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USDA forecasting higher food, grocery costs in 2022
(Gray News) - It looks like elevated food prices are going to continue this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The USDA released its Food Price Outlook for 2022 and predicted the cost of groceries would continue to increase to as much as 4%.
According to the Consumer Price Index, grocery and supermarket food prices were already 8.6% higher in February than last year and up nearly 1.5% from January to February in 2022.
As reported by the Associated Press, prices for U.S. consumers have continued to jump recently, leaving families facing the highest inflation rate since 1990.
“We’re getting into this situation where we have spiraling inflation,” said Jay Hatfield, CEO of Infrastructure Capital Advisors. “Inflation in one area drives inflation in another.”
Currently, the CPI reports all food categories are increasing in price other than fresh vegetables. Last year, the beef and veal categories had the most significant price increase of 9.3%, and the fresh vegetable category had the smallest at 1.1%. However, no food categories decreased in price in 2021.
Poultry prices are also expected to increase up to 7%, with egg prices predicted to increase up to 3.5% in 2022.
Overall, grocery store and supermarket food purchases are expected to increase up to 4%, with restaurant purchases or food away from home forecasted to increase up to 6.5%, according to the USDA.
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“There will be battles ahead,” he added.
Meanwhile, a convoy of buses headed to Mariupol in another bid to evacuate people from the besieged port city after the Russian military agreed to a limited cease-fire in the area. But Russian forces blocked 45 of the buses, and only 631 people were able to get out of the city in private cars, according to the Ukrainian government.
Twelve Ukrainian trucks were able to deliver humanitarian supplies to Mariupol, but they were all seized by Russian troops, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said late Thursday.
A new round of talks was scheduled for Friday, five weeks into the war that has left thousands dead and driven 4 million Ukrainians from the country.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said it had been informed by Ukraine that the Russian forces at the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster had transferred control of it in writing to the Ukrainians.
The last Russian troops left the Chernobyl plant early Friday, the Ukrainian government agency responsible for the exclusion zone said.
Energoatom gave no details on the condition of the soldiers it said were exposed to radiation and did not say how many were affected. There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin, and the IAEA said it had not been able to confirm the reports of Russian troops receiving high doses. It said it was seeking more information.
Russian forces seized the Chernobyl site in the opening stages of the Feb. 24 invasion, raising fears that they would cause damage or disruption that could spread radiation. The workforce at the site oversees the safe storage of spent fuel rods and the concrete-entombed ruins of the reactor that exploded in 1986.
Edwin Lyman, a nuclear expert with the U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists, said it “seems unlikely" a large number of troops would develop severe radiation illness, but it was impossible to know for sure without more details.
He said contaminated material was probably buried or covered with new topsoil during the cleanup of Chernobyl, and some soldiers may have been exposed to a “hot spot” of radiation while digging. Others may have assumed they were at risk too, he said.
Early this week, the Russians said they would significantly scale back military operations in areas around Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv to increase trust between the two sides and help negotiations along.
But in the Kyiv suburbs, regional governor Oleksandr Palviuk said on social media Thursday that Russian forces shelled Irpin and Makariv and that there were battles around Hostomel. Pavliuk said there were Ukrainian counterattacks and some Russian withdrawals around the suburb of Brovary to the east.
Chernihiv came under attack as well. At least one person was killed and four were wounded in the Russian shelling of a humanitarian convoy of buses sent to Chernihiv to evacuate residents cut off from food, water and other supplies, said Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmyla Denisova
Ukraine also reported Russian artillery barrages in and around the northeastern city of Kharkiv.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said intelligence indicates Russia is not scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead trying to regroup, resupply its forces and reinforce its offensive in the Donbas.
“Russia has repeatedly lied about its intentions,” Stoltenberg said. At the same time, he said, pressure is being kept up on Kyiv and other cities, and “we can expect additional offensive actions bringing even more suffering.”
The Donbas is the predominantly Russian-speaking industrial region where Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014. In the past few days, the Kremlin, in a seeming shift in its war aims, said that its “main goal” now is gaining control of the Donbas, which consists of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including Mariupol.
The top rebel leader in Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, issued an order to set up a rival city government for Mariupol, according to Russian state news agencies, in a sign of Russian intent to hold and administer the city.
The Red Cross, meanwhile, said its teams were headed for Mariupol with medical supplies and other relief and hoped to take civilians out of the beleaguered city, the site of some of the worst suffering of the war.
Tens of thousands have managed to get out of Mariupol in the past few weeks by way of humanitarian corridors, reducing its population from a prewar 430,000 to an estimated 100,000 as of last week, but other efforts to relieve the city have been thwarted by continued Russian attacks.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said 45 buses would be sent to collect civilians from the encircled and bombarded city, where food, water, medicine and fuel were running low.
“It’s desperately important that this operation takes place,” the Red Cross said in a statement. “The lives of tens of thousands of people in Mariupol depend on it.”
With talks set to resume between Ukraine and Russia via video, there seemed little faith that the two sides would resolve the conflict any time soon.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that conditions weren’t yet “ripe” for a cease-fire and that he wasn’t ready for a meeting with Zelenskyy until negotiators do more work, Italian Premier Mario Draghi said after a telephone conversation with the Russian leader.
In other developments, Ukraine’s emergency services said the death toll had risen to 20 in a Russian missile strike Tuesday on a government administration building in the southern city of Mykolaiv.
As Western officials search for clues about what Russia's next move might be, a top British intelligence official said demoralized Russian soldiers in Ukraine are refusing to carry out orders and sabotaging their equipment and had accidentally shot down their own aircraft.
In a speech in Australia, Jeremy Fleming, head of the GCHQ electronic spy agency, said Putin had apparently “massively misjudged” the invasion.
The Pentagon reported Thursday that an initial half-dozen shipments of weapons and other security assistance from the U.S. have reached Ukraine as part of an $800 million aid package President Joe Biden approved this month.
The shipments included Javelin anti-tank weapons, Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems, body armor, medical supplies and other materials, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about how badly the war is going because they are afraid to tell him the truth.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the U.S. is wrong and that “neither the State Department nor the Pentagon possesses the real information about what is happening in the Kremlin.”
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Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Caption People hide in a basement of a church which is used as a bomb shelter, after fleeing from nearby villages, that have been attacked by the Russian army, in the town of Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district, Ukraine, on Thursday, March 31, 2022. The talks between Ukraine and Russia will resume on Friday as NATO Secretary-General says Russia does not appear to be scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead redeploying forces to the eastern Donbas region. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Credit: Petros Giannakouris
Credit: Petros Giannakouris
Caption People hide in a basement of a church which is used as a bomb shelter, after fleeing from nearby villages, that have been attacked by the Russian army, in the town of Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district, Ukraine, on Thursday, March 31, 2022. The talks between Ukraine and Russia will resume on Friday as NATO Secretary-General says Russia does not appear to be scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead redeploying forces to the eastern Donbas region. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Credit: Petros Giannakouris
Credit: Petros Giannakouris
Caption Destroyed Russian armor vehicles are seen in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Russian forces shelled Kyiv suburbs, two days after the Kremlin announced it would significantly scale back operations near both the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations.” (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption Destroyed Russian armor vehicles are seen in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Russian forces shelled Kyiv suburbs, two days after the Kremlin announced it would significantly scale back operations near both the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations.” (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption Ukrainian soldiers carry a body of a civilian killed by the Russian forces over the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption Ukrainian soldiers carry a body of a civilian killed by the Russian forces over the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption Oleksandr, 81, rides a bicycle next to a destroyed Russian tank in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Russian forces shelled Kyiv suburbs, two days after the Kremlin announced it would significantly scale back operations near both the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations.” (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption Oleksandr, 81, rides a bicycle next to a destroyed Russian tank in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Russian forces shelled Kyiv suburbs, two days after the Kremlin announced it would significantly scale back operations near both the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations.” (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption A Ukrainian soldier stands one top of a destroyed Russian tank on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption A Ukrainian soldier stands one top of a destroyed Russian tank on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption Ukrainian servicemen ride on an armored transporter driving through a Russian position overran by Ukrainian forces outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Caption Ukrainian servicemen ride on an armored transporter driving through a Russian position overran by Ukrainian forces outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Caption A Ukrainian soldier crosses the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption A Ukrainian soldier crosses the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption Ukrainian soldiers carry a body of a civilian killed by the Russian forces under the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption Ukrainian soldiers carry a body of a civilian killed by the Russian forces under the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption Private cars burnt by the Russian forces and left by refugees on the road outside Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption Private cars burnt by the Russian forces and left by refugees on the road outside Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption A Russian military hat lies on the pavement after Ukrainian forces overran a Russian position outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Caption A Russian military hat lies on the pavement after Ukrainian forces overran a Russian position outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Caption Ukrainian soldiers collect bodies of civilians killed by the Russian forces at the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption Ukrainian soldiers collect bodies of civilians killed by the Russian forces at the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption A machine gun of a Ukrainian soldier rests next to condiments for lunch in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption A machine gun of a Ukrainian soldier rests next to condiments for lunch in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption A Ukrainian soldier carries a dog saved from under the ruins of houses destroyed by the Russian forces in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption A Ukrainian soldier carries a dog saved from under the ruins of houses destroyed by the Russian forces in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption An elderly woman who was evacuated from Irpin, lies on a stretcher on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Caption An elderly woman who was evacuated from Irpin, lies on a stretcher on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Caption Ukrainians arrive at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The talks between Ukraine and Russia will resume on Friday as NATO Secretary-General says Russia does not appear to be scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead redeploying forces to the eastern Donbas region. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Credit: Sergei Grits
Caption Ukrainians arrive at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The talks between Ukraine and Russia will resume on Friday as NATO Secretary-General says Russia does not appear to be scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead redeploying forces to the eastern Donbas region. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Credit: Sergei Grits
Credit: Sergei Grits
Caption Ukrainian servicemen ride on an armored transporter driving through a Russian position overran by Ukrainian forces outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Caption Ukrainian servicemen ride on an armored transporter driving through a Russian position overran by Ukrainian forces outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Credit: Vadim Ghirda
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Marpai, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRAI – Get Rating) was the target of a significant drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 150,500 shares, a drop of 29.9% from the February 28th total of 214,800 shares. Currently, 1.5% of the company’s shares are short sold. Based on an average daily volume of 450,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.3 days.
A number of hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in MRAI. Virtu Financial LLC purchased a new position in shares of Marpai during the fourth quarter valued at $246,000. Renaissance Technologies LLC purchased a new position in shares of Marpai during the fourth quarter valued at $161,000. Geode Capital Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Marpai during the fourth quarter valued at $116,000. BlackRock Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Marpai during the fourth quarter valued at $77,000. Finally, Susquehanna International Group LLP purchased a new position in shares of Marpai during the fourth quarter valued at $56,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 47.43% of the company’s stock.
MRAI stock traded down $0.23 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $1.80. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 179,249 shares, compared to its average volume of 362,334. The company has a quick ratio of 0.69, a current ratio of 0.69 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.05. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $2.01. Marpai has a 1 year low of $1.65 and a 1 year high of $6.31.
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ROVR has been the topic of several research reports. Zacks Investment Research raised Rover Group from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, March 11th. Morgan Stanley reduced their price target on shares of Rover Group from $10.00 to $6.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, March 8th. Canaccord Genuity Group cut their price objective on Rover Group from $18.00 to $14.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, February 28th. JMP Securities lowered their price objective on shares of Rover Group from $15.00 to $11.00 and set a “market outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, March 8th. Finally, Canaccord Genuity Group reduced their target price on shares of Rover Group from $14.00 to $8.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, March 8th.
Shares of ROVR stock traded up $0.08 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $5.77. The company had a trading volume of 432,007 shares, compared to its average volume of 883,928. Rover Group has a 12-month low of $4.27 and a 12-month high of $15.59. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $5.44 and a 200-day moving average of $9.31.
In related news, CEO Aaron Easterly sold 12,189 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $4.96, for a total transaction of $60,457.44. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Also, COO Brenton R. Turner sold 13,986 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $4.96, for a total transaction of $69,370.56. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 29,750 shares of company stock valued at $147,560 in the last 90 days.
Large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Parallel Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in Rover Group during the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $39,000. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. acquired a new stake in Rover Group during the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $40,000. Deutsche Bank AG acquired a new stake in Rover Group during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $54,000. Penserra Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Rover Group during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $74,000. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada acquired a new stake in shares of Rover Group during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $84,000. 60.14% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
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Title IX has been a passionate subject for Candace Parker ever since she learned of its impact while doing a paper on it in the eighth grade.
So, it is no surprise her first documentary as an executive producer is about the landmark legislation. On Saturday, “Title IX: 37 Words That Changed America,” will open coverage of the men’s Final Four on TBS at 1 p.m. EDT.
“I sit here because of Title IX. Although we have so many wins, we have so much further to go. That’s why we went with having the Title IX story told through my eyes so that you can see if Title IX didn’t exist, I wouldn’t exist,” Parker said.
Parker considers herself a first-generation benefactor of Title IX, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Parker’s mother, Sara, attended Iowa before Title IX became law. Candace’s 12-year old daughter, Lailaa Nicole Williams, will have more opportunities.
“It means a lot to be able to have my mom and my daughter be a part of this,” Parker said. “I have inspiration from my mom and her story. And then as well for my daughter, I want to continue to open up doors, and I don’t want her to see limitations.”
The documentary also comes as inequities between the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are coming under intense scrutiny.
“Something as simple as March Madness, right? Like, now women can use that. That’s unbelievable. It’s 2022,” Parker said. “But things are changing. But it still doesn’t take away that we still have so much farther to go. I think that’s the whole point of doing this documentary is if you invest, it’s not a charity, it’s an investment. And it’s an honest investment of trying to make it work. And I think for so long, we just existed; women’s sports existed as something that had to be there. And now we look at it as an investment, and then I think we can start moving things forward."
Parker won a pair of NCAA championships at Tennessee while being coached by one of the pioneers of Title IX, the late Pat Summitt. Parker has parlayed that experience into a successful career as a two-time WNBA champion and MVP and two gold medals in the Olympics.
Parker is also an accomplished analyst for Turner Sports on its NBA and NCAA Tournament coverage since 2018. During discussions about a contract extension at Turner, Parker and her representatives first pitched the idea of a documentary. It got the green light for production last November.
The documentary includes interviews with Billie Jean King, Peyton Manning, Lisa Leslie, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
“There’s a number of influential voices that I think I have to pinch myself to realize that they’re a part of it,” Parker said. “To have Billie Jean King, like the 10-year-old girl that did a biography project on her, I just think it’s just so special.
“Title IX doesn’t just impact women. To watch Peyton Manning talk about how Pat really influenced his life, as a competitor and just as an individual. To see somebody that is an icon to say that I think speaks to how valuable women in leadership positions are.”
Having the documentary tip-off Turner’s Final Four coverage on Saturday should give it a broader audience. “The Arena” will air following the documentary and focus on the impact of Title IX on sports and society.
This is also the first project for Parker’s production company — Baby Hair Productions — and was also produced with Scout Productions.
“Having a diverse audience, that’s not just the women and girls, we want everyone to see how impactful and powerful women are in society,” Parker said. “To have this be something that we talk about, especially after with ‘The Arena' show, I think it speaks to just how important it is.”
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More AP coverage of March Madness: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | https://www.chron.com/sports/article/Parker-hopes-Title-IX-documentary-serves-as-17049750.php | 2022-04-01T00:51:49Z |
Biden’s approval rating jumps to 47 percent after State of the Union address
President Biden is seeing a boost to his approval rating following his first State of the Union address this week, with a poll released Friday showing him at 47 percent.
The latest NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist National Poll found that 47 percent of Americans surveyed approve of the job he is doing as president, which is a jump from the 39 percent approval rating he had in the same poll last month.
“This is an unusual bounce,” Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, said in a statement. “It gets him back to where he was pre-Afghanistan.”
The last time Biden had a higher approval rating was in August, when it was at 49 percent. While presidents can sometimes get a bounce after a State of the Union, one of more than 4 points in an NPR poll has happened only six times since 1978.
The poll also found Biden’s approval rating is on the upswing on issues like Ukraine and COVID-19. Fifty-five percent of Americans approve of how he is handling the coronavirus pandemic, up from 47 percent in February.
Fifty-two percent approve of how he is handling the situation with Russia and Ukraine, up from 34 percent in February when tensions were simmering but Russia had not yet launched its invasion.
An overwhelming majority of Americans surveyed — 83 percent — also supported the United States’ and other allies’ economic sanctions against Russia.
“Biden’s leadership on Ukraine has resonated over the last week with Americans. He has forged a consensus in the U.S. on his policy toward Ukraine. Americans are even willing to sacrifice higher energy prices in support of the Ukrainian people,” Miringoff said.
The newest polling is likely welcome news for the president after months of low approval ratings and midterm elections on the horizon.
The president has had to juggle a number of issues since he took office last year, including the administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine-Russia conflict, inflation and supply chain issues, and infighting among members of his party that has stymied several Democratic priorities.
The NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll was conducted March 1 and March 2 with 1,322 adults. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points. Among the 1,322 adults surveyed, there were 1,237 registered voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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Savings window opens wider: 30-year mortgage refinance rates dip again | March 31, 2022
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Check out the mortgage refinancing rates for March 31, 2022, which are down from yesterday. (Credible)
Based on data compiled by Credible, mortgage refinance rates have fallen since yesterday, except for 10-year rates, which held steady.
- 30-year fixed-rate refinance: 4.625%, down from 4.875%, -0.250
- 20-year fixed-rate refinance: 4.500%, down from 4.750%, -0.250
- 15-year fixed-rate refinance: 3.875%, down from 4.000%, -0.125
- 10-year fixed-rate refinance: 3.750%, unchanged
Rates last updated on March 31, 2022. These rates are based on the assumptions shown here. Actual rates may vary.
If you’re thinking of doing a cash-out refinance or refinancing your home mortgage to lower your interest rate, consider using Credible. Credible's free online tool will let you compare rates from multiple mortgage lenders. You can see prequalified rates in as little as three minutes.
What this means: Refinance rates edged down across three key terms today, but due to a rates spike in recent weeks, 30- and 20-year terms are still at or above 4.5%. Homeowners who want to refinance should consider a shorter term. Fifteen-year refinance rates may be especially appealing, as they’ve dropped to a four-day low. Mortgage refinance rates can fluctuate from day to day, so homeowners may want to act today to lock in a lower rate ahead of future increases.
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How mortgage rates have changed over time
Today’s mortgage interest rates are well below the highest annual average rate recorded by Freddie Mac — 16.63% in 1981. A year before the COVID-19 pandemic upended economies across the world, the average interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage for 2019 was 3.94%. The average rate for 2021 was 2.96%, the lowest annual average in 30 years.
The historic drop in interest rates means homeowners who have mortgages from 2019 and older could potentially realize significant interest savings by refinancing with one of today’s lower interest rates.
If you’re ready to take advantage of current mortgage refinance rates that are below average historical lows, you can use Credible to check rates from multiple lenders.
How to get your lowest mortgage refinance rate
If you’re interested in refinancing your mortgage, improving your credit score and paying down any other debt could secure you a lower rate. It’s also a good idea to compare rates from different lenders if you're hoping to refinance so you can find the best rate for your situation.
Borrowers can save $1,500 on average over the life of their loan by shopping for just one additional rate quote, and an average of $3,000 by comparing five rate quotes, according to research from Freddie Mac.
Be sure to shop around and compare current mortgage rates from multiple mortgage lenders if you decide to refinance your mortgage. You can do this easily with Credible’s free online tool and see your prequalified rates in only three minutes.
How does Credible calculate refinance rates?
Changing economic conditions, central bank policy decisions, investor sentiment and other factors influence the movement of mortgage refinance rates. Credible average mortgage refinance rates reported in this article are calculated based on information provided by partner lenders who pay compensation to Credible.
The rates assume a borrower has a 740 credit score and is borrowing a conventional loan for a single-family home that will be their primary residence. The rates also assume no (or very low) discount points and a down payment of 20%.
Credible mortgage refinance rates reported here will only give you an idea of current average rates. The rate you receive can vary based on a number of factors.
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Negotiation is often possible in real estate transactions, and you may be able to work with your lender to negotiate a lower refinance rate.
Having a good to excellent credit score, low debt-to-income ratio and good income may help in negotiations. Being open to compromise may also help. For example, your lender may agree to a lower interest rate if you’re willing to pay mortgage discount points upfront.
The best way to ensure you get the lowest possible interest rate is to compare rates and loans from multiple mortgage lenders.
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SeaChange International, Inc. (NASDAQ:SEAC – Get Rating) insider Peter D. Aquino sold 9,723 shares of SeaChange International stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $1.21, for a total value of $11,764.83. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website.
SEAC stock traded down $0.06 during trading on Thursday, reaching $1.13. 2,082,647 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 3,122,787. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $1.20 and its 200-day moving average price is $1.17. SeaChange International, Inc. has a 52-week low of $0.66 and a 52-week high of $3.44. The firm has a market capitalization of $55.42 million, a PE ratio of -4.40 and a beta of 1.08.
