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LANSING, MI – Two players brought home $1 million, but there was no winner of the $20 million Powerball jackpot for the drawing held on Saturday, April 30.
That means the drawing on Monday, May 2 will be worth $27 million with a cash option of $16.1 million.
The Powerball Numbers (white) for April 30: 14-21-37-44-63
The Red Powerball Power Number: 1
The Power Play Number: 3
Double Play Numbers: 11-30-48-56-69
Double Play Powerball Number: 20
Powerball winners for April 30:
· While there was no grand prize winner, two players matched all five white numbers drawn to win $1 million. Those tickets were sold in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
· However, neither player also played the Power Play option which would have increased their winnings to $2 million.
· In Michigan, five tickets sold won $300 in the drawing. That was the largest prize won in the state.
· There were 447,932 tickets sold that won at least $4 in the drawing. In Michigan, 16,310 tickets sold won at least $4 in the drawing.
Powerball is offered in 44 States, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Players select five white numbers from (1 to 69) and one red ball (1 to 26). Tickets cost $2 each.
In other Michigan Lottery news:
· The next Mega Millions drawing is Tuesday, May 3 with an estimated jackpot of $57 million and a cash option of $33.9 million.
· The next Lotto 47 drawing is Wednesday, May 4 at 7:29 p.m. with a jackpot of $1.15 million. Deadline is 7:08 p.m. that day.
· Sunday’s Fantasy 5 jackpot is worth an estimated $100,000. The drawing is at 7:29 p.m. Deadline is 7:08 p.m.
For the latest on Michigan Lottery, check out the official Michigan Lottery site, which also offers more information on instant tickets, raffles and other lottery games.
The last players from Michigan to win a Mega Millions or Powerball jackpot is the Wolverine FLL lottery club which claimed a $1.05 billion jackpot in March 2021. With their winnings, the group plans to give back to the community.
And while they were lucky winners, it’s smart for players to check their tickets immediately as a winner worth $150,000 sold in Clarkston last year went unclaimed. The money instead went to the state’s School Aid Fund.
If you’d like to be the next player from Michigan to win a huge lottery prize, take a look at these tips from lottery expert Richard Lustig. The author of “Learn How To Increase Your Chances Of Winning The Lottery” has won more than $1 million in Florida by winning top jackpot prizes in smaller games. | https://www.mlive.com/lottery/2022/05/powerball-results-for-043022-jackpot-worth-20-million.html | 2022-05-01T14:51:05Z | https://www.mlive.com/lottery/2022/05/powerball-results-for-043022-jackpot-worth-20-million.html | true | 25 |
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Black doctors say they face discrimination based on race
ATLANTA (AP) — Dr. Dare Adewumi was thrilled when he was hired to lead the neurosurgery practice at an Atlanta-area hospital near where he grew up. But he says he quickly faced racial discrimination that ultimately led to his firing and has prevented him from getting permanent work elsewhere.
His lawyers and other advocates say he’s not alone, that Black doctors across the country commonly experience discrimination, ranging from microaggressions to career-threatening disciplinary actions. Biases, conscious or not, can become magnified in the fiercely competitive hospital environment, they say, and the underrepresentation of Black doctors can discourage them from speaking up.
“Too many of us are worried about retaliation, what happens when you say something,” said Dr. Rachel Villanueva, president of the National Medical Association, which represents Black doctors. “We have scores of doctors that are sending us letters about these same discriminatory practices all the time and seeking our help as an association in fighting that.”
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, Black doctors made up just 5% of active physicians in the U.S. in 2018, the most recent data available. People who identify as Black alone represent 12.4% of the total U.S. population, according to the 2020 U.S. census. For the 2021-2022 academic year, 8.1% of students enrolled in medical schools identified as Black alone. The medical school association and the National Medical Association in 2020 announced an initiative to address the scarcity of Black men in medicine — they made up only 2.9% of 2019-2020 enrolled students.
The American Medical Association, the country’s largest, most influential doctors’ group, is also trying to attract Black students to medicine, working with historically Black colleges and universities and helping secure scholarships, president Dr. Gerald Harmon said.
“We’re trying to put our money where our mouth is on this and our actions where our thoughts are,” he said, acknowledging that, among other things, a shortage of Black physicians contributes to poorer health outcomes for Black patients.
Some Black doctors who believe they’ve been mistreated are speaking out. Adewumi, 39, filed a federal lawsuit in September against Wellstar Medical Group and Wellstar Health Systems alleging employment discrimination based on race.
“If they don’t like him, that’s one thing, but you can’t penalize someone — according to the law — based on race,” his lawyer C.K. Hoffler said. “And that’s the exact thing that happened to Dare. And that’s what many, many highly skilled, highly trained, highly credentialed African American doctors are experiencing in this country.”
Adewumi said some of his surgical decisions were questioned and he was placed on a performance review plan, steps he says were a pretext to push him out. He said he had a previously unblemished record and his white colleagues didn’t face similar scrutiny.
“I’ve worked so hard, done so much to get to this level, and all I really wanted to do was help sick people,” he said. “And here I was having this taken away from me for no reason other than my skin color.”
William Hill, an attorney for Wellstar, said the case is sealed so he’s unable to speak about specifics.
“Wellstar does not discriminate. Dr. Adewumi has not been the subject of discrimination or unfair treatment. Patient care and safety are Wellstar’s top priorities,” Hill wrote in an email, noting that they have filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Dr. Stella Safo, an HIV specialist, is among a group of past and present employees at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at Mount Sinai in New York City who in April 2019 sued alleging sex, age and race discrimination. Some claims have been dismissed but others are moving forward. Safo’s claims focus on alleged gender discrimination, but she said that, as a Black woman, race and gender discrimination are intertwined. Since filing the lawsuit, she’s heard from a lot of people with similar stories.
Adewumi’s allegations don’t surprise her: “It’s what many of us have gone through directly,” she said.
Speaking out has been “terrible,” Safo said, adding that she risked her career and lost friendships. But she’s felt vindicated by changes: The New York City Council last year passed legislation to create an advisory board to examine racial and gender discrimination in hospitals.
A judge sealed Adewumi’s lawsuit and some filings in the case at the request of Wellstar, which cited confidential information. The following account of what happened comes from an interview with Adewumi and a complaint he filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which in July granted him permission to sue.
Adewumi signed on in March 2018 to lead neurosurgery services at Wellstar Cobb Hospital in Austell, Georgia. The hospital hadn’t had a neurosurgeon for a decade and referred patients elsewhere, including Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, where Adewumi’s supervisor worked.
As his practice started to flourish, Adewumi felt his supervisor was targeting him “with the intention of undermining my skill as a physician and pushing me out of the group,” the EEOC complaint says.
In November 2018, Adewumi began receiving “letters of inquiry” about surgeries he’d done. These anonymous letters can be submitted by any member of the medical staff or be triggered by a patient complaint. They’re reviewed by the hospital’s medical executive committee.
At first, Adewumi said, he didn’t know what the letters were, having never received anything similar. But within eight months, he had received 15, all but one filed by colleagues.
Separate independent reviews requested by the hospital and by Adewumi’s lawyers found that concerns stemmed from differences in opinion about the approach or surgical technique, not patient care standards or safety, according to the EEOC complaint.
In contrast, Adewumi said, he’s aware of at least two cases where white colleagues performed surgeries that were unnecessary or left a patient disfigured. He doesn’t believe they received letters of inquiry or were disciplined in any way.
After trying unsuccessfully to mend the relationship with his supervisor, Adewumi said he went up the chain to raise concerns and a hospital system executive suggested it might be better if he resigned. Floored by the suggestion, Adewumi refused to quit.
Wellstar then proposed an “action plan.” It wasn’t meant to be punitive but would help “better integrate” him into the main group of neurosurgeons at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, he was told.
Several Black doctors in Georgia and elsewhere who spoke to The Associated Press said the hierarchy and competition in hospitals, where surgeons are evaluated and compensated based on productivity, can lead to people being targeted if they aren’t liked or are perceived as professional threats. Racial bias can compound that, they said.
Adewumi suspects that’s what happened to him. Before arriving at Wellstar, he’d done two fellowships on spine and brain tumors, learning difficult techniques that others within the neurosurgery group couldn’t do. Additionally, his presence at Wellstar Cobb meant lucrative surgeries were no longer being referred to his colleagues at Wellstar Kennestone.
During an action plan check-in meeting in August 2019, medical executive committee leaders applauded Adewumi’s progress. Two months later, on Oct. 8, he was fired “not for cause.” He was assured he’d done “nothing wrong,” that he was being dismissed because “certain relationships were not fostered.”
His termination was effective at the end of a 180-day notice period, in April 2020, but he wasn’t required or allowed to work at the hospital in the meantime. That meant he couldn’t fulfill a six-week “mentorship” requirement, leaving his action plan incomplete.
In March 2020, as the coronavirus began to strain hospitals, he emailed Wellstar administrators offering to come back temporarily in any capacity to help. He figured the hospital could use extra hands, and it could allow him to complete his action plan and resolve his situation without suing. But Wellstar refused.
With his action plan incomplete, the hospital refused to give him a “letter of good standing,” leaving him unable to find a hospital that will credential him, meaning he can’t work as a neurosurgeon.
“They have cornered him and locked him out, effectively,” Hoffler said. “You don’t do this by happenstance, by mistake. This is intentional and deliberate and that is why we have a lawsuit pending.”
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Fiera Capital Corp raised its stake in shares of Invesco Advantage Municipal Income Trust II (NYSEAMERICAN:VKI – Get Rating) by 299.1% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 128,026 shares of the financial services provider’s stock after acquiring an additional 95,949 shares during the quarter. Fiera Capital Corp owned approximately 0.29% of Invesco Advantage Municipal Income Trust II worth $1,559,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in VKI. Morgan Stanley lifted its holdings in shares of Invesco Advantage Municipal Income Trust II by 8.3% during the 2nd quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 355,330 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $4,338,000 after purchasing an additional 27,171 shares during the last quarter. PFG Advisors purchased a new position in Invesco Advantage Municipal Income Trust II in the 3rd quarter worth $20,281,000. BOKF NA purchased a new position in Invesco Advantage Municipal Income Trust II in the 3rd quarter worth $125,000. Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. raised its stake in Invesco Advantage Municipal Income Trust II by 8.8% in the 3rd quarter. Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. now owns 55,765 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $694,000 after acquiring an additional 4,515 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Guggenheim Capital LLC raised its stake in Invesco Advantage Municipal Income Trust II by 0.7% in the 3rd quarter. Guggenheim Capital LLC now owns 1,272,513 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $15,843,000 after acquiring an additional 8,594 shares during the last quarter. 21.98% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
NYSEAMERICAN:VKI opened at $9.38 on Friday. Invesco Advantage Municipal Income Trust II has a 52 week low of $9.21 and a 52 week high of $12.88.
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Poorer areas have been hit disproportionally by a combination of cuts to neighbourhood services such as parks, libraries, refuse collection and children’s centres that have left English councils “hollowed out” since 2010, a major report into local government has concluded.
The study by the Institute for Government thinktank found that while some councils coped better than others, and reduced spending did not necessarily mean worse results, a lack of information made it difficult to learn lessons.
There are currently performance indicators for only about a third of local government spending, the report said, with better data needed if ministers wanted to implement their stated plan to “level up” different areas of the country.
Based on analysis of spending and outcomes, as well as anonymous interviews with council chief executives and chief finance officers, the report highlighted a series of sometimes unintended consequences from the severe cuts that began with austerity policies in 2010.
The combination of reduced central grants and growing expenditure on mandatory adult and child social care obligations meant a significant fall in basic services.
All English local authorities had reduced spending on such provision since 2010, the report found, but the extent of this varied from a 5% cut in in East Sussex to 69% in Barking and Dagenham.
The impact was often felt in more deprived areas, which saw a disproportionate number of library closures and reductions in local bus routes.
This was, the report said, because the way grants were changed over the past decade did not take proper account of how poorer areas were more dependent on central government help.
But the report, Neighbourhood Services Under Strain, noted that there was no noticeable correlation between the reduction in spending and worse performance, with some councils more successfully managing efficiencies or being able to raise revenues from other sources.
It was, however, difficult to learn lessons due to a lack of information. Despite ministerial pledges to provide more data as part of levelling up efforts, “there are still big gaps in what the government knows about local service performance”, said Graham Atkins, the report’s author.
He said: “If the government truly wants to understand how and why performance varies, it will have to collect new, comparable local data on the quality and accessibility of services.”
A key change to the provision of council services since 2010, the report found, has been a focus on providing statutory services, not just in social care but areas such as waste collection, homelessness, and bus passes, with often inadvertent knock-on effects.
One example cited was a prioritisation of acute child services at the expense of those such as children’s centres, even though this could cost more money in the long term if the lack of early support created more demand for statutory services later on.
Economies on waste disposal and recycling have meant that while less rubbish was now sent to landfill, it was simply more likely to be incinerated, with the proportion being recycled barely rising since 2010.
An example cited in the report about the difficulty of comparing local authority services was the impact on libraries. A third of all libraries have closed amid a 44% reduction in spending since 2010.
There is, however, little relationship between spending and closures, because many cost savings come through means such as fewer staff and reduced opening hours. The effect has been a 52% reduction in the number of library visits per person between 2009/10 and 2019/20.
“The overall picture is of smaller local authorities, doing less than they did in 2010,” the report found. “Local government in England has been hollowed out since 2010.”
The Department for Levelling up, Housing and Communities was contacted for comment. | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/01/local-government-in-england-hollowed-out-under-conservatives | 2022-05-01T15:17:45Z | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/01/local-government-in-england-hollowed-out-under-conservatives | false | 2 |
Cheryl Hancock, newly elected president of the Holmen School Board and former Democrat candidate for the 94th Assembly District, recently admitted that she lied to the public with a fake Facebook account. Evidence suggests that this account was used to manipulate voters in the recent school board elections.
The behavior that Democrats like Cheryl participate in is shameful and she should resign immediately.
The taxpayers who live and work and pay the freight for her to sit in that seat have lost trust in her decision-making ability. If she is willing to lie about who she is online then what else is she hiding from taxpayers? She claims that her actions are her own but as president she represents the whole school district.
Every decision coming from the Holmen School District will be tainted with the stain of corruption and everyone will second guess whether future decisions are just another lie. To give Holmen School District a chance to begin the process of restoring trust, Cheryl must be removed from office. A resignation is the simplest solution but forced removal is on the table too. The children are watching to see if adults with important positions must follow the rules just like the rest.
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Arsenal have confirmed that centre-back Ben White has a hamstring injury ahead of West Ham clash.
The Gunners are in desperate need of a win as they continue their quest to qualify for next season's UEFA Champions League. However, they will be without White for the trip to east London, confirming that the England international is currently suffering with a hamstring problem.
A club statement on their Twitter account read: "Ben White misses out on today's matchday squad with a tight hamstring." Fellow Englishman Rob Holding has taken White's place in Mikel Arteta's starting XI.
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The former Brighton star has enjoyed a solid debut campaign at the Emirates, impressing former boss Graham Potter in the process. Now, Potter has praised both player and club for helping White to develop. Speaking about White last month Potter said: "He has certainly made progress and congratulations to him, Mikel [Arteta], and the staff at Arsenal, he's taken a step.
"When we made the sale we thought that would happen because he's a good age, a good person, good player, good qualities. I think Arsenal deserve credit, they identified him, they paid the fee and they recognised what it was they wanted and they have used it well.
[He] got off to a shaky start, I think in the first game of the season in a defeat to Brentford but from then he has grown and grown. You can see his quality and what he brings to the team." The 24-year-old has registered 13 clean sheets in 31 Premier League appearances this term. | https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/breaking-white-arsenal-west-ham-23838066 | 2022-05-01T15:19:38Z | https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/breaking-white-arsenal-west-ham-23838066 | true | 1 |
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SHANGHAI, May 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yum China Holdings, Inc. (the "Company" or "Yum China", NYSE: YUMC and HKEX: 9987) today announced at a special event in Shanghai a series of corporate citizenship initiatives under the theme of "Million Thanks, Million Gifts" to express gratitude to medical workers nationwide that have supported the COVID-19 response in Shanghai.
As the largest restaurant company in China, Yum China is committed to leveraging its scale and expertise to support communities in Shanghai and across the country. On May 1st, to honor International Labor Day, Yum China contributed, out of its limited supply, hundreds of free meals, including fried chicken, pizza, sandwiches and coffee to medical workers in four makeshift hospitals in Shanghai. In addition, as a token of appreciation for their selfless service, the Company has prepared over 30,000 care packages to be distributed to medical workers nationwide when they return to their home from Shanghai. The packages include ready meal products such as fried rice, steak, and beef patty from KFC and Pizza Hut's packaged food selections.
"As we are facing unprecedented challenges from the most severe outbreak since early 2020, we are extremely grateful for the tireless efforts of medical workers and volunteers during this difficult time. We hope that our convenient and delicious food can bring them some additional comfort." said Joey Wat, CEO of Yum China. "In addition to supporting medical workers, Yum China's volunteers come together across brands and functions to continue serving communities in need. Their tremendous efforts embody our mission to serve the communities we operate in."
Yum China was one of the first authorized essential service suppliers to serve communities during the latest outbreak in Shanghai. The Company's brands have been supplying food and drinks to medical workers and volunteers. Notably, despite limited restaurant service capacity, since early April KFC has provided over 3,000 breakfasts every day to frontline medical workers and Lavazza has also been providing coffee and sandwiches to frontline medical workers. Meanwhile, as part of Yum China's efforts to care for the community, the Company has collaborated with charity foundations and NGOs to provide 7,000 elderly people living alone with sufficient ready meal products to last several days. KFC has also donated children's books to quarantine centers.
"On International Labor Day, we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to all medical workers from several regions across China supporting Shanghai during these difficult times," said Alice Wang, Chief Public Affairs Officer of Yum China, who oversaw the event. "We are humbled by their sacrifices, dedication, and unwavering efforts throughout the pandemic. We hope they and their families can enjoy these packages together when they return home."
Since entering China 35 years ago, Yum China has been actively fulfilling its corporate social responsibilities, including serving and supporting communities. Since COVID-19 first emerged in early 2020, Yum China's employee volunteers have been active in supporting communities, delivering over a million free meals to communities across the country.
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About Yum China Holdings, Inc.
Yum China Holdings, Inc. is a licensee of Yum! Brands in mainland China. It has exclusive rights in mainland China to KFC, China's leading quick-service restaurant brand, Pizza Hut, the leading casual dining restaurant brand in China, and Taco Bell, a California-based restaurant chain serving innovative Mexican-inspired food. Yum China also owns the Little Sheep, Huang Ji Huang, East Dawning and COFFii & JOY concepts outright. In addition, Yum China has partnered with Lavazza to explore and develop the Lavazza coffee shop concept in China. The Company had 12,163 restaurants in over 1,600 cities at the end of February 2022.
In 2021, Yum China ranked # 363 on the Fortune 500 list and was named to TIME100 Most Influential Companies list. Yum China has also been selected as member of both Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI): World Index and Emerging Market Index. In 2022, the Company was named to the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index and was certified as a Top Employer 2022 in China by the Top Employers Institute, both for the fourth consecutive year. For more information, please visit http://ir.yumchina.com.
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The government through the health department is on high alert after the emergence of Ebola virus cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Kenya on high alert after DR Congo reports cases of Ebola
Everyone entering the country is being screened for the virus at the border points
Dr Samoel Khamadi, a senior research scientist and Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Director Centre for Virus Research, said all necessary protocol to curb the spread of the virus are in force to ensure the deadly virus does not find its way into the country.
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Sandstorm Gold: Industry-Leading Organic Growth At A Reasonable Price
Summary
- Sandstorm Gold continues to be one of the worst-performing royalty/streamers year-to-date, down 10% vs. positive returns for Franco-Nevada Gold, Vox Royalty, and Abitibi Royalties.
- Unfortunately, the company's Q3 gold-equivalent sales didn't help much, with sales down 10% on a two-year basis from 17,300 gold-equivalent ounces in Q3 2019.
- However, with Sandstorm 40% below its Q3 2020 highs, I believe the softer results are priced in, and I would expect robust results from the HM Feasibility Study by year-end.
- Given Sandstorm's meaningful organic growth opportunity if it can bring HM online by 2025, I would view any pullbacks below $6.20 as low-risk buying opportunities.
Investors in the precious metals sector have had to endure a rough 13-month stretch, with the Gold Juniors Index (GDXJ) sliding by more than 43% from peak to trough in the period, and many names, like Freegold Ventures (OTCQX:FGOVF), down as much as 60%. Despite Sandstorm's (NYSE:SAND) low-risk business model relative to its peers, the stock has not been immune from the sector-wide carnage, plunging 49% in just over a year from its recent low at $5.45. However, with the stock trading at less than 1.0x P/NAV, the sell-off looks overdone, with what looks like a capitulation low recently on October 5th. Given Sandstorm's meaningful organic growth opportunity if it can bring HM online by 2025, I would view any pullbacks below $6.20 as low-risk buying opportunities.
(Source: Company Presentation)
Sandstorm Gold released its preliminary Q3 results earlier this month, reporting attributable sales of ~15,500 gold-equivalent ounces [GEOs], a 28% increase from the year-ago period. However, Sandstorm was up against easy year-over-year comps last year due to COVID-19 disruptions, and on a two-year basis, quarterly attributable GEO sales fell by 10% (Q3 2019: 17,300 GEOs). This is one of the worst growth rates sector-wide, with companies like Franco-Nevada Gold (FNV) posting 25% growth on a two-year basis in the same period. Initially, Sandstorm dropped sharply on this news but recovered all of this gain immediately, closing up 6.6% for the week. When stocks stop falling on bad news, this is often a sign that they are near a turning point, suggesting that we've seen the lows for Sandstorm at $5.45. Let's take a closer look below:
(Source: Company Filings, Author's Chart)
As shown in the chart above, Sandstorm's attributable growth in GEO sales has been nothing short of pathetic, with a compound annual GEO sales growth rate of 2.0% since Q3 2017 (15,500 vs. 14,300). This pales in comparison to sector leader Franco-Nevada, with a 7.8% compound annual GEO sales growth rate in the same period. Relative to names like Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Sandstorm has a slightly higher compound annual GEO sales growth rate. Still, on a per-share basis, it's significantly lower, given that Sandstorm has seen moderate share dilution since 2017, related to its purchase of Mariana Resources (OTC:MRLDF). If the bonanza-grade Hod Maden Project were built on schedule (see below), this would have been a different story. In fact, Sandstorm would be trouncing its peers from a growth standpoint. However, with continuous delays and a revised timeline that has trailed well behind expectations, the company's growth has been disappointing.
