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NEW YORK (AP) — People of Japanese descent are gearing up for their first-ever parade in New York City, taking their place among the lineup of groups that celebrate their heritage with marches through the United States' most populous city.
Set for May 14, the Japan Day parade comes amid activism following a wave of anti-Asian attacks during the coronavirus pandemic, and solidarity is part of the parade's message. But planning began well before the emergence of COVID-19.
Organizers initially aimed to coincide with the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, but the virus postponed their plans.
“That creates big momentum to make it better, to celebrate the recovery from the pandemic, as well as appreciation from the Japanese community to the city of New York," Ambassador Mikio Mori, the Japanese consul-general in New York, said at a press preview Wednesday.
The parade stands to boost visibility for the New York metropolitan area’s Japanese and Japanese American community. At roughly 56,000, the New York area has the nation's fourth-largest Japanese population, behind those of Honolulu, Los Angeles and San Francisco, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data.
There has been a Japan Day festival in Central Park for some years, but organizers felt they could reach more people by bringing it onto the streets.
Counting more than 1,700 participants, the parade of dance troupes, music ensembles, martial arts groups and more is set to proceed along Manhattan's Central Park West, a boulevard also used in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Actor, author and activist George Takei will be the grand marshal.
Tak Furumoto, for one, is looking forward to it all.
Born in a California camp where people of Japanese descent were incarcerated during World War II, Furumoto grew up partly in Hiroshima — where his grandparents had survived the United States' atom bomb in 1945 — and partly in Los Angeles. He joined the U.S. Army, fought in Vietnam and dealt for years with post-traumatic stress disorder and the effects of exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange, he said.
“We have overcome so many difficulties ... to bridge the gap between Japan and the United States," said Furumoto, who now runs a real estate agency. The parade “brings out that us Asian Americans are a very vital and important part of New York.” | https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/NYC-s-first-ever-Japanese-heritage-parade-set-for-17131973.php | 2022-04-28T00:20:58Z | https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/NYC-s-first-ever-Japanese-heritage-parade-set-for-17131973.php | true | 15 |
A former Mongrel Mob gang member who was found not guilty of murder by a jury in 2017 has been sentenced to prison for an unrelated, brutal "street" revenge attack that occurred three years later.
Michael Tristan Ford, 29, pleaded guilty last year to one count each of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily injury, kidnapping for gain, threatening to kill and injuring with intent to injure. He returned to the High Court at Auckland today as Justice Anne Hinton ordered him to serve three years and three months' prison for the wounding and injury convictions and concurrent two-year sentences for the other two.
Defence counsel John Corby described his client to the judge as a methamphetamine addict who suffered extreme abuse as a child. Like many men "brutalised" at a young age, "there's a very hair-trigger for violence", he said.
"I have a lot of sympathy with his situation," Corby added. "He's a quietly spoken, almost charming young man."
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Advertise with NZME.But the judge quickly responded: "He wasn't too charming to the victim in this case."
Ford and two other men - both still awaiting trial - are accused of luring a housesitter who they suspected of stealing property from one of them to another house in July 2020, where Ford then punched the man hard enough that he fell to the ground.
Ford punched the man six more times in the head as he lay on the ground, announcing that he intended to kill the victim, before forcing him to film a confession video. Ford then began kicking him.
"He screamed in pain and you kicked him a third time, telling him to be quiet," Justice Hinton said, adding that after Ford left the property "the victim passed out from the pain".
Ford returned the next day, driving the victim to an address where he was ordered to buy the men methamphetamine. When they returned to the original location, the victim was shown a pair of garden secateurs and told to take off his socks so a toe could be cut off, the judge noted.
Instead, however, it is alleged Ford smoked meth and then left. The victim was admitted to hospital two days later when he woke up in the middle of the night struggling to breathe. He suffered a ruptured spleen and developed pneumonia in hospital, where he remained for over two weeks.
Documents provided to the judge prior to today's sentencing did not mention Ford's 2017 trial at the same courthouse in which a jury acquitted him of murder and injuring with intent to injure.
Ronald Clayton Karipa, 42, died from stab injuries in October 2016 after he and Ford allegedly pulled knives on each other at a bus stop in west Auckland suburb Glendene. During his trial, Ford claimed self-defence, acknowledging he stabbed Karipa but saying he didn't intend to kill him.
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Advertise with NZME.Prior to Ford's trial, his brother-in-law had pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to murder, admitting he burned Ford's blood-soaked clothes in an incinerator on the night of the stabbing. However, his conviction was quashed after Ford's not guilty verdict, with the Court of Appeal deciding three months later that one "cannot be an accessory to a murder that did not occur".
Justice Hinton did, however, refer today to Ford's "extensive criminal history" dating back to 2010, which included six prior convictions for assault and/or violence and two prior prison sentences.
Crown prosecutor Kristy Li agreed Ford should be given some leniency to account for his abusive childhood, which resulted in him living on the streets from the age of 16 followed by gang membership and addiction issues.
The premeditated nature of the attack and the serious injuries that resulted are all aggravating factors in determining the sentence, the judge noted. But she also commended Ford for applying for a bed at residential rehab facility Odyssey House. She made a note to the Parole Board suggesting that he be released to the facility at some point.
Ford's sentence might have been slightly shorter if it wasn't for his apparent lack of remorse, the judge also noted.
"We're looking at street behaviour" in which those who steal from others "get a slapping", Ford's lawyer noted of the lack of remorse. "He needs a lot of repair. He needs re-programming."
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Advertise with NZME.But behaviour like that is going to end up with Ford eventually getting slapped back, whether on the street or in the form of prison, the judge responded.
"You can't just go through life like that. I sincerely hope that Mr Ford understands that," she added. "He needs to understand that unless he has some empathy for other people, there's going to be someone else who ain't going to have any sympathy for him." | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-kidnap-attack-michael-tristan-ford-sentenced-for-new-charges-five-years-after-murder-acquittal/W74PKU5ZQZRHI6KBF7ZXNSV4EM/ | 2022-04-28T00:32:03Z | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-kidnap-attack-michael-tristan-ford-sentenced-for-new-charges-five-years-after-murder-acquittal/W74PKU5ZQZRHI6KBF7ZXNSV4EM/ | false | 3 |
New National Women's Soccer League Commissioner Jessica Berman said Wednesday that while it's disappointing another league coach has been accused of misconduct, programs that were implemented in the wake of last season's league scandals have helped make sure players' concerns are addressed.
The Houston Dash suspended coach and general manager James Clarkson on Tuesday after the team received a report on a joint investigation by the league and its players’ association into alleged discrimination, harassment and abuse. Clarkson's future will be decided “based on the final results of an ongoing investigation,” the team said.
“This is the manifestation of the process that the league and the players’ association put in place which provided a pathway for individuals to bring forward issues and for those issues to be investigated and managed appropriately,” Berman said. “And so while we never like to have situations like this happen, the fact that the process worked the way it was intended to, and that all of the appropriate parties worked together on the interim solution and the next steps was really important and constructive overall for the progress that the league is making on this issue.”
Berman, who began her job April 20, said she could not address the specifics of the investigation because it is ongoing.
Clarkson is the longest-tenured coach in the NWSL. He was the only head coach still with his team who was coach at the start of last NWSL season. All the others have either voluntarily left the league for new opportunities, gone to other teams within the league, resigned or were dismissed because of alleged misconduct.
The Dash planned to name an interim coach before it opens the regular season at home against the expansion San Diego Wave on Sunday.
“As an organization, our highest priority is creating and maintaining a safe and respectful work environment for our players and staff, which we believe is critical to our success on the pitch,” the Dash said in a statement.
In 2021, five other coaches in the NWSL resigned or were fired due to abuse or harassment complaints, and Gotham FC fired its general manager.
The Washington Spirit fired coach Richie Burke in September after an investigation by the league into alleged violations of the NWSL’s antiharassment policy and North Carolina coach Paul Riley was fired later that month after The Athletic published the accounts of two former players who claimed misconduct, including sexual coercion. Riley denied the allegations.
Commissioner Lisa Baird resigned Oct. 1 after about 19 months on the job, and the players’ association demanded a joint union-league investigation into abuse. The league and U.S. Soccer currently have open investigations.
Red Stars coach Rory Dames resigned in November after The Washington Post quoted several players as saying Dames was emotionally abusive.
Additionally, Farid Benstiti was dismissed by OL Reign last season after an incident during practice, and Racing Louisville's Christy Holly was fired for cause, but the reason was not disclosed.
Berman said she is actively looking at ways to strengthen the league's policies concerning discrimination, harassment and bullying, and to ensure that all parties are “appropriately on notice of the expectations of both the league office, our teams, our players and the union.”
“The fact that there is something to bring forward a complaint about is obviously not a positive thing, but the fact that a complaint was brought forward, and it was addressed is something that I hope that fans will recognize is our system working the way it’s intended," Berman said. “We’d hope to have a system and a culture where these issues are no longer happening, but to the extent they are happening, we at least now can start to have some confidence that the players and the individuals have confidence in our ability to be responsive and handle the matter appropriately."
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The New Orleans City Council on Wednesday called on the city’s Office of Inspector General to investigate several initiatives advanced by Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration, while also ordering an immediate halt to distributions from a controversial land trust.
The council unanimously passed the resolutions in a special meeting after nearly four hours of testimony under oath from Jonathan Rhodes, an administration official who is the focus of bid-rigging allegations stemming from the city’s recent “smart city” procurement.
Rhodes, director of the city’s utilities office, took questions that centered on his relationships with members of the winning coalition, as well as a private entity he formed with another city employee, Christopher Wolff.
After Rhodes was dismissed, the council voted to request that Inspector General Ed Michel open a parallel investigation into misconduct related to the smart cities procurement, as well as any city money awarded to private entities via one-year arrangements that escape council scrutiny.
The council initially scheduled the special meeting to launch its own investigation into the smart city procurement, the first time in three decades the council invoked its authority to issue subpoenas and conduct investigations. The resolutions calling for investigations by the inspector general , as well as freezing distributions from the Wisner land trust, were added after revelations that Cantrell is directing nearly $1.1 million to Forward Together New Orleans, a nonprofit the mayor created.
“There is only so far the council’s powers can go. And that is why we believe that it is important that the Office of Inspector General, through his powers, begin taking a look at what has happened,” said at-large Councilmember Helena Moreno, who led the questioning of Rhodes.
Michel said in an email that his office does not comment on potential or ongoing investigations. The Cantrell administration did not respond to a query about the resolutions.
The Forward Together funding comes from two one-year “cooperative endeavor agreements” that Cantrell signed this month, for violence prevention and workforce development programs.
Forward Together will oversee payroll and accounting as “fiscal agent,” keeping a little more than $70,000 in administrative fees.
More than $350,000 of the Forward Together funding will come from the city’s general fund, with the rest coming from the Wisner trust, which typically generates about $2 million annually from oil and gas leases. The city distributes that money to charitable organizations.
The council is suing the administration over the fate of the trust, which splits lease revenue among several entities, in addition to the allotment for city charities. A court ruled in 2014 that the trust should be dissolved, which council members argue should result in all of the lease proceeds going to the city.
The trust, which meets in private, remained intact despite the court ruling, and Cantrell in 2020 agreed to continue it indefinitely.
“Those resources are city assets to be used for a variety of things for which we all have priorities. And it's important for us to resolve these issues before we keep haphazardly spending trust money,” said at-large Councilmember JP Morrell.
Imploded relationship
The flurry of aggressive council actions underscored how badly council-administration relations have deteriorated since the start of Cantrell’s second term in January, with increasingly bitter disputes erupting each week.
Already this year, the council has frozen about $10 million from departmental budgets; called an election for a charter amendment that would subject mayoral appointments to council approval; and stymied Cantrell’s attempt to lift a residency requirement for certain city employees.
Council members have also formally voted to support a bill in the Legislature that would give them oversight of Sewerage & Water Board billing, a measure that Cantrell has said is "ridiculous."
Cantrell’s most vocal council critics – including Moreno, Morrell and District A Council member Joe Giarrusso – say these measures have been necessary to check an administration they accuse of operating in secret, failing to execute basic governmental functions and, more recently, possibly engaging in misconduct.
A potential bright spot surfaced when Giarrusso announced at the meeting the administration had agreed to dedicate $15 million from a certificate of indebtedness for a new S&WB substation, a critical infrastructure project aimed at modernizing power for the city's ancient drainage system. While that makes up only about half the construction funding gap, it represents headway in negotiations between the administration and council on where the money should come from.
For her part, Cantrell accuses council members of throttling her administration’s priorities and, by extension, hindering the delivery of city services. In a letter released as the Wednesday meeting began, Cantrell accused the council of abusing its power by seeking to “parade out a series of public servants under investigation.”
“The obstructive climate is far too similar to what we have seen at the federal level. It’s negative and divisive at a time when our people are already traumatized by four years of ugliness and dysfunction in Washington,” Cantrell wrote.
By the end of the meeting, Morrell shot back with his own letter, which he read from the dais. Morrell said the administration is overly concerned with controlling information and resources, shielding officials from public view and dismissing criticism.
“(The administration would) rather send letters to council members and talk at them, rather than hear the concerns of the districts and citizens they represent,” Morrell said in his letter, which was co-signed by District B Council member Lesli Harris. | https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_cfdfa714-c67b-11ec-a3d1-374c9d08f8fb.html | 2022-04-28T00:35:41Z | https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_cfdfa714-c67b-11ec-a3d1-374c9d08f8fb.html | true | 1 |
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Republican officials ripped recent plans of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to set up a “Disinformation Governance Board” intended to combat “misinformation” online, describing it as an “Orwellian abuse of power” and calling to defund it.
During a congressional hearing Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas discussed the “just established” board, which is to be directed by Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center who helped downplay information from Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020, asserting it was likely “a Russian influence op.”
Biden Ministry of Truth: DHS Creating "Mis- and Disinformation Governance Board" pic.twitter.com/xEOS86kG8b
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) April 27, 2022
In response, Republicans blasted the move, with many comparing it to the “Ministry of Truth” that disseminated propaganda in the classic dystopian fiction novel “1984,” while others pointed to Jankowicz’ past, accusing her of promoting disinformation herself.
“Biden’s Department of Homeland Security just selected this woman to lead its ‘Disinformation’ Unit,” wrote Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ). “Looks like she has to counter her own disinformation!”
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security just selected this woman to lead its “Disinformation” Unit.
Looks like she has to counter her own disinformation! pic.twitter.com/CUnQaCwrcy
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) April 27, 2022
“Speaking of disinformation,” wrote Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as he shared a 2020 tweet from Jankowicz appearing to downplay the Hunter Biden laptop fiasco.
Speaking of disinformation: https://t.co/GlZsgJm2eV pic.twitter.com/9myHFGaEux
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 27, 2022
“Liberals use the phony term ‘misinformation’ to smear those who hold any opinion that differs from their elitist, progressive worldview,” wrote Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC).
“This is an Orwellian abuse of power by Biden DHS against Americans’ right to free speech,” he added.
Liberals use the phony term “misinformation” to smear those who hold any opinion that differs from their elitist, progressive worldview. This is an Orwellian abuse of power by Biden DHS against Americans’ right to free speech. https://t.co/vyWvouC6ZL
— Jim DeMint (@JimDeMint) April 27, 2022
“They didn’t need a ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ until @elonmusk threatened their control over the narrative,” wrote Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX).
They didn't need a 'Disinformation Governance Board' until @elonmusk threatened their control over the narrative.
— Congressman Troy Nehls (@RepTroyNehls) April 27, 2022
“Rather than police our border, Homeland Security has decided to make policing Americans’ speech its top priority. They’re creating a Disinformation Board,” wrote Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).
“No, really. And take a look at the views of the leftist radical running it,” he added.
Rather than police our border, Homeland Security has decided to make policing Americans’ speech its top priority. They’re creating a Disinformation Board. No, really. And take a look at the views of the leftist radical running it pic.twitter.com/70hM1Cle3Q
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 27, 2022
“The libs spent the last weeks planting the seeds for the back-up plan in case the Twitter deal actually happened,” wrote Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO).
“Today’s news of a Biden backed ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ is dystopian,” she added. “They can’t afford to let the truth be anything but what they say.”
The libs spent the last weeks planting the seeds for the back-up plan in case the Twitter deal actually happened.
Today's news of a Biden backed "Disinformation Governance Board” is dystopian.
They can't afford to let the truth be anything but what they say.
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) April 27, 2022
“Just revealed: Biden’s DHS is creating a ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ dedicated to ‘countering misinformation,’” wrote Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R).
“The same people who lied about COVID, Trump, the Laptop from Hell and the Russia Hoax will now be creating a real Ministry Of Truth,” he added. “No way.”
🚨Just revealed: Biden’s DHS is creating a 'Disinformation Governance Board' dedicated to 'countering misinformation'
The same people who lied about COVID, Trump, the Laptop from Hell and the Russia Hoax will now be creating a real Ministry Of Truth.
No way.
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) April 27, 2022
“DHS’ Ministry of Truth. Congress must investigate. Now,” wrote Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA).
DHS’ Ministry of Truth.
Congress must investigate. Now. https://t.co/MZBeVGuxyQ
— Rep. Andrew Clyde (@Rep_Clyde) April 27, 2022
“Is there anything more dystopian than a Disinformation Governance Board run by the federal government?” asked Florida congressional candidate Willie J. Montague.
Is there anything more dystopian than a Disinformation Governance Board run by the federal government?
— Dr. Willie J. Montague (@RepMontague) April 27, 2022
“This is Communism,” asserted California congressional candidate Errol Webber.
This is Communism. https://t.co/zB7hcgANHw
— Errol Webber (@ErrolWebber) April 27, 2022
“Will Nina comment in this post?? Ministry of Truth is here,” wrote Florida congressional candidate Erick Aguilar.
Will Nina comment in this post??
Ministry of Truth is here https://t.co/1u0UcUCqI0 pic.twitter.com/SKm6MOj5fp
— Erick Aguilar for Congress, FL 4th District (@ErickAguilarJAX) April 27, 2022
“Department of Homeland Security is creating a ‘Disinformation Governance Board,’” wrote Nevada congressional candidate Carolina Serrano. “Wasn’t the Department of Homeland Security created to combat terrorism?”
“SURELY there won’t be any overlap here, right? …Right?” she added.
Department of Homeland Security is creating a 'Disinformation Governance Board'
Wasn't the Department of Homeland Security created to combat terrorism?
SURELY there won't be any overlap here, right? …Right?
— Carolina Serrano (@Carolina4NV) April 27, 2022
“When I get to the Senate I’ll defund the Biden Administration’s Ministry of Truth,” wrote J.D. Vance, a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio. “This is downright scary.”
When I get to the Senate I’ll defund the Biden Administration’s Ministry of Truth. This is downright scary. https://t.co/fvKLdaHDO8
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) April 27, 2022
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TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) — An Indianapolis man has been arrested after leading police on a chase in Tippecanoe County. Just after 11 p.m. Thursday night, an Indiana State Trooper attempted to pull over a speeding vehicle on US 52 near County Road 575 East. The vehicle was driven... | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2582252011323/e-waste-day-is-on-the-way | 2022-04-28T00:44:28Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2582252011323/e-waste-day-is-on-the-way | false | null |
by Doug La Rocque
More than 2,500 claims have been filed for one or more of the classes in the Hoosick Falls PFOA settlement. All Claim Forms filed are being processed and verified. This process is expected to take 60-90 days. If there are deficiencies found in any of the Claim Forms that can be corrected with additional information, claimants will be contacted by email or mail. Claimants will not be contacted unless there is a deficiency in their claim. If the claim was filed electronically through the website, an email confirmation with a number assigned beginning with the letters SIK should have been received within minutes thereafter. If someone filed electronically but did not receive such a confirmation email, they should immediately contact Emma Duggan (212- 558-5677; eduggan@weitzlux.com) or Steve Schwarz (585-399-6035; sschwarz@faraci.com) as soon as possible. If the claim was filed by regular mail, no automatic confirmation was sent out. If a claimant that filed by mail wishes to verify that the claim was received and is being processed, they can also contact Emma or Steve for verification. A full, detailed version of the announcement can be found on our website, eastwickpress.com.
Health Study Open House
Running concurrently but totally separate from the lawsuit is a Multi-site PFAS Health Study, being conducted in part by the State University at Albany. This study, as has been previously reported on by The Eastwick Press, involves both residents of Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh. The clinic set up to gather information from participants is located 140 Main Street in Hoosick Falls and will conduct an Open House on Sunday, May 7 from 1 to 4 pm, rain or shine. Those wishing to be part of the study may sign up at that time.
The clinic is part of the first ever national study of the relationship between PFAS (including PFOA) exposures in drinking water and health. More information on the study can be obtained by calling 833-732-7697 or visiting www.albany.edu/sph/pfas. | https://eastwickpress.com/news/2022/04/pfoa-settlement-payments-delayed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pfoa-settlement-payments-delayed | 2022-04-28T00:46:47Z | https://eastwickpress.com/news/2022/04/pfoa-settlement-payments-delayed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pfoa-settlement-payments-delayed | false | 1 |
CHICAGO, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, posted strong first-quarter revenue growth, highlighting continued momentum across the business.
"We're guiding investors through a time of heightened volatility, and pleased that our organic growth remains strong," said Kunal Kapoor, Morningstar's chief executive officer. "We're also increasing investments in compensation and benefits for our teams globally while supporting continued funding of strategic growth initiatives."
First-Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
- Revenue increased 16.3% to $457.0 million; organic revenue grew 18.1%.
- Operating income decreased 16.1% to $56.4 million; adjusted operating income declined 10.6%. First-quarter results included an increase in stock-based compensation expense related to higher scheduled incentives and overachievement of targets under the PitchBook management bonus plan, which contributed 8.2 and 5.9 percentage points to the operating income and adjusted operating income declines, respectively.
- Diluted net income per share decreased 16.5% to $1.06 versus $1.27 in the prior-year period. Adjusted diluted net income per share decreased 18.5% to $1.41.
- Cash provided by operating activities was $23.5 million in the quarter, a decrease of 63.4%. Free cash flow was negative $4.5 million compared to positive $41.5 million in the prior year. Cash flow was impacted by higher bonus payouts in the first quarter of 2022 related to 2021 annual performance.
- Share repurchases totaled $110.6 million during the quarter.
Overview of Financial Results
First-Quarter 2022 Results
Revenue for the period increased 16.3% to $457.0 million. Organic revenue, which excludes all M&A-related revenue, accounting changes, and foreign currency effects, grew 18.1% compared with the prior-year period, reflecting broad-based revenue growth across products and geographies.
License-based revenue grew 17.2% year over year, or 18.8% on an organic basis. PitchBook, Morningstar Sustainalytics, Morningstar Data, and Morningstar Direct all provided meaningful contributions to organic revenue growth in the quarter. Asset-based revenue increased 11.6% year over year, or 14.9% organically. Morningstar Indexes was the largest contributor to organic revenue growth driven by assets under management (AUM), along with positive performance in both Investment Management and Workplace Solutions. As experienced in similar historical periods of market volatility, the structure of certain contracts and the timing of client asset reporting can result in a one-quarter lag between market movements and the impact on earned revenue in these areas. Transaction-based revenue increased 17.3% year over year, or 18.3% on an organic basis, as robust issuance activity in U.S. structured finance asset classes drove revenue growth for DBRS Morningstar.
Operating expense increased 23.0% to $400.6 million in the first quarter. The largest contributors to operating expense growth were compensation, professional fees, commissions, and stock-based compensation.
- Compensation costs increased $41.6 million in the quarter. This reflects growth in headcount across key areas of the Company including product and software development, data collection and analysis, sales, and service support, in addition to more substantial annual merit increases to employees effective Jan. 1, 2022. The growth in headcount was highest in Morningstar Sustainalytics, PitchBook, DBRS Morningstar, and the Wealth Management product areas to support strategic growth initiatives. Higher benefit costs, including 401(k) plan contributions and healthcare costs, in addition to non-cash increases in vacation accruals and sabbatical expense, contributed to the variance.
- Professional fees increased $10.4 million primarily due to higher legal fees, the use of third-party resources for software and product development, and M&A-related expenses.
- Commission costs increased $6.5 million in the quarter due to strong sales performance and higher amortization of capitalized commissions related to prior-year sales performance.
- Stock-based compensation increased $5.7 million, primarily due to the PitchBook management bonus plan.
First-quarter operating income was $56.4 million, a decrease of 16.1% compared with the prior-year period. Adjusted operating income, which excludes intangible amortization expense and all M&A-related expenses and earn-outs, was $82.5 million in the first quarter of 2022, a decrease of 10.6% compared with the prior-year period. First-quarter operating margin was 12.3%, compared with 17.1% in the prior-year period. Adjusted operating margin was 18.1% in the first quarter of 2022, versus 23.6% in the prior-year period. The year-over-year decline in margin resulted from the increased investment in headcount, compensation and benefits, and continued funding of strategic growth initiatives.
Net income in the first quarter of 2022 was $46.1 million, or $1.06 per diluted share, compared with $54.9 million, or $1.27 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2021, a decrease of 16.5% on a per share basis. Adjusted diluted net income per share decreased 18.5% to $1.41 in the first quarter of 2022, compared with $1.73 in the prior-year period, excluding non-operating gains, intangible amortization expense, and all other M&A-related expenses.
The effective tax rate was 27.3% versus 20.4% in the prior-year period. The increase in tax rate was primarily attributable to additional reserves recorded for uncertain tax positions that increased the liability for unrecognized tax benefits in the first quarter.
Product Area Highlights
Morningstar is executing its strategy and investing for long-term growth. On a consolidated basis, PitchBook, DBRS Morningstar, Morningstar Sustainalytics, Morningstar Data, and Morningstar Direct were the top five contributors of organic revenue growth in the first quarter of 2022. (For performance of the largest product areas and key metrics, refer to the Supplemental Data table contained in this release.)
Highlights of these and other products include:
License-based
- PitchBook grew revenue by 49.4% and licenses by 41.1% in the first quarter, a strong start to 2022. Several product releases over the past year helped contribute to revenue performance, including further investment in public equity data, the integration of ESG Risk Ratings from Morningstar Sustainalytics, and enhancements to PitchBook's proprietary Investor Style Summary analysis tool. PitchBook's continued focus on execution within core data operations and go-to-market activities from marketing and sales delivered strong growth in revenue and bookings.
- Morningstar Data grew revenue by 7.7%, or 9.7% on an organic basis, in the first quarter with positive contributions across geographies. In the quarter, revenue growth was driven by both fund data and equity data and increased demand from the ongoing change in regulatory landscape, creating new requirements and demand for solutions to support client needs.
- Morningstar Direct grew first-quarter revenue by 8.3%, or 10.2% organically, on strong demand in both the U.S. and Europe. Direct licenses increased by 6.3% in the quarter and benefited from new users and client renewals due to the continued investment in functionality, new data sets, and access to research that enables users to extract more value from the platform.
- Morningstar Sustainalytics revenue grew 42.0%, or 47.7% on an organic basis, in the first quarter with continued momentum in all key product lines. Sales of EU Action Plan solutions were robust in the institutional and wealth segments and there was increased demand for ESG data for client reporting purposes. The number of corporate issuers licensing Morningstar Sustainalytics' ratings across all geographies grew throughout the quarter along with further expansion in second-party opinions.
- Advisor Workstation grew revenue 1.8%, or 1.9% on an organic basis, in the first quarter with steady demand across North America for solutions addressing the regulatory need for advisors to demonstrate how investment decisions align with client best interest. Demand for personalized financial planning was strong and new information on third-party model portfolios, sustainability metrics, and structured products supported higher client retention.
Asset-based
- Investment Management revenue increased 4.8%, or 13.1% on an organic basis, in the first quarter led by growth in Morningstar Managed Portfolios in the U.S. For the quarter, assets under management and advisement increased 6.9% versus the prior year, helped by positive net flows. Assets grew to $51.1 billion in the quarter, with Managed Portfolios now representing more than 60% of that total.
- Workplace Solutions grew revenue by 5.6% in the first quarter, driven by the performance in Morningstar Retirement Manager from both new and existing plans. Assets under management and advisement increased 9.2% in the quarter to $213.9 billion, primarily from growth in managed account offerings.
- Morningstar Indexes increased revenue by 59.4%, or 54.1% on an organic basis, in the first quarter. Despite market volatility, index products had strong asset flows into investible products linked to Morningstar Indexes and higher levels of index licensing. Moorgate Benchmarks, a company Morningstar acquired in 2021, has also begun contributing to reported revenue in Europe.
