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Doctors and volunteers pack medical supplies to send to Ukraine
By Tajma Hall
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GERMANTOWN, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Doctors and volunteers in Wisconsin spent Saturday packing and sorting medical supply donations. The shipments will go to Ukraine to aid military and community hospitals during the ongoing war with Russia.
Dr. Nataliya Uboha is an oncologist at UW Carbone Cancer Center. She is involved in the efforts to get resources to Ukraine and she says the effort is personal. Dr. Uboha up in Lviv, Ukraine has been living in the U.S. for more than 25 years. She came here by herself so the majority of her family has been in Ukraine all these years.
“When the war started, we really worked hard on getting my family over here,” she said. Keeping her family safe is top of mind but she also wants to do her part to get resources to her home country, including getting involved in a medical drive for Ukraine.
Wisconsin Ukrainians Inc. and the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America are collecting medical supplies to send to Ukraine. Dr. Uboha has been involved with the effort and so has her husband Dr. Douglas Davis.
On Saturday, volunteers spent the day sorting and boxing countless supplies.
“It’s a combination of volunteers that don’t have a medical background, most from the Rotary of Milwaukee and Madison and then a lot of these include medical colleagues from across the Wisconsin area because there is some level of medical knowledge that is needed to properly sort this,” said Davis.
Dr. Davis says the need for these supplies is on-going and various partners came together to make this possible. Supplies gathered at the Germantown warehouse will be joined with supplies gathered in Chicago before it gets shipped out.
“They’ve got about 50 tons they think will be ready in Chicago. We think we can provide maybe another 20-25 tons,” said Davis. Organizers expect this to be an on-going effort and say more volunteers will be needed in the future.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
3-6-6-2
(three, six, six, two)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
3-6-6-2
(three, six, six, two)
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FORWARD WITH COURAGE: AMAECHI DECLARATION SPEECH
Fellow Nigerians,
I stand before you today to declare my intention and submit my application to serve as your next President.
I did not come to this decision lightly. I have served our nation for the last seven years as Minister of Transportation. For eight years before that, I served as Governor of Rivers State. In the preceding eight years before that, I was Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. These 23 years of service have equipped me not only with great experience in governance and public service but also compassion for the ordinary citizens of our dear country.
After more than two decades in the public arena, I had wanted to go on holiday and spend more time with my family before charting a new course outside politics. But at 58, and a member of the generation born after independence who has seen the good, the bad and the ugly of Nigeria, I am compelled by the urgency of our present challenges to place my experience and proven capacity at the service of the nation at the highest level.
Those who know me can testify that I have always been a straight talker. This trait has not always made me popular, but I speak truth with conviction. So, allow me to speak the truth here today.
We are facing some very serious challenges as a country. These are problems of insecurity, challenges of greater accountability in governance, youth unemployment and the scourge of spiraling poverty.
These problems are however not the exclusive preserve of Nigeria. We live in a troubled world. The reality we used to know has altered in nearly every nation. Climate change has brought about food scarcity in some places. Population explosion has produced unusual pressure on resources and supplies. Poverty has become a challenge all over the world especially in the developing world. The Covid crisis has placed unanticipated burdens on the budgets of nations and put pressure on available resources. Trans border crises have erupted in unusual places and placed the internal security of many nations under pressure. We are part of the Sahel, an area of the world that is subject to frequent terrorist attacks. Let us look at our current challenges as part and consequences of these global trends.
I admit that Nigeria’s problems did not begin today. And they will not be solved overnight. But they are not beyond the capacity of our people to solve. Fortunately, that process has already started.
There is an ancient proverb that “a society grows great when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they’ll never sit.”
The current administration under the able leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari has planted many such trees in Nigeria’s future. We have invested billions in infrastructure, human capital development and made reforms that will pay off over time in terms of socio-economic growth and stability. We have invested heavily in projects and initiatives that will secure a brighter, better future for Nigeria.
I am proud to have been part of this success story. It has been an honour overseeing the Ministry of Transportation in reviving the moribund railways, and working tirelessly to create an integrated national transportation system that will positively impact our economy, trade, employment, business, and national cohesion. Have we achieved everything we set out to do? Off-course not. Could wehave done more? Undoubtedly, there is always room for improvement.
On reflection, the notion of running for President would have been far beyond the imagination of the young lad running around the streets of Diobu or our small compound in Ubima. Not to talk of the young indigent student leader, mobilizing peers at the University of Port Harcourt. But my aspiration is not about fulfilling any personal ambition. I am contesting for office because I believe that it is my moral duty to give what I can in the service of my country.
To sustain and intensify present efforts at solving our national problems, our democracy must ensure the emergence of a leadership that is equipped with broad experience in governance to ensure stability and continuity. To sustain our democracy and preserve our unity, we need a steady hand and a passion for success in a nation that remains united to pursue prosperity for all Nigerians.
It is this combination of experience and patriotic passion that I bring to the table. I have been in the political arena for 23 years. I have served at every level of government – local, state, and federal. I have served both as a political appointee and an elected official. I have served both as an executive – as Governor of Rivers State and as a legislator – as Speaker of the State House of Assembly.
In these capacities, I did not just fill vacant posts. As a Speaker, I managed the legislative process in a difficult transition from military rule. As Governor, I defeated mercantile militancy and restored security. As a minister, I can modestly claim to have justified the trust of Nigerians.
I do not come from a privileged background. I grew up poor. I understand how it feels to go without some meals in a day. I know the pain of lack and the agony of want. I know what it means to see your parents toil just to keep a roof over your family’s head. I know what it is to feel the weight of expectation when you are are the only one in your family who enjoys the opportunity to attend university. Subsequently, I funded the education of my siblings to be university graduates as well. I know what it is to scrimp and save and struggle.
In spite of all odds, I have journeyed to this point. I could not have come this far without my parents, Fidelis, and Mary, who sacrificed so much for me. I could not have come this far without the support of my siblings. I could not have come this far without the mentors, friends and sponsors who have believed in me. I could not have come this far without the precious wife of my youth and my best friend, Judith, and my children who mean everything to me. I could not have come this far without the support of Dr. Peter Odili and his wife. I could not have come this far without the support of Chief Rufus Ada-George. Neither could I have come this far without the support of President Muhammadu Buhari. Above all, I could not have come this far without the Grace of God.
The next leg of my political journey will be tough. But I am excited to go out and engage with Nigerians from every walk of life. I am ready to go from Maiduguri to Makurdi, from Sokoto to Sagbama, from Yola to Oyo, from Badagry to Birnin Kebbi. To each town and village, I will have one message: Hope is around the corner.
I look forward to meeting you in your towns, villages, cities, campuses, and creeks. I want to hear your desires, needs and pains. I want to know what matters most to you. I want to listen and learn. I will be coming with one assurance: I will be welcome everywhere because the blood of every Nigerian flow in my veins. I shall be the president of all and every Nigerian.
I believe that despite our cultural differences, we remain one people under God. We may speak different languages or worship in different ways, but we all want the same things – a better life for our children, the ability to support our families, the freedom to live in peace without fear for our lives or properties.
I have never been the type who folds his arms and complains about inadequacies I see around me. I have always jumped in with both feet to do whatever I can to help, to try and bring relief to those suffering, to work to make things right where I see wrong. If you elect me as your President, I promise to play my part to the best of my ability. Every day I will rise and go to work for you. I will never forget the fact that I am there to serve you.
Today, I stand as an aspirant to the position of President because of that same passion for people; that same drive for results. More than ever before, I am burning with the zeal to make a decisive difference in the lives of allNigerians.
No matter the darts and arrows that come my way, I will remain steadfast because the stakes are too high. We cannot afford to fail. We cannot afford to veer off-course.
I pledge my heart, mind and soul to the task of building a Nigeria in which every child can go to school, every young person can find work or support to start a business, every citizen can travel safely around the country and sleep at night knowing that law and order prevails and every Nigerian feels included, heard, and respected.
The road ahead will be long and arduous. But we go forward with faith.
Forward with courage.
Forward with compassion.
Forward with hope.
Forward with pride for who we are as a people and who we are yet to become.
The future is bright because of YOU.
God bless you and God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
CHIBUIKE ROTIMI AMAECHI
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Keno" game were:
03-05-10-13-14-22-24-26-28-32-36-38-44-50-58-62-68-70-71-73-76-79
(three, five, ten, thirteen, fourteen, twenty-two, twenty-four, twenty-six, twenty-eight, thirty-two, thirty-six, thirty-eight, forty-four, fifty, fifty-eight, sixty-two, sixty-eight, seventy, seventy-one, seventy-three, seventy-six, seventy-nine)
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Acquisition to increase Club Car presence in Europe, diversify product portfolio in growing consumer and utility markets
Expanded portfolio of zero-emission vehicles to help meet increasing global demand for sustainable transportation options
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Club Car today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Garia A/S ("Garia"), a Denmark-based manufacturer of electric low-speed vehicles for the utility, consumer and golf markets, from Lars Larsen Group. Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter.
Garia, founded in 2005, is best known as an innovator of luxury golf and leisure cars that feature elevated performance and distinctive Scandanavian design. The company launched Garia Utility in 2015, a growing line of compact vehicles for utility applications, including: public sector (municipalities, hospitals, universities, parks), facility management (industrial sites, hotels, resorts), leisure and outdoor (zoos, amusement parks, forestry and agriculture), and last-mile delivery (mail, packages, food delivery).
The acquisition also includes Melex, which Garia acquired in November 2021 to accelerate its growth in the utility space. Melex is a manufacturer of lightweight utility vehicles based in Poland and offers an array of street and non-street legal products, including multi-passenger and compact cargo utility vehicles.
"We have great respect for Garia and Melex, which design and build some of the most impressive electric golf, leisure and compact utility vehicles in the world," said Mark Wagner, president of Club Car. "We are excited to welcome their teams to the Club Car family.
"Our product lines complement each other nicely with very little overlap," he added. "Which is great news for our dealers and customers in Europe and the United States who will have access to a wider range of zero-emission, on and off-road vehicles at a greater variety of price points."
Garia's golf and consumer cars are primarily luxury products geared toward the high end of their respective markets. Garia and Melex's utility products are mostly model types that Club Car doesn't currently manufacture.
"Club Car is the perfect partner and will immediately open new opportunities for growth across our entire product portfolio," said Garia CEO Jakob Holstein. "Club Car's extensive dealer network, combined with the operational benefits we can achieve with substantially increased scale, will help us take our brands to a new level."
Club Car is a portfolio company of Platinum Equity, which acquired the business in 2021.
"Around the world demand for sustainable transportation solutions continues to grow," said Platinum Equity Partner Jacob Kotzubei. "The addition of Garia and Melex's all-electric fleets will strenthen Club Car's ability to meet that demand globally, and in the European utility market in particular, where governments and businesses are modernizing and electrifying their vehicle fleets."
The Garia and Melex transaction is Club Car's first add-on acquisition under Platinum Equity's ownership.
"A big part of our ambition for Club Car is to expand its addressable market geographically and into new product categories," said Platinum Equity Managing Director Matthew Louie. "This acquisition is an important step in delivering on that strategy. We will continue seeking more opportunities to grow the business organically and through additional acquisitions."
Morgan Lewis, Bech-Bruun, and Sołtysiński Kawecki & Szlęzak are serving as legal counsel and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is providing debt financing counsel to Club Car and Platinum Equity on the Garia acquisition. Goldman Sachs is leading the debt financing on the transaction.
With over 60 years of experience of innovation and design in producing small-wheel vehicles, Club Car is a leading manufacturer of gas and electric golf, utility and personal transportation vehicles. Founded in 1958, the Club Car product portfolio has grown to include much more than golf cars, now encompassing vehicles for commercial and consumer markets, built with an uncompromised desire for superior performance. As an industry leader in electrification and sustainability, Club Car is proud to be on the forefront of environmentally responsible Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) technologies. For more information, visit www.clubcar.com.
Garia was founded in 2005 by Anders Lynge with the vision of introducing a paradigm shift for golf and leisure vehicles by producing the world's first premium vehicles in their segments. In 2014, with almost ten years of experience in the luxury electric vehicle market, Garia embarked on an entirely new journey: the Garia Utility. A compact electric utility vehicle that combines reliability, ergonomics and zero emissions with comfort, functionality and thoughtful design. Made of high-quality European components, the Garia Utility is one of a kind. Garia is privately held by Lars Larsen Group and headquartered in Denmark with a subsidiary in the U.S. Learn more about the Garia Utility at gariautility.com.
Melex was founded in 1970 as a manufacturer of electric golf and lightweight utility vehicles in Mielec, Poland. Melex is a versatile manufacturer of electric vehicles and offers over 100 different models for almost any niche in the segment. From 250kg and up to 1,6 tons of cargo, or 2-8 passengers as service vehicles for factories, logistic centers, supermarkets, municipalities, tourism, airports etc., there is a Melex for any usage. Learn more about Melex at melex.com.pl
Founded in 1995 by Tom Gores, Platinum Equity is a global investment firm with more than $25 billion of assets under management and a portfolio of approximately 50 operating companies that serve customers around the world. The firm is currently investing from Platinum Equity Capital Partners V, a $10 billion global buyout fund, and Platinum Equity Small Cap Fund, a $1.5 billion buyout fund focused on investment opportunities in the lower middle market. Platinum Equity specializes in mergers, acquisitions and operations – a trademarked strategy it calls M&A&O® – acquiring and operating companies in a broad range of business markets, including manufacturing, distribution, transportation and logistics, equipment rental, metals services, media and entertainment, technology, telecommunications and other industries. Over the past 26 years Platinum Equity has completed more than 300 acquisitions.
Dan Whelan, Platinum Equity
(310) 282-9202
dwhelan@platinumequity.com
Tammy Cillo, Club Car
(908) 256-4586
tamatha.cillo@irco.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is endorsing Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania's crowded Senate primary, ending months of jockeying for his support.
In a statement Saturday, Trump said his decision was “all about winning elections” as he announced his support for the celebrity heart surgeon best known as the host of daytime TV’s “The Dr. Oz Show."
“The Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has a tremendous opportunity to Save America by electing the brilliant and well-known Dr. Mehmet Oz for the United States Senate,” Trump said, in part. “Dr. Oz is smart, tough, and will never let you down, therefore, he has my Complete and Total Endorsement. Good luck, Dr. Oz. our Country needs you!”
Oz was competing for Trump's endorsement against former hedge fund CEO David McCormick, whose wife, Dina Powell, served in Trump's administration.
Trump said in a radio interview last week that he was close to making a decision but had yet to make up his mind. “I do like the man,” he said of Oz, “so we’ll see what happens.”
Trump had previously endorsed Sean Parnell in the race, but Parnell withdrew his candidacy amid allegations of abuse from his estranged wife.
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Bridgestone has been named a 2021 General Motors Supplier of the Year, marking the seventh consecutive and 20th overall recognition for the brand. The annual awards were announced during the GM Supplier Business Meeting on March 16, 2022.
General Motors’ 30th Annual Supplier of the Year Awards were given out to 134 suppliers from 16 different countries. GM says the awards recognize those suppliers that exceeded GM’s requirements, providing GM customers with high-quality components and innovative technologies.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Rory McIlroy’s wait to complete the career Grand Slam will extend into at least 2023.
His 14th Masters will not be the one where he gets the green jacket slipped over his shoulders. The four-time major championship winner — two PGA Championships, one British Open, one U.S. Open — shot a 1-under 71 on Saturday in the third round of the Masters.
That left him 1 over for the tournament and tied for ninth but 10 shots behind leader Scottie Scheffler.
“You’re just trying to go out and shoot the best score that you possibly can without being reckless and without taking on too much risk,” McIlroy said. “So, I’ll try to go out and do that tomorrow. I think I moved up a few places with that score today and just try to move up a few more tomorrow and try to get a top 10 and move on.”
McIlroy has had six top-10 finishes at the Masters, and that doesn’t even include 2011, when he led after three rounds but shot 80 on Sunday to freefall all the way to a tie for 15th. He missed the cut last year.
“It’s just hard to go very low out there,” McIlroy said. “Anything under par is a good score. It’s just blustery. There’s no easy birdies. Even the par 5's aren’t. Usually they’re sort of, not guaranteed 4’s, but you feel like they’re holes that you would likely pick shots up on. ... Yeah, it’s been a tough couple of days, and I’ve just sort of hung in there as best as I could.”
EAGLES ON 10
Augusta National went 14 years between eagles on the 495-yard par-4 10th hole.
And then came two in the span of two days.
After Gary Woodland did it on Friday, Charl Schwartzel holed out from the fairway on Saturday. It was the 10th eagle on No. 10 in Masters history, and this is the first year in which that hole has been eagled twice.
MASTERS MONEY
The Masters winner gets a gold medal, a green jacket, a lifetime invitation back to Augusta National and a sterling silver trophy.
And this year, more money than anyone has ever won at the Masters.
Augusta National announced Saturday that the winner of this year’s tournament gets $2.7 million out of a total purse of $15 million. Both are tournament records.
It’s about a 30% increase over last year, when Hideki Matsuyama got $2.07 million from a purse of $11.5 million.
In terms of total dollars, it’s by far the biggest one-year increase in Masters history. Percentage-wise, the tournament saw a bigger jump from 1982 to 1983, when the purse and winner’s share both increased about 40%. The winner in 1982 got $64,000; the winner in 1983 got $90,000.
The Masters purse and first-place check now match what is offered at the first two stops of the FedEx Cup Playoffs — the St. Jude Championship and the BMW Championship.
WEATHER WOES
The lack of Georgia Peach ice cream at the start of this year’s Masters — supply chain issues were blamed — was a bit of a story at Augusta National earlier in the week.
Might not have been a big seller on Saturday anyway.
Ski hats, mittens, gloves and hand warmers were part of various ensembles on an unseasonably cold Saturday at Augusta National. The temperature for much of the afternoon was in the upper 40s; the wind chill when leader Scottie Scheffler teed off at 2:50 p.m. was 43 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celcius), and some fans huddled under blankets as they watched.
“I’ve got five layers on,” Marc Leishman said after his round. “And I never even thought about taking any of them off. Yeah, you had to pack well for this week. Lucky enough, I had a good sponsor who sent me some stuff, and I was very warm.”
Collin Morikawa had a gaiter around his neck to try to stay warm. Scheffler kept putting a quilted vest on between shots.
“I’ve got four hand warmers,” Rory McIlroy said. “I’m getting soft. I’ve been living in Florida for too long now, so this is cold for me.”
Forecasters said frost was possible at Augusta National by early Sunday, though the high temperature on final-round day at the Masters is expected to reach the low 70s.
MESSING WITH TEXAS
The Masters Club dinner is held in Georgia, obviously. But it’s a Texan that has always presided over the festivities.
And if Scottie Scheffler hangs on Sunday at Augusta National, he’ll be the latest Texas man to etch himself into permanent Masters lore.
He could become the 10th Texan to win the Masters — which would extend the record for most from any U.S. state — and join Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Jimmy Demaret, Ralph Guldahl, Jackie Burke, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw, Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed as winners at Augusta National.
Texas, in Reed’s estimation, is a great practice ground for the Masters.
“You have to be a shot maker,” Reed said. “I think that’s the biggest thing about this place. You never have a flat lie. You’re always having to create something whether it’s ball above feet, ball below feet, downhill lie, uphill lie. You’re having to do something. It’s never just a step-up driving range swing. It’s always having to manipulate it in some way. I feel like we’re able to do that really well.”
Winning the Masters gives someone the chance to pick the menu (and pay the bill) at the Masters Club dinner, commonly called the Champions Dinner.
The dinner was first suggested by Hogan — one of the Masters champions from Texas — in the early 1950s. He presided over the first four of them, before giving that distinction to Nelson, a fellow Texan who stayed in the role for about a half-century. From there, the presider’s role went to Crenshaw, another fellow Texan, who as part of his duties sits at the head of the table with the defending champion and introduces him.
Finish this one off, and Scheffler would secure the seat alongside Crenshaw next April.
DIVOTS
The par-3 6th hole has played over par on average at every Masters since 1975, but it was — by its standards — easy Saturday. The average score on the hole was 2.962, way better than the 3.311 in Round 1 and 3.112 in Round 2. ... Tiger Woods’ best round so far this week was a 71 on Thursday. The only times he played the Masters and didn’t have a 70 or better were 1995, 1996, 2007 and 2012. ... Adam Scott shot an 80 on Saturday, matching his worst score ever at the Masters. He also did it in the first round of the 2004 tournament.
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The 2022 federal election will be held on 21 May after Scott Morrison -- the first Prime Minister since John Howard in 2007 to last a full term -- this morning made the traditional trip to Yarralumla to ask the Governor-General to dissolve Parliament.
An election campaign that has been underway for months will now formally commence, with six weeks of electioneering ahead -- a long campaign the Prime Minister hopes will wear down his opponent, Anthony Albanese.
In a social media video titled "Why I love Australia", dropped last night, Morrison laid out his case for re-election, framing the government as a stable pair of hands after a term riddled by natural disasters, a once in a century pandemic and now, a war in Europe.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Dallas Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki was in town Saturday at the Austin Convention Center. The 21-year NBA veteran remains involved with the Mavs as a special advisor and is very happy with how things have gone this season.
“I’m excited for our young team,” said Nowitzki. “Luka (Dončić) is an incredible talent, one of the best in the league. We have some great players around him that spread the floor and are athletic. It’s been fun to watch.”
The Mavericks currently sit in fourth place in the Western Conference with one game to go in the regular season. And even though Nowitzki is no longer a player in the association, he still doesn’t have a ton of free time.
“I thought it would be a lot less busy but it’s actually been a pretty packed schedule,” said Nowitzki. “I still travel a lot to Germany to see my folks. I have two foundations; one in the U.S. and one in Germany. I’m on the board of FIBA.”
The 14-time NBA All-Star was in Austin to promote the new ‘Dirk Nowitzki Signature Line by Bauerfiend’ at the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting. The line includes a compression arm sleeve and the compression knee support.
“Bauerfiend really helped me the last few years of my career, obviously it wasn’t quite this slim and nice,” Nowitzki joked referencing the new knee support from his line. “But it helped me a lot. I had some knee swelling the last few years of my career.”
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What Do I Get?
A Premium Domain Name
BrandBucket names are curated by branding experts.
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A creative logo created by a highly-skilled logo designer.
Transparent Pricing
No hidden fees, no escrow fees. Guaranteed delivery.
What's Next?
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We accept all major credit cards, Bitcoin or wire transfers.
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Payment is held in escrow until you've received the name.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens after I purchase a domain name from BrandBucket?
Every name on the BrandBucket marketplace is exclusively listed with BrandBucket. That means that all of our sellers are very
responsive, making for quick domain transfers.
A dedicated BrandBucket agent will manage your domain transfer from beginning
to end, ensuring a secure and easy transaction. They will manage the receipt of the domain into one of BrandBucket’s secure registrar
accounts and then complete the transfer to you.
1. Verification and registrar choice
After we receive the payment and verify it, we will reach out via email to confirm which registrar you want the domain transferred to.
We also provide a link to our tracking system, where you can communicate with us, check on the status of your transfer, view your invoice,
and download your logo files.
In most cases, if a domain is moved between accounts at a single registrar, the transfer is quick and usually completes within 48 hours. If a domain changes registrars (in other words, you would like to move it away from where it is currently registered), the transfer is slower. The total transfer time can then be anywhere from 48 hours to 7 days.
BrandBucket has vetted and supports the following registrars:
- GoDaddy
- Namesilo
- Uniregistry
- NameCheap
- Google Domains
- Name.com
- Amazon Route 53
- 123 Reg
- Gandi
- Dynadot
2. We request the name from the seller.
Once we know where you would like the domain transferred, BrandBucket will request the domain from the seller. All of our sellers are very
responsive, making for a quick process.
3. Transfer the name into your account
As soon as we receive the name from the seller, we start the transfer into your account and guide you through the whole process.
4. Verify with the buyer that the transfer is complete
Once we confirm that you have received the name, we consider the escrow process to be complete. Only then do we release payment to the
domain seller.
What happens after I lease a domain name from BrandBucket?
The BrandBucket lease-to-own program is available as an alternative to purchasing the name outright. You're able to buy the domain name with over monthly installments, and at the end of the lease period, if all payments are complete, you would be the new owner of the domain name.