TRANSACTION HIGHLIGHTS
- 100% increase in production for 19% dilution;
- Hot Maden anchor asset is expected to increase the Company's attributable gold equivalent ounces to more than 135,000 by 2022, increasing operating cash flow to more than US$100 million (based on a US$1,250 per ounce gold price).
- Sandstorm Gold announces closing of Mariana Resources Acquisition, August 2017
Having said that, at a certain point, punishing a company for delays and looking in the rear-view mirror becomes old, especially if the stock has been punished by the market already for its missteps relating to guidance/timelines. I would argue that this is certainly the case here, with Sandstorm Gold sitting below its Q3 2016 highs when the gold price was sitting at $1,375/oz (below chart). Obviously, this disappointing performance can't change the opportunity cost for patient investors, but it does provide a very low-risk entry point for new investors, especially if the valuation is right. As we'll examine from a valuation standpoint later, Sandstorm continues to be very reasonably valued if it can execute successfully on Hod Maden from here on out.
(Source: TC2000.com)
Before digging into the valuation, it's worth discussing Hod Maden, which is due to release a Feasibility Study [FS] by year-end. Given the sharp increase that we've seen in upfront capital expenditures for other projects sector-wide, the delay in releasing the Hod Maden FS may have some investors nervous that we will see a massive increase in upfront capex, and the possibility of a much less robust study, with a smaller reserve base as feasibility studies are generally more conservative. The anxiety about upfront capex stems from inflation readings, which continue to remain elevated, the United States annual inflation hitting a 13-year high in September. As of the Pre-Feasibility Study, upfront capex was estimated at $272 million.
(Source: Pre-Feasibility Study Presentation, Sandstorm Gold)
Even if we see an increase from $340 to $370 million in upfront capex, I do not see this as a deal-breaker for two reasons.
First, this would still be one of the most attractive gold projects globally, with an average annual production profile of more than 260,000 GEOs at all-in sustaining costs below $500/oz. There is a shortage of projects of this quality globally, and most cost much more than $400 million to build. For example, Sabina's (OTCQX:SGSVF) Back River is expected to produce ~$460 million to build, with an average production profile of ~230,000 ounces at all-in sustaining costs of $775/oz. Elsewhere, Troilus (OTCQX:CHXMF) is hoping to build its Troilus Gold Project this decade, with upfront capex that should come in above $450 million after adjusting for inflation, with ~245,000 ounces produced for the first 14 years.
The chart below shows how Hod Maden stacks up to other projects, and it's clear that it's one of a kind. Assuming upfront capex comes in even 25% higher ($340 million), this would still be well below the average for undeveloped projects of this size (~$410 million). The second chart below shows how robust Hod Maden is from an operating cost standpoint, with one of the largest production profiles but margins that are off the charts for undeveloped projects. In this chart, I have assumed a 20% increase to all-in sustaining costs to be conservative, with the chart showing how Hod Maden would stack up with a 265,000-ounce production profile and all-in sustaining costs of $447/oz ($372/oz PFS costs x 1.20). As is clear, Sandstorm has a 30% interest in arguably the most attractive undeveloped medium-scale gold project from a strict economics standpoint, outside of maybe Skeena's (OTCQX:SKREF) Eskay Creek.
(Source: Company Filings, Author's Chart)
(Source: Company Filings, Author's Chart)
The second point worth addressing is that Sandstorm's contribution is relatively small. This is because it's a minority project owner but has a massive 30% net profit interest and 2% net smelter return royalty. As of 2018, Sandstorm's contribution was projected at $28.5 million, with the majority of the project to be funded with debt and Lidya making up the other $66.5 million. If we adjusted these figures for ~$350 million in upfront capex, Sandstorm's portion would come in closer to $37 million, which is still a very small contribution for the company, and the higher capex should not lead to degradation in the After-Tax NPV (5%), given that the higher gold price assumption will easily offset the potential 25% increase in upfront capex.
Finally, from a reserve standpoint, proven and probable reserves stood at 2.61 million ounces of gold and 129,000 tonnes of copper in the Pre-Feasibility Study, with the study envisioning an 11-year mine life. In some cases, projects become much less robust as they move from the Preliminary Economic Assessment ---> Pre-Feasibility Study ---> Feasibility Study stage as more conservative assumptions are used, and in some cases, higher cut-off grades. However, with Hod Maden being one of the highest-grade undeveloped projects globally, it's unlikely that we will see much change in the reserve base.
(Source: Hod Maden Feasibility Study)
In summary, a decline in the reserve base translating to a shorter mine life should not be much of a worry for investors either. This is because of the project's average reserve grade of 8.9 grams per tonne gold and 1.4% copper. As of the Pre-Feasibility Study, the cut-off sat at 2.60 grams per tonne gold-equivalent. Even if cut-off grades were increased slightly, this would not pull many ounces out of the mine plan with a gold-equivalent reserve grade that's 300% higher. Meanwhile, base case commodity price assumptions were $1,300/oz and $3.00/pound copper, with prices sitting more than 35% higher for each commodity currently. Let's look at the recent financials:
(Source: Company Filings, Author's Chart)
As shown above, increased metals prices have boosted Sandstorm's revenue; fortunately, even if attributable GEO sales have mostly flatlined over the past two years. Based on preliminary Q3 numbers, revenue is expected to come in at $27.6 million, up 15% on a two-year basis. While this figure lags sector leaders like Franco-Nevada, these are still solid results. Meanwhile, from an earnings standpoint, annual earnings per share [EPS] is expected to increase by more than 80% from FY2019 levels based on current FY2021 estimates ($0.17 vs. $0.09). On a five-year basis, there has been no growth in annual EPS ($0.17 vs. $0.17), but as discussed earlier, this is due to the timing of Hod Maden production and dilution related to the deal vs. the delays we've seen. Therefore, valuing Sandstorm on an earnings multiple basis is more difficult, given that it has massive growth in the tank that's paid for at Hod Maden that won't even show up in the FY2023 earnings estimates ($0.24 currently).
(Source: YCharts.com, Author's Chart)
If we look at Sandstorm on a sum of the parts of net asset value basis, Sandstorm's NAV comes in at ~$1.30 billion, or $6.53 per share based on ~199 million shares outstanding. Currently, Sandstorm trades at $6.48, leaving the stock trading at just below 1.0x P/NAV. This is a very reasonable valuation for a company with the potential to double its annual GEO sales by FY2025 (130,000 GEOs vs. 65,000 GEOs in FY2021), and the lowest-quarter costs among its partners vs. peers (shown below). Having said that, this will require no further delays on Hod Maden, with the production timeline already pushed out to mid-2024.
(Source: Company Presentation)
Looking at the technical picture, Sandstorm's recent decline to a very reasonable valuation is lining up with a violent correction to its lower channel line, which has previously provided excellent buying opportunities. As we can see, the stock recently undercut this level but has since regained it, with this level coming in at $6.20 - $6.30. This is similar to what we saw during the March 2020 correction, and Sandstorm enjoyed strong forward returns after re-entering its channel from below.
(Source: TC2000.com)
(Source: TC2000.com)
Zooming in on the chart above, we can see that Sandstorm has updated support at $5.95, its lower channel line at $6.25, and no resistance until $6.75. This translates to a reward/risk ratio of 2.4 to 1, with $0.53 in downside to $5.95 support and $1.27 in upside to $7.75 resistance. To get to the ideal 5/1 reward/risk ratio, Sandstorm would have to dip below $6.25 and closer to $5.95 support. Obviously, this doesn't have to happen, and it is possible Sandstorm continues up from here, given its very reasonable valuation. However, the updated low-risk buy zone now sits at $6.25 or lower following the recent channel line break. In summary, if we see any weakness into year-end, this should provide a very low-risk buying opportunity.
(Source: Company Presentation)
Sandstorm may not have the best track record of meeting timelines, and it certainly doesn't have the best growth profile over the past few years relative to its peers from an attributable sales standpoint. However, it does have one of the best looking forward growth rates in the sector, with a potential compound annual GEO sales growth rate of ~18% looking out to FY2025. Given this solid organic growth profile, it's hard to ignore the stock at this very reasonable valuation. So, while this may not be an instance of buying an incredible company at an incredible price like Franco-Nevada in March 2020, this is the case of buying a decent company at a very fair price. As noted above, Sandstorm's updated low-risk buy zone comes in at $6.25, suggesting further weakness will present a buying opportunity.
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Click here to read the full article. ABC’s The Rookie this Sunday aired Part 1 of a backdoor spinoff pilot, about Simone Clark aka the oldest FBI trainee (played by Claws‘ Niecy Nash). What’s your knee-jerk reaction to this potential offshoot?
Part 1 of the planted spinoff pilot, titled “Simone,” opened with Nolan and Chen investigating suspicious activity at a power station in Griffith Park. Surveying the premises, Nolan spotted a bomb, and they both darted outside just as the device went boom. In the aftermath, the FBI arrived on the scene — in the form of Agent Matthew Garza (played... | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2587136939803/the-rookie-episode-4-21 | 2022-05-01T15:53:19Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2587136939803/the-rookie-episode-4-21 | true | null |
Morning Edition continues its popular Fourth of July tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence on the air. NPR Online offers a multimedia presentation featuring the names and faces of the NPR hosts, reporters, newscasters and commentators reading the nation's founding document.
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SEBASTIAN, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida are investigating what happened to an elderly woman whose body was found in a freezer in her garage.
The Sebastian Police Department said in a news release they responded to 93-year-old Marie Hoskins' home after neighbors who had not seen her recently asked for a welfare check.
Officers found the body in the freezer after searching the home. It was occupied by Hoskins' 64-year-old daughter, who told police she “hadn't seen her mother Marie in some time,” according to the statement. The daughter's name was not released.
No one had been charged as of Sunday. Authorities also did not immediately release a cause of death but did say the local medical examiner was involved.
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M&T Bank Corp lowered its position in iShares MSCI Sweden ETF (NYSEARCA:EWD – Get Rating) by 30.3% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 9,202 shares of the company’s stock after selling 4,003 shares during the quarter. M&T Bank Corp owned about 0.06% of iShares MSCI Sweden ETF worth $426,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Morgan Stanley grew its holdings in iShares MSCI Sweden ETF by 37.8% during the 2nd quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 643,127 shares of the company’s stock worth $29,842,000 after acquiring an additional 176,278 shares in the last quarter. Fisher Asset Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of iShares MSCI Sweden ETF during the fourth quarter valued at about $15,125,000. UBS Group AG lifted its position in shares of iShares MSCI Sweden ETF by 105.4% during the third quarter. UBS Group AG now owns 323,488 shares of the company’s stock valued at $14,508,000 after buying an additional 165,995 shares during the last quarter. HighTower Advisors LLC lifted its position in shares of iShares MSCI Sweden ETF by 2.7% during the third quarter. HighTower Advisors LLC now owns 177,145 shares of the company’s stock valued at $7,937,000 after buying an additional 4,651 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Citadel Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of iShares MSCI Sweden ETF during the third quarter valued at about $7,431,000. 28.99% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Shares of iShares MSCI Sweden ETF stock opened at $35.91 on Friday. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $38.01 and a 200 day moving average price of $42.80. iShares MSCI Sweden ETF has a 52 week low of $32.93 and a 52 week high of $49.46.
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Pianist Guy Livingston commissioned dozens of composers to write 60-second compositions for him. He talks with Weekend Edition Sunday's Lynn Neary about the resulting album, Dont Panic! 60 Seconds for Piano, and about why anyone would possibly take on such a project.
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Buffett says Berkshire’s success is more about being ‘sane’ than ‘smart’
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has beaten the broader market so far this year. But the Oracle of Omaha wasn’t willing to declare himself an investing genius during Saturday’s annual shareholder meeting.
Buffett simply said that the Berkshire Hathaway strategy is all about making rational decisions and investing for the long haul.
“It’s not because we’re smart. It’s because we’re sane,” Buffett said during the meeting of Berkshire investors.
Buffett brushed off compliments from one questioner about how he times the stock market so well. Buffett said that he never really knows what stocks or the economy will do in the short-term.
He also joked that his bullish bets on the market often look bad at first, saying that he spent a big portion of his net worth in 2008 during the Great Recession buying stocks at “a terrible time … a really dumb time.” Berkshire made investments in Goldman Sachs and General Electric, among other blue chips, before the market finally bottomed in March 2009.
“We have never timed anything,” Buffett said, adding that the success of the company’s long-term “buy and hold” investment strategy is “simple.”
Both Buffett and Berkshire vice chairman Charlie Munger lamented how speculators have seemingly taken over Wall Street. Munger described the casino-like atmosphere and Buffett called the market a “gambling parlor.”
Worries about inflation but praise for Powell
Buffett didn’t talk at great length during the meeting about this year’s market volatility. But he did say that inflation is a big problem, one that “swindles almost everybody.”
And he gave big plaudits to Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell for his actions to battle the economic crisis caused by Covid-19, even though some argue that the Fed’s low rates have helped fuel inflation pressures.
Buffett said Powell was a “hero” for being aggressive and quickly slashing rates at the start of the pandemic instead of sitting by and “thumb sucking.”
Buffett also hinted that Berkshire could take advantage of sell-offs, saying that the firm “depends” upon market behavior creating mispriced opportunities for the company.
Along those lines, Berkshire has made some aggressive moves of late. The company announced an $11.6 billion purchase of insurance company Alleghany in March and also has recently disclosed big stakes in oil firm Occidental Petroleum and tech giant HP.
Berkshire said in its earnings release Saturday that it has increased its stake in Chevron. The oil giant is now Berkshire’s fourth largest stock holding, trailing only Apple, Bank of America and American Express.
Buffett also disclosed during the annual meeting that Berkshire Hathaway has boosted its stake in video game maker Activision Blizzard. Berkshire first invested in Activision in late 2021, before Microsoft announced plans in January to buy the company for nearly $70 billion.
Activision’s stock price is below the proposed takeover price. Buffett said that he made the decision to buy more of the stock as an “arbitrage” bet that the deal will eventually get done.
These moves come just a few weeks after Buffett wrote in his annual shareholder letter that he was having difficulty finding stocks to buy at attractive prices. But following the Berkshire buying binge, its cash on hand has fallen from about $147 billion at the end of 2021 to around $106 billion at the end of the first quarter.
Why the change of heart? Munger, in his typically blunt fashion, said that he and Buffett “found some things we preferred owning to Treasury bills.”
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Lisa Vanderpump says there are still plenty of “stories” to tell should Vanderpump Rules be picked up for what would be its 10th season.
There have been questions floating around as to whether or not Bravo would choose to renew the hit show. And although there’s been no official word about a 10th season, it seems Lisa is hopeful that the stories of the Vanderpump Rules cast will continue.
While speaking to Hollywood Life, Lisa teased that there would be plenty of content to share in a new season and revealed she’s hoping that she and the cast will be back on viewers’ screens soon.
Lisa Vanderpump teases return of Vanderpump Rules despite not yet being renewed
While speaking with the outlet, Lisa shared that although nothing has officially been announced about a VPR return, it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
“Now you know I know more than you do. So you’re not getting that much, but there’s a lot of story,” she said. “I don’t think it’s quite finished. We haven’t quite finished telling it but nothing’s announced. So you know when it’s announced I’m sure you’ll be one of the first!”
After the mass firing of several key Vanderpump Rules cast members ahead of the show’s ninth season, viewers wondered how it would impact the cast’s dynamic. With familiar faces such as Jax Taylor, Brittany Cartwright, Stassi Schroeder, and Kristen Doute making their exits, the show was required to fill the gap.
The idea of bringing the show back for a tenth season isn’t a wild idea, especially considering what has unfolded in the lives of several Pump Rules stars in recent months.
Potential Season 10 storylines may include newly single cast members
Since wrapping Season 9, certain cast members have seen their lives upended since the season finale aired.
As previously reported by Monsters and Critics, Lala Kent ended her three-year engagement to film producer Randall Emmett after rumors surfaced online claiming he cheated on the Give Them Lala founder. Since their split, Lala has continued to insist there is proof of Randall’s indiscretions that will eventually “come to the light.”
Raquel Leviss and James Kennedy’s engagement, which took up a good portion of the Season 9 storylines, announced the end of their relationship during the latest season’s reunion special. Since ending their relationship in December 2021, James has begun a new relationship with his latest flame Ally Lewber.
For her part, Raquel recently revealed she went on her first date post-split with co-star Peter Madrigal, although she clarified it was a “friendly” date.
The latest shakeup to the Vanderpump Rules crew came with the shocking news that Katie Maloney and husband, Tom Schwartz, decided to end their relationship of over 12 years. Although Tom has maintained he is still “madly in love” with his wife, Katie made her intentions known by officially filing for divorce.
With all the personal drama taking place in the lives of several Vanderpump Rules stars, it seems there could be plenty in store for viewers should the show return for another season.
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Songs of longing and despair are a national tradition in Portugal — a music called fado. And a singer named Misia is the reigning queen of the mournful, melancholy musical genre. Misia talks with guest host Jacki Lyden about fado and Portugal's emotional inner life.
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Chaos for Brits in Spain as they are BANNED from driving after failure to reach deal over UK licences
BRITISH ex-pats living in Spain are facing weeks of travel chaos after being banned from the roads in a government bungle over licences.
Tens of thousands of Brits will not be allowed to use their UK licences on Spanish roads after the two countries failed to reach an agreement.
Holidaymakers will not be affected by the gaffe, but those who have moved to the country will be unable to drive.
Whitehall sources have blamed Spanish bureaucrats for delaying talks and missing the April 30 deadline.
Brits living in the country have been able to use their DVLA-issued licences up until this point, and every other European country has agreed a post-Brexit deal.
Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith told the Mail on Sunday: “It’s a case of “Manana, manana. It’s time they pull their finger out and do what they agreed.”
A UK Government source said: “This could go on for a week or it could be longer.
"It should be temporary but we don’t know how temporary. In the meantime, British residents living in Spanish hill villages won’t be able to drive a car.”
A Foreign Office spokesman added: “An agreement to swap UK driving licences for Spanish licences has not yet been reached.
"We have agreed to rapidly accelerate talks and are urging the Spanish Government to bring forward interim measures.”
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The blunder means that UK expats have to obtain a Spanish driving licence before hitting the roads in their cars.
Malaga-based Sam Britton-Beese said: “It’s ridiculous. Our application for residency was still in process before the deadline so we couldn’t register to exchange.”
Linda Rogers, originally from Coventry, added: “Our house is in the mountains and nothing is close by – I’ve tried to get into a driving school but nothing is available.” | https://www.thesun.ie/motors/8730653/chaos-brits-spain-banned-driving-fail-deal-license/ | 2022-05-01T16:11:49Z | https://www.thesun.ie/motors/8730653/chaos-brits-spain-banned-driving-fail-deal-license/ | false | 3 |
THE US MILITARY OFFICE IN LUSAKA WILL BRING TECHNOLOGY, TOURISM – MWEETWA
Larry Mweetwa says contrary to the assertions by the PF that the opening of a US Military office in Lusaka threatens the country’s peace, it will actually enhance the technology in the defense forces and military tourism.
Dr Mweetwa who boasts to have been trained by one of the most best Armies in the world says:
What USA is doing is to streamline objectives and have an office of security cooperation that has different objectives, mandate and scope from the usual military attaché goals.
We know the PF leader is a seasoned diplomat but he lacks understanding of military training. Some of us had a privilege of training with the best military armies on the planet 🌎. We know how Establishment of a USA Military base is most welcome, it will bring military technological transfer to Zambia and most importantly military tourism which has its own economic benefits.
While we appreciate the role of the opposition is to oppose government, but it’s not everything you oppose even in area you have basic or No knowledge at all.
We admonish his excellency Amb Mwamba to focus on rebranding PF which is sinking like a Titanic and seek apologise to the Zambian people for the trauma and Mental toucher his party and thugs brought to Our beautiful country.
We still have people scared of going to Soweto market thinking carders are still existing. | https://zambianobserver.com/the-us-military-office-in-lusaka-will-bring-technology-tourism-larry-mweetwa/ | 2022-05-01T16:26:05Z | https://zambianobserver.com/the-us-military-office-in-lusaka-will-bring-technology-tourism-larry-mweetwa/ | true | 1 |
On Tuesday, U.S. Senate voted to approve Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as a permanent repository for the nation's deadliest nuclear waste. NPR's David Kestenbaum visited the site and talked with a Department of Energy scientist about the biggest threats to keeping nearby areas safe from the threat of radiation: time, and rain.
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Hundreds of urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, but it's not because people are leaving.
It's just that the U.S. Census Bureau is changing the definition of an urban area. Under the new criteria, more than 1,300 small cities, towns and villages designated urban a decade ago would be considered rural.
That matters because urban and rural areas qualify for different types of federal funding. Some communities worry the change could affect health clinics in rural areas as well as transportation and education funding from federal programs. But leaders in other communities designated to lose their urban status say it won't make a difference.
“We are rural and we feel rural, and that’s how we already identify," said Randy Reeg, city administrator of Mauston, Wisconsin, a city of 4,347 residents about 75 miles (120 kilometers) northwest of Madison.
Groups like the American Hospital Association say the changes, which are the biggest being made to the definitions in decades, could cause problems for people who need medical care in rural areas.
“Going with the new definition could limit the number of rural health clinics moving forward and have a negative impact on rural access to care," said Shannon Wu, senior associate director of policy at the hospital association.
For starters, the Census Bureau is switching to housing units instead of people as the basis for calculating what should be an urban area. Bureau officials say the change will make it easier to update between once-a-decade head counts of the U.S. They also contend that it's needed because a new privacy method introduces errors into 2020 census population numbers at small geographies to protect people's identities. Housing counts stay accurate under the method.