Several large investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Renaissance Technologies LLC grew its holdings in SeaChange International by 113.0% in the 4th quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 49,000 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $78,000 after buying an additional 26,000 shares in the last quarter. Cetera Investment Advisers acquired a new stake in shares of SeaChange International during the 4th quarter valued at $47,000. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lifted its position in shares of SeaChange International by 34.5% during the 2nd quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 132,638 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $171,000 after acquiring an additional 34,044 shares during the last quarter. Private Advisor Group LLC lifted its holdings in shares of SeaChange International by 93.0% in the third quarter. Private Advisor Group LLC now owns 80,968 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $86,000 after purchasing an additional 39,026 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Squarepoint Ops LLC purchased a new stake in shares of SeaChange International in the fourth quarter valued at $92,000. 24.96% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
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Stocks closed the first quarter sharply lower, with Thursday's late-day drop putting an appropriate end on what's been a tough three-month period not just for stocks, but for other financial markets like bonds. By the end of the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC), and S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) were all down roughly 1.5%.
After the closing bell, shares of GameStop (NYSE: GME) soared on news that the company intends to follow in the footsteps of some other high-profile companies by splitting its stock. Yet even as shareholders celebrated the news, they might be overlooking a more important part of the filing that could actually end up taking away some of their upside.
What GameStop wants to do
Shares of GameStop were up 17% in after-hours trading Thursday afternoon. The move higher corresponded with the timing of its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealing its intent to do a stock split.
Specifically, what GameStop said was that it wants to boost the number of authorized shares of its Class A common stock from 300 million to 1 billion. If approved, it will then move forward with the stock split.
It's important to note what GameStop didn't say. It didn't specify any particular stock split ratio, so investors don't know whether they'll end up with two shares after the split for every one they currently own, or three shares, or some other number.
Indeed, it appears that GameStop could have done a stock split without asking for the newly authorized shares. On its annual report dated March 11, GameStop said it had about 76.34 million shares outstanding. That would imply that the company could have done a 2-for-1 or 3-for-1 split without going over the current 300 million limitation. In turn, that suggests that perhaps GameStop has a higher split ratio in mind.
Should GameStop shareholders beware of management?
What many GameStop investors probably overlooked was what the rest of the filing said. GameStop informed the SEC that it also intends to request shareholder approval for a new incentive plan, which will support future equity issuance as compensation. If approved, then the 2022 Equity Plan would involve having 8 million more shares of stock become available for potential future payout to employees, on top of any remaining stock among the 6.5 million shares allowed under the existing 2019 Incentive Plan.
To be clear, the filing didn't reveal the details of GameStop's 2022 Equity Plan. The company will disclose those details in its annual proxy statement, and shareholders will have the right to vote on the plan at GameStop's annual shareholder meeting.
Past equity compensation has been extremely lucrative for employees. Nearly 2.75 million shares of restricted stock awards vested in the just-ended fiscal year, with an average grant-date fair value for those stock awards of $5.84 per share. With the stock now trading above $190 per share after-hours, that's more than half a billion dollars of value that participants received through the restricted stock program.
At the same time, though, not everyone has been a winner under the GameStop incentive program. Former CEO George Sherman had 587,000 shares taken away from him as a result of failing to meet performance targets. That stock was worth nearly $100 million at the time and would be worth even more now.
It's interesting that GameStop chose to disclose its executive compensation plans at the same time as its stock split. Doing so makes it natural to link the two events, and it's a good reminder to everyone investing in the meme stock that voting their shares is an important element of protecting their investment.
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SÃO PAULO, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GERDAU S.A. (NYSE: GGB, B3: GGBR3, GGBR4) hereby announces that the Form 20-F related to the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) at http://sec.gov and with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil (CVM) at http://cvm.gov.br and it is also available at the Company's Investor Relations website at https://ri.gerdau.com/en/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants.
The agency said the Trump administration’s decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the “best available peer reviewed science.” The chemical is used in rocket fuel and fireworks.
At the time, Trump’s EPA said perchlorate was not found widely enough in drinking water or “at levels of public health concern” to warrant federal regulation. The decision was one of many Trump-era rollbacks or eliminations of existing or pending public health and environmental protections. The Biden administration ordered a review of that decision at the start of his term.
EPA Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox said the agency was “applying the right tools to support public health protections.”
Environmental groups slammed the Biden administration’s decision.
“The Trump EPA gave perchlorate a pass; it was a bad decision then, and it’s a bad decision now,” said Erik Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council advocacy group. “Tap water across America will remain contaminated by this toxic chemical.”
Perchlorate from runoff contaminates the drinking water of as many as 16 million Americans, the Obama administration said in 2011 when it announced the EPA would for the first time set maximum limits for the chemical compound. It has been used in the U.S. for decades, particularly by the military and defense industries, and is commonly found in munitions, fireworks, matches and signal flares.
Exposure to the compound can damage the development of fetuses and children and cause measurable drops in IQ in newborns, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in 2019, when it called for stringent federal limits. It damages human development by disrupting the functioning of the thyroid gland.
In its 2020 review, the EPA said state-level regulations and cleanup activities at contaminated sites had lowered the health risks posed by the compound. Massachusetts and California, for example, limit perchlorate in drinking water to 2 parts per billion and 6 parts per billion, respectively.
“But the problem is that for the rest of the country the states have not set standards,” said Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
In the Southwest, perchlorate has been detected in groundwater that entered Lake Mead in Nevada. Manufacturing activities in Henderson, Nevada, were thought to be the source of the chemical. The EPA said cleanup activities at two industrial sites near Las Vegas between 2002 and 2006 resulted in reduced levels of perchlorate in samples provided since then by Nevada environmental and water agencies.
The EPA said Thursday it was considering other steps besides a federal drinking water limit, such as setting standards at open burning and detonation sites of waste explosives, where severe perchlorate contamination is known to exist.
But environmental advocates said such measures fall short of what’s needed.
“Simply put, toxic chemicals used in rocket fuel do not belong in our drinking water,” said John Rumpler, senior attorney with Environment America.
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AP reporter Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — As the number of people fleeing Ukraine slows, authorities in Poland and other neighboring nations are encouraging refugees from the war to find jobs, especially in health care and education.
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR reported Thursday that the daily number of arrivals recorded by the countries that border Ukraine dropped below 40,000 on Wednesday, the fewest s ince Russian troops invaded five weeks ago.
Poland’s Border Guard registered more than half of the new arrivals, maintaining a pattern seen since the start of the war. Of the conflict’s more than 4 million refugees, almost 2.4 million went to Poland, according to the country’s border agency. It’s Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II.
Humanitarian organizations and other observers have attributed the slowing of the Ukrainian exodus in recent days to several possible factors, including residents of surrounded and besieged cities having no way to safely evacuate. Others may be reluctant to leave their homes and hoping to wait out the hostilities, observers say.
A spokesperson for Poland’s Border Guard, Anna Michalska, said the numbers could pick up again if Russian attacks continue.
Recent legislation passed in Poland allows refugees from Ukraine to obtain ID numbers that entitle them to free medical care, education, social benefits and the right to work for 18 months.
Many Poles are putting up refugees in their homes or volunteering in civic groups that bring all sorts of assistance.
Refugees in Warsaw have submitted about 700 applications and some 100 have been hired for jobs in the Polish capital’s medical centers and schools, according to city officials.
To boost the employment drive, Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and Deputy Mayor Renata Kaznowska met Thursday with the director of the Bielanski Hospital and some Ukrainian and Polish staff members.
“Our guests are full of fortitude, they want to start to help us right away, they want to find jobs,” Trzaskowski told a news conference.
Kaznowska said employment and professional activity were the best way to integrate the adults who have fled Ukraine into Polish society.
Educators are also needed to help thousands of refugee children adjust to their new school environment, where lessons are taught in Polish and where the curriculum is largely different from the one in Ukraine. Adjusting the school system will cost over 440,000 zlotys ($105,000) in Warsaw alone, city authorities said.
Two nurses who are in the hiring process, speaking in Ukrainian mixed with Polish, said they appreciated the chance to continue their careers.
Olena Halych had to fight back tears as she spoke of fleeing home near shelled Bucha “to save my children.”
“I want to truly thank people in Poland for offering us shelter,” Halych said in Ukrainian. “I have found a job at the Bielanski Hospital, I want to really thank you for that.”
Hospital director Dorota Galczynska-Zych said the new recruits have provided valuable skills, and added that language has not been a barrier.
Some 570,000 refugees have reached Warsaw, a city of some 1.8 million, and some 300,000 remain in the capital for now, Trzaskowski said.
In Romania, which has received over 608,000 refugees, 35-year-old Uliana Polyakova from Odessa was busy Thursday registering at the Brasov city refugee center’s integration office that helps find accommodation, jobs and access to social assistance.
“Some people told me to arrive here at the center … in case we need medicine or something else,” she said, as her 7-year-old son enjoyed some screen-time nearby. “(A) Romanian family invited us to live with them. I did not expect that Romania is so kind to Ukrainians.”
“We’re not here because we want to leave Ukraine, me and my husband want to live with our relatives in Odessa,” she said. “I hope that the war is over in two weeks, one month, and we will go home.”
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Stephen McGrath in Brasov, Romania, contributed to this report.
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The New Orleans Fire Department battled a one-alarm blaze Thursday afternoon at the abandoned Naval Support Activity Base in Bywater.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
The fire was reported to authorities at 11:36 a.m. It spread from the second to the sixth floor of a seven-story structure at 4400 Dauphine Street, trapping a man on the third floor. Firefighters rescued him with a ladder, but he fled before they could treat him for smoke inhalation or question him about the fire's origin.
Twenty-five fire personnel on eight NOFD units brought the fire under control at 12:37 p.m.
The fire's site is one of three large buildings at the former Navy base, which closed in 2005. Built in 1919, the hulking Brutalist structures passed from the Department of the Navy to the City of New Orleans' hands at no cost in 2013. Since then, all three buildings and the parking garage have sat vacant, attracting unhoused people and becoming a hotspot for crime and fires.
Developer Joe Jaeger has plans to turn the structure by Poland Avenue into a 295-unit apartment building with “luxury affordable” housing.
Tyler Bridges contributed to this report. | https://www.nola.com/news/article_c9f81718-b137-11ec-9c1b-0f4a83400e4d.html | 2022-04-01T00:51:52Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday passed a bill capping the monthly cost of insulin at $35 for insured patients, part of an election-year push by Democrats for price curbs on prescription drugs at a time of rising inflation.
Experts say the legislation, which passed 232-193, would provide significant relief for privately insured patients with skimpier plans and for Medicare enrollees facing rising out-of-pocket costs for their insulin. Some could save hundreds of dollars annually, and all insured patients would get the benefit of predictable monthly costs for insulin. The bill would not help the uninsured.
But the Affordable Insulin Now Act will serve as a political vehicle to rally Democrats and force Republicans who oppose it into uncomfortable votes ahead of the midterms. For the legislation to pass Congress, 10 Republican senators would have to vote in favor. Democrats acknowledge they don’t have an answer for how that’s going to happen.
“If 10 Republicans stand between the American people being able to get access to affordable insulin, that’s a good question for 10 Republicans to answer,” said Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., a cosponsor of the House bill. “Republicans get diabetes, too. Republicans die from diabetes.”
Public opinion polls have consistently shown support across party lines for congressional action to limit drug costs.
But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., complained the legislation is only “a small piece of a larger package around government price controls for prescription drugs.” Critics say the bill would raise premiums and fails to target pharmaceutical middlemen seen as contributing to high list prices for insulin.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Democrats could have a deal on prescription drugs if they drop their bid to authorize Medicare to negotiate prices. “Do Democrats really want to help seniors, or would they rather have the campaign issue?” Grassley said.
The insulin bill, which would take effect in 2023, represents just one provision of a much broader prescription drug package in President Joe Biden’s social and climate legislation.
In addition to a similar $35 cap on insulin, the Biden bill would authorize Medicare to negotiate prices for a range of drugs, including insulin. It would penalize drugmakers who raise prices faster than inflation and overhaul the Medicare prescription drug benefit to limit out-of-pocket costs for enrollees.
Biden’s agenda passed the House only to stall in the Senate because Democrats could not reach consensus. Party leaders haven’t abandoned hope of getting the legislation moving again, and preserving its drug pricing curbs largely intact.
The idea of a $35 monthly cost cap for insulin actually has a bipartisan pedigree. The Trump administration had created a voluntary option for Medicare enrollees to get insulin for $35, and the Biden administration continued it.
In the Senate, Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are working on a bipartisan insulin bill. Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has introduced legislation similar to the House bill, with the support of Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
Stung by criticism that Biden’s economic policies spur inflation, Democrats are redoubling efforts to show how they’d help people cope with costs. On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported a key inflation gauge jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982.
But experts say the House bill would not help uninsured people, who face the highest out-of-pocket costs for insulin. Also, people with diabetes often take other medications as well as insulin. That’s done to treat the diabetes itself, along with other serious health conditions often associated with the disease. The House legislation would not help with those costs, either. Collins says she’s looking for a way to help uninsured people through her bill.
About 37 million Americans have diabetes, and an estimated 6 million to 7 million use insulin to keep their blood sugars under control. It’s an old drug, refined and improved over the years, that has seen relentless price increases.
Steep list prices don’t reflect the rates insurance plans negotiate with manufacturers. But those list prices are used to calculate cost-sharing amounts that patients owe. Patients who can’t afford their insulin reduce or skip doses, a strategy born of desperation, which can lead to serious complications and even death.
Economist Sherry Glied of New York University said the market for insulin is a “total disaster” for many patients, particularly those with skimpy insurance plans or no insurance.
“This will make private insurance for people with diabetes a much more attractive proposition,” said Glied. | https://fox2now.com/news/national/house-passes-35-a-month-insulin-cap/ | 2022-04-01T00:51:51Z |
America’s national parks are warming up and drying out faster than any other U.S. landscapes, a new study has found. The report, published Monday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is the first to examine rainfall and temperatures in all 417 U.S. national parks. It found that, without a substantial reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions, national parks will become hotter and more drought-ridden in the decades to come. “U.S. national parks protect some of the most irreplaceable ecosystems in the world,” the study states, adding that reductions in industrial emissions could “substantially reduce the magnitude” of expected effects. The study found that, between 1885 and 2010, national parks warmed by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit—twice the U.S. rate—while annual rainfall declined by 12 percent, four times the rate of the U.S. overall.
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A man was arrested after breaking a window at the Dunedin Public Hospital emergency department this morning.
Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond, of Dunedin, said the 39-year-old entered the Dunedin Public Hospital emergency department waiting room and sat down at 6.30am.
Security approached and told him he was trespassed which caused him to get angry.
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Nepal PM’s India visit reflects age-old New Delhi-Kathmandu friendship
NEW DELHI: Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s official visit to India from April 1 to 3 reflects Delhi and Kathmandu’s old friendship which flourished back in 1950 when both countries came together and signed the India-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship.
This treaty was the beginning of everlasting peace and friendship between the two governments and their unique relationship of friendship can be characterized by open borders and deep-rooted people-to-people contacts of kinship and culture. According to the data from 2014, around 6,00,000 Indians are living or domiciled in Nepal while nearly eight million Nepalese citizens live and work in India.
During the 18th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit, India emphasized developing the regional hydro potential, grid connectivity and gas pipelines. Earlier, in 1971, both the countries had a Power Exchange Agreement to meet the power requirements in the border areas of the two countries, taking advantage of each other’s transmission infrastructure.
Not only in electricity, but in the time of coronavirus also when the entire world was struggling to get the vaccination for their people, India handed over vaccines to Nepal under grants assistance in sync with its ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy. Under the ‘Vaccine Maitri’ initiative, India had gifted around one million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Nepal. Nepal has also placed an order for two million vaccines with Pune-based pharmaceutical company Serum Institute of India (SII).
Further, India and Nepal are working together to build the Kathmandu-Raxaul railway line, which was signed in the year 2021, that would link Kathmandu with the Indian border town of Raxaul in Bihar. The Buddhist circuit train already in place covers the important destinations connected to the life of Buddha in India and Nepal over eight days.
New Delhi not only help India to grow economically or in energy regions but also assist during the earthquake. Earlier, India had pledged one billion US dollars as support for earthquake reconstruction; one-fourth of it was committed as grant assistance to be utilized for health, cultural heritage, housing and education sectors.
Even back in 2015, when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, the Indian Government dispatched National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams and special aircraft with rescue and relief materials to Nepal. India also sent a medical team for helping innocent lives in Nepal. India helped in restoring three power sub-stations in Kathmandu valley.
Over the last five years and more, India has substantially fulfilled its commitment under various priority sectors identified by the Government of Nepal. Recently, India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has mentioned that the reconstruction of 50,000 owner-driven houses in Gorkha and Nuwakot districts under Indian assistance has been completed.
The projects in the remaining sectors of health, education and culture are also in progress. It is important to note that India is funding the reconstruction of 70 schools and a library, 132 health facilities and 28 cultural heritage sector projects in various earthquake-affected districts of Nepal.
With Indian assistance, many infrastructural projects are either being undertaken or nearing completion or have been concluded in Nepal, with the primary objective of bolstering trade by way of improved connectivity.
Approximately INR 5,253 crore worth of road projects are being (or have been) implemented, which would benefit India and Nepal. A category of projects that deserves special mention is road connectivity between the two countries.
The projects include a 144 km road from Rupaidiha to Barabanki (INR 1,338 crore), a 184 km road from Sonauli to Gorakhpur (approximately INR 570 crore), the Fobesganj-Jogbani road as well as a road linking Piprakodi to Raxaul (INR 429 crore) and 10 other roads costing around INR 500 crore.
India’s “Act East Policy” and “First neighborhood policy” play an important role in making this friendship stronger. The connectivity has assumed greater significance with the formation of regional and sub-regional groupings like BBIN and BIMSTEC. The physical infrastructure being built with Indian assistance will help Nepal boost her trade in the region.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Deuba during his official visit to India is also scheduled to visit Varanasi where he will visit the holy Kashi Vishwanath temple and a Nepali temple also known as ‘Shri Samrajeswar Pashupatinath Mahadev Mandir’. The Nepali temple dedicated to Lord Shiva was envisaged by Nepali King Rana Bahadur Shah who was exiled to the city from 1800 to 1804 A.D.
The temple belongs to the Nepal government and is one of the most famous temples of the holy city, Varanasi. (ANI) | https://www.indiapost.com/nepal-pms-india-visit-reflects-age-old-new-delhi-kathmandu-friendship/ | 2022-04-01T00:51:50Z |
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BANGKOK (AP) — A report by the World Wildlife Fund shows illegal purchases of wildlife online are growing in Myanmar in a threat both to public health and to endangered species.
The report released Friday found that enforcement of bans on such transactions has weakened amid political turmoil following a 2021 military takeover.
The number of such dealings rose 74% over a year earlier to 11,046, nearly all of them involving sales of live animals. For the 173 species traded, 54 are threatened with global extinction, the report said.
Researchers identified 639 Facebook accounts belonging to wildlife traders. The largest online trading group had more than 19,000 members and dozens of posts per week, it said.
The animals bought and sold included elephants, bears and gibbons, Tibetan antelope, critically endangered pangolins and an Asian giant tortoise. The most popular were various species of monkeys, often bought as pets.
Most of the animals advertised for sale were taken from the wild. They also included civets, which along with pangolins have been identified as potential vectors in the spread of diseases such as SARS and COVID-19.
Shaun Martin, who heads the WWF's Asia-Pacific regional cybercrime project, said monitoring of the online wildlife trade shows different species being kept close together, sometimes in the same cage.
“With Asia’s track record as a breeding ground for many recent zoonotic diseases, this sharp uptick in online trade of wildlife in Myanmar is extremely concerning,” he said.
The unregulated trade in wild species and resulting interactions between wild species and humans raise the risks of new and possibly vaccine-resistant mutations of illnesses such as the COVID-19 that could evolve undetected in non-human hosts into more dangerous variants of disease, experts say.
COVID-19 is one of many diseases traced back to animals. The killing and sale of what is known as bushmeat in Africa was thought to be a source for Ebola. Bird flu likely came from chickens at a market in Hong Kong in 1997. Measles is believed to have evolved from a virus that infected cattle.
“Illegal wildlife trade is a serious concern from the point of view of biodiversity preservation and conservation and its potential impact on health security," said Mary Elizabeth G. Miranda, an expert on zoonotic diseases and illness and CEO of the Field Epidemiology Training Program Alumni Foundation in the Philippines.
Social media and other online platforms have joined a worldwide effort to crack down on the thriving trade in birds, reptiles, mammals and animal parts. In Myanmar, much of the trade in wildlife is through Facebook, which as a member of the Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking online has taken action to block or remove accounts of people engaged in such transactions.
But as is true elsewhere, new accounts often pop up just as soon as old ones are shut down, hindering enforcement, the report noted. Easy online access to the animals also is driving up demand, worsening the problem.
Discussions of purchases of protected species often took place in open Facebook groups, suggesting that such dealings remain “largely risk-free,” the report said. Since payments and deliveries often are done using messenger apps, controlling the problem is doubly difficult.
Highlighting the lack of enforcement, people in the illegal wildlife trade in Myanmar often use rudimentary methods of moving the animals and animal products around — with buses being the usual form of transport.
The study by WWF in Myanmar focused on trade online of animals and other creatures inside the country, though there were some imports from neighboring Thailand, mainly of birds such as hornbills and salmon crested cockatoos, and of crocodiles, to India.
Some deals might involve animals or parts being sent into China, it said.
The conservation group said it plans future studies to better understand Myanmar’s role in the global trade in endangered species.
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23andMe Holding Co. (NASDAQ:ME – Get Rating) saw a large growth in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 18,840,000 shares, a growth of 36.8% from the February 28th total of 13,770,000 shares. Approximately 10.1% of the company’s shares are sold short. Based on an average daily volume of 3,750,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.0 days.
Several research analysts recently weighed in on ME shares. Citigroup lowered their price objective on 23andMe from $9.00 to $6.00 in a research report on Friday, February 11th. Credit Suisse Group lowered their price target on 23andMe from $14.00 to $11.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Friday, February 11th.
Hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC grew its stake in 23andMe by 262.2% during the 4th quarter. Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC now owns 5,433 shares of the company’s stock worth $36,000 after purchasing an additional 3,933 shares in the last quarter. Moors & Cabot Inc. acquired a new position in 23andMe during the 3rd quarter worth $438,000. Ensign Peak Advisors Inc acquired a new position in 23andMe during the 4th quarter worth $45,000. Main Street Financial Solutions LLC acquired a new position in 23andMe during the 4th quarter worth $68,000. Finally, Ieq Capital LLC acquired a new position in 23andMe during the 4th quarter worth $70,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 12.56% of the company’s stock.
23andMe (NASDAQ:ME – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 10th. The company reported -0.21 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The company had revenue of 56.89 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of 54.30 million. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 2.5% on a year-over-year basis.
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23andMe Holding Co operates as a consumer genetics and research company. The company provides a crowdsourced platform for genetic research. Its platform has generated various publications on the genetic underpinnings of a range of diseases, conditions, and traits, as well as enables it in pursuing drug discovery programs rooted in human genetics across various disease areas, including oncology, respiratory, and cardiovascular diseases, as well as other therapeutic areas.
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Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE:SMG – Get Rating) issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $8.000-$ for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $8.160. The company issued revenue guidance of -.
Shares of NYSE SMG traded down $6.48 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $122.96. 430,116 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 492,555. The company has a quick ratio of 0.69, a current ratio of 2.51 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.71. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $134.40 and its 200-day simple moving average is $147.66. Scotts Miracle-Gro has a one year low of $110.81 and a one year high of $254.34. The company has a market cap of $6.83 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.36 and a beta of 1.17.
Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE:SMG – Get Rating) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, February 1st. The basic materials company reported ($0.88) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of ($0.81) by ($0.07). The firm had revenue of $566.00 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $561.18 million. Scotts Miracle-Gro had a net margin of 9.24% and a return on equity of 46.76%. Scotts Miracle-Gro’s revenue was down 24.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.39 earnings per share. Equities analysts predict that Scotts Miracle-Gro will post 8.03 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Several equities research analysts have weighed in on SMG shares. Wells Fargo & Company lowered their target price on shares of Scotts Miracle-Gro from $170.00 to $160.00 and set an overweight rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, March 17th. StockNews.com started coverage on shares of Scotts Miracle-Gro in a research note on Thursday. They issued a sell rating for the company. Raymond James lowered their target price on shares of Scotts Miracle-Gro from $185.00 to $150.00 and set a strong-buy rating for the company in a research note on Monday, March 14th. Finally, Truist Financial decreased their price target on shares of Scotts Miracle-Gro from $225.00 to $185.00 in a report on Tuesday, March 22nd. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, one has given a hold rating, six have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of Buy and a consensus target price of $200.00.
Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. NewEdge Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of Scotts Miracle-Gro during the fourth quarter worth $337,000. Toroso Investments LLC raised its holdings in shares of Scotts Miracle-Gro by 10.7% during the fourth quarter. Toroso Investments LLC now owns 8,539 shares of the basic materials company’s stock worth $1,375,000 after purchasing an additional 823 shares during the last quarter. Madison Asset Management LLC raised its holdings in shares of Scotts Miracle-Gro by 22.4% during the fourth quarter. Madison Asset Management LLC now owns 34,772 shares of the basic materials company’s stock worth $5,598,000 after purchasing an additional 6,355 shares during the last quarter. Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC raised its holdings in shares of Scotts Miracle-Gro by 6.5% during the fourth quarter. Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC now owns 100,409 shares of the basic materials company’s stock worth $16,166,000 after purchasing an additional 6,149 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans raised its holdings in shares of Scotts Miracle-Gro by 0.9% during the fourth quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans now owns 10,741 shares of the basic materials company’s stock worth $1,729,000 after purchasing an additional 93 shares during the last quarter. 61.62% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
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The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company engages in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of products for lawn, garden care, and indoor and hydroponic gardening in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: U.S. Consumer, Hawthorne, and Other. It provides lawn care products comprising lawn fertilizers, grass seed products, spreaders, other durable products, and outdoor cleaners, as well as lawn-related weed, pest, and disease control products; gardening and landscape products include water-soluble and continuous-release plant foods, potting mixes and garden soils, mulch and decorative groundcover products, plant-related pest and disease control products, organic garden products, and lives goods and seeding solutions.
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15 homes on same block in Northern California bought for $10 million
PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. - An entire block of 15 family homes in Northern California was purchased by a single buyer for $10 million.
The cottage-style homes built in the 1920s are located on Laurel Avenue in Pacific Grove and include a mix of studios, and one and two bedrooms, KSBW-TV reported.
The buyer owns multiple historic properties in Pacific Grove and wishes to be identified as Whispering Pines, LLC, a nod to the home’s history, said Debby Beck, the real estate broker who represented the buyer.
Fourteen of the fifteen cottages were built in 1924 by Dr. Andrew Jackson Hart, the owner of Hart Mansion, one of the most well-known landmarks on the Monterey Peninsula. The homes, bounded by Cedar, Pine, Locust and Laurel Street, became known as the Whispering Pines of Pacific Grove.
Beck said the new owner has no plans of subdividing the block given the historic significance of the homes.
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Harris to travel to Poland, Romania next week
Vice President Harris will travel to Romania and Poland next week as Ukraine faces a massive invasion by Russia, sources tell The Hill.
Harris will leave for the region on Wednesday, the sources say, and will return two days later.
The Hill reported on Thursday that the White House was actively discussing sending Harris to the area to visit troops stationed in Romania and to the border, where a refugee crisis has seen more than 1 million people flee the country since the Russian invasion.
The vice president’s office declined to comment on Harris’s travel plans. But a White House official told The Hill that Harris has been “deeply involved in the administration’s engagement with allies and partners.”
Harris, who recently returned from the Munich Security Conference, spoke this week to Poland’s prime minister and Romania’s prime minister as well as other leaders from European allies to discuss the response to Russia’s invasion. An official said those talks were meant “to underscore the strength and unity of our alliance.
“You can expect the vice president will continue to engage with allies and partners on these issues,” the official said.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former minor league pitcher ran a major league illegal sports betting operation in California that used other former pro athletes to take bets and took wagers from players still in the game, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Wayne Nix, who threw for Oakland Athletics farm teams, used his connections to recruit three former Major League Baseball players and a former pro football player as fellow bookies, prosecutors said.
The MLB began looking into the matter when it learned of it Thursday, but was unaware any of those involved other than Nix, a spokesman said.
Court records offered no names of the players who worked for Nix or those who placed bets with his business, but they provide a glimpse of the kind of money being wagered, earned and lost.
A professional football player paid Nix $245,000 for gambling losses in 2016. An MLB coach paid $4,000 in losses that same year. It was not disclosed if either bet on their own games or their own sports.
MLB prohibits players from betting on baseball or gambling illegally on sports. They can bet on other sports if it’s legal. The National Football League policy bars all personnel from betting on football games.
A Los Angeles check cashing business that has agreed to plead guilty to failing to prevent money laundering in the scheme cashed over $18 million in checks from two single bettors, prosecutors said.
One client wagered $5 million on the Super Bowl but it was not revealed if that gambit paid off.
Sports betting is legal in 30 states, but not in California. However, voters will have a chance to legalize it at the polls in November.
Nix, 45, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to run an illegal gambling operation and faces up to eight years in prison. He also admitted he failed to report $1.4 million in income in 2017 and 2018. He has agreed to pay back taxes and interest of $1.25 million and forfeit $1.3 million seized from bank accounts.
Nix began the sports bookmaking business about 20 years ago after his six-year minor league career — with stops in Arizona, Texas and California — ended, prosecutors said.
His client list was created from contacts he had made in the sports world and included current and former pro athletes. The agents he hired helped expand that clientele.
The operation eventually began using a Costa Rican business, Sand Island Sports, to create accounts where bets could be placed and tracked and credit limits set, prosecutors said. Bets were placed online or through a call center, though Nix paid winners and kept most of the money from losing bets.
Those who exceeded credit limits were shut off, though exceptions were made, according to court documents.
A sports broadcaster’s account was reactivated in February 2019 after he told Nix he was refinancing his home mortgage to pay off his gambling debts.
In September 2019, Nix increased the credit limit to a baseball player with debts so he could make additional bets.
In November, 2019, Nix’s partner, Edon Kagasoff, told a business manager for a professional basketball player that he would increase the maximum wager he could place to $25,000 per NBA game.
Kagasoff, 44, faces the same conspiracy charge as Nix. He also agreed to plead guilty and forfeit over $3 million in funds seized from his home and bank accounts.
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(ABC4) – If you’re tired of looking at old furniture that you bought last year from IKEA, the retailer has announced that it will now pay customers to bring back old furniture.
The IKEA buyback and resell option has now been made available for 37 of its U.S. stores. As a way to help pave a path toward sustainable living, the company has brought back the initiative that was launched late last year.
How does it work?
You start by filling out a form on IKEA’s website in order to receive an emailed quote of the buyback value for your furniture. Customers are asked to bring a copy of their quote, buyback number, and fully assembled furniture to your participating IKEA store where an employee will assess the furniture’s buyback value.
When you buyback, you will get store credit and your furniture gets a second life in the As-Is department.
What are the buyback requirements?
According to IKEA, the following categories of products are not currently eligible for the furniture buy-back service:
- Non-IKEA products
- Home furnishing accessories including lighting and textiles
- Add-on units and componentry
- Products that have been used outside including outdoor furniture
- Mattresses and bad textiles (such as blankets and mattress toppers)
- Kitchens including bench tops, cabinets, and fronts
- Modular wardrobes and accessories
- Electrical appliances and products
- Chests of drawers
- “Hacked,” modified or painted products
- Non-assembled products
- Market Hall products (including small kitchen goods, art, rugs, and picture frames)
- Upholstered or leather products
- Sofas or armchairs
- Plants
- Items containing glass (including mirrors)
- Children’s and baby products (such as cribs, mattresses, and change tables)
- Beds and bed frames
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When a heavy rain hits New Orleans, a massive drainage system moves the torrents from city streets into catch basins, pipes and culverts and then through pumps that spit it all into Lake Pontchartrain and other bodies of water in an effort to keep the city dry.
But separate government agencies, the Sewerage and Water Board and the city Department of Public Works, are responsible for their own parts of that complicated, century-old system system — and they often have trouble coordinating.
On Thursday, the City Council launched a study that will consider whether it's time to put the two interconnected parts of the system under one roof.
At a meeting of the council's public works committee, members voted unanimously for a motion proposed by Council President Helena Moreno directing the city to study the potential consolidation and produce a report by Jan. 31, 2023.
And while the creation of a working group drew the support of Cantrell administration officials and the head of the S&WB, they warned the devil could be in the details of any plan that would necessarily reroute millions of dollars in annual funding and the power to control infrastructure that is central to the safety of New Orleans residents.
“It will be a heavy lift, mainly on the political nature of things and some of the entitlements related to some of our funding streams,” said Gilbert Montaño, the chief administrative officer for Mayor LaToya Cantrell.
Little coordination
Moreno’s motion directs Montaño to convene a working group and submit recommendations. It won't be the first time city leaders consider major changes to how the S&WB and the public works department are run.
In 2004, former Mayor Ray Nagin pushed state legislation that would have abolished the S&WB and put it under control of the city, a move that never gained support. And in 2014, under former Mayor Mitch Landrieu, oversight of the two agencies was consolidated under a single official, Cedric Grant, as part of a plan to better coordinate billions of dollars in construction projects.
Grant's tenure ended soon after the infamous August 2017 flood, which revealed how the city’s once vaunted drainage system had deteriorated due to years of mismanagement and underinvestment.
Currently, the DPW maintains 1,288 miles of smaller pipes — those under 36 inches in diameter — as well as the city's network of catch basins. The S&WB controls 235 miles pipes 36 inches or wider, as well as the pumping stations that lift the water up out of the city.
Observers say there’s often been little coordination between the agencies on how to run and fix the pipes. Residents’ requests for help are sometimes shuffled between government agencies, District D Council member Eugene Green said.
“Sometimes, I think that the lack of coordination between the two can be used as an excuse to not get things done,” Green said.
An 'out-of-the-box' solution?
While the City Council sworn in this January has often been at odds with the Cantrell administration, Montaño voiced support for the motion along with S&WB chief Ghassan Korban.
Yet there were signs that officials aren’t starting the study on the same page. Korban, in a letter read by Moreno, said a single organization should rule the pipes. He added that the “Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans is best suited to take on this responsibility.”
District A Council member Joe Giarrusso, an outspoken voice on infrastructure, has called for a consolidation under DPW.
Meanwhile, Montaño said the task force could produce some “out-of-the-box thinking … I’m not sure the binary prospect of living in Sewerage and Water Board, or living in DPW, may be the absolute best solution.”
The mayor appoints most of the water board’s directors, but as a state-created agency, any major changes to the board's responsibilities could require legislation in Baton Rouge.
The two agencies also rely on different funding streams, so a merger could also require shifting taxpayer money from one agency to another. The S&WB’s drains are operated and maintained through property taxes, while the Department of Public Works relies on city general fund dollars.
Despite the obstacles, Public Works Committee Chair Oliver Thomas sounded an upbeat note.
“Nothing that we can’t do when we work together,” he said. | https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_ed2f4e8e-b134-11ec-9fd8-8b97d95a774b.html | 2022-04-01T00:51:58Z |
Russian FM Sergey Lavrov to meet EAM Jaishankar tomorrow
NEW DELHI: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who arrives for a two-day official visit in India on Thursday, is expected to meet and hold talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday.
This is the first trip of Lavrov to India since Moscow’s “special military operation” in Ukraine last month. The Russian Foreign Minister is expected to arrive in New Delhi this evening after concluding his two-day China visit.
Lavrov’s visit comes soon after China’s foreign minister Wang Yi visit to India last week and ahead of the 2+2 dialogues set to be held between India and the US on April 11.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, in China, Lavrov held talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi and both sides pledged to strengthen bilateral ties. Lavrov informed the Chinese side of the Russia-Ukraine talks, saying Russia is committed to easing the tensions, continuing peace talks with Ukraine, and maintaining communication with the international community.
Russian Foreign Minister participated in two multinational meetings on Afghanistan along with representatives from Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Lavrov also held meetings with representatives from China and Pakistan and attended a separate meeting of the “Extended Troika” with special Afghan envoys from China and the US. (ANI) | https://www.indiapost.com/russian-fm-sergey-lavrov-to-meet-eam-jaishankar-tomorrow/ | 2022-04-01T00:51:59Z |
A high-risk violent offender who has been committing crimes since the age of 14, including manslaughter, is back behind bars with five new convictions.
Harlem Rawiri Turi, 41, of Hastings, is currently in custody awaiting an April 27 sentencing date for demanding people's cars with menaces, breaching an electronically monitored curfew, and breaching an extended supervision order.
The Department of Corrections was so worried about Turi's risk of reoffending when he was released from prison last year that it applied for the extended supervision order (ESO), usually granted to allow probation officers to keep tabs on high-risk sexual or violent offenders.
It was the latest in a series of moves by the department to manage the risk posed by Turi, who at that time had 97 convictions, 27 of them for violent offences, and had been assessed as having an "intense drive, desire or urge" to use violence.
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Advertise with NZME.Turi's criminal history was detailed at length when the Department of Corrections applied to the High Court, first for an interim supervision order and then for the three-year ESO, which was granted by Justice David Gendall on December 16, 2021.
Turi began offending with an aggravated robbery in 1994, when he would have been 14. His convictions since then include manslaughter, kidnapping, common assault, robbery with assault, assaulting police, assault with a blunt instrument, injuring with intent and assaulting females.
On September 20, 2012, after drinking alcohol, Turi and co-offender Desmond Leaf, both wearing Mongrel Mob regalia, entered the house of small-time drug dealer Michael Mulholland in Lower Hutt.
Turi, who had just been released from prison, assaulted Mulholland, fracturing his nose and eye socket and causing him to bleed profusely. Mulholland died from a heart attack a short time later.
Turi was convicted of manslaughter at a trial but Leaf was acquitted.
At the time of Mulholland's death, Turi was 31 and had already served 13 prison terms for violent offending.
While in jail in 2014, Turi hit another prisoner with a broom, punched him repeatedly in the face and head and threw an object at him, resulting in a broken back and numerous facial fractures. He received a further one year and seven months in prison.
At the time of his release in July last year, Turi was serving time for driving offences, resisting police and breaching his earlier release conditions.
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Advertise with NZME.According to court documents, he soon started to reoffend, demanding a man's Ford car with menaces last October.
He breached the ESO almost as soon as it was issued, failing to report to his probation officer on December 22. Five days later he breached an electronically-monitored overnight curfew, leaving his house at 10.10pm and not returning by the following morning.
On Christmas Eve, he again tried to get the Ford off the man he had menaced in October. He then demanded a woman's Subaru with intent to steal it on December 28.
Turi pleaded guilty to five new offences – three of demanding cars, one of breaching the ESO and one of breaching community detention – in the Hastings District Court on March 22. He was remanded in custody by consent.
The charges involving the cars carry a maximum sentence of seven years in prison. Breaching an extended supervision order is punishable by up to two years in jail.
An assessment conducted by the Department of Corrections, quoted at length in the High Court papers, said Turi had displayed "established and persistent" volatile aggression.
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Advertise with NZME.He has usually received jail terms for his offending since 1998, and seems undeterred by the prospect of going to prison. Before 2021, the longest time he had spent out of prison after being released was three months.
The assessment said Turi's violence had been motivated by poor emotional regulation and the need to regain control when faced with a perceived threat or challenge. There was also evidence of "vengeful intent" and alcohol and drug use.
"In the writer's opinion, Mr Turi was disinhibited by a lack of empathy, absence of guilt … and the belief that violence is acceptable in response to a threat or challenge," the assessment said.
Turi completed a high-intensity treatment programme aimed at curbing his violent tendencies in 2003. Since then, he has been convicted of more than a dozen violent crimes, including Mulholland's death. | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/high-risk-violent-hastings-offender-back-behind-bars-after-breaching-extended-supervision-order/SJBXWSF2XQPUP3QQC6POFTXWZQ/?c_id=1&objectid=12515082 | 2022-04-01T00:51:59Z |
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The United States on Thursday returned a cache of smuggled ancient artifacts to Libya as the oil-rich Mediterranean country struggles to protect its heritage against the backdrop of years of war, turmoil and unrest.
The repatriated items include two sculptures dating to the 4th century B.C. from the ancient city of Cyrene.
One, named the “Veiled Head of a Female,” was previously in the hands of a private collector of other illegal artifacts, according to a statement from the U.S. Embassy in Libya. The other, also a Hellenic bust, had been at the Metropolitan Museum of New York since 1998, the statement said. Both were displayed by Libyan antiquities officials at a reception ceremony in the country’s capital, Tripoli.
Libyan antiquities authorities thanked American officials and law enforcement for the returned items and said that they looked forward to future cooperation. The embassy credited the work of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and Homeland Security Investigations officials for the recovery of the artifacts.
“Although these antiquities were brought illegally to the United States by traffickers, legal efforts have succeeded in returning them to their country of origin,” the embassy statement read.
Libya boasts many ancient Greek and Roman structures, along with a wealth of ancient artifacts in its major museum in the capital of Tripoli and in other museums countrywide, though its archeological sites have been plundered for decades.
Libya has been wrecked by chaos since a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. The country was after that split for years between rival administrations in the east and the west, each supported by an array of militias and foreign governments.
Large-scale fighting has only stopped in the past year, but Libyans have yet to unite under a single political leadership, despite strenuous U.N.-led efforts.
The Greeks founded the settlement of Cyrene, close to the modern town of Shahat, in the 4th century B.C. It was later incorporated into the Roman empire. The United Nations added Cyrene to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1982 and it has been classified as a location that is particularly endangered due to neglect and looting since 2016. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/us-returns-smuggled-ancient-artifacts-to-libya/ | 2022-04-01T00:51:58Z |
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hallaron, a full-service advertising and branding agency in The Woodlands, Texas has begun using digital advertising platforms to serve smaller, local political advertisers. The advantage is using microtargeted geographic and behavioral factors to serve highly custom display and video ads to local voters. The results point to more efficient campaigns that can get better results even with monthly ad spends less than $10,000.
Through a collaborative partnership with Vici Media Inc., based in Philiadelphia, PA, Hallaron began using sophisticated digital platforms including precise targeting tools to serve ads among local county and even city elections in early 2022 primaries. Often reserved for larger business or political clients, Hallaron uses the same big-client ad tools to shape strategy for smaller local low budget campaigns. Often the focus is replacing older marketing thinking with smarter targeting that serves ads to local voters using cell phones and social media instead of billboards or direct mail.
"Our new political campaigns aim to serve voters with ads where they consume daily news and entertainment – that's through their mobile phones and the Internet," explains agency principal Mike Hallaron.
Statista reports that mobile media usage in the United States is set to increase to four hours and 29 minutes per day in 2022. Compare that time with traditional drive time and radio listening, print, or TV viewership.
Because of lengthy Covid-19 shutdowns, Hallaron says many Americans extended their digital and mobile reliance even further – turning to these devices for business, shopping, and reaching the world beyond their front door.
Direct mail is still popular in most small market political races where access to new digital techniques lags behind. Inexpensive yard signs are still widely used but limited. Digital and mobile ads include links to landing pages where voters can watch a candidates videos, read a bio, or review her platform positions on local issues. "When you add a well-executed social strategy on Facebook, the frequency and reach for a small campaign can be game-changing," Hallaron says.