Once you complete the checkout process for a leased domain, you will be contacted by a BrandBucket agent who will help manage your lease. The domain will be transferred from the seller to a BrandBucket escrow account, ensuring a secure hold on the domain during the lease term. We will transfer the domain to you once all payments are complete.
During the lease, you're entitled to use the domain name for your website and email; your agent will guide you through that.
Each month you will continue to receive an invoice with a balance statement. You have the right to cancel the lease any time or complete all payments early to own the domain outright.
Why choose BrandBucket?
Established in 2007, we are the original business name marketplace. Every year, we sell 1000s of premium domains to entrepreneurs and businesses like you.
All of our domain names are handpicked by branding and linguistics experts based on rigorous criteria. You can rest assured that if a domain is on the BrandBucket marketplace, it is a top-tier business name.
Almost one out of every four names sold on BrandBucket is sold to a repeat buyer or a referral, which means that people who buy from us once, keep coming back for more.
Why choose a .com domain name from BrandBucket?
The .com extension is a brand in itself. As the default domain extension of the internet, having a .com domain that is an exact match to your brand
name has numerous advantages:
- Familiarity - People are familiar with .com. Most of the brands and websites they already trust, use the .com extension. Therefore, it serves as a subtle indicator that your business is a legitimate one. A recent study by the NCC Group, a global expert in cybersecurity and risk mitigation, found that roughly half of the consumers are uncomfortable visiting websites ending with a non .com extension, and only 9% are comfortable doing so.
- Brand Protection - When you own the .com version of a domain name, you have the official online version of that name. Owning an exact-match .com can protect your brand name, as it is unlikely another serious business would use the same name when the .com extension is taken.
- Easy to Communicate - .com domains are also easy to communicate. When people hear or see your business name without a TLD, they will inevitably assume it ends in .com, making it easy for them to find you online.
What can I do with the domain I purchase from BrandBucket?
Once you have received the name into your registrar account, you will be able to:
- Use the domain as your website address.
- Setup email addresses, for instance, sales@somati.com.
- Use the domain and logo on business cards and other materials.
If you don’t have a website built yet, you can put up a simple coming soon page, or you can just leave it until you are ready. You don’t need to do anything right away. Because you own the domain name, you can take your time.
Are logos included with my BrandBucket order? Can I request edits?
Our talented community of logo designers designs all logos on the BrandBucket marketplace. They are paid for their efforts, and BrandBucket owns all copyrights for the logos. We will transfer the full copyright for the logo to you upon purchase of the domain name.
Logo files are delivered to you in the following formats:
- High-resolution image file (PNG)
- Editable vector file (.AI)
Editing your design
Vector (AI) files are entirely editable in programs such as photoshop and illustrator, so you or your designer can make desired changes. If needed, we can make basic color changes/small tweaks to the logo for you after purchase. If you are looking for a complete redesign, we can connect you with a designer from our talented design community at their discretion and price.
Is a domain name from BrandBucket 100% unique?
All of our business domains are carefully chosen for their standout branding qualities. There is only one somati.com. However, there may well be other businesses that are using the same brand name. In fact, with common keyword names, it is likely. That is why owning the .com is so essential. In holding the .com, you immediately establish your business as the most official version of that name. It's unlikely any serious business is going to use a brand name where the .com domain is already in use. Many companies believe that owning the matching .com version of a business name provides more protection for their brand than a trademark.
Are BrandBucket domain names trademarked?
No, and it’s not possible for us to do so. Trademarks are industry and region-specific, and to file a trademark for a name or logo, you must already be doing business as that name. Because of this, we can't trademark a name before your company is actively using it. Therefore, you will need to apply for trademark registration after you have purchased the name.
Do I have to keep my name registered when I purchase a name from BrandBucket?
When you purchase a domain from BrandBucket, you will own it 100%. However, all domain names worldwide must be kept registered at a registrar like Godaddy or similar that you choose. You will pay the registration fees to whichever registrar you decide to use. The price of registration varies at each registrar, but it generally ends up being around $10-15 per year for a .com domain name. Registration is annual but can be paid up for years in advance, which we suggest you do.
Does BrandBucket offer refunds?
BrandBucket serves as a third-party marketplace and escrow agent for domain names. We only offer refunds if either of these two conditions are met:
- The buyer contacts us within 24 hours of purchase requesting a refund.
- The seller fails to initiate the domain name transfer within 10 business days from the time of purchase.
Buyers are advised to perform all necessary diligence prior to making a purchase.
Is my BrandBucket purchase confidential?
Your purchase is 100% confidential. Any personal information you share with BrandBucket is kept private, even from the domain seller. We never publicize any sale on our marketplace.
What's the difference between a brand name, registered name, and a domain name?
Brand Name
A brand name is a name that you use to identify a family of products, services, or a single line of products or services that a company offers. For instance, Apple is the brand name used on most products manufactured by Apple, Inc. In this example, the business name and brand name are the same, a common use case.
Your brand name is who you are to your customers. It is the pillar your business's public image will be built around. The products or services you offer can also have their own brand names. You may want to create new brand names for products or services that differ from your core business offering, for example:
- UberEats - Food delivery by Uber
- Amazon Web Services - Cloud computing from Amazon
- Google Maps - Web mapping service from Google
Registered Business Name
A business name is the legally registered name of your business. You'll use your business name to create contracts, open bank accounts, pay taxes, and any other administrative related activities. Most business names contain the business's brand name, followed by the company's chosen business structure, for example:
- Walmart Inc.
- Verizon Inc.
- Grasshopper LLC
However, they don't necessarily have to be the same. In some cases, the business name is completely different from the brand name. This is most common in large businesses that have multiple brands housed under a single parent company, for example:
- Brand Name: Google
- Business Name: Alphabet Inc.
- Brand Name: MailChimp
- Business Name: The Rocket Science Group LLC
Domain Name
A domain name is your website name - the internet address where people can access your website. Think of a domain as the address to the online version of your business. Every domain is one-of-a-kind. No website has the same web address as another website.
Ideally, your domain name should be an exact match to your brand name. Think of your favorite companies. Odds are, their domain name is identical to their brand name. Apple's domain name is Apple.com; Amazon's domain name is Amazon.com. Having a matching domain ensures that people can easily find your brand online.
What are the benefits of a premium business name?
What can a top brand name with a matching .com do for your business? Here are few of the many advantages of owning a premium business domain:
Trust - Online, there are subtle clues that all of us subconsciously take into consideration to determine whether or not a business is legitimate and trustworthy. Having a great business name paired with a matching .com (by far the most trusted domain extension) signals to customers that you care about and are willing to invest in your brand. It makes your business and your brand messaging easier to trust.
Authority - Owning a .com version of a fantastic brand name is a big signal to the world that your business means business, right out of the gate. This can lead to accelerated customer acquisition, more industry partnership opportunities, and press attention.
SEO - Having a business domain that matches what customers are using in searches can lead to increased SEO, higher page ranking, and better quality traffic.
Retention - Brand retention is critical for organically acquiring and keeping customers. A short, catchy, and unique business name makes your brand easier to remember, and having a matching .com means that consumers who hear about you offline will find you easily online.
Save on marketing spend - Investing in a premium domain can save you a fortune in marketing spend down the line. You'll spend less of your valuable marketing budget and efforts on brand awareness, as your name will do much of the work for you.
How does BrandBucket price domains?
Our customers are primarily entrepreneurs looking for a quick and easy way to find a great brand name for their company. That's why when evaluating and appraising domain names, our central focus is whether they would also make great business names.
What makes a great brand name? Here are some of the branding and linguistic traits we take into consideration:
- Length - Great names are concise and to the point. The shorter, the better!
- Common phrase/expression - Names that are based on real phrases and expressions make great brand names because of their built-in familiarity and inherent catchiness.
- Letter order - Some letters are more valuable than others and better together, especially when it comes to the first letters of a name.
- Pronunciation and spelling - Names should be easy to say and understand. It should also be spelled as it sounds.
- Industry match - Names should be a good fit for a particular industry, or be broad enough to attract buyers from multiple sectors.
- Longevity - Great brand names are broad enough in scope to grow with a company as it expands and not die when trends fade.
- Uniqueness - Great brand names are easy to spot because they stand out in a crowd.
- Memorability - A brand name is no good unless people can easily remember it.
These criteria, along with historical sales data and current marketplace conditions, are used to determine whether a name is accepted to our marketplace, and how it's priced. Every name on our marketplace must score high in most or all of these categories to even be accepted. With an acceptance rate of only 10% of names submitted to our marketplace, BrandBucket sets a very high bar for the names we select.
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Opinion
We owe a debt of gratitude to politicians
Stephen Brook
CBD columnistSeriously, why would anyone bother being a politician these days?
The political discourse hyper-fuelled by social media is toxic, grandstanding journalists are more interested in comment than reporting and are addicted to gotcha moments.
Cynicism is easy, but public service is hard.
Former Tasmanian premier Peter Gutwein, by all accounts a decent bloke, is the latest casualty, quitting seemingly because the costs have been too great. See other state premiers Steve Bracks, Mike Baird, Geoff Gallop.
Gutwein, lauded for steering his state through the pandemic, has had enough. He never sees his family. He was hospitalised with stress, and recently (and incredibly bravely, I thought) revealed he was sexually abused as a school kid. Now he is gone.
Today I am sticking up for politicians. I know, I know. I should be writing about how politicians are corrupt, pork-barrelling, branch-stacking, coal-loving, expense-rorting Mean Girl bastards with their snouts stuck in the trough as they impregnate their press secretaries and have failed to save the planet from its global warming destruction.
But I am sticking up for politicians because I am sticking up for democracy. And you can’t have one without the other. However, we need better politicians to make our political system better.
It is just a shame that the process so often turns well-intentioned people either into monsters or it destroys them. As I said, why would anyone bother?
Recently, I met a trade unionist for a coffee. Relationship building. He explained his job: to go around to blue-collar workers and urge them to take out more superannuation. Ensuring this great Labor Party policy allowed workers to secure their financial future.
Simply put: this guy had the “It factor”. In spite of myself, I urged him to consider entering politics, the public sphere needed more people like him. He shrank away: No, no, no, no, no.
He’d already been scared off.
So, I phoned up some politicians, who agreed to speak anonymously and asked them: why do you bother?
Male MP: (Laughter.) “Good question. It’s a difficult job with a lot of costs.”
Female MP: (Laughs.) “Oh Stephen (laughs again). You are not going to use my name right? Let me think about how honest I want to be. Can I call you back? There’s lots of good reasons.”
Female MP: “As hard as the challenges to your personal life are, the thought of giving it up (is too much), when the reason you came into it in the first place is to make a difference. ”
Male MP: “A lot of people you meet through political parties are frankly pretty unpleasant people – they are not people you would be friends with in normal life. But the capacity to effect positive change is greater than any other job.”
Male MP: “Some of the programs I have helped to put in place are the most significant work of any kind that I have done. They will be there for years and will save lives. Where else can you do that?”
But the pressures are real.
Male MP: “Very few jobs voluntarily subject you to daily criticism, that takes a bit of getting used to. But if you develop too thick a skin you change and become too hardened.”
Female MP: “My children said that they hadn’t seen me all week.”
Female MP: “You have to drown out the white noise and focus on why you are here.”
And for some female MPs, “white noise” is vile gendered abuse and even threats of gang rape. Is that worth their mental health?
At the other end of the political continuum is Sarah Newman, sitting in a cafe in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Blackburn. Newman is a full-time university student who works part-time at JB Hi-Fi, and is a first-time federal political candidate standing for the Greens in the federal seat of Chisholm, against Australian Chinese Liberal MP Gladys Liu. “I might still be young, but I have learnt a lot and been through a lot in my life to know who I am. Being negative and nasty gets me nowhere.”
For Newman, “a lot” includes a diagnosis of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2018. “Odds are we aren’t going to win Chisholm, but we are going to grow our supporter base. We want to kick the Liberals out of the seat.”
It is all too easy to shout at politicians on the TV, but when they are sitting opposite, the feeling is of admiration and, yes, gratitude that someone is willing to chuck their hat in the ring on our behalf.
After spending time with Newman, I thought about a recent column I wrote on the crisis-ridden NDIS, which prompted a text from a politician I only slightly knew – Kimberley Kitching.
“Hi Stephen, your article on the NDIS is so touching and thoughtful. As the shadow assistant minister for the NDIS and for Government Services, I hope we can make the scheme the most responsive it can be. I hope your cousin [whom I wrote about and is an NDIS client] had a lovely birthday. I’m born in February too! (I’ll be in Estimates on my birthday!) Would you like to catch up? Warm Regards, Kimberley.”
We never did. We planned a drink. “I am good at a drink,” she informed me, but I cancelled, sick. Fate took its turn and Kitching died of a suspected heart attack one month ago aged 52, a death that some attributed in part to the pressure of politics.
I have been thinking about that drink that never was often when viewing the political struggle and the election campaign, which will give us plenty of opportunity to loathe our political classes.
But part of me has to concede that they are better than I because they are willing to have skin in the game. And I am not willing. Like the rest of you, I am content to continue sniping from the sidelines.
Jacqueline Maley cuts through the noise of the federal election campaign with news, views and expert analysis. Sign up to our Australia Votes 2022 newsletter here.
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Bollywood diva Priyanka Chopra spoke up about the suffering of people in Ukraine, urging world leaders to stand in support for them.
Russia has been extending military operations for more than a month, leaving the country in a dire state of devastation and Chopra cannot bear the guts to see the citizens like this.
Chopra Jonas is the UNICEF Goodwill ambassador who is looking to help those in need.
Taking to Instagram, the Krrish 3 actress uploaded a reel talking about the Ukrainian crisis and penned, "World leaders, we need you to stand up for refugees around the world to ensure that they get the support they need now. We can’t just stand by and watch."
However, this is not the first time Chopra has worked for their rights and previously reacted to the Global Citizen’s latest initiative.
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County’s libraries get people connected
“Connect With Your Library,” the theme for the American Library Association’s National Library Week, which kicked off Sunday, highlights and celebrates the significant role public libraries play within their communities. In Grant County, public and community libraries play a significant role for residents, not only providing books...
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After Yuzvendra Chahal spoke about a near-death experience, many known faces from the cricketing world have put out views on the incident.
Former India cricketer Sarandeep Singh has said that Chahal should open up on the matter and tell the player’s name who hung him from 15th floor, during the 2013 IPL season.
Sarandeep, just like many people, believes that the incident is very serious and BCCI should look into it right away.
In his statement, Sarandeep said, “If it happened and Chahal opened up now, then he should also reveal the name of that player who did this to him, this was a very serious matter and BCCI should take a look at this now, a small and an enough cuddling could happen between players but this is a very serious offence.”
“Misfortune can happen with anyone and his hand…
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DENVER (AP) — Freddie Freeman's biggest play at first base in the season opener may have been a supportive hug.
The new Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman knew all too well the feelings Colorado's José Iglesias was experiencing.
After reaching on a run-scoring single Friday, Iglesias pointed to the sky as he was overcome by emotion. Iglesias told a concerned Freeman how he had just recently lost his dad, who had seen pretty much every big league hit — until this one.
An instant bond. Freeman lost his mom to skin cancer when he was 10.
“I just tried to be there for him, console him and just know that it’s more than a game," Freeman said Saturday as he sat in the clubhouse. "You never know what any of us are going through in life. If he didn’t tell me, I would never have known that he had lost his father a couple of weeks ago. So I think it just kind of reminds you to just have some compassion and some humility and just be kind to others.
“Because, in that moment, all I wanted to do was hug that guy.”
Iglesias appreciated the support and kind words from Freeman in the second inning. Freeman tapped Iglesias on the helmet and pulled him in for a comforting hug.
“He knows what it feels like,” said Iglesias, whose father was from Cuba. “Freddie’s a great guy.”
Iglesias talked about the role his father played in his life when he was growing up, how he worked long hours in a factory. But no matter how tired he was, he would always take his son to the baseball field.
“His dream was to watch me play in the big leagues,” said Iglesias, who made his major league debut in 2011 with Boston. “He told me once, he said, ’If I ever watch you play (in the majors) for one day, I’d be good to go after that.' He watched me play for 10 years. ... He’s in a better place now, watching me every day.”
The moment hit Freeman, too.
"It just started making me think about my mom and stuff,” Freeman said. “When you lose a parent, all you can do is just give that person a hug. There’s no word that's really going to be enough.
“His father was shining down on him to be able to get that single. You’ll never forget your dad. So all I could do is just give him a hug.”
Freeman, the 2020 NL MVP, signed a six-year, $162 million contract with Los Angeles after leading the Atlanta Braves to a World Series championship last season. But on Friday, in that moment in the second inning, it was bigger than baseball.
“We’re a fraternity,” Freeman said. “We have different uniforms on but you take the uniforms off, we’re all friends in this game. ... You get to come across a lot of amazing people.
"By the looks of it, his family loves baseball just as much as I love baseball. So I’m just glad to be able to be a part of it and just let him know that I care about him.”
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore police responded to multiple shootings that injured three men on Saturday, according to authorities.
Around 4:40 p.m., officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 3500 block of Noble Street, police said.
They found a 34-year-old man and a 38-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds in the Baltimore Highlands neighborhood, according to authorities.
The two men were taken to local hospitals where they were treated for non-life-threatening gunshot injuries.
Across town, in Baltimore’s Carrollton Ridge neighborhood, officers were sent to the 300 block of South Monroe Street to investigate a report of a shooting at 5:15 p.m., according to authorities.
Once there, officers found a 29-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen, police said.
An ambulance took the man to a local hospital.
Anyone with information on these crimes should contact either Southern District detectives at (410) 396-2499 or Southeastern District detectives at (410)366-2422.
Those who wish to remain anonymous can utilize the Metro Crime Stoppers tip line, at 1-866-7LOCK-UP.
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University fraternity, sorority leaders commit to changes after sexual assault reports
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Leaders of the fraternities and sororities at the University of Utah released a letter detailing changes and efforts being made after reports of two sexual assaults. All fraternity and sorority activities at the university were suspended for a two-week period in February after...
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Classic Lotto 47" game were:
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(six, seven, ten, twenty, twenty-five, forty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $2.75 million
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Classic Lotto 47" game were:
06-07-10-20-25-42
(six, seven, ten, twenty, twenty-five, forty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $2.75 million
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Chris Brown just confirmed that he is the father of Diamond Brown’s baby, Lovely. He posted a sweet photo fo the little one to celebrate her three month birthday. After rumors swirled about Chris Brown being the father in question to Diamond Brown‘s baby, the musician just confirmed he indeed shares a child with Diamond. The “Go Crazy’ singer shared an adorable photo of the little one on his Instagram Story on April 8. The pic was posed to celebrate the baby girl, whose name is Lovely Brown, turning three months old. Chris posted a string of red heart emojis underneath the image. This is the first time he’s publicly acknowledged the baby.
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The days of running a TV ad, listing an 800 number, and watching sales roll in—clear proof that ad dollars spent equal revenue in—are long gone. That's the traditional paid linear TV campaign: The ad runs. People call within a short window. Sales increase. The ad worked.
That method might still work and contribute to sales, but marketers have many more channels at their disposal—paid and organic social, paid and organic search, streaming audio and podcast ads, OTT/CTV, broadcast radio, SMS text, a newsletter, even tradeshows and cold-calling. There's a good chance marketers—whether B2C or B2B—are and should be advertising on most if not all available paid and nonpaid channels.
But how do you know what is working, and just as important, what is not at driving website traffic and conversions?
Enter multitouch attribution (MTA).
First, let's define it: MTA is a measurement practice used to evaluate each marketing touchpoint's impact during the move toward conversion. The objective is to determine each touchpoint's specific value during the buying journey.
Getting Started With Attribution
It's not as hard as you might think to get started collecting attribution data. It takes only a pixel, placed on your website, to begin gathering data to see where website traffic is coming from. Think of it as monitoring all channels that feed users to your website.
Forrester Research defines cross-channel attribution as the strategic coordination of all marketing channels that a company employs in its strategies. For most marketers, those ad channels include digital, broadcast, streaming, organic, affiliates/influencers, mobile, social, tradeshows, and more.
The beauty is that no matter what your marketing mix is, attribution will measure all channels—online and offline—to assign credit and measure the impact of each individual touchpoint.
In most cases, it is not one channel that does all the work. More likely, two or more channels contribute to a customer journey. A radio ad creates awareness, which leads to consumers' searching Google for that product or company name, at which point they are served up a paid ad for that product or company; or maybe they see an ad while on Instagram or TikTok.
If those consumers visit your website and make a purchase, you can see their journey touchpoint by touchpoint. It's powerful.
Best of all, it's impartial. The pixel plays no favorites to Google ads or paid social ads. It just identifies what people saw and when they saw it, then connects the dots, giving credit where credit is due to each touchpoint on the customer journey.
What Are You Waiting For?
If you are not measuring the performance of your marketing campaigns, you might as well be throwing a dart with a blindfold on. And marketers not using attribution data are going to fall even further behind.
Marketing attribution equips you with the best data available to ensure each and every step of your marketing strategy is informed by reliable, unbiased insights. You can't hope to achieve success if you don't know what online and offline channels have and have not worked in the past. Knowing what is effective, and continually monitoring to see shifts in marketing performance, will properly inform your decisions about new marketing campaigns.
What works one month may not be as effective the next. A holiday, a local or world event, a competitor's campaign—all could influence your marketing. It could be an anomaly, or it could be a trend. By examining the attribution data, you can identify the specific touchpoints that are influencing customers and optimize your ad spend accordingly. By looking back, you can make adjustments today, in real-time.
Without attribution, you are in the dark chasing traffic, clicks, and conversion rates. Attribution shines a light on your strategies and decisions and helps you better delegate your time and resources toward the activities and campaigns that are giving you the most bang for each advertising buck. Attribution makes you a more confident marketer, combining data with your own human experience to make better outcomes.
Impartiality Is Key
If the data you collect isn't truly impartial, it may be pointing you in the wrong direction. Impartiality refers to not only the data that you collect but also the campaigns you run, the channels you pursue, and the types of metrics you measure.
You can't always trust ad networks (e.g., Google or Facebook), unfortunately. Their numbers are skewed to show lots of clicks and views. But are any contributing to your website traffic flow?
The marketing landscape is always changing, and attribution data takes the bias out of measuring marketing performance. You think that one TV ad on that one station during that one program has always worked to drive business traffic, but how do you really know without any data?
Data Creates 'Aha!' Moments
It's eye-opening for marketers when they see actual, impartial attribution data that shows what marketing channel—or, specifically, TV channel—is working.
An example is a furniture retailer that had success with TV advertising but it never really "measured" the advertising's effectiveness beyond knowing it created awareness for its five outlets. It discovered that a certain TV show starring a certain celebrity was the clear-cut winner.
"I was shocked," said the business's e-commerce manager, who was delighted to share the attribution data with the owner, who had done the TV ad buying and was equally surprised. "The show had so many conversions, it was unreal, and it was only two spots. It was an expensive spot, but for the amount of conversions you got, you need to look at buying more of them. People are taking action from this show."
Attribution gave the business the insights, technology, and confidence it needed to deepen its customer relationships and spark improved marketing performance. By examining impartial and transparent attribution data, the marketing team was able to examine its mix of marketing activities with a complete, unified view of its customers' buying journeys. And it could use that data to tweak campaigns to optimize them further.
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Companies using attribution today are improving their return on ad spend, reducing the cost of acquiring customers, and improving lifetime value. Attribution is vital to fueling greater business success, backed up by data and human experience.
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – As gas prices continue to near $4 per gallon, Minnesotans are looking for alternatives and finding them on two wheels.
At Scooterville Minnesota, sales are pushing record numbers. In March, the business sold 20% more than any March in its history.
READ MORE: Roseville Officer Shot In Neck During Shooting Discharged From Hospital“Typically, march will be hit or miss because of the weather,” said owner Bob Hedstrom. “All of the sudden, we’re seeing people coming in on coming in on a 20-degree day, flocking in, buying scooters hand over fist. That’s when I knew things were a little bit different this year.”
Hedstrom says scooters are an attractive option for the city commuter — affordable and available in electric.
READ MORE: Bird Flu Detected In Barron County Flock“We’ve got either electrics that need no gas or everything here is 75 miles per gallon and up,” he said.
