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Josh Brolin Has Some Surprising Thoughts About Almost Playing Batman
Getting cast as Batman is something of a rare honor in Hollywood, but it's one that quite a few A-listers have managed over the years. While more than a few actors stepped into the role before him, Michael Keaton was arguably the first big-name actor to take on the role on the big screen in 1989's "Batman." Since that time, actors like Val Kilmer, George Clooney, and Christian Bale have all donned the cowl. The latest actor to play the Caped Crusader is none other than Robert Pattinson in "The Batman," which has managed to gross an impressive $737 million at the worldwide box office (per Box Office Mojo).
This has made the character once again become a central point in the world of pop culture, and attention has turned to actors who have played the character before or almost did at one point. Josh Brolin, who fans may know as Thanos from the "Avengers" movies, falls into the latter category, and recently, he offered some surprising thoughts about almost playing the Dark Knight.
Josh Brolin was intrigued by the possibility of playing an older Batman
Josh Brolin recently appeared on an episode of the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast (via Twitter) and he was asked about nearly playing an older version of Batman for Zack Snyder. That role, as fans now know, eventually went to Ben Affleck instead. But Brolin admitted that he was intrigued by the idea of playing the character, and he liked the somewhat dangerous odds that came with the role.
"Again, because, like something that is set up to not work at all or to work flyingly," Brolin said. "I like those odds. I like playing with those odds. I'm like 'am I the guy who's gonna make it all fail?'" Brolin also brought up George Clooney's time in the role, and the fact that Clooney still makes jokes about his time as Batman, especially over the infamous nipple suit that appeared in "Batman & Robin."
Rumors of Brolin's casting go back to 2013 when The Hollywood Reporter noted that Snyder was looking for an actor in his 40s to portray Batman for what was then rumored to be "Man of Steel 2." Other actors who were reportedly considered were Richard Armitage and Joe Manganiello, the latter of whom went on to play Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke in "Justice League." Either way, fans who are intrigued by this idea need not fret, as Brolin also said (probably jokingly) that maybe he'll do it when he's 80 instead.
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I’m delighted because the project was fund the year round with generous donators who are supporting children across India (251. in schools already and this website explains and displays projects undertaken over twenty yeats!). Here, from their first, young students and in a more formal presentation in Pashnauanad on 03 Oct when we took the photos.\nPlease enjoy these, all three young adult males: Abid Nabil Qaiyom of While San Francisco Giants fans may have enjoyed their team's 13-2 home victory over the San Diego Padres Tuesday night, a different type of win came when Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken took over as first base coach, becoming the first woman to coach on the field in major league baseball history.
After Giants regular first-base coach Antoan Richardson was ejected from the game at the top of the third inning, Nakken was called in to replace him.
It became another milestone for the coach who was already the league's first full-time female coach. Nakken became an assistant coach in 2020 after working in the team's front office.
This wasn't Nakken's first time at first base either. She made an appearance for the Giants during an exhibition game in 2020, but it was the first time she's coached during a regular season game.
Nakken, who played first base for Sacramento State's softball team, brings years of experience at the position, making it a no-brainer for bench coach Kai Correa to call her up after Richardson's ejection. But for the Giants' assistant coach, Tuesday night was just another day at the office.
"I've been in training as a first-base coach for the last few years. I work alongside Antoan, so I stepped into what I've been hired to do," said Nakken, according to MLB.com.
Although she tried to downplay the achievement, the moment wasn't lost on the players. Padres first baseman Eric Hosmer made sure to give her a congratulatory handshake. Giants' catcher Curt Casali gave her a big hug when she returned to the dugout.
And for baseball, Tuesday night was a step forward for the league as it continues its push at diversification.
Nakken's milestone comes just three months after the New York Yankees made history by hiring the minor leagues' first female manager, Rachel Balkovec, who made her managerial debut last week with the Yankees' Single-A affiliate in Tampa.
For years, the MLB has sought to diversify the league's on-field and operations positions by introducing programs such as its diversity pipeline and a diversity fellowship program.
And while it takes time for such programs to bear fruit, the league no doubt sees these as encouraging signs.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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By ANNA LIZ NICHOLS and ED WHITE
Associated Press
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Black man face-down on the ground was fatally shot in the back of the head by a Michigan police officer, the violent climax of a traffic stop, foot chase and fight over a stun gun, according to videos of the April 4 incident released Wednesday.
Patrick Lyoya, 26, was killed outside a house in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The white officer repeatedly ordered Lyoya to “let go” of his Taser, at one point demanding: “Drop the Taser!”
Citing a need for transparency, the city’s new police chief, Eric Winstrom, released four videos, including critical footage of the shooting recorded by a passenger in Lyoya’s car on that rainy morning.
“I view it as a tragedy. … It was a progression of sadness for me,” said Winstrom, a former high-ranking Chicago police commander who became Grand Rapids chief in March.
Video showed Lyoya running from the scene after an officer stopped him for driving with a license plate that didn’t belong to the vehicle. They struggled in front of several homes while Lyoya’s passenger got out and watched.
Winstrom said the fight over the Taser lasted about 90 seconds. In the final moments, the officer was on top of Lyoya, kneeling on his back at times to subdue him.
“From my view of the video, Taser was deployed twice. Taser did not make contact,” Winstrom told reporters. “And Mr. Lyoya was shot in the head. However, that’s the only information that I have.”
State police are investigating the shooting. Kent County’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Stephen Cohle, said he completed the autopsy but toxicology tests haven’t been finished.
The traffic stop was tense from the start. Video shows Lyoya, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, getting out of the car before the officer approached. He ordered Lyoya to get back in the vehicle but the man declined.
The officer asked him if he spoke English and demanded his driver’s license. The foot chase began soon after, video shows.
Winstrom didn’t identify the officer, a seven-year veteran who is on paid leave during the investigation.
“Me being from Chicago for the last 20 years, I’ve handled many police shootings myself, so I do have a lot of experience in this,” the chief said. “I was hoping to never have to utilize that experience here.”
Video was collected from Lyoya’s passenger, the officer’s body-worn camera, the officer’s patrol car and a doorbell camera. Prosecutor Chris Becker, who will decide whether any charges are warranted, objected to the release but said Winstrom could act on his own.
Becker said the public shouldn’t expect a quick decision.
“While the videos released today are an important piece of evidence, they are not all of the evidence,” he said.
City Manager Mark Washington warned that the videos would lead to “expressions of shock, of anger and of pain.” Some downtown businesses boarded up their storefronts, and concrete barricades surrounded police headquarters.
Lyoya had two young daughters and five siblings, said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who spoke to his family.
“He arrived in the United States as a refugee with his family fleeing violence. He had his whole life ahead of him,” Whitmer, a Democrat, said.
More than 100 people marched to Grand Rapids City Hall before a City Commission meeting Tuesday night, chanting “Black lives matter” and “No justice, no peace.”
Winstrom last week said he met Lyoya’s father, Peter Lyoya, and that they both cried.
“I get it as a father. … It’s just heart-wrenching,” the chief told WOOD-TV.
As in many U.S. cities, Grand Rapids police have been occasionally criticized over the use of force, particularly against Black people, who make up 18% of the population.
In November, the Michigan Supreme Court heard arguments in a lawsuit over the practice of photographing and fingerprinting people who were never charged with a crime. Grand Rapids said the policy changed in 2015.
A downtown street has been designated Breonna Taylor Way, named for the Black woman and Grand Rapids native who was killed by police in Louisville, Kentucky, during a botched drug raid in 2020.
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White reported from Detroit. AP reporters Corey Williams in West Bloomfield, Michigan; David Eggert in Lansing, Michigan; and John Flesher in Traverse City, Michigan, contributed to this story.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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Should I attend Goafest…
By Sanjeev Kotnala
I wish Goafest 2022, the flagship Industry celebration of advertising excellence and networking all the best. But will Goafest 2022 be different this time? Only time will tell. Goafest has given birth to many stories. Reunion of friends. A cold, arrogant walk-by competition. Too many drinks and loosening of the tongue. Awards appreciated and criticised. A simple meeting of eyes and a friendship of decades. Expectations and imaginations play havoc with the sense of direction at Goafest. Everyone wants closure, even if Netflix insists on a script with a sequel possibility. So, here is one.
It is an old story. One where I tried hard to find the closure. It all started in Goafest 2016 and remained unfished till 2021. There was no Goafest in 2020 and 2021. It’s a long story but maybe worth a read. Even if I say so.
EPISODE 1. THE BEGINNING. GOAFEST 2016.
It is 2am, late last night at Goafest 2016. The after-hours party is in full swing at Grand Hyatt, Goa. I am tipsy and am having meaningless conversations with friends in the reception area. Soon by tomorrow afternoon, you won’t find signs of Goafest here. I can’t dance to save my life, so I am outside the after-party arena where youngsters are busy outperforming each other. While I think, what the hell I am doing here, something magical happens.
I find a young lady politely asking me if I have cigarettes to spare.
Me, young at heart, who was lonely in the group of friends and colleagues, obliges. I have enough. And even if it was the last one, I would have still given it to her.
She seems alone, and maybe her friends are inside. She lingers on smoking expertly, and we start a conversation that meanders across topics that I have no memory of. The after-hours Vodka must be confusing the beer foundation laid through the day.
We talked for some two hours, or so it seemed. I never asked her for her name, and I don’t remember if she told me her name. I am sure she would never remember me. She had no reason to do so; what if she had borrowed and smoked 3-4 cigarettes with me. I remember she was working in digital space and planning to pursue an MBA from one of the IIMs. Like every IIM alumnus, I let her know I was from IIMA.
ALL THAT I REMEMBER.
I have a faint memory of the slightly tipsy lady in her mid-20s. She was wearing a light pastel dress and smoking. She had a dimple on her left cheek; maybe it was the right cheek. She wore a silver ring with Neelam. I remember telling her Neelam and Saturn. Even said that she could not be Taurus because she was wearing Neelam. And, she said something about her sting harder than the bite- and so I thought she was scorpion- this was a late realisation.
Few of my friends tell me that they left us together and moved on, as it seemed we were on a different trip. I sat on the ground, looking up at her. She stood stylishly in her pastel dress, playing and ruffling my hair. That’s all I remember…
EPISODE 2. UNFINISHED STORY. Woh Nahi Aai
For one whole year, the memory lingered, and I tried many ways to search for us. So, nearer the Goafest 2017, overestimating the power of Twitter and my reach in a moment of desperation, I twitted, ‘Dear young lady, if you are attending the Goafest, do connect. And yes, you can find me around 1230, you know where. I did not mention A.M or PM. Forgot even to ask my limited industry followers to RT for reach. However, few well-wishers still re-tweeted. I even declared my intent on my blog and the weekly column on mxmindia.com. Clearly, I was hoping for a miracle, for my message to reach her, and it was ‘Mission Impossible’.
Here was a complex situation. My identity was out in the open. My tweets, as well as the article, carried my not so exciting mugshot. I, on the other side, had no way to tag her. All I had was a faint memory of an overtly tipsy lady smoking with me and having a purposeless conversation.
At Goafest 2017, Night #1, I left the awards function early. Took a luxurious bath and made my way to the bait area, and I waited for the full three beer bottles and four cigarettes. Someone must have been laughing at my cost. I questioned my expectation while taking a long walk back to the room. And I tweeted an update ‘Woh Nahi Aayi’.
MESSAGES KEEP THE HOPE ALIVE.
Goafest 2017, Day 2, two emails landed in my inbox late in the afternoon. Both suggest a meeting and are full of cryptic clues. The e-mails came within two hours of each other from two different IDs. The writing style clearly indicated they were from two different people. Men will be men, and I am no different. I happily accepted the challenging invite.
I had no option but to wait at the designated area. I lazily smoked and slowly sipped on my Kingfisher. My eyes scanned the site, and nothing happened. So, after a long sluggish wait, I give up. Dejected, I dragged myself to the room.
As I was swiping my room key, my phone beeped with an SMS notification. It read, ‘Sorry could not meet. There were friends who she could not shake. Another follow-up message instructed me to Meet tomorrow at the same place but not to call or reply to the message. She had already left the venue.
I checked on Truecaller, and it showed the caller’s name as Priyanka*. It was tempting to send her a funny reply, but I stopped myself. She was clear, and I was not supposed to send her a message. Why spoil my chances!
There was also an e-mail. Similar message but signed with a different name. I was confused but decided to play along. Now, all I could do was wait. Tomorrow would be my last chance to meet them, and there was nothing to lose.
EPISODE 3. SIDETRACKS.
My friend from Engineering, Shailendra Singh, posted at GOA with the Indian Navy, came to meet me with his lovely wife. I was worried he may ask me for dinner, and I would have no way to duck. Fortunately, as they had another function to attend, they left by 6 pm.
Another friend Satinder Pal Singh (IIM Ahmedabad 87 batch), working with Nestle in Goa, came over. He was more than an hour late from his scheduled time. I met him in the room and, without any delay, opened the beer. Sometime later, he suggested going out for dinner as he had driven some 20km to meet me, I could not refuse. The only condition I was to be back by 1130 p.m. I knew nothing much will happen. However, how could I leave it to chance. With pregnant possibilities of ‘What-if’. While I went with Satinder to ‘Junction’ at the Mall in Dona Paula, my heart and mind were at the Goafest. The beer and food took their time between two friends. Satinder dropped me at the hotel a few minutes past midnight. I was short on my appointment.
Time was of the essence. I changed, splashed some perfume, redid my ponytail, checked my stock of cigarettes, and hurriedly made my way to the reception area.
EPISODE 4. PARTIAL CLOSURE. KOI TOH AAYA.
Night 2 of Goafest 2017. At the designated hour, I reached the reception area. There is a PYT sitting in one corner. She walks up to me, and she wants to borrow a cigarette, and a code has been broken. I smile, and she smiles back. I know Meeta* is not my MissGoafest2016. We talk, and I feel it is a waste of time.
Meeta is standing with her back to the after-party arena. There is no dimple on her cheeks. I see another girl scanning the area, our eyes meet for a second, and she walks up to me. She speaks slowly but with confidence. ‘Finally, you have a smoke to spare’. I smile and offer her the pack. I have enough to spare today.
Priyanka, Meeta and I are meeting for the first time. They agreed they wanted to play a prank. If I was to ask my mathematician friends to calculate the probability of two girls independently deciding to play a trick on a guy like me at Goafest! He would answer without calculation. Zilch.
They had observed me last night and were touched by my harmless dedication that they decided to meet. Thanks, Pratap Bose, for that single re-tweet.
The girls were bored at the after-party. They have been with the same colleagues for the last two days. Both of them had independently sent me cryptic messages. It seems my focus and dedication to the cause impressed them. They have seen me waiting, smoking and drinking at the registration area. ‘Aapki Talash Ke Fan Ho Gaye Hum’ Priyanka joked. ‘They don’t make a man like you anymore’. Meeta joined in. Surprisingly, I believed them. I smile. There is not much to do.
We end up in my room, and I have enough stock of cigarettes and beer. We finally call it a night at 3:30 A.M. they have an early flight to Mumbai. No promises are exchanged to remain in touch. And none is needed or expected.
I believe Miss2016, with the dimple on her left cheek, did not attend Goafest 2017.
EPISODE 5 THE UNFINISHED STORY. GOAFEST 2018- 2019.
Hope is a silly thing. The gap between expectation and experience is the reason for all problems. Once again, in 2018, I thought I would be lucky. I shared my story and expectations in 2018 to meet Miss 2016. But neither MissGoafest2016 nor Priyanka or Meeta showed up. I gave up the hunt. There is a limit to being optimistic. But, I still wanted to meet MissGoafest2016 to finally know if she had the dimple on the left or the right cheek.
EPISODE 6. LIFE IS FULL OF SURPRISES.
In 2021, I was looking for Brand managers for one of my consulting clients. There is a resume that impresses me, and a zoom call is scheduled in November 2021 with the lady candidate. I noticed that she had a dimple on her left cheek. She is a young MBA with three years of experience. She kept smiling and was very confident.
‘Midway through the call, she randomly asked me- ‘So, do you have a cigarette to spare’. It took me a moment to realise, and then she confirmed she was my Miss Goafest2016. The interview derailed immediately. We started talking about my chase and hunt and how she had enjoyed it from the sidelines, knowing it was her but could tell no one. In the end, she told me, she was not in for the job – but wanted to end my agony and let me put a face and name to it.
EPISODE 7. I DECIDED.
Recently Shalini* once again called me in March. She was all bubbly and confident like ever. She told me she had registered for Goafest 2022, and maybe we could share a smoke and more in May. I was all smiles for a moment, and then I told her NO- maybe this year I will give Goafest a pass.
She was a bit irritated and asked if she was the reason for my decision, and I could not tell her the truth. I am still not sure if I should attend Goafest 2022. Or should I break my record of attending every edition of Goafest – an industry event that I love and have always written about. And I heard her mumble ‘Coward’.
What would you do? Tell me should I attend Goafest 2022?
The question that haunts me is, What if she is telling the truth and what if she is lying? And what are the possibilities if I did attend Goafest 2022?
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DISCLAIMER: *The names have been changed to disguise the identity. This is a true story. Ture but not necessarily the complete truth. My desire to meet her again has been sincere and innocent, and I know to differentiate between fantasy and realistic fantasy
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Police identify remains of missing 8-year-old boy; nationwide arrest warrant includes father
PASCO, Wash. (Gray News) - Police in Washington have identified human remains found in rural Benton County earlier this year as 8-year-old Edgar Casian, who went missing in September 2020.
The Pasco Police Department updated the case on Wednesday that the remains of a young child found by hikers back on Feb. 5 were indeed the missing boy after dental records matched.
Multiple agencies including Pasco police, Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and the Benton County Sheriff’s Office responded to the area to recover the remains.
The Pasco Police Department reported it first initiated a missing child report for Edgar on May 27, 2021.
Currently, a nationwide extraditable arrest warrant has been issued for the boy’s father Edgar Salvador Casian-Garcia and Araceli Medina for first-degree murder, according to Pasco police.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reports they were the last two seen with Edgar back in September 2020.
Police also report the current whereabouts of Edgar’s father and Medina are unknown.
Authorities urged anyone with more information on this case to contact the Pasco Police Department at 509-545-3421 or email Det. Davis at davisj@pasco-wa.gov and reference PPD case #21-15039.
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Funeral will be Tuesday for Galion teen killed in Lima wreck 4 days before birthday
The funeral for a Galion boy who died in a wreck four days before his 17th birthday will be next week at Schneider-Gompf Funeral Home.
Colton Christopher Bonen was killed at 6:10 a.m. Sunday in a one-vehicle crash on I-75 in Bath Township, near Lima.
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Bonen was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a news release provided by Sgt. Ryan Purpura of the Ohio Highway Patrol.
Bonen was the front passenger in a 2014 GMC Terrain that was traveling north on I-75 near mile marker 128. Four people were in the car.
None of vehicle occupants wore seat belts
Another Galion boy, Cameron Streibel, age 15, was driving, according to the patrol report.
In the back seat were Harley Sharp, 19, and William Morgan, 20, both also of Galion.
"The vehicle traveled off the left side of the roadway, struck a drainage culvert and overturned," the report reads. "Streibel and two passengers were ejected from the vehicle."
Bonen died at the scene and Streibel was taken to Lima Memorial Hospital with life-threatening injuries.
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Sharp and Morgan were taken to the same hospital with serious injuries.
"Safety belts were not utilized by any of the occupants," the report reads.
The crash is still being investigated by troopers from the patrol's Lima post.
The highway patrol reminded motorists to wear properly adjusted safety belts, according to the report.
Service to be held Tuesday
Bonen would have turned 17 on Thursday, according to his obituary on the Schneider-Gompf website.
His parents, Christopher and Erica, are both from Galion.
"He was passionate about nature and loved being outdoors, especially fishing," his obituary reads. "Colton had a heart to make those around him laugh, as he enjoyed the sounds of laughter that he brought to others. Colton adored his two canine companions, Dixie and Daisy."
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Calling hours will be 4-8 p.m. Monday at Mark A. Schneider-Gompf Funeral Home, 303 Portland Way N., Galion.
Bonen's service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday with LeAnne Gompf officiating. Burial will follow at Fairview Cemetery.
Those wishing to share a memory of Colton or send condolences to the Bonen family may do so by visiting masfh.com.
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USTA promotes Lew Sherr to CEO and executive director
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Lew Sherr has been selected as the chief executive officer and executive director of the USTA. The national...
www.ksl.comWHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Lew Sherr has been selected as the chief executive officer and executive director of the USTA. The national...
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Wordle has taken the world by storm, and if you’ve not given in to playing the daily game, we can guarantee you’ve seen the elusive squares all over social media.
The aim of the game is to find a 5 letter word in only six attempts.
The game uses the same rules as Scrabble, where only real words are allowed both in guesses and the result.
If you get a letter in the right spot and form the correct word, the square turns green.
But if the guessed letter is in the word but not in the right spot, the square turns yellow.
Letters that are wrong turn grey to help the process of elimination for the six tries.
Wordle tips and best starting words to keep your streak
Hint for today’s Wordle Thursday, April 14
If you’re still trying to save your streak, then don’t scroll down yet, maybe some hints will send you on your way.
Today’s word starts with the letter M and ends with the letter E.
It has two vowels.
Cut up or ground up meat.
What is today’s Wordle answer, Thursday, April 14?
If you have given up on today’s game, then we can save you the misery. But those still trying to crack the 5-letter code, look away now.
The Wordle for April 14 is MINCE.
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The game was created by software engineer, Josh Wardle, who recently announced he had sold the popular word game to the New York Times.
In a statement on Twitter he wrote: “Since launching Wordle, I have been in awe of the response of everyone that has played.
“The game has gotten bigger than I ever imagined (which I suppose isn’t that much of a feat given I made the game for an audience of one).
“It has been incredible to watch the game bring so much joy to so many and I feel so grateful for the personal stories some of you have shared with me – from Wordle uniting distant family members, to provoking friendly rivalries, to supporting medical recoveries.
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Of the seven races contested on the 2021-22 Drydene Xtreme DIRTcar Series trail, four were claimed by first-time winners.
The dust has settled on the winter Super Late Model tour’s third consecutive season of competition, which featured the Southeast’s best drivers racing in three states over 126 calendar days. A deep dive into the numbers shows several statistics that defined the growth and diversity of the competitors that took part on tour this season.
Among the many takeaways that stood out, a record-high total of $304,150 was paid out in event purse and points fund money. This season also produced seven different winners in seven races, up by three from both previous years, and visited four different tracks – matching the 2019-20 season total.
Check out these other various statistics compiled over the 2021-22 season, and be on the lookout for the 2022-23 Drydene Xtreme DIRTcar Series schedule to be released later this year.
1, 2 – Ross Bailes won his first championship with the Xtreme Series this year, becoming only the second driver to win the iconic Drydene oil barrel championship trophy (Chris Madden – 2019-20, 2020-21).
3 – The Series points lead changed hands three times from start-to-finish. Bailes led through the first three races before a quiet weekend at Lavonia Speedway in February gave the lead to Carson Ferguson and Ben Watkins after Friday night at Lavonia.
Watkins took sole possession of it after Ferguson wrecked out of the Saturday Lavonia race and kept it through Friday night of the season finale at Cherokee on March 25. Bailes finished 15 positions ahead of Watkins the very next night to take the lead back and the championship trophy with him.
6 – Six different drivers were awarded with Quick Time honors for the fastest lap overall in Qualifying, including Dustin Mitchell, Brandon Overton, Jensen Ford, Ben Watkins (twice), Brandon Sheppard and Trent Ivey.
Six names also topped the field in a Last Chance Showdown event, including Dennis Franklin, Dalton Cook, Boom Briggs, Josh Richards, Anthony Sanders and David Duke.
7 – Number of drivers to earn Hard Charger honors in a Feature: Jeff Smith, Ben Watkins, Dalton Cook, Carson Ferguson (twice), Ethan Wilson, Cla Knight and Brent Larson.
16 – Sixteen different drivers finished on the podium this season. Bailes and Watkins tied at three apiece, Max Blair went back-to-back in the final two races of the season as an Outlaw invader to rank second, while all other drivers had one podium appearance.
17 – The number of points Bailes made up in the final race of the season at Cherokee. Watkins carried the points lead into the final race weekend after notching back-to-back podium finishes at Lavonia in February, which put him atop rivals Bailes and third-place Carson Ferguson.
Drivers from 17 different states attempted to qualify for at least one race on the schedule.
19 – Different Heat Race winners. Bailes led all drivers with three, and only two other drivers won twice (Sheppard, Blair).
70 – The total number of positions gained by Hard Chargers over seven Feature races.
82 – Different drivers attempted to qualify for at least one race on the schedule. This is an improvement by five from 2020-21 (77 drivers) and an increase of 12 from the inaugural season in 2019-20 (70 drivers).
370 – A total of 370 Feature laps were run between all seven races on the calendar. Cherokee Speedway’s annual endurance spectacle, the Blue Gray 100, topped the list at 100 laps, followed by the Rock Gault Memorial, which capped the season in a 60-lap, co-sanctioned special with the World of Outlaws CASE Construction Equipment Late Model Series.
The season-opening Palmetto State 50 ranked third with its 50-lap main event, while all other Features on the schedule were 40 laps in length.
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LONDON (AP) — British consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in 30 years last month, fueled by soaring costs for household energy and motor fuels — the latest grim figures as inflation surges around the world.
Inflation in the United Kingdom accelerated to 7% in the 12 months through March, the highest annual rate since March 1992, the Office for National Statistics said Wednesday.
The U.K. faces what economists say will be the biggest drop in living standards since the mid-1950s as rocketing energy costs, rising food prices and tax increases overshadow higher wages.
People around the world are feeling the squeeze of inflation as demand rapidly bounced back from the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine further drove up energy costs and squeezed supply chains.
In the United States, consumer prices last month jumped 8.5% from a year earlier, the fastest pace in more than 40 years, the Labor Department said Tuesday. In the 19 European countries using the euro, inflation surged to 7.5% last month, the fifth consecutive month that it has hit a record high.
In the U.K., the toll of rising rising means disposable household incomes, adjusted for inflation, are expected to drop by 2.2% this year, according to the government’s independent budget adviser.