Hallaron's digital partner Vici Media works with nearly 200 ad agencies and media companies in the U.S., serving 3 billion digital ad impressions annually. The company was named to Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 in 2020. Hallaron sees more clients educating themselves about creative digital media strategies, such as geofencing, mobile conquesting and social mirroring techniques, for example.
Hallaron Advertising Agency is an award-winning full-service ad agency in The Woodlands, Texas. Since 2003, Hallaron has helped reshape winning brands and mastered creative advertising campaigns that lead to better sales and business growth for their clients. Visit www.hallaron.com to learn more.
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Each aspect of the Timeless Vape experience has been crafted with discretion and quality in mind. We took special consideration to keep both you and your Timeless Vape clean with the Timeless Flip Case, fashioned specifically for discretion while medicating. Our medical-grade materials and cutting-edge hardware and technology crafted in the USA provide unrivaled quality and performance. The Timeless proprietary blend features a solvent-free THC distillate, crafted for a consistent, high-quality product with extraordinary flavor profiles.
We believe in putting our patients first, with our Timeless Vapes never containing solvents or fillers and only using all-natural Terpenes to enhance our product. This is the reason that you will “Taste the Terps” while enjoying your Timeless Vape experience.
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Wall Street analysts expect Cathay General Bancorp (NASDAQ:CATY – Get Rating) to post earnings per share (EPS) of $0.93 for the current fiscal quarter, Zacks reports. Three analysts have issued estimates for Cathay General Bancorp’s earnings, with the lowest EPS estimate coming in at $0.89 and the highest estimate coming in at $0.97. Cathay General Bancorp posted earnings per share of $0.92 during the same quarter last year, which indicates a positive year-over-year growth rate of 1.1%. The company is expected to issue its next quarterly earnings report on Monday, January 1st.
On average, analysts expect that Cathay General Bancorp will report full year earnings of $4.09 per share for the current financial year, with EPS estimates ranging from $4.03 to $4.15. For the next fiscal year, analysts forecast that the company will post earnings of $4.71 per share, with EPS estimates ranging from $4.27 to $5.35. Zacks Investment Research’s earnings per share averages are an average based on a survey of research firms that follow Cathay General Bancorp.
Cathay General Bancorp (NASDAQ:CATY – Get Rating) last released its earnings results on Thursday, January 27th. The bank reported $0.98 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.94 by $0.04. Cathay General Bancorp had a return on equity of 12.15% and a net margin of 41.37%. The firm had revenue of $175.26 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $166.02 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.89 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 15.9% on a year-over-year basis.
A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of CATY. Jefferies Group LLC purchased a new stake in Cathay General Bancorp in the third quarter valued at $240,000. Dynamic Technology Lab Private Ltd increased its stake in shares of Cathay General Bancorp by 196.2% during the third quarter. Dynamic Technology Lab Private Ltd now owns 19,550 shares of the bank’s stock worth $809,000 after acquiring an additional 12,950 shares during the period. Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of Cathay General Bancorp by 18.2% during the third quarter. Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC now owns 59,100 shares of the bank’s stock worth $2,446,000 after acquiring an additional 9,100 shares during the period. Stonnington Group LLC increased its stake in shares of Cathay General Bancorp by 600.0% during the fourth quarter. Stonnington Group LLC now owns 84,000 shares of the bank’s stock worth $3,909,000 after acquiring an additional 72,000 shares during the period. Finally, Wealthspire Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Cathay General Bancorp during the third quarter worth about $1,165,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 68.62% of the company’s stock.
Cathay General Bancorp stock traded down $0.63 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $44.75. 360,840 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 346,143. Cathay General Bancorp has a 12-month low of $35.51 and a 12-month high of $48.88. The business has a fifty day moving average of $46.22 and a 200 day moving average of $44.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07, a quick ratio of 1.04 and a current ratio of 1.04. The firm has a market cap of $3.37 billion, a P/E ratio of 11.78 and a beta of 1.26.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, March 7th. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 25th were given a dividend of $0.34 per share. This represents a $1.36 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.04%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, February 24th. Cathay General Bancorp’s payout ratio is presently 35.79%.
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Cathay General Bancorp operates as the holding company for Cathay Bank that offers various commercial banking products and services to individuals, professionals, and small to medium-sized businesses in the United States. The company offers various deposit products, including passbook accounts, checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, and public funds deposits.
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PetroDollar (XPD) traded up 17.1% against the dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 19:00 PM E.T. on March 31st. One PetroDollar coin can now be bought for about $0.0160 or 0.00000035 BTC on exchanges. PetroDollar has a total market capitalization of $1.02 million and $416.00 worth of PetroDollar was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. During the last week, PetroDollar has traded 21.4% higher against the dollar.
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CleanTech Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ:CLAQ – Get Rating) was the recipient of a large decrease in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 8,100 shares, a decrease of 30.2% from the February 28th total of 11,600 shares. Currently, 0.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 79,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.1 days.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in CLAQ. Basso Capital Management L.P. bought a new stake in CleanTech Acquisition during the third quarter worth about $4,959,000. ATW Spac Management LLC bought a new stake in CleanTech Acquisition in the third quarter valued at approximately $13,902,000. MMCAP International Inc. SPC bought a new position in shares of CleanTech Acquisition during the third quarter worth approximately $13,135,000. Crestline Management LP bought a new position in CleanTech Acquisition during the 3rd quarter worth $101,000. Finally, Wolverine Asset Management LLC bought a new position in CleanTech Acquisition during the 3rd quarter worth $2,253,000. 67.25% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Shares of NASDAQ CLAQ remained flat at $$10.05 during mid-day trading on Thursday. 49 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 54,945. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $10.00 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $9.96. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 7.62, a current ratio of 5.36 and a quick ratio of 5.36. CleanTech Acquisition has a 1-year low of $9.71 and a 1-year high of $10.93.
Cleantech Acquisition Corp. is a blank check company. It intends to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or related business combination with one or more businesses. Cleantech Acquisition Corp. is based in New York.
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Pence: No room in GOP for ‘apologists for Putin’
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday will rebuke those in the Republican Party who have praised Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent weeks, including most prominently former President Trump.
“There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin. There is only room for champions of freedom,” Pence will tell a gathering of Republican National Committee (RNC) donors, according to excerpts shared with The Hill.
The comments from Pence are a tacit criticism of Trump and others who have complimented Putin’s intelligence and strategy as he directed Russia to invade Ukraine without provocation.
Trump last week said on a radio show that Putin’s decision to unilaterally declare portions of eastern Ukraine as independent republics was “pretty savvy” and “genius.” Putin’s recognition of those territories preceded a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo earlier this year also referred to Putin as a “talented statesman” with “lots of gifts.”
And Tucker Carlson, an influential Fox News host, questioned why Americans should hate Putin and described Ukraine as a country essentially managed by the U.S. government.
Those comments have drawn blowback from many in the Republican Party, especially as Russia has escalated its attacks on Ukraine and indiscriminately fired missiles at civilian centers and a nuclear facility, raising the risk of catastrophic casualties.
Trump shifted his tone earlier this week, calling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “a holocaust.”
The Trump administration during its four years imposed harsh sanctions on Russia, but Trump himself frequently faced criticism for his praise of Putin personally and his rejection of the intelligence community’s determination that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
Pence, in his speech on Friday night, is expected to praise the strength of the NATO alliance, which has offered reinforcements to Ukraine in the form of equipment and positioned troops along its eastern flank to protect against Russia expanding its attacks beyond Ukraine, which is not a NATO member.
“To those who argue that NATO expansion is somehow responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ask yourself, where would our friends in Eastern Europe be today if they were not in NATO?” Pence will say, according to prepared remarks.
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Severe storms shift east after pummeling US South, killing at least 2 in Florida
Severe storms bringing isolated tornadoes and high winds ripped across the Deep South overnight — killing at least two in the Florida Panhandle, bringing down trees and power lines and damaging homes, as the weather threat shifted toward the East Coast.
The worst of the weather Thursday morning appeared to be at the southern end of the storm front, which was expected to bring heavy rain and high winds all along the U.S. East Coast later in the day. A portion of the Florida Panhandle was under a tornado watch through the afternoon, forecasters said.
A tornado watch was also issued through 8 p.m. ET for portions of the Carolinas.
Current Tornado Watches. (FOX Weather)
In Florida, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said Thursday morning that two were killed and two injured when a tornado touched down in the western Florida Panhandle.
The sheriff's office also said the tornado destroyed homes there. Its Facebook page shared a drone video showing the devastation in the Gilberts Mill area community. Another video showed at least one home that was obliterated, as well as trees down on another home.
At least two confirmed tornadoes injured several people Wednesday, damaged homes and businesses and downed power lines in Mississippi and Tennessee after an earlier storm caused damage in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas.
About 160,000 customers were without electricity Thursday morning in the wake of the storm along a band of states: Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utilities.
In Jackson, Tennessee, widespread damage was reported in the area as a tornado warning was in effect. "Significant damage" occurred to a nursing home near Jackson-Madison County General Hospital and the Madison County Sheriff’s Office in Jackson, according to Madison County Emergency Management Director Jason Moore.
Two people have died, and two others were injured after a severe storm hit the Florida panhandle early Thursday morning. (Washington County Sheriff's Office)
In Nashville, Tennessee, paneling fell five stories from the side of a downtown hotel Wednesday evening and onto a roof of a building below. The fire department warned the debris could become airborne as high winds continued, and some hotel guests were moved to other parts of the building due to concerns that the roof would become unstable. No injuries were immediately associated with the collapse.
Elsewhere, a warehouse roof collapsed as the storms moved through Southaven, Mississippi, near Memphis, police said. The building had been evacuated and no injuries were reported.
The Mississippi Senate suspended its work Wednesday as weather sirens blared during a tornado watch in downtown Jackson. Some employees took shelter in the Capitol basement.
Earlier Wednesday, a tornado that struck Springdale, Arkansas, and the adjoining town of Johnson, about 145 miles northwest of Little Rock, about 4 a.m. injured seven people, two critically, said Washington County, Arkansas, Emergency Management Director John Luther.
The National Weather Service said that tornado would be rated "at least EF-2," which would mean wind speeds reached 111-135 mph.
"Search and rescue teams have been deployed, as there are significant damages and injuries," Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said.
In northwest Missouri, an EF-1 tornado with wind speeds around 90 mph struck St. Joseph on Tuesday night, according to the weather service. That tornado damaged two homes, but no injuries were reported there. Another EF-1 tornado with wind speeds around 100 mph touched down briefly before dawn Wednesday in a rural subdivision 25 miles east of Dallas, damaging two roofs, the weather service reported.
Severe storms shift east on Thursday
On Thursday, the storm threat was moving toward the East Coast, forecasters said.
NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has issued a Tornado Watch valid until 8 p.m. Eastern time for portions of southern North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina. This watch area includes Fayetteville in North Carolina and Florence and Myrtle Beach in South Carolina.
As the storm system continued to march eastward Thursday, additional severe thunderstorms were possible from northern Florida all the way up to New York's Hudson Valley, according to FOX Weather.
The highest threat of severe weather was in the areas shaded in the darkest red on the map below, including parts of central and eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland and northern Virginia.
Severe storm threat on Thursday, March 31, 2022.(FOX Weather)
Damaging wind gusts were expected to be the main concern, with the chance of a couple of tornadoes, forecasters said.
The system responsible for this week's severe weather threat will push off the East Coast by Friday.
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This story was reported from Cincinnati. The Associated Press contributed. | https://www.q13fox.com/news/arkansas-tornado-injures-7-as-severe-storm-threat-shifts-to-east-coast | 2022-04-01T00:52:03Z |
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(KTLA) – The IRS on Wednesday reminded tax filers to claim any missing third-round stimulus payment on their 2021 income tax return.
The tax season gives eligible people who never got the $1,400 payment the chance to claim it.
Since the IRS is no longer issuing the Economic Impact Payments, people who are missing a stimulus payment, or got less than the amount they’re eligible for, will have to claim a Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2020 or 2021 federal tax returns, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
Most eligible people have already received their stimulus payments and won’t need to include anything about the payment when they file their 2021 tax return.
The IRS says it has issued more than 175 million third-round payments worth more than $400 billion to people across the country. Most of those payments were sent out in the spring and early summer of 2021.
Still, there are many who haven’t gotten their payments.
Authorities have identified 644,705 potentially eligible people who had not received payments totaling $1.6 billion, according to a report issued last week by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
What to do if you never received the third payment
The IRS encourages residents to double check their bank accounts first to make sure they never got the third payment, especially in early spring and summer of 2021.
People can also access their IRS Online Account to view the total amount of the third-round Economic Impact Payment issued to them. For married couples filing jointly, each person will need to log into their own online account.
Once people confirm they never got the payment, and their IRS online accounts show a payment amount greater than $0, or if they got a Notice 1444-C or Letter 6475, they should contact the IRS as soon as possible to see if a payment trace is needed.
But they do not need to wait until their trace is complete to file their 2021 tax return, officials said.
When completing the Recovery Rebate Credit worksheet, taxpayers have two options: either use the amount on the Letter 6475 (or EIP 3 amount from the online account) to calculate the recovery rebate credit amount on line 30, or use the amount of stimulus payment the taxpayer believes they received to calculate the rebate credit amount on line 30. (Details on that can be found here.)
Those who contact the IRS to trace the stimulus payment amount will receive notification of the results. If it is found that the taxpayer didn’t get the money, the IRS will adjust the recovery rebate credit amount on the tax return and issue any refund.
If people make a mistake calculating the recovery rebate credit and claim an amount on line 30 for the 2021 Recovery Rebate Credit, the IRS will have to correct the amount and send a notice about the changes made. If that happens, there may be a delay in processing the return, officials said.
What if I already filed my taxes?
An amended return may be needed to claim the credit if IRS records show no payment was issued.
For eligible people who didn’t claim a recovery rebate credit on their 2021 tax return (so line 30 is blank or $0), they will need to file a Form 1040-X, Amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Return to claim the remaining amount of stimulus money — if IRS records don’t show that they were issued a payment.
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The iconic song “One Shining Moment” that brings the curtain down on each and every NCAA men’s basketball tournament wasn’t written for Keith Smart.
It just seems that way.
A Baton Rouge native and McKinley High graduate, Smart provided the first shining moment for the David Barrett tune that’s been synonymous with the Final Four since 1987.
Smart’s clutch baseline jumper with 4 seconds left gave Indiana a thrilling 74-73 win over Syracuse in the Superdome for the school’s fifth NCAA title.
As he and his teammates celebrated on the floor of the cavernous stadium, CBS closed its telecast with the song that was supposed to be played at the end of Super Bowl XXI two months earlier, but was scrapped because of time constraints.
Some 35 years later, the Final Four will be played in Caesars Superdome, where the 2022 NCAA national champions will be crowned late Monday night.
The game will be followed, of course, by the song every college basketball fan has heard by now.
Somewhere in California, where he’ll be spending time with his family, Smart will smile while remembering the shining moment he provided for the TV audience that evening.
Reliving the title-winning shot never grows old, whether it’s with reporters or his teammates, Smart said Thursday.
“I mean, it was incredible,” he said. “We started a little text chain with our guys from Indiana. We text back and forth with each other for four or five days sometimes.”
Smart reminded his teammates Wednesday night that it was the 35th anniversary of their accomplishment by tweeting a photo of their championship ring.
“It was a band of brothers that came together 35 years ago,” he proudly said. “At the time, we didn’t realize how hard it was to get there and win it. But, they were all magnificent moments.”
He noted that one of the comments he got from the tweet said the rings needed to be updated because they weren’t as gaudy as today’s championship jewelry.
“There was a simplicity to it, but it was for what you did more than what you were wearing,” he said.
Ironically, Smart, who just completed his first season as an assistant coach in the college ranks after 18 seasons as an NBA assistant and head coach, nearly made it back to New Orleans for the Final Four.
But after a strong postseason run, Arkansas fell to Duke in the Elite Eight on Saturday — leaving Smart just one step short of a return to where he sank the biggest shot of his life.
It made him an instant celebrity, not only in and around the Bloomington, Indiana-based school, but globally as well.
He learned that when he played pro ball overseas when he once met some Indiana grads who were living in France who helped him relive the moment.
“That moment was great … the shot is always right behind me,” the 57-year-old Smart said. “It’s chasing me all the time; I’ve stayed relevant all these years.”
It’s also a reminder, he said, that time is marching on.
Yet, Smart is still able to enjoy it — whether it’s talking with a wide-eyed, 18-year-old recruit or simply checking into a hotel.
“The kids you’re recruiting, they pretty much know who you are,” he said, “but then they say, ‘My grandfather said.’ I must be on the older side now.
“When people hear the name or see it on your luggage tag, they want to talk about it. They say, ‘I was such and such an age, but I can remember that shot like it was yesterday.’ ”
Smart laughed when he recalled phoning longtime Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim when he was with the Sacramento Kings and was scouting one of Boeheim’s players.
Boeheim, of course, was on the losing end of that game in the Superdome all those years ago.
“His administrative assistant put me on hold and when he got on the phone, he paused,” Smart said as he began to chuckle. “Then, he said, ‘Keith Smart … Keith Smart … Keith Smart. I want to tell you it’s taken me so long to get over that moment.’ ”
Some 3½ decades later, Smart said he still gets a certain feeling when the calendar turns to the month of March.
“It’s the anticipation you feel, particularly if you’re still around basketball,” he said.
Smart was reminded of it again this season when some of his Arkansas players would ask him to recreate his game-winning shot after practice.
“They would say, ‘Coach, can you make the shot?” he said. “Very seldom do I miss. It all comes back to you.
"You smell the arena, you see the arena. It all comes back to you.” | https://www.nola.com/sports/colleges/article_751c2722-b14e-11ec-acec-c3a482442182.html | 2022-04-01T00:52:04Z |
Patrick Demarchelier, Fashion and Portrait Photographer, Dies at 78
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Patrick Demarchelier, the celebrated fashion photographer who became the first non-Brit appointed an official royal photographer, died on Thursday, according to a statement posted to his Instagram. He was 78. The French artist was known for his covers with publications like Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, and Rolling Stone. It was his work in Vogue that caught the eye of Diana, Princess of Wales, who enlisted Demarchelier as her personal portraitist. The first non-Brit appointed an official royal photographer, Demarchelier would also go on to shoot many more stars, including Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Kate Moss. Over more than four decades, the photographer also orchestrated international advertising campaigns for powerful brands like Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Yves Saint Laurent. His legacy was marred irreparably in 2018, however, with seven models accusing him of sexual harassment and assault in a bombshell Boston Globe exposé of the fashion industry. Demarchelier denied the allegations, but Condé Nast immediately cut ties with him, and his career never truly recovered. Demarchelier is survived by his wife, three sons, and three grandchildren, according to his Instagram. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/patrick-demarchelier-fashion-and-portrait-photographer-dies-at-78 | 2022-04-01T00:52:05Z |
UK Foreign Secy to discuss Russia-Ukraine crisis with Jaishankar: UK envoy
NEW DELHI: Alex Ellis, the British High Commissioner to India on Wednesday indicated that talks between UK Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar may include the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
“I don’t want to comment on specific issues regarding Ukraine. What I would say is that the principles of UN Charter are important to us all. That is exactly what our Foreign Secretary will be talking with Jaishankar on March 31,” Ellis told ANI.
He made these remarks during Queen Elizabeth II‘s birthday party at British High Commission in Delhi.
“But there are many other aspects as well – the climate change challenge, the long-term challenge of trade, of health. So, we will have to look at all of these challenges together. But together UK and India are quite a might force,” said the British High Commissioner to India.
He said Truss is visiting India to have “deep talks” with Jaishankar.
“Our PMs (UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi) have signed a new, much deeper partnership, a strategic partnership. We want to work together to develop that, including in defence and security. That’s why our Foreign Secy is coming here to have deep talks with Jaishankar,” he said.
Ellis said that there is much “more we can do to develop our defence and security links to deal with many issues. The issue around sovereignty, of international law, of territorial integrity – the common issues for us all to deal with.”
At the Queen’s Birthday Party at the British High Commission, Ellis spoke in Hindi and said, “…Last year was very difficult due to COVID. Nowadays it is difficult in Ukraine due to Russia…”
Moreover, Amitabh Kant, CEO of Niti Ayog at Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday party said that, “We’ve had long, historic relations with Britain but we’ve very vibrant relations in world of trade, investment, climate change, sustainability and many areas of growth and partnership.”
“We have a very vibrant, dynamic and very energetic relationship that is going to grow and expand in the years to come even further,” he added. Truss will pay an official visit to India on March 31 to hold talks with Jaishankar on regional and global issues of mutual interest. She would also participate in the inaugural edition of the India-UK Strategic Futures Forum, a track 1.5 Dialogue between the two countries hosted by the Indian Council of World Affairs and Policy Exchange, UK. (ANI) | https://www.indiapost.com/uk-foreign-secy-to-discuss-russia-ukraine-crisis-with-jaishankar-uk-envoy/ | 2022-04-01T00:52:05Z |
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The state of emergency in Tairāwhiti has now been lifted, after more than a week of constant, and often torrential, rain.
MetService said Gisborne had one of its five wettest Marches in almost 90 years, and Te Puia Springs had its wettest month in five years.
Many people had to be evacuated and there was serious damage to roads and properties, especially around Tokomaru Bay.
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Advertise with NZME.The small coastal community, about 90 minutes north of Gisborne, was seriously damaged and the highway in the town remains cut off, due to a broken bridge.
