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NEW YORK, April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new non-profit organization, the Digital Asset Advocacy Group (DAAG), was recently launched to educate consumers on the opportunities and risks associated with digital currency lending. With the recent growth of crypto lending, more consumers are realizing a newfound financial freedom thanks to the benefits of blockchain technology and decentralized financial protocols.
"Crypto lending creates tremendous opportunities. This new industry generates jobs and reduces financial costs for businesses, but it also more importantly provides access to capital for individuals in underbanked communities and helps establish a new pool of investment opportunities for all participants," said DAAG member and personal finance expert, Laura Adams.
Consumers unable to secure a traditional loan because of a bank's minimum deposit requirement, fees, or a low credit score now have options available to them through crypto lending. Research illustrates the need for alternatives in the lending space:
- Over 6% of U.S. households, or a total 14.1 million American adults, are unbanked, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
- According to data from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 45 million American adults are considered "credit invisible," meaning they either have no credit score or thin credit files without enough information to create a credit score.
While the benefits of crypto lending are clear, consumers must also be aware of risks and ways to protect themselves as they navigate a burgeoning new industry.
"Sadly, any bad actor or predatory practice from a company operating within the crypto-lending space has the opportunity to do much harm — not just to individuals but to the industry as a whole," said Adams.
Like with traditional lending done through banks and other institutions, all crypto loan consumers should expect the following:
- The ability to review the terms and conditions of a loan agreement in a complete and easy-to-understand written format.
- Receipt of adequate notice before a crypto lender modifies terms and conditions, suspends services, or liquidates any portion of consumers' collateral.
- The ability to contact a crypto lender's customer service and receive a response in a timely manner.
- Proper disclosures from the crypto lender, including whether it is licensed by proper regulatory authorities and ownership status of the crypto collateral.
- Protections from unconscionable contract terms.
"Through more consumer education and by holding crypto-lending platforms accountable to existing protections and safe-lending practices, we can encourage innovation, keep consumers safe and ensure more have access to the opportunities created by such an exciting new industry," said Adams.
About DAAG
Digital Asset Advocacy Group (DAAG) is a non-profit organization that promotes safe and regulated digital currency lending, depository, and other consumer financial practices. DAAG will accomplish its mission through raising awareness on current harmful trends, developing and promoting industry standards with a focus on protecting consumers and businesses, educating the public on the digital currency industry as a whole, and advocating for digital currency stakeholders, consumers and regulators to advance a more secure and ethical emerging market.
Learn more at digitalassetadvocacy.org and connect on Twitter at @DigiAssetAdv.
Contact: lacie@digitalassetadvocacy.org
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NBA DFS Plays Thursday April 7
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The App is Back! Don’t forget to download the NBC Sports EDGE app to receive real-time player news, mobile alerts and track your favorite players. Plus, now you can check out articles and player cards. Get it here!
This article aims to highlight some of the best NBA DFS Plays at every position for your cash game lineups. Keep in mind that the following player write-ups were constructed earlier in the day, and sometimes injury/rest situations can alter the fantasy landscape. Monitoring our NBA News & Headlines Feed throughout the day will keep you in the loop while giving you the subsequent DFS consequences of each information piece.
We’ll take a look at Thursday’s seven-game slate starting at 7:00 ET.
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POINT GUARD
LaMelo Ball – Charlotte (vs. Orlando) - DK: $9,200 / FD: $9,000 / Yahoo: $35
The Hornets are huge favorites over Orlando tonight, but they do want a win here, so I think we’ll see solid effort from Ball and a few others. Ball had been in great form, but after suffering big losses to Eastern Conference rivals Philadelphia and Miami this week, this team needs a confidence boost. Luckily, the Magic are usually good for that. Look for Ball to notch his fourth double-double in the last five games and be the highest scoring point guard of the slate.
Also Consider: Jordan Poole, Tyus Jones, Tre Jones, CJ McCollum, Kris Dunn (if Brandon Williams is out again), Marcus Smart
SHOOTING GUARD
Jaylen Brown – Boston (at Milwaukee) - DK: $8,900 / FD: $8,700 / Yahoo: $32
The game on everyone’s mind is this key matchup for the No. 2 seed in the East. Boston is on a b2b tonight, but so far only Jayson Tatum and Al Horford have been ruled out. Brown is expensive, but there is so much value during the last week of the regular NBA season that we can afford to spend at multiple positions tonight. Brown has been flirting with 50-ish fantasy points per game in each of his last five games, and although the Bucks are a good defensive team, they play faster and looser than Boston with above average DvP to opposing wings.
Also Consider: James Harden, Terry Rozier, Desmond Bane, Keon Johnson, Austin Reaves
SMALL FORWARD
Ignas Brazdeikis – Orlando (at Charlotte) - DK: $3,500 / FD: $4,200 / Yahoo: $10
Orlando will be without several usual starters tonight, including Franz Wagner. In the Magic’s last two games, Brazdeikis has played 36-37 minutes and returned an average of 28 fantasy points per game. For his near-minimum salary and likely starting role again tonight, he’s a cheap option to balance the all the spending. This game should be an easy win for Charlotte, but the Hornets are one of the best fantasy matchups out there: they rank 24th in defensive efficiency, sixth in overall fantasy points allowed, third in pace, and 29th in rebounding. Lots of ways for Orlando back-ups to reach value tonight…
Also Consider: Khris Middleton, Andrew Wiggins, Danny Green
POWER FORWARD
Aaron Gordon – Denver (vs. Memphis) - DK: $6,600 / FD: $7,000 / Yahoo: $22
Aaron Gordon and I have a long history of being on the wrong page as each other, with him deciding to pull a vanishing act just about every time I decide he can be trusted for DFS. With that disclaimer, he has been in a groove lately, shooting about 60 percent from the field (nearly 20 PPG) and averaging about nine rebounds per game in his last six games. His numbers vs. Memphis are slightly better than his season average, and this is looking like a close and high-scoring game for both sides. Denver gets the Memphis pace bump, but Memphis gets better positional matchups (especially for Jones and Bane). Gordon and the Nuggets have lost two of their last three, and need to win at least one of their last two games to stay in the Top 6.
Also Consider: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jaren Jackson Jr., Miles Bridges, Keldon Johnson, Daniel Theis
CENTER
Karl-Anthony Towns – Minnesota (vs. San Antonio) - DK: $9,600 / FD: $8,900 / Yahoo: $39
There are a lot of intriguing scenarios on the slate tonight, including this one, where Minnesota has a faint chance of avoiding the play in tournament and making the six-seed. They’ll need help, but a win tonight is a must. The Spurs can only flip-flop with New Orleans, so they have less to play for, but Vegas still expects a high-scoring game here. Towns is a distant third in salary at center tonight, but he should put up numbers in the same range as Jokic and Embiid, who face tougher opponents. The Spurs are the seventh-best center matchup for fantasy, playing at the fourth-highest pace and giving up the 10th-most overall fantasy points to opponents.
Also Consider: Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid, Moritz Wagner, Jonas Valanciunas, Pascal Siakam
Additional Notes
Tre Jones (G – SAS) As long as Dejounte Murray is out, you can keep rolling with Jones. He’s played about 32-33 MPG in the last three games, and averaged 38 fantasy points per game. Like his mentor, Jones is putting up significant stats in every category, and he should get the chance to continue or even exceed his great performances. Minnesota is the fastest-paced team in the league and Vegas has the over/under set at 238.5 points right now. Expect a fantasy-friendly game on both sides.
Austin Reaves (G – LAL) is expected to play heavy minutes for the rest of the season with the Lakers officially eliminated from playoff contention. He was effective in 31 minutes Tuesday night, scoring 18 points with four rebounds, six assists and a steal. Unless the Lakers do something crazy, he should be a safe path to value tonight.
Danny Green (G/F – PHI) will start tonight in Toronto with Matisse Thybulle out. If you’re a fan of narratives, Green has waited this long to get his 2019 championship ring, which he will receive in front of a packed Raptors’ arena tonight. Given that he should play at least 20 minutes, he will probably be worth his minimum price salary in what could be a preview of the Eastern Conference Round 1 matchup.
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Voltage announces Surge and their Next Generation Lightning Network as a Service Platform
WICHITA, Kan., April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Voltage, the industry leader of Bitcoin's Lightning Network infrastructure, today announced two major product launches. Voltage currently powers the top Lightning companies, including Zion, Impervious, Amboss, Mash, and THNDR Games. Voltage makes it easy for any business to integrate the Lightning Network into their operations with their simple dashboard and API.
The Lightning Network is becoming adopted globally for uses like cross-border payments, paywalls and subscriptions, game rewards, and small payments for B2C services like coffee shops and breweries. Voltage is uniquely positioned to make it capable for all businesses to run Lightning Network products and services. At the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Voltage released Surge, a Lightning node observability tool, and their next-generation platform which comes with radical improvements.
"At Voltage, we're bringing modern products and services to the Lightning Network. Both Surge and our next-gen platform are necessary tools to enable Bitcoin adoption all over the world. We are very excited to share what we've been working on and can't wait to start onboarding users. Lightning needs novel solutions and Voltage is creating them." - Graham Krizek
Lightning node operators can now join the waitlist for their Lightning node monitoring and observability tool, Surge, which offers insights and alerts into Lightning nodes. This gives node runners newfound capabilities to increase reliability and optimize node operations. This is critical for increased performance and reliability of the Lightning Network. Surge will make it easy and affordable for individuals and businesses to have insights unlike ever before.
Secondly, with Voltage's upcoming next-generation platform they are making it simpler than ever to integrate with the Lightning Network. This updated iteration of Voltage will be an incredibly powerful Lightning platform offering scalable Lightning nodes, APIs, developer tools, and more. In addition to big product innovations, this new platform boasts a 'pay for what you use' structure to better address users' needs.
Voltage is the infrastructure platform for Bitcoin's Lightning Network, making implementing the Lightning Network into any product or service simple. The company powers many of the top Lightning-integrated brands like Podcast Index, Sphinx, Amboss, Impervious, Zion, and THNDR Games. Voltage also recently raised $6 million in their seed funding round led by Trammell Venture Partners.
To learn more about integrating the Lightning Network into your business or product, please visit https://voltage.cloud.
ABOUT VOLTAGE
Launched in 2020, Voltage is a Lightning Network infrastructure provider and the leader of enterprise Lightning Network services. Voltage allows anyone to create Lightning nodes quickly, and get access to liquidity and management tools. The company is backed by Craft Ventures, Trammell Venture Partners, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Stillmark, and others. To learn more, follow Voltage on Twitter, and join the conversation on Discord.
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GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A Greenville man was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday for murder.
According to the Greenville County Solicitor’s Office, Tito Edmar Garcia-Flores, 35, pleaded guilty to murder.
Evidence from the solicitor’s office showed that on May 31, 2020, a security guard removed Garcia-Flores from La Guera Bar and Grill.
Garcia-Flores left the scene and returned later that night with co-defendant Ever Torres Aleman, according to the solicitor’s office. Aleman approached the victim with a gun and Garcia-Flores fired a shot that missed.
The solicitor’s office said the victim attempted to wrestle the gun away but Garcia-Flores pistol whipped him and he fell to the ground.
Garica-Flores stood above the victim and shot him in the chest killing him, according to the solicitor’s office.
The Greenville County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 32-year-old Edras Funez .
The incident was captured on video surveillance.
Garica Flores fled to Kanas City where he was arrested on July 31, 2020.
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Pakistan's supreme court has ruled that a move by the prime minister to dissolve parliament is illegal, ending a political crisis — for now.
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Pakistan's supreme court has ruled that a move by the prime minister to dissolve parliament is illegal, ending a political crisis — for now.
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PICTURE THIS
ROOMS OF THEIR OWN
by Alex Johnson (Frances Lincoln £19.99, 192pp)
ROOMS OF THEIR OWN by Alex Johnson (Frances Lincoln £19.99, 192pp)
There’s something fascinating about seeing the spot where much-loved writers conjured up our favourite stories, as well as finding out any intriguing habits they had.
It’s well known that J.K. Rowling created much of Harry Potter in Edinburgh cafes, but did you know that Mark Twain wrote in his billiard room so that he could distract himself when stuck, or that Marcel Proust and Truman Capote favoured writing horizontally? This charming book, with gorgeous illustrations from James Oses, gives colour to any bookworm’s curiosity and illuminates how their favourite authors interpreted ‘a room of one’s own’.
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Oil major, Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) has clarified that it is not one of the partners of the Nigeria Natural Liquified Gas (NLNG).
The company also said that it is not of the NLNG gas supply system.
General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Esimaje Brikinn, in a statement, said “The attention of Chevron Nigeria Limited (“CNL”), operator of the joint venture between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (“NNPC”) and CNL, has been drawn to reports widely circulated in the media on April 5, 2022 alleging that CNL is one of the partners hindering full operation of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (“NLNG”) by not allowing the transportation of third-party gas through its pipelines to increase gas supply to the plant.
“CNL wishes to clarify that the statement must have been made in error as CNL is not one of the NLNG partners and is not part of the NLNG gas supplier system.
While welcoming new Italian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Sefano De Leo, to his office, on Monday in Abuja, the Minister of State Petroleum Resources Chief Timipre Sylva, had urged NLNG partners to relax their rules and allow third parties to transport gas through their pipelines to the NLNG Trains, in order to ease supply constraints.
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The first time my daughter, Rosy, was exposed to SARS-CoV-2, I panicked.
It was November 2020, before vaccines were available. Someone in Rosy's class had tested positive and been contagious in the classroom for two days. So we all quarantined at home and braced ourselves for a horrible few weeks of sickness.
But after 10 days, nothing had happened. Rosy never showed signs of an infection and never tested positive. She had dodged the virus.
Then about 10 months later, the same thing happened. And again 2 weeks later. And 4 months later. After each exposure, we did the same routine: Quarantine. Wait. And test repeatedly.
Over the course of the pandemic, my daughter has been exposed to SARS-Cov-2 at least 4 times. Mostly at school. Once at a party. Every time, somehow, she seems to have escaped an infection.
So my question is why?
Of course, the simplest answer is that she has been infected, and we just didn't know it. Despite all of our testing, we missed it. An analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that at least 58% of children under age 18 – that's about 42 million children – had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 as of January 22. Yet the U.S. has recorded only about 13 million pediatric cases. So many COVID cases among kids have gone unnoticed, unreported or undetected. And Rosy could fall into that category.
But she's also just as likely to fall into another category – kids who have been exposed to COVID but who haven't caught it.
So how has Rosy done it? How has she seemingly pulled this rabbit from the hat, or in this case pulled the coronavirus from her nose?
Over the past year, several studies have offered a tantalizing hint: Some people, even before being vaccinated, are really good at clearing the virus from their respiratory tracts and do it so quickly that the virus never reaches detectable levels. And the immune system accomplishes this coup d'etat with two key tools: immune cells originally made to fight another coronavirus – there are four key ones out there – and an arm of the immune system that gets little attention in the media but is doing a huge amount of work to protect us all from SARS-CoV-2.
Exposure to another coronavirus could be protecting Rosy against SARS-CoV-2
Back in November, immunologists at the University College London published a study in the journal Nature that left many other scientists a bit surprised. The study presented striking evidence that prior exposure to another coronavirus can prepare the immune system to fight off SARS-CoV-2. "Before we published the full data, there were some people who said, 'Oh, how is it possible?" says Mala Maini, who led the research.
In the study, Maini and her colleagues analyzed the blood of about 60 health-care workers at a hospital over and over again. It was during the first wave of the pandemic, when vaccines weren't available. The workers repeatedly tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 despite being heavily exposed.
Maini started to wonder if these health workers had, inside their blood, some type of protective element against SARS-CoV-2. That perhaps their previous encounters with other coronaviruses – before the COVID pandemic began – had generated immune cells that could fight off a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
"That's what it looked like in this small subset of people," Maini says.
Inside the blood of 20 health-care workers, she and her team found a special group of T cells that could do just that: recognize and stop SARS-CoV-2.
These special cells are called cross-reactive T cells. In general, T cells are thought to be second-line defenders in the immune system hierarchy, Maini says. "First antibodies come in and protect you against infection, and then T cells mop up the infected cells."
But in her study, the T cells appear at a very early stage of the infection, before the body can make antibodies. "There's increasing amount of data in SARS-CoV-2 that the T cells are having an unexpectedly early effect." And they seem to stop the infection in its tracks because the virus never reaches detectable levels in the health-care workers' respiratory tracts. (The cells are called "cross-reactive" because they recognize several different types of coronaviruses. So just like cross-training involves several different sports, cross-reactive cells work on several different viruses.)
As the pandemic surged, 19 of these 60 health workers eventually showed signs of a nascent infection. At the same time, these cross-reactive T cells rapidly replicated inside the health-care workers' blood, and right away the infection stopped. The appearance of the T cells coincided with the cessation of the infection. They appeared to stymy the infection, Maini and her colleagues theorize. "It looks as if the T cells were able to protect them from a full-blown overt infection," she says.
In contrast, in blood samples taken from health-care workers who did test positive for SARS-CoV-2, these cross-reactive T cells were missing or present but at much lower levels. "People who had higher levels of these cross-reactive T cells, at the baseline, didn't get infected versus the group who didn't," she adds.
And here's the kicker: These special T cells likely arose in the health-care workers before the pandemic began. Their immune systems likely generated them when they were infected with another of the several coronaviruses that can strike humans.
"We don't know that for sure, but the most likely candidate would be the common cold coronaviruses that we're all exposed to," Maini says.
About 30% of colds are caused by four other coronaviruses known as seasonal coronavirus (because they typically come around in winter and cause winter colds). These viruses circulate around the world and have been making people sick for decades, perhaps even centuries. Basically every kid catches all four of them before age 5 or 6.
Even though these seasonal coronaviruses typically don't cause more than a runny nose and cough, your body still has to clear out the virus to prevent it from turning into a more serious problem. And to do that, the immune system makes antibodies and T cells that recognize these coronaviruses. Some of these T cells stick around and watch out for for the virus - or a similar one – to return again. The others die; the body can't afford to keep a whole T cell arsenal at the ready.
If you're lucky – and have the right genes – some of these T cells will also be able to recognize and help stop SARS-CoV-2. Maini estimates these cross-reactive T cells occur in only 10 to 15% of people.
Those previous coronaviruses that "have infected you can influence whether you have a response from cross-reactive T cells," says Brianne Barker, who's an immunologist at Drew University in New Jersey. In other words, all the colds Rosy (and I) endured before the pandemic could be helping her fight off SARS-CoV-2 via cross-reactive T cells.
Now, there are many caveats to this study. For starters, Maini says, the experiment occurred during the first wave of the pandemic, when the virus was quite different than it is now. She doesn't know if these cross reactive T cells would be able to stop omicron. "So in the first wave, the virus wasn't as infectious as, for example, omicron," Maini says.
Also, the study finds only a correlation between the cross-reactive T cells and protection against infection. "It's an association," says immunologist Donna Farber at Columbia University. "I think it's difficult to say what actually prevented the infection. There are a variety of mechanisms that can just stop the virus in its tracks." (We'll get to a few of those in the next section of this story).
That said, another study, published in Nature Communications in January, supports a role for cross-reactive T cells in fighting a SARS-CoV-2 infection. That study analyzed immune responses in people living with an infected household member. Again, the presence of cross-reactive T cells correlated with protection against infection.
On top of all that, T cells aren't the only immune component that can do this cross-reacting. Antibodies made to fight off seasonal coronavirus can also recognize SARS-CoV-2, says Raiees Andrabi, who's a vaccine immunologist at Scripps Research Institute. He and his team have evidence that the immune system brings these seasonal coronavirus antibodies back into action when you're exposed to SARS-CoV-2. "You can see a spike in the antibody levels when you're infected or immunized," Andrabi says.
But, he says, researchers don't know yet how much protection these cross-reactive antibodies offer in terms of fighting the infection. "There's not any concrete evidence from the literature that these antibodies can protect against severe disease."
Rosy's Immune System Is RIG-ed Up For Protecting Against Any Virus
Even if Rosy's immune system doesn't have cross-reactive antibodies or cross-reactive T cells to protect her from SARS-Cov-2, there's an 100% guarantee she has another protective device. And it's a powerful one.
SARS-CoV-2 is crafty. It has figured out how to sneak inside the cells of our respiratory tract quite easily. But once inside, the cell has its own trick up its sleeve.
It's called the RIG-I pathway. In a nutshell, it's an early-warning system for viruses which not only destroys the virus inside the cell but also prevents the virus from spreading to surrounding cells.
Inside your respiratory cells, tiny molecules, called RIG-I receptors, recognize and bind to a virus's genome (specifically its RNA). Once a RIG-I receptor sticks to a piece of viral RNA, it launches a massive immune response. "It tries to limit the viral infection as well as warn its neighbors so other cells can also go into an antiviral response" – and not get infected, too, says Drew University's Brianne Barker. Eventually, this response kills the infected cell, protects surrounding cells from infection and possibly brings in immune cells (like T cells) to help control the infection.
There's evidence the RIG-I pathway can clear out a SARS-CoV-2 infection before viral loads reach detectable levels, or the immune system even has a chance to make antibodies, Barker says. "That's the idea."
Just as with cross-reactive T cells, some people are better able to detect SARS-Cov-2 inside their cells and stomp out the infection more quickly.
"Yes, there's evidence that some people are making a stronger RIG-I response, and that's helping them clear the virus," Barker says. "A lot of people hypothesize that's what's going on with children."
For example, one study, published last month in Nature Biotechnology, found that, compared to adults, children have more RIG-I receptors inside their nasal cells. And this higher concentration helps them respond more quickly to an infection.
"Yes, there's emerging data that this immune response in children is a little bit more sensitive and may react a bit stronger to different viral infections," Barker adds.
But at the end of the day, she says, Rosy's response to a SARS-CoV-2 exposure, in many ways, boils down to luck. It depends on her previous encounters with other coronaviruses as well as her genes. The latter determine how many RIG-I receptors she has inside her cells and how strongly they react to SARS-Cov-2, Barker says.
Finally, children are really, really good at stopping infections with any new virus, says Donna Farber at Columbia University, because to them, essentially all viruses are "new" (except the ones they encountered through vaccines).
"For adults, a new pathogen is a really rare event. We hardly ever see new ones, right? But children are adapted to respond to new pathogens," she says. "They're ready to respond and they do it more efficiently than we do."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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The US Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, securing her place as the first black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.
Ms Jackson, a 51 year-old appeals court judge with nine years of experience on the federal bench, was confirmed 53-47, mostly along party lines but with three Republican votes.
Presiding was Vice President Kamala Harris, also the first black woman to reach that high office.
Ms Jackson will take her seat when Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer, solidifying the liberal wing of the 6-3 conservative-dominated court.
She joined Mr Biden at the White House to watch the vote, embracing as it came in.
During the four days of Senate hearings last month, Ms Jackson spoke of her parents’ struggles through racial segregation and said her “path was clearer” than theirs as a black American after the enactment of civil rights laws.
She attended Harvard University, served as a public defender, worked at a private law firm and was appointed as a member of the US Sentencing Commission.
She told senators she would apply the law “without fear or favour”, and pushed back on Republican attempts to portray her as too lenient on criminals she had sentenced.
Ms Jackson will be just the third black justice, after Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, and the sixth woman.
She will join three other women, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan Amy Coney Barrett – meaning that four of the nine justices will be women for the first time in history.
Her eventual elevation to the court will be a respite for Democrats who fought three bruising battles over former president Donald Trump’s nominees and watched Republicans cement a conservative majority in the final days of Mr Trump’s term with the confirmation of Coney Barrett.
While Ms Jackson will not change the balance, she will secure a legacy on the court for Mr Biden and fulfil his 2020 campaign pledge to nominate the first black female justice.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said ahead of the vote that Ms Jackson’s confirmation would be a “joyous day – joyous for the Senate, joyous for the Supreme Court, joyous for America”.
Despite the efforts to tarnish her record, Ms Jackson eventually won three GOP votes. The final tally was far from the overwhelming bipartisan confirmations for Mr Breyer and other justices in decades past, but it was still a significant bipartisan accomplishment for Mr Biden in the 50-50 split Senate after GOP senators aggressively worked to paint Ms Jackson as too liberal and soft on crime.
Statements from Sens Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney all said the same thing — they might not always agree with Ms Jackson, but they found her to be enormously well qualified for the job.
Ms Collins and Ms Murkowski both decried increasingly partisan confirmation fights, which only worsened during the battles over Mr Trump’s three picks.
Ms Collins said the process was “broken” and Ms Murkowski called it “corrosive” and “more detached from reality by the year.”
Mr Biden, a veteran of a more bipartisan Senate, said from the day of Mr Breyer’s retirement announcement in January that he wanted support from both parties for his history-making nominee, and he invited Republicans to the White House as he made his decision.
It was an attempted reset from Mr Trump’s presidency, when Democrats vociferously opposed the three nominees, and from the end of President Barack Obama’s, when Republicans blocked nominee Merrick Garland from getting a vote.
Once sworn in, Ms Jackson will be the second youngest member of the court after Ms Barrett, 50. She will join a court on which no-one is yet 75, the first time that has happened in nearly 30 years.
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The ladies are back with their thoughts on the updates of Will Smith vs The Academy. Are they still on different sides? Plus, Blac Chyna threw Twitter in a tizzy after her baby daddies clap back at her. And lastly, Eva and Lore’l talk about being with a Russell Wilson vs a Future and the podcast that stirred up controversy over this.
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Canadian Market Ends On Weak Note
(RTTNews) - After languishing in the red right through the day's session, the Canadian market ended notably lower on Wednesday as worries about inflation and the possibility of aggressive monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve rendered the mood bearish.
Technology and energy stocks were among the major losers. Shares from real estate, financials and industrials sections too posted sharp losses. Utilities and communications shares had a good outing.
The benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index ended down by 142.23 points or 0.65% at 21,788.60. The index touched a high of 21,894.54 and a low of 21,702.10 in the session.
The Information Technology Capped Index drifted down 3.3%. Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD.TO) plunged 7.46%, Shopify Inc (SHOP.TO) ended 6.4% down, Hut 8 Mining Corp (HUT.TO) and Nuvei Corp (NVEI.TO) both shed about 5%, while Descartes Systems Group (DSG.TO) declined 4.7%.
Energy stocks declined as oil prices tumbled after data showed an increase in U.S. crude stockpiles, and the International Energy Agency announced it would release 120 million barrels of oil from its reserves.
Vermilion Energy (VET.TO), Whitecap Resources (WCP.TO), Nuvista Energy (NVA.TO), Crescent Point Energy (CPG.TO), Baytex Energy (BTE.TO), Cenovus Energy (CVE.TO) and MEG Energy (MEG.TO) declined 2.7 to 5.8%.
Among financials shares, CDN Western Bank (CWB.TO), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM.TO), National Bank of Canada (NA.TO), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS.TO) and Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD.TO) lost 1 to 2.2%.
In the Utilities section, Transalta Corp (TA.TO), Boralex Inc (BLX.TO), Northland Power (NPI.TO), Innergex Renewables (INE.TO), Capital Power Corp (CPX.TO), Transalta Renewables (RNW.TO) and Hydro One (H.TO) gained 2 to 4%.