Transaction-based
- DBRS Morningstar grew first-quarter revenue 16.7%, or 17.6% on an organic basis. Growth was led by the U.S. as a result of continued strong issuance volumes and market coverage in the U.S. commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities. This growth was somewhat offset by declines in both Canada and Europe. The decline in Canada was driven by lower corporate and financial institution issuance volume after consecutive years of record issuance, while European market volatility impacted by the geopolitical environment created credit issuance delays within the region.
Balance Sheet and Capital Allocation
As of March 31, 2022, the Company had cash, cash equivalents, and investments totaling $544.9 million and $504.4 million of long-term debt, compared with cash, cash equivalents, and investments of $546.1 million and $359.4 million of long-term debt as of Dec. 31, 2021.
Cash provided by operating activities was $23.5 million for the first quarter of 2022, compared with $64.2 million in the prior-year period. The decline in cash flow was primarily due to the impact of higher bonus payouts in the quarter related to 2021 financial performance.
In the first quarter of 2022, the Company repurchased $110.6 million of its shares, paid $15.5 million in dividends, and spent $7.8 million on acquisitions and other minority investments.
On April 4, 2022, Morningstar announced an agreement to acquire Leveraged Commentary & Data (LCD), a market leader in news, research, data, insights, and indexes for the leveraged finance market from S&P Global. The purchase price is up to $650.0 million in cash, comprised of $600.0 million at closing, subject to certain adjustments, and a contingent payment of up to $50.0 million six months after closing. In conjunction with the announcement, the Company entered into a financing commitment for up to $1.1 billion to support the transaction. The financing is comprised of a five-year term facility and revolving credit facility, which will replace the Company's existing credit facility, and will be used to finance a portion of the purchase price and for other general corporate purposes.
Comparability of Year-Over-Year Results
In addition to intangible amortization expense and M&A-related expenses, certain other items, as detailed below, affected the comparability of first quarter of 2022 results versus the same period in 2021.
First-Quarter 2022 Results
- Diluted and adjusted net income per share in the current period included $0.13 of non-operating gains.
- First-quarter 2022 results include a $5.7 million year-over-year increase in stock-based compensation, primarily due to higher scheduled incentives and overachievement of targets under the PitchBook management bonus plan. This reduced diluted net income per share by $0.13.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The tables at the end of this press release include a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures used by the Company to comparable GAAP measures and an explanation of why the Company uses them.
2022 Shareholders' Meeting
Shareholders, prospective shareholders, analysts, and other interested parties are cordially invited to attend our 2022 Annual Shareholders' Meeting at 9 a.m. Central Time on Friday, May 13, 2022, at Morningstar's corporate headquarters at 22 W. Washington St. in Chicago. If you would like to attend, either in person or virtually, please register here. The meeting will cover the official business described in Morningstar's proxy statement and include presentations from Morningstar's management team, along with a live question and answer period open to participants both on site and online.
Investor Communication
Morningstar encourages all interested parties —including securities analysts, current shareholders, potential shareholders, and others— to submit questions in writing. Investors and others may send questions about Morningstar's business to [email protected]. Morningstar will make written responses to selected inquiries available to all investors at the same time in Form 8-Ks furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission, generally every month.
About Morningstar, Inc.
Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Company offers an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers and owners, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and institutional investors in the debt and private capital markets. Morningstar provides data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with approximately $265.0 billion in assets under advisement and management as of March 31, 2022. The Company has operations in 29 countries. For more information, visit www.morningstar.com/company. Follow Morningstar on Twitter @MorningstarInc.
Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements as that term is used in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on our current expectations about future events or future financial performance. Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain, and often contain words such as "may," "could," "expect," "intend," "plan," "seek," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential," or "continue." These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause the events we discuss not to occur or to differ significantly from what we expect. For us, these risks and uncertainties include, among others, failing to maintain and protect our brand, independence, and reputation; liability related to cybersecurity and the protection of confidential information, including personal information about individuals; liability for any losses that result from an actual or claimed breach of our fiduciary duties or failure to comply with applicable securities laws; compliance failures, regulatory action, or changes in laws applicable to our credit ratings operations, or our investment advisory, ESG, and index businesses; failing to respond to technological change, keep pace with new technology developments, or adopt a successful technology strategy; the failure to recruit, develop, and retain qualified employees; inadequacy of our operational risk management and business continuity programs in the event of a material disruptive event, including an outage of our database, technology-based products and services or network facilities; failing to differentiate our products and services and continuously create innovative, proprietary, and insightful financial technology solutions; prolonged volatility or downturns affecting the financial sector, global financial markets, and global economy and its effect on our revenue from asset-based fees and credit ratings business; failing to maintain growth across our businesses in today's fragmented geopolitical, regulatory and cultural world; liability relating to the information and data we collect, store, use, create, and distribute or the reports that we publish or are produced by our software products; the failure of acquisitions and other investments to be efficiently integrated and produce the results we anticipate; the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic and government actions in response thereto on our business, financial condition, and results of operations; challenges faced by our non-U.S. operations, including the concentration of data and development work at our offshore facilities in China and India; our indebtedness could adversely affect our cash flows and financial flexibility; and the failure to protect our intellectual property rights or claims of intellectual property infringement against us. A more complete description of these risks and uncertainties can be found in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. If any of these risks and uncertainties materialize, our actual future results and other future events may vary significantly from what we expect. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events.
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Reconciliations of Non-GAAP Measures with the Nearest Comparable GAAP Measures (Unaudited)
To supplement Morningstar's condensed consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Morningstar uses the following measures considered as non-GAAP by the Securities and Exchange Commission, including:
- consolidated revenue, excluding acquisitions, divestitures, adoption of new accounting standards or revision to accounting practices (accounting changes), and the effect of foreign currency translations (organic revenue),
- consolidated operating income, excluding intangible amortization expense and all mergers and acquisitions (M&A)-related expenses (including M&A-related earn-outs) (adjusted operating income),
- consolidated operating margin, excluding intangible amortization expense and all M&A-related expenses (including M&A-related earn-outs) (adjusted operating margin),
- consolidated diluted net income per share, excluding intangible amortization expense, all M&A-related expenses (including M&A-related earn-outs), and non-operating gains/losses (adjusted diluted net income per share), and
- cash provided by or used for operating activities less capital expenditures (free cash flow).
These non-GAAP measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
Morningstar presents organic revenue because the Company believes this non-GAAP measure helps investors better compare period-over-period results. We exclude revenue from acquired businesses from our organic revenue growth calculation for a period of 12 months after we complete the acquisition. For divestitures, we exclude revenue in the prior-year period for which there is no comparable revenue in the current period.
In addition, Morningstar presents free cash flow solely as supplemental disclosure to help investors better understand how much cash is available after making capital expenditures. Morningstar's management team uses free cash flow to evaluate its business. Free cash flow should not be considered an alternative to any measure required to be reported under GAAP (such as cash provided by (used for) operating, investing, and financing activities).
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Regina tech startup debuts new proactive safety software
A Regina startup shared its new AI-powered software Vergo, which aims to reduce musculoskeletal injuries before they happen on worksites.
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Regina tech startup Betterworks Technologies debuted a new safety assessment tool Wednesday that aims to streamline the way construction sites analyze workers’ safety risk.
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Vergo, standing for “video ergonomics” is an AI-powered software that founder and president Christian Browne sees replacing current technologies geared toward safety evaluations.
The project was developed in partnership with Innovation Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Construction Safety Association (SCSA) as part of this year’s innovation challenge grant program.
Browne gave a demo of Vergo’s software, which allows users to upload video of workers preforming tasks on site, to be processed and returned with a detailed risk assessment report within minutes.
The AI tracks the subject’s body movements and joint angles, allowing the report to pinpoint behaviours that could lead to workplace injuries on a high-to-low risk scale.
The software’s AI uses the Rapid Entire Body Assessment tool, considered to be the international standard in safety evaluation. It largely assesses for potential musculoskeletal injury, which Browne said is currently a leading workplace safety concern.
“The cost of these injuries is astronomical,” said Browne. “And more importantly, it negatively affects the lives of millions of workers and their families.”
For SCSA board chair Errol Fisher, who pointed out that Saskatchewan’s construction workforce is anticipated to expand by 10 per cent in 2023, this type of technology could play a vital role.
“Part of finding and retaining skilled workers is injury prevention,” said Fisher.
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Vergo doesn’t require any wearable devices and provides data before potential injuries occur, which Browne said sets it apart from other programs on the market.
“You’ll be able to clearly identify risks before they become a problem on the worksite,” said Browne.
It also allows for more regular safety assessment at a lower cost in both time and money, with minimal disruption to worksites.
Browne said the consultation process largely spoke to construction leaders, but the software could be utilized in almost any workplace scenario concerned with ergonomic improvement.
“Not just the construction industry but manufacturing, health care …” said Browne.
Innovation Saskatchewan issued this year’s challenge in June, asking tech startups to work on creating safer workplaces in construction.
The winning company selected is provided a $10,000 grant to develop its pitched product, during a 16-week window with the challenge’s partner.
For Vergo, Browne felt that the opportunity to work directly with the SCSA and, ultimately, Vergo’s end-users was very beneficial to development.
“One of the real goals of this was to connect us with industry,” said Browne. “And we’re excited to continue those partnerships.”
Browne said the new tech is slated to be offered on a subscription basis for users. But first Vergo is seeking industry collaborators in the province to take part in a pilot period, before the software launches fully.
“We want to be able to do some reliability testing from clients and end users,” said Browne.
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Four astronauts, three from NASA and one from the European Space Agency, arrived ahead of schedule at the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and docked their SpaceX capsule, just two days after the last crew to depart the orbiting outpost returned to Earth.
Rendezvous of the Crew Dragon capsule with the station less than 16 hours after launch of the astronauts from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, also marked one of the fastest flights by Elon Musk's SpaceX to the ISS from liftoff to docking, NASA webcast commentators said.
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AAJ KA PANCHANG, APRIL 28, 2022: The Panchang for Thursday or Guruwar will mark the Trayodashi Tithi in the Vaishakha month which is currently under the Krishna Paksha of the lunar phase. The day will also be overshadowed by the Ganda Moola, Bhadra and Vidaal Yoga muhurat.
SUNRISE, SUNSET, MOONRISE, AND MOONSET ON APRIL 28
According to Panchang, the sunrise is expected to take place at 05:43 AM. The timing for sunset is predicted to be 06:54 PM. The moon rises on April 29 at 04:52 AM while the moonset is predicted to take place at 04:41 PM, according to Panchang.
TITHI, NAKSHATRA AND RASHI DETAILS FOR APRIL 28
The Trayodashi Tithi will be in effect upto 12:26 AM on April 29 after which the Chaturdashi tithi will come into effect. The Uttara Bhadrapada or constellation will be effective upto 05:40 PM after which Revati nakshatra will come into effect on Thursday. According to Panchang, the Moon will be in Meena Rashi, while the Sun will be in Mesha Rashi.
SHUBH MUHURAT FOR APRIL 28
According to Panchang, the Abhijit muhurat will be coming into effect on Thursday from 11:52 AM to 12:45 PM. The Brahma muhurat will come into effect at 04:17 AM and remain so till 05:00 AM. The Godhuli muhurat will come in effect from 06:41 PM and prevail till 07:05 PM. Vijaya muhurat will be prevailing on Thursday from 02:31 PM to 03:23 PM, while the Sayahna Sandhya muhurat will come into effect from 06:54 PM to 07:59 PM.
ASHUBH MUHURAT FOR APRIL 28
Panchang predicts the inauspicious muhurat of Panchaka to be effective throughout the day. Rahu Kalam will be in effect from 01:58 PM to 03:37 PM. Timings for Dur Muhurtam on Thursday will be from 10:07 AM to 11:00 AM.
The Yamaganda muhurat will prevail from 05:43 AM to 07:22 AM, while the Gulikai Kalam muhurat will be prevailing from 09:01 AM to 10:40 AM, according to Panchang. The Ganda Moola muhurat will be effective from 05:40 PM to 05:42 AM on April 29. The Vidaal Yoga will prevail from 05:40 PM to 05:42 AM on April 29.
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GAME ESSENTIALS: Nuggets (48-34) vs. Warriors (53-29), at 7 p.m. (PT). TV: TNT
ODDS: Warriors -8.5. OVER/UNDER: 226.
SERIES: Warriors lead series 3-1. LAST PLAYOFF MEETING: Warriors won 2013 first-round series 4-2.
The Warriors couldn’t finish off the sweep of the Nuggets on Sunday, but they’ll get another shot on Wednesday, and this time on their home floor.
Denver survived to see another game thanks to a strong outside shooting night and some Golden State defensive miscues. Fouls were also called early and often all afternoon on Sunday.
But the Warriors kept it close and nearly pulled off the sweep anyway, behind 33 points from Steph Curry and 32 points from Klay Thompson. If their third guard, Jordan Poole, can score closer to his 28.7-point average from the first three games instead of the 11 he scored in Game 4, the Warriors should be in good shape.
Denver showed its greatest degree of desperation in Game 4, but they still need to win three times on the road — and no NBA team has ever come back from a 3-0 series deficit.
The winner of this series will face the winner of the matchup between the No. 2 seed Grizzlies and No. 7 Timberwolves. Thanks to a last-second driving layup from Ja Morant, Memphis won Game 5 on Tuesday night, and with Game 6 coming on Friday, the second-round series won’t start until at least next Sunday, May 1 — and the Warriors, with a win on Wednesday, could get some rest.
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State of Texas: Tax relief on the ballot as homeowners see skyrocketing appraisals
AUSTIN (Nexstar) – Texas is home to some of the hottest real estate markets in the country, with demand for homes driving prices, and taxes, higher.
The latest report from the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M shows that the median home price in the state reached $300,000 in 2021, which is a record. The report found that values are growing at a rate of 15.6% annually. Some metro areas are seeing even faster growth. It’s 18.8% in Fort Worth and 30.8% in Austin.
Many Texas homeowners are seeing the effect of rising housing demand firsthand this month, as property appraisals begin arriving in the mail.
Brent Grablachoff bought his home in Williamson County in May 2021 and when his appraisal came in this week, his home’s value nearly doubled.
“I almost fell out of my chair. I saw a 52% increase from the assessed value in 2021 to this year in 2022,” he said. “I wasn’t planning on forking up that much extra, thousands of dollars a year.”
Texas has a 10% cap on appraisal increases for properties with homestead exemptions, but Grablachoff did not qualify since he bought the house in May last year. To qualify in Texas, the home’s owner must use this home as their principal residence starting on Jan. 1 of that tax year.
Grablachoff isn’t the only homeowner experiencing sticker shock from his property tax appraisal. The Travis County Appraisal District found that residential properties’ values increased 56% and commercial properties increased 54%.
But voters could get some tax relief at the ballot box. Early voting for the May 7 election starts Monday, where Texans will vote on two amendments to the state constitution that aim to cut property tax bills.
Proposition 1 would freeze the frozen school property tax bills for the elderly and Texans with disabilities starting in 2023. It would also lower their school property tax bills year after year.
In the 2019 session, lawmakers passed school funding legislation that could conceivably push the tax rate below the level it was when a homeowner had their taxes frozen. Proposition 1 aims to change the state’s constitution to allow the rates to drop for those homeowners if those rates drop below the levels where they were frozen. The proposition does not allow for rates to increase beyond where they’re already frozen.
Proposition 2 would increase the homestead exemption Texans can take on their school district property taxes from $25,000 to $40,000. That would begin Jan 1, 2022.
Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, authored both of the proposed constitutional amendments and said Proposition 2 will provide long-term relief to property owners in Texas.
“The homes that qualify get an extra $15,000 exemption, which translates to about $175 per year savings for the lifetime that they that anybody has a home. And that’s thousands of dollars of savings over the life of a homeowner in Texas,” he said.
Actual savings would depend on local tax rates.
Bettencourt said laws passed three years ago will also help homeowners amid the surging market.
“We passed some other legislation in 2019 that as values go up, tax rates are forced down. That’s going to happen in the fall,” he said. Bettencourt was referencing education funding reforms passed that session in House Bill 3 , and property tax limits included in Senate Bill 2 .
How to protest your 2022 property appraisal in Central TexasVoters will also decide whether to approve adding property tax relief for seniors and Texans with disabilities. But the wording on the ballot for Proposition 1 is confusing some voters.
It reads: “The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for general elementary and secondary public school purposes on the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled to reflect any statutory reduction from the preceding tax year in the maximum compressed rate of the maintenance and operations taxes imposed for those purposes on the homestead.”
The complex language is tied to the process of amending the state’s constitution. The wording on your ballot has to follow what’s written in the part of the constitution that the amendment aims to change.
“You kind of have to be a school finance expert to understand what the ballot language is saying,” said Dale Craymer, president of the Texas Taxpayers and Research Association. “In very simple terms, though, it is just additional property tax relief for our senior citizens,” he explained.
Voters can approve or deny these tax relief propositions on May 7, before final tax bills are calculated.
Texas concert safety task force report criticized as ‘very superficial’
Five months after the Astroworld Festival tragedy, the final report from Gov. Greg Abbott’s Texas Task Force on Concert Safety was released Tuesday—and a concert safety consultant doesn’t believe it goes nearly far enough.
The nine-page report (seven pages without the cover and table of contents) lays out recommendations to keep concertgoers safe and prevent another crowd surge like the one that killed 10 people and injured hundreds at last November’s festival in Houston.
The suggestions include requiring centralized on-site command at events to quickly decide whether to shut down or pause concerts during emergencies.
Other recommendations direct event organizers to be clear on which agencies will respond to any 911 calls, to research the artists ahead of time to know what kind of crowd to expect.
“It’s a very disappointing report, very superficial,” said Paul Wertheimer, who runs Crowd Management Strategies, a concert safety consulting firm based in Los Angeles.
In 1979, Wertheimer was part of the task force brought together after a crowd surge killed 11 people at a The Who concert in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He told KXAN the findings in the Texas report, although good ones, are too general and “nothing new,” relying heavily on documents already available online and saying little in the way of enforcement.
“It’s not going to go anywhere. They needed to put teeth in that report,” Wertheimer said. “You can’t talk just about training; you have to talk about what kind of training.”
“And I didn’t see any mention in the report about festival standing room environments, the kind of environment we saw at Astroworld,” he continued. “That’s the most dangerous and deadly crowd configuration for live entertainment events.”
ALSO: Travis Scott accused of violating Astroworld suits gag orderThe task force report does lay out specific recommendations when it comes to permitting for big events, suggesting a move to a universal template for permits statewide. Right now, municipalities handle their own permits, while unincorporated parts of counties defer to state statutes.
That’s a problem, according to James Gresham, a board member of the Texas Municipal Police Association, which was part of the governor’s task force.
“For some counties, [overseeing permits] is a very labor-intensive process,” Greshman told KXAN. “Some counties, if they do it at all, it’s more of a rubber stamp.”
Gresham, who helps facilitate the Larry Joe Taylor Texas Musical Festival in Stephenville, said the Texas Legislature could help find permitting solutions during the next legislative session.
“Some states that have a really strong history of festivals—New York, California, for instance—their planning requirements are much more extensive than what we have here in Texas,” he said.
Abbott’s office said no one was available Tuesday for an interview. Questions submitted by email were not answered by deadline.
The governor did issue a brief statement alongside the republishing of the report, thanking the task force for its work, adding, “The recommendations, findings, and solutions detailed in this report will help the State of Texas prevent another tragedy like that at Astroworld Festival from happening again.”
Investigative reports helping Texas law enforcement spot paper tag fraud
Weimar patrol officer Tom Donalson drove two hours to attend an eight-hour buyer’s tag boot camp. In his over 30-year career in law enforcement, he’s never seen anything as big as Texas’ paper tag fraud problem, which was exposed in a series of KXAN investigations .
“I didn’t know the extend of it, no. I didn’t,” Donalson said. “This was very much eye-opening.”
Inside a large room at the Lakeway Police Department, law enforcement agencies from around the region sat and took notes as Sgt. Jose Escribano played a KXAN investigation on a projection screen.
“I want you to go ahead and take a look at this video from KXAN ,” said Escribano, who works with the Travis County Constable’s Office and is one of the leading experts in the state on paper tag fraud. “Thank you, Matt [Grant]. Very, very good coverage right there.”
Catch up on KXAN’s “Risky Rides” investigationsKXAN’s ongoing investigations into Texas’ “ risky rides ” are being used to educate law enforcement officers as to the scope and magnitude of the state’s problem.
In recent years, criminals have infiltrated the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles’ system by posing as car dealers. That access allows them to print and sell real temporary tags to all 50 states, Escribano said. With Texas now cracking down, the mass-producing of tags has come to a “ screeching halt ,” according to central Texas law enforcement officer David Kohler, who’s teaching the class alongside Escribano. Kohler asked his agency not be identified because he is speaking only for himself.
Despite the slowdown, statewide fraud is still ongoing.
“It wasn’t until the news media actually went ahead and started reporting on this that we went and got some traction on this, which we’re very thankful for,” Escribano said.
“Otherwise,” he tells the class, “it wouldn’t have come out.”
This is Escribano’s 26th class so far this year. His goal is to do two a month, educating law enforcement across the state — from Amarillo to the border — about the problem, case law and how to catch criminals who try to hide in plain sight. KXAN was given exclusive access to a recent class.
On that day, he showed the class about how temporary tags are counterfeited and the counter-measures that are built in to help tell what’s real and fake in a ballooning $200 million black market.
“The font is off,” Escribano said as he pointed to an image of one fake tag.
“The letter will be right before the last [digit],” he said of another. “Always.”
“It says ‘buyer’ on it but it has that ‘F’ at the end. No, no go. I don’t even have to run this,” he said of a different tag. “Look for the little things. You’re training your eye now to see this.”
From the “geometric layout” to the barcode to the watermark and the font type, the tags’ design alerts a hawkeyed officer to its legitimacy — if they know what to look for.
“Every time I go into a class like today, they are unaware of the majority of the tag problem or what to look for,” Escribano said. “They’re not trained for that.”
Donalson says what he and his colleagues are learning should be required of all officers as part of the basic academy curriculum.
“It’s that important,” Donalson said during a break. “I think that’s the most important thing for police officers is to know what the counter-measures are on this stuff.”
Other law enforcement agencies in attendance — including Highway Patrol, Texas Game Warden and the Caldwell County Constable’s Office — didn’t comment about sending their officers to this training or whether they’d incorporate it into officer requirements.
Escribano called the paper tag problem the “number one safety issue” for law enforcement in the country because it allows criminals to hide in plain sight . Tag fraud, he said, is often linked to burglaries and violent crimes like the killing of two law enforcement officers in Texas.
It’s a problem impacting all 50 states, he said.
This week, the New York Police Department’s Ninth Precinct, which covers the East Village, warned New Yorkers about fake Texas license plates in a Facebook post.
“It’s almost a guarantee, if you drive around our Precinct with these plates, you will be arrested,” the NYPD warned .
Escribano says criminals are now going back to counterfeiting and altering paper plates. In Travis County, and statewide, he is seeing an increase in real 30-day permits being used fraudulently along with permits being altered, including 144-hour ones. He is seeing these short-term permits used for everything from human smuggling to avoiding vehicle inspections and registrations.
“If you have Adobe Pro and you have a 6-year-old kid that knows how to use a computer, they can change a tag and…it’s going to look legitimate,” he said. “So the officers have to know what they’re looking for.”
Escribano says 30-day permits are “very easy to get.”
“Say, for example, you want to use a vehicle to commit some sort of crime,” he said. “You could go and get someone to get that 30-day permit for you, if you’re a criminal organization, and then use that tag to put on another vehicle. And then do whatever you’re going to do.”
In response, the TxDMV recently announced a crackdown on 30-day permits and how they are issued.
State lawmakers are also getting ready to tackle the problem. The Senate Criminal Justice Committee will hold an interim hearing about how illegal temporary tags intersect with human trafficking, drugs and murder. The House Transportation Committee will meet April 26 to look at the effectiveness of a 2021 law, HB 3927, meant to curb paper plate fraud.
While the problem is slowing down, it’s still prevalent, Escribano said.
He now carries with him, and hands out, flyers in the Austin area warning drivers not to buy illegal tags online, or use them at all.
“DO NOT buy a tag from Facebook or the internet, it is ILLEGAL,” the flyer, written in English and Spanish, said.
In the meantime, he wants officers to have the tools needed to fight back.
“Officers will not enforce what they don’t know,” he said. “And they’re just not teaching this.”
Texans lead push to boost federal funds for U.S. semiconductor production
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn admits he wasn’t always knowledgeable about semiconductor manufacturing, but once he learned of the threats to the supply chain and national security, he was all in.
Global shortages of semiconductor chips have made supply chain issues worse for consumers. The chips are likened to the “brain” behind everyday technology ranging from cars to phones to medical devices. Without them, modern-day necessities are not possible.
Cornyn likened semiconductors to “everything with an on and off switch” at a roundtable discussion with business leaders and the University of Texas in Austin on Monday. The university is proposing a project to boost research and development with the help of potential funding from Congress.
The Texas senator was joined by U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who has helped lead the legislative effort on the House side. The two have paired together to champion the “CHIPS for America Act,” which has garnered a rare bipartisan support and already passed in both chambers.
The Senate and House bills allot more than $52 billion for semiconductor production and research. Grants and loans from the federal government would subsidize some of the cost of building or renovating semiconductor plants.
Currently, the United States only produces about 11 to 12% of the world’s semiconductors.
During the roundtable discussion Monday, both congressmen expressed deep concerns about the national security risks that come with relying on foreign nations to produce these essential pieces of technology.
“These advanced semiconductor chips are everything from your phone to the most advanced weapons systems that we have in the United States government,” McCaul said. “We don’t want that compromised by our foreign nation adversaries, particularly in the climate that we’re in today.”
The United States does not produce any of most advanced semiconductor chips. Texas A&M supply chain consortium director, Xenophon Koufteros, said those are the tiniest chips — about 10 millimeters — and power things like computers.
Taiwan produces about 92% of those chips and the rest is produced in Japan. Koufteros said this could be disastrous if China were to escalate tensions and invade Taiwan.
“What if China moves into Taiwan? We’d have to shut down just about every industry. We won’t be able to make any phones, we won’t be able to make cameras, we won’t be able to make medical devices,” he said. “If that happens…then it’s going to be a total disaster for us here, not just in the United States but the whole world.”
He pointed to investments like the Samsung semiconductor manufacturing plant that is coming to Taylor in Central Texas. An executive from Samsung was at the roundtable with lawmakers Monday, who expressed optimism in the $17 billion expansion as it relates to easing supply chain issues.
“Adding capacity, whether it be manufacturing, or from research and development that we’re talking about today, is really important for us to help the United States meet its semiconductor interests,” said Jon Taylor, Samsung Austin’s corporate vice president of engineering.
Koufteros said having these types of plants in America is critical, but will take quite some time to build out the infrastructure and other logistics.
“We’re going the right way. But we should have done it years ago, we don’t have to wait until we are before a crisis to act,” he said.
Lawmakers in Washington have to work out considerable differences in the two bills. And Senate Republicans are already digging in before the negotiations formally begin.
President Joe Biden has made the semiconductor legislation a top priority, but he’ll need the support of 10 Senate Republicans, and perhaps more, to get a bill to his desk. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell emphasized that point when congressional leaders recently announced which lawmakers will serve on the committee that works to reconcile the two bills.
“Without major concessions and changes from House Democrats, this legislation has no chance of becoming law,” McConnell said.
House Democrats say their voices need to be heard during negotiations.
“We need to make sure that everyone has input,” said Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., chair of the New Democrat Coalition, a group that has 19 members participating in negotiations. “We have a strong bill in the House, and I think there’s important components there that the Senate should also consider.”
The Senate bill is projected to increase spending by about $250 billion over 10 years. The House bill would boost spending by more than $400 billion over the period.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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ATLANTA — Homicides have increased a lot since the start of the pandemic across metro Atlanta and the wider United States; according to a study, children are the most vulnerable to being victims of these attacks.
A research letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine used CDC mortality data to find that in 2020, firearms were the leading cause of death in U.S. children, with a 29% increase since 2019.
Co-author of the letter, Jason Goldstick, told NBC News that this is the first time in 40 years firearms have surpassed car crashes as the country’s leading cause of death amongst children and attributes the increase to multiple factors including safety precautions and access.
He explained that while cars continue to implement safety measures that protect drivers, the exposure and availability where underaged individuals can acquire these firearms has increased.
A study by the American College of Physicians found that between January 2019 and April 2021, a drastic increase in the purchase of guns resulted in around five million children being newly introduced to firearms within their households.