A place had to have at least 2,500 people to be urban under old criteria that lasted more than a century. Now, it will need at least 2,000 housing units, the equivalent of about 5,000 people. A revised list of urban areas won’t be released until later this year, but a third of the areas deemed urban a decade ago would be knocked into the rural category under the new criteria.
Places with 50,000 residents or more were considered “urbanized areas," compared with “urban clusters" having between 2,500 and 49,999 residents in the past. But those distinctions will be eliminated and all will be called urban areas under the new definition.
Some communities worry that the switch to housing units will cause some areas to be underestimated if the Census Bureau uses the U.S. average of 2.6 people per household for its calculations. For instance, Madera County, California, has 3.3 people per household, and the change “would not fully represent the community,” Patricia Taylor, executive director of the Madera County Transportation Commission, said in a letter to the bureau last year.
The Census Bureau says the new definition should be used for statistical purposes only. But the bureau's urban areas form the cores of metro and micro areas, and its definitions provide the basis for how other agencies classify urban and rural areas in determining eligibility for federal funding. The bureau reviews the definitions every 10 years after a census, and the urban population has grown from about 45% of the total U.S. population in 1910 to more than 80% a decade ago.
“We’ve heard people say 2,500 was too low. That was the impetus for the increase,” said Michael Ratcliffe, a senior geographer with the Census Bureau.
Different federal programs use different definitions of urban and rural, and some communities qualify for rural funding for some programs and not others. But any changes “will have significant implications for many groups and communities," said Kenneth Johnson, a senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire who studies rural issues.
“Another likely concern for many rural communities is that if many existing urban areas are redefined as rural, competition for the limited rural funds will increase," Johnson said.
A coalition of associations representing cities, counties, planners and transportation groups had objected to many of the proposed changes last year, saying the switch from people to housing units would miss variations in development and land use patterns.
The Census Bureau tried to address those concerns by creating three levels of urban area definitions for census blocks, which are the nation’s smallest geographic unit. Census blocks will be urban if they have 425 housing units per square mile, the equivalent of 1,105 people. Before the change, census blocks with at least 500 people per square mile were considered urban.
The redesignation gives the bureau a way to distinguish between the “urban nucleus" and less densely populated areas, typically on the fringes of urban areas.
Bill Keyrouze, executive director of Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, said the Census Bureau's revisions, adding different levels of urban areas based on density, “was an adequate compromise."
For the town of DeMotte, Indiana, 85 miles (135 kilometers) southwest of South Bend, which won't qualify as an urban area anymore, it doesn’t really matter from a “status” viewpoint, Town Manager Michael Cain said.
“You are who you are. The number of people doesn’t matter. It’s the spirit of the community that matters, whether your town is a cohesive group of people who care about each other,” Cain said.
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A woman was rescued Sunday from the rubble of a building in central China more than 50 hours after it collapsed, state media said. Separately, police arrested nine people, including the building owner, on suspicion of causing a major liability accident, the official Xinhua News Agency said, per the AP. State broadcaster CCTV showed video of rescuers bringing the woman out on a stretcher about 4:30pm. Some could be heard shouting words of encouragement during the operation. She was taken to a hospital and is in stable condition, CCTV said.
The woman was the sixth person rescued from the building, which collapsed Friday afternoon in the inland city of Changsha, the capital of Hunan province. About 20 others remained trapped, and another 39 had not been accounted for as of late Saturday. Besides the owner, police said they had arrested three people in charge of design and construction and five others for what they said was a false safety assessment for a guest house on the building's fourth to sixth floors.
The building appeared to have pancaked down to about the second floor, leaving rubble strewn on the sidewalk. It had stood in a row of buildings about six stories tall. Xinhua said the building had eight floors, including a restaurant on the second floor, a cafe on the third floor, and residences on the top two floors. Tenants had made structural modifications to the building, but the cause of the collapse remained under investigation, Xinhua said.
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New Orleans' Hurricane Risk, Pt. II By Daniel Zwerdling Published September 20, 2002 at 12:00 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 8:08 Daniel Zwerdling continues his report on preparation — and the potential effects — of a Category 5 hurricane on New Orleans. Copyright 2002 NPR | https://www.whqr.org/2002-09-20/new-orleans-hurricane-risk-pt-ii | 2022-05-01T16:28:48Z | https://www.whqr.org/2002-09-20/new-orleans-hurricane-risk-pt-ii | true | null |
Black doctors say they face discrimination based on race
ATLANTA (AP) — Dr. Dare Adewumi was thrilled when he was hired to lead the neurosurgery practice at an Atlanta-area hospital near where he grew up. But he says he quickly faced racial discrimination that ultimately led to his firing and has prevented him from getting permanent work elsewhere.
His lawyers and other advocates say he’s not alone, that Black doctors across the country commonly experience discrimination, ranging from microaggressions to career-threatening disciplinary actions. Biases, conscious or not, can become magnified in the fiercely competitive hospital environment, they say, and the underrepresentation of Black doctors can discourage them from speaking up.
“Too many of us are worried about retaliation, what happens when you say something,” said Dr. Rachel Villanueva, president of the National Medical Association, which represents Black doctors. “We have scores of doctors that are sending us letters about these same discriminatory practices all the time and seeking our help as an association in fighting that.”
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, Black doctors made up just 5% of active physicians in the U.S. in 2018, the most recent data available. People who identify as Black alone represent 12.4% of the total U.S. population, according to the 2020 U.S. census. For the 2021-2022 academic year, 8.1% of students enrolled in medical schools identified as Black alone. The medical school association and the National Medical Association in 2020 announced an initiative to address the scarcity of Black men in medicine — they made up only 2.9% of 2019-2020 enrolled students.
The American Medical Association, the country’s largest, most influential doctors’ group, is also trying to attract Black students to medicine, working with historically Black colleges and universities and helping secure scholarships, president Dr. Gerald Harmon said.
“We’re trying to put our money where our mouth is on this and our actions where our thoughts are,” he said, acknowledging that, among other things, a shortage of Black physicians contributes to poorer health outcomes for Black patients.
Some Black doctors who believe they’ve been mistreated are speaking out. Adewumi, 39, filed a federal lawsuit in September against Wellstar Medical Group and Wellstar Health Systems alleging employment discrimination based on race.
“If they don’t like him, that’s one thing, but you can’t penalize someone — according to the law — based on race,” his lawyer C.K. Hoffler said. “And that’s the exact thing that happened to Dare. And that’s what many, many highly skilled, highly trained, highly credentialed African American doctors are experiencing in this country.”
Adewumi said some of his surgical decisions were questioned and he was placed on a performance review plan, steps he says were a pretext to push him out. He said he had a previously unblemished record and his white colleagues didn’t face similar scrutiny.
“I’ve worked so hard, done so much to get to this level, and all I really wanted to do was help sick people,” he said. “And here I was having this taken away from me for no reason other than my skin color.”
William Hill, an attorney for Wellstar, said the case is sealed so he’s unable to speak about specifics.
“Wellstar does not discriminate. Dr. Adewumi has not been the subject of discrimination or unfair treatment. Patient care and safety are Wellstar’s top priorities,” Hill wrote in an email, noting that they have filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Dr. Stella Safo, an HIV specialist, is among a group of past and present employees at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at Mount Sinai in New York City who in April 2019 sued alleging sex, age and race discrimination. Some claims have been dismissed but others are moving forward. Safo’s claims focus on alleged gender discrimination, but she said that, as a Black woman, race and gender discrimination are intertwined. Since filing the lawsuit, she’s heard from a lot of people with similar stories.
Adewumi’s allegations don’t surprise her: “It’s what many of us have gone through directly,” she said.
Speaking out has been “terrible,” Safo said, adding that she risked her career and lost friendships. But she’s felt vindicated by changes: The New York City Council last year passed legislation to create an advisory board to examine racial and gender discrimination in hospitals.
A judge sealed Adewumi’s lawsuit and some filings in the case at the request of Wellstar, which cited confidential information. The following account of what happened comes from an interview with Adewumi and a complaint he filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which in July granted him permission to sue.
Adewumi signed on in March 2018 to lead neurosurgery services at Wellstar Cobb Hospital in Austell, Georgia. The hospital hadn’t had a neurosurgeon for a decade and referred patients elsewhere, including Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, where Adewumi’s supervisor worked.
As his practice started to flourish, Adewumi felt his supervisor was targeting him “with the intention of undermining my skill as a physician and pushing me out of the group,” the EEOC complaint says.
In November 2018, Adewumi began receiving “letters of inquiry” about surgeries he’d done. These anonymous letters can be submitted by any member of the medical staff or be triggered by a patient complaint. They’re reviewed by the hospital’s medical executive committee.
At first, Adewumi said, he didn’t know what the letters were, having never received anything similar. But within eight months, he had received 15, all but one filed by colleagues.
Separate independent reviews requested by the hospital and by Adewumi’s lawyers found that concerns stemmed from differences in opinion about the approach or surgical technique, not patient care standards or safety, according to the EEOC complaint.
In contrast, Adewumi said, he’s aware of at least two cases where white colleagues performed surgeries that were unnecessary or left a patient disfigured. He doesn’t believe they received letters of inquiry or were disciplined in any way.
After trying unsuccessfully to mend the relationship with his supervisor, Adewumi said he went up the chain to raise concerns and a hospital system executive suggested it might be better if he resigned. Floored by the suggestion, Adewumi refused to quit.
Wellstar then proposed an “action plan.” It wasn’t meant to be punitive but would help “better integrate” him into the main group of neurosurgeons at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, he was told.
Several Black doctors in Georgia and elsewhere who spoke to The Associated Press said the hierarchy and competition in hospitals, where surgeons are evaluated and compensated based on productivity, can lead to people being targeted if they aren’t liked or are perceived as professional threats. Racial bias can compound that, they said.
Adewumi suspects that’s what happened to him. Before arriving at Wellstar, he’d done two fellowships on spine and brain tumors, learning difficult techniques that others within the neurosurgery group couldn’t do. Additionally, his presence at Wellstar Cobb meant lucrative surgeries were no longer being referred to his colleagues at Wellstar Kennestone.
During an action plan check-in meeting in August 2019, medical executive committee leaders applauded Adewumi’s progress. Two months later, on Oct. 8, he was fired “not for cause.” He was assured he’d done “nothing wrong,” that he was being dismissed because “certain relationships were not fostered.”
His termination was effective at the end of a 180-day notice period, in April 2020, but he wasn’t required or allowed to work at the hospital in the meantime. That meant he couldn’t fulfill a six-week “mentorship” requirement, leaving his action plan incomplete.
In March 2020, as the coronavirus began to strain hospitals, he emailed Wellstar administrators offering to come back temporarily in any capacity to help. He figured the hospital could use extra hands, and it could allow him to complete his action plan and resolve his situation without suing. But Wellstar refused.
With his action plan incomplete, the hospital refused to give him a “letter of good standing,” leaving him unable to find a hospital that will credential him, meaning he can’t work as a neurosurgeon.
“They have cornered him and locked him out, effectively,” Hoffler said. “You don’t do this by happenstance, by mistake. This is intentional and deliberate and that is why we have a lawsuit pending.”
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On the 40th anniversary of the desegregation of Ole Miss, NPR presents a series of stories examining the events of that time, what has become of the people involved, and the campus today. For All Things Considered, Cheryl Corley looks at the legacy of desegregation at the University of Mississippi.
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A tenor saxophone hops over an interval like it's a turnstile. And for a moment, the energy alight from two hours of hard-blown, soul-cleansing music seems on the edge of redoubling its power. But fingers fly over piano keys to settle on floating blocks of sound — restless, yet slow, like a train chugging up a hill. The saxophone responds in kind, not so much dancing or dragging around the melody, but reshaping its purpose: resilient, beautiful, final. "Music is the healing force of the universe," a voice intones with deep vibrato, as sax, piano, upright bass and skittering drums undulate, seemingly in perfect waveform with the vibration. The stately theme, one that's been echoed by several musicians over many decades, exalts not its creators but creation. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2587055438081/houston-grand-opera-presents-romeo-and-juliet | 2022-05-01T16:33:10Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2587055438081/houston-grand-opera-presents-romeo-and-juliet | true | null |
UK lawmaker resigns after viewing porn in House of Commons
LONDON (AP) — A British lawmaker from the governing Conservative Party has resigned after admitting he watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons chamber.
Neil Parish, a member of Parliament since 2010, announced his decision Saturday after pressure from members of his own party who sought to defuse sleaze allegations before Britain holds its local elections on May 5. The ballot is seen as pivotal for Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is already facing a voter backlash over lockdown-breaking parties in government offices during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Neil Parish, 65, stepped down after what he described as a moment of “madness.’’ Parish, chairman of the house’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, said he was trying to look at a tractor website, but stumbled into a porn site with a similar name and watched it for “a bit.’’
“My biggest crime is that on another occasion I went in a second time,’’ he told the BBC. “And that was deliberate.’’
Reports that a lawmaker had watched porn amid the historic green benches of the House of Commons triggered a flood of complaints from women in Parliament about the misogyny and sexual harassment they have faced while doing their jobs.
Long known for its boozy, macho culture, Parliament is now a more diverse place, with women holding almost 40% of the seats in the House of Commons. But lawmakers and staff say harassment and inappropriate behavior are still rampant under a system that largely allows members to police themselves.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Parish’s resignation should be a moment for people across the U.K. to say “enough is enough.”
“I don’t think there could really be any other outcome to what has come to light about this particular MP over the last few days,” she said while campaigning in Fife, Scotland. “Watching porn on a mobile phone in the House of Commons when you’re there representing constituents is just unacceptable.”
Parish rejected the notion that he meant to intimidate anyone.
“For all my rights and wrongs, I was not proud of what I was doing,’’ he said. “And the one thing I wasn’t doing, and which I will take to my grave as being true, is I was not actually making sure people could see it. In fact, I was trying to do quite the opposite.’’
The scandal comes at a precarious moment for Johnson, who will face pressure to resign if the Conservatives do poorly in the local elections.
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, May 1, 2022
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819 AM MST Sun May 1 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Southwest winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph.
* WHERE...Southwest corner of Imperial County.
* WHEN...Until 10 PM PDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Difficult driving conditions, especially for larger
vehicles traveling along roads with crosswinds. Light,
unsecured objects may become airborne.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Wind Advisory means that sustained wind speeds of between
30 and 40 mph are expected, or wind gusts of between 40 and
58 mph. Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially
for high profile vehicles. In addition, strong winds over desert
areas could result in briefly lowered visibilities to well under
a mile at times in blowing dust or blowing sand. Use extra
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All Things Considered begins a series of stories from Tibet with a report from NPR's Rob Gifford, who was part of a group of journalists recently allowed on a rare visit -- accompanied by Chinese government officials -- into the mountainous region of China. Gifford begins his series by looking at Tibetan culture, and how well it has fared under Chinese rule.
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US Army ‘returns’ cake to Italian woman for 90th birthday
ROME (AP) — With a round of “Happy Birthday” in Italian and English, the U.S. Army toasted an Italian woman with a birthday cake Thursday to replace the one that U.S. soldiers ate as they entered her hometown during one of the final battles of World War II.
Meri Mion, who turns 90 on Friday, wiped away tears as she was presented with the cake during a ceremony in Vicenza, northwest of Venice. The event marked the anniversary of the day the 88th Infantry Division fought its way into the city on April 28, 1945.
According to the U.S. Army, Mion spent that night with her mother hiding in the attic of their farm in the nearby village of San Pietro in Gù. Retreating German soldiers had fired on the house, but when Mion awoke on the morning of her 13th birthday, American soldiers were nearby.
In a statement, the U.S. Army Garrison Italy said Mion’s mother baked her a birthday cake and left it on the windowsill to cool. But it disappeared — apparently nicked by hungry American soldiers who had already been feted by grateful Italians with wine and bread as they entered Vicenza along its main thoroughfare.
Mion seemed genuinely surprised that U.S. soldiers had returned the cake 77 years later. She marveled “Mama mia” and “Grazie” as a small crowd featuring U.S. commanders and Italian officials sang “Happy Birthday.”
“Tomorrow, we will eat that dessert, with all my family remembering this wonderful day that I will never forget,” Mion said, according to the U.S. Army.
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Trump, fighting contempt fines, says he doesn’t have records
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers, seeking to reverse their client’s $10,000-per-day contempt fine, provided a New York judge Friday with an affidavit in which the former president claims he didn’t turn over subpoenaed documents to the state attorney general’s office because he doesn’t have them.
The judge, though, was unmoved and refused to lift sanctions he imposed on Trump on Monday. Judge Arthur Engoron criticized the lack of detail in Trump affidavit, which amounted to two paragraphs, saying that he should have explained the methods he uses to stores his records and efforts he made to locate the subpoenaed files.
In the affidavit, which bore Trump’s signature and Wednesday’s date, the former president said that documents sought in Attorney General Letitia James’ civil investigation into his business dealings weren’t in his personal possession. Trump, who is appealing the contempt ruling, said he believed any documents would be in the possession of his company, the Trump Organization.
In other affidavits, Trump lawyers Alina Habba and Michael Madaio detailed steps they took to locate documents in the Dec. 1 subpoena, including meeting with Trump last month at Mar-a-Lago in Florida and reviewing prior searches of his company’s files.
Andrew Amer, a lawyer for the attorney general’s office, said in a court filing that while the affidavits “provide some additional information” about Trump’s efforts to comply with the subpoena, more extensive searches were needed — including of Trump Tower, his residences and electronic devices — before the judge should consider reversing the contempt finding.
Frank Runyeon, a reporter for the legal publication Law360, said that Engoron held an impromptu hearing Friday, without a court stenographer, in which he addressed the affidavits from Trump and his lawyers and ruled to keep the contempt fine in place.
Runyeon, one of the few members of the news media to attend the unadvertised hearing, reported that Engoron was insistent that Trump provide the “who, when, where, what” of his search, with the judge asking at one point: “Where did he keep files? I assume it wasn’t all in his head.”
Habba filed a notice of appeal Wednesday with the appellate division of the state’s trial court seeking to overturn Engoron’s contempt ruling. Trump is also challenging Engoron’s Feb. 17 ruling requiring that he answer questions under oath. Oral arguments in that appeal are scheduled for May 11.
James, a Democrat, has said that her investigation has uncovered evidence that Trump may have misstated the value of assets like skyscrapers and golf courses on his financial statements for more than a decade. Her Dec. 1 subpoena sought numerous documents, including paperwork and communications pertaining to his financial statements and various development projects.
James asked Engoron to hold Trump in contempt after he failed to produce any documents by a March 31 court deadline. In his ruling, Engoron said that Trump and his lawyers not only failed to meet the deadline, but also failed to document the steps they had taken to search for the documents, as required under case law.
Trump, a Republican, is suing James in federal court in an effort to stop her investigation. Oral arguments in that matter are scheduled for May 13.
Trump recently labeled her an “operative for the Democrat Party” and has said in written statements that her investigation and a parallel criminal probe overseen by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, another Democrat, are “a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time.”
Bragg said this month that the 3-year-old criminal investigation he inherited in January from his predecessor, Cyrus Vance Jr., is continuing “without fear or favor” despite a recent shakeup in the probe’s leadership. Trump’s lawyers contend that James is using her civil investigation to gain access to information that could then be used against him in the criminal probe.
So far, the district attorney’s investigation has resulted only in tax fraud charges against the Trump Organization and its longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, relating to lucrative fringe benefits such as rent, car payments and school tuition. The company and Weisselberg have pleaded not guilty.
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UK lawmaker resigns after viewing porn in House of Commons
LONDON (AP) — A British lawmaker from the governing Conservative Party has resigned after admitting he watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons chamber.
Neil Parish, a member of Parliament since 2010, announced his decision Saturday after pressure from members of his own party who sought to defuse sleaze allegations before Britain holds its local elections on May 5. The ballot is seen as pivotal for Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is already facing a voter backlash over lockdown-breaking parties in government offices during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Neil Parish, 65, stepped down after what he described as a moment of “madness.’’ Parish, chairman of the house’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, said he was trying to look at a tractor website, but stumbled into a porn site with a similar name and watched it for “a bit.’’
“My biggest crime is that on another occasion I went in a second time,’’ he told the BBC. “And that was deliberate.’’
Reports that a lawmaker had watched porn amid the historic green benches of the House of Commons triggered a flood of complaints from women in Parliament about the misogyny and sexual harassment they have faced while doing their jobs.
Long known for its boozy, macho culture, Parliament is now a more diverse place, with women holding almost 40% of the seats in the House of Commons. But lawmakers and staff say harassment and inappropriate behavior are still rampant under a system that largely allows members to police themselves.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Parish’s resignation should be a moment for people across the U.K. to say “enough is enough.”
“I don’t think there could really be any other outcome to what has come to light about this particular MP over the last few days,” she said while campaigning in Fife, Scotland. “Watching porn on a mobile phone in the House of Commons when you’re there representing constituents is just unacceptable.”
Parish rejected the notion that he meant to intimidate anyone.
“For all my rights and wrongs, I was not proud of what I was doing,’’ he said. “And the one thing I wasn’t doing, and which I will take to my grave as being true, is I was not actually making sure people could see it. In fact, I was trying to do quite the opposite.’’
The scandal comes at a precarious moment for Johnson, who will face pressure to resign if the Conservatives do poorly in the local elections.
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How one play represented the Cincinnati Bengals entire strategy for the 2022 NFL Draft
In every one of his pre-draft visits with a defensive prospect, Cincinnati Bengals defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo showed the exact same moment from the Bengals’ Round 2 win in the playoffs over the Tennessee Titans.
On first and 10 with 2:43 left in the fourth quarter of a tie game, the Titans handed the ball off to All-Pro running back Derrick Henry. With the way the Titans designed the run, Henry had a one-on-one matchup in space with Bengals cornerback Chidobe Awuzie.
If Henry broke the tackle, then he would have had a 20-plus yard gain. But Awuzie perfectly read what was happening in front of him, sprinted into the play, knocked down Henry’s stiff arm and tackled him. The Titans picked up only three yards on the play, and the Bengals won the game.