The decision to come out of the state of emergency was made by Tairāwhiti Civil Defence group controller David Wilson in consultation with mayor Rehette Stoltz.
"There is still plenty going on across the region, but it is now time to move our focus into the recovery phase," Stoltz said in a media release.
The weather event led to the declaration of a state of emergency in the early hours of 23 March and then extended on Tuesday this week.
Stoltz said it had been a tough time for many across Tairāwhiti with record rainfall, rivers reaching levels that have meant evacuation and a huge amount of damage on the roads and to properties.
"I ask that people be patient while our contractors continue their work to reconnect our region."
Council chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann said although the state of emergency had been lifted, there was still support for communities across Tairāwhiti, should they need it.
"We have a lot of work ahead of us yet. There is a huge amount of clean-up to be done which will require people power and machinery - some of which may need to come from outside of the district."
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Advertise with NZME.She estimated the full recovery could take up to 24 months to fix properly.
"The wide-ranging extent of the damage to the region and the effect this event has had on critical infrastructure, bridges, roads and properties makes it very challenging."
Thatcher Swann was hopeful the region would receive government funding to help with the rebuild.
Nearly 50 local roads across the region remain shut.
The council said it was hoping to have roads reopened to the forestry and agricultural industry on Monday.
Tairāwhiti Civil Defence group controller David Wilson said it was "disappointing" to hear that some trucks were using the roads, despite being asked not to.
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Advertise with NZME."We have been in touch with police who have contacted those concerned, and they will be taking it from here," he said.
"We are working to open a number of roads on Monday so the forestry and agricultural industry can start moving again.
"We are asking for caution and patience on the roads as we open them. Many are still extremely vulnerable and we are working to improve them over the coming days to make sure they hold up as people begin to move on them again.
"Please be mindful though - there is a huge amount of damage across a very sodden and saturated region."
Farmers were being asked to liaise with the council around their movements at least a day before they needed access for stock or supplies.
"We are prioritising routes so trucks can get back out there, but it takes time and patience," Wilson said.
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Advertise with NZME.He acknowledged it had been a tough time for farmers who are keen to move stock, have had sale days cancelled due to Covid-19, and now faced impassable roads across the district.
He said there was a push to have as many roads as possible open for Monday, with the council updating its website with the latest information.
"We update this daily but we need our contractors to be able to do their jobs safely.
"It is also about the safety of motorists too - the ground is saturated and it simply isn't safe for them on some of our roads."
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Wall Street analysts expect IronNet, Inc. (NYSE:IRNT – Get Rating) to announce earnings of ($0.19) per share for the current quarter, according to Zacks Investment Research. Two analysts have made estimates for IronNet’s earnings. The business is expected to announce its next earnings report after the market closes on Monday, January 1st.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that IronNet will report full year earnings of ($1.02) per share for the current fiscal year. For the next fiscal year, analysts expect that the firm will post earnings of ($0.82) per share. Zacks’ EPS calculations are an average based on a survey of sell-side research firms that that provide coverage for IronNet.
A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on IRNT. Needham & Company LLC cut shares of IronNet from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 16th. Jefferies Financial Group reduced their price objective on shares of IronNet from $6.00 to $4.25 in a research note on Thursday, January 6th. Guggenheim started coverage on shares of IronNet in a report on Tuesday, January 11th. They issued a “neutral” rating on the stock. Finally, Zacks Investment Research raised shares of IronNet from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, February 15th. Five analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $16.63.
Several institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of IRNT. KPCB DGF II Associates LLC acquired a new position in shares of IronNet in the 3rd quarter valued at about $102,334,000. Phoenix Holdings Ltd. acquired a new position in IronNet during the third quarter worth $17,050,000. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. purchased a new position in IronNet in the third quarter valued at $90,000. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. purchased a new position in shares of IronNet during the third quarter worth about $491,000. Finally, Edmond DE Rothschild Holding S.A. acquired a new stake in shares of IronNet during the third quarter worth about $65,000. 27.91% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Shares of IRNT traded down $0.18 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $3.80. 1,635,840 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 5,415,471. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $3.99 and a two-hundred day moving average of $8.73. IronNet has a twelve month low of $2.65 and a twelve month high of $47.50.
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Sierra Bancorp (NASDAQ:BSRR – Get Rating) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note issued on Thursday, Zacks.com reports. The firm currently has a $28.00 price objective on the financial services provider’s stock. Zacks Investment Research‘s price target would suggest a potential upside of 12.09% from the stock’s previous close.
According to Zacks, “Sierra Bancorp is the bank holding company for the Bank of the Sierra. The Bank of the Sierra is the largest independent bank headquartered in the South Valley, and operates branch offices as well as real estate centers, agricultural credit centers and a bank card center. “
A number of other equities analysts also recently issued reports on BSRR. Janney Montgomery Scott downgraded Sierra Bancorp from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 25th. StockNews.com started coverage on Sierra Bancorp in a research note on Thursday. They set a “buy” rating for the company.
Sierra Bancorp (NASDAQ:BSRR – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, January 24th. The financial services provider reported $0.63 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.66 by ($0.03). The company had revenue of $33.67 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $34.00 million. Sierra Bancorp had a net margin of 30.47% and a return on equity of 12.01%. On average, equities research analysts predict that Sierra Bancorp will post 2.54 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in BSRR. Deutsche Bank AG lifted its stake in Sierra Bancorp by 3.2% in the fourth quarter. Deutsche Bank AG now owns 14,071 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $382,000 after purchasing an additional 437 shares during the last quarter. Citigroup Inc. lifted its stake in Sierra Bancorp by 42.1% in the third quarter. Citigroup Inc. now owns 1,630 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $40,000 after purchasing an additional 483 shares during the last quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. lifted its stake in Sierra Bancorp by 2.0% in the fourth quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 36,338 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $987,000 after purchasing an additional 724 shares during the last quarter. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co NY raised its holdings in Sierra Bancorp by 40.9% during the 4th quarter. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co NY now owns 3,681 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $100,000 after acquiring an additional 1,068 shares during the period. Finally, Invesco Ltd. raised its holdings in Sierra Bancorp by 8.0% during the 2nd quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 15,859 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $403,000 after acquiring an additional 1,174 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 53.30% of the company’s stock.
About Sierra Bancorp (Get Rating)
Sierra Bancorp is a bank holding company, which engages in the provision of commercial banking services. It offers a wide range of deposit products and services for individuals and businesses including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market demand accounts, time deposits, retirement accounts, and sweep accounts.
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CHICAGO , March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), the nation's largest customer-owned health insurer, announced today several changes to its senior leadership team.
The leadership transitions reflect a thoughtful and strategic approach to long-term growth and succession planning for the company.
Dr. Opella Ernest, chief operating officer, takes on a new role effective immediately as executive vice president, HCSC Commercial Markets, succeeding Jeff Tikkanen, who announced he will retire from HCSC in March 2023. Mike Frank, senior vice president, Pharmacy and Ancillary Business, will become senior vice president, chief operating officer. Dr. Ernest and Frank will report to Maurice Smith, president and CEO of HCSC.
Jeff Tikkanen, executive vice president, Commercial Markets, will transition to an advisory role focused on market initiatives including national account strategy and key client relationships until his retirement in March 2023.
"As our strategic priorities evolve, so does our organizational structure," said Maurice Smith president and CEO of HCSC. "Our continued focus on building our leadership bench strength allows us to continue to execute on our strategy -- to expand health care access, to deepen relationships in our communities and to advance our mission and commitments to remain the health coverage partner of choice for our stakeholders. HCSC has an action-oriented leadership team that is a result of a long-standing focus on attracting and growing top talent."
Dr. Opella Ernest will take on her new role, effective immediately, as executive vice president, HCSC Commercial Markets. As our former chief operating officer, Dr. Ernest helped reshaped our customer and provider experience through advancements in technology and innovation. In her new role, Dr. Ernest assumes responsibility for the company's five BCBS health plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas as well as national account growth, clinical and pharmacy operations and analytics. She joined HCSC in 2012 and has had increasing responsibility leading the company's clinical strategy and operation as Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer. She also served as Divisional Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois. A board-certified family physician, she has a degree in medicine from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan
Mike Frank, senior vice president Pharmacy and Ancillary Business, will become senior vice president, chief operating officer, reporting to Dr. Ernest. In his new role, Mike will lead HCSC's IT and Customer Service organizations. Frank joined HCSC in 2013 when BCBSMT became part of the company. Since that time as SVP, Tri-State plans, he provided strategic oversight on how HCSC served members in our Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans in Montana, New Mexico and Oklahoma as well as expanding our pharmacy solutions and better understanding of our customer service needs. Previously Frank was president of the Montana plan. Other roles at the plan included chief legal and operations officer, chief administrative officer, vice president of Corporate Integrity and Human Resources, and vice president of Compliance and Ethics. He earned his Bachelor of Science in psychology from Montana State University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Montana.
"These leadership changes will position the company for continued growth and demonstrate the strength of the HCSC management bench," said Smith. "Opella and Mike's leadership has been instrumental in both advancing and driving HCSC strategy over the last few years. In their new roles, we will see them have even greater impact on the company's success in the future."
About Health Care Service Corporation
Health Care Service Corporation is the country's largest customer-owned health insurer, with more than 17 million members in its health plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. A Mutual Legal Reserve Company, HCSC is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
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Colin Kaepernick named honorary captain of University of Michigan spring football game
FOX 2 (WJBK) - University of Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh is welcoming a former player back for the spring game - but he isn't an ex-Wolverine.
Former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick will serve as the honorary captain for the Michigan Maize and Blue spring football game this Saturday. Kaepernick played for Harbaugh in San Francisco and led the team to Super Bowl XLVII where they lost to the Ravens in 2013.
Courtesy: U-M Football on Twitter.
After Harbaugh left the 49ers, Kapernick became an unlikely Civil Rights activist by kneeling for the National Anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality. His silent protest sparked conversation and similar ones by players across the NFL, while attracting controversy. At the same time, he regularly spoke out against injustice and racism.
"Football Family. Excited to share the field with our honorary captain for Saturday's Maize and Blue Spring Game," tweeted the U-M football account.
Michigan's spring football game kicks off at noon on Saturday.
Kapernick, 34, hasn't played since 2016 in the NFL and in 2019 won a grievance against the NFL with Eric Reid that they had been denied jobs in the league because they knelt through the anthem before games. Both of them said the league of colluding to keep them out of the sport.
Colin Kaepernick and U-M QB Cade McNamara / Courtesy: U-M Football on Twitter.
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Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE:PXD – Get Rating) CFO Neal H. Shah sold 3,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, March 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $256.97, for a total value of $899,395.00. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link.
Shares of NYSE PXD traded down $7.90 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $250.03. 1,991,693 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,803,114. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is $231.75 and its 200-day simple moving average is $200.16. The company has a quick ratio of 1.42, a current ratio of 1.52 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29. The stock has a market capitalization of $60.73 billion, a P/E ratio of 30.31, a P/E/G ratio of 1.23 and a beta of 1.58. Pioneer Natural Resources has a twelve month low of $133.73 and a twelve month high of $260.00.
Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE:PXD – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 16th. The oil and gas development company reported $4.58 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $4.05 by $0.53. Pioneer Natural Resources had a net margin of 14.46% and a return on equity of 15.04%. The business had revenue of $4.32 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $4.79 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $1.07 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts expect that Pioneer Natural Resources will post 24.05 EPS for the current year.
Several institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in PXD. DNB Asset Management AS grew its holdings in shares of Pioneer Natural Resources by 14.2% during the 3rd quarter. DNB Asset Management AS now owns 30,433 shares of the oil and gas development company’s stock valued at $5,067,000 after purchasing an additional 3,779 shares during the last quarter. NEXT Financial Group Inc grew its holdings in shares of Pioneer Natural Resources by 3.8% during the 3rd quarter. NEXT Financial Group Inc now owns 3,297 shares of the oil and gas development company’s stock valued at $551,000 after purchasing an additional 122 shares during the last quarter. Raymond James Trust N.A. grew its holdings in shares of Pioneer Natural Resources by 6.3% during the 3rd quarter. Raymond James Trust N.A. now owns 13,951 shares of the oil and gas development company’s stock valued at $2,323,000 after purchasing an additional 821 shares during the last quarter. UMB Bank N A MO grew its holdings in Pioneer Natural Resources by 1.5% during the 3rd quarter. UMB Bank N A MO now owns 64,736 shares of the oil and gas development company’s stock worth $10,779,000 after acquiring an additional 969 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Clarius Group LLC bought a new stake in Pioneer Natural Resources during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $207,000. 85.41% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
A number of brokerages have issued reports on PXD. Mizuho raised their target price on Pioneer Natural Resources from $266.00 to $343.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday. Bank of America cut Pioneer Natural Resources from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and lifted their price objective for the company from $230.00 to $234.00 in a report on Monday, January 10th. Wells Fargo & Company lifted their price objective on Pioneer Natural Resources from $244.00 to $276.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday, March 14th. Truist Financial lifted their price objective on Pioneer Natural Resources from $214.00 to $230.00 in a report on Friday, January 14th. Finally, Morgan Stanley lifted their price objective on Pioneer Natural Resources from $200.00 to $213.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Tuesday, January 25th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, twelve have given a buy rating and three have issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $240.05.
Pioneer Natural Resources Company Profile (Get Rating)
Pioneer Natural Resources Co operates as an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. The firm engages in hydrocarbon exploration in the Cline Shale. It focuses on the operation of the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford Shale, Rockies, and West Panhandle projects. The company was founded by Scott Douglas Sheffield on April 2, 1997 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.
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Biden to address Democratic retreats next week
President Biden will speak to Senate Democrats and House Democrats at their respective caucus retreats next week as the party charts its path ahead of November’s midterms, according to the White House.
Biden will speak Wednesday at the Senate Democratic caucus retreat, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. The president will address Democratic National Committee members on Thursday night at their winter meeting, and he will travel to Philadelphia on Friday to speak at the House Democratic Caucus retreat.
Last year, Biden and Vice President Harris addressed Democratic summits held virtually because of COVID-19 concerns.
The speeches to party members will take place a week after Biden delivered his State of the Union address, in which he laid out his priorities for the year.
The president urged members to pass key pieces of his agenda, including a child tax credit, an increase in the minimum wage, a pro-union bill, legislation to lower the cost of health care and other measures.
Democrats likely face an uphill battle to retain narrow majorities in the House and Senate given historical trends in which the party in power tends to lose seats in the midterms.
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Razzies Rescind Bruce Willis’ Award in Wake of Aphasia Diagnosis
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And the Golden Raspberry for Worst Look goes to… the Razzies themselves, with the satirical awards body announcing Thursday it would be rescinding a prize awarded to Bruce Willis after his family revealed that the actor is struggling with a medical condition impairing his cognitive abilities. “After much thought and consideration, the Razzies have made the decision to rescind the Razzie Award given to Bruce Willis, due to his recently disclosed diagnosis,” ceremony co-founders Mo Murphy and John Wilson said in a statement. In February, with Willis drawing increasing public attention—and derision—for appearing in a staggering number of aggressively mediocre films in rapid succession, the Razzies had announced the creation of an entire category just for him: “Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 Movie.” On Wednesday, Willis’ family said he would be “stepping away” from acting following a diagnosis of aphasia, an often debilitating brain disorder. “If someone’s medical condition is a factor in their decision making and/or their performance, we acknowledge that it is not appropriate to give them a Razzie,” Murphy and Wilson said. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/razzies-rescind-bruce-willis-award-in-wake-of-aphasia-diagnosis-retirement-from-acting | 2022-04-01T00:52:11Z |
US denies sending ‘conspiracy’ letter to topple Imran Khan govt
ISLAMABAD: The US on Wednesday denied reports of any specific message being delivered to Pakistan’s then-ambassador to the United States and said that no US government agency had sent a letter to Pakistan on the current political situation in the country.
While responding to the question regarding the alleged ‘letter’ and ‘US involvement in a no-confidence motion against Pakistan Prime minister Imran Khan’, a State Department spokesperson said, “there is no truth to these allegations,” Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported.
Pakistan’s embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday shared some details of the “foreign conspiracy letter” with senior journalists and cabinet members, asserting that the document was authentic and a foreign conspiracy was afoot to remove him from power, touting the Opposition’s no-confidence motion against him as a testimony of “foreign-funded” move to topple his government.
According to some media reports, it was assumed that the ‘foreign-conspiracy’ letter was sent to Ambassador Asad Mujeed on the basis of his meeting with the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Donald Lu.
The letter can be the diplomatic cable from Washington, drafted by a Pakistani diplomat. “The contents of the letter, apparently, are based on informal discussions between Pakistani and other officials,” a source was quoted as saying by Dawn. “The contents, if correct, show a set of friendly officials from various countries indulging in some loud-thinking and probing. Nothing more,” the source added.
“The purpose behind such cables is to keep your government informed. It’s no sign of a conspiracy against a government or a personality,” another diplomatic source said. Currently, Pakistan’s new ambassador to the US is Masood Khan, while Ambassador Majeed has been moved to Brussels for taking up his new assignment.
Yesterday, in a special session of the cabinet chaired by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, the government has decided to share the ‘foreign-conspiracy’ letter with the National Security Committee where Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi would brief the Committee about the letter in an in-camera session.
Apart from that, the letter was shown to the federal ministers on a teleprompter in the cabinet’s special session chaired by Imran Khan, reported ARY News citing sources.
Imran Khan also said that he will share the ‘foreign-funded conspiracy’ letter with senior journalists and ally party members. “The letter will reveal the elements who are conspiring against the country from abroad,” he said at the launch of e-passport services in Islamabad.
After the no-confidence motion against Imran Khan’s government was tabled in the National Assembly with a total of 161 votes in favour, the proceedings were adjourned till today.
The no-confidence motion was submitted by the opposition parties on March 8. The opposition is confident that its motion would be carried as some allies of PTI have come out in the open against Imran Khan. (ANI) | https://www.indiapost.com/us-denies-sending-conspiracy-letter-to-topple-imran-khan-govt/ | 2022-04-01T00:52:11Z |
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Metromile (NASDAQ:MILE – Get Rating) is one of 94 public companies in the “Fire, marine, & casualty insurance” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Metromile to similar businesses based on the strength of its earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
56.5% of Metromile shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.0% of shares of all “Fire, marine, & casualty insurance” companies are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of shares of all “Fire, marine, & casualty insurance” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
This table compares Metromile and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Metromile’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Metromile. Metromile is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.
Risk and Volatility
Metromile has a beta of 0.28, meaning that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Metromile’s competitors have a beta of 0.78, meaning that their average share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Metromile and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Metromile and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.
Metromile presently has a consensus target price of $4.53, indicating a potential upside of 242.80%. As a group, “Fire, marine, & casualty insurance” companies have a potential upside of 5.51%. Given Metromile’s higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Metromile is more favorable than its competitors.
Summary
Metromile competitors beat Metromile on 11 of the 13 factors compared.
About Metromile (Get Rating)
Metromile, Inc. provides pay-per-mile car insurance services in the United States and internationally. The company also licenses artificial intelligence claims platform to automate claims, reduce losses associated with fraud, and unlock the productivity of insurance carriers' employees. In addition, it offers The Pulse, a device that plugs into the diagnostic port of its customer's car and transmits data over wireless cellular networks. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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(NEXSTAR) — Consumer goods company Unilever has initiated a voluntary recall of two of its Suave antiperspirant products due to concerns over benzene content – exposure to high levels of the chemical has been linked to several types of cancer.
The affected products are Suave 24-Hour Protection Aerosol Antiperspirants, both the “Fresh” and “Powder” scents. The 4-6 ounce spray cans feature the UPC codes:
- 079400751508
- 079400784902
- 079400785503
Items with these UPC codes and expiration dates through September 2023 are the only Unilever/Suave products affected by the recall.
Unilever explains that the antiperspirants themselves don’t contain benzene but a review showed “unexpected” levels from the propellant that sprays the product from the cans. The company says the 24-hour deodorant sprays were discontinued last year for unrelated business reasons and were previously in limited distribution at U.S. stores and online.
Retailers who carried the items have also been notified to pull any that remain, Unilever says. Anyone who has the affected products should discard them immediately.
Customers with questions or concerns can contact Unilever at (866) 204-9756. More information on the products and reimbursement can also be found at the Suave Recall page. The Food and Drug Administration says customers who may have experienced adverse reactions to the aerosols can report to its MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting.
Benzene
So what is benzene?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explains that benzene is a colorless or yellow liquid when at room temperature. It can be naturally occurring – in volcanoes, forest fires and oil, for example – or found in human manufacturing.
Benzene is among the top 20 chemicals used in the U.S., the CDC says. It’s used to make plastics, nylons and some types of lubricants, rubbers, dyes, detergents and drugs. Tobacco smoke is a large source of benzene exposure to humans.
How is it harmful?
The CDC reports benzene damages the human body by causing cells to malfunction. For instance, bone marrow can stop producing adequate amounts of red blood cells. Additionally, it can cause changes in antibodies and white blood cell loss. Immediate symptoms of exposure include headaches, dizziness, tremors, vomiting and confusion.
Long-term exposure (longer than a year) can result in cancers, per the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. | https://fox2now.com/news/national/some-suave-antiperspirants-recalled-due-to-high-levels-of-cancer-causing-chemical/ | 2022-04-01T00:52:10Z |
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The Stratford A&P Association is encouraging people to grab their dirt bikes and come and have some fun at an upcoming fundraiser.
Organiser Renee Beck says "We want people to come and have fun before the seeds are sown. We harvested 24ha of maize and we need to reseed the paddocks to make it grass again."
