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Britons have been warned over freezing temperatures going into the weekend after bursts of snow, cold air and torrential downpour left parts of the UK colder than is expected at the start of April.
Forecasters said “Polar air” as cold as -14C could sweep across Britain in the coming days, due to low pressure “heading off towards Scandinavia” and cold air coming back.
However, the lowest temperature expected to be recorded in the UK across Saturday and Sunday is -5C “at most” in rural Scotland, the Met Office told The Independent. This is quite a lot colder than a standard April temperature, with the average minimum recording for April – between 1991 and 2020 – being 3.75C.
“Low pressure is heading off towards Scandinavia, and cold air is going to return,” Met Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said.
Looking to Thursday, he added that the “wind will continue to be a feature … by which time the cold northerly winds [will] drive right across the UK, bringing a chillier feel everywhere and that wind in the east will exacerbate the feel of the cold”.
As has been the case in much of Scotland and England this week, hail, sleet and some snow – mostly to lower levels in Scotland – are expected as the cold air persists, Mr Deakin added before warning people with plans on Thursday to “keep up to date with the forecasts”.
Despite the cold start to April – with current records for 9 and 10 April at -10.5C at Belper, Derbyshire, in 1973 and -10.1C at Grantown-on-Spey, Morayshire, in 1978 – it does not look like temperatures will reach all-time lows.
Further snow is forecast through Wednesday in parts of Scotland, though, before dry, bitter air sweeps across the rest of the UK.
Jim Dale, a meteorologist for British Weather Services, told the Daily Express: “The main theme for the end of the week and the start of the weekend will be frosts, and these will be widespread as the cold moves southwards on a Polar front.”
The jet stream is further south than usual for the time of year, and that is controlling this weather pattern, he said.
Warning of potentially cold conditions for the months ahead, he added: “We will be looking over our shoulders until Easter weekend.”
The warnings for the weekend come as torrential rain in London caused panic on Wednesday afternoon.
Across the capital, thunder and lightning broke out with the Met Office warning drivers to be wary of rain on the roads.
In a tweet, the weather service said: “An intense line of heavy showers is bringing a short period of torrential rain and thunderstorms as it moves east across London.
“Be aware of the potential for some surface water on the roads and some lightning strikes across southeast England.”
There were also reports of car alarms being triggered in London as a result of the freak weather occurrences, which affected parts of the city, off and on, for some hours.
The Met Office currently has three yellow weather warnings in place across the UK: one for snow in Scotland, one for wind in Ireland and another for wind in the northwest of England. All end on Thursday morning.
“Take care if you are out and about tonight,” it said in another tweet. “Strong winds could cause some problems in places.”
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Diplomats are expressing outrage over reports of Russian atrocities in Ukraine. In Brussels and Washington, officials announced more sanctions to step up the pressure on President Vladimir Putin.
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Diplomats are expressing outrage over reports of Russian atrocities in Ukraine. In Brussels and Washington, officials announced more sanctions to step up the pressure on President Vladimir Putin.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Trump administration appointee Connie Conway has advanced to a June runoff in a California special election to fill a U.S. House seat left vacant after Republican Rep. Devin Nunes resigned to lead former President Donald Trump’s media company.
The race for the second runoff spot was too early to call, after election officials paused counting early Wednesday morning. Completing the vote count will take at least a week, as mail ballots can arrive as late as April 12. Officials said they would not release additional results until Thursday in Tulare County and Friday in Fresno County, both in the district.
Nunes was an ardent defender of Trump on Capitol Hill. If Conway eventually triumphs, Nunes’ replacement also would have ties to the former president — Conway served as the California executive director of the Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency during the Trump administration.
Conway, a one-time GOP leader in the state Assembly and a former county supervisor, opened a gap over five other competitors with about 34% of the vote, according to a preliminary tally of ballots.
The election in the Republican-leaning 22nd District has been largely ignored as national Democrats and Republicans fixate on midterm elections that will determine control of Congress in 2023.
In a statement, California Republican Party Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson congratulated Conway and added, “Voters in the 22nd Congressional District know that Conway is the right candidate to represent their values in Washington. … We look forward to Conway’s victory in June as a welcome preview of what November will bring when the path to the GOP majority in the House will run straight through our state.”
Several rivals were clustered behind her, including Democrats Lourin Hubbard, a manager for the state Department of Water Resources, and Eric Garcia, a Marine and Iraq War veteran, and Republican Matt Stoll. a former Navy combat pilot and small business owner.
Hubbard was the closest contender to Conway, with about 20% of the vote.
The seat in the state’s Central Valley — sometimes called the nation’s salad bowl because of its agricultural production — is expected to stay in Republican hands.
Because no candidate was able to claim a majority of the vote, a runoff between the top two finishers will coincide with the statewide primary election June 7.
Nunes’ unexpected departure in January created an unusual situation for his former constituents: the winner of the election will serve only months in Congress, and the district will vanish next year because of redrawn boundaries.
Mail-in voting started last month, and early returns pointed to a sparse turnout. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the pandemic dominating headlines, campaigns say voters they contact are sometimes surprised to find out an election is taking place, or are not aware that Nunes, a prominent Trump loyalist while in Congress, had resigned.
There are six candidates on the ballot – four Republicans and two Democrats. There’s a chance two Republicans could face off for the seat in June, though the Democrat Hubbard was holding the second spot.
The 48-year-old Nunes was comfortably reelected in November 2020 before exiting with a year left in his term to join the Trump Media & Technology Group. The company hopes its social media platform will rival competitors like Twitter and Facebook, which blocked the former president’s accounts after the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Other candidates include Republicans Elizabeth Heng, a tech executive who lost a run for Congress in a neighboring district in 2018 and briefly ran for U.S. Senate; and Michael Maher, a Navy veteran and former FBI special agent.
Different agendas are in play. Conway, if elected, plans to serve only the remainder of Nunes’ term. However, Garcia, Maher and Stoll also are running in the June statewide primary in a newly drawn district — the 21st — that includes a slab of Nunes’ territory. In that race, they will be taking on Democratic Rep. Jim Costa, and it’s obvious they hope a win on Nunes’ old turf will be a springboard to winning the district.
A runoff would be politically tricky for Garcia, Maher or Stoll. In that case, a candidate’s name would end up appearing twice on the June ballot — once in a runoff for the vacant Nunes seat and a second time in a new House district for the term that starts in 2023. Voters easily could be confused seeing the same name twice.
With little at stake in the contest to replace Nunes, money has been in short supply and, as a result, advertising has been sporadic.
Federal fundraising records show Garcia, for example, raised over $200,000 but had only $1,700 in the bank in mid-March. Heng raised $215,000 and had about $60,000 on hand at that time. But she also stacked up $95,000 in unpaid bills, leaving her campaign effectively in debt.
The outcome also will not tilt the balance of power on Capitol Hill, where Democrats hold a slim majority.
The little-watched contest takes place in a challenging political environment for congressional Democrats. Polls show many Americans are unhappy with the direction of the country, and President Joe Biden’s approval ratings have been sagging.
While the contest for the vacant Nunes seat has been an afterthought nationally, California is at the center of the fight for the House. There are about a half-dozen highly competitive districts on the June ballot. Such contests are a rarity in the liberal-minded state, where Democrats hold every statewide office, dominate in the Legislature and have a 42-10 advantage in the congressional delegation.
Nationally, 30 House Democrats and 15 Republicans are not seeking reelection this year. In addition there are 5 House vacancies because of resignations or deaths.
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To date much progress, in the treatment of psychoses; this, due principally\nthe introduction into clinicochemistic routine. This\nof newe treatment have been given at a much earlier of the new therapy that began by insugence psychiatrial-chemical. Amazon has announced plans to launch thousands of new satellites into orbit over the next five years. Some experts fear that it will overwhelm the world's ability to manage congestion in space.
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Karim Benzema hat-trick leaves Chelsea’s Champions League hopes in tatters
Karim Benzema bullied Chelsea to the brink of relinquishing their Champions League crown with a stunning hat-trick in Real Madrid’s 3-1 triumph at Stamford Bridge.
The prolific striker moved his competition goal return to 11 in just eight matches after hitting back-to-back trebles as Madrid overwhelmed the Blues in Wednesday’s quarter-final first-leg.
Benzema took his season’s tally to 37 goals in 36 matches for Real, handing his side a major chance of making the semi-finals in their bid to land a 14th Champions League title.
The 34-year-old stalked the beleaguered Andreas Christensen like a heavyweight prize fighter closing off the ring to a frenzied and frazzled foe.
Kai Havertz dragged Chelsea back into the contest from nowhere before half-time, but the luckless Edouard Mendy gifted Benzema his hat-trick goal with an undersold pass.
Chelsea will now need a performance to trump perhaps all others from Thomas Tuchel’s highly-decorated reign to overturn this deficit in Madrid’s intimidating Bernabeu Stadium.
The Blues, who dazzled Europe by toppling Manchester City 1-0 to swipe the Champions League trophy in May last year, will head out for the return leg on Tuesday, where a generational showing for this talented squad could well be required to keep their title defence alive.
Madrid meanwhile will head home in total control of this tie, with former Chelsea manager and figurehead Carlo Ancelotti particularly buoyed.
The urbane Italian coach almost did not make it to his old Stamford Bridge stomping ground due to Covid, but returned a negative test in time to link up with his players on the morning of the match.
April showers left the 60-year-old’s coiffured locks requiring a towelling-off, before he donned a beanie hat to ward off the weather.
Benzema’s three-minute, one-two punch left Chelsea flailing on the canvas.
The France striker must have thought the Blues were out for the count after delivering two thumping headers.
First he nodded home by racing onto Vinicius’ cross, then the Real talisman showed the other side of his aerial prowess, hanging in the air to dispatch Modric’s delivery.
A dazed and confused Chelsea found themselves staggering around the Stamford Bridge pitch. None more so than the hapless Christensen, who wound up continually exposed by Chelsea’s first-half system.
The Denmark defender could not decide whether to tuck in tight on the inside-right, or pull out to the right-back area.
James’ advanced right-sided role left Christensen with too much ground to cover, but the Dane should still have avoided the comprehensive work-over he received for his troubles.
Vinicius and Benzema doubled up on Christensen, with Ancelotti clearly identifying the Denmark centre-back as the weak link in Tuchel’s system on the night.
Benzema should have completed his hat-trick before half-time too, only to drive a low shot wide of the goal.
That let-off seemed to clear Chelsea’s punch-drunk haze and in a flash the Blues were on the scoreboard and back from the dead.
Jorginho’s sumptuous lofted ball bisected the Real defence, allowing Havertz to steal in at the far post and nod home.
Hakim Ziyech and Mateo Kovacic replaced Christensen and N’Golo Kante at half-time, with Tuchel well aware the shape had to change.
The Blues went to a flat-back four, but had not even settled when disaster struck.
Mendy underhit a pass to Toni Rudiger when out of his area and Benzema pounced, rolling the ball home to complete his devastating treble.
Proactive boss Tuchel emptied the bench in a bid to claw another foothold, but £98million striker Romelu Lukaku could in no way follow Benzema’s lead.
Where the Real marksman had proved unerring, instead Lukaku could only nod wide from a glorious chance.
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Much of the hype surrounding the Miami Dolphins’ offseason has been centered around the improvements made to the offense, but nearly as important was the way the team maintained continuity on its defense.
Cornerback Xavien Howard got the lucrative contract extension he was seeking, and defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah, minutes before free agency negotiations were set to begin on March 14, reached an agreement to stay with the Dolphins before other teams could make their offers.
“I was glad we took care of our own,” Ogbah said Wednesday as both he and Howard spoke publicly for the first time since signing their deals.
Howard and the Dolphins came a long way from his displeasure with his contract last offseason that even reached the level of him requesting a trade in training camp ahead of the 2021 season. Now, after earning $50,691,177 in new money as part of a restructure agreed to on Friday night, the three-time Pro Bowl and one-time All-Pro selection has his long-term goals occurring in Miami.
“I’m just excited to be a Dolphin, continue to play here, hopefully retire here and win a Super Bowl here, too,” said Howard, who also cited the Hall of Fame as an aspiration after starting his career with 27 interceptions in his first six NFL seasons.
Howard’s extension puts him under contract with the Dolphins through 2026, with a potential out in 2024. Over the next two seasons, Howard will earn more than any other cornerback in the NFL.
“They did everything we asked, and both sides were happy with everything that panned out,” he said.
Ogbah signed a four-year, $65 million deal when he was on the verge of hitting the open market.
“I’ve always looked at myself as being here long-term. I’m glad we made it happen,” Ogbah said. “I wouldn’t say I thought it was doubtful [a deal would get done]. I felt like we had a chance to make something work. For them to come like that, it showed they believed in me and wanted me here.”
With Howard as the ballhawk cornerback known to force turnovers in the secondary and Ogbah as the all-around defensive end that has posted nine sacks each of his two seasons in Miami while also batting passes at the line of scrimmage at a high rate, two cornerstones to the Dolphins’ defensive success the second half of the 2021 season remain in place.
They can complement each other with pass rush inducing interceptions and strong coverage leading to sacks.
“It goes hand in hand,” Ogbah said. “I know, if I don’t get there fast enough, X is going to be back there waiting for the ball to come out. The faster I get back there, the faster I put stress on the quarterback, so it gives X a chance to get that pick.”
They also have top-notch competition to go up against in practice now. Howard can sharpen his coverage skills lining up against speedy wide receiver Tyreek Hill, and Ogbah can go at it against left tackle Terron Armstead. Hill and Armstead were the two prized outside acquisitions for Miami, coming in from the Kansas City Chiefs and New Orleans Saints, respectively.
“I just told [coach] Mike McDaniel, ‘I got to get my [hamstrings] right. We got a lot of speed over there,’ ” Howard said. “I’m excited about everything that’s going on in the building.”
Said Ogbah of the addition of Armstead: “That force on the offense, that dog, we needed that, and I’m glad he’s part of the team now.”
Howard didn’t want to dive into the then and now of last offseason’s contract renegotiation struggles with the team, which escalated to the point of a training camp trade request before the Dolphins met his concerns for the 2021 season, pushing the original issue into this offseason. But he has put it to bed.
“We got it done, so I’m here,” Howard said, as the new deal fulfills his long-term wishes. “That’s the only thing that really matters to me.”
And with that settled, he now merely wants to get back to playing football the only place he’s called home since getting drafted out of Baylor in 2016, doing what he’s done to create 17 takeaways — 15 interceptions and two fumble recoveries — over the past two seasons, scoring two touchdowns in the process.
“Let’s get back to work,” he said. “To get the ball. It’s what I been doing since I’ve been here, so I wouldn’t say nothing different. Continue being a leader in the locker room, help younger guys out, help new guys that are coming to the Miami Dolphins. Just continue attacking the ball and making turnovers.”
The two sensed a renewed energy at Dolphins facilities since the team reconvened for the start of its offseason workout program on Monday.
“I feel like everything’s been different since I got [back],” Howard said. “The energy, everybody happy. I feel like a lot of things are going to be special here with Mike McDaniel. He’s bringing that energy, and hopefully get the offensive part to the standard that we expect from both sides of the ball.”
“It’s more fun. Everybody’s just excited to be back,” added Ogbah, who also enjoyed his early impressions of McDaniel. “I didn’t know a lot about him, but he’s definitely unique, a good players’ coach. He knows, he understands the game. He’s very smart. He knows what he wants to do with the offense.”
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WASHINGTON (WGNO) — On April 6, the Drug Enforcement Administration sent a letter to federal, state, and local law enforcement to warn of the potential spike in fentanyl-related mass-overdose events.
According to the U.S Department of Justice, a fentanyl-related mass overdose event is described as three or more overdoses occurring close in time and at the same location.
According to the U.S Department of Justice, it has already happened in at least seven American cities in the past few months.
Cities impacted include Wilton Manors, Florida; Austin, Texas; Cortez, Colorado; Commerce City, Colorado; Omaha, Nebraska; St. Louis, Missouri; and Washington, D.C.
Fentanyl can be found in all 50 states according to the DEA.
“Fentanyl is killing Americans at an unprecedented rate,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram.
The CDC estimated that each year more than 105,000 Americans died of drug overdoses, with 66 percent of those deaths related to synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
Here is the letter the DEA sent to law enforcement.
To find out more about fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, visit DEA.gov.
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LPD: Vandals break windows & doors, spill cleaner inside elementary school
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Lincoln Police Department is investigating a case of vandalism inside a northeast Lincoln elementary school. Around 4 p.m. on Saturday, officers were...
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PHOENIX (AP)Russell Westbrook couldn’t figure out a way to consistently mesh with his new teammates, Anthony Davis couldn’t stay healthy and a 37-year-old LeBron James couldn’t carry a team all by himself.
The Los Angeles Lakers made no secret they were a team built to win a championship this season.
Instead, they won’t even make the playoffs.
In a development that few would have seen coming six months ago, the Lakers were eliminated from the playoff race on Tuesday night after a 121-110 loss to the Phoenix Suns. Westbrook scored 28 points, Davis added 21 and James watched from the bench, nursing a sore ankle that kept him out for a second straight game.
The Lakers fell to 31-48, 11th place in the Western Conference, and can no longer crack the top 10 to earn a spot in the play-in tournament.
”It is nothing more than we just didn’t get it done,” Lakers forward Carmelo Anthony said. ”We can’t make excuses; we just didn’t get it done.”
Health was a constant issue this season for the Lakers, who rarely had Westbrook, Davis and James on the floor at the same time. Davis has only been available for about half the season, missing time with knee and foot ailments.
”We had the pieces but injuries got into the way of that,” Davis said. ”That was the difference in our season.”
The Lakers and the James-Davis-Westbrook trio could make another run together next season, though it’s unclear if they’ll want to give it another shot. Davis and James are under contract while Westbrook seems likely to exercise his $47 million player option.
”That is the plan, but nothing is promised,” said Westbrook, who took a big chunk of criticism aimed at the team. ”You’ve kind of got to take one day at a time and you’ve got to pay the cards you are dealt.”
Even a month ago, it seemed the Lakers had time to figure out a way to regroup, get healthy and make a run in this year’s playoffs. James looked 10 years younger at times with his scoring production, averaging 30.3 points for his highest average since 2008.
”I think the world would love to see, we would love to see what this team could could be if we were healthy for a full 82,” Davis said.
Westbrook played hard on Tuesday night, plowing through the Suns’ defense over and over in a desperate attempt to make something positive happen. There were a few big buckets but also a few big turnovers. The inconsistency was all too familiar.
Lakers coach Frank Vogel said he was ”extremely disappointed” that the season will end short of the postseason. The Lakers have lost seven straight games and now must play three more with no playoffs on the horizon.
Vogel led the Lakers to a championship in 2020 when the playoffs were played in the Florida bubble. Now his job security appears tenuous at best.
”I can say it has not been due to lack of effort,” the coach said. ”We have all put in the work. Our guys stayed fighting right till the end. We brought integrity to the process. We just fell short though a disjointed season.”
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A 26-year-old doctor who was reported missing while on a hike in northern Wisconsin last week was found dead on Sunday, local authorities said.
Kelsey Musgrove, a cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the University of Wisconsin, had been hiking through Potato River Falls in Iron County when she lost contact with family and friends on 26 March.
After Dr Musgrove failed to return home to Middleton on 30 March, the Iron County Sheriff’s office was tapped by Middleton police to begin a search for the young doctor.
The vehicle that the 26-year-old had parked in Potato River Falls lot was found by deputies, Sheriff Paul Samardich said in a press release issued by his office.
From there, a wide sweeping search was initiated by air, ground and water, with 25 agencies, including several surrounding counties’ search and rescue teams, contributing to the effort.
In their press release, the sheriff’s office confirmed that Dr Musgrove’s body was located on 3 April near a set of waterfalls. They added that they don’t suspect foul play was involved in her untimely death.
“All indications at the scene and information from family and friends lead us to believe [the woman] had gone hiking along Potato River and had not returned to her vehicle,” the statement read.
In posts online, tributes from friends and colleagues of the surgery fellow began pouring in, with one doctor describing her as “one of the kindest and most positive residents I’ve had the privilege of working with” and adding that “she was well on her way to becoming a great surgeon”.
The tribute was shared in a Facebook post alongside a group picture with Dr Musgrove where she and her colleagues don their white coats.
“She’s gone way too soon and had so much more life to live.”
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SCHWETZINGEN, Germany: Dr. Mohab Mousa, a Palestinian brain and neurosurgeon, lived and worked in Ukraine until the war forced him to flee. Now he and his family have taken refuge in Germany.
More than 4 million people have fled Ukraine since the conflict began. Over 300,000 of them have arrived in Germany, many from the Middle East as Ukraine has a community of tens of thousands of people from the region.
Mousa, from Rafah in the Gaza Strip, has seen firsthand the horrors of war at home. As the situation in Gaza was unlikely to improve, he decided to leave.
“I wanted to improve my skills and provide a safe home for my wife and children,” he told Arab News. Mousa registered at the University of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine in 2016.
His wife and three children followed shortly afterward. His fourth child was born there and is a Ukrainian citizen.
Mousa learned Russian and started to work in the city of Kharkiv. Ukraine became his new home. “I like the country, but Kharkiv is something like a personal love story,” he said.
“The people are nice, there’s a large community of expats — basically everything in Kharkiv is beautiful.”
But the new world Mousa had escaped to has been turned upside down, something he said he did not expect even until the day before the conflict began.
“I was having coffee with a friend who asked me if there was going to be a war. I told him no.”
The very next day, the quarter where he lives on the outskirts of the city was hit by missiles. “I woke up my wife and children, and we fled to the school to find shelter there,” Mousa said.
As the situation deteriorated further every day, he and his wife decided to leave to protect the children.
They only took what they could carry and booked a train to the city of Lviv in western Ukraine.
They arrived after an exhausting trip that took 30 hours, but they were far from safety. Devious people who offered refugees a ride to Slovakia did not hesitate to exploit their needs.
“They charged foreigners 2,500 Ukrainian hryvnia ($85) instead of the regular 500,” Mousa said. With his children around and sub-zero temperatures at night, he accepted.
They managed to get to Bratislava, where “the stress the little ones had to suffer started to show,” he said.
Despite positive memories of people prepared to help, Mousa described the overall treatment of non-Ukrainian foreigners in Slovakia as “shameful.”
Despite guarantees by the EU that refugees coming from Ukraine could travel freely, an employee at Bratislava’s main railway station insisted that Mousa pay €77 ($84) for tickets because he is not Ukrainian.
“I asked her why? I had our residence permits from Ukraine and my youngest child is a Ukrainian citizen.” He had to pay regardless. “It was arbitrary.”
The family’s odyssey was not over yet. After numerous stations, they finally arrived in the city of Karlsruhe in southwest Germany, where they registered and were given shelter, first in the town of Heidelberg and then in the town of Schwetzingen.
Mousa said he did his best to hide the reality of war from his children — an almost impossible task.
His wish now is for them to resume their education and pursue outdoor activities. “They should start to learn German now so they can integrate more easily.”
Although he has lived in Ukraine for six years, Mousa is determined to stay in Germany and practice his profession there.
To do that, he wants to learn German as quickly as possible, prove his qualifications and start to work. “An unproductive man is a burden to society.”
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From the moment Celebrity Net Worth was launched over a decade ago, we have paid close attention to the acquisitions and sales of mansions in Beverly Park.
For those who are not familiar, Beverly Park is a 325-acre gated community high up in the hills above Beverly Hills. If you are a billionaire and you want to have a home in Los Angeles, this is where you want to buy.
The average home in Beverly Park is 20,000 square-feet and every home in Beverly Park pays a monthly HOA of $3,000. The few vacant lots that remain have a tendency to sell for $20+ million. That's for dirt. One would still need to spend, presumably, $10-20 million constructing a house on that lot.
Because it is an extremely private and secure gate-guarded community, over the decades Beverly Park has attracted some of the most famous celebrities on the planet.
Below is a quick list of current and former Beverly Park residents:
- The Rock – who bought comedian Paul Reiser's mansion a year ago for $28 million.
- Sylvester Stallone – who sold his mansion to Adele in January for $58 million.
- Denzel Washington
- Eddie Murphy
- Justin Bieber
- Rod Stewart
- Steve Harvey
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Magic Johnson
- Mark Wahlberg
As the title of this article gave away, today we are talking about Mark Wahlberg's Beverly Park mansion because it was just listed for sale.
Out of all the insane and massive mansions in Beverly Park, Mark Wahlberg's might be the most insane and massive. So, unsurprisingly, when this home was listed for sale earlier today, it came with an appropriately insane and massive price tag of…
$87.5 million
Here are two aerial views of Mark's mansion from its MLS listing:
From the decade between 2001 and 2014, Mark Wahlberg and his wife lived in a different Beverly Hills mansion that is actually just down the street from one of Beverly Park's two gated entrances. They bought their first Beverly Hills home in 2001 for $4.95 million.
In 2009 they plunked down $8.25 million for the undeveloped 6.2-acre property that became the home in the photos above.
It took four full years and an estimated $20 million to construct what became a 30,500 square-foot mansion that features 12 bedrooms and 20 bathrooms. Amenities include a home theater, tennis court, grotto pool, two-story library skate park, sport court and 5-hole golf course.
If Mark wants to set the record for most-expensive home sold in Beverly Park history, he will need to top the $70 million that private equity billionaire Alec Gores just got LAST WEEK for his 40,000 square-foot mansion. It should be achievable consider Gores' property is on just 2.2 acres (vs. Mark's 6.2) and does not features nearly the level of amenities.
Below is a drone video tour of Beverly Park. You see Mark's mansion while it was still under construction at 10 seconds and then again at 3:40. And just for fun, at 2:23, you see a large grey mansion that according to property records is owned by Reema bint Bandar Al Saud, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States. How is a humble ambassador rich enough to have what looks like a $50 million mansion? Reema's great-grandfather Ibn Saud is the founder of modern Saudi Arabia. Her maternal grandfather was the King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975.
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BOSTON, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ENSEM Therapeutics Inc. (ENSEM), a Boston-based biotechnology company focusing on high value and difficult-to-drug oncology targets, announced today the closing of a series A2 financing. Incubated by CBC group since 2021, the financing is led by GGV Capital, with participation from Pavilion Capital, Cenova Capital, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, Inc., and CBC Group, bringing the series A total to $67 million.
"The pharma/biotech industry has been facing a severe bottleneck imposed by a limited number of druggable targets and the slow pace at which new discoveries can be advanced to clinical trials." said Sean Cao, CEO of ENSEM and Managing Director of CBC Group. "The ENSEM team is made up of veteran drug hunters with extensive experience in advancing novel medicines into clinical trials and regulatory approvals. We will combine new tools coupled with AI and machine learning to break these barriers."
"Biomolecules such as proteins and RNAs are in constant motion, with an ensemble of conformations that govern their functions. Traditional approaches have been ineffective in productively capturing these dynamic states due to experimental and computational limitations," said Shengfang Jin, Ph.D., President and Chief Scientific Officer of ENSEM. "Our team has developed Kinetic EnsembleTM, a novel multi-tiered platform integrating molecular simulation, AI deep learning, and advanced experimental validation by state-of-the-art macromolecular dynamic techniques. We expect many of these programs will reveal non-obvious binding sites as drug targets and create novel classes of small molecule therapeutics."
"ENSEM has made remarkable progress in a short time," said Joshua Wu, Partner of GGV Capital. "The rich industry and technical expertise of this founding team and its unique platform are the core assets of an exciting AI drug discovery company. We believe ENSEM's differentiated technologies will enable a new generation of drug targets. We are excited to co-lead the series A2 financing and partner with the ENSEM team to accelerate its growth."
Proceeds will be used to further advance the company's Kinetic EnsembleTM platform and accelerate R&D pipeline.
About ENSEM Therapeutics
ENSEM is a pioneering drug discovery and development company that leverages its unique Kinetic EnsembleTM platform to develop innovative small molecule precision medicines for oncology, with potential expansion into genetic disorders and other disease areas. ENSEM integrates computational and AI deep learning methodologies with advanced experimental techniques to identify non-obvious binding pockets and accelerate structure-based drug design, with a focus on high-value and difficult-to-drug targets.
For more information, please visit www.ensemtx.com.
About CBC Group
CBC Group, Asia's largest healthcare-dedicated investment firm, is committed to creating value and integrating global resources. Partnering with the world's top entrepreneurs and scientists, its unique investor-operator approach has empowered global leading healthcare companies to widen access to affordable medical care, catalyze innovations, and improve efficiency in fulfilling unmet medical needs worldwide. Founded in 2014, CBC has a leading team of investment, industry and portfolio management professionals headquartered in Singapore with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and New York, and presences in Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, and Tokyo. CBC focuses on platform-building, buyout, credit and growth-focused opportunities across multiple core areas within the healthcare sector, including pharmaceutical and biotech, medical technology and healthcare services.