Household natural gas prices jumped 28.3% over the last year, and electricity prices rose 19.2% as the global economy recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing worldwide demand for energy.
Prices will continue to rise after Britain’s energy regulator authorized a 54% increase in gas and electricity bills for millions of households that took effect in April.
Transportation costs are also rising, with the cost of gasoline and diesel fuel rising by an average of 30.7% over the past year, the biggest increase since current records began in January 1989, the Office for National Statistics said.
Countries are moving to ease the pain from rising food, fuel and other costs by raising interest rates. The Bank of England has raised raised its key interest rate three times since December, and the U.S. Federal Reserve hiked its benchmark short-term rate last month and is expected to keep raising it, possibly aggressively.
The European Central Bank, meanwhile, has sped up its exit from economic stimulus efforts to combat inflation but has not taken more drastic steps. It meets again Thursday.
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Book Review by Ken Junior Lipenga
Leslie Swartz. How I Lost My Mother: A Story of Life, Care and Dying. Wits University Press, 2021. 222 pages.
There are multiple angles from which one could approach Leslie Swartz’s latest life writing publication, How I Lost My Mother: A Story of Life, Care and Dying. The narrative affords insight into mother-son relationships, the dying body, or the aspect of care, just to mention a few. The subject of this book is the author’s mother, Elsie Swartz (nee Cohen), “born in Johannesburg to immigrant Jewish parents” (Swartz 1). As the narrator of the story, Leslie Swartz plays the role of the “proximate other”, telling a narrative “in which the family members are rendered as either equal in importance or more important than the reporting self” (Eakin 85). Axel Honneth (18) observes that the family unit is central for the individual’s recognition, through the way that people get treated within the family. Swartz plays this function, engaging in an act of recognition for his mother, even after she has passed on. At the same time, while reading the text, it becomes all too obvious that the story is not about her alone. It is also about the author, his sister, his wife, his grandmother, the doctors, the caregivers, and various other people who touched his mother’s life in one way or another, positively or otherwise.
The book has three sections, but it is truly the two first sections, “Finding” and “Losing”, that are bulky, and that contain the main narrative. The first part details the mother’s life prior to the diagnosis of her ailment, whereas the second part focuses on the cancer diagnosis, illness and caregiving experiences. The final section, “Afterwords”, is, unsurprisingly, focused on the author’s thoughts after his mother’s passing.
One of the main points in defence of the medical humanities, or other disciplines that blend the literary with concerns about physical or mental health, is that a narrative offers those in the medical profession an alternative perspective towards a patient. Narratives offer the opportunity for health professionals to recapture a humanity that is often assumed to be lost through the labour of study, countless consultations, and surgeries that have inured them to the human dimension of the patient. This may be an oversimplification, but it is also an impression formed by most patients when they consult a doctor who seems readily armed with a prescription, instead of taking time to listen to the patient. Reading about the visits that Elsie makes to various doctors, this thought comes to mind. The author does not really dwell on his mother’s health problems until the second half (“Losing”) of the book, but when he does, he presents material that reminds us of why the medical humanities matter. One of the chapters in the book, “Avoiding Surgery”, for example, details the misdiagnoses that the family experiences, and the author’s commentary on the bedside manner of different doctors that the family encounters. In the midst of inexplicable pain, Elsie consults several doctors, one of whom is “gruff and distant” (Swartz 121), taking her for “a neurotic old lady” (Swartz 122), and another who “spoke to her as though she was five years old and not too bright with it” (Swartz 122). When Swartz writes of his mother being “admitted to hospital […] where she was fully examined, X-rayed, prodded and poked, and sampled for blood to within an inch of her life” (Swartz 123), it is clear what he feels about how the patient should be treated.
Caregiving is one of the author’s central concerns, as he tells his mother’s story. Swartz writes about how the caregiver is also a human, one who gets frustrated, tired, and angry at the patient. As the author writes, “[p]art of the problem of care [is not] the care itself, but the wholesale failure of imagination about what care is” (Swartz 137). There is really no way for one to prepare for caring for an ailing, dying relation, and it is almost impossible to imagine what those who offer care go through. One of the main objectives of How I Lost My Mother, the author states, is “to talk about the problems we have in our invisibilisation of, disavowal of, the realities of care” (Swartz 138). This is particularly true of paid caregivers. Swartz holds that “the complexity of intimacy and exploitation, the layers of dependency, the gentleness and the violence that are intertwined with the employment of paid carers have not been thought about enough” (Swartz 156). However, what must be noted is that this is not just a book about caregiving, but it contains many intertextual elements. This is not just an author who – to use a phrase he employs in the text – has a lot of skin in the game [of caregiving], but also one who is careful as he practices the craft of writing. In fact, literature – both its consumption and production – is central to the author, and is tied to the life (and death) of his mother. With a mixture of recall from memory and imagination, the author creates links between his mother and writers such as Nadine Gordimer and Anne Frank, creating various intertextual moments that also include the excavation of his mother’s published short story from the Johannesburg Public Library. It is one of the more memorable intertextual moments in the narrative, and contributes to the aspect of recognition evoked earlier.
For a long time after I finished reading the book, I kept asking myself if my enjoyment had been influenced by the fact that I closely read his previous life writing publication, Able-Bodied: Scenes from a Curious Life, a memoir about his father. I would readily answer in the affirmative, as I went into the newer text seeking to fill some gaps that had been created by the previous book. However, How I Lost My Mother is also a narrative that is complete in its own right, and will be appreciated by readers who may not have encountered the first book.
Works Cited
Eakin, Paul John. How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves. London: Cornell University Press, 1999.
Honneth, Axel. The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral grammar of Social Conflicts. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995.
Swartz, Leslie. How I Lost My Mother: A Story of Life, Care and Dying. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2021.
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First Period_1, N.Y. Rangers, Kakko 6 (Miller, Goodrow), 10:20. Penalties_Cates, PHI (Holding), 11:51; Hayes, PHI (Slashing), 11:56; Laughton, PHI (Roughing), 12:33; Kreider, NYR (Slashing), 12:33.
Second Period_2, N.Y. Rangers, Kakko 7 (Chytil), 8:22. 3, N.Y. Rangers, Panarin 22 (Trouba), 11:03. Penalties_Miller, NYR (Holding), 0:20; Hayes, PHI (Roughing), 15:19; Goodrow, NYR (Roughing), 15:19; Zamula, PHI (Delay of Game), 17:40.
Third Period_4, N.Y. Rangers, Copp 18 (Goodrow, Trouba), 18:07 (en). Penalties_Fox, NYR (Slashing), 17:41; Goodrow, NYR (Misconduct), 18:07; Konecny, PHI (Misconduct), 18:07.
Shots on Goal_N.Y. Rangers 13-13-8_34. Philadelphia 10-12-6_28.
Power-play opportunities_N.Y. Rangers 0 of 3; Philadelphia 0 of 2.
Goalies_N.Y. Rangers, Georgiev 13-9-2 (28 shots-28 saves). Philadelphia, Sandstrom 0-1-1 (33-30).
A_15,967 (19,543). T_2:19.
Referees_Brandon Blandina, Kyle Rehman. Linesmen_Justin Johnson, Mark Shewchyk.
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Lucy Letby: Nurse accused of murdering eight babies ‘in year-long killing spree’ appears in court
A nurse accused of murdering eight babies in a year-long killing spree has appeared in court ahead of her trial.
Lucy Letby , 31, who pleaded not guilty at an earlier hearing to the eight murders plus 10 counts of attempted murder of babies, spoke only to confirm her identity and that she could hear proceedings as she appeared via videolink at Manchester Crown Court .
Letby, currently being held at HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Surrey, sat impassive throughout the 45-minute hearing as legal issues, which cannot be reported, were discussed between her lawyer Ben Myers QC and the judge Mr Justice Goss.
The parents of two of her alleged victims sat in the public gallery during the hearing, while more watched via videolink from Chester Crown Court.
Letby is alleged to have gone on a year-long killing spree while working on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital , in Chester.
She denies the murder of five baby boys and three baby girls and the attempted murder of five baby boys and five baby girls, all between June 2015 and June 2016.
A court order prohibits reporting of the identities of surviving and deceased children allegedly attacked by Letby, and prohibits identifying the parents or witnesses connected with the children.
Letby, of Arran Avenue, Hereford, was remanded back into custody by Mr Justice Goss as the hearing concluded.
He told the defendant: “Lucy Letby you will remain in custody where you are presently and there will be another hearing of this case in the early part of June.
“You will be required to attend, either in person, or over the link; it is a matter that will be considered nearer the time.”
A date of 4 October has been set for Letby’s trial, estimated to last up to six months at Manchester Crown Court.
Additional reporting by Press Association
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
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JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Bashir Mason is looking forward to the challenge of taking over at Saint Peter’s after its incredible run to the Elite Eight.
He understands that replacing Shaheen Holloway will be a tough act to follow after the Peacocks became the first No. 15 seed to reach the final eight in the NCAA Tournament, and fan favorites across college basketball.
Even tougher for the 38-year-old Jersey City native, who spent the past decade at nearby Wagner, will be keeping the Peacocks’ roster intact. Starting guards Daryl Banks III and Matthew Lee are in the transfer portal and top reserve guard Doug Edert has decided to transfer to Bryant.
“Getting the roster settled is what I’m focused on,” Mason said Wednesday, shortly after being introduced as the Peacocks’ new coach. Holloway left two weeks ago for the job at Seton Hall, his alma mater.
Banks, Lee and Edert were at the news conference in the refurbished Run Baby Run Arena along with Peacocks teammates and players from Wagner in Staten Island. Edert confirmed his decision to tranfer.
Banks said Mason tried to recruit him out of high school, so he knows him.
“I am listening to all my options,” said Banks, who led the Peacocks, averaging 11.3 points. “I am just going to be open-minded to everything.”
Mason said he spoke Tuesday with the Peacocks, telling them that he is a worker and knows they are, too. He said he’s not there to shake things up and wants to take the program to new heights.
Athletic director Rachelle Paul said there was a lot of interest in the Saint Peter’s job from all walks of college and high school coaches. She ultimately said Mason was attractive because he reminded her of Holloway, who led the team to a 22-12 mark this past season and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament title. Both men stress hard work, toughness and family.
Paul refused to disclose details of Mason’s contract with the Jesuit university, which has an undergraduate enrollment of about 2,100 students.
Mason said he was in seventh grade when he first met Holloway, a fellow guard who never backed down. They got to play because both youngsters knew Chris Chavannes, the current coach at The Patrick School.
Mason played two seasons at Marist High School for Chavannes and got to play against older players during the summer after his coach left for St. Patrick High School. He frequently went head-to-head with Holloway, who attended St. Patrick, which became The Patrick School a decade ago.
“He probably won most of them,” Mason said of their matchups. “But I fouled him a lot because I refused to get blown out.”
That’s the way Saint Peter’s will be on the court, although Holloway had them doing that in knocking off Kentucky, Murray State and Purdue in the NCAA Tournament.
“A lot of blood, sweat and tears went into Wagner and building up that program,” Mason said. “But this opportunity here was really difficult to turn down, and had nothing to do with the run they made to the Elite Eight. This is more about a new challenge. The bar has been set really high, and I’m excited about pushing the program further.”
This is the second time Mason has taken over a team after a big season. He replaced Dan Hurley at Wagner after a 25-6 season. Hurley left to go to Rhode Island and eventually to UConn.
Mason led Wagner to three Northeast Conference (NEC) regular-season titles, posting a 165-130 record. The Seahawks posted a 21-6 record this past season and appeared in the NEC title game. Wagner’s 15 conference wins matched the most in program history.
Wagner senior guard Elijah Ford said Saint Peter’s is getting a really good coach who will let the players know where they stand.
“Come in ready to play 150% every day,” Ford advised the Peacocks. “I know now practice is the hardest thing I have to go through, so if your best battle is not in practice, I don’t know what you are doing here.”
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Forget straight lines: dancers move like pollen in a ballet unlike any you’ve seen before
Kunstkamer was already the most talked-about event on the Australian dance calendar before David Hallberg decided to put his dance shoes back on.
By John Bailey
On a sunny midweek morning in the Australian Ballet’s Melbourne offices, David Hallberg is not doing his job. As artistic director of one of the country’s largest cultural institutions, you’d expect him to be fielding calls from around the world, forging partnerships and nailing down tours. Instead he’s … dancing?
After two decades performing with the likes of London’s Royal Ballet, the Bolshoi and American Ballet Theatre, Hallberg hung up his dancing shoes. When a dancer steps from the stage, they typically do it for good. It can be a tumultuous period: “A lot of people lose their sense of identity and go through a huge shift in what they’ll do in life,” he says.
So what’s he doing in sweatpants and ballet flats on the rehearsal room floor, learning moves alongside AB dancers who are technically his employees?
If it seems unusual for the Australian Ballet, it’s made more so by the choreography they’re learning. Kunstkamer is an epic work created for Nederlands Dans Theatre and described by Hallberg at the 2022 program announcement last year as “unlike anything we’ve ever done before; it will rock the boat”. It’s choreographed by Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon, outgoing artistic director and artistic adviser to NDT respectively, and world-leading dance-makers Marco Goecke and Crystal Pite. Lightfoot and Leon are here to oversee the first non-NDT production of Kunstkamer. As with all of their work, it’s as cutting-edge contemporary as anything you’re likely to see in the world of dance. And, as Hallberg declared, it’s unlike anything you’ve seen at the AB.
“Kunstkamer is exactly the kind of work that I know we need to be doing here in Australia,” says Hallberg. “To be the nation’s ballet company, to be one of the leading arts organisations in the country, we have to not only do a complete arc of work that encapsulates dance in general – and not just classical ballet – but we also have a responsibility to set the bar. Kunstkamer is setting the bar of what is the gold standard of contemporary work.”
Kunstkamer is inspired by the collections of natural wonders that became popular in the 18th century, as well as Albertus Seba’s gorgeously illustrated book The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, in which the burgeoning natural sciences were matched by lavish artistic expression.
But it’s been said that nature abhors a straight line, and classical ballet is full of them.
To achieve the perfect symmetry and unison of a classical ballet, a whole architecture of invisible scaffolding surrounds the dance. Hidden lights help dancers form razor-sharp lines, while steps are silently counted out with mathematical precision. Every gesture has its own name, collectively adding up to an esoteric language impenetrable to the outsider.
Kunstkamer eschews all this geometry and order in search of movements found in nature. Under Lightfoot’s direction, an ensemble of 40 dancers billow like pollen on the breeze, unfurl like a flower blooming or flock like birds against the sky. When Leon takes charge a smaller group moves with the hidden logic of fauna, alternately taking on a sense of mating dance, aggression display and animal in the headlights.
The experts’ guide to enjoying contemporary dance
DAVID HALLBERG: “Relinquish control, of asking why or how or what is it about ... allow your imagination to take control. When you’re in a dream, you’re not in control of what you’re dreaming and you’re allowing your brain to make up these realities that are completely unrealistic. When you sit down to watch Kunstkamer ... just experience it.”
SOL LEON: “What you are like, I don’t care. The only thing I care is that you are being touched, for whatever reason. I can see the body language of the people sitting has changed, because they don’t know why. I love that. You don’t need to know why or what has touched you.”
PAUL LIGHTFOOT: “We deliberately don’t say what the work is about, or give too many clues. It’s not giving you everything on a plate. It’s something you have to absorb. For some it might be slightly unnerving, but I don’t think in a negative way. You hope in a week they’ll wake up and still be thinking about ... the work. That’s the beauty of culture. We need it right now, god damn it. We need people to be able to associate their own thoughts, their own sadnesses or joys. Whatever emotions they might be going through.”
For almost two years Hallberg had been talking with NDT about bringing Kunstkamer to Australia. Then Leon popped the question about Hallberg stepping back onto the stage. “Paul did not know. I kind of did it by myself,” she says. “David and Paul had been talking for a long time and I called David and said: ‘I have a problem …’”
He replied with a firm no: not only had he retired from the stage, but he’d spent a lifetime dancing as the prince, and had almost no professional experience performing contemporary dance. But Leon was insistent.
“Sol has a really great power of persuasion,” says Hallberg. “She said, ‘This role is for someone who actually has stepped off the stage.’”
As Hallberg prowls the rehearsal room, movements sharp and furtive, sometimes muttering in a multitude of languages, he has a different energy to the rest of the dancers. If they are the wondrous, odd specimens in this collection, he seems like someone on the outside, peering in. “Like a gatekeeper or a ghost,” says Leon. Though the role Hallberg is dancing is hugely demanding on a technical level, it also requires someone who knows what it’s like to gaze back on the world he’s left.
“This character is very specific because it comes from a very big artist who dropped the stage and came back,” says Leon. “Of course we can fake it. But for me it was so important that this character was him.”
Hallberg took some convincing. “I had to go back and realise that in fact there isn’t someone in the company that’s fit for this role, because everyone’s still dancing and having great careers.”
The sense of looking back that characterises Hallberg’s role extends to Lightfoot and Leon. Kunstkamer was originally created to celebrate their 35 years with NDT. For most of their careers they’ve choreographed work together in one of the dance world’s most enduring partnerships, despite having very different presences in the rehearsal room. Lightfoot is a ball of chaotic energy, bouncing on springs as he directs: “Work hard! Big arms! Good boy! Feel each other, don’t rush! Goofy as you can be!” By contrast, Leon is a focused laser beam, freezing the action to adjust a dancer’s hand by just a few degrees.
Lightfoot’s canvas is huge, while Leon’s attention to detail is minute. “They just know each other so well,” says Hallberg. “They know each other’s M.O. They have very different energies which really complement each other. It’s not a sense of it clashing, it marries well together and that’s why they started choreographing together years ago.”
Kunstkamer offers challenges to all of its dancers. Where classical ballet favours flowing, lengthened limbs, we’re not 60 seconds into rehearsal before bent elbows and flexed toes appear. The hushed atmosphere is broken by dancers emitting animal noises or disjointed sentences. Recognisable dance shifts register until we’re not sure what we’re looking at: Italian opera? Bodybuilding? Cupids or toy soldiers, Bavarian dancers or lovers in embrace? Porcelain-faced ballerina Benedicte Bemet suddenly transforms into a flexing hulk, while the chisel-cheeked Callum Linnane takes on the aspect of a cavorting clown.
Much of this is Leon’s doing. Her practice features a heavy focus on character, and not in the conventional sense. It’s often uncertain why her dancers do the things they do, but watching her in action, it’s immediately obvious that everything is there for a reason. She cites a film director whose name is lost to the mists: “She said: ‘If I’m going to make the character of a killer or a psychopath, this [actor] should not know that I’m making that.’ It’s the public who’s going to fill that in.”
She approaches the creation of her characters in the same way: each point of detail is a piece of a psychological puzzle, but what they add up to will depend on the person watching.
Leon is choreographing seven characters, while Lightfoot is working with a much larger mass. Typically a work featuring this many bodies would be ordered, regimented, individuals dissolving into the whole. But Lightfoot directs his charges to stand off-centre, slightly out of line, never in a perfectly straight row. Their movements, too, feel as though each dancer is part of a larger movement while still retaining their own specificity. The effect is like watching the breaking of waves, or sheets of rain in a storm.
Pushing dancers beyond their comfort zone is part of the point, says Lightfoot.
“I have this real desire to help them learn these new languages, to transform as a company, so they won’t look like the Aussie Ballet that people are used to. That will be unnerving, perhaps, for certain audiences.”
Hallberg takes pains to emphasise that Kunstkamer doesn’t mark the transformation of the company Australian audiences know. “Just because we’re doing Kunstkamer doesn’t mean that we’re not doing other classical work. When we announce the 2023 season it’ll be full of classical ballet.”
But Lightfoot does hope the work expands the palate of both audience and company.
“I say it with love but I feel that Australian ballet has still got a little bit of a more old-fashioned feeling of what a classical company can be. Whereas you see a lot of classical companies now with their tentacles out. That doesn’t mean that they’re not still a strictly classical company, but I think that this work is like a kind of bridge.”
Kunstkamer is the kind of bridge that European audiences can’t get enough of – in its 60 years, NDT has premiered more than 800 productions. Bringing its leaders into the fold at the Australian Ballet was bound to be transformative.
“This is why they are who they are in the world. This is why they have the reputations that they have. What the audience is seeing is the absolute best in the world, in contemporary dance,” says Hallberg.
Taken from that perspective, perhaps he is doing his job after all.
Kunstkamer is at Sydney Opera House, April 29-May 14, and State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne, June 3-11. australianballet.com.au
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Albany, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Since Greg Gattuso took over UAlbany football in 2014, the Great Danes have had a penchant for a smash mouth running attack, often centered around a bell cow running back.
Since 2019 that running back had been Karl Mofor. The recently graduated tailback tallied 874 carries for nearly four thousand yards and 35 touchdowns in his five seasons for the Great Danes, and they might have his replacement.
Pittsburgh transfer Todd Sibley enters the running back room this season with the chance to take a hold of the Great Danes backfield. Gattuso’s history with Pitt made Albany an easy choice for Sibley.
“I’m a big people guy, I like being around good people and just speaking with some of the coaches, some of the people at Pitt they really recommended the coaches here,” Sibley said.
“They spoke really well of the program,” he added. “That was major for me and I think that’s what really led me here. I like being around good people and that’s what they told me I would be around if I came here.”
Sibley brings fresh legs, with only 68 career carries at Pitt.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily Derby" game were:
1st:12 Lucky Charms-2nd:6 Whirl Win-3rd:2 Lucky Star, Race Time: 1:43.60
(1st: 12 Lucky Charms, 2nd: 6 Whirl Win, 3rd: 2 Lucky Star; Race Time: one: 43.60)
¶ To win the grand prize, ticket-holders must match in exact order the winning race time and the first, second and third place horses. Lesser prizes are given to ticket-holders who correctly match other horses or race times.
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Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said services exports touched an all-time high of around USD 250 billion (about Rs 19 lakh crore) in 2021-22.
The previous highest level was USD 213 billion (about Rs 16 lakh crore) in 2019-20.
"We have achieved the USD 250 billion target despite the fact that sectors like tourism and travel was hit by the COVID pandemic... These are the highest ever services exports," he said at a briefing.
However, this is provisional data and the figure may increase once the final data is released, he added.
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Patria Investments: Extending The Growth Runway With Moneda Merger
Summary
- Patria Investments has announced plans to merge with Moneda, another leading asset management firm based in Chile with over $10 billion of AUM.
- Strategically, the merger makes sense and should create plenty of synergy and incremental growth opportunities for Patria.
- With near-term macro concerns weighing on the shares, I view Patria as a compelling buy at current valuations.
Patria Investments (NASDAQ:PAX), a leading alternative asset manager in Latin America with c. $15 billion in AuM ("assets under management") across private equity, infrastructure, credit, and real estate, recently announced a mega-merger with Moneda Asset Management, a Chile-based asset manager with c. $10 billion in AUM. I view the transaction as a net positive – Patria gains cross-selling opportunities and a much stronger footprint in LatAm credit markets, which should outweigh any negatives from its exposure to near-term macroeconomic uncertainty in Chile. And with shares down since the IPO earlier this year and trading at an undemanding c. 15x P/E, I am bullish on valuation grounds.
A Closer Look at the Patria/Moneda Merger Terms
Patria has disclosed its plans to combine operations with Moneda, another leading asset management firm based in Chile with over $10 billion of AUM. Per the latest disclosures, Moneda's partners will receive $128 million in cash and $187 million in Patria Class B common stock (equivalent to c. 8% of current shares outstanding), implying a $315 million upfront consideration. Additional compensation of up to $59 million for years two and three after closing will then be applicable should retention targets be achieved. And post-2023, there is also potential for earn-outs of $71 million in cash and Patria Class A common stock, subject to the company achieving revenue and profitability targets.
Source: Patria Investments M&A Presentation Slides
Notably, the current guidance also calls for the transaction to turn EPS accretive in the first year. Assuming management's expected accretion of c. 12% (or $0.12/share) holds, this would imply Moneda's earnings guidance for fiscal 2021 stands at c. $30 million – this would be equivalent to a very reasonable fiscal 2021 P/E of 12.5x (including retention costs and longer-term earn-outs). As things stand, the transaction is expected to be finalized by year-end, depending on the outcome of regulatory and other related approvals.
Sound Strategic Rationale for Patria
The merger should create opportunities for Patria to enhance its product offering, especially in credit, and create the number one PIPE ("Private Investments in Public Equities") platform in the LatAm region. For context, Moneda is the largest credit player and holds the longest track record in the region outside Brazil. On a combined basis, Patria will therefore reach a massive $25.9 billion in AuM, making it the largest credit investment platform in Latin America as well. Another important point is the addition of "sticky" AUM from the Moneda deal, considering the investor base comprises closed-end funds and institutional investors committed to longer-term investing.
Source: Patria Investments M&A Presentation Slides
Additionally, the complementary investor base of both managers and the added geographic diversification post-merger should enable opportunities to expand the cross-selling of Moneda products. Notably, Chilean investors account for over 70% of the Moneda AUM, with c. 30% from institutional investors (mainly Chilean pension funds, which account for c. 40% of total AUM).
The longer-term growth opportunities are significant as well – as Patria's main focus with this merger will be on the private credit niche in LatAm, Moneda's outsized high yield presence should allow Patria to shorten the learning curve and extend its growth runway within this asset class in the upcoming years. Following the merger, Patria will have a solid base to build on, with its private credit portfolio at $650 million (representing c. 15% of the market).
Macro Challenges in Chile Could Weigh on the Near-Term Outlook
While Moneda has sustained solid mid-teens % annual AUM growth over the last decade, the Chile macroeconomic scenario could be a key headwind. Notably, the backdrop is increasingly uncertain in light of ongoing discussions on a new constitution, which could put a dampener on Moneda's growth in the upcoming year. I would also note that AUM growth in Chilean pension funds, the key investor base for Moneda, has been negatively impacted by three withdrawals approved by congress to the tune of c. $49 billion due to the pandemic (equivalent to a substantial c. 23% of the industry's assets).