Communications shares Quebecor (QBR.B.TO) and Cogeco Communications (CCA.TO) gained 2.7% and 1.7%, respectively. BCE Inc (BCE.TO), Rogers Communications (RCI.B.TO) and Telus Corp (T.TO) gained 1 to 1.1%.
On the economic front, a report from Richard Ivey School of Business showed the Ivey Purchasing Managers Index in Canada increased to 74.2 in March of 2022 from 60.6 in the prior month. Analysts had expected the index to 60. The reading was the highest since May 2006.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
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STAMFORD, Conn., April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- O'Donnell Learn+ISG and Northeastern University are building on an extensive partnership with the launch of the Faculty Success Program. This service is grounded in O'Donnell Learn+ISG's Faculty Concierge, which provides institutions with scalable, high-touch, and quality faculty learning experience design and delivery consultation.
As a global research university and recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning, Northeastern continuously innovates the way high-quality instruction is delivered. Many of Northeastern University's courses are led by adjunct faculty, who bring valuable experience from their field into the classroom. However, while these faculty are experts in their subject area, many do not have the in-depth knowledge of online course delivery necessary to create exceptional online learning experiences. Jared Auclair, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Professional Programs and Graduate Affairs for Northeastern University College of Science, recognized the challenges these instructors face in translating their experience and expertise to online. Dr. Auclair turned to O'Donnell Learn+ISG to bridge the gaps within the internal team and provide expert, scaled support for their faculty.
Leveraging the dynamic instructor services and technology platform offered by the Faculty Concierge, O'Donnell Learn+ISG developed the Faculty Success Program. This short-term, curated service meets faculty where they are with proactive outreach, one-on-one consultation, tips, and resources. This empowers them to create purposeful online learning experiences while using their time effectively.
"Through the Faculty Success Program, the University is able to bolster existing resources on the campus level, and provide personalized support to faculty in designing and delivering humanized, inclusive and engaged learning," said John Falchi, Senior Vice President, Growth and Product Strategy. Dr. Auclair recognizes the value, "The Faculty Success Program provides crucial online learning support to our faculty, thus ensuring the success of both students and faculty."
O'Donnell Learn+ISG and Northeastern are working as true partners in developing the program and promoting faculty learning design support at scale. Since 2018, this partnership with the University has contributed to the development of over 100 courses, including projects with the Lowell Institute, D'Amore McKim School of Business, Khoury School of Computer Science, and the Global Resilience Institute. Beyond the Faculty Success Program, the partners are currently developing courses that address data science skills gaps in the production engineering workforce.
O'Donnell Learn+ISG and Northeastern will present the findings from the program during the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Annual Innovate Conference on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, in Dallas, TX.
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The European Union nations have agreed to ban Russian coal in the first sanctions on the vital energy industry over the war in Ukraine, but it has underlined the 27 countries' inability to agree so far on a much more sweeping embargo on oil and natural gas that would hit Russia harder but risk recession at home.
The coal ban should cost Russia 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) a year, the EU’s executive commission said. Energy analysts and coal importers say Europe could replace Russian supply in a few months from other countries, including the U.S.
The move is significant because it breaks the taboo on severing Europe's energy ties with Russia. It's also certain to fuel already record-high inflation. But compared with natural gas and oil, coal is by far the easiest to cut off quickly and inflicts far less damage on Russian President Vladimir Putin's war chest and the European economy. The EU pays Russia $20 million a day for coal — but $850 million a day for oil and gas.
Shocking pictures of bodies in the Ukrainian town of Bucha are keeping discussion of broader sanctions alive, with EU officials saying they're working on targeting Russian oil.
While the EU ponders additional sanctions, Italian Premier Mario Draghi said no embargo of Russian natural gas is up for consideration now.
“And I don’t know if it ever will be on the table,’’ he told reporters Wednesday.
EU countries, especially big economies like Italy and Germany, rely heavily on Russian natural gas to heat and cool homes, generate electricity and keep industry churning.
Still, Draghi said, “the more horrendous this war gets, the allied countries will ask, in the absence of our direct participation in the war, what else can this coalition of allies do to weaken Russia, to make it stop.”
In case a gas embargo is proposed, Italy “will be very happy to follow it” if that would make peace possible, Draghi said. “If the price of gas can be exchanged for peace ... what do we choose? Peace? Or to have the air conditioning running in the summer?"
For now, even the coal ban brings worrying consequences for politicians and consumers. Germany and EU members in Eastern Europe still generate a large share of their power from coal despite a yearslong transition toward cleaner energy sources.
“The coal ban means European consumers will have to brace for high power prices throughout this year,” according to a Rystad Energy statement.
Higher prices in countries that use more coal will spread across the EU through its well-connected power grid, the energy research company said. That will bring more pain. Europe has been facing high energy prices for months over a supply crunch, and jitters over the war have sent them even higher.
Governments already have been rolling out cash support and tax relief for consumers hit by higher utility bills. High energy prices have pushed inflation in the 19 member countries that use the euro currency to a record 7.5%.
Commodities analyst Barbara Lambrecht at German bank Commerzbank said EU governments likely could agree on a coal embargo because it would take effect after three months and only apply to new contracts. The downside is the limited impact on Russia, with coal only 3.5% of its exports and only a quarter going to the EU.
Germany’s coal importer’s association said Russian coal could be completely replaced from the U.S., South Africa, Colombia, Mozambique and Indonesia “by next winter” — at higher prices.
European coal futures prices jumped after the EU announced the coal proposal, from around $255 per ton to $290 per ton. It was approved by the EU ambassadors and the sanctions should become official once published in the EU's official journal on Friday.
The big debate remains oil and natural gas, with the European Union dependent on Russia for 40% of its gas and 25% of its oil. It's tougher for Europe to cut off than the U.S., which imported little Russian oil and no gas and has banned both.
Yet European Council President Charles Michel said, “I believe that measures on oil and even on gas will also be needed sooner or later.”
It's difficult for the EU to agree on energy sanctions because countries like Germany, Italy and Bulgaria are much more dependent on Russian gas in particular than others. Europe has scrambled to get additional gas through pipelines from Norway and Algeria and with more liquefied gas that comes by ship, but those global supplies are limited.
For now, the EU's plan is to cut dependence on Russian gas by two-thirds by year's end and completely over the next several years by stepping up alternative supplies, conservation and wind and solar.
Germany has reduced its reliance on Russian natural gas from 55% to 40%, but the government says the consequences to jobs from a cutoff would be too great.
Germany's steelmaking association, for instance, has warned of forced shutdowns that would throw people out of their jobs or onto government support and send shortages of basic parts rippling through the rest of the economy.
Energy Minister Robert Habeck says the country will halt Russian coal this summer, oil by year's end and gas in mid-2024.
Oil would be easier to ban than natural gas, because like coal, there's a large and liquid global market for oil and it comes mostly by ship, not fixed pipeline like gas.
But it's not problem-free either. Russia is the world's largest oil exporter, with 12% of global supply. Taking its oil to Europe off the market would drive up prices from other exporters, such as Saudi Arabia, when supplies are already tight.
Russia might simply sell the oil to India and China, which aren't taking part in sanctions — although the price Moscow gets might be lower.
The economic hit from a full energy cutoff range from a drop of 1.2% to 2.2% of gross domestic product in the 19 countries using the euro, plus 2 percentage points of additional inflation, recent economist estimates say.
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This story has been corrected to show that the EU pays $20 million for coal and $850 million for oil and gas every day, not those amounts in euros.
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- Q1 2022 Consolidated Revenue estimated to be in the range of $165-$175 million
- Q1 2022 Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA estimated to be in the range of $77-$82 million
TORONTO, April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Quarterhill Inc. ("Quarterhill") (TSX: QTRH) (OTCQX: QTRHF), today announces an update on select preliminary consolidated financial results estimated for the three-month period ended March 31, 2022 ("Q1 2022"). All financial information in this press release is unaudited and is reported in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise indicated.
Driven by the anticipation of strong results from its operating subsidiaries, Quarterhill estimates its consolidated revenue for Q1 2022 to be in the range of $165-$175 million and its consolidated Adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $77-$82 million.
Quarterhill will report its Q1 2022 financial results in early May 2022, with further details regarding its timing being made available closer to the release date.
Quarterhill is a leading provider of tolling and enforcement solutions in the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) industry, as well as, through its Wi-LAN Inc. subsidiary, a leader in Intellectual Property licensing. Our goal is global leadership in ITS, via organic growth of the Electronic Transaction Consultants, LLC (ETC) and International Road Dynamics, Inc. (IRD) platforms, and by continuing an acquisition-oriented investment strategy that capitalizes on attractive growth opportunities within ITS and its adjacent markets. Quarterhill is listed on the TSX under the symbol QTRH and on the OTCQX Best Market under the symbol QTRHF. For more information: www.quarterhill.com.
Quarterhill uses both IFRS and certain non-IFRS financial measures to assess performance. Non-IFRS financial measures are financial measures disclosed by a company that (a) depict historical or expected future financial performance, financial position or cash flow of a company, (b) with respect to their composition, exclude amounts that are included in, or include amounts that are excluded from the composition of the most directly comparable financial measure disclosed in the primary financial statements of the company, (c) are not disclosed in the financial statements of the company and (d) are not a ratio, fraction, percentage or similar representation. Non-IFRS ratios are financial measures disclosed by a company that are in the form of a ratio, fraction, percentage or similar representation that has a non-IFRS financial measure as one or more of its components, and that are not disclosed in the financial statements of the company.
These non-IFRS financial measures and non-IFRS ratios are not standardized financial measures under IFRS, and, therefore, are unlikely to be comparable to similar financial measures presented by other companies. Management believes these non-IFRS financial measures and non-IFRS ratios provide transparent and useful supplemental information to help investors evaluate our financial performance, financial condition, and liquidity using the same measures as management. These non-IFRS financial measures and non-IFRS ratios should not be considered as a substitute for, or superior to, measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with IFRS.
Adjusted EBITDA - Non-IFRS Financial Measures
We use the non-IFRS financial measure "Adjusted EBITDA" to mean net (loss) income adjusted for (i) income taxes, (ii) finance expense or income; (iii) amortization and impairment of intangibles; (iv) other charges and other on-time items; (v) depreciation of right-of-use assets and property, plant and equipment; (vi) stock- based compensation; (vii) foreign exchange (gain) loss; and (viii) other income which includes equity in earnings from joint ventures, and (ix) dividends received from joint ventures. Adjusted EBITDA is used by our management to assess our normalized cash generated on a consolidated basis and in our operating segments. Adjusted EBITDA is also a performance measure that may be used by investors to analyze the cash generated by Quarterhill and our operating segments. Adjusted EBITDA should not be interpreted as an alternative to net loss and cash flows from operations as determined in accordance with IFRS or as measure of liquidity. The most directly comparable IFRS financial measure is Net (loss) income.
This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding Quarterhill and its business. Forward- looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by Quarterhill in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and the expected effects of new business strategies, as well as other factors that Quarterhill believes are appropriate in the circumstances. The forward-looking events and circumstances discussed herein may not occur and could differ materially as a result of known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting Quarterhill, including: potential risks and uncertainties relating to the ultimate geographic spread of the novel coronavirus ("COVID-19"); the severity of the disease; the duration of the COVID-19 outbreak; actions that may be taken by governmental authorities to contain the COVID-19 outbreak or to treat its impact; the potential negative impacts of COVID-19 on the global economy and financial markets and any resulting impact on Quarterhill and/or its business. Other factors include, without limitation, the risks described in Quarterhill's March 20, 2022 annual information form for the year ended December 31, 2021 (the "AIF"). In addition, readers are also urged to review the additional risk factors disclosed in our Management's Discussion and Analysis for our three months and year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 filed on www.sedar.com. Quarterhill recommends that readers review and consider all of these risk factors and notes that readers should not place undue reliance on any of Quarterhill's forward-looking statements. Quarterhill has no intention, and undertakes no obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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LONDON (AP) — In the latest Senate package targeted at stopping the coronavirus, U.S. lawmakers dropped nearly all funding for curbing the virus beyond American borders, a move many health experts slammed as dangerously short-sighted.
They warn the suspension of COVID-19 aid for poorer countries could ultimately allow the kind of unchecked transmission needed for the next worrisome variant to emerge and unravel much of the progress achieved so far.
The U.S. has been the biggest contributor to the global pandemic response, delivering more than 500 million vaccines, and the lack of funding will be a major setback. The money has paid for numerous interventions, including a mass vaccination campaign in the Cameroonian capital that saw hundreds of thousands of people get their first dose, as well as the construction of a COVID-19 care facility in South Africa and the donation of 1,000 ventilators to that country.
Other U.S.-funded vaccination campaigns in dozens of countries, including Uganda, Zambia, Ivory Coast and Mali, could also come to a grinding halt.
“Any stoppage of funds will affect us,” said Misaki Wayengera, a Ugandan official who heads a technical committee advising the government on the pandemic response. He said Uganda has leaned heavily on donor help — it received more than 11 million vaccines from the U.S. — and that any cuts “would make it very difficult for us to make ends meet.”
“This is a bit of a kick in the teeth to poor countries that were promised billions of vaccines and resources last year in grand pledges made by the G7 and the G20,” said Michael Head, a global health research fellow at Britain’s Southampton University.
“Given how badly we’ve failed on vaccine equity, it’s clear all of those promises have now been broken,” he said, adding that without concerted effort and money to fight COVID-19 in the coming months, the pandemic could persist for years.
While about 66% of the American population has been fully immunized against the coronavirus, fewer than 15% of people in poorer countries have received a single dose. Health officials working on COVID-19 vaccination in developing countries supported by the U.S. say they expect to see a reversal of progress once the funds disappear.
“Vaccination will stop or not even get started in some countries,” said Rachel Hall, executive director of U.S. government advocacy at the charity CARE. She cited estimates from USAID that the suspended funding would mean scrapping testing, treatment and health services for about 100 million people.
Although vaccines are more plentiful this year, many poorer countries have struggled to get shots into arms and hundreds of millions of donated vaccines have either expired, been returned or sat unused. To address those logistical hurdles, U.S. aid has financed critical services in countries across Africa, including the safe delivery of vaccines, training health workers and fighting vaccine misinformation.
For example, in November the U.S. Embassy in the Cameroonian capital set up a tent for mass vaccination: Within the first five days, more than 300,000 people received a dose. Those kinds of events will now be harder to conduct without American funds.
Hall also noted there would be consequences far beyond COVID-19, saying countries struggling with multiple disease outbreaks, like Congo and Mali, would face difficult choices.
“They will have to choose between fighting Ebola, malaria, polio, COVID and more,” she said.
Jeff Zients, the outgoing leader of the White House COVID-19 task force, expressed regret the legislation doesn’t include resources for the international pandemic fight, noting that would also compromise efforts to track the virus’ genetic evolution.
“It is a real disappointment that there’s no global funding in this bill,” he said. “This virus knows no borders, and it’s in our national interest to vaccinate the world and protect against possible new variants.”
Still, Zients announced the U.S. would be the first to donate “tens of millions” of doses for children to poorer countries and said more than 20 nations had already requested the shots.
J. Stephen Morrison, director of the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, lamented that lawmakers were erring on the side of optimism about the pandemic precisely when another surge might be arriving.
“We’ve made that mistake several times in this pandemic. And we may be making that mistake again,” he said. In recent weeks, COVID-19 cases caused by the hugely infectious omicron subvariant BA.2 have surged across Europe, and American officials say they expect a U.S. spike soon.
Other experts worried the suspension of U.S. global support for COVID-19 might prompt officials to drop current vaccination goals. The World Health Organization had set a target of immunizing at least 70% of people in all countries by the middle of this year, but with nearly 50 countries vaccinating fewer than 20% of their populations, hitting that target is highly unlikely.
Instead, some organizations like the Rockefeller Foundation and Duke University have pushed for officials to “refocus vaccination goals away from vaccinating 70% of all adults by summer to vaccinating 90% of those most at-risk in each country,” in what some critics say is an implicit acknowledgment of the world’s repeated failures to share vaccines fairly.
In Nigeria, which has so far received at least $143 million in COVID-19 aid from the U.S, authorities dismissed suggestions their coronavirus programs would suffer as a result of lost funding. The Nigerian president’s office said help from the U.S. was mostly “in kind” via capacity building, research support and donations of laboratory equipment and vaccines. “We are confident that this will not cause any disruption of our current programs,” it said.
However, others warned the U.S. decision set an unfortunate precedent for global cooperation to end the pandemic at a time when fresh concerns like the Ukraine war are drawing more attention.
U.S. President Joe Biden originally planned to convene a virtual summit in the first quarter of this year to keep international efforts on track, but no event has been scheduled.
“In light of the ongoing war in Ukraine, we don’t yet have a final date for the summit, but we are working closely with countries and international partners to advance commitments,” said a senior Biden administration official who was not authorized to comment publicly.
As of this month, WHO said it had gotten only $1.8 billion of the $16.8 billion needed from donors to speed access to coronavirus vaccines, medicines and diagnostics.
“Nobody else is stepping up to fill the void at the moment and the U.S. decision to suspend funding may lead other donor countries to act similarly,” said Dr. Krishna Udayakumar, director of Duke University’s Global Health Innovation Center.
Keri Althoff, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, described the U.S. suspension of funding as “devastating.”
“How could this possibly be what we’re debating right now?" she asked. “It’s a moral obligation to the rest of the world to continue to contribute to this global pandemic response, not only to protect ourselves but to protect people from around the world.”
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Megerian reported from Washington. AP writers Rodney Muhumuza in Kampala, Uganda; Mogomotsi Magome and Andrew Meldrum in Johannesburg, and Chinedu Asadu in Lagos, Nigeria, contributed to this report.
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Patriot Investment Management Inc. boosted its holdings in iShares Edge MSCI Min Vol USA Small-Cap ETF (BATS:SMMV – Get Rating) by 4.1% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 14,957 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 585 shares during the period. Patriot Investment Management Inc.’s holdings in iShares Edge MSCI Min Vol USA Small-Cap ETF were worth $584,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Several other large investors have also recently made changes to their positions in SMMV. Strategic Asset Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of iShares Edge MSCI Min Vol USA Small-Cap ETF in the 3rd quarter valued at $34,000. Private Ocean LLC bought a new stake in shares of iShares Edge MSCI Min Vol USA Small-Cap ETF during the third quarter valued at approximately $45,000. Certified Advisory Corp grew its stake in shares of iShares Edge MSCI Min Vol USA Small-Cap ETF by 17.5% during the third quarter. Certified Advisory Corp now owns 8,487 shares of the company’s stock valued at $315,000 after purchasing an additional 1,263 shares during the last quarter. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC acquired a new position in iShares Edge MSCI Min Vol USA Small-Cap ETF in the third quarter valued at approximately $584,000. Finally, Fifth Third Securities Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of iShares Edge MSCI Min Vol USA Small-Cap ETF during the fourth quarter worth $628,000.
Shares of SMMV traded up $0.13 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $37.36. The stock had a trading volume of 40,213 shares. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $36.43 and a 200-day simple moving average of $37.50. iShares Edge MSCI Min Vol USA Small-Cap ETF has a one year low of $26.20 and a one year high of $31.04.
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The Oakland A’s finalized their 2022 Opening Day roster on Thursday, a day before they start the season in Philadelphia.
The turnover within even a single year is rather stunning to consider, in totality: Only nine players from their initial 2021 roster are in the 2022 starting group, even with two extra roster spots this year.
After rumors picked up in November and persisted during MLB’s owner-imposed lockout, Oakland traded away four star players during the abbreviated spring training: third baseman Matt Chapman, first baseman Matt Olson and starting pitchers Chris Bassitt and Sean Manaea. They also let several players leave as free agents, most notably outfielders Mark Canha and Starling Marte (who was acquired in a July trade for pitcher Jesús Luzardo).
Of the 13 pitchers the A’s carried on their initial 26-man roster in 2021, only three remain: Opening Day starter Frankie Montas, left-handed starter Cole Irvin and closer Lou Trivino.
It’s only slightly better on the position player side, as six players remain a year later: infielders Elvis Andrus, Jed Lowrie, Chad Pinder and Tony Kemp, outfielder Stephen Piscotty and catcher Sean Murphy. Ramón Laureano is still with Oakland, but he’ll miss the first 27 games of 2022 as he completes an 80-game performance-enhancing drug suspension.
It leaves the roster to start 2022 with a lot of new faces for A’s fans to learn, though the team did bring back veterans Lowrie and Stephen Vogt for more time in the green and gold.
With rosters expanded to 28 for the month of April as teams work to build up their starting pitchers, the A’s elected to bring 14 pitchers on their initial trip to Philadelphia. Roster rules affecting transactions, like the 13-pitcher limit and the new rule limiting to five the number of times a player can be optioned, won’t go into effect until rosters are reduced back to 26 players on May 1.
The A’s will likely have to make roster moves before the end of the first road trip. New manager Mark Kotsay acknowledged the A’s have unvaccinated players who will have to be put on the restricted list and miss next weekend’s trip to Toronto because of Canada’s COVID travel restrictions.
Several A’s players will be breaking camp on the big league roster for the first time in their careers, getting to enjoy the pomp and circumstance around Opening Day that players know is special.
“It’s definitely a milestone that I wanted to check off the list,” A’s starter Daulton Jeffries said on Tuesday in Scottsdale.
Expectations aren’t high for how the team will perform on the field, with Caesar’s Sportsbook putting the over/under on Oakland wins at 68.5. But the A’s have been known to surprise the baseball industry in the past, and new manager Mark Kotsay still expects the team to compete and try to win.
Here’s a breakdown:
Starting pitchers (5)
- Frankie Montas, RHP
- Cole Irvin, LHP
- Daulton Jeffries, RHP
- Paul Blackburn, RHP
- Adam Oller, RHP
Relief pitchers (9)
- Domingo Acevedo, RHP
- Justin Grimm, RHP
- Zach Jackson, RHP
- Dany Jiménez, RHP
- Jake Lemoine, RHP
- Sam Moll, LHP
- A.J. Puk, LHP
- Kirby Snead, LHP
- Lou Trivino, RHP
Catchers (3)
- Sean Murphy (R/R)
- Austin Allen (L/R)
- Stephen Vogt (L/R), also 1B
Infielders (6)
- Elvis Andrus, SS (R/R)
- Tony Kemp, 2B/SS (L/R)
- Jed Lowrie, 2B/1B (S/R)
- Sheldon Neuse, 2B/3B/1B (R/R), also OF
- Chad Pinder, 2B/3B (R/R), also OF
- Kevin Smith, 3B/SS (R/R)
Outfielders
- Skye Bolt (S/R)
- Seth Brown (L/L), also 1B
- Billy McKinney (L/L), also 1B
- Cristian Pache (R/R)
- Stephen Piscotty (R/R)
Roster moves
- Deolis Guerra, RHP to injured list (60-day)
- Brent Honeywell, RHP to injured list (60-day)
- James Kaprielian, RHP to injured list (15-day)
- Ramón Laureano to suspended list (27 games)
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MONTREAL, April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. ("Turquoise Hill" or the "Company") today provided an update on its review of the unsolicited non-binding proposal from Rio Tinto International Holdings Ltd. ("Rio Tinto"), the Company's majority shareholder, to acquire through a plan of arrangement the approximately 49% of the outstanding shares of Turquoise Hill held by the Company's minority shareholders for cash consideration of C$34.00 per share (the "Proposal").
In response to the Proposal, Turquoise Hill's board of directors formed a Special Committee of independent directors comprised of Maryse Saint-Laurent (Chair), George Burns, Peter Gillin and Russel Robertson (the "Special Committee"). The Special Committee has retained BMO Capital Markets as its financial advisor and Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP as its legal counsel. In addition, the Special Committee has retained TD Securities as an independent valuator to prepare a formal valuation of the common shares of the Company in accordance with Multilateral Instrument 61-101
– Protection of Minority Shareholders in Special Transactions.
In addition to its review and consideration of the Proposal, the Special Committee's mandate includes responsibility for considering the Company's liquidity needs and financing options pending the Company's consideration of the Proposal. The Special Committee will consider whether the Company should proceed with an equity offering to meet its liquidity requirements or consider other financing options, including potential financing from Rio Tinto pending the Special Committee's consideration of the Proposal.
Turquoise Hill does not intend to comment on or disclose further developments regarding the Special Committee's evaluation of the Proposal unless and until it deems further disclosure is appropriate or required. Turquoise Hill shareholders do not need to take any action with respect to the Proposal at this time.
The Proposal is non-binding on Turquoise Hill. There can be no assurance that a transaction will be completed or on what terms.
About Turquoise Hill Resources
Turquoise Hill is an international mining company focused on the operation and continued development of the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia, which is the Company's principal and only material mineral resource property. Turquoise Hill's ownership of the Oyu Tolgoi mine is held through a 66% interest in Oyu Tolgoi LLC); Erdenes Oyu Tolgoi LLC, a Mongolian state-owned entity, holds the remaining 34% interest.
Forward-looking statements and forward-looking information
Certain statements made herein, including statements relating to matters that are not historical facts and statements of the Company's beliefs, intentions and expectations about developments, results and events which will or may occur in the future, constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbour" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements and information relate to future events or future performance, reflect current expectations or beliefs regarding future events and are typically identified by words such as "anticipate", "believe", "could", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "likely", "may", "plan", "seek", "should", "will" and similar expressions suggesting future outcomes or statements regarding an outlook. These include, but are not limited to, statements and information regarding: the Proposal received by the Company from Rio Tinto, including the terms and conditions of the proposal; the Company's review and evaluation of the Proposal by the Special Committee; and other statements that are not historical facts.
Forward-looking statements and information are made based upon certain assumptions and other important factors that, if untrue, could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements or information. There can be no assurance that such statements or information will prove to be accurate. Such statements and information are based on numerous assumptions regarding present and future business strategies, local and global economic conditions, and the environment in which the Company will operate in the future, including: (a) the possibility that the Company, its board of directors, the Special Committee and Rio Tinto cannot come to an agreement on the terms and conditions of a take-private transaction or will not proceed with giving shareholders an opportunity to accept or vote in favour of any take-private transaction; (b) the possibility that the terms and conditions of any definitive agreement in respect of a take-private transaction will differ from those that are currently contemplated by the Proposal; (c) if a definitive agreement is reached, the failure to obtain or satisfy, in a timely manner or otherwise, required shareholder, court and regulatory approvals and other conditions of closing necessary to complete any take-private transaction; (d) credit, market, currency, operational, commodity, geopolitical, liquidity and funding risks generally, including changes in economic conditions, interest rates or tax rates; (e) risks and uncertainties relating to information management, technology, supply chain, product safety, changes in law, competition, seasonality, commodity price and business, (f) the implementation and successful execution by the Company of the updated funding plan for the completion of the Oyu Tolgoi underground mine; and (g) other risks inherent to the Company's business and/or factors beyond its control which could have a material adverse effect on the Company or the ability to consummate any take-private transaction.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information or statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve numerous assumptions, inherent risks and uncertainties, both general and specific, which contribute to the possibility that the predicted outcomes will not occur. Events or circumstances could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those estimated or projected and expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements are included in the "Risks and Uncertainties" section in the 2021 Management Discussion and Analysis ("2021 MD&A").
