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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/ | 2022-04-01T00:55:08Z |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — While things are looking better in parts of KELOLAND, that isn’t the case to our west.
As April starts tomorrow, we continue to see some concerning signs to our southwest as dry conditions have prevailed for quite some time.
The recent moisture in KELOLAND has helped, but it is by no means a drought buster. But we’ll take whatever we can get. And it is looking better with more chance at precip in the near future.
But the drought continues in KELOLAND, with the driest conditions found in western KELOLAND.
As we expand the map, you can see all of the western and southwestern United States is in a terrible drought and it even stretches into Texas and Oklahoma. And this area in the southwest is usually our source region for summertime heat.
I mentioned more precip is on the way for KELOLAND. This can fall in the form of rain or snow next week, we are also at the time of year when thunderstorms become more frequent. Which means those that are caught under a storm will likely receive heavier rainfall.
But, if dry conditions continue in the southwest United States, be prepared for a lot of heat during the summer months. I’ll have more on that during the Doppler Special which will air the last Monday in April. | https://www.keloland.com/weather/drought-concerns-continue-in-western-keloland/ | 2022-04-01T00:55:08Z |
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PHOENIX, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trinity Capital Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIN) ("Trinity" or the "Company"), a leading specialty lending company that provides debt, including loans and equipment financing, to growth stage companies backed by technology banks, venture capital and private equity firms, today announced an adjustment to the conversion rate of its 6.00% Convertible Notes due 2025 (the "Convertible Notes") as a result of the Company's regular cash dividend of $0.40 per share and a supplemental dividend of $0.15 per share, payable on April 15, 2022 to stockholders of record as of March 31, 2022. The ex-dividend date for such dividends was March 30, 2022.
Effective immediately after the close of business on March 31, 2022, the conversion rate of the Convertible Notes will be adjusted to 67.5315 shares of the Company's common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes from the prior conversion rate of 67.0278 shares of the Company's common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes, which had been in effect since January 1, 2022. As a result, effective as of such time, the conversion price applicable to the Convertible Notes will be adjusted to $14.81 per share of common stock from $14.92 per share of common stock.
The adjustment to the conversion rate of the Convertible Notes is being made pursuant to the second supplemental indenture, dated as of December 11, 2020, governing the Convertible Notes as a result of the Company's regular quarterly cash dividend discussed above exceeding the initial dividend threshold of $0.30 per share of common stock set forth in the second supplemental indenture and the Company paying a supplemental cash dividend.
Notice of the conversion rate adjustment will be delivered to the holders of the Convertible Notes and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, in accordance with the terms of the second supplemental indenture governing the Convertible Notes.
Certain Information Regarding Distributions
The Company's objective is to distribute four quarterly distributions in an amount that approximates 90% to 100% of its taxable quarterly income or potential annual income for a particular year in order to qualify for tax treatment as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. In addition, during any particular year, the Company may pay additional supplemental distributions, so that the Company distributes approximately all its annual taxable income in the year it was earned, or it may spill over the excess taxable income into the coming year for future distribution payments.
Distributions are paid from taxable earnings and may include a return of capital and/or capital gains. The specific tax characteristics of the distributions will be reported to stockholders on Form 1099-DIV after the end of the calendar year and in the Company's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy, financial markets, our business, our portfolio companies and our industry. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Trinity undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement made herein. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release.
About Trinity Capital Inc.
Trinity (Nasdaq: TRIN), an internally managed specialty lending company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, is a leading provider of debt, including loans and equipment financing, to growth stage companies, including venture-backed companies and companies with institutional equity investors. Trinity's investment objective is to generate current income and, to a lesser extent, capital appreciation through investments consisting primarily of term loans and equipment financings and, to a lesser extent, working capital loans, equity and equity-related investments. Trinity believes it is one of only a select group of specialty lenders that has the depth of knowledge, experience, and track record in lending to growth stage companies.
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Two staffers injured in Kansas school shooting
Two staffers were injured in a shooting Friday at Olathe East High School in Kansas.
The Olathe Police Department posted a tweet about the “critical incident” at 11:58 a.m., announcing that the shooting suspect was in custody and there was no longer an active threat.
Olathe Public Schools tweeted a few minutes later, writing, “Olathe East is currently under lock down due to an active shooting situation on campus. Please know that law enforcement is on site and the building is secured. Olathe East and surrounding school buildings have been secured. We are working on reunification plans.”
According to the police, the shooting occurred in an office area, where a school resource officer and an administrator were shot and injured. No students were reported harmed.
The school and police are working together to safely reunite students with their parents.
Olathe Public Schools announced that counseling services will be available for students and staff at California Trail Middle School and Pioneer Trail Middle School until Friday evening.
The shooting took place amid the ongoing and highly publicized case against alleged Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley and his parents James Crumbley and Jennifer Crumbley.