Furthermore, a fourth potential withdrawal is currently being discussed in the Lower House's Constitutional Commission, with the odds of approval not immaterial. Considering the near-term headwinds and the Chilean equity market underperformance since end-2019, growth in Moneda's AUM could move below its longer-term trend in the next year or two. Per public information on Moneda's website, AUM growth in fiscal 2020 was already down to sub-3% in USD terms, for instance. Nonetheless, the fact that Patria management clarified on the merger call that the 2020 numbers do not reflect the underlying company performance (i.e., recent performance has outpaced these figures) could result in upward revisions ahead.
So, as I mentioned before, probably what you're looking at are financial figures that are partial to Moneda, which are the ones that have been posted on their website. So I encourage you not to take that as a whole because the whole figures show numbers that are consistent with what we mentioned before. We are not providing, at this time, the information about the recent growth, I can assure that for the very recent period, there has been a substantial increase in AUM.
Final Take
On balance, I view the merger as an ideal match for both companies – while Moneda gains expanded distribution, Patria gets a solid platform to drive growth across LatAm post-IPO. I see few hurdles on the integration front as well, considering Moneda's team and partnership culture are (like Patria) best in class. Nonetheless, Patria shares fell on the news, likely reflecting investor concerns on the macro challenges in Chile. Nonetheless, I continue to like Patria as a premium LatAm asset manager, with its leading market position post-merger more than justifying the current c. 15x P/E valuation.
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Just in time for the end of lent, Showtime’s Desus and Mero review fast-food fish sandwiches after rapper and Arby’s stan Pusha T dissed McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish in a commercial. While sipping on glasses of white wine, the duo take bites of five different sandwiches, ranking them on their freshness, dryness, and overall taste. When the wine finally hits around the second sandwich, Mero teases Desus for introducing a sandwich as “number C”; Desus then hands off his phone to producer Julia Young before diving deeper into the review. As they get more and more familiar with what makes a good fish sandwich, they start to get more critical with their takes. When the Bodega Boys get to the third and their least favorite sandwich, Desus and Mero mention the small size of the ‘wich as another reason it sucked. “Wait, you’re mad that it’s small, even though it was bad?” asked producer Julia Young. “I mean, that’s what some women do,” replied Desus as he requested more wine.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Badger 5" game were:
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Estimated jackpot: $62,000
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Badger 5" game were:
05-15-16-26-30
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Estimated jackpot: $62,000
¶ Maximum prize: $45,000
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Brandon residents brave high winds, poor visibility as storm rages through Manitoba
Winds gusted up to 80 km/h Wednesday afternoon
In Brandon and the Westman area, people are hunkering down as the storm blowing through Manitoba creates high winds and reduced visibility.
Winds gusted up to 80 km/h in Brandon Wednesday afternoon.
As of Wednesday evening, the Trans-Canada Highway remained closed from Headingley, Man., to the Saskatchewan border. On the outskirts of Brandon, visibility was reduced to 50 metres or less.
Those who had to be on the roads within the city said there was little traction.
Gordon Wallman, who spent the day delivering groceries for the local Co-op, said it was difficult to see where he was going.
"I thought winter was over," he said.
"I knew it was coming, and I thought, ugh. I hope we don't get the 30, 40, 50 centimetres they're forecasting."
Brian Moran is homeless and slept at a friend's place in Brandon's west end Tuesday night.
He walked more than 10 blocks in the wind to the Blue Door drop-in centre in the city's downtown to stay warm during the day.
"It's pretty damn windy ... I'll tell you that," he said.
Staff at the Blue Door said the drop-in centre has been busy. It usually sees about 25 to 50 people come through the doors during the day, but on Wednesday the centre was at full capacity, said site supervisor Teague Luhr.
"Our folks are at a heightened vulnerability due to this extreme weather. We are worried about frostbite and other adverse affects."
To prepare for the storm, the centre brought in extra food and other supplies to people could stay put if needed, said Kathleen Gareau, the Blue Door's service navigator.
"We knew there was no option to close with a storm like this with our vulnerable population, so we brought all of our supplies here," she said. "We're ready to be here for the next few days if that's what it comes to."
The City of Brandon's emergency manager says while crews are out plowing and trying to keep streets open, that doesn't mean you should be out.
"Don't think that the storm is over. Obviously there is more snow to come," said Tobin Praznik.
"We have roads closed already outside the city. As much as the businesses and everything are open, really make sure it's essential travel."
Environment Canada says blizzard conditions in the Brandon area are expected to last until Friday.
Some areas near Turtle Mountain toward Lake Manitoba may see a reprieve from the snow Wednesday afternoon, but high winds are expected to continue, the weather agency says.
The City of Brandon has closed its facilities through to Friday at this point, but says it will reassess later in the week when to reopen.
With files from Riley Laychuk
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Wall Street brokerages predict that Precigen, Inc. (NYSE:PGEN – Get Rating) will post sales of $20.90 million for the current quarter, Zacks Investment Research reports. Two analysts have made estimates for Precigen’s earnings, with the highest sales estimate coming in at $24.50 million and the lowest estimate coming in at $17.30 million. Precigen posted sales of $24.51 million during the same quarter last year, which would suggest a negative year over year growth rate of 14.7%. The business is scheduled to issue its next quarterly earnings results on Monday, January 1st.
On average, analysts expect that Precigen will report full year sales of $92.70 million for the current financial year, with estimates ranging from $72.41 million to $116.50 million. For the next fiscal year, analysts expect that the business will report sales of $59.30 million, with estimates ranging from $14.00 million to $93.62 million. Zacks Investment Research’s sales calculations are a mean average based on a survey of research analysts that cover Precigen.
Separately, StockNews.com initiated coverage on shares of Precigen in a report on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “sell” rating on the stock.
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Precigen, Inc discovers and develops the next generation of gene and cellular therapies in the United States. It also provides disease-modifying therapeutics; genetically engineered swine for regenerative medicine applications; and reproductive and embryo transfer technologies. In addition, the company offers UltraVector platform that incorporates advanced DNA construction technologies and computational models to design and assemble genetic components into complex gene expression programs; mbIL15, a gene that enhances functional characteristics of immune cells; Sleeping Beauty, a non-viral transposon/transposase system; AttSite recombinases, which breaks and rejoins DNA at specific sequences; AdenoVerse technology platform, a library of engineered adenovector serotypes; and L.
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WASHINGTON — Nearly three-quarters of Americans in an International Food Information Council survey ranked digestive health highly. Many of them seek probiotics and prebiotics in yogurt, fruits and vegetables, and dietary supplements.
In the study involving 1,000 interviews conducted among adults 18 and over March 4-9, 24% said digestive health was the most important aspect of their overall health. Another 48% said digestive health was important but other health aspects were more important.
Thirty-two percent said they were trying to consume probiotics, which trailed whole grains at 51% and yogurt at 48%. Other answers included fermented foods at 23%, prebiotics at 22% and postbiotics at 13%.
Probiotics are live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit, according to the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP). Prebiotics, which include fiber ingredients, serve as food for beneficial microbes/probiotics in the body. A panel for the ISAPP defined a postbiotic as a “preparation of inanimate microorganisms and/or their components that confers a health benefit on the host.”
When asked where they seek probiotics, 54% of the survey respondents said yogurt, 47% said fruits or vegetables, and 44% said dietary supplements. When asked the same question for prebiotics, the top three answers were the same with yogurt at 38%, fruits or vegetables at 37%, and dietary supplements at 36%.
In the survey 35% said they were familiar with probiotics but do not try to consume them. When asked why not, the top answer was more important priorities when it comes to food choices at 29%, followed by products containing probiotics were too expensive at 23%, did not notice any health benefits after consuming probiotics at 22%, did not know which foods or beverages were sources of probiotics at 19%, did not think probiotics would provide health benefits at 19%, and did not know where to look on food/beverage packaging to see if the products contained probiotics at 14%.
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Novacoin (NVC) traded 2.6% higher against the US dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 23:00 PM ET on April 13th. One Novacoin coin can currently be bought for approximately $0.0967 or 0.00000234 BTC on major exchanges. Over the last seven days, Novacoin has traded 13.2% lower against the US dollar. Novacoin has a total market cap of $225,926.98 and $134.00 worth of Novacoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last 24 hours:
- Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) traded 3.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $41,362.53 or 1.00065059 BTC.
- Cosmos (ATOM) traded up 1.2% against the dollar and now trades at $24.93 or 0.00060300 BTC.
- Function X (FX) traded up 5.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.53 or 0.00001291 BTC.
- Venus (XVS) traded up 4% against the dollar and now trades at $10.15 or 0.00024558 BTC.
- Nestree (EGG) traded up 6.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0374 or 0.00000090 BTC.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Frankie Montas pitched neatly into the seventh inning, Sean Murphy hit a three-run homer, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-2 on Wednesday night.
Montas (1-1) allowed two runs and five hits over 6 1/3 innings, striking out six, as the A's defeated Tampa Bay for the second time in three days.
“He went out tonight and he had his good stuff,” Oakland manager Mark Kotsay said. “Split down in the zone, fastball had some real life to it, Got deep into the game for us, and that was much needed. It was a great night for Frankie.”
Tampa Bay got a fourth-inning solo homer from Ji-Man Choi.
After Jed Lowrie and Stephen Piscotty drew two-out walks in the third, Murphy took Shane McClanahan (0-1) deep to put the A’s up 3-0. Murphy's homer was his first this season.
“I think I made a lot of good pitches today, and made one really bad pitch,” McClanahan said. “Back-to-back walks, I don't know what that was ... haven't done that a lot. It was just kind of a frustrating day. I thought I threw the ball well, and the results weren't there."
Lou Trivino, the third Oakland reliever, got out of a two-out jam in the ninth for his first save. After giving up a single to Francisco Mejía and walking Brandon Lowe, the righty induced a foul popup from Wander Franco.
Trivino took the loss Tuesday night, allowing two runs in the 10th inning of the Rays’ 9-8 win.
“With Lou getting back in there and having success tonight, that was great,” Kotsay said.
Yandy Díaz cued a leadoff single to right in the seventh before Josh Lowe reached when second baseman Sheldon Neuse misplayed his grounder. Montas left after striking out Manuel Margot, and was replaced by Kirby Snead, who gave up Mejía's two-out flared RBI single into center that got the Rays within 4-2.
McClanahan gave up three runs, two hits and three walks, and struck out eight in 4 2/3 innings.
Oakland took a 4-1 lead in the seventh on Cristian Pache's RBI single.
FLIPPING SUCCESS
The Rays selected reliever Dusten Knight from Triple-A Durham and he allowed one run in 2 1/3 innings. The 31-year old, in pro ball since 2013, is known for doing back flips after saves, which he started doing in Double-A in the San Francisco organization.
“The rover (instructor) there was Will Clark, Will the Thrill,” Knight said. “He says to do it and he gives the OK, absolutely I’m doing it.”
Knight began doing back flips at age nine as a wrestler. He appeared in seven games with Baltimore last season.
SPECIAL BASEBALL
The Rays retrieved Brett Phillips’ homer that remained on an overhanging catwalk Tuesday night and will give it to 8-year-old Chloe Grimes, who has cancer for a second time. Grimes was being interviewed about Phillips, her favorite player, on the Rays’ TV broadcast when he homered.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Athletics: Kotsay declined to say if the Oakland roster will be impacted by a Canadian requirement that visitors be vaccinated for COVID-19. The A’s play Friday night at Toronto. ... Right-hander Deolis Guerra had right elbow ulnar collateral ligament reconstructive surgery, which was done by Dr. Keith Meister in Arlington, Texas.
Rays: Starter Luis Patiño (left oblique strain), hurt Monday night, was transferred to the 60-day IL.
UP NEXT
A’s left-hander Cole Irvin (0-1, 6.75 ERA) and Tampa Bay lefty Josh Fleming (1-0, 0.00) are the starters as the four-game series concludes Thursday.
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Biden will decide on sanctions on India: US official on Russian S-400 deal
North Korea fires suspected missile into sea, says neighbours' militaries
N Korea's missile exploded in air in failed launch: S Korean military
US delivered 30 Javelin anti-tank missile systems to Ukraine in October
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The United States is continuing talks with Turkey over Ankara's purchase of Russian S-400 air defense system, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Wednesday.
"We are in a continuing discussion with our Turkish allies about our concerns over Turkey's possession of the S-400 system, and it's a conversation that is ongoing," Price said during a press briefing.
When asked whether he can confirm reports of US planning to lift Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CATSAA) measures, "I don't have any response for you on that."
"CATSAA is written into legislation, it's mandated by law," Price said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said the US State Department's letter to the Congress regarding the delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey is a positive step, but Ankara remains cautious.
The State Department sent a letter to Congress last week, stressing that the proposed sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey would be beneficial for US and NATO security interests. In October, Turkey made an official request to the US for the purchase of 40 F-16 fighter jets and 80 modernization kits to upgrade its existing fleet.
In 2019, the United States suspended Turkey's participation in its F-35 fighter jet program over Ankara's purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system and later completely removed it from the project. However, Turkey has insisted that it needs and will continue to use the S-400 air defense system.
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Samantha beams with joy as she reunites with her big brother, shares a happy pic & says 'missed you'
Samantha is one of the actresses who are quite active on social media. She makes sure to timely update her fans with her professional as well as personal life. However, it is not an everyday thing to get glimpse of her family as today the Jaanu actress recently took to her Instagram handle and shared a selfie with her big brother. The actress reunited with her brother after a long and is very happy about it.
Samantha took to her Instagram story and shared a pic with her big brother. The actress is seen posing with her brother with a big & happy smile for the selfie. Her radiant and glowing skin will keep you hooked to the screen, we just can't get enough of it. The actress is super pretty.
Sharing the pic, "Samantha wrote, Missed you big brother."
Samantha has two brothers, David Prabhu and Jonathan Prabhu and they like to keep themselves away from the media glare. Going by her Instagram profile, one can understand her siblings are not too fond of being in the limelight.
Meanwhile, on the work front, Samantha is currently busy shooting for her upcoming pan-Indian film Yashoda, directed by Hari and Harish. gearing up for the release of Vignesh Shivan's upcoming venture Kaathu Vaakula Rendu Kaadhal on April 29 alongside Vijay Sethupathi and Nayanthara. The actress also has Shaakuntalam, which is directed by Gunasekhar for the release.
In Bollywood, the diva has a Hindi film titled Citadel with Varun Dhawan and Hollywood project Arrangements of Love with John Philips.
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KYIV (Reuters) -The presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Wednesday and called for increased military support for Ukraine and for Russia to be held accountable for the actions of its troops on the ground. European politicians have flocked by train to the Ukrainian capital since Russian forces withdrew from the country's North in the face of strong Ukrainian resistance earlier this month. Before meeting Zelenskiy, the four presidents visited areas in Kyiv region where hundreds of slain civilians have been discovered after the Russian wi...
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Former President Donald Trump has opened up his wallet – or at least his political action committee – in the hopes of thwarting Gov. Brian Kemp’s bid for a second term.
Trump’s Save America PAC has donated $500,000 to Get Georgia Right, a Virginia-based anti-Kemp super PAC.
As Politico first reported, the check is Trump’s first big donation in this year’s midterm elections nationally, and it may also be just the beginning of Trump’s spending in the Georgia governor’s race. Trump has socked away more than $110 million in his Save America PAC.
The donation comes as former U.S. Sen. David Perdue lags behind Kemp in the polls and in fundraising, and it is yet another sign of the important role Georgia continues to play in national politics.
Following the March 25 donation, Get Georgia Right began sponsoring TV ads featuring unsubstantiated claims tying Gov. Brian Kemp to supposed “illegal ballot harvesting” in 2020.
Relitigating the last presidential election has become standard for Trump, said Georgia State University political science professor Amy Steigerwalt. Once political allies, Trump and Kemp fell out after the 2020 election in which Trump lost Georgia and accused Kemp of not doing enough to illegally overturn the results.
“It really is the one thing that he focuses on and that he has devoted a lot of energy to, and in many ways, his dislike of Kemp is also very personal,” Steigerwalt said Wednesday. “And I think you really see that in that it’s sort of continuing, that it’s not just about what happened in the election, but really, that he doesn’t want Kemp to be there and sort of anyone but Kemp would be preferable.”
Trump’s criticism of Kemp has been unrelenting ever since the governor refused to help overturn the presidential election results nearly two years ago, and the former president has vowed to foil Kemp’s plans for a second term in the governor’s mansion.
Perdue publicly announced his candidacy in December, immediately complicating the GOP primary in Georgia, and he received Trump’s official endorsement the same day.
Trump has since endorsed a slate of statewide candidates in the Republican primary in Georgia, even wading into lower ballot races like the insurance commissioner’s contest. The Republican incumbent commissioner, John King, was appointed by Kemp.
Since Trump has ventured so far into Georgia politics this year, the May 24 primary is widely seen as a test of Trump’s hold on Republican voters.
“He very clearly has a lot of sway still over elected members of the Republican Party,” Steigerwalt said. “What we don’t entirely know is whether or not the voters are going to respond to that. And really, indications are that they’re not. Really, it doesn’t appear to be helping, for example, David Perdue, now that people know that Trump has endorsed him. We’re not seeing his numbers going up. In fact, in anything, it seems to have somewhat led to an increase, actually, in how Kemp is doing.”
Kemp held an 11-point lead over Perdue in an Emerson College poll released this month, which cast doubt on whether Trump’s March rally in Commerce benefited his favored candidate.
Trump has seemed to lower expectations in more recent interviews, telling a conservative radio host this month “it’s always hard to beat a sitting governor. Just remember that.”
Kemp’s campaign shrugged off Trump’s $500,000 donation to Perdue.
“David Perdue is going to need a lot more than $500,000 to distract from his unhinged rant attacking the Georgia State Patrol,” said Cody Hall, spokesman for the Kemp campaign.
Perdue lamented the condition of the Georgia State Patrol under Kemp, telling reporters Tuesday the agency had been allowed to “deteriorate” and was no longer functioning at an “elite level.” Perdue’s press conference was held the same day Kemp signed into law a bill ending a permit requirement and fee to carry a concealed firearm, which is a change Perdue has argued his primary challenge helped spur.
But even if Trump is not able to propel Perdue past the primary, he could still remain a thorn in Kemp’s side as he tries to focus on defeating presumed Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams. The 2018 challenge between the two was famously close, and if 2022 sees the same dynamic, a small number of Trump loyalists sitting the election out could boost Abrams across the finish line.
Georgia Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff likely benefited from Trump supporters sitting out the 2020 runoffs.
Georgia Recorder Deputy Editor Jill Nolin contributed to this report.
Georgia Recorder is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Georgia Recorder maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor John McCosh for questions: info@georgiarecorder.com. Follow Georgia Recorder on Facebook and Twitter.
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Trump admits he pressured Bill Barr to take the fall for his coup: 'You have to get impeached, maybe'
April 13, 2022
Donald Trump on Wednesday complained that Attorney General Bill Barr refused to get impeached for trying to help him overturn the 2020 election.
Trump began by complaining about investigations into his family company and self-coup attempt, but veered off to attack his own Cabinet official after warning of revolt if the investigations continue.
"I just don't think the people of this country are going to take it," he said. "Look, we also had a chance, but Bill Barr, the attorney general, didn't want to be impeached."
"He didn't want to get impeached. How do you not get impeached? You just sit back and relax and wait out for your term to end — and that's what he did. And it was a sad thing and a sad day for our country," he said.
"But you know what, had Bill Barr the courage, a lot of this could have been taken care of," Trump argued.
"I said, 'Look, get impeached. I went up at lot in the polls when I got impeached. You have to get impeached, maybe.' But he was so afraid of getting impeached he refused to do his job," Trump said.
Here's what Trump told Hannity he instructed Bill Barr to do:\n\n"I said, 'Look, get impeached. I went up at lot in the polls when I got impeached. You have to get impeached, maybe.'"\n#TakeTheFall #SelfCouppic.twitter.com/f4KSDEqvKJ— Bob Brigham (@Bob Brigham) 1649903436
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GOP megadonor's lawyers say he can't stand trial for $2 billion tax fraud because COVID accelerated his dementia
April 13, 2022
On Wednesday, The Daily Beast reported that lawyers representing Robert Brockman, the billionaire software tycoon accused of masterminding the largest tax fraud scheme in the history of the United States, is not competent to stand trial — because COVID-19 has worsened his dementia.
In 2017, Brockman was a massive donor to the Republican Party, contributing $80,000 to the House Republican campaign arm.
"Brockman, 80, has Parkinson’s disease, which his lawyers cited as a probable source of his dementia. His mental state grew worse, the filing said, after he contracted the coronavirus in December and was subsequently hospitalized in part with toxic metabolic encephalopathy, a 'condition of acute global cognitive dysfunction' associated with COVID-19 'among older patients with preexisting dementia,'" reported Noah Kirsch. "The judge presiding over the case, George C. Hanks, previously heard arguments in November about Brockman’s competency but has yet to rule on the matter."
Attorneys first raised the possibility of Brockman's incompetence last November, citing Alzheimer's symptoms.
"The billionaire was indicted in 2020 on 39 counts, including wire fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering, over allegations that he participated in 'a scheme to conceal approximately $2 billion in income from the IRS as well as a scheme to defraud investors' in his software company, the Department of Justice said at the time," said the report. "The indictment claimed that Brockman utilized a labyrinth of offshore entities in Bermuda and Nevis and sent 'untaxed capital gains income to secret bank accounts in Bermuda and Switzerland.'"
Brockman's legal team is separately fighting the IRS, with the report noting that they "complained in court filings about the agency’s tactics, including emptying one of his wife’s bank accounts, automatically sequestering his retirement pay, and placing liens on his properties."
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Mariners Keep Playoff Hopes Alive with Big Win over Reading
April 13, 2022 - ECHL (ECHL) - Maine Mariners News Release
PORTLAND, ME - Five Mariners registered multi-point games while Callum Booth stopped 37 shots in a 6-2 Mariners victory over the Reading Royals on Wednesday night at the Cross Insurance Arena. The Mariners kept pace with the Worcester Railers in the race for the fourth and final playoff spot in the North Division.
In an action-packed opening period, the Mariners got on the board first at 3:55. Pascal Laberge got in alone and deked around the pad of Royals goaltender Hayden Hawkey for the 1-0 Maine lead. Reading defenseman Dominic Cormier tied the game at one with a shot from the blue line at 7:27, but the Mariners quickly responded. Laberge made a toe drag in the neutral zone and sent Nick Master in on the left side, who beat Hawkey under the crossbar. The opening period was also very physical, highlighted by an explosive hit by Michael Kim on Reading's Brennan Saulnier.
Despite the Royals winning the 2nd period shot battle 15-3, the Mariners scored the only goal of the frame. At 8:19, Cam Askew took a feed from Reid Stefanson and darted down the shot, ripping a shot past Hawkey. The middle stanza was defined by penalties, with the Royals getting four power plays to Maine's three. Callum Booth had a standout period in the Mariners net, making 15 stops.
Trailing 3-1 in the third, Reading cut the deficit back to one just 2:28 in when Trevor Gooch scored on a breakaway, outmuscling Mariners defenseman Gabriel Chicoine to break free. The Mariners then took consecutive penalties to give Reading a two-man advantage, but as they killed off the first, Mathew Santos got a breakaway of his own out of the box and beat Hawkey's glove to put Maine back up by two at 5:44. Askew got his second of the night at 10:31 with a power move to the net and Tyler Hinam added an empty netter in the final minute to bring the game to a 6-2 final.
Booth stopped 37 of 39 for his eighth win of the season. Hawkey made 20 stops on 25 shots in the loss. With Worcester's 3-0 win at Trois-Rivieres, the Mariners remain .007 percentage points behind the Railers for fourth place. The Lions failed to clinch a playoff spot due to their loss. Maine will still need to finish with either two more points than Worcester or two wins plus two regulation losses by the Lions to make the playoffs.
The Mariners (31-31-5-3) host the Newfoundland Growlers on Friday and Saturday night to close out the regular season. It's Fan Appreciation Weekend, presented by Three Rivers Whitewater Rafting and Chick-Fil-A. Friday's game begins at 7:15 PM and is a 1-2-3 Friday: $1 popcorn, $2 hot dogs, and $3 Bud Light Drafts through the start of the 2nd period. Boston Bruins anthem singer Todd Angilly will also be returning to perform the Star Spangled Banner. Saturday's game, the regular season finale, begins at 6 PM. Tickets for all home games can be purchased online at MarinersOfMaine.com/tickets or by visiting the Trusted Choice Box Office inside the Cross Insurance Arena.
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ECHL Stories from April 13, 2022
- K-Wings Fall at Home to Nailers, Playoff Hopes Still Alive - Kalamazoo Wings
- Evans Nets Overtime Winner in Wednesday Thriller - South Carolina Stingrays
- Lions Now Have to Wait Until Friday to Clinch a Playoff Spot - Trois-Rivieres Lions
- Ken Appleby's 43 Save Shutout Powers Railers to 3-0 Victory over Trois-Rivières - Worcester Railers HC
- Iowa Jolts Allen with 5 Unanswered, 5-1 - Iowa Heartlanders
- Fish Fall in Overtime Heartbreaker to Indy - Toledo Walleye
- Mariners Keep Playoff Hopes Alive with Big Win over Reading - Maine Mariners
- Swamp Rabbits Earn Crucial Point, Fall 2-1 in Overtime to Icemen - Greenville Swamp Rabbits
- Nailers Punch Ticket to Playoffs with 3-2 Thriller - Wheeling Nailers
- Fuel Defeat Toledo in 9-Goal Thriller - Indy Fuel
- ECHL Transactions - April 13 - ECHL
- Watts, Safin Head to Bakersfield; Van Riemsdyk Re-Signed - Wichita Thunder
- Lions Begin Crucial Three-Game Series against the Railers Tonight - Trois-Rivieres Lions
- Josh Maniscalco Named to 2021-22 ECHL All-Rookie Team - Wheeling Nailers
- Martin and Tardif Named to All-Rookie Team - Utah Grizzlies
- ECHL Announces 2021-22 All-Rookie Team - ECHL
- Captain Kris Bennett Named to All-ECHL Rookie Team - Iowa Heartlanders
- Wichita Opens Final Week of the Season Tonight vs. KC - Wichita Thunder
- Game Notes: vs Tulsa - Rapid City Rush
- Everblades Single-Game Playoff Tickets on Sale Now - Florida Everblades
- Lions Inch Closer to Playoff Spot with 3-2 Win over Adirondack - Trois-Rivieres Lions
- Morning Tea: Swamp Rabbits at Icemen - Greenville Swamp Rabbits
- Chicago Assigns LaFontaine and Serikov to Norfolk - Norfolk Admirals
- Everblades to Hold Pink in the Rink Jersey Auction Benefitting the 4 Words Foundation - Florida Everblades
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- Solar Bears Roll Past Icemen 6-2 in Home Finale - Orlando Solar Bears
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
03-04-09-10-11-13-14-17-18-20-21
(three, four, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-one)
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Letter: Children should get the chance to be children
Published 12:00 am Thursday, April 14, 2022
I read the letter from Ms. Hanson-Kelly about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. I don’t know her entire record, but I do know she gave criminals arrested for possession of child porn less than the minimum sentence, repeatedly.