Readers are further cautioned that the list of factors enumerated in the "Risks and Uncertainties" section of the 2021 MD&A that may affect future results is not exhaustive. When relying on the Company's forward-looking statements and information to make decisions with respect to the Company, investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties and potential events. Furthermore, the forward-looking statements and information contained herein are made as of the date of this document and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update or to revise any of the included forward-looking statements or information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. The forward-looking statements and information contained herein are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
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Man in the Arena: Tom Brady and Simone vs Herself receive nominations for Outstanding Documentary Series
LOS ANGELES, April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Religion of Sports, the award-winning sports media production company founded by Gotham Chopra, Michael Strahan, and Tom Brady announces three Sports Emmy© Award nominations highlighting the brand's prominence in athlete and documentary storytelling. The announcement was made Wednesday by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Religion of Sports had previously been nominated for five Sports Emmy© Awards and have taken home two.
The complete list of Religion of Sports nominations are as follows:
- Outstanding Documentary Series: Man in the Arena (ESPN+)
- Outstanding Editing Long-Form: Man in the Arena (ESPN+)
- Outstanding Documentary Series – Serialized: Simone vs Herself (Facebook Watch)
Man in the Arena: Tom Brady is a 10-episode documentary series which explores all the triumphs and tribulations that made Brady the greatest NFL quarterback of all time. Each episode focuses on a single Super Bowl appearance, and everything that led to some of the greatest games in football history, with guest appearances from some of the most influential people in Tom's life to discuss their relationships with the famed athlete. Series guests included Gisele Bündchen, Rob Gronkowski, Tedy Bruschi, Randy Moss, Willie McGinest, and many, many more.
Man in the Arena: Tom Brady was recently the focal point of a partnership between Religion of Sports, Autograph, and ESPN, with the announcement of an NFT collection based off the series. As of yesterday, the series is now available on ESPN+, Disney+, and Hulu with the 10th and final episode coming soon.
Simone vs Herself follows the journey of Simone Biles, one of the greatest athletes of all time, as she seeks to further challenge herself and what is possible as a gymnast. A 19-time World Champion and four-time Olympic gold medalist, Simone has already reached the mountaintop. But as the series reveals, there are peaks left to scale while balancing adversity – from adjusting to a postponed Olympics, to conquering the challenges that come with success and the weight of enormous expectations. The series further explores the relationship between athletes and mental health, as Simone boldly tells her story and grants viewers an unprecedented inside look into her life and struggles. Simone vs Herself, which airs on Facebook Watch, garnered over 21 million views, and over 1 million followers on its Facebook Watch page.
Religion of Sports is currently in the process of expanding its content slate and capabilities, recently entering into a partnership with Skydance Media to begin creating scripted content, and with PRX for award-nominated podcasts such as False Idol and Crushed.
A complete list of nominees is available at https://theemmys.tv/sports-43rd-nominations/.
About Religion of Sports
Religion of Sports is an award winning media company founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan and Gotham Chopra. Our work is defined by thoughtful, elevated stories that uncover why sports matter, and distill the spirituality, science and humanity that unite elite performers and people of all kinds. We tell stories that make believers. More at religionofsports.com.
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Karnataka, which has undergone back-to-back controversies in the past few months, starting with the Hijab row, which was followed by the recent campaigns to ban Muslim vendors from setting up shops near temple premises, and the ongoing anti-Halal drive, met with a new controversy on Tuesday with a demand for banning loudspeakers in mosques in the state stirring up fresh debate.
It is pertinent to mention here that similar demands regarding banning loudspeakers in mosques were made by leaders in Maharashtra and West Bengal. In Maharashtra, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Raj Thackeray recently asked the MVA government to remove all loudspeakers from Mosques, stating that otherwise, the party will chant Hanuman Chalisa on loudspeakers in front of mosques. Meanwhile, in West Bengal, BJP MP Roopa Ganguly also opposed the use of loudspeakers in mosques, stating they weren't in practice since the inception of the religion.
Taking note of the ongoing loudspeaker row in the state among other recent controversies, Congress MLA from Karnataka's Chittapur, Priyank Kharge on Tuesday accused the BJP of trying to gain the Hindu vote bank by raising such issues and dared the Union government to stop importing fuels from Islamic nations.
Congress MLA from Chittapur, Priyank Kharge said, "To prove their Hindutva credentials BJP should stop importing fuels from all Islamic nations."
However, in response to Kharge's remarks, BJP leader Malavika Avinash counter-claimed and stated that it was not BJP, but Congress which is trying to gain the minority votes. Avinash further added that the former Congress administration in the state had adopted many anti-majoritarian decisions, which hurt the sentiments of the Hindus.
BJP State spokesperson from Karnataka, Malavika Avinash retaliated to Kharge's statements and said, "We dont want lessons of communal harmony from Priyank Kharge from the Congress Party. They started the Tipu Jayanti, which led to a lot of communal disharmony. BJP, then came to power to prohibit it. Siddaramaiah took many anti-majoritarian decisions unleashed upon the Hindus of Karnataka, which led to communal diharmony in Karnataka. Congress should contiue working on their own waters."
Retorting against Congress' fresh salvo, actor-turned-politician Malavika Avinash said, "Now that the elections are in the offing in Karnataka, opposition parties like Congress, SDPI, JD (S) are all aiming for the same minority vote, especially the Muslim votes." She further added, "They are trying to appease the minorities of the states by accusing BJP of communalising the issue or creating an atmosphere of social intolerance. There is competition among them that compels them to make such statements," It is pertinent to note that the tenure of the incumbent Karnataka government ends in May 2023.
With the controversy brewing up in Karnataka, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader Raj Thackeray too had called for banning loudspeakers in Mosques. He also warned the incumbent MVA administration that if a decision is not adopted regarding the same, then MNS will put loudspeakers in front of Mosques and chant Hanuman Chalisa. The MNS chief, who was addressing his party workers on the occasion of 'Gudi Padwa' at Mumbai's Shivaji Park on Saturday, said, "I am not against prayers. You can pray at your home but the government should take a decision on removing mosque loudspeakers. I am warning you now... Remove loudspeakers or else will put speakers in front of the mosque and play Hanuman Chalisa."
Meanwhile BJP Leader and MP from West Bengal, Roopa Ganguly also waded into the loudspeaker controversy and questioned the use of loudspeakers in Mosques. Speaking to ANI, Gangule asserted there was no concept of putting up loudspeakers on Mosques during the inception of the religion. "I don't understand, did we have the concept of a loudspeaker during the inception of religion? What's the point of it? A religion's campaign shouldn't make others insane. This process of playing loudspeakers 5-10 times a day shouldn't continue."
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Riverdance is at Shea’s this weekend and three women from Williamsville are in it. You can see Kevinah Dargan, Fiona Dargan and Erin Lynch perform on stage.
When asked how do you feel being able to perform together in this production together, Kevinah Dargan says, I mean, Riverdance, we all grew up watching first of all, so for us to be in the show is just a blessing, but for three girls from the same town in Buffalo, New York to be in the cast is almost unheard of, so honestly, we are really blessed to be a part of it and we can’t wait for everyone in Buffalo to actually comes see it.
Kevinah says when Riverdance ended, our tour, because of the pandemic we kind of had to figure our something to do because theaters were shot and says she and Erin teach and Fiona got into real estate. Kevinah goes on to say it’s such an amazing thing for not only our teacher, who taught us all these years to come see us but, now our students to come see the show too, it’s gonna be pretty cool.
When asked if they are traveling, they said no. Kevinah says they are letting us perform in Buffalo, you know they were supposed to let us do that the last tour. Fiona Dargan says we were on the 25th two years ago in 2020 and they are currently redoing the 25th tour so they’ve been on the road, they’re traveling for the next couple of month’s city-to-city so we are just hopping in for the Buffalo show which we are so thankful for.
They tell us the cool thing about Riverdance is that it stayed the same, the choreography, the numbers and that’s what makes it the original and it has been going on for 26 years the exact same way except for the 25th. There are a couple of new costumes, a new number in the show and a new set which they say is really awesome. Kevinah, Fiona and Erin will be in the majority of the main group numbers in the show.
Erin says growing up we practiced every single day and for the training you have to be dancing every day; it’s so strenuous and such high energy but then it also requires technique with turned out feet, steady upper body so you really have to practice a lot.
Erin says this is literally our dream come true; we have dreamed about performing at Shea’s since we were little girls and so we are just hoping to inspire the next generation and show them it is possible; dream big, go for it and we are really excited and hope to inspire our students.
Kevinah says it’s crazy to think that we’ve performed on Broadway, the West End, Radio City Music Hall and we have not performed at Shea’s and that’s the one thing we need to get to and we’re finally getting there. Erin says it make us very emotional.
I can say that we pretty much all we were the little girls in the crowd and now and we all keep saying it all goes full circle and now we are like in so it brings us back to being the 4 year-old cheering in the back.
Riverdance is at Shea’s April 8th - 10th. For more information and tickets got Sheas.org
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Sen. Debbie Stabenow among those confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson to U.S. Supreme Court
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (FOX 2) - Over four days of Senate hearings last month, Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke of her parents struggles through racial segregation and says her path was clearer than theirs as a black American after the enactment of civil rights laws. Now, she's officially been confirmed as the third Black Supreme Court Justice, the seventh woman, and the first Black woman to hold the distinguished position.
Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow was on the floor for Thursday's historic vote and was one of the 53 Senators who voted in favor of her confirmation.
"I am absolutely thrilled. It was very exciting to meet her, to watch her grace and intelligence during 20 hours of hearings," Stabenow said.
The partisan vote was expected, especially after Republicans pressed Jackson on her record, bringing up her representation of Guantánamo Bay detainees as well as her sentencing that she gave to some sex offenders.
Stabenow said her rulings were in line with other judges.
"I think it was incredible the way they exaggerated and took out of context and tried to say she was out of the mainstream when she was very much in that mainstream with other judges - Republicans and Democrats. I found that, for instance, with Senator Graham, who talked about Guantánamo Bay, he supported her for the second-highest court in the land, which is the D C circuit court. He voted Yes, for her, after she had already had those experiences," Stabenow said.
Jackson attended Harvard University and then served as a public defender before working at a private law firm before she was appointed as a member of the U. S Sentencing Commission. Her long history on the bench made it possible for Republicans to find more that they wanted to criticize, according to Oakland University Political Science Associate Professor Diane Hartmus.
"Ketanji Brown Jackson had a significantly longer record as a judge from which to look at four things than any of the recent candidates. She has over 500 opinions as a judge, which does give a lot more ammunition, if you will," Hartmus said.
But Wayne State University Law Professor Robert Sedler said the partisanship has been going on for almost 20 years, when it comes to selecting judges for the Supreme Court.
"The thing that has been troubling to me. Is that she. It's highly qualified to sit on the Supreme Court and in point of fact, so have been all the nominees since 2005 when George W. Bush dominated nochief Justice Roberts and Samuel Alito. What has happened and both parties are guilty of this is that they have politicized the confirmation process," Sedler said.
For many, this is not just history. It's also very personal.
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An honorable mention All-State selection in her sophomore season, Hermsdorf — like her teammates protecting the box — was stingy on defense. The Eagles didn’t allow a goal until the state semifinals. Hermsdorf also had six assists on the attacking end and was a unanimous first team All-Badger North choice.
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- Cheryl Dunye discussed her role in directing Kate and Anthony's sex scenes on "Bridgerton" season two.
- Dunye had numerous conversations about how race played into the couple's sexual dynamic.
- She told Insider she wanted to show Kate as an empowered woman completely in control of her body.
Cheryl Dunye's hands were full as the director for the final episodes of "Bridgerton" season two.
In the final two episodes, "Harmony" and "The Viscount Who Loved Me," the 55-year-old director was responsible for wrapping up an unwieldy amount of storylines, one of which belonged to central couple Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) and Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey).
For six whole episodes of leadup, the characters exchanged cutting jabs and longing gazes. Dunye was tasked with driving their enemies-to-lovers romance home, and that meant directing both of their sex scenes.
During a phone conversation with Insider ahead of the season's March 25th premiere, Dunye discussed her directorial strategy for bringing the couple's intimate moments to the screen.
Dunye considered race while directing season two's intimate moments
While working on "Bridgerton," Dunye said she had many behind-the-scenes discussions about the depth and complexities of its relationships.
"I wouldn't say I had red flags up, but I was always on the lookout for understanding what that relationship meant about race, about sexuality, and about what happened in last season, which had a different dynamic of race and sexuality combined," she explained.
The season-one protagonist Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor), a white English woman, has sex with Simon Basset (Regé-Jean Page), a Black Englishman, for the first time when she's already his wife.
In episode seven, Kate, an Indian woman, is unmarried when she sleeps with Anthony, a white Englishman.
If Kate and Anthony were to get caught together sans chaperone in late 19th-century London high society, his reputation would recover, while hers would not.
While Dunye wanted to depict Kate as a woman who emanates "empowerment," "satisfaction" and "control" during her sex scenes with Anthony, her race and marital status still needed to be factored into their relationship dynamic, Dunye said.
"I really worked with the writers and the team to make sure that was clear. Some people didn't know. They were like, 'Oh my god, I wasn't even thinking about that.' So I was like, 'Yeah, I mean, you cannot see this brown woman giving it up,'" the director explained, adding, "That was something that I really made sure that everybody was on the same page with."
Dunye referenced her experience starring in her own sex scenes in the 1996 film "Watermelon Woman" and directing intimate moments in movies like "Stranger Inside" (2001) during her time working on Anthony and Kate's scene.
"It's always important to know who's in charge of whose body and how people are being pleasured and what the takeaway is and what the empowerment is. So, I wanted to make sure that happened," she told Insider.
Kate and Anthony's dynamic shifts after they married
The couple's second and final sex scene comes at the end of the finale, "The Viscount Who Loved Me," which takes its name from Julia Quinn's 2000 novel. By this point, Anthony and Kate are six months into their marriage, and according to Dunye, their dynamic has shifted.
"Their lovemaking was different in that they were completely equal partners. That was something that we saw that was different but passionately engaged," she told Insider.
Dunye worked closed with Bailey, Ashley, and "Bridgerton" intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot to find "positions where we feel both people being satisfied as partners."
By the end of the scene, Dunye wanted viewers to leave thinking: "Wow, they're in a happy marriage."
Disclosure: Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, is a Netflix board member.
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The passing of The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill on Wednesday has triggered concern among legal experts in Bengaluru. The proposed law replaces the Identification of Prisoners Act of 1920.
The new bill allows the police to take iris and retina scans, biological samples, and behavioural attributes like signatures and handwriting, and store them in their database for a long time.
Shweta Mohandas, policy officer with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru, says the law now allows collection of data for all criminal offences, and that means criminal profiling even for small infractions.
“Say, for example, if people are fined for not following social distancing and lockdown rules, their information could get into the database,” she says.
The law is coming into force even before the passing of the Data Protection Bill, and that is a major concern, she says.
“The information will be stored for 75 years, and it is impossible to guess what emerging surveillance technologies could do with such sensitive data. Looking at the near future, this data could be used to train facial, gait or emotion recognition in technology,” she says.
The new bill does not take into consideration settled principles governing data protection and information privacy, says Anushka Jain, associate counsel (surveillance and transparency), Internet Freedom Foundation, New Delhi. “If information about someone is collected when they are 25, it could remain in the system even after the person dies,” she says.
The objective of the law seems to be data collection rather than collection of evidence, she cautions. “This violates international privacy standards, which say that personal data should be used only to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected,” she says.
The law can lead to violations of the right to privacy, the right to freedom of movement, and the right to free speech, fears Anushka.
“It is not necessary to collect such wide categories of data. If someone is acquitted in a case, why should their information be stored for 75 years? Holding such information for so long doesn’t justify the principle of proportionality,” she says.
Police could use the information for surveillance, which is alarming. “As we know, mass surveillance is illegal and shouldn’t happen in a democratic country,” she observes.
‘Harassment tool’
Baig, criminal lawyer, says the government is trying to keep people distracted. “Because the public is putting a lot of pressure to remove other draconian laws, the government is bringing in this new law,” he says.
The law could turn into a tool for the harassment of innocent individuals. If there is a need to store such personal data, then it can be done by modifying existing laws, he adds.
“The Criminal Procedure Code can be amended, keeping in mind changing times. A new law just for monitoring will generate hatred. Anyone who is against the present government can get targeted,” says Baig.
Misuse potential
The possibilities of misusing bio information are high, experts fear.
“India does not have a cybersecurity policy and databases are breached regularly. Such personal data could also be breached and evidence could be planted,” a cyber security expert told Metrolife. There is absolutely no mention in the new law of citizen safeguards. “If one’s information is misused, the only recourse will be a court,” she says.
Police view
Praveen Sood, DG and IGP, says the new bill is essential. “We need to keep records of criminals and nowadays records do not just mean fingerprints. For example, in a sexual offence, there are repeat offenders whose DNA records using blood samples, for instance, need to be maintained,” he says.
This will go a long way in keeping a watch on habitual offenders. “There are enough safeguards within the Bill to make sure it will not be misused,” he says.
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There are few foods more nostalgic and celebratory than ham. It evokes feelings of bounty, holiday cheer, and meals enjoyed with loved ones. For a special occasion, why not splurge a bit for a ham that everyone will remember?
When we say ham, by the way, we're talking about fully cooked ham, sometimes called city ham. Each requires minimal prep on your part — just thaw, heat, and serve. Many are also already spiral sliced for added convenience. Keep in mind that large pieces of meat can take a few days to defrost, so be sure to plan ahead.
You'll notice some overlap in our picks — our best budget ham, for instance, is also boneless. Most are smoked. Each pick represents the most standout ham in that category: our pick for the best smoked ham has layered, rich smokiness; the top boneless pick has some of the best texture; and the best honey-glazed ham is sweet yet balanced with a touch of spice. Each will blow those supermarket hams out of the water. Learn more about how Insider Reviews tests and researches kitchen products.
Here are the best hams you can buy online in 2022
Best heritage breed ham: Snake River Farms Kurobuta Half Ham, $125 on Snake River Farms
Purebred, humane Berkshire pork, with rich color and flavor.
Best smoked ham: Smoking Goose Pecan Smoked Duroc Ham, $110 on Zingerman's
Smooth and complex, thanks to the curing spices and pecan smoke.
Best boneless ham: D'Artagnan Berkshire Best Boneless Smoked Ham, from $77.99 on D'Artagnan
Marbled, tender Berkshire pork that was raised on pasture.
Best honey-glazed ham: Cajun Ed's Cajun Honey Glazed Ham, $114.95 on Goldbelly
The ideal balance of sweet and spicy.
Best ham subscription: Crowd Cow Smoked Bone-In Heritage Ham, $50.67 on Crowd Cow
Flavorful, Paleo-friendly, raised with care.
Best ham for a smaller crowd: Omaha Steaks Duroc Boneless Country Ham, $29.99 on Omaha Steaks
The perfect size for up to five.
Best heritage ham
Why you'll love it: Purebred, humane Berkshire pork, with rich color and flavor.
Much like using different varieties of grape will lead to two very different red wines, different breeds of pig result in different ham experiences. Industrial meat production generally uses pig breeds that get big quickly and inexpensively. Heritage breeds, on the other hand, generally take longer to mature, but offer a more unique flavor. This humanely-raised ham from Snake River Farms, one of our favorite places to shop for meat online, is 100% Kurobuta, a Berkshire breed. This breed is known for impressive marbling, a more saturated color of meat, and rich flavor. There's a 6-pound option and an 8 pound, both of which are bone-in and smoked over hardwood for even more flavor. If you're looking for ham for a special occasion, consider this Kurobuta.
Standard shipping is $9.99 and takes one to three business days. If you're really in a pinch, overnight shipping is $50, but Snake River Farms does not deliver on the weekends.
Best smoked ham
Why you'll love it: Smooth and complex, thanks to the curing spices and pecan smoke.
Zingerman's sources this exclusive offering from the beloved Smoking Goose in Indianapolis. The ham is first procured from nearby Gunther Farms, who raises its heritage Duroc-breed pork on pasture. It's cured with pepper, coriander, mustard seed, honey, bay leaf, and Shelby Blue Ribbon Cider, a strawberry-rhubarb cider from Indianapolis-based New Day Meadery. Then, it's smoked over pecan wood, imparting a rounder smoke flavor.
The thing with smoked ham is that it can quickly become all about the smoke. In fact, sometimes the smoke can be a way to distract from the meat's lack of inherent flavor. This is our pick for the best smoked ham because, while the smoke certainly adds flavor, it's in concert with the cured flavor of exceptional heritage breed pork.
The basic shipping method is a flat $11.99, with your package arriving one to four days after ordering. The expedited shipping options are priced based on the cost of your order.
Best boneless ham
Why you'll love it: Marbled, tender Berkshire pork that was raised on pasture.
Longtime food lovers may recognize D'Artagnan, which has been sourcing humane, sustainable meat for more than 35 years, both for ethical reasons and because it believes that it's more flavorful. Its Berkshire Best Boneless Smoked Ham is a testament to that belief. Another heirloom breed meat, this ham is made from Kurobuta (Berkshire) pork that was raised sustainably on pasture and smoked over applewood. Seasoned with raw cane sugar and sea salt, it's free of nitrates, nitrites, phosphates, and artificial fillers. Boneless ham, while more convenient, can sometimes be rather tough. This is our boneless pick because it offers the convenience of boneless with exceptional texture.
D'Artagnan ships overnight based on the day you select during check out.
Best honey-glazed ham
Why you'll love it: The ideal balance of sweet and spicy.
There's something so comforting about a honey-glazed ham. For us, it's less about having a super sweet ham and more about using sweetness as a foil for the super savory, hammy flavors. That's why the Cajun Ed's Cajun Honey Glazed Ham is so great. Just a bit of Cajun spice in each bite brings out both the honey and the savory meaty flavors in a way that's the best of all worlds.
Keep in mind that Cajun Ed's only ships Monday through Thursday, so place your order early in the week. Otherwise shipping rates and dates are determined by Goldbelly.
Best ham subscription
Why you'll love it: Flavorful, Paleo-friendly, raised with care.
If you love the idea of sustainable meat from smaller farms but don't have a farmer's market easily accessible, consider Crowd Cow. It offers meat subscriptions on your schedule, with customizable boxes. If you choose to become a member, you get 5% off, free shipping on boxes over $99, and exclusive access to new releases. If ham for dinner is a hallowed tradition in your home, why not set up a monthly ham delivery?
Crowd Cow sources its ham from Texas-based Pederson Natural Farms, who has been humanely and sustainably raising natural meats since 1992. Its Smoked Bone-In Ham is spiral-sliced, uncured, and has no sugar added. There are no added nitrates or nitrites and no MSG. It's paleo-friendly, yes, but it's also delicious and a great sustainable option.
Crowd Cow does not offer expedited shipping, but typically orders arrive in two days. Still, this might not be a good option if you're in a rush.
Best ham for a smaller crowd
Why you'll love it: The perfect size for up to five.
The only issue with some of our other picks is that they're best suited for a crowd (or for someone with plenty of room for leftovers). If you're looking for a ham for a smaller group, consider the Omaha Steaks Duroc Boneless Country Ham. Made from Duroc pork, a breed known for its juicy, super savory flavor, this ham is beautifully marbled and slow-smoked for up to eight hours over hickory. This one doesn't come spiral-spiced, which may make it a little trickier to portion (i.e., you'll have to slice it yourself), but will make storage easier if you do end up having leftovers.
Shipping takes three to five days from when you order, with two expedited options. Basic shipping costs $19.99 for orders under $170.
Our cooked ham research methodology
Ham is a deeply personal food. Everyone has their favorites, which are probably based on what was served in their home growing up. That said, there are a few objective categories to look at when assessing ham online.
Sourcing: Ideally, ham should be sourced from responsible farmers who ensured that the animals led happy, pig-like lives, which entailed plenty of roaming around on a pasture. Not only does this make eating meat a little easier on our consciences, but also happens to make for tastier meat. This type of meat costs more but is infinitely tastier and better for the planet.
True to style: Cooked ham should be tender and flavorful. If a ham says that it's smoked, it should actually be smoked over wood, rather than having smoke flavoring added. Ideally, it should be cold smoked for maximum tenderness. Honey-glazed ham should actually taste like honey.
Reviews: Ham is the food of the people. There aren't ham sommeliers peeking over your shoulder, telling you how to enjoy it; you know exactly what good ham tastes like, and you probably know within a few seconds whether or not you're eating great ham. There will be a consensus on whether ham is good or not. Thus, reviews were considered to ensure that our picks were well-loved.
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Christine is a Certified Cheese Professional with the American Cheese Society and has taught cheese and pairing classes around the world. Some of her bylines can be found in VinePair, Wine Enthusiast, Epicurious, AllRecipes, The Spruce Eats, Food52, and more and she has been featured as a cheese expert in The New York Times, Bon Appetit, FirstWeFeast, and HuffPost.
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Sheffield school saves nursery from closure as providers face ‘cliff edge’
A Sheffield school has stepped in to save parts of a 30 year old nursery struggling with underfunding and the impact of Covid-19.
Deepcar Primary Partnership – consisting of Royd Nursery Infant School and Deepcar St John’s Church of England Junior School – is taking over Deepcar Pre-School and Daycare.
The nursery said it is no longer financially viable to operate on its own due to under funding and pressure compounded by Covid-19 and working from home.
Its last day of operating before being taken over was Friday, April 1.
In a public statement staff said: “As we close our doors for the final time today we would like to say a massive thank you to all the families we have cared for and supported over the years, past and present.
“Deepcar Pre-School has been running for over 30 years and we are proud to say we have been a part of its history.
“We have made so many memories and will cherish them forever. Although parts of the group have moved across to school for us this the end of an era. This was more just a job, we felt part of a very special family.”
Louise Jones, executive headteacher of the Partnership, said a benefit of taking on the nursery is children can start their education aged two and stay with the school until age 11.
She said: “It’s so sad to see how much nurseries are suffering financially. Whilst the financial difficulties will also be significant for the school, the governing body feel that morally it is the right thing to save this crucial local provision. From an educational point of view there are many benefits.
“The children will receive a high levels of care and quality education in line with our schools’ strong reputations and they will have a consistent approach as a result of them being under the Deepcar Primary Partnership umbrella.”
She added that they will employ staff from the nursery and their aim is to provide the same service.
Miss Jones said: “There is an awful lot to sort out to make this happen, but we are working closely with Deepcar Pre-School and Daycare to resolve this situation. The school and nursery have written to parents seeking their views and the response has been really positive. I want to thank the council and especially local councillor Julie Grocutt for helping to support us.”
‘Many nurseries facing cliff edge’
Councillor Grocutt, deputy leader of the council and representative for Stocksbridge and Upper Don ward, said many early years providers across the city were also struggling to survive.
She said: “It’s so tough for the local nurseries and daycare centres – the government have repeatedly failed to give the early years sector the support that it needs throughout this pandemic and now many are facing a cliff edge.
“I am really pleased I have been able to work with everyone involved to help the school take on the nursery provision. But really they should never have had to be in this position.”
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Humanitarian Aid Ship from Türkiye Reached Lebanon
The first shipment of 524 tons of humanitarian aid prepared under the coordination of the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) upon the direction of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reached the shores of Lebanon.
