisfree M&A Incorporated, Scott Winter/Jennifer Shotwell/Jon Salzberger, (212) 750-5833.
For media information, contact: Sean Corbett, (702) 876-7219, sean.corbett@swgas.com; or Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher, Dan Katcher / Tim Lynch, (212) 355-4449.
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Media Advisory – MP Valdez to Make an Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Announcement
MISSISSAUGA, ON, April 21, 2022 /CNW/ – Rechie Valdez, Member of Parliament for Mississauga—Streetsville, will make an announcement to support electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the Region of Peel.
A media availability will follow the announcement.
Note: The event will take place outside at the ChargePoint Charging Station. Those who wish to attend are asked to respect provincial public health guidance. Please do not attend the event if you are feeling unwell or experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19.
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The Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams should have plenty of company sitting out the first round of the NFL draft next week.
The franchise that hasn’t made a selection in round one since taking Jared Goff in 2016 and doesn’t currently have another first-round pick until 2024, is set to be joined by a record seven other teams that have traded away their first-round picks in what has become a growing trend in recent years.
Whether it’s teams emulating the Rams’ model of flipping uncertain picks for cost-controlled rookies for more proven veterans with more lucrative contracts or others that followed the path Kansas City and Buffalo used by trading future first-round picks to move up to take a future franchise quarterback, teams are opting out of the first round of the draft at a furious pace.
This will mark the third time in four years that at least seven teams won’t make a pick in the first round barring one of those teams trading back up, something that happened just twice in the first 52 years of the common draft.
Former Tampa Bay general manager and SiriusXM analyst Mark Dominik said the increased salary cap, more power for players and GMs willing to take more risks have led to the change.
“I think that’s the unique thing is because players are actually getting a little bit more aggressive in their stance and clubs are willing to do that,” Dominik said. “Twenty years ago, if you tried to cross (former Chiefs GM) Carl Peterson you’d never play football again. … That mentality has kind of gone in the league. That’s why you’ve seen more first-round draft picks moved and traded because clubs are willing to do that.
“Therefore, having a known commodity, especially because some of these guys are elite, is better than having that first-round pick that you’re hoping is what you can be.”
No one has been as aggressive as the Rams. GM Les Snead traded two first-round picks to move up to take quarterback Jared Goff in 2016, another first for receiver Brandin Cooks in 2018, traded out of the first round in 2019 for more picks, dealt two more first-rounders to acquire All-Pro cornerback Jalen Ramsey and two more for quarterback Matthew Stafford.
It added up to a Super Bowl-winning roster last season.
“The model is working,” Snead said. “It’s allowing us to consistently win games, consistently contend for the NFC West. We’ll try to use our picks in an innovative, creative way, and sometimes it will be picking players in the draft and sometimes it will be using them to go acquire players.”
The aggressiveness by the Rams has rubbed off on other teams, looking to match the success Los Angeles has had in recent years.
Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett said there’s never “too high of a price on anybody that’s great” — especially when it comes to quarterbacks. Denver had been dealing with a revolving door of mediocrity at the most important position ever since Peyton Manning retired seven years ago but now has Russell Wilson in place.
“You can ask all these guys around here. You have to have a quarterback to have a chance,” Hackett said at the owners meetings last month. “It’s whatever it takes to get a quarterback.”
Of the eight teams that have given away their first-round picks this year, the Broncos were one of six who did it in trades for quarterbacks along with the Rams, Cleveland (Deshaun Watson), San Francisco (Trey Lance), Indianapolis (Carson Wentz) and Chicago (Justin Fields).
The other teams to do it were Las Vegas and Miami, who both traded top picks away to add game-breaking receivers they hope can get more out of their existing quarterbacks with the Raiders getting Davante Adams from Green Bay and the Dolphins getting Tyreek Hill from Kansas City.
After making 11 picks in the top 100 of the past two drafts to rebuild the roster, Miami now is not scheduled to pick until No. 102 after using those picks to move up in the draft last year to take receiver Jaylen Waddle and tackle Liam Eichenberg and then the deal for Hill.
“We’ve been building here for the last few years,” general manager Chris Grier said. “The chance to get aggressive and adding a talented top player at a position is something we just felt was too good to pass up.”
There are already five teams that have traded away their 2023 first-round picks, with the Rams and 49ers dealing away those picks last year when they got their quarterbacks, the Browns trading three years of first-round picks for Watson, the Seahawks giving up a second first-round pick for Wilson and the Saints trading their 2023 first-rounder for an extra 2022 first-rounder.
The trend shows little sign of easing.
“Any team that has success you become inquisitive and you want to know the why and you kind of dig into ‘OK. They did this and what opportunities is that they made the most of it,’” Jets general manager Joe Douglas said. “So again there’s a lot of different ways to skin a cat in terms of roster building. It’s just what your core philosophy is at the end of the day.”