Over the past few years, Atlanta has also felt the deadly impacts of homicides by firearm.
Earlier this month, a WalletHub study put Atlanta as having the third-largest increase in homicides since the pandemic, but these crimes are not targeting random people.
This year alone, Atlanta has seen a 47% increase in homicides since last year, and the Atlanta Police Department said in a press conference last week that firearms caused 80% of these homicides.
Out of those cases, over a dozen of the victims were under 18.
To address the rise in crime, earlier this year, APD launched multiple initiatives to address the issue better; this includes their anti-crime partnership with the Georgia Bureau of Investigations and Georgia State Patrol.
While these programs have helped solve crime in Atlanta, there is still an increased prevalence of homicides across the country.
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Ukraine official: Zelenskyy meets top-level US delegation
KYIV, Ukraine — (AP) — The U.S. secretaries of state and defense met Sunday night with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the highest-level visit to the country’s capital by an American delegation since the start of Russia's invasion.
The meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, which was confirmed by a senior Ukrainian official, came as Ukraine pressed the West for more powerful weapons against Russia's campaign in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, where Moscow's forces sought to dislodge the last Ukrainian troops in the battered port of Mariupol.
“Yes, they’re meeting with the president. Let’s hope something will be decided on further help,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych told Russian lawyer and activist Mark Feygin on his YouTube show “Feygin Live.” The United States has not yet commented.
Before the session with Blinken and Austin, Zelenskyy said he was looking for the Americans to produce results, both in arms and security guarantees.
"You can’t come to us empty-handed today, and we are expecting not just presents or some kind of cakes, we are expecting specific things and specific weapons,'' he said.
Zelenskyy’s last face-to-face meeting with a top U.S. official was Feb. 19 in Munich with Vice President Kamala Harris, five days before Russia’s invasion. While the West has funneled military equipment to Ukraine, Zelenskyy has stressed repeatedly that his country needs more heavy weapons, including long-range air defense systems and warplanes.
In an apparent boost for Ukraine, polling agencies said French President Emmanuel Macron would win reelection over far right candidate Marine Le Pen, who has faced questions about her ties to Moscow. The result was hailed by France's allies in the European Union as a reassuring sign of stability and continued support for Ukraine. France has played a leading role in international efforts to punish Russia with sanctions and is supplying weapons systems to Ukraine.
Zelenskyy's meeting with U.S. officials took place as Ukrainians and Russians observed Orthodox Easter. Speaking from Kyiv's ancient St. Sophia Cathedral, Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, highlighted its significance to a nation wracked by nearly two months of war.
“The great holiday today gives us great hope and unwavering faith that light will overcome darkness, good will overcome evil, life will overcome death, and therefore Ukraine will surely win!” he said.
Still, the war cast a shadow over celebrations. In the northern village of Ivanivka, where Russian tanks still littered the roads, Olena Koptyl said "the Easter holiday doesn't bring any joy. I'm crying a lot. We cannot forget how we lived."
The Russian military reported hitting 423 Ukrainian targets overnight, including fortified positions and troop concentrations, while its warplanes destroyed 26 Ukrainian military sites, including an explosives factory and several artillery depots.
Since failing to capture Kyiv, the Russians have aimed to gain full control over the eastern industrial heartland, where Moscow-backed separatists controlled some territory before the war.
Russian forces launched fresh airstrikes on a Mariupol steel plant where an estimated 1,000 civilians are sheltering along with about 2,000 Ukrainian fighters. The Azovstal steel mill where the defenders are holed up is the last corner of resistance in the city, otherwise occupied by the Russians.
Zelenskyy said he stressed the need to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, including from the steel plant, in a Sunday call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is scheduled to speak later with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Arestovych, the Zelenskyy adviser, said Ukraine has proposed holding talks with Russia next to the sprawling steel mill. Arestovych said on the Telegram messaging app that Russia has not responded to the proposal that would include establishing humanitarian corridors and the exchange of Russian war prisoners for the fighters still in the plant.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is scheduled to travel to Turkey on Monday and then Moscow and Kyiv. Zelenskyy said it was a mistake for Guterres to visit Russia before Ukraine.
“Why? To hand over signals from Russia? What should we look for?” Zelenskyy said Saturday. “There are no corpses scattered on the Kutuzovsky Prospect,” he said, referring to one of Moscow’s main avenues.
Mariupol has endured fierce fighting since the start of the war because of its location on the Sea of Azov. Its capture would deprive Ukraine of a vital port, free up Russian troops to fight elsewhere, and allow Moscow to establish a land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014.
More than 100,000 people — down from a prewar population of about 430,000 — are believed to remain in Mariupol with scant food, water or heat. Ukrainian authorities estimate over 20,000 civilians have been killed. Recent satellite images showed what appeared to be mass graves to the west and east of Mariupol.
Children in an underground bunker were seen receiving Easter presents in a video released Sunday by the far-right Azov Battalion, which is among the Ukrainian forces at the steel plant in Mariupol. The group’s deputy commander, Sviatoslav Palamar, said the video was shot at the plant.
One toddler is seen wearing homemade diapers made of cellophane and people are seen hanging laundry on makeshift hangers.
“Please help us,” one woman in the video said through tears, appealing to world leaders. “We want to live in our city, in our country. We are tired of these bombings, constant air strikes on our land. How much longer will this continue?”
Mykhailo Podolyak, another presidential adviser, tweeted that the Russian military was attacking the plant with heavy bombs and artillery while accumulating forces and equipment for a direct assault.
Zelenskyy on Saturday accused Russians of committing war crimes by killing civilians and of setting up “filtration camps” near Mariupol for people trying to leave the city. He said the Ukrainians — many of them children — are then sent to areas under Russian occupation or to Russia itself, often as far as Siberia or the Far East.
The claims could not be independently verified. But they were repeated by Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniya Kravchuk on ABC’s “This Week.”
“They have pulled these people from Mariupol -- they are put to filtration camps ... it’s sort of something that can’t be happening in the 21st century,” Kravchuk said.
Zelenskyy also claimed that intercepted communications recorded Russian troops discussing “how they conceal the traces of their crimes” in Mariupol.
And he highlighted the death of a 3-month old girl in a Russian missile strike Saturday on the Black Sea port of Odesa. The baby was among eight people killed when Russia fired cruise missiles at Odesa, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukrainian news agency UNIAN, citing social media, reported that the infant's mother, Valeria Glodan, and grandmother also died when a missile hit a residential area. Zelenskyy promised to find and punish those responsible.
“The war started when this baby was 1 month old,'' Zelenskyy said. "Can you imagine what is happening? They are filthy scum; there are no other words for it."
For the Donbas offensive, Russia has reassembled troops who fought around Kyiv and in northern Ukraine. The British Ministry of Defense said Ukrainian forces had repelled numerous assaults in the past week and "inflicted significant cost on Russian forces."
The spiritual leaders of the world's Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics appealed for relief for Ukraine's suffering population.
From Istanbul, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I said a “human tragedy” was unfolding. Bartholomew, considered the first among his Eastern Orthodox patriarch equals, cited in particular “the thousands of people surrounded in Mariupol, civilians, among them the wounded, the elderly, women and many children.”
Pope Francis, speaking from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square, renewed his call for an Easter truce, calling it “a minimal and tangible sign of a desire for peace.”
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Associated Press journalists Yesica Fisch in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Mstyslav Chernov and Felipe Dana in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Cara Anna, Inna Varenytsia and Oleksandr Stashevskyi in Kviv and AP staff around the world contributed.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's Republican-dominated General Assembly neared the finish line Wednesday of an overhaul of the state formula for funding its multibillion-dollar K-12 education system, angering Democratic lawmakers who were abruptly blocked from floor discussion of one of this year’s most sweeping pieces of legislation.
The state House and Senate each passed versions of the plan Wednesday, and would need to sort out differences as they near an anticipated end of their monthslong session.
Rewriting Tennessee's school funding system has been a priority for Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who urged lawmakers to sign off on his plan this session. Republicans jumped to the task, but some education advocates and Democratic lawmakers unsuccessfully pleaded for more time to flesh out the details involving the state's most expensive budget item.
GOP House leaders infuriated Democrats on Wednesday by blocking floor debate on the school funding mechanism being proposed. At the time, Democratic lawmakers were attempting to pass a long list of possible amendments, some of them submitted by lawmakers’ constituents.
Earlier in the week, Republican House members used similar procedural maneuvers to cut off debate on several controversial LGBTQ-related bills.
While such maneuvers are allowed, lawmakers generally shy from doing so in order to provide transparency to the public wanting to know what their General Assembly is approving or spiking.
Rep. John Ray Clemmons, a Democrat from Nashville, quickly called his Republican peers “cowards” in a tweet and said they were “too scared” to defend their bills.
The school formula measure passed 65-27 in the House with Republican Rep. Mark White, the bill's sponsor, later quipping he had prepared remarks to defend the overhaul but didn't have an opportunity to give them.
The Senate went through a lengthier debate before voting to pass the bill 26-5.
Under the new school funding plan, Tennessee would join nearly 40 other states that attach a set amount money per student. This has alarmed critics who argue the plan could potentially punish school districts because they might receive less funds over time. However, supporters counter the current decades-old funding mechanism — made up of about 45 components — is overly complicated and makes it difficult to track how the money is spent.
The bill states that schools will receive a base dollar amount of $6,860 per student with options to increase that amount depending on the student’s location and needs under a matrix known as “unique learning needs.” For example, schools with students with dyslexia or a disability would receive more funding — as well as those students in small districts or where poverty is concentrated, calculated using an algorithm outlined in the legislation.
Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn has said schools could receive as much as $15,600 per student depending on how many “unique learning needs” a student meets.
So far, Lee is expected to sign off on giving $750 million more annually to fund the new education formula starting in 2023-2024. The money would first be available for other one-time education uses in the upcoming budget year. Another $100 million has been allocated to give schools incentives to reward high reading schools and students who have strong college and career readiness. An additional $125 million will be added to boost teacher salaries, moving the minimum salary from around $35,000 to $46,000 by 2026.
Other bills still pending include a proposal to regulate delta-8 THC, which is a psychoactive chemical cousin of marijuana’s main intoxicating ingredient. The Senate and House are currently at odds over the bill's details with some encouraging an outright ban as concerns have been raised about its explosive popularity in a state where recreational marijuana is not legal. Others say regulating the product will better help reduce the risk of children being exposed to it. | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/Tennessee-nears-overhaul-of-K-12-education-17132024.php | 2022-04-28T01:09:33Z | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/Tennessee-nears-overhaul-of-K-12-education-17132024.php | false | 14 |
FRIDAY
BSC Fridays returns this Friday to the Baxter Sports Complex, with free live music by Parts & Labor starting at 5:30 p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m. with food and drinks specials. Yard games will be available and volleyball courts will be open for free open play, weather permitting.
Fish and shrimp will be served 4:30-7 p.m. Friday, April 29, at the Fort Madison Eagles Club,. Carryouts welcome. To order, call 372-6928.
Full menu, including fish, shrimp, steaks, chops, chicken strips, tenderloins, burgers and more, will be served 5-7 p.m. Friday. For carryouts, call 319-372-2581.
Six Appeal, named National Champions at the National A Cappella Festival and World Champions at the Moscow Spring A Cappella Festival in both 2018 and 2019, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Burlington Memorial Auditorium. Tickets are available at Memorial Auditorium Box Office or by calling 319-752-0336.
“Meteor Shower,” a comedy by Steve Martin presented by the Great River Players, is set for at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Great River Players, 17 S. Sixth St., Keokuk. Tickets are $15.
SATURDAY
Eric Van Lancker, candidate to be the Democratic nominee for Iowa Secretary of State, will make two stops in Lee County on Saturday, April 30. He will hold a meet and greet at Sub Arena, 2805 Ave. L, Fort Madison, at 11 a.m., and will be in Keokuk at the Lost Canvas, 719 Main St., at 12:30 p.m.
Finale – A performance by local musicians will be held Saturday at the FMAAA main gallery, 825 Ave. G. Younger musicians will take the stage at 6 p.m., followed by Brad Kurtz & Company at 7 p.m. BYOB – snacks & refreshments available for purchase.
Two-time Grammy Award winners Riders in the Sky will bring their cowboy charisma and comedic flair to the Legacy Theater in Carthage, Ill. on Saturday, Show begins at 7 p.m.
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In devastating testimony, Blac Chyna's own witness admits 'Rob & Chyna' season 2 never officially existed
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- Blac ChynaAmerican model
- Kim KardashianAmerican television and social media personality
Blac Chyna's ex-attorney said Wednesday season 2 of "Rob & Chyna" was never officially picked up.
Chyna's whole case rests on her claim that the Kardashian women conspired to kill the season.
A Kardashian lawyer used Chyna's witness to remind jurors of the $100,000 "kill fee" Chyna pocketed.
Blac Chyna suffered a significant legal setback Wednesday in her lawsuit against the Kardashian-Jenner family, when one of her own witnesses admitted during testimony that season 2 of "Rob & Chyna" had never officially been greenlit.
Chyna's ex-attorney and manager, Walter Mosley, made the admission under tough cross-examination by Kardashian-Jenner family lawyer Michael G. Rhodes.
It's significant because Chyna's $100 million claim against the family rests on her allegation that matriarch Kris Jenner rallied daughters Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner to kill Chyna's spinoff show with her then-partner, Rob Kardashian.
Called as a witness for Chyna's side midway into the trial's second week, Mosely instead gave a key victory to the Kardashian's side, telling a Los Angeles jury there was no season 2 for anyone to kill.
Despite Mosley's negotiations with studio execs, and despite some preliminary filming for the first four episodes, he never received a written production notice for the season, Mosely testified.
On direct testimony, Mosley told jurors that early in his working relationship with Chyna, he helped her negotiate various TV deals, eventually landing on the E! Network, where "Rob & Chyna" season 1 was broadcast.
Mosley told jurors that after season 1 ended, he was increasingly sidelined as an executive producer, but nevertheless was "focused on getting season 2 on its feet."
He added that he entered into negotiations with NBC Universal, E!'s parent company, about the future of the show, which turned into the network offering Chyna an amended contract.
Chyna had acknowledged under Kardashian lawyer Michael Rhodes' questioning on Thursday that a February 21, 2017, agreement with the E! Network contained her signature. The agreement, drawn up as Chyna and Rob Kardashian continued to lash out at each other in public — gave the network five additional months to decide whether the second season would live or die.
The agreement paid Chyna a $100,000 kill fee upon the series' demise. The same agreement paid her a $370,000 flat fee for additional appearances on "KUWTK."
Lynne Ciani, Chyna's lawyer, was unable to ask at least half of her questions to Mosley on Wednesday — many centered on what Chyna had told him — because of hearsay objections.
Rhodes also brought up a series of emails to show the court a trajectory of Mosley's negotiations with E!, while he waited on news for whether season 2 of Rob & Chyna would be picked up. The messages, dated from February through July, were sent when Chyna was under contract with the network.
In her original deal, the network had until March 2016 to decide whether it would renew the show, and in the amended contract Mosley helped negotiate, the network had until August 2017 to decide to exercise that option, with the added financial terms Chyna secured.
Wednesday'scross-examination began with friendly banter between Rhodes and Mosley, both lawyers, before Rhodes produced a series of explosive messages that detailed how Chyna's time on the E! Network came to an end.
On February 8, 2017, former NBC Universal counsel Jeff Fuhrman sent an email to Chyna's team, which included former agent Ashaunna Ayers and Mosley. Fuhrman said they wanted to amend Chyna's terms "with the goal of bringing back 'Rob & Chyna.'"
Mosley said that the exchanges, which continued through July – when E!'s option to renew the show was running out–represented "a constructive pickup," but that no written production notice was ever produced by the network to Chyna's team before August 2017. He told the court that he believed the show might move forward because of a press release about season 2, and because he saw production shoots taking place.
"As far as you know, no written notice was sent for the production of season 2 of Rob & Chyna?" Rhodes asked Mosley.
"I did not receive that document," he told the court. By June 2017, in another email, Mosley reached back out to NBC Universal executives asking, "have we heard anything on Chyna?"
A month later he emailed executives saying "we are a couple weeks from Chyna's release date from E!" referring to the end of her amended contract.
After that email, Mosley invoiced the network for Chyna's negotiated $100,000 kill fee, which she has testified that she received.
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NEW ORLEANS— After 3 years, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival returns for the next two weekends at The Fairgrounds.
With only a few days left before this year’s Jazz Fest begins, WGNO met with festival producer Quint Davis to talk about the long layoff and what to expect this year. Davis was there over 50 years ago at the first fest and helped to grow it to our largest fest under the George Wein and he’s heard the desires of fans of the fest since the beginning of the pandemic.
According to Davis, “People want their jazz fest back. They want to be at Jazz Fest. I think Mardi Gras was like that. More than any particular parade, they wanted their Mardi Gras back, and I think that’s exactly what’s going to happen here. It’s like a pilgrimage.”
One highlight happening this year is remembrance of some the icons of the festival with musical tributes and jazz funerals, and a permanent spot among the ancestors in Congo Square.
“Over these 3 years we’ve lost a lot of people. We’ve lost Dr John, we’ve lost Ellis Marsalis, we’ve lost Art Neville, of course we lost George Wein. These things are woven into the fabric of our lives,” said Davis.
The building of the festival will happen up until showtime, and for Davis its the fans that make this all possible every year, “What I’m looking forward to and what’s most important and that’s the gates opening that’ll be the whole thing for me. Because this thing is a living entity, this festival, and you see it right now and it’s built, but it’s empty. And it only come to life with people. The people of New Orleans come in here and make it be what it is.” | https://wgno.com/news/local/producer-davis-says-people-want-their-jazz-fest-back/ | 2022-04-28T01:17:05Z | https://wgno.com/news/local/producer-davis-says-people-want-their-jazz-fest-back/ | true | 1 |
LOS ANGELES, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The California families harmed by medical negligence who launched the Patients for Fairness coalition (http://www.patientsforfairness.org) responded favorably to news of a potential legislative deal to raise the 47 year old cap on medical malpractice damages. The families said the legislation would eliminate the need for the Fairness for Injured Patients Act to go before voters in November 2022.
Families are available for on-camera and phone interviews in communities across California.
Scott Olsen, a board member for Consumer Watchdog, became a proponent of the Fairness for Injured Patients Act after the cap reduced a $7 million verdict for his son's lifetime of blindness and disability to $250,000. Only the official proponents of the ballot measure – Olsen and Bree and Nelson Moreno, whose daughter was also permanently injured by medical negligence – have the power to withdraw the measure from the ballot.
"If the legislature fully enacts the meaningful reforms in this proposed comprise before June 29th, I will agree to withdraw the Fairness for Injured Patients Act from the ballot," Olsen said. "Although it is too late for our family to benefit from this change, other families should not have to endure the same suffering ours has over the last three decades. It's high time that the California legislature and all parties recognize that there should not be a fixed, one size fits all cap on human suffering and that survivors of medical negligence, regardless of their income level, deserve legal representation and accountability."
Learn Steven Olsen's story: https://www.patientsforfairness.org/stevenolsen/
Charles Johnson's 39-year old wife Kira died during childbirth at Cedars Sinai when her bladder was lacerated during a C-section and her symptoms negligently ignored for 10 hours while she bled out. Johnson is the Chair of the Fairness for Injured Patients Act.
"This ballot measure is about justice for families, especially women of color who experience more medical negligence in a biased health care system and then are denied accountability because of California's outdated, one-size-fits-all cap. If the legislature approves this compromise, families will finally be able to find an attorney and have their day in court. That's what I wanted for Kira. If lawmakers pass this deal, I can tell my sons we restored Californians' access to justice," said Charles Johnson.
Learn more about Kira Johnson: https://www.patientsforfairness.org/kirajohnson/
Tammy and Tim Smick learned of the cap when they lost their 20-year-old son Alex, who was administered a toxic overdose of medications in the hospital.
"The outdated cap prevented my family from getting justice for Alex. The only thing we could do was turn our grief into a fight to prevent the same thing from happening to another family. If the legislature approves this compromise, families will finally have their day in court. It will restore Californians' access to justice and that is an historic win," said Tammy Smick.
Learn Alex Smick's story: https://www.patientsforfairness.org/alexsmick/
Annette Ramirez lost all four of her limbs after a routine hysterectomy when a cut bowel and raging infection burned her skin from the inside out.
"Since the day I learned the cap meant the most I could receive for my two years in the hospital, many surgeries, the loss of all four limbs, and all my other trauma was $250,000, I have been fighting to prevent other Californians from facing the same outdated cap. This deal will help level the playing field for patients with catastrophic injuries such as my own, and that is a step towards justice," said Annette Ramirez.
Learn Annette Ramirez's story: https://www.patientsforfairness.org/annetteramirez/
Among the provisions of the proposed legislative compromise are a scaling up of the cap to $1 million in wrongful death cases and $750,000 in personal injury cases after ten years, as well as allowing survivors to sue both the provider and institutions for up to three separate caps, depending upon the circumstances.
Medical negligence survivors would see an increase of the cap to $350,000 in personal injury cases and $500,000 in wrongful death cases next year, with increases of $40,000 and $50,000 respectively every year for ten years, and a 2% cost of living increase annually after 10 years.
Injured patients and their families could receive the cap up to three times if an institution was involved in the medical negligence, and if an unaffiliated institution or provider committed a separate act of negligence. In total a survivor could receive up to $1,050,000 next year in an injury case and $1,500,000 in a wrongful death case, and up to $2,250,000 after 10 years for injuries and up to $3,000,000 after 10 years for death.
Attorney fee caps are also reset, based on whether a case is settled before or after it is filed or if it goes to court. And doctors will be free to apologize to patients and even acknowledge mistakes without their apology being held against them in court.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. – An extensive state investigation launched after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020 found that the Minneapolis Police Department has engaged in a pattern of race discrimination for at least the past decade.
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights said Wednesday it will negotiate a court-enforceable agreement called a consent decree with the city of Minneapolis to address the long list of problems identified in the report.
Here's a look at some of the key findings and recommendations.
PATTERNS AND PRACTICES
The agency found that the city and police department have engaged in a “pattern or practice” of race discrimination in violation of state law. Its report detailed evidence showing disparities in how officers use force, stop, search, arrest and cite people of color, particularly Black people, compared to white people in similar circumstances.
POLICE CULTURE
The report said race-based policing in Minneapolis is primarily a result of police force culture. Officers, supervisors and trainers “receive deficient training, which emphasizes a paramilitary approach to policing that results in officers unnecessarily escalating encounters or using inappropriate levels of force,” it said.
The department's accountability systems are “insufficient and ineffective at holding officers accountable for misconduct,” the report said. But it said former and current city and police leaders have failed to act, effectively allowing an aggressive culture to fester.
The report said the department maintains a culture where officers “consistently use racist, misogynistic, and disrespectful language and are rarely held accountable” for it.
“Without fundamental organizational culture changes, reforming MPD’s policies, procedures, and trainings will be meaningless,” the report said.
USE OF FORCE
The report found that officers use “higher rates of more severe force” against Black residents than white people in similar circumstances. Since 2010, 13 of the 14 people killed by Minneapolis officers were people of color or Indigenous. Those groups comprise about 42% of the city's population, but 93% of the city's officer-involved deaths since 2010. And while only about 19% of the city's residents are Black, 63% of all use-of-force incidents were against Black people.
TRAFFIC STOPS
The report found that Minneapolis officers are more likely to stop vehicles with people of color and Indigenous individuals, often for minor offenses. When stopped for either moving violations or no genuine reason at all, officers were more likely to ask them than white people if they had guns or drugs, and to search their vehicles without legal justification. And it said officers are more likely to use force against Black drivers in traffic stops, and to arrest them, than white motorists in similar circumstances.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
Minneapolis police improperly, excessively and disproportionately cite Black people for disorderly conduct and obstruction of the legal process, the report said. Community members told investigators it often happens “when officers are annoyed with or displeased with a community member’s reaction or response to a police officer’s presence.” Often the charges are dropped because they likely are unjustified, it said, while white people are more likely to get leniency. And it said the financial and other collateral costs of unjustified citations to Black people “can be substantial, and at times, devastating.”
COVERT SOCIAL MEDIA
The review found that police used “covert, or fake, social media accounts to surveil and engage Black individuals, Black organizations, and elected officials unrelated to criminal activity, without a public safety objective.” That included efforts to falsely engage with Black individuals and groups, including the NAACP and Urban League, often using “language to further racial stereotypes associated with Black people, especially Black women.” Police also used covert accounts to criticize elected officials, including an unnamed City Council member and an unnamed state elected official.
In contrast, the report said, officers did not track and surveil white people in cases unrelated to criminal activity, and did not use covert social media accounts to track white supremacist or white nationalist groups.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The city and police department don't need to wait for the planned consent decree that the two sides will negotiate, the report said. The Human Rights Department proposed three immediate steps to take. The first was a series of measures to improve accountability and oversight, including a reset of performance expectations, better investigations of alleged misconduct, and better coaching of officers in need of improvement. Second, the report urged the department to quickly overhaul its training to shift from a paramilitary to a public service approach. And it said leaders must “communicate honestly” when critical incidents such as officer-involved shootings arise.
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Developing the world's smallest gear wheel
Ever smaller and more intricate—without miniaturization, we wouldn't have the components today that are required for high-performance laptops, compact smartphones or high-resolution endoscopes. Research is now being carried out in the nanoscale on switches, rotors or motors that consist of only a few atoms in order to build what are known as molecular machines. A research team at FAU has successfully built the world's smallest energy powered gear wheel with a corresponding counterpart. The nano gear unit is the first that can also be actively controlled and driven. The researchers' findings have recently been published in the journal Nature Chemistry.
Miniaturization plays a key role in the further development of modern technologies and makes it possible to manufacture smaller devices that have more power. It also plays a significant role in manufacturing, since it allows functional materials and medication to be produced at previously unprecedented levels of precision. Now, research has entered the nanoscale—which is invisible to the naked eye—focusing on individual atoms and molecules. The significance of this new field of research is demonstrated by the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, which was awarded for research into molecular machines in 2016.
Some important components used in molecular machines such as switches, rotors, forceps, robot arms or even motors already exist in the nanoscale. A further essential component for any machine is the gear wheel, which allows changes in direction and speed and enables movements to be connected to each other. Molecular counterparts also exist for gear wheels, however, up to now, they have only moved passively back and forth, which is not extremely useful for a molecular machine.
The molecular gear wheel developed by the research team led by Prof. Dr. Henry Dube, Chair of Organic Chemistry I at FAU and previously head of a junior research group at LMU in Munich, measures only 1.6 nm. The research team has succeeded in actively powering a molecular gear wheel and its counterpart and has thus solved a fundamental problem in the construction of machines on the nanoscale.
The gear unit comprises two components that are interlocked with each other and are made up of only 71 atoms. One component is a triptycene molecule whose structure is similar to a propeller or bucket wheel. The second component is a flat fragment of a thioindigo molecule, similar to a small plate. If the plate rotates 180 degrees, the propeller rotates by only 120 degrees. The result is a 2:3 transmission ratio.
The nano gear unit is controlled by light, making it a molecular photogear. As they are directly driven by the light energy, the plate and the triptycene propeller move in locked synchronous rotation. Heat alone was not sufficient in order to make the gear unit rotate, as the FAU team discovered. When the researchers heated the solution around the gear unit in the dark, the propeller turned, but the plate did not—the gear "slipped". The researchers thus came to the conclusion that the nano gear unit can be activated and controlled using a light source. | https://phys.org/news/2022-04-world-smallest-gear-wheel.html | 2022-04-28T01:25:57Z | https://phys.org/news/2022-04-world-smallest-gear-wheel.html | false | 1 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Lotto Double Play" game were:
06-18-27-28-29-32
(six, eighteen, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty-two)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Lotto Double Play" game were:
06-18-27-28-29-32
(six, eighteen, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty-two) | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-Double-Play-game-17132071.php | 2022-04-28T01:27:06Z | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-Double-Play-game-17132071.php | false | null |
WAPAKONETA — A seven-week art program for children ages three through five will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. beginning Monday, April 25 and ending Monday, June 12 at The Riverside Art Center, 3 W. Auglaize St., Wapakoneta. The cost to participate is $50 for members and...
LIMA — The Kiwanis Club of Lima will meet at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26 at the Lima Masonic Center, 2165 N. Cole St., Lima. From 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Kiwanis Club will award the 2022 Ronald W. Richards Young Musician Scholarship. Each year a $4,000 scholarship is given to an Allen County senior planning to pursue a music career in a four-year college. The winner this year is Caiden Bush, a vocalist from Bath High School, who will be attending Ohio Northern University.