This was the play that epitomizes everything the Bengals defense is about and everything they were looking for in the 2022 NFL Draft. The Bengals overall draft strategy this season was to add fast leaders to their defense.
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“They love the process, they love the grind, they’re great teammates and they love to be coached,” Bengals head coach Zac Taylor said of the Bengals 2022 draft class. “They understand how to take criticism and ultimately guys like that love winning. They know the things that come with it and what it takes to do it.”
In the draft this year, the Bengals prioritized speed, physicality, football IQ and presence. This is exactly what Awuzie showed on that play against the Titans, and these are the skills that the Bengals prioritized in the draft and will continue to prioritize going forward.
The Bengals drafted three defensive backs they believe fit that internal vision. On the first two days of the draft, the Bengals added safety Dax Hill and cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt, who both ran a 4.38 40-yard dash. In the third round, the Bengals drafted defensive tackle Zach Carter, who had the third-fastest 40-yard dash time of any defensive tackle on the board for the Bengals at pick 95. In the fifth round, the Bengals drafted safety Tycen Anderson, who ran a 4.36 40-yard dash.
According to NFL Next Gen Stats’ athleticism grading scale, the Bengals prioritized athletic traits more than 27 of the other 31 NFL teams.
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“I just think that in today's NFL, we're going to play a bunch of great receivers,” Anarumo said. “Think about Miami’s speed on their perimeter, with Tyreek (Hill) and (Jalen) Waddle. And then the guys in our division — there's speed everywhere, especially in the back end. Those guys are going to get out of position, some just by the nature of their jobs, and if they can't get back into the play they're going to struggle. So these guys do have to make that up in recovery speed. And that's what we're looking for.”
For the Bengals, these players’ intangibles can be just as important of a piece of the puzzle.
After the first round, Taylor stressed how Hill was one of the leaders on one of the best defenses in college football, and he said that Hill “really fits the personality we want in a locker room.” Taylor-Britt was a team captain, a three-time Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll award recipient and he was a part of multiple leadership councils at Nebraska.
Carter was one of 14 players named to the 2021 SEC Football Community Service Team. Anderson was a three-time captain at Toledo, and he’s pursuing a Master’s degree in leadership.
Anarumo described how Awuzie, another former college captain, has those similar intangible qualities. Those are just as important when the rubber hits the road in the fourth quarter and you need to tackle a running back like Henry in the last few minutes of a game.
“We’ve put a premium on that, as you know, the last few years, and it’s worked well for us,” Anarumo said. “It’s an added benefit that comes along with a heck of an athlete.”
Zachary Carter, Florida Gators defensive lineman, through the years
The Bengals believe they acquired the same qualities in fourth-round offensive guard Cordell Volson, who was a two-time captain in college. He started college at North Dakota State weighing just 250 pounds and transformed his body to build an NFL frame. Volson said he took the most pride in his reputation as a worker in the weight room and as a player who competes through the end of the whistle.
According to Bengals offensive line coach Frank Pollack, those qualities are priorities when he’s evaluating an offensive lineman.
“This league is a son of a you-know-what, and to make it, you have to have some you-know-what in your neck,” Pollack said. “You have to have some grit, or you’re not going to make it. I’ve been in this a long time as a player — a horrible player (laughs) — and as a coach, and there are guys you’d see come and go that are so talented and have off-the-chart measurables and you’re like, ‘Man, how come that guy didn’t make it?’ Because he doesn’t have the other stuff. It’s critical. If you don’t have that, you have no chance.”
Edge rusher Jeffrey Gunter, the Bengals seventh round pick, said he went from a lightly recruited player at Coastal Carolina into an NFL Draft prospect because of his “effort and versatility.” After the Bengals wrapped up their draft, Taylor said Gunter’s energy can lead to another good fit in the locker room.
In 2020, the Bengals drafted former college captains Joe Burrow, Logan Wilson, Akeem Davis-Gaither, Khalid Kareem and Markus Bailey. Tee Higgins also was on track to be a captain at Clemson had he returned for another college season. Before the 2022 draft, Taylor described drafting former captains as a blueprint that worked for them in the past, and they followed it this weekend.
According to Anarumo, football IQ, leadership and playmaking ability all tie together. It takes all three of them to make a tackle like Awuzie’s play on Henry.
“We love guys that bring energy, because it’s a long season and that’s a hard thing to do,” Taylor said. “The more guys that can bring that, the better the team becomes.”
The Bengals are building one of the NFL’s more modern defenses and a unit that relies on speed and versatility. On early downs, Anarumo said his goal is to “outnumber teams” at the line of scrimmage, and that strategy requires athletes in the secondary who can cover a lot of ground. On passing downs, Anarumo said he plans to mix in six-or-seven defensive back formations that take advantage of the Bengals’ new depth and speed in the secondary.
The Bengals used the 2022 NFL Draft to make their defense faster, younger and more versatile. After using free agency to craft a starting defense in 2020 and 2021, the Bengals showed this weekend what qualities they value when they’re building for the long-term.
“We value smart players, and we feel like on our defense, we have the talent to compete for championships and the overall football intelligence,” Taylor said. “It’s a very smart group from top-to-bottom. We value that. We think that matters in terms of getting in line pre-snap and making the right adjustments post-snap … That gives you an added advantage, and we’ve got those guys from top-to-bottom.” | https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2022/05/01/how-one-play-represented-cincinnati-bengals-nfl-draft-strategy/9602327002/ | 2022-05-01T16:50:55Z | https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2022/05/01/how-one-play-represented-cincinnati-bengals-nfl-draft-strategy/9602327002/ | false | 1 |
What did you make of the performance today?
It was a good performance against a really good team. The game wasn't easy and we knew very well that despite them making eight changes from the last game against Roma you can see the quality, you can see the squad that Leicester has. Yeah, I think in the game we started well and then we were lucky when they hit the post but after this we scored with Harry [Kane] and then I think we created many chances to improve the final result. I think then we deserved to win the game.
For sure we got three points in an important moment of the season especially because in the next games we are going to face first Liverpool and then Arsenal. Today it was vital to get three points. There is only one result and a lot of pressure, but I said to my players to live this moment, to enjoy this moment because we deserved it after really great work that we did in these six months. I think no one at the start of the season could imagine Tottenham challenging for a place in the Champions League, especially in November when there was a change and for this reason we have to be satisfied that we stay in this position to fight for a big achievement.
READ MORE: Tottenham player ratings: Cristian Romero a colossus, Son simply sublime and Kulusevski inspired
What did you make of Cristian Romero today?
He played a good game. I think every single player played very well. For us it's very important to do well with the whole team if we want to get three points. It's no good to play with one, two or three players playing good. We need the whole team playing well and to find a good balance. When this happens we can win the game.
You gave Son a big hug when he came off, what did you say to him?
I gave him a big hug because after an amazing goal my question was which is his favourite foot right or left? He scored a fantastic goal and three minutes before when I spoke with him I said 'Go for five or six minutes and then I have to make a change' and I said to him that when you listened that I wanted to make a change and you decide to score this amazing goal. We are talking about a great player, fantastic player. But it's important at the end of the season to celebrate a big achievement with the team. Otherwise it remains only a personal success only to score these types of goals.
Have you ever worked with a striker who is so two-footed?
We try to work with the strikers to always to improve, to finish. It was strange in the last two games we weren’t able to shoot in the goal. But for sure we tried. We tried during the training to improve every aspect. Also the midfielders and the wing-backs for us are very important. We must be pleased because Son and Harry Kane scored on the same day, also Steven Bergwijn.
For me, it's a bit difficult to keep him on the bench because Steven is maybe the player he should deserve more, but we have to try always a good balance. He is a striker, a fantastic striker but in this position there is Harry and then Sonny. Deki gives us quality and quantity, and sometimes it’s very difficult. For sure maybe I’m giving [Steven] less that he deserves, and I want to be honest. Lucas played a good 50 minutes, and we have to continue in this way and prepare for an important game.
Maybe everybody can think this game will be very difficult for us, especially because Liverpool is in great form. But we prepare the game very well, and they are preparing to win the title, the league, but we are competing for a very important achievement, to get in the Champions League, and for this reason we will try and get the three points.
With Kulusevski, why was he on the bench and were you pleased with his impact?
Sometimes it was a pity because we have only the league to play and for this reason you can’t make a lot of rotation when... it’s not simple to give chances to play. I think this week Lucas deserved to have this chance, also because don’t forget Lucas Moura is an important player for us and I decided in this way, and then when Deki came in I think he played really well. In the same way Lucas did in the 55 minutes. I repeat we have to think about a team not individual players if we want to reach something important for this club. | https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/news/conte-tottenham-son-romero-bergwijn-23838603 | 2022-05-01T16:51:32Z | https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/news/conte-tottenham-son-romero-bergwijn-23838603 | true | 1 |
HOUSTON — A 16-year-old was injured Saturday night in a robbery attempt at a west Houston apartment complex, police said.
It began around 11:15 p.m. in the 8300 block of Bellaire.
A man was arriving at his apartment when he told officers he noticed a vehicle reversing toward him at a high rate of speed and two young men got out and pointed guns toward him.
That's when the would-be victim pulled out his own gun and opened fire, sending the pair back into their vehicle that sped off, according to Houston police.
HPD officers found the maroon car at a McDonald's at Beltway 8 and Bellaire Boulevard and three young men standing outside the car.
One of them took off running, and the other two were taken into custody.
The 16-year-old who was injured had a gunshot wound to the shoulder, but he was expected to recover.
There was no word on a description of the person who got away. | https://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/local/teen-robbery-suspect-shot-by-would-be-victim-hpd-says/285-2899b613-a083-4f1a-b70e-9f9ed740f013 | 2022-05-01T16:57:10Z | https://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/local/teen-robbery-suspect-shot-by-would-be-victim-hpd-says/285-2899b613-a083-4f1a-b70e-9f9ed740f013 | false | 2 |
Genshin Impact's Version 2.7 update has been postponed, with no news of when the announcement of a new date will come. Developers miHoYo announced the delay this week via Twitter. "Due to project progress, the Version 2.7 update will be postponed. For detailed information on the date of the new update, content adjustment plan, and compensation, please stay tuned for upcoming announcements," it said.
miHoYo followed up to say that it will provide further information as soon as possible, and apologized for the inconvenience caused.
Dear Travelers,Due to project progress, the Version 2.7 update will be postponed.For detailed information on the date of the new update, content adjustment plan, and compensation, please stay tuned for upcoming announcements.#GenshinImpact pic.twitter.com/FiiGQyJO1GApril 29, 2022
The delay comes among continued COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai, where miHoYo is based. The 25 million person lockdown in Shanghai is entering its fifth week, as reported by ABC News, and the lack of ability to work from their offices is certainly impacting miHoYo developers.
Many replies on social media wished the developers well, hoping they would focus on staying safe rather than attempting to release content for the game. Others said that no "compensation" would be necessary—Genshin Impact often gives out free in-game premium currency when updates are delayed. | https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/genshin-impact-27-is-indefinitely-delayed/ | 2022-05-01T16:57:23Z | https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/genshin-impact-27-is-indefinitely-delayed/ | false | 3 |
Hakin United were crowned champions of the Pembrokeshire League Senior Cup, as they defeated underdogs Kilgetty AFC 3-1 at the Ogi Bridge Meadow Stadium.
Jack Britton, Ash Bevan and Justin Harding were the three goalscorers for the Vikings.
All photos supplied by Sharron Hardwick
The score might seem straight forward, however Hakin had to do it the hard way, after going 1-0 down in the first half to the Second Division champions through Henry Lawrence’s opener.
Kilgetty opened the scoring when Oscar Miles’ right-wing cross dropped perfectly for Lawrence on the edge of the six-yard box, who smashed in a close-range volley, giving Sam Franklin no chance.
But the underdogs were only ahead for around 15 minutes before the favourites equalised.
Leon Luby attempted a shot from 20 yards, which Ben Evans tremendously saved with his left hand, but only palmed it away to Jack Britton who hit the rebound home from a tight angle.
It was only around ten minutes into the second half when Ash Bevan put his side in front having being down with injury.
Britton was on the left and took the ball to the goalline, where he ran in and passed across goal to Bevan who put the ball into the empty net.
Substitute Harding put daylight between the two sides. Luby’s direct free kick from the wide left position looked to be heading for the top corner, but hit the crossbar and bounced to the feet of Harding, who couldn’t miss from right in front of goal.
Kilgetty AFC starting XI: Evans, Miles, Proctor, Hewson, Coombs, Lewis, Hughes, Proctor, Lawrence, Bevan, Cope
Substitutes: Griffiths, Tebbutt, Baker, Hurst, Mansbridge
Hakin United Starting XI: Franklin, Merry, Thomas, Gardner, Broome, Nicholson, Walsh, Britton, Bevan, Wilson, Luby
Substitutes: Harding, Aldred, Jones, Barrett, Fawcett
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The tornado that damaged more than more than 1,000 buildings in south-central Kansas generated winds up to 165 mph and carved a path of destruction nearly 13 miles long.
The National Weather Service said the tornado that caused extensive damage Friday mostly in the Wichita suburb of Andover and injured several people rated an EF-3 on the Enhanced Fujita scale it uses to assess tornadoes.
Andover Fire Chief Chad Russell said that at least 300 to 400 buildings were destroyed by the storm as part of a total of 1,074 buildings that were damaged. The Weather Service said the tornado was on the ground for 21 minutes Friday evening.
Four people, including two firefighters who were responding to a call in Andover, were injured during the storm but their injuries were minor.
Russell said it will take years for Andover to recover from this storm.
“The city of Andover will be affected by this for years,” he said. “We still have scars from 1991 (EF-5 tornado). I’m so thankful this tornado was not as bad as that, but we will literally be doing this for years.”
By Sunday, utility crews had restored power to nearly all of the more than 15,000 customers who lost power during the storm. Evergy said less than 1,000 people still lacked power in the Wichita area Sunday morning.
In addition to the storm damage, the Oklahoma State Patrol said three University of Oklahoma meteorology students were killed in a car crash about 85 miles north of Oklahoma City in Oklahoma Friday evening as they returned from storm chasing in Kansas. | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/Kansas-tornado-generated-165-mph-winds-as-it-17140012.php | 2022-05-01T16:58:25Z | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/Kansas-tornado-generated-165-mph-winds-as-it-17140012.php | false | 34 |
“We really wanted to capture the ruinous quality of this old building rather than do something overtly new,” says Greg Blee, founding partner at Blee Halligan Architects. Before construction could begin, however, he and Halligan had to patch the remaining walls using stones found in the nearby river. Wherever a wall had collapsed, the designers inserted framing to create windows and doors. For the roof, they turned to the original tiles. “My father’s terrible at throwing things away,” Blee says. “We took the tiles off 30 years ago, as it was too dangerous to have them up there. They’ve been sitting in the fields ever since, and this was our last chance to use them.” | https://www.dwell.com/@chrisdavis | 2022-05-01T17:08:45Z | https://www.dwell.com/@chrisdavis | false | null |
Hundreds of urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, but it’s not because people are leaving.
It’s just that the U.S. Census Bureau is changing the definition of an urban area. Under the new criteria, more than 1,300 small cities, towns and villages designated urban a decade ago would be considered rural.
That matters because urban and rural areas qualify for different types of federal funding. Some communities worry the change could affect health clinics in rural areas as well as transportation and education funding from federal programs. But leaders in other communities designated to lose their urban status say it won’t make a difference.
“We are rural and we feel rural, and that’s how we already identify,” said Randy Reeg, city administrator of Mauston, Wisconsin, a city of 4,347 residents about 75 miles (120 kilometers) northwest of Madison.
Groups like the American Hospital Association say the changes, which are the biggest being made to the definitions in decades, could cause problems for people who need medical care in rural areas.
“Going with the new definition could limit the number of rural health clinics moving forward and have a negative impact on rural access to care,” said Shannon Wu, senior associate director of policy at the hospital association.
For starters, the Census Bureau is switching to housing units instead of people as the basis for calculating what should be an urban area. Bureau officials say the change will make it easier to update between once-a-decade head counts of the U.S. They also contend that it’s needed because a new privacy method introduces errors into 2020 census population numbers at small geographies to protect people’s identities. Housing counts stay accurate under the method.
A place had to have at least 2,500 people to be urban under old criteria that lasted more than a century. Now, it will need at least 2,000 housing units, the equivalent of about 5,000 people. A revised list of urban areas won’t be released until later this year, but a third of the areas deemed urban a decade ago would be knocked into the rural category under the new criteria.
Places with 50,000 residents or more were considered “urbanized areas,” compared with “urban clusters” having between 2,500 and 49,999 residents in the past. But those distinctions will be eliminated and all will be called urban areas under the new definition.
Some communities worry that the switch to housing units will cause some areas to be underestimated if the Census Bureau uses the U.S. average of 2.6 people per household for its calculations. For instance, Madera County, California, has 3.3 people per household, and the change “would not fully represent the community,” Patricia Taylor, executive director of the Madera County Transportation Commission, said in a letter to the bureau last year.
The Census Bureau says the new definition should be used for statistical purposes only. But the bureau’s urban areas form the cores of metro and micro areas, and its definitions provide the basis for how other agencies classify urban and rural areas in determining eligibility for federal funding. The bureau reviews the definitions every 10 yearsafter a census, and the urban population has grown from about 45% of the total U.S. population in 1910 to more than 80% a decade ago.
“We’ve heard people say 2,500 was too low. That was the impetus for the increase,” said Michael Ratcliffe, a senior geographer with the Census Bureau.
Different federal programs use different definitions of urban and rural, and some communities qualify for rural funding for some programs and not others. But any changes “will have significant implications for many groups and communities,” said Kenneth Johnson, a senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire who studies rural issues.
“Another likely concern for many rural communities is that if many existing urban areas are redefined as rural, competition for the limited rural funds will increase,” Johnson said.
A coalition of associations representing cities, counties, planners and transportation groups had objected to many of the proposed changes last year, saying the switch from people to housing units would miss variations in development and land use patterns.
The Census Bureau tried to address those concerns by creating three levels of urban area definitions for census blocks, which are the nation’s smallest geographic unit. Census blocks will be urban if they have 425 housing units per square mile, the equivalent of 1,105 people. Before the change, census blocks with at least 500 people per square mile were considered urban.
The redesignation gives the bureau a way to distinguish between the “urban nucleus” and less densely populated areas, typically on the fringes of urban areas.
Bill Keyrouze, executive director of Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, said the Census Bureau’s revisions, adding different levels of urban areas based on density, “was an adequate compromise.”
For the town of DeMotte, Indiana, 85 miles (135 kilometers) southwest of South Bend, which won’t qualify as an urban area anymore, it doesn’t really matter from a “status” viewpoint, Town Manager Michael Cain said.
“You are who you are. The number of people doesn’t matter. It’s the spirit of the community that matters, whether your town is a cohesive group of people who care about each other,” Cain said.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to gather with other dignitaries in Minneapolis on Sunday to remember former Vice President Walter Mondale at a memorial service that his family delayed for a year due to the pandemic.
Mondale died in April 2021 at age 93. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden wanted to attend the memorial because he had “an important personal relationship” with Mondale.
Biden has described Mondale as a “one of our nation’s most dedicated patriots and public servants.”
Admission is by invitation only, but the service will be livestreamed for the public. It’s scheduled to run from 1:30 to 3 p.m. CDT.
Other speakers for the event at the University of Minnesota include Gov. Tim Walz, Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, and Larry Jacobs, a political science professor at the university’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Presidential historian Jon Meacham will deliver the keynote eulogy.
Mondale was a graduate of the university and its law school, and the law school building is named after him. The service plans a performance of “Tomorrow” from “Annie,” and a closing by the university’s marching band, which will send people away with the “Minnesota Rouser” fight song.
Mondale followed a trail blazed by his political mentor, Hubert H. Humphrey, serving as Minnesota attorney general before replacing Humphrey in the U.S. Senate. He served as vice president under Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.
And he lost one of the most lopsided presidential elections ever, to Ronald Reagan in 1984. He carried only Minnesota and the District of Columbia after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won. But he made history in that race by picking Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, of New York, as his running mate, becoming the first major-party nominee to put a woman on the ticket
Mondale remained a revered liberal elder, with a long list of accomplishments, and went on to serve as ambassador to Japan under President Bill Clinton. But he wasn’t done with politics. In 2002, at 74, he was drafted to run for the Senate again after Sen. Paul Wellstone was killed in a plane crash shortly before the election. Mondale lost the abbreviated race to Republican Norm Coleman.
Biden paid tribute to Mondale at the time of his death last year, saying: “There have been few senators, before or since, who commanded such universal respect. … It was Walter Mondale who defined the vice presidency as a full partnership, and helped provide a model for my service.” | https://www.wkrg.com/national/biden-to-speak-at-memorial-service-for-former-vp-mondale/ | 2022-05-01T17:23:19Z | https://www.wkrg.com/national/biden-to-speak-at-memorial-service-for-former-vp-mondale/ | true | 23 |
KEEZLETOWN — It all started for Jason Myers-Benner when he was 8 years old, when his parents got backyard chickens.
“My parents always knew, if they couldn’t find me, just go out to the chicken coop and that’s where I was,” Myers-Benner, now 45, of Keezletown, said.
Now, Myers-Benner, and his family live on 6 acres of land in Keezletown with some unsurprising visitors — dozens of free-range chickens that Myers-Benner breeds.
The four different breeds have Valley-centric names: Shenandoahs, Massanuttens, Blacks Run Browns and Cub Run Creles. Myers-Benner said he hopes to breed the chickens to be resistant, and move his family’s farm, Tangly Woods, to true sustainability and ecological participation.
The birds
At the side of the property closest to the forest roam the Massanuttens, a bird that becomes camouflaged with a wooded, rocky environment. One group of the chickens has a brown coloration, while the other group is white, with some brown staining, with a penciled-like coloring.
“If predators come through, they won’t get noticed,” he said.