Low lifes like these should have the book thrown at them. What about the children that were used to make the films, what if it was your child next?
The Democrats in Washington are complaining about the new Florida law that stops sex from being taught to kindergarten to the fourth grade. It does not mention the word gay, but it says that parents should teach their children about, that they may be gay, straight, or transgender. Besides children that age should be learning to read, write and do math and play and have fun, not being indoctrinated to the left’s view on sexuality.
The Democrats like Durbin said things have changed. Well I pray it has not, children still need to be children.
— Chris Rodgers
China Grove
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Quick Draw Evening" game were:
02-03-06-13-14-22-26-42-43-45-49-55-61-63-64-66-70-73-77-79, BE: 26
(two, three, six, thirteen, fourteen, twenty-two, twenty-six, forty-two, forty-three, forty-five, forty-nine, fifty-five, sixty-one, sixty-three, sixty-four, sixty-six, seventy, seventy-three, seventy-seven, seventy-nine; BE: twenty-six)
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Literacy Council holding Kentucky Derby fundraiser May 7
Published 12:00 am Thursday, April 14, 2022
SALISBURY — On Saturday, May 7, the Rowan County Literacy Council will host a Kentucky Derby with “Hat-i-tude” fundraiser at New Sarum Brewing. The Kentucky Derby event includes a best/most creative hat contest, as well as other race-day activities.
The Literacy Council has been serving the community since 1976 by providing free literacy instruction to both English-speaking students and English language learners. More than 50 volunteer tutors work with students year-round in the following programs:
- Adult Basic Education/Basic Reading
- English as a Second Language
- GED assistance
- Citizenship prep
- Youth tutoring at six RSS locations as well as the Rowan Public LibraryIn Rowan County, 16.1% of residents have not graduated from high school, 21.1% speak a language other than English at home, and 18% live below the poverty line. The need for literacy instruction in Rowan County is great, and RCLC is the only 501(c)(3) agency providing free, personalized, one-on-one instruction to service recipients. Help us help Rowan County—a literate community prospers.
Tickets to Kentucky Derby with “Hat-i-tude” are $25 each and include a selection of hors d’oeuvres and desserts, plus two beverage vouchers. Guests may enter a win-place-show drawing with great prizes. There will also be prizes for best fashion hat and most creative hat, so don’t be afraid to “go big.”
New Sarum Brewing is at 109 N. Lee St.. The event is from 5:30-8 p.m. and space is limited!
Tickets may be purchased online at www.rcliteracy.org or by cash/check at the Rowan County Literacy Council’s office in the main branch of the Rowan Public Library at 201 W. Fisher St.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
0-2-4-6
(zero, two, four, six)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
0-2-4-6
(zero, two, four, six)
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
9-3-0-3, SB: 3
(nine, three, zero, three; SB: three)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
9-3-0-3, SB: 3
(nine, three, zero, three; SB: three)
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
11-16-17-25-26-33
(eleven, sixteen, seventeen, twenty-five, twenty-six, thirty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $975,000
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
11-16-17-25-26-33
(eleven, sixteen, seventeen, twenty-five, twenty-six, thirty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $975,000
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WHL
All Times Local
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: x - clinched playoff berth; y - clinched division; z - regular season champion; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Sunday's results
Edmonton 4 Calgary 1
Winnipeg 8 Medicine Hat 2
Vancouver 3 Kelowna 2
Seattle 4 Everett 1
Tuesday's results
Moose Jaw 5 Brandon 2
Portland 4 Tri-City 3 (OT)
Wednesday's results
Red Deer 8 Calgary 3
Seattle at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Thursday's results
Regina at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
Friday's games
Regina at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Victoria, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Everett at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Victoria, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Lethbridge at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Regina, 4 p.m.
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The Rapid City Rush's new slogan entering this season was "Next chapter, same goal," referring to its hiring of Scott Burt as head coach in the wake of a long playoff drought.
Only a few pages into the next chapter, that goal has been reached and the drought is over.
The Rush beat the Tulsa Oilers 5-2 Wednesday night in front of their home fans at The Monument Ice Arena to clinch a spot in the Kelly Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2015.
The Rush (25-24-11) had several chances on the road last weekend to earn a postseason berth but were swept by the Greenville Swamp Rabbits. Against the Oilers (35-28-6), they needed either a win or an overtime/shootout to clinch.
Rapid City also clinched home ice for the first round of the postseason, a best-of-seven series, after winning in regulation and the Allen Americans losing to the Iowa Heartlanders. The Mountain Division crown is still up for grabs as the Rush finish up their regular season slate with games on Friday and Saturday.
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Check back in later for further coverage of the Rush's playoff-clinching victory.
Contact Matt Case at matt.case@rapidcityjournal.com
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SALADO, Texas (KXAN) — “That’s all I have left, just sighs,” Naomi Benavidez said Wednesday.
Bulldozers crunched through snapped trees and crumbled homes in Central Texas Wednesday, showing the impact of a bad storm. But it’s stories from people like Benavidez that show how a vicious tornado changes lives forever.
“She was picking up … holding onto her babies as much as she could,” Benavidez said.
According to Benavidez, her sister, her sister’s husband and their two kids are now in the hospital after a tornado tore through Salado Tuesday, about 50 miles north-northeast of Austin.
“The little girl — she had to hold onto her by her hair. They ended up getting lifted up from the trailer and just thrown into the trees,” Benavides said. “She was about three-months pregnant; she lost her baby today.”
Benavides and other relatives are walking through the area, collecting what’s still worth saving.
“I want to say this is probably the laundry room door,” Benavidez said as she picked up a door knob from the rubble.
Bell County Judge David Blackburn said the tornado tracked for eight miles, hurting 23 people. Twelve people ended up in the hospital. One was in critical condition as of Wednesday afternoon.
According to Bell County, the Cedar Valley tornado is a confirmed “high-end EF-3 tornado,” reaching a maximum wind speed around 165 mph.
Sixty-three structures were damaged.
“We believe we have accounted for all individuals that were in the path,” Blackburn said.
Still, people are without power and water. One of the main priorities is getting that restored and making sure no one is buried under rubble, according to Blackburn.
“It is not, in any sense, a minor miracle. As you look at the devastation .. created [Tuesday] night, it’s hard to imagine that that didn’t occur,” Blackburn said.
Now, carried by their faith, Benavidez hopes for another miracle as she waits for their family to recover.
“This is going to be a slow process for everyone,” Benavidez said.
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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — The St. Lawrence University men’s lacrosse team scored five goals in the fourth quarter to pull away from Middlebury in an 18-11 nonconference win Wednesday afternoon.
Chris Jordan scored six goals to lead the No. 11 Saints (9-2 overall). Jack Hennessey scored four goals and Mark Mahoney added three.
Billy Curtis scored three goals to lead No. 19 Middlebury (6-6).
SUNY POLY 16, SUNY CANTON 15
Brody Guido, Keshawn Clark, Payton Thomas, Andrew Maycock and Shane Wyman all scored three goals as SUNY Poly (4-4, 4-0) defeated the host Kangaroos in overtime in an NAC game.
Alex Jacobs led SUNY Canton (5-6, 3-2) with six goals. Austin Mesler scored five and Hunter Olsen added three.
SOFTBALL
CLARKSON 8-11, SUNY POTSDAM 0
The Golden Knights recorded two shutouts, sweeping a nonconference doubleheader from the Lakers in Potsdam.
Devin Fitzpatrick threw a two-hit shutout in the first game, which lasted five innings, as Clarkson won, 8-0.
Riley Paige gave up three hits in four innings and Olivia Zoeller struck out the side in the fifth to close out game two, which the Golden Knights won, 11-0.
Sarah Vaccaro and Zoey Kovach each tallied three hits in game one and Zoeller went 2-for-3 in game two for Clarkson (11-9).
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Which dog food is better: Blue Buffalo or Purina Pro Plan?
Your dog’s diet makes a huge impact on their health and well-being, so choosing the right dog food is important. If you’re stuck between Blue Buffalo dog food and Purina Pro Plan dog food, you might be wondering which is the best option.
As with most things in life, there isn’t a simple answer, so you’ll have to delve deeper and examine the pros and cons. Also, remember that all dogs are different, so the best food for one dog isn’t always the best for another.
Blue Buffalo dog food
Blue Buffalo dog food is touted as a healthy and holistic brand. It contains high-quality ingredients without unnecessary additives. Complete and balanced, it contains all the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients that your dog needs to stay healthy. It’s made in the USA, though from globally sourced ingredients.
You can buy both wet and dry dog food from Blue Buffalo, as well as dog treats. Bags of dry food cost roughly $15-$75, depending on the size and variety, while wet food costs roughly $2-$3 a can.
Blue Buffalo dog food pros
- Blue Buffalo dog food lists meat as the first ingredient, plus it often includes healthy whole grains and vegetables.
- It doesn’t contain any artificial flavors or preservatives and stays away from poultry by-product meal, corn, soy and other filler ingredients.
- You can choose from a range of varieties, including senior dog foods, small breed dog foods and limited ingredient dog foods for dogs with food allergies or sensitivities.
- Most dogs find Blue Buffalo foods palatable and you can select from a wide range of formulas or flavors to appeal to picky eaters.
Blue Buffalo dog food cons
- The company sells a range of grain -free dog food, but studies suggest a link between grain-free diets and canine heart disease, so you should avoid them unless your dog has a legitimate grain allergy, which is extremely rare.
- Blue Buffalo has had five dog food recalls, but only three posed a serious risk.
- It doesn’t offer quite as many specialist options as Purina Pro Plan, such as high-performance and sensitive skin formulas.
Best Blue Buffalo dog food
Blue Buffalo Wilderness High Protein Dog Food
An excellent choice for active dogs, this food is high in protein to give them the energy they need to keep going. Pick one of the versions with healthy whole grains as grain-free formulas may be detrimental to heart health.
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Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Adult Dry Dog Food
The perfect kibble for an average dog, you can choose from several formulas to best suit your dog. Options include small bite for dogs who like smaller pieces of kibble and healthy weight for dogs who need to lose eight or who gain weight easily.
Blue Buffalo Homestyle Recipe Wet Dog Food
This tasty wet food can be fed alone or mixed with kibble. Meat is the first ingredient and it also contains a blend of nutrient-rich veggies.
Purina Pro Plan dog food
Purina Pro Plan dog food is just one kind of dog food from Purina. It’s Purina’s high-end offering, containing better quality ingredients than its other foods. For the most part, it contains quality ingredients, though it does contain some fillers and by-products in some of its lines.
Buyers can choose from a range of formulas, some that suit most dogs and others tailored to need specific needs. It’s at a similar price point to Blue Buffalo, with bags of dry food priced from $15-$70 and cans of wet food around $1.50-$3 each.
Purina Pro Plan dog food pros
- All Purina Pro Plan dry foods and most wet foods contain heart-healthy whole grains.
- This food is made at a facility in the USA, though with ingredients sourced from around the globe.
- There’s only been one recall of Purina Pro Plan food, which suggests the company’s quality control is good.
- You can choose from a wide range of formulas to suit your dog, including small breed, large breed and performance.
Purina Pro Plan dog food cons
- Some formulas contain questionable ingredients, such as poultry by-product meal.
- You’re more likely to find fillers, such as corn gluten meal, in Purina Pro Plan foods compared to Blue Buffalo.
- Purina is owned by Nestle, a company known for unethical practices and which some buyers prefer to avoid.
Best Purina Pro Plan dog food
Purina Pro Plan Complete Essentials Dry Dog Food
A solid all-rounder of a dry food that suits most adult dogs. It has a chicken and rice flavor and comes in a range of bag sizes.
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Purina Pro Plan Sensitive Skin and Stomach Dry Dog Food
This carefully formulated food is made using easily digestible ingredients and excludes common allergens, making it perfect for dogs with sensitive skin or stomachs. It contains a prebiotic formula to help digestion.
Sold by Amazon, Chewy and PetSmart
Purina Pro Plan Sport Wet Dog Food
Due to its high protein content, this wet food is suitable for very active dogs and working dogs. It also supports hydration, which is important for dogs who are always on the go.
Should you get Blue Buffalo dog food or Purina Pro Plan dog food?
There’s no clear winner between Blue Buffalo and Purina Pro Plan. Blue Buffalo has more consistently high-quality ingredients, but Purina Pro Plan only contains a small handful of questionable ingredients and not in all its formulas.
Purina has a slightly wider range of options tailored to the specific needs of dogs, but then again, most dogs are fine with a standard adult dog food — plus Blue Buffalo some tailored formulas, such as senior, small breed and large breed foods.
Ultimately, go with whichever option you think will best suit your dog and don’t be afraid to change your mind if your canine companion isn’t thriving on their new food after a reasonable transition period.
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Lauren Corona writes for BestReviews. BestReviews has helped millions of consumers simplify their purchasing decisions, saving them time and money.
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Coming into their Wednesday evening road matchup with Juan Diego, the Olympus Titans had only had two games of experience this season due to multiple cancellations.
Juan Diego, on the other hand, had played 10 games, securing a 9-1 record in those games.
Given the disparity of in-game experience this season, Olympus head coach Zana Spratling, said she and her girls went into the game not sure what they were going to see from themselves — but they certainly left the game pleased with the result.
By a final score of 16-9, the Titans handed the Soaring Eagles their second defeat of the season and picked up their third win to improve to 3-0 on the year.
The Titans never trailed in the game, but received stiff resistance from Juan Diego throughout the match, as the Soaring Eagle refused to let 5A’s fifth-ranked team put the game away.
After Olympus picked up an early 3-0 lead, Juan Diego rallied to tie the game at six goals apiece with just over two minutes remaining in the first half.
Suddenly the Titans, who were cruising through the early portion of the game, realized that they needed to kick things into gear.
“They all saw the scoreboard and went, ‘Oh shoot, we’ve got to start working,’” Spratling said, adding that experiencing that challenge was beneficial for her girls, who had won their first two games by a combined score of 41-4.
The Titans responded with a dominant stretch of play that saw the team score six unanswered goals over the remainder of the first half and beginning of the second half. During the stretch, Olympus held Juan Diego scoreless for nearly 11 minutes of game time.
Following the scoring run from Olympus, the Soaring Eagles didn’t manage to cut the deficit to less than four goals the remainder of the game.
“I hope they have the realization that that is how we need to start the game and we don’t stop giving our all until we’re up by 10 (goals),” Spratling said.
Leading the surge for Olympus was sophomore midfielder Hannah Nelson, who scored four of the team’s six unanswered goals en route to a game-high six goals — more than doubling her season total (five).
“I feel bad because I almost feel like we don’t fully recognize how much of a powerhouse she is,” Spratling said of Nelson. “She’s just so reliable. … I feel like we take her for granted a little bit. I feel like I need to buy her dinner or something because she just kills it every game.”
In addition to her showcasing her goal scoring ability, Nelson was dominant on the draw for the Titans.
On the scoresheet, Nelson was followed by sophomore Hazel Baker and freshman Sara Anne, who scored three and two goals, respectively.
It was an eventful outing for both sides when it came to scoring goals, as 14 different players scored the game’s 25 goals.
Juan Diego’s Kyra Hoffman and Julie Holly led the Soaring Eagles with two goals apiece.
Despite coming into the game with light preparation, the Titans were well aware of Juan Diego’s electric freshman Olivia Prosper, who had scored 55 goals coming into Wednesday’s game. Olympus found success in slowing down the young goal-scorer, as she only managed one goal for the evening.
Spratling said that Anne and her twin sister, Lizzie, grew up playing with Prosper, which allowed the Titans to have the success they did.
“Because the twins had played so much lacrosse with her, they knew how to slow her down, so it wasn’t a huge struggle for us as it might have been for other teams,” Spratling said. “She’s really good and I’m excited to see what she accomplishes.”
Though the win ended up being fairly comfortable for the Titans, Spratling said that her team’s performance was far from perfect and she hoped the game makes her players “hungry for more” as they head into a stretch where they will play their final 11 games in just under four weeks (with more likely to be rescheduled due to cancellations earlier in the season).
“Coming into this game, we hadn’t had enough of a challenge to really see what we needed to work on, and now we see our holes and we can address those in practice,” Spratling said.
“Going forward we need to work on the little things. … Luckily, my girls are kind of like racehorses, they’ll work on anything I give them. This win felt good, but now we should want more.”
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- 80% of respondents in this year's survey pointed to a non-technical executive as the primary advocates for AI ethics, compared to 15% in 2018
- 79% of CEOs surveyed are prepared to implement AI ethics practices but less than a quarter of organizations have acted on it
- 68% of organizations acknowledge diversity is important to mitigating bias in AI, but respondents indicated their AI teams are: 5.5 times less inclusive of women, 4 times less inclusive of LGBT+ individuals and 1.7 times less racially inclusive
ARMONK, N.Y., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value (IBV) study revealed a radical shift in the roles responsible for leading and upholding AI ethics at an organization. When asked which function is primarily accountable for AI ethics, 80% of respondents pointed to a non-technical executive, such as a CEO, as the primary "champion" for AI ethics, a sharp uptick from 15% in 2018.
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The global study* also indicates that despite a strong imperative for advancing trustworthy AI, including better performance compared to peers in sustainability, social responsibility, and diversity and inclusion, there remains a gap between leaders' intention and meaningful actions. The study found:
Business executives are now seen as the driving force in AI ethics
- CEOs (28%) – but also Board members (10%), General Counsels (10%), Privacy Officers (8%), and Risk & Compliance Officers (6%) are viewed as being most accountable for AI ethics by those surveyed.
- While 66% of respondents cite the CEO or other C-level executive as having a strong influence on their organization's ethics strategy, more than half cite board directives (58%) and the shareholder community (53%).
Building trustworthy AI is perceived as a strategic differentiator and organizations are beginning to implement AI ethics mechanisms.
- More than three-quarters of business leaders surveyed this year agree AI ethics is important to their organizations, up from about 50% in 2018.
- At the same time, 75% of respondents believe ethics is a source of competitive differentiation, and more than 67% of respondents that view AI and AI ethics as important indicate their organizations outperform their peers in sustainability, social responsibility, and diversity and inclusion.
- Many companies have started making strides. In fact, more than half of respondents say their organizations have taken steps to embed AI ethics into their existing approach to business ethics.
- More than 45% of respondents say their organizations have created AI-specific ethics mechanisms, such as an AI project risk assessment framework and auditing/review process.
Ensuring ethical principles are embedded in AI solutions is an urgent need for organizations, but progress is still too slow
- More surveyed CEOs (79%) are now prepared to embed AI ethics into their AI practices – up from 20% in 2018 -- and more than half of responding organizations have publicly endorsed common principles of AI ethics.
- Yet, less than a quarter of responding organizations have operationalized AI ethics, and fewer than 20% of respondents strongly agreed that their organization's practices and actions match (or exceed) their stated principles and values.
- 68% of surveyed organizations acknowledge that having a diverse and inclusive workplace is important to mitigating bias in AI, but findings indicate that AI teams are still substantially less diverse than their organizations' workforces: 5.5 times less inclusive of women, 4 times less inclusive of LGBT+ individuals and 1.7 times less racially inclusive.
"As many companies today use AI algorithms across their business, they potentially face increasing internal and external demands to design these algorithms to be fair, secured and trustworthy; yet, there has been little progress across the industry in embedding AI ethics into their practices," said Jesus Mantas, Global Managing Partner, IBM Consulting. "Our IBV study findings demonstrate that building trustworthy AI is a business imperative and a societal expectation, not just a compliance issue. As such, companies can implement a governance model and embed ethical principles across the full AI life cycle."
The time for companies to act is now. The study data suggests that those organizations who implement a broad AI ethics strategy interwoven throughout business units may have a competitive advantage moving forward. The study provides recommended actions for business leaders including:
- Take a cross-functional, collaborative approach - ethical AI requires a holistic approach, and a holistic set of skills across all stakeholders involved in the AI ethics process. C-Suite executives, designers, behavioral scientists, data scientists, and AI engineers each have a distinct role to play in the trustworthy AI journey.
- Establish both organizational and AI lifecycle governance to operationalize the discipline of AI ethics - take a holistic approach to incentivizing, managing and governing AI solutions across the full AI lifecycle, from establishing the right culture to nurture AI responsibly, to practices and policies to products.
- Reach beyond your organization for partnership – expand your approach by identifying and engaging key AI-focused technology partners, academics, startups, and other ecosystem partners to establish "ethical interoperability."
*Methodology
The IBV study, "AI ethics in action: An enterprise guide to progressing trustworthy AI," surveyed 1,200 executives in 22 countries across 22 industries to understand where executives stand on the importance of AI ethics and how organizations are operationalizing it. The study was conducted in cooperation with Oxford Economics in 2021. The full study is available at https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/report/ai-ethics-in-action.
About IBM Institute for Business Value
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From our unique position at the intersection of business, technology, and society, we survey, interview, and engage with thousands of executives, consumers, and experts each year, synthesizing their perspectives into credible, inspiring, and actionable insights.
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Adolescents consuming ultra-processed foods are at risk of obesity: Study
Researchers at the University of Sao Paulo have calculated the impact of adolescents consuming ultra-processed foods on the risk of obesity.
The findings of the study were published in the journal, 'Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics'.
There are 3,587 adolescents aged 12-19 who took part in the 2011-16 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). They divided participants in the study into three groups according to the amount of ultra-processed foods consumed.
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When they compared those with the highest level (64 per cent of total diet by weight on average) with those with the lowest level (18.5 per cent), they found that the former were 45 per cent more likely to be obese, 52 per cent more likely to have abdominal obesity (excess fat around the waist) and, most alarmingly, 63 per cent more likely to have visceral obesity (excess fat on and around the abdominal organs, including the liver and intestines), which correlates closely with the development of high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia (high cholesterol), and a heightened risk of death.
"There is substantial scientific evidence of the negative role of ultra-processed foods in the obesity pandemic. This is very well-established for adults. With regard to young people, we'd already found that consumption of these products is high, accounting for about two-thirds of the diet of adolescents in the US, but research on the association between consumption of ultra-processed foods and health outcomes, including obesity, was scarce and inconsistent," said Daniela Neri, first author of the article.
Led by Professor Carlos Augusto Monteiro, the NUPENS team was one of the first to associate changes in the industrial processing of food with the obesity pandemic, which began in the US in the 1980s and has since spread to most other countries. Based on this hypothesis, the group developed a food classification system called NOVA, based on the extent to which products are industrially processed.
The system informed the recommendations in the 2014 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for the Brazilian Population, which emphasized the benefits of a diet based on fresh or minimally processed foods, and emphatically ruled out ultra-processed foods ranging from soft drinks, filled cookies and instant noodles to packaged snacks and even an apparently innocent type of wholemeal bread.
"Generally speaking, ultra-processed food and drink contain chemical additives designed to make the products more appealing to the senses, such as colourants, aromatizers, emulsifiers and thickeners. Many ultra-processed foods have high energy density and contain a great deal of sugar and fat, all of which contributes directly to weight gain," Neri said.
"But even low-calorie products such as diet drinks can favour the development of obesity in ways that go beyond nutritional composition, such as by interfering with satiety signalling or modifying the gut microbiota," she added.
They used data collected by a methodology known as 24-hour food recall, in which subjects are asked to report all foods and beverages consumed in the previous 24 hours, detailing amounts, times and places. Most of the participants included in the analysis (86 per cent) were interviewed twice on this topic, with an interval of two weeks between interviews.
The adolescents were divided into three groups on the basis of this information: those in whose diet ultra-processed foods accounted for up to 29 per cent by weight, between 29 per cent and 47 per cent and 48 per cent or more.
The researchers also used anthropometric data, such as weight, height, and waist circumference. These measures were evaluated against age- and sex-specific growth charts approved by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
"Total obesity risk was estimated on the basis of body mass index, or BMI, which is weight [in kilos] divided by height squared [in meters]," Neri said.
"We used waist circumference to assess abdominal obesity, and sagittal abdominal diameter, a less well-known parameter, as a proxy for visceral obesity," she added.
Measuring sagittal abdominal diameter, she explained, is an indirect and non-invasive method to estimate the amount of visceral fat, "The subject lies down and we use a caliper or magnetometer to measure the distance between the top of the gurney and the region of the belly button. The softer subcutaneous fat falls to the sides, and the visceral fat, which is harder, stays in place. This approach avoids possible measuring errors that could be caused by skin folds in the region of the waist."
All the data analyzed in the study came from NHANES surveys conducted between 2011 and 2016. According to Neri, the findings can be extrapolated to Brazilian adolescents, who are also exposed to ultra-processed foods from an early age, albeit to a lesser extent than their American peers.
"Brazil doesn't conduct surveys of adolescent nutrition that also collect anthropometric data in person. Nationwide surveys of this kind are very costly and require continuous funding. We do have a few similar surveys, but they're simpler," Neri said.
An example is Vigitel, an annual national survey conducted by the Health Ministry to monitor chronic disease risk and protection, involving telephone interviews with over-eighteens. The latest data from this survey, published in January 2022 by the Institute for Health Policy Studies (IEPS), show that the adult obesity rate in Brazil almost doubled from 11.8 per cent in 2006 to 21.5 per cent in 2020.