While Hedstrom says he’s unsure how much longer the hot sales streak will continue, he says each week he sees someone new purchase a scooter.
MORE NEWS: Minneapolis Man Sentenced To 12 Years For Armed Robbery Of Market Bar-B-Que“This is going to change your life. Riding a scooter is so much fun, it’s such a great way to get around, it’s going to change your life.”
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, April 10, 2022
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547 PM PDT Sat Apr 9 2022
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM PDT SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Areas of northwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to
45 mph expected.
* WHERE...Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range and Santa Barbara
County Southwestern Coast.
* WHEN...Until 3 AM PDT Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects and
make driving difficult, especially for drivers of high profile
vehicles. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power
outages may result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects, such as lawn furniture.
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 20 to 35 mph with gusts up to 45 mph
expected.
* WHERE...Antelope Valley.
* WHEN...Until 10 PM PDT this evening.
vehicles. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages
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profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
* WHAT...Areas of northwest to north winds 20 to 30 mph with
gusts up to 50 mph expected.
* WHERE...Ventura County Mountains and Los Angeles County
Mountains.
* WHEN...From 6 PM this evening to 3 AM PDT Sunday.
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* WHERE...Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains.
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NCMC Savannah Campus Groundbreaking April 21
The North Central Missouri College Foundation will be hosting a Groundbreaking Ceremony to celebrate the start of construction at the Savannah campus facility on Thursday, April 21 at 12:30 p.m. at 601 US Bus 71 in Savannah, MO. During the event, renderings of the project will be on display, and remarks...
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Which Marshall speaker is best?
Even those with limited knowledge of the music industry and all its attendant equipment, you have likely heard of Marshall speakers and their legendary “Wall of Sound” at concert performances. For those looking for a home stereo system that offers incredible performance and advanced technology as a live performance, the Marshall Woburn WiFi and Bluetooth Speaker delivers fantastic audio quality with a timeless style and appearance.
What to know before you buy a Marshall speaker
History of Marshall speakers
Legendary musicians have used Marshall speakers for the best part of 60 years. Therefore, by purchasing a Marshall speaker, you are becoming a small part of a proud musical tradition whose technological capabilities are more impressive than ever before. Check out the Marshall speakers buying guide on BestReviews to learn more about these products.
EU declaration of conformity
As anyone who has ever tried to make an international purchase can attest, you sometimes take risks when buying something from another nation whose technological safety and manufacturing standards are different from those of your country of residence. For multinational groups like the European Union, it is essential that products sold across the EU come with a declaration of conformity certifying a product’s adherence to a set of harmonized and relevant standards. Thankfully, Marshall provides declarations of conformity for 25 speaker models to ensure that international customers can be certain of what they are purchasing.
What to look for in a quality Marshall speaker
Speaker location
Like every speaker model has a specific purpose, it is equally critical to consider what kind of audio setup you wish to create and where you plan to enjoy your favorite audio. To clarify, you should purchase your Marshall speaker based on factors, including their ability to function as either a standalone unit or as part of a single or even multi-room setup. Other factors to consider include portability, IPX-level protection from the elements and battery life, if applicable.
Connections your speaker will need
While there have been many debates over the virtues and superiority of wired versus wireless audio connections, one thing that people can’t argue is that it’s always nice to have a variety of options. While any portable speaker will need to be Bluetooth compatible to get the most out of your music on the go, speakers installed in your home should be able to receive cabled connections for a more hard-wired setup. Many models of Marshall speakers come equipped with both wireless options like AirPlay, Bluetooth and Chromecast and physical inputs for both 3.5mm cable and RCA.
Ease of installation, pre-set audio options and great warranty
Thanks to the handy Marshall Multi-Room app, setting up your new speaker is just a matter of a few taps away, whether you are setting up your streaming room, recording studio, living room or the entire house. Better still, the convenience of several customizable pre-set buttons means that you can access your favorite artists, internet radio stations and Spotify playlist with a single press of a button. If your Marshall speaker suffers from a mechanical defect, a year-long Global warranty with service options covered all purchases, including Carry-In, Mail-in and DIY.
How much you can expect to spend on a Marshall speaker
Depending on your desired features and capabilities, a quality Marshall speaker can easily cost between $300-$480, and sometimes more.
Marshall speaker FAQ
Can I connect my Marshall speaker to my Smart TV?
A. Yes, you can connect your Marshall speaker to any Bluetooth compatible device, using your home WiFi network and employing the Marshall Multi-Room app.
How do I connect two or more Marshall speakers?
A. Simply open your Marshall Multi-Room app, select “couple speakers” and follow the instructions to connect your speakers into a single setup.
What’s the best Marshall speaker to buy?
Top Marshall speaker
Marshall Woburn Multi Room WiFi and Bluetooth Speaker
What you need to know: This is an attractive speaker that is convenient and capable.
What you’ll love: As Marshall’s most prominent speaker, this unit offers the ability to connect with RCA and 3.5mm cables as well as dual 5.25-inch woofers,110 watts of amp power and connects wirelessly through AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth or built-in Chromecast.
What you should consider: Users reported issues with Bluetooth sound delays when watching films and problems with updating Google Home.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Marshall speaker for the money
Marshall Stanmore II Wireless Bluetooth Speaker
What you need to know: This is an excellent wireless speaker for taking your music with you around the house.
What you’ll love: This unit features Bluetooth 5.0 aptX lossless wireless sound at up to 30 feet, an iconic design Frequency Range of 50–20 000 Hz, multi-host functionality for connecting and switching between two different Bluetooth devices, as well as RCA and 3.5mm inputs.
What you should consider: Users have reported issues with power failures and the auto-shutoff function engaging for no reason.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Marshall Kilburn II Portable Bluetooth Speaker
What you need to know: This is the perfect speaker for taking quality audio wherever you go.
What you’ll love: This unit is ultra-portable at only 6.6 pounds while offering over 20 hours of portable music, IPX-4 certification against wind and water damage, solid metal grille and vinyl coating to protect against physical damage and multi-host functionality.
What you should consider: Users have reported units failing within a year of initial purchase, as well as Bluetooth connectivity issues.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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FCRA: Statement of Objects & Reasons makes clear annual inflow doubled between 2010-19, says SC
The top court upheld the validity of certain amendments to the provisions of the FCRA, 2010, which came into effect in September 2020.
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday said the Statement of Objects and Reasons for the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2020, makes it clear that the annual inflow of foreign contributions had almost doubled between 2010 and 2019 and many recipients had not utilised the same for the purposes for which they were registered.
The apex court said many recipients had failed to adhere to and fulfil the statutory compliances, which resulted in the cancellation of as many as 19,000 certificates of concerned persons or organisations during the stated period.
A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar noted that until December last year, there were reportedly 22,762 FCRA registered organisations presumably compliant with the new dispensation.
The bench, also comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and C T Ravikumar, also noted that 12,989 organisations have applied for renewal of FCRA licence between September 30, 2020, and December 31 last year.
The top court upheld the validity of certain amendments to the provisions of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, which came into effect in September 2020.
The bench delivered the 132-page judgement on pleas, including those assailing the constitutional validity of the amendments to provisions of FCRA 2010, vide the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2020 which came into effect on September 29, 2020.
It said that ordinarily, the convenience of business and persons engaged in doing business must be uppermost in the mind of the Parliament/Legislature to effectuate the goal of ease of doing business.
"However, the strict regime had become essential because of the past experience of abuse and misutilisation of the foreign contribution' and cancellation of certificates of as many as 19,000 registered organisations on the ground of being grossly non-compliant," it said.
In fact, the Parliament must be credited for having taken recourse to corrective dispensation for eradicating the mischief, which any sovereign country can ill-afford, the apex court said and observed that introducing change for the betterment of governance is the prerogative and wisdom of Parliament.
"The Statement of Objects and Reasons for the Amendment Act of 2020 makes it amply clear that the annual inflow of foreign contribution had almost doubled between the years 2010 and 2019 and many recipients of foreign contribution had not utilised the same for the purposes for which they were registered or granted prior permission under the Act," it said.
It said many recipients had also failed to adhere to and fulfil the statutory compliances, which resulted in the cancellation of 19,000 certificates of concerned persons/organisations during the period, including initiation of the criminal investigation concerning outright misappropriation or misutilisation of foreign contribution.
The apex court observed that a holistic approach is needed to ensure that the objective of the Principal Act is fulfilled, namely, strict regulation of the inflow and utilisation of foreign contribution for the purposes for which it is so permitted, such as only cultural, economic, educational or social programme.
It also dealt with the submissions regarding section 17 (1) of the Act which mandates that every person who has been granted a certificate or prior permission under section 12 shall receive foreign contribution only in an account designated as an FCRA account in a specified branch of a bank at New Delhi.
The top court said it was urged before it that there was a lack of infrastructure at the designated bank and the branch is manned only by 40 odd personnel.
"This argument does not commend us at all. In digital banking operations, it is not the headcount dispensing physical services that would matter, but the effectiveness of the software is important," it said.
The bench declared that the amended provisions namely, sections 7, 12(1A), 12A, and 17 of the 2010 Act, are intra vires the Constitution and the principal Act.
However, it read down section 12A and construed it as permitting the key functionaries or office bearers of the associations/NGOs, who are Indian nationals, to produce Indian passports for the purpose of their identification.
Section 12A mandates a person, who seeks prior permission or prior approval under section 11 or makes an application for grant of certificate under section 12 of the Act, including for renewal of a certificate under section 16, to provide the Aadhaar number of all its office bearers or directors or other key functionaries as an identification document.
"To sum up, we declare that the amended provisions vide the 2020 Act, namely, Sections 7, 12(1A), 12A, and 17 of the 2010 Act are intra vires the Constitution and the Principal Act, for the reasons noted hitherto," the bench said.
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
4-3-4-0
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
4-3-4-0
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CHARLOTTESVILLE — His injured shoulder left his status for Saturday’s meeting with North Carolina in doubt until minutes before the game, but Virginia lacrosse senior Petey LaSalla had every intention of jogging out to the X for the first faceoff.
“I kind of knew in my head I was going to play, at least give it a go,” said LaSalla, the No. 7 Cavaliers’ faceoff specialist who was injured during last weekend’s road loss at Richmond. “I knew our training staff was going to do everything to get me to the maximum level I could to play.”
That included a dose of painkilling medication that LaSalla said had begun to wear off by the fourth quarter against the Tar Heels. But by that point, LaSalla had done his job, winning 10 of his 18 faceoffs and giving UVA an emotional boost as it bounced back for an impressive 11-4 win over 16th-ranked UNC on Saturday at Klockner Stadium.
“Just seeing him throughout the week rehabbing, I was just praying he’d play this game,” said junior defender Cade Saustad. “And he did. After his first faceoff, when he won it, I was like, ‘OK, Petey’s good.’ It just gives you confidence.”
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LaSalla was good, Virginia’s offense — playing without Matt Moore, also injured in the Richmond game — was good enough and freshman goalie Matthew Nunes and the Cavaliers’ defense were great. After a disappointing effort allowing 17 goals to the Spiders, UVA (8-2, 4-0 ACC) smothered one of the nation’s top offenses, holding Carolina to four scores on 17 shots on goal, and forcing 17 turnovers.
“17 against Richmond was tough,” Saustad said. “We went back to the basics. We wanted to play more team defense rather than worrying about matchups. I think we worked together as a defense.”
Payton Cormier scored four goals and had an assist and freshman Griffin Schutz, who started in the attack in place of Moore, had a pair of scores.
Senior midfielder Evan Zinn came off the bench to score a pair of goals for UVA, which plays at Duke on Thursday.
North Carolina (7-4, 0-3), which Virginia beat 15-11 in Chapel Hill earlier this season, led 2-1 after one quarter of play, getting a pair of left-handed goals from All-American Chris Gray, a right-handed player.
Nunes made three big saves in the first quarter, including one at the doorstep of the cage on a hard-dodging Gray, to keep things tight.
Then, UVA used a dominant second quarter to grab control of the contest. Payton Cormier scored two of his game-high four goals in the period as the Cavaliers outscored UNC 5-1 and went to halftime with a 6-3 advantage.
Gray’s third goal of the game, in the third quarter, trimmed Virginia’s lead to 7-4. But the Cavaliers scored four unanswered in the final period.
“We definitely knew we need to bounce back,” Cormier said. “We had a poor performance, a couple of injuries in that Richmond game. … We knew we had to get back on the winning track and we went out there from the start and we did that.”
LaSalla, the program’s all-time leader in faceoff wins, came out of the game during the fourth quarter, with the outcome all but decided and his coach’s admiration for him arguably at an all-time high.
“You talk about sacrifice. ‘What would you do for your teammates?’” said UVA coach Lars Tiffany. “And then you watch Petey go out there like, ‘Wow, this is amazing.’ He gives us that lift. And obviously, he gives us the ball, too.”
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Colorado Republicans on Saturday voted to place on their U.S. Senate primary ballot a state representative who attended the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol and is a supporter of former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election.
“I fully expected Donald Trump to win in 2020 — and he did,” Hanks, who has made the election his central issue, said to resounding cheers from the crowd at an arena in Colorado Springs. “When we saw what we saw on election night in 2020, it changed everything just like the changes we felt after 9/11.”
The gathering showed how central Trump’s election lies are to the party faithful, even as repeated audits and reviews — including by Trump’s own Justice Department — have found no significant voter fraud in the contest.
The assembly passed a resolution calling for an end to Colorado’s universal mail voting system, under which every voter is sent a ballot through the mail.
Hanks’ supporters also rallied around Tina Peters, a clerk in a western Colorado county who has been indicted for her alleged role in the copying of confidential voting data that has been posted widely by Trump supporters online.
Peters, who was barred by a judge from overseeing last year’s local elections, is running for the GOP nomination for Colorado’s top elections office, secretary of state. She won 61% of the vote at Saturday’s events. Two other Republican candidates — businessman Michael O’Donnell, who came in second at Saturday’s assembly, and Pam Anderson, a former suburban county clerk who avoided the assembly and filed petitions backing her candidacy, will also be on the June ballot for the GOP nomination.
Greg Lopez, a former mayor of a Denver suburb, was the top vote-getter for the party’s gubernatorial nomination after promising to pardon Peters if he were elected governor. He and Heidi Ganahl, a member of the University of Colorado Board of Regents, will face off in the June primary. The winner will challenge Democratic Gov. Jared Polis.
Candidates for statewide office must receive support from at least 30% of the delegates to be placed on the primary ballot, or circulate petitions gathered in each of the state’s eight congressional districts. Five other Republican Senate hopefuls split the remaining votes evenly, with none clearing the critical 30% threshold, ending their campaigns.
An Air Force veteran and former military intelligence officer, Hanks has quickly become a polarizing figure in Colorado politics after winning election to the statehouse in 2020. He has made questioning the election his top issue, visiting the erratic, Trump-backed review of the election in Arizona’s largest county and filing a lawsuit against the state’s Democratic secretary of state, Jena Griswold, to compel a similar review of Colorado’s election system.
His rival, O’Dea, has instead focused his campaign on economics and social issues.
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The fitting of our electrically operated Thomas Sanderson blinds started on September 7, 2020. During the following 18 months there have been many visits, many new blinds ordered again and again due to incorrect sizing, wrong colour, or problems with the motors. On a number of occasions, blinds have been ordered by the fitter and not manufactured by Sanderson and each time there is a six to eight week wait for them to be made.
I paid 50 per cent of the £7,700 price on placing the order and the final payment is due when the fitting is finished satisfactorily. Sanderson is now demanding the balance, which I am not happy to pay as the final blind ordered by the fitter was not made because
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E-scooter evangelists pray their moment has finally arrived
They’ve been blamed for over-running cities and clogging up A&E, but the sector claims it can still unleash a transport revolution
For John Schmidt, electric scooters have one very clear advantage. “I don’t sweat on these things,” he said, grinning as he adjusted the straps of his helmet near the magistrates’ court in the City of London. “Also, they are cheaper and a lot less hassle than getting a cab for short distances. It allows you to be out in the fresh air.”
The 54-year-old solicitor, in his pinstripe suit, then silently whizzed away, his feet pinched together atop the scooter’s deck.
For the self-labelled “micro-mobility” industry, Schmidt offers a glimpse of a glorious future. Wind back to 2018 and e-scooters were hailed as a revolution. They would catalyse a low-carbon overhaul of cities around the world, the industry assured us, replacing gridlock and smog with
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The Queen and Royal Family have shared a poetic tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillip, to mark the first anniversary of his death.
The elegy, written by the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, was posted to the Royal Family’s social media accounts on Saturday, a year after Phillip died in his sleep at his Windsor Castle home, just a few months short of his 100th birthday.
Entitled “The Patriarchs: An Elegy”, the poem is read by Armitage over piano music, alongside a video montage showing photographs of the duke’s life, including his wedding day and the birth of his children.
First published on the day of Philip’s funeral last year, the poem touches on his naval career.
It reads: “On such an occasion / to presume to eulogise one man is to pipe up / for a whole generation – that crew whose survival / was always the stuff of minor miracle, / who came ashore in orange-crate coracles, / fought ingenious wars, finagled triumphs at sea / with flaming decoy boats, and side-stepped torpedoes.”
The Queen is believed to be at Windsor Castle and it is understood she will mark the first anniversary of the death of her husband privately.
Buckingham Palace announced Philip’s death just after noon on 9 April, 2021, issuing a statement that spoke about the royal family joining with people across the globe to grieve.
The BBC cleared its schedules across its major TV and radio channels to run a series of special programmes, with both BBC One and BBC Two devoting their entire output to the duke’s death on 9 April, resulting in a record number of complaints.
At the duke’s funeral, on 17 April, attended by just 30 mourners due to Covid regulations, the Queen was pictured sitting alone wearing a face mask.
Philip became an international figure when he married the Queen more than 70 years ago, and his death was marked with tributes from world leaders, foreign royal families and charities he supported.
At the recent service of thanksgiving for Philip’s life, Dean of Windsor the Right Rev David Conner paid tribute to his abilities, also highlighting his shortcomings, which gained him a reputation for public gaffes.
He described Philip as a man of “passionate commitment” who devoted his “intellectual and physical energy” to a “host of down-to-earth enterprises”, but he could also be “abrupt” in a “robust conversation, forgetting just how intimidating he could be”.
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655 PM PDT Sat Apr 9 2022
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM PDT MONDAY...
* WHAT...Large breaking waves of 8 to 12 feet with dangerous rip
currents.
* WHERE...San Luis Obispo County Beaches and Santa Barbara
County Central Coast Beaches.
* WHEN...Until 5 PM PDT Monday.
* IMPACTS...There is an increased risk for ocean drowning. Rip
currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Large
breaking waves can cause injury, wash people off beaches and
rocks, and capsize small boats near shore.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Remain out of the water due to dangerous surf conditions, or stay
near occupied lifeguard towers. Rock jetties can be deadly in
such conditions, stay off the rocks.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PDT SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Large breaking waves of 4 to 7 feet with dangerous rip
* WHERE...Ventura County Beaches.
* WHEN...Until 8 PM PDT Sunday.
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY
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* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents and breaking waves due to
elevated surf of 3 to 6 feet expected.
* WHERE...Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast, Santa Barbara
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Beaches.
* WHEN...Through Sunday evening.
currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea.
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LONG BEACH — Sebastien Bourdais definitely took the long way to victory lane Saturday.
An early brush with the wall in Turn 11 put Bourdais on a path to posting yet another disastrous Daytona Prototype International result. He dropped from first to last in his class, more than 20 seconds behind the leader.
But at the end of the 100-minute, 73-lap race, Bourdais had his first IMSA WeatherTech victory of the season, teaming with Renger van der Zande to win by 3.761 seconds.
Alex Lynn and Earl Bamber finished second in another Chip Ganassi-owned car. The JDC Miller Motorsports duo of Tristan Vautier and Richard Westbrook completed the podium sweep for Cadillac.
“It was a magical car. It was a great weekend for the team. We were a very good combination today,” Bourdais said. “It takes wonderful car to do that and make that kind of a comeback. I don’t think I breathed much for 30 minutes.”
While trying to lap a slower car on Lap 6, Bourdais used the inside line in Turn 11 and lost his grip, his Cadillac helplessly sliding toward the concrete wall. To make matters worse, he had a difficult time getting his car in reverse and then stalled while trying to rejoin the race.
Then he got the bad news from his crew and had all but given up hope.
“They told me (on the radio) that I was 21 seconds behind. I thought it was over,” Bourdais said.
Bourdais couldn’t have been more upset with himself. He had made a similar move countless times during his career racing at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach and never had a brush with the wall like this.
“After that,” he said, “I was on fire because I was so mad.”
Ten laps after his run-in with the wall, he had taken 10 seconds off his deficit. On Lap 24, he was running in second, only 3.56 seconds behind. By Lap 30, the lead was his again.
When he came into the pits for a fill-up and to hand over the car to van der Zande, Bourdais had a 4.87-second lead.
Bourdais said he fell into a trance while making his mad dash back to the front.
“I was trying to pull off something that shouldn’t be done,” Bourdais said.
What made his furious charge to the front even more impressive was that he was using about as much fuel as his teammate while making his furious charge through the field, meaning van der Zande wouldn’t have to take it easy to conserve fuel to bring the Cadillac home.
Bourdais credits that to all the experience he gained winning three consecutive IndyCar races here from 2005-07.
“You have to save fuel in those cars too and still make good pace,” Bourdais said.
This result is a welcome relief for Bourdais and his team after finishing last in class in the first two races of the season. A faulty gearbox ended Bourdais’ chances last month in Sebring, Fla.
Van der Zande said he was amazed at what he saw “an angry Seb” do.
“It is not easy to pass on this track,” van der Zande said. “I have no idea how he did it.”
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Max Gordon is still three years away from getting his drivers license, but on Saturday he beat one of the best off-road racing icon in the Speed/UTV Stadium Super Truck race in Long Beach.
The guy he beat to win the first race of his career just happened to be his father.
Robby Gordon tried to chase the kid down in the final three laps, but he finished 1.16 seconds behind.
“You are going to see him back here one day driving an IndyCar, you can count on that,” Robby Gordon said. “I am so proud of him. This kid is going to be dangerous.”
Kay van Berlo dominated the opening race of the weekend for the Porsche Carrera Cup, leading all 22 laps to beat Parker Thompson in the Pro Class by 1.035 seconds. TJ Fischer, Michael McCann and Dimitri Dimakos rounded out the top five in the 40-minute race.
Alan Metni won the Pro-Am Class and finished 11th overall.
Another race for the identical GT3s will be held at 4:20 p.m. Sunday.
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Kebabs in Westminster, Welsh size matters and a clothes shop stitch-up
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The British Kebab Awards does indeed exist
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Three shish to the wind
Your investigation of David Warburton MP (“The dishonourable member”, News, last week) revealed something that, even in these cynical times, shocked and amazed me. There is a “British Kebab Awards”? And it’s held in Westminster? Ah, well: it’s probably just another way for the Tory party to find new doners.
Robin Dickson, Edinburgh
Wales and measures
Camilla Long says Vladimir Putin’s Sochi estate is “39 times bigger than Monaco” (Comment, last week). Since when did Monaco become the unit for this purpose? Unless area is given as a fraction or multiple of Wales, I’m completely confused.
Martin Brunnschweiler, Port Erin, Isle of Man
Revert to small type
You report that publishers are struggling with spiralling paper
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Saturday to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “in a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people,” British and Ukrainian officials said.
News leadership: Johnson pledged new military assistance to Ukraine, including about 120 armored vehicles and new anti-ship missile systems, and secured an additional $500 million in World Bank lending to Ukraine, per his office.
- “We are putting together a new package of financial and military aid that is a testament to our commitment in his country’s struggle against Russia’s barbaric campaign,” Johnson said. Posted in Tweet After meeting with Zelensky.
- It was reported that Zelensky and Johnson also marched through central Kyiv on Saturday Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
what are they saying: “Boris was among those who did not hesitate for a moment whether to support Ukraine,” Zelensky said in his nightly speech on Saturday, according to Zelensky. Official version Published in English.