The ship that departed from the Taşucu port of Mersin was welcomed during a ceremony participated by Türkiye’s Ambassador to Beirut Ali Barış Ulusoy, Head of Lebanese Supreme Aid Committee General Muhammed Hayır and officials from Lebanese security institutions.
Making a speech during the ceremony, Ambassador Ulusoy said, “Today we are delivering 15 trucks of humanitarian aid to the Lebanese authorities. Humanitarian aid includes formula milk, food baskets and basic needs. A second shipment of aid packages will be sent to Tripoli before the end of this week. Türkiye as the true friend of Lebanon will never abandon its Lebanese friends during hard times.”
Thousand tons of humanitarian aid will be sent in Ramadan
Türkiye will continue to offer its helping hand to Lebanon and it is planned to send thousands tons of humanitarian aid to the country during the holy month of Ramadan.
Meanwhile, Head of Lebanese Supreme Aid Committee General Muhammed Hayır expressed his country’s gratitude to Türkiye.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Initial jobless claims have hit a new low. It's a sign the economic recovery is moving at a brisk pace, while the labor market remains very tight, says economist Ahmed Rahman with Lehigh University.
"It's a remarkable labor market in terms of how many people have been hired," Rahman said. "We still have this peculiar labor market where the market is so tight, but we haven't fully brought back all the jobs."
And here in the Lehigh Valley, the region is leading the rest of the state in that recovery.
"In some ways I think the Lehigh Valley was situated structurally in a way where we would expect a relatively robust recovery," Rahman said.
Around 96% of the jobs lost to COVID in the region have been recovered as of January, the only region in the state to break 90%, according to data from the PA Department of Labor & Industry.
"So we have all kinds of different industries, businesses, and also businesses learn to become more agile," said economist Kamran Afshar.
Afshar says the region paid the price in the 1980's and diversification over the last 30 years has put it in a strong place for recovery.
Still, some industries, like leisure and hospitality, haven't fully recovered but they've been offset by growth in other industries like e-commerce and manufacturing.
"All my indicators show that at least this year 2022, we will have good economic growth," Afshar said.
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‘I know she’s safe’: Sarasota’s The Haven expands, increases residential services
SARASOTA, Fla. - A place that has been a safe haven for people with disabilities for 66 years is expanding and will soon have the capability to help more people.
Set on 32 acres in Sarasota, The Haven has worked for 66 years to enhance the lives of those living with disabilities.
"I know she’s safe. I know she has a family here," said Kelly Askerud, whose daughter Mackenzie lives in a group home on campus.
Staff from the home helps encourage independence.
"This is not an easy position or job, but they just do it because they love it, and for that, we are so grateful," shared Askerud.
Though six group homes are already in operation, The Haven has a growing waitlist with nearly 200 people. That can mean people are waiting more than 10 years for housing.
"We don’t have openings unless we build new homes," stated The Haven President and CEO Brad Jones. "It’s up to us to raise the funds and the community to help support us and enable people to have a house for the rest of their life."
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The Haven held a groundbreaking for two additional homes on Thursday morning. One is named ‘Brad's Place’. It’s dedicated to Jones’ vision and will be dedicated to aging residents with Alzheimer's or dementia. The Haven is partnering with FSU medical students and doctors to run a dementia care program, which will allow residents to age in place.
"Before we had to transfer them into nursing homes and assisted living facilities, a lot of them have lived here for over 40 years. So you are taking them away from their friends, family the people they know. Now they’ll be able to age in place with their family and friends and hopefully be able to live a longer healthier life," said Jones.
For the families of those living here, it gives them peace of mind in knowing their loved ones will be cared for.
"When I'm gone, because that’s every special needs parents fear is what happens when I die, I know my child will have a safe haven," said Askerud.
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CAMDEN, Maine, April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Camden National Corporation (NASDAQ: CAC) will report financial and operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. A conference call and webcast will be held at 1:00 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 hosted by Gregory A. Dufour, President and Chief Executive Officer and Michael R. Archer, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer.
Parties interested in listening to the teleconference should dial into the call or connect to the webcast link 10 – 15 minutes before it begins. Dial-in and webcast information to participate is as follows:
Live Dial-In (Domestic): (844) 200-6205
Live Dial-In (International): (929) 526-1599
Participant access code: 297057
Live Webcast URL: https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/363726320
A link to the live webcast will be available on Camden National Corporation's website at CamdenNationalCorporation.com prior to the meeting. The transcript and replay of the conference call will also be made available on Camden National's website following the conference call.
Camden National Corporation (NASDAQ:CAC) is the largest publicly traded bank holding company in Northern New England with $5.5 billion in assets and approximately 620 employees. Camden National Bank, its subsidiary, is a full-service community bank founded in 1875 in Camden, Maine. Dedicated to customers at every stage of their financial journey, the bank offers the latest in digital banking, complemented by personalized service with 58 banking centers, 24/7 live phone support, 66 ATMs, and additional lending offices in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. For the past four years, Camden National Bank was named a Customer Experience (CX) Leader by Coalition Greenwich, a division of CRISIL. In 2021, it received awards in two CX categories: U.S. Retail Banking and U.S. Commercial Small Business Banking. Camden National Bank was included in the 2021 list of Best Places to Work in Maine. Member FDIC.
Comprehensive wealth management, investment and financial planning services are delivered by Camden National Wealth Management. To learn more, visit CamdenNational.com.
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Keno student wins state Character Counts essay contest
Keno Elementary School fourth-grader Abbi Brown is the regional and statewide winner of the 2022 Character Counts essay and drawing contest. The Character Counts essay contest, an annual event hosted by the National Association for Family and Community Education (NAFCE), is designed to help students learn about six pillars of character...
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ATLANTA, April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Northpoint Roofing Systems has helped guide over 18,000 homeowners to a protected roof using innovative technology and quality craftsmanship. Their forward-thinking mentality has allowed them to bring the same energy and customer focus to launch their solar division in their line of roofing solutions. This new launch will resolve commercial and residential renewable energy dilemmas penetrating today's market.
The rising costs of 2022 continue to transpire, and people are turning to revolutionary ways to save on utility because these prices have not gone down since 1949. Northpoint recognizes that solar is more affordable than ever. They also understand they can connect people to cost-effective and clean, renewable energy that will meet the demand of homeowners and companies based on their lifestyle. Northpoint is offering well-designed and engineered solar electricity with little maintenance while also providing a broad education on options that are not only dependable but lead the way to a better future.
"We recently hired John Harding as Director of Solar to lead this launch, who has over seven years of solar experience spanning the spectrum of residential solar sales and sales management," says Joe Happe, General Manager and Co-Owner of Northpoint Roofing. John also has extensive knowledge in commercial solar, including a 940kW installation and utility-scale solar development in Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas. John states, "My commitment to solar as a viable solution for homeowners grew from my experience working in Europe and seeing development in markets with considerably less sun, but a well-developed commitment to renewable solutions for energy production."
Northpoint recognizes that this solar division makes sense for them and their customers for a lot of reasons. "We know roofs. Every solar installer will ask you about the age of your roof because it is critical to solar installation. Speak to one of our customers, and they will rave about our roofs. We can now offer our customers a complete roofing system that adds more value to their property and saves them money while caring about the next generation. Just wait; our customers will be raving about our solar solutions in no time," says Keith Priddy, President and Co-Founder of Northpoint Roofing.
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Though Elden Ring is not a particularly easy game from the offset, the endgame section sees some of the most pronounced spikes in difficulty when considering past souls-like titles by FromSoftware, which has led to some rather prolific spots dedicated to rune farming. For Elden Ring players who have suffered countless perils at the hands of enemies residing in the Haligtree, or worse, the Blade of Miquella, may find solace in the speed at which they can obtain runes to better their gear or strengthen their character. This guide will discuss how to reach the spot needed to begin farming runes in the endgame.
Where to rune farm near the Endgame of Elden Ring
The spot, in particular, is at the Palace Approach Ledge-Road Site of Grace in Mohgwyn Palace. This is a late-game area that makes for the other half of the Siofra River region and is reached via either doing Varre’s Questline or through stumbling upon an isolated teleporter drenched in blood, located to the northwest of the Yelough Anix Ruins at the Consecrated Snowfield, near the array of pillars guarded by Rune Bears. The Consecrated Snowfield can be reached via hoisting the secret medallion at the Grand Lift of Rold.
In the instance where the player has used the teleporter, they’ll find themselves in a cave. Head outwards and they’ll see a clearing with an open path to the west, dotted with a Site of grace. Navigate carefully down the cliff and onto the surface level. Touch the Site of Grace and unlock it as a fast travel location for the sake of convenience.
On the other hand, if the player has done the Varre questline and teleported to Mohgwyn Palace using the Pureblood Knight’s Medal, however, they’ll have to travel southeast from the Dynasty Mausoleum Entrance Site of Grace, across the blood swamp to reach the Site of Grace for the Palace Approach Ledge-Road.
Now that you have unlocked the Site of Grace, look to the northwest beyond the ledge. There should be a giant crow trodding about down in the swamp. Equip your bow or your crossbow and enter aim mode, you should be able to hit the crow from this distance.
If you’ve hit it successfully, you’ll aggro it and it will start trying to charge at you from across the cliffs. Navigate along the ledge to provoke it and make it plummet to its death. Reset at the Site of Grace, rinse and repeat. Every kill should net you 11000 or 13000 runes depending on whether or not you have the Gold Scarab Talisman equipped.
This is a quick and easy way to get a substantial amount of runes in a short time, with little risks attached. The only downside perhaps is the fact that the Tarnished might find themselves lacking arrows or cross bolts rather quickly, which luckily enough is a commodity that is easily covered by the array of merchants scattered about the Lands Between.
On another quick note, for players who’ve already beaten Radagon and the Elden Beast and are stocking up merchandise or runes for New Game Plus, the Sacred Relic Sword traded using the Elden Rememberance can be used to farm the nearby sleeping Albinaruics to even quicker effect. Provided that you have the stats to use it. Approach their vicinity and spam the weapon art in their general direction, the large AoE will kill enough Albinaurics to get the player 30000 to 40000 runes every run, with the player not having to move far from the Site of Grace.
This should about cover rune farming in the endgame, and here’s hoping that this guide will prove useful to the Tarnished who are looking to tip the scales in their favor against the competition.
Elden Ring is available now on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
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Efforts to provide COVID-19 vaccines to as many drug users as possible in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside have paid off, prompting an advocate to urge communities with similar, vulnerable populations across the country to learn lessons from a targeted, well-resourced approach.
Karen Ward said a study that showed high vaccine uptake in the neighbourhood also suggests a co-ordinated strategy can work with a marginalized group that sometimes faces discrimination in the health-care system.
Ward, who was not involved in the study, said drop-in clinics, including at a community centre, a market, a hotel parking lot and the office of a drug users group, made getting vaccinated easy, with little waiting around.
“There were street nurses. They walked around and said, ‘Anybody need a shot?’”
“If you actually make the effort and you put in resources properly, you can do it,” said Ward, a drug user who advises the City of Vancouver on overdose response and policies around illicit substances.
Hudson Reddon, a co-principal investigator on the study and a post-doctoral research fellow with the BC Centre on Substance Use and the University of British Columbia’s department of medicine, said 275 drug users were recruited and seen once every two months between June 2021 and March this year.
By the end of January, 64 per cent of participants reported having two doses of a vaccine while nine per cent had also received a booster shot and 16 per cent were unvaccinated, the study found.
That’s compared with 81 per cent of people in the general population who had two doses by that time while 39 per cent received a booster and 14 per cent were unvaccinated, according to provincial data.
By the end of March, 91 per cent of people aged 18 years and older in the local health area that includes the Downtown Eastside had two doses of a vaccine, the study found.
That matches figures across the province for the same age group.
The Downtown Eastside was the first neighbourhood where Vancouver Coastal Health offered COVID-19 vaccines, after vaccination of residents and staff at long-term care and assisted living homes and high-priority health-care workers, the health authority said.
“For over a year, we held a minimum of three clinics per week in various locations,” it said in a statement on its strategy, which took outreach workers to shelters and single-room occupancy hotels, where the virus could spread rapidly.
Reddon said targeted efforts made an impact, but they need to continue as pandemic restrictions are lifted.
Study participants cited the convenience as one of the reasons to get vaccinated, while many worried they’d get infected and pass the virus on to friends and family, he said.
“For a lot of them, they mentioned that not having a phone or computer to register was a real challenge,” Reddon said.
He said the high rate of vaccination among a typically stigmatized group that is at higher risk for contracting infectious diseases is a positive message from the study.
“It’s an important lesson to take from this, that people are getting vaccinated for similar reasons that we see in the general population.”
Drug users did not trust the health-care system after a much more muted response to the overdose crisis, especially since the province declared a public health emergency six years ago, resulting in over 8,800 deaths across B.C. since then, Reddon said.
A key component of the study was inclusion of a drug users advisory board, which ramped up acceptance by the community, he said.
“They don’t feel like it’s something that’s just being handed down to them and instead, it’s something they’ve co-developed and they think has their best interest at heart.”
Ward, who said she has received three doses of a vaccine, echoed those sentiments, saying other jurisdictions would do well to incorporate the experience of drug users into health-care initiatives that involve them.
“Consult widely, quickly, ask what would work. Try everything.”
—Camille Bains, The Canadian Press
RELATED: Drug users group files decriminalization lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court
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Shares of Eaton Corp. PLC
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inched 0.70% higher to $145.87 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
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rising 0.43% to 4,500.21 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
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rising 0.25% to 34,583.57. The stock's rise snapped a three-day losing streak. Eaton Corp. PLC closed $29.85 short of its 52-week high ($175.72), which the company reached on November 16th.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Thursday, as Nidec Corp. ADR
NJDCY,
-1.96%
fell 1.96% to $18.50, Emerson Electric Co.
EMR,
-0.30%
fell 0.30% to $95.89, and Schneider Electric SE ADR
SBGSY,
-0.03%
fell 0.03% to $31.54. Trading volume (1.8 M) remained 318,134 below its 50-day average volume of 2.1 M.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use.
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Financial Coach Hillary Seiler with Financial Footwork shares advice during Financial Literacy Month.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — A DHL cargo jet slid off the runway and broke in half while landing at San Jose’s international airport Thursday, shutting down the airport, but not injuring crew.
The fire department said the Boeing 757 had taken off from Juan Santamaría Airport just west of the capital, but decided to return after detecting a failure in the hydraulic system.
Héctor Chaves, director the Costa Rica Fire Department, said that upon landing the aircraft skidded, turned and broke in two, exposing its cargo.
“Units mobilized to remove the pilot and co-pilot,” Chaves said. “Then they applied foam to prevent a spill and now they are working on an earthen dike to avoid any fuel from reaching the drainage system.”
A spokesman for cargo carrier DHL said both pilots were unharmed but one was being undergoing a medical check as a precaution.
DHL spokesman Daniel McGrath said the company was working with airport authorities to move the plane so flights could resume. He said an investigation would be conducted to determine the cause of the incident.
DHL is a subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL Group.
Luis Miranda, deputy director of civil aviation for Costa Rica, said the plane had gone only about 35 miles from the airport when it requested permission to turn back from its planned flight to Guatemala City. He said the pilot and co-pilot were the only crew members aboard the plane, which was carrying only about 2½ hours worth of fuel. .
The airport administration said the crash would keep the airport closed to incoming and outgoing flights until at least 6 p.m. Some flights would be diverted to Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia, about 125 miles northwest of San Jose.
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Barcelona have had to come from behind to draw 1-1 at 10-man Eintracht Frankfurt in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final tie.
Frankfurt led from Ansgar Knauff's sensational strike in the 49th minute on Thursday before Barca drew level in the 66th through Ferran Torres.
The hosts then lost Tuta on a second bookable offence with 12 minutes left.
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The other German club, RB Leipzig, were also held 1-1 at home, by Atalanta; 10-man West Ham United and Olympique Lyon produced the third 1-1 of the night while Portugal's Braga were the only winners - 1-0 against Rangers.
In Frankfurt, the hosts earned a penalty in the 40th but it was nullified upon video which showed Sergio Busquets had played the ball before Rafael Borre went down under his challenge.
However, 2019 semi-finalists Frankfurt went 1-0 up shortly after the restart when a corner was cleared into the path of Knauff who smashed home into the top left corner.
Jesper Lindstrom almost made it 2-0 a minute later but fired inches high with goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen well beaten.
But Xavi's Barca were level in the 66th after a slick move involving substitutes Ousmane Dembele and Luuk de Jong whose pass was slotted into the bottom corner by Torres.
Frankfurt's hopes took another hit when Tuta got his marching orders after bringing down Torres, and they now face an uphill battle next week at the Camp Nou.
"To go behind but end up drawing might end up a very valuable result for the second leg. Frankfurt were a tough rival - they made things difficult," Torres said.
Atalanta drew first blood in Leipzig when Luis Muriel ran past defender Lukas Klostermann and smashed the ball into the top far right corner.
Both sides hit the post before Atalanta's Merih Demiral was ruled to have tripped Christopher Nkunko as Leipzig were awarded a penalty, but goalkeeper Juan Musso denied Silva from the spot and also Willi Orban on the rebound.
But Leipzig were level seconds later when Danile Zappacosta, under pressure from Orban, bundled Angelino's cross into his own net.
Leipzig substitute Dominik Szoboszlai headed against the crossbar as the tie will be decided in the second leg next week in Bergamo.
"It will be an interesting second game," Leipzig captain Peter Gulacsi said. "We have shown in this Europa League season that we can win away from home."
In London, West Ham had Aaron Cresswell sent off shortly before half-time for what seemed to be deemed a last-man foul, but Jarrod Bowen put them 1-0 up in their first European quarter-final in 41 years.
However, Tottenham Hotspur's Tanguy Ndombele, who is on loan at Lyon, levelled for the visitors in the 66th minute.
Braga got the only win on the night from Abel Ruiz' first-half strike against Rangers, who will hope to reverse matters in Glasgow.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Legislation to keep transgender athletes in Louisiana from competing on college and K-12 women’s and girls’ sport teams has been unanimously approved Thursday by a state Senate committee.
Similar legislation was vetoed last year by Gov. John Bel Edwards. The Democratic governor has not said whether he would veto the bill again if it reaches his desk.
State Sen. Beth Mizell, a Republican from Franklinton, is the measure’s sponsor. Backers said the measure is needed to ensure that girls are not unfairly edged out of athletic scholarship opportunities by athletes who are biologically male.
Opponents said there are no known transgender athletes currently competing in the state. They said it adds to discrimination against an already marginalized group.
“It is providing lip service to a discussion about women in sports that really should be focused on funding and equality with men’s sports,” said SarahJane Guidry, executive director of the LGBTQ rights group Forum for Equality Louisiana.
The Education Committee sent the bill to the full Senate without objection from Democrats or Republicans. Member Katrina Jackson, a Monroe Democrat cited transgender woman Lia Thomas' recent victory in an NCAA women's swimming championship as she explained her support. “I'm seeing now the more glaring concern of biologically born females," Jackson said.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Burleigh County prosecutors said Thursday that no charges will be filed in the August death of a man who instigated a fight with officers and then suffered a medical emergency.
An autopsy shows that Ryan Pederson, 43, had potentially lethal amounts of amphetamine and methamphetamine in his system that played a factor in his death, prosecutors said. It was determined that the conduct by officers, including one shock with a Taser, did not cause Pederson's death.
The incident happened after police responded to a report of someone acting erratically and screaming outside of a residence. Officers found Pederson running from the area and attempting to jump a privacy fence into the neighboring property.
Police say Pederson became aggressive and threatened to kill them, then advanced toward the officers and began fighting with them while they attempted to arrest him. He then suffered a medical issue, authorities said.
Life saving efforts were performed by officers, fire and ambulance personnel on scene. He was transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
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Overview
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) is seeking a consultant(s) to conduct a feasibility study that assesses the possibility of utilizing the existing evergreen Inuit Early Learning and Child Care (IELCC) Framework funding and the newly announced Canada-Wide Child Care System funding to create an Inuit-centered child care system for Inuit Nunangat.
This Inuit Universal Child Care System would eliminate the cost of child care for Inuit children, increase the number of licensed spaces for Inuit in Inuit Nunangat, and increase the base wages for Inuit Early Childhood Educators. The feasibility study will include a cost-benefit analysis of this distinctions-based Inuit Universal Child Care System for children, families, and communities, that incorporates a Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+) lens.
Background
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
ITK is the national representational organization for the 65,000 Inuit in Canada, the majority of whom live in four regions, including the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (Northwest Territories), Nunavut, Nunavik (Northern Quebec), and Nunatsiavut (Northern Labrador). Collectively, these four regions make up Inuit Nunangat, the Inuit homeland in Canada. Inuit Nunangat includes 51 communities and encompasses roughly 35 percent of Canada’s landmass and more than 50 percent of its coastline.
The comprehensive land claim agreements that have been settled in Inuit Nunangat form a core component of ITK’s mandate. These land claims have the status of protected treaties under the Constitution. ITK remains committed to working in partnership with the Crown to fully implement these land claims. Consistent with its founding purpose, ITK represents the rights and interests of Inuit at the national level through a democratic governance structure that represents all Inuit regions.
ITK advocates for policies, programs and services that impact the health, social, cultural, political and environmental issues facing Inuit today. ITK is governed by a Board that is composed of the following members:
- Chair and CEO, Inuvialuit Regional Corporation
- President, Makivik Corporation
- President, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.
- President, Nunatsiavut Government
In addition to voting members, the following non-voting Permanent Participant Representatives also sit on the Board:
- President, Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada
- President, Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
- President, National Inuit Youth Council
Inuit Early Childhood Development Working Group
The Department of Policy Advancement at ITK coordinates and works in collaboration with the Inuit Early Childhood Development Working Group (IECDWG). The IECDWG is comprised of representatives from the following organizations: Nunatsiavut Government, Kativik Regional Government (KRG), IRC, Kakivak Association, Qikiqtani Inuit Association, Kivalliq Inuit Association, Kitikmeot Inuit Association, NTI, Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, and ITK.
The IECDWG members have a wealth of knowledge and experience in Early Learning and Child Care programs. It is expected that this feasibility assessment will be done in close collaboration with ITK and the IECDWG.
Inuit Early Learning and Child Care
Inuit view ELCC as an opportunity for cultural revitalization that holds the possibility of connecting Inuit with their land, culture, language, and histories. It is also a significant step towards self-determination, reconciliation, and cultural revitalization. The Inuit vision is an ELCC system that provides the best possible start to life for Inuit children, including the opportunity to learn and speak Inuktut, to grow up prepared to live a harmonious life rooted in Inuit ways of knowing, and to be equipped to participate in Canadian society.
Inuit children have the right to access culturally appropriate early learning and child care services no matter where they live in Canada. Supporting families to have affordable access to quality early learning and child care programs not only supports the child, it supports the family and the community as a whole.
The importance of access to high quality culturally appropriate early learning and child care opportunities is supported by:
- The Goals and Principles of the Inuit Early Learning and Child Care Framework
- The Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action: Education (8, 9, 12), and Health (20)
- The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice for Inuit: Knowledge (16.4), Urban Data (16.6), Education (16.21), and Inuit Education (16.25)
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Article 14 (Right to Education) and Article 22 (Protection for Children, Elders, Women, and Individuals with Disabilities)
Regular access to early childhood education and care not only supports the healthy development of children in their formative years, but it also increases the excitement of learning and leads to success in elementary, secondary, and even post-secondary schooling.
Delivering quality programs in Inuit Nunangat requires there to be consistent and adequate funding to develop, maintain and nurture Inuit-designed programs. It is also necessary to ensure that there are culturally competent, qualified, well-trained, trauma‑informed educators and staff who are well‑paid and valued for their important work. To ensure substantive equality for Inuit children and their families, child care should be easily accessible and affordable. Financial barriers should not determine if a child has access to quality early childhood education and care.
Early Childhood Educators and Child Care Assistants are essential workers in a high functioning society. This workforce within Inuit Nunangat has typically been poorly paid, is primarily staffed by Inuit women, and has a high turnover rate. To guarantee retention of highly skilled educators, and the attraction of new Inuit entries to the industry, there needs to be sufficient financial incentives for this work.
The Government of Canada – working with Indigenous partners like ITK – has developed and released the Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care Framework. The Framework provides a guide for communities, program administrators, service providers, policy makers and governments to work towards achieving a shared vision that all Indigenous children have the opportunity to experience high-quality, culturally-strong ELCC. The Framework is meant to support, coordinate and guide the design, delivery and governance of Indigenous ELCC that is anchored in self-determination, centered on children and grounded in culture, through new policies, processes, partnerships, authorities, capacities, programs and investments that will strengthen Indigenous ELCC in Canada.
Scope
The successful applicant will be required to undertake the following work in consultation and collaboration with ITK and the IECDWG, within the budget and timeframes stipulated:
Component 1: Review of Existing Inuit ELCC Funding Commitments and Agreements and Examination of Current State:
- Compile information and conduct an environmental scan on the current state of ELCC as it applies to Inuit children, including but not limited to:
- an inventory of existing child care facilities within Inuit Nunangat;
- the current capacity of licensed child care centres within Inuit Nunangat;
- existing child care subsidies available for Inuit families throughout Inuit Nunangat;
- the existing wage enhancement subsidies for Inuit Early Childhood Educators; and,
- the existing regional / national funding structures and frameworks that currently exist for all Inuit children under the age of six years old and their families in regard to ELCC programs.
- Research successful ELCC systems that provide high quality, free or low-cost programs for families, particularly for minority communities, and that include wage subsidies and supports (wage top-ups) for Early Childhood Educators and child care staff, and other employee retention approaches.
- The environmental scan should include engagement in all four Inuit regions. The engagement would include the development of an engagement plan, discussion guide, and conducting the key informant interviews. Information from the engagement should further inform the initial research and compiling of information on the existing ELCC system in Inuit Nunangat.
- In conducting the environmental scan, the consultant(s) should consider information that may be useful for decision-makers to support the development of an Inuit Universal Child Care System for Inuit Nunangat. Examples could include, for example, evidence about the increased availability of child care spaces, improved wages for Inuit Early Childhood Educators, improved educational outcomes, and improved community facilities.
- The deliverable for the first component of the project will be a background paper describing the current state of ELCC for Inuit children in Inuit Nunangat that also compares and contrasts it with successful, high-quality, ELCC systems. The paper will include an inventory of existing child care facilities in Inuit Nunangat. The paper will also include details about the engagement and will be included as a section in the final report.
Component 2: Economic Analysis and Costing
- Based on an understanding of the current and desired state for ELCC for Inuit children in Inuit Nunangat, develop clear objectives to inform the development and evaluation of a range of options for the introduction of an Inuit Universal Child Care System; and,
- Conduct an economic analysis to cost an Inuit Universal Child Care System for Inuit Nunangat and the potential benefits and savings for the implementation of each option (g., parent subsidies, subsidized licensed spaces for licensed child care, funding unlicensed child care options, etc.).
- The economic analysis should outline the costs involved in creating an Inuit Universal Child Care System that includes a parent fee of $10 a day and also for one that is free for Inuit children.