The Consumer Expenditure Survey (POF) conducted by IBGE, the national statistics bureau, collected data on the dietary habits of adolescents and adults, but not on their health.
According to the latest POF, which was conducted in 2017-18, more than half (53.4 per cent) of the average Brazilian's daily calorie intake comes from fresh foods such as vegetables, fruit, meat and milk or minimally processed foods such as grains and flours, 15.6 per cent from processed ingredients such as sugar, salt and olive oil, 11.3 per cent from processed foods such as cheese, artisan bread and fruit and vegetable conserves, and 19.7 per cent from ultra-processed foods. In the case of adolescents, the survey data shows that ultra-processed foods account for 27 per cent of calorie intake, and for over-sixties, the proportion is 15.1 per cent.
In another study conducted by NUPENS, the researchers compared data on the diet of Brazilian adolescents from the 2017-18 POF with similar data from Argentina, Australia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the US.
Ultra-processed foods ranged from 19 per cent of energy intake in Colombia and 27 per cent in Brazil to 68 per cent in the UK and 66 per cent in the US. Despite the variability in proportional terms, the impact of ultra-processed foods on diet quality was similar in all the groups analyzed, according to Neri.
"In this study, too, the subjects were divided into groups according to their consumption of ultra-processed foods. We observed a deterioration in the quality of their diet as the proportion of ultra-processed foods increases, boosting energy density and sugar content, and reducing fibre content. The negative effect is very similar across all countries regardless of the proportion of ultra-processed foods, region or culture," she said.
Although rice and beans still constitute the staple diet for most Brazilians, she added, a survey commissioned by the Health Ministry in 2019 showed that consumption of ultra-processed foods is frequent even among under-fives. More than 80 per cent of all children in this group regularly consume these products.
"Children who consume these products have proportionally less room to consume fresh produce or minimally processed foods at a time when dietary habits are being formed," Neri said.
"By being exposed to these obesogenic foods, children and adolescents are being programmed for future health problems. It's extremely worrying," she added.
Families alone cannot be made responsible for controlling this exposure, which requires a reform of the prevailing dietary system as a whole. "We must go beyond consumer education by taking public policy action on several fronts," Neri said.
"Different strategies are possible, such as placing restrictions on advertising, especially when it targets children, and raising taxation on ultra-processed food products while at the same time improving access to fresh produce. Another vitally important measure would be to require manufacturers of these products to include clearer information on labels to help consumers make better," she added.
This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text.
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Good Morning. Here are some of the top stories from around the region.
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THE ROAD AHEAD
The mental health impact of COVID will likely outlive the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic that has tightly gripped the world for more than two years is, at its root, a public health threat. The highly infectious disease has taken the lives of more than 6 million people and sickened hundreds of millions more. But the impact of the pandemic hasn’t stopped there. Its effects have spread to all parts of people’s lives. It has hurt people financially, shutting down businesses and leaving millions temporarily unemployed. It has kept kids out of their classrooms, forced instead to adjust to learning virtually from their homes. COVID has been disruptive. It has been frustrating. It has been fear-inducing.
NEWS
Norristown man admits to role in gun trafficking organization
A Norristown man who as a teenager was accused of being one of the ringleaders of a multi-county gun trafficking network that illegally obtained and sold 44 firearms using straw purchase schemes has admitted to his role in the organization. Rahajahi Taylor Batchelor, now 19, of the 1100 block of Green Street, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court to charges of corrupt organizations, dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities, illegal sale or transfer of firearms, criminal use of a communication facility, possession of a firearm by a minor and conspiracy in connection with incidents that occurred between March and August of 2020.
Pottstown man sent to prison for sexual abuse of teenage girl
As he learned he’s headed to prison on child sexual abuse charges, a Pottstown man continued to claim he fell in love with a teenage girl, who prosecutors said was a troubled runaway to whom he provided drugs and groomed for his sexual gratification. “I fell in love with a 15-year-old girl and I had an adult relationship with her. I didn’t do anything she didn’t want to do. I didn’t want to hurt (the girl) and I apologize,” Mark Melle, 39, said in Montgomery County Court as he faced a judge for sentencing after he pleaded guilty to a charge of statutory sexual assault. Melle added, “I am an honest person and I love women.”
Disquiet at Kutztown University after Harleysville student hit and in critical condition
A pedestrian accident that left a Kutztown University student in critical condition has heightened existing concern on the campus about the safety of students who cross Kutztown Road at the crosswalk in front of Old Main. University officials plan to join the student government board on a previously scheduled safety walk on April 13 in the aftermath of the Sunday afternoon accident, according to an email message addressed to the “KU Campus Community” by the Office of University Relations.
Carjacking killer sentenced to life behind bars in Oxford case
The man who shot and killed a Lancaster County man that had stopped to offer him a ride on a rural stretch of road in southern Chester County, then stole the SUV the man had been driving on his way home from a family dinner, was formally sentenced Tuesday to life in state prison without parole. Hakeem Smith of Oxford had been convicted by a Common Pleas jury in December of the carjacking murder of Sam Algarin, whose family addressed the court on what his death — called “senseless” by District Attorney Deb Ryan at the time of his trial — had cost them in emotional terms.
SPORTS
Ovechkin, Capitals rout Flyers 9-2 to win 4th in a row
Alex Ovechkin keeps scoring, and the Washington Capitals kept their strong play going against the first non-playoff opponent they’ve faced in more than two weeks. Ovechkin scored for a fourth consecutive game to reach 46 on the season and T.J. Oshie ended a nine-game goal drought to help the Capitals rout the lowly Philadelphia Flyers 9-2 Tuesday night and extend their winning streak to four. If there was any concern about a trap game against Philadelphia on the eve of Washington’s longest road trip of the season, Ovechkin and his teammates snuffed that out early. The longtime captain scored his 776th career goal six minutes in, and the Capitals poured it on from there.
Bohm’s post-game guilty plea should buy him time to get better
Third baseman Alec Bohm felt the wrath of fans Monday night, the crowd at Citizens Bank Park serenading an accurate throw he made with sarcastic cheers, since he’d already produced a couple of brutal throwing errors and three overall in the first three innings. Taking a bow would have been the strong veteran move. Instead, Bohm did what your basic frustrated 25-year-old would, which is put out some strong language as in “I (bleepin’) hate this place.” Let’s be fair about this. Bohm didn’t walk up to fans and say it. He didn’t flip the bird, either. No, the words were caught by the TV’s and paid lip readers. It happened but it wasn’t intended for public consumption.
ENTERTAINMENT
‘Hairspray’ to bring ‘Good Morning Baltimore’ to Philadelphia
Take a time machine back to the 1960s, poof up your hair and keep the voice ready to sing because ‘Hairspray’ is coming to the Kimmel Cultural Campus as part of the continuing Broadway series in Philadelphia. The musical ‘Hairspray,’ based on the 1988 John Waters movie, plays the Miller Theater (formerly the Merriam Theater) May 17–May 22.
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Jonathan Pelham, sophomore psychology major
“I disapprove because it takes away the origins of life. I don’t think Georgia will get this bill because we’re too southern.”
Jillian Blevins, sophomore communication disorders major
“It’s absolutely disgusting children should be able to learn as much as they can in school—especially in public school. It’s definitely a possibility with the political state of our government that Georgia will get the bill.”
Ansley Hendrix, freshman sociology major
“School is where you go to learn, and it’s the only place you get to learn things. It should be open to all aspects. It’s definitely a possibility that Georgia will sign the bill because Georgia and Florida are bordering states.”
Kyzer Woodyard, sophomore sociology major said
“It depends, some parents may not want their kids to learn that but others will. So, it’s kind of pretty negative to me. I don’t think Georgia will get this bill.”
Kayla Eason, senior psychology major
“It set us back 50 years as people, and it doesn’t make sense for the children with same-sex parents. I wouldn’t be surprised if Georgia tried to get the bill, but there’s be a lot more people fighting against it.”
Octavius Payne freshman psychology major
“That would be wrong. They probably shouldn’t be focused on things like that. I don’t feel like it should be brought to Georgia.”
Written by Ivionna Pettigrew, Staff Writer. Photos courtesy of Ivionna Pettigrew
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HR Situation Deteriorating Fast In IIOJK: Report
Sumaira FH Published April 14, 2022 | 09:00 AM
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 14th Apr, 2022 ) :The human rights situation is deteriorating with every passing day in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) where Indian troops have made the life of the inhabitants a hell.
The human rights situation in IIOJK has deteriorated to an alarming proportion since the repeal of the special status of the territory through the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian constitution by Narendra Modi-led fascist government in New Delhi in August 2019, said a report released, today, by Kashmir Media Service.
It pointed out that killings, arbitrary arrests and torture by Indian troops and police have become a norm in IIOJK.
The report noted that over 570 people have been killed, more than 2,240 injured and thousands arrested since August 05, 2019, while journalists and human rights defenders have been increasingly targeted for raising their voice against the Indian repression.
Even women and children are not spared by occupation troops in the territory, it added.
The report deplored that Modi is using black laws to stifle political dissent in IIOJK and the recent slapping of draconian Public Safety Act on Hurriyat leaders, Mushtaqul islam and Abdul Samad Inqilabi is its glaring example.
It further lamented that BJP-led Indian regime is persisting with its repressive policies even during the holy month of Ramadan.
The report said, international human rights organizations have repeatedly raised alarm about the grave human rights violations perpetrated by Indian troops in the occupied territory.
"Several UN reports have documented massive human rights violations by Indian troops in IIOJK. India's brutal acts against the Kashmiris are in blatant violation of international norms. Unresolved Kashmir dispute is the main cause of rights' abuses in IIOJK," it added.
The report said that the world community must hold India accountable for human rights violations in the occupied territory and take immediate steps to protect the Kashmiris from the Indian onslaught.
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Factory fire kills 6 in India, 13 in hospital with burns
HYDERABAD, India (AP) - Fire raged through a pharmaceutical factory after an explosion in southern India, killing at least six workers on night shift and burning 13 others, police said Thursday.
The fire broke out due to a chemical reactor leaking monomethyl nitric acid - used for manufacturing several types of polymers - which caused an explosion on Wednesday night, Police Officer Rahul Dev Sharma said.
Five workers died on the spot and another succumbed to burns in a hospital. The 13 hospitalized workers were in critical condition as they suffered 80% burns, Sharma said.
The cause of the leak is being investigated, he said.
The factory is located in Akkireddygudem, a village in Andhra Pradesh state. Media reports said it took two hours to extinguish the blaze.
Fires are common in India, where building laws and safety norms are often flouted by builders and residents. Some don´t even install firefighting equipment.
In 2019, a fire caused by an electrical short circuit in a New Delhi factory producing handbags and other items killed 43 people. In a second major fire that year, a blaze in a six-story building´s illegal rooftop kitchen killed 17 people, also in New Delhi.
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Allyson Felix, who closed the Tokyo Games last year with more Olympic medals than any U.S. track and field athlete in history, says she will retire after the 2022 season.
“This season isn’t about the time on the clock, it’s simply about joy,” Felix said in an Instagram post Wednesday. “If you see me on the track this year I hope to share a moment, a memory and my appreciation with you.”
At age 35, Felix won a bronze medal in the 400 meters last summer in Tokyo, then followed it up with a gold medal in the 4x400 relay.
Those were her 10th and 11th Olympic medals, which helped her pass Carl Lewis in the U.S. record book and left her behind only one runner in history, Finland's Paavo Nurmi, who won 12 medals between 1920 and 1928.
Her last major meets figure to be the U.S. championships from June 23-26, then the world championships, which take place in Eugene, Oregon, from July 15-24.
Felix also has a record 13 gold medals and 18 overall from world championships.
More recently, she has become an outspoken advocate for women. Her daughter, Camryn, was born in 2018. Around the same time, Felix cut ties with Nike, upset with the way the company treated pregnant athletes.
In her Instagram post, she said: “This season I’m running for women. I’m running for a better future for my daughter.”
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Changes are being made to the system of county and district councils in North Yorkshire which will see the old system completely replaced in the coming years.
While elections are due to be held next month, these will still be for the old county council until next year when councillors will shift over to the new North Yorkshire Council. However, City of York Council will remain as it is for the foreseeable future.
After these elections, none will not be held for the new authority until 2027, five years in the future. An interactive map of the new council divisions can be seen here.
All North Yorkshire's district councils are set to be abolished, this means none are holding elections this May as by April next year they will not exist.
The new unitary council will have 90 seats to represent people across North Yorkshire. It will have control over council tax, so rates will be standardised across the county instead of being set by the local district or borough councils. It is also expected that there will be a “fairer structure” for services where charges apply.
What do you think about the new council? Let us know in the comments below.
The proposals have come under criticism from councillors in North Yorkshire, one Green party councillor even said the new council is “bad for democracy”. However, the leader of the council instead said the new proposals could unlock a “rural powerhouse” in North Yorkshire.
The new council will, in an attempt to keep councillors active in their local wards, keep a main office open in each of the old council areas to offer face-to-face “expertise and advice”. Bosses also say they plan to devolve powers to community groups, parish councils and town councils to run assets and services “where they want to”.
You can access additional information on the new council structure here.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Night" game were:
01-05-07-10-11-13-14-15-16-18-19-22
(one, five, seven, ten, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-two)
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Dike was brought in by Valerien Ismael in January but shortly after joining the Baggies, he picked up a hamstring injury.
Since then, Bruce has come in, and while the American is yet to play under the current chief, he says they have a good relationship.
“Obviously when he came here, I was on the treatment table,” said Dike. “I was in the gym and doing things like that, but I wasn’t out there playing.
“He’s been very nice — he communicates with me all the time, checking up on me, making sure I’m happy and stuff like that.
“He’s very helpful with everything I need, and he makes me feel wanted.
“Every single day he comes in, he’s giving me tips in terms of not rushing myself back, making sure I’m in the right state of mind and physical state to be able to play to the best of my abilities.
“Even when I started playing and training for a little bit, he would come over and tell me tactics, tell me specific things that he thought were specific to me that could help my game and our team.
“Hearing a coach that has actually looked at you and wants to go and personalise different tactics, techniques and drills just for you is something that’s nice.
“It’s nice to have because it makes it seem like they actually care.”
Bruce had offered Dike the chance to return to the States while carrying out his rehabilitation.
The target man decided to stay but appreciated the gesture.
Dike added: “Steve kind of gave me the option, you know: ‘I think it’d be good for you in terms of going home, seeing your family. If you let us know where you are with your recovery, we’ll still send you your rehab and everything and stuff like that.’
“I was thrilled about that, in terms of him truly thinking about me.”
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INT Chain (INT) traded flat against the US dollar during the one day period ending at 0:00 AM ET on April 13th. During the last seven days, INT Chain has traded flat against the US dollar. One INT Chain coin can currently be purchased for about $0.0240 or 0.00000211 BTC on major exchanges. INT Chain has a market cap of $10.81 million and $889,058.00 worth of INT Chain was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- Solana (SOL) traded 3.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $106.99 or 0.00258527 BTC.
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002413 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded 1.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.43 or 0.00003461 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002416 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded up 1.5% against the dollar and now trades at $14.22 or 0.00034362 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded 2.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $43.09 or 0.00104110 BTC.
INT Chain Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “Internet Node team aims to create a new generation of Internet of Things system to improve the interconnection within the whole network. The system will allow different types of devices to be connected to different parallel chains, meaning INT will work as a blockchain application platform which is object-oriented IoT. Furthermore, the INT team will use the Ethereum blockchain to provide a reliable data source for all kinds of distributed IoT applications and industrial ecology with a secure and private infrastructure. Designed for easy integration with any IoT protocol, with a use case driven approach, innovative “double-chain” network architecture, an advanced decentralized P2P protocol, custom smart contract development and with integrated and optimized SDN, blockchain, and fog computing technologies that follow the “cycle progressive application” model. Internet Node token (INT) will be used as the medium of exchange within the platform. “
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By Chris Hedges
Global Research, April 13, 2022
ScheerPost 11 April 2022
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The unaccountable coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East are now stoking a suicidal war with Russia.
The same cabal of warmongering pundits, foreign policy specialists and government officials, year after year, debacle after debacle, smugly dodge responsibility for the military fiascos they orchestrate.
They are protean, shifting adroitly with the political winds, moving from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and then back again, mutating from cold warriors to neocons to liberal interventionists. Pseudo intellectuals, they exude a cloying Ivy League snobbery as they sell perpetual fear, perpetual war and a racist worldview, where the lesser breeds of the earth only understand violence.
They are pimps of war, puppets of the Pentagon, a state within a state, and the defense contractors who lavishly fund their think tanks — Project for the New American Century, American Enterprise Institute, Foreign Policy Initiative, Institute for the Study of War, Atlantic Council and Brookings Institute.
Like some mutant strain of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, they cannot be vanquished. It does not matter how wrong they are, how absurd their theories, how many times they lie or denigrate other cultures and societies as uncivilized or how many murderous military interventions go bad.
They are immovable props, the parasitic mandarins of power that are vomited up in the dying days of any empire, including that of the U.S., leaping from one self-defeating catastrophe to the next.
I spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent reporting on the suffering, misery, and murderous rampages these shills for war engineered and funded. My first encounter with them was in Central America. Elliot Abrams — convicted of providing misleading testimony to Congress on the Iran-Contra Affair and later pardoned by President George H.W. Bush so he could return to government to sell us the Iraq War — and Robert Kagan, director of the State Department’s public diplomacy office for Latin America — were propagandists for the brutal military regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala, as well as the rapists and homicidal thugs that made up the rogue Contra forces fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, which they illegally funded.
Their job was to discredit our reporting.
“Like some mutant strain of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, they cannot be vanquished.”
They, and their coterie of fellow war lovers, went on to push for the expansion of NATO in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, violating an agreement not to extend NATO beyond the borders of a unified Germany and recklessly antagonizing Russia.
They were and are cheerleaders for the apartheid state of Israel, justifying its war crimes against Palestinians and myopically conflating Israel’s interests with those of the U.S. They advocated for air strikes in Serbia, calling for the U.S. to “take out” Slobodan Milosevic.
They were the authors of the policy to invade Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya. Robert Kagan and William Kristol, with their typical cluelessness, wrote in April 2002 that “the road that leads to real security and peace” is “the road that runs through Baghdad.”
We saw how that worked out. That road led to the dissolution of Iraq, the destruction of its civilian infrastructure, including the obliteration of 18 of 20 electricity-generating plants and nearly all the water-pumping and sanitation systems during a 43-day period when 90,000 tons of bombs were rained down on the country, the rise of radical jihadist groups throughout the region, and failed states.
The war in Iraq, along with the humiliating defeat in Afghanistan, shredded the illusion of U.S. military and global hegemony. It also inflicted on Iraqis, who had nothing to do with the attacks of 9/11, the widespread killing of civilians, the torture and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners, and the ascendancy of Iran as the preeminent power in the region.
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They continue to call for a war with Iran, with Fred Kagan stating that “there is nothing we can do short of attacking to force Iran to give up its nuclear weapons.” They pushed for the overthrow of President Nicolas Maduro, after trying to do the same to Hugo Chavez, in Venezuela. They have targeted Daniel Ortega, their old nemesis in Nicaragua.
They embrace a purblind nationalism that prohibits them from seeing the world from any perspective other than their own. They know nothing about the machinery of war, its consequences, or its inevitable blowback. They know nothing about the peoples and cultures they target for violent regeneration. They believe in their divine right to impose their “values” on others by force. Fiasco after fiasco. Now they are stoking a war with Russia.
“The nationalist is by definition an ignoramus,” Yugoslav writer Danilo Kiš observed.
“Nationalism is the line of least resistance, the easy way. The nationalist is untroubled, he knows or thinks he knows what his values are, his, that’s to say national, that’s to say the values of the nation he belongs to, ethical and political; he is not interested in others, they are no concern of his, hell — it’s other people (other nations, another tribe). They don’t even need investigating. The nationalist sees other people in his own images — as nationalists.”
The Biden administration is filled with these ignoramuses, including Joe Biden. Victoria Nuland, the wife of Robert Kagan, serves as Biden’s undersecretary of state for political affairs. Antony Blinken is secretary of state. Jake Sullivan is national security adviser.
Oct. 8, 2014: U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland at a Ukrainian State Border Guard Service Base in Kiev. (U.S. Embassy Kyiv, Flickr)
They come from this cabal of moral and intellectual trolls that includes Kimberly Kagan, the wife of Fred Kagan, who founded The Institute for the Study of War, William Kristol, Max Boot, John Podhoretz, Gary Schmitt, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Frum and others. Many were once staunch Republicans or, like Nuland, served in Republican and Democratic administrations. Nuland was the principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.
They are united by the demand for larger and larger defense budgets and an ever-expanding military. Julian Benda called these courtiers to power “the self-made barbarians of the intelligentsia.”
They once railed against liberal weakness and appeasement. But they swiftly migrated to the Democratic Party rather than support Donald Trump, who showed no desire to start a conflict with Russia and who called the invasion of Iraq a “big, fat mistake.” Besides, as they correctly pointed out, Hillary Clinton was a fellow neocon. And liberals wonder why nearly half the electorate, who revile these arrogant unelected power brokers, as they should, voted for Trump.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during presidential election 2016. (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)
These ideologues did not see the corpses of their victims. I did. Including children. Every dead body I stood over in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Gaza, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen or Kosovo, month after month, year after year, exposed their moral bankruptcy, their intellectual dishonesty and their sick bloodlust.
They did not serve in the military. Their children do not serve in the military. But they eagerly ship young American men and women off to fight and die for their self-delusional dreams of empire and American hegemony. Or, as in Ukraine, they provide hundreds of millions of dollars in weaponry and logistical support to sustain long and bloody proxy wars.
Historical time stopped for them with the end of World War II. The overthrow of democratically elected governments by the U.S. during the Cold War in Indonesia, Guatemala, the Congo, Iran and Chile (where the C.I.A. oversaw the assassination of the commander-in-chief of the army, General René Schneider, and President Salvador Allende); the Bay of Pigs; the atrocities and war crimes that defined the wars in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos; even the disasters they manufactured in the Middle East, have disappeared into the black hole of their collective historical amnesia.
“Julian Benda called these courtiers to power ‘the self-made barbarians of the intelligentsia.’ ”
American global domination, they claim, is benign, a force for good, “benevolent hegemony.” The world, Charles Krauthammer insisted, welcomes “our power.” All enemies, from Saddam Hussein to Vladimir Putin, are the new Hitler. All U.S. interventions are a fight for freedom that make the world a safer place. All refusals to bomb and occupy another country are a 1938 Munich moment, a pathetic retreat from confronting evil by the new Neville Chamberlain. We do have enemies abroad. But our most dangerous enemy is within.
The warmongers build a campaign against a country such as Iraq or Russia and then wait for a crisis — they call it the next Pearl Harbor — to justify the unjustifiable.
In 1998, William Kristol and Robert Kagan, along with a dozen other prominent neoconservatives, wrote an open letter to President Bill Clinton denouncing his policy of containment of Iraq as a failure and demanding that he go to war to overthrow Saddam Hussein. To continue the “course of weakness and drift,” they warned, was to “put our interests and our future at risk.”
Neera Tanden and William Kristol in a dialog on Sept. 30, 2018. (Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan)
Huge majorities in Congress, Republican and Democrat, rushed to pass the Iraq Liberation Act. Few Democrats or Republicans dared be seen as soft on national security. The act stated that the United States government would work to “remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein” and authorized $99 million towards that goal, some of it being used to fund Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress that would become instrumental in disseminating the fabrications and lies used to justify the Iraq war during the administration of George W. Bush.
The attacks of 9/11 gave the war party its opening, first with Afghanistan, then Iraq. Krauthammer, who knew nothing about the Muslim world, wrote that:
“the way to tame the Arab street is not with appeasement and sweet sensitivity but with raw power and victory…The elementary truth that seems to elude the experts again and again…is that power is its own reward. Victory changes everything, psychologically above all. The psychology in the [Middle East] is now one of fear and deep respect for American power. Now is the time to use it.”
Removing Saddam Hussein from power, Kristol crowed, would “transform the political landscape of the Middle East.”
It did, of course, but not in ways that benefited the U.S.
They lust for apocalyptic global war. Fred Kagan, the brother of Robert, a military historian, wrote in 1999 that “America must be able to fight Iraq and North Korea, and also be able to fight genocide in the Balkans and elsewhere without compromising its ability to fight two major regional conflicts. And it must be able to contemplate war with China or Russia some considerable (but not infinite) time from now [author’s emphasis].”
They believe violence magically solves all disputes, even the Israeli-Palestinian morass. In a bizarre interview immediately after 9/11, Donald Kagan, the Yale classicist and rightwing ideologue who was the father of Robert and Fred, called, along with his son Fred, for the deployment of U.S. troops in Gaza so we could “take the war to these people.”
They have long demanded the stationing of NATO troops in Ukraine, with Robert Kagan saying that “we need to not worry that the problem is our encirclement rather than Russian ambitions.” His wife, Victoria Nuland, was outed in a leaked phone conversation in 2014 with the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, disparaging the EU and plotting to remove the lawfully elected President Viktor Yanukovych and install compliant Ukrainian politicians in power, most of whom did eventually take power.
They lobbied for U.S. troops to be sent to Syria to assist “moderate” rebels seeking to overthrow Basha al-Assad. Instead, the intervention spawned the Caliphate. The U.S. ended up bombing the very forces they had armed, becoming Assad’s de facto air force.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, like the attacks of 9/11, is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Putin, like everyone else they target, only understands force. We can, they assure us, militarily bend Russia to our will.
“Toward a Europe Whole and Free,” April 29-30, 2014. From left: Moderator David Ensor, Voice of America director; Robert Kagan, senior fellow, Brookings; Frederick Kempe, president and CEO, Atlantic Council; Alexandr Vondra, former minister of defense of the Czech Republic. (Atlantic Council, Flickr)
“It is true that acting firmly in 2008 or 2014 would have meant risking conflict,” Robert Kagan wrote in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, lamenting our refusal to militarily confront Russia earlier. He wrote:
“But Washington is risking conflict now; Russia’s ambitions have created an inherently dangerous situation. It is better for the United States to risk confrontation with belligerent powers when they are in the early stages of ambition and expansion, not after they have already consolidated substantial gains. Russia may possess a fearful nuclear arsenal, but the risk of Moscow using it is not higher now than it would have been in 2008 or 2014, if the West had intervened then. And it has always been extraordinarily small: Putin was never going to obtain his objectives by destroying himself and his country, along with much of the rest of the world.”