For more information, please visit www.cbridgecap.com.
About GGV
GGV Capital is a global venture firm that invests in local founders. With $9.2 billion under our management, we have investments in the United States, Canada, China, Southeast Asia, India, Latin America, and Israel. As a multi-stage, sector-focused firm, GGV Capital invests in seed-to-growth stage companies across three sectors: Social/Internet, Enterprise Tech, and Smart Tech. Over the past two decades, we have backed more than 400 companies around the world, including Affirm, Airbnb, Alibaba, Big Commerce, Boss Zhipin, Grab, HashiCorp, Hello, JD MRO, Keep, Kujiale, Manbang, NIU, Opendoor Technologies, Peloton, Poshmark, Qunar/Ctrip, Slack, Square, StockX, Udaan, Wish, Xpeng, Zendesk, and more.
About Pavcap
Pavilion Capital International Pte. Ltd. (Pavilion) is an investment company established in Singapore in 2012. Pavilion focuses on private equity/venture capital funds and direct investments in companies that leverage on the economic growth and transformation of North Asia and Southeast Asia. Pavilion seeks investment opportunities across different sectors, particularly in technology and healthcare.
Pavilion is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings.
About Cenova
Cenova Capital is one of the earliest healthcare funds dedicated to early and growth-stage investments in the life sciences and healthcare sectors. Since inception in 2010, Cenova Capital now has six funds under management with investments in over 80 companies in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, healthcare services and digital health. Cenova Capital's investors are mainly large international institutional investors including Asian sovereign wealth investors, insurance companies, financial institutions and multinational companies.
About Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, Inc.
Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, Inc. (MGI), a 100% subsidiary of Mitsui & Co. Ltd., was established in 1996, with its headquarters in Silicon Valley and branches in Tokyo and Beijing. MGI has been engaging in investments in startups and focus areas covering IT and communication, healthcare and biotech and industrial opportunities. Since its establishment, MGI has invested in and managed over 100 portfolio companies. Our vision is to leverage Mitsui's global network and provide portfolio companies support to build their business and guide them onto the global stage.
Contacts
EMAIL
info@ensemtx.com
PHONE
781-874-2500
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Each week, Christensen Automotive is offering up advice to keep you safe on the road. This week, get your alignment checked so you don't drift on the road.
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Each week, Christensen Automotive is offering up advice to keep you safe on the road. This week, get your alignment checked so you don't drift on the road.
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Prince Harry has been seen joking and reminiscing with his former Sandhurst instructor and Invictus Games competitors ahead of this month’s competition.
“Am I disturbing something? It looked like you guys were busy before I came on", the Duke joked as he opened the video call with the room full of sportsmen and women.
They are all due to take part in the upcoming Invictus Games this month from April 16 to 22.
The prince, who now lives in the US, even chatted and joked with his former Sandhurst trainer in the footage released by the Invictus Games today.
Towards the end of the endearing chat, he asked: “Is my PTI from Sandhurst in here somewhere?”
The crowd helped him spot her, before he laughed and said: ”There she is.”
He added: ”'I can't believe after, how many years, 15 years, our paths are about to cross again. You used to shout at me so much.”
However, the Duke appeared to be told that he needed the shouting at, as the crowd laughed.
Harry then replied: “I needed it. Yeah, cool. That's also fair enough.”
The Prince chatted with the competitors about what life had been like for them during Covid and the ensuing lockdowns which saw both 2020’s and 2021’s Invictus Games cancelled.
”You realise that none of you have any excuse for not being fit anymore, you’ve had two years.” The Prince joked.
Captain Rachael Williamson spoke about the “ups and downs” of the pandemic.
Harry added “You’ve obviously been selected as captain for this rowdy bunch behind you and it seems that you’re doing well because they’re all sitting down.”
She said was feeling “excited and nervous” about the upcoming games and leading as captain.
At one moment during the call Harry was awkwardly met with silence when he asked the group if they were feeling nervous or excited.
Not knowing who was supposed to reply, the crowd remained silent for a moment, before everyone started laughing.
“The silence says it all," the Prince said.
The Duke of Sussex made the video call as the members gathered for their final training camp before the events takes place later this month in the Netherlands.
Harry founded the games to help injured or sick military personnel and veterans from across the globe.
He did this by giving them a challenge and sporting competition similar to the Paralympics.
The Duke is set to travel out to attend the event, a decision which came shortly after he missed out on Prince Philip ’s memorial service over a row over his security.
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The People's Friendship Arch was gifted to Ukraine by the Russian government and opened in Kyiv in 1982. Ukrainians weigh in on the future of the enormous monument, in the midst of war with Russia.
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The People's Friendship Arch was gifted to Ukraine by the Russian government and opened in Kyiv in 1982. Ukrainians weigh in on the future of the enormous monument, in the midst of war with Russia.
Copyright 2022 NPR
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While two candidates each looked to unseat incumbent Baraboo City Council opponents during the Tuesday election, only one achieved that goal.
Bryant Hazard, who also secured his own incumbent seat in an unopposed Sauk County Board supervisor race, won out against incumbent Mike Plautz with 102 votes to 78, according to unofficial results.
“I’m grateful I won,” Hazard said. “Everybody who’s going to run for a position isn’t going to run and hope to lose.”
Plautz has been a member of the council since January 2010, when he was appointed to replace his ailing predecessor. He said he appreciates support over the years and accepts that residents want to see someone new in the seat.
“I’ll miss the friendships I had on City Council and serving the people, but the people said it’s time for someone else,” Plautz said.
On the bright side, Plautz said he will now have more time to focus on mission trips to other countries, like Haiti and the Philippines, which haven’t been possible in the last two years.
Plautz said he feels most proud of his time on council when they made progress, especially when it was the result of listening to the people. A four-way stop to avoid tragedy at the intersection of 5th Avenue and Oak Street next to Nanny Park and the construction of Baraboo City Hall as well as the soon-to-break-ground public library are at the forefront of that list of accomplishments.
He said he is especially glad the government body was able to form connections despite members’ differences.
“To me, that’s what serving on City Council is all about, it’s being a servant to the people, listening to what they have to say and then taking action on it,” Plautz said. “Even though we were, a lot of times, on different sides of issues, we were always friends. We got along with one another and that’s something you don’t always see in politics today.”
Hazard aims to make progress as well, focusing on all facets of the city, but especially its financial issues which came to light in recent months.
“My goal with both the county and the city is to make them a better place,” Hazard said. “With the city, it’s going to be a lot more difficult because they have financial problems. I’m not saying I’m going to walk in with all the answers ... but I bring in common sense and familiarity with budgets and accounting.”
District 9 incumbent Ald. Kathleen Thurow held onto her seat despite being opposed for the second year in a row by Bob Wood. In unofficial results, Thurow won by a larger margin than in the 2021 spring election, at 169 votes to Wood’s 115 total.
District 6 Ald. John Ellington was reelected in an unopposed race with 145 votes. Candidates will be sworn in to office during a reorganizational meeting April 19 at City Hall.
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The Baraboo City Council unanimously voted to drop the city's ownership stake in the Baraboo-Wisconsin Dells Regional Airport, leaving it solely in the hands of the village of Lake Delton.
Attorneys outline their arguments in the first day of a jury trial to determine the guilt of Gary Wayne Dickson, 39, who is charged with first-degree attempted intentional homicide after breaking into his parents' North Freedom home with a gun.
Sauk County Sheriff Chip Meister warns residents against a scam which involves callers pretending to be law enforcement and threatening arrest unless financial information is provided.
Portage council candidates saw a meet-and-greet forum with the public Saturday as a success and expressed hope for similar continued events to engage with residents on infrastructure and government transparency.
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A veteran New York state judge entangled in a law enforcement investigation whose property was raided by federal agents two weeks ago was found dead Tuesday morning in his home near Buffalo, his lawyer said.
John Michalski, an acting justice on the Erie County Supreme Court, died of an apparent suicide, according to attorney Terry Connors. Michalski was 61.
Police in Amherst, where Michalski lived, declined to comment.
Connors said he last spoke with Michalski on Saturday for a meeting that lasted several hours. He appeared "to be doing well. He was strong and was participating in the meeting," Connors added.
Michalski, appointed to the bench in 2006, had returned to his duties in January after going on medical leave in the wake of an apparent suicide attempt in February 2021, Connors said.
At the time, local news reports and video obtained by the CBS affiliate WIVB-TV found that Michalski had stepped into the path of a slow-moving tanker train. He was hospitalized with a serious leg injury.
Connors said Michalski had to satisfy conditions set by the State Court system before he could be reinstated.
He was subject to "a battery of tests and evaluations by the Office of Court Administration," Connors said, and "performed well on all of those."
His apparent suicide attempt last year came on the same day that a former client and family friend, Peter Gerace Jr., was arrested by federal agents in Florida. Gerace, the owner of a strip club near Buffalo and the nephew of an alleged Buffalo mob boss, was indicted on charges related to drug and sex trafficking and bribery of a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent.
According to an indictment obtained by NBC affiliate WGRZ, bribes were paid to the agent, Joseph Bongiovanni, "to protect (the strip club) from federal narcotics investigations."
Indictments were filed last month by federal prosecutors against Gerace and Bongiovanni for conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
Both men are awaiting trial and have denied the allegations.
While federal agents were in contact with Michalski about his friendship with Gerace, no charges had been filed against the judge, Connors said.
Michalski had also been under investigation by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct in connection with how much he was paid for performing Gerace's wedding, according to The Buffalo News.
It's unclear why state and federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, New York State Police and state Attorney General's Office, executed a search warrant at Michalski's home last month. A Department of Justice spokeswoman said in an email Wednesday that the agency does not confirm or deny investigations.
Connors said there had been a groundswell of support for Michalski upon news of his death. Colleagues and friends in their legal circles considered him a well-respected jurist, also known for his infectious laugh and love for his wife and four children, Connors said.
He once told a mother addicted to gambling who was facing four years in prison for stealing from her son that he would instead give her probation because "you do deserve a chance for redemption," The Buffalo News reported in 2012.
"He treated everyone with respect," Connors said. "He was just the type of judge who you'd be thankful for was overseeing your case."
If you or someone you know is in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255, text HOME to 741741 or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for additional resources.
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The federal government has requested a five-year sentence for a former Vermont ski resort executive accused in a failed plan to build a biotechnology plant using tens of millions of dollars in foreign investors’ money raised through a special visa program.
William Stenger, 73, the former president of the Jay Peak Ski Resort, is requesting a sentence of home confinement when he is sentenced next week, according to a court filing from his lawyers on Tuesday that says both Stenger and his wife have significant health problems.
Stenger and Miami businessman Ariel Quiros, the former owner of Jay Peak and Burke Mountain ski resorts, and two other men were indicted in 2019 over the failed plan to build the AnC Bio plant in Newport, Vermont, using millions raised through the EB-5 visa program that encourages foreigners to invest in U.S. projects that create jobs in exchange for a chance to earn permanent U.S. residency.
Stenger pleaded guilty last August to providing false documents. The government dropped nine fraud charges.
Government lawyers say Stenger “came up with the idea for the AnC Vermont EB-5 project” and championed it “despite evidence that it did not legitimately qualify as an EB-5 project,” according to their sentencing recommendation filed Monday. They say Stenger lied to investors, the Vermont Regional Center, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Securities and Exchange Commission about the revenue and job prospects and was responsible for raising over $80 million from investors “based on lies and deceit."
They also accused Stenger of authorizing tens of millions of dollars in cost overruns on two earlier EB-5 projects at Jay Peak and authorizing the misuse of investor funds to pay those overruns.
"The criminal conduct committed by Stenger and his co-defendants caused more widespread harm than any criminal case in this district’s history," assistant U.S. attorneys Paul Van de Graaf and Nicole Cate wrote.
Stenger's lawyers say his primary motivation has always been to develop and improve the economy of the rural northeastern corner of Vermont, known as the Northeast Kingdom, and he thought the EB-5 program "presented an unparalleled opportunity to create good high-paying jobs," according to court documents. They said Stenger received “very little money” for participating in the EB-5 matter, $20,000 compared to the millions Quiros and his advisor realized.
“Not an hour goes by that Mr. Stenger does not think about his mistakes or feel regret for his actions,” Brooks McArthur and David Williams wrote. “He feels he will never recover from the devastation and heartbreak he caused the EB-5 investors, the employees of Jay Peak and Burke Mountain, the Northeast Kingdom community, and his family.”
In 2016, the federal Securities and Exchange Commission and the state of Vermont alleged that Quiros and Stenger took part in a “massive eight-year fraudulent scheme.” The civil allegations involved misusing more than $200 million of about $400 million raised from foreign investors for various ski area developments through the EB-5 visa program “in Ponzi-like fashion.”
Quiros and Stenger settled civil charges with the SEC, with Quiros surrendering more than $80 million in assets, including the two resorts. Quiros has pleaded guilty to criminal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering and the concealment of material information in the failed plant plan and is awaiting sentencing.
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It took the state 12 years — the same amount of time a student can pass from first grade to college — to conclude that the town of Manchester owed it nearly $5 million due to “ineligible costs” in a state-financed reconstruction of its middle school, Bennet Academy.
The good news for Manchester is that the auditors worked for the Office of School Construction Grants & Review, the same office that initially signed off on the spending. After an appeal to the office’s director, Kostantinos “Kosta” Diamantis, he agreed to waive the debt.
“Luckily, Kosta agreed with our argument,” said Kimberly Lord, the town’s finance director, who said the state’s initial finding didn’t take into account special legislation that altered the reimbursement rate.
The Manchester case, one of 80 reviewed by the Connecticut Mirror, exposes some of the issues now being reviewed by forensic audits commissioned by the administration of Gov. Ned Lamont: audits were woefully late, and the decision to waive some of the overpayments to towns essentially rested with one man — Diamantis.
The audits, obtained by CT Mirror through a Freedom of Information request, were completed between 2018-2020 and will be part of the forensic audit initiated by the state after the federal government launched an investigation of school construction grants overseen by Diamantis.
The federal investigation began last October, shortly before Diamantis was fired from his position as deputy secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and simultaneously retired from his job as head of OSCG&R. The Lamont administration then moved the school construction grant program, which was transferred to OPM when Diamantis was appointed deputy secretary, back to the Department of Administrative Services.
DAS Commissioner Michelle Gilman and Deputy Commissioner Noel Petra announced last month that the agency is hiring an outside firm to “audit the auditors” who were on Diamantis’ school grants team.
Hunting for old records
The CT Mirror’s review of the audits reveals a dysfunctional system for examining and managing billions of dollars in school construction projects.
The records show OSCG&R was years behind in auditing school projects, mainly because municipalities weren’t submitting the proper form, called an “ED049F,” to close out their construction projects and auditors weren’t properly tracking the projects.
The review also found 15 projects, including the Bennet Academy job, in which auditors determined the municipality owed the state money. While a few paid the bill, some municipalities got the costs waived and at least one town inquired how to pay back the state but never got a response from OSCG&R, the audits show.
Many of those audits were conducted at least a decade after projects were completed, requiring local officials to hunt for old records to prove they spent the state’s money correctly.
“We had to go back and try to retrace everything and we discovered there had been special legislation passed that altered what the reimbursement rate should have been,” said Lord.
The Manchester middle school cost about $14 million to build, but auditors determined the state should only cover about $9 million and that the rest were “ineligible costs.” Lord said the special legislation should have negated the auditors’ findings.
Nine months after getting the bill, Manchester officials presented their case to Diamantis.
In a January 2020 e-mail to Manchester officials, Michelle Dixon, an education consultant on Diamantis’ 15-member school construction grant team, wrote that the state would “grant an ineligible costs waiver that effectively reduces ineligible construction costs typically due projects of this type with Director (Diamantis’) approval.”
In an interview Tuesday, Diamantis said that, as director, he had the ability to issue an “ineligible cost waiver” during the audit process.
“I get recommendations from my team and if they agree we should waive a cost then I can do that,” Diamantis said.
While most of the audits were directed to the DAS commissioner, Diamantis and other members of his team, three audits were sent directly to Diamantis and not to the commissioner. One of those three was for the Birch Grove Primary School project in Tolland, which is part of the federal investigation into how OSCG&R and Diamantis, in particular, may have influenced school building contracts.
The federal grand jury has subpoenaed not only Tolland officials for documents related to their communication with Diamantis about that project, but also the general contractor, D’Amato Construction of Bristol, and the construction manager, Construction Advocacy Professionals (CAP) — both of which were hired through no-bid contracts.
Diamantis said the Birch Grove audit may have come directly to him because it was only for the portion of the project that was 100% funded by the state. There were other parts of the project that the state funded 89%, he said.
“That would have just been a desk audit because the project was fully funded so there really was nothing to audit or review,” Diamantis said.
In a written response last week to questions from the CT Mirror, DAS spokeswoman Lora Rae Anderson confirmed that when OSCG&R was moved to OPM, the audit unit reported directly to Diamantis. She said that “structure was changed when OSCG&R moved back to DAS in late October 2021.”
“The school construction audit division has a separate reporting chain through the DAS Business Office and not to the Director of OSCG&R,” Anderson said. “This change was meant to separate out the audit function from grants and plan review program.”
At a press conference in early March to discuss the agency’s legislative priorities, Petra said changing the auditing process was a clear priority when they began reviewing the program last October.
“One of the first things we did when OSCG&R came back to DAS was to remove the internal auditors from that team and put them at an arm’s length distance over in the business office,” Petra said. “And then we followed up with a meeting where I made it very clear to them that they no longer had any reporting to me or the director of OSCG&R at all.”
Petra added that he told audit team that “… if any problems come up, if there was any question that made them concerned or raised any concerns at all, they were to go directly to the commissioner.”
But Diamantis disputed that the auditors reported to him directly and said he welcomed the state’s forensic audit.
“When I got there we had projects that were still open from 1998 that the state had never bothered to close out and audit,” Diamantis said. “I made it clear to any town that wanted more money for a new school project that if you don’t complete the paperwork on your old ones first, there would be no more money. I think they’ll find a lot more projects got closed out after I got there.”
Mostly formulaic
The state received a federal grand jury subpoena seeking all emails, text messages and attachments involving Diamantis and a broad range of construction projects on Oct. 20, eight days before he was fired from his OPM position and retired from his job as school construction grants director.
A second request for documents containing certain “search” words made it clear federal authorities were investigating Diamantis’ oversight of the OSCG&R program and how it doled out state funding for school projects.
Diamantis’ team included at least four auditors and a supervisor, Robert Ficeto, who was copied on every audit, as were Diamantis and Dixon, the education consultant on the team, according to the Memorandum of Understanding created when Diamantis moved to OPM.
At the time the MOU was signed by then-DAS Commissioner Josh Geballe and then-Secretary of OPM Melissa McCaw, there were three vacancies on the audit team, which some municipal officials believe delayed the grants team from completing the audits on a more timely basis.
The audits were usually addressed to the DAS commissioner, which was initially Melody Currey but then shifted to Geballe after he assumed leadership of the agency in 2019.
However, a few were addressed directly to Diamantis. None were addressed to McCaw even though she oversaw Diamantis and the grant program until he was fired.
The audits are mostly formulaic - five- or six-page documents that list ineligible costs for every project - but in many cases give little detail as to their findings.
Some audits reference municipalities not giving contracts to the lowest bidder, but there is no indication of how the state responded, if at all, to that finding.
For example, a March 22, 2019 audit of the New Haven Amistad High School project noted that the Local Education Authority (LEA) didn’t utilize the lowest possible bidder without specifying who the contractor was or how much they were paid.
But a Feb. 1, 2019 audit of multiple Bridgeport school projects found that a $24,000 contract with an architectural firm was not properly bid and the state wouldn’t pay the bill.
About a quarter of the audits indicated that bid documents were missing, some of which exceeded the state’s $50,000 no-bid threshold. And more than half of the audits listed “unsubstantiated change orders,” meaning that state officials did not approve the change order and therefore the municipality must cover the costs.
Anderson, the DAS spokeswoman, said once a local school board certifies a project has been completed, it has one year to file a report with OSCG&R, kick-starting the audit process.
“Often, this report is incomplete and OSCG&R works with the district to get the required information,” Anderson said.
A preliminary audit is then completed by OSCG&R and sent to the municipality for review.
“The district has an opportunity to weigh in on the draft audit report and possibly provide additional information. Once the final audit report is complete, it is transmitted back to OSCG&R for either a release of the retainage or a collection of overpayment,” Anderson said.
No response
Overall, school construction auditors found 15 projects in which local officials owed the state money because they had used funding to pay for unauthorized expenses, such as employee salaries or insurance payments.
Manchester had two of those projects. The first was the middle school, for which state auditors initially determined the town owed nearly $5 million.
In the second case, a July 9, 2019 audit found that the city owed the state $148,000 for the Highland Park Elementary School project. After reviewing the state’s claims, Manchester officials agreed to refund the money but have been unable to do so, according to Lord, the city’s finance director.
Lord sent an email to the state on October 18, 2021 acknowledging the city owed the money and asking how they should pay it.
“Based upon the audit results, we owe the State $148,575. We have this booked as a liability in our financial software; we still owe you this money. Will the State send us an invoice eventually, or will this amount be automatically deducted from another State payment, such as ECS, or a progress payment on a current project?” Lord wrote in the e-mail shared with the Mirror.
No one from OSCG&R has ever responded, she said.
DAS did not respond to a question about this audit.
$4 million typo
Not all of the delays in completing audits are the fault of the OSCG&R team. In some cases, audits were delayed because local officials failed to submit proper documentation to the state when their project was completed.
Anderson said the school construction grant process requires the local Board of Education (BoE) to certify the project is complete before OSCG&R auditors start their work.
“This is a local process, and in some cases, that can take many years,” Anderson said. “For example, prior to 2011, there was no time limit on the submission of change orders which meant that a district may have received its Certificate of Occupancy without completing a review of all change orders. The review of change orders, however, is necessary for a BoE to certify the project as complete.”
The audit for the Rogers International School in Stamford wasn’t completed until 2019, a decade after the school was built. But Stamford Finance Director Karen Cammorata said the city was partially to blame because they didn’t submit the “ED049F” form until 2017.
Cammorata said it took the state two years to complete the audit, at which point they informed the city it owed the state $2 million.
City officials started hunting down documents and receipts to determine how that could be when they noticed the audit contained a typo.
The preliminary audit stated the city “owed” the state $2 million, instead of what it should have said, which is the city “is owed” $2 million. The missing word meant Stamford was actually owed $2 million, which the state paid.
“It’s a little bit on both sides. The municipality has to submit the documents in a timely fashion and then they have to do the audit and I think that they were short-handed for awhile,” Cammorata said, adding that state auditors said part of the reason for the delay was due to staff vacancies.
State officials have acknowledged the auditors on OSCG&R were not tracking projects in a timely manner and they are trying to address it with new legislation.
As part of a comprehensive school grant bill currently before the legislature’s Education Committee, DAS officials want to require each town or regional school district to submit a “notice of project completion within three years from the date of the issuance of a certificate of occupancy for the school building project by the town or regional school district.”
The bill also states that if the school district doesn’t meet the three-year timeline to submit the CO, “the commissioner shall deem such project completed and conduct an audit of such project.”
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Misha Smetana lives in Kyiv, and has stayed there throughout Russian attacks on Ukraine. He tells NPR's Scott Detrow what that's been like, and about the communities forming between people who stayed.
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Klyde Warren Park in Dallas is in the midst of a transformation.
"Having a fountain at this part of the park was always part of the plan," said Klyde Warren Park President Kit Sawers.
Construction crews are working on adding the Nancy Best Fountain on the east end of the park.
"We're in the process of installing these 3 trees," Sawers said pointing to where metal tree structures will go. "Those will have water shooting from them. Those are the jets and the water will come down like light rain."
At the other end of the park, a gift from the Perot family is paying for expansion and enhancements to the Sheila and Jody Grant Children's Park. New features will include a climbing feature and a birthday party pavilion.
"So a lot of exciting stuff happening for the kids," Sawers said.
Over the past decade, the deck park that spans over Woodall Rodgers Freeway has helped increase property values in the surrounding neighborhood.
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"So it's a great public/private partnership investment for a city," Sawers said. "A gift that kind of keeps on giving in multiple ways."
That includes property tax revenue to pay for streets and other city services. There is also a benefit that doesn't have a price tag.
"Stitching back together something over a highway which, frankly, busted through neighborhoods decades ago," Sawers said. "It's smart for a city that...really wants to continue to get its community together to celebrate what we have in common, rather than where we differ."
A portion of the park is open during construction, which is expected to be completed sometime in August 2022.
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Which Yaktrax are best?
Whether you’re enjoying a snowy hike in the mountains or simply walking to and from work in icy conditions, you’re going to need a pair of Yaktrax to prevent you from slipping. These innovative accessories use steel cleats attached to a rubber webbing that wraps around the outside of your boots. They offer a level of stability that regular shoes cannot.
The best pair are the Yaktrax Pro Traction Cleats which are great for ice and packed snow. With this set, you can safely walk, run or work in wet and icy conditions.
What to know before you buy Yaktrax
Ice cleats throughout history
The earliest version of ice cleats can be found in Sweden around 800 A.D. The Vikings used cleats strapped to their shoes for added traction while exploring ancient Scandinavia. In the area of Maine, the first settlers to America used metal ice cleats to navigate the icy terrain. In the 1800s, log runners put spikes on their boots to run across wet logs floating down the river. Today’s ice cleats can be traced back to two British mountain climbers who developed the wraparound strap system with cleats on the bottom.
Yaktrax cleat types
There are three designations for Yaktrax straps: Walk, Run and Pro. Each style incorporates different types of cleats for different uses. The Pro straps use shaped-edge steel coils. The durable rubber webbing crisscrosses on the base of the shoe with steel coils that wrap around them. This provides great all-around security while walking and jogging on snow and ice. The Run straps use spike plates with small steel spikes. This gives you more flexibility while running. The Walk series utilizes the same wraparound rubber webbing as the Pro, but there are rotating diamond-shaped beads on the bottom.
Yaktrax uses
Hiking is one of the most common outdoor activities to use Yaktrax. While most hiking is done in the summer, some enjoy winter hiking. In this case, you’ll need a set of spiked cleats to prevent you from falling when you encounter icy surfaces. Yaktrax also works on everyday shoes like sneakers and formal shoes. This way you can safely walk home from work without the fear of slipping. Some Yaktrax even attach to ski boots so you can wear them on the slopes.
What to look for in quality Yaktrax
Performance strap
On the lower end of the quality spectrum, you’ll find boot spikes that use rubber webbing only. This means it wraps around the base of the shoe then moves up over the nose. While this is fairly secure, you can expect it to slip and slide in the worst conditions. The performance strap that Yaktrax uses on its Pro and Run cleats is a Velcro strap that goes over the shoe’s nose. This helps keep the cleats from slipping out of place when they get overly saturated with water and snow.
Replaceable plates
Cleats can only take some much abuse. Harsh temperatures, hard ice and the occasional walk across concrete all contribute to their wear and tear. For Yaktrax’s Run cleats they come with a pair of replaceable plates. There are two plates on each shoe and each plate has three steel spikes on them. Once the spikes wear down and become too rounded to hold their traction, you can replace them with a fresh pair without having to buy a full set of Yaktrax.
Diamond grip spikes
Another innovative part of Yaktrax products is their Diamond Grip system. Many spike users complain that it’s difficult to walk on concrete, rock or dirt surfaces while they’re strapped to your shoes. Yaktrax has solved this issue with their Diamond Grip spikes which rotate as you walk. Each spike is wrapped around a wire so it swivels as it hits the surface. The sharp edges still provide plenty of footing so you can safely transition from rock to ice.
How much you can expect to spend on Yaktrax
Yaktrax cost between $29-$37.
Yaktrax FAQ
Do you need to order a size up for Yaktrax to fit your boots?
A. Yaktrax are designed to fit over the top of your boots. Pay attention to the sizing chart, as it will list which standard shoe sizes the cleats are made for.
Which Yaktrax are the longest lasting?
A. Some reviewers say the Runner Yaktrax are the most durable because they are designed with more flexibility and performance features.
What are the best Yaktrax to buy?
Top Yaktrax
What you need to know: These all-around cleats let you safely walk or run on ice and rock without the need for spikes.
What you’ll love: They come with rounded coil cleats that have a shaped edge for added traction. Each coil is wrapped around durable rubber webbing that crisscrosses on the bottom of your shoe. It comes with a performance strap on top for the most secure fit even in the worst conditions.
What you should consider: They may become damaged if you walk on concrete.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Yaktrax for the money
What you need to know: These performance-focused cleats are meant for running on snow and ice.