ADA — Ohio Northern University Spring Band Festival 2022 will feature “Miles of Blue” starting at 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 1 at the Freed Center for the Performing Arts, Ohio Northern University, Ada. “Miles of Blue” was written as a tribute to fallen NYPD Sgt. Paul...
VAN WERT — Michael Bolton delighted concert attendees during a performance at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center in Van Wert Sunday evening. Fans traveled to the concert from as far away as Nashville, Tennessee, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin to hear this music icon who rocketed to the top of the charts in the late 1980s and early 1990s with his biggest hits with interrogative titles like “How Am I Supposed To Live Without You?” and “How Can We Be Lovers?”
April 16 — Jadyn Adkins and Dakota Davis, Wapakoneta, boy. April 19 — Marya and Sean Danaher, Wapakoneta, girl; Erin Fleming and Maxwell Collins, Belle Center, girl; Daesha Gott and George Pritchett, Lima, girl; Alicia Prielipp and Mason Brammer, Kenton, girl; Ericka Truesdale, Lima, girl. April 20 —...
FINDLAY — Their music was described as “classical music meets cattle ranchers” when they appeared out of nowhere on the nationally televised talent show “America’s Got Talent.”. This trio of singers calling themselves The Texas Tenors came from very different musical traditions: classical/opera (John Hagen),... | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2582704033070/delphos-jefferson-to-perform-wizard-of-oz | 2022-04-28T01:34:07Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2582704033070/delphos-jefferson-to-perform-wizard-of-oz | true | 1 |
The Storm Team 11 Forecast calls for fair skies overnight with patchy frost possible. The low will be 38 degrees.
Thursday will give way to a mix of sun and clouds with an afternoon high near 70 degrees.
Partly cloudy skies are forecast for Thursday night with a low near 44 degrees.
Partly cloudy to cloudy skies are forecast for Friday with a 30% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. The high will be 70 degrees.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms are forecast for Friday night and Saturday with a low near 53 and a high on Saturday near 75 degrees.
We keep the chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms Saturday night with a low near 55 degrees.
Mostly cloudy skies are forecast for Sunday with a 70% chance of showers ad thunderstorms. The high will be 76 degrees.
Showers and thunderstorms are forecast for Sunday night and Monday with a low of 55 degrees and a high on Monday near 78 degrees. The chance of rain is 50% Monday.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms are forecast for Monday night and Tuesday. The low will be near 57 with a high on Tuesday near 78 degrees. The chance of rain is 60% on Tuesday.
Wednesday will be partly cloudy and warm with a 20% chance for a few scattered afternoon showers or a thunderstorm. The high will be 80 degrees.
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Which photography drone is best?
Over a short period, drones went from hobbyist toys with low-resolution cameras on the front to commercially viable gadgets with powerful digital cameras attached underneath. This expanded the capabilities of photographers who could now capture breathtaking images and never-seen-before footage.
While the photography drone market is fierce, DJI is one of the best-known brands globally, filming Hollywood blockbusters and sideline action at international sporting events. The DJI Mavic 3 Camera Drone is a good example, as it can record video in 5.1K resolution and has a flight time of 45 minutes on a single battery pack.
What to know before you buy a photography drone
Built-in camera vs. external camera mount
Your quest for a photography drone should start with the camera — not its capabilities but how it mounts to the drone. There are typically two types of photography drones: those with built-in cameras and those that attach a digital camera through an external mount.
- An external mount lets you use your digital single-lens reflex camera as the capturing device, mounting to the drone’s underside through a bracket.
- Built-in cameras are self-explanatory, as the drone has a camera on the front and records the footage to a memory card.
Image quality is important
If you attach your own digital camera to the drone, you know its capabilities and image quality. But if you are looking for a drone with a built-in camera, its functionality can be a deciding factor. Of course, the image quality must be sufficient for your filming type, but anything lower than full HD (1080p) isn’t worth your time or money. You also might want to consider whether the camera is better at still photography or recording video.
They have a limited range
Drones have several limitations to their flying: their batteries only last about half an hour before needing a recharge, and most can only operate within a specific distance from the controller. Basic photography drones have an average range of about 320 feet, while professional drones can go as far as 9 miles.
What to look for in a quality photography drone
Finding its way home with GPS
If you are spending more than $1,000 on a photography drone, you don’t ever want to lose your camera. However, this can happen if it goes outside the controller’s transmission range or interference messes with the signal. Most drone makers consider that and program a “fly home” feature into the device. So, a good-quality drone lets you set a GPS location as the home base, and if anything untoward happens, the drone automatically makes its way there.
Stability with a three-axis gimbal
One of the most significant differences between mediocre and amazing footage is the visuals’ stability. You might have the perfect subject or scenery, but it will ruin the moment if the camera isn’t held steady. A good-quality photography drone has a built-in camera on a three-axis gimbal. This means the camera can automatically change its pitch, trim and yaw to remain laser-focused on the subject.
Supported image formats
This can be a bit tricky, as different image formats only matter when you use sophisticated photo editing software. But if that’s a requirement for you, look for a photography drone that can shoot in RAW or DNG file formats. These files include all the data from the camera’s sensor, making it easier to tweak in the editing room. Otherwise, the standard formats of JPG for photos or MP4 for video are perfect.
How much you can expect to spend on a photography drone
The price mainly depends on the drone’s capabilities and the built-in camera. A basic photography drone recording at full HD costs $50-$100. But a professional model with a powerful camera can retail for $2,000-$2,500, while cinematic bundles can add another $2,000 to the price tag.
Photography drone FAQ
Is flight time important for a photography drone?
A. Most people stress too much about a drone’s flight time. Almost all drones can’t fly for longer than 30 minutes on a single battery, but that should be more than enough time to get the shot you need. On the other hand, a shorter flight time will force you to practice making the best use of your time. If it’s a concern, buy an extra battery pack.
Is it worth getting a 4K drone or camera?
A. That depends on the content you produce. If you use the drone for commercial aerial shots of vivid and exciting places, 4K could be worth it. On the other hand, if you mainly upload content to Instagram or Facebook, your video is automatically down-scaled, so 4K won’t matter.
What’s the best photography drone to buy?
Top photography drone
DJI Mavic 3 Camera Drone With 4/3 CMOS Hasselblad Camera
What you need to know: Few photography drones can compete with the powerful Hasselblad camera on the Mavic 3. Suitable for recording Hollywood films, it has a sensor with a 12.8-stop range to give more details to shadows and highlights.
What you’ll love: It has one of the most extended flight times of all photography drones, as it can remain in the air for 45 minutes on a single battery. It records video at 5.1K resolution, has a transmission range of 9 miles, and can provide you with a live video feed.
What you should consider: The drone is prohibitively expensive for most, and if you include the Cinematic Combo with more batteries, propellers and Apple ProRes 422 HQ encoding, the price doubles.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top photography drone for the money
Holy Stone HS110D FPV RC Drone with 1080P HD Camera
What you need to know: This drone is perfect for vloggers who want to get amazing footage of their holiday or a friend’s wedding. It captures video in full HD, and the camera has a 120-degree field of view.
What you’ll love: You don’t need an expensive controller with this drone, as it is compatible with most mobile devices. The two included batteries provide 20 minutes of flying time, and the drone has an operational range of around 330 feet.
What you should consider: While it can provide you with a live video feed, it is limited to a 196-foot transmission range.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
DJI Mavic 2 Pro With Hasselblad Camera And Three-Axis Gimbal
What you need to know: The Mavic 2 is a favorite among aerial and sports photographers, as the built-in camera has a 20-megapixel sensor that captures footage at a 4K resolution.
What you’ll love: The drone has a flight time of 30 minutes, a maximum speed of 44 miles per hour and comes with 8 gigabytes of internal storage. The camera sits on a three-axis gimbal, and the drone avoids flying into hazards through Omnidirectional Obstacle Sensing.
What you should consider: The Pro is considerably more expensive than the Mavic 2 Zoom, which comes without the smart controller with 5-inch display.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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SHENZHEN, China, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tencent Music Entertainment Group ("TME", or the "Company") (NYSE: TME), the leading online music and audio entertainment platform in China, today announced a new service on the Tencent Musician Platform to support Chinese musicians with international development, and to enhance global discovery of Chinese music, by assisting with overseas promotion and distribution.
The new service, "One-Click For All", enables musicians on Tencent Musician Platform to distribute musical works, with one single click, to over 150 popular global platforms, which include Spotify, KKBOX, YouTube, Apple Music, and others that cover audiences around the world in more than 200 countries and regions. The distribution process will take seven working days to complete. In order to improve catalog management and copyright protection, TME will provide musicians with International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) for free, which is an identification number for music recording. In addition, musicians will have financial incentives. Every quarter, artists will receive income generated from overseas distribution equal to up to 70% of the total, after subtracting the service fee.
To date, Tencent Musician Platform has successfully helped distribute and promote more than 150,000 musical works on overseas streaming platforms, expanding the listener base by 3900%. Through the partnership with Apple Music established in November 2021, Tencent Musicians such as Liu Shuang, Akini JING, Joysaaaa and SARRA have been promoted to international audiences through Apple Music. Hot hits like "Piu Piu Piu" by Pin Yin Shi and "Wild Motor" by Guo Gaoming have won over one million views on Youtube.
TME has always been dedicated to bringing local artists premium resources and international exposure opportunities. With the ongoing improvement of end-to-end services, Tencent Musician Platform has become the choice for local indie musicians and it aims to encourage more local artists to present on a broader stage, making their voices heard around the world. TME will continue to strive as a leading platform with global influence to provide support for local musicians and realize the global value of Chinese music.
About Tencent Music Entertainment
Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE: TME) is the leading online music and audio entertainment platform in China, operating the country's highly popular and innovative music apps: QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music and WeSing. TME's mission is to use technology to elevate the role of music in people's lives by enabling them to create, enjoy, share and interact with music. TME's platform comprises online music, online audio, online karaoke, music-centric live streaming and online concert services, enabling music fans to discover, listen, sing, watch, perform and socialize around music. For more information, please visit ir.tencentmusic.com.
Media Contact
TME.PR@icrinc.com
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MTN Group Still Offers Huge Potential - But That's Never Been The Issue
Summary
- MTN Group has credible drivers to build shareholder value, including ongoing growth in high-margin data and mobile money services, as well as an ongoing asset rationalization program.
- Regulatory and macroeconomic challenges have long been a problem, and that remains the case: Repatriating cash from Nigeria remains difficult and Ghana has imposed competition-boosting measures that hurt profitability.
- MTN Group shares look substantially undervalued on discounted cash flow and relative multiples, but operational, regulatory, and macroeconomic challenges are always going to be present.
MTN Group (OTCPK:MTNOY) is the sort of stock that will make you seriously question whether stockpicking is worth the time and energy. This company should have so much going for it, including a leading mobile service footprint across much of Africa and a fast-growing mobile money business, but results over the years have never lived up to the potential.
Some of the challenges are outside of the company’s control, including government ineptitude and corruption, macroeconomic challenges, and shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic. Other issues, like a weak competitive position in South Africa, should be more within management’s power to control but nevertheless linger on.
I remain bullish on MTN Group’s leverage to data traffic growth and mobile money growth, as well as its leverage to overall population and economic growth in Africa. That bullishness has to be tempered, though, by certain realities – there’s work to do in South Africa, the company has had contentious relationships with several governments, and Africa as a whole is a continent that investors have been waiting to see blossom for close to 50 years now.
MTN shares look undervalued even with exceptionally high discount rates and what should be reasonable, if not conservative, growth assumptions. Management is also pursuing some very sound operational strategies. Whether the macro and political environments will cooperate is a separate issue, though, as is the question of whether sentiment will meaningfully improve.
FinTech And Data Remain Power Potential Drivers
I’m quite bullish on the prospects MTN Group has in both its core service business and in its fintech (mobile money) operations.
The biggest opportunity within the core service opportunity is in data. Growth in data consumption has been a major profit driver for most service providers around the world (SK Telecom (SKM) perhaps offers the best example), as it is a high-margin service for the provider and one that regulators tend to be more lax about where pricing is concerned.
Data revenue grew 31% in FY 2020, well above the reported 18% overall revenue growth (closer to 11% on a constant currency basis), and grew to 27% of total revenue. Data subs grew another 20% to 114.3M, but that’s still fewer than half of the company’s nearly 280M subs, and only 140M subs have smartphones as of the year-end. As personal incomes grow, I expect meaningful ongoing growth from data services, and I expect this to be higher-margin growth as well.
Mobile money is likewise a major opportunity for MTN Group. Revenue rose 34% in FY’20 to ZAR 13.5B, or about 7.5% of total revenue, with 34% sub growth in the year. MTN Group ended the year with 46.4M subs, or about 16.6% of its subscriber base, and the company’s services are market leaders in several including Ghana, Cameroon, Uganda, and Cote d’Ivoire, and gaining traction in Nigeria.
What services MTN is allowed to offer varies by country, but the company has been adding international remittance capabilities, and that has been helping the business to grow. The bigger driver is simply the convenience of the service. Most African countries are seriously “under-banked”, with banks not really wanting to service the needs of the average consumer. Mobile phones are ubiquitous, though, and phone-based fintech services have largely filled the gap for most users.
I see fintech services as a major growth and profit driver for MTN in the years to come. The business is already quite profitable (close to 50% EBITDA margins) and it scales easily without significant capital requirements.
Management Priorities Look Sound
When I last wrote about MTN, I wasn’t sure what the new CEO Ralph Mupita was going to bring to the table that was new, as he has been a long-time MTN executive. So far, though, I’ve been rather impressed with what I’ve seen and heard.
MTN Group has remained focus on a patient asset sale program, with the company still looking to conduct some tower transactions and sell down some of its ownership stakes in its operating subsidiaries (MTN Nigeria and MTN Ghana are both locally listed). The tower sales in particular look like a sound move to monetize assets, and the market for tower transactions has been healthy (Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP) has been active in India and could, perhaps, look at moving into Africa).
The company is also advancing it Project Ambition 2025. This program is looking to separate platform and infrastructure businesses were possible in an effort to maximize value. The company is looking to separate its fiber assets and find external investors to help growth a “network as a service” platform. The company is also considering separating out the fintech business – given the valuation given to fintech companies like Square (SQ), PagSeguro (PAGS), and Adyen (OTCPK:ADYEY), it makes some sense, as it is at least plausible that MTN’s fintech operations may be valued separately at less of a discount than its mobile service business.
Management has also kept the door open on growing the business. While selling out of non-African regions like Syria remains a priority, the company is “exploring” the opportunity to enter Ethiopia – one of the relatively few attractive opportunities left.
I also agree with management’s more conservative approach to dividends. Not offering a dividend for 2020 wasn’t popular with all investors, but the company is trying to establish a sustainable capital return policy. The company continue to have huge problems repatriating cash from Nigeria (it could only repatriate ZAR 286M in 2020, with ZAR 4.2B still waiting), and the company would have to dip into the cash generated by asset sales in the meantime. Instead, management is looking to establish a relatively low dividend in 2021 and beyond, but supplement that with buybacks and special dividends as circumstances allow.
Challenges Still Abound
For all of the good things I see at MTN Group, I still see substantial challenges as well.
There has been pretty minimal revenue growth in South Africa for three years now (though EBITDA margin has improved 400bp), and management is only looking for mid-single-digit growth in ’21. The company continues to lag Vodacom (OTCPK:VDMCY) in both market share and service quality, and the company is wrangling with the country’s telecom regulator over the terms for new spectrum auctions.
Relations with the Nigerian government have been more peaceful lately, but the SIM registration program is likely to create some near-term disruptions and I am concerned that the Nigerian government may declare that the company hasn’t done enough to register SIMs fast enough and impose some sort of sanction. Aside from that, cash repatriation remains a major issue, even as the company looks to invest around $1.6B in network capex as part of a three-year program negotiated with the government.
In Ghana, the country is seeing the impact of asymmetric termination rates imposed by the government from the fall of 2020 (Q4’20 ARPU was down 11%), and there are other measures that have been put in place to make MTN Group’s rivals more competitive (MTN Group has around 63% market share). My understanding is that the company is still pursuing legal challenges to these actions, and it doesn’t seem particularly rancorous, but it’s worth watching.
These are only some of the challenges. The Syrian operations are under legal guardianship as a dispute with the government plays out, there are ongoing international issues with Iran, and the macroeconomic picture for many African countries remains unstable – higher oil and commodity prices are a positive, but may not last.
The Outlook
MTN’s results were pretty close to my expectations for 2020 – revenue was about 3% better and EBITDA was about 2% better. I’ve adjusted my revenue assumptions a bit, but the end results don’t change my expected growth rates that much – 4% to 5% revenue growth over the next five and 10 years. This is basically in line with the trailing growth rate.
With increased data and mobile money service use, I’m looking for EBTIDA margins to improve from around 42% in ’19 and ’20 to 43% in ’21 and ’22 and 45% in ’25. Deferred capex in 2020 due to the pandemic boosted the adjusted FCF result for ’20, and I do expect lower FCF in ’21-’25 as the company reinvests in its network.
That said, that’s only “lower” relative to the inflated number of 2020 and the low double-digit FCF margins I expect are actually well above the long-term average in the high single-digits. Long term, I expect margin improvement to drive double-digit growth in FCF.
The Bottom Line
MTN Group looks exceptionally cheap by any valuation approach I use (30% or more upside); if my FCF estimates are in the right ballpark, the shares are substantially undervalued even with a mid-teens discount rate. Likewise, MTN looks cheap when I compare its margins and returns (ROIC, et al) to what the market will pay for mobile service providers (EV/EBITDA, price/book, et al) in other regions.
Clearly there is a heavy discount in place with these shares. To some point, that’s fair, as the company has had numerous regulatory and operational challenges over the years (including ongoing cash repatriation issues in Nigeria). The potential here is indeed significant, but before recommending the shares, I would at least caution investors to appreciate the risks and how they could delay value realization here.
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Honestly: The Inflation Economy: What You Need to Know
If you’re confused about what is happening with the economy right now, so are we. Why is inflation up 8.5%? Who’s to blame? Is it the Democrats? Or everyone that’s been pushing easy money?
What should we do in the long term? The short term? Should we be renting? Buying? Good time to get into the market? Or should we be putting a couple thousand away under the mattress? Or into crypto?
Today, Tyler Cowen is here to answer all of your burning questions about the economy. Cowen is a professor at George Mason, runs one of the most useful blogs on the internet (it’s called Marginal Revolution), and is widely considered one of the most influential economists in the country. Cowen, as always, reminds us that conversations about money are often much bigger than money – that at the heart of the conversation about the state of the dollar are fundamental questions about institutional distrust and broken cultural incentives. Cowen helps us answer those questions, too. | https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/honestly-the-inflation-economy-what | 2022-04-28T01:41:19Z | https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/honestly-the-inflation-economy-what | true | 2 |
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Midday Report: Oncternal (ONCT) Shares Climb for April 25
Equities Staff Follow |Oncternal Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: ONCT) shares moved 2.51%, or $0.025 per share, as on 12:15:02 est today. After Opening the Day at $1.00, 105,204 shares of Oncternal have exchanged hands and the stock has traded between $1.03 and $1.00.
Already the company has a YTD change of 56.17%.
Oncternal expects its next earnings on 2022-05-05.
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About Oncternal Therapeutics Inc
Oncternal Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel oncology therapies for the treatment of cancers with critical unmet medical need. Oncternal focuses drug development on promising yet untapped biological pathways implicated in cancer generation or progression. The clinical pipeline includes cirmtuzumab, an investigational monoclonal antibody designed to inhibit the ROR1 pathway, a type I tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor, that is being evaluated in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial in combination with ibrutinib for the treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and in an investigator-sponsored, Phase 1b clinical trial in combination with paclitaxel for the treatment of women with HER2-negative metastatic or locally advanced, unresectable breast cancer. The clinical pipeline also includes TK216, an investigational targeted small-molecule inhibitor of the ETS family of oncoproteins, that is being evaluated in a Phase 1 clinical trial for patients with Ewing sarcoma alone and in combination with vincristine chemotherapy. In addition, Oncternal has a program utilizing the cirmtuzumab antibody backbone to develop a CAR-T therapy that targets ROR1, which is currently in preclinical development as a potential treatment for hematologic cancers and solid tumors.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Drew Rasmussen struck out nine in six shutout innings, Kevin Kiermaier hit a two-run home run and the Tampa Bay Rays beat Seattle 3-2 Wednesday night, ending the Mariners' four-game winning streak.
Rasmussen (1-1) set career highs in innings pitched, pitches (84) and strikeouts in his 14th career start. He gave up two hits and one walk and retired the last 10 Mariners he faced.
Seattle starter Marco Gonzales (1-2) last just 11 pitches and left after being struck on the left wrist by a line drive hit by Harold Ramirez. The hit drove in the first run of the game.
Kiermaier's second homer of the season came off Yohan Ramirez after a single by Taylor Walls in the fourth.
J.P. Crawford homered off Rays reliever Colin Poche in the seventh, his third of the season. Abraham Toro hit his second homer of the season off Andrew Kittredge in the ninth.
Kittredge got the final four outs for his third save in three tries.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Mariners: RHP Paul Sewald was activated after spending a week on the COVID-19 injured list. ... RHP Ken Giles (middle finger tendon strain) is ready to start throwing. ... RHP Sergio Romo (right shoulder inflammation) might need a rehab appearance before being activated.
Rays: RHP Corey Kluber had his next start pushed back from Thursday to Friday against Minnesota. ... C Mike Zunino (sore left shoulder) was available Wednesday, but manager Kevin Cash said he would prefer Zunino to get a day or two off. ... LHP Ryan Yarbrough (left groin tightness) is scheduled for a rehab start Thursday at Triple-A Durham.
UP NEXT
RHP Chris Flexen (1-2, 3.63) will pitch Thursday's series finale for the Mariners. With Kluber scratched from the start, Cash described the situation as “all hands on deck” for the Rays.
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Retail News
Walmart offers deeper gas discounts as Walmart+ perk
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Chilly Thursday morning then warming up
Mostly clear, calm conditions lead to chilly Thursday start but seasonally warm temps by afternoon.
*See NWS Flood Alerts and more HERE.
Building, cresting high pressure over Northwestern Ontario clears out the clouds and relaxes the wind flow over Upper Michigan Wednesday night. The clear, calm conditions however enforce rapid overnight cooling with potential Thursday morning temps in the single numbers (above zero) for interior locations. Temperatures then warm up to seasonal averages in the afternoon. Mostly sunny skies turn to mostly cloudy in the evening as a Central Plains system moves towards the U.P. The building high pressure holds and limits the system’s impact to the region, providing light to occasional moderate rain showers mainly across the western half of the U.P. (isolated east).
The strong high pressure keeps conditions mostly dry Saturday, in which coupled with gusty southeast winds could present a fire danger risk in Upper Michigan during the daytime hours. By evening, the fire risk lessens as the high pressure over the region breaks down, and a strong Central Plains system approaches the U.P. Potentially soaking rain over 1″ and isolated thunderstorms are possible in the U.P. Sunday.
Rain chances diminish Monday as the system exits Upper Michigan. Then, another system from the Central Plains brings widespread rain and thunderstorm chances Wednesday.
Thursday: Mostly sunny early, then increasing clouds in the afternoon with rain showers in the evening; mild
>Highs: Lower 40s-Mid 50s
Friday: Partly to mostly cloudy with scattered light to occasionally moderate rain showers, especially west (fewer east); mild
>Highs: 50
Saturday: Partly cloudy early, then increasing clouds in the afternoon with rain showers in the evening; warm and breezy
>Highs: 60
Sunday, May 1st: Mostly cloudy with scattered moderate to occasionally heavy rain, isolated thunderstorms and breezy; mild
>Highs: 50
Monday: Mostly cloudy with scattered rain showers then diminishing in the evening; mild
>Highs: 40s-50
Tuesday: Partly cloudy and mild
>Highs: 40s-50
Wednesday: Mostly cloudy with scattered rain and isolated thunderstorms; mild
>Highs: 40s
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33 Young Performers To Star In HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING at Stepinac Theatre
our performances will be staged at Stepinac High School's iconic Major Bowes Auditorium.
A cast of 33 talented young performers from 9 high schools throughout the region will star in Stepinac Theatre's production of the Tony award-winning, smash Broadway hit, How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. (See complete list of cast and high schools below).
Four performances will be staged at Stepinac High School's iconic Major Bowes Auditorium, 950 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains at 7 PM, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 5, 6 and 7 and a special Mother's Day matinee performance at 2 PM, Sunday, May 8. All tickets are $20 per person, general admission seating. Doors open about 30 minutes before show time. For more info and to purchase tickets, visit and Archbishop Stepinac High School and click the Theatre tab at the top of the homepage.
A classic satire about big business and all it holds sacred, the 1961 musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser is about an ambitious young man, J. Pierrepont Finch who, with the help of a little handbook book entitled How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, rises from a lowly window washer to chairman of the World-Wide Wicket Company.
The rousing, fun-filled musical won seven Tony Awards including Best Musical as well as a Pulitzer Prize. Among the memorable stand-out songs are "I Believe in You," "Brotherhood of Man" and" The Company Way." The Stepinac Theatre production will be directed by Frank Portanova (Class of '93) and produced by Keith Sunderland (Class of '94).
Stepinac senior Zachary Doran of Goldens Bridge will play the first male lead character of J. Pierrepont Finch and Stepinac sophomore Ryan Diaz of New York City will perform in the second male lead role of J.B. Biggley. Katie Scott of White Plains, a senior at Pelham Memorial High School, will play the first female lead role of Rosemary Pilkington and Emily Hutchings of Mount Kisco, a senior at Horace Greeley, will perform the second female lead role of Hedy LaRue.
Here is the complete cast of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying:
Stepinac High School, White Plains
John Ceja, Port Chester (Senior)
Ryan Diaz, New York City (Sophomore)
Zachary Doran, Goldens Bridge (Senior)
Matthew Gierer, Yonkers (Sophomore)
Jonathan Guzman, White Plains (Freshman)
Jordan Hamers, Yonkers (Freshman)
Andrew Jones, Eastchester (Sophomore)
Ryan Lawarence, White Plains (Freshman)
Calvin Lindo, Yonkers (Sophomore)
Peter McFarland, New Rochelle (Junior)
Gabriel Mercado, Bronx (Freshman)
Jordan Prado, Yonkers (Sophomore)
Lucas Quintana, Yonkers (Senior)
Anthony Raduazzo, Ridgefield (Senior)
JeanPaul Sateriale, Yorktown Heights (Sophomore)
Sterling Varga, Thornwood (Sophomore)
Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua
Emily Hutchings, Mount Kisco (Senior)
Maria Regina High School, Hartsdale
Blake Boyle, Hartsdale (Senior)
Jianna Caro, Yonkers (Senior)
Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham
Madeline Lyons, Pelham (Sophomore)
Ava Pursel, Pelham (Sophomore)
Katie Scott, White Plains (Senior)
Pleasantville High School, Pleasantville
Rebecca Pedulla, Pleasantville (Senior)
Sacred Heart Greenwich, Greenwich
Amy Walsh, West Harrison (Freshman)
School of the Holy Child, Rye
Francie Baumstark, White Plains (Sophomore)
Meredith Gillespie, West Harrison (Junior)
Jackie Kaplan, White Plains (Sophomore)
The Ursuline School, New Rochelle
Madeline Alaimo, White Plains (Freshman)
Katherine Benjamin, White Plains (Senior)
Madeline Cockburn, Harrison (Freshman)
Elizabeth Riccio, Harrison (Senior)
White Plains High School, White Plains
Arielle Beckman, White Plains (Senior)
Cassie Gillen, White Plains (Senior)
About the Stepinac Theatre
Since 1949, the Stepinac Theatre, formerly Stepinac High School's Drama Club, has won critical acclaim for its productions of fall dramas and spring musicals.
The Stepinac Theatre has been honored to produce pilot productions for Disney's Mary Poppins, the musical; Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, the musical; Disney's Newsies, the musical, and the national high school premiere of Billy Elliot, the musical. The school's theatre arts program has also produced numerous high school regional premieres including Curtains, Drowsy Chaperone, Sister Act, the musical, and Peter and the Starcatcher.