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MADRID (AP) — The head of Catalonia’s regional government is accusing Spain’s intelligence agency of conducting what he calls “massive political espionage” on the northeastern region’s independence movement and says that relations with Spain’s national authorities are “on hold” as a consequence.
Pere Aragonès on Thursday shared examples of techniques used to infiltrate the phones of dozens of elected Catalan officials, activists, lawyers and others that he said led unequivocally to Spain’s National Intelligence Center, known as CNI in Spanish. The leftist leader said CNI has yet to deny having purchased controversial spyware from Israel’s NSO Group.
The NSO program named Pegasus silently infiltrates phones to harvest their data and potentially turns them into spying devices on their owners. For its installation, the user usually needs to follow a link within a targeted message, although a click is not required in all versions.
“We can be sure that it is CNI,” Aragonès told foreign correspondents in Madrid. “Because the level of information used to infiltrate the phones suggests that they had previous data of the innocents targeted that wasn’t known publicly” including flight numbers that they were going to take.
“It’s massive political espionage that, from our point of view, has a political motivation,” he said.
Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity research group affiliated with the University of Toronto, has revealed that at least 65 people, most of them directly linked to the Catalan separatist camp, were targeted with Pegasus or similar spyware sold only to government agencies to target criminals and terrorists.
Almost all of the incidents occurred between 2017 and 2020, when efforts to carve out an independent state in northeastern Spain led to the country’s deepest political crisis in decades. The former Catalan Cabinet that pushed ahead with an illegal referendum on independence was sacked. Most of its members were imprisoned before they were eventually pardoned. Half a dozen people fled the country.
The Spanish government has not denied nor confirmed whether it uses Pegasus or other hard-to-detect spyware. Defense Minister Margarita Robles on Wednesday said that laws protecting state secrets prevent the agency from disclosing details on the activities of the country’s intelligence services.
“We cannot sow suspicion about an organization that cannot defend itself,” Robles told Spanish state broadcaster, TVE, adding that CNI’s actions fall under the oversight of judges.
Aragonès, whose device was among those infiltrated, according to Citizen Lab, said his leftist party’s crucial support for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s left-to-center national coalition and the ongoing negotiations about the future of the wealthy Catalan region can’t continue unless the Spanish government launches a full investigation and purges those responsible for the hacking.
If the targeted espionage by CNI is confirmed, Aragonès said the responsibility within Sánchez’s administration “will be based on who knew, who authorized these actions or who didn’t.”
“And when I speak of responsibility, I mean that we’ll need to see resignations,” he told The Associated Press.
Rounds of talks between the central government in Madrid and Catalan regional authorities have yielded some progress in solving some of the separatists’ long-term grievances but have not resolved the fundamental issues of Catalonia’s status within Spain.
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WFO SACRAMENTO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, April 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
1143 AM PDT Thu Apr 21 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern San
Joaquin and northern Stanislaus Counties through 1215 PM PDT...
At 1141 AM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Garden Acres, or 7 miles east of Stockton, moving northeast at 15
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph, half inch hail and heavy rain. A
funnel cloud is also possible with this storm.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Stockton, Waterloo, Farmington, Garden Acres, Kennedy, August, Linden
and Morada.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3785 12121 3799 12129 3820 12105 3792 12087
TIME...MOT...LOC 1841Z 227DEG 15KT 3794 12117
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Quick Draw Midday" game were:
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(seven, twelve, sixteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-six, twenty-nine, thirty-two, thirty-seven, thirty-nine, forty, forty-three, fifty-five, sixty, sixty-five, sixty-six, seventy-two, seventy-four, seventy-five, seventy-six; BE: fifty-five) | https://www.lakecountystar.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Quick-Draw-Midday-game-17117219.php | 2022-04-21T19:22:08Z | https://www.lakecountystar.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Quick-Draw-Midday-game-17117219.php | true | null |
Bonneville County Sheriffs Deputies assigned to the Ammon Division were called to an apartment complex in the 1400 S. block of Curlew to a report of a man with a gun just after 2pm yesterday. Dispatch received multiple calls reporting two individuals arguing and one had a gun. As Deputies arrived in the area they located the suspect, 19-year-old Kaleb S. Jephson, in the nearby Walmart parking lot and detained him.
The victim told Deputies he heard someone knocking on doors followed by Jephson kicking his door accusing him of taking his cell phone. When he opened the door, the victim said Jephson was pointing a gun at him. Nearby witnesses also told Deputies Mr. Jephson was knocking on doors of the apartment complex and observed him confronting the victim about taking his cell phone. During the confrontation, Jephson was seen with a pistol in his hand waving it around. After several moments, Mr. Jephson apparently went back to his apartment and came out moments later. The victim told Deputies he tried to keep Jephson there until Deputies arrived, but he jumped over a stair rail and fled on foot.