The money raised from the fundraiser will help the Stratford A&P Association turn the maize area back to grass.
She says with a range of trail rides happening at the moment, it's great to offer people something local.
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The event will be family friendly, with two tracks operating, one for adults and a track for children.
Once people have had their fun and worked up an appetite, they can buy a sausage and a drink from the BBQ, which will run throughout the day.
The fundraiser runs from 10am to 7pm, giving people plenty of time to head to the flat track and have fun.
"A lot of people work on weekends so this time makes the event accessible to everyone."
The event will follow Covid-19 guidelines.
The details
What: Stratford A&P Association Flat Track Fundraiser
Where: Stratford A&P Showgrounds farm. Entry is 47 Flint Rd East.
When: April 2, 10am to 7pm.
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There’s a reason why the word “likable” follows comedian Pete Holmes around. He is likeable, mainly because his comedy has an easygoing warmth to it that most of his colleagues don’t even try to muster. It’s why he’s been given a bunch of shows over the past decade or so, from his funny talk show on TBS to his two-season HBO series Crashing. Now he’s on a traditional multicamera sitcom on CBS. Does that warmth translate?
HOW WE ROLL: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
Opening Shot: As a bowling ball shoots out of a ball return at a bowling alley, a voice over says, “Here’s a crazy story. The craziest part about it is… it’s true.” A pro bowler picks up the ball; an crowd is in the background.
The Gist: Tom Smallwood (Pete Holmes) got laid off from the factory where he had worked for most of his adult life in the Michigan town where he grew up. He and his wife Jen (Katie Lowes) have been getting by, but just barely; their son Sam (Mason Wells) complains about the no-name Lucky Charms knock-off that “turned my milk black”, but Tom tells him that they’ve needed to economize since he got laid-off. But he wants the best for his family, as any dad would.
Since his layoff, he’s been at the local bowling alley, where the owner, Archie (Chi McBride), has been encouraging him to try out for the Pro Bowlers Association. Archie’s logic is sound: Tom’s recent average would put him near the top of the PBA, and certainly high enough where he could make more money than he did at the factory. Jen’s supportive but isn’t sure if it’s worth taking the risk.
And, while Tom thinks this is the perfect time to go for it, he’s learned from his mom Helen (Julie White) to always go for the safe choice. “Ask the people on the Hindenburg what they think about taking unnecessary chances,” she tells Jen when she visits her daughter-in-law at her salon. The safe choice is another factory job, and Helen has lined up an interview for him.
Tom, though, tells Sam that he should do what makes him happy, despite what others think; if he wants to wear his tap shoes at school, for instance, he should do that. But he thinks he can’t follow his own advice. It takes Jen working out some of the numbers and telling him that he should go for it to finally convince him to try.
What Shows Will It Remind You Of? How We Roll has the feeling of a classic CBS sitcom, along the lines of The King Of Queens or Everybody Loves Raymond.
Our Take: We really wanted to like How We Roll. Pete Holmes is a funny comedian who hosted a low-key fun talk show on TBS a few years back, as well as his own Judd Apatow-approved prestige TV comedy series Crashing; we want him to find a good show that will be on for years. Katie Lowes, Julie White and Chi McBride are among our favorite character actors. It’s based on the true story of the real Tom Smallwood, so there’s some real-life inspiration to be mined as the fictional Tom tries to become a top pro bowler.
But the first episode leans too hard on tired sitcom tropes, like the curly fry-eating Carl (Matthew J. McCarthy) — Archie’s Lanes is “The home of the Curly Fry”, after all — who is essentially there to be a peanut gallery for the discussions about bowling Tom and Archie have. Thankfully, it tries to mine humor out of the characters and situation instead of using pure gags, but none of those funny lines made us more than chuckle.
Plenty of sitcoms have overcome dud pilots, and what they almost universally have in common an appealing cast and potential-filled premise. Despite the lack of laughs, we found both in How We Roll, produced by TV veterans Mark Gross and David Hollander, along with actor Brian d’Arcy James. There was a warmth to the show that was evident from the start; it doesn’t treat Tom’s bowling dreams as crazy, maybe because they actually came true in real life.
Depending on how quickly or slowly the show gets to the point where Tom is actually making a living in the PBA, there are a bunch of situations where we can see the characters grow and find where their funnies are. How long that will take is anybody’s guess; CBS provided the pilot for preview, then episodes 4 and 5, indicating that, like most sitcoms, the first few episodes are as shaky as the pilot.
Sex and Skin: None. This is really a show you can watch with your kids.
Parting Shot: Referencing a lottery scratcher Sam got him (another gag that didn’t work), Tom says to Sam, “I got my third horseshoe.” He and Jen hug and kiss to his new adventure as a pro bowler; Sam says “gross.”
Sleeper Star: Boy, we do love Julie White; she kept us watching Grace Under Fire long after Brett Butler’s issues drove the show into the ground. It’s great to see her back on a sitcom, in a role we hope becomes more dynamic than “overprotective mother.”
Most Pilot-y Line: Because Archie’s Lanes is “Home of the Curly Fry,” we wonder how many curly fry references we’re going to get. We love curly fries, by the way; we just don’t think they’re a basis for a recurring sitcom gag.
Our Call: SKIP IT. As much as we like Holmes and everyone on How We Roll, we don’t see any signs that the show is going to get funnier, despite the warmth we saw in the pilot.
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Shares of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. (OTCMKTS:SNCAF – Get Rating) have been assigned a consensus recommendation of “Buy” from the eleven research firms that are currently covering the company, MarketBeat Ratings reports. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have given a buy rating to the company. The average twelve-month target price among brokers that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $43.00.
A number of equities analysts have weighed in on SNCAF shares. Canaccord Genuity Group decreased their price target on SNC-Lavalin Group from C$47.00 to C$45.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Monday, February 14th. Royal Bank of Canada reduced their target price on SNC-Lavalin Group from C$42.00 to C$39.00 in a research note on Monday, February 14th. Finally, National Bankshares increased their target price on SNC-Lavalin Group from C$42.00 to C$44.00 in a research note on Wednesday, January 5th.
OTCMKTS SNCAF traded down $0.09 on Thursday, reaching $24.23. The company had a trading volume of 100 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,319. SNC-Lavalin Group has a 1 year low of $19.71 and a 1 year high of $30.09. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $23.08 and a 200-day moving average of $24.97.
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Amazon is currently offering the Carhartt Unisex Force Pro Backpack for $89.99 shipped. Normally retailing for $115, this 22% discount marks a new all-time low we’ve seen this backpack offered. You can get this bag from Carhartt in all colors at this same price, unlike Amazon which is only offering the black option at this discount. The 1200 denier polyester has Rain Defender water repellent to keep your belongings safe and dry. Two large storage compartments are joined by the sleeve for a laptop up to 17-inches. The shoulder straps feature FastDry technology to wick away sweat which improves comfort during long walks. A dedicated power bank compartment has a cord port for charging your devices. Three exterior pockets allow for the storage of smaller items. You can use a built-in strap to transport this bag on a handle of luggage. Keep reading for more.
Carhartt also has its Essentials Backpack for $40. This smaller bag can carry a laptop up to 15-inches. The overall smaller size makes this bag better for travel and school. You’ll find the same Rain Defender water repellent built-in. There is also the Carharrt Legacy Cross Body Gear Organizer for $30. Designed for those out working out in the field and who need quick access to gear. A large main pocket features organizers and loops for various items. In that same vein is the Cargo Hook-N-Haul Hip Pack for $30. Both feature the Rain Defender to keep gear dry.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - In the midst of spring break festivities in downtown Fort Lauderdale, two women said they noticed a woman struggling to fend off an attacker, and their actions have them being hailed as heroes.
Zuri Dacosta and Kayla Hercules have been friends for seven years after they met at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Broward County.
“We had a lot of leadership development training with the Boys and Girls Clubs, and over the years, it just allowed us to have the confidence to handle certain situations,” said Dacosta.
The best friends attend college and work as security guards in their free time. They said their training helped them when they saw a 20-year-old woman in trouble at around midnight on March 14.
“We were coming from the parking garage off Las Olas,” said Dacosta.
The good Samaritans said they saw the woman with an older and larger man.
“We noticed that things had started to get uncomfortable for the female. She’s being pinned against the wall; she’s being tussled on the ground,” said Dacosta.
“My intuition was, something was wrong. They were both drunk, and he was just basically pushing her on the ground,” said Hercules. “Once we heard her say, ‘Stop, stop, stop,’ we knew something was wrong.”
Dacosta and Hercules said they ran toward the couple, who were now in an open field off Las Olas Boulevard.
The man who, the good Samaritans said, was in his late 20s, ran off after he saw them.
Dacosta and Hercules said they called police.
“The incident was reported to police. They gave a suspect description,” said Fort Lauderdale Police detective Ali Adamson. “Because of the circumstances of the case, it was classified as a battery report. Our Special Victims Unit is aware of this.”
Dacosta said the victim was visiting Fort Lauderdale for spring break from Purdue University in Indiana.
“She had no idea who he was. She was only 20 years old, and she had gotten disconnected from her friends,” she said.
Body camera footage showed the moment an officer asked the student if she needed help. Hercules and Dacosta could be seen standing next to her.
“Do you need any medical attention?” the officer said.
“No, I’m fine,” said the student, visibly shaken.
“No fire rescue or anything like that?” the officer said.
“No. I’m fine, I’m fine,” said the student.
Dacosta and Hercules made sure the college student was safe and reunited with her friends before they left.
Days later, Dacosta said, they received a phone call from the student’s mother.
“It’s the mom expressing how we were heroes and that we were angels to be able to take charge in a moment where dozens of people just didn’t,” she said.
Ironically, Hercules wears an angel around her neck. However, this time, she and her best friend were the ones doing the protecting.
Police said the man got away, but it’s clear Dacosta and Hercules were able to defuse a charged situation.
“They saw something that just didn’t look right to them, and they took action, and that action likely prevented this victim from being further victimized,” said Adamson.
The student’s mother is so grateful for Dacosta and Hercules that she wrote a note to the Boys and Girls Club of Broward County, and she made a contribution in the good Samaritans’ honor.
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Which auto-follow drone is best?
Capturing magnificent scenes with a high-flying drone is a common method used by videographers to create content. The drones are steered with a flight stick or controller and go wherever the pilot directs them.
But sometimes, you want the drone to capture you in action. If there is nobody else to control the drone, you’re going to have a problem. That is where an auto-follow drone comes in, and as the name implies, it will automatically follow you as you run, bike or ski. One of the best auto-follow drones is the DJI Air 2S Quadcopter Drone.
What to know before you buy an auto-follow drone
Know the difference between auto-follow and tracking
The two terms might sound the same, and some companies use them interchangeably, but there is a subtle difference. An auto-follow drone doesn’t need a camera and can follow a signal. On the other hand, a tracking drone can memorize a face or object and track it. It will stay a certain distance away and continuously keep the object in the frame.
The size of the drone matters
Not all drones are built the same, and generally larger ones will have bigger batteries and more features. But that’s not to say that smaller, more affordable drones aren’t up to the task. Consider what kind of footage you want to capture and where you’ll be flying, and determine which size drone will be best for your needs.
Preferred method of control
You can operate drones through different control mechanisms. While professional drones use remote controllers and a screen, others operate easily with a mobile phone or a tablet. Consider which controlling method will be the easiest for you, as you can always upgrade to a headset when you get more comfortable.
What to look for in a quality auto-follow drone
Gimballed camera for stability
Under normal circumstances, you operate the drone through remote control. The pilot can steady the drone and capture any footage. But when it follows you, it is doing so automatically. Some stability is built into the flight, but a good-quality drone will have a gimballed camera. This prevents the camera from excessive shaking and will smoothly track the subject.
Obstacle sensing to prevent crashing
You don’t have any control over an auto-follow drone when it is in flight. To prevent the gadget from crashing into trees or buildings, a good-quality drone includes obstacle-sensing technology. This allows it to fly around or over anything that could block its flight path. It also allows the drone to keep track of you without breaking the line of sight.
Great camera for the best footage
If you use an auto-follow drone to capture images while running or going horse riding, you’ll want the footage to be as good as possible. A good-quality drone will capture 4K footage at 60 frames per second and take still photos with at least a 20-megapixel camera. Just bear in mind that you’ll need a suitable data storage device and enough battery power to fly some distance while recording.
How much you can expect to spend on an auto-follow drone
The average cost of an auto-follow drone will largely depend on the capabilities and functions of the device. An entry-level drone that can follow you retails for $150-$200, while professional drones can retail for $800-$1,500.
Auto-follow drone FAQ
How long is the flight time of a drone?
A. That will depend on the drone’s capabilities and the weather condition. On a sky, windless day, a typical drone can fly for around 35 minutes. Having to contend with wind can reduce the flying time to approximately 25 to 35 minutes.
What happens when the drone loses sight of you?
A. Most drones have a return-to-home function where they will fly back to their base station if they lose connectivity to the controller. Some drones go through several processes to re-establish a connection by themselves, like retracing their steps.
What’s the best auto-follow drone to buy?
Top auto-follow drone
What you need to know: For professional-quality footage, this drone will follow you wherever you go.
What you’ll love: This drone has an amazing 1-inch image sensor, making it capable of capturing footage at 5.4K at 30 frames per second or 4K at 60 frames per second. For auto-following, it features DJI’s Spotlight 2.0, ActiveTrack 4.0, and Point of Interest 3.0. It can track an object from as high as 1,600 feet and avoids collisions through environment sensing.
What you should consider: While it is one of the best drones available, the steep price tag could place it out of reach for most.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top auto-follow drone for the money
What you need to know: This affordable drone features a follow-me mode where it will hover automatically and record your movements.
What you’ll love: Capable of recording footage in 2K resolution, this drone has a 120-degree field of vision. It can follow you by GPS tracking, or you can let it fly a custom route. The drone has a control range of 980 feet and comes with two 1,000 mAh batteries.
What you should consider: Some users have indicated that the included batteries only provide for about 10 minutes of flying time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Holy Stone HS720 Foldable GPS Drone
What you need to know: This drone is perfect for shooting 4K content, as it comes with a shock absorption holder to minimize vibrations.
What you’ll love: Capturing footage at a maximum resolution of 3840 x 2160, this drone has an adjustable lens that you can rotate 90 degrees. It has three auto-follow options to circle a specific point, fly on a pre-set course or follow your movements while recording. It comes with two batteries that provide 25 minutes of flying time each.
What you should consider: It doesn’t come with an SD card to save footage on, so you’ll have to provide your own.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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The fifth podcast in the Let Freedom Ring! series offers an informative and pragmatic discussion with Ronald Carriveau of the restored Massachusetts State Assembly on the subject of jurisdictions and structure of government in the USA, going back to the Civil War when the “secession of the Southern States” walking out of Congress led to lack of quorum for the holding of Congress, and BAR attorney Abe Lincoln thence converted Congress into a company, himself as CEO and the senators as Board of Directors, incorporated in Delaware.
IMAGES & SCREENSHOTS TAKEN FROM ANNA VON REITZ’S BOOK “YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS WRONG WHEN…AN AMERICAN AFFIDAVIT OF PROBABLE CAUSE”
This has then led to a series of bankruptcies and new incorporations, with state governments also pulled into the fraud by incorporating into new profit-centric corporations, whose prime directive is self-sustainment and profit–which explains the vast amounts of graft, abuse, and corruption we are seeing today in all States and at the Federal level.
Americans were drawn into the fraud by the surreptitious creation of trusts and public transmitting utility corporations deploying the same name as the person but in ALL CAPS, and transmuting persons into corporations via this secretive, Satanic, and diabolical scheme of clear and utter fraud.
Bringing things into the light of current affairs, Ron makes reference to the upcoming elections for Governor in the State of Massachusetts Corporation–which many mistakenly believe is the one and only true-blue Massachusetts Government but most definitely isn’t–where Republican Charles Baker is heading out while Maura Healey the current Attorney-General and Geoff Diehl, a Republican from Pennsylvania have thrown their hats into the ring. Yet what they are seeking to extend is a private corporation playing State government, whose activities we can expect to be “more of the same” as indeed we have been seeing for years now in Massachusetts.
We also make reference to the matters of fact and urgency covered at my website The Everyday Concerned Citizen which has been reporting for 8 years now on the failure of “Public Safety” and “Public Health” as well now as local law enforcement along with Federal Justice and Security agencies turn on the people, using fusion center contracts, stealth EMF weapons, and noxious lies about outstanding citizens–such as myself–to neighborhoods, employers, friends and family in efforts to militarily subjugate and pacify neighborhoods, while currently running COVID hoaxes to enact tyranny, despotism, and fear-churning in the citizenry, demanding masks and poison-vaccine mandates including for children.
(While ignoring letters from informed science journalists and mothers about the harms of masks to children, such as this one, which Commissioner for Education Jeff Riley, another corporocrat-missing-commonsense, completely ignored as he proceeded to smother children on no science whatsoever for another whole year (ending his mandates only on Feb 28, 2022): Science Journalist & Mother to Massachusetts Commissioner of Education: Physical and Psychological Harm to Schoolchildren: Dangerous Mask Mandates and Nonstop COVID-Testing, Monitoring, and Policing are Not the Purview of Public School Education and MUST BE HALTED IMMEDIATELY
This is in actuality an absolutely dreadful state of affairs, and those in the neighborhoods of illegal-state-targets such as myself are well aware of what has happened: the FBI, DHS, CIA and other agencies are very active in our neighborhoods, issue regular rounds of lies, corral neighbors into nonstop “community monitoring” of their tarred-as “violently unstable anti-governmentist extremist radical terrorist-suspect” neighbor with “high anxiety” who is “schizoid” but “won’t take meds” who needs their nonstop overt stalking-as-monitoring, while their agents and soldier-mercenaries, also installed as neighbors, pulverize their targets night and day with microwave pulse weapons, Silent Sound weapons, acoustic neuroweapons, tracking radar-of-their-NERVES (Remote Neural Monitoring), covertly-implanted RFID chips, BCI-AI chips, NSA/CIA NEUROSURVEILLANCE, nanotech assaults, drone assaults, helicopter harassment, police/EMS siren/driveby harassment et al, and the entire neighborhood participates in diabolical noise harassment and color-coded echo-stalking and street-theater directed-conversations.
The use of these weapons is also related to being-kept-secret and clearly illegal, unlawful, inhumane, unethical actions of the US Military and Intelligence agencies in Classified-Torture operations which are enacting “Rendition” in American neighborhoods, inside American homes, stores, buildings.
These are subjects well-covered at my site, and in my letters: but THIS is the reality in Massachusetts, which Charlie Baker and Maura Healey, among many others, have overseen and promoted: In-Community Torture, and In-Community Assault-and-Battery-with-EMF-Weapons.
Ron is very aware of this situation now and informs ECC readers that these diabolical activities and agencies will no longer be funded once the actual, true, original Republic of Massachusetts is restored in full–with funds coming down now from the Federation of States, as Anna von Reitz has been informing all Americans recently in her webinars and articles–but what this will also require is numbers of Americans in Massachusetts taking the step of “correcting your status” with the Declaration of 1779 to establish you are a birthright American (even if naturalized, as I am) and not a captured US citizen and corporate debt-slave, as described and discussed in previous podcasts.
Anna von Reitz has published declarations of herself being named Fiduciary for both the USA and the world with due notice to Pope and Crown–since all governments apparently are actually corporations subfranchised through US INC–and more information can be found in these:
The saga of how Americans have been duped
What began at the Civil War has continued into today, and massive fraud has ensued, with various other parties, not just Lincoln–notably FDR in 1933–acting to enslave Americans, deceive Americans, and force Americans–press-gang Americans, as Anna von Reitz says–into US CITIZEN ALL CAPS NAME ENSLAVEMENT in the bizarro-world and pirate-friendly, corporate-shark-infested watery-grave Jurisdiction of the Sea.
The answer to this: Return to the land, Return to being a free and sovereign American on the land, Return to the restored American Republic and help set up your true state assemblies.
Ron issues a call for retired teachers, nurses, marshalls, sheriffs, retired police to help set up the Massachusetts State Assembly and government. If you are in Massachusetts, and wish to take these steps and help “restore the Republic,” please email him at: mr_c_01040@yahoo.com
Please also read Let Freedom Ring! Massachusetts State Assembly Podcast 4: Birthright American Or Captured US Citizen? Learn Who You Are to understand or innerstand why your political status is important, and why correcting the presumption of your status–as an American belonging to the original constitutional Republic and not the converted corporate construct playing Democracy is all-important.
Watch Podcast 5 at Bitchute: Let Freedom Ring! Massachusetts State Assembly Podcast 5: Fraud Since 1861 When US GOV Corporations Cropped Up
Watch Podcast 5 at Brighteon: Let Freedom Ring! Mass State Assembly Podcast 5:Fraud Since 1861 When US GOV Corporations Cropped Up
Watch Podcast 5 at Odysee: Let Freedom Ring! Mass State Assembly Podcast 5:Fraud Since 1861 When US GOV Corporations Cropped Up
Watch Podcast 5 at Rumble: Let Freedom Ring! Mass State Assembly Podcast 5:Fraud Since 1861 When US GOV Corporations Cropped Up
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Let Freedom Ring! Podcast 1 – American State Citizen with Ronald Carriveau, Mass State Assembly
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cQEbo3wcoMjO/
Let Freedom Ring! Massachusetts State Assembly Podcast 2 — A Little History on Lincoln and Your Status
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ySftVfkSWAS2/
Let Freedom RIng! Mass State Assembly Podcast 3: Their Birth Certificate Fraud and Our Baby Deed to Reclaim Your Child
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Massachusetts State Assembly site:
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The American States Assemblies site with all of Anna von Reitz’s information:
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Anna’s Monday night webinars and other podcasts at the States United Nationals Youtube site:
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Why should I correct my status?