In short, don’t worry about going to war with Russia, Putin won’t use the bomb.
I do not know if these people are stupid or cynical or both. They are lavishly funded by the war industry. They are never dropped from the networks for their repeated idiocy. They rotate in and out of power, parked in places like The Council on Foreign Relations or The Brookings Institute, before being called back into government. They are as welcome in the Obama or Biden White House as the Bush White House.
The Cold War, for them, never ended. The world remains binary, us and them, good and evil. They are never held accountable. When one military intervention goes up in flames, they are ready to promote the next. These Dr. Strangeloves, if we don’t stop them, will terminate life as we know it on the planet.
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Tennessee receiver Velus Jones Jr. set for multiple visits ahead of NFL Draft
Velus Jones Jr. spent six years playing college football. He began his collegiate career with four years at USC before playing his final two seasons with the Tennessee Volunteers. Now, Jones is looking to make an impression on teams ahead of the 2022 NFL Draft.
According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Jones will have two opportunities to impress teams ahead of the draft this week, as he is set for two visits.
WR and return specialist Velus Jones Jr is visiting the #Panthers today and the #Colts tomorrow, source said,” Rapoport tweeted.
Jones began turning heads at the NFL Scouting Combine, where he ran an impressive 4.32 40-yard dash, which was among the fastest times at the event.
In four years at USC, Jones caught 36 passes for 347 yards and a touchdown, returning 81 kickoffs for 1,947 yards (24 yards per return) and one touchdown. Jones caught 22 passes for 280 yards and three touchdowns in his first year at Tennessee, with 18 kick returns for 398 yards (22.1 yards per return). This past season, Jones turned in his best all-around season yet.
With the Volunteers in 2021, Jones returned 23 kicks for 628 yards and one touchdown. His 27.3 yards per return marked a career-high. Jones also played a big role offensively in Tennessee this past season, bringing in career-highs with 62 catches, 807 yards and seven touchdowns.
Jones could be an attractive option on Day 2 or 3 of the NFL Draft
In a deep receiver class, Jones isn’t likely to sneak into the first round of the NFL Draft. But he could sneak up as high as the second round. Prior to the combine, he was viewed as a likely Day 3 pick. But after he impressed, he could be rising up draft boards.
The Panthers would be an interesting fit for Jones in the draft. Carolina has D.J. Moore and Robby Anderson, and drafted Terrace Marshall Jr. last offseason. But the group struggled with inconsistency as the quarterbacks struggled too. Moore is the best of the bunch, and Anderson struggled with drops at times. Marshall caught just 17 passes as a rookie. Jones could provide a big boost to the return game, as well as give the team another threat down the field. The Panthers don’t hold second or third round picks, though, meaning that they’d have to wait until round three to grab Jones.
The Colts have Michael Pittman Jr. at receiver, and Parris Campbell. Outside of them, there are a lot of questions and holes to fill. Jones could immediately step in as an upgrade in the return game, and he could be in line for some playing time on offense right away in Indianapolis.
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The Speech and Debate class at T. Wingate Andrews High School in High Point is getting first-hand experience about speaking up and advocating for their rights as they tackle what they call “abhorrent provisions being served to them by Guilford County Schools Food & Nutrition Services and its administration.”
The students on the team feel the issue surrounding the school’s food is important because, for many students, it is often their only meal of the day. The school, which has a Food Blessing Box outside on its grounds, is located in just one of High Point’s many food deserts. The team is also concerned about safety, as students who leave campus are forced to use the main thoroughfares such as Eastchester Avenue, University Parkway, Lexington or Main Streets during a busy time period in order to go get lunch off-campus. Although at this time, students are not currently allowed to leave campus for lunch.
“We wanted to push for this because it is something that has been going on for a while and it’s unfair to some of the students here. This is some of the students’ only meal of the day. I believe that it’s unfair to the students that have to eat this one meal a day and it’s undercooked, raw, or expired. It's either eat it or go hungry,” said Diana Orrico, a junior in the Speech and Debate class though she’s considered an early graduate, meaning she’ll graduate with the Spring class of 2022.
According to a letter sent from the Speech and Debate class, they sent a letter to the school’s Assistant Principal Darell Baker, Jr. on March 15 addressing the issue before making posters, flyers, and petitions during class on March 16.
The posters had QR codes on them so that students could scan them and take the poll. To reach their peers who may not have access to cellular devices and access to technology, and to garner support, students set up a table with information about their cause. The table, posters, and petitions were taken down by school administration, in what the Speech and Debate Team called in its letter “a clear attempt to silence our voices.”
“We made a Google form for students to fill out. We asked them a couple of questions like are you a student here at Andrews, do you eat the food, have you ever received raw, rotten, undercooked/overcooked or expired food, and then if you have any pictures of the food, we left open an attachment at the bottom of it for them to send in their pictures,” Orrico explained of the collection process. “We did get quite a few pictures from students showing the food here from Andrews that was rotten, expired, unappealing, overcooked, undercooked and something that you just wouldn’t want to eat. We opened it up to the public as well — teachers, parents, alumni — for them to fill it out, and then we made a petition on Change.org, along with the Google form. We had almost 270 Google forms and 50 signatures on Change.org.”
The letter goes on to say “at no point were we made aware of any policy or procedure needed to put up posters, petitioning or handing out flyers. In fact, we have often seen several posters around the school and campus displaying various causes, clubs, and events.” Videos of Baker, with posters in hand, and the posters placed in front of a classroom door have been submitted to YES! Weekly.
To address the issue, students asked to meet with Assistant Principal Baker on March 18 who, according to the letter sent by the Speech and Debate Team, said “we are here to advocate for your issues” and showed up to the meeting with the School Resource Officer (SRO) for what was “designed to be a peaceful conversation.” During the meeting, students presented pictures of the food in question and the data they collected from their peers, including “data that suggested 82.9 percent of students said they’ve received raw, under/overcooked, expired or rotting food.”
A recording of the meeting was submitted to YES! Weekly.
Baker reviewed federal, state, and local guidelines in regards to educational food and nutritional policies.
"Andrews does not specifically order their food, whether it's breakfast or lunch. Our cafeteria, our cafeteria manager, administration does not order the food that is served. That is a federal guideline that takes place," Baker explained and encouraged students to address the issue at a higher level. "As a group, have we contacted our state legislators that are making the policies on school nutrition? Have we written a letter to our state senators to have a conversation about school nutrition?"
The student's also questioned Baker about the school's cooking process.
"As it relates to the cafeteria and the services they provide, everything is guideline specific. It's almost like when you go to the grocery store and you go to the freezer aisle and you get food. It gives you the instructions on what to do, what time to put it on and how long to put it on," he said. "Same thing in the cafeteria. All of their food comes with instructions. Anything that they're preparing, they've already been given the instructions on, the time to set it on, how long to cook it and those things. Everything is outlined."
Students also addressed the amount of food they were getting. Orrico said that with the number of student athletes at the school, the students are not getting enough.
"We have a lot of student athletes here, because sports is one of the only things they provide here after-school. Last week (this was on March 18, 2022), everybody only got four chicken nuggets," she said. "For me personally, that maybe enough to fulfill me, but for someone taller than me, bigger than me, and playing a different sport than me, that is not enough food to hold them over until after practice."
Baker responded to the group by telling them that was not an "Andrews cafeteria issue."
"All of that is a state and federal guideline mandate, which they follow," he said. "That is something that the district would have to communicate to get that changed."
Orrico's fears of student's not getting enough to eat were realized as one of her classmates spoke up during the meeting about her need for the school's meal. The young lady stays with a family member who takes care of her and six others. Baker did thank the young lady for her transparency and told the group he would share with her, and the group, resources for those in need.
"I was a student that only had school lunch as my one meal. I feel like if I was eating this food I wouldn't want to eat that," she said, tearfully. "She can't feed seven kids. I'm a two-sport athlete, sometimes, only eating one meal. I feel like that if I'm coming to school wanting to eat and I'm hungry and I have to eat soggy food, it's going to hurt my feelings. Yeah, it's free food and I'm going to be grateful for it but at the same time this food is not pleasant to me at all."
On the recording, Baker said that he isn't debating that sometimes students may not get the "best quality" product, but encourages students to address the concern with staff.
"Let's go and swap it out."
He also addressed the school’s policy about posting around school without permission.
"Those things have to be pre-approved. There's a process for everything," he said.
The letter, which was sent to several media outlets in late March, closed by stating that the food issue was “NOT about staff who are merely doing their job while being underpaid. This is about us being forced to eat unappealing food.”
Students included a list of demands that read:
- Allowing food trucks to come onto campus once a week as a way to bring an additional offering
- Improve the quality of the free lunch
- Offer a salad bar
- Offer complex and dynamic vegetarian and vegan options
- Consider more inclusive food options (e.g. pork-free, beef-free options)
Students and their parents had plans to attend the GCS Board of Education meeting, held at 712 N. Eugene St. in Greensboro, on Tuesday, April 12, to share their concerns about the school lunch and the treatment they feel they received at the school. However, once signed up to speak during public comments, many students received an email stating: Due to the time limit of three (3) minutes per speaker and number of individuals who requested to speak prior to receiving your request, we have reached the maximum number of speakers for the April 12 meeting. You may submit your comments via email to boardclerk@gcsnc.com by Monday, April 11 at 5 p.m.
GCS officials Deputy Superintendent Dr. Whitney Oakley, Executive Director of School Nutrition Travis Fisher, and Chief Financial Officer Angela Henry visited the school, at the behest of the Speech and Debate Team, on Thursday, March 31 to speak with the students and to share in the lunch experience.
“After we talked with AP Baker, we decided to reach out to some of our school board members to invite them over for lunch because he told us it’s not something he can do anything about and we need to talk to people above him, so that’s what we did,” Orrico said. “We invited our superintendent and our school district members to lunch.”
In October 2021, GCS officials pulled prepackaged sandwiches from the vendor Tasty Brands from school cafeterias across the district following two complaints from parents at Northern High School regarding spoiled meat.
The sandwiches, which are not a regular item on the school’s menu, were shipped as substitutes when the company was unable to fulfill the district’s order. According to the district’s release, Tasty Brands has provided products for GCS for more than 14 years with no problems before this incident. A formal complaint was filed with the company and the district said they would no longer accept the sandwiches as substitutes.
The release went on to say that after officials spoke with the two parents who complained on Friday, “a message about the incident and the district’s actions was sent to parents Sunday.”
In an email response, Fisher called the Andrews’ visit a positive experience.
“Students had the opportunity to voice their concerns, and they did so respectfully and productively,” he said. “While school districts across the country continue to struggle with supply chain issues, we are working to provide more options and have reopened the a la carte option for students.”
Orrico also said that Fisher’s visit went well, especially knowing that they would soon receive more options for lunch.
“He told us some of the things that he’s seen, some of the things he wants to change, and some of the things that he was trying to implement,” she said. “He said that they are trying to get with a different food vendor and hearing all that news made us feel happy and relieved. It made us feel as if maybe we are doing some good here and our work is going somewhere.”
As of Tuesday evening, before this article went to press there were a la carte options at the school, but students would still like to see food trucks and a salad bar option.
According to Fisher, there could be bigger changes coming soon. A statement T. Wingate Andrews Speech and Debate Team will surely hold him accountable for.
“School Nutrition will be developing new menu items and including Andrews High students in a round of taste tests next month,” he said. “Those items could be added to menus at Andrews and other schools as early as August.”
Orrico said that she and her peers feel they are being heard more so now than they were before, especially following Fisher’s visit.
“We’ve had multiple students come up to us, let us know that they’re supporting us and they are with us. The students in our class are all ready for the change. We want the things that we ask for because it is right. You’re supposed to care about us and we’re supposed to be your number one priority but you are serving us raw, undercooked, expired food,” Orrico said. “We’re going to fight and push for the things that are right.”
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Watch: Dewald Brevis Hits Longest Six Of IPL 2022
The ball travelled a distance of 112 metres and that meant Brevis had taken over in the list of longest sixes in IPL this season.
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Mumbai Indians lost their fifth match of the season on Wednesday night as they went down to Punjab Kings by 12 runs. Mumbai needed some spark while chasing a target of 199 runs and it came from the blade of South African teenager Dewald Brevis, who hit 49 runs off just 25 balls. His innings included five sixes, four of which came off consecutive deliveries off the bowling of leg-spinner Rahul Chahar.
Brevis blasted 29 runs off the over to bring the contest back to life but he perished to Odean Smith and despite a valiant knock from Suryakumar Yadav, Mumbai failed to cross the line.
The fourth six off Chahar's over, which was hit on the last ball, had Brevis swinging for the heavens and the ball travelled far into the crowd over the wide long on region.
Watch: Dewald Brevis Hits 112 metre-long six against Rahul Chahar
112m six????????- longest in #IPL2022 #dewaldbrevis announced his arrival in style ????
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The ball travelled a distance of 112 metres and that meant Brevis had taken over in the list of longest sixes in IPL this season.
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This is the biggest six in terms of the distance the ball has travelled from the bat and the South African now sits on top of that list.
Brevis has been compared with AB de Villiers because of the similarity between his style of play and that of the South African great.
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ALBANY — The criminal indictment of Gov Kathy Hochul's appointed lieutenant governor is a significant setback for her because it raises questions about her judgment and associates her administration with the kind of corruption she has pledged to end, a national polling expert said Wednesday.
Following the arraignment and resignation of Brian Benjamin, Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College political poll, said Hochul now faces serious complications on the political front, given her disgraced running mate, at least for the time being, will still have his name on the primary election ballot.
"More than anything, given that this was her pick, it speaks to judgment and it speaks to more of the same with the culture in Albany," Miringoff told CNHI. "That association is not where you want to be when you're attempting to move things in a new direction."
Recent statewide polling has had Hochul topping the field in her quest for her first full term as governor. She ascended to the office in August following the resignation of then Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He moved out of the governor's mansion while the state Assembly was considering moving forward with an impeachment proceeding in connection with sexual harassment allegations.
But the Benjamin indictment now leaves Hochul taking heated criticism from both her Democratic and GOP rivals, with the June 28 primary election less than three months away.
Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-Long Island, criticized Hochul for repeatedly "pandering to the left" after becoming governor, and shifting on several previous positions she held regarding illegal immigration and gun control.
Questioning why Hochul was ignorant of the fact that Benjamin was being investigated by federal authorities at the time he became lieutenant governor, Suozzi predicted Hochul, if victorious in the primary, will go on to lose to the Republican nominee in November.
"If I am the Democratic nominee, I will win this race and with Diana Reyna as my running mate we will win decisively," the congressman said.
Hochul told a New York City public radio station that when a background check was conducted on Benjamin late last year, "“We had been told that everything that had risen up had been addressed, everything was clean."
Hochul also acknowledged she has no immediate plans for filling the lieutenant governor vacancy. “There's been absolutely no decisions made,” she said. “It is too early in the process.”
On Tuesday, following Benjamin's arrest, Hochul said she had been led to believe he would be cleared of wrongdoing. On April 7, she stated she had the "utmost confidence" in Benjamin.
State Republican Party chairman Nick Langworthy criticized Hochul for not addressing the Benjamin scandal with statehouse reporters who cover her administration.
"Doing a call-in radio interview with a left-wing host doesn’t cut it," Langworthy said. "In her comments, she tried to sweep it under the rug as a non-issue, when the reality is that she has consistently turned a blind eye to obvious corruption, first with Cuomo and then with her choice for lieutenant governor."
State Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs fired off a defense of Hochul while chiding Republican leaders for resorting to what he called "half truths, outright fabrications and personal attacks."
In selecting Benjamin as lieutenant governor, Hochul elevated a progressive Democrat who championed the "Defund the Police" movement and promoted legislation that last month led to the removal of parole supervision requirements for thousands of people who had been incarcerated for felony convictions. Hochul's campaign, meanwhile, has been courting the support of law enforcement unions.
Utica University political science professor Luke Perry said Benjamin's arrest on corruption charges "has the potential to shake up the race."
"I look at this as an unforced error by Hochul," Perry said. "It appears whoever was entrusted with vetting lieutenant governor options certainly didn't sufficiently vet Mr. Benjamin. Hochul's public statements expressing support for Benjamin add to the political difficulties she now must find a way to manage," he added.
While state election law creates major obstacles for a nominated candidate to have her or his name removed from the ballot, Democrats at the statehouse are scrambling to clear the way for Hochul to find a replacement for Benjamin.
Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, D-Scarsdale, said she is introducing a measure that would allow a candidate for office to decline a nomination and be removed from the ballot if that person is facing a criminal charge.
State lawmakers are on recess this week and it was not immediately clear when the proposal may be taken up.
Political activists said several lawmakers are expected to endorse Ana Maria Archila in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor. She is the running mate of New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who is competing with Hochul and Suozzi for the Democratic line after winning the endorsement of the Working Families Party.
Suozzi's running mate, New York City Council member Diana Reyna, a former Brooklyn deputy borough president, also has the potential to pick up endorsements from Democrats in the Legislature.
Reyna appeared to throw cold water on a suggestion that she could be poached by Hochul to fill the slot formerly occupied by Benjamin. She made it clear she wants Suozzi to be the next governor.
"Tom and I have the integrity, have the executive skills, have the leadership, and we're ready to make the turn that we need for our state," Reyna said.
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Age 71, of Dayton, OH, passed away Thursday, March 31, 2022. Memorial service 12 noon Friday, April 15, at House of Wheat Funeral Home, Inc., 2107 N. Gettysburg Ave. Calling hour 11 am-12 noon. Live stream link: www.facebook.com/Stream-All-Services-102620271622310/
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Ahead of the much-anticipated Alia Bhatt-Ranbir Kapoor wedding on Thursday, the immediate family members of the two Bollywood starts arrived at Ranbir Kapoor’s apartment for the “haldi” ceremony. Among those who were spotted by the paparazzi were the groom's mother Neetu Kapoor and sister Riddhima Kapoor Sahni and the bride’s mother Soni Razdan and sister Shaheen Bhatt.
Neetu Kapoor on Wednesday evening confirmed that the wedding take place at “Vastu”, Ranbir Kapoor’s apartment complex in Mumbai’s Bandra.
Celebrity photographer Viral Bhayani shared clips of close family members arriving for the haldi.
The festivities kicked off on Wednesday a "mehendi" ceremony where close friends and family of the couple were there. Kareena Kapoor Khan, Karisma Kapoor and Karan Johar, Alia Bhatt’s father Mahesh Bhatt and her half-sister Pooja Bhatt were among the people photographed arriving at the venue. Karisma Kapoor gave a sneak peak of the "mehendi" celebrations with a photograph of her feet. So did Riddhima Kapoor Sahni who posted a photo of henna design on her hand.
"The wedding is tomorrow at Vastu," a smiling Neetu Kapoor, who was accompanied by her daughter, had told shutterbugs outside her Bandra home merely 2 km away from “Vastu”.
Hordes of media personnel kept vigil outside Ranbir Kapoor’s apartment, situated in a usually quiet lane that has been the cynosure of attention with telephoto lens focused closely on occupants behind rolled up car windows.
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In light of the ongoing Russia crisis, the Scowcroft Center’s Forward Defense (FD) practice will share regular assessments of the latest force developments surrounding Ukraine, leveraging the expert perspectives of our senior military fellows. The opinions, conclusions, and recommendations expressed or implied here are solely those of the authors and do not represent the views of the Department of Defense or any other US government agency.
The bottom line
On March 25, Russia was forced to announce a major shift in strategy due to unsustainable losses in northern Ukraine. Since then, it has removed many of its forces from the area—including all those surrounding Kyiv—to Belarus and Russia to refit and reequip. We assess that Russian operations are now centered on the consolidation of gains in the eastern Donbas region and the completion of a land bridge from there to Crimea, which would give Russian diplomats a stronger hand in peace negotiations. If Russian forces gain complete control of the Donbas, not just separatist-held portions, they are in a better position to demand autonomy for the entire region—which then would become a protectorate of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Controlling the Donbas would also provide Russian President Vladimir Putin ground to claim that his “special military operation” was a success, protecting ethnic Russians in the region and expanding their living space.
We have determined two immediate focus areas of the Russian offensive. First, the Kremlin wants to take control of (or annihilate) Mariupol, effectively ending Ukrainian opposition to a land bridge connecting Crimea to the Donbas. Second, the Russians are likely to conduct an offensive against the city of Izyum, which lies south of Kharkiv and just north of the Donbas. In response to Russia’s strategic shift, the Ukrainian effort has adapted, becoming more offensive with counterattacks and smaller-scale harassment of withdrawing Russian forces. As Ukraine prepares for a larger fight against Russian forces in the east, its military is in urgent need of weapons that will support an offensive to dislodge Russian forces from Donetsk and Luhansk.
The Donbas campaign
Thousands of front-line troops have departed Ukraine for Belarus and southern Russia, where they are likely reorganizing, reequipping, and preparing for the Donbas campaign. Some have begun their move toward the region, and another long convoy of Russian armor has developed—this time repositioning forces from the Kharkiv area to Izyum.
- Battle for Izyum. A town of approximately forty thousand people in Kharkiv Oblast, Izyum’s location between Kharkiv and the Donbas makes it strategically vital as a location to stage and supply the fight. In late March, Russia consolidated control of the town after an extended and brutal battle. Currently, Russian and Ukrainian forces are fighting in rural areas around it, and a major engagement for control of the town (and the lines of communication running through it) seems likely in the next two weeks. On April 3, video and photographs emerged of a Russian Su-35S fighter jet crashing near Izyum, marking the most advanced aircraft the Russians have ever lost in combat. Aside from the real impact of losing a Su-35S, the location of the loss indicates that the fight for air superiority is shifting to the Donbas.
- Battle of attrition in the Donbas. Ukraine was very successful in the defensive battles of Kyiv and Kharkiv, blunting Russian advances outside of those major cities, attacking logistics supply and reinforcement convoys, and using ground and air fires to destroy Russian equipment and personnel, thereby forcing a withdrawal. But many of the advantages Ukraine harnessed in the battle for northern cities will not be available to them in the Donbas. Not only will Ukrainian forces need to blunt Russian advances, but they will need to dislodge Russian forces from their entrenched positions. We believe this type of battle would lead to a bloody war of attrition, with the line of control moving incrementally.
- Nationwide air and missile strikes. Despite the focus on the east, Russia will continue air and missile strikes across the country to prevent Ukrainian air defenses from focusing solely on the Donbas, inflict physical damage throughout the country, and broadcast a threat to the United States and its European allies and partners not to expand their intervention in the conflict.
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The Ukrainian offensive
What Ukraine needs. As the conflict shifts from Ukrainian defense of key terrain—a situation that favors the defender—to fighting along a well-established line of control, Ukraine’s capability needs will shift from defensive to offensive in nature. This does not mean that Ukraine no longer needs the anti-tank and air-defense systems that have been so effective thus far; in addition to these, the Ukrainians will need offensive weapons to counter a Russian offensive in the Donbas region and enable a counter-offensive of their own.
- Ground-based fires. As Ukraine looks to prevail in open terrain, it will also need to root out Russian forces from dug-in and well-defended positions—particularly through indirect fires or air and missile strikes. Ukrainian forces will need much more long-range artillery, multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), and mortars. If deployed in significant numbers, these types of weapons can keep the Russian forces under withering attack, stalling their offensive momentum and potentially dislodging them from dug-in positions.
- Offensive air systems. As the main Russian effort transfers from Kyiv to the Donbas, the Ukrainians must not just contest control of the skies, but also use air power offensively. While the deal for the delivery of MiG-29s from Poland and other NATO nations to Ukraine remains stalled, it appears Slovakia may be willing to donate its MiG-29s to Ukraine (and the United States seems willing to approve). In addition to MiG-29s which can contest Russian air superiority, Ukraine needs aircraft that can be used more offensively, including the ground-attack Su-25 fighter jet and the Mi-24 Hind ground-attack helicopter, both of which are operated by former Soviet NATO members.
- Armored vehicles. As Ukrainian forces transition from a primarily defensive to offensive posture, they will need more armored vehicles to protect their forces and bring mobile fires to the front lines.
- Anti-ship systems. Russia still controls the northern Black Sea, cutting off Ukraine from resupply by sea and allowing the Russian Navy the ability to target coastal cities, including Odesa. Last weekend, the United Kingdom announced its decision to transfer Harpoon anti-ship missiles to Ukraine. While that’s a good start, Ukraine needs many more anti-ship missiles, as well as naval mines.
Can Ukraine capitalize on the Kremlin’s mistakes? Russia has been plagued by several serious issues—primarily logistics, unity of command, and low troop morale—throughout its campaign. But it has attempted several solutions. First, by concentrating forces in eastern Ukraine, Russia can shorten its supply lines. Second, appointing General Aleksandr Dvornikov, who led the military’s southern campaign (its only real success thus far), as overall commander of Russian forces in Ukraine addresses the leadership issue. Third, a consolidated campaign allows the Russian Army to put its greener, lower performing units in defensive positions in Russian-held portions of the Donbas. There, they will have the advantages of defense that Ukraine enjoyed in the initial stages of the invasion. This is why Ukrainian forces must seize an advantage before it’s too late.
To counter Russia’s newfound solutions, Ukraine needs to employ a mix of fire and maneuver to push Russian forces from Mariupol, preventing the completion of the land bridge from the Donbas to Crimea and liberating its occupied territory west and north of Donetsk before the Russians can consolidate gains. Ukrainian attacks against Crimea and the occupied areas of the Donbas should be primarily indirect fire and air strikes. Ukrainian forces must also avoid indiscriminate artillery shelling to protect their own citizens and to draw a stark contrast between their conduct and that of the Russians; Ukraine has the moral high ground and must strive to maintain it. So far, its proficient use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has demonstrated its ability in precision fires, and it should continue to use UAS as aerial spotters. But if Ukrainian forces attempt a counteroffensive into Crimea or the Russian-occupied areas of Donbas, Ukraine risks overextending itself like Russia did in its overly ambitious multi-axis invasion plan.