In an interview with Deputies, Mr. Jephson said he went outside of his apartment to look for a phone that had been delivered when he was confronted by a neighbor on the stairs. Jephson claimed the neighbor wouldn’t let him leave saying “you’re not getting by because you have a gun.” Jephson told Deputies he did not have a gun at that time but admitted to owning two BB guns that looked like real guns inside his apartment. Deputies were able to retrieve both BB guns from Mr. Jephson’s apartment.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Is it OK for free-range chickens to not range freely?
That’s a question free-range egg producers have been pondering lately as they try to be open about their product while also protecting chickens from a highly infectious bird flu that has killed roughly 28 million poultry across the country.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends that chickens be moved indoors to protect against the disease, but while some are keeping their hens inside, not everyone agrees.
John Brunnquell, the CEO of Indiana-based Egg Innovations, which contracts with more than 50 farms in five states to produce free-range and pasture-raised eggs, said any of his chickens in states with bird flu cases will stay in “confinement mode” until the risk passes.
“We will keep them confined at least until early June,” Brunnquell said. “If we go four weeks with no more commercial breakouts then we’ll look to get the girls back out.”
Bird flu cases have been identified in commercial chicken and turkey farms or in backyard flocks in 29 states, according to the USDA. Spread of the disease is largely blamed on the droppings of infected migrating wild birds.
The farms Brunnquell contracts with are in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin, all of which have had at least once case of bird flu.
But some, like Mike Badger, the executive director of the American Pastured Poultry Producers Association, are taking a different approach.
Badger, whose Pennsylvania-based nonprofit group has about 1,000 members across the country, believes birds kept outdoors are at less risk of infection than chickens and turkeys raised amid thousands of others in large, enclosed barns.
“We put them outside and they get in touch with the environment so I think they have a better immune system to be able to fight off threats as they happen,” Badger said.
Research has not clearly proven significant immune system differences in chickens housed outdoors versus indoors. And Badger speculates that lower density of animals, air movement and less sharing of equipment and staff in pasture-raised operations may contribute to a lack of virus infections.
He said the decision whether to bring hens inside to wait out the annual migration of wild waterfowl is a farm-to-farm decision “based on the comfort level with the risk acceptance.”
Commercial outdoor flocks make up only a small percentage of U.S. egg production. About 6 million hens, or 2% of national flock, are free-range and about 4.2 million hens, or 1.3% of U.S. egg production, are from pasture-raised chickens.
Chickens are categorized as free-range or pasture-raised primarily by the amount of time they spend outdoors and space they are provided.
Free-range chickens typically must have at least 21.8 square feet (2 square meters) of roaming space outdoors and remain out until temperatures drop below around 30 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 1 Celsius), according to the American Humane Association, which certifies egg operations. Pasture-raised chickens typically must have 108 square feet (10 square meters) outdoors each and remain outside most of the year except during inclement weather.
The certifying organizations have protocols for high-risk situations and allow for temporary housing indoors — a time period not specifically defined — once a farm documents an outbreak near an outdoor flock. Certification agencies monitor farms to ensure they don’t use bird flu as an excuse to keep birds inside too long.
Brunnquell said none of his farms had infections during the last big outbreak in 2015, and he hasn’t had any cases this year.
Farmers in Europe have been dealing with the bird virus longer than those in the U.S., with cases reported as early as last December.
The United Kingdom has ordered free-range hens to be housed inside to protect them from the avian flu, and that has forced changes to how those eggs are labeled in stores. Free-range packaging is still used but must be marked with an added label of “barn eggs,” according to a communications representative for the British Free Range Egg Producers Association. Each egg also is stamped with a No. 2 that denotes “barn” rather than No. 1 for “free-range.”
For U.S. consumers, it means the free-range eggs they buy at a premium price could come from a chicken being temporarily kept inside. But producers say they think people who pay more for pasture-raised or free-range eggs have animal-welfare concerns and don’t want the chickens to be endangered the virus.
Brunnquell also noted that the certification agencies monitor farms to ensure they don’t use bird flu as an excuse to keep birds inside too long.
Eggs of all kinds have grown costlier recently thanks to bird flu concerns and a national spike in food costs.
Last week, prices for conventional eggs increased by 40 cents per dozen to $1.47 while cage-free egg prices rose 3 cents to $2.40 per dozen, according to the USDA. Organic eggs, which are from chickens required to have access to the outdoors, were selling for a national average of $4.39 a dozen last week, up from $3.65 the week before.
The price of eggs used by bakeries and other food products soared to a record high on April 8.
So-called breaker eggs, which will later be broken by processors and sold in containers weighing up to 50 pounds, peaked at $2.51 per pound, said Karyn Rispoli, egg market reporter for Urner Barry, a New Jersey-based food commodity market research and analytics firm. Many of the egg layers that have died from bird flu were on farms contracted to provide breaker eggs used as food product ingredients, Rispoli said.