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SCAPPOOSE, Ore. (KGW) — A man was shot and killed by law enforcement at a tow yard in Scappoose on Thursday morning, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO).
WCSO detective Shannon Wilde said law enforcement was called out to Grumpy’s Towing, located at 53279 Columbia River Highway in Scappoose, just before 10 a.m. Thursday for a “disturbance.” Shortly after they arrived, Wilde said an Oregon State trooper and a Columbia County deputy fired their weapons and a man was shot and killed. No officers were injured, according to a tweet from Columbia County.
Erik Tyler, a witness who works at a neighboring business, spoke to KGW’s Mike Benner about what he heard.
“It was quick, at first I thought it was someone working on a house with nail guns,” Tyler said. “And then I realized my wife was out front and I had my dogs and I heard, ‘pop, pop, pop,’ and I realized it was guns. … I got everyone inside, we laid low for a little bit, waited for the cops to come tell us we’re alright.”
Tyler said he heard police yell out multiple times to put down a weapon or they would use force and shoot. He said he heard two shots and then one shot. Wilde said she could not confirm if the man killed had a weapon or fired a weapon.
According to Wilde, after the man was shot and killed, law enforcement learned he was wanted for a violent felony. She did not say what the felony was and said law enforcement was not called out for that reason, but because of the disturbance at the tow yard. Wilde did not identify the man and said she didn’t know when more information about the man will be released.
The WCSO Major Crimes Team will lead the investigation into the shooting. Wilde said she expects they’ll be at the scene “well into the night.” | https://kobi5.com/news/man-shot-and-killed-by-law-enforcement-at-tow-yard-in-columbia-county-186534/ | 2022-04-01T00:52:13Z |
OLYMPIA, Wash., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heritage Financial Corporation ("Company" or "Heritage") (Nasdaq: HFWA) anticipates issuing its first quarter earnings release on Thursday, April 21, 2022 before the market opens. The Company has scheduled a telephone conference call to discuss the first quarter on Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time (2:00 p.m. Eastern time).
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The conference call will be recorded and will be available following the live conference call for replay twenty-four hours a day ending April 28, 2022. Questions regarding the conference call may be directed to Kaylene Lahn at 360-943-1500.
About Heritage Financial
Heritage Financial Corporation is an Olympia-based bank holding company with Heritage Bank, a full-service commercial bank, as its sole wholly-owned banking subsidiary. Heritage Bank has a branching network of 49 banking offices in Washington and Oregon. Heritage Bank also does business under the Whidbey Island Bank name on Whidbey Island. Heritage's stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "HFWA". More information about Heritage Financial Corporation can be found on its website at www.hf-wa.com and more information about Heritage Bank can be found on its website at www.heritagebanknw.com.
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President Joe Biden learned the hard way Saturday about the dangers of going off script at the end of a speech heavily criticizing Russian leader Vladimir Putin for his unprovoked war against Ukraine. At the end of the speech, Biden blurted out, “For God’s sake, this man cannot stay in power.” The words themselves were spot on. The only problem was the person speaking them.
As the United States learned during four years under Biden’s predecessor, a president who doesn’t carefully measure his words, especially in times of crisis, can easily get himself and the country into deep trouble. President Donald Trump potentially incriminated himself on a few occasions and created headaches for his aides when his off-the-cuff remarks insulted foreign leaders, wrecked alliances and inspired people to experiment with dangerous, bogus coronavirus remedies.
For all of Biden’s careful pronouncements and wartime decisions designed specifically to avert a direct superpower confrontation that could provoke World War III, he managed with a nine-word sentence to confirm Putin’s warnings that the United States seeks to dominate Russia and install a U.S.-friendly regime.
Putin warned as recently as February that “there should be no doubt that any potential aggressor will face defeat and ominous consequences should it directly attack our country.” As if to raise the specter of nuclear retaliation, he added, “All necessary decisions have been taken in this regard.”
It’s a safe bet that any American move toward regime change in Russia would, in Putin’s mind, constitute a direct attack. Biden, who insisted Monday that his words were personal feelings and didn’t reflect a policy change, had the effect of bringing the world a step closer to the very danger he most feared: a provocation that leads to World War III.
In truth, Russia is long overdue for a new leader — a sane leader who doesn’t keep a 30-foot conference table between himself and his guests, and who doesn’t concoct bizarre scenarios of “denazification” to justify invading a neighboring country headed by a Jew.
Putin took control of a nascent, far-from-perfect post-Soviet democracy in 2000 and, in the course of a few years, converted it into a full-fledged dictatorship. He has deployed Russian agents to assassinate his critics. He has banned use of the word “war” to describe the slaughter in Ukraine. Press freedoms have been annihilated. On Sunday, Russian media were banned from carrying reports from four Russian journalists who interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
This madman deserves to be replaced — by his own people. The way to do it is to flood Russians with the truth about their president’s war crimes and atrocities via the internet, broadcast media, printed information and any other available means. Putin didn’t hesitate to meddle in 2016 to help put Trump in office. It’s only fair that the United States should return the favor against Putin.
— St. Louis Post-dispatch Editorial Board | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/03/31/editorial-by-whatever-means-necessary-the-russian-people-should-replace-putin/ | 2022-04-01T00:52:14Z |
After a month of blockbuster TV releases, April is getting off to a pretty movie-centric start. That’s not a bad thing, of course, especially when the month is kicking off with so many exciting films—new and old. Movies from well-established directors dominate, but fear not (unless you’re watching Carrie): from comedy to animation to action to horror, there’s a movie for everyone this week.
What to watch on Netflix
Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood
American auteur Richard Linklater’s fascinating new project blends animation with the distinct sense of nostalgia that he’s carried with him across films like Dazed and Confused and Boyhood. Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood tells the story of the first moon landing, albeit from a different perspective—not only does Linklater track the tension of the mission, but he follows an awe-inspired kid from Texas whose dreams put him among the stars. It’s a time capsule of a film that mixes memory and imagination in joyful ways, making Linklater’s personal story quite universal. Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood premieres Friday, April 1st.
The Bubble
This comedy from Judd Apatow decides to make do with COVID restrictions, following the cast and crew of a smash-hit dinosaur film franchise called Cliff Beasts as they try to shoot the sixth installment. The Bubble makes light of everything from the cabin fever of COVID to the inanity of Hollywood blockbusters, sticking its kooky cast of characters into the most bonkers production since Apocalypse Now. The ensemble ranges from Fred Armisen and David Duchovny to Karen Gillan and Borat-favorite Maria Bakalova, with Pedro Pascal, Leslie Mann, and Keegan-Michael Key thrown in for good measure. The Bubble premieres on Friday, April 1st.
What to watch on Hulu
Night Raiders
Perhaps the most fascinating acquisition Hulu has made recently is last year’s Night Raiders. This movie centers on dystopian North America circa 2044, when a brutal military government has taken power. The regime’s policy of taking children from their families and putting them in forced-education camps may sound like history repeating itself—which is by design. The film’s writer-director and most of its cast are indigenous peoples from North America, making the movie’s central quest of a woman trying to rescue her daughter a poignant mirror of the brutal history of imperialism in the Americas. Night Raiders will be available to stream starting Friday, April 1st.
What to watch on Amazon Prime
Carrie
Did you know that Brian De Palma’s 1976 film Carrie received two Oscar nominations—one for lead actress Sissy Spacek and another for supporting actress Piper Laurie? Well, if you still have the Oscar bug after this past weekend’s ceremony but want to watch some genre fare, then give one of the best horror movies of all time a watch. Carrie is a vicious tale about teenaged insecurity, turning a pubescent girl’s anxieties into intense realities. It’s simply an iconic movie, with the most legendary prom scene committed to film—and that alone justifies a viewing whenever it reappears on streaming. Carrie is available on Amazon Prime starting April 1.
What to watch on HBO Max
Death on the Nile
Though Kenneth Branagh won his first Oscar last Sunday for his beautiful film Belfast, his most recent effort was frothier fare, and it arrived on streaming this past week. Death on the Nile is the second in Branagh’s series of Agatha Christie adaptations after 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express, with the director starring as the mustachioed detective Hercule Poirot. This mystery is bigger and twistier than its predecessor, with a massive ensemble cast that includes Gal Gadot, Annette Bening, and Russell Brand alongside up-and-coming talents like Emma Mackey and Letitia Wright. Death on the Nile is available to stream now.
What to watch on Apple TV+
Slow Horses
This week’s only television recommendation is a fascinating new British spy thriller. Starring Oscar-winner Gary Oldman, Slow Horses takes place in an office of misfit MI5 agents; each member of the crew has made some form of career-ending mistake in the British intelligence services, leaving them to do more menial spy labor than viewers may be used to. While sifting through trash and scanning security feeds, though, a massive conspiracy comes to light, leaving the rag-tag group of spies to their own devices as their superiors become the targets of suspicion. Slow Horses premieres Friday, April 1st.
What to Watch is a regular endorsement of TV and movies worth your streaming time. | https://observer.com/2022/03/what-to-watch-on-streaming-this-week-april-1-7/ | 2022-04-01T00:52:14Z |
The first Etihad Airbus A350-1000 (registration A6-XWB) took off this morning on its first commercial flight. The inaugural service is being operated to Paris CDG on a special one-off flight to celebrate Etihad’s partnership with Airbus.
The first flight, EY37, departed Abu Dhabi at just before 8 am with a delegation of Etihad and Airbus representatives, key trade and business partners, media and VIPs on board.
Etihad’s new aircraft carries a unique livery in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the federation of the UAE and the commitment to net-zero carbon emission by 2050.
Formed as a partnership between Etihad, Airbus and Rolls Royce, the Sustainability50 programme will see the A350s used as a flying testbed to trial new initiatives, procedures, and technologies to reduce carbon emissions, building on the learnings derived from Etihad’s Greenliner programme.
The Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-powered Airbus A350 is one of the most efficient aircraft types in the world, with 25% less fuel burn and CO2 emissions than previous-generation twin-aisle aircraft.
Onboard the New A350-1000
The A350 features Etihad’s newest cabin interiors, inspired by Abu Dhabi and based on a more efficient and sustainable design. The aircraft has 371 seats across Business and Economy.
Spacious & Quiet
The aircraft has one of the quietest wide-body cabins, up to eight temperature control zones for passengers to keep cool, and an innovative LED ambient lighting system that matches day-and-night lighting for optimum sleeping and to reduce the effects of jetlag.
Business Class
The Business cabin has 44 seats with sliding doors providing a high level of privacy. Each seat faces forwards with direct aisle access and converts into a fully-flat bed of 79” in length – one of the longest in the industry. With wireless countertop charging, 18.5″ high-definition screens, noise-cancelling headsets and Bluetooth headset pairing, they’re packed with the latest technology.
Economy Class
The Economy cabin is configured with 327 smart seats in a 3-3-3 arrangement, of which 45 Economy Space seats offer an additional 4 inches of legroom. The award-winning seats were selected after extensive customer trials and feature the latest IFE systems with 13.3” high-definition screens & Bluetooth headset-pairing. | https://ittn.ie/featured/first-etihad-airbus-a350-1000-takes-off-for-paris-cdg/ | 2022-04-01T00:52:14Z |
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Marriage license
Aaron Scott Bonham, 34, and Aubrey Lin Crossland, 27, both of Muskogee.
Divorce decree
Pamela J. Carp vs. Mark S. Breedlove, incompatibility.
Civil suits
Chantelle Maestas vs. Muskogee County Board of Commissioners, et al., petition for judgment, excess of $75,000.
Small claims
Honor Heights Towers vs. Mary Brewster, et al., $867, April 15.
Initial appearances
BEASLEY, Tiffany Shonta aka BEASLEY, Shonta. Driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs. Bond same. Sounding docket April 21.
DAVIS, Crystal Jane. Driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. Bond same. Disposition docket May 3.
HAFF, Joseph. Domestic assault and battery by strangulation; domestic abuse - prior pattern of physical abuse. Bond $10,000. Sounding docket April 14.
JOHNSON, Desean Damian. Driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol; driving with license canceled/suspended/revoked. Bond same. Disposition docket May 3.
KOCH, Evan Michael. Driving while impaired. Bond same. Disposition docket May. 3.
LAWSON, Russel Adam. Aggravated driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. Bond same. Disposition docket May 3.
LIETCH, Flossie Marie. Driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. Bond same. Sounding docket April 14.
MAYHEW, Ambrosia Evyn. Unlawful possession of controlled drug with intent to distribute; possession of firearm during commission of felony. Bond same. Sounding docket April 14.
MORELAND, Jessica Opal. Unlawful possession of controlled drug with intent to distribute. Bond $15,000. Preliminary hearing April 13.
NOLEN, Brinson Dale. Unlawful possession of controlled drug with intent to distribute; possession of controlled dangerous substance. Bond $10,000. Sounding docket April 14.
Accelerations
CAMPBELL, Vanessa Gail. Child neglect. Bond $1,000. Hearing April 6.
MORELAND, Jessica Opal. Child neglect. Bond $1,000. Hearing April 13.
Dismissal
HOWELL, Benedict Hosea aka HOWELL, Benedicy Hosea. Possession of sawed-off shotgun/rifle; driving under the influence of drugs; carrying a firearm while under the influence. Best interest of justice.
Sentencings
BROOKS, Skylar Ray. Falsely personate another to create liability. Five years suspended. Fined $500.
WILLIAMS, Jessica Miranda. Child neglect. Four years suspended. Fined $500.
DUI arrests
LAWSON, Daniel Ray. Aggravated driving under the influence; reckless driving; carrying firearms while under the influence; use of firearm while committing a felony. Warner arrest.
PARKER, Dominique Chantwan. Driving under the influence of any other intoxicating substance; driving with license canceled, suspended or revoked. City arrest. | https://www.muskogeephoenix.com/news/muskogee-county-district-court-03-31-22/article_d950886a-b14d-11ec-803e-db693e470aa6.html | 2022-04-01T00:52:15Z |
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TROSTYANETS/LVIV: President Vladimir Putin threatened on Thursday to halt contracts supplying Europe with a third of its gas unless they are paid in Russian currency, his strongest economic riposte so far to crushing Western sanctions over his invasion of Ukraine.
European governments rejected Putin’s ultimatum for Friday, with the continent’s biggest recipient of Russian gas, Germany, calling it “blackmail.” Moscow did, however, offer a mechanism for buyers to obtain roubles via a Russian bank.
The energy showdown has huge ramifications.
Europe wants to wean itself off Russian energy but that risks further inflating soaring fuel prices. Russia has a huge revenue source at stake even as it reels from sanctions.
Putin’s five-week invasion of Ukraine has killed thousands, pulverised residential buildings, left masses of terrified people cowering in basements, and uprooted about a quarter of the 44 million population from their homes.
Facing stiff resistance from Ukraine’s military and a militant Western stance, Putin has played one of his biggest cards in the demand on European energy buyers.
“They must open rouble accounts in Russian banks. It is from these accounts that payments will be made for gas delivered starting from tomorrow,” he said on Thursday, adding that Europe had until now been getting some gas for free because it was paying in euros then freezing them.
“If such payments are not made (in roubles), we will consider this a default on the part of buyers, with all the ensuing consequences … existing contracts will be stopped.”
Energy crash?
Western companies and governments say that would be a breach of contracts in euros or dollars, but they were anyway preparing for a potential full-blown energy crisis.
However, the order signed by Putin does allow them to send foreign currency to a so-called “K” account at Russia’s Gazprombank, which would then return roubles for the buyer to make payment for the gas.
“Russia would have to physically halt gas flows to EU 27 (European Union member states) to force the issue, marking a major escalation not even performed at the height of the Cold War. It would mark another major financial blow to Russia’s coffers,” said analysts at Fitch Solutions.
Putin sent troops on Feb. 24 for what he calls a “special military operation” to demilitarise and “denazify” Ukraine.
But at talks this week, Moscow said it would scale back offensives near the capital Kyiv and north as a goodwill gesture and focus on “liberating” the southeastern Donbas region.
Kyiv and its allies say Moscow is simply trying to regroup following losses after a Ukrainian counter-offensive that has recaptured suburbs of the capital plus strategic towns and villages in the northeast and southwest.
US and European officials say Putin has been misled by generals about his military’s dire performance.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky praised “our defenders” who had resisted aerial bombardments and pushed armored columns back. Now, he said, Russia was building up forces for new strikes on the Donbas, which it demands Ukraine cede to pro-Moscow separatists.
“The children are shaking”
The war has been particularly fierce in the besieged Black Sea port of Mariupol, which links a strategic corridor between Donbas and the Russian-annexed Crimea peninsula.
The mayor’s office estimates 5,000 people have died.
Tens of thousands have been trapped for weeks with scant food, water and other supplies in the city that once housed 400,000 people but has been pulverised by bombardment.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was sending an aid convoy and Ukraine dispatched 45 buses in hopes of evacuating people on Friday.
In a Russian-held part of Mariupol, people climbed out of cellars to appear, ghostlike, among the ruins. One man named Pavel placed a bowl and spoon as a tribute on a makeshift grave in a patch of grass, marked with a plain wooden cross.
“Our friend. March 16. Driving in a car. A bullet hit him in the throat. He was dead in five minutes,” he said.
Elsewhere, there was evidence of Ukraine’s successful counter-attack in Trostyanets, an eastern town. Burnt-out Russian tanks and abandoned ammunition littered muddy roads while dazed civilians and a few Ukrainian soldiers roamed.
“We spent 30 days in the basement, with small children. The children are shaking, even still,” said a woman named Larisa.
“They don’t understand what has happened.”
Ukraine’s state nuclear company said most of the Russian forces that occupied the Chernobyl nuclear station had left the defunct plant, possibly concerned over radiation.
Western countries say Putin’s real aim was to swiftly topple Ukraine’s government, and that its failure is a strategic catastrophe, bringing economic ruin and diplomatic isolation.
Britain piled on more sanctions, including on state media organizations behind the RT broadcaster and Sputnik news agency. “Putin’s war on Ukraine is based on a torrent of lies,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said.
The United States also imposed fresh sanctions, targeting Russia’s technology sector, a sanctions evasion network and what it called “malicious cyber actors.”
With the war exacerbating fuel prices around the world, US President Joe Biden was to release 1 million barrels of oil a day for the next six months from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the largest release ever, to try to bring down gasoline costs. | https://yemenwatch.com/europes-russian-gas-in-jeopardy-ukraine-braces-for-new-assaults/ | 2022-04-01T00:52:14Z |
Avicanna Announces Closing of Non-Brokered Private Placement
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TORONTO, March 31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Avicanna Inc. (“Avicanna” or the “Company”) (TSX: AVCN) (OTCQX: AVCNF) (FSE: 0NN), a commercial stage, international biopharmaceutical company focused on the development advancement, and commercialization of evidence-based, cannabinoid-based products, is pleased to announce that it has closed a non-brokered private placement offering of 7,210,194 units of the Company (the “Units”) at a price of $0.35 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $2.5 million (the “Offering”). Each Unit is comprised of one common share in the capital of the Company (each, a “Unit Share”) and one-half of one (0.5) common share purchase warrant of the Company (each whole warrant, a “Warrant”); and, each Warrant shall entitle the holder thereof to acquire one (1) common share in the capital of the Company at an exercise price of $0.40 per share, subject to adjustment in certain events, until March 31, 2025.
The Company has paid an aggregate total of approximately $32,500 in cash finders’ fees and issued an aggregate total of 92,857 finder’s warrants (each a “Finder Warrants”) in connection with the Offering to certain finders in connection with subscriptions for Units made by purchasers introduced to the Company by such finders. Each Finder Warrant entitles the holder thereof to acquire one common share in the capital of the Company at an exercise price of $0.40 per share, subject to adjustment in certain events, until March 31, 2025.
The Company intends to use the proceeds from the Offering for general working capital purposes, general and administrative expenses, expenditures related to production and manufacturing, and research and clinical development.
The Unit Shares and Warrants, and any securities issuable upon conversion or exercise thereof, are subject to a four-month hold period under applicable securities laws in Canada. The Offering is subject to certain conditions including, but not limited to, the receipt of all necessary approvals, including the approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange.
About Avicanna Inc.
Avicanna is an innovative, commercial-stage, and international biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, advancement, and commercialization of evidence-based cannabinoid-based products for the global consumer, as well as medical and pharmaceutical market segments. In leading global cannabinoid advancements, the Company actively collaborates with leading Canadian academic and medical institutions. Avicanna has established an scientific platform including R&D and clinical development that has led to the commercialization of more than thirty products across four main market segments:
Medical Cannabis & Wellness Products: Marketed under the RHO Phyto™ brand these medical and wellness products are a line of pharmaceutical-grade cannabinoid products containing varying ratios of cannabidiol (“CBD”) and tetrahydrocannabinol (“THC”). The product portfolio contains a full formulary of products including oral, sublingual, topical, and transdermal deliveries that have been designed for controlled dosing, enhanced absorption and stability studies supported by pre-clinical data. The formulary is marketed with consumer, patient and medical-community education and training.
CBD Derma-Cosmetic Products: Marketed under the Pura H&W™ or Pura Earth™ brands, these registered, clinically tested, derma-cosmetic products include a portfolio of functional CBD topical products.
Pharmaceutical Pipeline: Leveraging Avicanna’s scientific platform, vertical integration, and real-world evidence, Avicanna has created a pipeline of patent-pending drug candidates that are indication-specific and in various stages of clinical development and commercialization. These cannabinoid-based drug candidates look to address unmet medical needs in the areas of dermatology, chronic pain, and various neurological disorders. Avicanna’s first pharmaceutical preparation (Trunerox™) is in the drug registration stage in South America.