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Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NASDAQ:HST – Get Rating) was the recipient of a large drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 30,900,000 shares, a drop of 22.3% from the February 28th total of 39,770,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 8,250,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.7 days. Currently, 4.4% of the shares of the company are sold short.
Several analysts recently commented on the company. Wells Fargo & Company raised their target price on Host Hotels & Resorts from $18.00 to $19.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, March 10th. Morgan Stanley increased their price target on Host Hotels & Resorts from $19.00 to $20.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 18th. Compass Point increased their price target on Host Hotels & Resorts from $22.00 to $25.00 in a research note on Friday, February 18th. Barclays increased their price target on Host Hotels & Resorts from $21.00 to $23.00 in a research note on Tuesday, March 1st. Finally, Truist Financial increased their price target on Host Hotels & Resorts from $16.00 to $18.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, December 3rd. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, eight have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Host Hotels & Resorts has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $20.58.
Shares of Host Hotels & Resorts stock traded down $0.50 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $19.43. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 12,816,539 shares, compared to its average volume of 8,636,435. The firm has a market capitalization of $13.88 billion, a P/E ratio of -664.11 and a beta of 1.26. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $18.15 and a 200-day simple moving average of $17.38. The company has a quick ratio of 10.82, a current ratio of 10.82 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.76. Host Hotels & Resorts has a 1-year low of $14.67 and a 1-year high of $20.25.
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, April 15th. Investors of record on Thursday, March 31st will be issued a dividend of $0.03 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 30th. This represents a $0.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.62%.
Several large investors have recently made changes to their positions in HST. Lee Financial Co boosted its holdings in Host Hotels & Resorts by 10.0% during the fourth quarter. Lee Financial Co now owns 6,543 shares of the company’s stock valued at $114,000 after purchasing an additional 594 shares in the last quarter. IndexIQ Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in Host Hotels & Resorts by 5.2% during the third quarter. IndexIQ Advisors LLC now owns 12,115 shares of the company’s stock valued at $198,000 after purchasing an additional 602 shares in the last quarter. Mutual of America Capital Management LLC boosted its holdings in Host Hotels & Resorts by 0.5% during the fourth quarter. Mutual of America Capital Management LLC now owns 122,239 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,126,000 after purchasing an additional 614 shares in the last quarter. Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. boosted its holdings in Host Hotels & Resorts by 1.4% during the third quarter. Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. now owns 45,831 shares of the company’s stock valued at $748,000 after purchasing an additional 640 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Boston Partners boosted its holdings in Host Hotels & Resorts by 0.4% during the third quarter. Boston Partners now owns 162,663 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,656,000 after purchasing an additional 656 shares in the last quarter.
Host Hotels & Resorts Company Profile (Get Rating)
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc is an S&P 500 company and is the largest lodging real estate investment trust and one of the largest owners of luxury and upper-upscale hotels. The Company currently owns 74 properties in the United States and five properties internationally totaling approximately 46,100 rooms.
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📦 A query in a component
Now that we've initialized Apollo Client, we can design the first query that our client will execute. Specifically, we'll design the query that our tracks page will use to display its card grid.
The code for our tracks page lives in src/pages/tracks.js
. At the moment, the page just displays the bare layout that we've seen previously. Let's add a query definition to it.
Just like when we defined our schema, we need to wrap all GraphQL strings in the gql
template literal. Let's import gql
:
import { gql } from '@apollo/client';
Next we'll declare a constant called TRACKS
with an empty GraphQL string (by convention, query constants are in ALL_CAPS
):
const TRACKS = gql` # Query goes here`;
Now, remember the query we built in the Apollo Studio Explorer to retrieve track data? Conveniently, that's exactly the query we need!
Head back to the Explorer, where the query is still available in the Operations panel (if it isn't, you can find previously executed queries in the Explorer's Run History tab). Copy the query.
We can paste the query directly in our empty gql
string. Let's add an export
keyword to the declaration so the query is available in our test cases later on:
/** TRACKS query to retrieve all tracks */export const TRACKS = gql` query getTracks { tracksForHome { id title thumbnail length modulesCount author { name photo } } }`;
Code Challenge!
ListSpaceCats
query with a spaceCats
query field and its name
, age
and missions
selection set in that order. For the missions
field, select name
and description
Which of the following are best practices when creating client queries?
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Today in the Globe newsroom we focused on a month of raising awareness for sexual assault victims.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and on the day before the month started, Freeman Health System nurses who specialize in examining victims spoke about the special care those victims need.
We'll have more about this story in Friday's edition of the Globe and online at joplinglobe.com. We'll also feature reports about:
- Carthage use tax collections picking up steam.
- A stalemate over new Missouri House districts in the Legislature.
- An upcoming performance of Handel's "Messiah."