Bird flu likely will remain a problem for at least several more weeks as migrating waterfowl will remain on the move in the Mississippi Flyway until June. In the past, warmer weather and the end of migration brought an end to bird flu cases, allowing turkey and chicken farmers to begin the monthslong process of replenishing flocks and resuming production. | https://www.wpri.com/community/environment/bird-flu-drives-free-range-hens-indoors-to-protect-poultry/ | 2022-04-21T19:22:16Z | https://www.wpri.com/community/environment/bird-flu-drives-free-range-hens-indoors-to-protect-poultry/ | true | 59 |
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Simmering public-private dispute leads to unprecedented student protest at Pa. track meet
The always-contentious public vs. private debate usually sticks to high school football and basketball, but a track meet became the backdrop for an unprecedented student protest.
Athletes from Carlynton and Bishop Canevin compete on the same track team through a co-op, but a number of Canevin boys decided not to join their public school teammates Wednesday for the section finale. Instead, they gathered in protest with Canevin football coach Rich Johnson and some of their football teammates on a hill overlooking the track.
The protest came in the wake of a football player transferring from Carlynton to Bishop Canevin. Carlynton contested Najeh Austin's move as athletically motivated and the WPIAL ruled him ineligible.
"All we wanted to do was say we feel we are being targeted," Johnson said. "When you attack us and you personally come after kids and you brag about kids being ineligible for the upcoming season, we have an issue with that."
Johnson said he notified Canevin about the football team's plans and got approval, as long as they weren't disruptive.
"I ran it through the administration right before the track meet," Johnson said. "They were OK with it as long as we did it the way that we did it — kind of stand for our school and represent our school."
The protest came as Carlynton was trying to win the first boys section track title in school history. The Cougars were missing about 10 or 15 Canevin boys, but defeated McGuffey, 70-69, to win a share of the title.
"Long story short, we still won the section championship without those kids," said Carlynton athletic director Nate Milsom, who has coached the track team for 17 years. "I sent Canevin's AD a text that said: 'That's classless.' I've never witnessed anything like that in my life."
Canevin athletic director Dale Checketts couldn't be reached for comment.
No longer part of the team: Milsom decided the Canevin athletes who chose to protest rather than compete are no longer part of the track team. They won't compete with Carlynton in the WPIAL team championship May 11 and won't accompany the Cougars to the WPIAL individual championships May 18-19.
It's likely the Canevin athletes who've already qualified for the WPIAL individual meet will still compete, but not in a Carlynton uniform.
"Every one of the protesters needs to turn their uniforms in tomorrow," Milsom said.
The Canevin athletes who competed Wednesday will remain on the team.
The two schools have formed combined teams in a number of other sports over the years including tennis, swimming and wrestling. Bishop Canevin's campus is only about four miles away.
Places blame on football coach: Milsom said there were no issues all season, but he first knew something was amiss when his athletes gathered Wednesday afternoon for a team photo. He noticed some Canevin boys were missing.
"The next thing you know, Canevin's football coach and about 25 of their players are marching across the top and all stood on the hillside," Milsom said. "I didn't even acknowledge them. I'm not playing into that."
Milsom said he placed blame more on Johnson than the athletes.
"This is coming from a grown man, taking and denying these kids an opportunity to compete," Milsom said. "We're talking about kids, and one man trying to be the puppet master."
Animosity ratcheting up: Animosity between public and private schools has ratcheted up in recent months, with many public school administrators renewing their call for separate playoffs.
Milsom, who was recently elected to the WPIAL board, has joined that fight. He has argued that traditional public schools like his face a competitive disadvantage against non-boundary schools like Canevin, which won WPIAL titles in football, boys basketball and girls basketball this school year.
The Bishop Canevin football team went 13-2 and won the WPIAL Class A title last year in Johnson's second season as coach. The Crusaders' season included a 50-0 win over Carlynton.
Dramatic turnaround: Johnson and his assistant coaches have overseen a dramatic turnaround for a program that went 1-9 in 2019, but they've also heard questions about recruiting — including from Milsom.
"All we keep hearing is, 'How do you go from 1-9 to mercy ruling in the WPIAL championship game?'" Johnson said. "We put in a lot of work behind the scenes. Our coaches spend a lot of time inside the school."
Johnson said he wonders why public school opponents aren't complaining about Carlynton's success this spring in track. A number of Canevin's athletes have contributed to the success. Among them, junior Lesae Lacks has one of the season's best triple jump distance in WPIAL Class 2A.