What you’ll love: They come with a flexible, yet sturdy rubber frame that wraps up to the base of the shoe’s tongue. There’s a performance strap and two Velcro straps that go over the top of the shoe. The 3-millimeter shoe spikes are enough to keep your toe traction alongside the steel coil on the heel. The spike plates are replaceable.
What you should consider: Some reviewers said they are sized small.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Yaktrax Diamond Grip All-Surface Traction Cleats
What you need to know: The Diamond Grip cleats have an all-purpose function with high-quality diamond-shaped tips.
What you’ll love: The cleats are made for safe ice walking thanks to the Diamond Beads, tough rubber slings and zinc-coated grommets. Each bead moves separately to help prevent snow from accumulating between the webbing. They come in five sizes from small to XXL.
What you should consider: Some reviewers said the cable holding the beads can become rusty.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NEW YORK (AP) — Nursing home residents are subjected to ineffective care and poor staffing, while facility finances are shrouded in secrecy and regulatory lapses go unenforced, according to a report Wednesday that called for wholesale changes in an industry whose failures have been spotlighted by the pandemic.
To anyone who saw the scourge of COVID-19 on the country’s most vulnerable, the findings of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine might seem sobering but unsurprising, as the long-term care system’s inadequacies were made plain by more than 150,000 resident deaths. The authors of the 605-page reportinsist it could be an impetus to address issues that have gotten little more than lip service for decades.
“The public is so concerned about the quality of care that most people really fear their family having to be in a nursing home,” said Betty Ferrell, a nurse who chaired the report committee. “We’re very optimistic that our government officials will respond to what has really been a travesty.”
The report covers a vast cross-section of long-term care, from granular details such as the way facilities are designed to foundational issues that would require massive political capital and investment to address. Among them: the authors advocate for creating a new national long-term care system that would exist outside of Medicaid, the program that is at the center of most long-term care financing.
The likelihood of such a proposal successfully winding its way through Congress seems low in the current political climate. The most recent federal attempt to reform long-term care financing was a voluntary long-term care insurance program known as the CLASS Act. It was included in the Affordable Care Act but later repealed when the Obama administration found it unworkable.
“It has been a long time since we as a country have been wanting to dig in and reform how we finance, pay, regulate and delivery nursing home services,” said David Grabowski, a nursing home expert and Harvard Medical School professor who served on the report committee.
The industry’s biggest lobbying groups insisted reforms must be met by increased government funding.
The American Health Care Association said “what we cannot support are unfunded mandates.”
Katie Smith Sloan, who leads LeadingAge, which represents nonprofit nursing homes, called the report “a piercing wake-up call” about an industry “in desperate need of an overhaul,” but likewise said the success of remaking the system would depend on how funding issues are addressed.
“As policymakers consider how to enact the report’s recommendations, they must back their actions with sufficient funding to make changes a reality,” she said. “Without that, the committee’s work will be for naught.”
On the issue of nursing home staffing, which advocates have repeatedly said is too low, too untrained and too underpaid, the report’s authors called for facilities to have at least one registered nurse on duty at all times and for an infection prevention and control specialist and social worker to also be on staff.
More broadly, across all staffing in homes, including nurse aides who make up the bulk of front-line caregivers, the authors called for additional study on optimal staffing.
Industry lobbyists have fiercely fought against more stringent staffing requirements. Federal law only requires nursing homes to have sufficient staff to meet residents’ needs, but nearly all interpretation of what that means is left to states. President Joe Biden, too, has called for establishing national staffing minimums.
Among the more routine subjects in the report, but one that nonetheless impacts residents’ everyday lives, the authors call for homes to prioritize private rooms and bathrooms instead of the communal ones that can fuel infections and underscore the institutional setting. And in a blunt reminder of how bleak life in nursing homes can be, the report notes most residents spend “little if any time outdoors,” calling for facilities to make outside access more accessible.
The proposals, Grabowski said, have the potential to improve the days of residents who, even when they are having their basic medical needs met, are frequently lacking in other areas of their lives.
“I think the average nursing home resident has an OK quality of care but a poor quality of life,” Grabowski said.
Advocates for nursing home residents have long pleaded for attention on homes’ shortcomings, and the pandemic gave them a media spotlight. But decades of inaction by politicians and resistance by the industry are difficult to overcome, and what the report might spark remains unclear.
A forerunner to the study, 1986′s “Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes,” was also a product of the National Academies. Some issues of that report were taken on in the sweeping 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act, which created the regulatory framework homes are still under today. Others remain unaddressed 36 years later.
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Sedensky can be reached at msedensky@ap.org and https://twitter.com/sedensky
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Thousands of years ago, the blacksmith led a technological leap in sub-Saharan Africa. West Africa’s Nok culture, for example, switched from using stone tools to iron around 1500BC. Imagine an innovative artisan like this re-emerging in the 21st century equipped with digital technologies.
This is not Wakanda science fiction. It is the story of a real promise that 3D printing holds for an industrial revolution on the African continent.
3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is a fabrication process in which a three-dimensional object is built (printed) by adding layer upon layer of materials to a series of shapes. The material can be metal, alloys, plastics or concrete. The market size of 3D printing was valued at US$13.78 billion in 2020, and is expected to grow at an annual rate of 21% to a value of US$62.79 billion in 2028.
Not only is it a different way of physically making objects, 3D printing also changes the picture of who can participate in industry – and succeed.
3D printing is an excellent match for smaller operators because it does not require huge capital investment. It is also the best fit for “newcomers” while established operators are locked in the old manufacturing method. The new technology is a great opportunity for developing countries to leapfrog over developed countries.
In a recent paper, we reviewed the evolution of 3D printing technologies, their disruptive impact on traditional supply chains and the global expansion of the 3D printing market.
We show that conditions in the African context are favourable for technological leapfrogging, and propose that universities, industries and government can work together to support this, giving small and medium enterprises a key role.
We illustrate our argument using South Africa and Kenya as examples.
Technological leapfrogging
Technological leapfrogging is related to technology lock-in.
Lock-in happens when an established technology continues to dominate the market even after the arrival of a new and superior technology. The older technology remains successful not because it’s better but because it got the advantages of an early lead in the market.
In developed countries, where the older technology has taken hold, it’s difficult for new, radical technologies to get a start. Too much has already been invested in the old ways.
But it’s different in developing countries. Less has been invested in older technologies. And almost everyone is starting from the same point; the the cell phone is an example.
For a long time, the African continent has lagged behind the rest of the world in manufacturing. A recent report indicates that while Africa is home to 17% of the world’s population, it accounts for only 2% of global manufacturing value added. 3D printing presents an opportunity to revive this sector through technological leapfrogging.
African countries meet the four key conditions highlighted by scholars for technological leapfrogging:
There must be a large difference between the wage costs of the leading nation and potential challengers.
The new technology must appear initially unproductive and less profitable relative to the old.
Experience in the old technology must be less useful and less transferable to the new technology.
The new technology must, in the long run, improve productivity and efficiency.
To take the first condition, the wage cost of an average African country is a small fraction of the wage cost in a developed country. For example, according to the latest estimates, the average annual income in Nigeria is US$2,000, compared with US$64,530 for the United States.
3D printing is initially unproductive because of lower initial rates of adoption. This means a smaller market and limited profit opportunities.
Looking at the third condition, 3D printing is not an incremental improvement on what went before, so experience in the old technology does not count for much.
On the fourth condition, one of the strongest arguments for 3D printing is that it flips the dominant logic of traditional manufacturing: scale economies. Big multinational manufacturing corporations invest heavily in machinery, logistics and other material and human resources for mass production. They make big profits only if they sell enough units. The more they sell, the bigger their profit margins.
3D printing doesn’t need centralised high-volume production and large inventory stocking. Suddenly, it pays to produce fewer units. There is no need for heavy investment in manufacturing plants, because 3D printers come in various smaller sizes and at lower costs. There is now a growing market for budget and do-it-yourself 3D printers that cost less than US$200.
Smaller and more sustainable
All this shifts the advantage in favour of micro, small, and medium scale enterprises.
Firstly, it offers greater reward for creativity and ingenuity. Like the African blacksmith of yore, additive manufacturers can design customised, higher value products in response to specific demands and requirements.
The proximity of 3D printing shops to customers is another advantage as it reduces logistics costs and supply chain challenges.
Sustainability is another benefit: the process produces only what is needed. It can reuse waste material.
Micro and small-scale 3D printing shops can offer work and income opportunities for households.
University, industry and government
Our study proposes a way for the university, industry and government sectors on the African continent to work together to harness the opportunities offered by 3D printing. These domains – producing knowledge, producing goods and regulating economic relations – have tended to be disconnected. Instead, we argue that greater integration can encourage innovation.
We give examples from South Africa and Kenya to illustrate the challenges and opportunities.
In South Africa, universities are leading the drive to provide training and retraining programmes for engineers, technologists and other professionals involved in 3D printing. Much more needs to be done to develop new curricula, research and programmes in additive manufacturing.
Kenyan universities are at an earlier stage, focusing on convening networking and knowledge exchange events.
In the government sector, South Africa has the most detailed policy document of any African country on 3D printing. The country’s 3D printing strategy is being led through the Ministry of Science and Technology, and through agencies such as the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Technology Innovation Agency. In the industry sector, South Africa’s Rapid Product Development Association works closely with the government to organise conferences, workshops and community engagement activities.
The results so far
The South African 3D printing industry has had considerable success in recent years, driven by a growing community of enthusiasts and designers.
Small enterprises and startups are making inroads in areas such as 3D printing of cell phone accessories, car accessories, and jewellery. In 2014, South African doctors used 3D-printed titanium bones to perform a jaw-bone transplant surgery, the second in the world. There are also recent applications of 3D printing in housing.
The three spheres need to do more work in research investment, policy interventions and strategic public procurement. And they need to cross boundaries. Universities can commercialise and contribute to policies. Industry can invest in research and influence policies. Governments can play in the market and in knowledge production.
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – It was a special day for the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department which welcomed two new rescue trucks during traditional Push-In Ceremonies” on Wednesday.
Advanced Life Support (ALS) Rescue 74 will temporarily be housed at the Saga Bay Fire Rescue Station #55, located at 21501 SW 87 Avenue. The new unit is expected to reduce response times to both the Town of Cutler Bay and the Village of Palmetto Bay.
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Advanced Life Support (ALS) Rescue 13 will be housed at East Kendall Fire-Rescue Station #13, located at 6000 SW 87 Ave.
READ MORE: Thousands Expected At Bitcoin 2022 Conference In Miami BeachThe addition of this rescue unit will reduce response times to medical calls in the Dadeland and surrounding Kendall area.
The fire service truck “Push-In Ceremony” is a tradition that dates back to the late 1800s when fire engines were pulled by horses. When a new unit came to the station, the community would join the firefighters pushing the new unit into the station where they could then hitch the horses and prepare the unit for the next emergency.
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German govt agrees renewables expansion plan
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Berlin, April 7 Germany's government agreed on a broad legislative package to accelerate the expansion of renewable energy, ...
Berlin, April 7 Germany's government agreed on a broad legislative package to accelerate the expansion of renewable energy, the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action said in a statement.
The package will now be submitted to Parliament, Xinhua news agency reported.
"In the future, renewable energy will be in the public interest and serve public safety. This is crucial to increase the pace," said Energy Minister Robert Habeck.
The expansion of renewable energy would be "taken to a whole new level," according to the Ministry.
In order to achieve these targets, onshore wind energy must be increased by 10 gigawatts (GW) annually to a total installed capacity of around 115 GW in 2030. Solar power installations are to grow 22 GW per year, targeting a total capacity of 215 GW in 2030.
Besides the worsening climate crisis, the Russia-Ukraine conflict shows how important it is to "get out of fossil fuels and consistently drive forward the expansion of renewables," Habeck said. "We are doing this courageously and consistently."
Germany has already announced plans to halve Russian oil imports by the middle of this year and become almost independent by the end of 2022. Dependency on Russian gas is to be largely overcome by mid-2024.
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As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis’ historic apologyfor abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches are bracing for an unprecedented reckoning with their own legacies of operating such schools.
Church schools are likely to feature prominently in a report from the U.S. Department of the Interior, led by the first-ever Native American cabinet secretary, Deb Haaland, due to be released later this month. The report, prompted by last year’s discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential school sites in Canada, will focus on the loss of life and the enduring traumas the U.S. system inflicted onIndigenous children from the 19th to mid-20th centuries.
From Episcopalians to Quakers to Catholic dioceses in Oklahoma, faith groups have either started or intensified efforts in the past year to research and atone for their prior roles in the boarding school system, which Native children were forced to attend — cutting them off from their families, tribes and traditions.
While the pontiff’s April 1 apology was addressed to Indigenous groups from Canada, people were listening south of the border.
“An apology is the best way to start any conversation,” said Roy Callison, a Catholic deacon and Cherokee Nation member helping coordinate the Oklahoma Catholic Native Schools Project, which includes listening sessions for those affected by the boarding school legacy. “That’s the first step to trying to get healing.”
In his meeting with Canada’s Indigenous delegations, Francis asked forgiveness “for the role that a number of Catholics … had in all these things that wounded you, in the abuses you suffered and in the lack of respect shown for your identity, your culture and even your spiritual values.”
Francis “did something really important, which is name the importance of being indignant at this history,” said Maka Black Elk, executive director of truth and healing for Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
That history “is shameful, and it is not something we should accept,” said Black Elk, who is Oglala Lakota.
Red Cloud, affiliated with the Catholic Jesuit order, was for generations a boarding school for Lakota children. It’s now a day school incorporating Lakota leadership, language and traditions. Black Elk is guiding a reckoning process that includes archival research and hearing the stories of former students.
Canada underwent a much-publicized Truth and Reconciliation process in recent years. The issue gained unprecedented attention last year after a researcher using ground-penetrating radar reported finding about 200 unmarked probable burial sites at a former school in British Columbia.
That discovery, followed by others across Canada, prompted Haaland to commission her department’s report.
“This history in the United States has not been addressed in the same way it has been addressed in Canada,” Black Elk said. The Interior report “will be an important first step about the work that needs to happen in this country.”
Church leaders are getting ready. The report “will likely bring to light some very troubling information,” said a letter circulated last fall to members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from two colleagues who chaired committees related to the issue. The letter urged bishops to build relationships with local Indigenous communities and engage “in a real and honest dialogue about reactions to the report and what steps are needed to go forward together.”
Conditions varied at boarding schools in the United States, with some described as unsafe, unsanitary and scenes of physical or sexual abuse. Other former students recall their school years as positive times of learning, friendship and extracurricular activities.
Indigenous groups note that even the better schools were part of a project to assimilate children into a predominately white, Christian society and break down their tribal identities, customs and languages — what many Indigenous groups call a cultural genocide.
“The very process of boarding schools is violent and damaging,” said Bryan Rindfleisch, an expert in Native American history at Marquette University who is helping Catholics in Oklahoma research their school legacy.
There were at least 367 boarding schools across the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries, according to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, a Minneapolis-based advocacy group.
Most were government-run; many others were run by Catholic and Protestant churches.
The national healing coalition called Pope Francis’ comments a historic first step, but urged the Vatican to repatriate Indigenous artifacts in its museum collections and called on religious organizations to open their school archives.
In listening sessions held through the Oklahoma Catholic Native Schools Project, many participants told positive stories of school experiences, Callison said, though the church is committed to documenting the traumatic ones too. “You’re going to hear things you don’t want to hear,” he said.
The project will also include archival research and individual interviews with those affected. At least 11 Catholic boarding schools operated in Oklahoma.
“We need to get to the truth before we can deal with whatever hurt or celebrate whatever success” the schools achieved, Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley said.
Several church groups — including Quakers, Methodists and some Catholic religious orders — are backing pending legislation in Congress that would go beyond the Interior report. It would create a truth and healing commission, modeled on Canada’s, to investigate the boarding school legacy.
The New England Yearly Meeting of Friends — a regional group of congregations — issued an apology last year for Quakers’ historic sponsorship of such schools, acknowledging they were undertaken with “spiritual and cultural arrogance.”
“We are deeply sorry for our part in the vast suffering caused by this system and the continuing effects,” the New England group said.
It’s important for Quakers to accept such responsibility, said Paula Palmer, a Quaker from Colorado whose research has identified about 30 Native American boarding and day schools that were run by Quakers.
“The yearly meetings voted to support, operate and finance” the schools, she said. “So it’s really the yearly meetings who have the responsibility to respond. They were the ones who also participated in the whole project of forced assimilation of Indigenous children.”
The Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States has hired an archival researcher to document its own boarding school history.
The order is “committed to examining and sharing the truth of our history, even where that is difficult,” said the Rev. Ted Penton, secretary of the Jesuit conference’s Office of Justice and Ecology.
The Episcopal Church’s General Convention in July is expected to vote on a statement that would “acknowledge the intergenerational trauma caused by genocide, colonialism” and the operation of boarding schools and “other systems based on white supremacy.”
The convention will also consider authorizing a “comprehensive and complete investigation” of the church’s operation of such schools. The proposals came from a group appointed by denominational leaders.
Such measures are strong, but local dioceses also need to research their own histories and advocate for Indigenous peoples, said the Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Everett, Washington. Taber-Hamilton, whose heritage includes the Shackan First Nation of Canada, is an Episcopal Church representative to the worldwide Anglican Indigenous Network.
“It’s not enough to say, ‘I’m sorry, and here’s some money,’” she said. “We first have to do some very hard work of listening to the pain.”
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Bayern Munich draw a blank against Villarreal to end historic Champions League scoring run
Bayern Munich drew a rare blank against Villarreal to end the club's incredible run of scoring in the Champions League.
The Bundesliga giants were upset by Unai Emery's team, who prevailed 1-0 in Wednesday's quarter-final first leg thanks to Arnaut Danjuma's early goal.
Perhaps even more impressive than Villarreal's victory was the clean sheet that accompanied it, against a team that almost always manages to find the target.
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When was Bayern's last scoreless match?
More than three years have passed since Bayern last failed to hit the target in the Champions League.
Liverpool were the last side to shut out the Bavarians, in a 0-0 draw in February 2019.
Exactly 30 games had passed since that last blank, in which time Bayern have smashed no fewer than 101 goals.
In all competitions this is just the second time they have failed to score in 2021-22, the other occasion being a 5-0 DFB-Pokal thrashing at the hands of Borussia Monchengladbach.
"We weren't really able to do something today, we did not play the match we wanted," Bayern star Thomas Muller admitted to DAZN.
"Offensively, we did not have the power, we did not create that many chances.. We'll take the 1-0 because it could have been worse. Right now, we need to prepare for the second leg and fight back."
Emery has Bayern's number
Wednesday's reverse also brought to a close Bayern's record-breaking run on the road in Europe.
Emery inflicted the first away defeat on the club after 22 unbeaten matches, the most in Champions League history.
Coincidentally, the Spaniard was also in charge of Paris Saint-Germain when they overcame Bayern in September 2017, the last time they lost in the competition away from home.
Bayern will now look to turn the tables on Emery in the second leg at Allianz Arena, which takes place on April 12.
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Which Tracfones are best?
Tracfone is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator that operates nationwide. It doesn’t require contracts and has multiple prepaid phone plans available. Plus, it’s compatible with many smartphones, iPhones and basic phones. If you’re looking for a great prepaid device to use anywhere in the country, check out the Tracfone Apple iPhone 7 4G LTE Prepaid Smartphone.
What to know before you buy a Tracfone
Locked vs. unlocked
An unlocked cell phone does not need a specific carrier or phone plan to work. However, Tracfone has a strict unlock policy, so most devices are locked until activated. You can unlock one of their devices by using the associated code or contacting the company by phone.
Certain devices unlock automatically after a certain period. For instance, Apple phones activated on the Tracfone service will unlock two months after activation. Military personnel who are currently deployed can request the company unlock their device at any time.
If you find a device online that’s already unlocked, it might not work as intended or have reduced functionality.
Network and coverage
Tracfone is compatible with Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. The service you get depends mainly on the carrier. For example, Verizon provides the most coverage and works across the country. Meanwhile, AT&T and T-Mobile generally offer the fastest download speeds.
Also, the company now has 5G coverage enabled for certain modern phones. This is included in any of their phone service plans.
Compatible phones
Tracfone has a keep-your-own-phone policy, meaning you can use your current phone when setting up the service. The following devices are compatible:
- T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon phones
- Global System for Mobile Communications unlocked phones
- Certain phones that use Code Division Multiple Access Technology
The company also sells various discount devices that work on their network, including iPhones and other smartphones such as Samsung and LG devices. They also sell non-smartphones and flip phones for those who want something basic and functional.
What to look for in a quality Tracfone device
Phone plan
Tracfone offers multiple phone plans, none of which require a contract. Plans include:
- Smartphone $199 Plan: 365 days of unlimited talk and text with 12 gigabytes of data each month.
- Smartphone $125 Plan: 365 days with 1,500 minutes, 1,500 texts and 1.5GB each month.
- Smartphone $50 Plan: 90-day plan with 750 minutes, 1,500 texts and 2GB of data a month.
- Smartphone $30 Plan: 30-day plan with unlimited text and talk plus 3GB of data each month.
For an additional cost, there are also add-on services, such as the global calling card that lets you make calls across the world for as little as 1 cent per minute. Other add-ons include more texts, minutes and data.
SIM card
When you purchase a phone or sign up for service, you receive a SIM card with a new phone number on it. Unlike most other cellular companies, you can’t transfer an existing Tracfone SIM card to another device.
Data
Tracfone offers unlimited data rollover. So, if you don’t use all the available data in one month, it gets automatically added to the next month’s plan. However, there are no data-only plans, meaning you’ll need to purchase minutes and texts to get data on your device.
Auto-refill service
While you can purchase a monthly plan every month, you also have the option to sign up for auto-refill. With this service, you can keep your phone constantly active without having to set up payments manually. Another incentive of auto-refill is that it also gives consumers a 5% to 10% monthly discount on their current plan. You can set up the service through your account.
Phone storage
As with any other mobile device, the storage in your phone varies. For casual users who don’t intend to download many apps or games, 5GB should be enough. However, if you use your phone extensively or want to have a lot of pictures, videos or games on it, you’ll need anywhere from 10GB to 50GB of storage space.
If your space runs out, you can clear the device’s cache or delete unnecessary apps. You can also upload images and videos to the Cloud and delete the ones taking up space on your phone. Alternatively, most Tracfone devices let you increase your phone’s storage by inserting a microSD card into the device.
Prepaid cards
Since it’s a prepaid service, Tracfone offers prepaid cards that specify the allowances and limitations of the plan. You can purchase these cards on the company’s website or at a local store. Some prepaid cards only add data or minutes to an existing plan, while others serve as the full plan.
How much you can expect to spend on Tracfone
The cheapest unlimited talk and text plan starts at $20 a month and goes up from there. There are also sometimes promo codes available to decrease costs. If you set up the auto-refill service, you can save more money on an existing plan.
Tracfone FAQ
How do you set up a Tracfone?
A. Once you have a compatible device, use the company’s online activation system. From there, follow the steps to activate and set it up. You’ll need the red activation card that comes with the phone or plan. And you’ll need to agree to the Terms and Conditions. Once that’s done, you can start using the phone right away.
Can you transfer minutes to a different phone?
A. If you’re switching from one smartphone to another, you can also roll any remaining minutes, texts or data into the new one. However, you cannot transfer minutes when switching from a smartphone to a non-smartphone.
What’s the best Tracfone to buy?
Top Tracfone
Tracfone Apple iPhone 7 4G LTE Prepaid Smartphone
What you need to know: This locked iPhone comes with 32GB phone storage and has a fast operating system, making it ideal for mobile gamers, work use and more.
What you’ll love: It features a 4.7-inch Retina HD display that’s great for taking photos, which you can easily store on the device. This sleek, black phone comes with a SIM card and is easy to set up.
What you should consider: Since it’s an Apple product, it’s not compatible with most Android apps.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Tracfone for the money
Motorola TracFone Moto E6 4G LTE Prepaid Smartphone
What you need to know: Offering either 16GB or 32GB of storage, this smartphone is best for Android users.
What you’ll love: It has a long battery life and Max Vision HD+ Display, meaning you can use it for hours taking pictures, playing mobile games and more. It operates on Verizon’s CDMA networks and comes with a SIM card.
What you should consider: The phone isn’t as fast as other devices. It’s also not constructed with high-quality materials.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
TracFone Carrier-Locked LG Stylo 4 4G LTE Prepaid Smartphone
What you need to know: This smartphone comes at a discounted price and offers competitive storage, good audio and a crisp display.
What you’ll love: This prepaid device comes with 16GB of storage, an HD display, SIM card and phone manual. It’s also compatible with MicroSD memory cards up to 2TB.
What you should consider: It takes a long time to reach full charge.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Alhurra explores electric vehicle history with detailed virtual explainer
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Alhurra examined the history of electric vehicles in a virtual explainer video that combines a mix of dramatic lighting effects with detailed renderings of the materials used to manufacture the automobiles.
The segment kicks off with a brief view of a studio, that folds away to transport the presenter to 1832, the year the first rudimentary electric vehicle was built, where a classic vehicle is shown with amber-hued lighting effects that reflect off the mix of matte and metallic surfaces on the 3D model.
A brief overhead view showcases the year “1832” set in oversized metallic numerals laid out on the ground next to the car before fast forwarding to 1888 through the use of one of the vehicle’s headlamps as a transition.
In this scene, the numbers illustrating the year sit beside the vehicle, which morphs, “Transformers”-style, on the screen to a red model and, then, to a 1972 yellow BMW 1602 with gleaming surfaces.
As the 3D BMW drives out of hanger-style doors, viewers get a brief look at the inside workings of the vehicle before it transforms into a 1976 Volkswagen Electro Golf in green.
The presenter briefly takes up residence on a billboard with a halftone effect that the vehicle drives by in bright daylight before parking and morphing into a General Motors EV1 in a sporty red.
Here again, the presenter is pictured on a billboard, but switching to a hand-painted style filter.
The vehicle pulls away and is briefly pictured driving through a dark, dramatic tunnel-like space before it changes, via a peel back effect with a puff of smoke into a 1997 Honda EV Plus, which drives by another billboard featuring the presenter.
The Honda then crashes through a metallic “2008” as it transforms into a bold red Tesla in a nighttime scene with a dramatically uplit building behind it.
The Tesla is shown in some highly detailed views along with an image of founder Elon Musk, before the scene pulls back revealing the presenter standing amidst the fleet of the vehicles discussed in the segment.
The segment was designed by Ahmed El Bendari and team under the direction of Fadi Izzaldin.
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This happens every year.
In the months leading up to the NFL draft, as Doug Farrar and myself begin to sketch out our draft-time coverage, we start assigning our positional watch lists, with the goal of putting our top 11 together at each assigned position.
Then, inevitably, I message Doug a few weeks later and tell him there is no way in the world I can narrow it down to just 11 wide receivers.
Last year we went 14-deep at the position, and this year we see two more get added to the list. The reason? Receiver is becoming a deeper and deeper position each year. With more and more high schools around the country focusing on the passing game, and seven-on-seven leagues cropping up year-round, we are seeing more talent at the position at the college level, and in each draft class.
I just hope I can keep it under 20 players in next year’s version. Until then, here are the top 16 wide receivers in the 2022 NFL draft.
The top 11 quarterbacks in the 2022 NFL draft class
The top 11 running backs in the 2022 NFL draft class
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Drake London, USC
Height: 6’4″ (90th) Weight: 219 (88th)
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Bio: Drake London was a talented two-sport athlete for Moorpark High School in Moorpark, California, starring on the gridiron in the fall and the hardwood in the winter. During his senior year, he caught 62 passes for 1,089 yards and a touchdown. That winter he averaged a double-double on the basketball court, averaging 29 points and 12 rebounds a game.
He signed with USC to play both sports, and saw action as a true freshman in both football and basketball. he caught 39 passes for 567 yards and five touchdowns in the fall, and played in three games for the USC basketball team that winter. He decided to focus on football, and in the shortened 2020 season he caught 33 passes for 502 yards and three touchdowns.
Last year, London caught 88 passes for 1,084 yards and seven touchdowns, despite missing the final few games of the season with a fractured right ankle. Even with the missed time, he was named the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year.
Stat to Know: According to Pro Football Focus charting data, London led receivers with 19 contested catch receptions last year. While that might lead to some wondering whether he can separate, as we will see he checks that box as well.
Strengths: What might work most in London’s favor is that he stands out as perhaps the prototypical “X” receiver in a class that sees more options at the “Z” role or even in the slot. London has the ability to line up at the X, face press-aligned defenders, and separate either off the line with his release package or at the catch point with his size and physical style of play. That is where you see his basketball background come into play, as he is more than comfortable playing in the proverbial phone booth.