The Stepinac Theatre garnered the Metropolitan Theatre Award for Outstanding Musical Production for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera, the musical in 2012 and Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, the musical in 2017. In total, the Stepinac Theatre has earned close to 200 nominations since 2002 for its various productions. It has also received international recognition by performing in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The productions have nurtured the talents of so many students at the renowned all-boys Catholic high school. Some went on to greater fame as professional actors including Academy Award winner Jon Voight and Emmy-Award winner Alan Alda.
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PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — When candidates for public office indulge in conspiracy theories like QAnon, it's often with a wink and a nod.
But just weeks before Pennsylvania's May 17 primary election, such ideas are being promoted in plain sight. And high-profile Republican candidates for statewide office are treating talk of a "global satanic blood cult" like regular campaigning.
Last week in Gettysburg, a far-right Christian conference called "Patriots Arise for God and Country" drew state Sen. Doug Mastriano, a GOP front-runner for Pennsylvania governor; Teddy Daniels, a candidate for lieutenant governor; Maryland gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox; Liz Harrington, a spokesperson for former President Donald Trump; and former Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis.
About 25 minutes into the two-day conference, organizers played a video claiming the world is experiencing a "great awakening" that will expose "ritual child sacrifice" and a "global satanic blood cult."
Followers of QAnon believe a global cabal of Democrats and elites are trafficking children for sex and engaged in other demonic activity — but that all of this will soon be exposed. Images associated with the conspiracy theory were on display during the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack.
The video showed Friday featured a kind of greatest hits of conspiracy theories that have circulated for decades. It showed images of the Twin Towers collapsing on 9/11 — with the label "false flags." It claimed John F. Kennedy was assassinated because he "knew too much" and posed a "high risk of cabal exposure," that vaccines amount to "genocide therapy," and that Hitler faked his death. It offered other conspiracy theories about the atomic bomb, the Spanish flu, 5G, the 2008 financial crisis — and, of course, the 2020 election.
But, the video said, it is "game over" for the darkness, and thousands will be jailed and executed. It showed images of a guillotine.
"All of the systems the darkness had in place to control us are going to crumble," the narrator says, as the video shows a view of outer space. "The fear, the corruption, the greed, the wars and rumors of wars, the hate, the technology, media propaganda, the child trafficking and the slave economy — all of these control systems will crumble down."
Mastriano, who has consistently led polls of the sprawling Republican primary field, raised money for his campaign at the event. The organizers auctioned a print of Trump for $4,000 — with proceeds apparently going to Mastriano.
"Painting print of President Trump done by Jeff Preston auctioned at event and sold for $4,000. All proceeds go to Mastriano campaign," Mastriano wrote on Facebook. "Your giving means a lot!"
During a speech Saturday, Mastriano described the "persecution and oppression" he and others faced over their challenges to the 2020 election. He mentioned that he'd received a subpoena from the congressional committee investigating the Capitol attack.
"I wear that proudly because it's a badge of honor," he said. "That means I actually was doing my job as a citizen and as a senator of Pennsylvania here. ... God has his hand over us. And they're not gonna get me to cower."
He did not say whether he has complied with the subpoena, which seeks documents and testimony about his involvement in efforts to overturn Trump's loss to Joe Biden.
The conference was organized by Francine and Allen Fodsick, self-described prophets who have long promoted QAnon.
Mastriano has been interviewed by the Fodsicks multiple times for their podcast. After the Fodsicks began promoting a similar event last year and listed Mastriano as a featured speaker, the senator's spokesman said he wouldn't be attending.
Mastriano "strongly condemns the 'Q anon' conspiracy theory" and "never committed to speak at this event but sadly was used to help promote it with his picture on the invite," the spokesperson said at the time.
But that didn't stop Mastriano from attending this time. His campaign did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday. Mastriano's campaign has not responded to repeated inquiries over the course of the campaign.
Daniels, a veteran and Mastriano's chosen running mate, also spoke Saturday, touching on his combat experience and recounting how a woman once scolded him for not wearing a mask inside a store.
Reached for comment Tuesday, Daniels said in an email: "At least I'm not a communist."
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Storm Prediction Ctr, Norman, OK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, April 28, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 156
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
753 PM CDT WED APR 27 2022
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 156 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
TX
. TEXAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
DALLAM HANSFORD HARTLEY
HUTCHINSON LIPSCOMB MOORE
OCHILTREE OLDHAM ROBERTS
SHERMAN
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN HARTLEY COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 800 PM CDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 100 AM CDT for
the Panhandle of Texas.
Remember, a Severe Thunderstorm Warning still remains in effect for
eastern Hartley county.
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IRVINE, Calif., April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shopoff Realty Investments ("Shopoff"), a national manager of opportunistic and value-add real estate investments, announced today the company has sold Iron Horse Shopping Center, a 185,890-square-foot neighborhood center, located in Sparks, Nevada for $18 million.
"When Shopoff purchased Iron Horse Shopping Center, the property was in very poor condition having been foreclosed on by the lender and under the management of a receiver for several years," explained Shopoff Realty Investments president and chief executive officer William Shopoff. "Through our team's efforts, the property made a major transformation, with the addition of many new tenants, the reworking of leases with existing tenants, extensive improvements, and the addition of a new retail pad. The asset is now a positive resource for the surrounding community, rather than a blight."
When Shopoff purchased the property, it was a distressed, lender-owned asset and only 33% occupied, with a former Target store space representing over 100,000-square-feet of vacant space. Shopoff was able to make significant capital improvements to the center, including new paint and column architectural features, enhanced signage, landscaping, repairing and replacing of the asphalt in the parking lots. Additionally, a new 7,151-square-foot pad was also constructed on the property. Ultimately, the Shopoff team was able to increase the occupancy of the center to 75%, signing several key long-term leases.
In addition to the main center, there are two retail pads on the property that are being sold separately. One of the pads is 3,008-square-feet, and currently houses a Jack-in-the-Box fast food restaurant, and the other is the aforementioned 7,151-square-foot pad constructed by Shopoff, which has several tenants including Starbucks, Super Chix, Roberto's and Freeway Insurance.
About Shopoff Realty Investments
Shopoff Realty Investments is an Irvine, California-based real estate firm with a 30-year history of value-add and opportunistic investing across the United States. The company primarily focuses on proactively generating appreciation through the repositioning of commercial income-producing properties and the entitlement of land assets. The 30-year history includes operating as Asset Recovery Fund, Eastbridge Partners and Shopoff Realty Investments (formerly known as The Shopoff Group). Performance has varied in this time frame, with certain offerings generating losses. For additional information, please visit www.shopoff.com or call (844) 4-SHOPOFF.
Disclosures
This is not an offering to buy or sell any securities. Such offer may only be made through the offerings memorandum to qualified purchasers. Any investment in Shopoff Realty Investments programs involves substantial risks and is suitable only for investors who have no need for liquidity and who can bear the loss of their entire investment. There is no assurance that any strategy will succeed to meet its investment objectives. The performance of this asset is not indicative of future results of other assets. Securities offered through Shopoff Securities, Inc. member FINRA/SIPC, 18565 Jamboree Road, Suite 200, Irvine, CA 92612, (844) 4-SHOPOFF.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, April 27, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
836 PM CDT Wed Apr 27 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN OLDHAM...NORTHWESTERN POTTER...SOUTHWESTERN MOORE
AND SOUTHEASTERN HARTLEY COUNTIES...
At 835 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles southwest of
Masterson, or 19 miles south of Dumas, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible. Hail
damage to vehicles is expected.
Locations impacted include...
Four Way and Masterson.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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BOSTON (AP) — Cyberattacks by state-backed Russian hackers have destroyed data across dozens of organizations in Ukraine and produced “a chaotic information environment,” Microsoft saysin a report released Wednesday.
Nearly half the destructive attacks were against critical infrastructure, many times simultaneous to physical attacks, the report notes.
A top Ukrainian cybersecurity official, Victor Zhora, told reporters in a news briefing on Wednesday that cyberattacks on telecommunications have sometimes coincided with artillery and other physical attacks.
Microsoft assessed that Russia-aligned threat groups were “pre-positioning for the conflict as early as March 2021,” hacking into networks to obtain footholds they could later use to collect “strategic and battlefield intelligence or to facilitate future destructive attacks.”
During the war, Russia’s cyberattacks “have at times not only degraded the functions of the targeted organizations but sought to disrupt citizens’ access to reliable information and critical life services, and to shake confidence in the country’s leadership,” the company’s Digital Security Unit says in the 20-page report.
Kremlin cyber operations “have had an impact in terms of technical disruption of services and causing a chaotic information environment, but Microsoft is not able to evaluate their broader strategic impact,” the report says.
Disruption from Russian cyber activity has been more modest than many anticipated ahead of the Feb. 24 invasion, and Microsoft said damaging attacks have “been accompanied by broad espionage and intelligence activities.”
Early on, a cyberattack that also affected European broadband users knocked out satellite serviceto Ukrainian military, police and other institutions. But Ukrainian defenders, aided by outside cybersecurity firms, have also scored victories. Microsoft and Slovakia-based ESET helped them thwart an attempt earlier this month to cut powerto millions of Ukrainians.
The report says groups with known or suspected ties with Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency have used destructive “wiper” malware “at a pace of two to three incidents a week since the eve of the invasion.”
It did not name specific targets but they are known to include telecommunications companies and local, regional and national agencies.
From the invasion onset until April 8, Microsoft said at least eight different malware strains were used in “nearly 40 discrete destructive attacks that permanently destroyed files in hundreds of systems across dozens of organizations in Ukraine.”
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WINNIPEG, MB, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Medicure Inc. ("Medicure" or the "Company") (TSXV: MPH) (OTC: MCUJF), a company focused on the development and commercialization of pharmaceuticals and healthcare products for patients and prescribers in the United States market, today reported its results from operations for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2021.
Quarter and Year Ended December 31, 2021 Highlights:
- Recorded total net revenue of $21.7 million during the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $11.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 and;
- Recorded total net revenue of $6.8 million during the quarter ended December 31, 2021 compared to $2.4 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2020 and;
- Recorded total net revenue from the sale of AGGRASTAT® of $11.5 million during the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $10.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 and;
- Recorded total net revenue from the sale of ZYPITAMAG® of $3.1 million during the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $453,000 for the year ended December 31, 2020 and;
- Diversified product portfolio with revenues from the Marley Drug business of $6.9 million during the year ended December 31, 2021 and;
- Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA1) for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $2.1 million compared to adjusted EBITDA of negative $3.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 and;
- Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $727,000 compared to $6.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2020;
Financial Results
The increase in AGGRASTAT® revenues when compared to the same periods in the previous year, as described above, is the result of increases in the volume of AGGRASTAT® sold in 2021 when compared to 2020, in conjunction to improvements in contract price management.
ZYPITAMAG® contributed $3.1 million of revenue for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $453,000 for the year ended December 31, 2020. The increase in revenue is primarily as a result of improved patient access and fill rate through Medicure's subsidiary Marley Drug, which also results in reduced fees to wholesalers and pharmacy benefit managers.
The Marley Drug business, acquired on December 17, 2020, contributed $6.9 million of revenue for the year ended December 31, 2021. Marley Drug is a US pharmacy licensed to ship medications to all 50 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. It serves thousands of customers and has proven success in marketing based on accessible pricing of generic drugs and a focus on cash price without use of insurance. It provides another channel for direct-to-consumer marketing, distribution and improved profit margin for ZYPITAMAG.
Sodium nitroprusside contributed $59,000 of revenue during the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $116,000 of revenue during the year ended December 31, 2020 which is lower primarily as a result of pricing pressure from competitors.
Adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended December 31, 2021 was $1.6 million compared to negative $1.4 million for the three months ended December 31, 2020. The increase in adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended December 31, 2021 is the result of higher revenues when compared to the same period in 2020 despite increases in cost of goods and selling expenses.
Adjusted EBITDA for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $2.1 million compared to negative $3.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. Increased adjusted EBITDA for the year ended December 31, 2021 resulted from higher revenues of ZYPITAMAG, including a full year of operations of Marley Drug, reduced general and administrative and research and development expenses, partially offset by higher cost of goods sold and selling expenses as a result of the full year of Marley Drug operation.
During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company recorded $402,000 in government assistance resulting from the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy. The funding has been recorded as a reduction of the related salary expenditures within general and administrative expenses for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Net income for the three months ended December 31, 2021 was $1.9 million or $0.18 per share compared to net loss of $4.4 million or $0.41 per share for the three months ended December 31, 2020. The main factors contributing to the increase in net income recorded for the three months ended December 31, 2021 were a $1.8 million gain based on the year-end fair value assessment of the contingent consideration recorded in the prior year in relation to the acquisition of Marley Drug, higher revenues of ZYPITAMAG, including a full year of operations of Marley Drug, and reduced general and administrative and research and development expenses, partially offset by a $1.3 million inventory write down, higher cost of goods sold and selling expenses as a result of the full year of Marley Drug operation.
Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $710,000 or $0.07 per share compared to $6.8 million or $0.64 per share for the year ended December 31, 2020. The main factors contributing to the decrease in the net loss recorded for the year ended December 31, 2021 were a $1.8 million gain based on the year-end the fair value assessment of the contingent consideration recorded in the prior in relation to the acquisition of Marley Drug, a $491,000 recovery from PREXXARTAN, higher revenues of ZYPITAMAG, including a full year of operations of Marley Drug, and reduced general and administrative and research and development expenses, partially offset by a $1.3 million inventory write down, higher cost of goods sold and selling expenses as a result of the full year of Marley Drug operation.
At December 31, 2021, the Company had unrestricted cash totaling $3.7 million, up from $2.7 million of unrestricted cash held as of December 31, 2020. Cash flows from operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2021 totaled $3.9 million compared to $2.2 million used in operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2020.
All amounts referenced herein are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.
The Company plans to hold an investor conference call in May 2022 to present the results for the three months ended March 31, 2022 with date and dial in information to be provided. The full financial statements are available at www.sedar.com and on the Company's website at www.medicure.com.
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About Medicure Inc.
Medicure is a pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapies for the U.S. cardiovascular market. The present focus of the Company is the marketing and distribution of AGGRASTAT® (tirofiban hydrochloride) injection and ZYPITAMAG® (pitavastatin) tablets in the United States, where they are sold through the Company's U.S. subsidiary, Medicure Pharma Inc. Medicure also operates Marley Drug, Inc. ("Marley Drug"), a pharmacy located in North Carolina that offers an Extended Supply drug program serving all 50 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. Marley Drug® is committed to improving the health status of its patients and the communities they serve while reducing overall health care costs for employers and other health care consumers. For more information visit www.marleydrug.com. To learn more about The Extended Supply Generic Drug Program call 800.286.6781 or email info@marleydrug.com. For more information on Medicure please visit www.medicure.com. For additional information about AGGRASTAT®, refer to the full Prescribing Information. For additional information about ZYPITAMAG®, refer to the full Prescribing Information.
To be added to Medicure's e-mail list, please visit:
http://medicure.mediaroom.com/alerts
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Forward Looking Information: Statements contained in this press release that are not statements of historical fact, including, without limitation, statements containing the words "believes", "may", "plans", "will", "estimates", "continues", "anticipates", "intends", "expects" and similar expressions, may constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian and U.S. federal securities laws (such forward-looking information and forward-looking statements are hereinafter collectively referred to as "forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking statements, include estimates, analysis and opinions of management of the Company made in light of its experience and its perception of trends, current conditions and expected developments, as well as other factors which the Company believes to be relevant and reasonable in the circumstances. Inherent in forward-looking statements are known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors beyond the Company's ability to predict or control that may cause the actual results, events or developments to be materially different from any future results, events or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, and as such, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Such risk factors include, among others, the Company's future product revenues, expected results, including future revenue from P5P, the likelihood of receiving a PRV, expected future growth in revenues, stage of development, additional capital requirements, risks associated with the completion and timing of clinical trials and obtaining regulatory approval to market the Company's products, the ability to protect its intellectual property, dependence upon collaborative partners, changes in government regulation or regulatory approval processes, and rapid technological change in the industry. Such statements are based on a number of assumptions which may prove to be incorrect, including, but not limited to, assumptions about: general business and economic conditions; the impact of changes in Canadian-US dollar and other foreign exchange rates on the Company's revenues, costs and results; the timing of the receipt of regulatory and governmental approvals for the Company's research and development projects; the availability of financing for the Company's commercial operations and/or research and development projects, or the availability of financing on reasonable terms; results of current and future clinical trials; the uncertainties associated with the acceptance and demand for new products and market competition. The foregoing list of important factors and assumptions is not exhaustive. The Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or otherwise revise any forward-looking statements or the foregoing list of factors, other than as may be required by applicable legislation. Additional discussion regarding the risks and uncertainties relating to the Company and its business can be found in the Company's other filings with the applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities or the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and in the "Risk Factors" section of its Form 20F for the year ended December 31, 2021.
AGGRASTAT® (tirofiban hydrochloride) injection, ZYPITAMAG® (pitavastatin) tablets, and Marley Drug® are registered trademarks of Medicure International Inc.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the dozens of police officers injured during the U.S. Capitol riot testified Wednesday that he didn’t punch or pick a fight with a retired New York City police officer charged with attacking the officer.
Thomas Webster, whose trial on an assault charge started this week, claims he was acting in self-defense when he tackled Metropolitan Police Department officer Noah Rathbun outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Rathbun said he reached out with an open left hand and pushed Webster in the face after the New York man shoved a bike rack at him. Rathbun said he was trying to move Webster back from a security perimeter that he and other officers were struggling to maintain behind rows of bike racks.
“I just think it’s unfortunate to be in the nation’s capital and be treated like that by another citizen,” Rathbun said during the second day of Webster’s trial.
Webster’s trial is the first among dozens of Capitol riot defendants charged with assaulting police on Jan. 6, 2021. His trial is the fourth before a jury and the sixth overall.
Defense attorney James Monroe said he plans to call Webster to the stand to testify once the government finishes presenting its case, possibly on Thursday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Kelly showed jurors five videos that captured the encounter between Webster and Rathbun from different angles, including a close-up view from the body camera on Rathbun’s chest.
The videos show Webster shoving a bike rack at Rathbun before swinging the flag pole at the officer in a downward chopping motion, striking a metal barricade in front of the officer. After Rathbun grabbed the broken pole and retreated, Webster charged at the officer and tackled him to the ground.
Rathbun said he started choking and couldn’t breathe when Webster grabbed his gas mask and the chin strap pressed against the officer’s neck.
“That’s not a position that anyone wants to be in,” Rathbun said.
Webster’s lawyer told jurors during the trial’s opening statements on Tuesday that Rathbun “started this whole thing” by punching Webster. Monroe asserts that a video shows Webster making a motion with his arm to goad Webster into fighting.
“That was a motion to back up,” Rathbun said during the defense lawyer’s cross-examination. “That wasn’t a motion to move forward.”
Rathbun’s body camera captured Webster shouting profanities and insults at the officer before they made any physical contact. Rathbun said it would never be permissible for him to hit somebody in response to verbal abuse.
Webster was carrying a U.S. Marine Corps flag on a metal pole on Jan. 6. Rathbun said he noticed that other people in the mob were carrying signs expressing support for police.
“But the things they were saying were clearly hostile,” he added.
Webster faces six counts, including a charge that he assaulted Rathbun with a dangerous weapon, a metal flag pole. He isn’t accused of entering the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Rathbun took a deep breath and briefly paused when Kelly asked him how he feels about the incident more than a year later.
“I think it’s sad,” he said. “This whole incident is tragic, but I try not to think about it.”
Rathbun reported a hand injury from a separate encounter with a rioter inside the Capitol’s Rotunda. He didn’t report any injuries caused by Webster, but jurors saw photos of leg bruises that Rathbun attributed to his confrontation with the retired officer.
A Metropolitan Police Department detective, Jonathan Lauderdale, said Rathbun initially didn’t recall his encounter with Webster when he asked him about the incident. Rathbun said seeing the body camera video refreshed his memory.
Webster retired from the NYPD in 2011 after 20 years of service. His department service included a stint on then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s private security detail. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1985 to 1989 before joining the NYPD in 1991.
More than 780 people have been charged with riot-related federal crimes. The Justice Department says over 245 of them have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.
The first three Capitol riot defendants to get a jury trial were convicted of all charges in their respective indictments.
In a pair of bench trials, a different federal judge heard testimony without a jury before acquitting one defendant and partially acquitting another.
Also on Wednesday, a Missouri man who was a member of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, pleaded guilty to obstructing law enforcement officers during the Capitol riot. Louis Enrique Colon, 45, of Blue Springs, Missouri, had been charged with conspiring with other Proud Boys members to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
A sentencing hearing for Colon wasn’t immediately scheduled. He agreed to cooperate with Justice Department prosecutors as part of his plea deal.
Two Proud Boys members, Charles Donohoe and Matthew Greene, already have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and agreed to cooperate with federal authorities. A trial for five other Proud Boys leaders and members is scheduled to start in August. | https://www.kxan.com/news/political-news/officer-describes-fending-off-capitol-rioter-at-mans-trial/ | 2022-04-28T02:06:28Z | https://www.kxan.com/news/political-news/officer-describes-fending-off-capitol-rioter-at-mans-trial/ | false | 27 |
After word broke of a major shakeup on the set ofThe Weeknd‘s HBO seriesThe Idol, Deadlinereports that its director, Amy Seimetz, has left the project. EuphoriacreatorSam Levinsonwill step in and takethe reins. The Weeknd co-wrote and is executive producing the series, which is about a youngpop star falling in love with a club owner who leads a secret, double life as a cult leader.
Sam Smith teasedtheir upcoming song “Love Me More,” which drops Thursday. To amp fans’ excitement, Sam shared the first30seconds of itsmusic video, which sees the Grammy winner walking out of their home. The video drops at 3 p.m. PT.
If you found yourself drooling over Harry Styles‘ seductive Better Homes and Gardens photo shoot — particularly the pic of him striking a pose in a pond — you weren’t alone. Hunger Games star Elizabeth Banks said what Harry’s fans were thinking in a thirsty new tweet, where she shared the image and asked, “Can I be the water?”
Olivia Rodrigo reunited with her High School Musical: The Musical: The Series cast mates while on her SOUR Tour on Tuesday night. She ran into Julia Lester and Larry Saperstein at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, where she performed Tuesday. Saperstein shared an Instagram story of their reunion, which showed Olivia sandwiched between him and Julia. Lester jokingly called out Olivia for “making us cry with pride last night.”
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Thank you for your patience, the new mode is finally here!
This time we bring you the brand new home mode! Life's hard, and it's been ages since you took a trip on holiday. So take a trip with the girls and enjoy your time on Dodai Island!
The content for this update is:
[HOME MODE]
- Added a new mode - Home Mode.
- Mutiple locations and presets for you to take the pictures of your dream.
- Mutiple parameters for the geeks to tweak and get the exact frame on your mind.
- You can save the picture you take to the files system on your PC.
- You can change characters, clothes, and accessories in the closet.
[CHALLENGE MODE]
- Now maps are randomly generated every time you start a new game.
- Removed a few "placeholder" voices of the enemies and replaced them with the formal version. We'll replace more in future updates.
- Added a new playable character - Lani.
- Added more skills and relics.
- Replaced a few icons.
- Optimized the balance of the game, including the skills and attributes of the enemies. Now the difficulty curve of the game is smoother than before.
- Regular optimizations and bug fixes.
[SYSTEM]
- Redid the "Settings" menu, there are now more parameters for you to tweak to get the best performance on your PC.
DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR HOME MODE
The next update will take place before the end of May, and the plan is to
- Add more clothes.
- Add more locations where the girl will pose for your pictures.
- Find a more convenient way for your to customize the poses.
- Optimize both the performance and detail of the game.
What we would like this mode to be
- Tons of beautiful clothes.
- Multiple explorable sites.
- Easy-to-pose system and support for customizable characters and animations.
- Support for Steam Workshop
- VR headset adaptation to make the girls more alive than ever.
[DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR STORY MODE]
We plan to update the next chapter of Story Mode at the end of June or the beginning of July, please stay tuned for more information!
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Mother's Day 2022 Brunch And Dinner: Reserve Now In North Bay
ROHNERT PARK AND COTATI, CA — Mother's Day on Sunday, May 8, is still more than a week away, but if you plan to treat your mother to brunch or dinner out, reservations may fill up quickly in the Rohnert Park and Cotati area as the nation approaches the most normal celebration of moms since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Local restaurants in and around Rohnert Park and Cotati have taken a financial hit during the pandemic and could use the business. Some are closed so their employees can support their own mothers or be pampered by their children, but here are some options in the North Bay:
FLAMINGO RESORT: Treat mom to Mother's Day Brunch in the ballroom at The Flamingo Resort, From 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. Sunday, May 8, its chefs will delight mom and accommodate kids of all ages. Select from a sideboard of salads, various entrees, and a curated collection of other dishes. All dishes utilize local ingredients but showcase recipes and culinary techniques from around the Pacific. Prepaid reservation for parties of 2 to 10; $66 for adults/$35 for children 12 and under. 2777 Fourth St., Santa Rosa.
PUB REPUBLIC: This Petaluma favorite serves brunch from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday and is planning some special menu items this Mother's Day. Call 707-PUB-9090 for more information. 3120 A Lakeville Highway, Petaluma. Website.
ROCKER OYSTERFELLER'S: Rocker Oysterfeller’s in Valley Ford is hosting its 16th annual Mother's Day Brunch. The restaurant will offer a two-course brunch menu from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. with your choice of indoor or outdoor seating. Oysters will also be available barbecue or raw by the half-dozen, along with mimosas and other cocktails. Reservations for parties of six or more will be accepted and tables of 1-5 persons will be taken on a first-come, first-serve basis. $38 per person with a children's menu for kids 10 and under. For reservation requests for parties of six or more, send an email to info@ffrsi.com. 14415 Highway One, Valley Ford. Website.
HAZEL HILL AT MONTAGE HEALDSBURG: Savor new wine country traditions and create memories for the family that will last a lifetime. Treat mom to a two-course prix fixe Mother’s Day Brunch in Hazel Hill, featuring delectable entrees, scrumptious desserts and an array of libations for $95 or carry on celebrating with a special Mother’s Day three-course prix fixe dinner for $125. Menu details to follow. For Hazel Hill reservations, call 707-354-6900 or reserve online.
Related: Mother's Day Gift Guide 2022
MERITAGE RESORT & SPA: Executive Chef Vincent Lesage's Mother's Day brunch includes carving station, seafood station, sushi station & pastries. All moms receive a complimentary glass of G.H. Mumm Rosé. Live music & special children's activities, too. $100 for adults/$50 for ages 4 to 13. Info & reservations here. At 875 Bordeaux Way, Napa.
SILVERADO RESORT & SPA: For Mother's Day, "Bellini Brunch at Silverado Mansion" buffet will be served 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Fairway Deck at iconic, 1870 landmark, surrounded by 300-year-old oak trees and overlooking golf greens. ($105 per adult; $45 for children four to 12; free for 3 years and younger.) Buffet from Chef Michael Cairns & culinary team includes made-to-order omelets, soups & salads, salmon eggs Benedict, French toast, hand-carved ribeye, lamb, bruschetta bar, cheese & charcuterie, seafood station & Chef's Sweet Table. The Grill will offer a la carte brunch menu May 8. Reservations here. Location: 1600 Atlas Peak Road, Napa.
DICKEY'S BARBECUE PIT: Mother's Day falls on a Sunday, and ... kids, 12 and under, eat free on Sundays with minimum $10 purchase at participating locations. One kids' meal per check. The offer is for dine-in, delivery and carryout orders. Use code KEFOLO at online checkout. Not valid with other coupons, offers, discounts or promos. See website here. Locations in Napa, Fairfield, Vallejo and Vacaville. Location finder here.
BJ's RESTAURANT & BREWHOUSE: This year, BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse is here to help celebrate mom with moments the whole family can share. To honor the special woman in everyone’s life, BJ’s Restaurants will give all moms who dine in from May 7-8 a free commemorative stemless wine glass with a 2022 Happy Mother’s Day logo, so she can always remember this heartwarming occasion. Treat mom to a $50 eGift Card and receive a $10 Bonus Card, as well. BJ’s $10 Bonus Cards are only available now to May 8, when a $50 eGift Card is purchased. $10 Bonus Cards can be redeemed from May 9-June 19. Locations in Santa Rosa and San Rafael.