Myers-Benner said he hopes Massanuttens have a long, low body shape, so the bird can slip out of a predatory animal’s grasp easily. Because the Massanutten breed is one that is a “survivor,” he said.
Massanuttens need sharp instincts and alertness to survive in the woodlands, Myers-Benner said, and should be able to adapt to extreme weather and varied ecological zones.
“It is a productive bird for the wooded margins of human habitation,” Myers-Benner said.
Cub Run Creles are designed to thrive in rural environments, Myers-Benner said. The birds are a generalistic breed, with a typical heavy-breed body shape and type.
“(T)he Cub Run Crele is intended to also stand on its own as a resilient, beautiful, productive, easy-keeping, true-breeding, multipurpose fowl for a variety of production systems, from barnyard to pasture to portable backyard pen,” Myers-Benner wrote in a blog post, describing the breed.
On the contrast, the Blacks Run Brown breed is designed for urban backyards, Myers-Benner said. Blacks Run Browns are smaller in frame size compared to their counterparts, but still lay full-sized, multicolored eggs.
Due to Tangly Woods location in a rural setting, Myers-Benner said he is phasing out the Blacks Run Brown breed.
The Shenandoah chickens are intended as large, dunn-colored egg-producing birds with weather resistance, foraging ability and predator avoidance instincts, Myers-Benner said.
The idea for the light-colored, large-bodied bird originated from a flock of Black Java hens. There, Myers-Benner said he had a vision to take the Black Java’s grassland foraging ability, vitality and body and egg size and formulate it with a cold-resistant comb, light coloration for heat resistance, and improved egg production.
“It’s a wide-open pasture kind of bird,” Myers-Benner said.
Shenandoahs are meant to thrive in an open grassland environment in combination with cattle and contribute to the farm.
“To my knowledge, there has never been a chicken bred for that system,” Myers-Benner said.
About Tangly Woods
Daywatch
Keeping up with the chickens is a lot of work, but Myers-Benner said it is quite a rewarding job.
“If these breeds were to catch on and find a niche ... it would be wonderful,” he said. “To be a local chicken breeder would be a dream.”
It takes about an hour and a half every morning to do what Myers-Benner calls “chicken chores” — cleaning and maintaining the property, and collecting and washing the eggs.
“It doesn’t feel overwhelming,” he said.
While never growing up on a farm, Myers-Benner said he was raised around farms, fostering his interest in agriculture. He attended Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg because he was looking for a Christian college with an agriculture program.
Myers-Benner has had this current flock since 2008, and the birds can be available by special arrangement.
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Colombia and the Dominican Republic sign a memorandum of understanding for the development of the hydrocarbon and biofuel sector
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New Delhi, May 1 (PTI) The dream of a 'Healthy India Prosperous India' cannot be realised without ensuring the good health of women workers, Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav said on Sunday.
Yadav visited ESIC Hospital, Faridabad on the occasion of International Labour Day where a health and nutrition check-up camp was organised for female brick kiln workers and other industrial workers, as per a labour ministry statement.
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Meeting the workers, the minister made them aware of anemia disease and stressed on the need for regular health check-ups and nutritious diet.
He said without ensuring the good health of women workers, the dream of "Healthy India Prosperous India" cannot be realised.
He also told the workers about the schemes being run by the ministry, such as Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maandhan Yojana, Pension Donation Scheme and E-Shram Yojana.
During his interaction with the students of the Medical College, Yadav appreciated the work done by the hospital during COVID-19.
Krishan Pal Gurjar, Minister of State for Power and Heavy Industries, informed the women workers about other social security schemes being run by the government.
The labour secretary explained in detail about the pilot project which started on March 8, 2022 for health and nutrition check-up of women working in brick kilns and beedi establishments during 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav'.
This pilot project will run for 6 months, after which the findings will be evaluated for further implementation.
Under this pilot project, women workers of these industries have been tagged with the nearest ESIC hospital or dispensary.
Anaemia is a disease in which the level of haemoglobin in the blood decreases. Because of this, the ability of the blood to carry oxygen to the cells is reduced.
According to the National Family Health Survey 2020-21, 57 per cent of women aged between 15-49 are suffering from this problem.
The main reason for most of the anaemia cases is lack of balanced nutrition. This disease can be cured by providing nutritious diet, medicines and proper counselling.
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ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Georgia Lottery's "Georgia FIVE Midday" game were:
4-4-4-7-6
(four, four, four, seven, six)
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ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Georgia Lottery's "Georgia FIVE Midday" game were:
4-4-4-7-6
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Eid-ul-Fitr, which marks the culmination of the fasting month of Ramzan, will be celebrated in India on Tuesday as the Shawwal crescent moon was not sighted on Sunday.
The leading kazis of Kerala announced that Monday will be the last day of Ramzan and Eid will be celebrated on Tuesday. However, Gulf countries will celebrate Eid on Monday.
Grand Mufti of India Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musliar, Samastha Kerala Jem'iyyathul Ulema leader Sayyid Muhammad Jifri Muthukkoya Thangal, Panakkad Sayyid Sadikali Shihab Thangal, Samastha General Secretary K Ali Kutty Musliyar and Kozhikode Kazi Syed Mohammed Koya Jamalullaili Thangal among other kazis came to the conclusion.
Meanwhile, the state govenment-declared holiday on Monday for its employees will not be moved. However, a decision on Tuesday's holiday will be taken on Monday. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/05/01/kerala-to-celebrate-eid-monday.amp.html | 2022-05-01T17:30:06Z | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/05/01/kerala-to-celebrate-eid-monday.amp.html | false | null |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
1-3-3-7
(one, three, three, seven)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
1-3-3-7
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Oasis star diagnosed with tonsil cancer!
Oasis guitarist Paul Arthurs revealed via social media Twitter that he suffers from tonsil cancer. What can make us happy, though, is that cancer has not progressed and that Arthurs has a good chance of recovery. "I'm going to take a break from playing for a while. I've been...
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Yo-Yo Ma's new album, Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet, celebrates the transcultural music of the ancient trade route that connected East and West. Ma talks with Scott Simon on Weekend Edition Saturday, and plays some music from the album. (17:49) (The CD is on the Sony Classical label).
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In 1856, dozens of Mormon pioneers died on a desolate, snowbound pass in Wyoming during their exodus to Utah. Now the church wants to buy the land from the federal government, saying it's a sacred site. But critics say the proposed sale would set a bad precedent. NPR's Howard Berkes reports for Morning Edition.
(Please note this segment was corrected on air on May 22, 2002:
"In an early feed of our story on Martin's Cove, Wyoming, last week, we failed to give the full name of the church that wants to purchase the historic site. It is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.")
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Murdered 10-year-old Lily Peters died from blunt force trauma and was strangled, her autopsy showed, Your Content has learned.
Murdered Lily Peters’ autopsy reveals she was strangled and ‘suffered blunt force trauma’ before she died.
Police arrested Carson Peters-Berger, 14, in connection with the murder of 10-year-old Lily.
Her body was found in woodland close to a walking trail in Chippewa Falls, northeast of Eau Claire, Wisconsin on Monday morning.
The fourth-grader had gone missing on Sunday night after being at her aunt’s house.
Peters-Berger is now facing a possible life sentence after being charged with three counts over Lily’s death and held on a $1million cash bond.
In court, prosecutors said he planned to ‘rape and kill the victim from the get-go when he left the house with the victim to go down the trail,‘according to INDEPENDENT.
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Before Joe Namath, Joe Montana and Jim Kelly, there was Johnny U. -- number 19. More than 30 years after he threw his last off-the-ear spiral in the NFL, Johnny Unitas is still regarded by many as the quintessential field general and one of football's all-time greatest -- and gutsiest -- performers. He died Wednesday at 69 of an apparent heart attack.
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Evacuations underway in Mariupol; Pelosi visits Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — A long-awaited effort to evacuate people from a steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was underway Sunday, the United Nations said, while U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed she visited Ukraine’s president to show unflinching American support for the country’s defense against Russian aggression.
U.N. humanitarian spokesman Saviano Abreu told The Associated Press that the operation to bring people out of the sprawling Azovstal steel plant was being done with the International Committee of the Red Cross and in coordination with Ukrainian and Russian officials.
As many as 100,000 people are believed to still be in blockaded Mariupol, including up to 1,000 civilians who were hunkered down with an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters beneath the Soviet-era steel plant — the only part of the city not occupied by the Russians.
Like other evacuations, success of the mission in Mariupol depended on Russia and its forces, deployed along a long series of checkpoints before reaching Ukrainian ones.
Zaporizhzhia, a city about 141 miles (227 kilometers) northwest of Mariupol, was the destination of the evacuation effort, Abreu said. He said women, children and the elderly — who have been stranded for nearly two months — will be evacuated to the city, where they will receive immediate humanitarian support, including psychological services.
Mariupol has seen some of the worst suffering of the war. A maternity hospital was hit with a lethal Russian airstrike in the opening weeks of the war, and hundreds of people were reported killed in the bombing of a theater where civilians were taking shelter.
“As the operations are still ongoing, we will not provide further details at this point, to guarantee the safety of the civilians and humanitarians in the convoy,” Abreu said of the evacuation.
“The U.N. will also continue to push for the safe passage out of Mariupol city for all those civilians who wish to leave,” he said.
The U.N. said the convoy to evacuate civilians started on Friday, traveling some 140 miles (230 kilometers) before reaching the plant in Mariupol on Saturday morning.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a tweet Sunday afternoon that the first group of about 100 people was headed to Ukrainian-controlled territory.
“Tomorrow we’ll meet them in Zaporizhzhia. Grateful to our team! Now they, together with #UN, are working on the evacuation of other civilians from the plant,” he tweeted.
GRAPHIC WARNING: Videos may contain disturbing content.
A team with Doctors Without Borders was at a reception center for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia on Sunday, in preparation for the U.N. convoy’s arrival, if successful. Stress, exhaustion and low supplies of food have likely weakened the health of civilians who have been trapped underground at the steel plant.
People fleeing Russian-occupied areas have described their vehicles being fired on, and Ukrainian officials have repeatedly accused Russian forces of shelling evacuation routes on which the two sides had agreed.
Russia’s high-stakes offensive in coastal southern Ukraine and the country’s eastern industrial heartland has Ukrainian forces fighting village-by-village and more civilians fleeing airstrikes and artillery shelling.
Pelosi, a California Democrat who is second in line to succeed the president, is the most senior American lawmaker to travel to Ukraine since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. Her Saturday visit came just days after Russia launched rockets at the capital during a visit by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.
During a Sunday news conference in the Polish city of Rzeszow, Pelosi said she and other members of a U.S. congressional delegation met with Zelenskyy in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, for three hours and brought him “a message of appreciation from the American people for his leadership.”
Rep. Jason Crow, a U.S. Army veteran and a member of the House intelligence and armed services committees, said he came to Ukraine with three areas of focus: “Weapons, weapons and weapons.”
“We have to make sure the Ukrainians have what they need to win. What we have seen in the last two months is their ferocity, their intense pride, their ability to fight and their ability to win if they have the support to do so,” the Colorado Democrat said.
Russian forces have embarked on a major military operation to seize significant parts of southern and eastern Ukraine following their failure to capture the capital, Kyiv. Mariupol, a port city on the Sea of Azov, is a key target because of its strategic location near the Crimea Peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014.
“All the leaders of the free world know what Russia has done to Mariupol. And Russia will not go unpunished for this,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address. He warned that Russia was “gathering additional forces for new attacks against our military in the east of the country.”
Limited evacuations from the city took place on Saturday, but the details had been unclear given the number of parties involved in the negotiations and the volatile situation on the ground.
The Russian Defense Ministry said a total of 46 people were evacuated from areas near the Azovstal plant.
On Saturday, Ukrainian regiment Deputy Commander Sviatoslav Palamar called for the evacuation of wounded Ukrainian fighters as well as civilians. “We don’t know why they are not taken away and their evacuation to the territory controlled by Ukraine is not being discussed,” he said in a video posted on the regiment’s Telegram channel.
Undeterred by air raid sirens and warnings to shelter at home, people in Zaporizhzhia visited cemeteries Sunday, when Ukrainians observe the Orthodox Christian day of the dead.
“If our dead could rise and see this, they would say, ‘It’s not possible, they’re worse than the Germans,’” Hennadiy Bondarenko, 61, said while marking the day with his family at a picnic table among the graves. “All our dead would join the fighting, including the Cossacks.”
Getting a full picture of the unfolding battle in eastern Ukraine has been difficult because airstrikes and artillery barrages have made it extremely dangerous for reporters to move around. Also, both Ukraine and Moscow-backed rebels have introduced tight restrictions on reporting from the combat zone.
But Western military analysts have suggested the offensive in the Donbas region, which includes Mariupol, was going much slower than planned. So far, Russian troops and the separatists appeared to have made only minor gains in the month since Moscow said it would focus its military strength in the east.
Video and images from inside the Mariupol steel plant, shared with the AP by two Ukrainian women who said their husbands are among the fighters refusing to surrender there, showed unidentified men with stained bandages; others had open wounds or amputated limbs.
A skeleton medical staff was treating at least 600 wounded people, said the women, who identified their husbands as members of the Azov Regiment of Ukraine’s National Guard. Some of the wounds were rotting with gangrene, they said.
The AP could not independently verify the date and location of the video, which the women said was taken in the last week in the maze of corridors and bunkers beneath the plant.
Meanwhile, a fire broke out Sunday at a Russian defense ministry facility in the southern Belgorod region, about 30 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, the Belgorod regional governor said.
In a Telegram post, Vyacheslav Gladkov said emergency responders were working at the site, where he said one resident sustained minor injuries and seven residential buildings suffered “varying degrees of damage.”
The defense ministry did not immediately comment on the incident.
Separately, the governor of Russia’s Kursk region, which also borders Ukraine, said on Telegram Sunday that a railway bridge on a regional line used by freight trains had been damaged in “an act of sabotage.” Roman Starovoyt did not identify the alleged perpetrators, but said a criminal investigation had been opened into the case.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance has flowed into Ukraine since the war began, but Russia’s vast armories mean Ukraine will continue to require huge amounts of support.
In the days before the war began, Western intelligence estimated Russia had positioned near the border as many as 190,000 troops; Ukraine’s standing military totals about 200,000, spread throughout the country.
With plenty of firepower still in reserve, Russia’s offensive still could intensify and overrun the Ukrainians. Overall the Russian army has an estimated 900,000 active-duty personnel. Russia also has a much larger air force and navy.
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Fisch reported from Sloviansk. Associated Press journalists Jon Gambrell and Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Mstyslav Chernov in Kharkiv, Lolita C. Baldor in Washington, Trisha Thompson in Rome and AP staff around the world contributed to this report.
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SMSO presents island-themed dinner and auction
Tribune Staff Report
BENTON HARBOR —The Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra presents its annual dinner and auction at 5 p.m. May 7 at Lake Michigan College’s Mendel Center, 2755 E. Napier Ave.
With a theme of “Party on Island Time,” the event includes a live auction, silent auction, dinner, a limbo contest and a live band, Johnny Russler and the Beach Bum Band.
In addition, there will be margaritas and a signature specialty drink available for purchase at the cash bar.
Attendees are encouraged to dress in island attire.
Tickets are $125 or $900 for a table of eight.
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Ambrosus (AMB) traded 2.4% lower against the U.S. dollar during the 1-day period ending at 13:00 PM E.T. on May 1st. Ambrosus has a total market capitalization of $7.37 million and $387,518.00 worth of Ambrosus was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. During the last seven days, Ambrosus has traded 28.9% lower against the U.S. dollar. One Ambrosus coin can currently be bought for about $0.0127 or 0.00000033 BTC on exchanges.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:
- POA (POA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.17 or 0.00000259 BTC.
- POA Network (POA) traded 334.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0764 or 0.00000198 BTC.
- Apple (AMB) traded 22.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.36 or 0.00000926 BTC.
- Umi Digital (UMI) traded 9.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- UMI (UMI) traded 2.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0095 or 0.00000025 BTC.
Ambrosus Profile
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According to CryptoCompare, “The Ambrosus project aims to improve the global food supply chains by creating an ecosystem where the team can record the entire history of products and execute commercial transactions accordingly. Combining high-tech sensors, blockchain protocol, and smart contracts, Ambrosus is building a community-driven ecosystem to assure the quality, safety & origins of products. Amber is the foundation of the Ambrosus network. Amber powers Ambrosus’s ecosystem, activating and operating the network and all of its associated services. “
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Here are the Evansville area IHSAA softball sectional pairings
We are one step closer to postseason softball.
The Indiana High School Athletic Association will announce its high school softball sectional pairings at 6 p.m. CDT. You can watch the telecast at ihsaatv.org.
There is one defending state champions in the Courier & Press coverage area. Boonville defeated Guerin Catholic in the 3A state championship last June on a walk-off squeeze.
There is a possibility for another area champion with several programs in the top 10 of the latest coaches' poll. Those programs include Castle (4A), Mater Dei (2A), Tecumseh (A), Northeast Dubois (A), Barr-Reeve (A) and North Daviess (A).
The Courier & Press will have coverage from the blind draw with pairings, analysis of each local bracket and thoughts on the top first-round matchups. Here are the local brackets:
IHSAA SOFTBALL
Class 4A at North
Game 1:
Game 2:
Game 3:
Game 4:
Game 5: Championship
Class 3A at Gibson Southern
Game 1:
Game 2:
Game 3:
Game 4: Championship
Class 3A at Heritage Hills
Game 1:
Game 2:
Game 3:
Game 4: Championship
Class 2A at South Knox
Game 1:
Game 2:
Game 3:
Game 4:
Game 5: Championship
Class 2A at Forest Park
Game 1:
Game 2:
Game 3:
Game 4:
Game 5: Championship
Class A at North Daviess
Game 1:
Game 2:
Game 3: Championship
Class A at Northeast Dubois
Game 1:
Game 2:
Game 3:
Game 4: Championship
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Later today, the National Geographic Society announces the results of an expedition to the Solomon Islands, to look for one of the most famous sunken ships of World War II: PT-109. A dashing, young Jack Kennedy captained the boat, years before he became President Kennedy. For Radio Expeditions, NPR's Neal Conan joined undersea explorer Robert Ballard on the search.
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Joan Adon tossed 6 1⁄3 scoreless against the Arizona Diamondbacks in his third start of the 2022 campaign, but took a step back when he faced the San Francisco Giants last week in the nation’s capital in start No. 4, giving up a total of six hits, a walk, and five earned runs in four innings, over which he threw 70 pitches to the 19 batters he faced in what ended up a 12-3 loss for the 23-year-old starter and the Washington Nationals.
“He had a bunch of high-leverage situations early, his pitch count got up there,” manager Davey Martinez told reporters, “so we thought it was the perfect time,” to get Adon just a batter into the fifth.
He was perhaps, a little unsettled by the fact that teammate Lucius Fox vomited near the mound just a few pitches into the game, but he pushed past it.
“He was a little bit weirded out by it. He threw up behind the mound. It was probably very uncomfortable for him, but I thought he handled himself well,” Martinez said.
“I was just trying to stay focused out there after that incident,” Adon acknowledged, via team interpreter Octavio Martinez, as quoted by MASN’s Mark Zuckerman. “Trying to do everything I can to help the team win today.”
“He’s very mature for his age, he really is,” Martinez said before Adon faced the Giants again in start No. 5 of 2022, when asked about his composure not getting rattled by Fox’s illness.
“After seeing that his last start, especially that early in the game, the fact that he didn’t freak out on us a little bit, he just went back on the mound and got the outs we needed, says a lot about him and what he’s trying to do. So hopefully today things go smoothly for him, and once again he keeps us the ballgame and gives us 5-6 more innings.”
What, if anything, did they do differently to prepare the rookie starter to face the Giants in back-to-back starts?
“Worked on a bullpen,” Martinez said, “... worked on a few things knowing that he was going to face these guys again, so for me, once again, it’s about him controlling the strike zone, and getting ahead. When he gets ahead, Adon is very good. He’s got three good pitches, but he’s got to work ahead.”
Martinez also talked about the keys to success for Adon, and how he could avoid the big innings and rough stretches which have hurt him in his first four starts.
“Stay within the moment, don’t get ahead of himself,” the manager said. “A lot of times as a young pitcher when something happens, or the first guy walks, or whatever the first guy gets a hit, we got to get him to slow down a little bit, not get ahead of himself, and just, like I said, continue to pound the strike zone, but once he’s out of that inning he settles down a little bit and he gets after it again.
“Those high-leverage situations, it’s about breathing, it’s about staying in the moment, and just remember how he got to that spot before the high-leverage situations were.”
Adon worked around a two-out walk in the first (and his own throwing error on a bunt which ended with a 5-2 putout at home), and then a hit-by-pitch and two-out single in the Giants’ second, for two scoreless innings of work on 38 pitches, and he took the mound in the third with a 2-0 lead, and retired the first two batters he faced, before hitting Wilmer Flores and walking Brandon Crawford in front of Thairo Estrada, who lined a 95 MPH 2-2 fastball to the left-center gap for a two-out, two-run double, 2-2.
Back-to-back singles by Luis González and Darin Ruf set Flores up with a first-and-third, no-out opportunity in the fifth, and he took a walk loading the bases and ending the outing for Adon.
The Giants scored two in the fifth and four in the sixth to jump out to an 8-3 lead in what ended up a 9-3 loss in the end.
Joan Adon’s Line: 4.0 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 5 Ks, 86 P, 50 S, 4/1 GO/FO.
“His fastball location wasn’t very good today,” Martinez said after the game. “He threw a lot of balls, but like I talked to him earlier, his stuff is so good that he kept us in the ballgame for a little bit there, then in the fifth inning, the first two guys get on and his pitch count was up. But like I say all the time, he’s got to go out and attack the strike zone. His fastball was scattered all over the place today, and he couldn’t really get ahead, and then the pitch count just blew up on him, but we’re going to keep working with him. He’s got good stuff. I thought his breaking ball was sharp today, threw a couple really good ones, and I know he tried to throw a few more changeups than normal today, and we’re going to keep working on that as well.”
“The main thing is to try to attack the zone,” Adon said, via translator Octavio Martinez.