Cannabinoid Raw Materials: Marketed under the Aureus™ brand, the Company’s raw material business has successfully completed sales to 12 countries. Aureus™ offers cannabis dried flower, standardized seeds, full-spectrum extracts, and cannabinoid distillates, isolated cannabinoids such as CBD, THC, cannabigerol (“CBG”) and other rare cannabinoids. Aureus™ products are produced at Santa Marta Golden Hemp S.A.S, the Company’s majority-owned subsidiary in Colombia, which is also GACP certified and has United States Department of Agriculture USDA National Organic Program certification for its hemp cultivar.
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White House eyes reducing Russian oil imports
President Biden is considering steps to reduce U.S. imports of Russian oil, the White House said Friday, as bipartisan support in Congress for a ban on the imports grows amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“We are looking at options we could take right now to cut U.S. consumption of Russian energy, but we are very focused on minimizing the impact to families,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters during a briefing Friday afternoon. “If you reduce supply in the global marketplace, you are going to raise gas prices.”
Psaki declined to explicitly lay out the specific steps that Biden is considering. Bloomberg News reported Friday that the White House is considering a ban on U.S. imports of Russian crude oil in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Psaki noted that Biden administration officials Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein have been in talks with global suppliers about alternative sources of energy amid the crisis in Ukraine. McGurk and Hochstein recently traveled to Saudi Arabia for talks with officials there.
“He’ll consider and continue to discuss with his team other steps we could take domestically,” Psaki said, referring to Biden.
The White House has not taken banning Russian oil imports off the table, but officials have seemed cool to the idea, arguing that it would raise domestic energy prices.
Biden has also been keen to coordinate his penalties on Moscow with European allies, who are averse to restricting Russian oil and natural gas due to their reliance on Russian energy.
“The unity is what makes the sanctions work,” White House chief of staff Ron Klain said in an interview with the “Pod Save America” podcast this week. “Once you get to these sanctions on oil and natural gas, it gets more complicated on keeping everyone together.”
Still, the idea of banning Russian energy has gained bipartisan traction in the U.S. Oil and gas are a huge money maker for the Kremlin, and an import prohibition would adversely impact the Russian economy, which has already been hit hard by Western sanctions.
About 3 percent of crude oil shipments to the U.S. came from Russia last year. Russia accounts for about 10 percent of the global oil supply and is the third largest producer after the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate released legislation Thursday that would block U.S. imports of Russian oil. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) also backed the idea at a news conference.
“I’m all for that — ban it,” Pelosi said. “Ban the oil coming from Russia.”
The White House has said that it is not in the United States’ “strategic interest” to reduce the global energy supply in response to the growing calls.
Asked Friday what changed, Psaki said that the administration’s position had not shifted.
“I wouldn’t say our decision has changed in any way from yesterday. There isn’t a strategic interest in reducing global oil supply because that will increase the price of barrels of oil and increase gas prices,” she said. “We are looking at ways to reduce the import of Russian oil, while also making sure that we are maintaining the global supply needs out there.”
She also would not say whether Biden would sign the bill introduced Thursday should it pass, offering only that the administration remains engaged with Congress.
White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse, who also appeared at Friday’s briefing, said that it would be “essential” for the administration to ensure the global supply of energy remains steady.
Asked about Russian oil imports on a call with reporters on Friday, a senior Energy Department official said that it will “continue to do everything that we can to maintain a steady global supply of energy and deal with an unprecedented situation.”
The official said the department was both providing analysis to the White House and “actively engaging” with members of Congress and others “as we all try to think about the best way forward here.”
—Rachel Frazin contributed. Updated at 5:28 p.m.
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'Gold mine' of census records being released from 1950
It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some industrial cities reached their peak populations before Americans started moving to the suburbs.
Starting Friday, genealogists and historians can get a microscopic look at those sweeping historical trends when individual records on 151 million people from the 1950 census are released.
Researchers view the records as a gold mine, and amateur genealogists see it as a way to fill gaps in family trees, a field of research that has seen dramatic growth in recent years through the popularity of home DNA testing kits.
"This is genealogy heaven when a census is rolled out," said Matt Menashes, executive director of the National Genealogical Society. "People are waiting anxiously. It’s hard to overstate."
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For privacy reasons, records identifying people by name can’t be made public until 72 years after they are gathered during the once-a-decade U.S. head count. The 1940 records were released a decade ago.
For Wendy Kalman, an amateur genealogist in Atlanta, the 1950 records will help her solidify details about her parents and grandparents and their relatives. She has traced her father's side of the family back to 18th century Ukraine, and her research has put her in touch with previously unknown third and fourth cousins in the U.S. whom she talks to regularly.
"It’s an interesting journey to find out where you are from and the census records help you find information that isn’t always available," said Kalman, 55. "Family stories aren’t always passed down and the census records give you a snapshot in time. It helps put together a picture."
Ronnie Willis’ relatives from both sides of his grandparents’ families were itinerant farmers who traveled through Texas and Oklahoma as a blended group throughout the 1930s and 1940s. But they broke into nuclear family units after World War II. Willis hopes the 1950 census records help him piece together what happened to those relatives who settled in other states.
"That will help get me 10 years closer to putting the puzzle together, a little bit," said Willis, 53, a software company executive who lives in Greenville, South Carolina.
Actors Jules Munshin, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly dressed as sailors on Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, USA, to publicise the musical film 'On The Town', 1949. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)
The records released by the National Archives and Records Administration will be indexed into a searchable website. The digitized, handwritten forms have information about household members' names, race, sex, age, address, occupations, hours worked in the previous week, salaries, education levels, marital status and the country in which their parents were born. The website will include a tool allowing users to fix any incorrect names or add missing names.
Claire Kluskens, a digital projects archivist at the National Archives, acknowledged that what will be on the website starting Friday is "a first draft," in which specific people are most likely to be found initially only by searching for whoever was listed as the head of their household.
Two outside genealogical groups, Ancestry and FamilySearch, a division of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, have teamed up to serve as a quality check on the records by creating their own index separate from the National Archives.
At Ancestry, scores of workers will be ready at 12:01 a.m. EDT Friday to start downloading the more than 6.5 million digital images of the census files. The Utah-based company will scan the millions of surveys, using artificial intelligence to decipher sloppy handwriting and converting the information into readable database form.
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"We are so excited to dive into the census," said Crista Cowan, corporate genealogist at Ancestry.
Anywhere from 400,000 to 800,000 volunteers across the U.S., under the coordination of FamilySearch, will then double-check the entries with the actual digital images. If the digital record of the 1950 census form says "Wilhelmina" but has been entered as "William" in the index, that will be corrected, said David Rencher, director of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and FamilySearch’s chief genealogy officer.
The effort could take six to nine months, he said.
"We believe we will get better accuracy because we are having humans look at it," Rencher said.
The new data will flesh out the contours of a dramatically different world.
Waiting outside a church, wedding guests decorate the newlywed's car (a four door, 1949 Buick Super), Washington DC, September 1950. (Photo by Department of State/PhotoQuest/Getty Images)
In 1950, the U.S. had less than half of the 332 million residents it has today. Households were larger, with an average of 3.5 people, compared with 2.6 people per household in 2019. Just 9% of households had someone living alone in 1950, compared with 28% in 2019. Adults were also more likely to be married, with more than two-thirds of adult men and women being married in 1950 compared with less than half of men and women in 2019, said Marc Perry, a senior demographer at the Census Bureau.
Elaine Powell is excited because this is the first release in which she will see herself in the census records. The president of the Central Florida Genealogical Society was born in 1946 and grew up in the St. Louis area.
"It’s just exciting. I remember the first time I found my parents in the census, you could hear me whooping and hollering in the library," Powell said. "It verifies what you have been told by your parents and grandparents."
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US, Mexico qualify for FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
SAN JOSE: The US men’s national team and Mexico have qualified for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 on Wednesday.
USMNT qualified for World Cup following a 2-0 loss to Costa Rica in the final match of CONCACAF qualifying Wednesday evening at Estadio Nacional in San Jose, Costa Rica.
The U.S. return to the tournament for the first time since Brazil 2014 by virtue of their third-place finish in the standings, while Fourth-Place Costa Rica advance to the Intercontinental Play-Off versus New Zealand in June in Doha, Qatar.
The first goal belonged to Costa Rica, as Juan Pablo Vargas thumped in a header off a corner kick in the 51′ to give the Ticos a 1-0 lead. The pace of the match was in Costa Rica’s favor and the Ticos took advantage of confusion in the U.S. defense, with Anthony Contreras turning in a cross to make it a 2-0 affair in the 60′.
Meanwhile, Mexico will play in their eighth consecutive FIFA World Cup after downing El Salvador 2-0 at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City on the 14th and final matchday of the third round of CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying for Qatar 2022.
Thanks to first-half goals from Uriel Antuna and Raul Jimenez, El Tricolor finished in Second Place in the eight-team table. (ANI)
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When The Daily Beast first spoke to James Corden in 2014, he offered a word of warning to those anticipating his late-night debut on CBS: “They should lower their expectations.”
In retrospect, it seems those expectations may have been way too low. “If you think about where we started from, it’s inconceivable,” he says now.
We’re sitting in his office on the roof of CBS Television City in Los Angeles on a recent Wednesday evening. He’s just finished yet another episode of The Late Late Show and has already changed out of his tailored suit and into jeans and a casual polo shirt. The almost manic energy on display for the one-hour taping has given way to palpable exhaustion.
“I remember seeing articles like, ‘Who the fuck is James Corden?’” the host continues. “I get it. In truth, I don’t think I realized how brave a decision it was for my boss to have taken. I didn’t realize how bold that decision was.”
Then, he finds the joke. “Part of me wondered if they gave me the job because they just wanted to kill the franchise,” Corden says with a laugh.
If that was the plan, CBS has failed miserably. Thanks in large part to his insanely popular “Carpool Karaoke” segment—now its own standalone spin-off show on Apple Music—Corden has become the most popular host on YouTube where his show has the top three most-watched clips across all of late-night television, each with more than 100 million views.
“Our plan, which we felt was really ambitious, was to try and gain a million subscribers to our channel a year,” Corden says. Less than two and a half years in, the channel has nearly 12 million subscribers.
While Corden says his show’s YouTube numbers are “not ever an obsession” for him, he is very aware that his channel has the second most subscribers in late-night (behind Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show, which, with a one year head start, has just over 14 million). “It’s where you can see your show’s relevance,” he says. “That’s really what our show’s about.”
When Jimmy Fallon started hosting The Tonight Show, he already had five years at NBC’s Late Night under his belt, plus another seven seasons on Saturday Night Live. Corden, meanwhile, was a complete unknown to the vast majority of Americans. The London native had created and starred in three seasons of the British sitcom Gavin & Stacey, but that show was never even shown on American television.
Corden seems to have arrived on the late-night scene at precisely the right moment. Never before have nightly Nielsen ratings mattered so little.
“I’m sure they matter to someone,” Corden says. “I don’t really know what they are. I’ve never looked at a single piece of paper about what our ratings are.”
Times have changed since the late-night wars between Jay Leno and David Letterman. “Then you had to make a choice,” Corden says. “Then America had to make a choice who they were watching. That was the only way you could watch them and it was the only metric by which you could mark success.
“Today, you can watch everyone,” he continues, helping to explain why there seems to be less competition between hosts in this new era. With a little more than 1 million viewers on average watching The Late Late Show when it airs on CBS at 12:35 a.m., it is very clear that most people are seeing the show on YouTube the next day, where individual clips regularly exceed that total.
“I don’t really think about ratings,” Corden adds. “I’m amazed when anyone does. I’m genuinely gobsmacked, I sort of can’t believe it. I think, well I don’t know how many people watch House of Cards, but I know it’s good and I know it’s a hit. Because I hear people talking about it.”
Creating moments that people will talk about has become a huge part of the job for Corden and his executive producers Ben Winston and Rob Crabbe. And more often than not these days, those moments involve President Donald Trump.
Trump has already helped lift The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to its highest ratings since the week it premiered and given renewed relevance to Corden’s time slot competitor Late Night with Seth Meyers. But while Fallon’s avoidance of all things political likely cost him an Emmy nomination this year, Corden still managed to make the cut in the crowded Outstanding Variety Talk Series category despite a similar reputation for shying away from politics.
Corden has, however, managed to find his own unique way into the barrage of terrible news that comes with covering the Trump administration on a daily basis.
“We do politics every night on the show,” Corden says. “What we always try and do is go, when something happens, what is our show’s version of this?” Often that means going above and beyond what other hosts are doing with simple monologue jokes.
The night I visited the show, he had reworked the lyrics of Justin Bieber’s “Despacito” to include references to North Korea and Charlottesville. “Donald Trump made comments that brought him shame, kept saying that both sides are to blame,” he sang. “After denouncing neo-Nazis slowly, slowly.”
When Trump announced his transgender military ban, Corden and his staff gathered and asked themselves, “What’s our version of this?” They ended up doing of a parody of Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E” called “L-G-B-T” that featured four costumed dancers and an elaborate wall of lights.
And then there are times, like after Trump announced his ban on Muslim immigrants, when Corden decides he needs to put the jokes aside and get serious. It’s a posture that comedian Norm Macdonald mocked in a recent interview with The Daily Beast, using Corden’s name as a punchline.
“It happened at some point that talk show hosts had to be political pundits,” Macdonald told me. “And if a train explodes outside of my house, I have to have James Corden talk me through it.”
“My biggest thing that I’m very conscious of is I think you have to earn the right to be a voice in those things,” Corden says. As a British citizen who has been living in the U.S. for just two years, he adds, “I’m a visitor here and I’m guest here in this country that I believe to be the most magnificent place in the world. And I don’t think that that has changed because Donald Trump is the president. I still feel privileged and lucky to live here every day.”
Corden had perhaps more moral authority when London was hit with yet another terror attack just as he was preparing to broadcast his show from that city for the first time.
“Going to London was a massive thing for our show,” Corden says, thinking back to this past June. By the time the attack happened, he says they had already shot what he describes as a “very, very stupid opening” called “The Corden’s Back in Town” set to the tune of Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back in Town.”
“It was me going around London like I’m some big dick, I’m back!” he explains. “And no one in London giving a shit, kids on the bus flicking me the bird. We had probably shot 70 percent of it and then that—” His smile fades and he takes a long pause. “That tragedy happened in London and the hardest thing about it was a lot of our crew were out in London that night.
“We were in London, of course we had to change the opening of our show,” Corden continues. “And we thought the best way to open the show was to do it on these rainy cobbles, saying, this might seem like a strange time to be doing a variety show. But, in another way, maybe it’s the greatest time. Because there was also a lot of media reports that were saying London was terrified and it was a city under attack and people were scared and that was just not the feeling there. That was not the feeling as you walked around. If anything, it was the opposite. It felt like the city was going, ‘Fuck you!’”
It was just a few weeks after the bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. “And you could feel London as a place go, ‘No, fuck off,’” Corden says. “We wanted to try to go, this is our show, we’re going to absolutely show off the incredible cultural diversity of this city, the absolute embracing of all cultures. And we will not be harmed by a group of idiots.”
In the cold open that ended up airing that Tuesday night, Corden told his viewers, “I’m so proud to be broadcasting here from my hometown. I’m proud to show off its beauty, its diversity, and its stoic British determination to let nothing, or anybody, stand in our way.” He then added, “This is not a country that feels afraid.”
It was almost a year to the day after Corden hosted the Tony Awards as this country was reeling from the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
“The harsh realities of that story just grew and grew throughout the day,” Corden says, thinking back to the Tonys gig, which also earned him an Emmy nomination for writing. “And then it became it clear that, well, OK, we have to say something about this. But what do we say?”
As he was waiting in the wings to go on and address the tragedy on live television to start the ceremony, Corden became overwhelmed as he realized how difficult it would be to transition from a somber tribute to a massive production number. “I just remember having a very real feeling of like, the next 12 minutes are going to define the rest of the night,” he says. “If this doesn’t work, we’re going to have to keep trying to pull the night with it.” It worked.
Calling the Tonys “the mecca of award shows as far as I’m concerned,” Corden says he had “two of the best nights of my life in that ceremony.” The first was in 2006 when The History Boys won Best Play and the other was 2012 when he won Best Actor for One Man, Two Guvnors. “For that night to go the way it went was incredible,” he says. “It just felt like everything I hoped it would be in that 12 minutes.”
Given his two-for-two success rate on Broadway—“I feel like I should probably never be in another one, because what are the chances?” he jokes—Corden thinks a lot about returning to the stage at some point. “I am too busy right now, but I would be really disappointed in myself if I didn’t do another one,” he says.
Before he was offered The Late Late Show, Corden was in talks to play the lead role in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum on Broadway, a part originated by Zero Mostel and later played by Nathan Lane. Those two actors also famously portrayed the character of Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks’ The Producers on screen and on Broadway, respectively.
Corden already has the latter role in his sights. He’s even identified the perfect co-star to play Leo Bloom: Jim Parsons. “That’s sort of as good of casting as you could imagine, really, he’d be so amazing in that role,” Corden says, imagining the possibilities.
“Look, I would love to go back and do something like that, but who knows?” he adds. “We’ll see.” | https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-corden-has-wildly-exceeded-his-own-expectations | 2022-04-01T00:52:17Z |
Syntropy (NOIA) traded 27.4% higher against the US dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 19:00 PM Eastern on March 31st. One Syntropy coin can currently be purchased for about $0.19 or 0.00000421 BTC on popular exchanges. During the last week, Syntropy has traded up 46.5% against the US dollar. Syntropy has a total market capitalization of $105.72 million and approximately $3.60 million worth of Syntropy was traded on exchanges in the last day.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – For some people, overdraft fees are a frustrating inconvenience. For others, they pose crippling costs. Some lawmakers now want to change how they’re charged altogether.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation called the “Overdraft Protection Act.” The bill includes provisions to cap the amount and number of fees a bank can charge.
“My bill tries to cut down on these unfair and deceptive practices,” the New York Democrat said.
Advocates like Elyse Crawford-Hicks with Americans for Financial Reform say overdraft fees hit low-income families and people of color the hardest.
“Overdraft fees are paid the most by people who can least afford them,” Crawford-Hicks said.
Others say over-drafting is a useful service because it can function like a short-term loan. Paul Kundert is the CEO of UW Credit Union, which recently reduced their overdraft fees and put more limits on how they charge them.
“When prices are fair, we believe consumers do benefit from access to the credit provided by overdraft fees,” Kundert said.
Recently, major banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have made changes themselves, by reducing their overdraft fees or eliminating them altogether.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, says that demonstrates the legislation is unnecessary.
“The market is naturally, naturally taking care of the issue without government intervention. And we do not need more rules from Washington,” Williams said.
Because banks make billions of dollars in revenue from overdraft fees, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argues the proposed changes would cost consumers.
“We’ll see higher bank fees, we’ll see higher minimum monthly deposits as basically insurance against over-drafting and we will see a loss of access to free checking,” Zywicki said.
Lawmakers like Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., are promising to continue pushing for the reforms.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said. | https://fox2now.com/news/politics/bill-seeks-to-put-cap-on-overdraft-fees/ | 2022-04-01T00:52:18Z |
From next week, Kiwis and other visitors will no longer need to provide proof of vaccination in order to use huts, campsites and other accommodation provided by the Department of Conservation.
From 11.50pm on Monday, April 4, vaccination requirements will be lifted for DoC huts, campsites and sole occupancy facilities (including those on the Great Walks). Visitors will no longer have to show a My Vaccine Pass.
Since December 15, 2021, people aged 12 years three months and older have needed to provide proof of vaccination in order to stay at a Doc hut or campsite.
A recent health and safety assessment by DoC found they could now safely remove that requirement.
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Advertise with NZME."The assessment determined the COVID-19 risk profile has changed sufficiently to remove the vaccine requirements," said DoC's deputy director-general for policy and visitors, Bruce Parkes.
High vaccination rates, the recent Omicron peak and changes to public health guidance were key contributors to the change, said Parkes.
The announcement also reflected the Government's change in focus to making life "closer to normal while retaining the public health measures that have proven effective to date," he added.
DoC is also reviewing its vaccination policy for staff, contractors and volunteers. An announcement regarding this is expected next week.
Autumn Advice for DoC Visitors
If you're making the most of DoC's facilities this autumn, it's important to follow their Tiaki care code, plan in advance and take a high level of personal responsibility.
People using DOC facilities should:
o follow Ministry of Health guidelines,
o sanitise or wash hands regularly,
o wear a mask and physically distance around others, when possible
o stay at home if unwell, isolating or a household contact.
When considering staying in a DoC hut or campsite, ask yourself:
o What traffic light is the region at – Red, Orange or Green?
o Will there be more vulnerable or unvaccinated people in my group (e.g. children under 12)?
o What are the sleeping arrangements? Eg hut or campsite capacity, shared hut, sleeping platforms or individual bunks etc.?
o Is it possible to camp outside or near a hut (so I can carry tents to use if needed)?
o Will it be possible to sanitise hands, wear masks or keep 1m distance from those, not in my group (e.g. in huts or when using shared facilities like toilet blocks and campsite shelters)?
o Is it likely to be a busy period (Saturday night, holiday, weekend etc.)? | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/doc-drops-vaccine-mandate-for-huts-and-campsites/TWL357LG4FLVVX2ORNSQJBN57U/?c_id=7&objectid=12515080 | 2022-04-01T00:52:19Z |
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