- “The leadership of the United Kingdom in providing our country with the necessary assistance, especially in terms of defence, as well as leadership in the policy of sanctions will forever remain in history. … Ukraine will always be grateful to Boris and Britain for this,” Zelensky added.
while, Johnson praised Zelensky for showing “firm leadership, indomitable heroism and the courage of the Ukrainian people that Putin’s brutal aims are being thwarted,” according to the British Prime Minister’s Office.
- He continued: “I made it clear today that the UK stands firmly with them in this ongoing battle, and we face it for the long term.”
- “We are strengthening our military and economic support and forging a global coalition to end this tragedy, and ensure Ukraine’s survival and prosperity as a free and sovereign nation,” Johnson added.
playing condition: In a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Schulz on Friday, Johnson announced New sanctions against the Russian economy, Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the “barbaric attack against Ukraine.”
- Johnson, who was outspoken in his condemnation of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, described the Russian missile attack on Train station In the city of Kramatorsk a “war crime”.
- “The attack on a train station in eastern Ukraine shows the depths into which Putin’s army has sunk,” Johnson said on Friday. “Russia’s crimes in Ukraine will not go unnoticed or go unpunished.”
go deeper… Dashboard: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Editor’s note: This article has been updated with a comment from Zelensky.
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Professor Lord Mensah, Associate Professor at the Department of Finance of the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS), has stated that the schedule for the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s address on the nation’s economy was flawed.
On Thursday, April 7, the Vice President delivered a lecture on the state of the country’s economy during the National TESCON Training and Orientation Conference at the Pentecost Convention Centre at Gomoa Fetteh in the Central Region.
However, according to Prof. Lord Mensah, Veep’s speech was to deliver vital information on Ghana’s economic dynamic. He shared that when presented earlier could have prevented the controversies with the passage of the e-levy, hence the delay was unfair to Ghanaians.
Speaking on ‘Happy Morning Show’, the economist described Bawumia’s speech as “more or less a situational report on the economy. His speech was to tell us where our economy stands, where it was and where it’s headed to.
"It was more or less addressing the state on the economic dynamics of the country and how it’s being impacted by the global shocks, like the Russia-Ukraine war and the covid effects.
“This was information to the public and as an economic manager, I think that the information was delayed than expected. Looking at the management of economics, the dynamics of the information we don’t take it for granted especially when it’s coming from the head of the management of the economy. Therefore, the timing for the information is very important and, in this case, quite a problem,” he alluded.
Prof. Lord Mensah indicated that he had no qualms with the content. However, he believes that the delivery has further depreciated the confidence Ghanaians had in the ruling government.
“I don’t have a problem with the content that came but just a few comments I think would have helped if he added that. With the kind of packaging he brought I think the confidence of Ghanaians decreased because at a time it looked like we didn’t have control over some of the things that are happening as a manager,” he stressed.
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STANISLAUS COUNTY (CBS13) — Two people have died after a crash involving three vehicles at a rural intersection between Riverbank and Oakdale over the weekend, authorities say.
According to California Highway Patrol, a driver didn’t stop at the stop sign at the intersection of Bentley and Patterson roads a little before 2:30 p.m. Saturday. That driver then crashed into an oncoming car.
Both cars then crashed into a third car – causing that third vehicle to overturn. All three cars ended up off the road after the crashes.
Officers say the driver of the car that ran the stop sign, a 56-year-old Modesto woman, as well as the driver of the third car, a 31-year-old Modesto woman, suffered fatal injuries.
The other driver and their passenger suffered major injuries in the crash, CHP says.
Exactly why the first driver ran the stop sign is not clear.
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Chromebooks are capable machines, but like any other piece of software, there will be times when you’ll run into trouble with them. The only solution to some of the problems is a factory reset, and resetting a Chromebook is a straightforward process. This article looks at how to factory reset a Chromebook, also known as Powerwash in Chrome OS.
Before getting started, make sure that you’ve backed up all the essential files on your Chromebook. You can use a USB storage device to copy all your files or use Google One, Google’s cloud storage solution, which will upload your files to Google Drive.
How to Factory Reset Chromebook (Powerwash)
To Factory Reset a Chromebook:
1. Head over to the Settings app.
2. Find and click on ‘Advanced’ in the sidebar to expand it.
3. Scroll down and click on ‘Reset Settings.’
4. Click on the ‘Reset’ button in the ‘Powerwash’ settings.
5. Your Chromebook will restart, and after some time, you’ll be greeted by the Chrome OS welcome screen.
How to Factory Reset Chromebook if you forgot the password
There’s no way to get signed in to Chrome OS if you forgot your password. In that case, there is a way to reset your Chromebook directly from the login screen. To do so:
1. From the login screen, press the key combination Ctrl+Alt+Shift+r.
2. A reset overlay window with a ‘Powerwash and revert’ button will pop up. Click on it to reset your Chromebook.
3. A warning will appear, click on ‘Powerwash,’ and your Chromebook will reset and boot into the welcome screen.
Factory Reset if Chromebook isn’t turning on
If your Chromebook looks like it’s completely dead, here’s what you can do to reset it and bring it back to its working state.
1. While your Chromebook is turned off, press and hold the physical power button + the refresh key on the keyboard for around four seconds. If your Chromebook screen doesn’t light up, connect it to a power source and try the key combination again. If your Chromebook is a 2-in-1, press the power + volume up buttons simultaneously for 8-10 seconds until your device lights up.
2. Once your Chromebook boots into the Chrome OS missing/damaged screen, press the key combination Ctrl+D to enter the Chrome OS recovery.
3. Create a Chrome OS recovery image for your Chromebook model on a USB drive using the Chromebook Recovery Utility tool.
4. When you’re on the missing/damaged screen, insert your USB drive, and Chrome OS will automatically start installing. Press and hold the power button for eight seconds if you want to abort.
5. Once done, your Chromebook will reboot into a fresh install of Chrome OS.
That’s how you can reset your Chromebook if it’s not turning on or if you forgot the password. Do you own a Chromebook? How has your experience been so far? Let us know your thoughts and opinions in the comments section below. If you’re yet to pull the trigger on buying a Chromebook, here are five reasons why you should buy one.
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Los Angeles County Bans Official Travel To Texas And Florida
Los Angeles County has banned all official travel to Texas and Florida following a Board of Supervisors vote on Tuesday (April 5).
According to ABC 7 , the ban was brought about due to highly-publicized policies directed at LGBTQ+ youth and families in Texas and Florida. The ban originally called for the suspension of all travel, but it was voted to "suspend all travel to the States of Texas and Florida for the conduct of County business unless the Chief Executive Officer determines that the failure to authorize such travel would seriously harm the County’s interests."
The motion from Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Hilda Solis comes after Texas and Florida both passed legislation in regards to the LGBTQ+ community. In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott said gender-affirming treatments provided to transgender youth should be investigated as child abuse. Health providers in Texas have since suspended treatments.
This order "flies in the face of all that we know about best practices when it comes to supporting children and young adults to discover who they are and feel secure in their sense of self," Kuehl and Solis said. They added "Caregivers who support youth with affirming care should in no way be labeled as abusive. This order is discriminatory, harmful and just plain cruel.''
In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education Bill, which is also known as the "Don't Say Gay" law . This bill restricts instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades, according to ABC 7.
This will "perpetuate a culture of bullying, secrecy, shame and fear. ... Schools should be spaces that foster open discussion, critical thinking, meaningful engagement and the safe exploration of ideas. The implementation of this bill would create an atmosphere that stifles such a culture and stifles learning itself," Kuehl and Solis wrote in the motion.
It was not made immediately clear what travel constitutes "official" travel and what specific areas officials will and won't be allowed to travel to in Texas and Florida.
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Police on Friday arrested a 23-year-old woman who allegedly used a screwdriver to assault a 32-year-old man and damage two of his vehicles in Waimanalo.
The incident occurred on April 5, when the vehicles had been parked on the street, police said.
The woman was found Friday, and she was positively identified by the victim.
Police arrested her on suspicion of second-degree assault and third-degree criminal property damage.
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Former New Zealand cricketer James Franklin is at the centre of historic allegations in which an Indian cricketer claims he was left bound and gagged for a night during a party to celebrate winning the Champions League.
Franklin, 41, is now the head coach at English club Durham who told the BBC they will "speak privately with all parties involved".
The incident is said to have occurred during the 2011 Indian Premier League.
Yuzvendra Chahal alleges Franklin and Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds, his Mumbai Indian teammates, left him tied and gagged for an entire night before he was found by a cleaner. Chahal said the pair had never apologised to him.
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Advertise with NZME."It happened in 2011 when Mumbai Indians won the Champions League," said the 31-year-old legspinner Chahal, a current member of the Indian side.
"We were in Chennai. He (Symonds) had had a lot of 'fruit juice'…I don't know what he was thinking, but he and James Franklin got together and tied my hands and legs.
"They were so lost that they taped my mouth and forgot about me completely during the party.
"Then they all left and, in the morning, someone came to clean (the room) and saw me, and called a few others and untied me.
"They asked me since when I had been there, and I said 'I've been here the whole night'. So that became the funny story."
The Durham club told the BBC: "We are aware of recent news reports surrounding an incident in 2011 which name a member of our staff. As with any matters involving employees, the club will speak privately with all parties involved to determine the facts."
Franklin, who played 31 tests and more than 100 ODIs for the Black Caps, has been approached by the BBC via the Durham club for comment.
The incident, which Chahal first talked about in a podcast a few months ago, has received more attention after he revealed a 2015 incident in which an unnamed, drunk Mumbai teammate dangled him over the side of a 15th floor balcony.
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Advertise with NZME.Former Indian cricketer and national coach Ravi Shastri suggested the player who dangled Chahal over the balcony could be banned for life.
"I do not know who the person involved is, he was not in a conscious state of mind," Shastri told ESPNcricinfo.
"Someone's life is at risk, some people might think it is funny but for me, it is not funny at all.
"If such an incident happens today, a life ban for that person involved and send that person to a rehab centre as quickly as possible."
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Montreal Canadiens forward Jonathan Drouin had wrist surgery Friday.
The Habs say he is expected to make a full recovery and will be ready for the start of training camp.
Drouin had been listed as “out indefinitely” with an upper-body injury since March 25.
He recorded six goals and 20 points in 34 games this season for Montreal.
The 27-year-old has been with the club since he was traded to them from the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2017.
Montreal, who only has 51 points this season, have just 10 games left in their season.
The Canadiens fell to the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Saturday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 9, 2022.
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, April 12, 2022
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HIGH WIND WATCH
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
641 PM PDT Sat Apr 9 2022
...HIGH WIND WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH
LATE MONDAY NIGHT...
...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM PDT /7 PM MST/ THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Southwest winds 35 to 45 mph with gusts up to 60 mph
possible.
* WHERE...In Arizona, Northwest Plateau. In California, Western
Mojave Desert.
* WHEN...For the High Wind Watch, Monday morning through late
Monday night.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down trees and power
lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe
location prior to the onset of winds.
* WHAT...Southwest winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts in excess of 55
mph possible.
* WHERE...Portions of northwest Arizona, southeast California
and southern Nevada.
* WHEN...From Monday morning through late Monday night.
difficult, especially for high-profile vehicles. Strong winds
could create dangerous boating conditions on area lakes with
waves between 1 and 3 feet possible.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Wind speeds will be strongest with
downslope wind potential expected along the Eastern Sierra
Slopes, resulting in potentially dangerous crosswinds
impacting Highway 395.
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LIVINGSTON, Ill. – Illinois State Police say two people were killed in a wrong-way wreck on I-55 early this morning in Madison County Illinois.
Troopers say just after 4:00 am a car going south in the northbound lanes of the interstate ran head-on into a tractor-trailer. The crash was just outside of Livingston.
Two women in the car were killed and the truck driver has non-life-threatening injuries.
The wreck shut down I-55 until about 10:00 am.
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Kuch Rang Pyaar Ke Aise Bhi fame actress is offering a killer summer fashion look with her new short hairstyle. She wore statement earrings with it to accentuate her look
Hina Khan's short and wavy hair
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Hina Khan recently chopped her hair and her new look is loved by her fans. She has been sharing pics from her trips
The actress offers a strong woman vibe with her super short hair. She carries the look fabulously in traditional and western attires
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Mandira Bedi’s short hair
Beyhadh actress is making heads turn with her new short hair looks as she paired it with a beautiful saree
Jennifer Winget’s straight hair
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FIR fame actress recently chopped her long hair and surprised her fan with her very different look. Her short hair curls are suiting her lively face
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Kavita Kaushik in different look
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Naagin 6 actress Urvashi Dholakia is creating hairstyle trends with her short hair and cute hairbands
Urvashi Dholakia in short hair
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Balika Vadhu 2 actress had very long hair earlier, but she changed it by opting for short hair. Her look in the show was loved by fans
Shivangi Joshi’s voluminous hair
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The fabulous actress with short and coloured hair is making trends on social media
Achint Kaur’s coloured hair
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The newly married actress is ruling the beachy trend with her short and wavy hair
Karishma Tanna's beachy vibes
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Who said short hair cannot be highlighted? Take stylish hairstyling tips from the gorgeous Parull Chaudhry
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HOUSTON (AP) — Sebastian Ferreira scored a goal in each half to propel the Houston Dynamo to a 4-3 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes in MLS play on Saturday.
Ferreira put Houston (3-1-2) up 1-0 with a goal in the 8th minute on an assist from Fafa Picault.
San Jose (0-4-2) answered with back-to-back goals by Jeremy Ebobisse just three minutes apart to take a 2-1 lead in the 28th minute. Darwin Quintero scored for Houston in the 43rd minute to knot the score at 2 at halftime.
The Dynamo took the lead for good on a goal by Teenage Hadebe in the 57th minute. Ferreira added an insurance goal in the 68th minute.
Tommy Thompson pulled the Earthquakes within a goal with a score in the 77th minute.
The Earthquakes outshot the Dynamo 18-13. Both teams had seven shots on goal.
Steve Clark finished with four saves for Houston. JT Marcinkowski had three saves for San Jose.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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Musk proposes Twitter Blue subscription shake-up days after disclosing 9.2% Twitter stake
April 9 (Reuters) - Elon Musk, Twitter Inc's biggest shareholder, on Saturday suggested a raft of changes to the social media giant's Twitter Blue premium subscription service, including slashing its price, banning advertising and giving an option to pay in the cryptocurrency dogecoin.
Musk, who disclosed a 9.2% stake in Twitter just days ago, was offered a seat on its board of directors, a move which made some Twitter employees panic over the future of its ability to moderate content.
Twitter Blue, launched in June 2021, is Twitter's first subscription service and offers "exclusive access to premium features" on a monthly subscription basis, Twitter says. It is available in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
In a Twitter post, the head of electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc suggested that users who sign up for Twitter Blue should pay significantly less than the current $2.99 a month, and should get an authentication checkmark as well as an option to pay in local currency.
"Price should probably be ~$2/month, but paid 12 months up front & account doesn't get checkmark for 60 days (watch for credit card chargebacks) & suspended with no refund if used for scam/spam," Musk said in a tweet.
"And no ads," Musk suggested. "The power of corporations to dictate policy is greatly enhanced if Twitter depends on advertising money to survive."
Musk also proposed an option to pay with dogecoin and asked Twitter users for their views.
Twitter declined to comment on Musk's suggestions.
The company already lets people tip their favorite content creators using bitcoin. Twitter had said last year that it planned to support authentication for NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, which are digital assets such as images or videos that exist on a blockchain.
Musk also started a poll on his Twitter account - which has more than 81 million followers - asking whether the firm's San Francisco headquarters should be converted to a homeless shelter as "no-one shows up (to work there)". The poll got more 300,000 votes in an hour, with 90% answering yes.
(Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Jaiveer Singh Shekhawat; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell)
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“In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States.”
With those words, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson acknowledged both the struggles and progress of Black Americans in her lifetime.
Her words, delivered from the South Lawn of the White House on Friday, one day after her historic Senate confirmation, were a tribute to generations of Black Americans who she said paved the way for her elevation to the nation’s highest court.
“I have now achieved something far beyond anything my grandparents could have possibly ever imagined,” Jackson said, noting they had gained only grade-school educations before starting their family and later sending their children to racially segregated schools.
“The path was cleared for me, so that I might rise to this occasion,” she said. “And in the poetic words of Dr. Maya Angelou, I do so now.”
Quoting Angelou’s famous poem, “And Still I Rise,” Jackson added: “I am the dream and the hope of the slave.”
Nina Turner, a former Ohio state senator who was a prominent surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, said Jackson’s speech was an awe-inspiring reminderof how far Black Americans have come amid their ongoing struggle.
“Expressing that realization out loud for all of the world to hear, as she is about to take her place as the first Black woman Supreme Court justice, was just magnificent,” said Turner.
“It is vitally important that we, as Black people, continue to remind this nation from whence we came,” she said. “The pain that it took to get to a ‘Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’ could not be understated.”
Jackson, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, said that she has been lucky on her path to the high court. Although her arrival breaks one of the remaining racial barriers in American democracy, many Black Americans still struggle to surmount systemic blocks.
She namechecked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights icon, as well as Black federal judicial trailblazers such as Justice Thurgood Marshall and Judge Constance Baker Motley, thanking them for their leadership and role modeling.
“For all of the talk of this historic nomination and now confirmation, I think of them as the true path breakers,” Jackson said. “I’m just the very lucky first inheritor of the dream of liberty and justice for all.”
Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable, watched Jackson’s speech from the White House lawn as an invited guest on Friday. With the sun shining through clouds over Washington, there was a palpable joy in the crowd over what Jackson symbolizes for the country, she said.
“It just felt like the ancestors were dancing.”
“I can see myself, in now-Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson,” Campbell added. “(Jackson) understands the significance of this moment for Black women, for women, for the nation. And it is a game changer.”
Others watching the speech also noted the diversity at the event and the image at the center — President Joe Biden flanked by the first Black female Supreme Court justice and the first Black and Asian American vice president.
Just before Vice President Kamala Harris introduced the president, she gushed over what Jackson’s confirmation will one day mean to her young, Black goddaughter.
“When I presided over the Senate confirmation vote yesterday, while I was sitting there, I drafted a note to my goddaughter,” Harris said. “I told her that I felt such a deep sense of pride and joy about what this moment means for our nation and for her future.”
Speaking directly to Jackson, Harris added: “And I will tell you, her braids are just a little longer than yours.”
Although the occasion will be noted in history books as a symbol of racial progress, Turner said Jackson’s elevation to the Supreme Court should be celebrated by Americans of all races and creeds.
“Not only should the entire Black community be proud, the entire country should be proud because this has certainly been a long time coming,” she said. “And from this victory, we certainly have an opportunity to continue to build and create more victories. We’re not done yet.”
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Aaron Morrison writes about race and justice for the AP’s Race and Ethnicity team. He is based in New York. Follow him on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/aaronlmorrison.
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Double fatal crash on State Route 7 in Ohio
UPDATE(6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6, 2022): The Ohio State Highway Patrol has released the names of two people killed in a crash in Lawrence County this afternoon.
According to the OSHP, at approximately 12:58 p.m., a 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt was traveling south on State Route 7 near State Route 243 when a 2022 Jeep Compass traveling north on Route 7, went left of center. The two vehicles collided head-on.
Troopers say the driver of the Cobalt, identified as Tony N. Blankenship, 20, of Chesapeake, and his passenger, Shaianna N. Laber, 20, of Chesapeake, were both pronounced dead at the scene by the Lawrence County Coroner’s Office.
The OSHP says the crash remains under investigation.
The Rome Township Fire Department, the Union Township Fire Department, the Lawrence County EMS and the Lawrence County Coroner’s Office assisted the OSHP at the scene.
UPDATE(4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6, 2022): State Route 7 has been reopened and traffic flow is back to normal after a double fatal crash.
CHESAPEAKE, OH (WOWK) — A two-vehicle accident has killed two and injured one at the intersection of State Route 7 and State Route 243 in Ohio.
The Ohio Highway Patrol says the calls started to come in just before 1 p.m. about an accident in the Bradrick area of Chesapeake, Ohio.
They confirmed that two people have died and one person was injured. There is no word on the extent of the injuries.
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By The Associated Press
SANTIAGO, Chile — Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the Russian embassy in Chile’s capital of Santiago on Saturday to denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Protesters unfurled a large banner featuring the colors of the Ukrainian flag. The group included Ukrainians living in Chile.
Some protesters lay down on the ground and clutched stuffed animals to honor child victims of the war. A large banner read, “Stand with Ukraine.”
“We want to be united at this time with our children, with our families,” said Alina Prus, a Ukrainian living in Chile. “Several of us have our families who are now living the horror of what war means.”
Another protester, Dária Gryshko, said many Ukrainians living in Chile have family or friends living both there and in Russia.
“It is painful to see how families break up, how relationships break up, when opinions are divided within a family,” she said. “Because the people who live in Russia are exposed to a lot of propaganda, even when you show them video of what is happening now, they don’t believe, because they don’t come out from their TV.”
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Zelenskyy, in AP interview, says he seeks peace despite atrocities
— War Crimes Watch: A devastating walk through Bucha’s horror
— S&P downgrade indicates Russia headed for historic default
— Civilian evacuations continue in battle-scarred eastern Ukraine
— Intel: Putin may cite Ukraine war to meddle in US politics
— Go to https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine for more coverage
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
BORODIANKA, Ukraine — Firefighters continued searching Saturday for survivors or the dead in the debris of destroyed buildings in a northern Ukrainian town that was occupied for weeks by Russian forces.
Residents of Borodianka expect to find dozens of victims under the rubble of the several buildings destroyed during fighting between Russian forces and Ukrainian troops. The town is about 75 kilometers (47 miles) northwest of the capital of Kyiv and had more than 12,000 residents.
Russian troops occupied Borodianka while advancing towards Kyiv in an attempt to encircle it. They retreated during the last days of March following fierce fighting. The town is without electricity, natural gas or other services.
A 77-year-old resident, Maria Vaselenko, said her daughter and son-in-law’s bodies have been under rubble for 36 days because Russian soldiers would not allow residents to search for loved ones or their bodies. She said her two teenage grandchildren escaped to Poland but are now orphans.
“The Russians were shooting. And some people wanted to come and help, but they were shooting them,” she told The Associated Press. “They were putting explosives under dead people.”
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MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Shelling by Russian forces of Ukraine’s key port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov has collapsed several humanitarian corridors and made conditions seldom right for people to leave.
It was not clear Saturday how many people remained trapped in the city, which had a prewar population of 430,000. Ukrainian officials have put the number at about 100,000, but earlier this week, British defense officials said 160,000 people remained trapped in the city.
Ukrainian troops have refused to surrender the city, though much of it has been razed.
Resident Sergey Petrov said Saturday that recently two shells struck around him in quick succession, but neither exploded upon landing. He was in his garage at the time and said his mother later told him, “I was born again.”
“A shell flew in and broke up into two parts but it did not explode, looks like it did not land on the detonator but on its side,” he said.
He added that when another shell flew in and hit the garage, “I am in shock. I don’t understand what is happening. I have a hole in my garage billowing smoke. I run away and leave everything. I come back in several hours and find another shell lying there, also unexploded.”
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ATHENS, Greece — A Ukrainian soccer club on Saturday opened a series of charity games on a government-backed “Global Tour for Peace” wearing the names of heavily bombarded cities on its jerseys.
The tour by the Shakhtar Donetsk club aims to raise money for Ukraine’s military in the war against Russia, and also help Ukrainian refugees displaced by the war.
Its first game Saturday was a 1-0 loss to Greek league leader Olympiakos.
Soccer clubs around Europe have been offering to play games against Ukrainian clubs and host youth players after soccer in the country was shut down when Russia invaded in February.
Shakhtar already was displaced from its home of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
Playing in the Athens area on Saturday, Shakhtar players replaced their names on the back of their jerseys with those of cities bombarded by Russian forces, including Mariupol.
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BUCHA, Ukraine — Civilians remaining in Bucha lined up Saturday for food donated by the local church in the battered Kyiv suburb where Ukrainian forces and journalists reported evidence of war crimes after Russian soldiers withdrew.
With other civilians fleeing in the wake of Russia’s invasion, most of the people remaining in Bucha were elderly, poor or unable to leave loved ones. Russian troops withdrew more than a week ago.
Volunteer Petro Denysyuk told The Associated Press that he and fellow church friends started providing food, with a wide array of basic foodstuffs and hot meals.