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Arizona State Retirement System reduced its holdings in shares of STORE Capital Co. (NYSE:STOR – Get Rating) by 0.8% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 65,812 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after selling 500 shares during the period. Arizona State Retirement System’s holdings in STORE Capital were worth $2,264,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
A number of other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of STOR. Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. grew its stake in shares of STORE Capital by 15.4% in the 4th quarter. Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. now owns 44,529 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $1,532,000 after buying an additional 5,951 shares during the period. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. grew its stake in shares of STORE Capital by 31.3% in the 4th quarter. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. now owns 63,711 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $2,193,000 after buying an additional 15,200 shares during the period. Los Angeles Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of STORE Capital in the 4th quarter valued at about $591,000. Flower City Capital acquired a new stake in shares of STORE Capital in the 4th quarter valued at about $251,000. Finally, Greenwood Capital Associates LLC grew its stake in shares of STORE Capital by 41.5% in the 4th quarter. Greenwood Capital Associates LLC now owns 26,007 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $895,000 after buying an additional 7,632 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 84.64% of the company’s stock.
STOR has been the topic of several recent research reports. StockNews.com initiated coverage on shares of STORE Capital in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “hold” rating on the stock. Capital One Financial reaffirmed an “overweight” rating on shares of STORE Capital in a research report on Friday, January 21st. Zacks Investment Research cut shares of STORE Capital from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, February 15th. BMO Capital Markets cut shares of STORE Capital from a “market perform” rating to an “underperform” rating and dropped their price target for the company from $37.00 to $29.00 in a research report on Monday, March 7th. Finally, Morgan Stanley dropped their target price on shares of STORE Capital from $36.00 to $35.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, March 7th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have assigned a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $34.86.
STORE Capital (NYSE:STOR – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.28 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.49 by ($0.21). The firm had revenue of $209.23 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $201.56 million. STORE Capital had a net margin of 34.29% and a return on equity of 5.08%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 21.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.44 earnings per share. On average, equities research analysts forecast that STORE Capital Co. will post 2.12 EPS for the current year.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, April 15th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, March 31st were given a dividend of $0.385 per share. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, March 30th. This represents a $1.54 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 5.02%. STORE Capital’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 154.00%.
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Trey Songz Facing $5 Million Settlement Demand as Video Shows Him Exposing Woman’s Breasts and Chanting ‘T*tty in the Open’
A woman has accused Trey Songz of assaulting her by pulling her breast out of her top and yelling “titty in the open” while at an event at Connecticut’s Foxwoods Resort Casino.
TMZ obtained video of the incident, which seemingly shows the singer approaching the woman at the party, which occurred in August of 2013, and pulling down her top to expose her breast.
“Titty in the open, titty in the open, titty in the open, titty in the open,” Songz begins to chant as the woman, identified as Megan Johnson, can be seen laughing despite looking rather uncomfortable.
Trey Songz has a new accuser and this one says she has video proof of him exposing her breast in public, she wants him to pay up, north of $5million
🔗: https://t.co/Lo4V0AsAZu pic.twitter.com/ODFGbnxtGx
— Glock Topickz (@Glock_Topickz) April 21, 2022
Johnson’s attorneys George Vrabeck and Ariel Mitchell have issued a demand letter on their client’s behalf, asking for a settlement that exceeds $5 million dollars.
“I am sure this letter does not come as a surprise to you,” the message to Songz reads. “One woman may have been mistaken, but it is unlikely that the 12+ women that have made complaints about you, including our four clients, were also mistaken. Ms. Johnson is certainly not mistaken. Perhaps the enclosed video will refresh your recollection and illustrate the certainty of your negligent and reckless behavior.”
Songz has faced accusations of sexual assault from three other women over the past few months.
“Since the assault, Ms. Johnson has engaged in self harm, suffered severe emotional distress, including fear, anxiety, humiliation, depression, and other physical injuries, and damages (both economic and noneconomic),” the letter continued. “Her injuries are substantial, continuing, and permanent.”
The letter also claims Johnson was “shocked and confused” following the incident, prompting her to remain “quiet during the rest of the event, as several of her co-workers tried to console her.”
“Ms. Johnson specifically remembers holding her arm over her chest longer than necessary out of fear you would randomly assault her from behind again,” read the letter. “At her hotel that evening, Ms. Johnson spent extra time in the shower feeling ashamed and embarrassed.”
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Varanasi DM Kaushal Raj Sharma bags PM’s Award
District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma received the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration 2021 for successful implementation of PM Svanidhi Yojna in Varanasi.
Published on Apr 21, 2022 11:52 PM IST
HT Correspondent, Varanasi
District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma received the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration 2021 for successful implementation of PM Svanidhi Yojna in Varanasi.
He received the award from Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on the occasion of Civil Services Day at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on Thursday.
Sharma effectively ensured implementation of PM Svanidhi Yojna and promoted digital payment and good governance. Varanasi topped the country in implementing the scheme.
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Adele Roberts has revealed how lucky she is to be alive after being diagnosed with bowel cancer - and says she hopes to be clear of the disease in just weeks.