US, allied, and partner support
US announces security aid already delivered to Ukraine. On April 7, the US Department of Defense (DoD) released a fact sheet documenting all military aid to Ukraine—which totals $1.7 billion since the start of the war and $2.4 billion in the past fourteen months. Highlights included:
- More than twelve thousand anti-armor systems, including more than five thousand of the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile, which has reportedly proven effective against Russian armor
- More than fourteen hundred of the FIM-92 Stinger man-portable air defense systems, which have already destroyed multiple Russian planes and helicopters in the war
- More than seven thousand small arms and fifty million rounds of ammunition
- Hundreds of Switchblade Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems, which is known as the kamikaze or suicide drone, as it flies to its target and detonates a small explosive device, and RQ-20 Puma Unmanned Aerial Systems, hand-launched, small UASs used for battlefield intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Though DoD had previously announced the transfer of UASs, it had not previously disclosed the type and numbers.
As the conflict continues, the United States and its allies and partners will need to continue providing security assistance at this level. The demand for anti-armor and anti-aircraft systems will be nearly insatiable, and those weapons are inflicting devastating losses on both Russian equipment and personnel. DoD has only just begun to send more offensive systems, such as the Switchblade and Puma UASs, but they have the potential to play a pivotal role in expanding Ukraine’s ability to find, identify, and destroy Russian military equipment. To that end, on April 13, US President Joe Biden announced another $800 million in military aid to Ukraine, including “artillery systems, artillery rounds, and armored personnel carriers,” as well as helicopters.
Slovakia transfers S-300 to Ukraine. On April 8, Slovakian Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad confirmed his nation was transferring its S-300 surface-to-air missile (SAM) system to Ukraine, and that the United States was going to deploy a Patriot SAM battery to Slovakia. The S-300 is an extremely capable high-altitude and long-range SAM that is capable of engaging aircraft and missiles and has reportedly been very successful throughout the war so far. The S-300 can be used in conjunction with lower altitude shoulder-fired man-portable air defense system (MANPADS) like the Stinger and the British Starstreak. The high risk posed by the proliferation of MANPADS across Ukrainian forces is driving Russian aircraft to higher altitudes—where they’ll now be more susceptible to the S-300. Because of Ukraine’s familiarity with operating the S-300, the integration of this system has likely already occurred. As the focus of air operations turns east, Ukraine will need to reposition its air defenses to that region and beef them up; more S-300s will allow it to do just that.
FD’s conclusion
The war in Ukraine has entered a new phase: the campaign for control of the Donbas. We predict that this phase of the conflict will be distinct from phase one, with a greater focus on offensives against dug-in combatants as opposed to Ukrainian defense against a large attacking force. The campaign is likely to become a bloody war of attrition with limited territorial gains on either side. This requires a change in the Ukrainian arsenal: In addition to anti-armor and anti-aircraft missiles, which Ukraine still needs in large numbers, offensive weapons—including armored vehicles, ground-based fires, and offensive air systems—will be critical to Ukrainian success.
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Further reading
Wed, Mar 30, 2022
Russia Crisis Military Assessment: Russia is forced to make a major shift in strategy
New Atlanticist By
The main Russian effort is now in the Donbas, where Russia will continue to send reinforcements and resupply in the hope of building on (and consolidating) small gains on the ground.
Wed, Apr 13, 2022
Russian War Report: Russia promotes misleading video accusing Ukraine of using mannequins as casualties
New Atlanticist By
Kremlin-controlled TV network Rossiya 24 broadcast a misleading video claiming that mannequins were being used in Ukraine to stage war casualties.
Sat, Apr 9, 2022
Lend-Lease for Ukraine: US revives WWII anti-Hitler policy to defeat Putin
UkraineAlert By
The United States is reviving the WWII Lend-Lease program which helped defeat Hitler in order to dramatically increase arms deliveries to Ukraine and set the stage for Vladimir Putin's eventual military defeat.
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SPRINGFIELD, Fla. (WMBB) – Rutherford introduced new head girls basketball coach Tony Davis to the team and family members on Wednesday.
Davis has spent the last six years coaching girls and boys basketball at Mowat Middle School but has an extensive resume coaching high school basketball around the Panhandle previously.
“I’ve enjoyed the middle school, but I was very interested in a new challenge in life,” Davis said. “So, this presented a great opportunity, a great challenge, it’s a place I wanted to be. A lot of people considered this to be an out-of-the-box move but it’s a perfect move for me.”
Many candidates applied for the Rutherford girls basketball job and Davis said it was a position he had to apply for.
“In every program, you’re trying to build something, but here, they’ve built something already with a young group of girls that’s been battle-tested,” Davis said. “So, with that being said, my job is to just come in and be the CEO and build these relationships with them and continue to grow them and develop them. I think Rutherford is built for the next few years to do some great things.”
Former head coach Jasmine Threatt led the Rams in the previous three seasons to a 57-20 record but left the program to pursue a career and family opportunity in another state.
Kiona Selders, the assistant coach for the Rams in recent years, will be staying with the team and was in full support of the new hire.
“Coach Davis, he’s been around following us, watching us,” Selders said. “He has his strategy of teams, he has athletes on his team as well and knows how to push them, continue to bonds, and he’s just been around so he’s going to bring knowledge. I’m young so I’m always learning knowledge.”
The Rams are coming off their best season in program history, finishing 24-4 and reaching the Class 4A Region Finals.
They will return a very young and incredibly talented roster and Davis said his immediate goal is to make it to the very top.
“A lot of coaches are scared to talk about the ultimate goal, which is to win a state championship,” Davis said. “I’m not afraid of it because every day we’re going to focus on those things, we’re going to practice like it’s our last practice. If you want to build a championship program you’ve got to have a championship practice.”
Wednesday marked day one of the new era under coach Davis, and Selders said the entire team is on board to make a push at state.
“Like Coach Davis said, tell your family, tell your friends to go ahead and reserve their rooms for Lakeland because we’re coming,” Selders said.
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Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: x - clinched playoff berth; y - clinched division; z - regular season champion; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Sunday's results
Edmonton 4 Calgary 1
Winnipeg 8 Medicine Hat 2
Vancouver 3 Kelowna 2
Seattle 4 Everett 1
Tuesday's results
Moose Jaw 5 Brandon 2
Portland 4 Tri-City 3 (OT)
Wednesday's results
Red Deer 8 Calgary 3
Seattle at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Thursday's results
Regina at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
Friday's games
Regina at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Victoria, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Everett at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Victoria, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Lethbridge at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Regina, 4 p.m.
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By JACQUES BILLEAUD
Associated Press
An Ohio man charged with storming the U.S. Capitol and stealing a coat rack testified that he joined thousands of protesters in ransacking the building last year on what he thought were orders from the president, Donald Trump.
Dustin Byron Thompson, 38, of Columbus, Ohio, said Wednesday he took to websites after being laid off from his exterminator job in March 2020 and in his pandemic doldrums fell under Trump’s sway as he bought into conspiracy theories and “went down the rabbit hole on the internet.”
On trial in U.S. District Court in Washington, Thompson testified that the claim that the election was stolen seemed credible to him because it was coming from the president. His defense team is the first to argue that Trump and those connected to him were responsible for the actions of the mob that day.
“It seems like everyone was attacking him (Trump). He needed someone to stand up for him, and I was trying to do that,” Thompson said.
Under questioning by the prosecution, Thompson acknowledged that he ignored signs he shouldn’t be at the Capitol — broken glass, alarms, chemical irritants in the air — and said he stole the coat rack to keep others from using it as a weapon. He also said he witnessed fierce fighting between police and rioters outside the building, and later ran away from officers. He said he realized weeks later that what he had done was wrong and now feels shame for his actions.
Thompson’s jury trial is the third among hundreds of Capitol riot prosecutions. The first two ended with jurors convicting both defendants on all counts. Thompson’s defense team is the first to argue that Trump and those connected to him were responsible for the actions of the mob that day.
“If the president is giving you almost an order to do something, I felt obligated to do that,” Thompson testified.
Thompson’s lawyer sought subpoenas to call Trump and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as witnesses, but U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton rejected that request. Jurors on Wednesday began listening to recordings of speeches that Trump and Giuliani delivered at a rally before the riot. They were expected to finish listening to recordings Thursday morning and begin deliberations later in the day.
Thompson’s wife, Sarah Thompson, testified that she voted for Democrat Joe Biden, as well as Democratic presidential nominees Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. She said her husband’s views were more moderate then but shifted during the Trump years as he started encountering conspiracy theories. She said she did not share his views but helped arrange his travel to Washington for the “Stop the Steal” rally near the White House because he had a right to protest and she enjoyed having a quiet house.
Much of the prosecution’s case was built around testimony from several Capitol Police officers placing Thompson at the scene, wearing a bulletproof vest that he said he found, and carrying a coat rack he took from the Senate Parliamentarian’s Office.
More than 770 people have been charged with federal crimes arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. Over 250 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors. Thompson is the fifth person to be tried on riot-related charges.
On Monday, a jury convicted a former Virginia police officer, Thomas Robertson, of storming the Capitol with another off-duty officer to obstruct Congress from certifying Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. Last month, a jury convicted a Texas man, Guy Reffitt, of storming the Capitol with a holstered handgun.
A judge hearing testimony without a jury decided cases against two other Capitol riot defendants at separate bench trials. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden acquitted one of them of all charges and partially acquitted the other.
Thompson is charged with six counts: obstructing Congress’ joint session to certify the Electoral College vote, theft of government property, entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
A co-defendant, Robert Lyon, 27, pleaded guilty in March to theft of government property and disorderly conduct. Both counts are misdemeanors punishable by a maximum of one year imprisonment. Walton is scheduled to sentence Lyon on June 3.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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Local Sports: Flat Rock soccer matches last year's victory total
FLAT ROCK -- Flat Rock's girls soccer team won just two games all of last season.
The Rams have reached that total this year through three games.
They are 2-0-1 after beating Airport 3-1 Wednesday.
"It's definitely an exciting start to the season," Flat Rock coach Sammi Murphy said.
Courtney Kraszewski, Bella Thomas and Anna Klein scored for Flat Rock and Megan Woelkers had an assist.
The Rams are doing it with a young lineup.
"I feel like the girls work really good with each other," Murphy said. "We've had a lot of growth. ... We have a lot of young talent. We only have two seniors, one junior and seven freshmen."
PREP SOCCER
Milan, Huron tie
MILAN -- New Boston Huron and Milan played to a 1-1 tie Tuesday.
The first half was scoreless.
Huron's Alexa Yoder broke the deadlock around the 10-minute mark following a great rush by freshman Rylie Cassette.
Milan quickly answered with a goal by Sylvia Koch.
"We battled hard," Milan coach Victor Plasse said. "I was very happy with our performance."
Lily Cholette, Callie Eaton, Layla Hamilton, Megan Scott, Cecily Hughes and Ashley Christesen played well for 0-1-1 Huron. Allie Millina, Lauryn Obey, Delaney Higgins, and Sophie Satarino were standouts for Milan.
Ida nipped
IDA -- Natalie Maloziec was strong in goal, but Ida fell 1-0 to Brooklyn Columbia Central Wednesday.
"We had some opportunities late in the game with two back-to-back corner kicks with 45 seconds left," Ida coach Mark McCaskill said.
PREP BASEBALL
Carlson bats quiet
WOODHAVEN -- Blake Gant had the only hit for Gibraltar Carlson in a 5-2 loss to Woodhaven Wednesday.
"We have to minimize our mistakes, start hitting the ball and score runs," Carlson coach Matt Kolak said of his 1-4 team.
Summerfield swept
PETERSBURG -- Summerfield was swept 15-3 and 4-1 by Adrian Madison Wednesday, dipping to 0-3 under new coach Reid Olmstead.
Keegan Sieler pitched well in the second game.
PREP GOLF
Klawonn is medalist
TEMPERANCE -- Carter Klawonn earned medalist honors with a 2-over-par 37 as Bedford finished in the middle of a tri-meet at Bedford Hills Wednesday.
The Mules shot 170 while Jackson finished with 169 and Dexter 173.
Frank Soss added a 40 for Bedford.
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Alleged gunman in Cedar Rapids mass shooting appears in court, bond set
Timothy Rush, 32, appeared in a Linn County Courtroom Tuesday by video conference, for several charges in Sunday morning's Taboo Nightclub shooting. Rush was arrested Monday and now faces several charges, including second-degree murder, willful injury, intimidation with a dangerous weapon, and reckless use of a firearm causing serious injury. In...
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The Stew Review: Ambulance delivers satisfying, non-stop chaos
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - I have a frustrating love/hate relationship with director Michael Bay. When he’s firing on all cylinders, we get superb action movies like The Rock or the unhinged insanity of Bad Boys II or, if we’re wholly fortunate, Pain & Gain. On the other hand, Bay is also the purveyor of the Transformers movies, a series of films that could easily and justly be described as the nadir of modern franchise filmmaking. To our great benefit, however, Bay’s latest supercharged cinematic offering, Ambulance, is of a piece with the director’s absolute best.
Ostensibly a remake, I’m going to guess there’s very little in Bay’s film that resembles the 2005 Danish original beyond the premise. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays Will Sharp, a struggling veteran who can’t seem to land a job in need of a lot of money to pay for a medical procedure his wife needs and their insurance won’t cover. Desperate, he reaches out to his estranged adopted brother, Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal). The two haven’t spoken in a while on account of Will running off to join the military to escape the life of bank robbing their father thrust them into. Danny, however, never left it and he suckers Will into joining him for “one last score” to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. It was supposed to be a quick smash-and-grab job on a federal bank, but thanks to a rookie cop (Jackson White) who can’t wait until he’s off duty to ask a cute teller on a date, things go wildly off-script resulting in the cop being shot, Will and Danny stealing an ambulance as their getaway vehicle and the remaining EMT, Cam (Eiza Gonzalez), being dragged along for the ride to keep the rookie alive.
What ensues is a non-stop car chase.
And I do mean non-stop. From the time Will puts the pedal to the metal, he barely lets up, save for a few moments in the third act. While we cut between the drama unfolding within the cramped confines of the ambulance and the cops (led by an impeccably cast Garrett Dillahunt) biting at their heels at all times, the movie is nothing but forward momentum, careening through the streets and highways of Los Angeles with reckless abandon.
On the whole, this is a remarkable feat. In the hands of a lesser director, a two-hour car chase would be incomprehensible. It would feel interminable. It would become monotonous. And there are times when Ambulance creeps right up to the edge of wearing out its welcome. But Bay is a maestro of propulsive action and every time you think you’ve seen every trick this pony has to offer, he cuts to an insane shot photographed using an aerial drone, the likes of which I’ve never seen before.
There are those who criticize Bay as being all style and no substance, a dudebro director too lacking in self-awareness to produce anything more than disposable explosion-fests. But Ambulance continues to emphasize just how “in on the joke” Bay actually is. While the whole of Ambulance doesn’t measure up to the increasingly wacky car chase through San Francisco that’s a highlight of The Rock (a sequence that would have made legendary Looney Tunes animator Chuck Jones swoon), there’s enough silliness strewn throughout to prove Bay really sees this as something akin to a gag. Characters crash backwards through conveniently placed trucks carrying large panes of glass, a thoroughly stoned bank robber is baffled as to why his body is contorted in an unnatural way and the ambulance itself powerslides through nearly every corner in a way that no emergency vehicle is even remotely designed to do. It’s absurd but given the sense of heightened reality Bay creates, it all works.
What did surprise me, though, was how invested I actually became in the characters, a feat that only Pain & Gain had previously accomplished within a Bay flick. Gyllenhaal and Abdul-Mateen do the heaviest of lifting to sell the fractured bond between these estranged adoptive brothers, but they still manage to evoke a real sense of history and a desire to reconnect even amid the constant chaos. There’s an all-too-short interlude where Danny and Will share headphones and (horribly) belt out the chorus to Christopher Cross’ Sailing that delivers a perfect window into just how in sync these two men used to be. It also gives us a laugh as we cut to Cam’s perspective who hears just how off-key they both are. And speaking of Cam, it’s better late than never, but with Eiza Gonzales’ performance, we finally get Michael Bay’s first truly excellent female protagonist. Women in Bay’s films are often little more than damsels to be rescued or simple window dressing to gawked at. Gonzales is clearly a beautiful woman, but she also exudes a palpable toughness that never feels forced and in fact manages to undercut the overwhelming machismo that permeates so much of the film. She’s complicated and compassionate, but she also has agency. I’ve liked Gonzales in other films, but this is the first time I feel like she’s truly arrived.
Also unexpected was Bay’s framing of Cam as the true hero of the film. Watch nearly any of his movies and you’ll quickly be overwhelmed by Bay’s deference to law enforcement and the military. He prides himself on working closely with both, thus gaining him access to hardware and personnel that results in a depiction of those agencies that could often be described as reverential. But in Ambulance his depiction of the LAPD is much less generous. None of this would have happened had Danny not tried to rob a bank, but a trigger happy squad of cops ensures violence erupts sooner than it perhaps should have, and the police only further escalate things from there with their legion of cars, armored vehicles and helicopters. At the end, Cam is attempting to get medical help for a character and the cops, armed to the teeth, simply stand there robotically, visibly indifferent to someone on the verge of death. I wouldn’t dream of going so far as to say that Bay has “gone woke” (or whatever near-meaningless phrase you want to apply to the notion of being anything other than wholly reverential toward police) but it certainly felt like a very purposeful framing. Ultimately it is Cam who gets any of Bay’s trademark “hero shots.”
I hope we get more films like this from Michael Bay. The incomparable sensory overload that is Bad Boys II aside, Bay is unquestionably at his best when he’s working under financial and scheduling restrictions. This was shot for a mere $41 million (peanuts, comparatively for him) and in less than 40 days and it resulted in a work that ranks among his best. Fingers crossed.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jack Roslovic scored twice, Patrik Laine had a goal and two assists and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat Montreal 5-1 on Wednesday night for their second straight win and a three-game season sweep of the Canadiens.
Cole Sillinger and Emil Bemstrom each added a goal and an assist, and Gus Nyquist and Jakub Voracek both had two assists for Columbus. Elvis Merzlikins stopped 20 shots on his 28th birthday to help lead the Blue Jackets over Montreal for the seventh time in eight home meetings.
Ryan Poehling scored Montreal’s lone goal and Sam Montembeault stopped 26 shots in the Canadiens' third straight loss.
Columbus got on the scoreboard first after Montembeault bobbled the rebound of Roslovic’s shot, which trickled past him over the goal line at 8:36 of the first period.
Roslovic’s second goal, his fifth in two games, came off the rush as he slid it under Montembeault’s pad on the glove side at 15:52 of the second.
Laine made it 3-0 1:30 later with his fifth power-play goal of the season, snapping an 11-game scoring drought.
Poehling pulled Montreal to within two with 1:51 left in the second, deflecting Nick Suzuki's shot, eight seconds into a Canadiens power play, for his first goal since Jan. 17.
Sillinger’s deflection at 6:24 of the third made it 4-1. The secondary assist from Nick Blankenburg marked his first NHL point in his league debut.
Bemstrom scored at 17:38 to make it 5-1.
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Canadiens: Host New York Islanders on Friday night.
Blue Jackets: Visit Los Angeles on Saturday night.
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As tax season concludes, people across the country are looking for all the ways they can lower their tax bill and increase their refund before the April 18 filing deadline.
This year, that includes rounding up all the charitable donations they made in 2021 in order to take advantage of a pandemic-related tax incentive that’s going away. It’s a write-off that may shave $150 off a married couple’s tax bill, according to one expert.
But for the country’s super-rich — if past years’ tax activity are any clue — tax time likely includes tallying up 2021 charitable stock donations in order to shrink income tax bills to a far greater extent, according to a new report from ProPublica, the investigative news outlet. There’s also no capital gains tax on the donation.
For a tax code that some critics say is tilted towards the rich, the divergent scenarios may be a tale of two tax breaks and the people who use them.
The 400 richest households in America paid an average effective income tax rate of 22% between 2013 and 2018, the ProPublica report said. The capacity to pull together large deductions, including large charitable stock donations that bypass capital gains taxes, is one reason it got this way, the report said. The fact that long-term capital gains are taxed at a lower rates than wages is another reason, the report added.
Tech sector billionaires often donated stock and, as a group, they had a 17% effective income tax rate, ProPublica said. Michael Bloomberg had a 4% average effective federal income tax rate, ProPublica said. The estimated 4% rate for the founder of Bloomberg L.P., the media and financial data company, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies and former New York City Mayor was among the lowest rates in the select group. The ProPublica report said he took “annual deductions of more than $1 billion, mostly through charitable contributions.”
A Bloomberg spokesman declined to comment. In previous ProPublica coverage, Bloomberg representatives have said he “pays the maximum tax rate on all federal, state, local and international taxable income as prescribed by law.”
In a tally of last year’s top donations and pledges, Bloomberg was responsible for $1.6 billion, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
All together, the top 400 households’ estimated 22% rate is steeper than the 5% and 19% effective income tax rates of households making up to $50,000 and up to $500,000, ProPublica found, after sifting through IRS data on the super-rich that it obtained.
But the estimated 22% effective rate is lower than the 29% rates paid by earners making between $2 million – $5 million and the 27% rate paid by taxpayers making between $12 million and $58 million, according to ProPublica.
The ProPublica report comes as President Joe Biden is pressing for a new tax that would make households worth at least $100 million pay a 20% minimum tax. Under the proposal, the IRS could count up the value of unsold stock when coming up with the tax bill. The top 400 families are paying just over 8% in income taxes when factoring all their income and wealth, including the value of unsold assets, White House economists have estimated.
The latest Biden administration tax idea is a long shot, some observers say. But the debate on what counts as the elite’s “fair share” of taxes will continue regardless of what happens to this proposal.
In tax returns filed last year through mid-July, 9.7 million returns claimed a total $88.2 billion in charitable contribution deductions, according to the IRS. That’s down from the 11 million returns in mid-July 2020 claiming over $96 billion.
The urge to make a difference, not shrink tax liability, is what motivates wealthy donors, some surveys say. Others say philanthropy amounts to reputation washing for elites. Another criticism of charitable stock donations, like Tesla
TSLA,
Either way, charitable contribution deductions are part of the tax landscape for people who itemize their deductions. And itemizing is not what most taxpayers do.
During the pandemic’s early phases, lawmakers were looking for all sorts of ways to incentivize financial help in a time of crisis. The CARES Act, passed in March 2020, created the $300 above-the-line charitable deduction for people who took the standard deduction (which is most taxpayers.)
Lawmakers subsequently extended the write-off into 2021, allowing married couples to deduct a $600 maximum in cash contributions and still take the standard deduction. Though charities have pushed for the deduction to live on and become bigger, that hasn’t happened yet.
Then there are the tax rules surrounding charitable donations of appreciating assets like stocks. First, a household needs it to make financial sense to itemize instead of taking the standard deduction that’s worth $12,500 for individuals and $25,100 for many married couples this year.
Then they need the portfolio ready to go. Last year, 56% of Americans owned stock through individual company share ownership, mutual funds, a self-directed 401(k) or IRA, according to Gallup. The people in that group tended to skew richer; 89% of households making over $100,000 said they owned stock, the poll noted.
When it comes to donating stock and the connected charitable contribution, the deduction is up to 30% of adjusted gross income.
There’s a large tax savings in a direct stock donation instead of selling the stock and donating the proceeds, various analysis show.
A $10,000 cash donation to charity ends with a $3,500 tax savings for a household in the 35% marginal tax bracket, the second highest bracket, according to RBC Wealth Management. Suppose it’s a $10,000 stock donation on securities that gained $8,000 over the years. Selling the shares and donating the cash would mean a 15% capital gains tax hit, and a charitable deduction that would result in a $2,300 tax savings, it said. But a $10,000 direct stock donation ends with a $4,700 tax savings that takes the $3,500 deduction but skips a $1,200 capital gains tax hit.
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SCHW,
For them, a stock sale for a $100,000 cash donation results in a tax savings of $14,390 after factoring in the capital gains tax and the charitable contribution deduction. Donating the stock to the charity skips the capital gains tax, takes the deduction and results in a net $37,000 tax savings, the Schwab analysis said.
The most important thing is the donation to an organization and cause that fits a donor’s values, while the tax effects “are just icing on the cake,” Schwab wrote.
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The 131st Canton Fair presents new home appliance business for the "stay-at-home economy"
GUANGZHOU, China, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The upcoming 131st China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) will present more than 2.9 million products covering eight major sectors, among which the electronic and home appliances exhibition zone will feature nearly 2,600 companies with 140,000 products.
The home appliance exhibition zone will gather China's leading brands such as Haier, Hisense, Gree, Midea, Changhong, TCL, along with small- and medium-sized manufacturers and exporters, to further explore the diverse market.
"The vivid gathering of the entire industrial chain of China's intelligent manufacturing at the Canton Fair will enable comprehensive presentation of the sector's cutting-edge technology as well as promote efficient cross-border businesses," said Alan Liu, Deputy Director-General of the Foreign Affairs Office at Canton Fair.
Canton Fair presents the new stay-at-home business
Since 2021, home-based and online businesses have played a significant role in major economies, stimulating the global home appliance market. According to GFK, from January to November 2021, the global retail sales of white appliances maintained steady growth with sales increasing by 14.8 percent, and small household appliances increased by 11.1 percent.
China's home appliance industry, with its stable supply chain and industrial facilities, has further developed its market via the Canton Fair.
Stove and smoking machine companies, as well as small kitchen appliance manufacturers, have upgraded their products to enable a healthier stay-at-home life. Large-capacity range hoods, high thermal efficiency gas stoves, and cold water-free gas heaters have further increased popularity in the market, including Schindler's Sky AI large suction range hood, which can monitor the firepower in real-time and automatically adjust the suction power during the cooking.
Leading companies such as Midea, Haier, Vatti and Sacon are also focusing on developing intelligent systems for kitchen appliances, which can connect multiple isolated devices onto one super terminal to enable a smarter experience through its distribution network, application-free installation and direct supporting service.