RED LOBSTER: Celebrate Mother's Day at home with "Create Your Own Family Feast" takeout ($54.99), that serves four with choice of three seafood dishes, two sides & Cheddar Bay Biscuits. Select from shrimp scampi, grilled shrimp, coconut shrimp, fried whitefish, salmon & more. Or step up to "Ultimate Family Feast" ($124.99), with lobster tails, crab legs, shrimp scampi and "Walt's Favorite Shrimp." Order info here. Also offered through June 26 is gift card — for every $50 spent on Red Lobster gift cards purchased in-restaurant or online, receive bonus coupon for $10 off order of $30 or more from June 27 to Aug. 31. Locations in Rohnert Park, Vallejo and Fairfield; more locations here.
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German Bundestag President to Tour Yad Vashem, Take Part in Yom Hashoah Events
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JNS.org – German Bundestag President Bärbel Bas will visit Yad Vashem—the World Holocaust Remembrance Center—in Jerusalem on Wednesday, on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which takes place from April 27-28.
She will be accompanied by the Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy, said Yad Vashem on Tuesday.
The tour includes the “Flashes of Memory” exhibition and the Museum of Holocaust Art, as well as a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, according to the statement. They will also visit the Children’s Memorial and sign the Yad Vashem guestbook.
“This is another important expression of the special connection that exists between Israel and Germany, and of the historical responsibility for the Holocaust crimes that Germany has taken on,” Levy said, according to a report by i24News. “I have no doubt that this visit will also help strengthen the connection and parliamentary work between the Knesset and the Bundestag.”
Bas will also be a guest speaker at certain Yom Hashoah ceremonies, becoming the first senior-level German official to take part in the Israeli parliament’s commemoration, noted the report. | https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/04/27/german-bundestag-president-to-tour-yad-vashem-take-part-in-yom-hashoah-events/ | 2022-04-28T02:31:05Z | https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/04/27/german-bundestag-president-to-tour-yad-vashem-take-part-in-yom-hashoah-events/ | true | 1 |
Worthington Libraries' Chuck Gibson resigns; Monica Baughman named interim director
Worthington Libraries director and CEO Chuck Gibson resigned from his position during a special meeting April 26.
Gibson had served as the library system's director and CEO since 2010.
According to spokeswoman Lisa Fuller, “Chuck and the library board came to the mutual decision that new leadership was in the best interest of the library at this time.”
“During his tenure, Chuck helped guide the library through some very challenging times,” the library system said in an April 27 news release. “The board extended their thanks and appreciation to Chuck for his service throughout his career at Worthington Libraries and wished him well in pursuing his next professional opportunity.”
Monica Baughman, director of support services, will serve as interim director.
“With more than 20 years of experience working for Worthington Libraries, Monica's professional background and relationships will be invaluable in helping lead our organization during this time of transition while the board begins a national search for a new director,” the release said.
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CBS' Survivor Season 42 was back with a brand new episode on Wednesday. After an interesting bout of challenges last week, Episode 9 of the reality TV competition saw the castaways put their best foot forward to make sure that they remain safe in the competition. This week's episode saw the contestants stay on top of their game, form new alliances, make difficult but necessary choices, and much more.
The long-running series is hosted by Jeff Probst and is quite popular amongst viewers. As the competition moves forward, the castaways will have to put their skills to use in challenging situations. The show started with 18 castaways trying to outwit and outlast each other, however, only 10 remain to compete on the islands of Fiji for the $1 million prize.
Fans react to Survivor seeing a probable male alliance
At the beginning of this week's episode, Rocksroy spoke to Jonathan and Mike about forming an alliance with all the men remaining in the competition. While the other two agreed, fearing that they may be voted out, Hai and Omar were not on board with the plan.
Omar confessed that he was not in because Rocksroy had never talked strategy with him before, so it felt very selfish. Hai revealed that he didn't want to be a part of the "misogyny club."
Fans criticized Rocsroy for forming a male alliance and applauded Hai and Omar for not giving in. Read on to find out what they have to say:
What to expect from Survivor Season 42 Episode 9
This week's episode of Survivor will challenge the castaways to a whole new level. The host of the show, Jeff Probst, announced during the immunity challenge that there would be two individual immunity necklaces up for grabs, and two players would have to head back home.
Double eliminations have always been scary for the contestants, considering that their plans to vote off one have changed to two, and the chances of alliances breaking will be high. The ten remaining contestants will be divided into two groups of five and head to the Tribal Council with the same teams.
The official synopsis of the episode, titled Game of Chicken, reads:
"One castaway is the last standing in the fight for immunity, earning themselves a spot in the final eight."
Viewers will get to witness a possible alliance among the guys. Also, from a quick sequence in the trailer, it is evident that Maryanne, Tori, Jonathan, Drea, and Lindsay won a reward and are most likely one of the teams going to Tribal together.
In a confessional, Drea says that none of the other castaways are her close allies. However, it doesn't look like she is the one who might be in need of an alliance, considering the amount of power she has in her hand. She won herself a Beware Advantage by sitting out on the challenge last week and now has four advantages to herself, including her amulet, an idol, and an extra vote. It is only a matter of time until she decides what she wants to use.
However, Drea does seem to be in dangerous waters, considering that Tori saw her hand covered in red paint, which happened while unveiling the package. Maryanne and Tori are clear choices for the vote out. The former may or may not play her immunity idol, and the latter has a reputation for resorting to nasty tricks.
Season 42 of Survivor is already turning out to be more demanding than the previous season. With tough challenges, mind games, and alliances to battle tonight, and a double elimination underway, who will be the two castaways to pack their bags and head back home? Readers can keep watching Survivor on CBS to find out. | https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/such-loser-fans-criticize-rocksroy-trying-form-male-alliance-survivor | 2022-04-28T02:31:25Z | https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/such-loser-fans-criticize-rocksroy-trying-form-male-alliance-survivor | true | 1 |
Alpha Medical Offers New Outpatient Diabetes Treatment and Care, Making Women's Specific Needs Attainable in a Truly Flexible Way
Leading telemedicine company dedicated to women's healthcare expands its services to treat Prediabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, and Gestational Diabetes through affordable and flexible treatment plans
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpha Medical, a virtual primary care group that empowers women to take control of their healthcare by offering a medical team specifically trained for a woman's unique needs, announces today new clinical care offerings to help treat and screen for Prediabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, and screen for Gestational Diabetes.
With this new service, Alpha is the first telemedicine platform to offer a full-service approach to diabetes treatment, including the option for users to pay as they go with their treatment, lab test referrals, online prescription of over 40 different medications to treat Type 2 Diabetes (including insulin), and access to dietitian services and weight loss treatment if needed. At-home A1C test kits are coming soon. This comprehensive approach to care is meant to give women a specific and unique way to not only diagnose but also treat various forms of diabetes from home.
Research shows that while diabetes is more common in men than women, women have more serious complications and risk of death. Additionally there are major differences in the ways that female patients experience diabetes and the conditions that coincide with it; for example, patients with PCOS often experience insulin resistance. Further, given the fact that gestational diabetes is all too common among pregnant women and that this increases their risk to eventually develop Type 2 Diabetes postpartum, women clearly need their own dedicated diabetes diagnoses and treatments from a provider trained in women's health.
At the convenience of patients' homes and no appointment needed, Alpha Medical creates personalized treatment plans that include medication, guidance for healthier habits, and dietitian support for each need. Below are the types of services and treatments for Diabetes:
- Prediabetes: Alpha Medical offers a free two-minute online self-assessment to understand a patient's Prediabetes risk. Depending on the patient's health condition, treatment may include monitoring glucose levels, medication, and the option to see one of Alpha Medical's registered dietitians for additional support.
- Type 2 Diabetes: Patients and their Alpha Provider will work together on a personalized plan that fits their lifestyle and goals. Treatment is individualized and may include medication, monitoring of glucose levels, and dietitian support. Care for patients' schedules and medications are easily available and can be shipped directly to patients' homes.
- Gestational Diabetes: Alpha Medical can screen for Gestational Diabetes, help coordinate care with an OB/GYN, provide dietitian support, and prescribe a continuous glucose monitor (CGM).
"At Alpha Medical, it is our ongoing mission to help women take control of their health and to provide them with the medical resources and tools needed to treat chronic conditions like diabetes." says Gloria Lau, Co-founder & CEO. "Many don't realize the unique needs that women have when it comes to this condition, so it only felt right for us to expand our services to help the many Americans that are living with this serious medical condition."
Alpha Medical, whose services are available in 49 states plus DC and treat over 60 conditions with their virtual PCP offering, continues to fulfill its mission to bring convenient, affordable, and accessible medical care, medications, and resources to its patients. To learn more about Alpha Medical and its initiatives, please visit https://www.helloalpha.com/.
ABOUT ALPHA MEDICAL
From birth control to menopause, from urgent care to chronic disease, Alpha offers a PCP-centric, whole-person care platform built for her that covers all of her virtual care needs. Each patient gets a dedicated Primary Care Provider when she signs up, and the same provider cares for all of her medical needs online to ensure the continuation of care. All of Alpha's medical providers have been specifically trained in women's health. Our system anticipates her needs through data-driven proactive screenings, and we are built for cost-effective triage, prescription management, therapy, and referrals. The offering is available at a demonstrably lower cost than other virtual solutions on the market, helping much needed populations with high deductible plans or no insurance. We are here to rebuild the patient-provider relationship, and at the core of the offering is a dedicated PCP trained in women's health. We are here to destigmatize her needs by reshaping women's health, including reproductive, primary and urgent care, and mental health. We can bring about a more accessible, equitable system to care for everyone.
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GoldenPyrex (GPYX) traded 45.1% lower against the U.S. dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 22:00 PM Eastern on April 27th. One GoldenPyrex coin can currently be bought for about $0.0282 or 0.00000072 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. During the last seven days, GoldenPyrex has traded 47% higher against the U.S. dollar. GoldenPyrex has a market capitalization of $281,971.90 and $28.00 worth of GoldenPyrex was traded on exchanges in the last day.
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- Tether (USDT) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002545 BTC.
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- Polkadot (DOT) traded 0.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $16.95 or 0.00043143 BTC.
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CHIPPEWA FALLS — A 14-year-old boy accused of killing a 10-year-old Wisconsin girl knew the girl and planned the attack, knocking her down and choking her before sexually assaulting her, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
The body of Illiana "Lily" Peters was found Monday along a walking trail just a day after she went missing while returning home from an aunt's house a few blocks away, sparking anxiety in her small western Wisconsin community before the teenager's arrest Tuesday.
The boy, identified only by his initials, appeared in adult court in Chippewa County by video from a juvenile detention center. Judge Benjamin Lane agreed to District Attorney Wade Newell's request for $1 million cash bond.
Lane said the high bond was necessary to protect the community given the teen's "statements regarding his intentions and his statements regarding that when he did get off the trail, he punched the victim in the stomach, knocked her to the ground, essentially strangled her, hit her with a stick, before strangling her to the point of death — before he then sexually assaulted her," Newell told the judge at the bond hearing.
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The teen made statements "that his intention was to rape and kill the victim from the get-go," Newell said.
The defense had argued for $100,000 cash bond.
The judge sealed the criminal complaint, but Newell said after the hearing that the boy is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree sexual assault and first-degree sexual assault of a child under age 13 resulting in great bodily harm.
Wisconsin law generally calls for juveniles age 10 and up to be prosecuted as adults when they are charged with first-degree intentional homicide. The judge set a May 5 status hearing in the case.
Chippewa Falls Police Chief Matthew Kelm announced the arrest of the suspect Tuesday evening, after police earlier executed a search warrant at the home of Lily's aunt and the last place the girl was seen before she disappeared. Kelm said police got more than 200 tips, calling them "critical" to the investigation.
"While nothing will bring Lily Peters back or change what happened, we are very grateful to be able to deliver this news for the family and for the community," Kelm said.
People in the town of about 13,000 left drawings, flowers, candles and stuffed animals at Lily's elementary school and on a downtown bridge to remember the girl, with some residents dressing in purple to honor her. Chelsea Torgerson said she kept her daughter home from school Tuesday, before the arrest was announced, "just for my own peace of mind."
"I know these things happen in the world every day, but this is just so close," she told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Torgerson's daughter, 8-year-old Ava Johnson, attends Parkview Elementary School — the same school where Lily was a fourth-grader.
"It's every parent's worst nightmare," Torgerson said.
One resident has started an online petition on Change.org to create what he called a “Lily Alert” for cases that don’t qualify for traditional Amber Alerts. Currently, Amber Alerts may be issued only if a child is 17 or younger and thought to be in danger of serious bodily harm or death.
“Any parent would agree that when a child is missing, even for a short amount of time, and they need help then help should be sent,” resident Eric Henry said in the petition. “The community is devastated and rallied to start a search group for the missing child. We can do better as a community and must be proactive. We need an alert with less regulations around it so we can respond quicker to missing children.”
The petition had more than 56,000 signatures as of Wednesday night.
Brittany Zimmermann homicide: Read the original reports
The Brittany Zimmermann murder case has taken many turns over the years, culminating in the recent arrest of someone police had questioned 12 years earlier. Here's a look back at Zimmermann's story from our archives.
As a freshman in high school, Brittany Zimmermann already knew she wanted to attend UW-Madison and study to be a physician.
Brittany Zimmermann's killer broke through a door to get into her apartment before killing her, police confirmed Thursday.
MARSHFIELD -- Brilliant flashes of autumn leaves light up the landscape and attest to the change of seasons in this central Wisconsin city. But for Jean Zimmermann and her family, time stands still.
The notorious 911 call from Brittany Zimmermann's cell phone the day she died carried the sounds of a woman's screams and a struggle, according to long-sealed search warrants obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal.
The 911 operator who answered the call from Brittany Zimmermann's cell phone told her supervisor she heard background noise and voices, but the "scream" on the audio recording "didn't register as a scream."
A heavily edited recording of the 911 call from Brittany Zimmermann's fiance after he found her stabbed to death was released Friday on the orders of a Dane County judge.
Someone knows who killed UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann in her West Doty Street apartment two years ago.
Unknown person might have had a hand in killing, Blue Moon Bar break-in.
Two of the three young men who burglarized a Madison bar in 2008 said detectives told them forensic evidence shows there was a fourth burglar who also was involved in the killing of a UW-Madison student three months earlier.
The family of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann has settled its lawsuit against Dane County with an agreement by the county to contribute to the family's reward fund and pay some attorney fees.
The parents of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann are renewing their plea for help in solving her 2008 murder while urging participation in a fundraising run in her name.
A lot has changed since Brittany Zimmermann was found slain in her Downtown Madison apartment a year ago Thursday.
Five years after the UW-Madison junior was brutally slain in a case that shook the community, Jean Zimmermann and her family are still waiting for a break in the case.
Dane County's 911 Center director admitted late Thursday that his agency made a mistake in fumbling a call from Brittany Zimmermann's cell phone at about the time she was killed on April 2.
Madison police spent two weeks pursuing a bogus lead in the investigation into Brittany Zimmermann's slaying because of bad information from the Dane County 911 center, Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk said Tuesday.
The apparent DNA match from clothing worn by Brittany Zimmermann to David Kahl led police to interview a friend of Kahl, who claimed that Kahl had confessed to him that he killed Zimmermann, a search warrant states.
Man charged in 2008 killing of Brittany Zimmermann finished early release program, but won't go free
David Kahl, charged last week with the 2008 killing of Brittany Zimmermann, had just finished the Earned Release Program in prison, but a warrant for Zimmermann's homicide will keep him from freedom.
David A. Kahl, 53, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide.
Here's a look back at the Brittany Zimmermann murder case over the years. The April 2, 2008, slaying of the UW-Madison student has not been so…
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Upper level disturbance will bring showers starting Friday thru Sunday
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Breezy conditions through tonight; winds will weaken Wednesday into Thursday, before strengthening again Friday through the weekend. Clouds and showers will favor windward and mountain areas, drifting leeward at times. Increasing moisture combined with an upper disturbance settling southward into the area will result in better windward shower coverage Friday through early next week.
Watch out for box jellyfish on the south facing shorelines. Declining overall swell will lead to the lowering of both north and south facing shore surf through Wednesday. The falling northwest swell will cause north shore surf to fall below head high today with a gradual lowering into Wednesday. The arrival of the next small northwest swell this weekend will provide a slight boost to north and west shore surf. East facing shores will remain choppy from the trade wind swell.
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What can high school students do if they love both acting and classical singing? Typically, such teenagers are forced to choose between their talents, according to soprano Sarah Cullins.
"Either you focus on your classical voice and only sing in choir," she said, "or you sacrifice your technique and do musical theater."
A Burlington native, Cullins studied vocal performance in the Tufts University/New England Conservatory of Music double degree program and at the Mannes School of Music. Now, she offers a third option to students: opera, which demands high levels of both acting and classical singing. Operatic voice training alone requires supreme breath support, diction and the ability to sing in many languages.
Given that most students are unfamiliar with the art form, Cullins has developed an informal network of chorus and voice teachers around northern Vermont who refer their most talented singer-actors to her. In turn, Cullins invites the teens to participate in the nonprofit she founded, the Youth Opera Company of Vermont.
This weekend, the YOC shows off its accomplishments with an abridged act from Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus, which the company is calling "Orlofsky's Ball." The showcase act features arias, or solo songs, by all nine company singers, as well as plenty of Viennese waltz-inspired choral singing. Performances — sung in English with repeat verses in German — are at the Charlotte and Waterbury Congregational churches this Saturday and Sunday, April 30 and May 1, respectively.
At a rehearsal last Wednesday evening at Rice Memorial High School in Burlington, eight of the nine students, fully masked, did a walk- and sing-through of the show to Evan Allen's piano accompaniment. (Mary Jane Austin is the accompanist at performances.) Their casual attire, including torn jeans and vintage finds, contrasted with their mature-sounding voices.
Cullins paused to coach the group on 19th-century acting. "I want you to practice ridiculous bows," she told Rice sophomores Connor Trombly (singing Eisenstein disguised as a marquis) and Gabe Thompson (Frank, a prison governor passing as a chevalier).
Cullins then directed Count Orlofsky, sung by Montpelier's U-32 High School senior George Lane, to look over his guests with a host's eye. Lane, who is nonbinary, is singing a "trouser role" — a male role performed by a singer with a traditionally feminine voice. Strauss wrote it for a mezzo voice.
Lane, who has also sung the trouser role of Cherubino in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro with YOC, later said by phone, "I've never really been super-inspired by leading-lady ingénue roles. There are a lot of really interesting opportunities to explore how gender fits into the opera world, which has made me feel incredibly welcome in these spaces."
"Die Fledermaus is particularly suited to the gender fluidity of our day. That's one of the reasons I chose it," Cullins said in a phone call before rehearsal. Cullins made Dr. Falke, a jokester and Eisenstein's best friend, into a trouser role, too; Ambrose Cusick, a Burlington High School transgender sophomore, sings the traditionally baritone part transposed up an octave for his soprano voice. Mezzo-soprano Memphis Phillips, a nonbinary student who graduated from Essex High School in 2021, sings Faustine.
Cullins founded what she originally called the Youth Opera Workshop of Vermont in 2019 as a satellite program of the Middlebury Community Music Center. Organized around a semester of study culminating in a group performance, the first workshop resulted in a performance of selected scenes from operas by Mozart, Claudio Monteverdi and Henry Purcell.
Collaborations with Barn Opera in Brandon and Saint Michael's College Chorale in Colchester followed. When the pandemic put an end to indoor singing, Cullins organized virtual study and the summertime Project Serenade, in which YOC singers stood outside eldercare facilities around Chittenden County and sang to the residents. Last summer, the company relaunched live performances with Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance.
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Despite existing primarily during the pandemic so far, the YOC has turned out two singers who've gone on to focus on vocal performance at college. One is Sam Thompson (Gabe's older brother), a voice major at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. In fact, Cullins got the idea for "Orlofsky's Ball" from Sam, who sang in CUA's performance of the act last year.
Wanda Sullivan, a senior at Harwood Union High School in Waitsfield, plans to study voice performance but has not yet chosen a college. (She was accepted at all the schools to which she applied.) During high school, Sullivan starred in her school's musicals and sang in honors choir while studying voice with a private teacher.
When she became Cullins' student last year, Sullivan said, she learned to produce "efficient, consistent sound — not forced, but using breath support and your full [body's] muscles to sing rather than just your throat.
"I love her. I'm absorbing everything I can," Sullivan said of Cullins and the YOC.
"Plus," the soprano added, "it's opera, which, I mean, I never did before last summer," when she sang in Pirates. "I don't really know that much opera, but I'm pulled to it. Sarah had us go to the Middlebury Town Hall Theater for the screening of Candide," a video production by the Opera Company of Middlebury. "That's literally the only opera I've seen."
"In general, if there is no Sarah, it's left up to the music teacher, and if they have no experience with opera, it doesn't happen," commented Kevin Ginter, the head of Rice's music department and YOC's board vice president. Four of his Rice music students — three of whom study voice with him privately — are performing in "Orlofsky's Ball": Trombly, Thompson, Ramsey Stephenson and Lili Diemer.
Ginter, a tenor from Huntington, attended Mount Mansfield Union High School. He sang in musicals and choruses, he said, but didn't start taking voice lessons until he was a sophomore at Castleton State College (now Castleton University), where he earned a bachelor's in music education. Inspired, Ginter went on to earn a master's in vocal performance from the Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College.
"My voice teacher [at Castleton] was an opera singer," he said, referring to Suzanne Kantorski. "That was my first exposure to opera." The YOC, Ginter noted, is "really giving these kids a step ahead of a lot of people."
Cullins' own break came the summer before her senior year at Burlington High School: She was invited to sing in a Gilbert and Sullivan production of the (now-defunct) Vermont Mozart Festival. After her training, she launched a 10-year teaching and performance career in Bogotá, Colombia, before returning to Burlington in 2013.
"I don't think any student in Vermont thinks of opera as something they can sing or are interested to sing; they really don't have a context," Cullins declared. "So they need someone they trust to say, 'I think you have the voice to do this.'"
The YOC, she added, is "the opportunity I would have wished for." | https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/teen-performers-discover-the-key-to-success-in-youth-opera-company/Content?oid=35434999 | 2022-04-28T02:37:04Z | https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/teen-performers-discover-the-key-to-success-in-youth-opera-company/Content?oid=35434999 | false | 1 |
Padres second. Jurickson Profar walks. Eric Hosmer walks. Jurickson Profar to second. Matt Beaty lines out to deep center field to Nick Senzel. Jurickson Profar to third. Austin Nola walks. Eric Hosmer to second. Luis Campusano out on a sacrifice fly to right field to Aristides Aquino. Jurickson Profar scores. C.J. Abrams called out on strikes.
1 run, 0 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Padres 1, Reds 0.
Padres third. Trent Grisham triples to right field. Jake Cronenworth singles to shallow center field. Trent Grisham scores. Manny Machado singles to shallow center field. Jake Cronenworth to second. Jurickson Profar homers to right field. Manny Machado scores. Jake Cronenworth scores. Eric Hosmer walks. Matt Beaty grounds out to shallow infield. Eric Hosmer out at second. Austin Nola grounds out to shallow infield, Kyle Farmer to Joey Votto.
4 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Padres 5, Reds 0.
Reds third. Brandon Drury strikes out swinging. Tommy Pham singles to deep right field. Joey Votto lines out to center field to Trent Grisham. Kyle Farmer doubles to shallow left field. Tommy Pham scores. Nick Senzel grounds out to shallow infield, MacKenzie Gore to Eric Hosmer.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Padres 5, Reds 1.
Padres fifth. Manny Machado singles to shallow infield. Jurickson Profar walks. Manny Machado to second. Eric Hosmer singles to shallow infield. Jurickson Profar to third. Manny Machado scores. Matt Beaty flies out to center field to Nick Senzel. Jurickson Profar out at home. Austin Nola reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Eric Hosmer out at second.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Padres 6, Reds 1.
Reds sixth. Kyle Farmer doubles to shallow left field. Nick Senzel reaches on catcher interference. Interference error by Austin Nola. Jake Fraley pinch-hitting for Aristides Aquino. Jake Fraley hit by pitch. Nick Senzel to second. Kyle Farmer to third. Tyler Naquin pinch-hitting for Aramis Garcia. Tyler Naquin strikes out swinging. Colin Moran pinch-hitting for Matt Reynolds. Colin Moran out on a sacrifice fly to left field to Jurickson Profar. Kyle Farmer scores. Jonathan India called out on strikes.
1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 2 left on. Padres 6, Reds 2.
Reds seventh. Brandon Drury lines out to center field to Trent Grisham. Tommy Pham homers to center field. Joey Votto flies out to shallow center field to C.J. Abrams. Kyle Farmer doubles to deep right center field. Nick Senzel grounds out to third base, Manny Machado to Eric Hosmer.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Padres 6, Reds 3.
Padres eighth. Eric Hosmer homers to center field. Matt Beaty flies out to left field to Tommy Pham. Austin Nola grounds out to third base, Colin Moran to Joey Votto. Luis Campusano strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Padres 7, Reds 3.
Padres ninth. C.J. Abrams hit by pitch. Trent Grisham grounds out to first base to Joey Votto. C.J. Abrams to second. Jake Cronenworth pops out to shortstop to Kyle Farmer. Manny Machado doubles to deep right field. C.J. Abrams scores. Jurickson Profar grounds out to shallow infield, Kyle Farmer to Joey Votto.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Padres 8, Reds 3.
Reds ninth. Jonathan India strikes out swinging. Brandon Drury homers to center field. Tommy Pham walks. Joey Votto flies out to deep center field to Trent Grisham. Kyle Farmer doubles to left field. Tommy Pham scores. Nick Senzel walks. Jake Fraley flies out to center field to Jose Azocar.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Padres 8, Reds 5. | https://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/San-Diego-Cincinnati-Runs-17132298.php | 2022-04-28T02:37:52Z | https://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/San-Diego-Cincinnati-Runs-17132298.php | false | 10 |
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A former University of Virginia lacrosse player serving time for the murder of his ex-girlfriend testified Wednesday in a wrongful death lawsuit that the only mental image he has of her death was of blood coming out of her nose, and that he doesn't remember breaking into her room and leaving her fatally injured.
George Huguely V, who was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2010 killing of his on-again, off-again girlfriend Yeardley Love, a member of the UVA women's lacrosse team, took the stand in the lawsuit filed by Sharon Love. Yeardley's mother is the administrator of her daughter's estate and her lawsuit seeks $29.5 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages.
Wednesday was the sole day Huguely was scheduled to appear in court after an earlier ruling determined he didn't have the right to attend each day of the trial.
Dressed in a plain white, button-down shirt, blue jeans and sporting shoulder-length hair and a short, cropped beard, Huguely told Paul Bekman — the attorney for the Loves — he remembered very little due to his excessive drinking, The Daily Progress of Charlottesville reported.
"I was drinking a lot all the time, all the way from my freshman year to my senior year," Huguely said. "I was drinking all the time. It was out of control."
Over the weekend of Love's murder, Huguely said he drank frequently and excessively, leading to him having little memory of the night of May 2, 2010, and the early morning of May 3. Comparing his memory to a slideshow, Huguely said it was as though 98% of the slides had been removed. He claimed to not remember breaking into her room and leaving her with multiple external injuries and a fatal head injury.
Much of the testimony focused on an email exchange which started with Love sending an apology. Huguely responded with an angry message filled with insults and an accusation that Love had sex with another man to hurt him. In one of the last emails in the exchange, Huguely wrote "I should have killed you" in response to Love. Huguely said he had not meant that statement to be literal.
Huguely's attorney, Matthew Green, talked about the defendant's time in prison, which has involved completing alcohol and drug treatment programs. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison when he was convicted and is now about halfway through the sentence.
Toward the end of his testimony, Huguely turned to Love's mother and sister and apologized for killing her.
"I miss her and think about her every day. I would do anything to take back that night," he said. "I take responsibility for what happened to her and I should have never gone over to her apartment that night."
The apology caused Love's sister to shake her head before quietly trying to stifle a sob.
Sharon Love initially filed a wrongful death lawsuit in 2012, but it was voluntarily dismissed years later after court rulings determined that Huguely was not entitled to coverage under a $6 million homeowners insurance policy held by his family.
A new lawsuit filed in 2018 dropped negligence claims, but added a claim alleging that an assault and battery by Huguely was the proximate cause of Love's death. The lawsuit argues that punitive damages are warranted because the physical force used by Huguely and his failure to act by leaving her bleeding, injured and without any medical attention mean that he acted "with actual malice" and in "concious disregard for the safety and life of Love, thereby willfully causing Love's injuries." | https://m.startribune.com/man-serving-time-for-uva-lacrosse-players-death-takes-stand/600168577/ | 2022-04-28T02:38:38Z | https://m.startribune.com/man-serving-time-for-uva-lacrosse-players-death-takes-stand/600168577/ | true | 12 |
WASHINGTON • Legislation that would subject U.S. Supreme Court justices and federal judges to tougher disclosure requirements for their financial holdings and stock trades passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday in a rare show of bipartisanship.