“We have gathered together with the youth from our church and prepared food for the needy,” Denysyuk said. “We prepared pilaf, boiled eggs, prepared meat, sausages, noodles.”
Ukrainian forces and journalists that went into Bucha saw bodies strewn in the streets, evidence of summary executions and the remains of people who could not have threatened soldiers. Russia has denied accusations of war crimes and accused Kyiv of staging them.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the leaders of Britain and Austria for their visits to Kyiv on Saturday and pledges of further support.
In his daily late-night video address to the nation, Zelenskyy also thanked European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a global fundraising event that raised more than 10 billion euros ($11 billion) for Ukrainians who have had to flee their homes.
Zelenskyy said democratic countries were united in working to stop the war. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer became the latest of several European rulers to meet Zelenskky in Kyiv.
“Because Russian aggression was not intended to be limited to Ukraine alone, to the destruction only of our freedom and our life,” he said. “The entire European project is a target for Russia.”
Zelenskyy repeated his call for a complete embargo on Russian oil and gas, calling them the sources of Russia’s “self-confidence and impunity.”
“But Ukraine does not have time to wait. Freedom does not have time to wait. When tyranny begins its aggression against everything that keeps the peace in Europe, action must be taken immediately,” he said.
He added: “And an oil embargo must be the first step. Moreover, by all democratic states, the entire civilized world. Then Russia will feel it. Then it will be an argument for them to seek peace, to stop the senseless violence.”
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LVIV, Ukraine — Eyewitness descriptions are coming from Kramatorsk, the town in eastern Ukraine where a missile hit a train station packed with evacuees on Friday.
The Sydorenko family could have been among the 52 dead and more than 100 wounded, but their taxi didn’t show and they had to wait for another one. They finally arrived for the 11 a.m. evacuation train just three minutes after the explosion.
Ivan Sydorenko says there were around 2,000 people inside the station and on the platforms when the missile hit. He says they got out of their taxi in a scene of burning cars, burning pieces of the missile and people fleeing for their lives.
Ivan managed to escape by bus and then train with his wife and daughter, eventually reaching the relative safety of Lviv in western Ukraine. The Sydorenkos are just one of thousands of families clamoring to leave eastern Ukraine ahead of an expected Russian onslaught there.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said 10 evacuation corridors were planned for Saturday, and other stations were open for trains full of refugees.
Russia meanwhile has denied responsibility, accusing Ukraine’s military of firing on the station to try to turn blame for civilian slayings on Moscow.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Panicked residents of eastern Ukraine boarded buses or looked for other ways to leave Saturday, a day after a missile strike killed at least 52 people and wounded more than 100 at a train station.
The attack in in Kramatorsk left the city with no trains running and came with thousands of people seeking to leave. Ukrainian authorities have called on civilians to get out ahead of an imminent, stepped-up offensive by Russian forces in the east.
Residents on Saturday feared the kind of unrelenting assaults and occupations by Russian invaders that brought food shortages, demolished buildings and death to other cities elsewhere in Ukraine.
“It was terrifying. The horror, the horror,” one resident told British broadcaster Sky, recalling Friday’s attack on the train station. “Heaven forbid, to live through this again. No, I don’t want to.”
Western military analysts said an arc of territory in eastern Ukraine was under Russian control. It was from Kharkiv — Ukraine’s second-largest city — in the north to Kherson in the south.
But Ukrainian counterattacks are threatening Russian control of Kherson, according to the Western assessments, and Ukrainian forces are repelling Russian assaults elsewhere in the Donbas region in the southeast.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officials predict Russian President Vladimir Putin may use U.S. support for Ukraine as justification for a new campaign to interfere in American politics.
Intelligence officials tell The Associated Press that they have yet to find any evidence that Putin has authorized measures like the ones Russia undertook in the last two elections to support former President Donald Trump. Several people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive findings said it remains unclear which candidates Russia might try to promote next.
Trump has repeatedly assailed U.S. intelligence officials and claimed that investigations of Russian influence on his campaigns to be political vendettas. In Ukraine and elsewhere, Russia has been accused of trying to spread disinformation, amplifying pro-Kremlin voices in the West and using cyberattacks to disrupt governments.
Top U.S. intelligence officials are still working on plans for a new Foreign Malign Influence Center, authorized by Congress, that will focus on foreign influence campaigns by Russia, China and other adversaries.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told The Associated Press on Saturday that he is committed to seeking peace despite Russian attacks on civilians that have stunned the world.
He said no one wants to negotiate with people who tortured their nation — “as a man, as a father, I understand this very well.” But he said “we don’t want to lose opportunities, if we have them, for a diplomatic solution.”
Zelenskyy said he’s confident Ukrainians would accept peace despite the horrors they have witnessed in the war. But meanwhile, Russian troops are regrouping for an expected surge in fighting in eastern Ukraine, including the besieged port city of Mariupol that Ukrainian defenders are battling to retain.
So Zelenskyy renewed his plea for countries to send more weapons. He says they have to fight for life — not “for dust when there is nothing and no people. That’s why it is important to stop this war.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, promising so much support that his nation might never be bullied again.
Johnson’s surprise visit included a pledge of 120 armored vehicles and new anti-ship missile systems, part of another 100 million pounds ($130 million) of high-grade military equipment. Johnson also confirmed an additional $500 million in World Bank lending, taking Britain’s total loan guarantee up to $1 billion.
Johnson said Ukraine defied the odds pushing Russian forces “from the gates of Kyiv, achieving the greatest feat of arms of the 21st century.″
The prime minister credits “Zelenskyy’s resolute leadership and the invincible heroism and courage of the Ukrainian people” for thwarting what he calls the “monstrous aims” of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Johnson says Britain and its partners “are going to ratchet up the economic pressure … not just freezing assets in banks and sanctioning oligarchs but moving away from use of Russian hydrocarbons.”
Johnson also described a vision for a future Ukraine so fortified and protected by the equipment, technology and know-how of Britain and its partners that it can never be threatened in the same way again. In the meantime, Johnson said, “there is a huge amount to do to make sure that Ukraine is successful, that Ukraine wins and that Putin must fail.”
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MILAN — An Italian government source said Italian Premier Mario Draghi is traveling to Algeria on Monday to sign a deal for more gas.
Italy has been urgently looking for alternatives to natural gas from Russia since its invasion of Ukraine. Russia is Italy’s biggest supplier, representing 40% of total imports.
Italy’s foreign minister has traveled to Algeria as well as Azerbaijan, Qatar, Congo, Angola and Mozambique to secure more deals. Algeria is Italy’s second-largest supplier of natural gas, which is the main source of the nation’s electricity, providing some 21 billion cubic meters of gas via the Trans-Mediterranean pipeline.
Italian energy company ENI has operated in Algeria for 40 years. ENI announced a significant oil and gas discovery in Algeria last month and said it would work with Algerian partner Sonatrach to fast-track its development for the third quarter of this year.
— Italy business reporter Colleen Barry.
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Julian Lennon has explained why he decided to sing his father’s song “Imagine” for the first time publicly.
He’s posted on social media that he always said he would only sing the song if it was the End of the World. He says it’s the right song to sing now because “the War on Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy,” and he felt compelled to respond in the most significant way he could.
The son of John Lennon says murderous violence in Ukraine is forcing millions of innocent families to leave the comfort of their homes. He says the lyrics reflect our collective desire for peace worldwide, and “within this song, we’re transported to a space, where love and togetherness become our reality, if but for a moment in time.”
Lennon joined celebrities around the world calling on world leaders to do more to support refugees in the Stand Up For Ukraine campaign.
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BOSTON — The International Monetary Fund has created an account to give donor countries a secure way to funnel financial assistance directly to war-ravaged Ukraine.
The multilateral lender said in a statement Friday that it’s launching the account at the request of several member countries.
The goal is to help Ukraine meet its payment obligations and help stabilize its economy using loans or grants from pooled resources.
The IMF says Canada has proposed routing up to 1 billion Canadian dollars ($795 million) to Ukraine through the new account.
Two weeks after Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, the IMF approved a $1.4 billion emergency loan to Ukraine.
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BOSTON — S&P Global Ratings has downgraded its assessment of Russia’s ability to repay foreign debt, signaling increased prospects that Moscow will soon default on such loans for the first time in more than a century.
The credit ratings agency issued the downgrade to “selective default” Friday night after Russia arranged to make foreign bond payments in rubles last week when they were due in dollars. It said it didn’t expect Russia to be able to convert the rubles into dollars within a 30-day grace period.
S&P said it believes sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine are likely to increase, impeding its willingness and ability to honor its obligations to foreign debtholders.
The Kremlin has signaled it’s willing to pay its debts but warned it would do so in rubles if its overseas accounts in foreign currencies remain frozen.
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WARSAW, Poland – The head of the European Union’s executive branch says 10.1 billion euros ($11 billion) have been raised globally in a fundraising event for Ukraine and people who have fled the country invaded by Russia.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was joined at the event in Warsaw by Polish President Andrzej Duda and — remotely — by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
At the end of the 90-minute event, a smiling von der Leyen said the donations will go to help refugees, both outside and inside Ukraine.
“We will continue providing support. And once the bombs have stopped falling, we will help the people of Ukraine rebuild their country,” von der Leyen said.
Saturday’s pledging event was held in Warsaw because more than 2.5 million of the 4.4 million people who have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began Feb. 24 have entered Poland. Many have stayed, though some have moved on to other countries. The event aimed to prompt political leaders and global celebrities to provide funding and other donations for the people of Ukraine.
It ended with Julian Lennon singing his father John Lennon’s peace song “Imagine.”
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MOSCOW — YouTube has banned the channel of Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, prompting government officials to renew longtime threats against the platform.
The Duma TV channel reported the ban on the messaging app Telegram, noting that it had 145,000 subscribers and over 100,000 million total views. In comments to the Russian news agency Interfax, Google didn’t give an exact reason for the move, but said the company follows “all applicable sanction and trade compliance laws.”
Russia’s state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor demanded that YouTube unblock the channel. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Saturday that the service “has handed itself a sentence” and urged its users to “download content, transfer it onto Russian platforms. And fast.”
State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin called the move against the parliament’s YouTube channel “another proof of violations of the rights and freedoms of citizens by Washington.”
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ATLANTA (AP) — When she ended her first bid to become Georgia governor in 2018, Stacey Abrams announced plans to sue over the way the state’s elections were managed. More than three years later, as she makes another run at the governor’s mansion, the lawsuit is going to trial.
Filed in November 2018 by Abrams’ Fair Fight Action organization, the suit alleged that state officials “grossly mismanaged” the election, depriving some citizens, particularly low-income people and people of color, of their right to vote. The lawsuit originally called for a sweeping overhaul of the state’s elections, but its scope was considerably narrowed after the state made changes that addressed some allegations and others were dismissed by the court. The trial is set to begin Monday.
Even if U.S. District Judge Steve Jones sides with the plaintiffs, it’s unclear whether that will affect elections this year. Jones and other federal judges have been reluctant to order last-minute changes, noting that the Supreme Court has repeatedly said federal judges shouldn’t alter rules “on the eve of an election.”
In the months preceding the 2018 election, Abrams, a Democrat, accused her Republican opponent in the governor’s race, then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp, of using his position as Georgia’s chief elections officer to promote voter suppression, an allegation Kemp has vehemently denied.
In the more than three years since that fiercely fought contest captured national attention, the focus on Georgia’s elections has only intensified. Problems during the 2020 primary drew sharp criticism. Later that year, former President Donald Trump hurled insults at state officials who declined to overturn his narrow general election loss in the state. And the nation watched closely in January 2021 as a pair of Democrats unseated the state’s two incumbent Republican U.S. senators.
Numerous GOP-led state legislatures passed election bills last year after Trump stoked false claims that widespread fraud led to his 2020 defeat. Georgia’s bill, which Kemp signed into law a year ago, was one of the broadest. Among other things, the state’s measure reduced the window to request an absentee ballot, stripped power from the secretary of state and sharply curtailed the use of absentee ballot drop boxes in populous and Democratic-voting metro Atlanta counties. Voting rights groups and the U.S. Department of Justice promptly sued; those lawsuits are pending.
Republicans in Georgia this year passed legislation to let the Georgia Bureau of Investigation initiate probes into alleged election wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, Abrams, a state lawmaker who was little known outside Georgia when she ran four years ago, has become a household nameand Democratic Party star. The only Democrat running for governor, she’ll face Kemp again in November if he fends off a primary challenge from former U.S. Sen. David Perdue.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger accused Abrams and her allies of trying to undermine the integrity of Georgia elections.
“Her 3-year ‘stolen election’ campaign has been nothing more than a political stunt to keep her in the national spotlight, and it’s a disservice to Georgia voters,” he said in an emailed statement.
Fair Fight says it works to promote voting rights and support progressive candidates around the country, and its PAC has raised more than $100 million since its founding. It filed the lawsuit along with Care in Action, a nonprofit that advocates for domestic workers. Several churches have also joined as plaintiffs.
Fair Fight collected statements from people who said they had problems voting. The lawsuit cited multiple alleged problems, including the purging of eligible voters from voter rolls under a “use it or lose it” policy; the state’s so-called exact match voter registration rules; an insufficient number of voting machines at some precincts; and a lack of sufficient training for election officials. It asked a federal judge to find that Georgia’s elections processes violated the U.S. Constitution and federal law.
“Since the start of this lawsuit, we have highlighted real voters and their challenges because we believe that is one of the most effective ways to demonstrate the barriers in Georgia’s elections system,” Fair Fight executive director Cianti Stewart-Reid said in an emailed statement. She added that voters from around the state will testify at trial about obstacles faced while trying to vote.
Some of the alleged problems were addressed by changes in state law. For example, a 2019 law called for replacing the state’s outdated voting machines. The new system was implemented statewide in 2020.
In February 2021, Jones threw out parts of the lawsuit, saying some allegations were made irrelevant by changes in state law or the plaintiffs’ lack of standing. Among them were some of the claims about voting machines and election technology, as well as the security of voter lists and polling place issues. The following month, Jones dismissed claims targeting the “use it or lose it” policy and some allegations of inadequate training of poll workers. He also dismissed some claims relating to provisional and absentee ballots.
The issues remaining for the trial have to do with the “exact match” policy, the statewide voter registration list and in-person cancellation of absentee ballots. The plaintiffs claim that Georgia’s secretary of state and State Election Board members are “denying and abridging Georgians’ right to vote” in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the U.S. Constitution.
Under the “exact match” policy, information from voter registration applications is checked against information held by the state Department of Driver Services or the federal Social Security Administration. If there’s a discrepancy, the would-be voter must show identification to county officials before being able to cast a regular ballot.
The plaintiffs say data entry errors or differences as minor as a missing hyphen or apostrophe can trigger a non-match and that naturalized citizens can also be wrongly flagged as noncitizens if records are outdated. These problems disproportionately affect people of color and can depend on where a person lives because counties do things differently, the plaintiffs say.
The statewide voter registration database is “error-ridden,” the plaintiffs say, resulting in the erroneous deletion of eligible voters’ registration or critical information being incorrect. That can prevent eligible voters from being able to vote or force them to overcome undue burdens to do so, the plaintiffs say.
The plaintiffs also say election officials aren’t sufficiently trained on canceling an absentee ballot if someone chooses to vote in person instead, which can cause voters to be turned away or forced to cast a provisional ballot.
Lawyers for the state argue the claims in the lawsuit “are not supported by the evidence.” The number, geographic scope and severity of the alleged problems experienced by voters identified by the plaintiffs “do not rise to a level sufficient to demonstrate an unconstitutional burden on voting in Georgia,” state lawyers wrote in a filing. Additionally, they argue, the alleged problems cited are not the responsibility of the state officials named in the lawsuit.
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Researchers Say Smoking During Pregnancy May Not Cause ADHD In Children
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London: A recent study led by University of Bristol scientists shows that maternal prenatal smoking is associated with offspring attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) but is unlikely to be the cause of it.
The study was published in the scientific journal Addiction.
Several studies have indicated that maternal smoking during pregnancy may contribute to offspring ADHD; however, it is unclear from those studies whether this reflects a true causal effect or is the result of confounding factors such as socioeconomic position, education, income and maternal age. This new review attempted to find an answer to that question.
The review looked at 46 prior studies that assessed the association between maternal prenatal smoking and offspring ADHD diagnosis. The review specifically included studies accounting for genetic effects, in addition to conventional approaches.
Some of those studies had a low risk of bias (meaning they are unlikely to give misleading results) and were able to take into account genetic effects. Those studies indicate that shared genetics plays a substantial role in the association of offspring ADHD with prenatal smoking.
This is supported by a previous systematic review based on genetically informed designs which also concluded that the association between maternal prenatal smoking and ADHD is explained by shared genetics.
Lead author Dr Elis Haan, an Honorary Research Associate at Bristol's School of Psychological Science, says "Our systematic review shows that there is no causal effect between maternal prenatal smoking and offspring ADHD diagnosis. However, pregnant women should still be advised not to smoke during pregnancy, as prenatal smoking has harmful effects on other child health outcomes." —ANI
The study was published in the scientific journal Addiction.
Several studies have indicated that maternal smoking during pregnancy may contribute to offspring ADHD; however, it is unclear from those studies whether this reflects a true causal effect or is the result of confounding factors such as socioeconomic position, education, income and maternal age. This new review attempted to find an answer to that question.
The review looked at 46 prior studies that assessed the association between maternal prenatal smoking and offspring ADHD diagnosis. The review specifically included studies accounting for genetic effects, in addition to conventional approaches.
Some of those studies had a low risk of bias (meaning they are unlikely to give misleading results) and were able to take into account genetic effects. Those studies indicate that shared genetics plays a substantial role in the association of offspring ADHD with prenatal smoking.
This is supported by a previous systematic review based on genetically informed designs which also concluded that the association between maternal prenatal smoking and ADHD is explained by shared genetics.
Lead author Dr Elis Haan, an Honorary Research Associate at Bristol's School of Psychological Science, says "Our systematic review shows that there is no causal effect between maternal prenatal smoking and offspring ADHD diagnosis. However, pregnant women should still be advised not to smoke during pregnancy, as prenatal smoking has harmful effects on other child health outcomes." —ANI
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MetService warns Cyclone Fili may bring two days of gale, heavy rain and coastal floods.
The national weather authority predicts the cyclone may approach the North Island from the subtropics on Tuesday, tracking southeast across the Island on Wednesday, then away from our shores early Thursday.
There is a heavy rain watch in place for eastern parts of Northland for 24 hours from 12pm on Tuesday.
A strong wind watch is also in place for Northland for 24 hours from 3pm on Tuesday.
"Winds from both directions may approach severe gale for a time," MetService said.
A moderate warning has been issued for regions north of Whanganui and Hawke's Bay. There is, however, a low risk for the rest of the North Island from Wednesday.
There remains uncertainty as to the track and track and timing of the cyclone, but MetService has advised that people keep up to date with forecasts and official advice.
An active cold front over the Tasman Sea has also seen severe weather warnings issued for Westland and Fiordland. Heavy northerly rain is expected to batter these regions from Monday night until Tuesday morning.
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In what is clearly a conspiracy to keep the Golden State Warriors from resting their starters down the stretch, the Memphis Grizzlies decimated the New Orleans Pelicans tonight, just hours after the NBA rescinded a technical foul on Luka Doncic that would have triggered an automatic suspension. The Pelicans’ loss keeps the door open for the tenth-seed Spurs to catch the ninth-seeded Pels, letting them host the first play-in game, while the Luka news means the Mavericks’ star can play in the season finale against San Antonio on Sunday.
The Pelicans lead the Spurs by two games, and could have ensured they played the Spurs at home with a win tonight. Ja Morant and the Grizzlies were having none of it, however, winning the first quarter handily and jumping out to a 17-point lead just 15 minutes into the game. If that wasn’t enough, they put up a near-NBA record 55 points in the 3rd quarter. It’s Ja’s first game in three weeks, but it looked like he’d been out about three minutes.
The blowout ensured that the Spurs will have something to play for tonight against the Splash Brother-free Warriors at home, because if they can beat the Warriors and Mavs this weekend, and the Warriors beat the Pelicans tomorrow, they get ninth place and a home game.
Speaking of that Mavs game, Dallas will have Luka Doncic available after the NBA took away his 16th technical foul of the season and the mandatory one-game suspension that accompanied it. Here’s the play in question.
Doncic already had one technical foul rescinded this year, and while this T was a little weak, as the announcers explained, he did already get a mulligan this season. Look, it’s not like he lightly grazed a butt-hurt star player who was stepping over his head, the worst infraction you can commit on a basketball court.
With Luka in the lineup, the Mavericks’ odds of winning on Sunday skyrocketed, meaning the Warriors would have to win both their remaining games to hold onto the three seed, since Dallas has the head-to-head tiebreaker. The one upside is that if the Warriors beat the Spurs, the Pelicans would clinch, and thus would have no motivation against the Dubs. Basically, it’s unlikely Sunday’s game would matter for both teams.
The other issue is, considering that Utah is likely to get the five seed, and the three seed likely gets the Grizzlies in round two, do the Warriors actually want the three seed? Maybe they’d be happier to face the disintegrating Jazz, who blew another giant fourth-quarter lead this week, and then take their chances with a Suns team they’re 2-2 against this year, and to whom they barely lost even without Steph Curry.
The forces of the NBA are conspiring to make the Warriors have to actually try this weekend. It’s up to them to decide if that’s in their best interest.
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Ukraine calls for more sanctions, weapons to stop Russia's 'catastrophe'
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KYIV — President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia’s aggression was never limited to just Ukraine and the whole of Europe was a target as he urged the West to impose a complete embargo on Russian energy products and to supply Ukraine with more weapons.
Ukraine said it was ready for a tough battle with Russian forces massing in the east where the Ukrainian military says Russia is seeking to establish a land corridor from Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, and the eastern Donbas region, which is partly held by Moscow-backed separatists.
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Zelenskiy, in an address late on Saturday, said Russia’s use of force was “a catastrophe that will inevitably hit everyone.”
“Russian aggression was not intended to be limited to Ukraine alone … the whole European project is a target for Russia,” he said.
Russia has failed to take one major city since the start of the invasion on Feb. 24 and has retreated from near the capital Kyiv and was instead building up forces in the east.
“Russia can still afford to live in illusions and bring new military forces and new equipment to our land,” Zelenskiy said.
“And that means we need even more sanctions and even more weapons for our state.”
Some cities in the east are under heavy shelling with tens of thousands of people unable to evacuate.
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“This will be a hard battle, we believe in this fight and our victory. We are ready to simultaneously fight and look for diplomatic ways to put an end to this war,” Zelenskiy said.
Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak said Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin would not meet until after the Russia was defeated in the east.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Saturday and pledged armored vehicles and anti-ship missile systems, along with additional support for World Bank loans.
Britain will also ratchet up its sanctions on Russia and move away from using Russian hydrocarbons.
“Other democratic Western states should follow the example of Great Britain,” Zelenskiy said as he met reporters with Johnson.
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“It’s time to impose a complete ban on Russian energy supplies, and increase the delivery of weapons to us.”
Johnson said support for Ukraine aimed to ensure it “can never be bullied again, never will be blackmailed again, never will be threatened in the same way again.”
Johnson was the latest foreign leader to visit Kyiv after Russian forces pulled back from the area.
The visits are a sign that Kyiv is returning to some degree of normality.
Some residents are coming back and cafes and restaurants are reopening. Italy said it planned to re-open its embassy this month.
‘NEVER FORGET’
But in the east, Ukrainian officials have urged civilians to flee after a missile attack on Friday on a train station crowded with women, children and the elderly.
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Ukrainian officials said more than 50 people were killed in the strike in the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region, where thousands of people had gathered to evacuate.
Russia has denied responsibility, saying the missiles used in the attack were only used by Ukraine’s military. The United States says it believes Russian forces were responsible.
Reuters was unable to verify the details of attack.
Russia’s invasion has forced about a quarter of Ukraine’s 44 million people out of their homes, turned cities into rubble and killed or injured thousands.
Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksander Honcharenko said he expected just 50,000 to 60,000 of the city’s population of 220,000 to remain as people flee.
Ukraine said 4,532 people were evacuated from its cities on Saturday, down from 6,665 the day before.