Component 3: A Way Forward Final Report
The feasibility study for an Inuit Universal Child Care System will include the development of a comprehensive report (including an executive summary, methodology, background, and all appendices), that provides options and recommendations for a way forward and how it may be implemented. The feasibility study will incorporate a GBA+ lens.
To inform the design and development of an Inuit Universal Child Care System for Inuit Nunangat, the report will also:
- Provide options for a way forward and how this may be implemented and its costing. This includes for both $10 a day child care and one that is free for Inuit children;
- Consider which stakeholders should be involved, and how, and what process could be followed to establish and implement an Inuit Universal Child Care System for Inuit Nunangat;
- Determine appropriate funding mechanisms that will minimize administrative burden on child care providers and Inuit families
- Provide options on how to ensure Inuit children are given priority in accessing early learning and child care within Inuit Nunangat;
- Provide an estimate of what additional child care facilities are required;
- Provide options on how to increase the number of available child care spaces for Inuit;
- Provide options on ways to increase the supply of qualified Inuit Early Childhood Educators; and,
- Provide options on how to ensure Inuit Educators are given hiring priority in child care within Inuit Nunangat.
Component 4: Finalize and Present the Report
The successful contractor will also be required to:
- Work with ITK staff and members of the IECDWG to validate and refine the final report;
- Respond to questions and requests for clarification;
- Present the final draft of the report to ITK staff, and various ITK working groups for feedback, and revise the report as necessary.
Proposal
Through this RFP, we are seeking an experienced consultant with an in-depth knowledge of Inuit within Inuit Nunangat, as well as the ELCC system in Canada. We require a specialist in ELCC who can provide ITK and the IECDWG with a report that will include the feasibility of creating a distinctions-based child care plan for Inuit children and Inuit Early Childhood Educators. Your proposal must clearly include the following criteria:
- Project description, outlining a sound, comprehensive, approach that covers all tasks outlined in Section IV (Scope of Work Requirements);
- Description of a collaborative and participatory approach to this work, including detailed steps for involving ITK and the IECDWG in developing, validating and refining the final deliverable;
- Outline of expected results. The expected results should outline how inclusion of the Inuit Early Learning and Child Care Framework, TRC Calls to Action, MMIWG2S+ Calls for Justice, and UNDRIP recommendations will be respected;
- Achievable, measurable milestones and approximate timelines;
- Budget and budget justification that fit with the project description and milestones that are inclusive of estimates of the level of effort for each team member and the daily and hourly billing rate for each; and,
- Examples of previous projects that demonstrate experience with a similar scope of work requirements.
Essential Qualifications
- A demonstrated ability to collaboratively conduct a comprehensive environmental scan and economic analysis of community programming;
- Knowledge of, and experience in, assessing the financial and operational value of large-scale projects;
- A demonstrated ability to include a GBA+ lens to the analysis;
- Education, past experience, interest and knowledge of Inuit health and social development priorities;
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Inuit Nunangat with respect to the unique political, geographical and cultural autonomy of each of the four Inuit regions; and,
- Experience working in partnership with Indigenous/Inuit non-profit organizations.
Asset Qualifications
- Knowledge and consideration of ITK strategies, frameworks and action plans; and,
- A background and experience related to Indigenous and/or Inuit Early Learning and Child Care.
Interviews and references may be required upon request.
We anticipate that this work will begin the week of May 9, 2022 and be completed by October 3, 2022.
Selection Criteria
The following are the criteria we will use in the selection process:
- Qualifications of the applicant(s), including education, past experience, interest and a proven track record relating to the scope of work.
- Detailed scope of knowledge and expertise in the areas identified under parts III and IV
- Service description, outlining a sound, comprehensive and detailed approach that covers all tasks outlined in the Scope of Work Requirements).
- Budget and budget justification that fit with the scope of work.
- Experience working with Indigenous organizations. Experience working in an Inuit Nunangat context and with Inuit representational organizations is a definite asset.
- Strong recommendations from references.
- Potential for excellent working relationship.
Scoring: Proposals will be scored out of a total of 100 points, including up to 30 points for the qualifications and capacity of the proponent; up to 30 points for methodology and approach; up to 20 points for the budget and cost-effectiveness; and 20 points for overall quality and understanding of the assignment.
Budget: Value for money will be a key consideration in assessing the proposals.
Conflict of Interest: Officials representing Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and members of the IECDWG who have been part of detailing the requirements described in the RFP. Applicants/bidders shall not engage any of the involved representatives to assist in the development of any proposal responding to the RFP or to perform work to be conducted pursuant to any contract under this RFP. Failure of the applicant/bidder to abide by these restrictions shall result in immediate disqualification of that applicant/bidder’s proposal.
Please direct any questions in writing only to Wesley Rodney, Senior Policy Advisor, Policy Advancement Department, at [email protected].
Your electronic submission should be sent by 4:00 pm EST on April 29, 2022 to: Wesley Rodney, Senior Policy Advisor, at [email protected].
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Shares of Kinder Morgan Inc.
KMI,
+1.37%
rose 1.37% to $19.27 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
+0.43%
rising 0.43% to 4,500.21 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.25%
rising 0.25% to 34,583.57. This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains. Kinder Morgan Inc. closed $0.13 below its 52-week high ($19.40), which the company reached on April 5th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Exxon Mobil Corp.
XOM,
+1.67%
rose 1.67% to $85.05 and Enterprise Products Partners L.P.
EPD,
+0.65%
rose 0.65% to $26.22. Trading volume (15.7 M) remained 2.9 million below its 50-day average volume of 18.6 M.
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(The Hill) – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday tweeted that she had reported late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel to Capitol Police after a joke he made about her in a monologue.
Greene tweeted a clip of Kimmel making the joke, which ended with the comedian asking “Wow, where is Will Smith when you really need him?,” stating, “This threat of violence against me by @jimmykimmel has been filed with the @CapitolPolice.”
Kimmel made the joke during a monologue this week on his ABC show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” criticizing Greene for a tweet in which she called three GOP senators “pro-pedophile.”
“Marjorie Taylor Greene, this Klan mom, is especially upset with the three Republican senators who said they’ll vote ‘yes’ on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who’s nominated for the Supreme Court. She tweeted, ‘Murkowski, Collins, and Romney are pro-pedophile. They just voted for KBJ,” Kimmel said on his program, quoting Greene’s Monday tweet.
“Wow, where is Will Smith when you really need him?” Kimmel added, in reference to the incident at the Oscars where actor Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock after a joke made about Smith’s wife.
Kimmel fired back at Greene after her tweet saying she reported him to Capitol Police.
“Officer? I would like to report a joke,” Kimmel tweeted.
Jackson faced intense questioning from Republican senators over her record on sentencing child pornography offenders during her Senate confirmation hearings in late March.
During the confirmation hearing, Sen. John Hawley (R-Mo.) focused on the case United States v. Hawkins, where Jackson gave the defendant a three-month prison sentence, below the government’s recommendation of two years in prison and far below the federal advisory guideline of a minimum of eight years of incarceration.
Capitol Police told The Hill that they cannot comment on any potential investigations.
The Hill has reached out to Kimmel and Greene for comment.
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PLAINWELL, Mich. (WOOD) — A Michigan man says he’s alive thanks to the five organs he received from a single donor through a rare transplant procedure.
Dominick Anastasia, a 40-year-old from Plainwell, had a multivisceral transplant in August 2020, and he says he’s grateful for his donor every day.
“Her name was Lindsey and she was 29,” he said.
Anastasia was diagnosed with Pancreatitis in 2016 after having complications during a procedure on his intestines.
“I woke up in just the worst pain I had ever felt in my lifetime, and I knew instantly something wasn’t right,” Anastasia said.
He saw a series of doctors at multiple hospitals before being sent to Indiana University in Indianapolis, the closest hospital that could perform the procedure to replace five of his organs. He was put on the organ waiting list in July 2020 and received the organ donations a month later.
“It’s a simultaneous transplant where they do your liver, your pancreas, the stomach, and then the small and large intestines,” Anastasia said.
He has been in touch with his donor’s mother, who said Lindsey saved five lives.
“When I did communicate with her family. I had expressed to them how thankful and how grateful I am for their daughter’s gift,” Anastasia said. “I wouldn’t be here without her.”
Anastasia said while he has had complications to overcome, the transplant has given him a new life.
“I got my health back. I’ve been able to do the things that I couldn’t do with my children prior to surgery. My sons like to go out and throw the ball around. They like to play basketball, and I just didn’t have the strength to do these things,” Anastasia said.
April is National Donate Life Month, and Anastasia wants others to consider giving the gift of life. He hopes others decide to become organ donors knowing the impact the decision can have.
“There’s so many people that die every day waiting for an organ transplant. I would recommend to anybody: Sign up please, become an organ donor because it makes a difference,” Anastasia said.
Only about 200 multivisceral transplants are performed globally each year.
To learn how to donate, visit the Gift of Life Michigan website.
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IMAGE: Ukraine defense ministry
Invading Russian troops are preparing to seize Kharkiv and attack Ukrainian troops in the joint forces operation zone, Ukraine’s Defence Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzianyk said on Monday, April 4. Delivering a press briefing on the ‘Operational’ situation, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said that the main focus for the Russian soldiers “is to prepare for the resumption of offensive operations to surround the Ukrainian army and seize the city of Kharkiv.”
Motuzianyk informed that the Russian troops have been assembling in the western and southern military districts in the Slobozhanskyi and Donetsk operational districts. Ukraine’s defense ministry outlined the combat strategy of the Russian troops, saying that they are headed towards the military districts and have mobilized the reserve units.
“Russian army is also establishing routes for troop logistics, creating stocks of ammunition, missiles, and fuel, and preparing medical facilities to receive a large number of wounded soldiers,” Ukraine’s Defence Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzianyk said. According to Ukraine’s general staff of the armed forces intelligence, Russian troops have failed to encircle the city of Kyiv and hence have retreated towards the east, unable to capture the city of Chernihiv due to fierce resistance by the Ukrainian soldiers.
“[Russia] will try to resume offensive operations in the direction of the cities of Brovary and Boryspil in order to block the capital of Ukraine, the city of Kyiv, from the east,” the intelligence report released by Ukraine’s general staff of the armed forces read. It further stated that the Russian troops are attempting to surround and block the cities of Sumy and Kharkiv by striking civilian infrastructure. The repositioning of the Russian troop units is due to “the loss of more than 50% of the personnel” Ukraine’s armed forces have claimed, adding that Russia is trying to replenish the combat soldiers' losses and is relocating reserve units.
Ukraine Army claims to have destroyed warship ‘Saratov’ on the occupied Berdyansk port, as well as other ships ‘Caesar Kunikov’ and ‘Novocherkassk’ also sustained heavy damage. Russians have been unable to capture Popasna, Rubizhne, and Mariupol. A pentagon report also claims that Russian troops have been running out of precision-guided munitions and are relying on dumb bombs and artillery.
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A fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine lowered rates of COVID-19 among the elderly but the protection against infection appeared short-lived, a large study in Israel has found.
The second booster’s protection against infection dwindled after four weeks, Israeli researchers showed in their study published on Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Protection against severe illness did not wane during the six weeks after the dose but more follow-up study was needed to evaluate its longer-term protection, the researchers said.
The study on 1.3 million people aged 60 and older looked at data from the Israeli Ministry of Health database between Jan. 10 and March 2, when the Omicron variant was predominant.
It comes ahead of a meeting by the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday to discuss the need for additional boosters, a week after the United States authorized a second booster shot for people aged 50 and older amid a spread of the Omicron sub-variant BA.2.
European health ministers have also urged the bloc’s governments to back a fourth dose for people over 60.
In Asia, South Korea started giving out fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccines in February and Singapore has said a second booster dose is planned for those aged 80 and older.
Another study from Israel showed last month that seniors who received a second booster of the Pfizer Inc (PFE.N)/BioNTech SE (22UAy.DE) COVID-19 vaccine had a 78% lower mortality rate than those who got just one.
Israel started offering a second booster in January.
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Shares of Paycom Software Inc.
PAYC,
-2.08%
slipped 2.08% to $328.07 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
+0.43%
rising 0.43% to 4,500.21 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.25%
rising 0.25% to 34,583.57. This was the stock's third consecutive day of losses. Paycom Software Inc. closed $230.90 short of its 52-week high ($558.97), which the company achieved on November 2nd.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Oracle Corp.
ORCL,
-0.32%
fell 0.32% to $81.54, Workday Inc. Cl A
WDAY,
+1.35%
rose 1.35% to $233.25, and Paychex Inc.
PAYX,
-0.98%
fell 0.98% to $139.84. Trading volume (744,441) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 472,484.
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INTRODUCTION
Initial Officer Training Programme (IOTP) provides basic military officer training to Officer Cadets (OCdts) and their equivalents from law enforcement and uniformed services. The programme falls within the tactical level of the Professional Military Education (PME) framework of armed forces and is modelled from the Royal Military Academy Sandhursts’ (RMAS) Commissioning Course. It was designed with the direct support and guidance of RMAS Instructing and Support Staff.
Rationale
Traditionally, the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) longstanding partnerships with militaries across the world has seen its OCdts being trained in academies in the following countries: United States, England, Canada, China and India. Upon the return of OCdts to the JDF, there is a requirement for doctrine and operating procedure standardization due to the varying concepts and differing contents of the training they had undergone. This is normally done at the Unit level and later, through a Young Officers’ Course. The advent of COVID-19 added a new level of complexity to travel, thus negatively affecting the process of sending OCdts overseas. Additionally, the ongoing expansion and restructuring of the Force to cauterize the ballooning threats to national security has caused an increased demand for newly commissioned Second Lieutenants.
Due to the carefully adapted military and academic curricula, IOTP serves as the course to treat with the aforementioned considerations. The methodology used addresses each issue directly and the course, through the delivery of a bespoke training syllabus, is fit for the JDF and is also relevant to the militaries and organizations within the Caribbean region and in other parts of the world.
Concept
Having the RMAS approach to training at its core, IOTP is designed with a syllabus that sees male and female integration throughout training. The course focusses on developing military skills and command with a leadership ‘golden thread’. The course structure allows the Instructing Staff to educate, build, develop and scrutinize an OCdt’s ability to decide and communicate accurately and ethically while under pressure and or stress. The expectation is that on commissioning, an OCdt will be fully cognizant of the responsibilities and personal conditions that being an Officer imposes upon them. The product of the IOTP will be an ethical and robust Officer who has the knowledge, skills, attitudes and intellectual agility to adapt their decision-making process and approach to any environment.
Location
The home of IOTP is the Caribbean Military Academy (CMA) Newcastle, which is located at the Newcastle Hill Station, St Andrew, Jamaica.
Nestled in the cool hills of upper St Andrew and amidst beautiful trees, ferns, ground orchids, delicate wild flowers and a profusion of ginger lilies, is the Newcastle
Training Depot founded in 1841 by Major General Sir William Maynard Gomm (later Field Marshall). Gomm, a veteran of the wars against revolutionary France and Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica from 1840 to 1841, relentlessly badgered the War Office in London to establish a mountain station for British soldiers in Jamaica soon after taking up his post.
The idea of the hill station was first raised by Gomm in a letter dated April 7, 1840 to Governor Sir Charles Metcalfe. Gomm pointed out that while Up Park Camp was an ideal location for a barracks, it was subject to the ravages of yellow fever. In Jamaica the
British garrison was stationed on the plain at Up Park Camp, Stony Hill, Fort Augusta and Port Royal. Here, on the average, 1 soldier died every 2½ days. According to Russell, the year 1838 was considered a ‘good’ year: only 91 men died. In 1839, 110 men perished and in the following year 121. Initially, the British government was conservative in approving a hill station for the troops in Jamaica. They were concerned about the expense of the venture.
In May 1841, London finally sanctioned Gomm’s efforts to build what is thought to be the first permanent mountain station in the British West Indies at Newcastle. The site selected was a coffee plantation protruding from the southern face of the grand ridge of the Blue Mountains. The British government paid £4,230 for the Newcastle site.
At the outbreak of World War II (1939-1945), life at Newcastle changed a little. The British regiment was replaced by Canadian regiments which remained at Newcastle for the duration of the war. With hostilities over in 1945, the Canadians left and once again a British battalion was stationed there.
In 1958, the West Indies Federation was founded and the infantry regiments of the various Caribbean islands were disbanded and reorganized into the West India Regiment. Newcastle became a training depot, training recruits from all over the West Indies as part of the
newly formed West Indies Federation. In 1962 when Federation was disbanded, the West India Regiment was also disbanded. Jamaica simultaneously sought her independence, which was achieved on August 6, 1962. With independence, Newcastle was given to the Jamaican government as part of a general settlement of all military lands in Jamaica.
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Group vows to sue Amtrak over screening of rail passengers against terrorist watchlist
Alarm by civil liberties groups comes after National Investigative Unit revealed screening program
Alarm by civil liberties groups comes after National Investigative Unit revealed screening program
Alarm by civil liberties groups comes after National Investigative Unit revealed screening program
The Council on American-Islamic Relations vowed on Thursday to sue America's largest passenger rail network if Amtrak begins screening its travelers against the government's terrorist watchlist – a program first revealed by the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit's reporting.
"If Amtrak starts using watchlist information to screen passengers, the Council on American-Islamic Relations will file a lawsuit to challenge it," Gadeir Abbas, senior litigation attorney at CAIR, said in an interview.
He said the civil rights organization worries about watchlist mistakes, profiling of Muslim-Americans, and harassment by officers with the Transportation Security Administration.
"We hope that Amtrak and TSA will come to its senses," Abbas said. "And rather than expand an ineffective, discriminatory program, do something useful with their time rather than harass innocent Muslim travelers as they go about their lives."
Amtrak Rail Passenger Threat Assessment
On Wednesday, the National Investigative Unit reported Amtrak has asked the TSA to start screening some of its passengers against the Terrorist Screening Database watchlist maintained by the Threat Screening Center. The goal is to find out if known or suspected terrorists have used Amtrak for transportation, according to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security privacy impact document obtained by Hearst Television.
The program, part of the Amtrak Rail Passenger Threat Assessment which had not been previously reported, would compare personal passenger information from Amtrak to the government's watchlist. The Department of Homeland Security disclosed it may also later view a traveler's "publicly available social media" profiles to complete some searches.
If the TSA finds any matches, the agency would then provide Amtrak with statistical and anonymized results that would not include passenger names, at least during the pilot program outlined in the Privacy Impact Assessment.
Initially, the program would focus on "several months" of past travel on the Northeast Corridor – Amtrak's busiest and most profitable, the assessment said. Amtrak routes go through 46 of the 50 states.
Capitol Hill reacts
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said in a statement Thursday, "While we have for years advocated for a necessary and significant increase in rail and surface transportation security, an entirely new watchlist regime raises alarming questions about privacy and due process. TSA's plans to create this program without engaging Congress are extremely troubling."
Congressman Troy Nehls (R-TX), who sits on the House's Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials subcommittee, said in an interview on Capitol Hill, "I think there should be a little bit more oversight from Congress" by Amtrak before it rolls out the program.
Rep. Nehls said he plans to soon introduce a bill to strengthen security on Amtrak, including enhanced baggage screening and identification, and does support the planned TSA screening of Amtrak passengers.
"I think it's a step in the right direction because anybody can jump on an Amtrak train, doesn't matter who you are, and you don't need to be identified," Nehls said.
A fellow lawmaker on the same railroads panel, Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a Democrat from Massachusetts, said in an interview, that "it is fully appropriate for TSA to maintain the security" of public transportation.
"We do that at airports, on airlines, for example, and Americans deserve to feel safe when they're traveling," Auchincloss said.
Calls to 'reverse course'
The 12-page document that lays out the screening program notes the 9/11 Commission report cautioned that while aviation remains a possible target, "opportunities to do harm are as great, or greater, in maritime or surface transportation." Congress initially raised the possibility of a security watchlist program for Amtrak in 2007, and again in 2018 suggested a vetting system be considered. In 2020, just before the coronavirus pandemic began, Amtrak said it was assigning more police officers onboard its trains after a spike in crime.
Both Amtrak and the TSA declined requests for an interview before the National Investigative Unit revealed the existence of the program. Amtrak did not respond to a detailed list of questions about it. On Thursday, after the initial reporting, Amtrak did not respond to another inquiry about the CAIR threat of a lawsuit and a TSA spokesperson said "TSA does not comment on pending litigation."
In a national statement issued hours after the initial story was published, the American Civil Liberties Union said the screening program "raises significant civil liberties and rights concerns."
Hina Shamsi, director of ACLU's National Security Project, added, "People on the watchlist are disproportionately people of color or immigrants, and can be wrongly stigmatized as terrorism suspects with no notice of their placement on the list or a meaningful opportunity to challenge it. Amtrak's request should be a non-starter and it needs to reverse course."
In the privacy assessment for the Amtrak-initiated screening program, DHS acknowledges that mistakes and wrong matches are possible, acknowledging, “there is a risk that limited information provided by Amtrak will result in inaccurate watchlist match results."
WATCH NATIONAL INVESTIGATIVE UNIT COVERAGE OF RAIL SAFETY:
- 2022: Amtrak Asks TSA to Start Screening Rail Passengers Against Terrorist Watchlist for First Time
- 2020: After decades of delay, rail safety deadline nears
- 2019: Delayed 'lifesaving' technology added to NTSB 'most wanted'
- 2019: Amtrak failing to spot, stop impaired employees
- 2018: Passenger railroads struggle to implement 'lifesaving' technology
Mark Albert is the chief national investigative correspondent for the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit, based in Washington D.C. April Chunko, Annie Klingenberg & Kevin Rothstein contributed to this report.
Know of waste, fraud or abuse in government agencies? Have a confidential tip or inside information? Send information and documents to the National Investigative Unit at investigate@hearst.com.
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LINCOLN — Officials from Lincoln and a veterans group met Wednesday to continue discussions of a possible veterans care facility in the city.
Members of Alabama Veteren’s board of directors met with the Lincoln City Council and other officials from the city and Talladega County Wednesday to both discuss the possibility and tour the property the city has proposed giving to the veterans group.
The meeting was largely to allow for the two groups to discuss questions they have for each other about the project. Several Alabama Veterans board members were quick to acknowledge that the project is in its infancy with both the board and the city council trying to decide on feasibility issues.
The meeting was also attended by County Commissioner Darrell Ingram and Sheriff Jimmy Kilgore, who have both been very supportive of the possible facility.
During a meeting in March, the two groups met to discuss creating a facility that focused on transitioning veterans back into civilian life and helping those suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries. The city has offered to supply land near the future site of its 190-acre Veterans Park, which it is currently working on getting funding for the first phase of.
The property itself is on Stemley Road, but the specific part the city has offered Alabama Veteran is located far away from the road and features a farmhouse, a barn, and a swimming pool.
Alan Cook, with Alabama Veteran, said the project is still in very early stages, but he and the board want to make sure the deal is best for everyone involved.
“This is a proposed project that we hope can come to fruition,” he said, “and with the city of Lincoln and, of course, Talladega County Commissions help … we can come to an agreement that is conducive for all involved.”
Lincoln Mayor Lew Watson said he also wants the project to come to fruition, but recognizes its early days.
“We have no preconceived notions about this other than lets do what we gotta do to make this happen,” he said.
The two parties discussed several issues such as sewer service, costs on maintaining the property and even any tax implications.
Councilman Joey Callahan asked who exactly would be making the plans for the facility if the city and non profit moved forward. Cook said the board would form a committee to make the specific plans.
Councilman Brandon Tate also suggested that, after touring the property, the board give the council a list of specific questions to look at.
After touring the property, Cook said the board still had several things to consider before committing to take on the property. He said some of these were planning related but some are also financial.
“First and foremost it's great that we have this piece of property and we have a facility that's on it, but I think the big thing is what's our upfront cost going to be even to get into a building like this,” he said. “If we commit to it, again that's one of our biggest fears of everyone on the board, over committing to a project of this caliber.”
Local Alana Centelli, who has been working with Alabama Veteran on the project, said it has to be considered in phases, but the community does seem to support the idea.
“There's so much community excitement,” she said. “Everybody wants to help, everybody wants to know what they can do.”
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2022 Masters: Tiger Woods shoots 1 under in Round 1
The Masters is back and so is Tiger Woods.
The five-time winner, who has been out of competitive action since his devastating car accident 14 months ago, was among those to tee off on Thursday as the first round commenced.
He finished with three birdies and two bogeys for a first-round score of 71 — 1 under par — which left him just three strokes behind the leaders at the time and on track with the average first-round score of Woods’ five Masters wins (70.8).
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Hideki Matsuyama is the defending champ and Jon Rahm entered as the betting favorite, but it was Cameron Smith who finished atop the leaderboard after the first round with a score of 68 — 4 under par.
Things aren't over yet, and Smith has a few other golfers hot on the trail of the highly coveted top spot.
Here are the top moments from Thursday's first round.
The Golden Bear
Jack Nicklaus is the man Woods is chasing for all-time major championships (Nicklaus has 18, Woods has 15). And Nicklaus was on hand to watch as an honorary starter.
Birdie time!
As Woods’ tee time loomed, Jose Maria Olazabal quietly went out and made the first birdie of this year’s tournament.
Olazabal is a two-time Masters champion and is playing the tournament for the 33rd time. His approach on the par-4 opening hole settled along the right side of the green, and he rolled in the putt.
From way downtown
Padraig Harrington's putter was in good form early, as he drained a 67-footer to remain co-leader.
Woods is back!
Woods took to the course with a fan or two on hand to watch. Here's his first hole, which ended with a par.
Harry situation
While all eyes were on Woods, Harry Higgs cruised to the top of the leaderboard, notching four early birdies.
"He's a magician"
Smith showed off his short game with a sweet chip on No. 5.
Eagle time
Shane Lowry got in on the chip-in action, too!
Just missed
Woods was walking in this birdie putt on No. 5, but it just lipped out.
It doesn't get much better
How about a hole-out eagle from Joaquin Niemann to give him a share of the lead?
This came after the 23-year-old phenom had consecutive birdies.
Former champ is in the hunt
Danny Willett, the 2016 Masters champ, made a move for the lead on No. 13.
Keeping the pressure on
Smith continued to rise, moving into a tie for the lead as he worked his way through Amen Corner.
Checking in on Tiger
Woods remained in the hunt through the first round, and with approach shots like this, he showed no signs of slowing down.
Cam is the man
Many pegged Smith as a potential contender heading into the tournament, and Thursday's action showed why.
Smith was the first to reach 4 under, getting there with a birdie on the par-4 14th. Smith was 2 over after four holes, then played his next 10 in 6 under — jump-starting with back-to-back birdies to close his front side.
After 16 holes, he held a two-stroke lead at 6 under.
Hear the roar
Woods nailed a birdie on No. 16, too, offering up a calm, cool fist pump as he moved to 1 under.
Strong return for Tiger
Considering all he's gone through over the last year-plus, Woods' first-round 71 has to be deemed impressive. He finished with a par on 18 and walked off to a roar from the crowd.
Coming for the crown
Dustin Johnson, who won the Masters in 2020, joined Smith atop the leaderboard after this incredible shot:
In the hunt
Elsewhere, Jordan Spieth — the 2015 Masters champion — ended his first nine at 1 over par, capped off with a smooth birdie.
Crowded at the top
Sungjae Im, who began the day with three consecutive birdies, drained an eagle on No. 13 to join Smith and Johnson at the top of the leaderboard at 4 under par.