The bill, approved on a voice vote after winning Senate passage in February, would make it easier for the public to see if a member of the federal judiciary has a financial conflict of interest warranting recusal from hearing a case.
The Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act now goes to President Joe Biden to sign into law. White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said that while he had yet to talk to Biden about the bill, “he has always been full throated about furthering ethics and transparency in government and restoring trust in institutions, and this kind of policy is aligned with those goals.”
Lawmakers introduced the legislation in October after the Wall Street Journal reported that more than 130 federal judges had failed to recuse themselves from cases involving companies in which they or their family members owned stock.
“This is simply unacceptable,” Democratic Representative Deborah Ross, who sponsored the House version, told Reuters ahead of the vote. “The judiciary should be subject to the same requirements as the legislative and executive branches.”
The House in December approved a version of the bill with slight differences on a 422-4 vote.
The bill covers the nine Supreme Court justices as well as some 2,500 federal appellate, district court, bankruptcy and magistrate judges, said David Sellers, a spokesperson for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the judiciary’s administrative arm.
“Our federal judiciary is the envy of the world, and Congress has an obligation to ensure that this hard-earned reputation is maintained,” Democratic Representative Jerrold Nadler, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, said at a hearing related to the bill.
The federal judiciary has sought to better police itself following the Journal’s report by bolstering ethics training and adopting a new system to process disclosure reports, steps some lawmakers deemed inadequate.
The bill calls for making federal judges follow similar disclosure requirements as lawmakers by establishing a 45-day window for judges to report stock trades of more than $1,000.
Under it, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts must also create a searchable and publicly accessible online database of judicial financial disclosure forms posted within 90 days of being filed.
It calls for the database to be online within 180 days of enactment, though the judiciary can obtain extensions.
“This legislation will help bring potential conflicts of interest to light and bolster public trust in our judicial system, and I’m glad it is on its way to the president’s desk,” Republican Senator John Cornyn, who sponsored the bill in the Senate, said after its House passage.
Sellers said the judiciary had already taken a number of steps to strengthen its conflict screening policies and is “prepared to add features to our public release system to address other aspects of this bill.”
While judges file annual financial disclosure reports, requests by litigants or members of the public to review them are sent to judges themselves to decide if anything needs to be redacted and can take months or longer to fulfill.
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, the judiciary’s senior-most member, in a year-end report in December called the recusal lapses the Journal identified “isolated” and “unintentional,” but said the judiciary took the concerns “seriously.”
Democrats are seeking even broader legislation revamping federal judiciary ethics, recusal and travel rules and requiring the Supreme Court to adopt an ethics code. | https://gazette.com/congress-approves-tougher-financial-disclosure-rules-for-judges/article_b7630de2-c677-11ec-98c1-ebafa5afc831.html | 2022-04-28T02:38:56Z | https://gazette.com/congress-approves-tougher-financial-disclosure-rules-for-judges/article_b7630de2-c677-11ec-98c1-ebafa5afc831.html | true | 5 |
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As Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's court case takes one sordid turn after another, the latter is emerging the villain with each passing day. While Johnny Depp’s image took a severe beating prior to court proceedings, right down to him losing out and even being fired from big Hollywood projects, his divorce battle with Amber Heard has been an eye-popping revelation, with most of the evidence and witnesses clearly pointing out to her being the aggressor, instigator and a downright vile human being. Also Read - Newlyweds Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor to be the FIRST guest on Karan Johar's Koffee With Karan season 7? [EXCLUSIVE]
In fact, Johnny's account of being the actual victim of domestic violence has also been backed by other testimonies and audio proof. Recently, Johnny Depp produced an audio recording in court where Amber Heard could be distinctly heard saying, “Tell the world Johnny, tell them Johnny Depp… I, Johnny Depp, a man… I’m a victim, too, of domestic violence. Let's see how believes you. Let's see who believes a white man, a white man of privilege can be a victim over a woman? Go on.” Also Read - What to watch on OTT today: Before Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2, check out Go Goa Gone, Stree and more horror comedies on Netflix, Hotstar, ZEE5 and other platforms
When asked by the judge what his response was to Amber's threat, Johnny Depp simply replied, “I said, 'Yes, I am (a victim of domestic violence).'” Simple, to the point, yet extremely powerful, right? The trial has also brought to light the clear possibility that Amber was responsible for a severed finger of Johnny and cigarette burns on his body. With more lies of Amber being exposed in court, the online support for her ex-husband is burgeoning by the day, with 'Justice for Johnny' trending like wild fire on Twitter. Also Read - Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2: Kartik Aaryan turns paparazzi for co-star Kiara Advani – watch CUTE video
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Julia Rabe the Executive Director of the Beloit Area Chamber of Commerce has announced her resignation. She will be transitioning to a new role as the Director of Donor Relations and Community Initiatives for the Solomon Valley Community Foundation beginning June 1. “I am so grateful for the support and encouragement I received as the Chamber Executive Director and am thrilled to continue working for Mitchell County in a new role.” Julia Rabe says.
Chairman of the Foundation Curt Frasier says, “As members of the Beloit Area Chamber of Commerce, we have all witnessed and appreciated all the energy and insight Julia Rabe brings to our communities. Therefore, The Solomon Valley Community Foundation is excited that Julia has agreed to join the foundation team as the foundation expands its impact on our area. We look forward to a seamless transition for the Chamber and the foundation wants to help as it can in finding Julia’s replacement so that the Chamber continues to impact our business communities as it has in the past.”
Colleen Eberle will continue in her role as SVCF’s part-time Executive Director and is looking forward to working with Julia to serve the communities of Mitchell County. “I couldn’t be more excited for the opportunity to work closely with Julia to serve the residents, donors and nonprofits of Mitchell County,” explained Eberle. She went on to say, “Julia’s work within the Chamber has been impactful for our business community and we look forward to welcoming her into this new role.”
The Beloit Area Chamber of Commerce is currently in the process of hiring for the Executive Director position. President Gretchin Staples comments “The Chamber is at a high point with a very active board and Chamber members that are experiencing the value of contributing to this group. Julia has set us up for success by engaging the local community and creating successful events. The new Executive Director will be able to continue this momentum into the future!”
To apply for the Executive Director of the Beloit Area Chamber of Commerce please visit the website at www.beloitchamber.com. The chairman of the board Gretchin Staples can be reached at gretchinmarie@gmail.com with additional questions. Applications are due by May 4th for the first round of interviews. | https://sunflowerstateradio.com/2022/04/27/beloit-area-chamber-of-commerce-searching-for-new-executive-director/ | 2022-04-28T02:48:05Z | https://sunflowerstateradio.com/2022/04/27/beloit-area-chamber-of-commerce-searching-for-new-executive-director/ | false | 1 |
The presidential order had found its way rightly into the list of news that made the headlines on Friday, April 22, 2022.
Apart from the uniqueness of the date, even the news item was very unique, emanating not just from the presidential villa, but from the President and Commander-in-Chief, being the aftermath of a high-powered security meeting held the previous Thursday between the Comander-in-Chief and all the service chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Alkali Usman Baba, whose state Yobe, has turned a grazing place for bandits as they consistently invade and brazingly kill innocent citizens like animals and audaciously cart away their property without any resistance. This is very painful indeed.
Such unwantom attacks and killings around the country warranted the summoning of the service chiefs after a series of such presidential directives, which, to many Nigerians, looks as if the presidential order had fallen on deaf ears, despite noticeable evidence of military incursions into the enemies’ stronghold, including the bandits. These service chiefs have met with their Commander-in-Chief more than five times and it has become a routine security meeting, not the type resembling the scenario of a student that had woefully failed his promotional exam and after collecting his report card suddenly developed cold feet and became dumbfounded, not willing to return home to face his father whom he knows would be very furious.
The reports are glaringly embarrassing.
Nigerians are not happy with daily happenings as regards their personal security.
They believe the service chiefs and IGP have not done enough to protect their lives. They wonder why the Nigerian Army that is recognized for its professionalism when on every United Nations foreign mission assignment outside the country is not able to end the terror war under its jurisdiction for over a decade.
It is the same with the police who still dispatch men and women on foreign missions when Nigeria is under terrorists’ siege. Of what importance and value is it for a man to send his able-bodied sons to help his neighbour quench a fire when there is a greater fire devastating and consuming his family home and property?
They base their ratings on the daily reports in the media. They are in tune with happenings around the country and via the social media. On his part, the President cannot be said not to be aware of the full implication of what a country that is bedeviled of insecurity connotes. After all, he has been in the presidential saddle for over seven years and no one can tell him about the feelings of the people, a people who loves to talk more than taking to the streets like the Tunisians that love to carry placards whenever they are angered by their government.
President Buhari understands that Nigerians are loquacious homo sapiens who are very understanding, intelligent and not too radical. No wonder he couldn’t hide his feelings since he also wears the same shoes with then and knows where the shoe pinches.
The decision of the President said it all when the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, disclosed: “The President spoke about his sadness in respect of recent security challenges and developments we have had in the country, in particular the incident in which several Nigerians lost their lives with many more taken into captivity by criminals and bandits.”
“Not just those that were captured during the last Kaduna-bound train incident but those that have been in captivity in other parts of the country.
“The President has directed all the operational and intelligence elements to rescue all of these innocent people immediately and unhurt. This is the basis on which other issues were discussed.
Stating further, that about 3,000 people were killed and almost 1,500 kidnapped across Nigeria in the first three months of 2022.
More intriguing is the disclosure of Mongonu when he told journalists, “I submitted a memo to council and my recommendations are being looked into by the President. My recommendations are wide-ranging and they touch on all aspects of security, starting with the level of security of our land borders as well as within the country itself.”
Monguno said decisive steps are being taken to secure all the land borders of the country, in order to address the threats coming from outside such borders. He said the threats have now shifted from the north-eastern part of the country to the North-West and the North-Central but even that must be contained.
“It has to be contained collectively by both the armed forces and constabulary forces but the intelligence agencies have also been directed to enhance the acquisition of intelligence,” he added.
He noted that the present situation in the country calls for collective efforts by all, not only those that have been charged with the responsibility of physically securing the country.
“Unless the wider society, right down to the local governments, are willing to give the type of information needed in order to block the activities of these criminals, this situation will continue to linger beyond whatever time frame we are looking at towards ending this problem.”
The security adviser to the President was talking as if he was recently appointed. Here is a major-general who was appointed seven years ago with the last service chiefs that were relieved of their appointment yet he was left behind believing that he still has new ideas to advise the President. Instead, the situation has worsened, yet Mongonu did not deem it morally right to throw in his papers. In other climes, no one would advise him to resign. He ought to have gone with the last service chiefs.
There must be something fishy that Mongonu is not telling Nigerians. Since he has a hidden timetable when terrorism in the country would end, may we jointly request that the ending days of terror be fast-forwarded to avoid more shedding of innocent blood in the country?
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• Be extra careful and vigilant at all times
• Report suspicious activities around you immediately to any security agency
• Inform your relations when going out and be specific of your movements. | https://www.sunnewsonline.com/marching-order-not-in-march/ | 2022-04-28T02:54:55Z | https://www.sunnewsonline.com/marching-order-not-in-march/ | true | 1 |
At around 0300 GMT, (as there is no fixed time as usual for the decision, but traders will be looking for it around this time), the Bank of Japan is expected to maintain its key interest rates at today’s meeting. The BOJ continues to defend low rates with bond buying.
''Quarterly forecasts should show inflation for FY2022 revised up from 1.1% to nearer 2% but probably lower in 2023 and with Gross Domestic Product growth revised down,'' analysts at Westpac explained. ''The BoJ views the pickup in inflation as very much cost-push, not demand-pull. Governor Kuroda will be asked about the Japanese yen at the press conference.''
How might the BoJ affect USD/JPY?
While the decision itself is probably a non-mover for the yen, FX intervention themes surrounding a much stronger US dollar could be. The US dollar has rallied to five-year highs and the BoJ and US Treasury are a phone call away from collaborating on any such practice as to try and take on the market. However, jawboning has been a theme of late, as recent as early Asia with Japan's finance minister Suzuki out again commenting on the price, saying that rapid yen moves are undesirable.
Meanwhile, the bid in the US dollar has seen the price of the yen pushed to the ceiling of a short-term descending channel, drawn off the April 20 cycle high. As with the flag of late March business, the bulls will be looking for a firm close outside of the channel and the subsequent formation of a bull flag, signalling the potential for continuations for the foreseeable future.
From an hourly perspective:
...the price is testing the key resistance area ahead of the event. Bulls will need to get through 129.00 and hold the fort above there for a convincing case for higher for longer. On a switchback, a break below the prior lows near 128.35 could be important.
About the BoJ interest rate decision
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Rob Kardashian has testified that he feared for his life on a night in 2016 when his then-fiancee Blac Chyna pointed a gun at his head, pulled a phone-charging cable around his neck and repeatedly hit him with a metal rod while under the influence of substances.
“She strangled me, she put a gun to my head twice, she was on cocaine and alcohol,” Mr Kardashian said, his voice rising nearly to a shout in a Los Angeles courtroom as Ms Chyna’s attorney Lynne Ciani sought to cast doubt on the attack and its severity.
Ms Chyna is suing Mr Kardashian’s mother Kris Jenner and sisters Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, alleging they spread false reports of her assaulting him in order to have her Keeping Up With the Kardashians spinoff Rob & Chyna cancelled and ruin her reality TV career.
During an emotional and contentious hour on the stand, Mr Kardashian grew angry when Ms Ciani asked him why photos and video from the days that followed did not show any marks on him, despite his testimony that she had hit him repeatedly with a six-foot metal rod.
“Did you have as much as a Band-Aid on you?” the attorney asked.
“I just told you it didn’t leave a mark on my face!” Mr Kardashian said. “And the gun to my head two different times during the night didn’t leave a mark to my temple!”
Kris Jenner and Kim Kardashian watched the testimony from the front row of the gallery, and had no visible reaction.
Ms Chyna testified earlier in the trial that she was never violent towards Mr Kardashian.
She said that on the night of December 14 and the morning of December 15, 2016, the couple had been celebrating the news that Rob & Chyna was getting a second season.
The all-night celebration turned into a bitter fight by morning, when he took her phone and shut himself in a closet, looking for evidence of communications with other men, she said.
She testified that earlier in the evening, she had wrapped a phone-charging cord around Mr Kardashian’s neck playfully because he was ignoring her, and picked up a gun he kept around, always unloaded, from a nightstand as a joke.
The chain of events would lead to the end of the relationship, and their show.
Mr Kardashian, 35, the youngest of Kris Jenner’s four children with the late Robert Kardashian, has kept a much lower public profile than his mother and sisters. He was mostly an offscreen character, and only occasionally appeared on the family’s reality show.
He broke from the pattern in 2016, spending a year in the limelight before it went bad. He and Ms Chyna began dating in January, announced their engagement in April, announced they were having a child together in May, had their own reality show premiere in September, and had a daughter, Dream, in November.
He testified on Wednesday that he felt in retrospect that their love was never real, and that he had been at the “weakest, worst point” in his life when their relationship began.
He said the coupling was “toxic” from the start, and that she beat him at least five times during the year-long relationship.
“Strangling someone, beating someone, that’s not a family,” he said. “That’s not love to me.”
Mr Kardashian is not a defendant in this trial. Ms Chyna’s allegations against him, stemming from the same incidents, will get a separate trial when this one is done.
Earlier on Wednesday, Corey Gamble, a key witness backing up Mr Kardashian’s account of the assault, insisted that he saw Ms Chyna punch him and whip him with a phone-charging cord, as Ms Ciani tried to poke holes in his story.
“I said that she attacked him,” testified Mr Gamble, the long-time boyfriend and sometime co-star of Keeping Up With the Kardashians matriarch Kris Jenner. “What I saw is what I saw.”
Mr Gamble said he rushed to the house the couple was staying in after Kris Jenner got an early morning call from her son, who sounded deeply distressed.
When he arrived, he said, Ms Chyna was holding some sort of metal rod, and threw it down. She rushed toward Mr Kardashian, whipping the phone cord at him then punching him.
“By the time she got to him, she started hitting him,” Mr Gamble testified. “I was able to get in the middle of them two. I even got hit two or three times.”
Mr Gamble said Ms Chyna threw a chair at Mr Kardashian’s car as he was leaving, then attempted to pick up a table but Mr Gamble stopped her.
During cross-examination, Ms Ciani had Mr Gamble read from a declaration he submitted in the case two years earlier, in which he said he arrived to find Ms Chyna hitting Mr Kardashian with her fists, but made no mention of any of the objects.
“You didn’t see sufficient to mention the metal rod, the cord or the table?” Ms Ciani asked.
“I don’t know why I didn’t include those details,” Mr Gamble said.
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CHICAGO - Police are searching for a suspect who robbed a victim on the Cermack-Chinatown Red Line platform Monday.
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More than 300 student-athletes from the University of West Georgia gathered in the Campus Center Ballroom on Tuesday evening to celebrate the 2021-22 athletic year at the first in-person WESTPY Awards ceremony since 2019. This year’s Awards Ceremony was graciously sponsored by Advantage Office Solutions.
Senior shot put phenom Brandi Boddy and junior All-American first baseman Brody Wortham took home top honors at this year’s ceremony, earning the titles of Mr. and Miss Wolf. Those are the highest honors that are bestowed by UWG athletics at the annual event, encompassing performance on the field, in the classroom, and in the community.
One of the most prestigious awards through the years has been the Strength of the Pack award, and this year that award took on a new direction to award those athletes who support other athletes.
The UWG Student-Athlete Advisory Committee nominated a series of male and female athletes who attended games and helped create a great environment at events throughout the year. Those names were then put to a vote by the entire student-athlete population.
The winner of the Women’s Strength of the Pack was Sarah Harrell from soccer, and the Men’s Strength of the Pack was Joshua Still from cross-country.
Female Athlete of the Year went to Ainsley Cowart, continuing a week where she was named Gulf South Conference Player of the Year honors for the second consecutive season. The Carrollton native also received an invitation to the NCAA South Regional coming up on March 2 in Davie, Florida.
Male Athlete of the Year also went to a golfer, as Austin Fulton earned that distinction Tuesday evening. Fulton has been in the NCAA Top-10 among Division II golfers for the bulk of the year and led the men’s team to a berth in the NCAA Regionals, announced over the weekend.
The Career Achievement Award has also been a highly sought-after honor, going to an outgoing senior who has contributed in a big way to the progression of their team and the department.
This year’s Men’s Career Achievement Award went to Kadeim Jones, who spent three seasons with UWG basketball, becoming a 1,000-point scorer this past season. The Women’s Career Achievement Award comes full circle for Alley Taylor, who earned the title of Women’s Freshman of the Year in her first season at UWG.
ATHLETIC DIRECTOR’S AWARD WINNERS
The Athletic Director’s Award is a Fraternity/Sorority style pin that signifies that a UWG Student-Athlete began their career at UWG and finished their career at UWG. For the 2022 WESTPY Awards, 27 student-athletes earned this distinction.
Women’s Golf
Ari Samuel, Michelle Bagsic
Volleyball
Kaylyn Buchanan, Eldonna Steffen, Jesse Echols
Women’s Track & Field
Meghan Daniels
Men’s Cross-Country
David Walker
Baseball
Joseph Hill
Softball
Maddie Gorsuch, Alley Taylor, Kris Nix, Chandler Mevis, Kya Draper
Cheerleading
Melissa Blackmore-Wigley, Megan Cargle, Katilyn Groft, Allison Denney, Danielle Szadjek
Men’s Golf
Ethan Jones
Football
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Allegro.eu (OTCMKTS:ALEGF – Get Rating) was downgraded by equities research analysts at The Goldman Sachs Group from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating in a report issued on Wednesday, The Fly reports.
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Prince Charles backs ‘fascinating’ face masks for cows to cut methane emissions from burps
PRINCE CHARLES has been introduced to a new face mask for burping cows that has already been proven to cut their methane emissions by more than half.
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The Duke of Wales voiced concern at the “urgency” of the climate crisis as he expressed interest in a face mask for burping cows. Prince Charles met student designers at the opening of the new Terra Carta Design Lab at the Royal College of Art’s Battersea campus in south London on Wednesday.
Students from the Royal College of Art (RCA) were tasked with designing projects that reverse the damage humans are doing to the climate and nature.
Out of 125 submissions, four teams of RCA students and alumni have been chosen as the winners of the inaugural Terra Carta Design Lab competition, receiving £50,000 in funding to help further develop their ideas.
Among the four winning designs was a harness for cattle to convert their methane emissions into CO2 and water vapour in real time, created by design group Zelp (Zero Emissions Livestock Project).
Startup Zelp, founded by Francisco Norris, uses pioneering technology to convert methane burped out by dairy and beef herds into water and carbon dioxide in an attempt to stem emissions.
The company has been working with one of the UK's largest meat producers to trial the devices on cows to help cut the carbon footprint of British beef.
Francisco Norris said it was a “great honour” to speak with the eco-friendly prince.
Speaking at the event, the Prince of Wales said of climate change that there were “crises that are confronting us in all directions” which highlighted the importance of “finding solutions rapidly”.
He added that, with the designers' ingenuity, “we will have a better chance of winning this battle in shorter time”.
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Methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere - so cutting it is a powerful way to slow warming in the short term.
The world’s 1.5 billion cattle, each producing up to 500 litres of methane a day, are significant contributors to global warming.
The majority is emitted through their belching, but some also comes from their flatulence.
Charles was warmly greeted by product designer Sir Jony Ive and the vice-chancellor of the university Dr Paul Thompson upon arriving at the exhibition, housed in the RCA's Dyson Gallery.
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Qld child manslaughter accused denied bail
A woman will remain in custody following a manslaughter charge relating to a 15-year-old boy who died from a brain injury after allegedly being supplied with a prescription opioid.
Stacie Renee Dutaillis, 36, was denied bail in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday following her arrest in the city on Wednesday.
She is facing one count each of manslaughter and grievous bodily harm, and two counts each of negligent acts causing harm and supplying medicines or hazardous poisons.
The charges relate to events almost seven months ago when a 15-year-old boy was found unresponsive at a North Mackay home.
He was one of six children found at the residence and taken to hospital for treatment when emergency services arrived on September 30.
The boy died the following day.
Dutaillis appeared in court with her hand bandaged during the bail application on Thursday morning.
The child's cause of death was a brain injury after allegedly being supplied with the prescription opioid Tramadol, the court was told.
In opposing bail, the police prosecutor said Dutaillis had a history of failing to appear for court and stressed the seriousness of the alleged offending that killed one and hospitalised several others.
An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Legal Service lawyer said that at this stage the matter is expected to be contested and a trial could be 18 months to two years away.
In denying bail, magistrate Suzette Coates agreed Dutaillis posed an unacceptable risk and remanded her in custody
The matter is due to return to court in Mackay on June 6.
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Two Stockton residents are in custody after leading Lodi Police Department Officers on a pursuit that ended in a collision Tuesday afternoon.
Lt. Rick Garcia said officers responded to an armed robbery at Lodi Lake at 2:13 p.m., and found a 19-year-old victim who said the assailants fled in his Toyota.
“Officers located the vehicle in the area, they got behind it, and the driver increased their speed,” he said. “A pursuit ensued that went through several city streets before the vehicle ended up on southbound Highway 99 from Turner Road.”
Garcia said the suspect drove erratically at high rates of speed along the freeway before exiting at Harney Lane. Soon afterward, the pursuit ended when the vehicle collided with a chain link fence, Garcia said.
Jaylin Dunn, 18, was arrested on suspicion of robbery, vehicle theft, possession of a stolen vehicle, felony evading and conspiracy. Sandra Jackson, also 18, was arrested on suspicion of robbery, vehicle theft, possession of a stolen vehicle and conspiracy.
Both were booked into Lodi City Jail and were transferred to San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp, Garcia said. Nobody was injured in the robbery or the collision, he said. | https://www.lodinews.com/news/article_beca6a28-c689-11ec-83d2-3b8903774abe.html | 2022-04-28T03:21:43Z | https://www.lodinews.com/news/article_beca6a28-c689-11ec-83d2-3b8903774abe.html | true | 1 |
TMC will act as the Oppn in Assam, other NE states: Leaders
Guwahati: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders during a function, where several Congress leaders and workers quit the party and joined the TMC, on Wednesday announced that they launched an expansion drive of the party to fill the vacuum created by the opposition parties in Assam.
Wednesday’s joining programme in Guwahati was held five days after veteran leader and former Assam Congress Chief Ripun Bora was appointed as the TMC’s Assam unit President by party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
TMC Lok Sabha MP, Mahua Moitra while speaking at the function said the party headed by Banerjee would be the voice of the common people of Assam as all opposition parties have “become puppets” in hands of the BJP.
“There is no party to raise the voice of the common people. We would fill the opposition vacuum,” she said, claiming that after Bengal, Assam is her second native state as she was born in the north-eastern state.
Moitra without naming Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, a Congress-turned-BJP leader, said the BJP-ruled Assam government is in reality run by former Congress leaders.
“They (BJP) bought them all and are still trying to buy the opposition leaders,” the TMC leader claimed and said the saffron party was trying to divert the attention of the people from inflation and unemployment by focusing on religion, loudspeakers, food and other insignificant matters.
“The TMC will fight the anarchy and not allow them to divide and rule,” she added.
Bora, former Assam Education Minister, said soon a large number of workers and leaders of Assam would join the TMC, which he added would not enter into any alliance with either Congress or the Muslim-based and perfume baron Badruddin Ajmal-led All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF).
Former Assam Minister Rajendra Mushahary, Assam Congress Secretaries Gajendra Prasad Upamanyu, Diganta Bhusan Barman, Babul Sonowal, Congress Spokesman Anup Jyoti Bhuyan, among others joined the TMC on Wednesday.
The function was also attended by former Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul M. Sangma and TMC Rajya Sabha member Sushmita Dev, who hails from southern Assam’s Silchar.
Dev, a former Congress Lok Sabha member, while Sangma and 11 other MLAs of Meghalaya had quit the Congress and joined the TMC in 2021.
Sangma in his address slammed the Congress and said no party in the north-eastern region was highlighting the cause and concern of the people. | https://www.mangalorean.com/tmc-will-act-as-the-oppn-in-assam-other-ne-states-leaders/ | 2022-04-28T03:22:53Z | https://www.mangalorean.com/tmc-will-act-as-the-oppn-in-assam-other-ne-states-leaders/ | false | 3 |
BOSTON (AP) — A purported member of a street gang who authorities say illegally sold weapons and drugs in Massachusetts has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison.
Jose Omar Hernandez-Aragones, 24, of Lawrence, was also sentenced Tuesday to three years of probation.
Hernandez-Aragones was prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition because of a 2016 assault conviction, yet between May 2018 and July 2018 he sold 27 weapons, ammunition, a bulletproof vest, and cocaine and fentanyl to an undercover cooperating witness, federal prosecutors said.
He pleaded guilty in November to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine.
Federal authorities allege that Hernandez-Aragones is a member of the Trinitarios gang in the Lawrence area.
According to court documents, many Trinitarios members are involved in a range of illegal activities, including firearms and drug trafficking.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "SuperCash" game were:
10-16-20-21-34-37, Doubler: N
(ten, sixteen, twenty, twenty-one, thirty-four, thirty-seven; Doubler: N)
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Does Biden Really Have Unexplained Income? Hype or Truth, Time Will Tell
By Rachel CurryApr. 27 2022, Published 1:26 p.m. ET
State primary elections are approaching across the nation and President Joe Biden's congressional makeup could shift. Meanwhile, reports are surfacing that Biden has millions of dollars in “unexplained income” on his financial records.
Are the sources legitimate and is Biden really hiding millions or is it just hype? Let's dig deeper into the claims.
The exclusive report was released about Biden’s missing millions.
Daily Mail, a British tabloid-style newspaper, first reported on August 26, 2021, that Biden had an unexplained income to the tune of $5.2 million. The money that’s unaccounted for was reportedly from 2017–2020.
The story was picked up by other outlets, namely U.S. publications like right-leaning Fox News and gossip website Radar Online. Here's a bias check though. Radar Online owner Dylan Howard allegedly shredded crucial documents while serving as editor-in-chief of the National Enquirer to protect former President Trump ahead of his 2016 election.