Canton Fair brings new technology to promote high-quality development
According to the China Hardware and Electromechanical Chamber of Commerce, China's total exports of household electrical appliances reached 118.45 billion USD in 2021, an increase of 26.4 percent over 2020.
With record-high export scale and growth rate of the sector in the past ten years, Canton Fair's home appliance exhibition area has developed rapidly to echo the intelligent innovation in the industry, bringing a variety of products with independent research and development technology to global buyers.
Signature products at the Fair will include televisions with new display and big screen technology, such as a transformable OLED television with flexible screen presented by Skyworth.
Cleaning appliances are also becoming more intelligent. Ecovacs will showcase its multi-purpose sweeping and mopping robot vacuum and cleaning station, which has mop self-cleaning and hot air drying, automatic dust collection, anion sterilization and water tank self-filling functions. The sweeping robot has enabled voice control with 12 sweeping and mopping cleaning modes.
Please register https://www.cantonfair.org.cn/en-US/register/index#/foreign-email for more business opportunities.
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The Chargers still have starting spots at right tackle and right guard to fill, but getting quality depth pieces behind them is still imperative.
Los Angeles could be looking at former Southern offensive tackle Ja’Tyre Carter to be one of those guys, as he’s expected to meet with the team virtually, according to The Draft Network’s Justin Melo.
Carter made 37 starts for Jaguars, with all of them coming at left tackle. 2021 marked his most impressive season, as he allowed zero sacks across 11 games. He went on to play in the Reese’s Senior Bowl.
At 6-foot-3 and 311 pounds, Carter recently had an eye-popping Pro Day, having posted a 34.5-inch vertical, a 9-foot-3 broad jump, and a 5.02-second 40-yard dash.
Carter, a former basketball player, possesses the footwork, hands and power to hold his own in pass protection and in the run game. However, he is a candidate to be moved inside due to his shorter frame.
Nonetheless, Carter would supply a multi-positional backup for the Bolts.
He currently projects as a Round 5 or 6 selection.
Ja'Tyre Carter stones Winfrey on this rep pic.twitter.com/KARpUAjRG9
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OSAKA, Japan, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Toyobo Co., Ltd. has launched a major U.S. marketing initiative for Nerbridge TM ("the product", hereafter), a conduit for peripheral nerve regeneration.
On January 11, 2022, Toyobo kicked off the sales promotion campaign at a conference jointly held in Carlsbad, California, by three societies – the American Association for Hand Surgery (AAHS), the American Society for Peripheral Nerve (ASPN) and the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM). The campaign is being conducted in partnership with the exclusive U.S. distributor of Nerbridge TM, Synovis Micro Companies Alliance, Inc. (hereafter Synovis), a subsidiary of Baxter International Inc., a global medtech leader.
The global nerve conduit market is estimated at around 150,000 units as of 2021 and has been growing at a rate of 15 percent per annum*1. The U.S. accounts for about 70 percent of the share, making it the biggest market of its kind in the world.
Toyobo plans to feature the product in collaboration with Synovis at conferences held by various societies. At the events, the company plans to present data*2,3 on clinical tests, post-sale surveys and clinical practice it has accumulated since the company started marketing the product in Japan in 2013. The societies to which Toyobo will showcase the product are those holding conferences across the United States, including ASRM, ASSH and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
The product is a medical device used with the aim of facilitating regeneration and reconstructing functions of peripheral nerves severed or lost due to external injury. The device is a tube made of polyglycolic acid filled with sponge-shaped collagen, which enables the creation of an environment to induce nerve growth and reconstruct the severed section. The sponge-like structure of collagen has been confirmed as effective in multiplying nerve cells. The nerve conduit products made of synthesized materials that are available on the overseas market have reportedly caused some instances of triggering inflammatory reactions when the materials have decomposed inside the body*4. However, such events were not found with Nerbridge TM in a systematic literature search Toyobo has been making for the past several years in Japan. Using Nerbridge TM makes it unnecessary to harvest healthy peripheral nerves for autografting, reducing the patient's burden and shortening the time needed for surgical treatment.
Toyobo plans to enhance the production capacity of the product by the end of 2025 as well as expanding the scope of its clinical applications. To respond to the increasing demand expected for nerves conduits in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world, Toyobo will strengthen its production and sales capacities, thus becoming the leading company in the nerve conduit business field.
About Nerbridge TM
Brand name: Nerbridge TM
US FDA 510(k): Clearance No. K152967／Nerve Cuff
JP MHLW: Approval No.22500BZX00106000／Absorbent nerve regeneration inducer with the use of collagen
*1 Global Nerve Conduit, Nerve Wrap and Nerve Graft Repair Product Market Growth 2021-2026
*2 Product document of Nerbridge TM
*3 Kusuhara H, et al. A clinical multi-center registry study on digital nerve repair using a biodegradable nerve conduit of PGA with external and internal collagen scaffolding.、Microsurgery. 2018;1–5.
*4 Kehoe S, et al., FDA approved guidance conduits and wraps for peripheral nerve injury: A review of materials and efficacy、Injury, Int. J. Care Injured 43 (2012) 553–572.
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Citroen C3 SUV spotted in India undisguised, reveals exterior details
Citroen C3 SUV is all set to be launched in India in the second half of this year. Ahead of its launch, the C3 SUV has once again been spotted on Indian roads, this time without any camouflage. The images of the C3 SUV was shared on social media which reveals key exterior details of the C3 SUV, the second offering from the French carmaker in India.
The images shared shows a C3 SUV with just the carmaker's badging under camouflage. All other exterior details can be clearly seen. The SUV, which was earlier unveiled by the carmaker, appears to be slightly different in terms of its exterior design than the one shown by Citroen during the event last year.
The C3 SUV has a front face which will have the typical Citroen grille with LED DRLs and LED headlights. The bumper is slightly different from the ones seen on the C5 Aircross SUV, Citroen's first car in India. The bumper is flanked by chunky foglamp casing.
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Find More CarsOn the sides, the alloy wheel design is also different from the ones used on the C5 Aircross SUV. The C3 shown in images also does not have the big plastic side claddings seen on the bigger model. It also does not have body-coloured ORVMS either. At the rear, Citroen maintains a minimalist look with a new set of taillights along with a bold and chunky bumper.
Citroen C3 SUV, which the French call a car 'Made In India for Indians', has already gone into production in some of the South American countries. While the carmaker has not shared details about the powertrains for India, the global-spec model offers some hint at what engine will drive the SUV. The 2022 C3 to be sold in Brazil will get a 1.0-litre three-cylinder petrol engine and a 1.6-litre four-cylinder petrol engine as options. In Argentina, the C3 will come powered with a 1.2-litre three-cylinder petrol engine which is used in the new Peugeot 208. In the Peugeot 208, this engine produces 82 horsepower at 5,750 rpm and 118 Nm of maximum torque at 2,750 rpm.
The engines will come mated to a five-speed manual gearbox. Citroen may also offer a seven-speed automatic transmission for the Indian markets.
Citroen C3 is based on the Common Modular Platform (CMP) with a wheelbase that measures 2,540 mm. Citroen promises that the passengers sitting in the rear seats too will have ‘one of the best legroom in the segment’. For the rear seats, there is 653 mm of legroom. Up front, there's 1418 mm for the elbows and 991 mm for headroom.
The 2022 C3 SUV will also come with 180 mm of ground clearance, slightly less than what its rival Tata Punch offers. The C3 also has a 10m turning radius, making it an easily manoeuvrable vehicle.
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A teacher was awarded nearly £1 million in compensation following a serious assault by a pupil, a union has revealed. Ahead of its annual conference in Birmingham over the Easter weekend, the Nasuwt teaching union released figures for compensation awarded to its members.
One case involved a member who was unlikely ever to be able to return to teaching after suffering a serious assault at the hands of a pupil, and was awarded £850,000 through the union. The teacher was punched in the face and kicked by the pupil during a science lesson at his London school. At the time of the incident in January 2017 the pupil was not supposed to be in the teacher’s lesson because of previous violent and disruptive behaviour.
As a result of the attack, the teacher suffered various physical and psychological injuries, including a head injury, tinnitus, hearing loss, bruising, back and ankle injuries, PTSD and severe depression. Since the attack, he has been unable to work and medical experts have said it is unlikely he will ever be able to return as a result of the physical and psychological trauma he experienced.
The Nasuwt also secured nearly £80,000 for a drama teacher from Wales dismissed from her role after she developed life-threatening asthma. The teacher developed asthma following a redecoration of her classroom, following which there were numerous problems with the room, including mould growing on the walls and a crack in the floor.
As the term went on, she noticed she suffered from headaches, coughing, wheezing and a runny nose, and she eventually suffered an asthma attack and was taken to hospital by ambulance. She was diagnosed with late onset asthma and a consultant believed this was caused by the working conditions at her school.
The teacher suffered from repeated asthma attacks and acute respiratory difficulties, with paramedics called to the school on several occasions, as well as further admissions to hospital. The Nasuwt said that while the asthma and an unrelated operation in late 2018 led to unavoidable absences from work, by 2019, when she was told she was being dismissed, her asthma had been brought under control through adjustments to her working conditions as a result of union representations.
The union succeeded in bringing claims for unfair dismissal and disability discrimination. The Nasuwt said it has secured nearly £15m in compensation over issues such as unfair dismissal, discrimination and bullying.
Successful claims also related to issues such as performance management, trade union-related detriment, contractual disputes, health and safety, and unlawful deductions from wages, and personal injury. Dr Patrick Roach, Nasuwt general secretary, said: “While compensation is recognition of the personal, and in some cases, financial loss that members have suffered, it can never make up for the impact which unfair treatment, discrimination and physical injuries have on individuals.
“The money awarded cannot compensate for the emotional, physical and mental distress members have experienced and the fact that for some, their experiences have left them unable to continue working in teaching. Furthermore, these cases are only likely to represent the tip of the iceberg. There is no doubt that many other teachers will have been driven out of the profession without proper redress for poor, discriminatory or unfair treatment because they were too fearful to come forward or believed nothing could be done.
“Too many employers believe they can act with impunity as the Government fails to take any action to secure compliance with employment law or health and safety legislation, allowing poor employment practices to flourish. The Nasuwt will continue to take all steps necessary to support our members in ensuring they are treated fairly at work and to underline to employers that they are not above the law.”
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Prince Albert of Monaco tests positive to COVID-19 for a second time
By Natalie Oliveri|
Prince Albert of Monaco has tested positive to COVID-19 for a second time.
The 64-year-old's diagnosis was confirmed in a message from the Prince's Palace on Wednesday.
The statement read: "The Prince's Palace announces that H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco has tested positive for COVID-19."
READ MORE: Harry and Meghan won't get royal welcome from Dutch King and Queen
The message added that Prince Albert was asymptomatic and that his health was no cause for concern.
It did not include any details about whether Prince Albert's children, Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella, seven, have contracted the virus.
There was also no update on his wife Princess Charlene, who recently finished a four-month stay in a Swiss health clinic.
In March, the Prince's Palace confirmed Charlene had returned to Monaco where she was to continue her "convalescence in the Principality with her husband and her children by her side".
But she has not been seen in public since.
Charlene had been receiving treatment at the private clinic since November when she returned briefly to Monaco after spending six months in South Africa.
At the time Prince Albert said his wife had been suffering "exhaustion, both emotional and physical" and voluntarily entered the treatment facility.
READ MORE: Princess Charlene of Monaco: A closer look at the enigmatic royal
Princess Charlene hasn't attended a royal event since January 2021. It remains to be seen when Her Serene Highness will be well enough to resume her official duties.
Prince Albert's second bout of coronavirus comes more than two years after he was first infected.
He tested positive in early 2020, one of the first royals to announce they had contracted the virus.
Prince Charles, too, tested positive for the second time in February. Days later his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, caught the virus.
Buckingham Palace later confirmed, on February 20, that Queen Elizabeth had also tested positive.
This week Her Majesty spoke about battling the virus for the first time, saying it left her feeling "very tired and exhausted".
Prince Albert recently travelled to the UK to attend Prince Philip's Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey.
He joined members from Europe's royal families, including King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, and King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain, in paying their respects to the Duke of Edinburgh.
Prince Albert is expected to continue with desk duties at the palace in Monte Carlo until he is fully recovered.
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Around the Web ‘I was shocked but I took action’: Francisco Puebla, who identified Brooklyn subway shooting suspect Frank James was arrested by patrol officers in East Village, Manhattan in connection with the Brooklyn subway shootings of Tuesday. Scroll Staff An hour ago Play Thank you Zack Tahhan! Zack caught the Brooklyn shooter. Zack speaks 5 languages and is amazing. Share some love for him. #brooklynshooter #nyc #brooklyn #shooter #hero @cnnbrk @BBCBreaking @BBCBreaking pic.twitter.com/LZDBlCiMUl— Samantha Zirkin (@SamanthaZirkin) April 13, 2022 Footage shows Brooklyn subway shooting suspect Frank James being taken into custody by NYPD after having been spotted in the East Village. https://t.co/4YjlHAWyNZ pic.twitter.com/x9V6w3AEJK— ABC News (@ABC) April 14, 2022 We welcome your comments at letters@scroll.in. New York shooting
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Movie Thursdays / Jeudi-Ciné screening of the 2020 film by Albert Dupontel with English subtitles. May 26 at 7:30 pm. Free w/ RSVP. Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Road.
Location Address - 24 Spadina Road, Toronto, M5R 2S7
Event Price - Free w/ RSVP
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Destructive wildfires rage in New Mexico, Colorado
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and PAUL DAVENPORT
Associated Press
A wind-driven blaze that has burned at least 150 homes, barns and other structures in a mountain community continues to rage in drought-stricken New Mexico. The blaze on the northeastern side of Ruidoso was fueled by winds between 50 and 90 mph when it sparked Tuesday. Close to 4,000 residents were displaced by evacuations. Some airtankers resumed an aerial attack late Wednesday after high winds kept them grounded much of the day. Authorities said late Wednesday that two people have died. Their identities will not be released until the Office of the Medical Examiner can positively identify them. Meanwhile, crews in Colorado were fighting two grass fires that forced temporary evacuations.
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Recently, Tesla opened its sixth factory, Giga Texas, which is also its new global headquarters. This speaks volumes for a company that was started with the goal of creating electric vehicles. Tesla has grown enormously since its humble beginnings in 2003, and reaching six factories indicates the beginning of a new phase, one of tremendous growth on a scale that I think we have not yet seen from any company.
During Tesla’s grand opening of Giga Texas, you might have missed the information presented in the pre-show. While I was there, I didn’t notice the words on the screen — instead, I was enjoying the music and talking with Twitter friends. Thankfully, we have the replay, which you can watch here. In the pre-show, Tesla pointed out that its products are responsibly sourced. It also gave us a brief rundown of its six factories. Before we dive into the company’s factory landscape, I want to quickly explore another statistic Tesla provided that you might have missed.
8.0 Million Metric Tons Of CO2e Avoided
Tesla stated during the event that Tesla owners avoided 8.0 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent last year. To put that into perspective, we can use the Environmental Protection Agency’s conversion table, which shows that this is equal to 19,857,644,484 miles driven by an average gasoline-powered passenger vehicle, or 1,723,754 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year just from greenhouse gas emissions alone (based on average miles driven per year).
Tesla’s 6 Factories Worldwide
One thing Tesla has gotten really, really good at is building some of the world’s most efficient factories. Although CEO Elon Musk has said before that the factory is the product, one can look at the factory also as a foundation for Tesla’s next phase of growth. Your home is as good as its foundation. If it’s not stable, then neither is your home.
Tesla’s factories, the company said during the pre-show, reduce energy usage and water waste while making it possible for the company to make its own batteries, recycle them at the end of their lifespans, localize production, and make preparations for using the Tesla Semi, which will help Tesla further reduce its environmental impact.
Fremont, California
Tesla opened the Fremont factory in 2010, just seven years after the company was founded, and here is where Tesla starting building its Model S, 3, X, and Y vehicles — although, not in that order. Tesla noted that its factory in Fremont is the area’s largest employer and provides over 17,000 jobs.
Gigafactory Nevada
Tesla opened Gigafactory Nevada in 2016, and it’s now a high-volume plant for electric motors, batteries, and powertrains. Tesla added that the factory is committed to robotics and sustainability initiatives in local schools.
Gigafactory New York
Located in Buffalo, NY, this gigafactory was opened in 2017. Here, Tesla manufactures its signature Solar Roof tiles, solar panels, and Superchargers. In 2020, Tesla donated a Solar Roof to power the local Buffalo Heritage Carousel that was worth around $150,000. According to the president of the Buffalo Heritage Carousel, Tesla’s solar technology is powering the rare and historic carousel and has turned it into a new family recreational and educational attraction. You can read more about that here.
Gigafactory Shanghai
Once described as a field of mud and nonexistent by talking heads posing as reporters, this gigafactory proved many negative predictions about Tesla wrong. Not even the Covid-19 pandemic was able to put a dent in Tesla’s success.
Giga Shanghai produces made-in-China Model 3 and Model Y vehicles and is Tesla’s first international gigafactory. It should also be noted that it was opened during the time former President Trump started a trade war with China. This is especially notable since Giga Shanghai is the first foreign-owned factory in China.
Gigafactory Berlin–Brandenburg
Giga Berlin was opened very recently, just this year. There were a lot of challenges thanks to so-called environmental groups that didn’t want Tesla in the area. Although the nearby coal plant consumes more water than Tesla will ever need to, the issue the environmentalists had with Tesla was over its water consumption.mHowever, Tesla prevailed and Giga Berlin is now producing made-in-Germany Model Ys and batteries. Elon Musk described this gigafactory as the gemstone of the area, of Germany, and of the world. Giga Berlin is also the largest apprenticeship employer in Brandenburg.
Gigafactory Texas
Giga Texas is Tesla’s sixth factory and is located in the state capital, Austin. Everything is bigger in Texas, and this is true for the factory that will manufacture Tesla’s Model Y, Cybertruck, and Semi vehicles — the factory is huge and will be even bigger as it gets built out.
This is also Tesla’s new global headquarters. This factory has 10 million square feet of floor space and spans 2,500 acres along the Colorado River. Tesla noted that its equal parts form and function, and that the western windows are made from 32-foot tall glass, which is perfect for viewing the sunset. The photo below was taken just before sunset during Tesla’s Cyber Rodeo event.
The glass is designed to allow in the natural light throughout the day and gives beautiful views of downtown Austin. Tesla also noted that over 70,000 solar panels will provide the factory with power. As for water, Tesla’s paint booth dry filter technology is expected to save 2.7 million gallons of water annually.
Tesla is producing its first structural battery pack with 4680 cells at Giga Texas, and Tesla added that the position and weight of the battery pack in its vehicles can help to reduce rollover risk.
Conclusion
Tesla’s six factories are not only helping Tesla itself to grow exponentially, but these factories are reshaping the future and putting down the foundation for the transition to sustainability. Recall that Tesla’s core mission is to accelerate that transition.
Cars, batteries, giant factories, and Elon Musk aside, the work that Tesla and its employees are doing globally is critical for our world. Clean energy advocates, in my opinion, have a very good reason to celebrate here.
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Can Ukraine Ever Win?
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson,
Even a truncated Russian Federation has four times the pre-war population of Ukraine. It enjoys well over 10 times the Ukrainian gross domestic product. Russia covers almost 30 times Ukraine's area.
And how does Ukraine expel Russian troops from its borders when its Western allies must put particular restrictions on their life-giving military and financial aid?
The interests of Europe and the United States are not quite the same as those of a beleaguered Ukraine. NATO also wants Russian President Vladimir Putin humiliated, but only if the war can be confined within the borders of Ukraine.
The West seeks a resounding reaffirmation for the supposed "rules-based international order" that prevents aggressive invasions across national borders - but not at the price of a nuclear exchange.
So to accomplish those grand agendas, the West restricts some of its generous supplies to Ukraine.
It sends plenty of lethal weapons - as long as some of them will not provoke a losing Russia into doing something stupid, like resorting to tactical nuclear weapons to save face.
There are other complications.
Time is fickle. In theory, it should favor a resilient Ukraine.
The longer the war goes on, the more sanctions will hurt the Russian economy and insidiously undermine Russian public support for the war.
On the other hand, the longer the war continues, the greater the Russian losses, and the fewer acceptable off-ramps for Putin, all the more likely he will grow desperate and escalate to Gotterdammerung levels.
Admittedly, Putin is no longer fighting to win over Ukraine and force it back intact into the Russian federation. He is no longer wary of eradicating infrastructure that he once felt would once again become valuable Russian assets.
Instead, Russia is going full Carthaginian peace in Eastern Ukraine - leveling cities, murdering civilians, and destroying an entire modern society for generations.
There is as yet still no deterrent force that can stop Putin's bombs and missiles and disrupt his nihilist strategy. Again, Putin feels liberated by caring nothing about international opinion, and less than nothing about Western outrage over reported Russian war crimes.
He instead believes the stick, of an unpredictable Russia with 7,000 nuclear weapons, and its carrot, of becoming the world's largest daily producer of oil, can cut a lot of lofty talk about humanity.
So the war has become more complex precisely because Putin failed in his initial shock-and-awe effort to decapitate the Ukrainian government, storm the cities, and install a puppet government.
Putin's strategy is now paradoxically much simpler - and harder to stop. He will claim victory by institutionalizing Vichy-like Russian states in the Donbass region and Crimea.
In the meantime his air attacks will render Eastern Ukraine an inert wasteland that will require decades to rebuild.
Even after an armistice, Putin can periodically threaten to expand his devastation to Western Ukraine, should he feel Kyiv is once again growing too close to Europe.
So can Ukraine ever win?
Ukraine must stop the airborne wreckage by gaining air supremacy through the use of more sophisticated and larger anti-aircraft batteries and far more SAMs and Stinger smaller systems. Some NATO nations may have to send Ukraine their Soviet-era fighters to replace losses - with conditions that they stay inside Ukrainian air space.
Second, the supply war must no longer be defined as a larger Russian economy versus tiny Ukraine.
Instead, Putin is now warring against the supply chain of all of Europe and the United States - and all out of his reach. The Ukrainian war machine will only grow - if fueled by allies that combined account for 70 percent of the world's GDP.
Putin cannot stop the influx of Western help unless he threatens to use nuclear weapons.
Ukraine may reach a tipping point soon if it can both stop Russian air attacks and expel Putin's ground troops from its cities.
But Kyiv cannot realistically invade Russia to hit its supply depots. It cannot go nuclear to deter future Russian invasions. It cannot shame a bloodthirsty Putin on the world's humanitarian stage.
And it cannot join NATO to win the direct help of 30 other nations.
But what Ukraine can do is push Russian troops back to the border regions and let the Russian-speaking Ukrainian borderlands work out their own star-crossed relationships with a now blood-soaked and unreliable Putin.
It can inflict such death and destruction on the conventional Russian military that Putin will fear he will suffer even worse global humiliation that the United States faced after Afghanistan.
Ukraine can also seek an armistice along the Black Sea coast.
It might agree to a plebiscite or some sort of demilitarized zone and small-scale population exchanges to ensure that Crimea does not become a permanent battleground.
All that is not outright victory, but it is something.
And that something was not imaginable when Russia invaded in late February.
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Freddy Rincon: Former Colombia captain dies following car crash
Last updated on .From the section Football
Former Colombia captain Freddy Rincon has died after suffering severe head injuries in a car crash.
The 55-year-old was driving a car that collided with a bus early on Monday in Cali, Colombia.
Former Real Madrid midfielder Rincon scored 17 goals for Colombia and played at the 1990, 1994 and 1998 World Cups.
He shares with Carlos Valderrama the record for the most appearances at the tournament for his country, having played in 10 World Cup games.
Rincon was part of the side that ended the nation's 28-year wait to play at the World Cup when they qualified for the 1990 finals, and scored a memorable goal in a 1-1 draw against eventual winners West Germany.
He also played club football for Napoli, Palmeiras and Santos, as well as leading Corinthians to victory in 2000 at the first Fifa Club World Championship - now the Club World Cup.
"Despite all the efforts of our teams, Freddy Eusebio Rincon Valencia has passed away," said Laureano Quintero, the medical director of the Imbanaco Clinic in Cali where Rincon was being treated.
The Colombian Football Federation (FCF) said it mourned the death of Rincon.
"We will miss him and remember him with great affection, appreciation, respect and admiration," said the FCF.
"We send strength, support and our condolences to his family, hoping they can bear this sad and painful loss."
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Liverpool drew 3-3 at home to Benfica in a crazy Champions League contest, with Roberto Firmino and Kostas Tsimikas standing out for the Reds.
Jurgen Klopp‘s men were in control of their quarter-final tie after winning 3-1 in Portugal, but they were made to work hard for their efforts.
Firmino scored twice on the night and Ibrahima Konate bagged the opener, but Alisson was also beaten on three occasions.
In the end, Liverpool progressed 6-4 on aggregate, meaning they now have a semi-final clash with Villarreal in Jurgen Klopp‘s third Champions League semi-final for the Reds.
Here we compare our player ratings with those from the Liverpool Echo, WhoScored, FotMob and the TIA readers.
Firmino (8.3) earned the best rating after the game, as he took his overall goal tally to 11 for the campaign.
The Brazilian can be criticised for sometimes being profligate in the final third, but he showed ruthlessness with both of his finishes.
The Echo‘s Ian Doyle felt Firmino “pressed fiercely” throughout at Anfield, also hailing his “fine volley” to make it 3-1.
Meanwhile, FotMob noted that the 30-year-old had a 100 percent shot accuracy, as well as making a total of three recoveries.
In second place was Tsimikas (8.1), who won the official UEFA Man of the Match. The left-back continues to show what an excellent deputy he is to Andy Robertson.
TIA’s James Nalton gave the Greek the Man of the Match award, saying he “would be a starter for most other teams in Europe on this form.”
Luis Diaz (7.6) completed the top three after another dazzling showing, potentially putting him in line to start against Man City this weekend.
Liverpool’s recent signing “caused Benfica all sorts of problems with his pace and directness,” according to Doyle, as his stock rises all the time.
In last place in the average ratings was Joel Matip (5.8), failing to hit top form in the absence of the rested Virgil van Dijk.
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