The Radio 1 DJ is currently undergoing chemotherapy and says she is an example of how doctors can save lives if cancer is treated in time.
"I have one more round of chemo to go after the one I’m currently on," she says. "Then I'll have another scan and finger crossed I'll be cancer free! I pray for that day!
"I should hopefully be cancer free by the end of May - and if I am I can’t wait to celebrate with my family and friends."
Adele, who first found fame on Big Brother 2 alongside Alison Hammond and Jade Goody is supporting ITV Lorraine's No Butts campaign - to raise awareness of the UK's second-biggest cancer killer.
And she reveals that, despite side effects from her treatment, she is determined to keep a positive attitude.
"Since chemo I suffer mainly with side effects of the skin," she says. "I have hand and foot syndrome. My hands and feet have constant pins and needles. Sometimes I can't even stand up, my feet hurt so much or bend my fingers properly."
She said: "Quite often I need help carrying bags or opening bottles. My fingers don't always register on smart screens, I have dark spots on my tongue, my body is really going through it but thankfully my spirit is good.
"Cancer has given me a new perspective on life and I intend to make the most of it. I also like to do a little 'up yours' to cancer every day, so it's vital for me to stay positive mentally whilst listening to my body physically. I have lots of afternoon chemo naps at the moment - they're very good.
"My mindset is understanding that I can’t control the cancer but I can control my response. I focus on what I can do, not what I can’t."
Adele's partner Kate Holderness first urged her to see her GP after she noticed symptoms when she went to the toilet.
Adele said: "I was at stage two and spread to my liver, but they got it in time. I'm on chemotherapy now, and I am just living my life.”
After surgery to remove the tumour she now has a stoma bag which she has named Audrey after the plant on Little Shop of Horrors.
Adele said: "I'm so grateful to Audrey as having her with me allows my body to heal."
Bowel cancer is the UK’s second-biggest cancer killer after lung cancer. More than nine out of ten new cases (94%) are diagnosed in people over the age of 50, and nearly six out of ten cases (59%) are diagnosed in people aged 70 or over.
But bowel cancer can affect anyone of any age. More than 2,600 new cases are diagnosed each year in people under the age of 50.
Adele added: "I wasn’t aware of bowel cancer at all before I was diagnosed with it. If I hadn't seen a campaign like No Butts, it would have made me be a bit quicker to get in touch with my GP.
"We go to the toilet every day - maybe not a number two - but it's a chance for you to check everything is okay, and you can catch it early. I am so lucky that I went to the doctor when I did."
The 43-year-old first noticed something was wrong when she saw mucus in her stools. She said: "I thought it might be IBS but just didn't have cancer on my radar, but when the mucus became a regular thing, my partner Kate said I had to see a doctor.
"At the time, I just thought I don't feel ill; I'm really fit, I eat a good diet so it can't be cancer. My advice is to go and get a self-testing kit and know this can affect anyone; even my doctor thought I was too young to get bowel cancer."
Nearly everyone survives bowel cancer if diagnosed at the earliest stage. However, this drops significantly as the disease develops.
"I still can't believe it's happened," Adele says. "It doesn't feel real. It's not even been six months since my surgery. I was diagnosed on October 1, 2021 and had my operation on 25th."
"The NHS has been amazing and I’m lucky to have been treated so quickly. I’m just so grateful my partner Kate was in the room with me. She was an incredible support to me that day.
"I couldn't have done this without her. She’s pretty much been my carer through all of this. She read all the cancer forums and searched online for me to get information before my operation.
"Just so I didn’t see anything that would upset or scare me. She helped me tell my parents which was the hardest thing for me to do. I was more upset for them than me.
"We also got even more intimate very quickly, I don’t think there's a part of my body or bowels she hasn’t seen!
"She opens my bottles for me when my hands are hurting from the chemotherapy, she helps to put lotion on my feet (which I suffer with too), she puts up with all of the side effects, she's even growing fond of my blackened tongue! Haha!
"She's seen my tumour, my bum (!) and she is the best nurse to my little stoma Audrey. Kate is amazing, she's accepted everything that’s come our way."
"She's never judged me or made me feel like there’s anything wrong with me. She is my motivation to get out of bed everyday and give this journey my best shot.”
The No Butts campaign, which launched last year, has already saved one life.
After watching Lorraine's No Butts campaign in 2021, Charlotte Meddings from Ipswich made an appointment with her doctor and was later diagnosed with bowel cancer.
The 33-year-old mum of two children - William, 12, and ten-year-old daughter Olivia - says she had no idea about symptoms until she heard Lorraine discussing warning signs.
Charlotte said: "I just had the telly on in the background while I was making some coffee after dropping the kids off, and Lorraine and a doctor were talking about looking for bowel changes.
"It stopped me in my tracks - I had been very constipated for the past few weeks. The only way I could go to the toilet was to exercise beforehand, which left me quite uncomfortable.