Have any investigators confirmed Biden has $5.2 million in unexplained earnings?
So far, the only original report that Biden has $5.2 million in unexplained income comes from a U.K. tabloid. That doesn’t necessarily mean it isn't true, but it may inspire Americans to pause and consider the source.
Here's what the tabloid says about Biden’s income.
The tabloid reports that Biden paid legal fees for his son, Hunter Biden, while he fought litigation over Chinese business dealings. To pay for these legal fees, Biden took money from his personal company that he shares with his wife. This took place prior to Biden’s presidency and after his vice-presidency under former President Obama.
Also, the tabloid says $5.2 million is unaccounted for in financial records that layout how Biden earned his money. The publication goes on to say that money is from a 10-percent stake in Biden’s Chinese business dealings.
The New York Times did a report on Hunter Biden’s payments on back taxes owed. According to Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, “Evidence of the president's financial and business connections to Hunter Biden continues to grow.”
Will an investigation take place into Biden’s unaccounted income?
Only one thing would confirm the reports, and that’s an official investigation by the U.S. government. So far, the government hasn't publicized an investigation, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t one or that one may come soon. In that case, the Daily Mail’s sources would have to hold water.
Regardless, the news is getting out there and critics, especially those on the right, are attacking Biden. Despite the Daily Mail’s issues surrounding legitimacy as a news source, the report does have something going for it. Writer Josh Boswell, formerly of The Sunday Times, was nominated for an award for new journalists. Boswell primarily publishes exclusives, many of which target Hunter Biden. The president’s son is currently under investigation for a variety of allegations including tax fraud, money laundering, and lobbying for foreign clients. This could potentially swing U.S. investigators in Biden’s direction too, although that’s yet to be seen. | https://marketrealist.com/p/biden-unexplained-income/ | 2022-04-28T03:32:23Z | https://marketrealist.com/p/biden-unexplained-income/ | true | 1 |
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The mental health of students is in the spotlight again in Killingly. Dozens of people attended Wednesday night's Board of Education meeting to once again talk about new ways to help students.
It comes amid a state investigation into the school district after it rejected a proposal to put a mental health center in the high school.
The Board failed to vote on the matter at Wednesday night's meeting.
It's a topic that's been talked about for quite some time. About two weeks ago, parents packed the school board meeting to the let their voices be heard. This was coming after the State Education Commissioner sent the district a letter saying it was starting an investigation into whether the Killingly Board is providing a "safe school setting."
This dates back to March after the Killingly Board of Education rejected a plan to bring a school-based mental health center to the high school even though a survey found about 15% of students admitted to having made a suicide plan.
Some of the other possibilities being considered include hiring therapists, special programs and Telehealth.
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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has a few pointers ahead of this year’s tax deadline, including what you can claim, how to pay if you owe money and how to spot scams.
Normally, taxes must be filed by April 30, but the deadline has been adjusted slightly this year.
“Since that date falls on a Saturday, you have until Monday, May 2 to get your taxes done, so you have an extra two days this year,” said Robyn Brouillette, CRA spokesperson. “For any individuals who are self-employed or if their spouse or common-law partner is self-employed, then the filing deadline is June 15.”
Brouillette said filing on time will ensure no interruption to any benefits or credits. A late filing penalty may be imposed if you don’t file on time and you owe money.
“If you owe money and you can’t pay the full amount, you can call in and set up a payment arrangement and we can help you, at your convenience, pay that amount,” said Brouillette.
Brouillette said if you need to call the CRA for help, their phone lines are open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays, with extended hours available during tax season from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday.
Call wait times are usually posted on the CRA website, and a callback feature is integrated into the automated phone system.
That said, she noted that if wait times are long, you can also visit the website to see if the answer to your question can be found there.
The COVID-19 pandemic has allowed some workplaces to transition to an online format. Brouillette explained what you can do if you worked from home.
“If you worked more than 50 per cent of the time from home for four consecutive weeks, due to COVID-19, you might be able to claim up to $500 annually with the home office deduction.”
Brouillette said any COVID-19-related benefits, such as CERB, must be reported on your tax returns, as this counts as taxable income.
It’s also important to remember to get all of your personal information up to date when you’re filing, such as your address, marital status and direct deposit information.
“This will ensure there are no delays when receiving your notice of assessment or any refund and benefit payments you may be entitled to,” said Brouillette.
With the tax deadline approaching, fraudsters may start reaching out to Canadians in an attempt to steal money while claiming to be with the CRA.
“If a caller is demanding immediate payment by e-transfer, bitcoin, prepaid gift cards, like iTunes gift cards, or if they’re using aggressive language or threatening you in any way, like with arrest or calling the police, those are tell-tale signs of a scam,” explained Brouillette.
“Just err on the side of caution and trust your inner voice. If you get any uneasy feelings, feel free to hang up that call and contact our general enquiries line and you can verify with one of our agents if we were actually trying to get in contact with you.”
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Bitcoin Near Make-or-Break Levels, Why 100 SMA Is The Key
Bitcoin started a recovery wave above the $38,400 resistance against the US Dollar. BTC must clear $39,600 to move into a positive zone.
- Bitcoin managed to stay above $37,650 and started an upside correction.
- The price is now trading near $39,200 and the 100 hourly simple moving average.
- There is a key bullish trend line forming with support near $39,220 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).
- The pair must clear the $39,600 resistance to start a decent increase in the near term.
Bitcoin Price Recovers Ground
Bitcoin price formed a base above the $38,000 and started a recovery wave. BTC broke the $38,400 and $38,500 resistance levels.
There was a move above the 50% Fib retracement level of the key drop from the $40,775 swing high to $37,672 low. Bitcoin even climbed above the $39,500 level, but it faced sellers near the $39,600 level. It is now trading near $39,200 and the 100 hourly simple moving average.
There is also a key bullish trend line forming with support near $39,220 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair. On the upside, an immediate resistance is near the $39,600 level.
The 61.8% Fib retracement level of the key drop from the $40,775 swing high to $37,672 low is also near the $39,600 level. The next key resistance could be near the $40,000 zone. A close above the $39,600 level and the 100 hourly simple moving average could open the doors for a decent increase.
Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com
In the stated case, the price could even surpass the $40,000 resistance. The next major resistance may perhaps be near the $40,770 zone.
Fresh Decline in BTC?
If bitcoin fails to clear the $39,600 resistance zone, it could start a fresh decline. An immediate support on the downside is near the $39,250 level.
The next major support is seen near the trend line and $39,200. A close below the $39,200 support zone might start another decline. In the stated case, the price might drop to $38,400.
Technical indicators:
Hourly MACD – The MACD is slowly losing pace in the bullish zone.
Hourly RSI (Relative Strength Index) – The RSI for BTC/USD is now above the 50 level.
Major Support Levels – $39,200, followed by $38,400.
Major Resistance Levels – $39,600, $40,000 and $40,770.
Blockchain
Bitcoin Drops To $38K After Amazon Retraction On Accepting BTC Payments
The king of cryptocurrency is suffering another meltdown at a 3.3% drop in just 24 hours. Bitcoin is currently trading at around $38,210 which is the lowest so far since March of this year when US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on crypto regulations.
Although the BTC price went up at $40,800 on Tuesday, it slid momentarily afterward.
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Amazon Denies Speculation About Accepting BTC Payments
Amazon’s retraction against the mass speculation that the retail giant will be accepting BTC payments was the main causative factor of the sudden drop. Ether was even pushed further down as well.
BTC price went straight up when Amazon announced a job advertisement connected to crypto. However, a couple of hours later, an Amazon spokesperson denied claims that Bitcoin will be added as a payment method this year.
Bitcoin peaked at around US$40,545 as the investors rushed with their bets with the speculation of a bearish stride. There were over $950 million of crypto shorts liquidated which is the highest since May of the current year.
The Multi-Wave Correction
The volatility experienced by Bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies is referred to as a multi-wave correction. It peaked around April and it’s expected to rebound to a maximum of $45,000 before it slides again.
The rollercoaster ride of BTC is part of that correction. The crypto industry suffered a massive decline after reaching a record high of $65,000 because of a bombardment of environmental and regulatory issues.
BTC total market cap at $751.41 billion on the daily chart | Source: TradingView.com
This week’s frantic moves of BTC and other tokens are expected. Meanwhile, investors are looking at the next big wave that can break the BTC out of its sob trading range of a meager $30,000 to $40,000 in the past few months.
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Where’s Bitcoin Headed?
The risk level is a bit higher this week because the Federal Reserve is set to announce its decision come Wednesday.
More so, news on the investigation regarding alleged bank fraud committed by Tether executives has put the crypto space hanging.
BTC investors have been grappling with inflation, environmental, political, and economic concerns, especially with the Fed. The inflation rate that happened in March this year is by far the worst inflation rate compared to what transpired in 1981.
Multiple factors combined have been impacting volatility in both the stock and crypto markets.
The current price range is said to be a middle ground for Bitcoin as its performance will determine how everything will play out in the next few days. Would it be bullish or bearish? BTC performance at this range will give people a clue about where it’s going.
Featured image from The Facts Chronicle, chart from TradingView.com
Blockchain
Ethereum Attempts To Climb North; Is It Eyeing $3000?
Ethereum was trying to move on the upside, although modestly. The price action has been tight as the range that ETH was trading remained between $2800 and $2900 respectively.
Prices have been consistently trying to restest the $2900 mark but have faced rejection from the aforementioned level.
Sellers currently have pushed the price beneath the $2900 mark. Over the last week, ETH lost over 7%, however, in the past 24 hours the king altcoin showed signs of recovery. The coin registered a 1% jump in prices. This development could make it possible for the bulls to re-enter the market.
It is a good sign that the bulls have been buying at lower price levels for the altcoin. This signals that prices might shoot up over the upcoming trading sessions.
Ethereum Price Analysis: One Day Chart
Ethereum was priced at $2871 at the time of writing. Its immediate mark of resistance was at $3028, over the past immediate trading sessions ETH lost vigour and got rejected from the $3000 price mark.
The coin depicted signs of positive price action as the volume traded was seen in green as the closing price was higher than the previous session.
In case ETH manages to push its way up then it could break past the $3000 mark and trade close to $3263. On the flipside, the local support level for the coin was at $2794 and failing to trade over which ETH would trade at $2437.
The king altcoin depicted an ascending triangle, which is characterised to be bullish. An ascending triangle positive continuation pattern. It has a rising lower trendline and a flat upper trendline. Buyers at the moment have tried to overpower sellers as ETH continues to make higher lows.
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Technical Analysis
Ethereum’s brief recovery could try to push prices above the 20-SMA line. At the moment, ETH was trading beneath the 20-SMA line which signifies sellers have taken over the market in the short term.
It is to be noted that buyers had pushed ETH’s prices to trade above the 20-SMA just 24 hours back even when prices were dropping.
This reading meant that buyers have been aggressively buying the asset at lower price levels in anticipation that prices would increase.
On the Relative Strength Index, even though the indicator was placed below the half-line it noted a slight uptick. An uptick reconfirms the possibility of buyers returning to the market.
Ethereum’s choppy prices have reflected on the Awesome Oscillator. The indicator depicts price momentum, however, despite flashing red histograms ETH displayed signs of recovery.
The red histograms were declining in size indicating that ETH might climb over the next trading sessions.
Chaikin Money Flow indicated that capital inflows were more than outflows despite Ethereum struggling to break past the $3000 mark.
This corresponds with the above indicators that despite current bearishness, ETH is eying its immediate resistance mark.
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Featured image from UnSplash, chart from TradingView.com
Blockchain
Why Gold Is Beating Bitcoin In 2022
Bitcoin continues to underperform as a general “risk-off” sentiment has investors driving toward gold as a safe haven asset.
Not Risking It
Concerns about the Russo-Ukrainian war continue. The U.S. inflation struggles at a four-decade high and Fed rate hike fears prevail. The uncertainty extends to the world economy as a recession is expected instead of a recovery. The IMF’s managing director Kristalina Georgieva called it “a crisis on top of a crisis.”
“The war is a supply shock that reduces economic output and raises prices. Indeed, we forecast inflation will accelerate to 5.5 percent in advanced economies and to 9.3 percent in emerging European economies excluding Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. ” The IMF stated last week.
Reuters recently quoted Commerzbank analyst Daniel Briesemann, who talked in a note about the factors that have “lent buoyancy to gold in recent days,” mentioning the “strong buying interest on the part of ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) investors” and news about the Ukraine war.
“Russia appears to be preparing to launch a major offensive in the east of the country – that is generating considerable demand for gold as a safe haven,” the analyst said.
This summarizes the “risk-off” sentiment at the moment. As expected, equities suffer as investors are selling risky assets and purchasing the ones negatively correlated to the traditional market. Thus, the crypto space is struggling alongside de stocks market and gold is rising.
Bitcoin Outperformed By Gold
Data from Arcane Research’s latest weekly report notes that it has been a gloomy year for the “digital gold.” In the first three weeks of 2022, Bitcoin sank 25% and it is still down by 18% in the year despite its slight recovery.
Similarly, Nasdaq records a 19% decline in the year, having underperformed against bitcoin “by a small margin,” notes the report, adding that “This is surprising given that bitcoin has tended to follow Nasdaq, albeit with higher volatility.”
The general fear over geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty has given gold the safe-haven asset spotlight once more. The asset outperformed all the other indexes seen below with a 4% gain.
Meanwhile, the currency market is performing with “the same risk-off patterns.” The Dollar has been proving its “risk-off” dominance as the US Dollar Index (DXY) is up 7%. The Chinese yuan has taken a hit over concerns about the country’s “zero-covid” policy –which creates issues for the global supply chain– and the slowing down Chinese economy. In contrast, investors have been running to the US Dollar for safety.
Bitcoin supporters usually refer to the coin as “digital gold” alleging it is a safe haven asset, and this narrative had held well while BTC had been “uncorrelated with most other major asset classes,” but the tide is shifting with the 2022 scenario as investors are rather placing the coin “into the risk-on basket”.
A previous Arcane Research report indicated that bitcoin’s 30 -day correlation with the Nasdaq is revisiting July 2020 highs while its correlation with gold has reached all-time lows.
A pseudonym traded noted that “As Bitcoin adoption goes on and more institutional investors enter the market, the correlation of BTC and stocks becomes more and more tight. That is a paradigm that the crypto world struggled to come to terms with in the past but is now more real than ever. A healthy stock market is good for Bitcoin.”
Meanwhile, the general sentiment of traders seems to be bearish, with many saying that the coin could visit the $30k level soon.
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Vodafone and the Trussell Trust have reported a significant increase in requests for digital connectivity due to the cost-of-living crisis. The partnership between Vodafone and the Trussell Trust, which launched a year ago, provides free connectivity to people who are receiving support from food banks in the Trussell Trust network.
Emma Revie, Chief Executive of the Trussell Trust, said: “It’s simply not right that more and more people in the UK are being left with no option than to use a food bank…
Vodafone and the Trussell Trust have reported a significant increase in requests for digital connectivity due to the cost-of-living crisis. The partnership between Vodafone and the Trussell Trust, which launched a year ago, provides free connectivity to people who are receiving support from food banks in the Trussell Trust network.
Emma Revie, Chief Executive of the Trussell Trust, said: “It’s simply not right that more and more people in the UK are being left with no option than to use a food bank. We’re hearing from food banks across our network that the cost-of-living crisis is forcing increasing numbers of people into impossible decisions where they have to cut back on the essentials we all need to get by.
“Being online and connected is one of these essentials. Without internet access, people can’t manage their finances, apply for job opportunities, or stay connected with doctors, schools and loved ones.
“Our partnership with Vodafone is making a real difference to the support food banks are able to give people facing hardship – being connected is an essential for all of us to survive as well as thrive.”
Vodafone has committed to connect one million people living in digital exclusion by the end of 2022. Today, it announced it has already provided free connectivity to 250,000 people, via partners (including the Trussell
Trust, Barnardo’s and Good Things Foundation) and through its charities.connected initiative which enables UK registered charities to apply for free connectivity to improve their digital capability or help the individuals and families they support to get online.
Most recently, Vodafone announced it will be providing free connectivity to 200,000 refugees who arrive in the UK from Ukraine.
Ahmed Essam, UK CEO, Vodafone, said: “The pandemic and cost of living crisis have highlighted the scale of digital exclusion, and in particular its impact on the most vulnerable in society. Digital connectivity is essential to access work, education, healthcare, finances and to keep in touch with family and friends, yet 1.5m households are living without internet access.
“Our everyone connected campaign puts tackling digital exclusion at the heart of our business. Our goal is to provide connectivity and support to those in society who need it most. By working with leading organisations like the Trussell Trust who can reach people in need, we aim to help as many people as possible stay connected.”
Sabrina, who has received a Vodafone SIM card, highlights the importance of being connected: “My phone and internet are my lifeline to the outside world. Without them I wouldn’t be able to message family and friends, to pay bills, to do online banking. I would be terribly lonely.
“It’s a definite must for me to have these services. If and when I don’t have them, I’m cut off from the world, feeling sad, lonely and desperate for communication.”
Everyone can support Vodafone’s commitment to tackle digital exclusion and connect one million people by the end of 2022. To find out more or get involved, search Vodafone everyone connected.
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It might take a code breaker to decipher numerous intelligence insider references contained in local author Vic Socotra’s newest, readable tale of military secrets and intrigue, “Cocktails With the Admiral.”
Subtitled “Drinks, Espionage and the History of the American Century,” the 337-page book by Socotra, aka J.R. Reddig, CAPT, USN-Retired, who lives in Culpeper County, recalls his 15-year relationship with Adm. Mac Showers (1919-2012), a World War II-era codebreaker.
Politics and Prose of Washington, D.C. is the publisher for this print edition, available at politics-prose.com/book/9781624293955
With his own Cold War intelligence background spanning more than half-a-century, Reddig, aka Socotra, writes with humor, candor and realism, not shying from criticizing the system. He highlights history and the intelligence heroes and traitors, often hidden, behind those decisive moments.
The setting for the meetings between Rear Admiral Donald McCollister “Mac” Showers, from Iowa, and the author was the old Willow Bar in Arlington, now closed.
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There’s talk of mixed drinks and a cast of characters of regulars, savory pork spring rolls from the bar, named servers, bottles of Bud beer, nameless faces and people, the news of the day, beltway hustle-bustle.
In between, Socotra weaves his own story with Mac’s narrative, together spanning numerous wars around the globe, the atom bomb, presidents, generals and foreign leaders alike.
The topic of his book is espionage in the American Century, said Socotra, former editor of a quarterly publication for Naval Intelligence Professionals, in an email to the Star-Exponent
“I was a career Spook with 27 years’ government service and a couple decades as Beltway Bandit, or what we preferred to call, Parkway Patriots,” he stated.
VicSocotra.com, a self-described purveyor of glib words to the world, is a self-published prolific writer with at least seven novels through a small home press here in Culpeper. Socotra maintains an active blog as well.
He befriended Adm. Showers in the early 2000s during his stint as an editor of the naval publication.
Socotra occasionally took shots at Gen. MacArthur’s reputation due to his grandfather being one of the Doughboys expelled from Washington during the Depression.
Mac called to complain.
“I was surprised to get a call from one of our retired Admirals for violating a rule he had on his staff in the Pacific War: ‘Don’t disparage Doug.’ Apparently doing so caused too much trouble. The Admiral turned out to be Mac Showers, who became one of my best friends. He was in his early 80s then, and we spent a regular weekly meeting working through some of the events in which he participated,” Socotra wrote in the email.
Among the most captivating stories of the admiral’s long naval career were from his early days working under Adm. Nimitz in a basement office deciphering Japanese code after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
“It was just OPINTEL,” Mac said in one of many interviews with Socotra about the acronym representing the system they used to decipher numerically coded messages from the enemy. It was brute force analysis supported by cross indexing and a massive filing system, the admiral allowed.
In other words, code breaking involved a fusion of methodologies and an all-source approach to integrate communications intercept that incorporated code breaking, photographic, open source information, topographic, hydrographic and human intelligence all cooked up by the Combat Intelligence Unit in the basement of building one in the shipyard in Pearl, the book states.
“No one told us how to do it. We did it as a matter of vital necessity to try to win a war,” Mac said for the book.
“The riddle was wrapped in an enigma, as is common,” Socotra writes of Pearl Harbor.
“The Big Surprise on Dec. 7 was naturally a shock…Washington would not admit that it was the bitter rivalry between Army and Navy, and within the Navy itself that exacerbated the blind spot that permitted the Japanese to land a near knock-out blow on the Pacific Fleet,” he writes.
The new book contains an image of ‘The Bomb Plot’—a decrypted message Sept. 24, 1941, marked ‘Strictly Secret,’ from Tokyo to the Japanese Consulate in Honolulu ordering daily surveillance of the American fleet in Pearl Harbor. It should have been a warning but was missed.
The author frequently capitalizes certain words and terms, presumably for emphasis, a pattern throughout “Cocktails With Admiral.”
The book hints at myriad inside cypher system references, hundreds of historic suggestions and facts, observations on current events and an entire alphabet of acronyms designating secret government functions and offices.
For example, COMINT, FRUMEL, USCINCPAC, CINCNELM, HYPO, PARPRO and NAVINTCOM.
The book is not chronological and it reads like an ongoing conversation—between Mac and the author, the author and himself and the author and the reader.
Mac and the other codebreakers provided Adm. Nimitz with enough information to enable him and his forces to defeat the Japanese in the battle of Midway, leading to the surrender of the Japanese forces, the Midway Miracle, describes Socotra.
“Then his team members came up with the idea that let us figure out the target of the last big Japanese offensive at Midway. After that, we went on the attack and never looked back. Oklahoma and Arizona were still on the bottom of the harbor…Her rusting hulk is still bleeding drops of fuel into Pearl’s placid waters…still bleeding just like she did when we worked in the basement of the Admin Building.”
“Jap Fleet Smashed by 2 U.S. Carriers Sunk at Midway Navy Had Word of Jap Plan to Strike at Sea,” Chicago Tribune reported June 7, 1942, states the new book, containing photographs and copies of original documents.
“With Mac, it was as fresh as if it happened yesterday. The years fall away, and you can feel the presence of others, dead now, crowd around holding glasses of whiskey and nodding. The Admiral is their emissary, their guide between the worlds,” Socotra writes.
The Japanese changed its codebook following all the publicity from Midway, he writes. A few months later, the Marines landed blindly at Guadalcanal. How many died as a result of internal intelligence wars? Socotra asks.
“Those are bold statements, I know, and the heavy secrecy that wrapped the ULTRA program enabled those who won the staff war and lost a Fleet on Dec. 7 to pin their mistakes on others.”
Creation of “Cocktails with the Admiral,” aka the Mac Showers Project, spanned three decades, the author said, noting 2022 is the 10th anniversary of the admiral’s passing and 80th anniversary of “the epic naval battle off Midway Atoll on which he cut his analytic teeth.” Mac saw all the episodes compiled in this book and approved them, the author said.
“I lived and worked in buildings that survived the Day of Infamy,” Socotra writes in the book.
“I found myself happy to have been a drinking buddy and tipsy Boswell to Mac Showers, the last living member of the JN-25 code breakers at Station HYPO in Pearl.
“My stories were sincere, but never intended to be documentary history. I always liked to get to the loopy aspects of history—like, what was the party like at the quarters of chief code breaker Joe Rochefort after the amazing results of the Battle of Midway became known? (Answer: it was a good one).”
With plenty of cocktails.
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One person was hurt in a Lexington shooting early Sunday morning.
Lexington police were called to Industry Road and Winchester Road just before 4 a.m. Saturday morning after gunfire was heard in the area.
When they got there, they found one victim who had been shot.
Police said they were in a car at the time and a bullet went through the car and hit them.
The victim has non-life-threatening injuries.
There are no suspects at this time. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2581961223808/one-person-hurt-in-lexington-shooting | 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2581961223808/one-person-hurt-in-lexington-shooting | false | null |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Pick Three-Evening" game were:
8-2-4, Fireball: 9
(eight, two, four; Fireball: nine)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Pick Three-Evening" game were:
8-2-4, Fireball: 9
(eight, two, four; Fireball: nine) | https://www.myplainview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Three-Evening-game-17132339.php | 2022-04-28T04:02:02Z | https://www.myplainview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Three-Evening-game-17132339.php | true | null |
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Raiders 3, Ice 1
First Period
No Scoring.
Penalties — Finley Wpg (tripping) 13:53; Shilo Pa (interference) 17:49.
Second Period
1. Prince Albert, Aquilon 1 (Shilo, Latimer) 1:53 (pp).
Penalties — Zloty Wpg (hooking) 0:55; McClennon Wpg (charging) 7:44; Gislason Pa (holding) 11:27; Finley Wpg, Allan Pa (roughing) 13:23.
Third Period
2. Prince Albert, Johnston 1 (unassisted) 1:06.
3. Winnipeg, Milne 4 (Savoie, Geekie) 18:51 (pp).
4. Prince Albert, Stanick 1 (Herman) 19:10 (en).
Penalties — Stanick Pa (slashing) 17:02; Vitelli Pa (hooking) 18:03; Benson Wpg (embellishment) 18:03; Winnipeg bench (delay of game, served by Friesen) 19:10.
Shots on goal by
Goal — Winnipeg: Hauser (L, ). Prince Albert: Chaika (W, ).
Power plays (goals-chances) — Winnipeg: 1-3; Prince Albert: 1-4.
Referees — Brayden Arcand, Corey Koop. Linesmen — Sean Dufour, Troy Semenchuk.
Attendance — 2,568 at Prince Albert. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Sums-Winnipeg-Prince-Albert-17132409.php | 2022-04-28T04:11:02Z | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Sums-Winnipeg-Prince-Albert-17132409.php | false | null |
(WXYZ) — An aspirin a day is no longer recommended to prevent heart disease and stroke for most older adults.
Research shows no net benefit for people aged 60 and up, according to the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force.
First, low dose aspirin has been recommended for years as a prevention measure. So, if you’re already taking a daily aspirin, please talk to your doctor first before stopping any medication.
Now, the last time the task force updated its recommendation on aspirin was back in 2016. So, what’s changed?
Well, aspirin was initially prescribed because it can stop blood from clotting. But one reason why the newer studies are showing no net benefit from a daily aspirin is likely because of statins. Statins are drugs that help reduce a person’s risk of heart attacks and stroke.
Also, accumulating evidence has found that the risk of internal bleeding increases as a person ages. This bleeding can happen in the stomach, intestines and the brain. As for the question, “Can it be fatal?” Yes, it can be life threatening.
That’s why the new recommendation for those aged 60 and up is to not start a daily low-dose aspirin regimen as the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and to consider stopping it all together around the age of 75.
For those who are 40 to 59 years of age, it all comes down to your health and risk factors. If you’re healthy and have no major risk factors, the benefits likely do not outweigh the risk of bleeding. But if you have a 10% or higher 10-year risk for cardiovascular disease, then you could consider an aspirin as the task force said there may be a small net benefit.
Also, if you’ve had a stroke or heart attack or have a stent, then aspirin in these cases could be beneficial.
The key is to not decide for yourself if a daily aspirin is good or bad. Instead, talk to your doctor about the new recommendations and then decide because cardiovascular disease kills 1 in 4 people. It’s the leading cause of death here in the U.S.
My advice is to take care of your heart health starting now. Eat healthy food most of the time, move more, try to exercise for 150 minutes a week, quit smoking, lower stress levels and get enough sleep. | https://www.fox17online.com/us-task-force-no-longer-recommending-daily-aspirin-routine-for-older-adults | 2022-04-28T04:18:25Z | https://www.fox17online.com/us-task-force-no-longer-recommending-daily-aspirin-routine-for-older-adults | false | 3 |
Arozarena went 0-for-3 with a walk, a run and a stolen base Wednesday against the Mariners.
Arozarena was hitless but still managed to have a productive performance. He walked to lead off the bottom of the first inning and immediately stole second base -- his second swipe of the campaign -- and came around to score on an infield single by Harold Ramirez. Arozarena has just a .203 average and has yet to homer across 72 plate appearances to begin the season, though his production on the basepaths and nine runs scored are both positives in his stat line. | https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/rays-randy-arozarena-tallies-another-stolen-base/ | 2022-04-28T04:20:10Z | https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/rays-randy-arozarena-tallies-another-stolen-base/ | false | null |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
5-9-6-6
(five, nine, six, six)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
5-9-6-6
(five, nine, six, six) | https://www.sheltonherald.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-game-17132455.php | 2022-04-28T04:21:28Z | https://www.sheltonherald.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-game-17132455.php | true | null |
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