The Associated Press has contributed to this developing story.
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COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations rise in Sask.
Twenty-four new COVID-19 related deaths were reported in Saskatchewan for the week of March 27 to April 2, up four from the previous weekly provincial update.
COVID-19 related hospitalizations rose as well, with 354 total reported as of April 6 including 20 people in ICUs. Among those in hospital, 145 had a COVID-19 related illness, 177 were incidental infections and 32 were under investigation.
Twenty confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks were reported in long-term care and care home settings, up 10 from last week.
Also, 440 new variant lineage results were reported, all of which were Omicron. Of those 440, 21.4 per cent were sublineage BA.2, compared to 15.5 per cent from the last update.
There were 7,689 lab test performed in Saskatchewan, with 1,196 positive results, leading to a test positivity of 13.2 per cent, slightly higher than last week which was 12.3 per cent.
The province said as of April 2, 85.7 per cent of the population five years and older had gotten at least one dose of a two dose vaccine and 80.7 per cent competed two or three.
As well, 51.4 per cent among the population 18 and older had gotten at least one booster shot.
The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine will also be available to Saskatchewan residents 18 and older starting Monday.
According to the release, Novavax is a two dose, protein-based vaccine series which must be given at least 21 days between doses. It can be used as a third or fourth dose for people who have already received another type of vaccine if supply is available.
Due to the limited supply of 4,200 doses, Novavax will only be available by appointments booked directly through the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA).
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KYIV, Ukraine — UN aid chief Martin Griffiths tells AP he's 'not optimistic' about Ukraine ceasefire following talks in Moscow and Kyiv.
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Environmental group says cruise ships bring far less economic benefit to Victoria than non-cruise tourism
Cruise ship travellers in Victoria contribute far less to the local tourism economy than non-cruise travellers, according to a new analysis commissioned by environmental group Stand.earth.
The report published Wednesday compared the economic impacts of the two groups of tourists in the B.C. capital in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic crippled the local cruise industry.
The report, prepared by Responsible Travel Consulting LLC, found total cruise tourism spending in Victoria amounted to $137.1 million in 2019, compared to non-cruise spending of $2.94 billion, or roughly 21 times more.
Cruise ship passengers spent an average of $87.36 per visit to Victoria in 2019, while overnight visitors spent $710 on an average visit, or roughly $237 per day, according to the report.
Non-cruise day trippers to Victoria spent an average of $137.46 per visit, the report said.
Cruise ship passengers accounted for 12 per cent of tourist visitors to the city, but those passengers spent less than two per cent of the tourism dollars in 2019, according to the report.
The same analysis found non-cruise tourism created 30 times more jobs in Greater Victoria than cruise tourism, while also generating 20 times more in tax dollars than cruise operations.
The report comes as Victoria prepares to welcome its first cruise ship to the city since October 2019 on Saturday.
The Greater Victoria Harbour Authority says 358 cruise ship visits are scheduled between Saturday and early November, bringing an estimated 780,000 passengers to the city.
Stand.earth campaigner Anna Barford says the notion that cruise ships are an economic driver for Victoria's tourism industry is "a myth," adding the industry also has "an outsized pollution footprint."
The report recommends Victoria focus on rebuilding its overnight tourism sector to maximize local economic benefts and minimize negative environmental impacts.
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The City of Monroe Police Department reported the following incidents for the period March 24 – 31, 2022. Due to the length, this report has been split into five parts. This is the final part. Please note an arrest or charge does not constitute a conviction.
- Other Law – N. Broad Street. Complainant reported a green bag possibly containing narcotics located outside the business door. Narcotics turned into evidence to be destroyed.
- Dispute – Towler Street. Subject and another named subject involved in a verbal dispute. Named subject was arrested and charged with violation of bond conditions.
- Dispute – N. Broad Street; Deer Acres. Management wanted patron trespassed. Female patron was criminally trespassed for 2 years.
- Traffic Stop – Wheel House Lane – Traffic stop due to illegal tint. The driver was was arrested for driving while license suspended. He was fingerprinted and released on copy of citation.
- Warrant Service – Tanglewood Drive: Named subject was arrested for an outstanding PV warrant and obstruction following a brief foot chase into another residence. The subject was apprehended without incident and transported to the Walton County Jail without incident.
- Dispute – Complainant requested help in reference to ongoing domestic issues at Birch St. Complainant was advised of eviction and Temporary Protection Order process.
- Damage to Property – Atha St. In reference to a female writing profanity on another female’s car. Report taken.
- Theft – Forest Ln- In reference to two bicycles being stolen. Caller wishes extra patrol of neighborhood.
- Suspicious Vehicle – N. Midland Ave – All OK on location. vehicle owner just advised he was parking the vehicle there for the night due to no parking in the U on Midland.
- Domestic – Birch St. – In reference to the complainant advising her boyfriend wouldn’t leave the residence. Upon officer arrival no party was on scene. When called, the complainant refused to return to the scene.
- Traffic Stop – Sorrells St. @ Booth Dr.- A named subject was stopped for a moving violation. It was discovered that he had an active warrant out of Walton County Sheriff’s Office. He was taken into custody and transported to WCSO without incident.
- Suspicious Person – N. Broad St. – Officers were advised that a wanted female subject was at this location. Upon officers’ arrival, she was located and taken into custody. While searching, Heroin, Oxycodone Hydrochloride pills and drug-related objects were located on her person. She was subsequently charged with Possession of a Schedule I & 2 controlled substance and drug-related objects. Her warrants were also confirmed and holds placed.
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After two seasons on the Oklahoma State men’s basketball team, Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe is looking for a new destination.
Moncrieffe, a 6-foot-7 sophomore forward from Toronto, Canada, has decided to enter the transfer portal. He shared his announcement in an Instagram post Thursday afternoon.
“I write this with a heavy heart,” Moncrieffe said in the post. “Cowboy nation these past two years have been nothing short of amazing for me. The brotherhood I’ve built with my teammates, and all the adversity we faced helped make me into a better man.
“Stillwater and the people here will always hold a special place in my heart. With all that being said my time at Oklahoma State has come to and (sic) end as I feel it’s in my best interest to enter the transfer portal.”
As a sophomore, Moncrieffe averaged 4.2 points per game and 3.9 rebounds per game. He made seven starts, all in nonconference matchups except one at home against Kansas. During his freshman season, he averaged nine points per game and 5.3 rebounds per game. His minutes per game decreased from 21.9 during his freshman year to 14.8 during his sophomore season.
Moncrieffe is the third Cowboy to announce his intentions to transfer after the 2021-22 campaign. First, sophomore guard Donovan Williams entered the portal, and junior wing Keylan Boone followed. Sophomore center Moussa Cisse and junior forward Kalib Boone have confirmed their returns to OSU for next season.
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SOUTH LOOP — A man is recovering after being stabbed during a robbery while he was standing on a Green Line platform in the South Loop, according to authorities.
The 26-year-old was on the Green Line platform at Cermak-McCormick Place around 10 p.m. Wednesday when three people walked up to him and demanded his property, Chicago Police said.
The man got into a fight with the three people, one of whom pulled out a knife and stabbed the man in his right arm, police said. The robbers then managed to take the man’s belongings before running away.
The man realized he had been stabbed and took himself to Northwestern Hospital in good condition, police said. No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
The Green Line stabbing is the second attack on a CTA “L” platform this week.
On Monday night, a CTA train operator was pushed onto the tracks at an Edgewater “L” stop after helping a customer look for a phone they said dropped on the tracks.
CTA has said it will double security guards at transit lines in response to an increase in crime.
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Fourth Person Arrested in Cortlandville Armed Robbery
A fourth person has been arrested following an armed robbery of a Cortlandville business. The robbery occurred just before 1 a.m. on March 4th at the Top Ten...
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* As CBN supports fertilizer industry with N114.09bn in 5 years
Deji Elumoye in Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday disclosed that Nigeria is fast attaining the enviable status of being the leading fertilizer producer in the African continent.
This is just as the nation’s apex bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), within the last five years supported the fertiliser industry with a whopping N114.09 billion.
Speaking while playing host to the Executive Committee of Fertiliser Producers and Suppliers Association of Nigeria (FEPSAN) at the State House, Abuja, the president attributed Nigeria’s rising prominence as Africa’s fertiliser powerhouse to the implementation of the right policies by the present administration.
According to him, ‘‘With our over 70 blending plants operating, Nigeria is on its way to becoming Africa’s fertiliser powerhouse. And with our mega Urea production facilities, Nigeria is definitely a global player in the Urea space.”
President Buhari noted that this remarkable achievement, in a very short period of time, had ensured a steady flow of investments to the sector from the private sector; bringing prosperity to millions of Nigerians and good returns to the investors.
The president expressed delight that the era of persistent shortage of fertiliser in the country was over, commending FEPSAN for partnering with the government in the very patriotic backward integration project of enhancing the agricultural value chain.
He noted the steps taken by his administration to limit overreliance on imports, ensure the availability of the commodity and achieve self-sufficiency in food production in the country.
His words: ‘‘When this administration came to office in 2015, our focus was on three key areas; security, economy and tackling corruption.
‘‘For every nation to have peace and prosperity, its economy must be inclusive.
‘‘For Nigeria, a predominantly agrarian nation, having an inclusive economy meant we needed to prioritise the enhancement of our agricultural value chain.
‘‘We quickly identified the persistent shortage of fertilizer as a key reason for the low yields experienced in our farms.
‘‘This historical scarcity of fertiliser was due to our over reliance on imports and the inefficient participation of the government in distributing this essential commodity to the farmers.
‘‘As a government, it was very clear to us that these practices needed to change. Nigeria is naturally blessed with most of the raw materials needed to produce fertilisers.
‘‘Nigeria has all the skills and manpower required to convert these raw materials to fertilisers. With the right enabling environment, Nigeria has the entrepreneurs who are ready to invest in the sector.
‘‘So we went to work. And as the Chairman of FEPSAN mentioned in his remarks, the rest is now history.”
The president noted that a key indicator of the present government’s successful policies is the fact that the country had no shortages of fertilizers during the global COVID-19 lockdowns.
‘‘Today, I am pleased to hear your assurances that we will not have any shortages in Nigeria because of the Eastern European conflicts that have impacted the global fertilizer trade. All these trends indicate our backward integration policy was the right policy,’’ he said.
Appreciating those who have invested and continue to invest in the sector, the president said: ‘‘Through these investments, you are double blessed as you are making profits and bringing prosperity to millions of Nigerians working in the agricultural value chain.’’
Earlier in his remarks, the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, said fertiliser remains a key input to achieving food security and in realisation of this, the apex bank has continued to place great importance on its availability and accessibility by farmers to improve yield, productivity and ultimately, output.
Highlighting some CBN’s interventions, including the Real Sector Support Facility, Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme, National Food Security Programme and the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative (PFI), Emefiele said a total of over N114.09 billion has been disbursed to support the fertiliser industry in the last five years.
He explained that the interventions were long-term loans at concessionary interest rates to support domestic blending and distribution across the country.
Given the massive funding support received by FEPSAN members from the CBN, Emefiele announced that the bank is working with majors in the industry, such as Dangote and Indorama, to ensure that they sell Urea at discounted prices to the blending plants to ensure that the prices of fertilizer are moderated in the market.
According to him, ‘‘The bank will equally work with the blending plants to ensure that the blended fertilisers are made available to end-user farmers at affordable prices.”
On CBN Anchor Borrowers’ Programme, the CBN governor said the bank has disbursed N941.26 billion to 4.2 million smallholder famers cultivating 21 agricultural commodities on 5.4 million hectares of land across the country.
He added that for the 2021 wet season programme, the CBN disbursed N193.59 billion to 923,699 farmers cultivating seven commodities on 1.16 million hectares of land.
According to Emefiele, the CBN currently has a balance of stock of fertiliser from the last planting season under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme to the tune of 1.95 million bags and have committed additional 2.6 million bags for use during the 2022 programme.
Also speaking, FEPSAN President, Thomas Etuh, thanked President Buhari for inaugurating two facilities by members of the association — Barbedos blending plant in Kaduna and the Dangote Urea plant in Lagos- within two months.
‘‘Mr President, FEPSAN’s success is not only evident by the number of factories we commission, but also by the many pyramids of rice, maize and other crops you have been inspecting across the country.
‘‘Mr President, before you created the PFI Initiative in 2016, Nigeria’s fertiliser production base was almost zero. We had less than seven companies producing at 10 per cent of their installed capacity. Nigeria’s Urea output was reported at less than 300,000 tonnes,’’ he said.
Citing recent data from a fertiliser working group that reviews and validates consumption data spanning over 12 years, the FEPSA president said Nigeria recorded its highest consumption of fertilisers at 1.8 million tonnes per annum in 2021.
He, therefore, assured Nigerians that the association is ready, willing and available to ensure that fertilisers are available in all parts of the country for the 2022 wet season.
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Blac Chyna Subpoenas Twitter Over Rob Kardashian’s Account In Court Battle, Social Media Company Objects
Mar. 11 2022, Published 10:42 a.m. ET
Blac Chyna is fighting Twitter over records she believes will help her make her case in the upcoming trial against Rob Kardashian over accusations he posted explicit photos of her online.
According to court documents obtained by Radar, the 33-year-old businesswoman is accusing the social media giant of refusing to hand over requested documents.
As we previously reported, Chyna is preparing to face off with her ex-fiancé, his mother Kris Jenner, and his sisters Kim, Khloé & Kylie.
Her claims against Rob focus on him allegedly leaking explicit photos of her online after they broke up in 2017.
She accuses them of spreading lies that she abused Rob to E! execs. Chyna says the defendants threatened if her reality show Rob & Chyna wasn’t canceled then they would stop shooting Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Chyna says season 2 of her show was already greenlit and she was set to make nearly $1 million.
She accuses Kris Jenner of telling Kim Kardashian the alleged lie who then told her sisters Khloé & Kylie. Chyna believes she has lost out of tens of millions due to the Kardashian/Jenner family.
The family denies the allegations but has been unsuccessful in having the case dismissed. Rob sued Chyna for an alleged assault after she sued him. However, he dismissed his case last month only days before the trial was set to start.
Now, Chyna is ready for her day in court, and she is fighting for evidence.
In her new motion, Chyna states on July 5, 2017, “Mr. Kardashian posted hateful posts” involving her on Instagram. His account was quickly shut down but he then posted the images on Twitter.
Twitter also banned him from the platform.
Chyna claims she tried to depose Rob multiple times since January, but he objected despite previously agreeing to show up.
In court docs, Chyna says she is seeking documents related to Twitter’s business records relating to Twitter’s communications with [Kardashian] and with the other Defendants concerning Rob Kardashian, Twitter’s internal decision to ban [Kardashian] From Twitter; and Twitter’s communications with [Chyna] and any internal communications relating to [Chyna.]”
Twitter is refusing to comply with a court order. A judge has yet to rule.
As Radar first reported, Chyna was recently ordered to turn over records related to her OnlyFans income. Khloé had been demanding she produce the information — believing it would prove Chyna has been making money despite her claims the family had her blackballed.
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Highway 1 east of Revelstoke will be closed in both directions for planned avalanche control work for two hours this afternoon (April 7).
Planned work between Woolsey Creek Bridge and Glacier National Park West Boundary for 17.8 km will close the road from 2:00 p.m. (PDT) until 4:00 p.m. (PDT).
No detour available.
ROAD CLOSURE PLANNED#BCHwy1 east of #Revelstoke
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(WASHINGTON) – The U.S. Congress has overwhelmingly voted to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and ban the importation of its oil, ratcheting up the U.S. response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine amid reports of atrocities.
House action came Thursday after the Senate approved the two bills and the measures now go to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
Biden has already taken executive action to ban Russian oil, liquefied natural gas and coal to the United States. The legislation puts the effort into law.
The bill to end normal trade relations with Russia paves the way for Biden to enact higher tariffs on various imports, such as certain steel and aluminum products, further weakening the Russian economy under President Vladimir Putin. It also ensures Belarus receives less favorable tariff treatment.
The bills also provide the president with the authority to return normal tariff treatment for Russia as well as resume trade in Russian energy products subject to certain conditions.
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Don’t expect Xander Bogaerts and the Red Sox to come to an agreement on a new deal any time soon.
Just ask Bogaerts himself: On Thursday, speaking to reporters, the star shortstop was asked specifically if he expects a deal prior to the start of the season on Friday.
“No,” he said flatly. “No.”
The Red Sox did make him an offer, Bogaerts said, but it didn’t reach his expectations. ESPN’s Joon Lee reported that Bogaerts wanted to be paid in line with some of the biggest contracts handed out to the top shortstops in MLB — something in the range of $30 million per year.
“I can’t do nothing about it right now,” Bogaerts said. “I got a season coming up in front of me. I don’t want to put my teammates with that kind of distraction. They don’t deserve it. We had time to get something done. It didn’t work out.”
According to Lee, the Red Sox are still open to giving Bogaerts a contract — just not one that stretches 10 years into the future. Trevor Story’s long-term contract gives the Red Sox some flexibility.
“We want Bogey to be here for a long time,” Bloom said last month, per MassLive. “The great thing about Trevor and the player he is, is that he helps us in so many ways that he fits us regardless. We’d love to have both of them here for a long time.”
The Red Sox also have not extended Rafael Devers, although Lee reported the team might make an exception to their general rule against handing out long-term money given his age and skill level.
“We had a conversation with the team,” Devers told The Boston Globe‘s Alex Speier recently. “We didn’t get to anything. But I still have one more year. I have this one and the next year. And I’m ready to play with Boston, with the Red Sox. We’re not going to talk about it [more] this spring. Let’s see how this season goes.”
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A St. Cloud grocer has been sentenced to prison for defrauding federal food stamp and COVID-19 assistance programs out of more than $4 million over a four-year span.
Hared Nur Jibril, 60, who owned and operated Hormud Meat and Grocery Market from 2009 until the end of 2021, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in St. Paul to two years and six months in prison.
Judge Eric C. Tostrud also ordered Jibril to pay nearly $4.2 million in restitution.
Jabril pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud.
Before sentencing, defense attorney Christopher Keyser argued in a court filing for a sentence of one year in prison. Keyser pointed out the hardships of Jibril's emigration from war-torn Somalia, the killing of his brother and his sister's death as the family fled to Ethiopia.
Keyser also said his client's scheme did not fund a lavish lifestyle for himself, but he "used these monies to lift others up and provide opportunities they otherwise would not have."
"When regular patrons came to the store and could not afford items," Keyser said, "Mr. Jibril would give them merchandise and allow them to pay him back over time.
"He hired people local to the community to work for him. The funds generated from his businesses were put back into payroll and used to help community organizations like kids' youth programs."
In proposing the sentence that Jibril ultimately received, the prosecution said in its pre-sentence filing that he "committed consistent, blatant, substantial fraud against programs designed to ensure that disadvantaged individuals and families have enough nutritious food to eat. ... Mr. Jibril drove abundant foot traffic to his store, profiting from the government's generosity."
According to court documents:
From 2018 through 2021, Jibril and his employees exchanged food stamp benefits for cash and ineligible items, including, phone minutes, personal care products and prepared food from his adjoining restaurant.
A tip to the FBI exposed the scheme, and investigators determined that the food stamp transactions totaled far more money than what there should have been for a store of Hormud's size.
And despite his continued self-employment at the market, Jibril applied to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) for unemployment benefits, falsely claiming that he had been laid off because of COVID-19.
DEED granted his application for benefits, which were ultimately funded by the U.S. government as part of pandemic relief efforts. In total, Jabril received nearly $33,000 in unemployment assistance.
The market remains in operation in the 300 block of Division Street under new ownership.
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A lot of particles escape the limelight.
You've probably heard of protons, positive specks anchoring atoms. You've likely come across electrons, negative blips roaming around those protons. You may have even pondered photons, the stuff coming out of lightbulbs in your room.
But right now, we need to worry about an odd little particle called the W boson.
Along with its partner-in-crime, the Z boson, the W boson dictates what's called the "weak force." I'm going to save you from the rabbit hole of how the weak force works because it involves physics that'll explode our minds. Trust me. Just know that without the weak force, the sun would basically stop burning.
Anyway, there's drama with the W boson. According to a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, 10 years of unimaginably precise data suggest the particle is more massive than our physics predicts. To non-physicists, this might sound trivial at first glance, but it's actually a major problem for…kind of everything.
More specifically, it spurs a paradox for the Standard Model of particle physics, a well-established, evolving theory that explains how all the universe's particles behave -- protons, electrons, photons, and even those we don't really hear about like gluons, muons, I could go on. The W boson is in there, too.
"It is one of the cornerstones of the Standard Model," said Giorgio Chiarelli, research director of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, and co-author of the study.
And the crux of the Standard Model is that all its particles ought to work together. Otherwise, the structure sort of falls apart. It's like a symbiotic particle world -- which also means, like in our world, there are rules. The Standard Model predicts some parameters to keep everything afloat – and one of these is the W boson mass.
If this particle doesn't equal that, the rest of the model wouldn't quite work out. And if that were true, we'd have to change the model. We'd have to change our understanding of how all the particles in the universe work.
Well…remember the new paper? We're pretty much entering that worst case scenario.
A decade of calculations, measurements, cross-checking, head-scratching and deep breathing from about 400 international researchers concluded that the W boson is slightly heavier than the Standard Model predicts it should be.
"It's not a big difference, but we can really see clearly that it is different," said David Toback, an astrophysicist from Texas A&M University and co-author of the study. "Something is amiss."
You might be wondering if we're sure about this. The science community had the same reaction, which is why researchers are now laser-focused on confirming that this greater W boson mass is really the case.
"It could be we got it wrong," Toback said. But he quickly added, "We don't think so."
It's because, as Toback explains, the team "measured this tiny difference with such incredible precision that it sticks out like a sore thumb." And fascinatingly, these measurements sort of resemble crime-scene-style deduction.
Watching for what's missing
To get a W boson in the first place, you literally have to smash two protons together.
That produces an array of other Standard Model particles, and scientists just have to hope one of those is the one they want to examine. (In this case, that's the W boson).
For the new measurements, the researchers used collision data from a now-out-of-service particle accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. Thankfully, it did make some W bosons, and in fact, held enough W boson data to procure about four times the amount as used in previous measurements. Jackpot.
But there's a complication. The W boson is fleeting. It rapidly splits into two smaller particles, so you can't measure it directly. One of those is either an electron or muon, which can be measured directly, but the other is arguably even stranger than the W boson itself: A neutrino.
Neutrinos are aptly called "ghost particles," because they don't touch anything. They're even zooming through you right now, but you can't tell because they don't touch the atoms that make up your body. Eerie, I know.
This ghostly hurdle means scientists have to get creative. Enter, the art of deduction.
Once neutrinos vanish, they leave behind a sort of hole. "The footprint of the neutrino is missing energy," Chiarelli said. "This tells us where the neutrino went and how much energy was carried away."
It's kind of the same concept as an X-ray. "The X-ray goes through, but for the point in which you have some piece of metal, you can see the shape," Chiarelli said. The "shape" is the "missing energy."
Then, after decoding the neutrino, the scientists used a bunch of complex equations to add it up with the electron or muon data. That led to the overall W boson mass. This measurement was done many, many times to make sure everything was as precise as possible. Plus, all the data was bolstered by theoretical calculations that have matured since the last time the W boson was measured.
Yet…there's another complication.
As with all scientific pursuits, there is no right or wrong answer. There is only the answer. But as with all human thought, there's the possibility of bias, and the team did not want to fall victim to such personal error. Toback quotes Sherlock Holmes to explain the team's mentality: "One must find theories to suit facts, and not facts to suit theories."
Therefore, not only did the team double, triple, quadruple check their data, they did so while fully blinded to the final answer. When the box with the W boson mass result was opened, everyone would be looking at it for the first time.
Fast-forward to the year 2020, when tensions are high, the box is finally opened – and the W boson mass is in clear contention with the Standard Model's prediction.
"It was not a Eureka moment," Chiarelli said. "It was a rather sobering moment. We were skeptical. Science is organized in skepticism."
But over time, even that skepticism faded and here we are.
This all seems very solid. Now what?
In a sense, this information has been a long time coming. "We've known since the beginning that the Standard Model cannot be the ultimate theory," Chiarelli said.
For instance, the Standard Model famously cannot explain gravity, dark matter, and many other elusive aspects of our universe.
One idea is that this new information about the W boson mass might mean we need to add some particles to the Standard Model to account for the change. This could, in turn, impact what we know about the famous Higgs Boson, or "god particle," which was finally detected in 2012 and met with world-shattering applause.
"But we're not there," Toback said. "That would be pure speculation."
And, rather than speculate, Toback and Chiarelli agree that even though the facts will lead us to a new fundamental theory of particle physics one day,
"It's like moving in the dark," Chiarelli said. "You know that there is one way which is correct, but you don't know where…maybe our measurement can give us the right direction to move."
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Juan Trevino, more commonly known as El Huevo or “The Egg,” the suspected leader of a notorious drug cartel, has been deported to the United States by Mexican authorities. El Huevo’s arrest incited a number of armed attacks by the Northwestern Cartel against 22 military holds, 16 road blockades, and a U.S. consulate in Nuevo Laredo, one of the most violent parts of the country. Mexican authorities called in more than 700 military personnel to secure Nuevo Laredo. El Huevo has ties to the founders of the Los Zetas cartel, whose former leader, Heriberto Lazcano, aka “El Lazca,” was killed in October 2012 by soldiers in Mexico. “It was a blow to one of the most important criminal organizations in the northeast of the country, with influence in at least five states and operations in the United States,” Rosa Rodriguez, Mexico's secretary of security, said.
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Experts say US suspension of COVID aid will prolong pandemic
By MARIA CHENG and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — In the latest Senate package targeted at stopping the coronavirus, U.S. lawmakers dropped nearly all funding for curbing the virus beyond American borders, a move many health experts describe as dangerously short-sighted. They warn the suspension of COVID-19 aid for poorer countries could ultimately spur the kind of unchecked transmission needed for the next worrisome variant to emerge. Although the U.S. has been among the biggest contributors to funding the global response to the pandemic, that will soon change. The new budget means many American-funded vaccination campaigns in dozens of countries, including Zambia, Ivory Coast and Mali, will come to a grinding halt.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Spurs point guard Tre Jones learned growing up in the Minneapolis suburb of Apple Valley that he needed to make protecting the ball a priority if he wanted to become an effective floor general.
The lesson came from his first AAU coach — his mother.
Debbie Jones knew all about the importance of ball security after leading Devils Lake High School to a North Dakota state championship in 1981 as a senior point guard when she was known as Debbie Deutsch.
“You have to be the leader and the facilitator, so you have to be head up, aware and always protecting so that you make the right play,” Debbie would tell her son.
Debbie wasn’t the only family member stressing to Jones the need to become a turnover-free player. Her sister Darcy Deutsch led Devils Lake to state titles in 1984 and 1987 before becoming an all-conference point guard at the University of North Dakota and later an assistant coach at the school during a tenure in which the Fighting Hawks won three straight NCAA Division II national titles from 1997 to 1999.
Darcy, now Darcy Cascaes, was Debbie’s assistant when she coached Jones in AAU ball.