Studying London on film, you might first be drawn to what he offers in the downfield passing game. He has the ability to win on those routes by high-pointing the football, or making adjustments to back-shoulder throws. Plays like this against Oregon State, where he adjusts to an underthrown nine route, are going to endear him to his NFL quarterbacks:
Where London sets himself apart in this class is how he separates early in the down as well, even against press-aligned defenders. Two games to study for this trait are Arizona and Washington State, where he worked himself open both initially off the line, or at the catch point using his frame and physical style of play. On this slant route against Arizona, London separates off the line using a quick stutter-step:
Even when the corner does a better job in press coverage, London’s physicality through the route and to the catch point serves him well:
London is one of a few players in this draft who can step in and serve as a prototypical X receiver. His ability to separate makes him more than just a “contested catch receiver,” and will help an NFL offense in a number of ways, and in a variety of systems.
Weaknesses: However, unlike others in this class London is not a speed demon. Teams looking for that 4.3 type of receiver might keep looking after getting to his name on their draft board. London also was a little inconsistent at the catch point, as he dropped eight catchable passes last season.
Also, he is coming off the fractured ankle, so we have not gotten to see him test yet. What he does at his Pro Day — scheduled for April 5th — could complete the picture for his evaluation.
Conclusion: Some have posited that London’s best role in the NFL could be as a big slot receiver, and USC did use him in that alignment a number of times last season. Adding a prototypical X receiver who can also play in the slot, and can separate early in the down and at the catch point, seems like a dream scenario in my book. His experience against press-aligned defenders will make his transition to the NFL a bit easier than it will be for others in this class.
Comparison: Mike Evans is a name that is mentioned often with London, and if you squint hard enough you can see that aspect to his game, particularly with how he was used in college and how he could be utilized in the NFL. Mike Renner of Pro Football Focus mentioned Brandon Marshall as another comparison, which also tracks quite well.
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Jameson Williams, Alabama
Height: 6’1″ (59th) Weight: 179 (9th)
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Bio: Jameson Williams starred on the football team for Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School in St. Louis in the fall, and turned his attention to the track in the spring. He caught 68 passes for 1,626 yards and 22 touchdowns as a senior, and was named an Under Armour All-American for his achievements. He also won the 300 meter hurdles in two-straight seasons, setting a state record in 2017.
A four-star prospect according to scouting services, Williams had no shortage of scholarship offers. He turned down teams like UCLA, Alabama and Oregon to start his college career at Ohio State. After playing two seasons with the Buckeyes, catching 15 passes for 266 yards and three touchdowns over three years, he announced he would transfer to Alabama.
Williams was an immediate impact player for the Crimson Tide in 2021, catching 79 passes for 1,572 yards and 15 touchdowns. He was named a First-Team All-SEC player, as well as a First-Team All-American.
Stat to Know: Williams is, at least on paper, the most explosive receiver in this class. According to Pro Football Focus charting data, he averaged 20 yards per catch this season.
Strengths: Williams is a shifty, explosive receiver with the change-of-direction skills to work himself open early in the down, the long speed to separate late in the down, and the burst to create after the catch. Williams relies on footwork and stutter-step moves to beat press-aligned defenders after the snap, and snaps off his routes well with crisp breaks and fluid movement skills.
One of the things that Williams does extremely well is transition immediately from receiver to athlete after the catch. On this play against Florida, Williams sits down in a soft spot of zone coverage, but makes an explosive transition to ball-carrier, exploding upfield for yardage after the catch:
That ability to separate early in the down, and burst away from defenders after the catch, makes him a home-run hitter even on quick game concepts:
But Williams is not a scheme-specific receiver, as his long speed and route-running skills helps him create in the downfield passing game as well. His ability to quickly change directions, and maintain speed on breaks, makes him a threat on vertical routes as well.
Weaknesses: Williams is coming off an ACL injury which he suffered in the National Championship game, but his rehabilitation looks to be progressing well and he could be on track to participate at the start of training camp.
Williams also has a thinner frame, which showed up at times against more physical cornerbacks. He will see more of that at the next level, but as we saw last year with DeVonta Smith, if you can separate early in the down, you can still operate against such cornerbacks.
Then there is the fact that Williams was stuck behind two other members of this class, Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson, during his time at Ohio State and his one year of production came after a transfer. While his play on the field should speak for itself, some might wonder why he could not crack the Ohio State lineup.
Conclusion: Williams is a scheme-diverse receiver who can win early in the down, late in the down, and everywhere in the middle. His ability after the catch is going to make him a quarterback’s best friend, and when coupled with what he can do in the downfield passing game, Williams has the ability to step into an offense and provide explosiveness in the passing game from Day One.
Comparison: Mike Renner of Pro Football Focus used “a taller DeSean Jackson” as a comparison and now I cannot unsee that…
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Chris Olave, Ohio State
Height: 6’0″ (44th) Weight: 187 (20th)
40-Yard Dash: 4.39 seconds (86th)
Bench Press: N/A
Vertical Jump: 32 inches (12th)
Broad Jump: 10’4″ (69th)
3-Cone Drill: N/A
20-Yard Shuttle: N/A
Bio: Despite putting up big numbers for Mission Hills High School in San Marcos, California, Chris Olave was graded as a three-star recruit by both 247Sports and ESPN. Still, he entertained offers from a number of schools, including Tennessee and Oregon State, but chose Ohio State to play for Ryan Day and wide receivers coach Brian Hartline.
Olave contributed immediately as a freshman, both as a receiver and on special teams. He caught 12 catches for 197 yards and a three touchdowns as a freshman, and even blocked a punt in Ohio State’s huge 2018 win over Michigan. During the 2019 campaign, Olave caught 49 passes for 849 yards and 12 touchdowns, averaging 17.3 yards per reception.
In the shortened 2020 campaign, Olave caught 50 passes for 729 yards and eight touchdowns, over just seven contests. Last season he continued his high level of production, catching 65 passes for 936 yards and 13 touchdowns, despite playing with another receiver in Garrett Wilson who is going to join him in the first round.
Stat to Know: Olave holds the Ohio State school record for career touchdown receptions with 35.
Strengths: The ability to run a “full route tree” is often overblown when it comes to evaluating wide receivers for the draft. After all, any good offensive coordinator is going to identify what a receiver does best and find ways to use him on such concepts.
Still, when you see a prospect come out with the ability to give you everything int the playbook on Day One, you take notice. Olave offers that. He is a silky-smooth route runner, who can slide into any offensive system and give his play-caller what he needs right out of the box. One of my favorite routes from him this past season highlights how he can use pace and creativity to set up defenders. Against Michigan, Olave aligns on the right side and runs a comeback route:
After an initial stutter-step at the line, Olave bends to the outside and starts to sell the defender on the vertical route. Right before he snaps to the sideline on the comeback, Olave looks back for the football, selling the cornerback on the nine route even more. He then sinks his hips and breaks back towards the sideline, getting a ton of separation on his break.
On this route against Oregon, Olave uses pace to sell the defender on the vertical route, but then does a good job at getting into the cornerback’s blind spot, working back towards the football as he separates from the coverage:
His feel for routes, his ability to setup defenders and his suddenness with his breaks makes him a complete route runner and a dangerous weapon in the passing game.
Weaknesses: Olave has solid hands, but there are moments where he lets the football into his frame rather than attacking the football. He also does not have the catch radius of other options in this class, and there were moments on film where he missed opportunities to high point the football. Olave is experienced against press, but longer, more physical cornerbacks could give him trouble at the line when he moves to the Sunday game.
Conclusion: Olave’s ability to separate against coverage, to setup defenders on his route and provide his NFL play-caller with a full route tree on Day One makes him one of the best options in this class. He is a scheme-diverse receiver who can play both inside and outside, giving his NFL offense a ton of options in the passing game.
Comparison: Olave’s ability to run the complete tree reminds me of Amari Cooper when he was coming out of Alabama. Cooper has a bit more bulk to his frame, and did as a prospect, but that full scheme picture is a nice piece to have as a prospect.
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Garrett Wilson, Ohio State
Height: 6’0″ (34th) Weight: 183 (13th)
40-Yard Dash: 4.38 (89th)
Bench Press: N/A
Vertical Jump: 36 inches (57th)
Broad Jump: 10’3″ (61st)
3-Cone Drill: N/A
20-Yard Shuttle: 4.36 seconds (23rd)
Bio: Garrett Wilson was a five-star recruit coming out of Lake Travis High School in Austin, Texas, where he rewrote the record book during his high school days. He left school having set records for career receptions, total yards and total touchdowns. He also led Lake Travis to a 6A state championship in 2016.
Having spent the early part of his life in Ohio before moving to Texas, it was a bit of a homecoming when Wilson chose to play college football at Ohio State. He saw playing time immediately, catching 30 passes for 432 yards and five touchdowns in 2019. In the shortened 2020 season, Wilson caught 43 passes for 723 yards and six scores.
Last year was his true breakout campaign, as Wilson caught 70 passes for 1,058 yards and 12 touchdowns.
Stat to Know: Wilson averaged 16.8 yards per reception in 2020, when he made a move to the slot. That is a big number for a slot receiver.
Strengths: Wilson is a shifty, elusive receiver off the line and after the catch. His sudden movements and change-of-direction skills work to stress defenders after the snap, and Wilson has good feel for stressing the leverage of defenders and giving himself an advantage early in the down.
Take this play against Akron:
Wilson squares off against a press-aligned cornerback playing with inside leverage. But the receiver explodes off the snap and threatens the corner to the outside, before working across his face and establishing inside leverage. Wilson then shakes the defender with his speed and change-of-direction skills, creating a big play in the downfield passing game.
Those quickness skills show up on manufactured touches as well. Ohio State found ways to get him the football on sweeps and screens, and Wilson is a potential home run on those plays as well.
Wilson also has a big-time catch radius and the ability to adjust to footballs on vertical throws, creating more big plays for his offense. While he did most of his work out of the slot in 2020, he saw increased snaps on the outside in 2021 and made the most of them, working himself open on plays like this against Michigan and making his quarterback look good:
With the ability to create explosive plays a need for many NFL offenses, you can see why Wilson might be at the top of many boards.
Weaknesses: Wilson’s change-of-direction skills were enough against press-aligned defenders who were on the smaller side, or who were not overly physical. Longer, or more aggressive, corners gave him trouble from such alignments, and as you project him to the NFL game where he will see more corners willing to take the fight to him at the snap, you can see how the transition might take some time.
Similar to another receiver we will discuss a bit later, too much of a good thing can be a problem for Wilson. His change-of-direction skills, along with his footwork, are impressive. But when the extra stutter-step or two throws off the timing of a concept, that becomes a problem. His ability to separate is good enough, and sometimes less can be more.
Conclusion: Part of the reason others might have Wilson higher on boards is his potential. There is still room for growth with him, and if he shows he can operate on the outside at the next level, the sky is the limit. Even if his eventual NFL role is as a slot option with schemed touches in a Z role, his ability to create explosive plays from such alignments will be a big add for NFL offenses.
Comparison: Everywhere you look, you see the name Diontae Johnson next to Wilson’s profile. Works for me.
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Treylon Burks, Arkansas
Height: 6’2″ (71st) Weight: 225 (95th)
40-Yard Dash: 4.55 seconds (28th)
Bench Press: N/A
Vertical Jump: 33 inches (19th)
Broad Jump: 10’2″ (54th)
3-Cone Drill: 7.28 seconds (8th)
20-Yard Shuttle: N/A
Bio: A three-sport athlete in high school, Treylon Burks was the top football recruit in the state of Arkansas, coming out of Warren High School in Warren. He caught 151 passes for 3,403 yards and 43 touchdowns, and that was despite missing the bulk of his senior year due to an ACL tear.
Burks stayed in-state, choosing to play college football for Arkansas despite having a number of offers from schools like LSU, Clemson and Florida State. Burks stepped right into the Razorbacks’ offense, catching 29 passes for 475 yards. He was named a member of the SEC All-Freshman team after the 2019 season. In 2020, he caught 51 passes for 820 yards and seven touchdowns as a sophomore, and was named a Second-Team All-SEC player.
As a junior this past season, Burks caught 66 passes for 1,104 yards and 11 touchdowns, and added another 112 rushing yards for an additional score. He was named a First-Team All-SEC selection for his work.
Stat to Know: According to Pro Football Focus charting data, Burks averaged 9.3 yard after the catch per reception, fourth-best among college receivers last year.
Strengths: Burks is a big, physical receiver with the body to play on the outside at the next level. He is also an extremely confident receiver, who believes he is open on every snap even when it looks like the coverage is in position to take care of him.
More often than not, he is right. Take this play against Mississippi:
As this play begins, the corner over Burks gives him nearly ten yards of cushion. But as Burks closes that gap, he throws his arm up, asking for the football, while the corner still has about five yards to work with.
Burks comes down with the football.
After his 40-yard dash in Indianapolis came in at 4.55, some questions were raised about his long speed. Burks might be the latest example of the different between track speed, and game speed. When you see a receiver accelerate away from the entire Alabama secondary as Burks did in their meeting this year, you take the concerns over straight-line track speed with a grain of salt:
Then you remember he is doing this at 225 pounds — 95th percentile for wide receivers — and relax a little bit.
Weaknesses: Other receivers in this class, such as Chris Olave, are giving an NFL team the full route tree on Day One. Burks is a different story. Arkansas gave him a core staple of routes, and while he ran those well, teams looking for a receiver who can step into an NFL offense and master the entire tree are going to need to be patient. A smart offense will give him a similar package at the start, and let him round out the rest of his game over time.
His role is also something interesting to think about. His size profile screams “X receiver,” but the Razorbacks used him primarily out of the slot. According to charting data from PFF, Burks was in the slot over 75% of the time. As such, he was able to take advantage of some two-way gos, and did not see a ton of press-aligned defenders across from him. And, as we saw above, sometimes when he aligned outside he was seeing a lot of cushion. So asking him to step into an NFL offense, align at X and beat press-aligned NFL cornerbacks might be a big ask. So he might start out as a big slot at the next level, while he rounds out his game.
Conclusion: Every once in a while the retired lawyer in me creeps out. If I were Burks’ attorney, tasked with making the case for him, I would simply play those two above clips as my closing argument. In my mind, they speak for themselves. He is a ball-winner on the outside with the confidence needed to play receiver at a high level, and with the football in his hands he can accelerate from SEC secondaries in a flash. Those skills translate well to the NFL.
Comparison: I’ve said before that Burks reminds me of A.J. Brown, and I’ll stick with that comparison.
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George Pickens, Georgia
Height: 6’3″ (86th) Weight: 195 (36th)
40-Yard Dash: 4.47 seconds (59th)
Bench Press: N/A
Vertical Jump: 33 inches (19th)
Broad Jump: 10’5″ (76th)
3-Cone Drill: N/A
20-Yard Shuttle: N/A
Bio: A few years ago, George Pickens looked like a mortal lock for WR1 in his eventual draft class. After catching 69 passes for 1,368 yards and 16 touchdowns as a senior at Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama, Pickens stepped into the starting lineup for the Georgia Bulldogs as a true freshman. What did he do that year? Catch 49 passes for 727 yards and eight touchdowns.
However, the past two seasons have not been as kind to Pickens. His production was up-and-down in 2020, as he caught 36 passes for 513 yards and six touchdowns, and then tore his ACL during spring ball prior to the 2021 campaign. He managed to get back onto the field late in the year, and in four games caught five passes for 107 yards.
Still, while it once seemed like Pickens was a lock for the first round, that appears to be very much in doubt.
Stat to Know: Fun with sample sizes! Pickens averaged 21.4 yards per reception this season. Yes, on five catches…
Strengths: Pickens is a master of late separation. He wins at the catch point, which is something he was doing as a true freshman against bigger and more physical SEC cornerbacks, but also has the ability to create a bit of space off his breaks with arm bars, shoulder nudges and by using his leverage and frame.
But Pickens is much more than just a contested-catch receiver. He has the ability to separate from press-aligned defenders, and this is something that again he was doing as a true freshman in the SEC. Take this play from his freshman campaign:
Facing a press-aligned defender shaded to the inside, Pickens uses a stutter-step off the line to stress his leverage, and then bursts along the boundary to separate on the vertical route for a touchdown.
His catch radius shows up as well, whether working underneath, along the sideline or in the vertical passing game. Take this play from that game against Baylor, where Pickens was named the MVP of the Sugar Bowl:
Again, you see the release off the line against a press-aligned defender, followed by an incredible adjustment to the football for a big play.
Of course, you cannot discuss Pickens without mentioning how, coming back from his injury, he delivered the first big play of the National Championship game:
This play highlights Pickens’ nuanced route-running as well as his ability to track the football in the vertical passing game. The cornerback sets up in press alignment with outside leverage, so Pickens releases to the inside as he pushes vertically. At the top of his stem, he flashes his eyes to the outside as he fakes in that direction, and the corner bites. That is all Pickens needs to push to the post and get separation, and he then tracks the football perfectly and extends for the confident catch, and the huge play early.
Weaknesses: Those who remain convinced that the “best ability is availability” might have some concerns. Pickens is coming off the ACL injury, and also missed time in 2019 for a violation of team rules. He was also ejected from a game as a freshman for fighting.
Pickens has the body type to be an X receiver at the next level, but might need to add some strength to handle the more physical corners he will see on Sundays.
Conclusion: You do not step into the starting lineup as a receiver in the SEC as a true freshman and put up the numbers Pickens did if you are not a talented football player. Circumstances might have pushed Pickens down the board into the Day Two range, but an NFL team is going to be thankful for said circumstances.
Comparison: I get a Tee Higgins vibe after studying Pickens’ college career.
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Jahan Dotson, Penn State
Height: 5’11” (22nd) Weight: 178 (7th)
40-Yard Dash: 4.43 seconds (74th)
Bench Press: N/A
Vertical Jump: 36 inches (57th)
Broad Jump: 10’1″ (46th)
3-Cone Drill: 7.28 seconds (8th)
20-Yard Shuttle: N/A
Bio: Jahan Dotson attended two different high schools as a prep player, spending his freshman, sophomore and senior years at Nazareth Area High School in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, while attending the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey his junior year. His return to Nazareth put him in position to set some school records for the Blue Eagles, as he left Nazareth as their career leader in receptions, receiving yards and touchdowns.
After initially committing to UCLA to play football, he changed course and decided to stay close to home and play for Penn State. He appeared in eight games as a true freshman in 2018, and started all 13 of Penn State’s games the following season.
2020 was his breakout campaign, as he caught 52 passes for 884 yards and eight touchdowns in just nine games. This past year, he caught 91 passes for 1,182 yards and 12 touchdowns, and set a school record when he caught a touchdown in six-straight games.
Stat to Know: While his size might lead you to believe he is a slot receiver only, Penn State used him almost exclusively on the outside. In 2020 for example, only 45 of his 648 snaps came from the slot per Pro Football Focus.
Strengths: Dotson is an experienced receiver who has spent the bulk of his college career playing on the outside. As such, he has developed a release package that gives him the ability to separate from press-aligned defenders as he comes off the line. With foot quickness, change-of-direction skills and a hand swat package to boot, Dotson can get open early and give his quarterback an option as the play unfolds.
Dotson also has great feel for the position, whether in terms of finding soft spots in zone coverage, separating late in the play in scramble-drill situations, or working back to the quarterback to make himself a target. On this play against Illinois, Dotson runs a wheel route that takes him nearly 20 yards downfield. But he works back to his quarterback, presenting himself as the best option on the play:
Dotson also has no fear attacking the middle of the field, even when the throw is off-target and he knows that the big hit is coming:
Dotson is also explosive after the catch, and has the ability to turn quick throws into big plays. His catch-and-run touchdown against Maryland is a prime example:
This long touchdown broke a 14-14 tie early in the fourth quarter, and is a great example of his ability after the catch.
Weaknesses: Despite playing primarily on the outside, Dotson’s best usage in the NFL might be in the slot. There were moments on film where longer cornerbacks were able to control him off the snap if they were aggressive and took the fight to him with a jam or a club technique. There were also moments on film where Dotson did a little too much with his footwork and route-running, and the quarterback was forced to double-clutch while he was waiting for the receiver to get into his break. As we have seen with some other options in this class, sometimes less is more.
Conclusion: His usage at Penn State gives Dotson the chance to play on the outside and in the slot at the next level. Teams that use receivers interchangeably — looking in the general direction of Josh McDaniels and the Las Vegas Raiders — might love that versatility. He might need to round out his release package and add some upper-body strength to function at his best on the outside in the NFL, but the foundation is there.
Comparison: The team over at Bleacher Report compared him to Tyler Lockett, and that comparison feels right to me.
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Skyy Moore, Western Michigan
Height: 5’10” (14th) Weight: 195 (36th)
40-Yard Dash: 4.41 seconds (81st)
Bench Press: N/A
Vertical Jump: 35 inches (37th)
Broad Jump: 10’5″ (76th)
3-Cone Drill: 7.13 seconds (19th)
20-Yard Shuttle: 4.32 seconds (32nd)
Bio: Skyy Moore graded as a three-star prospect out of Shady Side Academy in the Pittsburgh area, and was recruited as a cornerback by a few different schools, including Robert Morris and Rice. He signed with Western Michigan, and moved to wide receiver despite playing quarterback on offense in high school.
Moore was an immediate contributor for the Broncos, starting 12 games as a true freshman in 2019. During that season Moore caught 53 passes for 802 yards and three scores. He played in five games in the shortened 2020 season, catching 25 passes for 388 yards and three touchdowns.
He put up big numbers this past season, catching 95 passes for 1,292 yards and ten touchdowns.
Stat to Know: Moore is a weapon after the catch. Pro Football Focus charted him with 26 missed tackles forced this past season, tops among wide receivers.
Strengths: Moore walks into an NFL locker room as a Day One option as a slot receiver. But there is much more to his game than just a player that needs a two-way go to get separation. Moore can play on the boundary, and can play very well against press-aligned defenders. With shifty footwork off the line and a violent array of hand swipes, he can beat jams and get into his routes quickly off the line of scrimmage. Studying him I saw 24 different reps against press-aligned defenders in his games against Michigan and Pittsburgh, the toughest competition he faced this past season.
Against Pittsburgh, he caught 11 passes for 124 yards and a touchdown.
This play against Northern Illinois is a prime example of how he can beat a defender off the line and establish leverage early in the down:
We will get to his player comparison in a moment, but this is the play that caused me to write down that comparison next to Moore’s name:
Even the body movement after the catch is reminiscent of this former NFL player.
But despite offering a floor as a starting slot receiver, thanks to his ability to beat press-aligned defenders Moore brings versatility to the table. Western Michigan used him along the boundary, as he saw over 500 snaps on the outside, and around 250 from the slot. Teams can use him as an outside receiver in packages, and he might have a role as a Z receiver in the NFL instead of a pure slot option.
Weaknesses: The bulk of Moore’s production came in the short- and intermediate-areas of the field. He separates quickly in the down and win with both his change-of-direction skills and his violent hand game. That helps him on routes underneath, but he has not fully formed a vertical package. Now, the team that drafts him might be find with what he offers on Day One underneath, but those looking for a vertical threat out of the slot — akin to Christian Kirk — might need some patience.
While he is a physical player, he did lose at the catch point to bigger defenders. That is something that will not ease up on Sundays. Plus, he’ll be facing a much different level of competition than he saw playing on Saturdays. While he put up big numbers against Pittsburgh, Michigan held him to just two receptions. Still, he did his part, and was getting separation on plays like this but never saw the ball:
Conclusion: Moore’s versatility, with the ability to play in the slot immediately while having the skill-set to play on the boundary, should make him an appealing option for NFL teams. Offenses that use receivers in interchangeable ways — such as what Josh McDaniels did in New England for years — should covet what Moore offers both outside and in the slot.
Comparison: The Julian Edelman comparisons write themselves. I know I used that last year with Amon-Ra St. Brown, but on that second clip above he looks exactly like him.
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John Metchie III, Alabama
Height: 5’11” (28th) Weight: 187 (20th)
40-Yard Dash: N/A
Bench Press: N/A
Vertical Jump: N/A
Broad Jump: N/A
3-Cone Drill: N/A
20-Yard Shuttle: N/A
Bio: John Metchie III’s path to the NFL draft is one of the more interesting journeys in the entire draft class. Born in Taiwan, Metchie lived in Ghana and Canada before moving to the United State to pursue his dreams of playing football. He stared at the St. James School in Hagerston, Maryland and spent a post-graduate year at the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey. His time at Peddie did not overlap with Jahan Dotson, who was there two years prior.
Metchie chose to play for Nick Saban at Alabama, and saw limited action as a true freshman in 2019. During the 2020 campaign, with both DeVonta Smith and Jaylen Waddle in the fold, Metchie carved out a role as the third member of their receiving corps, catching 55 passes for 916 yards and six touchdowns. This past season he operated alongside Jameson Williams, and caught 96 throws for 1,142 yards and eight touchdowns.
Stat to Know: According to Pro Football Focus charting data, Metchie broke 20 tackles last season, a big jump from the five he broke in 2020. That shows he has more to offer after the catch.
Strengths: Metchie is an explosive receiver who needs just one step, whether off the line or after the catch, to put the defense in a bad position. He is a complete route-runner, with the ability to give an NFL club the entire tree as a rookie. He shows a great awareness of leverage and knows how to stress man coverage corners, and shows the ability to set up defenders with angles and creativity.
For my money, his game against Auburn is a fascinating study. The Tigers, with cornerback Roger McCreary at their disposal, often used McCreary over Metchie and not Williams. McCreary and Metchie had quite the battle during that game, with both players winning a number of snaps. But it was Metchie who got the final word, separating on a pivot route in overtime for the game-winning touchdown.
Perhaps his best trait as a receiver is his efficiency of movement. While other options in this class might throw a ton of fancy footwork at a defender, Metchie is more compact and efficient on his routes, and it pays big dividends for him. He does not connect with Bryce Young on this play, but watch how Metchie quickly transitions from his hesitation move into his route and explodes upfield:
Metchie also showed in 2021 that he offered more after the catch than he did in 2020. We mentioned the broken tackles earlier, but this past season the Crimson Tide found ways to get him the football on screens and other manufactured touchdowns, and he showed that he could give you more after the reception.
Of course, in 2020 he had both Smith and Waddle around him, who got their fair share of manufactured touches as well.
Weaknesses: Metchie looks like more of a slot receiver at the next level, despite his well-rounded release package and experience on the outside. Bigger cornerbacks gave him trouble both off the line and downfield at the catch point, and NFL teams likely look at that and keep him on the inside to give him the benefit of the two-way go off the line of scrimmage.
Metchie could also be more consistent at the catch point. Pro Football Focus charted him with eight drops last season, and there are moments where he lets the football into his frame rather than extending and attacking the ball in flight. He is also coming off a knee injury, as he tore his ACL in Alabama’s win over Cincinnati.
Conclusion: In many offenses, slot receivers are starting players, so Metchie is going to carve out a role early in his career. His ability as a route-runner and his growth as a weapon after the reception will serve him well in the NFL. The release package he developed at Alabama also gives teams the flexibility to use him outside in spots, which will open up some creative options for his NFL offensive coordinator.
Comparison: From a usage and scheme standpoint, Metchie reminds me of Christian Kirk, a vertical option out of the slot.
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Christian Watson, North Dakota State
Height: 6’4″ Weight: 208
40-Yard Dash: 4.36
Bench Press: N/A
Vertical Jump: 38.5 inches
Broad Jump: 11’4″
3-Cone Drill: N/A
20-Yard Shuttle: N/A
Bio: Coming out of Henry B. Plant High School in Tampa, Christian Watson did not have a ton of schools lining up for his as a recruit. 247Sports graded him as a two-star recruit, and Watson chose to play at North Dakota State. As a senior at Henry B. Plant, Watson caught 23 passes for 393 yards and eight touchdowns.
After taking a redshirt season in 2017, Watson saw limited action for the Bison in 2018, as he caught nine passes for 165 yards. During his redshirt sophomore season in 2019, Watson took on more of a role, catching 34 passes for 732 yards and six touchdowns, and earned a Second-Team All-Missouri Valley Football Conference selection.
After catching 19 passes for 442 yards and a touchdown in the 2020 season, which was played in the spring of 2021 due to COVID-19, Watson returned to campus in the fall for his senior campaign. He caught 43 passes for 801 yards and seven touchdowns, earning his second-straight First-Team All-MVFC selection.
Stat to Know: Watson comes from a football family. His father, Tazim Wajid Wajed was a defensive back for five years in the NFL. His brother played linebacker at both Illinois and Maryland before playing in the XFL, and his uncle played at Marshall.