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The civilian casualties have triggered a wave of international condemnation, in particular over hundreds of deaths in the town of Bucha, a town to the northwest of Kyiv that until last week was occupied by Russian forces.
“We will never forget everything we saw here, this will stay with us for our whole lives,” said Bohdan Zubchuk, a community policeman in the town.
British military intelligence said that Russia’s retreat from the capital region revealed “disproportionate” targeting of civilians.
Russia has denied targeting civilians in what it calls a “special operation” to demilitarize and “denazify” its southern neighbor. Ukraine and Western nations have dismissed this as a baseless pretext for war.
The European Union on Friday adopted new sanctions against Russia, including bans on the import of coal, wood, chemicals and other products. Oil and gas imports from Russia remain untouched.
Ukraine on Saturday banned all imports from Russia, a key trading partners before the war with annual imports valued at about $6 billion.
“The enemy’s budget will not receive these funds, which will reduce its potential to finance the war,” Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko wrote on her Facebook page.
(Reporting by Reuters bureaux; Writing by Michael Perry; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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She is the international best-selling author of some of Scotland’s most thrilling crime novels.
Now Denise Mina believes she has solved the real-life mystery behind one of the country’s most notorious killing sprees.
The author of more than a dozen critically-acclaimed books, including The Long Drop about serial murderer Peter Manuel, and 2013 play Driving Manuel, has a fascination for the Glasgow-based killer who murdered at least eight people in the 1950s.
For a new documentary on the Crime + Investigation channel, she has been given access to private tapes of Manuel talking to a prison psychiatrist as he waits to be hanged.
They make her more convinced than ever that he was hired through a third party by Glasgow businessman William Watt to kill his sick wife Marion, 45, leading to the deaths of their daughter Vivienne, 16, and Marion’s sister Margaret Brown, 41.
Watt, who owned a chain of bakeries, was on a fishing trip in Lochgilphead when they were found shot dead at the family home.
Despite his alibi, police had him down as the prime suspect.
Held at Barlinnie, inmates yelled, “One killer, one scone” as Watt arrived there before being released seven days later.
Denise, 55, said: “He had taken the family’s golden Labrador away fly fishing with him. It was supposed to be a guard dog for the house.
"I think Watt asked somebody to kill his wife and they subcontracted it to a dodgy workman who went berserk.
“Marion Watt was pretending she wasn’t as ill as she actually was. She’d had open heart surgery.
“She couldn’t really manage on her own so her sister came to stay in the house that night and the daughter as well. They were not supposed to be there.”
In the episode The Peter Manuel Murders, part of new documentary series Once Upon A True Crime,
Denise investigates the 11-hour pub crawl Watt and Manuel then took around Glasgow’s dodgy drinking dens and discovers Watt paid the killer £150.
She said: “I believe Peter Manuel’s meeting with William Watt, when he taunted him with lurid tales of Watt’s wife, daughter and sister-in-law, made Manuel feel invincible and emboldened him to strike again. He did so less than a month later.”
Born to Scottish parents in New York in 1927, Manuel had committed a string of sexual attacks by the time he was 16, leading to him serving nine years in Peterhead Prison in Aberdeenshire.
Released in 1953, he attacked Mary McLaughlan, 29, two years later.
She reported the incident to police but Manuel successfully defended himself at Airdrie Sheriff Court, achieving a not proven verdict.
Just 5ft 3in, his first known murder victim was Anne Kneilands in 1956. The 17-year-old machinist was found with her skull smashed. He escaped arrest when his father gave him an alibi. The case was dropped due to insufficient evidence.
In September 1956, Manuel broke into the Watt family home in High Burnside, near Glasgow, killing
Marion, Margaret and Vivienne.
In December 1957, 17-year-old Isabelle Cooke was stalked, raped and strangled as she walked to a dance in Uddingston, Lanarkshire.
Manuel was not initially connected to the teenager’s disappearance but later led officers to the area where he’d buried her body in a nearby field.
The crimes that snared Manuel for the Watt killings were the murders of the Smart family – Peter, 45, Doris, 42, and their son Michael, 10.
The three of them were shot dead at their Uddingston home in the early hours of January 1, 1958.
Dubbed “the beast of Birkenshaw”, he was tried for eight murders and convicted of seven at a sensational trial at Glasgow High Court.
Denise is given access to recordings made while Manuel was held at Barlinnie Prison.
On the tapes, made by the prison psychiatrist, the killer protests with almost his dying breath that Watt was not the innocent man he claimed to be.
Denise said: “The prison psychiatrist recorded some of Manuel’s stories in the weeks ahead of his execution. One of them is about how William Watt paid someone to shoot his family. I’d never heard Manuel’s voice before and it was chilling to listen to it in Barlinnie where it was recorded.
“Neither the psychiatrists nor the prison officers believed a word of his story but I can tell you quite candidly now that Watt definitely knew who shot his wife and he knew where the gun came from.
“There is no doubt about it in my mind. He had paid someone to shoot his wife.”
Monster’s crimes sent fear through the nation
Peter Manuel was Scotland’s worst serial killer with the blood of at least seven people on his hands.
Born in New York to Scottish parents, he moved back to Lanarkshire in 1932 when he was just five years old.
By the age of 10, he was considered to be a juvenile delinquent and he served his first term in custody for sexual assault at just 15 years old.
Fascinated with American gangsters, it’s been suggested he wanted to emulate them.
He did nine years in Peterhead prison after attacking and raping a woman in 1946.
On his release, he began his murderous spree, which lasted two years. In that time, he was responsible for almost a third of all killings in Scotland.
In January 1956 he raped and murdered Anne Kneilands, 17, and although he confessed to her murder, he wasn’t convicted due to a lack of evidence.
Later that year he murdered Marion Watt, 45, her sister Margaret Brown, 41, and her daughter Vivienne, 16.
An 18-month sentence for burglary put paid to his murdering ways for a time but he was released in November 1957. The following month Isabelle Cooke, 17, was abducted, raped and strangled. She was buried in a field and only discovered when Manuel pointed out the spot to police.
In the early hours of January 1958, Manuel broke into the Uddingston home of the Smart family. He shot Peter and Doris Smart and their 10-year-old son Michael.
Manuel stayed in the house for a week, eating their food and looking after their cat. He even took the Smarts’ car and brazenly gave a lift to a policeman looking into the death of Isabelle Cooke.
Manuel was caught after using new banknotes traced to Peter Smart and was arrested in January 1958.
The nation breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the Daily Record front page which revealed he had been found guilty of seven murders at the High Court in Glasgow.
He was hanged at Barlinnie on July 11, 1958. Weeks later he was found guilty of the murder of Newcastle taxi driver Sydney Dunn, 36, who was shot in December 1957.
Manuel was hanged at Barlinnie Prison by Harry Allen on July 11, 1958, aged 31.
Denise said: “Manuel’s hangman came for him, bound his wrists and took him to the hanging cell. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the prison grounds.
“It was an ignominious end. It took 26 minutes to walk him across the corridor, hang him, certify that he was dead and put him in the ground.
“Normally in a prison when prisoners were executed, the other prisoners would stop eating their breakfast and put their cutlery down as a mark of respect.
“But Peter Manuel was so despised, they didn’t even stop eating.”
A few weeks before Manuel’s execution, Watt announced his engagement to his young fiancée Lorna Craig.
Denise added: “Here’s my theory. William Watt may have paid a gangster to kill his wife and that
gangster paid Peter Manuel to carry out the killing.
"What nobody expected was for him to go into the house and find two people who were not supposed to be there and go berserk and kill everybody.
“Not everybody will agree with my theory but the two men who know may have taken the truth to
the grave.”
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John Abraham-starrer Attack looked promising when it was first announced. However, the film doesn’t seem to have found its audience. Despite good reviews, Attack got affected by major releases like The Kashmir Files and RRR. On its first day, the film recorded a low opening across the country with Rs 3-3.25 crore nett. The collection further declined over this weekend. Interestingly, the team of Attack is already working on a sequel.
ATTACK BOX OFFICE COLLECTION
Attack faced stiff competition from RRR, which continues to soar at the box office. On the ninth day of its release, the film saw a decline of 10 to 15 per cent. Reportedly, the total box office collection worlwide now stands at Rs 22 crore, which is far less than the budget of the film. In India, Attack reportedly earned Rs 16.02 crore. Directed by Lakshya Raj Anand, Attack tells the story of India’s first super-soldier.
ABOUT ATTACK
Attack is an action thriller inspired by true events. It shows John transforming into India’s first super-soldier as a chip in inserted inside him. But, as he becomes the ultimate saviour for his nation, his powers start threatening his life. Attack is produced by Jayantilal Gada of Pen Studios, John Abraham and Ajay Kapoor.
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Happy news for holidaymakers as Spain announces it will ditch Covid masks on April 20
- Mandatory facemasks indoors will be scrapped in Spain on Wednesday, April 20
- The rule change was announced this week but will come after Easter weekend
- Holidaymakers will still need to wear face coverings when using public transport
Spain has announced that it is scrapping Covid masks this month in a boon for British holidaymakers this summer.
At a press conference held at the Palacio de Fuensalida in Toledo, Spanish Health Minister Carolina Darias said that face coverings would no longer be compulsory when accessing indoor places from Wednesday, April 20.
The relaxation means all people in Spain including travellers will be able to enter bars, cafes, restaurants, theatres, museums and shopping centres without being required to wear a face mask.
Facemasks in indoor public places will be scrapped from Wednesday, April 20, announced Spain's health minister
But the restriction will remain in place on public transport and in hospitals and care homes.
The easing has prompted a mixed response, with regions including Catalonia and Madrid frustrated that it has come after Easter while others like Andalusia say the change is coming too soon.
It comes a week after the nation's tourist board incorrectly stated that unvaccinated British holidaymakers could visit Spain if they tested negative for Covid-19 within 72 hours of arrival. This only applies to ages 12 to 17, and was later clarified.
The erroneous announcement was labelled a 'miscommunication' which arose from a 'misinterpretation of the rules' laid out in a Spanish health department bulletin.
Spain ended mandatory outdoor mask use in early February, but many have been choosing to wear them in crowds
This week, deputy director of the Spanish tourist board in the UK Pedro Medina said in a statement: 'We apologise unreservedly for the miscommunication ... which was due to a misunderstanding of the new entry requirements.'
The tourist office also said: 'If more than 270 days have passed since the final dose, certification of a booster vaccination is also required, except for teenagers aged 12 to 17 inclusive.'
But the mishap left many Brits out of pocket, as they booked flights to Spain after hearing the false announcement.
Some spent more than £900 on flights, The Sun reported.
It is one of the few countries in Europe to place an expiration date on vaccinations, and means that holidaymakers can only visit if they were fully vaccinated within the last 270 days.
Spain ended mandatory outdoor mask use in early February, but many have been choosing to wear them in crowds.
UK travellers aged 12 and above are still required to show proof of being fully vaccinated - or a certificate of recovery obtained than 180 days from the date of travel - to get into the country.
Travellers looking to gain entry to Spain via a certificate of recovery must have a document obtained from 'the official authorities' in connection with a test 'carried out by qualified personnel'.
This means that a self-testing kit is not valid, and travellers aiming to show proof of recovery must have a certificate from a test administered by an EU-approved list of providers.
The only exception to this rule applies to those aged 12-17, who are able to get into the country unvaccinated provided they have proof of a negative, approved PCR test taken within 72 hours of arrival.
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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Jesus Ferreira scored a pair of first-half goals to spark FC Dallas to a 3-1 victory over the Colorado Rapids in MLS action on Saturday.
Ferreira took a pass from Marco Farfan and scored in the 51st minute to give Dallas (3-1-2) a 2-1 lead. Ferreira capped the scoring in the 89th minute with an assist from Brandon Servania.
Diego Rubio staked the Rapids (2-2-2) to a 1-0 lead with a goal in the 30th minute. Servania scored during first-half stoppage time to knot the score at halftime.
The Rapids outshot Dallas 15-7 with a 7-6 edge in shots on goal.
Maarten Paes saved six of the seven shots he faced for Dallas. William Yarbrough saved three of the six shots he faced for the Rapids.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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This month’s return of the popular Full Moon Party means more than just a resurgence of the boisterous gathering of foreign visitors. The good news is that it could help resurrect a cash-starved local economy.
The event is held once a month on full moon night at Haad Rin on Koh Phangan in Surat Thani. Full Moon Parties are one of Thailand’s biggest draws for young, hard-partying fun-seekers.
Before Covid-19 struck, the all-night party was known to attract between 10,000 and 30,000 tourists.
For almost two years Haad Rin has been without its main draw, although lately provincial officials have experimented with bringing it back.
Thanks to the Government’s easing of Covid-19 rules this has meant the return of many overseas tourists. Furthermore, many young tourists will have heard of a Full Moon Party resuming on April 16, though with some strings attached.
Full Moon Party Hiatus and Relaunch Trials
In the early days of Covid-19 in Thailand, the last Full Moon Party took place on Feb 8, 2020.
Following the outbreak, the authorities ordered mass gatherings and parties to be curtailed or suspended.
Leaders of local government, district police, and public health officials met to discuss the event, ultimately deciding it must be postponed indefinitely from March 2020.
After the pandemic halted overseas tourist arrivals more than a year later, the government announced the reopening of tourism on July 1, 2021. In addition, it announced the piloting of the Phuket Sandbox program.
Two weeks later, visitors could use the sandbox program to visit nearby Koh Samui and Koh Tao, and Koh Phangan. Onward trips gave hope that the Full Moon Party could be revived.
The hope came true on Oct 22 last year when tourism operators on Haad Rin in Koh Phangan were given permission to organize the event in a Covid-safe setting. With the usual bonfires, fire jugglers, and club music, the party followed the theme of “Back to the Roots.”
The nightlife operators who struggled financially to find their feet were missing, although a few were back selling food.
First Relaunch Trial, Koh Phangan
The majority of partygoers were foreign tourists staying on Koh Phangan. But new restrictions applied, such as passing on-site temperature checks, completing contact tracing forms, and providing evidence of double vaccination.
As a result of the first relaunch trial, Koh Phangan had to wait almost five months for the second trial to be held on March 17. There were more tourists this time around, many of them coming from Koh Samui by ferry.
While both experiments came and went, plans were being made to have the Full Moon Party return on April 16, which coincides with Songkran, a five-day festival that starts on Wednesday.
The party is expected to see its highest turnout since the end of the pandemic due to the long weekend exodus.
In an interview with the Haad Rin Tourism Association, Thawit Somwang told the Bangkok Post the April 16 party will focus on the concept of “Back to the Roots”. Organizers have requested permission from the local authorities to hold the party and are confident the request will be granted.
With the new-normal protocols in place, the party can get underway after a year of planning.
A Significant Drop in Tourists Numbers
According to him, the success of the event was due to the lifting of many Covid-19 restrictions and residents adapting to public health safety measures while resuming the tourism business.
In addition, more than 90% of residents are vaccinated and Koh Phangan is an island, which makes it ideal for preventing infections.
However, due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, we don’t expect many visitors from Israel, France, and the US [for the party on April 16] since it is now the low tourist season and there is a significant drop in tourists from those countries,” he said.
Scandinavian countries have attracted a steady stream of tourists.
Approximately 10,000 overseas tourists are expected to attend the full moon party from hotels and other accommodations on Haad Rin. Another 5,000 tourists might come from other parts of the island.
Island Full Moon Party Restrictions
In order to comply with the regulations issued by the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), the party must wind down by 11 p.m. Mr. Thawit, however, said that he believes the authorities should allow the full moon party to continue until 1 am or 2 am the following morning.
In his view, many tourists spend most of the day sunbathing at the beach before returning to their hotels and going out for dinner. They normally arrive at the full moon party at 8 pm or 9 pm, and if it ends at 11 pm, they will only have a few hours at the party.
Beach vendors must register and beach entrances and exits are clearly marked. Visitors also must be fully vaccinated and have passed ATK tests.
He said, “We realized we had to establish rules to rein in the party. We won’t tolerate anything that will tarnish Koh Phangan’s reputation.”
Koh Phangan’s tourism-dependent economy has been largely driven by the Party. The party attracts people from at least 15 countries and is promoted worldwide.
Tourism brought in cash through purchases of airline tickets, ferries, accommodation, meals, tour guides, and vendors. This kept the entire local economy humming.
Koh Phangan’s three tambons as well as Koh Tao nearby have been closely associated with the party for 30 years. In addition to hotel and restaurant projects, the party has given birth to a wide range of tourism-related initiatives.
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Naisua scores double as Nadi end losing streak
April 10, 2022 4:23 pm
The Nadi Football side has finally broken their 3 game losing streak after comfortably beating Labasa 3-1 in their Digicel Premier League game at Prince Charles Park today.
From the first whistle, the Green Machine were aggressive as they desperately needed to win after their recent dismal performance.
Midway into the game and that’s exactly what the side did, as a few beautiful one-touch passes by the players, saw Christopher Kumar right in front of the goalmouth who managed to beat Labasa’s keeper Atunaisa Naucikidi and break the deadlock.
The Babasiga Lions fought hard to level the scores, however, they could not execute their finishing.
Nadi led 1-nil at the break.
The second spell saw the host up the tempo as they wanted to cushion their lead.
Substitute Sakaraia Naisua extended Nadi’s lead after a through ball from William Valentine found him one on one with the goalkeeper.
A few minutes later Naisua was again on the scoring sheet after a rebound from goalie Naucikidi, saw him slot in the ball.
Labasa finally managed to break the Nadi defence after a cross kick found Siotame Kubu who headed the shot in.
The visitors tried all they could to come from behind, but Nadi’s defence stood tall.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
0-4-2-5, SB: 8
(zero, four, two, five; SB: eight)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
0-4-2-5, SB: 8
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New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): Ahead of the harvest season and the festival of Baisakhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the "Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi" and other schemes are giving new strength to crores of farmers in the country.
PM Modi on Sunday in a tweet while sharing details of the benefits of different schemes of the Central government for the farmers said that empowered farmers are key for a prosperous nation.
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Taking to Twitter, PM Modi said, "The country is proud of our farmer brothers and sisters. New India will be more prosperous if the farmers in the country are further empowered. I am happy that Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi and other schemes related to agriculture are giving new strength to crores of farmers of the country."
According to infographics shared by the Prime Minister with his tweet, 11.3 crore farmers have directly benefitted from the schemes, with Rs 1.82 lakh crore directly transferred into their accounts.
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"Under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi, farmers received an annual help of Rs 6,000, and an amount of Rs 1.30 lakh crore was transferred during the COVID pandemic. The benefit reached especially to the small farmers," the text on the picture read.
Announced by the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal during the 2019 Interim Union Budget of India in February 2019, the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi is an initiative by the government of India in which all farmers will get up to Rs 6,000 per year as minimum income support.
Meanwhile, under the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund, as per the picture, a 1 lakh crore loan facility has been provided for the development of agriculture-related infrastructure. Approval of a loan of Rs 8,585 crore for 11,632 projects has been given.
Agriculture Infrastructure Fund provides a medium to long term debt financing facility for investment in viable projects for post-harvest management Infrastructure and community farming assets through interest.
Further, PM Modi, in the picture, informed that 1.73 crore farmers registered on the e-NAM platform, which has clocked a business of Rs 1.87 lakh crore.
The National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) is an online trading platform for agricultural commodities in India.
The e-market facilitates farmers, traders and buyers with online trading in commodities and helps in better price discovery and provides facilities for smooth marketing of produce.
Baisakhi, the harvest festival, is celebrated to mark the beginning of the new spring. It also marks the Hindu new year.
The festival also marks the onset of the harvest season.
The harvest season is celebrated across India under different names -- Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra, Ugadi in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, Baisakhi in Punjab, Navreh in Jammu and kashmir, Poila Boisakh in West Bengal, Bohag Bihu in Assam and Vishu in Kerala. (ANI)
(This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)
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An 82-year-old woman who stunned the nation by discussing her love life with her Egyptian toyboy on TV is still happily married to her "priceless gem" three years on. Iris Jones married 36-year-old Mohamed Ahmed Ibriham in 2020 and hit the headlines in the same year following an entertaining interview on ITV's This Morning.
Despite the 45-year age gap, the couple fell for each other when they met in 2019 through a Facebook group for atheists and tried to get married within four days of first meeting one another in Cairo, but were denied by incorrect paperwork. When they eventually got married a year later, Mohamed moved in with her after being granted a three-year visa.
Iris left This Morning hosts Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby squirming with the details of their first night of passion together - before they got married, she said: “Pretty rough. Nobody had been near me for 35 years. I thought I was a virgin again.
The couple have had to spend the last month apart as Mohamed was forced to make an emergency trip back to Cairo to visit his father, who had fallen unwell. And during this period of separation, the grandmother from Somerset reflected on how lucky she was to have him in her life.
The Manchester Evening News reports that She wrote on Facebook: "Love is knowing you look like **** after a days housework and gardening, without a scrap of make up on dressed in my scruff! After a month's absence, my wonderful husband will welcome me just the way I am, because that's what love is all about.
"Welcome home, Mohamed. Missing you this past month has made me realise what a priceless gem you are. This rough diamond of a wife will be more appreciative of you in the future."
She wrote on Facebook: "Love is knowing you look like s**t after a days housework and gardening, without a scrap of make up on dressed in my scruff! After a month's absence, my wonderful husband will welcome me just the way I am, because that's what love is all about.
"Welcome home, Mohamed. Missing you this past month has made me realise what a priceless gem you are. This rough diamond of a wife will be more appreciative of you in the future."
The romance did affect the relationship between Iris and her two sons, who are both in their mid-50s, due to fears about the legitimacy of the couple's love. However, this seems to have been pacified over the years.
Iris told the Sunday Mirror in 2020: Darren is worried Mohamed is just after my money and we had a big row which resulted in me asking him to leave the house. We have made up since, but I’ve asked him not to talk about it – I don’t want to argue.
"If he’s marrying me for my fortune he’ll be sadly disappointed because I live on a pension. I don’t suffer fools gladly. I’m honest and I’m truthful and I told him straight away he couldn’t be a freeloader.
"In Egypt we were quite frivolous, going out to the best restaurants all the time and we split everything 50/50. It’s me he wants – not my house. I’ve spent years making other people happy, now I just want to marry the man I love before I die."
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Lotto Plus" game were:
12-17-27-34-38-41
(twelve, seventeen, twenty-seven, thirty-four, thirty-eight, forty-one)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Lotto Plus" game were:
12-17-27-34-38-41
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Brayden McNabb scored a goal and assisted on two others and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Arizona Coyotes 6-1 on Saturday night.
With the win, the Knights moved within two points of third-place Los Angeles in the Pacific Division. Both Vegas and LA have nine games remaining.
The Knights, who have won six of their last seven, moved into an eighth-place tie with Dallas in the Western Conference, each with 84 points. Dallas, however, has two games in hand.
Zach Whitecloud, Max Pacioretty, Evgenii Dadonov, Jake Leschyshyn and Jack Eichel also scored for Vegas, while Robin Lehner made 29 saves.
After a pedestrian performance in Wednesday’s 5-1 home loss to Vancouver, 12 skaters registered points for the Golden Knights.
Barrett Hayton scored the lone goal for the Coyotes. Karel Vejmelka stopped 33 shots.
Whitecloud opened the scoring when he skated in from the right point and sent a laser over Vejmelka’s shoulder in the far corner of the goal.
Just 17 seconds later, in his return after missing the last 12 games, Pacioretty gave Vegas a two-goal lead with his first goal since Feb. 20 at San Jose.
Arizona got on the board later in the period when Hayton skated into the zone with Michael Carcone for an odd-man rush. Carcone sent the puck across the slot and as he was falling down, Hayton beat Lehner to cut Vegas’ lead in half.
Dadonov pushed the lead back to two 40 seconds into the middle period when he took a pass from Shea Theodore, drove in alone and fired at Vejmelka, who appeared to glove the shot. But as it bounced off the top of his mitt, he reached back to snag it and the puck went in.
Leschyshyn and Eichel added the exclamation points late in the third period to provide the final margin.
Playing in his 400th career game, Eichel notched his 150th career goal.
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Arizona: Hosts New Jersey on Tuesday.
Vegas: Opens a three-game road trip in Vancouver on Tuesday.