“She is so smart with the game, really good at Xs and Os, really good at seeing things,” Debbie said of Cascaes. “We were just a really good complement to each other.”
Jones said his mother and aunt are a big reason why he and his brother Tyus Jones, a backup point guard for Memphis, are the league leaders in assist-to-turnover ratio.
Debbie raised her sons as a single parent after she and their father divorced.
“They helped teach us the game growing up,” said Tre, 22. “They made it a thing that ball security was super important for us and our teams, and that as point guards we have the most control over that.”
The brothers learned the lessons well.
Tyus has an NBA-best 7.12 assist-to-turnover ratio after leading the league in that category the past three seasons. The seventh-year pro set the single-season NBA record with a 6.96 ratio in 2018-19 and has recorded 125 assists and just nine turnovers in his past 26 games. He also has a league-best 16 games this season with five-plus assists without a turnover.
Tre is No. 2 in assist-to-turnover ratio at 5.2. He entered Thursday’s game against the Timberwolves with 212 assists and only 41 turnovers.
Starting in place of Dejounte Murray (upper respiratory illness) the past three games before Thursday, Tre had seven-plus assists and zero turnovers in each outing, which tied an NBA record. He is the first Spur to do that since turnovers were first recorded in the NBA in 1977-78.
“Tyus has been one of the best assist-to-turnovers ratio guys in this league for a couple of years, and Tre is no different,” Spurs guard Josh Richardson said.
It all stems from those early lessons from their mother and aunt.
“You develop them to be the best they can possibly be, but at the same time, it’s like those things stand out and make a player different than another player,” Debbie said of protecting the ball and playing smart. “It gives you extra possessions, which equates to extra points.”
Cascaes said she and her sister repeatedly stressed to Tre and Tyus the importance of taking care of the ball.
“Whether it was in practice or sitting around as a family watching games, it was something we just always talked about,” Cascaes said. “We talked about how it was important to value every possession and how that sets your teammates and team up for success. It was just a point of emphasis.”
Zach Goring, who coached Tre and Tyus at Apple Valley High School, said he could tell they were well grounded in the fundamentals by the time they joined the Eagles. Tre won state titles at Apple Valley in 2015 and 2017 after Tyus won one in 2013.
“Tre always had just very high-end ball-handling skills and always took very good care of it,” Goring said. “What those two don’t do is they don’t put themselves in spots where they will get in trouble. You very rarely see them pinned on the baseline or the sideline. They are always in the center of the court and always just making the smart play.”
With Jones and Murray (16th at 3.5) excelling at ball security, the Spurs average 12.8 turnovers, tied for the sixth-best average in the league. Their 2.19 assist-to-turnover ratio leads the NBA.
“You just got to know the moment of the game, the time and the score ... and take the smart play,” Tre said.
More often than not, Tre has made the right decisions this season, his second with the Spurs after they selected him in the second round out of Duke in the 2020 NBA draft.
“He’s solid, solid, solid, and he’s a competitor on top of that,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. “Nobody competes harder than he does. So when you combine those two characteristics, it makes him really valuable for us. And it’s the same every night. It never changes. As he progresses and works on his skills, he’s just going to have a better and better career.”
Tre’s teammates agreed.
“The floater is nice, he gets to his spots, he’s a pest on defense, and he just competes,” Richardson said. “You can’t really ask for much more. He’s been great for us.”
Said guard Devin Vassell: “Tre has been playing huge, getting us all together, whether it’s on the offensive end or the defensive end. We miss (Murray) a lot, and hopefully, we can get him back next game (Saturday at home against Golden State). But right now, with Tre stepping in, he’s showed us a lot.”
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Which Acer desktop computer is best?
Whether you’re on a budget or looking for your next big gaming rig, Acer desktop computers are vast in their offerings. Still, making sense of the many moving parts in computer hardware can be daunting, especially if you don’t know what you need. But there are several Acer computers that come in all-in-one bundles, allowing you to use them right out of the box.
The Acer Aspire C27 Desktop Computer offers everything you’ll need in a basic computer, including a vivid, 27-inch display.
What to know before you buy an Acer desktop computer
Use
Finding the right Acer desktop computer configurations depends on how you plan to use your PC. Consider whether you plan to use it for work or play and what applications you want to use. This will help you narrow down what kind of hardware you’ll need. If you plan on using it for gaming, opt for a graphics card rather than an integrated graphics chip. If you only plan on sending emails and using the web, an affordable compact PC may work just fine.
Towers vs. all-in-one computers
When discussing computers, you may hear people use the term “tower,” which is part of a classic desktop computer. A tower is simply a box containing internal hardware. Acer’s towers tend to be quite powerful, and many of them are ideal for gaming. However, if you buy a tower, you’ll usually need to purchase a monitor separately.
All-in-one computers house all the internal components a computer needs inside the monitor. AIO computers offer a clutter-free design and mid-tier performance, suitable for most households and basic office functions.
Operating systems
Most Acer desktop computers come with a Windows operating system installed. However, a few budget-level computers from Acer also include Chrome OS, which works great for basic web needs. You can install any OS you download or purchase onto Acer’s computers, which is ideal if you want to use Windows with Mac OS, Linux or another OS.
What to look for in a quality Acer desktop computer
Processor
A computer’s processor, or Central Processing Unit (CPU), is the primary chip that organizes and manages tasks. A computer’s CPU manages high-level functions across devices. It’s extremely difficult to upgrade processors in most computers, so it’s worth investing in a high-quality model.
RAM
Random-access memory (RAM) is a temporary data storage system that lets the computer manage background tasks while prioritizing foreground tasks. You’ll need 8 gigabytes of RAM or more to run high-powered tasks like gaming, media editing and design work.
Storage
Computers need a storage drive to house files. The more storage you have, the more files and applications the computer can hold at one time. There are two types of storage drives widely used today:
- Solid-state drives: Solid-state drives (SSDs) are the fastest type of hard drive storage available today. They feature no moving hardware to access data, so they tend to be most reliable. Keep in mind this type is more expensive than other hard drive types.
- Hard disk drives: Hard disk drives (HDDs) use spinning disks to read and write files. They’re slightly less reliable than SSDs, but they’re also more affordable.
Screen and input devices
Unless you purchase an AIO computer, you’ll need to purchase a screen and input devices, such as a keyboard and mouse. Many come with bundles that include a monitor display, keyboard or mouse with the tower.
How much you can expect to spend on an Acer desktop computer
Affordable Acer desktop computers can cost as little as $200. However, you’ll find mid-tier and high-end Acer AIOs and towers ranging from $400-$2,000.
Acer desktop computer FAQ
Can Acer desktop computers run PC games?
A. Some can, but games require high-performance hardware, so it’s worth checking your computer’s specs before buying. To determine if an Acer computer can run a PC game, you’ll need to compare the system requirements of any games with the hardware inside the computer.
Are Acer desktop computers reliable?
A. Yes. Acer is one of the most respected brands in computers today, largely because of the reliability of its PCs. The company also offers computers across the price spectrum, with high-end computers being the most reliable.
What’s the best Acer desktop computer to buy?
Top Acer desktop computer
Acer Aspire C27 AIO Desktop Computer With 27-Inch HD IPS Display
What you need to know: This computer comes out of the box with everything you need, including a vivid monitor, a mouse and a keyboard.
What you’ll love: This computer features an Intel Core i5 processor and 12GB of DDR4 RAM, offering smooth and powerful performance. It also includes 512GB of SSD storage a webcam with a closing shutter. It comes with Windows 10 and an upgrade to Windows 11.
What you should consider: This computer includes an integrated graphics chip that may have a hard time with high-performance games.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Acer desktop computer for the money
Acer Chromebox CXI3 Miniature Desktop Computer With Keyboard and Mouse
What you need to know: This compact desktop computer features basic functionality and comes with a keyboard, mouse and several ports for connecting external devices.
What you’ll love: It includes an Intel Celeron dual-core processor and 4GB of RAM, as well as Chrome OS. It’s an excellent portable option compared to most large desktops, and you can purchase it in a bundle with a monitor.
What you should consider: This computer’s hardware isn’t suitable for gaming or other performance-oriented tasks.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Acer Nitro 50 Gaming Desktop Computer Bundle With Keyboard and Mouse
What you need to know: This Acer desktop is suitable for nearly any high-level tasks like editing videos, audio and photos.
What you’ll love: It comes with an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card. It also includes 512GB of SSD storage, making it great for installing large games or saving a lot of files.
What you should consider: This computer bundle doesn’t include a monitor.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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- On Wednesday, Amtrak joined Twitch to stream an empty railroad in Mississippi.
- The company is fighting to restart passenger service between Mobile and New Orleans.
- Freight companies argue that the service would "unreasonably impair" their operations.
At Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, there's a set of railroad tracks used by freight trains. On Wednesday, Amtrak livestreamed the steel tracks on Twitch.
Amtrak's goal was to show how deserted the railroad is.
It's the company's latest move in an ongoing fight to restart passenger service between Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans, Louisiana, which stopped after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, according to Vice.
CSX and Norfolk Southern are involved in the dispute with Amtrak. The freight-train companies say the passenger service's plan to add four trains, or two round-trip trains, a day to the route without making infrastructure improvements would impair their operations, as Roll Call reported.
According to Twitch, over 1,300 people tuned into Amtrak's stream titled "CSX's Very Busy Gulf Coast Corridor."
—Amtrak Connects US (@AmtrakConnects) February 14, 2022
"We thought about putting up a live video feed to answer the question that people keep bringing up: How busy is the railroad anyway?" a spokesperson for Amtrak told Insider.
The spokesperson said that between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Amtrak recorded five trains on CSX's tracks. Due to technical difficulties, the livestream cut in and out throughout the day, the spokesperson added.
While Norfolk Southern declined to comment, a CSX representative told Insider in a statement that "it takes a freight train about 8-10 hours to travel between New Orleans and Mobile. Focusing on one point of a line that traverses approximately 138 single track miles, major ports, and Interchange points and then purporting that it is indicative of the operational realities of the entire line is grossly misleading."
"Anyone that understands railroad operations, including Amtrak, would know that," the statement continued.
The dispute between Amtrak and the freight-train companies has been going on for months
Amtrak has the right to access any US rail line under the 1970 Rail Passenger Service Act, according to Roll Call, and passenger trains also have priority over freight traffic, as Vice reported. However, Congress has also said that additional Amtrak trains can only operate provided they wouldn't "impair unreasonably freight transportation."
In a November 2021 joint filing from CSX and Norfolk Southern viewed by Insider (and available to download from Railway Age), the freight-train companies argued that the Surface Transportation Board, which regulates freight rail, should deny Amtrak's proposal to start service on the route.
They argued Amtrak's proposed service would "unreasonably impair" their existing operations. The companies added that if the board approves Amtrak's request, it should require the passenger service to pay for and install infrastructure improvements "to prevent a near catastrophic meltdown of freight operations."
Amtrak's spokesperson argued that the freight companies are "essentially trying to veto the expansion of passenger service by holding the service hostage to $440 million or more in ransom."
The spokesperson said he expects it will be weeks before the board comes to its decision on whether Amtrak can operate its passenger service between Mobile and New Orleans.
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(WASHINGTON) – The U.S. Congress has overwhelmingly voted to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and ban the importation of its oil, ratcheting up the U.S. response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine amid reports of atrocities.
House action came Thursday after the Senate approved the two bills and the measures now go to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
Biden has already taken executive action to ban Russian oil, liquefied natural gas and coal to the United States. The legislation puts the effort into law.
The bill to end normal trade relations with Russia paves the way for Biden to enact higher tariffs on various imports, such as certain steel and aluminum products, further weakening the Russian economy under President Vladimir Putin. It also ensures Belarus receives less favorable tariff treatment.
The bills also provide the president with the authority to return normal tariff treatment for Russia as well as resume trade in Russian energy products subject to certain conditions.
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Man suspected of burying mom, sister in backyard arrested
LYONS, Ill. (AP) - A man suspected of concealing the deaths of his mother and sister nearly a year after their bodies were found buried in the backyard of their suburban Chicago house has been arrested on felony charges, officials announced on Thursday.
Lyons Police Chief Thomas Herion said Michael Lelko, 45, will be formally charged with two felony counts of concealment of a death. He said a federal investigation also is ongoing that could lead to federal charges connected to his alleged cashing of his mother's monthly $1,000 Social Security checks for years after she died.
Herion said Lelko was not charged in the deaths of 79-year-old Jean Lelko and 44-year-old Jennifer Lelko, since the medical examiner's office could not determine how either one died.
Herion said Michael Lelko's 41-year-old brother remains the subject of an investigation but as of Thursday afternoon he had not been charged. Both were in custody on Thursday and Herion said if John Lelko was not charged within 48 hours he would be released from custody. Herion said John Lelko could face obstruction charges because he initially told police that his mother and sister were alive and living elsewhere, even though he knew they were both dead.
Thursday's announcement comes about eight months after police discovered the bodies in the back yard during a well-being check at the residence. Both bodies had been buried in plastic tubs that had been sealed with duct tape.
Herion said Michael Lelko told police that his mother had died in 2015 after his sister pushed her down the stairs and that he buried his sister in the yard in 2019 after she became ill and died. He said Lelko said the sister had died of COVID-19, though Herion said he didn't believe COVID-19 existed in 2019, and Illinois officials have said they believe the first COVID-19 death in Illinois was in March 2020.
"When I interviewed Michael, he admitted that he buried his mother and his sister in the yard," Herion said. "John did not give any statements pertaining to whether he participated in that."
Herion said charges were not filed for several months because the bodies were not positively identified until this year. Both men, were taken into custody when the bodies were found but were released without being charged.
The charges mark the final chapter in the bizarre story that began with a check of the house, located in the community of Lyons, about 14 miles (22.53 kilometers) southwest of Chicago, after it was determined there was no running water. Herion said there were no operable toilets at the home, and several bags of urine and feces were found inside.
Herion said items such as Star Wars toys were stacked up to the ceiling at the time the bodies were found, and the home was so cluttered that the brothers climbed in and out through windows.
It could not be immediately determined if Michael Lelko had retained an attorney. Messages were left with the Cook County State's Attorney's office and the Lyons Police Department.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Multiple homicides remain unsolved in the same neighborhoods in Memphis, and many wonder if a street code is to blame.
On April 17, 2021, 15-year-old Jarvis Triplett was gunned down on his ATV near Mississippi Boulevard and South Parkway.
“I don’t know why someone would want to do this to my child,” his mother told WREG right after it happened.
Still, a year later, his mother has no answers.
Despite the shooting happening on a well-traveled road, on a clear, Saturday evening, information is limited.
A Crime Stoppers bulletin says they know the bullets came from a white sedan, but police need help identifying the people inside.
Until that happens, it’s one more crime that remains unsolved.
“Boom, boom, boom, boom,” a mother describes the sound she heard across town.
She was too scared to show her face, but told WREG she woke up to drive-by shootings three times in one week on her Northeast Memphis block in February.
It left a man injured and multiple shell casings in the street.
Stray bullets shattered her car window, went through her house and into her children’s bedroom.
“The [third time] as we are hearing the gun fire, we can also hear the sound of our glass breaking,” she described. “We run out of our room not knowing if our kids are hit or not. Because like I said, we hear the glass breaking. We jump on them and onto the floor. Luckily, they weren’t hit.”
She thinks people know who is responsible but choose to remain silent.
“If somebody knows something, it’s just disappointing that they wouldn’t care enough about a child’s life to say anything,” she said.
She and others across the city believe that’s one reason why violent crime continues to happen.
It took WREG investigators months to uncover homicide data from 2017 through 2021 from the Memphis police department.
We learned while more than 700 homicides have been solved, as of February about 500 have not. Many of the unsolved cases are in the same neighborhoods just blocks from each other.
When we zoom into this area that includes Orange Mound, Bethel Grove and other neighborhoods. You can see multiple unsolved homicides within two miles.
‘Snitches get stitches’
“We’ve got to do better by one another,” activist Keith Leachman said. “They got this thing about snitches get stitches and a lot of people, you know, if you see something say something.”
Leachman has been urging people to speak out against the violence in Orange Mound where he believes a street code exists that encourages people to not cooperate with police. It may be due to fear of retaliation or not trusting law enforcement.
Ricky Floyd believes that code also exists in Frayser where he’s a pastor.
“We’ve got to get rid of this no-snitch policy,” Floyd said.
Three homicides last year near his church on North Watkins remain unsolved.
“We have unfortunately formed a culture in too many inner cities where we are protecting the criminal now,” he said.
Even in the most callous crimes, like the murder of a toddler.
Laylah Washington was fatally shot in a car on a busy road in Hickory Hill. Detectives made pleas for the public to come forward with information time and time again.
“You would think that a two-year-old innocent child with her entire life ahead of her, someone would be so outraged that the phones would be blowing up. Especially through CrimeStoppers and that simply hasn’t been the case,” MPD Major Darren Goods said in 2017.
It took two years for investigators to finally get the tip they needed to make an arrest. Two. Years.
WREG Investigators asked Memphis police what needs to be done to get people to speak up.
“I think we just got to have better interaction with police and citizens. The trust factor is a big issue. We know that,” Memphis Police Major Webb Kirkdoffer said.
He said there are many reasons crimes remains unsolved.
“Time of day, whether there’s cameras, how many witnesses you did have, what they saw,” Kirkdoffer said.
But he believes those pockets of unsolved homicides on the map are a mere coincidence.
“I’m not sure there is a street code that exists that would prevent good citizens from coming forward and providing us information on any type of crime,” he said. “I think the good, law-abiding citizens in this city are not going by any code. I think if they have information, they are calling and providing it to us.”
Memphis Police adopted methods like CrimeStoppers to allow the public to report information.
A good start according to a U.S. Department of Justice report.
It notes nationwide there’s a “mixture of factors” that keep communities silent like “racial disparities,” “failures of the criminal justice system” that allow dangerous criminals to “continue to walk the street,” and lack of police protection if the perpetrator gets out.
We don’t know what tips, if any, have been provided to police in Tripplett’s murder or in the drive-by shootings on this mother’s block. Police say both investigations remain ongoing.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Before he gave up his entertainment career to run for U.S. Senate, Mehmet Oz — the celebrity heart surgeon best known as the host of daytime TV’s “The Dr. Oz Show” — amassed assets worth more than $100 million, including homes, stock, life insurance and connections to his in-laws' tree-trimming empire.
Oz on Wednesday night filed a financial disclosure form required of all candidates for Senate that tallies a long list of investments — over 400 individual accounts, businesses or holdings that have value — that back up the finances of a man who has said he put $10 million into his campaign in Pennsylvania.
Oz valued his assets at between $104 million and $422 million, according to a tally by The Philadelphia Inquirer, a wide range that is a result of the Senate's request that each asset be valued within a certain dollar bracket. If elected, he would be one of the wealthiest members of the Senate — and possibly the wealthiest.
He reported earning about $10 million in 2021, nearly all of it from his TV show host salary and ownership of the show's parent company.
Oz isn't the only multimillionaire in the seven-person Republican primary field in Pennsylvania.
Former hedge fund CEO David McCormick has yet to file a financial disclosure. Another wealthy candidate, Carla Sands, filed a public disclosure of assets last year, valuing more than 50 accounts or properties at between $35 million and $152 million.
For Oz, his filing shows at least $11.5 million — and possibly much more — in non-public stock in Asplundh, the tree-trimming company owned by his wife's family. He lists at least $6 million in non-public stock in the convenience store chain Wawa Inc. and at least $5 million in non-public stock in travel agency Five Star Travel Corp.
His tens of millions of dollars in equities includes millions in stock in Amazon, Microsoft, Sharecare and Google's parent company, Alphabet.
Oz lists two homes in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, overlooking Manhattan, that he values at more than $1 million each — including the one where Oz lived for a couple of decades before deciding to run for the Senate — plus another home in suburban Philadelphia valued at $1 million or more.
There's also his vacation home in Palm Beach, Florida, that Oz values at $5 million to $25 million and a cattle farm in Okeechobee, Florida, valued at $1 million or more. He puts the value of the cattle at $250,000 to $500,000.
Other assets include life insurance policies worth millions and interests in numerous commercial properties, including apartments in New York City and property on Boston’s Tremont Avenue and on Florida’s Clearwater Beach Island.
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TRIAD monthly breakfast and community meetings now back on track post COVID-19
The monthly TRIAD S.A.L.T. meeting in Loganville for senior citizens in the community resumed April 1, 2022 for the first time in more than two years and Piedmont Walton fielded the first speaker to get things back up and running. Coffee, juice and a tasty breakfast was once again served to...
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According to a recent poll, most Americans disapprove of Will Smith hitting Chris Rock
A week after slapping Chris Rock during the Oscars telecast, more people are expressing unfavorable views of Will Smith, according to data from a Yahoo News/YouGov poll. Smith stormed the stage at the 94th Academy Awards on March 27, after Rock made a bald joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who has experienced hair loss due to alopecia.
The incident tainted the first Oscar of Smith’s blockbuster career, which came moments later, and overshadowed accomplishments from the night's other nominees and winners.
Both the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the actors union SAG-AFTRA are weighing whether to penalize Smith. Smith has preemptively resigned from the Academy, whose officers are due to meet on Friday to determine any punishment.
Rock, meanwhile, declined to press charges against Smith. Regardless, the story has certainly played out in the court of public opinion.
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Bell Bank decreased its stake in Intel Co. (NASDAQ:INTC – Get Rating) by 0.2% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 197,593 shares of the chip maker’s stock after selling 452 shares during the period. Intel makes up 1.2% of Bell Bank’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 13th largest holding. Bell Bank’s holdings in Intel were worth $10,176,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in INTC. Orion Capital Management LLC acquired a new position in Intel during the third quarter worth about $27,000. Strategic Asset Management LLC acquired a new position in Intel during the third quarter worth about $28,000. Tower View Investment Management & Research LLC raised its position in Intel by 200.0% during the third quarter. Tower View Investment Management & Research LLC now owns 600 shares of the chip maker’s stock worth $32,000 after acquiring an additional 400 shares during the last quarter. Farmers & Merchants Trust Co of Chambersburg PA raised its position in Intel by 64.0% during the fourth quarter. Farmers & Merchants Trust Co of Chambersburg PA now owns 656 shares of the chip maker’s stock worth $34,000 after acquiring an additional 256 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Fortis Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Intel during the third quarter worth about $45,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 61.73% of the company’s stock.
Shares of NASDAQ INTC traded up $0.02 during trading on Thursday, reaching $47.56. 24,107,809 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 39,531,773. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $47.96 and its 200 day moving average price is $50.49. Intel Co. has a twelve month low of $43.63 and a twelve month high of $68.49. The company has a quick ratio of 1.71, a current ratio of 2.10 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35. The company has a market capitalization of $194.46 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.78, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.84 and a beta of 0.55.
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, March 1st. Stockholders of record on Monday, February 7th were given a dividend of $0.365 per share. This is a boost from Intel’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.35. This represents a $1.46 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.07%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, February 4th. Intel’s payout ratio is presently 30.04%.
In related news, CEO Patrick P. Gelsinger purchased 5,600 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, February 22nd. The shares were purchased at an average cost of $44.27 per share, with a total value of $247,912.00. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, EVP Steven Ralph Rodgers sold 3,863 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, February 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $48.81, for a total transaction of $188,553.03. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders own 0.02% of the company’s stock.
A number of equities research analysts have recently commented on INTC shares. Bank of America lowered their price target on shares of Intel from $55.00 to $52.00 and set an “underperform” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, January 27th. Credit Suisse Group set a $70.00 price target on shares of Intel in a report on Tuesday, February 15th. Morgan Stanley downgraded shares of Intel from an “equal weight” rating to an “underweight” rating and lowered their price target for the stock from $55.00 to $47.00 in a report on Thursday, March 3rd. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $41.00 price target on shares of Intel in a report on Monday, March 28th. Finally, Tigress Financial lifted their price target on shares of Intel from $68.00 to $72.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, January 4th. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, fifteen have given a hold rating, eight have issued a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $54.71.
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Intel Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of computer products and technologies worldwide. The company operates through CCG, DCG, IOTG, Mobileye, NSG, PSG, and All Other segments. It offers platform products, such as central processing units and chipsets, and system-on-chip and multichip packages; and non-platform or adjacent products, including accelerators, boards and systems, connectivity products, graphics, and memory and storage products.
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H4G investors will receive a 50% discount in buy tax for the week leading up to the platform launch.
Austin, Texas, April 07, 2022 (NEWSCALL) -- Hodl4Gold, a 13% BUSD rewards token on the BSC Network, celebrates its three month anniversary with the announcement of its upcoming all-in-one DeFi platform, slated to debut on April 13th, 2022. News of the pending release of H4G’s keystone project saw a recent surge in trading, with the token gaining +250% in value over the past month.
Hodl4Gold announces DeFi platform launch, with two months of weekly product drops to follow
As previewed on Hodl4Gold.com, the unnamed platform will feature a visual rebrand optimized to simplify the DeFi experience, providing the essential tools for users to manage, analyze, and use their crypto, with special support for tokenomics. The streamlined app will allow users to manage their portfolio with an integrated dashboard of useful features including: Charts & Analytics, a mystery “superpowered” Wallet, expanded Rewards & Staking for multiple tokens, as well as updated versions of H4G’s popular Lotto and NFT marketplace – with many more dapps in development, to be revealed in coming weeks. Combining an advanced suite of trading and research tools with a full ecosystem of DeFi products, the all-in-one platform will also serve as home to the bespoke multi-chain DEX & Launchpad releasing later this year. A beta version of the platform launches next week on April 13th, with a full slate of new product releases to be added over the next two months.
As the first stablecoin rewards token with multiple utilities at launch, H4G continues its unorthodox approach to growth, with an aggressive roadmap to market that prioritizes utility over hype – with the team citing the oft-deferred promises of flashy memecoins as inspiration for their own contrary ethos. H4G is now furthering its rapid expansion with new talent acquisition, with rumors of a partnership with an unnamed Web3 firm set to triple H4G’s in-house dev team.
Since its January 5th ICO, Hod4Gold has seen impressive growth by all metrics and milestones, reaching a high of $20 million in market cap and drawing attention in the reflection space for its style of business – most notably with the acquisition of a rival token, bailing out thousands of investors in a now-defunct crypto hedge fund project gone awry. This focus on investor goodwill has been reflected in H4G’s unusually high holder retention rate of 75%, with over 90% of current holders having never sold a single coin. With a tokenomics structure that returns 13% BUSD for simply holding, H4G “hodlers” enjoy high-yield passive income, with over $1.36 million in rewards and airdrops distributed to its 5000+ investors in just 90 days of trading.
To celebrate their Q1 success, and in anticipation of next week’s platform debut, H4G has reduced its buy tax to 10% for a limited time, while increasing the token burn rate by a factor of 5x. The promotional period begins April 6th with a 50% discount for 7 days leading up to launch.
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Steven Stamkos notices a different feeling around the Tampa Bay Lightning.
For a team accustomed to winning — not only the Stanley Cup the past two years but in the regular season at a high level — it has been a challenging few weeks. The back-to-back defending champions have lost nine of their last 15 games, with three separate three-game skids handing them the kind of adversity they have not experienced in quite some time.