“Attack the zone, attack the zone as best as I can. Sometimes, I start kind of playing around with my pitches, and try to needle my way through the zone, but I got to stay more focused and attack the zone more.”
“The main thing I took from today is basically I need to attack the zone, I need to just attack the zone,” he reiterated. | https://www.federalbaseball.com/2022/5/1/23050581/washington-nationals-joan-adon-struggles-against-san-francisco-giants-again | 2022-05-01T18:42:24Z | https://www.federalbaseball.com/2022/5/1/23050581/washington-nationals-joan-adon-struggles-against-san-francisco-giants-again | true | 1 |
The iconic Justin Timberlake "It's gonna be May" meme, a play on the singer's pronunciation in the *NSYNC song "It's Gonna Be Me," has officially been around for a decade.
The meme, featuring a fresh-faced, boy band-era Timberlake, was created by Kianna Davis when she was a student at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia.
"I had been planning my busy April calendar and posted it as a joke to my friends," Davis said in an interview with her alma mater.
Davis, who now works for an education software company, had been a fan of *NSYNC since 1998.
"I never got to see them in concert, but I begged my mother for any memorabilia she saw in stores," she told the university. "I still have an *NSYNC blanket she gave me for Christmas 20 years ago."
She said she "had no idea what the meme would become."
A decade later, the image still makes the rounds on social media at the end of April. Last year, Davis got an extra boost of internet attention when Timberlake tagged her on his social media accounts, saying, "I have to give props where they are due."
"I was in shock," she said. "I got so many calls and texts, I had to keep my phone on the charger all day."
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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Researchers are returning to the Alabama coast near Mobile to assess the sunken remains of the last slave ship to bring captive Africans to the United States more than 160 years ago.
The Alabama Historical Commission says a team will begin a 10-day evaluation of the remnants of the Clotilda on Monday. Experts have described the wreck as the most complete slave ship ever discovered.
The agency has hired Resolve Marine, a salvage and services company, for work involving the Clotilda. The ship was scuttled in the muddy Mobile River after illegally dropping off 110 West Africans on the Alabama coast in 1860, decades after Congress outlawed the international slave trade.
The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long (30.5-meter-long) barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation.
“It is a tremendous duty to ensure the Clotilda is evaluated and preserved,” Aaron Jozsef, the project manager for Resolve Marine, said in a statement.
Some have advocated for removing the wreckage from the water and placing it on display in a new museum that’s being discussed, and officials have said the work will help determine whether such a project is possible.
The Clotilda’s voyage was financed by a wealthy Alabama businessman, Timothy Meaher, whose descendants still have extensive land holdings around Mobile. Enslaved upon their arrival in Alabama, some of the Africans started a community called Africatown USA just north of Mobile after the Civil War, and many of their descendants still live there.
Ship wreckage in the river was identified as being that of the Clotilda in 2019, and officials have been assessing the site and deciding what to do with it ever since. While small parts of the two-masted wooden schooner have been brought to the surface, researchers have found that most of the ship — including the pen that was used to imprison the captives — remains intact on the river bottom.
Working with the state and SEARCH Inc., Resolve Marine said it will perform work including an assessment of the Clotilda’s hull and a limited excavation of artifacts. It’s also developing a plan to conserve the wreckage where it’s currently located in the river a few miles north of Mobile.
The work, which is being funded with a $1 million state appropriation, “will add to the collective understanding of the vessel and the site’s potential to yield significant archaeological information about the ship and its final voyage,” Jozsef said. | https://www.klfy.com/national/researchers-returning-for-assessment-of-last-us-slave-ship/ | 2022-05-01T18:48:12Z | https://www.klfy.com/national/researchers-returning-for-assessment-of-last-us-slave-ship/ | false | 42 |
House fire reported in Glen Arm
UPDATE: Reports indicate that the home was vacant.
Original story below…
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GLEN ARM, MD—Crews are on the scene of a Thursday evening house fire in Glen Arm.
The fire was reported at just after 7 p.m. in the 13000-block of Manor Road.
Units arrived to find fire showing from the dwelling.
Additional water tankers have been dispatched as there are no fire hydrants in the area.
There has been no word on any injuries.
Photo via Providence Volunteer Fire Company
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Three people died and three others were injured after two weekend shootings in Kansas City, Kansas.
A spokesman for the police department in Kansas City, Kansas, Officer Marshee London said one shooting happened late Saturday while the second one was reported shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday.
The Kansas City Star reports that in the first shooting, officers found two people who had been fatally wounded in the 1800 block of North 26th Street. A third person who had also been shot was taken to the hospital.
On Sunday morning, police found one dead person and two wounded individuals in the 200 block of North 6th Street.
Police did not immediately release the names and ages of the victims, and no arrests were reported Sunday morning. | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Three-killed-in-two-separate-shootings-in-Kansas-17140124.php | 2022-05-01T18:58:54Z | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Three-killed-in-two-separate-shootings-in-Kansas-17140124.php | false | null |
Flowing out of Lake Zurich through the Old Town—–and dividing the iconic Fraumünster and Grossmünster churches—–the Limmat River has figured centrally in Zurich life for centuries. Today, restaurants and bathhouses line its banks, and swimmers and boaters enjoy the clear, glacier-fed water that makes Zurich a nature-lover’s city. | https://www.dwell.com/@shannonmcshane | 2022-05-01T19:01:39Z | https://www.dwell.com/@shannonmcshane | false | null |
Cote d’Ivoire prospect Wahi sets Montpellier record with Metz strike
Elye Wahi reached a milestone as Montpellier played out a 2-2 draw with Metz in Sunday’s Ligue 1 encounter.
The teenager’s last-gasp effort helped La Paillade secure a comeback draw against visiting Maroons inside Stade de la Mosson.
Wahi sent the home fans into wild jubilation thanks to his strike in the first of four added-on minutes, getting ahead of his marker to fire past goalkeeper Marc-Aurele Caillard.
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In the process, he became the youngest player to score 10+ goals in the same Ligue 1 season with Montpellier at 19 years and three months old.
Still hurt following their 5-2 defeat to Olympique Lyon last time out, Olivier Dall'Oglio’s men welcomed relegation-threatened Metz in their bid to return to winning ways.
The home team enjoyed a marginal advantage in the opening attacking exchanges, as Arnaud Souquet forced Caillard into making a fine save.
Nevertheless, it was the visitors who took the lead after Thomas Delaine clinically slotted into the bottom right-hand corner in the 24th minute.
Five minutes before the half-time break, Wahi thought he had levelled matters for the hosts, however, his goal was ruled out by VAR for an offside in the build-up.
With 20 minutes left on the clock, Metz doubled their advantage when substitute Louis Mafouta made the most of a poor defensive clearance to send a clinical strike past goalkeeper Dimitry Bertaud.
Looking destined for a back to back defeat, Montpellier pulled off some magic to ensure that the game ended on a no winner, no vanquished note.
First, Souquet reduced the deficit with a fine header from Mihailo Ristic’s cross before the France youth international of Ivorian origin levelled matters.
Cameroonian defender Ambroise Oyongo was named in the starting XI by Montpellier, but he was subbed off for Mihailo Ristic in the 63rd minute, whereas, Congolese striker Beni Makouana was not dressed for action.
On the other hand, Mali duo of Boubakar Kouyate and Boubacar Traore as well as Senegal's Pape Matar Sarr saw every minute of action, with Central African Republic's Louis Mafouta and Opa Nguette (Senegal) introduced in the second half for Nicolas de Preville and Didier Lamkel Ze.
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Court of Appeals rules redistricting maps were Gerrymandered
ALBANY, NY – The Court of Appeals ruled that both the Congressional and the State Senate maps were Gerrymandered, favoring Democrats.
So how will this impact New York Voters? NewsChannel 34’s Jamie DeLine explains.
It’s back to the drawing board when it comes to the congressional and state senate redistricting maps.
“The significance of yesterdays decision was the fact that basically the voters won. The decision validated the fact that the legislature couldn’t just draw their own maps.”
The court chose Dr. Johnathan Cervas a post doctoral fellow from Carnegie Mellon university to draw the district lines.
“How the lines are drawn will determine where you would circulate petitions for voters in those new districts, whether the petition gathering period would be Truncated, whether the number of signatures you need would be reduced because you’d have a compressed time frame on a political calendar, that seems likely.”
This means that the primaries for congress and state Senate are likely getting pushed back to August but a new date hasn’t been given just yet.
However, other races will still have their primaries on June 28th as previously scheduled.
NYS Republican Party Chairman, Nick Langworthy is calling this court ruling a victory. However, it could makes things more complicated for both parties.
“This is going to create a period of uncertainty, and some people might find themselves without a seat to run for. That’s another dynamic. Perhaps some people who made announcements will reconsider those announcements and get back in races that they have opted out of.”
In a Statement, New York State Democratic Chair Jay Jacobs saying while we are disappointed with the courts ruling we remain confidence in democratic Victories up and down the ballot.
Reporting in Albany, I’m Jamie DeLine.
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In Hong Kong's Happy Valley—where land is scarce and living spaces are usually pretty small—multi-disciplinary design practice Lim+Lu revived a three-bedroom apartment in an old residential building into a gleaming, visually-expanded abode.
With the aim of separating various functional zones while maintaining privacy, freeing up space, and making the apartment look bigger than its actual size (1,206 square feet), Lim+Lu incorporated suspended glass and sliding doors made with black powder-coated stainless steel. | https://www.dwell.com/@victoriacamplinwelch | 2022-05-01T19:07:57Z | https://www.dwell.com/@victoriacamplinwelch | false | null |
Ludhiana, April 30
After a clash occurred between two groups in Patiala on Friday, the Ludhiana police remained on alert on Saturday.
Police force was deployed at various places in the city to prevent any untoward incident.
Cops patrol sensitive places
Police force was deployed at various places in the city to prevent any untoward incident. The police personnel also conducted patrolling at sensitive places, including the Railway road and Clock Tower.
Anti-riot police personnel have also been kept on standby mode in the city.
The police force, led by senior officials, also conducted patrolling at sensitive places, including the Railway road and Clock Tower.
The police personnel were also keeping a tab around religious places.
Sources said the police had already held a secret meeting with leaders of Hindu and Sikh communities and asked them not to resort to any protest in the city. The latter had also assured the police that they would not hold any protest.
Meanwhile, members of the Hindu Shakti Morcha, led by Rohit Sahni, held a meeting in which they urged the Patiala administration to arrest Khalistan supporters. They said the police arrested Hindu leader Harish Singla but no action was taken against the protesters who had created tension outside the Kali Mata temple.
They gave an ultimatum to the Patiala police to arrest the troublemakers, otherwise they would launch a statewide agitation against the government and the police.
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Antonio Mureddu who helped a covid-19 patient to leave hospital
The Director of Public Prosecutions has directed there should be no prosecution of an anti-vaccination campaigner who helped a patient to leave Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) last year.
The incident involved seriously ill Covid-19 patient, Joe McCarron (67), who was helped to leave hospital, against medical advice, by Antonio Mureddu.
In a video, which was widely shared on social media at the time, Mureddu, was seen urging Joe McCarron to leave LUH, in spite of the fact medical staff insisting he still required treatment for Covid-19.
Mr McCarron returned to LUH two days later, but died soon after from the illness.
Gardaí say they submitted an investigation file regarding the matter to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, but it directed that there would be no prosecution in the matter.
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Tyrone prepare to take on great rivals and ‘threat’ Derry
Brian Dooher.
BRIAN Dooher has warned that Derry pose a serious threat to Tyrone’s bid to retain the Ulster title as these two great rivals prepare to do battle in Sunday’s Anglo-Celt Cup quarter-final at O’Neills Healy Park.
The Red Hand joint manager insists his side must be at their best if they are to overcome one of the most improved sides in the country.
The All-Ireland champions go into the game with a preliminary round won over Fermanagh under their belts, but they will need to step up their performance levels from that seven points success at Brewster Park.
Derry manager Rory Gallagher, one of the most astute tacticians in the game, has been planning for this game since the draw was made a number of months ago, and he will no doubt have a plan in place to contrive a winning formula for his team.
“We know what we’ll be facing. They’ll work hard and they’ll be fit and very well organised,” said Dooher.
Derry just missed out on promotion to Division One of the National Football League this season, at the end of an impressive campaign that provided ample evidence of Oak Leaf progress, and following several years of struggle, this proud county is very much on the rise again.
They have attacking quality which will cause trouble for the Tyrone defence, particularly Shane McGuigan, one of the most lethal finishers in the game, with Niall Loughlin and Benny Heron also capable of creating and executing scores.
Former Aussie Rules star Conor Glass has been a massive addition as a midfield powerhouse since his return from the AFL, while Derry are defensively solid, with experienced pair Chrissy McKaigue and Brendan Rogers, along with Gareth McKinless, all performing at a high level.
The Oaks, like Sunday’s opponents, have lost some players from their panel, with the departure of Ciaran McFaul a particularly heavy blow, but they have depth to compensate for those no longer involved.
Tyrone have their own concerns. Should a controversial red card picked up in the closing stages of the win over Fermanagh be upheld, Conor McKenna will be a massive loss to the reigning provincial champions.
Mattie Donnelly will miss a second successive game as he continues to recover a hamstring injury, but the Red Hands will be boosted by the return of Peter Harte and Richie Donnelly, both of whom missed the preliminary round tie in Enniskillen.
Despite the potential absence of some quality attackers, Tyrone have an abundance of offensive threat in the form of Darren McCurry, Cathal McShane and Darragh Canavan, and the industry of Conor Meyler, Niall Sludden and Kieran McGeary will propel their challenge for a semi-final spot.
Conn Kilpatrick and Brian Kennedy have developed as one of the most effective midfield partnerships in the country, and can give their side an edge in that vital central area.
The concession of two late goals to Fermanagh in the last game flagged up some defensive issues, but served as a reminder of the need to be constantly alert and focused, and the experienced Ronan McNamee, Padraig Hampsey and Frank Burns will respond this weekend.
Dooher stressed that this will be an extremely difficult hurdle to clear for a team that goes in as favourites to overcome an extremely dangerous opponent.
“They have quality, they have quality all through it. they’re playing well, they have a good system, and we’ll have to see if we can counteract it,” said the treble All-Ireland winner.
“They were unlucky not to get promotion. They have been the in-form team in League football this last two years.
“Under Rory Gallagher, they have come on leaps and bounds, and they pose a very stiff challenge for us.
“They should be in Division One I think. You have Galway, Roscommon and Derry, and there’s not a kick of a ball between them.
“It’s up to us to get our bodies recovered, look back, take the learning out of this game, move it forward, look at Derry and see what we can bring to the game. There’s a real focus, that’s the next step.”
Along with his management partner Feargal Logan, Dooher has been keeping a close eye on the progress of Derry, and assessing the quality that runs through their team.
“They have some great footballers. You have the Glen team, you have the Slaughtneil team back-boning them, and you have good Minors and U20s coming through over the last few years.
“So they have a lot of quality and a lot of pedigree running through their team.
“Derry are back up there now, they’re at the top table, more or less, that’s the way I see them, and they deserve to be there.”
It’s likely that the visitors will drop players back into their own half in a bid to frustrate their opponents in a defensive shut-out, so Tyrone will have to be patient and inventive in their efforts to break them down.
“They are strong defensively, but they’re good footballers.
“You look through their team, and them boys would make any county team in Ireland, that’s the fact.”
Dooher is hoping that a preliminary round outing against the Erne men will have got his side up to Championship pace and provided a slight advantage over a side making its first appearance in the provincial title race this season.
“Hopefully you are, but it’s hard to tell. You won’t know, but you hope that will stand to the players, that bit of fitness, and it definitely upped the pace from League football.
“You hope you will take that from it as people get valuable game time there, and Championship football will stand to them.”
Tyrone will take limited comfort from the fact that they have home advantage, for Healy Park has not been the fortress they would like to have made it. Dooher was on the team that lost out to Derry in a first round tie in Omagh in 2006 when Tyrone were reigning All-Ireland champions.
“That shows you what Derry are capable of, and I’d say they’re probably a better team now.
“We haven’t played much Championship football in Omagh, and I’m sure Derry won’t mind coming to Omagh, it’s a pitch with two goalposts at either end of it.
“They have some fine footballers, and they were very impressive throughout the League.”
“They have some fine footballers, and they were very impressive throughout the League.”
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BILLINGSGATE POST: Until now, all the efforts of man to restore the skin of his fellow creature to its natural form and beauty, have proved fruitless. Previous attempts by taxidermists to stuff and mount a member of his own specie have only produced mis-shapen specimens so unlike nature that they have never found a place in our Natural History museums.
Mummies aside - they don’t count because they were not stuffed - the fact that Elmer Smuckmeister was the first to successfully mount and stuff a member of Homo sapiens, came as a surprise to those inside the Beltway.
Known as “The Taxidermist To The Stars,” Smuckmeister needs no introduction. A noted forensic taxidermist, he was the first to expose the “Jackalope” as a clever hoax. A master craftsman; his work speaks for itself, even if his subjects can’t.
What Smuckmeister produced amazed even Sean Hannity of FOX NEWS. Hannity’s portrayal of President Biden as a stumbling, stiff-gated bumbling idiot was superseded by a smooth talking, graceful, stuffed three dimensional facsimile of the President.
Instead of being coached by a coterie of flim-flammers, including a pushy Easter Bunny, the red-headed vixen, Jen Psaki, and other supernumeraries too numerous to mention, his mounted image needed no Teleprompter to help him read a speech.
Propped up like a two-legged Trigger, with a graphite stake instead of a spine keeping him upright, one can listen to him haggling with Vladimir Putin, sing the National Anthem or recite The Pledge of Allegiance, merely by pressing one button or another.
Dr. Slim: “Phrenologically speaking, this beats anything Mr. Ed said by a country mile.”
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man has been charged with five counts of aggravated assault after officers say he shot at a vehicle with his child in the car.
The incident happened in March at Jonetta Street and Hewlett Road in Southwest Memphis.
Officers said a woman, her nephew, boyfriend and two children, ages five and eight, were all inside of a car at a four-way stop when two other vehicles pulled up and began firing shots towards their vehicle.
The woman’s boyfriend told officers that he recognized one of the suspects as the woman’s ex-boyfriend, Bobby Spears, and he saw Spears exit his vehicle and fire shots towards their car.
MPD said two other suspects also fired shots from the inside of a vehicle.
The woman’s boyfriend then sped away to Delta Road and called police. At least 14 shell casings were found on the scene, according to court documents.
No injuries were reported.
Officers later found out that Spears is the father of the woman’s five-year-old child.
The woman’s boyfriend also told officers that he and Spears got into an argument earlier that day, and he knew Spears because they both have a child by the same woman.
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UPDATE: On April 28, 2022, at 4:57 p.m. deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 46700 block of Marshall Boulevard in Lexington Park, for the reported shooting. Deputies arrived on the scene within three minutes of the initial 911 call and began lifesaving measures for the victim until the arrival of Emergency Services Personnel (EMS).
On April 30, 2022, detectives from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division located and arrested Jarvis Joseph Carter, age 40 of Great Mills, and charged him with the following:
- Attempted First Degree Murder
- Attempted Second Degree Murder
- Assault First and Second Degree
- Handgun on Person
- Firearm Use/Felony-Violent Crime
Carter remains incarcerated at the St. Mary’s County Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Leonardtown, on a no-bond status.
On April 28, 2022, at 4:57 p.m. deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 46700 block of Marshall Boulevard in Lexington Park, for the reported shooting.
Deputies arrived on scene and located the victim, age 21 of Lexington Park, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The victim was transported by helicopter to an area trauma center in critical condition. Detectives and Crime Lab personnel from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division responded to the scene and continued the investigation.
Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact Detective Austin Schultz at (301) 475-4200 extension 71953 or by email at Austin.Schultz@stmarysmd.com.
Citizens may remain anonymous and contact Crime Solvers at (301) 475-3333, or text a tip to “TIP239” plus their message to “CRIMES” (274637). Through the Crime Solvers Program tipsters are eligible for an award of up to $1,000 for information about a crime in St. Mary’s County that leads to an arrest or indictment. | https://southernmarylandchronicle.com/2022/05/01/suspect-arrested-in-thursdays-lexington-park-shooting/ | 2022-05-01T19:33:03Z | https://southernmarylandchronicle.com/2022/05/01/suspect-arrested-in-thursdays-lexington-park-shooting/ | false | 3 |
Muslim journalist M.J. Akbar is founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, an English language newspaper published in India. He's also the author of five books, including his latest, The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict Between Islam & Christianity. (Rout
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New Delhi: While the country across its length and breadth is experiencing a record-breaking heatwave, Himachal Pradesh’s capital Shimla received light rainfall on Sunday evening.Also Read - As Mercury Continues To Rise, Centre Issues Advisory To States | Top Updates
The Shimla Meteorological Centre has predicted rain or thunderstorm on May 2 in middle and high hills and issued a warning of lightning at isolated places. The regional weather office has predicted rain or thunderstorm in some places and snowfall at higher altitudes over the next three days. Also Read - IMD Predicts Heavy Rainfall in Isolated Places Over Andaman and Nicobar, Cyclone Likely
On May 3, thunderstorms, lightning, hailstorm, and gusty winds (wind speed 30-40 knots per hour) are likely at isolated places over plains/low and mid-hills while thunderstorms and lightning are likely at isolated places over high hills. Also Read - Delhi: 77-Year-Old Builder Killed, Robbed At Home In Posh Civil Lines Area
On May 4, thunderstorms, lightning, and hailstorms are likely at isolated places over plains/low and mid-hills. Thunderstorms and lightning are likely at isolated places over high hills.
On May 5, thunderstorms and lightning are likely at isolated places over plains/low, middle, and high hills.
Heatwave conditions are likely to abate over Delhi and adjoining parts of northwest India from Monday and might not occur again before May 7, predicted the India Meteorological Department (IMD) adding that Western disturbances are also approaching northwest India and are likely to bring thunderstorms or dust storms to the region.
The IMD on Sunday said that the heatwave conditions in isolated parts over Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, south Uttar Pradesh, Kutch, and East Rajasthan are very likely to abate after May 1. It has predicted a fall in maximum temperatures by 3-4 Degree Celsius over many parts of northwest India during the next two days.