Beware April Fool's Day tomorrow, and have a pleasant evening. | https://www.joplinglobe.com/news/local_news/nurses-talk-about-treatment-for-sexual-assault-victims/article_5af64994-b145-11ec-8caa-57fc2acb3d8f.html | 2022-04-01T00:55:12Z |
Which coffee maker with a grinder is best?
The smell of fresh coffee is one of life’s greatest pleasures. What makes it even better is a coffee maker with a grinder that grinds the beans as you need them for perfect flavor every time.
When you can’t decide whether you want to have coffee or espresso, the Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine is a good choice for both.
What to know before you buy a coffee maker with a grinder
Type of grinder
A coffee maker with a grinder can come with one of two types of grinders: blade or burr.
- Blade: Blade grinders are the most economical choice and the simplest to operate. Two or more blades spin to grind the coffee. These blades get the job done, but they can produce inconsistent results. Some coffee beans come out finely ground, while others might remain nearly whole.
- Burr: Grinders are the choice of coffee connoisseurs. Two abrasive grinding surfaces called burrs rub the coffee together between them to grind it. This type of grinder is more expensive, but the results are more consistent and produce a delicious cup of coffee every time.
Drip coffee vs. espresso
Once you decide which type of grinder you want your coffee maker to include, you’ll need to decide whether you want drip coffee or espresso. This is largely a matter of preference, but it’s also a matter of time. Drip coffee can be made with less hands-on time, but espresso requires more attention.
In addition, drip coffee makers make hot coffee for a crowd, but espresso makers can only produce enough for one or two drinks at a time. Espresso is stronger and may not be to the taste of casual coffee drinkers.
Capacity
The capacity of your coffee maker varies depending on whether or not it produces drip coffee or espresso, as well as the size of each of these machines. It’s possible to get a single-serve drip coffee maker with a built-in grinder, and you can also find espresso machines that pull two or more shots at once.
Which you select depends on the number of coffee drinkers in your household, plus the amount of counter or storage space you have. Large espresso machines take up more real estate than a simple drip coffee maker.
What to look for in a quality coffee maker with a grinder
Grind settings
When you’re investing in a coffee maker with a grinder, make sure it has enough grind settings to suit your tastes and the coffee you’re making. If you aren’t particular, a single grind setting may work for you, but for those who like to vary the strength of their coffee, look for different settings such as extra-fine, fine, medium, medium-coarse and coarse. These allow you to customize the strength and flavor of your brew.
Carafe
Carafes are most common with drip coffee makers. Coffee brews directly into a carafe, which keeps it hot for hours. The benefit of a carafe is that the coffee won’t continue to cook on a heated plate.
Timer
There’s nothing quite like waking up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee. The best coffee makers with grinders come with a timer that can be programmed the night before to freshly grind beans and brew coffee before you get out of bed.
Auto shutoff
The auto shutoff feature is great for those days when you sleep through the alarm (and the sound of coffee grinding). It’s a safety feature that also protects your coffee from burning and ruining the pot.
Water filter
High-quality coffee makers use filtered water to preserve the subtle flavors of the coffee without interference from any minerals or additives in tap water. If you don’t want to use bottled water to make coffee, look for a coffee maker that features a built-in water filter.
How much you can expect to spend on a coffee maker with a grinder
The price range for coffee makers with grinders is wide and depends on the type of coffee you make, the grinder and other features. Expect to spend $70-$600 or more.
Coffee maker with grinder FAQ
Do freshly ground beans really make a difference?
A. Yes. Different coffee varieties have subtle differences in flavor and even texture that are lost when beans are ground and prepackaged in the grocery store. These grocery store ground coffee beans can be months old, and even sealed, they begin to lose their subtle flavor quickly. Grinding only the amount of beans you need each day for coffee ensures that the freshness, flavor and aroma of your coffee is preserved.
Grinding your own coffee at home also allows you to control the fineness of the grind so you can customize your cup to your specific tastes.
How do you store coffee beans?
A. Coffee beans begin to deteriorate in the presence of moisture, air and light. To keep them fresh longer, invest in an opaque, airtight canister. Store this canister in a cool, dark place (i.e. a cabinet or the top shelf of your fridge). Don’t leave coffee beans out on the counter or next to the stove. The light and heat will cause them to break down quickly.
Without storage in an airtight container, your coffee beans will only last for a week or two before losing their flavor.
What’s the best coffee maker with grinder to buy?
Top coffee maker with grinder
Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine
What you need to know: This produces coffee shop-quality espresso drinks in your own kitchen.
What you’ll love: The temperature is easy to control for perfect brewing every time. The grinder is easy to operate and clean, and this machine comes with both drip coffee and espresso capabilities. It also has a hot water dispenser and an automatic shutoff.