Strengths: Watson is another member of this draft class who looks like a prototypical X receiver at the next level. He has the ideal size, frame and speed to play in that role, and is a dangerous weapon on routes that focus on the vertical parts of the playbook. On this play, Watson runs the slant-and-go to perfection, getting over the top for a touchdown:
Watson is also comfortable working over the middle, as he does on this play. Running a dig route from the left side of the field, you see him push vertically to stress the defender, before working across the field and fighting to stay in the quarterback’s field of vision:
Watson is also a great fit for vertical passing games, as he can stack defenders with confidence and tracks the football well over his shoulder. Watson was also impressive at the catch point, as he can win in contested-catch situations and has the confidence in his hands to make catches while extending his arms away from his frame.
Weaknesses: The first question might be the level of competition he faced playing on Saturdays. This is why the Senior Bowl was a huge week for him, as he demonstrated that the traits he showcased at NDSU were there for him against higher levels of competition.
Watson is not as sudden as other receivers in this class, and sometimes needs a few more steps to change directions or get up to speed. That, coupled with what he does well, might limit him to more downfield offensive systems.
Conclusion: We have talked for years about how players that can win on the outside in that X receiver role are more attractive than options who need the benefit of a two-way go working from the slot. Watson’s experience playing on the outside and seeing press-aligned defenders, even at the FCS level, gives him the ability to play as an X at the next level. That experience, coupled with what he did down in Mobile, bodes well for his NFL career.
Comparison: Lance Zierlein mentioned Dontrelle Inman as a comparison, and that is accurate in my mind.
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Alec Pierce, Cincinnati
Height: 6’3″ Weight: 211
40-Yard Dash: 4.41 seconds
Bench Press: N/A
Vertical Jump: 40.5 inches
Broad Jump: 10’9″
3-Cone Drill: 7.13 seconds
20-Yard Shuttle: 4.28 seconds
Bio: A number of prospects in this draft class were multi-sport athletes in high school. But few put together the combination of sports that Alec Pierce did while at Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Pierce played football, volleyball and basketball, adding track and field to his resume during his senior year.
Pierce caught 25 passes for 372 yards and five touchdowns as a senior, adding three sacks and four interceptions on the defensive side of the football. He was named the MVP of the West Suburban Conference Silver Division for his efforts.
A three-star recruit, Pierce had offers from more than 15 colleges, but chose to play football at Cincinnati. He played special teams as a true freshman, and even practiced at linebacker prior to the Bearcats’ appearance in the Military Bowl back in 2018, but did not see snaps on the second level in that game. He took on more of a role offensively in 2019, catching 37 passes for 652 yards and a pair of touchdowns. After the shortened 2020 campaign, where he caught 17 passes for 315 yards and three touchdowns, Pierce and the Bearcats exploded in 2021. As Cincinnati played its way into the college football playoff, the receiver caught 52 passes for 884 yards and eight touchdowns.
Stat to Know: Pierce is a deep threat, as he leaves campus averaging 17.5 yards per reception on his career.
Strengths: Like Drake London and Christian Watson before him, Pierce is one of the wide receivers in this class with the ability to serve as a traditional X receiver on the outside. He saw the vast majority of his snaps — 539 by my charting — aligned on the outside. That experience has given him the ability to beat press-aligned defenders off the outside. I got the chance to interview him recently for the “Talking the Draft” podcast for Blogging the Boys at SB Nation, and he told me and Connor Livesay that he loves to see press alignment, because that often meant he was able to convert his routes to attack downfield.
This play against Notre Dame, that is likely going to be part of the highlight package that plays when he is drafted, is perhaps one such example:
Pierce uses a stutter-step at the line, and as he bends to the outside to get into his vertical stem, he employs a violent hand chop to beat the cornerback’s jam. That track speed shows up as he pushes vertically, but when the pass drifts to the inside — and towards the safety — Pierce adjusts and high points the ball, coming down with the catch between two defenders.
That ability to adjust to off-target throws is another strength. Pierce has an impressive catch radius, and can make adjustments to throws at all levels of the field. He also runs solid routes, with the ability to sink his hips and make sharp breaks. Pierce is also a savvy receiver at the top of routes, with the ability to stack defenders as well as employ an arm bar at the top of routes to give himself more room to operate.
Weaknesses: Aggressive cornerbacks that take the fight to receivers gave Pierce trouble in college. If cornerbacks are patient in their press technique, he can operate effectively. But corners that go on the offensive were able to get into his frame and control him in situations. There were also moments when he left his shoulders and/or chest exposed, allowing cornerbacks to get a solid jam on him. He could benefit from learning to reduce the shoulders at times as he releases off the line.
Conclusion: Teams looking for that X type of receiver are goin to love what he offers. Pierce also saw time on the inside and could operate as a big slot, but his ability to beat press, stack defenders on vertical routes, adjust to off-target throws and high point the football makes him an ideal option on the boundary. I have this sneaky suspicion that what he offers is going to see him come off the board much earlier than current consensus would hold.
Comparison: During the interview mentioned above, Pierce indicated that he models his game after A.J. Green. That is a very lofty comparison, but the playstyles are similar.
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David Bell, Purdue
Height: 6’1″ (51st) Weight: 212 (76th)
40-Yard Dash: 4.65 seconds (6th)
Bench Press: N/A
Vertical Jump: 33 inches (19th)
Broad Jump: 9’10” (26th)
3-Cone Drill: 7.14 seconds (17th)
20-Yard Shuttle: 4.57 seconds (2nd)
Bio: David Bell was a well-rounded athlete at Warren Central High School in Indianapolis. He caught passes in the fall and doled them out on the hardwood in the winter. Bell was a member of Warren Central’s Class 4A State Championship Basketball Team, which went undefeated the year they won the state title.
His senior year, he caught 85 passes for 1,542 yards and 22 touchdowns, and was named the Male Athlete of the Year by the Indianapolis Star, as well as the Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year. Warren Central won the 6A State title that season.
While Penn State and Ohio State were hoping he would commit to one of their schools, Bell decided to stay closer to home and play at Purdue. He was a starter as a true freshman, and caught 86 passes for 1,035 yards and seven touchdowns. Playing in just six games during the shortened 2020 season, Bell still managed to catch 53 passes for 625 yards and eight scores.
Last season was his most productive on campus, as he caught 93 passes for 1,286 yards and six scores.
Stat to Know: Bell is a weapon after the catch. According to Pro Football Focus charting data, he broke 25 tackles last year, third most among college receivers.
Strengths: At the outset, Bell is a fascinating evaluation. Others are much higher on him than I am, and you can see why. He is a natural receiver and a weapon after the catch. He has seen the bulk of his work on the outside — he played just 122 of his 739 snaps in the slot last season per PFF — and has a good release package to beat press-aligned defenders. He can be sudden and explosive off the line, and very confident in his hands.
One of the things that Bell does best is stress the leverage of the nearest defender. He has a great feel for how to set up cornerbacks off the line, putting them in a poor position with his release and angles before snapping off routes and getting separation on his cuts.
Studying him, I felt he was at his best working to the inside of the field, and not on out-breaking routes. On slants, digs and other in-cuts he is aggressive and sudden in his effort to get across the face of the defender.
The one-play, elevator pitch for Bell might be this catch against Iowa:
Facing a defender playing off him, with outside leverage, Bell bends outside at the top of his stem to set the defender up for his break to the post, and then tracks the football perfectly for the huge play.
Weaknesses: The questions start with his athleticism. At times you could see him struggle to maintain separation against cornerbacks, and that showed up in Indianapolis. Bell was one of the players who left the Combine with some work to do:
David Bell is a WR prospect in the 2022 draft class. He scored an unofficial 2.72 RAS at the Combine out of a possible 10.00. This ranked 1862 out of 2557 WR from 1987 to 2022. https://t.co/aBYAkX5jkh #RAS via @Mathbomb pic.twitter.com/FMhyObw7js
— Kent Lee Platte (@MathBomb) March 4, 2022
While he hoped to improve on that 40-yard dash time at his Pro Day, he clocked in at an unofficial 4.68.
This could be a prime case of “tape versus testing,” as you can see Bell separate on film thanks to his route-running and release package off the line. But will that continue in the NFL?
The other area I think he could improve is with respect to his releases off the line. When he is sudden and decisive, he wins. When he takes his time or relies too much on a hesitation move off the line, defenders can get the best of him.
Conclusion: Opinions on Bell vary across the board. The Draft Network, for example, has him currently ranked as the seventh receiver in the class and a Top 50 player overall. By contract, in the PFF draft guide Mike Renner has him as the 17th-ranked receiver, and outside the Top 100. There is a path to NFL success for Bell, thanks to his route-running and ability after the catch, but likely as a second or third option on teams.
Comparison: The old Patriots fan in me sees shades of Troy Brown to his game.
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Calvin Austin III, Memphis
Height: 5’7″ Weight: 170
40-Yard Dash: 4.32 seconds
Bench Press: N/A
Vertical Jump: 39 inches
Broad Jump: 11’3″
3-Cone Drill: 6.65 seconds
20-Yard Shuttle: 4.07 seconds
Bio: Calvin Austin III was a two-sport athlete at Hardin Academy in Memphis, where he played football in the fall and then was a sprinter for the track and field team. He caught 74 passes for 1,513 yards and 24 receiving touchdowns during his high school career, and was a nine-time state champion in sprints and relays.
Despite being graded as a three-star recruit, he did not see a ton of recruiting interest and enrolled as a walk-on at Memphis. He earned a scholarship during his redshirt sophomore season, a year where Austin caught 17 passes for 315 yards and three scores. As a redshirt junior in 2020, he caught 61 passes for 1,053 yards and 11 touchdowns, and was named a First-Team All-AAC selection. He repeated that feat in 2021, when he caught 74 passes for 1,149 yards and eight touchdowns.
Stat to Know: Austin continued his track career at Memphis, and was named a Second-Team All-American as a member of the school’s 4×100 meter relay team.
Strengths: Austin is a shifty and explosive receiver who found success in the vertical passing game, even when used on the outside. While his best role might be in the slot at the next level, Memphis aligned him almost exclusively on the outside as he saw over 600 snaps on the outside, in contrast with just over 50 in the slot.
Despite his size, Austin seemed to play above the rim at Memphis, and his ability to adjust to throws was evident on plays like this against SMU:
Austin is isolated on the right side of the formation, and on 4th and 19 runs a vertical route against off coverage. The throw is towards the boundary, and after running a solid route with a double-move element, Austin makes the adjustment in a contested-catch situation, and pulls in the throw for a huge play.
His ability as a route runner shows up throughout his patterns. Take this example against Tulsa:
Against a press-aligned defender, Austin uses a foot-fire release off the snap, to beat the defender initially and establish outside leverage. He then flashes a double-move, getting the defender to bite on the out route, and extends his separation with that track speed on the vertical part of the route.
That speed also makes Austin a weapon on designed touches, such as screens, tunnels and even as a runner on sweeps. With his change-of-direction skills and a quick first step, he can turn quick throws, even plays behind the line, into huge gains for the offense.
Weaknesses: Austin projects best to the slot at the next level, but with his experience playing on the outside and against some press-aligned defenders, teams could find ways to involve him on the outside. His size limits him as a blocker, and while the effort was there he will have a tougher time of things as a blocker playing on Sundays. Teams that are looking for a slot receiver that can insert or help control the edge in the running game are going to be skeptical.
Conclusion: With his explosiveness, route-running and elite speed, Austin can be a weapon for NFL offenses. There might be other options in this draft that can play on the outside more than him, but he is not a slot-only option. His foot quickness and release package give him a shot at playing on the outside in some packages. In addition, teams that use a lot of 12 personnel can trust him in an outside alignment, where he might be condensed towards the formation and have the benefit of a two-way release.
Comparison: Joe Marino of The Draft Network mentioned Darnell Mooney as a comparison, and this feels right from my viewing.
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Wan'Dale Robinson, Kentucky
Height: 5’8″ Weight: 178
40-Yard Dash: 4.44 seconds
Bench Press: N/A
Vertical Jump: 34.5 inches
Broad Jump: 9’10”
3-Cone Drill: N/A
20-Yard Shuttle: N/A
Bio: It might be easier to list the positions Wan’Dale Robinson did not play in high school, rather than list those he did. At Western Hills High School in Frankfort, Kentucky, Robinson saw time at safety, linebacker, receiver, quarterback, running back and as a punt and kick returner. He originally committed to Kentucky, but eventually flipped to Nebraska. Robinson spent two years in Lincoln, catching 40 passes for 453 yards and a pair of touchdowns, and rushing for 340 yards on 88 carries as a true freshman.
But after the 2020 campaign, he came back home, transferring to Kentucky. He stepped into the lead role as a receiver for the Wildcats, and caught 104 passes for 1,334 yards and seven touchdowns this past season. The reception and yardage numbers set new school records.
Stat to Know: A big-play threat, Robinson averaged 15.9 yards per carry this past season, as he gained 111 rushing yards on just seven attempts.
Strengths: Robinson is a home-run hitter out of the slot, with the ability to separate early in the down whether on quick-game concepts or late in the down on vertical routes. When given the advantage of the two-way go, he is tough for defenders to handle. He is confident at the catch point, and will extend his arms away from his frame and attack the ball in flight, rather than waiting for it to come to him.
Kentucky found ways to manufacture touches for him, and with good results. Against New Mexico State he turned a tunnel screen into a huge play, and did the same against Florida, tuning a quick screen into a touchdown thanks to his explosiveness and change-of-direction skills after the catch.
He also displayed good body control and the ability to adjust to off-target throws last season, on plays like this one against New Mexico State:
While there is a breakdown in coverage, Robinson adjusts to the throw and complete the play, twisting his body back to the football for the reception.
Weaknesses: Robinson is a slot receiver at the next level. Studying him you do see how he would benefit from having the two-way go off the line, and that was apparent in games like his outing against Tennessee where he saw more press-aligned defenders. Aggressive cornerbacks who were willing to take the fight to him, or who were longer and more physical, often swallowed him up off the line of scrimmage.
Conclusion: Teams that are creative with his usage will find a role for him, through manufactured touches and getting him cleaner releases due to alignment and formation. Putting him exclusively on the boundary and hoping he wins against press-aligned defenders might be asking too much, but as a slot or off-ball receiver, Robinson can provide play-making skills as an offensive weapon.
Comparison: Watching and studying Robinson reminded me of studying D’Wayne Eskridge when he was coming out of school, and there are similarities with play style and potential NFL roles between the two.
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Jalen Tolbert, South Alabama
Height: 6’1″ (55th) Weight: 194 (34th)
40-Yard Dash: 4.49 seconds (51st)
Bench Press: N/A
Vertical Jump: 36 inches (57th)
Broad Jump: 10’93” (61st)
3-Cone Drill: 7.08 seconds (27th)
20-Yard Shuttle: N/A
Bio: Jalen Tolbert was a three-sport athlete at McGill-Toolen Catholic High School in Mobile, Alabama, playing football, basketball and baseball. He did not start as a receiver until his senior year, and by then the bulk of recruiting for his class had taken place. He caught 37 passes for 696 yards and nine touchdowns that year, which saw more teams express interest late in the cycle. After originally committing to Jacksonville State, he switched to South Alabama over Michigan State and Vanderbilt.
Thanks to a knee injury suffered during training camp, Tolbert redshirted as a freshman. As a redshirt freshman in 2018, he caught just five passes for 60 yards.
During the 2019 campaign, Tolbert saw his production tick up a bit, as he caught 27 passes for 521 yards and six touchdowns. Then his production jumped off the charts, as he caught 64 passes for 1,085 yards and eight touchdowns in 2020, and 82 passes for 1,474 yards and eight touchdowns this past season.
Stat to Know: Tolbert’s strength might be what he offers downfield. Per Pro Football Focus charting, he caught 16 deep passes last year, sixth-most among college receivers.
Strengths: Tolbert is the ideal vertical X receiver, with the ability to separate downfield and win at the catch point. He showed the ability this past season to eat up pre-snap cushions and still work himself open in the downfield passing game. Take this play against Coastal Carolina:
The cornerback has about ten yards of cushion pre-snap, but Tolbert erases that quickly with his long strides and explosive release. He gets even with the defender and, as the saying goes, if he’s even, he’s leaving. The pass is left to the inside of the field, but Tolbert — perhaps getting away with some hand fighting — gets himself under the ball for the huge play.
Tolbert, perhaps due to his basketball background, has no problem playing the physical game. On quick-game routes such as slants, pivots and whips he is not fazed by contact, and plays through defenders to the catch point. He maintains that confidence in his hands even when working over the middle, or playing in the proverbial phone booth.
Weaknesses: Tolbert could benefit from adding to his frame, as physical defenders will give him problems at the next level. While playing the bulk of his snaps on the outside, he saw a lot more off coverage than he did press-aligned defenders, so seeing press on a more down-to-down basis will require a bit of an adjustment.
While the foundation is there as a route-runner, refinement would be a plus for him. He could do a better job of getting into his breaks, and accelerating out of them. Adding some full-body route running as well, such as using his eyes and shoulders to help sell defenders, would be another area he could refine.
Conclusion: The potential is there and Tolbert has a good foundation to build upon at the next level. In the right environment, where he can carve out a defined role early while adding to his skill-set, he could be a steal on the second day of the draft.
Comparison: Lance Zierlein used Marvin Jones as a comparison and, while a bit lofty, you can see the similarities.
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Kyle Philips, UCLA
Height: 5’11” Weight: 189
40-Yard Dash: 4.58
Bench Press: N/A
Vertical Jump: 33.5 inches
Broad Jump: 10’4″
3-Cone Drill: 6.75 seconds
20-Yard Shuttle: 4.09 seconds
Bio: Kyle Philips was one of the more impressive wide receivers in the 2018 recruiting class, graded as a four-star recruit by 247Sports. Scholarship offers started coming in in the summer and fall of 2016, as Boise State was first in the door in August of 2016 with a scholarship offer, soon followed by Vanderbilt and Washington State.
As a junior at San Marcos High School, Philips caught 65 passes for 909 yards and five touchdowns. He followed that up as a senior with 59 catches for 1,318 yards and ten scores. When it came time to pick a school, he settled on UCLA, and was Chip Kelly’s first official signing as the head coach for the Bruins.
Philips suffered a concussion as a freshman, and ultimately opted to redshirt in 2018. He returned to the field in 2019, catching 60 passes for 681 yards and five touchdowns. This past season, Philips caught 59 passes for 739 and ten touchdowns.
Stat to Know: Philips can also contribute on special teams. He averaged 22.6 yards per punt return last season, which led the Pac-12 among qualified returners.
Strengths: Studying Philips this winter, I wrote this in my notes: “[t]he man is a walking ladder drill with very quick feet.” Philips is a fluid mover who uses a combination of stutter-steps, foot fires and hesitation moves to beat defenders off the line of scrimmage. His footwork is very impressive, and there are routes where he will make two or three different breaks to confuse the defender and get separation.
Take this play against Oregon for example:
Running an out route from the left slot, Philips angles to the inside, pushes vertically, then hits the defender with multiple stutter-steps before snapping his route to the outside. It all works, and he creates a big window for his quarterback to target.
Philips also offers some verticality to his game. On this play against Fresno State, he aligns on the outside and pushes downfield on the nine route, tracking the football well and fighting to the football to secure the touchdown:
Philips also shows good feel against zone coverage, with the awareness to find space, throttle down if necessary and make himself a target for his quarterback.
Weaknesses: The foot quickness is impressive at times, but there are also moments where it is almost too much of a good thing. There are moments where you would like to see him be more efficient with the feet.
Take this play against Arizona State:
The footwork is fluid, fast and impressive to watch. You almost need to slow it down to see it all. The problem? The quarterback is waiting for him to make his break, and ultimately the pass falls incomplete.
I’m reminded of a line from “Top Gun” — and by the way, we are all excited for May’s debut of “Top Gun: Maverick” right? — it takes a little more than just fancy flying.
In contrast with players like Skyy Moore, Philips is primarily a slot option. He played the bulk of his snaps last season — 514 by my charting — on the inside. He aligned on the outside for 29 plays, and caught four passes including the vertical route against Fresno State displayed above.
Conclusion: Despite the negatives (with one of them a case of “just dial it back a little”) Philips offers production from the slot on Day One. Coupled with what he can provide on special teams, NFL clubs are going to appreciate the value. As more of a slot-only option, he might wait to hear his name called a bit, but he could be a Week 1 starter in 11 personnel packages.
Comparison: Brentley Weissman with The Draft Network mentioned Braxton Berrios, but I want to add the caveat that Philips given his footwork is Berrios after a third energy drink.
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WATERLOO REGION — A relief fund to help fleeing Ukrainians who find safety in this area was launched by United Way Waterloo Region Communities.
To support people coming to the region seeking a safe haven along with those already severely impacted by community conditions, the local United Way launched the Waterloo Region Relief Fund.
“Yes we have this global crisis, but it is going to affect us here,” said Joan Fisk, chief executive officer.
From April 4 to 18, every dollar donated will go to local agencies providing critical services such as mental health supports, housing, culturally sensitive counselling, translation services and employment support.
“A little bit from a lot of people will make a big difference for the people who are coming in,” Fisk said.
The goal for the two-week campaign is to raise $100,000.
United Way has a long history of providing support to immigrants and refugees settling here, and continues to help Syrian refugees. Fisk said it’s better for both newcomers and the community if they receive the needed assistance to settle in and become contributing members.
This region doesn’t have an excess of housing or other services that are needed by newcomers to make themselves at home, all which take funding to bolster.
The organization changed its model during the pandemic, moving away from member agencies and allowing any organization to apply for money each quarter.
The bonus of this new approach is it allows a quick response to new situations by “getting more money, more frequently into the community,” not to mention its easy to apply and get money.
“It comes in and we get out support,” Fisk said. “But it takes this kind of community spirit.”
Donate at www.uwaywrc.ca/relief-fund.
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The Cleveland Browns are still making moves during this free agency cycle and have added another impressive piece to the puzzle in former Seattle Seahawks center, Ethan Pocic.
Pocic was selected in the second round of the 2017 NFL Draft by Seattle and at the time this was viewed as a bit of a steal as Pocic was widely regarded as the top center in that class.
Ohio State fans may remember Pocic from his days as a four-star recruit out of Illinois and the furious recruiting battle Urban Meyer put up trying to get him to play in Columbus before he committed to LSU and became an All-American, but that is enough about his college resume, let’s dive into what he offers the Browns.
Positives
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I am a huge fan of this signing, Pocic entered the season on a one-year prove-it deal and despite missing some time early in the season with hamstring and knee injuries, came back and played very well. Pocic is a great contributor as a run blocker and can start at either center or guard. That versatility was likely the defining factor for Cleveland pursuing his services.
This reach block is a great example of how Pocic’s skills could translate into the team’s run scheme and in the screen game.
Negatives
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Ethan Pocic is not the greatest pass blocker and this is likely due to his lack of anchor strength due to having such a thin lower half. There are plenty of highlights of Pocic getting bullied by stronger defensive linemen and in addition to a lack of anchor, Pocic can get caught losing the leverage battle and playing too high and at 6’6″ this happens too often.
Bill Callahan and the wide-zone scheme could help with these limitations, especially on rollouts and play-action where defensive linemen start out moving laterally based on the play design. He will have to prove something in pass protection to beat out Nick Harris as the starting center.
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Mmoh, Kyrgios advance US Men's Clay Court quarterfinals
HOUSTON (AP) - Michael Mmoh beat Sam Querrey 6-2, 6-4 on Wednesday in the second round of the U.S. Men´s Clay Court Championship Wednesday.
Mmoh, who had a bye into the second round after No. 1 seed Casper Ruud dropped out because of a wisdom tooth problem, advanced to a tour-level quarterfinal for the third time in his career.
Querrey, who has reached the final in Houston twice, was defeated after advancing to the quarterfinals of this tournament in five of the previous six seasons.
In other singles action Wednesday, Nick Kyrgios beat Tommy Paul 6-4, 6-2 to reach his first tour-level quarterfinal on clay since doing it at this tournament in 2018. It´s the second time he´s advanced to a quarterfinal this season.
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January 13, 1932 - March 26, 2022
Dallas "Dutch" Tracy Bobp died on March 26, 2022, in Murphy's surrounded by family. His life began in Conrad, Montana, on January 13, 1932; born to Eleanor Bobp "Hazelton" and John Tracy Bobp. He had one sister, Ruth "Deane,” who preceded him in death. He grew up in Cut Bank, Montana. After high school, he joined the Navy where he served on the aircraft carrier USS Orinskany during the Korean War. With a GI bill, he attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and graduated with a BSEE. Then he went to work at Lockheed Missiles & Space Corporation for over 35 years.
He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Mary Ann, and seven children, Martin, Tracy, Stephen, Jennifer, Trissauna, Dawna, and Andrea. Additionally, he had 16 grandchildren and three great-granddaughters. For many years he tutored math at Michelson Elementary School and was an assistant coach to his grandson's, Quentin, Little League baseball teams.
At a later date, there will be a Celebration of Life where friends, relatives, and neighbors will be able to come together and remember such a good man.
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Born in Ethiopia, designer Hana Getachew founded Bolé Road Textiles to pay homage to her African upbringing with a line of home accessories that reflects the rich textures, vibrant colors of her native handwoven fabrics. Today she teamed up with West Elm to launch an exclusive collection of textiles—just in time to brighten up any space for the summer season ahead.
Gatachew has always had a love of interior design. When she founded her brand in 2014, she knew that it needed to reflect her culture and personal global modern aesthetic. She says, “This collaboration means that homes around the country will have Ethiopian-made pieces in them,” she says. “It’s why I do what I do: to share Ethiopian artistry and craft with the world.”
Additionally, all of the pieces are handwoven by Ethiopian artisans, in a fair trade certified facility, to support local communities and create authentic pieces. The line textiles and linens has options for every room it your house. It also incorporates eco-friendly recycled polyester for the pillow shells and recycled plastic fill for the pillow stuffing, to reduce waste.
Shop our favorite pieces from the African coast-inspired collection at westelm.com.
West Elm x Bolé Road Textiles Suri Pillow $285, westelm.com
West Elm x Bolé Road Textiles Stripe & Step Outdoor Rug $50 – $945, westelm.com
West Elm x Bolé Road Textiles Shower Curtain $230, westelm.com
West Elm x Bolé Road Textiles Amaro Pillow $205, westelm.com
West Elm x Bolé Road Textiles Variegated Stripe Indoor/Outdoor Floor Cushion $125, westelm.com
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Alex Jones appears for questioning in Sandy Hook lawsuit
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Alex Jones was questioned Wednesday by lawyers for families of Sandy Hook victims in Connecticut, where a judge had ordered the Infowars host to face mounting fines until he appeared for a deposition.
Relatives of some of the 20 children and six educators killed in the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, massacre sued Jones for defamation after he said the shooting never happened. A judge found Jones liable for damages and a trial on how much he should pay the families is set for August.
Jones, who lives in Texas, had defied a judge’s order to appear for a deposition in the case, saying he was too ill. But Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis said there wasn’t enough evidence that Jones was too sick to attend and ordered him to come to Connecticut for questioning and pay escalating daily fines until he did so. Jones paid $25,000 in fines for Friday and $50,000 in fines for Monday, according to court records.
A spokesperson for the families and their lawyers at Bridgeport-based Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder declined to comment on the deposition Wednesday.
Jones said in a video on the Infowars website that the deposition began Tuesday and was to continue Wednesday. He said in the video that the families’ lawyers began the deposition by “demonizing” him for his questioning official versions of events.
“It’s just totally insane to sit there and watch this happen and to watch them lick their lips and lick their chops and think we’re going to finally shut Alex Jones down,” Jones said. “These people want to put us in prison for our speech.”
Jones’ lawyer, Norman Pattis, said tempers flared at times during the deposition on Tuesday, and much of the questioning was not related to the school shooting.
“I had the impression watching the attack on Mr. Jones that this trial will be about something far greater than what happened at Sandy Hook,” Pattis said on the video. “The trial’s going to be about ordinary people’s ability to say I’m not buying it, I want to raise questions, I want to draw my own conclusions.”
The deposition was held at the Bridgeport office of Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder. After it ended Wednesday, Pattis filed a court document asking Bellis to return to Jones the $75,000 in fees he paid, which the judge said he could request only after sitting for questioning. Bellis did not immediately rule.
Jones missed the originally scheduled deposition in the case on March 23 and 24 in Austin, Texas. He cited a health issue including vertigo that his doctors initially thought was a serious heart problem but turned out to be a sinus infection.
The plaintiffs have said they have been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones’ followers because of the hoax conspiracy promoted on his website show. Jones has since conceded the shooting did happen.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Shares of A & J Mucklow Group P L C (LON:37HR – Get Rating) crossed above its two hundred day moving average during trading on Monday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 103.50 ($1.36) and traded as high as GBX 103.50 ($1.36). A & J Mucklow Group P L C shares last traded at GBX 103.50 ($1.36), with a volume of 93,500 shares traded.
The company has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 103.50 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 103.50.
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Northampton County Council will consider contracting for studies of the operations of the Gracedale nursing home and of employee pay at its meeting Thursday.