“We are giving thunderstorms and dust storms warning for the whole of northwest India covering Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, and West Uttar Pradesh. Cloudy weather or dust rising winds will continue till May 5. From May 1 to 5, the temperature will be normal. No heatwave will be there,” senior scientist at IMD RK Jenamani told ANI.
“Heat Wave conditions in isolated parts over Vidarbha during 01-03 May; over MP, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and West Rajasthan on 01 & 02 May; over HP, Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, south UP, Kutch & East Rajasthan today. Abatement of a heatwave over the region thereafter,” IMD had tweeted earlier today.
Parts of the country have been reeling under intense heatwaves for the past few weeks with temperatures soaring high with average maximum temperatures reaching 35.9 and 37.78 degrees Celsius in the northwest and central India respectively. Both the regions of the country experienced the hottest April in 122 years.
(With ANI inputs) | https://www.india.com/news/india/shimla-receives-rainfall-on-sunday-snowfall-predicted-check-weather-predictions-for-whole-of-india-here-5369091/ | 2022-05-01T19:35:11Z | https://www.india.com/news/india/shimla-receives-rainfall-on-sunday-snowfall-predicted-check-weather-predictions-for-whole-of-india-here-5369091/ | true | 2 |
Coastal Carolina University trying to help under-represented communities get access to education
CONWAY S.C. (WBTW) — Coastal Carolina University is trying to help under-represented communities get access to education with its new Johnson-Brown Innovation and Opportunity Center.
The university said only 15% of people in the Waccamaw region have four-year degrees.
The center is administered through the university’s College of Graduate and Continuing studies.
Graduate students use their knowledge gained from the classroom to promote economic improvement throughout the community.
The center will focus on entrepreneurship and innovation, life and leadership skills, technology, personal finance and service.
The center will plan events like 3-D printing workshops and how to start business workshops.
“Building off Each 1 Teach 1, which exposes middle and high school students to college, and again as I mentioned the life skills, and this idea that their careers are possible. The innovation and opportunity center is like phase two,” said Lee Brown, Coastal Carolina University Dean of the College of Graduate and Continuing Studies.
Graduate students are chosen for the program by the university, and community participants are chosen through the university’s Each 1 Teach 1 Insitute.
The Johnson-Brown Innovation and Opportunity Center is still in its beginning stages. However, they are planning an innovation academy this summer.
Students will learn things like coding, working with microprocessors and how to build a computer.
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BERLIN — Germany says it’s making progress on weaning itself off Russian fossil fuels and expects to be fully independent of crude oil imports from Russia by late summer.
Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck said Sunday that Europe’s largest economy has reduced its share of Russian energy imports to 12% for oil, 8% for coal and 35% for natural gas.
Habeck says those steps mean increased costs for the economy and for consumers. But he says the changes are necessary if Germany no longer wants to be “blackmailed by Russia.”
The announcement comes as the European Union considers an embargo on Russian oil. The bloc has already decided to ban Russian coal imports starting in August.
Weaning German off Russian natural gas is a far bigger challenge. Before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, Germany got more than half of its natural gas imports from Russia.
KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Evacuations underway at steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol
— Pelosi leadsdelegation to Kyiv and Poland; vows US support
— Combat death puts spotlight on Americans fighting in Ukraine
— Wives of Mariupol defenders appeal for soldiers’ evacuation
— Look for the orange vest: Ukrainians in Romania help others
— Germany vows to stop using Russian oil exports by late summer.
Follow all AP stories on Russia’s war on Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
KYIV, Ukraine — The city council in the bombed-out southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol says Monday is the scheduled start date for a broad, U.N.-backed evacuation of its civilians, other than those sheltering at a steel plant.
The city council also confirmed Sunday in a social media post on Telegram that some civilians were being evacuated Sunday from the Azovstal steelworks that is the last Ukrainian defense stronghold in Mariupol. City officials note the support of the Red Cross and say the wider evacuation of the strategic port city was delayed by security concerns.
As many as 100,000 people are believed to still be in blockaded Mariupol, including up to 1,000 civilians who were hunkered down with an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters beneath the Soviet-era steel plant. The plant is the only part of the city not occupied by the Russians.
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KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian army says that a Russian offensive along a broad front in the country’s east has been stalling amid human and material losses inflicted by Kyiv’s forces.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said Sunday in a Facebook post that Russian troops were trying to advance in the Sloboda, Donetsk and Tauride regions, but were being held back by Ukrainian forces that continue to fight village by village.
Separately, Ukrainian intelligence officials accused Russian forces of destroying medical infrastructure, taking equipment and denying medical care to residents in several occupied cities and towns.
In a Facebook post Sunday, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense claims that ventilators and other equipment provided since 2014 by international donors and the government of Ukraine were removed from a hospital at Starobilsk in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region.
The same post alleges that tuberculosis patients were denied medical care in the Kharkiv region at Volchansk while several facilities were used to treat wounded Russian troops.
The accuracy of the claims could not be immediately verified.
Ukrainian officials also said Sunday that internet and cellular communications were cut in a large area in the Russian-occupied Kherson region and part of the Zaporizhzhia region and blamed Russian forces. The London-based internet monitor Netblocks said the Kherson region lost 75% of internet connectivity beginning Saturday evening.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that an evacuation is underway of civilians at a steel plant in the bombed-out city of Mariupol.
Zelenskyy said on social media Sunday that a group of 100 people are on their way from Azovstal steelworks to Ukrainian-controlled territory.
He indicated that plans are underway for a Monday rendezvous with the evacuees at the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia that has previously been a staging post for those fleeing Mariupol. Zaporizhzhia is located about 230 kilometers (140 miles) from Mariupol.
As many as 100,000 people are believed to still be in blockaded Mariupol, including up to 1,000 civilians who were hunkered down with an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters beneath the Soviet-era steel plant — the only part of the city not occupied by the Russians.
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DUSSELDORF, Germany — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged to continue to support Ukraine with money, aid and also weapons, saying a pacifist approach to the war is “outdated.”
Speaking at a May Day rally in Dusseldorf, Scholz said: “I respect all pacifism, I respect all attitudes, but it must seem cynical to a citizen of Ukraine to be told to defend himself against Putin’s aggression without weapons.”
The German leader also warned that the war would have consequences for food supply, potentially leading “to a worldwide hunger crisis.”
Soaring food prices and disruption to supplies coming from Russia and Ukraine have threatened food shortages in countries in the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia.
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — The United Nations has confirmed that an operation to evacuate people from a steel plant in the bombed-out Ukrainian city of Mariupol is underway.
U.N. humanitarian spokesman Saviano Abreu told The Associated Press on Sunday that the effort to bring people out of the sprawling Azovstal steel plant was being done in collaboration with the International Committee for the Red Cross and in coordination with Ukrainian and Russian officials.
He called the situation “very complex” and would not give further details.
Up to 1,000 civilians are believed to be hunkered down with an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters beneath the sprawling Soviet-era steel plant that is the only part of the city not occupied by the Russians.
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BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has brushed aside criticism that his government is not doing enough to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s invasion.
Even though Germany reversed its policy of not sending weapons to countries at war, Scholz has been accused at home and abroad of being hesitant and slow in coming to Ukraine’s aid. In an interview published Sunday by newspaper Bild, the Social Democratic leader defended his government’s approach.
“I make my decisions quickly — and in coordination with our partners,” Scholz was quoted as saying. “I am suspicious of acting too hastily and Germany going it alone.”
Germany broke with tradition after Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24 to supply anti-tank weapons, surface-to-air missiles and other military equipment to Ukraine. It has since agreed to provide Gepard anti-aircraft guns, but Scholz has faced mounting pressure to send other heavy weapons including tanks and other armored vehicles.
Scholz, who replaced Angela Merkel as chancellor late last year, said he wasn’t bothered by opposition claims that he’s too hesitant and timid.
“It is part of a democracy that you are robustly challenged by the opposition,” he said.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has appealed again for a safe evacuation of Ukrainians trapped in the steel plant of Mariupol, saying he weeps thinking of their suffering and how their city has been “barbarously bombed and destroyed.”
Speaking Sunday during his traditional noontime prayer, Francis urged all the faithful to pray the Rosary every day in May for peace. He noted that May 1 begins the month Christians dedicate to Mary, the mother of God and for whom Mariupol is named.
He said: “Even now, even from here, I renew the request that safe humanitarian corridors be arranged for the people trapped in the steelworks of that city. I suffer and cry thinking of the suffering of the Ukrainian population, especially the weakest, the elderly and children.”
He noted the “terrible reports of children being expelled and deported” and the “terrible regression of humanity.”
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WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s armed forces said Sunday that military exercises involving thousands of NATO soldiers have begun. They are regular exercises aimed at improving the security of the alliance’s eastern flank but come this year with Russia’s war against Ukraine raging nearby.
Due to those circumstances, Poland’s military appealed to the public on Sunday not to publish information or photos of the columns of military vehicles expected to move through the country in the coming weeks.
It warned that “ill-considered activity” could harm the alliance’s security. “Let’s be aware of the dangers!” the statement said.
The Polish Army said in a statement that 18,000 soldiers from over 20 countries were taking part in the Defender Europe 2022 and Swift Response 2022 exercises that are taking place in Poland and eight other countries.
The exercises are scheduled to run May 1-27.
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RZESZOW, Poland — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has praised the courage of the Ukrainian people and vowed continued U.S. support to help Ukraine defeat Russia after leading a congressional delegation to Kyiv to assess Ukraine’s needs for the next phase of the war.
Pelosi, a California Democrat who is next in line to the presidency after the vice president, is the most senior American lawmaker to visit Ukraine since Russia’s war began more than two months ago.
She and a half-dozen U.S. lawmakers met for three hours Saturday with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his top aides. Speaking to reporters Sunday in Poland, the delegation members were unanimous in praising Ukraine’s defenses so far and offering continued long-term military, humanitarian and economic support, vowing the United States would stand with Ukraine until it defeated Russia.
“This is a time we stand up for democracy or we allow autocracy to rule the day,” said Rep. Gregory Meeks, a Democrat from New York.
Rep. Jason Crow, a Democrat from Colorado, a veteran and a member of the House intelligence and armed services committee said he came to Ukraine with three areas of focus: “Weapons, weapons and weapons.”
He said: “We have to make sure the Ukrainians have what they need to win. What we have seen in the last two months is their ferocity, their intense pride, their ability to fight and their ability to win if they have the support to do so.”
Pelosi said she was “dazzled” by Zelenskyy’s expertise of all the issues at hand and described him at their meeting as “a remarkable master class of leadership.”
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LONDON — Russian “cyber soldiers” have launched a new offensive against foreign leaders, targeting social media platforms with a large-scale disinformation campaign that seeks to legitimize the invasion of Ukraine, according to research funded by the U.K.
Paid operatives working from a factory in St. Petersburg use the Telegram messaging app to recruit and coordinate supporters who then flood the social media accounts of Kremlin critics with comments supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine, the U.K. Foreign Office said Sunday.
The so-called troll factory has developed new techniques to avoid detection by social media platforms, posting comments and amplifying pro-Kremlin content created by legitimate users rather than creating its own content, the Foreign Office said. Traces of its activity have been found on eight social media platforms, including Telegram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok.
The operation has targeted politicians and wider audiences in a number of countries, including the U.K., South Africa and India, the Foreign Office said. It is believed to have links to Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who has been sanctioned by both the U.S. and Britain for financing the Kremlin’s online influence operations.
“We cannot allow the Kremlin and its shady troll farms to invade our online spaces with their lies about Putin’s illegal war,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in the statement. “The U.K. government has alerted international partners and will continue to work closely with allies and media platforms to undermine Russian information operations.”
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LVIV, Ukraine — Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press show damage to oil depots just across the Ukrainian border in Russia after suspected Ukrainian attacks.
The photos from Saturday show damage at two sites in Bryansk. The blasts damaged multiple tanks, leaving the surrounding grounds charred.
The explosions happened Monday. One hit an oil depot owned by Transneft-Druzhba, a subsidiary of the Russian state-controlled company Transneft that operates the western-bound Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline carrying crude oil to Europe.
The second facility is a short distance from the other.
Bryansk is located about 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of the border with Ukraine.
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KYIV, Ukraine — U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has met with Ukraine’s president.
Footage released early Sunday by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office showed Pelosi in Kyiv with a Congressional delegation. Those with Pelosi included Reps. Jason Crow, Jim McGovern and Adam Schiff.
Zelenskyy told the delegation: “You all are welcome.”
Pelosi later said: “We believe that we are visiting you to say thank you for your fight for freedom. We are on a frontier of freedom and your fight is a fight for everyone. Our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done.”
The visit was not previously announced.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Some women and children were evacuated from a steel plant that is the last defensive stronghold in the bombed-out ruins of the port city of Mariupol, a Ukrainian official and Russian state news organizations said.
But hundreds are believed to remain trapped with little food, water or medicine.
The United Nations was working to broker an evacuation of the up to 1,000 civilians living beneath the sprawling Soviet-era Azovstal plant after numerous previous attempts failed.
Ukraine has not said how many fighters are also in the plant, the only part of Mariupol not occupied by Russian forces, but Russia put the number at about 2,000. An estimated 100,000 civilians remain in the city.
U.N. humanitarian spokesperson Saviano Abreu said the world organization was negotiating with authorities in Moscow and Kyiv, but he could not provide details of the ongoing evacuation effort “because of the complexity and fluidity of the operation.”
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LVIV, Ukraine — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says American diplomats are making plans to return to Ukraine as soon as possible.
Blinken made the comment while speaking to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. An overnight statement Sunday said Blinken told Kuleba that America “plans to return to Kyiv as soon as possible.”
He said diplomats had been making “initial visits” to Lviv to prepare.
The U.S. evacuated its embassy in Kyiv in February just before Russia launched its war on the country. The U.S. had been bringing diplomats across the Polish border each day to work in Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, before stopping the practice.
Lviv has largely been spared in the conflict, though a missile strike several days ago targeted a railroad facility near the city.
The U.S. is one of Ukraine’s main backers in the war, providing billions in aid and weaponry.
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LVIV, Ukraine — The British military says the Russian ruble will be used as currency in a Ukrainian city that Moscow seized earlier in the war.
The British military wrote that the city of Kherson will begin a four-month transition from the Ukrainian hryvnia to the ruble starting Sunday. The British Defense Ministry said the move is “indicative of Russian intent to exert strong political and economic influence in Kherson over the long term.”
It added: “Enduring control over Kherson and its transport links will increase Russia’s ability to sustain its advance to the north and west and improve the security of Russia’s control over Crimea.”
Kherson is some 450 kilometers (280 miles) southeast of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Russia seized the city just across the Crimean Peninsula in early March.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy switched into Russian in his nightly video address to urge Russian soldiers not to fight in Ukraine, saying even their generals expected that thousands of them would die.
He said Russia has been recruiting new troops “with little motivation and little combat experience” for the units that were gutted during the early weeks of the war so these units can be thrown back into battle.
He said Russian commanders fully understand that thousands of them will die and thousands more will be wounded in the coming weeks.
“The Russian commanders are lying to their soldiers when they tell them they can expect to be held seriously responsible for refusing to fight and then also don’t tell them, for example, that the Russian army is preparing additional refrigerator trucks for storing the bodies. They don’t tell them about the new losses the generals expect,” Zelenskyy said late Saturday.
“Every Russian soldier can still save his own life. It’s better for you to survive in Russia than to perish on our land,” he said.
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STOCKHOLM — Sweden says a Russian military plane has violated Swedish airspace.
The incident happened late Friday in the Baltic Sea near the island of Bornholm.
In a statement Saturday, the Swedish Armed Forces said a Russian AN-30 propeller plane flew toward Swedish airspace and briefly entered it before leaving the area.
The Swedish Air Force scrambled fighter jets which photographed the Russian plane.
Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist told Swedish public radio that the violation was “unacceptable” and “unprofessional.”
In a similar incident in early March, four Russian warplanes violated Swedish airspace over the Baltic Sea.
Sweden and neighboring Finland are both considering NATO membership following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Moscow has warned that such a move would have consequences, without giving specifics.
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LONDON — Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed the progress of the U.N. effort to evacuate people from the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol and “offered the U.K.’s continued economic and humanitarian support” during a talk Saturday with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskky.
“The prime minister reiterated that he is more committed than ever to reinforcing Ukraine and ensuring (Russian President Vladimir) Putin fails, noting how hard the Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom,’’ Johnson’s Downing Street office said.
“He confirmed that the UK will continue to provide additional military aid to give the Ukrainians the equipment they needed to defend themselves,” the statement said.
The United Nations has been attempting to broker an evacuation in the port city where some 100,000 civilians remain. Up to 1,000 civilians are living beneath a Soviet-era steel plant in Mariupol, according to Ukrainian officials.
Ukraine has not said how many fighters are also in the plant, but the Russians put the number at about 2,000.
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A Russian rocket attack destroyed an airport runway in Odesa, Ukraine’s third-largest city and a key Black Sea port, the Ukrainian army said Saturday.
In a Telegram post, Ukraine’s Operational Command South said there was no way that the Odesa runway could be used as a result of the rocket attack.
Local authorities urged residents of the area to shelter in place as Ukrainian news agency UNIAN, citing army sources, reported that “several” explosions were heard in Odesa.
Odesa’s regional governor, Maksym Marchenko, said that the rocket was fired from Russian-occupied Crimea. He said there were no reports of any injuries.
Russian forces have embarked on a major military operation to seize significant parts of southern and eastern Ukraine, the country’s industrial heartland, and capture the country’s Black Sea and Sea of Azov coasts.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s national grid operator says it has has restored “reliable” power supply in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, around the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster.
“In the afternoon, the last necessary 330 kV power transmission line was put into operation,” the state-owned Ukrenergo wrote in a Telegram post Saturday.
According to the same post, Ukrenergo also restored another 330 kV line in the northern Kyiv region, helping stabilize the energy supply in the capital. It said the reconstruction of further transmission lines in and around Kyiv remains underway. | https://kdvr.com/news/money/live-updates-l-ukraine-says-its-stalling-russian-offensive/ | 2022-05-01T19:39:15Z | https://kdvr.com/news/money/live-updates-l-ukraine-says-its-stalling-russian-offensive/ | false | 24 |
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Austin Peay students feel effects of ransomware attack during final exams
Students at Austin Peay State University have taken to change.org with a petition urging school officials to rethink exam schedules that have been disrupted because of a ransomware attack on several of the school's key communications platforms, including email and One-Stop.
Because of the attack, final exams on Friday were canceled and, according to the Austin Peay website, faculty would determine grades based on coursework to this point or students could elect to receive an "incomplete."
An update Saturday stated the Austin Peay State University Office of Information Technology "continues to restore services to the university" and that students, faculty and staff could resume accessing the network.
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It also stated that exams for the coming week, beginning Monday, would continue as scheduled, which fueled the Governor's Student Body to create the petition citing: "Only canceling one day of exams (disproportionately) impacts students with exams next week. We recognize the complexity in this level of decision making, but urge university officials to consider the impacts this may have."
As of 2 p.m. Sunday, the petition had 1,215 signatures. The university has about 10,000 students.
The petition goes on to state that "Connectivity on campus and to essential online student services such as One-Stop, Outlook email and One-Drive is compromised. Students who rely on campus for Wi-Fi, the Felix G. Woodward Library, the Writing Center, and other resources do not have access to them."
Kyle Watts, a senior at Austin Peay, said he was unable to access his school email or the D2L Shell, which is where professors post assignments and students upload their work, for days leading up to his first final exam, which is scheduled for Monday morning. He said much of the communication from the university about the issue was done via email, which many students, himself included, did not have access to.
"For me, Monday and Wednesday are my exam days, and that's the case for other students as well," he said. "We were told Friday to be prepared to follow next week's exam schedule as posted. I don't think this falls in line with APSU's commitment to equality of all students. They should either reschedule exams from last Friday, or cancel all exams for all students."
Watts said he wasn't able to access his email until about 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Charles Booth, communications director for Austin Peay, said while the university is sympathetic to the students' needs when something like this happens, administrators work to get systems back to normal as soon as possible.
"Many students are relying on these exams, so our goal is to try to resume instruction as soon as possible," Booth told The Tennessean. "We are still repairing some systems on a case-by-case basis, but One-Stop is back up and running so students can access their email and online classes. Everything students need is back up."
He also confirmed that the exam schedule will continue as posted and that if students who had Friday exams canceled opt to take an "incomplete" they will be able to work with professors to take the exam at a later date if they wish to do so.
Word about the petition was spread using the Peay mobile app, accessible to students and faculty.
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K’taka govt approves 60 industrial projects worth ₹2,465 crore
The state government on Sunday approved 60 industrial projects — worth ₹2,465.94 crore — in Karnataka. As per information, the projects will generate over 8,575 jobs in the state.
The projects were cleared by minister for large and medium scale industries Murugesh R Nirani during the 131st State Level Single Window Clearance Committee (SLSWCC) meeting held on Saturday evening.
The BJP-led state government has been trying to show development and welfare in an effort to return to power with an absolute majority in next year’s assembly elections.
The committee considered and approved 10 important large and medium sized industrial projects with investment of more than ₹50 crore. These projects worth ₹1,522.33 croreare expected to create employment opportunities for 3,190 people in the state, according to a statement by the medium and large industries department.
Minister Nirani-headed SLSWCC in its 130th meeting on March 5, 2022 had cleared 48 industrial projects worth ₹2,062.21 crore with employment potential for 6,393 people.
The state government had also cleared industrial projects worth ₹11,495.4 crore with the potential of creating over 46,984 jobs during the 58th State High Level Clearance Committee meeting held under the chairmanship of chief minister Basavaraj Bommai and vice-chairmanship of Nirani on April 18, 2022.
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Heavy rain offers respite, but inundates parts of B’luru
Several parts of Bengaluru were left inundated after heavy rains lashed India's IT capital and other parts of Karnataka on Sunday evening, giving some relief from extreme heat wave conditions. As per the field report, there were at least 172 poles which were broken and 136 trees that fell across several parts of Bengaluru and neighbouring regions like Kanakpura and Ramanagara. The state is experiencing a severe heat wave as well.