"I tried natural laxatives, but it was still a real struggle. I didn’t have any idea why this was suddenly happening to me."
"The doctor on TV mentioned that it was a symptom when things go over the three-week mark, you should get checked out, and I knew it had been longer for that for me, so I just stopped what I was doing, got my phone and made an appointment with my GP."
At the appointment, GP referred Charlotte for a colonoscopy and blood test and after a further test doctors found a polyp - a potentially cancerous growth of tissue.
However, it was too big to remove, so a third colonoscopy was arranged at Ipswich hospital two months later when it was removed, and doctors discovered it contained the tumour.
She said: "I was frightened but did my best to put it out of my mind so I could just get on being a mum and make sure the children didn’t know anything was wrong."
After the polyp removal, a consultant confirmed it had been bowel cancer.
Charlotte said: "I was stunned and the consultant seemed just as stunned - she kept repeating how young I was. I’m a fit, healthy person; I do yoga, I eat well.
"I held it together in the consultants' room, but I was so upset at home. I cried a lot on my parents' shoulders. They live nearby and were there to support me"
Charlotte had an operation to remove part of her bowel to check cancer had not spread. Then a week later, she was given good news.
She said: "I was shopping in Morrisons, and my consultant called to say they had caught all the cancer and I wouldn't need any chemotherapy. I just cried tears of relief.
"I still have to go for check-ups, but I am so, so grateful that I phoned my GP when I did. I dread to think what would have happened if I hadn't had Lorraine on in the background that morning."
Lorraine Kelly said: "Adele is so resilient, so strong - completely inspiring. I think we're all guilty of putting off seeking medical advice, for a multitude of reasons.
"We might be scared, too tired, too busy, as women we often put ourselves at the bottom of the priority list, especially if we're working, have children, are caring for elderly relatives, for example.
"But hopefully this campaign will encourage people to put their health first and recognise the signs, just in case something isn't quite right."
The 'No Butts' campaign is on Lorraine until 5th May, weekdays from 9am on ITV and ITV Hub.
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Jack White is having one hell of a year.
He’s just released his first of two albums AND married his longtime girlfriend on stage.
Oh– and did we mention headlining night one of this year’s Bourbon and Beyond?
But last night White dropped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform a track from his new album, Fear of the Dawn.
Check out his searing rendition of “What’s the Trick”…
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Swampscott’s Naomi Dreeben to head Doug Thompson’s state rep campaign
Wine & cheese fundraiser on tap for May
Former Swampscott Select Board Chairman Naomi Dreeben has been tapped to head up Doug Thompson’s campaign for state representative.
“Naomi brings her exceptional knowledge of the community, a stellar reputation, and a passion for effective governance to this campaign,” said the 8th Essex district candidate. “Our commitment to a healthy environment, accessible healthcare, affordable housing, and high quality of life in the district are entirely aligned.
Thompson said Dreeben’s enthusiasm for working on behalf of the residents of Marblehead, Swampscott, and Lynn can’t be beat.
“And we both share a track record of successfully making change happen, not just talking about it,” he said.
Dreeben served on the Select Board from 2014 to 2020 and was Chair from 2015 to 2018, ushering in, what Thompson calls, a period of significant progress. During her tenure on the board, the Machon School was transformed into affordable senior housing, the Greenwood School project was resolved, the Rail Trail was funded and begun, Zero-Based budgeting was adopted, tax rates were curtailed, the new elementary school was approved by the state School Building Authority, the town grew excess tax levy capacity, and Swampscott’s credit rating rose from AA to AA+. Also, while serving on the Select Board, Dreeben worked at Salem State University and was a program director for several local innovative senior health care organizations. She also chaired the Swampscott campaign to elect Elizabeth Warren to the U.S. Senate in 2012 and worked to elect Lori Ehrlich to State House in 2008.
Dreeben has lived in Swampscott with her husband, Tom, for 23 years, belongs to Congregation Shirat Hayam, and has two children who are both graduates of Swampscott High School.
Dreeben &Thompson, along with Peter Dunphy, Rebecca Love, Danna Mauch, Caleb & April Nichols and Ryan Wise will hold a fundraiser for the campaign Saturday, May 14, 2022, at 3 p.m. The event will be held at Lucille’s Wine Shop and Tasting Room, 776 Washington St., Lynn. RSVP online at https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dteventmay2022 or email Ellie Farber, ellie@doug4rep.com. Checks can be made out to The Thompson Committee and sent to PO Box 1308, Marblehead, MA 01945.
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WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Crude oil prices climbed higher on Thursday, extending gains from the previous session, amid concerns about global crude supply and strong demand in the U.S.
Reports saying the European Union is mulling a potential ban on Russian oil imports, and supply interruptions in Libya, where blockades at major fields and terminals reportedly result in the loss of over 550,000 barrels per day of oil output, pushed up oil prices.