The Upper Nazareth Township nursing home has been hindered by a shortage of employees, prompting management to limit admissions to about two-thirds of the capacity of 688 residents. The county also lost some employees who declined to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The federal government, not the county, required the vaccination. County Executive Lamont McClure said earlier that if Gracedale had not required vaccinations, it would have lost federal funding.
"Gracedale would cease to exist" without that funding, he said last month.
Council President Lori Vargo Heffner said the study of operations is not an indictment, but an attempt to find better ways of doing things.
"Nursing homes around the state are in trouble," she said. "All nursing homes have challenges post-COVID. Gracedale is unique. It doesn't reject clients."
The study, if approved by council Thursday, will look at how services are delivered without compromising on care.
Gracedale is already short of the 2.7 hours per day of patient nursing care required by the State of Pennsylvania. The state is considering raising that standard about 50%, to 4.1 hours of care.
Attracting staff is difficult when some hospitals are offering nurses sign-on bonuses of $30,000.
"Nobody's looking to indict anybody," Vargo Heffner said. "An operational study is not an indictment and it's not a fault-finding mission. I don't have any doubt that people have been working and trying to figure out ways to make it work."
She did say that the county needs to listen to the staff and added that she is determined to keep Gracedale open.
"I want Gracedale to be a healthy, thriving place," she said. "For the residents, it's their home."
The vote Thursday will be on requesting a proposal for a study by an outside organization.
Council will also consider a proposal for a study of county employee pay. That study, if voted in Thursday, would compare county pay to similar counties and to other regional employers, and review wages and benefits for comparable positions.
"If we use our resources intelligently, we can get good information for a reasonable amount of money," Vargo Heffner said.
County Council will meet Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the government center in Easton. See the county website for details and for a link to an Internet broadcast.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James said on Wednesday that a Rochester area contractor will pay thousands of dollars to settle an allegation regarding a major school modernization project.
James said that Rochester-based construction firm, The Pike Company, will pay $125,000 as part of a settlement agreement over allegations that it violated diversity requirements in the Rochester Schools Modernization Program.
That program is a three-phase, billion-dollar project to rehabilitate Rochester city schools. The Attorney General began an investigation after getting a whistleblower complaint alleging that contractors were evading hiring requirements regarding minority and women owned businesses.
This massive project involved a state law which requires contractors working on public projects to meet certain diversity standards when hiring subcontractors.
The Pike Company issued a response on Wednesday saying that it does not agree with the Attorney General’s findings, but that it entered into the settlement to avoid protracted litigation. Pike believes its actions met the requirements of the project’s diversity plan.
James said that this week’s agreement brings the overall amount of money recovered from a total of 10 contractors involved in the project to more than $1.3 million.
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Runners residing in Russia, Belarus banned from 2022 Boston Marathon
BOSTON (AP) - Athletes from Russia and Belarus previously accepted to compete in this year’s Boston Marathon who are currently residing in either country will no longer be allowed to participate, the Boston Marathon Association announced Wednesday.
The exclusion from the world’s oldest annual marathon also extends to athletes previously accepted into the B.A.A.’s 5K event. However, it doesn’t affect Russian or Belarusian athletes registered for the events who are not residents of the countries. They will be allowed to compete but won’t be able to run under their country’s flag.
“Like so many around the world, we are horrified and outraged by what we have seen and learned from the reporting in Ukraine,” B.A.A. president and CEO Tom Grilk said in a statement. “We believe that running is a global sport, and as such, we must do what we can to show our support to the people of Ukraine.”
The B.A.A. said it won’t recognize the country affiliation or flags of Russia and Belarus until further notice. This year’s Boston Marathon, 5K, and Invitational Mile do not include any professional or invited athletes from those countries.
Organizers said they will make reasonable attempts to refund entry fees to athletes no longer able to participate.
The B.A.A. will also provide all Ukrainians who are registered in the marathon or 5K and are unable to compete with a refund or option to defer to a future year.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Alberta COVID-19 hospitalizations see slight increase
Alberta reported its latest COVID-19 data on Wednesday.
Hospitalizations grew by 36 since last Wednesday to a total of 990, while ICU admissions dropped by three to 44.
The province also reported 30 COVID-19 deaths, increasing the total number of deaths to 4,104.
Alberta also added 5,549 new cases from PCR tests over the past seven days, however the actual number of recent cases is unclear due to testing limitations.
The province has administered more than 8.6 million vaccine doses.
Health Minister Jason Copping said Alberta would give a live update on Thursday.
OTHER COVID-19 RELATED NEWS
Alberta Health Services president and CEO Dr. Verna Yiu has been fired and the health agency is looking for a person to fill the role.
Edmonton's homeless population has doubled during the pandemic. Those running social agencies in the city say municipal funding will not be enough on its own to prevent service reductions.
Paxlovid, an antiviral used to treat COVID-19, became available at more pharmacies on Friday. Due to limited supply, not every drug store can carry it, but any can order it.
Diploma exams will again be worth only 10 per cent of students' final marks, the province has decided, given the continued disruption to learning.
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Jan. 6 trial of former Virginia officer continues with testimony from man who called him “dad”
Jacob Fracker said he once called Thomas Robertson “dad,” and Robertson called him “son.” The two were together inside the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - It’s day two in the trial of former Rocky Mount police officer Thomas Robertson. He’s charged with six crimes related to his alleged actions on and after the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Dramatic moments inside the courtroom in the final hours today as Jacob Fracker, Robertson’s former co-defendant, takes the stand to testify against Robertson.
Jacob Fracker said that he used to call Thomas Robertson “dad”, and said Robertson would call him “son.”
Now, he’s testifying against Robertson after taking a plea deal for his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
A picture that prosecutors used in their original charging document shows Fracker on the left, and Robertson on the right, inside of the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, according to prosecutors.
Fracker testified Wednesday that Robertson invited him, and planned the trip to the Capitol. Fracker also said on that day, he was hyped up and wanted to see the results of 2020 election overturned.
The defense said in its opening statements that Robertson only went into the Capitol because they said Fracker got too excited and ran in first. They argue that Robertson was only trying to find Fracker and leave.
During his testimony, Fracker told the court that he did lose sight of Robertson before entering the Capitol. Fracker said he and Robertson were reunited in a room below the Capitol Rotunda known as the crypt, where they took pictures and began singing and clapping with a crowd.
He said Robertson never told him that his only goal was to retrieve him, and that Robertson was just as excited as he was once they left the Capitol.
Fracker told the court that he and Robertson discussed a potential next civil war on the ride back home to Virginia.
Fracker’s testimony still is not done. Robertson’s defense is expected to cross-examine Fracker when court is back in session on Thursday morning.
Robertson’s lawyer told the judge tonight that Robertson may testify when the defense presents its case tomorrow.
The judge told lawyers that he wants to hear closing arguments on Friday.
Copyright 2022 Gray DC. All rights reserved.
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Alicia Vikander is "really attracted" to some of her female friends.
The 33-year-old actress is married to fellow movie star Michael Fassbender - but she's also attracted to some of her friends.
Alicia - who has Mark, eight months, with Michael - shared: "I am really attracted to them. Very often, when I see them, I’m like, 'Woah, she’s so impressive!'
"With all my closest girlfriends, I had that first-love moment and I said to myself, 'I need to be with that person.' It’s another kind of love.
"I’ve never wanted to go to bed with a woman, but I’ve definitely had a spark and a magic and a rawness that is intense."
Alicia and Michael tied the knot in 2017, after they met while filming 'The Light Between Oceans'.
But the brunette beauty - who now lives in Lisbon with her husband - admits she struggled "for a while" to get pregnant.
Alicia told the new issue of Britain's Harper's Bazaar magazine: "I tried to get pregnant for a while. So I had tough times during lockdown. I struggled for a while."
The 'Tomb Raider' star rarely discusses her personal life in public. But she's happy to make an exception on this one issue because "it's universal".
She explained: "I kind of stopped and thought, 'Am I going to talk about this?' But I think it’s universal and so many women go through similar things. And it’s tough."
However, it wasn't until she reached her 30th birthday that Alicia wanted to have kids.
The actress said: "I didn’t think I even wanted children, actually, until I was 30."
Alicia admits she's changed in "every way" since having a baby boy.
She added: "It’s life. It’s so profound."
The new issue of Harper's Bazaar UK goes on sale on April 7.
For more from Alicia, visit https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/aliciavikander
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From Rita Ora’s cringeworthy single Tweet to Kim K’s klanger – these stars WISH they had an edit button
AFTER 15 years of Twitter users begging for an edit button with little success, it took about 15 minutes for the social media company to make a U-turn – once its newest shareholder Elon Musk posted a poll asking if users wanted it.
The website has never had the option to edit tweets, meaning users are forced to delete posts, leave typos up or – in some cases – claim they were hacked.
Twitter has finally announced the edit button is coming, saying it has nothing to do with Musk as they’ve been working on it for a year.
But this lot – including the billionaire SpaceX owner – probably wished they had had it years ago when they tweeted these blunders . . .
Ed Milliband
FORMER Labour leader Ed Miliband proved how a simple one-letter typo could change the entire meaning of his intended tribute to TV host Bob Holness with this clanger in 2012.
Kim Kardashian
KIM Kardashian blamed “sleep deprivation” for her misspelling of Giorgio Armani when the brand called her out on Twitter in 2015, after she posted that “Georgio” had stopped making a favourite product.
Shila Iqbal
ACTRESS Shila Iqbal was fired from Emmerdale in 2019 just a month after she was given a permanent role, when old tweets using homophobic and racist language, including the N-word, resurfaced.
Lindsay Lohan
IT is unclear whether Lindsay Lohan was having a dig at rich celebs or whether she didn’t want to pay tax herself when she tweeted Barack Obama in 2012, after he posted that he had cut taxes “for those who need it”.
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Rita Ora
RITA Ora had a cringey moment in 2014 when a tweet said she would bring out new music if she got 100,000 retweets.
The post didn’t top 2,000 retweets, and was deleted. Ora claimed her account had been hacked by someone else.
Elon Musk
A POST by Elon Musk wiped £10.7billion off Tesla’s value and cut £2.3billion off his own stake. In 2018, his tweet about Tesla’s future on the New York stock exchange cost him and the company $40million in fines.
Prue Leith
IN 2017, Prue Leith accidentally revealed the results of the Bake Off final from overseas.
She deleted the tweet after realising she’d forgotten about the time difference – but too many people had already retweeted it.
Mary J. Blige
It was an ironic moment when Mary J Blige misspelt ‘intelligence’ in 2009.
She later apologised for her wrong spelling, and thanked her fans for putting her right. She added: “This is how we learn”.
Justine Sacco
PR exec Justine Sacco shared this tweet just before her flight to South Africa in 2013.
The tweet was trending during the 11-hour flight and by the time she landed she had been fired.
Emily Thornberry
EMILY Thornberry had to resign from the Labour shadow cabinet for posting this snap with the words “image from Rochester” in 2014.
David Cameron said she was “sneering at people who work hard”.
Susan Boyle
SUSAN BOYLE’S publicity team were left red-faced in 2012 when they realised their hashtag susanalbumparty was being misread.
After it had gone viral, they changed it to SusanBoyleAlbum Party.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE POWER RANKINGS
(with last season's record)
- Los Angeles Dodgers (106-56)
L.A. led the majors in ERA and WHIP last season, but even adding Max Scherzer for the stretch run didn't result in a world championship. 1B Freddie Freeman was signed in free agency after SS Corey Seager was lost to Texas. Julio Urias, Walker Buehler and Clayton Kershaw head the rotation.
2. Atlanta Braves (88-73)
The Braves had MLB's 12th best record, then won the World Series without injured RF Ronald Acuna Jr. They traded for 1B Matt Olson, who joins Adam Duvall, Austin Riley and Ozzie Albies in a fearsome lineup. Kenley Jansen was added to the deep bullpen. Max Fried and Charlie Morton are the top starters.
3. Milwaukee Brewers (95-67)
Great pitching fuels the Brewers. They led the majors in strikeouts with All-Star starters Corbin Burnes (majors ERA leader), Freddy Peralta and Brandon Woodruff and lights-out reliever Josh Hader (102 Ks in 58⅔ IP) leading the way. OF Christian Yelich has seen two down years after his MVP season of 2018.
4. San Francisco Giants (107-55)
The best record in baseball came during a surprising season where SF led the NL in homers and was second in pitching. SS Brandon Crawford and 1B Brandon Belt are only remaining players from 2014 World Series title team and C Buster Posey's retirement will have an effect.
5. St. Louis Cardinals (90-72)
The Cards always seem to find a way to compete. 3B Nolan Arenado and 1B Paul Goldschmidt combined for 65 homers and 204 RBI in '21 and Adam Wainwright is a solid ace … but he's 40. Oliver Marmol replaces Mike Shildt as manager of a team that is largely the same.
6. Philadelphia Phillies (82-80)
MVP OF Bryce Harper led MLB with a 1.044 OPS and RHP Zack Wheeler was outstanding, leading the majors in innings pitched … but the Phils missed the playoffs. Adding RF Nick Castellanos and OF-DH Kyle Schwarber will help, but Philly has an awful lot of DH-types and not much of a team defense.
7. San Diego Padres (79-83)
SS Fernando Tatis (wrist surgery) will be out until June, making 3B Manny Machado the offensive leader. Lefthander Sean Manaea was plucked from the A's on Sunday to bolster the rotation, and San Diego's best offseason move might have been purloining manager Bob Melvin from Oakland.
8. New York Mets (77-85)
Max Scherzer signed for three years and $130 million to join the rotation with frequently injured Jacob deGrom and All-Star Chris Bassitt, acquired from Oakland. 2B Robinson Cano is back from a PED suspension, and new manager Buck Showalter has plenty of talent on board.
9. Chicago Cubs (71-91)
After a season of notable departures, the roster restructure is starting. Starters Marcus Stroman and Wade Miley join to top the rotation, and the Cubs won the bidding war to sign Japanese OF Seiya Suzuki (five years, $85 million). 1B Frank Schwindel emerged as an offensive threat.
10. Cincinnati Reds (83-79)
Six-time All-Star 1B Joey Votto will be lonely. The Reds are rebuilding, with 3B Eugenio Suarez, LF Jesse Winker, P Sonny Gray and RF Nick Castellanos departing. The pitching will rely on youngsters like former No. 2 overall pick Hunter Greene (taken after the Twins took Royce Lewis in 2017).
11. Miami Marlins (67-95)
Another season of struggles is ahead, but LHP Trevor Rogers heads a promising rotation. Former AL home run champ Jorge Soler, who won a World Series with Atlanta, was the big offseason addition, but the offense is not good. General Manager Kim Ng still has work to do on the rebuild.
12. Washington Nationals (65-97)
Well, we know they'll have a happy clubhouse after adding 41-year-old DH Nelson Cruz. MVP runner-up OF Juan Soto (.999 OPS last season) is lone offensive star remaining from 2019 World Series winners. RHP Stephen Strasburg has pitched only 26⅔ innings the past two seasons because of injuries.
13. Colorado Rockies (74-87)
SS Trevor Story departed in free agency, but 3B Kris Bryant signed for seven years and $182 million to be close to home and play in hitter-friendly Coors Field. CF Charlie Blackmon is hoping for a rebound season and young infielders Brendan Rodgers and Ryan McMahon have great promise.
14. Pittsburgh Pirates (61-101)
The Bucs were last in MLB with 124 home runs, and they combine lack of power with lack of pitching. CF Bryan Reynolds is the most recognizable in a roster of no-names. The good news is the Pirates farm system is loaded with high-end prospects, but they probably won't help in 2022.
15. Arizona Diamondbacks (52-110)
The D-Backs finished 55 games behind in the NL West. They used 64 players, including 41 pitchers. So they signed MLB saves leader Mark Melancon which seems … odd. Otherwise, pretty much the same group as they wait for top prospects to develop in the minors.
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To the editor:
A little over a month ago Newburyport lost a piece of its heartbeat, the ultimate Clipper if you will. I am of course talking about Larry "Spider" Twomey. He was not only born anD raised on Oakland Street. He and his wife, Jeanne resided on prince place (south end) for pretty much there entire adult lives, he is one of the people that made newburyport into what it is today, especially with his dedication to Yankee homecoming an giving back to his community, now I know him better than most an he would never want the credit or take it, but personally I would like to nominate Larry twomey as an honorary chairman of Yankee homecoming, as well as challenge all of newburyport this year during Yankee homecoming to give to your community or to someone else, just like my grandfather has done since the first Yankee homecoming, newburyport will not be the same without spiders presence in litterly every nook an cranny of this city, but I believe if we all could play a part in helping one another, his legend will live on thru another generation of clippers,
Thanks, cam bennett
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Suspect in Pennsylvania high school shooting turns himself in to police
A suspected gunman turned himself in to police on Wednesday, a day after allegedly shooting a student on campus at Erie High School in Pennsylvania, police announced.
"Earlier today, the suspect in yesterday’s school shooting turned himself in to the Erie Police Department. The investigation is on-going. We would like to thank everyone for their support in yesterday’s events," police said in a tweet on Wednesday.
The suspect was not identified and it did not appear that charges had been filed based on the update released by Erie Police. Detectives said Tuesday that they believed the potential gunman was a minor under the age of 15 and withheld their name from the public.
One student in the shooting had been hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds but was in stable condition, according to Erie Police Deputy Chief Michael Nolan. The two appeared to have known each other and authorities believed the shooting to be an isolated incident.
Erie County District Attorney Elizabeth Hirz indicated following the shooting that the suspect would be prosecuted as a juvenile if charged.
The district attorney's office did not immediately respond to a request for information from NBC News on Wednesday.
Detectives believe the suspect used a 9mm handgun in the shooting, which occurred in a school hallway at about 9:22 a.m, while other students were in the vicinity, Nolan said. It's unclear how the suspect obtained the gun.
Erie High School is closed through the end of the week, and students will be off for spring break next week.
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INDIO, Calif. (AP) — Swedish House Mafia and The Weeknd are replacing rapper Ye in a headlining spot at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
A new lineup was posted on Wednesday announcing the late change for the festival that runs April 15-17 and April 22-24 in Indio, California.
A representative for Ye, who changed his name from Kanye West, did not immediately return a message from the AP seeking comment. A publicist for Goldenvoice, the company that runs Coachella, also did not respond to a request for information.
Swedish House Mafia had already been listed as performers prior to the lineup change, but it wasn't immediately clear when they were to perform. Now they are listed at the top of the Sunday nightly schedule, along with The Weeknd. Other headliners include Billie Eilish and Harry Styles.
Ye, a top Grammy nominee, did not attend last weekend's Grammy Awards, despite winning two awards, after his performance was pulled from the show.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday asked JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America, US Bancorp and Wells Fargo & Co. to end all consumer overdraft fees by the summer.
In letters sent to the chief executives of four of the biggest U.S. consumer banks, James said the majority of overdraft fees are levied on "the most vulnerable consumers with the lowest average account balances."
James's letters come as banks are facing increased scrutiny from regulators and lawmakers for charging overdraft and other fees on consumers.
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the federal consumer watchdog, launched a campaign earlier this year to address what it calls "junk fees," a catch-all for overdraft, credit card late payment fees, mortgage closing costs and other charges.
The banking industry earned $17 billion in overdraft fee revenue in 2019, according to a report commissioned by the industry group the Consumer Bankers Association.
In January, the CFPB issued a request for public input on whether banks and companies charge excessive fees on top of their upfront price -- as well as the financial impact of fees on American families -- the deadline for which is April 11. The agency has not yet said how it plans to proceed, however.
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo & Co have stopped charging non-sufficient funds fees - a penalty charged for bounced checks or automated withdrawals that overdraft a customer's account. The banks have also changed their policies on charging overdraft fees, each in different ways.
In her letter, James asked the four banks to eliminate overdraft fees altogether, citing Citigroup Inc as an example of a bank that eliminated these fees.
The banks did not immediately respond to request for comment.
Last month, a group of U.S. Senate Democrats -- including Senate Banking Chairman Sherrod Brown -- sent letters to seven large banks pressing them to scrap or significantly reduce overdraft and other fees they charge customers.
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The fourth anniversary of the fatal Humboldt Broncos bus accident will bring calm in a community that has been “changed forever.”
On April 6, 2018, a semi collided with a Junior A hockey team bus, killing 16 people and injuring 13 others.
“We consulted with the families and those involved and they determined they would have a low-key ceremony today,” city mayor Michael Beheel told CTV News.
The community’s Elgar Peterson Arena will be opened to the public. The building was a focal point for mourners after the accident.
This will be the first in-person memorial event since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Video clips from past services will be displayed as well as some of the donated items that were cast from around…
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Toy trends to fill the Easter basket
Published: Apr. 5, 2022 at 1:18 PM EDT
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -
Temperatures are climbing, flowers are blooming, and that means spring is here with Easter right around the corner.
Premier Toy Industry expert and child lifestyle expert Elizabeth Werner joined Susan on Studio 3 to share fun candy alternatives for your kid’s Easter baskets.
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Five things to know about the newest Russia sanctions
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a sweeping new wave of sanctions targeting the closest members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, two of his daughters and top Russian financial institutions.
The administration said the sanctions are a direct response to horrors uncovered in Ukrainian cities and towns outside Kyiv following the Russian retreat. Hundreds of civilians are believed to have been intentionally killed while under Russian occupation.
“There’s nothing less happening than major war crimes,” President Biden said in a speech on Wednesday, calling for “responsible nations” to hold the perpetrators accountable.
“Together, with our allies and our partners, we’re going to keep raising the economic cost and ratchet up the pain for Putin and further increase Russia’s economic isolation.”
Here are five things to know about the latest sanctions:
1) Sanctions target Putin’s daughters
U.S. sanctions against Putin escalated on Wednesday with new measures naming two of his adult children.
The sanctions, which block any property or assets held by the blacklisted individual in the U.S. and generally prohibit Americans from conducting financial transactions with the sanctioned individual, target Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova.
The two women were sanctioned as part of a broader U.S. strategy to “expose Russia’s kleptocracy,” a senior administration official said Wednesday.
Tikhonova is described by the U.S. as a tech executive whose work supports the Russian government and defense industry, and Vorontsova is said to lead state-funded programs that “received billions of dollars from the Kremlin toward genetics research and are personally overseen by Putin.”
Thomas Pickering, who served as ambassador to Russia among various senior positions across four decades in the State Department, said the move is a “small gesture” but added that it’s “clear that it’s oriented at Putin personally.”
Pickering said he expects Putin to be “unflinching” in the face of the new measures. The U.S. had already imposed sanctions specifically against the Russian leader.
“I suspect … he will be firm and unflinching and not in any way, at all, wish to show any sign that this is impacting him in a personal way, both not to invite more of the same and, secondly, to uphold his concept of himself as a kind of invincible, stalwart, hard-nosed, judo-playing leader,” Pickering said.
2) U.S. blacklists Putin’s top associates and family of foreign minister
Other sanctions targeted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s wife, Maria Aleksandrovna Lavrova, and their daughter, Yekaterina Sergeyevna Vinokurova.
Lavrov was sanctioned by the U.S. at the same time as Putin on Feb. 25.
Also sanctioned by the U.S. are 21 members of Russia’s Security Council, bringing all of the council members under sanctions by either the U.S. or its allies, including sanctions that had earlier been imposed by Canada, the European Union (EU), Japan, New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom.
The U.S. had earlier sanctioned 140 oligarchs and their family members as well as more than 400 Russian government officials.
The senior administration official called the sanctioned individuals “the key architects of the war” and said the sanctions strategy is to “show that Putin and his cronies have been ripping off the Russian people for decades.”
Pickering said it’s unclear how much the personal sanctions on individuals signal an escalation by the U.S., but added that “the idea for the targeted sanctions is always to send a message to a senior leader and, in one way or another, do what you can to make things awkward for that leader.”
3) Russian energy and gas delivery largely allowed, for now
Perhaps most crucial to exacting a devastating cost are efforts by the U.S. and its allies to cut off Russian oil and gas exports, which make up about 40 percent of Russia’s budget revenue.
While the administration announced expanded sanctions on two of Russia’s largest banks, Sberbank and Alfa, it allowed for key carveouts to allow financial transactions for Russian oil and gas exports, withholding some of the most damaging measures to Russia’s economy but preserving energy for allies in Europe.
The financial carveouts allow foreign countries to pay for Russian exports in their local currency, but Russia is able to use that revenue only after it’s been transferred into rubles, somewhat weakening its impact.
“Why is energy left out? Best guess: The US is waiting on the E.U., and [the] E.U. is waiting on Germany,” tweeted Edward Fishman, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security.
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said Germany could not afford to block Russian gas in the short term.
“We would inflict more damage on ourselves than on them,” he said, according to Reuters.
Fishman said Russia is able to “rake in $1 billion each day” over continued oil and gas sales.
The U.S. has blocked imports of Russian oil and gas, and the United Kingdom (U.K.) on Wednesday said it would work to end dependence on Russian coal and oil by the end of 2022 and end imports of gas soon after.
Charles Michel, president of the European Council, on Wednesday proposed a new sanctions package that would immediately ban Russian coal and said a ban on “oil, and even gas, will also be needed sooner or later.”
Lithuania on Sunday became the first EU country to announce a ban on Russian gas imports, and Latvia, its Baltic neighbor, is expected to make a similar announcement shortly.
Yet a united EU sanctions package must have consensus from the bloc’s 27 members. Hungarian President Viktor Orbán, a key Putin supporter, has already said Budapest would not join in on a ban of Russian energy imports.
4) Hungary, India and China are wild cards in enforcing sanctions
Orban’s promise to continue paying for Russian gas widens other gaps the U.S. has failed to plug in its goal of a unified global financial pressure campaign against Russia.
India has held off joining U.S. sanctions or even bluntly condemning Moscow’s invasion to maintain its key ties with Russia, and that includes New Delhi importing Russian coal and oil.
The senior administration official called India a “friend” and “partner” but said there have been extensive discussions about Russia’s invasion. “We remain hopeful that we can have alignment to the maximum extent possible.”
China, meanwhile, is a top importer of Russian crude oil and imports significant amounts of Russian gas and coal, according to Reuters.
While Beijing has scoffed at Washington’s isolation campaign against Moscow, it has held back from fully aligning itself with the Kremlin. Reuters reported that while Beijing is honoring existing energy contracts with Russia, it has avoided signing new deals.
The senior administration official said Washington has had a series of private consultations “going up to the highest level of our government and China’s government” and that the U.S. has been “really clear [with Beijing] about the consequences of any efforts to circumvent or backfill those sanctions.”
5) U.S. says Russian bank sanctions triggering “Soviet-style” living standards
The administration, along with the U.K., took an extra step Wednesday by blocking new investment in Russia, part of a broader strategy to drain the Russian economy of new revenue and access to the newest technologies and know-how in the rapidly changing world.
“The reality is the country is descending into economic and financial and technological isolation and at this rate, it will go back to Soviet-style living standards from the 1980s,” the senior administration official said.
Still, Putin is likely able to hold on.
Benjamin Schmitt, postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University and senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, said the sanctions announced on the Russian banking sector are a “significant next step in increasing pressure on the Putin regime to relent” in the war in Ukraine but that they “leave significant wiggle room to facilitate energy transactions.”
“Given the significant role that oil and gas plays in funding Putin’s horrific war machine, it is vital that the international community take steps to stop this flow of money as soon as possible,” he wrote in an email to The Hill.
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Gridiron great Tom Brady’s fans are applauding his decision to cancel his retirement, but insiders say wife Gisele Bundchen fears the quarterback is risking his life by returning to the NFL — and medical professionals agree!
One longevity expert explains, “Repeated head trauma can result in loss of brain function and lead to CTE, which brings loss of memory, speech function and vision, as well as anti-social behavior and mood disorders.”
Tom’s former New England Patriots teammate Junior Seau suffered multiple concussions before being arrested for domestic battery and dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2012.
An autopsy revealed Junior, 43, had permanent brain damage called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) due to repeated head injuries. Now, experts worry the Tampa Bay Buccaneers star, who’ll be 45 when the season kicks off, may be a sitting duck for more agile 300-pound-plus defensive players!
“My hope is that the law of averages doesn’t get to him,” says retired NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham.
Physicians believe Cunningham’s fears are
well-founded. “Most men are unrealistic when it comes to their physical abilities when confronted with the aging process,” says a top doc.
“There’s no way he should take on this unnecessary risk and the possibility of a cataclysmic injury!” The doctors quoted in this article have not treated Tom Brady.
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By ADAM BEAM and BRIAN MELLEY
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The mass killing that left six people dead and 12 wounded outside bars just blocks from California’s Capitol last weekend was a gunfight involving at least five shooters from rival gangs, Sacramento police said Wednesday.