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3 killed, four injured in two hit-and-run cases in Noida
Three people were killed and four injured in two hit-and-run incidents reported in Greater Noida on Saturday, police said. In the first incident, one man died and four other persons were injured when a speeding car hit them while they were crossing the road near the Ryan roundabout in the Beta 2 area in Greater Noida on Saturday. Police said all five are aged between 27 and 30 years and study at Galgotias University.
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Ludhiana | Amarjit Singh re-elected president of Sewing Machine Industries Association
Amarjit Singh (Swan) has been elected as the president of District Sewing Machine Industries Association for the third consecutive term. The elections were held at a hotel on Ferozepur road on Saturday Owner of Swan Mechanical Works, Singh secured 126 votes and defeated his opponent Harinderjit Singh, who secured 30 votes, by 96 votes. Twenty nominated office bearers, including general secretary, treasurer etc are nominated by the president.”
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Over 500 attend alumni meet at GADVASU in Ludhiana
Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU) on Sunday organised 'Alumni Meet-2022'. Over 500 participants from diverse backgrounds veterinary, fisheries, dairy science and bio-technology joined the event with senior alumni and former dean, College of Veterinary Science, Saigal, presiding over as chief guest. The alumni meet commenced with reciting shabad. A short film on the inception and activities of GADVASU was displayed. An interactive and entertaining fun game session was also organised.
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Ludhiana | Modi-led BJP govt is pro-capitalist: AITUC Punjab V-P
To mark May Day, a public function was held at bus stand here on Sunday by All India Trade Union Congress and Joint Council of Trade Unions and different unions of the municipal corporation where workers raised their voice for their rights and to fight against the communal and divisive forces. Government School Teachers Union leader Parveen Kumar said contract teachers should be made permanent. PSSF, Ludhiana president, Harbans Singh presided over the function. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/bengaluru-news/ktaka-govt-approves-60-industrial-projects-worth-2-465-crore-101651429758805.html | 2022-05-01T19:47:34Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/bengaluru-news/ktaka-govt-approves-60-industrial-projects-worth-2-465-crore-101651429758805.html | false | 1 |
VIDEO: Woman smashes cars, objects with child in car in frightening gas station incident
DETROIT (WXYZ) - Video from a gas station near Detroit caught a frightening encounter that put an infant’s life in danger.
Van Buren police report the incident started with an argument between two women, but it quickly escalated to involve one of them smashing items with her car.
Surveillance video from the gas station shows a woman appearing to go on a tirade smashing into not one but two cars with a 7-month-old infant in her back seat.
The child was able to be rescued from one of the cars, but the incident wasn’t over.
One of the women, who police later identified as 26-year-old Ariyah Bennet, grabbed a bat out of the trunk of her car and smashed a windshield.
But what led up to the attack?
Van Buren police said the two women involved knew each other, and were meeting up for a child’s clothing exchange.
However, Bennett was allegedly called “a burnt piece of toast” by the other woman, and the two got into a physical fight. But it wasn’t long before fists weren’t enough.
Kim Lulow, a witness, was caught questioning what she was seeing.
“How somebody can do that with a baby in their car, I just cannot believe it,” Lulow said.
But she’s thankful no one was seriously hurt.
Van Buren police arrived at the scene, and Bennett was arrested and is facing three felonies.
The other woman involved in the altercation has not been charged, and police confirmed the 7-month-old child was not injured.
If Bennett is convicted, officials said she could face up to 14 years in prison.
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Former Democratic Rep. Says Biden Is Just a 'Front Man' for True Power Behind 'Ministry of Truth'
The Biden administration was only doing as it was told in creating a Disinformation Governance Board, which Republicans have dubbed the “Ministry of Truth,” according to former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii.
Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas revealed the existence of the Disinformation Governance Board, according to the Washington Post.
“We have just established a mis- and disinformation governance board in the Department of Homeland Security to more effectively combat this threat, not only to election security but to our homeland security,” he said.
On top of that, it was revealed that the board is headed by Nina Jankowicz, who has attacked efforts to spread the revelations contained in Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Gabbard said that Biden, who was vice president in the Obama administration, is only carrying out the wishes of his former boss.
“Biden is just a front man,” Gabbard tweeted. “Obama, April 21: social media censors ‘don’t go far enough,’ so the government needs to step in to do the job. Six days later, Homeland Security rolls out the ‘Ministry of Truth’ (aka Disinformation Governance Board).”
Biden is just a front man. Obama, April 21: social media censors “don’t go far enough,” so the government needs to step in to do the job. Six days later, Homeland Security rolls out the ‘Ministry of Truth’ (aka Disinformation Governance Board). pic.twitter.com/CHOD4mbE0B
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) May 1, 2022
The hysterical reaction by those in power & their MSM mouthpieces to all Americans being allowed to exercise our free speech exposes their tyrannical tendencies, as does their creation of a “Ministry of Truth.” All freedom-loving Americans—Dem/Rep/Ind—need to reject such tyrants
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) April 30, 2022
Every dictatorship has a propaganda arm—a “Ministry of Truth.” The Biden Administration has now formally joined the ranks of such dictatorships with their creation of the so-called “Disinformation Governance Board.” pic.twitter.com/iMnrqksaJJ
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) April 29, 2022
Gabbard included a video of Obama speaking at Stanford University, in which the former president equated unbridled free speech with a runaway disaster.
Speaking to tech companies, Obama said that “these big platforms need to be subject to some level of public oversight and regulation,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
“Now the good news is that almost all the big tech platforms now acknowledge some responsibility for content on their platforms, and they’re investing in large team[s] of people to monitor it,” Obama said then, according to Fox News. “Given the sheer volume of content, this strategy can feel like a game of Whac-A-Mole.”
Obama said at the time that “while content moderation can limit the distribution of clearly dangerous content, it doesn’t go far enough.”
I’m All For Free Speech, But…: Obama Calls for More Social Media Censorship https://t.co/D5enGZaYM2
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) April 23, 2022
The concept of Americans expressing any old opinion they choose through the vehicle of social media has irked Obama for years.
In 2020, Vox noted that he called the internet the “single biggest threat to our democracy.”
“The First Amendment doesn’t require private companies to provide a platform for any view that is out there. At the end of the day, we’re going to have to find a combination of government regulations and corporate practices that address this because it’s going to get worse,” Obama said then.
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Video: 8 great Lightroom photo editing tips for beginners
posted Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 9:29 AM EDT
Photographer James Popsys has some great photo editing tips for beginners in his latest video. The first topic is cropping. It's certainly a basic photo editing skill, but don't let that fool you. It requires a careful, thoughtful approach. Cropping an image can completely transform an image. While we hope to nail our composition in camera and not need to crop an image at all, that's easier said than done. That's where cropping comes in.
Before beginning with other image edits, it's a good idea to crop so that you know what the final image frame contains. Why crop first? When making changes to your image's exposure or overall brightness, you should be using the histogram. Whenever you change your crop, the histogram changes, too, based on the information inside the frame. You don't want to change your exposure or curves with unnecessary information that won't be in your final image. For example, if you're going to crop out a dark or bright area, you don't want that brightness information showing up in your histogram.
After cropping, Popsys likes to turn his attention to exposure and white balance. These are both straightforward adjustments in Adobe Lightroom or any other photo editing software. Exposure and white balance have a significant impact on how your image looks. In simple terms, exposure is how bright or dark an image looks, and white balance is how cool or warm it is. Popsys thinks you should start your editing process with the adjustments that will make the biggest difference. Even if you don't change anything about cropping, exposure, or white balance, assessing these big three first is important because each of them can completely transform a photo all by itself.
So far, we've looked at adjustments that affect the entire image. These are often referred to as 'global adjustments.' There are also 'local' adjustments. These are adjustments to specific parts of a photo, rather than the entire image. Lightroom offers many ways to make precise adjustments, including intelligent masking tools, color range selection, luminance masks and even hand-drawn brush tools. While it will take some time to learn how to effectively use each local editing tool in Lightroom, improving these skills will pay off massively.
As important as local adjustments are – and they are essential – it's important always to keep your entire image in mind, even when you're spending a lot of time on a small part of the frame. If you've already cropped out unnecessary parts of your image, that means that all that remains is important and working together, so you must keep the whole image in mind. 'It's easy to miss things getting a bit odd,' as Popsys says. For example, if you adjust the sky in a photo, it's all too easy to realize that while you like the edited sky, it simply doesn't fit with the rest of the image. Employing a light touch when making any adjustment, especially local ones, is often the right approach.
For the rest of Popsys's eight photo editing tips for beginners, watch the full video above. If you want to see more of his videos, head over to James Popsys's YouTube channel. You can see more of his photography on his website and Instagram.
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Josue Flores Case: Jury hears accused killer Andre Jackson for first time in trial
HOUSTON - Jurors are hearing more about the man who’s on trial for the murder of Josue Flores and how investigators came to believe he’s the killer. PREVIOUS: Jacket worn by suspected killer submitted as key piece of evidence. For the first time, the jury was hearing...
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LONDON (AP) — As you were in the pursuit of Champions League qualification. At the other end of the Premier League, though, the relegation scrap just got even tighter.
Arsenal remained in fourth place after Gabriel’s header secured a 2-1 win at West Ham to stay two points ahead of Tottenham after its north London rival beat Leicester 3-1 on Sunday through Son Heung-min’s double.
Chelsea looks well placed to qualify for the Champions League despite now being only three points ahead of Arsenal with four games remaining after losing 1-0 at Everton.
It’s a result — secured by Richarlison — that gives Everton renewed hope of avoiding relegation after a 68-year stay in the top division.
Everton moved two points from safety with five matches to go and a game in hand over both Leeds and Burnley, which are just above the drop zone.
FLARE THROWN
Richarlison’s four goals in his last five league matches is as many as he scored in his first 21 games of the season.
The latest came 59 seconds into the second half at Goodison Park. Richarlison and Demarai Gray pressured Chelsea defender Cesar Azpilicueta into losing possession and the Brazilian benefited by sweeping a shot past goalkeeper Edouard Mendy.
But Richarlison could face Football Association action after picking up a lit blue flare during his goal celebrations and throwing it back into the stand.
Everton relied on Jordan Pickford’s saves to preserve the win — denying Cesar Azpilicueta, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Thiago Silva.
“We’re still in a massive scrap,” captain Seamus Coleman said. “We’ve got to keep going and keep battling.”
Third-place Chelsea has only four points from its last four games.
“We struggle to play without big mistakes,” Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel said. “And that is why we struggle to have results.”
SON DOUBLE
Son is now on a career-high 19 Premier League goals in a season, only three behind Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah in the race for the Golden Boot.
Before scoring against Leicester, Son also provided the opener in the 22nd minute by delivering a corner for the unmarked Harry Kane to head into the bottom corner to end a five-game goalless run.
It also was Tottenham’s first attempt on target in 221 minutes.
The hosts struggled for another sight of goal until the hour mark when they doubled their lead.
Cristian Romero was the architect as he produced a crunching tackle on Caglar Soyuncu on the halfway line which set Dejan Kulusevski free and the Swede raced clear and teed up Son, who found the bottom corner.
Son’s second came after he picked up the ball on the right, cut inside and curled a shot high into the net in the 79th minute from distance. The South Korea forward was denied a shot at a hat trick after being substituted by manager Antonio Conte
“We are talking about a great player, fantastic player,” Conte said. “But it’s important at the end of the season to celebrate a big achievement with the team. Otherwise it remains only a personal success to score these types of goals.”
Kelechi Iheanacho scored a stoppage-time consolation for Leicester, which is 11th in the standings and focused on its Europa Conference League semifinal against Roma on Thursday after drawing 1-1 in the first leg.
DEFENDERS’ HEADERS
Like Leicester, seventh-place West Ham’s focus is on Europe and its second-leg game in the Europa League semifinals against Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday.
Arsenal still found it hard going before Bukayo Saka’s corner was headed in by Rob Holding in the 38th minute for his first-ever Premier League goal since making his debut in 2016.
The lead lasted seven minutes as Jarrod Bowen leveled from close range before the break. But Arsenal went in front again nine minutes into the second half when Gabriel Martinelli crossed to an unmarked Gabriel for a diving header that beat former Arsenal goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski at the far post.
After three straight losses, Arsenal has now won three in a row.
“It’s nice and close and we’ll have to keep going for the rest of the season,” Holding said. “Your heart rate will be going high at times, but if we can keep controlling what we do and picking up points that’s all we can worry about.”
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Rick Hassani Deactivates Twitter Account After Trolls Slammed Him Concerning Burna’s Boys Concert
Entertainment, Featured, Latest News Sunday, May 1st, 2022(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Nigerian singer, Ikechukwu Eric Ahiauzu, aka Ric Hassani, has come under severe criticism concerning his statement on the just concluded concert of Grammy award singer, Burna Boy.
African Examiner writes that Burna Boy recently made history after he became the first artist to have sold out gig at the One Night in Space concert at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Many artists have congratulated Burna Boy for this feat and joining the fray, Ric Hassani took to his Twitter handle saying that other singers should learn from Burna Boy adding that it is high time singers sing live on stage instead of miming to their songs.
The tweet of Hassani sparked social media reactions as some Nigerians felt he was shading their favourite singers. Many attacked the singer for his statement and he eventually deactivated his Twitter account. African Examiner reveals some of the tweets by netizens on Twitter on how they reacted to the message of Hassani berating other singers and the singer also deactivating his account.
@DanielRegha writes: “Ric Hassani u should know better than to shade ur colleagues; Talk smart. Burna has his way of doin things, so does every other artiste. Keep in mind that different songs require different types of energy, so sometimes an artiste needs to yell to ignite the crowd. Educate urself.”
@_SLYTAUREAN writes: “Ric Hassani tweeted how artists could do better with their performance. And you lots bullied him and he deleted. December will reach. You will buy tickets for a show slated for 8pm and you will be kept waiting till 4 am, they come lipsync 1 song and exit stage. You deserve it.”
@MrOdanz writes: “Ric Hassani is a pussy. A snowflake who is used to hearing only nice things. So when people try to bully him, he crumbles like a pack of cards, shitting his pants. A grown baby.”
deejayfaremi writes: “Ric Hassani tweeted a rational opinion that he had every right to tweet, and he still allowed people to chase him off his social media.”
@therealdaddymo1 writes: “Ric Hassani deactivated his account after he was bullied and dragged for this tweet. He allowed them get to him. Ignore the trolls or don’t tweet if you can’t handle the backlash. When you tweet your opinions on here, na with your full chest. Anything you see, you take like that.”
@Wizarab10 writes: “Small thing, Ric Hassani don deactivate. Does he want to swap hate?”
@DunswortGabriel writes: “Ric Hassani suffered massive bullying & proceeded to deactivate his account cos of this tweet—this evidently angered a lot of fans who felt he shaded their favorite artist The incoming era of free speech some people are celebrating is going to be really interesting to behold.”
@deejayfaremi writes: “Ric Hassani tweeted a rational opinion that he had every right to tweet, and he still allowed people to chase him off his social media.”
@therealdaddymo1 writes: “Ric Hassani should take on board what Shaq said about other peoples opinions. Ignore the trolls. Ignore the background noise. Many of you should too. E get why.”
@lloydtweetz writes: “Ric Hassani deactivated his twitter account.”
@AkwariCharles writes: “They bullied Ric Hassani. Twitter is really a toxic place. Sweet humble guy like Ric.”
@seun__oj writes: “I really don’t understand why Ric Hassani was bullied. Some of you will pay 20k to watch your favs perform and you would even barely get value for your money. If they cannot match Burna’s standard. I’m saving my money.”
@DeKINGKUDOS writes: “Y’all made Ric Hassani deactivated his account after his bomb shell tweet. My Ogas, I hail una o.”
@bizzleosikoya writes: “Omo dem dan chase Ric hassani for social media o, Abeg free my guy nah.”
@khanofkhans11_ writes: “Ric Hassani deactivated after trolls came for him.”
@dannykeyz writes: “Love Ric Hassani from way back but that was off brand and unnecessary. Appreciate who you want to appreciate and keep it moving.”
@novieverest writes: “Twitter is a funny place, the same people that bullied Ric Hassani for 2 straight days because of this tweet, will still be the love and light people that will cry about how toxic Twitter is. Glad there’s a mute option. You guys are bullies.”
@dannykeyz writes: “Love Ric Hassani from way back but that was off brand and unnecessary. Appreciate who you want to appreciate and keep it moving.”
@novieverest writes: “Twitter is a funny place, the same people that bullied Ric Hassani for 2 straight days because of this tweet, will still be the love and light people that will cry about how toxic Twitter is. Glad there’s a mute option. You guys are bullies.”
@UchePOkoye writes: “The attack on Ric Hassani is very shameful.”
@chiiamahkah writes: “So y’all bullied Ric Hassani because he said artists should move like Burna when it comes to concerts ?? Idg what’s the problem with that”
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New Mexico increases child care funding, still highest in US
New Mexico is increasing child care subsidies that are already the most generous and broadly available in the U.S.
Low and middle-income New Mexico families have had access to the most generous child care subsidies in the country since last June, but they still paid as much as $900 per month for one child. Starting next week, the copay will be waived and child care will be basically free for all families up to nearly twice the median income in the state.
They're the latest copay waivers approved by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who made the announcement Thursday at a child care center in Albuquerque. She also announced grants to child care centers and additional subsidies to child care workers pursuing professional training.
“The announcements today support a universal early childhood education and care system that increases access, maximizes parent choice, and supports early childhood professionals,” Lujan Grisham said.
The copay waivers will run through July of next year, but the administration is hoping to extend it through other funding sources, said Early Childhood Development spokesman Micah McCoy. The administration has stopped and started copayments periodically during the pandemic due to inconsistent funding.
Starting May 1 and running through June 2023, the state will waive child care copays for households at 400% of the poverty line, about $111,000 for a family of four.
This round of waivers is estimated to cost $40 million and is funded by one-time federal pandemic relief. Families will save between $400 and $900 per month based on their income level. Lujan Grisham spokeswoman Nora Meyers Sackett said in a statement that it will expand eligibility for over 30,000 families.
Lujan Grisham unveiled the most generous and broadly available child care plan last July, which provides at least some subsidies to families at 350% of the poverty line, or about $93,000 for a family of four. Until now, families at the higher end of that income bracket, above 200% of the poverty line, were eligible for some subsidies but not copay waivers.
Other states like New York have raised subsidy eligibility levels by tapping into federal funding, but not as broadly as New Mexico.
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Sunday Reads: The fresh artists behind the mural art & Donna Meyers asks for civility
How the ‘Made Fresh Crew’ is leaving its artistic mark, refreshing Santa Cruz’s visual landscape
As a loose affiliation of street art-oriented artists begins to make waves in Santa Cruz, the Made Fresh Crew reflects a big new moment in the local arts scene. A Curated By The Sea gallery will introduce us to the artists behind the work. Read Wallace Baine’s story here.
CLICK HERE TO BECOME A LOOKOUT MEMBERIt’s election season: Let’s respect our public figures and their privacy at home
Donna Meyers spent a year as mayor of Santa Cruz and had angry protestors surround her house and scream profanities at her family. She wants the public to be more respectful of the public-private divide and remember that our behavior reflects our values as a community. Read Meyers’ Community Voices column here.
➤ If you missed the details about Lookout’s launch of Community Voices, here’s a few good places to start via Ken Doctor and Jody K. Biehl.
Quelling the ‘stigma of shame’: The county’s top doctor opens up about the pain of losing a child to fentanyl
If it can happen to Santa Cruz County Public Health Officer Gail Newel and her wife, Kelli, both longtime physicians, then it can happen to any family. If it can happen to the highest achievers in our society, like doctors and dentists and lawyers, then it can happen to anyone. Nyeland Newel was a 38-year-old dentist who picked up an opioid craving while at UC Santa Cruz. His addictive genes collided with America’s opioid crisis in tragic fashion. Read Part 3 of our series on the fentanyl crisis here.
➤ ‘POISONED’ PART 1: The facts about the fentanyl crisis that is killing an increasing number of Santa Cruz County’s young people
➤ ‘POISONED’ PART 2: A community comes together for a town hall meeting — a sign that education and information are becoming a priority
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May 1 (UPI) — One person died and five others were injured during a shooting in the parking lot of a festival in Mississippi.
The incident occurred around 10 p.m. Saturday during the Second Annual Mississippi Mudbug Festival in Jackson. Six people were shot, including one of the alleged shooters, who is believed to have been killed by an officer, WLBT reported.
Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is investigating.
“There was an exchange of gunfire between at least two to three individuals in and around [a] vehicle at this location. During the course of the exchange, at least one of these individuals fired multiple rounds, multiple shots, toward the midway area of the event that was in progress,” Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones told reporters early Sunday. “We do not believe there was anybody else injured along the midway during the course of this gunfire.”
Jones posted on Twitter early Sunday morning the injured “appear to be stable at this time and don’t appear to be directly involved in the shooting or circumstances that led to the shooting.”
Four victims were taken to the University of Mississippi Medical Center for treatment, Jones said.
He said juveniles were detained.
“It’s very devastating and tragic,” he said. “This is what is to be considered a family-oriented event, for families from all different walks of life to come to a common location to enjoy entertainment and enjoy food… You have the reckless behavior of individuals with no regard for the lives and safety of those attending the event and I think it is a very (cowardly) and selfish act.”
Recovered at the scene were two rifles, one pistol and a “large magnitude of different-caliber shell casings.”
“Safety is a priority at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds,” wrote Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson in a statement. “I appreciate the rapid response from the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office and the Jackson Police Department. Their quick action in securing the scene prevented others from potentially being hurt.”
The remainder of the of the five-day festival Sunday was canceled. | https://gephardtdaily.com/national-international/one-dead-another-5-hurt-in-shooting-at-festival-in-mississippi/ | 2022-05-01T20:22:07Z | https://gephardtdaily.com/national-international/one-dead-another-5-hurt-in-shooting-at-festival-in-mississippi/ | true | 2 |
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