“It feels like every mistake right now is kind of ending up in the back of our net, so it’s tough not to get frustrated,” Stamkos said Wednesday night after a 4-3 loss at Washington. “We just have to continue to work our way through it. We have a lot of veteran leadership on this team that we know we can work our way out of it.”
The bigger question is whether the Lightning can harness the right lessons from the past month and apply them when the playoffs begin in early May. After coaching Tampa Bay on several long runs, missing the postseason entirely, enduring a stunning first-round sweep and then hoisting the Cup twice, Jon Cooper understands the answer won’t be clear until after the regular season.
“We can only wait and see if it’s going to help or not, but it tests you mentally and physically,” Cooper said. “The boys have played a lot of hockey over the last couple years. And especially these last two months, we’ve asked a lot of them. Sometimes it becomes a little bit more than just the physical part of it.”
There has been some roster turnover, but many core players are now 70 games into another regular season after almost 50 over the past two playoffs combined. No team has played more hockey since August 2020 than the Lightning.
With that comes fatigue but also the perspective of what the regular season means in the grand scheme of trying to win a championship. Players now have a good grip of that.
“There’s some uncomfortable moments for this group, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing,” Stamkos said. “You want to try to work out the kinks as you go towards the playoffs. At the end of the day, that’s where teams are judged, right? You could have the best regular season in history, like we’ve shown, and it means nothing come playoff time.”
Winning the Presidents’ Trophy as the NHL’s top regular-season team in 2018-19 and setting a record for the most points accumulated did little for the Lightning when they were swept by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the first round. That group faced so little adversity until the playoffs that it lacked the ability to handle it.
The experience of that series undoubtedly played some role in Tampa Bay winning it all the past two years. But it’s not like players are simply writing off their recent performances thinking they can flip a switch against Florida, Carolina or Boston when the playoffs start.
“You always want to win games, and when it doesn’t go your way, maybe you’re second-guessing decisions on the ice and we don’t have time for that,” said defenseman Victor Hedman, who was playoff MVP in 2020. “We want to go out there and execute and be clear in our minds in what we want to do. And when we’re clicking on all cylinders, we know we’re a tough team to beat. So for us it’s all about going out there with the confidence that we’re going to win games.”
The immediate challenge is a visit from the Bruins on Friday night. The Lightning’s loss at the Capitals dropped them into a wild card spot in the Eastern Conference, and while there are no easy matchups, it’s not a spot they want to be in without home-ice advantage.
Cooper called it a “pivotal” game, and a few more like it stand in the way before Tampa Bay can even try for the three-peat.
“The boys got to dig in here,” he said.
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Amazon plans to object to union win in New York
Amazon plans to file objections to the union election on Staten Island, New York that resulted in the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the company’s history
Amazon plans to file objections to the union election on Staten Island, New York, that resulted in the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the company’s history.
The e-commerce giant stated its plans in a legal filing to the National Labor Relations Board made public Thursday. Among other things, the company accused the Amazon Labor Union, a group of former and current employees who spearheaded the union drive, of threatening warehouse workers to vote in favor of the organizing effort. Eric Milner, an attorney representing the ALU, said the claims were “patently absurd.”
“The employees have spoken and their voices have been heard,” Milner said in a statement. “Amazon is choosing to ignore that, and instead engage in stalling tactics to avoid the inevitable — coming to the bargaining table and negotiating for a contract” on behalf of the warehouse workers on Staten Island.
Warehouse workers on Staten Island cast 2,654 votes — or about 55% — in favor of a union, giving the fledgling group enough support to pull off a victory Friday. Federal labor officials had said the results of the count won’t be verified until they process any objections — due by April 8 — that both parties may file. Amazon requested a two-week extension, which the labor board has granted. It now has until April 22 to back up its claims.
The company had initially signaled it planned to challenge the election results based on a lawsuit filed in March by the NLRB, which sought to force Amazon to reinstate a fired employee who was involved in the union drive. In the filing made public Thursday, Amazon said it was also objecting to the labor agency's conduct “before and during the polling,” that the company says interfered with the election.
A labor dispute down in Alabama, where the other union election was held, is also heating up. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which is trying to unionize an Amazon warehouse in the city of Bessemer, said Thursday it filed several objections with the federal labor board over how the retail giant conducted itself in that election. Among other things, the RWDSU said the company fired and retailed against union supporters.
Initial results in the Alabama union election show the RWDSU down by 118 votes, with the majority of Amazon warehouse workers rejecting a bid to form a union. The final outcome is still up in the air with 416 outstanding challenged ballots hanging in the balance. A hearing to review the ballots is expected to begin in the coming weeks.
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Missouri’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year is, for now, out of the hands of the House of Representatives.
Members voted out a total of 15 budget bills Thursday, only two days after the chamber spent more than eight hours debating and changing the spending plan before giving it a first-round approval.
Of the bills passed, 14 of them are for next year’s budget while one is a second supplemental for the remainder of this year. The legislature passed an emergency supplemental budget, which contained raises for state workers as well as nearly $2 billion in federal dollars for public schools, back in March.
Highlights of the budget include more than $10 billion for the state’s K-12 schools, nearly $2.5 billion to fund Missouri’s Medicaid expansion program, and enough funding to restore Amtrak’s service from St. Louis to Kansas City to twice a day.
While the House’s version of the budget increased from $46.1 billion to $46.5 billion between Tuesday and Thursday, House Democrats voted against many of the budget bills, saying much more could be spent considering the state currently has record general revenue and billions of federal dollars to spend.
Some of the areas Democrats were advocating for more dollars include both K-12 and higher education, transportation and public health.
Rep. Maggie Nurrenbern, D-Kansas City, who voted against the K-12 budget bill, spoke on how Missouri is underfunding its schools on several fronts, including transportation.
“My no today is because I believe we should be paying one of our most basic obligations of our schools, which is transporting our students safely to and from our schools,” Nurrenbern said. “But what we're doing in this House bill, is we are underfunding school transportation by a couple million dollars.”
One of the major differences between Gov. Mike Parson’s proposed budget and the one the House passed was the elimination of a raise to the minimum wage for new teachers. Parson’s plan would have raised it to $38,000 a year.
While the House did allocate more than $35 million for teacher raises, it is instead through a program that would give more money to experienced teachers as opposed to new ones.
Rep. Peter Merideth, D-St. Louis, said talks are happening between the House and Senate to see if the raises for starting teachers can be restored.
“What I don't want to see happen, and I think a lot of them don't want to see happen is, if we don't find the perfect plan, we end up doing nothing. We have to use this money,” Merideth said.
Another area of spending that saw pushback was how to allocate billions in federal dollars through the American Rescue Plan Act. The House budget bill containing that federal funding is currently more than $2.5 billion in cost.
House Budget Chair Rep. Cody Smith, R-Carthage, spoke on assertions from lawmakers that the state was either not spending enough or too much of Missouri’s cut of the American Rescue Plan Act.
“It's always been a challenge and my goal here to try to think this through, to try to invest it in such a way that we can look back on it, and 20 or 30 years and think that we made some really good decisions with this opportunity that we've been given, despite the fact that we have concerns about massive amounts of federal spending,” Smith said.
Rep. Doug Richey, R-Excelsior Springs, supported the decisions made on the budget regarding COVID-19 dollars, including not allocating all of it right away.
“It is fiscal irresponsibility. It is fiscal danger, to operate with the idea that because we have money, that we ought to spend that money,” Richey said.
While Merideth said this is the best and most bipartisan budget he’s seen in his years in the House, ultimately a lot of money was left on the table and he was frustrated by what felt was a lack of a plan to spend some of this money, especially federal COVID-19 dollars.
“What we're sending over to the Senate is, ‘We don't know.’ And if you've ever been here and watch the Senate work, they're not going to take that as a cap, they're going to take that as an opportunity, an opportunity to spend that money however they see fit,” Merideth said.
Though the Senate could begin working on the budget as soon as next week, Sen. Majority Leader Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia, said discussions will likely begin in two weeks instead.
“I think they're going to do just some behind the scenes work with committee members, and just, you know, really wrapping their heads around exactly what's in all this stuff,” Rowden said.
As to changes the Senate will make to the budget, Rowden said the upper chamber tends to be the middleman between what the House allocated and what the Governor asks for, but spending all of the remaining 1.8 billion is unlikely.
Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader John Rizzo, D-Independence, said beyond the priority of raising teacher pay, that unallocated funding is on the table.
“I mean, as far as I look at it, that's about $50 million for 34 Senate districts. And I don't think there's going to be any lack of ideas over here on how to spend that,” Rizzo said.
With only five weeks left in the legislative session, that would leave less than a month for the budget to fully make it through the legislature and the possibility of a special session.
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Unprecedented Effort to Whip January 6 Into Nation's Top Priority Hidden in Biden's Budget Request
Democrats believe that when something isn’t working, they simply must do more of it.
After more than a year of mining the political fool’s gold of the Jan. 6 incursion at the U.S. Capitol, the new Department of Justice budget proves they’re still not ready to give up on that narrative.
According to the White House budget release, the DOJ requested $37.7 billion in its discretionary funding, an increase of more than $4.2 billion that amounts to 13 percent more than what it received in 2021.
Moreover, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco made it clear that Jan. 6 will remain on its list of priorities.
“The Jan. 6 investigation is among the most wide-ranging and most complex that this department has ever undertaken,” Monaco said while answering a question after giving her remarks about the Fiscal Year 2023 Funding Request.
“It reaches nearly every U.S. attorney’s office, nearly every FBI field office,” Monaco said. “We’ve charged more than 750 cases, and we’ve charged unprecedented conspiracies and the use of rare tools like the seditious conspiracy statute,” she boasted.
“Regardless of whatever resources we seek or get, let’s be very, very clear: We are going to continue to do those cases,” Monaco continued.
“We are going to hold those perpetrators accountable, no matter where the facts lead us, [and] as the attorney general has said, no matter at what level. We will do those cases,” she promised.
This is no shock considering the way the government has been in relentless pursuit of anyone who was even in close proximity to the Capitol building that day when a group of former President Donald Trump’s supporters breached the building.
Though the narrative has been that right-wing extremists attempted to overthrow the government in a deadly insurrection, the evidence so far has not supported that claim.
The only person who died a violent death that day was Ashli Babbitt, the unarmed woman who was shot to death by a Capitol police officer, and at least one man’s recent acquittal came after video evidence proved that some officers were letting people into the building.
Still, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department is planning to ask for an unprecedented amount of money for the sole purpose of mining whatever it can from the events of that day.
Monaco admitted that pursuing these cases “draws on resources from across the U.S. attorneys’ offices — those same resources that are needed to fight violent crime, those same resources that are needed to investigate corporate crime across the country,” she pointed out.
“Those same resources that are going to help us enforce our civil rights laws,” Monaco admitted.
The problem for the left is that it has backed itself into a corner by relying on this singular event for political gains.
In the face of rising crime, inflation, soaring gas prices, war and instability around the globe, the only thing Democrats have to counter with is a retread of the same incident that — though ugly — is not at all the win they wanted it to be.
The problem is that Biden is an unmitigated disaster, Vice President Kamala Harris is a political liability and the 2022 midterm elections are shaping up to be an electoral bloodbath for the Democrats because they have run the country into the ground.
But, like the fools they are, they will continue to attempt to curry favor with the American people by keeping Jan. 6 in the forefront — all while the American people foot the bill for it.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — A Franklin County sheriff's deputy was fired early this year after a 2020 incident came to light nearly two years after it happened.
Nathan Doty was a sergeant with the sheriff's office when he was fired. He has since filed a lawsuit against the sheriff's office denying any wrongdoing. He's accusing the office of wrongfully firing him.
Tony Austin, a Franklin County resident, was arrested on January 1, 2020, after deputies had been called multiple times to a home where he was involved in an ongoing dispute with his family. Austin admits that he was heavily intoxicated that night and being combative, and he said that after the beginning of his arrest, he didn't remember anything that happened that night.
It wasn't until late last year that a friend told Austin that he should ask for the body camera video of his 2020 arrest, saying that a deputy had mistreated him at a Frankfort hospital, Austin said.
The sheriff's office pulled the video, and after seeing it, Franklin County Sheriff Chris Quire immediately suspended Doty and later fired him over what it showed.
"I knew we couldn't defend that, couldn't correct it through mentoring or training, any of those things," Quire said.
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING VIDEO HAS STRONG LANGUAGE AND MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME.
The body camera appears to show Doty pushing Austin to the bed by the throat. The deputy then puts his hand over Austin's mouth. Austin said the deputy's hand was over both his mouth and his nose and that the deputy was choking him.
"There's no reason for that. When you're handcuffed in their custody, they're supposed to take care of you," Austin said.
In Doty's lawsuit, Doty said that he used an approved method of de-escalation. The lawsuit also states that Austin had dug his fingernails into the arm of another deputy at the hospital and called that deputy a racial slur before the body camera started recording. Quire said that there is no footage of Austin grabbing the deputy or calling him a slur, and Austin said he doesn't remember using a slur.
In the body camera footage, Doty can be heard yelling at Austin over something he said and telling him not to say anything else racist to the other deputy. That other deputy can then be seen and heard intervening and calming Doty down.
Austin admits that he was drunk and combative the night of his arrest, and said he has since quit drinking. He pleaded guilty a little more than a month after his 2020 arrest to amended charges of disorderly conduct and alcohol intoxication in a public place and never went back to jail. At the time of his arrest, Austin was also charged with resisting arrest, but that charge was dismissed, according to court records.
Quire said that no matter what Austin said, there was no reason for Doty to use that kind of force on Austin.
"I knew that he could no longer work here and be a part of our team, this was not acceptable," Quire said.
When asked why it took nearly two years for the sheriff's office to learn what happened in the hospital, Quire said that it would be impossible for supervisors to see all of the daily body camera footage from every deputy. There is a department policy that requires any deputy who uses force to report that force to superiors so the situation can be reviewed, but Quire said Doty did not report what happened.
Austin has questioned why the other two deputies who were at the hospital with Doty didn't report the use of force. When LEX 18 asked Quire, he said that the policy at that time only required a deputy who uses force to report that force.
But after our questions, the sheriff's office admitted the policy could leave space for uses of force to go unreported and has since changed their policy to require any deputy who witnesses a use of force to report it within 24 hours – even if they weren't physically involved. If a deputy fails to report a use of force they witness, they could be disciplined, according to the sheriff's office.
Austin has said he hopes Doty faces charges for what the body camera video shows. Doty has not been charged with anything and Commonwealth's Attorney Larry Cleveland said he plans to turn over evidence of what happened to a grand jury and let them decide whether or not Doty acted inappropriately.
Doty's attorney, Mary Sharp, said in a text message that she believes her client did nothing wrong.
"I do maintain my client's innocence of any crime or policy violation during this incident," Sharp said in part. "Even my neutral expert agreed 100% that my client did not do anything wrong. We still maintain that position. My expert testifies for officers who acted appropriately and has testified against those that don't. So, he's honest."
The two years it took to learn about what happened at the hospital in 2020 means the statute of limitations for any lawsuit Austin might file passed before he knew what happened. He is still looking for an attorney to represent him.
"I feel bad for this guy and his family; he lost his job," Austin said. "But he doesn't need a job being a deputy."
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Easter is a perfect opportunity to spend time as a family away from screens and tech, but once your kids are bored and hyped up on sugar, it doesn’t feel so idyllic. Playing games is a great way to keep kids engaged and occupied.
Once you’ve got your head around why Easter doesn’t fall on the same day each year, it’s time to plan some entertainment. These Easter family games will keep kids entertained, just choose options suitable for your kids’ ages and interests.
What games do you play on Easter?
Besides the traditional egg hunt, there aren’t really any specific games that are widely played on Easter. The good thing about this is it leaves you more freedom to find or come up with Easter-themed games that the kids in your life will enjoy. Any of the following can be great fun on Easter day.
Easter treasure hunt
Rather than hiding Easter eggs in multiple spots all over your home or yard, hide one big cache of eggs with a clue-based treasure hunt to find it. Start by giving your kids the first clue. Solving this will lead them to the location of the next written clue, which you can tuck inside a plastic Easter egg. Keep doing with more clues until the final clue leads them to the eggs.
The great thing about this kind of treasure hunt is that you can have as many clues as you like and you can tailor them to your kids’ ages and ability levels. If you think your children might lose interest without incentive, you can put a few pieces of candy in with every other clue.
Egg and spoon race
An egg and spoon race involves balancing an egg on a spoon over a set distance, with the first person to cross the finish line winning the game. Kids and adults alike can join in, resulting in some healthy intergenerational rivalry.
While you can use real hard-boiled eggs for this game, you can also buy egg and spoon race sets containing wooden or plastic eggs with spoons of a suitable size. These eliminate the prep time, potential mess and waste of food.
Carrots in a basket game
All you need for this game is an Easter basket for each team or child and a pile of carrots, for the Easter Bunny, of course. If you’re playing with just a handful of kids, they can each have a basket, but for large family gatherings with lots of kids, divide them into 2-4 teams.
The simple aim is to throw the carrots into the basket without crossing a set mark. It might not be an elaborate game, but this makes it great for young children. When older kids want to get involved, set their mark farther from the basket so they don’t have an advantage.
Challenge-based egg hunt
Spice up your usual egg hunt by filling half the eggs with your usual candy or toys and the other half with written challenges. These challenges can be anything you like but keep them fun and relatively brief. You can even make them Easter-themed, such as “hop like a bunny” or “make the sound of a chick.”
Scoop the jelly beans
For this game, you’ll need one bowl of jelly beans, one empty bowl and a spoon for each player. Give each player 30-60 seconds to move as many jelly beans as they can into the empty bowl using the spoon held in their mouth. Tip the jelly beans the player managed to move into a measuring cup and make a note of the measurement before moving on to the next player. At the end of each round, you can declare a winner.
Water balloon toss game
This is like an egg toss game but you won’t waste food and there’s less mess — assuming you play outside. Pair up the players and give them a filled water balloon each. The players must toss it between them, attempting not to drop it. If they drop the water balloon and it bursts, they’re out of the game. If it drops and doesn’t burst, they can pick it up and keep playing.
The last pair left in the game with an intact water balloon wins. You can make it more challenging for older kids by spacing them farther apart than younger kids, so it’s fairer for all players.
What you need for Easter games
Brach’s Classic Jelly Beans — 54 oz (Pack of 2)
These two bags of jelly beans contain roughly 6.75 pounds of beans total, which should be more than enough for any jelly bean-related games.
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With 36 plastic Easter eggs in a set, this should give you an ample amount for egg hunts, treasure hunts and so on. They come in six colors: orange, green, yellow, blue, pink and purple.
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Joyin Easter Egg and Spoon Relay Game
Containing 12 eggs and 12 spoons, this set is perfect for getting the whole family involved in an egg and spoon race.
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HOBOKEN, N.J., April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Celsius, the leading global cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform, announced today that it will soon offer Bitcoin as a wrapped asset through CelsiusX, the company's DeFi arm. The wrapping process allows an asset from one blockchain to be used on another, increasing the asset's liquidity and interoperability.
cxBTC will be launched on the Polygon network. In February, Celsius launched wrapped assets for Cardano (cxADA), Ethereum (cxETH) and Doge (cxDOGE), also on Polygon.
"As we build a bridge between the worlds of CeFi and DeFi, there's no plank more important than Bitcoin," said Celsius CEO Alex Mashinksy.
"CelsiusX makes crypto assets interoperable so that retail customers and institutions can freely move their assets across blockchain ecosystems," said Carl Hua, Chief Architect for CelsiusX. "We believe everyone should be able to use their assets on the blockchains of their choice."
The cxBTC offering uses the state-of-the-art Chainlink Proof of Reserve architecture for transparency and accountability. All wrapped assets offered by CelsiusX support real time conversion between the native and wrapped assets, free of charge.
"Amid the volatility in the global economy, Bitcoin stands squarely in the spotlight," said Hua. "cxBTC brings us closer to an interoperable, cross-chain world for the king of crypto - Bitcoin."
For more information on CelsiusX and its wrapped offerings, please visit https://celsiusx.io/.
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BOSTON (AP) — A former water polo coach at the University of Southern California facing bribery and fraud charges was just doing what he could to raise money for his dominant, championship-winning program as athletic officials at the elite Los Angeles school had demanded, defense lawyers argued Thursday as the latest trial in the sprawling college bribery scandal wrapped up in Boston federal court.
Jovan Vavic’s lawyer, Stephen Larson, also said in his closing remarks that the 60-year-old, who guided USC’s men’s and women’s water polo teams to 16 national championships, was always acting in the best interests of the school and his team, never lied and never took a bribe.
“Yes he was trying to get money for his team, and yes he was doing whatever he could legally,” he said. “It is clear Jovan Vavic wanted to recruit some water polo players who could be legitimately admitted to USC and whose families could donate to USC. That was his mindset.”
But Assistant U.S Attorney Leslie Wright painted it as a clear-cut case of “quid pro quo,” or “this in exchange for that.”
She said Vavic took more than $200,000 in bribes to fake athletic credentials and designate college applicants as water polo athletes to get them into USC.
He also helped recruit others to the scheme, Wright said, pointing to wiretap transcripts in which Vavic called the arrangement a “win-win” situation and where he encouraged a fellow coach with doubts about the scheme to “just do it.”
“The defendant’s own words tell you what you need to know,” she told the jury, which will begin deliberating Friday.
Vavic is the only coach of the many implicated to challenge in trial his role in the scheme, which involved wealthy parents paying bribes to have their children admitted into elite schools using rigged test scores or bogus athletic accomplishments.
In all, nearly 60 people were charged in “Operation Varsity Blues,” including prominent coaches from Yale and other elite schools, as well as wealthy and famous parents such as “Full House” star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli.
In court Thursday, Larson argued the money Vavic received went directly into a USC account for his team, and not his personal funds.
And he stressed his client believed the “tuition grants” paid directly to Vavic’s sons’ private high school for their education were legitimate payments from a nonprofit run by William Singer, who was considered the mastermind of the bribery scheme.
“The simplest explanation is sometimes the truth,” Larson said. “There’s no quid pro quo.”
He argued Vavic was a victim of USC’s desire to protect its reputation and cover up a “pervasive culture” of accepting wealthy students who could provide donations windfalls and that he’d been manipulated by Singer, who Larson branded a “con man” and “chronic liar.”
“This was part of USC,” Larson said. “It’s all about this wink and a nod. You don’t want this rep out there that USC is a place you can buy your way into.”
The university, which fired Vavic after his 2019 arrest, has stressed its admissions processes are “not on trial.”
Wright also dismissed Larson’s final arguments as a “sideshow.”
“Pretending to recruit unqualified candidates based on falsified credentials in exchange for money is wrong, no matter where the money goes or who else is doing it,” she said. “Common sense tells you it’s wrong. He crossed the line and in the process he broke the law.”
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, April 8, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Albany NY
653 PM EDT Thu Apr 7 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 AM EDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Portions of eastern New York, including the following
counties, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren, Fulton,
Hamilton, Herkimer and Montgomery.
* WHEN...Until 1245 AM EDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 651 PM EDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges
indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. Minor flooding is
ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the advisory area.
Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Schenectady, Clifton Park, Rotterdam, Saratoga Springs,
Amsterdam, Gloversville, Johnstown, Scotia, Cobleskill,
Canajoharie, Fonda, Speculator, Jefferson, Glenville,
Niskayuna, Milton, Duanesburg, Ballston Spa, Corinth and Fort
Plain.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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Over the past few weeks, we’ve been talking a lot about the improvements of our drought monitor here in the QCA. Most of the improvements can be traced back to a large amount of rain we’ve picked up over the past three and a half weeks. Our rainy stretch began around March 18th, since then here in the Quad Cities we’ve picked up a little under three and three-quarters of an inch!
Here’s a look at the drought monitor from March 24th, March 31st, and Today’s update.
It’s been great to see the improvement from the ongoing drought conditions, but I will say 3 soggy weeks going onto 4 has been getting a tad old… The good news is the weekend looks dry and sunny but more chances for rain are on the way next week.
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Before hitting the road for a final significant road trip of the season, the Calgary Flames are visiting SAP Center to take on the San Jose Sharks. The Flames have already trekked through SoCal, beating both the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings earlier this week. The Sharks can spoil their sweep with a win tonight, but the Pacific Division’s top dogs won’t make it easy.
Here’s everything you need to know to tune in:
How to Watch
Tonight’s game will be broadcast regionally on NBCSCA and SNW. Streaming is available with a subscription to ESPN+ (blackout restrictions do apply). The radio call will be streamed through the Sharks Audio Network. Puck drop is at 7:30 p.m. PT/10:30 p.m. ET at SAP Center in San Jose, California.
Check back to this same post an hour ahead of puck drop for this evening’s lines, scratches and injuries, along with all of the play-by-play action.
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Some of the best moments in NASCAR come not from the action on the track but the chatter in the drivers’ radios. Before every race, each NASCAR driver is mic’d up, along with their respective crew chiefs. This allows teams to communicate during the race to strategize, celebrate and, every now and then, let their tempers run wild. The live microphones give both fans and NASCAR officials the opportunity to listen in on the team chatter during and after the race.
During last week’s Toyota Owners 400 in the Richmond Raceway, however, fans caught a cryptic conversation between Chase Elliott and his crew chief, Alan Gustafson. Here’s what was said:
Chase Elliott: “I don’t know what’s happened to this thing dude!”
Alan Gustafson: “I do, I do. Just be nice and smooth with it. Take care of it. We’ll get you fixed. Do the best you can.”
Elliott: “Did that little bit of air really kill us that bad?”
Gustafson: “No, no. Nope. I know the problem. I’ll tell you later.”
Elliott: “Copy.”
Once the race was over, Chase Elliott’s crew chief came on the radio again to say, “Sorry about that. We deserved a much better finish than that, had a better car.”
NASCAR Fans Speculate About No. 9 Team’s Cryptic Conversation
The 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season hasn’t been the best for Chase Elliott. In the first six races of the season, the Cup Series champion only captured one top-5 finish.
Both Chase Elliott and his fans hoped the NASCAR race in Richmond would provide the much-needed change in luck for the No. 9 driver. Unfortunately, however, though he got off to a strong start, things went downhill on Lap 253.
Chase Elliott – Richmond 2022 pic.twitter.com/23JAas4A9I
— NASCAR PICTURES (@Nascarpixtures) April 7, 2022
Three laps following a four-tire pit stop, Elliott dropped from the front of the field to 18th. This incident sparked the puzzling conversation between Elliott and his crew chief. But what did the conversation mean? What did Alan Gustafson know that he couldn’t tell his driver with the ears of fans and NASCAR officials on them?
With no answers from Chase Elliott or the rest of the No. 9 team, fans took to social media to speculate. Some fans believe the ambiguous exchange points to cheating. Most, however, think that Elliott and Gustafson were referring to a problem with the tires. If the left side tires were accidentally installed on the right side, the Chevrolet would be virtually impossible to drive.
Because the No. 9 crew made a mistake the week prior at COTA that resulted in an enraged Chase Elliott, it’s certainly possible that Gustafson knew of another mistake but withheld the information to keep his driver calm until the race was over. That said, Chase Elliott’s team avoided penalties after Richmond, so if a mistake was made, they managed to sneak it past NASCAR inspectors.
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