Police said they identified at least five gunmen but there may have been more. Only two suspects — both brothers wounded by gunfire — have been arrested in connection with the shooting and, so far, only face firearms charges.
“We’re still working through … who the actual shooters are in the case,” Sgt. Zach Eaton said.
Until Wednesday’s announcement, police had been silent on what led to the shooting that erupted early Sunday as bars were letting out. Rapid-fire bursts of over 100 gunshots echoed through the streets as terrified patrons ran for their lives and others were hit by bullets.
Authorities credited witnesses who contributed nearly 200 videos, photos and other tips with helping the investigation.
Police declined to name the two gangs involved or the affiliation of any suspects.
One of the brothers in custody was freed from prison about two months ago and last year was rejected for earlier release after prosecutors argued he “clearly has little regard for human life,” documents show.
Smiley Martin, 27, who was released on probation in February, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun. Hours before Sunday’s attack, Martin posted a live Facebook video of himself brandishing a handgun, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
Police were trying to determine if a stolen handgun found at the crime scene was used in the massacre. It had been converted to a weapon capable of automatic gunfire.
Detectives also were trying to determine whether the gun Martin brandished in the video was used, according to the official, who was briefed on the investigation but was not authorized to publicly discuss details and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Martin and his brother were among those wounded when gunfire erupted about a block from the state Capitol at about 2 a.m. Sunday as bars closed and patrons filled the streets.
Investigators have said previously that they were trying to determine if a street fight outside a nightclub may have sparked the shooting.
The Sacramento County coroner identified the three women killed as Johntaya Alexander, 21; Melinda Davis, 57; and Yamile Martinez-Andrade, 21. The three men killed were Sergio Harris, 38; Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 32; and De’vazia Turner, 29.
Ten people were wounded in addition to the Martin brothers and at least two remained hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
Smiley Martin was arrested in the hospital and will be booked when his condition improves enough for him to be jailed, police said.
His brother, Dandrae Martin, 26, was arrested Monday as a “related suspect” and appeared briefly Tuesday in Sacramento Superior Court on a charge of being a convict carrying a loaded gun.
Investigators believe both brothers had stolen guns and are trying to determine how they got them, the law enforcement official told the AP.
A 31-year-old man seen carrying a handgun immediately after the shooting was arrested Tuesday on a weapons charge. Police said they don’t believe his gun was used in the shooting.
Smiley Martin has a criminal history dating to 2013. He was released on probation from state prison in February after serving about half of a 10-year sentence for punching a girlfriend, dragging her from her home by her hair and whipping her with a belt, prosecutors said.
Martin might have been released sooner, but a Parole Board rejected his bid for early release in May after prosecutors said the 2017 felony assault along with convictions for possessing an assault weapon and thefts posed “a significant, unreasonable risk of safety to the community.”
Martin “clearly has little regard for human life and the law,” and has displayed a pattern of criminal behavior from the time he was 18, a Sacramento County deputy district attorney wrote in a letter last year to the Board of Parole Hearings.
It wasn’t clear if Smiley Martin had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Dandrae Martin, who was held without bail, was freed from an Arizona prison in 2020 after serving just over 18 months for violating probation in separate cases involving marijuana possession and aggravated assault.
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg told reporters Wednesday he had “serious questions” about why the brothers “were out on the streets.”
“And those questions need to be answered and they will be answered over the days ahead,” Steinberg said.
Defense lawyer Linda Parisi said any effort to seek Dandrae Martin’s release on bail will depend on whether prosecutors bring stiffer charges.
“If it turns out that the evidence demonstrates that this was mere presence at a scene that certainly argues more for a release,” Parisi said. “If it shows some more aggressive conduct then it would argue against it. But we don’t know that yet.”
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Melley reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writers Stefanie Dazio, Christopher Weber in Los Angeles, Don Thompson in Sacramento, Michael Balsamo in Washington, Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix and News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York City contributed to this report.
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Gov. Evers to give $15 million to Wisconsin Schools for kids mental health
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Governor Tony Evers pledges to disperse 15 million dollars to almost every public school district across Wisconsin, resulting in at least $10,000 per school.
The money comes from Gov. Evers, “Get Kids Ahead Initiative,” which seeks to help combat mental health problems in children.
According to Gov. Evers’s office, schools can use the money to hire and support mental health navigators, providing mental health first aid and trauma-based care training, or provide family assistance programs.
Gov. Evers said in statement that even before the pandemic started, there were problems with mental health declining in children. However, he noted that the pandemic made these issues significantly worse.
“These funds will go directly towards whatever mental health support and services our kids need so they can be successful both in and out of the classroom to help them grow, learn, and get ahead,” Gov. Evers said.
This announcement from Gov. Evers office comes after Evers invested $5 million last week to make telehealth services more accessible for Wisconsinites.
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You didn't have to look far to pinpoint blame for the Timberwolves' 132-114 loss to the Wizards, a loss Karl-Anthony Towns called "one of the toughest losses of the year."
The Wolves defense put up one of its worst performances of the season at the worst possible time.
"We didn't look like a team that was trying to make the playoffs," Towns said after Tuesday's defeat. "We looked a little lethargic, can't afford that."
The Wolves also can't afford any more slip ups, and they still need a lot of help to reach the No. 6 seed and avoid the play-in tournament. Not only do they have to win their final two games, they need Denver to lose to Memphis and the Lakers.
Whatever happens with their postseason situation, the Wolves know fixing the defense in a hurry is their top priority.
The Wolves have given up 130 points or more in four of their past five games. Even in that fifth game they allowed 125. They were able to win two of those matchups, but that's not going to get them very far against whoever they play in the play-in or playoffs.
"We were fortunate to score 130 a lot of games and it's covered up our defensive lapses because our scoring was so high," Towns said.
The Wolves' main problem on defense was a common one, one that pops up every time the Wolves go through a defensive slide.
"The inability to contain the ball right now is really hurting us," coach Chris Finch said. "We can't really sit down and guard the ball."
It will help if the Wolves get Patrick Beverley back from ankle and hip soreness that has kept him out of the last two games, and Jaden McDaniels is working his way back into the rotation from a high left ankle sprain that caused him to miss three weeks.
But the Wolves couldn't do even an adequate job with Beverley out and McDaniels working back into a rhythm. It has been that way for a while now.
"We're just not physical enough," Finch said. "We're not putting a body on anybody. We're not making it hard for the ball handler, we're not making it hard for people coming off actions right now. We're too loose, we're too soft there. As a result, it seems like we're a step late to the play."
Part of this has to do with the Wolves' starts to games. It's hard for teams, especially young teams, to amp up their defensive intensity in the middle of a game.
Often how the Wolves play defensively at the start of the game sets the tone for the rest.
"It's always hard to turn it on when you're not 100% focused, especially when you're a younger team," Finch said. "We tried to get a little bit more aggressive. When we were able to get stops, we couldn't get rebounds and those were also really deflating at times."
That also took a lot of the air out of their hopes for catching the No. 6 seed. Guard D'Angelo Russell said the Wolves have been talking a big game among each other of late. But they need to prove to themselves again they can be a better than average defensive team.
"That goes back to the approach, the mentality and just being the best you," Russell said. "I can't do it for you. You can't do it for me. If I come to the game and practice with that approach of, 'I'm ready,' I think it will trickle down versus having to pick another guy up and you're short-handing yourself."
The Wolves only have themselves to blame for the current slide. They have shown an ability to bounce back from defensive slides at various points in the season — they need to do it now, or the season will be over sooner than they'd like.
"Defense starts in the heart and the mind," Finch said. "It doesn't start anywhere else."
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There’s a Reason Why Actors’ Tattoos Don’t Always Match Real-Life Celebrities’ in TV + Movies
Viewers are getting a unique look at how real-life musicians' and celebrities' tattoos are dramatized onscreen without legal repercussion, thanks to actor Sebastian Stan's tatted-up role as Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee in Hulu's sizzling Pam & Tommy.
In what's becoming an established on-set practice for portraying non-fictional characters with ink, artists and designers will alter the look of a celeb's tattoo on the actor playing them just enough to make it different, but not enough to make it unrecognizable.
It may be hard to tell, but Stan's onscreen "tats" in Pam & Tommy are 20 to 30-percent different from the rocker's real ones, The Hollywood Reporter revealed.
Why Onscreen Tattoos Have to Be Different
So why do they do that? Well, in 2011, S. Victor Whitmill, the tattoo artist who designed boxer Mike Tyson's infamous face tattoo, sued the studio behind The Hangover: Part II for displaying similar ink on actor Ed Helms, as The New York Times reported. Understandably, going forward, it’s prudent to avoid legal issues from the start.
But beyond just that, in the current age of highly stylized body ink, many performers and actors take care with how they display the tattoos they get, and they don't want them copied. They often lock in agreements for ink with high-profile tattoo artists, who own their designs under copyright.
Autonomous FX’s Jason Collins, who handled Stan's Lee tattoos for Pam & Tommy, explained to THR last month, "Actors and their agents and managers are getting pretty smart about it now because they want to showcase their ink."
He continued, "They're going to artists that are world-renowned or high-end or famous and they're getting clearances from those people when they get the work done, so that's sort of a changing landscape for us."
Tommy Lee's Ink on Pam & Tommy
To get close to Lee's real tattoos, Stan was first covered in plastic wrap as artists designed faux versions of the tattoos around his body. The sketches were then processed through Photoshop, transferred onto decal paper and subsequently placed on the skin.
As for the changes they made to Lee's signature "Mayhem" stomach tat, Collins subtly explained, "As long as you have the color, the composition, the arch, that kind of thing, generally you can get away with a lot."
He added, "There’s a lot of things that we changed on his arm for clearance purposes, but they’re the same color and they're in the right place. If you're looking and you're an avid Motley Crue or Tommy Lee fan, you’re going to see things that you’re like, 'Oh, wait a minute.'"
Stan doesn't have any tattoos of his own. For Pam & Tommy, he worked with Autonomous FX to design the faux tattoos for his body. They need to be reapplied daily for filming, a three-hour process overall.
Barbed Wire
In real life, Anderson and Lee divorced in 1998. He roasted her on TV in 2005. She wed Kid Rock in 2006; they also divorced. Lee married Brittany Furlan in 2019. The Easter egg-filled Pam & Tommy is now streaming, but a source said Anderson won't watch it.
Motley Crue this summer plan to mount their twice-postponed Stadium Tour. Crue singer Vince Neil recently returned to performing after falling and breaking his ribs. Motley Crue recently reportedly sold the rights to their song catalog for $150 million.
Did you notice Stan's Lee tattoos were slightly different from the real Lee's ink in Pam & Tommy?
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The run-up to the recently held Punjab elections saw political parties making tall promises to right wrongs in the state – the transfer of Chandigarh to Punjab was not one of them. The Aam Aadmi Party that swept the polls, winning 92 of the 117 seats, promised to revamp the economy, agriculture, industry, health, and education of the state. In turn, the people have been expecting big ticket announcements from the new government. But the Bhagwant Mann government’s reaction to the Union government notification applying central service rules to the employees of Chandigarh, the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, comes as a let down.
Soon after the notification that followed Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Chandigarh, the Bhagwant Mann government called a special assembly session on April 1, and passed a resolution seeking immediate transfer of Chandigarh to the state. The resolution has opened Pandora’s box, with both Haryana and Chandigarh also calling similar sessions. In its emergency Vidhan Sabha session on Tuesday, Haryana raked up all the unresolved issues between the two neighbours since their birth in 1966, and urged the Centre to transfer the contentious SYL canal to the state. With the two states squabbling about its status, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has also jumped into the fray by calling a special house meeting on Thursday to reiterate its continuation as a union territory. With this acrimonious exchange coming only days after the installation of a new government, it threatens to push back the hopes and expectations that lay beneath the large AAP mandate – of change from the traditional politics that would deliver the state from its multiple crises. From agrarian distress, unemployment and exodus of students, to an industry in flight, inept education, and unaffordable healthcare to the sliding law and order — innumerable issues are crying out for the attention of Chief Minister Mann.
Instead of expending his energy on emotive issues, CM Mann must get his priorities right. He had promised to hit the ground running, said he would make every day count. He should do that. Punjab has many well-wishers who want to see it regain its lost glory. He should explore and implement the solutions they offer. Given the magnitude of the challenge he faces, five years is a short time. A systemic overhaul requires constant work, and monitoring. The grandstanding can wait.
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Thibaut Courtois booed by Chelsea fans on return to Stamford Bridge with Real Madrid in Champions League tie
THIBAUT COURTOIS was booed by Chelsea supporters as he returned to his former club with Real Madrid.
The Belgian goalkeeper spent seven years with the Blues and has already faced them since his departure.
Fortunately for him, that was when fans were still not allowed to attend games due to the Covid crisis in last season’s semi-final.
However, he had nowhere to hide in East London this evening as the 29-year-old received a hot reception from the Blues faithful.
His name was roundly jeered before kick off as the line-ups were read out.
And then he came in for more flak after the teams swapped ends after the toss as the Matthew Harding Stand greeted his comeback with abuse.
The ill-feeling comes from the goalie forcing his move to Madrid back in 2018.
But if he thought that would be the end of it, he was mistaken.
Every time he touched the ball the boos rang out around the Bridge, despite his pleas beforehand - and there was even a chorus of: "Thibaut you're a c***!"
He told Real Madrid's official website beforehand: “I hope that they don’t boo me but you never know.
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“I'm prepared for whatever comes and we'll have to see how it goes.
“I hope it's a happy return to Stamford Bridge. We're now rivals. They'll want to win and the same goes for me too and so I'm not expecting any applause from the fans.”
Courtois joined Chelsea in 2011 and played 154 times for them, helping the Blues to win the Premier League twice.
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The Masters Golf 2022: UK tee times, TV channel, live stream, betting odds for Augusta
IT'S GREEN JACKET time - that's right, The Masters returns to our screens TOMORROW.
Augusta's famous fairways are being pruned and perfected, with the world's top golfers getting their swings finely tuned, including Tiger Woods.
Hideki Matsuyama made history 12 months ago when he became both the first Japanese and first Asian winner of the famous green jacket.
What can we expect from the 86th Masters? Find out all you need to know.
What date is The Masters 2022?
The Masters starts TOMORROW - Thursday April 7 and ends on Sunday April 10, 2022.
The event consists of four days' play with the final day's action being the crescendo, arguably, of the entire golf season.
What is the Masters groups and tee times?
Below are all the groups and tee times (BST) for the first round of the Masters which takes place TOMORROW.
There are some intriguing trio's most notably Tiger Woods and Louis Oosthuizen along with Joaquin Niemann.
Masters First Round tee off times:
- 1pm - Olazabal, Spaun
- 1.11pm - Weir, Harrington, Greaser (a)
- 1.22pm - Mike, Straka, Molinari
- 1.33pm - Couples, Higgo, Migliori
- 1.44pm - Singh, Palmer, Kyoung-hoon Lee
- 1.55pm - Min Woo Lee, Swafford, Young
- 2.06pm - Cink, Harman, Higgs
- 2.17pm - Johnson, Si Woo Kim, Jarvis (a)
- 2.39pm - List, Wolff, Hughes
- 2.50pm - Willett, Kokrak, Gooch
- 3.01pm - Homa, Na, Lowry
- 3.12pm - Kisner, Berger, Fleetwood
- 3.23pm - DeChambeau, Smith, Casey
- 3.34pm - Woods, Oosthuizen, Niemann
- 3.45pm - Matsuyama, Thomas, Piot (a)
- 3.56pm - Scott, Scheffler, Finau
- 4.18pm - Lyle, Hagestad (a)
- 4.29pm - Glover, Van Rooyen, Champ
- 4.40pm - Langer, Bezuidenhout, Davis
- 4.51pm - Schwartzel, MacIntyre, Shepherd(a)
- 5.02pm - Woodland, Rose, Kanaya
- 5.13pm - Westwood, Henley, Conners
- 5.24pm - Reed, Power, Herbert
- 5.35pm - Watson, Hoge, Nakajima (a)
- 5.57pm - Leishman, Simpson, Im
- 6.08pm - Garcia, Pieters, Varner
- 6.19pm - Ancer, Hatton, Burns
- 6.30pm - Johnson, Horschel, Morikawa
- 6.41pm - Zalatoris, Cantlay, Rahm
- 6.52pm - Spieth, Hovland, Schauffele
- 7.03pm - Fitzpatrick, Koepka, McIlroy
Friday's play should start about 2pm UK time, while Saturday and Sunday are expected to start at about 4pm this side of the pond.
What TV channel and live stream is the Masters 2022 on in the UK?
The Masters is being aired on Sky Sports, with extensive coverage on Sky Sports Golf and Main Event.
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Live stream coverage is available on Now.
The BBC will have nightly highlights of the tournament.
What is the latest odds for the Masters 2022 winner?
- Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas 11/1
- Cameron Smith, Dustin Johnson, Scottie Scheffler 14/1
- Brooks Koepka, Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Viktor Hovland 18/1
- Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele 20/1
- Will Zalatoris 28/1
- Sam Burns, Shane Lowry 33/1
- Tiger Woods, Bryson Dechambeau, Corey Conners, Daniel Berger, Hideki Matsuyama, Joaquin Niemann, Louis Oosthuizen, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Paul Casey, Russell Henley, Tony Finau, Tyrrell Hatton 40/1
Odds courtesy of Betfair are correct as of April 6.
What has changed at this year's Masters?
Two holes have been extended at Augusta, making it the longest Masters ever.
The course has been increased by 35 yards from a year ago.
The 15th has been lengthened by 20 yards and is now 550 yards long.
The four-par 11th has had a 15-yard extension, with some pines removed on the fairway, but the pin moved to the left.
The 11th is now 520 yards long and is generally seen as the second-toughest hole at Augusta.
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Two Woman Share Exactly How Thieves Tried to Steal Their Purses in Kingston, NY
One was lucky enough to stop them, the other wasn't so lucky with the thieves using her credit cards and fraudulently charging them with over $13,000!
The first attempted theft took place at the Home Goods location in Kingston and the other took place at Mother Earth's. Both women are hoping by sharing their experiences, the thieves will be caught.
This week has been a busy one for purse and wallet thieves in Ulster County. We told you earlier this week that police are looking to locate two suspects that have allegedly been stealing purses and wallets from distracted shoppers in the Kingston, NY area.
The thieves' latest attempt at stealing a purse from a distracted shopper took place on Saturday at the Home Goods in Kingston. The shopper, who asked to remain anonymous, told us that while she was shopping at the popular home decor store in the Kings Mall on Ulster Aver in Kingston, she stopped two suspects from stealing her purse from her shopping cart.
Here's What Happened
She told us that while she was shopping, a female approached her and started to ask her questions through Google translate, someone who doesn't speak English will use the app to translate from one language to another. And while she was distracted trying to help the female, another suspect swooped in and tried to take her purse.
She explained that she had her back to her shopping cart and her purse was in the cart but she had the long strap around her wrist, and while she was distracted by the female, a male approached, and as she turned around, she saw that the man had put a beach towel over her purse to cover it up. Her turning around startled him, and he pretended to be reaching for a gift bag across from her cart she said.
Her action startled the thieves enough that the male immediately went in one direction while the female went in the other direction. She told us that she went right to the front of the store assuming that they were going to be leaving the store soon. Within a minute, the male left the store (without the beach towel and gift bag) and the female exited a few minutes later. She did capture a few pictures of the couple as they left the store....
She did contact the police to report what happened and the officer that responded told her that this has been happening a lot recently and the pictures she took matched the ones that others have reported. She ended by telling us that she simply wants to get the word out so that this type of crime doesn't happen to anyone and if it does, please report it to your local authorities.
Thieves Charged over $13,000 on Stolen Credit Card
Another woman shared with us that while she was shopping at Mother Earth's in Kingston on Friday, March 25th she wasn't as lucky as the thieves got away with her wallet and within 15 minutes of stealing it they had already gone to the Walmart in Kingston and racked up over $13,000 in charges. She posted online that surveillance camera footage showed it was the same couple. She also shared that all the charges that were made to her cards were going to be reversed by the card company and that she also wanted to share her experience as a warning to other shoppers.
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Canada skip Brad Gushue got the match he wanted at the world men’s curling championship, if not the result.
Gushue suffered his first defeat in round-robin play Wednesday, a 7-5 loss to Sweden’s Niklas Edin.
Gushue’s record dropped to 6-1 but still led the table after the day’s opening draw. Edin, the reigning Olympic and world champion, improved to 6-2.
After days of games with inconsistent starts and wild linescores owing to unpredictable ice conditions, Wednesday’s matchup between two of the world’s top teams unfolded more like a chess match.
“It was our best 10 ends,” Gushue said. “I think if we play that sort of game against most teams out here we’re going to be successful, but Niklas is on a different level than most of the teams here.”
Gushue said improved ice conditions and a more tactical game made his lone loss so far at the Orleans Arena less stressful than his six wins.
“We knew what the rocks were going to do and we were confident we could get it in the ballpark on each and every rock,” Gushue said. “When you take that level of anxiety out that we had in the first six games, that makes it easier.”
The first pair of the game didn’t come until the seventh end. A Swedish come-around attempt was a tad heavy, allowing Gushue to score the deuce.
Edin answered with a pair of his own in the eighth end to move back into the lead.
Gushue had a chance for two in the ninth but missed on his last shot, giving Edin the hammer with the score tied 5-5 entering the final end.
Edin capped the win with a takeout on his last shot of the game.
Gushue had the chance to score multiple points in the sixth end, but a miss left Sweden with shot rock and a steal of one.
“We both made some mistakes out there,” Gushue said. “Unfortunately we probably made one more than they did.”
Canada was scheduled to play Finland in the evening draw at the Orleans Arena.
Gushue won his fourth Brier title in six years at last month’s national championship. He won Olympic bronze in February at the Beijing Games.
The St. John’s skip won his lone world title in 2017.
Edin, a five-time world champion, beat Gushue in the playoffs in Beijing en route to a gold medal. The Swedish skip is the three-time defending world champ.
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A Ukraine resident searches for belongings in the rubble of an apartment building.
A widow visits a graveyard in Lviv where her soldier husband was buried, surrounded by fresh flowers and grave sites. Elsewhere, mourners bury another soldier, who leaves behind a wife and two young children.
In Bucha, where graphic evidence of killings and torture has emerged following the withdrawal of Russian troops, residents line up for humanitarian aid. Soldiers gather civilians' bodies from a burned out truck. A mass grave in a churchyard holds bodies wrapped in plastic.
The images coming out of Ukraine, particularly from the town of Bucha, have led to demands for war crime prosecutions against Russia.
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Dvision Network (DVI) traded 3.4% lower against the U.S. dollar during the 1-day period ending at 18:00 PM ET on April 6th. During the last seven days, Dvision Network has traded 20.1% higher against the U.S. dollar. One Dvision Network coin can now be purchased for $0.47 or 0.00001072 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. Dvision Network has a total market capitalization of $155.24 million and $12.94 million worth of Dvision Network was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002283 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded down 8.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.48 or 0.00003386 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded up 5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002285 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded down 8.5% against the dollar and now trades at $15.57 or 0.00035602 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded 6.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $45.73 or 0.00104547 BTC.
- THETA (THETA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $5.25 or 0.00010640 BTC.
About Dvision Network
According to CryptoCompare, “Dvision Network is a new VR content ecosystem that is based on blockchain technology. Dvision Network presents a new virtual reality world, where humanity can lead an affluent life, at the very centre of the ICT based fourth industrial revolution. “
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El Salvador's president has responded to gang violence with a sweeping campaign of arrests that raise questions about whether he's violating human rights.
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El Salvador's president has responded to gang violence with a sweeping campaign of arrests that raise questions about whether he's violating human rights.
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WASHINGTON — A sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service meant to shore up the popular but beleaguered agency's financial future and cement six-days-a-week mail delivery was signed into law Wednesday by President Joe Biden.
The legislation cleared Congress last month after fully a dozen years of discussion that took on a new sense of urgency amid widespread complaints about mail service delays. Officials had repeatedly warned that without congressional action, the Postal Service would run out of cash by 2024.
“The Postal Service is central to our economy and essential to rural America,” Biden said. He added that mailmen and women deliver 4 million prescriptions per day, along with letters, consumer goods and even live animals, “often to parts of the country that private carriers can't or won't or aren't required to reach.”
The final legislation achieved rare, bipartisan support by scrapping some of the more controversial proposals and settling on core ways to save the service. Delivering the mail is among the most popular things the government does, with 91% of Americans having a favorable opinion of the Postal Service, according to a Pew Research Center poll released in 2020.
Lawmakers from both parties attended the signing ceremony — and the mood was jovial, a big improvement from Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran previously saying the service was in a “death spiral” that was particularly hard on rural Americans.
The Postal Service Reform Act lifts budget requirements that have contributed to the agency's red ink, and spells out that mail must be delivered six days a week, except for federal holidays, natural disasters and some other situations.
Postage sales and other services were supposed to sustain the Postal Service, but it has suffered 14 straight years of losses. Growing worker compensation and benefit costs, plus steady declines in mail volume, have exacerbated losses, even as the service delivers to 1 million additional locations every year.
The new law ends a requirement that the Postal Service finance workers’ health care benefits ahead of time for the next 75 years — an obligation that private companies and federal agencies do not face. Biden said that rule had “stretched the Postal Service's finances almost to the breaking point."
Now, future retirees will enroll in Medicare, while other health plans and the Postal Service cover only current retirees’ actual health care costs that aren’t paid for by the federal health insurance program for older people.
To measure the agency's progress in improving its service, the law also requires it to set up an online dashboard that would be searchable by ZIP code to show how long it takes to deliver letters and packages.
Dropped from the package as it neared actual legislation were efforts to cut back mail delivery. Also set aside — for now — were other proposals that have been floated over the years to change operations, including to privatize some services.
Criticism of the Postal Service peaked in 2020, amid the COVID-19 crisis and ahead of the presidential election, as cutbacks delayed service at a time when millions of Americans were relying on mail-in ballots during the pandemic. Then-President Donald Trump acknowledged he was trying to financially pinch the service to limit its processing ability for an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worried could cost him the election he eventually lost.
Dominated by Trump appointees, the agency’s board of governors had tapped Louis DeJoy, a major GOP donor, as postmaster general. He proposed a 10-year plan to stabilize the service’s finances with steps like additional mail slowdowns, cuts in some offices’ hours and perhaps higher rates.
Biden said Wednesday that more needs to be done to reform the Postal Service, including investing in an electrified vehicle fleet that could save money while helping combat climate change. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is examining a Postal Service contract to replace its huge fleet of mail-delivery trucks with a mix of gas and electric vehicles, which the Environmental Protection Agency and Democratic lawmakers argue has too few electric vehicles.
“Today we enshrine into law our recognition that the Postal Service is fundamental to our economy, to our democracy, to our health and the very sense of who we are as a nation," Biden said.
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ALBANY (TNS) — Warning! Residents of a certain region near and dear to our hearts might find that an upcoming quote triggers anger or emotional distress.
If you think you can handle it, here goes: “No rational person wants to live in Upstate New York. It’s cold. It’s snowy. Its infrastructure is 100 years out of date.”
So said John Podhoretz on a recent Commentary magazine podcast as he argued that, with states competing to attract jobs, economically damaged places need to set up regulatory and tax environments that attract, rather than repel, investment.
I generally agree with the broader point about taxes and whatnot. Still, that bit about no rational person hit like a Will Smith to the head. I mean, could it be true?
Is this a region of irrational fools? Are we daft, deluded and duped? Should we accept the truth and load the U-Haul?
Some of you, no doubt, are nodding your heads, vigorously and traitorously, as you consider which faceless Florida community will soon be home.
But before I answer, I’ll note that defending one’s region against outside sleights feels like a newspaper columnist’s obligation, and that if I were to say, “Well, yeah, Podhoretz is absolutely right,” such an admission could be bad for morale and, um, circulation.
So, with that in mind, a message for the haters: “Keep Upstate New York out of your (bleeping) mouth!”
Too much? I don’t want to be irrational.
But is this Podhoretz fellow blind to Upstate charms and beauty? Has he never gazed upon the glittering water of Lake Champlain or looked out across an Adirondackvista?
Has he never cheered the Bills with the sausage-stuffed masses, strolled Elmwood Avenue — wait, is Buffalo Upstate or is western New York distinct? — or seen with his own eyes that Ithaca is gorges?
Infrastructure? Podhoretz must not know that Erie County will soon be home to a football stadium funded by the most generous taxpayer subsidy in American history. It’ll be a wonder of the world, no doubt, rising like a phoenix from a beautiful ocean of suburban parking lots.
OK, our winters linger. But as someone who has lived in fast-growing central Texas, I can say without reservation that surviving an Upstate winter is nothing compared to the suffering imposed by the summers in Austin.
Honestly, it’s like being trapped in a dog’s mouth. Six months of that and you’ll beg for a blizzard.