Also, recent data showing a drop in U.S. crude inventories, and lower supply from Russia continued to make a positive impact on crude oil prices.
West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures for June ended higher by $1.60 or about 1.6% at $103.79 a barrel.
Brent crude futures were up $1.66 or 1.55% at $108.46 a barrel a little while ago.
Data from Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed on Wednesday that crude inventories in the U.S. dropped by 8 million barrels last week, confirming the strong numbers released the previous day by the industry body American Petroleum Institute. Analysts were expecting an increase of 2.5 million barrels.
Gasoline inventories fell by 761,000 barrels last week to 232.4 million barrels, while distillate stockpiles dropped by 2.7 million barrels to 108.7 million barrels, the lowest level since May 2008.
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Wisconsin marijuana legalization proponents make case
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Proponents of legalizing medical marijuana in Wisconsin made their case Wednesday at a public hearing on a Republican bill that’s getting its first airing under the GOP-controlled Legislature, the latest sign of movement toward loosening the state’s pot laws.
The bill only got a hearing after the Legislature had adjourned for the year, meaning the soonest the idea could be acted on is next year.
Supporters of full legalization called the hearing a stunt. But Republican supporters said they were trying to start a conversation and introduce another bill next year based on feedback they receive.
Polls have consistently shown broad support for both medical and recreational marijuana legalization in Wisconsin. But Republicans, who have had full control of the Legislature since 2011, have repeatedly blocked any efforts to loosen the law.
The only other time a medical marijuana bill got a public hearing was in 2009, when Democrats had majority control of the Assembly. That bill did not pass.
Frustrated marijuana legalization proponents have watched all four of Wisconsin’s neighboring states loosen their laws, making Wisconsin an island of prohibition. Recreational marijuana is legal to Wisconsin’s north in Michigan and to the south in Illinois. Both Minnesota and Iowa allow medical marijuana.
Eighteen states have fully legalized marijuana.
The strongest advocates for full legalization say the Republican-backed bill falls far short of what is needed.
“We cannot settle for half-baked, insufficient legislation that is nothing more than a political ploy to give folks false hope on the prospects of cannabis legalization here in Wisconsin,” Democratic Sen. Melissa Agard, a proponent of full legalization, said in a statement ahead of the hearing. She planned to testify against the bill.
“We must put our efforts behind full cannabis legalization,” Agard said.
Bill sponsor Sen. Mary Felzkowski, a Republican from Tomahawk, insisted that her goal was not to allow for legalizing recreational marijuana, but to give people another treatment option.
“Who are we to tell you if you can’t have a drug or a natural product to help you out,” said Felzkowski, a cancer survivor who said her doctor supported medical marijuana as an option.
Rep. Pat Snyder, the lead sponsor in the Assembly, noted that 37 other states — both under Republican and Democratic control — have already legalized medical marijuana.
“I don’t know why we’re so behind the times,” he said.
Snyder pushed back against those who want full legalization, saying that would never pass the Republican-controlled Legislature. However, both he and Felzkowski said medical marijuana is different.
“Medical marijuana is not a partisan issue,” Felzkowski testified. “This is an issue for all of us.”
The Wisconsin Medical Society, which represents doctors in the state, issued a statement calling the proposal premature given a lack of research into marijuana.
“Until science can determine which elements in grown marijuana are potentially therapeutic and which are potentially harmful, any ‘medical’ marijuana program is at best a pale imitation of true medical therapies developed through scientific research,” said the medical society’s lobbyist Mark Grapentine in the statement.
This session in Wisconsin there were bills from Democrats and Republicans that would legalize medical marijuana, from Democrats that would also legalize it for recreational use, and a bipartisan measure that would decriminalize the possession of marijuana.
All of those measures died when the Republican-controlled Legislature adjourned its session in February.
Felzkowski’s bill is limited. For example, it doesn’t allow smoking medical marijuana, a concession she said she made to address concerns some had about secondhand smoke. She also has said not allowing smoking would garner more support from Republican lawmakers. The Democratic medical marijuana bill would have allowed smoking it.
Her bill also allows for medical marijuana to be prescribed for a limited number of medical conditions, but she said she was open to broadening who would be eligible.
The hearing was scheduled on April 20, also known as “420 Day,” an annual day of celebration of marijuana. Felzkowski said that was a coincidence and she picked Wednesday for the hearing because it was when most people were available.
“I’m sorry, I was totally clueless on what 420′s reference was, maybe that shows my age,” Felzkowski, 58, said ahead of the hearing. “My staff said, ‘Yes, we thought you knew.’ I’m just a little bit older and not up on the reference.” | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2578096777167/wisconsin-marijuana-legalization-proponents-make-case | 2022-04-21T19:35:49Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2578096777167/wisconsin-marijuana-legalization-proponents-make-case | false | 14 |
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