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Bus operator Stagecoach has outlined how its services will run over the Easter weekend. With Bank Holidays for Good Friday and Easter monday, several services are affected by the changes.
In an update issued today (Thursday, April, 7), the company says the Saturday and Sunday in between the Bank holidays will have regular hours. The services are as follows:
Good Friday bus times
Gainsborough - Normal Friday service will run
Grimsby - A Saturday service will run
Hull - A Sunday service will run with the exception of 250/255 which will run a Saturday service and 350/355 which will run a normal Friday service
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Lincoln - Normal Friday service
Mansfield - Normal Friday service
Newark - Normal Friday service
Scunthorpe - Normal Friday service
Skegness - Normal Friday service
Spalding - Normal Friday service
Worksop - Normal Friday service
Easter Monday
Gainsborough - No service
Grimsby - Sunday service
Hull - Sunday service
Lincoln - Sunday service
Mansfield - Sunday service
Newark - No service
Scunthorpe - Sunday service
Skegness - Sunday service
Spalding - Sunday service
Worksop - Sunday service
Saturday and Sunday will be normal service.
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Sanctions, import bans, destruction of infrastructure, a refugee crisis, and
supply chain disruptions due to the conflict in Ukraine are stoking global
food prices and risking shortages. Importantly, higher prices and potentially falling inventories could mean greater
food insecurity in the US and around the world. But there are actions businesses and governments can take to help ease the pain.
The war in Ukraine is seriously disrupting production and exports of
grain to vulnerable countries. Not only is it making
farming in Ukraine more difficult, but sanctions are disrupting logistics for producing things like
fertilizer. Moreover, sanctions prohibit select debt transactions for the Russian Agricultural Bank, which helps support the country’s agricultural sector.
Russia and Ukraine combine to produce 6% of all
grains grown globally, according to our calculations of United Nations data, but export an outsized 16% of cereals like wheat, corn, oats and barley, according to the
International Trade Centre. These grains go into everything from breakfast cereal to bread, pasta and corn syrup, which sweetens beverages. Further, they provide feed for animal stocks, meaning inflation for proteins, like chicken or pork, will also continue to rise. Ukraine also produces half of the world’s supply of
sunflower oil. As such, food producers will need to reformulate to substitute sunflower oils, used in certain foods, with other oils.
Businesses can protect themselves by finding alternative sources of grain: diversifying supply chains or substituting alternatives in domestic or other unaffected markets where possible. This diversification and substitution would help mitigate some of the costs they will ultimately pass down to consumers.
Boost benefits
Meanwhile, higher prices for food in relatively wealthy economies, such as the US, could dent consumer spending and, consequently, overall GDP growth. Food and beverage prices in the US are up an astounding 8% from a year ago, according to the
Bureau of Economic Analysis. Further expected food price increases due to the war in Ukraine are part of the reason that The Conference Board forecasts that total
personal consumption expenditure inflation, which measures prices for consumer goods and services, will linger above 6% year-over-year for much of 2022.
These supermarket price-spirals will increase food costs for all Americans and increase food insecurity for households that spend a significant portion of their income on food. In 2020, food comprised 10% of the total expenses for the wealthiest households but claimed as much as 15% of the expenses for the poorest households, per the
Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey reveals that as of mid-March, more than 21 million people in the US did not have enough
food in the last week either some of the time or often. The war will likely worsen these figures.
To help Americans in need, the Federal Emergency Management Agency could be deployed and social safety net programs, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, could be expanded. Additionally, the federal government can make sure that school food programs, which provide nutrition to millions of children, remain fully funded.
Tap reserves
The good news is that other economies can step in immediately to feed the world. What determines this is whether these economies have stockpiles that can be tapped for exports and the internal infrastructure and labor force to facilitate ramped-up trade.
India, the US, the European Union, Brazil and Canada are especially well-positioned to increase
grain exports, according to the USDA. By the end of the 2021-2022 growing season, the US is forecasted to have an excess of 18 million metric tons of wheat, 37 million tons of corn, and 2.6 million tons of barley, oats, sorghum and rye combined, according to the
USDA.
Policymakers can identify excess stocks of grain and partner with NGOs to distribute food to vulnerable nations. Governments can also draw from domestic reserves to help cushion the effects of a grain-supply shock on consumers.
Invest more in food production
Governments can also dedicate greater shares of their budgets to increasing food production, including spending on equipment, R&D and infrastructure.
In the US, for example, federal government subsidies for domestic farmers — which include loans, quotas and food purchases, among other measures — can be changed to support greater grain output. In addition, the government can stop paying farmers to leave their land unplanted (it does this to keep prices under control and improve
environmental health).
Businesses can also help support increased grain production via financing and direct investment in equipment and labor.
Reduce waste
Businesses, from supermarkets to cafeterias at private firms, can reduce food waste with better ordering and refrigeration tactics. Indeed, the
USDA estimates that up to 30% to 40% of the food supply in the US is wasted.
Limit the use of corn in fuel
The US government could also limit the use of corn, 40% of which goes into
ethanol, which is blended into
gasoline.
These solutions may be easier said than done. Nonetheless, it is important that businesses and governments work together to help keep food affordable. Given the US grain production capacity, it can take the lead in putting food on the table, both at home and abroad.
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Classified loans of NBFIs soar alarmingly
12 out of the total 34 institutions saw a sharp rise in non-performing loans in 2021
Classified loans of the country's non-bank financial institutions rose alarmingly, amounting to Tk13,016 crore at the end of the last calendar year, thanks to the lenders' irrational loan disbursements and irregularities amid the weak monitoring of the watchdog Bangladesh Bank.
Out of 34 financial institutions, twelve – Aviva finance, CVC Finance, Fareast Finance and Investment, First Finance, Industrial and Infrastructure Development Finance, Infrastructure Development, MIDAS Financing, National Finance, Phoenix Finance and Investments, Premier Leasing, Union Capital, Uttara Finance – saw up to 300% surge in classified loans in 2021, according to the quarterly Bangladesh Bank report.
Besides, others also witnessed slight increases of such loans in the Covid-hit year, raising the total classified loans by Tk2,957 crore or 29.41% year-on-year.
As of December 2021, the total disbursement of the 34 institutions stood at Tk67,354 crore, while around one-fifth or 19.33% of the disbursement went classified. In the previous calendar year of 2020, the disbursement was Tk10,053 crore and classified loans 15.02%.
"A huge amount of money was taken in favour of different names from several non-bank financial institutions but the loans were not returned. As a result, many lenders are now struggling to back their customers' deposits," said ABM Mirza Azizul Islam, former advisor of a caretaker government.
"The irregularities took place thanks to the weak monitoring of the central bank," he told The Business Standard.
When asked about the alarming rise of the classified loans of the non-bank financial institutions, a Bangladesh Bank senior official, seeking anonymity, told TBS that many lenders had been hiding data on non-performing loans for long.
"In recent inspections of the central bank, some cases like that of people's leasing were unearthed, which contributed to the sharp rise of the classified loans," he said, adding that many borrowers were now unable to repay loans as they were hit hard by the pandemic, which was another reason.
However, the classified loans decreased by Tk26 crore in the second quarter of 2021 to Tk10,328 crore from Tk10,354 crore in the first quarter. It again jumped by Tk1,429 crore in the third quarter and Tk1,259 crore in the last quarter of the calendar year.
Of the total 13,016 crore classified loans, six institutions – Bangladesh Industrial Finance, Fareast Finance and Investment, FAS Finance and Investment, First Finance, International Leasing and Financial Services, Premier Leasing and Finance – held Tk7,916 crore or 60.81% of the total non-performing loans, as of December 2021, the Bangladesh Bank data said.
The irregularities of the non-bank financial institution sector came to light one after another, especially after the fall of People's Leasing in 2019. Later, the Bangladesh Bank marked several troubled institutions – including International Leasing and Financial Services, and Bangladesh Industrial Finance – red and kept them under special monitoring.
Public investors feel the pinch
At the end of 2020, classified loans of publicly listed company Uttara Finance were just Tk270 crore, a 9% of its total disbursement, which jumped to Tk998 crore in December 2021. It was 41.68% of the then disbursement.
The company did not share dividends with its stock investors in 2020 and 2021. For the last time, it provided its revenue data for the July-September quarter of 2019, showing a Tk149 crore loss.
Currently, it has a total of 13.14 crore shares in the capital market. Each share traded at Tk39.50 on 2 April.
"Uttara Finance has been showing lower classified loans by hiding data, and the Bangladesh Bank's inspection unearthed the actual figure, resulting in the sudden surge in classified loans," the central bank official said.
Another ailing listed company, Farest Finance, saw an increase in its classified loans to 89.95% of the total disbursement in 2021, from 51.9% in 2020.
Although a share of the company was issued at Tk10 in the initial public offering, it was traded at Tk5.8 on 31 March. Besides, the company did not provide any dividends after 2016.
First Finance is also facing a similar situation. A share of the company was traded at Tk5.70 on the same day. It provided 10% dividends in 2013, 5% in 2014 and 2% in 2019 but did not share dividends with public investors later.
Classified loans of the First Finance increased to Tk741 crore last year, from Tk262 crore a year earlier. Now, around 82% of loans of the company are non-performing, which was 30% in 2020.
The board of directors of the company has recently terminated its managing director (in-charge) Tuhin Reza for allegedly committing huge irregularities.
Several other listed non-bank financial institutions are also depriving their stock investors of dividends, due mainly to their poor performances with huge amounts of classified loans.
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WIDMAN, Ruth A.
Age 90, of Kettering, entered her eternal home peacefully on April 2, 2022. Ruth was born in Dayton, on November 4, 1931, to Edwin and Minnie (Busse) Grabeman.She graduated from Fairmont High School, Denison University (Psychology) and
Miami University (Educational Guidance). She worked at
Rike's, then as a skilled counselor in Kettering Schools at D.L. Barnes and St. Charles. She loved traveling, sports, kept life-long friends, and connected people with respect and kindness. Her creative leadership and ideas were manifested in career, countless church volunteer activities (Buckeye Brigade), occasions for hospitality, and family reunions. Faith and family mattered most. She loved her parents, her brother Vic (Jo) Grabeman and their children. She devoted loving energies as wife and understated cheering partner to Jim Widman. She paved the way for daughters,
Sally (Ferree) and Julie (Pickrel), and admired sons-in-law, Dan Pickrel and Rob Ferree. She heaped love and adoration on grandchildren, Lauren Pickrel and Matt Leske, Kaitlin Pickrel, and Rachel, Hannah and Emma Ferree. Her generous spirit prevails through rich stories of faith, humor, wisdom, and
connected family histories. She received exceptional care at Suites of Walnut Creek and helpful transition services by Ohio Valley Hospice. A Celebration of Life ceremony will occur at David's Church on Saturday, April 16 at 11:00 AM; visitation begins at 10:00 AM. The family requests memorial contributions for community needs to David's United Church of Christ, 170 W. David Rd., Kettering, OH 45429.
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic appointment as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court was the focus of Saturday Night Live’s cold open.
In the Oval Office, Jackson (played by Ego Nwodim) and President Biden (played by James Austin Jackson) recreated the photos of them watching the Senate’s confirmation vote earlier this week. “I promised to put a Black woman on the court, and that is what I did. So that is one campaign promise down and only 74 to go,” Biden said.
Jackson’s response: “I was happy to do my part. I’ve worked twice as hard as a white man my entire life and then spent an entire week listening to Ted Cruz call me a pedophile.”
The sketch imagined what might have gone on in the room during this momentous day, with Jackson receiving wisdom from prominent Americans of the past. Her first visitation? Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Kate McKinnon returned with fists in the air, the frilly collar, and digs at Ted Cruz — all part of her delightfully brusque portrait of RBG. Her advice for Jackson? “Always label your lunches.” Because justices have “sticky fingers.”
“Look, I know your confirmation process put you through the wringer, but in the end, people do the right thing. And you know, I was confirmed in the Senate 96 to 3, so what was your vote?”
“53 to 47,” Jackson (Nwodim) said. “Yeah, a lot of them walked out and one guy kept asking me if babies are racist.”
“Well, it was Ted Cruz, so I bet the book was called, Goodnight Cancun — and that’s a Gins-burn.”
Justice Jackson was then visited by other famous Black Americans Harriet Tubman (Punkie Johnson), Jackie Robinson (Chris Redd), and Justice Thurgood Marshall (Kenan Thompson), who became the first Black Supreme Court justice in 1967.
“So what advice for me do you have as a person of color on the Supreme Court?” Jackson asked Marshall.
“Democracy can be slow and messy. It stumbles, but over time, it moves forward. I mean, I was the first Black Supreme Court justice, so you must be what, the 10th, the 20th?”
“Nope,” Jackson replied. “Just the third.”
RBG passes on some wisdom to Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pic.twitter.com/PCwbIzc2Of
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) April 10, 2022
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Moscow [Russia], April 10 (ANI): Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed a new Army General Alexander Dvornikov, commander of Russia's Southern Military District, to lead the war in Ukraine as Moscow's military failed to capture Kyiv.
Dvornikov has been named theater commander of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine. There is speculation that Russia's general has a goal of representing Putin with some battlefield progress ahead of the 'Victory Day' on May 9, CNN reported on Sunday citing Military analysts and US officials familiar with intelligence assessments.
May 9 'Victory Day' is the most significant day in Russia as it marks the anniversary of the Soviet Union's triumph over Germany in the Second World War.
The European official described the "Victory Day' as a "self-imposed deadline," and added that it could lead the Russians to make additional mistakes or potentially can lead Russian forces to commit more atrocities, as allegedly happened in the Bucha.
According to UK military intelligence update on Saturday, Russia's departure from northern Ukraine shows evidence of non-combatants being disproportionately targeted.
United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence says that the Russian troops were withdrawn from northern Ukraine, according to CNN reported on April 8.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's Air Force gave information that 13 Russian aerial targets have been destroyed on Saturday, according to Ukraine's local media outlet.
"Ukrainian airforce: 13 Russian aerial targets destroyed. Russia lost five UAVs, four missiles, three airplanes, and one helicopter on April 9, according to the Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces," The Kyiv independent tweeted.
A day earlier, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Saturday.
Johnson said that he has traveled to Ukraine to meet President Zelenskyy in person and show solidarity with the Ukrainian people.
"Today I met my friend President @ZelenskyyUa in Kyiv as a show of our unwavering support for the people of Ukraine. We're setting out a new package of financial & military aid which is a testament of our commitment to his country's struggle against Russia's barbaric campaign," Johnson tweeted. (ANI)
Amid failure to capture Kyiv, Putin appoints new commander for Ukraine
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purchasing another home can be very cost so ensure you know how to pick the best home loan advance.
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Which external hard drives for Xbox One are best?
When the first video games were released, they comfortably fit onto several floppy disks. As the games became better, the format changed to 700MB CDs and eventually 4.2GB DVDs. Naturally, you needed a hard drive to store all the data as well.
Today, as digital downloads have become more prevalent than physical disks, the need for an external hard drive is growing. Gaming consoles have not been spared the limitations on storage, which is why you’ll need something like the Seagate Game Drive Hub for Xbox One. Check out the Best Reviews buying guide for a complete list of options.
What to know before you buy an external hard drive for Xbox One
Size and placement
Depending on the design of the hard drive casing, it can be a rather bulky device. Generally, you cannot use external hard drives in horizontal and vertical positions, making placement a lot easier. Consider the size of the hard drive and where you will place it to ensure that it is both out of the way and accessible to the Xbox One console.
Storage capacity
External hard drives for Xbox One come in a variety of storage sizes. The console has a built-in hard drive, but that can fill up quickly if you have a lot of data. Analyze your gaming habit and library to determine what size hard drive will be sufficient for your purposes.
Additional components
An external hard drive will connect to the Xbox One console through a supplied USB cable. But that isn’t the only way you can use it. Some manufacturers sell additional components that allow you to clip the drive directly onto the console. If that is the case, then you might want to consider some extra cooling options.
What to look for in a quality external hard drive for Xbox One
High-speed data transfer
It is vitally important that you use an external hard drive with a high-speed rate of data transfer. If you want to download the enhanced versions of Xbox games, you can only do so on high-speed drives. A good quality external hard drive for an Xbox One will have around 200MB per second transfer speed. Solid-state drives can go as fast as 540MB per second.
Sturdy case
Protecting your hard drive is the best way also to protect your data. Since the drive is in place, it should be moved around, especially when in use. A quality hard drive will have a sturdy case to protect the external hard drive from light bumps and handling.
USB connectivity
The only connection method of an external hard drive is through the USB cable. Coupled with the hard drive’s transfer speed, the USB speed also plays a vital role. A good quality external hard drive will have a USB 3.0 port and support the corresponding speeds.
How much you can expect to spend on an external hard drive for Xbox One
The cost of an external hard drive for your Xbox will depend on the brand and the drive’s storage capacity. Smaller drives can retail for around $80, while bigger storage options can cost as much as $200.
External hard drive for Xbox One FAQ
Can you use any hard drive with an Xbox One?
A. Yes, as long as the hard drive can connect to the Xbox through a USB connection and is formatted to the correct filing system. The Xbox can do that for you.
Do I need a solid-state drive or a hard disk drive?
A. The difference between an SSD and an HDD will be the rate of transfer. SSDs tend to be more expensive than HDD but operate at a much faster transfer speed. The storage capacity of SSDs is generally also less than HDD.
What’s the best external hard drive for Xbox One to buy?
Top external hard drive for Xbox One
Seagate Game Drive Hub for Xbox
What you need to know: Perfect in size and color, it will complement an Xbox One rather well.
What you’ll love: The Seagate Game Drive Hub is specifically designed for use with the Xbox One console, and it comes with a massive 8TB of SSD storage capacity. It has two front-facing USB 3.0 ports and connects to the console through a USB cable at the back. You can use the front USB ports to charge controllers or other mobile devices.
What you should consider: You need to connect it to its one power source through the included power adapter.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top external hard drive for Xbox One for the money
Seagate Game Drive for Xbox Game Pass Special Edition
What you need to know: Perfect for gaming, it’s sleek and includes a little something extra.
What you’ll love: Seagate is known for its storage devices, and gamers can’t go wrong with the thin and good-looking Game Drive for the Xbox One. It connects to the console through a USB 3.0 cable and doesn’t need its own power source. For storage capacity, it has a 2TB SSD with super-fast transfer speeds. This Special Edition drive comes with a 14-day free trial to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.
What you should consider: The USB cable is only 18-inches, which might be a bit short if you want to store the drive somewhere else.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This option is made for gaming. It’s sturdy and good-looking.
What you’ll love: With a bit of a military look to it, the P10 external hard drive from WD is 5TB in storage capacity. That is more than enough for hundreds of games. It comes with an 18-inch USB-A to micro USB-B cable and is compatible with PCs and PlayStation consoles. The external case is made from metal, making sure that it is always protected.
What you should consider: This version is only a hard disc drive, but some games require that you install them to faster SSDs.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Ahead of the harvest season and the festival of Baisakhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the “Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi” and other schemes are giving new strength to crores of farmers in the country.
PM Modi on Sunday in a tweet while sharing details of the benefits of different schemes of the Central government for the farmers said that empowered farmers are key for a prosperous nation. Taking to Twitter, PM Modi said, “The country is proud of our farmer brothers and sisters. New India will be more prosperous if the farmers in the country are further empowered. I am happy that Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi and other schemes related to agriculture are giving new strength to crores of farmers of the country.”
According to infographics shared by the Prime Minister with his tweet, 11.3 crore farmers have directly benefitted from the schemes, with Rs 1.82 lakh crore directly transferred into their accounts.
“Under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi, farmers received an annual help of Rs 6,000, and an amount of Rs 1.30 lakh crore was transferred during the COVID pandemic. The benefit reached especially to the small farmers,” the text on the picture read.
Announced by the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal during the 2019 Interim Union Budget of India in February 2019, the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi is an initiative by the government of India in which all farmers will get up to Rs 6,000 per year as minimum income support.
Meanwhile, under the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund, as per the picture, a 1 lakh crore loan facility has been provided for the development of agriculture-related infrastructure. Approval of a loan of Rs 8,585 crore for 11,632 projects has been given.
Agriculture Infrastructure Fund provides a medium to long term debt financing facility for investment in viable projects for post-harvest management Infrastructure and community farming assets through interest.
Further, PM Modi, in the picture, informed that 1.73 crore farmers registered on the e-NAM platform, which has clocked a business of Rs 1.87 lakh crore.
The National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) is an online trading platform for agricultural commodities in India.
The e-market facilitates farmers, traders and buyers with online trading in commodities and helps in better price discovery and provides facilities for smooth marketing of produce.
Baisakhi, the harvest festival, is celebrated to mark the beginning of the new spring. It also marks the Hindu new year.
The festival also marks the onset of the harvest season.
The harvest season is celebrated across India under different names — Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra, Ugadi in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, Baisakhi in Punjab, Navreh in Jammu and kashmir, Poila Boisakh in West Bengal, Bohag Bihu in Assam and Vishu in Kerala.
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Last week, Hollywood actor Bruce Willis announced that he was stepping away from his acting career following his Aphasia diagnosis, a medical condition that affects speech. The news left fans of the 67-year-old actor in shock. Bruce is one of the notable actors of Hollywood who has worked in movies like Die Hard, Unbreakable, and The Sixth Sense. During such a time, Bruce has received the support of his family including his ex-wife and actress Demi Moore.
Bruce’s family updated the actor’s fans via a coordinated social media post on March 30. The caption accompanying a portrait of Bruce was signed by the actor’s wife Emma Heming Willis, their two daughters Mabel and Evelyn, Demi and her three adult daughters with Bruce: Rumer, Scout and Tallulah.
The joint statement read, “To Bruce’s amazing supporters, as a family we wanted to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities.” The statement added that due to his medical condition, Bruce is stepping away from the career “that has meant so much to him.” Bruce’s family also mentioned that it is a “really challenging time” for them, and they are appreciative of the continued love, compassion and support from the fans and friends. “We are moving through this as a strong family unit, and wanted to bring his fans in because we know how much he means to you, as you do to him. As Bruce always says, ‘Live it up’ and together we plan to do just that.”
A source close to the family told People that Bruce’s loved ones are more grateful than ever for spending time with family. The couple celebrated Mabel's 10th birthday two days after announcing his retirement.
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PARIS (AP) — Polls opened across France Sunday for the first round of the country’s presidential election, where up to 48 million eligible voters will be choosing one of 12 candidates.
President Emmanuel Macron is seeking a second five-year term, with a strong challenge from the far right and seeking to counter nationwide voter apathy.
Polls opened at 8 a.m. Sunday and close at 7 p.m. (1700 GMT) in most places and at 8 p.m. in some larger cities.
Unless someone gets more than half of the nationwide vote, there will be a second and decisive round on Sunday, April 24.
Aside from Macron, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and far-left firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon are among the prominent figures vying to take the presidential Elysee.
Credit: Esteban Felix
Credit: Esteban Felix
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Volkanovski stops Zombie, keeps UFC title
Australia's Alexander Volkanovski has retained his UFC featherweight title with a masterclass performance, stopping South Korea's Chan Sung Jung in the fourth round in Jacksonville, Florida.
Volkanovski's speed and variety were too much for his outgunned opponent, also known as the Korean Zombie, peppering his face with a multitude of left jabs.
Together with left and right-hand power punches, takedowns, knees and elbows, Volkanovski controlled the fight.
He floored the challenger in the last 15 seconds of the third round with a big right-hand punch.
He then landed a couple of right hands early in the fourth round, prompting referee Herb Dean to halt the fight after 45 seconds.
Volkanovski, who won the title from Max Holloway in December, 2019, remains unbeaten in the UFC, winning all 11 of his fights.
"All week I said I'm on another level right now. I can't be stopped and I just showed youse," Volkanovski said.
"He actually took a lot more than I wanted him to. I thought they could have stopped it a bit earlier. I started feeling bad in there."
It was his first stoppage win in Volkanovski's last five fights.
The 33-year-old from Windang on the NSW South Coast has an overall 24-1 record in MMA combat, having won 21 straight since his only loss in May 2013.
The fourth-ranked Korean Zombie, who also challenged unsuccessfully for the title in 2013, stepped in as the opponent after two-time Volkanovski victim Holloway pulled out with an injury.