Here, without further delay, are five non-climatic reasons why it’s entirely rational to live in Upstate New York.
1. Traffic jams are rare.
2. Recreational/natural wonders are not.
3. The locals are unpretentious.
4. Housing is affordable.
5. Did I mention the light traffic?
Predictably enough, Podhoretz, the editor at Commentary and a columnist at the New York Post, is a denizen of the downstate megalopolis that the writer Willie Morrisaptly nicknamed the Big Cave, a place where a lack of horizons and proper sunlight brings on a Mr. Magoo-style myopia about the broader world.
People in New York City people pay millions for shoe-box apartments, and we’re the irrational ones?
Well, same as it ever was, I suppose, for those of us wasting our lives in this region of gingham dresses and bad Chinese restaurants. The arrows from downstate never stop flying.
Of course, if Podhoretz wanted to press on with his case, despite the not-so-blistering takedown you’re now reading, he could point to the population declines that have withered large swaths of Upstate to the point of moribundity, with the nation’s highest taxes and too little opportunity all but welcoming the Grim Reaper to do his work.
No argument there. It is certainly more difficult to live in many parts of Upstate New York than it should be, leading many thousands to decide every year that moving is a logical choice. And while it’s less true in Albany or Ithaca than in rural areas, many of the people who stick with the region do so at a significant economic cost.
Contrary to what Podhoretz said, though, many of the people who leave want to continue living Upstate. They value the region’s quality of life, its sense of place and history, its natural beauty. They wish they could stay.
They decide they can’t live Upstate, despite the pain that comes with leaving friends, family and community behind. It’s a continuing tragedy about which nobody in power ever seems to care. Year after year, decade upon decade, nothing much changes.
Now that’s irrational.
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SIR: Since the inception of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, there have been calls for restructuring. This current system being practiced has failed the whole country. The whole country is on fire. What is the way out? Regionalism or restructuring is the answer. It has worked for us before but the only defect is that it promoted ethnic loyalty but on the contrary, regionalism brought development into the country. The three regions were highly competitive and this brought about rapid development.
This current system of governance only makes the politicians lazy. Most of the states are in financial trouble because of the failure of past and successive governments to prepare for the worst. With an improved regional system, the problem of laziness would be curbed to a large extent. It was under regionalism that Nigeria was a pride to Africa. Do not also forget that when Nigeria was practicing regionalism, oil was yet to be discovered. Now that we are in a world whereby oil is falling, regionalism is the answer to Nigeria’s wake up call.
More so, restructuring is a song also on the lips of many Nigerians. It has trended for decades and seems to be an inter-generational topical issue in Nigeria. The persistent call for restructuring takes numerous dimensions, but particularly outstanding is in the dimension of politics. It is no surprise though, because the philosophy behind the existence of every state and the control of its resources borders on politics. Therefore, when there is a damaged cog in the wheel of the politics of the state, it becomes imperative to politically restructure the state.
Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy and the most populous black nation on earth. Yet, regional economic inequality and the lopsidedness of Nigeria’s political system have led to a series of protracted conflicts. The country is currently embroiled in crises similar to the tumultuous time after independence in 1960, when regional and ethnic tensions erupted in a vicious power struggle.
The political structure has not always been this way. Prior to the creation of the present-day state of affairs in 1967, Nigeria had four regions under the 1963 constitution. Without federal government allocation or revenue from oil, export crops were central to shaping the economy of the four regions, and served as the country’s main source of foreign currency. Political federalism reduced the power of the central government.
Nationwide calls for restructuring are nothing new, but they continue to grow amid economic stress, political uncertainty and recurrent violent conflicts across the country. Especially, ahead of the February 2023 elections, the push for restructuring of Nigeria’s political system is gaining momentum. Groups from the south, which have long championed the call for restructuring in defence of regional economic development, are particularly vocal in their demands for upending the current centralization of political power.
While there is broad and general support for a new constitution in the south and the middle-belt, the north has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Fear that change would lead to political domination and economic collapse in the region has resulted in heightened tensions across the country. While the existing constitution is unpopular, especially in the south, rewriting it will not be an easy undertaking. What a new constitution might entail remains controversial and contested.
Yet, restructuring, in the form of political decentralization and a differential economic model, is necessary, if not sufficient, for solving some of the country’s most vexing problems. To create a more economically viable and politically functional country, Nigeria needs to overhaul its political system. While such changes might, in the short term, trigger upheaval, upset entrenched power arrangements, and exacerbate existing tensions, in the long-term, political restructuring would be beneficial for both north and south.
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- Cytokinetics Incorporated CYTK announced the full results from the METEORIC-HF Phase 3 trial of omecamtiv mecarbil in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).
- METEORIC-HF evaluated the effect of treatment with omecamtiv mecarbil compared to placebo on exercise capacity.
- After 20 weeks of treatment, no effect of omecamtiv mecarbil on exercise capacity was observed versus placebo.
- Patients treated with omecamtiv mecarbil had an average change from baseline in pVO2 of -0.2 ml/kg/min compared to 0.2 ml/kg/min for patients on placebo.
- No beneficial effect was observed in any of the secondary endpoints, including change in total workload during exercise, change in ventilatory efficiency, and change in daily physical activity.
- Additional data from GALACTIC-HF were also presented, including a healthcare resource utilization analysis and the effect of omecamtiv mecarbil in hospitalized patients compared to outpatients.
- In the selected subgroup of the GALACTIC-HF trial, omecamtiv mecarbil was associated with significant reductions in risk of a first heart failure event (relative risk reduction (RRR) 15%, absolute risk reduction (ARR) 3.8, number needed to treat (NNT) 26.2), total HF events (RRR 17%, ARR 6.8, NNT 14.7), and cumulative heart failure events.
- The rate of the primary outcome was higher in hospitalized patients in the placebo group (38.3/100 person-years [PY]) than in outpatients (23.1/100 PY) with an adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of 1.21.
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Wellington's ambulance service has recorded its busiest month ever, while health authorities look to the arrival of winter illnesses on top of "the peaks and troughs" of Covid.
Demand for Wellington Free Ambulance was at an all-time high in March, with the service transporting 2838 people to hospital across the month.
They also treated 1706 people in the community, meaning a total of 4544 had been supported by Wellington Free Ambulance.
Last month, the service urged Wellingtonians to save the 111 number for emergencies, after recording their busiest day on record in early March - during which one caller waited seven minutes for their call to be answered.
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Advertise with NZME.The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners medical director and Porirua GP Dr Bryan Betty said GPs around the country had seen a surge of 15–30 per cent in demand on their practices.
"What happens is access to General Practice becomes compressed and you start to see this flow-on into emergency services such as ambulance and hospital ED services and things like that.
"That's what we see when the system starts to become burdened."
His Porirua practice had supported around 1700 patients with Covid over the past months, which had been a huge draw on their resources.
"That's about 23 per cent of our practice population ending up with Covid, on top of a number of doctors, nurses and administrative staff going down with Covid themselves.
"So there's a direct reduced workforce and increased demand."
Porirua's peak had lagged slightly behind the capital's, and Betty said they were beginning to see numbers trend downwards – but, he said, "the actual worry is looking forward".
"We will get all the winter illnesses obviously, your colds - and flu in particular is a worry this year.
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"And then we've got things we saw last year, the RSV and we're going to have that again this year."
Last year, an RSV outbreak across the country saw hundreds of children admitted to hospital, with Wellington Hospital needing to close its doors to visitors for a period in July as a result.
"Every winter the system becomes stretched in New Zealand and we're going to have Covid on top of it," Betty said.
"Covid is still going to be present, it's just going to be in peaks and troughs ... so that is a really mixed picture with a lot of potential demand on the system over the coming months.
"And I think that will be a real challenge for ambulance and EDs and hospital beds as well."
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Advertise with NZME.Betty urged New Zealanders to take up the flu vaccine to ease pressure on the system throughout the winter months.
Meanwhile, health authorities say the Omicron wave has subsided in the Wellington region.
On Wednesday, there were 15 people with Covid in Wellington Hospital, whereas three weeks ago there had been nearly three times this number.
There were also 15 people with Covid hospitalised in Hutt Valley.
There were nearly 9000 active cases in the Wellington and Hutt Valley regions yesterday.
Capital and Coast and Hutt Valley DHBs chief medical officer John Tait said they were encouraged to say the numbers decline.
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While they had planned for increased demand during the Covid wave, pressure on the region's hospitals had not exceeded what they would normally see.
"Overall, occupancy levels for our hospitals – around 80-90 per cent for Wellington Regional Hospital and 70-80 per cent for Hutt Hospital – has remained steady over recent months and is consistent with what is seen at other times of the year and the same period during previous years."
The hospitals were still experiencing staff shortages, however, with 13 per cent absent at Wellington Regional Hospital, 16 per cent at Kenepuru Community Hospital and 5 per cent in the Hutt.
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Psaki's Underling Just Let the Real Story Slip: 'We Don't Comment on the Laptop'
Try as they may, the nonexistent, Russian-influenced, perfectly innocent Hunter Biden laptop continues to bite the Biden administration.
And it’s beginning to take out sizeable chunks, coming closer and closer to “The Big Guy” himself, President Joe Biden.
When asked by Fox News Digital about contents on the laptop, however, White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said: “We don’t comment on the laptop.”
So the laptop is of concern, right, Mr. Bates?
Questioning the legitimacy or relevance of the laptop has been long the default position of the Biden administration and its lockstep media allies.
Biden’s defenders have even said the laptop case has earmarks of Russian influence on American elections.
By the way, what is it with these leftists and claims of Russian influence? The Russians got Trump elected, we were told. That was proven false. Then, the Russians tampered with Hunter’s laptop! Yeah, right.
Here are the questions: Is President Joe Biden corrupt? Is his son Hunter corrupt? That, of course, is for due process to decide.
However, those in the legacy news media have displayed their corruption by refusing to deal with the issue.
Even far leftist Bill Maher has noted that.
“And now two years later, the New York Times and the Washington Post have come around to say ‘OK there was something there,’” Maher said. “It looks like the left-wing media has buried the story because it wasn’t part of their narrative, and that’s why people don’t trust the media.”
That’s for sure.
The latest coming from Laptop Land is Hunter Biden early in 2017 receiving a request from a Chinese business associate to have a college admission letter written for the associate’s son, Fox News Digital reported.
That associate, Jonathan Li, has ties to the Chinese Communist Party. He was CEO of the investment firm BHR, in which Hunter Biden held a 10 percent stake as recently as last year.
The letter of recommendation was written by Joe Biden, who at that time was vice president.
Joe Biden’s letter was then FedExed to Christina Paxson, president of Brown University, according to the emails. That transmission was made after Biden was out of office. It’s unclear when Biden wrote the letter.
Citing privacy concerns, Brown University refused to say if the son, Christopher Li, became a student there.
A Fox Digital query about the emails surrounding the letter of recommendation prompted Bates’ response about not commenting on the laptop.
And White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, when asked if President Biden’s statement that he never spoke to his son about Hunter’s overseas dealings still stood, responded in the affirmative.
But Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson have revealed documents linking the Biden family with “corrupt actors,” according to Fox host Maria Bartiromo.
Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor, told Fox that the news media have no choice but to report on the laptop since Hunter Biden is at risk of being indicted by the federal attorney in Delaware.
The media are “willing to recognize the authenticity of the laptop now,” Turley said.
“But they don’t really want to talk about what’s on the laptop, which are hundreds and thousands of emails and pictures, some of which refer to the president of the United States,” Turley continued.
And while the White House and media may concede Hunter Biden was involved in high dollar influence selling, they say there’s no connection to Joe Biden.
“That’s just not true. These emails refer to the president — they use code names like ‘The Big Guy’ or ‘Celtic,’” according to Turley.
“In one email a person is warned not to use the president’s name.
“But more concerning are references to accounts that might have paid some money to the president in paying off bills or taxes.
“There’s a reference to an office that the president and the first lady would use that is allegedly funded by a Chinese firm,” Turley said.
It doesn’t mean Joe Biden has committed crimes, according to Turley. But denial of any Hunter Biden business dealings connecting to the president is “bizarre.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland has not appointed a special counsel in the laptop case, a decision which Turley said he doesn’t understand.
Nevertheless, Turley said he recognized the difficulty of the Justice Department dealing with the situation when so many of the emails are tied to the president.
The situation calls for the need for a special counsel, he said.
“Hunter Biden may be many things,” Turley said, “But he is certainly not without blame.
“I mean, this was a raw and open influence peddling scheme worth millions of dollars. And the Biden family is known for influence peddling. They have been accused of influence peddling, including the uncle [of Hunter] or the brother of the president, for years.”
So the little laptop computer continues to grow in importance and relevance.
With recent signs of Democrat abandonment of Joe Biden, the voice of the laptop may become louder and louder.
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Quality time. Pete Davidson’s relationship with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s kids is clearly getting closer, now that the comedian was spotted driving around Los Angeles with girlfriend Kim’s daughter, North, on April 5, 2022, according to a video obtained by TMZ.
The King of Staten Island star was driving along with North and Kim’s niece, Penelope Disick, in a pink MOKE car around Scott Disick’s neighborhood. Scott and Pete were also seen in the same vehicle driving around earlier in the month. Kim and her mom, Kris Jenner, gave the iconic car to Davidson as a Christmas gift.
The video of Pete’s outing with Kim’s daughter surfaced after the Keeping Up With the Kardashian star’s ex-husband Kanye posted a screenshot of a conversation between him and Pete on his Instagram in February 2021, where he claimed that he would never let Pete meet his kids.“I do hope [one] day I can meet them and [we can] all be friends,” wrote the SNL star. “NO YOU WILL NEVER MEET MY CHILDREN,” Kanye wrote in the caption of his now-deleted Instagram post.
This isn’t the first time that the DONDA rapper was vocal about Pete’s interactions with his family. In a previous post, Kanye wrote the following: “Hold your spouse close,” Ye wrote in the since-deleted post. “Make sure they know how much you love and appreciate them because [there’s] a Skete lurking in every dirty ass alley waiting to help destroy your family and walk around in Calvin Kleins around your children.”
Meanwhile, Pete let Kim meet his grandparents on the set of his movie on April 4, 2022, in Staten Island. The following day, Kanye also introduced his now-girlfriend Chaney Jones to his family during a close celebration. Kanye has been silent on social media about his family in recent weeks, with one of his reps stating that “he’s not making any public appearances or inflammatory social media statements, and he will go away somewhere to get better.”
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It has been quite the 24 hours for two NBA franchises that were written off early. The Spurs never had expectations coming into the season, and the Pelicans were quickly written off after a 3-16 start and former no. 1 pick Zion Williamson missed the entire season with foot injuries. However, both teams have come on strong since the All-Star break, and thanks to both teams winning last night along with the Lakers losing, they are now officially locked into the 9th and 10th seeds of the Western Conference.
With three games left, neither team can catch the Clippers for the 8th seed, so all that is left to determine is who finishes 9th and 10th, with the 9th seed getting homecourt advantage for the matchup. The Spurs won the season series 3-1, so they own the tie breaker over the Pelicans. The Spurs remaining schedule is tough, with road games at Minnesota and Dallas, plus a home game against the Warriors sandwiched in between. The Pelicans have a slightly easier remaining schedule, against Portland and Golden State at home and the Grizzlies on the road.
The Spurs shouldn’t be too concerned if they remain in 10th considering they have a better road record than home this season, have won their last five road games, and won both games in New Orleans. The goal for the remaining three games should simply be to stay healthy, get Dejounte Murray back, and maintain the level of play they have shown over the last eight games.
As a reminder, the winner of the 9-10 matchup will advance to face the loser of 7-8 matchup to compete for the 8th seed, while the loser is eliminated. The winner of the 7-8 match up automatically clinches the 7th seed. The play-in tournament will take place from April 12-15, and the playoffs begin on April 16.
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The World Federation of Advertisers recently issued Global Guidance on Environmental Claims, which sets forth six key principles that the WFA believes that marketers should comply with when making green marketing claims. The guidance was developed with the help of the International Council for Advertising Self-Regulation and The European Advertising Standards Alliance, and with the support of the UK's Advertising Standards Authority.
In light of the increased attention on the environment, regulators and self-regulators around the world are working on updates to their guidance to marketers about how to properly make environmental marketing claims. For example, in the United States, the Federal Trade Commission has said that it is going to conduct a review of its Green Guides, which are more than a decade old at this point. As marketers in the United States and elsewhere anxiously await up-to-date guidance, trade associations, such as the WFA, are issuing their own guidance, which may give us some clue about where the rules are headed (particularly when the guidance is developed in partnership with many of the leading advertising self-regulatory organizations).
Do regulators and self-regulators believe that we need tougher rules on green marketing or do they think that consumers have a better understanding of green marketing claims than they did a decade ago? Based on the WFA's guidance, it seems that at least some believe that tougher rules are needed and that marketers should scale back some of the claims that they are currently using.
In issuing the new guidance, Will Gilroy, WFA's Director of Policy and Communications, said, "Ask any sustainability expert how marketing can help solve the problem of climate change and they will tell you to start by getting environmental claims right."
Here's a brief summary of the WFA's principles along with some thoughts about some of the issues that the WFA raised in its description of the new principles.
Principle One -- "Claims must not be likely to mislead, and the basis for them must be clear."
The WFA explains that marketers should take into account the overall presentation of marketing communications, including words, symbols, and imagery, as well as information that may be missing. The WFA also cautions marketers about using environmental signs and symbols in a way that falsely suggests official approval or third party certification.
The WFA tells marketers to avoid claims such as "environmentally friendly," "sustainable," and "green," saying that they suggest that a product has overall positive impact or no negative impact. The WFA also tells marketers not to make a "carbon neutral" claim that is based on offsetting without explaining the basis for the claim.
While the FTC (and others) have long raised concerns about whether general environmental benefit claims communicate misleading messages to marketers, the WFA's guidance suggests that these types of claims are still a serious concern. The WFA also points, in particular, to the use of the term "sustainable," which is widely used by marketers today. It is worth considering, however, whether, over the last decade, consumers have become better able to evaluate these types of general environmental benefit claims. Do consumers really think that when a marketer promotes a product made of recycled material as "sustainable" that the product doesn't have any negative impact on the environment at all, or are they able to understand the meaning of "sustainable" in the context in which it is used? It will be interesting to see whether, as new rules are developed, regulators take into account consumers' experience with, and evolving understanding of, these claims.
It's also worth noting that the WFA specifically called out the use of "carbon neutral." The WFA's position here is that marketers shouldn't make an qualified claim that their products or operations are "carbon neutral" if the claim is based on offsetting. In order to avoid confusion about whether their products are operations are actually carbon neutral, the WFA says that marketers need to explain that the claim is based the purchase of carbon offsets.
Principle Two -- "Marketers must hold robust evidence for all claims likely to be regarded as as objective and capable of substantiation."
Most significantly, the guidance says that for aspirational claims, the marketer must "demonstrate that it reasonably has the capacity and methodological approach to achieve such commitments in the specified timeframe." The WFA also encourages marketers to use independent studies as substantiation, which it says are "likely to be more robust."
As marketers increasingly make overall corporate commitments to improve their environmental footprint, the WFA reminds marketers that those types of commitments are advertising claims that require reasonable substantiation as well. What level of certainty is required for these types of aspirational claims, however, is not certain. It also unclear whether requiring a high level of proof for long-term commitments will discourage marketers from making these commitments or investing in the resources to attempt to achieve them.
Principle Three -- "Marketing communications must not omit material information. Where time or space is limited, marketers must use alternative means to make qualifying information readily accessible to the audience and indicate where it can be accessed."
Examples of things that may be misleading without further qualification, according to the WFA, include claims that refer to compliance with a standard, which do not give the audience enough information to understand the standard, and the use of environmental signs or symbols that do not clearly indicate their source and meaning.
Many marketers highlight, on their packaging and in their advertising, that they have received certain environmental certifications. It is not clear whether the WFA is suggesting that marketers should refrain from using those certifications without a clear explanation of what they are based on. For example, is this suggesting that the use of a "Fair Trade Certified" certification on packaging is no longer acceptable?
Principle Four -- "Marketers must base general environmental benefit claims on the full lifecycle of their product or business, unless the marketing communication states otherwise, and must make clear the the limits of the lifecycle."
Here, the WFA is taking the position that marketers shouldn't make unqualified general environmental benefit claims, such as "environmentally friendly," unless the marketer "can demonstrate that the product's entire lifecycle has no detrimental effect on the environment."
The WFA is setting a high bar for making general environmental benefit claims, since not only are there challenges in conducting a full life cycle analysis, but it's highly unlikely that many products will have no detrimental impact.
Principle Five -- "Products compared in marketing communications must meet the same needs or be intended for the same purpose. The basis for comparisons must be clear, and allow the audience to make an informed decision about the products compared."
Here, the WFA is restating typical comparative advertising principles. The WFA explains, "Claims should make clear to the audience what is being compared and how the comparison has been made."
Principle Six - "Marketers must include all information relating to the environmental impact of advertised products that is required by law, regulators or Codes to which they are signatories."
And finally, the WFA reminds marketers to comply with the law as well as with other commitments that they have made.
The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances.
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P.J. Fleck has a highly visible job as Gophers football coach, so there is never a good time to undergo facial surgery. But Fleck said he had surgery this winter to fix damage around his eyes caused by an accident in the summer of 2019.
Photos of Fleck in public recently have stirred questions about a change in his appearance. Fleck made his first public comments about it in a phone conversation Monday.
In July 2019, Fleck and his two sons were on the boat dock at their house. They were securing something with a bungee cord when it snapped back, and the hook struck Fleck in the face near his eye, causing a "pretty serious injury," he said.
The injury happened close to the start of fall camp so surgery got delayed. Then the pandemic hit.
"I was finally able to get it fixed in January," Fleck said. "I'm still in the healing process for a few more months, but I appreciate everybody's concern."
Fleck prefers to keep details about the nature of his injury private, saying only that it was "pretty significant."
"The good thing is that I feel way better," he said. "That's the main concern."
Fleck's schedule, even in the offseason, doesn't allow him time to disappear for long stretches, so photos have captured him in the healing process.
"There is never a good time to do it, especially when you know it's going to change you," he said, adding that "every day it gets better."
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Bald eagle in critical condition after being shot with over 20 pellets
ANTIGO, Wis. (WEAU/Gray News) - A reward is being offered for information about a bald eagle shot by pellets in Wisconsin last week.
The Raptor Education Group is offering a $3,000 reward for tips about the shooting, which left the raptor with lead poisoning and a broken wing.
The female eagle was found in the Town of Cooks Valley, about 95 miles east of Minneapolis. The Raptor Education Group said it appears the eagle was struck with bird shot while in mid-flight and had over 20 pellets in her body. With bird shot, each shot shell has small pellets that spray, increasing the likelihood of hitting the target.
As of Sunday, the eagle was in critical condition. The Department of Natural Resources is investigating the shooting, the organization said.
In addition to the reward from the Raptor Education Group, citizens in Chippewa and Dunn counties and surrounding areas have also pledged rewards for anyone who provides information to law enforcement leading to an arrest. As of Wednesday morning, those reward pledges eclipsed $3,000, which combined with the reward being offered by the Raptor Education group puts the total reward over $6,000.
The Raptor Education Group, which rehabilitates injured or sick birds, said they were aware of 32 shootings involving protected species of birds last year, including a dozen instances of a bald eagle being shot. The organization also reported that they took in a peregrine falcon, which was recently on protected species lists, last week after it had been shot in New London on Thursday, but it died due to its injuries.
In regard to the shooting of the bald eagle, the organization said that it’s hard to mistake an adult bald eagle for any other type of bird due to its clearly visible white head and white tail feathers.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Department of Natural Resources or the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office.
The Raptor Education Group is a nonprofit dedicated to the care and rehabilitation of wild birds and public education on wildlife issues. You can visit their website for more information about their work, to donate or to learn more about birds.
Copyright 2022 WEAU via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Halftone dotted lines in ring form. White halftone dots. Trendy design element for border frame, round logo, tattoo, sign, symbol, web pages, prints, template, pattern, abstract background
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Utah has just become the fourth state to pass an omnibus consumer privacy law. The Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”) was signed into law on March 24, 2022.
UCPA is modeled after Virginia's Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”), but has key differences. The effective date is December 31, 2023. We will follow up with more information as the effective date draws closer, but here are a few key points:
Who Is Protected?
UCPA protects the data of Utah residents in their individual or household capacity. It specifically exempts individuals acting in a commercial or employment context (i.e., B2B or employee data).
Who Is Regulated?
UCPA regulates “controllers” or “processors” that conduct business in Utah or produce a product or service that is targeted to Utah residents, have an annual revenue of $25 million or more, and either (i) control or process personal data of 100,000 or more Utah residents in a calendar year; or (ii) derive over 50% of their gross revenue from the sale of personal data and control or process personal data of 25,000 or more Utah residents.
How Will UCPA Be Enforced?
Similar to the new Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”) and VCDPA, UCPA does not include a private right of action. The Attorney General has the exclusive authority to enforce the UCPA. UCPA creates the Division of Consumer Protection that will establish and administer a system to receive complaints regarding violations of the UCPA. The Division will consult and assist the Attorney General in enforcement. The cure period is 30 days and does not sunset, unlike the cure period in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and the CPA.
What is a “Sale?”
Like the VCDPA, UCPA narrows the definition of “sale” and does not include “other monetary consideration.” Additionally, the UCPA exempts a controller's disclosure of personal data to a third party if the purpose of the disclosure is consistent with a consumer's reasonable expectations. This exemption is not found in the other state privacy laws.
What are the Penalties?
If a controller or processor does not cure within the cure period or continues to violate the UCPA after curing and sending the required written statement that the violation has been cured, the Attorney General may recover actual damages to the consumer and up to $7,500 for each violation.
The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances.
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🌱 Southampton Daily: Bridgehampton's New Ball Field + Egg Prices Rise
Good morning, Southampton! Diane Witek here with everything you need to know to get this Thursday started off right. Here's everything you need to know about what's happening today in Southampton.
First, today's weather:
Occasional afternoon rain. High: 49, low: 48.
Here are the top stories today in Southampton:
The first varsity game in 43 years was played on Monday, in Bridgehampton, at the opening of the brand-new baseball field. They celebrated the unveiling of a marker behind home plate to honor legendary Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski, a 1957 graduate of Bridgehampton High School. The home team did not disappoint, the Bridgehampton Bees won the game against Shelter Island 6 to 0. (Southampton Patch)
As a society, we need to support journalism and communication so that we are informed, not blind-sided by events like COVID-19. For the past year, that is what the Stony Brook School of Communication and Journalism students have done, reporting on the staggering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, all the while being affected themselves in their daily lives. Donate to the SoCJ by supporting the Dean’s Fund for Excellence. (Stony Brook News)
If you haven't noticed, the price of eggs has gone up by 50 percent, not only because of price gauging around Easter and Passover, but because the price of soybeans and corn to feed the chickens is up. Not to mention that about 17 million birds have died due to the avian flu outbreak, so what can we do? Eggs can last about three weeks, so check the expiration date and select the one that's at least three or four weeks out from the day you purchase. Also, store your eggs in the coldest part of your refrigerator, and throw out any eggs that are cracked as to not let the bacteria can leak around the rest of the eggs. (News 12 Long Island)
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This article originally appeared on the Southampton Patch
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Margate NJ’s Downbeach Deli Addresses a Rumor Business is for Sale
Margate's Downbeach Deli wants you to know the longtime local favorite has not been sold, nor is the business for sale. In a Facebook post over the weekend, the Essex Avenue deli said they have heard the rumors and they wanted to set the record straight. It turns out...
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(WJW) — The company formerly known as Square announced a customer information data breach on its mobile payment service Cash App.
Block Inc. filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Monday admitting to the breach, which took place on Dec. 10 and reportedly involved a former employee.
The records the employee, who was no longer working for the company at the time of the breach, was able to access included full names and brokerage account numbers (which have to do with stock activity), but not social security numbers or banking information.
It’s not currently known how many customers are directly affected by the incident, but it reportedly only impacted those in the U.S.
In the filing, the company said an investigation is currently underway:
The Company takes the security of information belonging to its customers very seriously and continues to review and strengthen administrative and technical safeguards to protect the information of its customers. Future costs associated with this incident are difficult to predict. Although the Company has not yet completed its investigation of the incident, based on its preliminary assessment and on the information currently known, the Company does not currently believe the incident will have a material impact on its business, operations, or financial results.
The company says its millions of users are going to be notified of the breach, so look out for an email. Those who have any questions regarding the incident can reach out to the company.
Cash App is a mobile payment service owned by Block, Inc. (which used to be called Square). Users can transfer money directly to other people (like with Venmo), and they can also use it to buy stocks and cryptocurrencies.
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