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Zacks Investment Research downgraded shares of ATN International (NASDAQ:ATNI – Get Rating) from a hold rating to a sell rating in a report released on Wednesday, Zacks.com reports.
According to Zacks, “ATN International, Inc. invests, own and operate communications companies and renewable energy assets. The company through its operating subsidiaries provide wireless and wireline connectivity to residential and business customers including mobile wireless solutions, local exchange services and broadband internet services; distributed solar electric power to corporate, utility and municipal customers and owner and operator of terrestrial and submarine fiber optic transport systems primarily in the United States and the Caribbean. ATN International Inc., formerly known as Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc., is based in Beverly, United States. “
Several other equities research analysts have also commented on the stock. BWS Financial decreased their target price on shares of ATN International from $85.00 to $52.00 in a research report on Friday, February 25th. StockNews.com assumed coverage on shares of ATN International in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They set a sell rating on the stock.
ATN International (NASDAQ:ATNI – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 23rd. The technology company reported $0.12 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.07 by $0.05. The company had revenue of $187.57 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $185.06 million. ATN International had a negative net margin of 3.67% and a positive return on equity of 0.55%. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted ($0.78) EPS. Sell-side analysts predict that ATN International will post -0.28 EPS for the current year.
The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, April 15th. Investors of record on Friday, April 8th will be given a $0.17 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 7th. This represents a $0.68 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.63%. ATN International’s dividend payout ratio is presently -46.90%.
Several institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. California State Teachers Retirement System boosted its position in shares of ATN International by 2.1% in the 4th quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System now owns 15,448 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $617,000 after buying an additional 322 shares in the last quarter. Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio boosted its position in shares of ATN International by 39.5% in the 4th quarter. Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio now owns 5,378 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $215,000 after buying an additional 1,524 shares in the last quarter. Credit Suisse AG boosted its position in shares of ATN International by 18.8% in the 4th quarter. Credit Suisse AG now owns 8,963 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $358,000 after buying an additional 1,417 shares in the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its position in shares of ATN International by 1.0% in the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 179,013 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $7,151,000 after buying an additional 1,771 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Bank of New York Mellon Corp boosted its position in shares of ATN International by 12.0% in the 3rd quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 217,943 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $10,211,000 after buying an additional 23,324 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 63.90% of the company’s stock.
ATN International Company Profile (Get Rating)
ATN International, Inc, through its subsidiaries, provides telecommunications services. It operates in three segments: International Telecom, US Telecom, and Renewable Energy. The International Telecom segment provides fixed data and voice; fixed, carrier, managed, and mobility services to customers in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Guyana, and the US Virgin Islands, as well as video services in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and the US Virgin Islands.
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Top 10 By Country
Weekly Top 10 lists of the most watched TV and films in countries around the world.
TV
Venezuela
Some territories are included in the countries list for convenience.
March 28 - April 3, 2022
Top titles in Venezuela from March 28 - April 3, 2022 are also popular in other countries around the world.
Includes countries and territories that have a “Top 10 Row” on Netflix. Countries are grouped by regions defined by the United Nations Statistics Division.
Bridgerton: Season 2
Top 10 in TV in 93 countries on Netflix
In The Americas:
#1 Argentina•#1 Bahamas•#1 Bolivia•#1 Brazil•#1 Canada•#1 Chile•#1 Colombia•#1 Costa Rica•#1 Dominican Republic•#1 Ecuador•#1 El Salvador•#1 Guadeloupe•#1 Guatemala•#1 Honduras•#1 Jamaica•#1 Martinique•#1 Mexico•#1 Nicaragua•#1 Panama•#1 Paraguay•#1 Peru•#1 Trinidad and Tobago•#1 United States•#1 Uruguay•#1 VenezuelaIn Europe:
#1 Austria•#1 Belgium•#1 Bulgaria•#1 Croatia•#1 Czech Republic•#1 Denmark•#1 Estonia•#1 Finland•#1 France•#1 Germany•#1 Greece•#1 Hungary•#1 Iceland•#1 Ireland•#1 Italy•#1 Latvia•#1 Lithuania•#1 Luxembourg•#1 Malta•#1 Netherlands•#1 Norway•#1 Poland•#1 Portugal•#1 Romania•#1 Serbia•#1 Slovakia•#1 Slovenia•#1 Spain•#1 Sweden•#1 Switzerland•#1 Ukraine•#1 United KingdomIn Africa:
#1 Egypt•#1 Kenya•#1 Mauritius•#1 Morocco•#1 Nigeria•#1 Réunion•#1 South AfricaIn Asia:
#1 Bahrain•#1 Bangladesh•#1 Cyprus•Hong Kong•#1 India•Indonesia•#1 Israel•Japan•#1 Jordan•#1 Kuwait•#1 Lebanon•Malaysia•#1 Maldives•#1 Oman•#1 Pakistan•Philippines•#1 Qatar•#1 Saudi Arabia•Singapore•South Korea•#1 Sri Lanka•Taiwan•Thailand•Turkey•#1 United Arab Emirates•VietnamIn Oceania:
#1 Australia•#1 New Caledonia•#1 New ZealandCafé con aroma de mujer: Season 1
Top 10 in TV in 18 countries on Netflix
In The Americas:
Argentina•Bolivia•Chile•Colombia•Costa Rica•Dominican Republic•Ecuador•El Salvador•Guatemala•Honduras•Mexico•Nicaragua•Panama•Paraguay•Peru•Uruguay•VenezuelaIn Europe:
SpainYo soy Betty, la fea: Season 1
Top 10 in TV in 16 countries on Netflix
In The Americas:
Argentina•Bolivia•Chile•Colombia•Costa Rica•Dominican Republic•Ecuador•El Salvador•Guatemala•Honduras•Mexico•Nicaragua•Panama•Paraguay•Peru•VenezuelaBridgerton: Season 1
Top 10 in TV in 89 countries on Netflix
In The Americas:
Argentina•Bahamas•Bolivia•Brazil•Canada•Chile•Colombia•Costa Rica•Dominican Republic•Ecuador•El Salvador•Guadeloupe•Guatemala•Honduras•Jamaica•Martinique•Mexico•Nicaragua•Panama•Paraguay•Peru•Trinidad and Tobago•United States•Uruguay•VenezuelaIn Europe:
Austria•Belgium•Bulgaria•Croatia•Czech Republic•Denmark•Estonia•Finland•France•Germany•Greece•Hungary•Iceland•Ireland•Italy•Latvia•Lithuania•Luxembourg•Malta•Netherlands•Norway•Poland•Portugal•Romania•Serbia•Slovakia•Slovenia•Spain•Sweden•Switzerland•Ukraine•United KingdomIn Africa:
Egypt•Kenya•Mauritius•Morocco•Nigeria•Réunion•South AfricaIn Asia:
Bahrain•Bangladesh•Cyprus•India•Indonesia•Israel•Jordan•Kuwait•Lebanon•Malaysia•Maldives•Oman•Pakistan•Philippines•Qatar•Saudi Arabia•Singapore•Sri Lanka•Thailand•Turkey•United Arab Emirates•VietnamIn Oceania:
Australia•New Caledonia•New ZealandPablo Escobar, el patrón del mal: Season 1
Top 10 in TV in 14 countries on Netflix
In The Americas:
Bolivia•Chile•Colombia•Costa Rica•Dominican Republic•Ecuador•El Salvador•Guatemala•Honduras•Nicaragua•Panama•Paraguay•Peru•VenezuelaThe Queen of Flow: Season 2
Top 10 in TV in 15 countries on Netflix
In The Americas:
Argentina•Chile•Costa Rica•Dominican Republic•Ecuador•El Salvador•Guatemala•Honduras•Nicaragua•Panama•Paraguay•Uruguay•VenezuelaIn Europe:
Portugal•SpainIs It Cake?: Season 1
Top 10 in TV in 64 countries on Netflix
In The Americas:
Bahamas•Bolivia•Canada•Chile•Colombia•Costa Rica•Dominican Republic•Ecuador•El Salvador•Guadeloupe•Guatemala•Honduras•Jamaica•Martinique•Mexico•Panama•Paraguay•Trinidad and Tobago•United States•Uruguay•VenezuelaIn Europe:
Austria•Belgium•Bulgaria•Croatia•Czech Republic•Denmark•Estonia•Germany•Iceland•Ireland•Latvia•Lithuania•Luxembourg•Malta•Norway•Poland•Portugal•Serbia•Slovakia•Slovenia•Spain•Sweden•Switzerland•United KingdomIn Africa:
Egypt•Kenya•Mauritius•Morocco•Réunion•South AfricaIn Asia:
Bahrain•Cyprus•Israel•Jordan•Kuwait•Lebanon•Maldives•Qatar•Saudi Arabia•United Arab EmiratesIn Oceania:
Australia•New Caledonia•New ZealandMethodology
Every Tuesday, we publish four global Top 10 lists for films and TV: Film (English), TV (English), Film (Non-English), and TV (Non-English). These lists rank titles based on weekly hours viewed: the total number of hours that our members around the world watched each title from Monday to Sunday of the previous week.
We consider each season of a series and each film on their own, so you might see both Stranger Things seasons 2 and 3 in the Top 10. Because titles sometimes move in and out of the Top 10, we also show the total number of weeks that a season of a series or film has spent on the list.
To give you a sense of what people are watching around the world, we also publish Top 10 lists for nearly 100 countries and territories (the same locations where there are Top 10 rows on Netflix). Country lists are also ranked based on hours viewed, but don’t show country-level viewing directly.
Finally, we provide a list of the Top 10 most popular Netflix films and TV (branded Netflix in any country) in each of the four categories based on the hours that each title was viewed during its first 28 days. For titles that are Netflix branded in some countries but not others, we still include all of the hours viewed.
All of the weekly lists and weeks in the Top 10 on the site start from June 28, 2021.
Weekly reporting is rounded to 10,000 to account for any fluctuations in internet connectivity around the world.
We engaged EY – an independent accounting firm – to review the weekly lists from July 6, 2021 to January 4, 2022. See report here.
We consider each season of a series and each film on their own, so you might see both Stranger Things seasons 2 and 3 in the Top 10. Because titles sometimes move in and out of the Top 10, we also show the total number of weeks that a season of a series or film has spent on the list.
To give you a sense of what people are watching around the world, we also publish Top 10 lists for nearly 100 countries and territories (the same locations where there are Top 10 rows on Netflix). Country lists are also ranked based on hours viewed, but don’t show country-level viewing directly.
Finally, we provide a list of the Top 10 most popular Netflix films and TV (branded Netflix in any country) in each of the four categories based on the hours that each title was viewed during its first 28 days. For titles that are Netflix branded in some countries but not others, we still include all of the hours viewed.
All of the weekly lists and weeks in the Top 10 on the site start from June 28, 2021.
Weekly reporting is rounded to 10,000 to account for any fluctuations in internet connectivity around the world.
We engaged EY – an independent accounting firm – to review the weekly lists from July 6, 2021 to January 4, 2022. See report here.
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Marcelo Montoya has apologised for an on-field homophobic slur that could see him cop a lengthy ban after the Warriors winger was referred straight to the NRL judiciary.
Montoya was on Sunday hit with a contrary conduct charge by the NRL for calling North Queensland winger Kyle Feldt a “f****t” in the Warriors’ Friday night win.
The NRL waited an unprecedented 44 hours to lay the charge, investigating the incident on Saturday and waiting for further video before accusing Montoya of the act.
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There is now no limit to the amount of time the Warriors winger will face on the sideline if found guilty, with the match review committee determining the charge greater than a grade three.
While it was initially unclear who made the remark, Montoya could be shouting “get up Kyle, you f****t” after he was penalised for a high shot on his opposite number.
In a statement on Sunday, Warriors CEO Cameron George apologised for the act almost two days after the incident.
“Both Marcelo and the club are extremely apologetic for the offence this has caused. It was unacceptable,” CEO Cameron George said.
“Marcelo accepts responsibility and knows there’s no place for such behaviour both in the game and in society generally.”
Mitchell Moses is the last player to be suspended for a homophobic slur, banned for two games in 2014 while playing in the NSW under-20s side.
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They’re coming: Australian rugby’s day of reckoning is fast approaching
By Paul Cully
Super Round is closing in fast and the Australian sides shouldn’t be under any illusions that they are off the pace in Super Rugby Pacific. There were two outstanding games in New Zealand at the weekend - the Hurricanes versus the Crusaders, and the Chiefs versus the Blues - and Kiwi punters will be confidently loading up on a 5-0 clean sweep in round 10 in Melbourne (maybe even 6-0, if you count Moana Pasifika v Western Force).
Australia’s two best sides, the Reds and the Brumbies, face the weakest sides in New Zealand, the Hurricanes and Highlanders, in the Super Round. But the intensity of the Kiwi games have been such that you have to be wary of the Hurricanes’ and Highlanders’ underwhelming records.
Super Rugby Trans Tasman was a chastening experience last year, and the Australian teams face the same challenge in 2022: the derbies across the ditch have been more dynamic and physical. Defensively, round 10 may be a shock to the system.
2. Rebels face a huge call on Matt To’omua.
The Wallabies see him as a No.12, the player himself probably prefers No.10, where the Rebels have started to get value out of him. To’omua had his best game of the season against the Force - taking the ball to the line - but the red card to Rebels No.12 Ray Nu’u creates a dilemma for Rebels coach Kevin Foote.
The simple option would be to put Carter Gordon at No.10 against the Reds next weekend, but he didn’t see any action off the bench against the Force on Friday, which indicates Foote is drawn to experience over potential.
The next few months are clearly going to be vital for To’omua’s Wallabies career. Can he get back to the version we saw in the early part of the 2020 Test season, when he looked capable of running through a brick wall for the Wallabies while also organising the defence? After a long career during which he has thrashed his body, you wouldn’t begrudge him if the appetite for that sort of work was not what it once was.
3. Christian Leali’ifano keeps the dream alive.
The veteran Wallabies No.10 may have options at Test level after World Rugby’s eligibility rule change - in theory, he could play for Manu Samoa later this year - but there’s no way he’d say no if Dave Rennie flicked him an SOS message before then.
It’s a longish shot at this stage, although no one saw the successful return of fellow 34-year-old Quade Cooper last year. Leali’ifano is certainly doing enough at Super Rugby level to suggest the fire is still burning. He’s getting plenty of minutes in the Moana Pasifika No.10 jersey in the brutal New Zealand side of the draw, and he has looked far from out of place.
Moana Pasifika coach Aaron Mauger is certainly a fan. “I thought our backs were really good,” Mauger said after Friday’s loss to the Highlanders. “The way we moved the ball into space, executed the plans, and attacked the spaces we thought were going to be available to us. The skills were sharp as well. Christian is really driving that backline around really well.”
4. Things look messy in Perth, on and off the field.
The Western Force’s progress looked to be stalling before Simon Cron was revealed as their new coach late last month - and the Rebels have been clearly improving - so we have to be a bit careful about attributing Friday’s loss solely to Tim Sampson’s surprise exit. However, they were so poor in the opening half-hour that you have to wonder if the news did have some effect.
The Sampson-Cron swap is probably the most obvious sign to date of the natural tension between the Force’s bold ambition to be the world’s best club, and the realities of what it takes - and how long it takes - to achieve that. Impatience is a quality in the business world, especially among entrepreneurs such as Force patron Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest, but that does not necessarily translate into a sporting context.
I suspect Cron may go after Japan-based Australians Harry Hockings and Isaac Lucas - he name-checked the duo during an interview from Japan recently - but if the Force don’t beat the Waratahs next weekend, they may well miss out on a finals spot. There’s a big job waiting for him.
5. Billy Pollard may live up to the hype.
Lachlan Lonergan has already been capped by Australia, but you already see that he is going to have to fight very hard to keep Billy Pollard out of the Brumbies’ No.2 jersey longer term. Pollard and Waratahs’ back-up hooker Tom Horton have the best builds out of the current crop in Australia, but Pollard probably has the higher ceiling.
He was genuinely dynamic against the Drua on Saturday - he’s so quick to get into a ball-carrying position after nailing his set-piece duties. Much has been made of the fact that Pollard turned down options in the NRL before committing to the 15-man code, but he looks like a rugby player to the core.
His low centre of gravity suggests that he won’t be found out in the scrum as he develops over the coming years, and he’s tough enough to make those tough carries in tight. An excellent prospect in an area of obvious weakness for Australian rugby.
Cully’s Super Rugby Team of the Week
- James Slipper (Brumbies)
- Billy Pollard (Brumbies) Player of the Round
- Cabous Eloff (Rebels)
- Matt Philip (Rebels)
- Fergus Lee-Warner (Force)
- Brad Wilkin (Rebels)
- Luke Reimer (Brumbies)
- Michael Wells (Rebels)
- Nic White (Brumbies)
- Matt To’omua (Rebels)
- Andy Muirhead (Brumbies)
- Bayley Kuenzle (Force)
- Len Ikitau (Brumbies)
- Andrew Kellaway (Rebels)
- Tom Wright (Brumbies)
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Civilians flee east Ukraine as Kyiv readies for 'big battles'
What you need to know:
- Six weeks into Russia's invasion, Moscow has shifted its focus to eastern and southern Ukraine after stiff resistance thwarted plans to swiftly capture Kyiv.
Ukraine is preparing for "big battles" against Moscow's forces in the east of the country, officials in Kyiv said, as thousands of civilians flee in fear of an imminent Russian offensive.
Evacuations resumed on Saturday from Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, where a missile strike killed 52 people at a railway station a day earlier, as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the latest Western leader to visit Kyiv.
Hailing the country's response to the Russian invasion, Johnson offered Ukraine armoured vehicles and anti-ship missiles to help ensure, he said, that the country will "never be invaded again".
His offer came after President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv was readying for a Russian onslaught.
"Sadly, in parallel we see the preparations for important battles, some people say decisive ones, in the east," he said Saturday at a press conference with visiting Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer.
"We are ready to fight and to look in parallel to end this war through diplomacy."
Zelensky's adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak said Ukraine must beat back Russia in the eastern Donbas region, where Moscow controls two separatist territories, before a meeting can take place between the Ukrainian leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Ukraine is ready for big battles. Ukraine must win them, including in the Donbas. And once that happens, Ukraine will have a more powerful negotiating position," he said on national television, as quoted by the Interfax news agency.
"After that the presidents will meet. It could take two weeks, three."
A video released by Zelensky's office showed him and Johnson walking through largely empty city streets to Kyiv's historic Maidan Square, as snipers kept watch.
The two men greeted passersby, and one visibly emotional man called out to Johnson: "We need you."
Johnson said the discovery of scores of civilian bodies in Ukrainian towns had "permanently polluted" Putin's reputation.
Six weeks into Russia's invasion, Moscow has shifted its focus to eastern and southern Ukraine after stiff resistance thwarted plans to swiftly capture Kyiv.
With thousands killed in the fighting and more than 11 million fleeing their homes or the country, the Ukrainian president called on the West to follow Britain's example on military aid.
"We need even more sanctions" against Russia, Zelensky said in a video address Saturday.
"We need more weapons for our state."
Plea to evacuate
EU leaders were meeting with Zelensky in Kyiv on Friday as news emerged of the devastating attack on Kramatorsk's station. The 52 victims included five children.
US President Joe Biden accused Russia of being behind a "horrific atrocity" in Kramatorsk, and France condemned the strike as a "crime against humanity".
Moscow denied responsibility for the rocket attack, which also wounded 109 people, according to the latest official count.
As Russian forces regroup in the east and south of Ukraine, local officials are urging residents to flee before it is too late.
The mayor of eastern Lysychansk, Oleksandr Zaika, on Saturday asked residents to evacuate as soon as possible due to constant shelling by the Russian army.
"It has become very difficult in the city, enemy shells are already flying," Zaika said in a video message.
While the city had stocks of humanitarian aid, he added, "that doesn't mean it will save your life if an enemy shell arrives".
And more Russian shells did arrive on Saturday, killing five people in the eastern cities of Vugledar and Novo Mikhaylovka, local governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Telegram.
Meanwhile, in Kramatorsk, minibuses assembled at a church to collect shaken evacuees. Almost 80 people, most of them elderly, sheltered in a building near the targeted station.
"There were around 300 to 400 people who rushed here after the strike," Yevgeny, a member of the Protestant church, told AFP.
"They were traumatised. Half of them ran to shelter in the cellar, others wanted to leave as soon as possible. Some were evacuated by bus" on Friday.
The Kramatorsk station was serving as the main evacuation hub for refugees from parts of the eastern Donbas region still under Ukrainian control.
AFP reporters at the station saw the remains of a missile tagged in white paint with the words "for our children" in Russian -- an expression used by pro-Russian separatists to invoke their own losses since fighting in Donbas began in 2014.
The governor of Donetsk claimed a missile with cluster munitions -- banned by an international treaty -- was used in the attack, according to remarks published by the Interfax news agency.
NATO plans new force
Speaking Saturday from Warsaw, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said a global pledging event for Ukrainian refugees has raised 10.1 billion euros ($11 billion).
In another sign of Western solidarity, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the military alliance was drawing up plans for a permanent military force on its border to prevent further Russian aggression.
"What we see now is a new reality, a new normal for European security. Therefore, we have now asked our military commanders to provide options for what we call a reset, a longer-term adaptation of NATO," he said in an interview with Britain's Daily Telegraph published Saturday.
He said the new force would be one of the "long-term consequences" of Putin's invasion.
Russian troops appear intent on creating a long-sought land link between occupied Crimea and the Moscow-backed separatist territories of Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbas region.
Growing evidence of atrocities has also galvanised Ukraine's allies in the EU, which has approved an embargo on Russian coal, frozen billions in assets of sanctioned individuals and ordered the closure of its ports to Russian vessels.
Bucha -- where authorities say hundreds were killed, some with their hands bound -- has become a byword for the brutality allegedly inflicted under Russian occupation.
And Ukrainian officials say they are uncovering even greater devastation in nearby towns.
Fresh allegations also emerged from Obukhovychi, northwest of Kyiv, where villagers told AFP they were used as human shields.
Moscow has denied targeting civilians.
Prisoner exchange
Ukraine said Saturday it had completed a third prisoner exchange with Russia, bringing 12 soldiers and 14 civilians home.
But Moscow said Russian troops also fired on a Ukrainian vessel trying to evacuate commanders of the Azov battalion from the besieged southeastern city of Mariupol.
The Azov Special Operations Detachment has been fighting Russian forces in Mariupol -- scene of some of the war's most grievous civilian suffering -- as it lies between Russia-occupied Crimea and the pro-Russian separatist regions in Ukraine's east.
Fighting has become increasingly fierce in the region as Russia redirects its focus.
The governor of Donetsk said that Russian shelling had also killed five civilians and wounded five others in two eastern Ukrainian cities Saturday.
Four of them died in the city of Vugledar, and one in the town of Novomikhaylovka, Pavlo Kyrylenko said in a Telegram post.
The Ukrainian army announced on Facebook that it had "destroyed four tanks, eight armoured vehicles and seven enemy vehicles", as well as "a plane, a helicopter" and drones.
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Virginia Pauline Sweeney
Virginia Pauline Sweeney, 88, of Roanoke, Va., passed away peacefully in her home on Friday, April 8, 2022.
Pauline was an avid NASCAR fan and had to watch it every Sunday, she also loved to cook and was a very loving mother.
She is preceded in death by parents, Wilton and Mae Sweeney; son, Lawrence Sweeney; an infant son; sisters, Mildred, Ester, Mary, Eva Mae; brother, Sonny.
Surviving are her children, Gary Sweeney, Linda Koll (Scott), John Hicks (Gloria), Sue Hicks; grandchildren, Billy Hicks (Brooke), April Hicks, Tony Jackson, Donna Owle, Carrie Johnson (Tyler), Amber Koll, Amy, Robbie; eight great-grandchildren; brothers, George Sweeney and William Sweeney (Linda).
A celebration of Pauline's life will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, at Lotz Funeral Home, 1001 Franklin Road, Roanoke with Pastor Jeff Gardner officiating. The family will receive friends on Monday, April 11, 2022, from 2 until 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at Lotz Funeral Home.
Burial will be held at Sweeney Family Cemetery Floyd, VA 24091
Online condolences may be made at
www.lotzfuneralhomeroanoke.com.
Published by Roanoke Times on Apr. 10, 2022.
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