What you should consider: Plastic parts inside the machine make this less sturdy than its commercial counterparts.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Sur La Table
Top coffee maker with grinder for the money
Black + Decker 12-Cup Mill and Brew Coffeemaker
What you need to know: This machine is easy to use and produces a delicious cup of coffee.
What you’ll love: The filter and grinder are integrated for mess-free brewing. It also takes already-ground coffee, if needed. You can customize the strength of your brew with simple programming, and the automatic shutoff feature is available. This is good for a crowd, with a 12-cup capacity.
What you should consider: If you break the carafe or any other parts, you need to order directly from the manufacturer.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Cuisinart DGB-400 Automatic Grind & Brew Coffeemaker
What you need to know: This coffee maker works well in small kitchens.
What you’ll love: Coffee beans are ground just before brewing for the freshest cup of coffee. It can be programmed for a hands-off morning cup.
What you should consider: There’s only one grind size.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Eastie Food Justice Organizations Applaud Wu’s Growboston Efforts
The pandemic exposed what many already knew–that food insecurity is far more of an issue in our neighborhoods than some would like to admit. Nonprofits like Eastie Farm, the neighborhood’s eco-friendly community farm on Sumner Street, sprang into action in the early weeks of the pandemic and helped feed scores of...
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Daniel Radcliffe will not be adding to The Slap discourse any time soon.
The “Lost City” star revealed on “Good Morning Britain” (via Variety) that he is tired of everyone weighing in on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars on March 27.
“I’m just so already dramatically bored of hearing people’s opinions about it that I just don’t want to be another opinion adding to it,” Radcliffe said when asked what his take was. Best Actor winner Smith slapped presenter Rock after Rock made a “G.I. Jane 2” joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair. Pinkett Smith previously revealed she has alopecia.
Radcliffe, however, did open up about attending awards shows where presenters or hosts tease actors in the audience. “When you’re going on stuff as a kid you’re never quite sure if the joke’s with you or you’re the butt of the joke,” the “Harry Potter” alum said. “So you sort of have a mode of just being like ‘I’ll just keep smiling and laughing and maybe it’ll end soon.'”
Meanwhile, Smith issued a public apology to both the Academy and Rock, writing, “My behavior at last night’s Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable. Jokes at my expense are a part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s medical condition was too much for me to bear and I reacted emotionally.”
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has begun “disciplinary proceedings” to address Smith’s actions at the live awards ceremony. Conflicting reports have noted that the Academy did not forcibly attempt to remove Smith from the show following his assault on Rock, with certain sources debating whether or not the Academy even asked Smith to leave at all. Oscars viewers have also filed complaints with the FCC over the violence and profanity used during the broadcast.
Hollywood insiders have remained divided over the altercation. Tiffany Haddish applauded Smith’s actions, calling his attack “the most beautiful thing” she’s ever seen since Smith was defending his wife. Oscars co-hosts Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes both shared that they are still “traumatized” by the events of the evening.
“I just felt so awful for my friend Chris,” Sykes said on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on March 29. “It was sickening. I physically felt ill. I’m still a little traumatized by it. And for them to let him stay in that room and enjoy the rest of the show and accept his award, I was like, ‘How gross is this? This is just the wrong message.’ You assault somebody, you get escorted out of the building and that’s it. For them to let him continue, I thought it was gross.”
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Shares of Hydro One Limited (TSE:H – Get Rating) have been assigned a consensus rating of “Hold” from the twelve ratings firms that are presently covering the firm, MarketBeat Ratings reports. Seven research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and two have assigned a buy recommendation to the company. The average twelve-month price target among analysts that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is C$32.36.
A number of brokerages have recently weighed in on H. Scotiabank raised their price target on Hydro One from C$31.00 to C$32.00 in a research report on Thursday, January 27th. CIBC lifted their price objective on Hydro One from C$34.00 to C$35.00 in a research report on Tuesday, January 11th. Credit Suisse Group lifted their price objective on Hydro One to C$34.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, January 27th. Raymond James set a C$32.00 price objective on Hydro One and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a research report on Monday, February 28th. Finally, CSFB lifted their price objective on Hydro One from C$33.00 to C$34.00 in a research report on Thursday, January 27th.
Shares of TSE H traded up C$0.20 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting C$33.68. 1,607,167 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,563,359. The company has a quick ratio of 0.51, a current ratio of 0.61 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 134.23. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of C$32.32 and a 200-day simple moving average of C$31.57. Hydro One has a 1-year low of C$29.06 and a 1-year high of C$34.17. The firm has a market cap of C$20.15 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.92.
About Hydro One (Get Rating)
Hydro One Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as an electricity transmission and distribution company in Ontario. It operates through three segments: Transmission Business, Distribution Business, and Other. The company owns and operates approximately 30,000 circuit kilometers of high-voltage transmission lines and 125,000 circuit kilometers of primary low-voltage distribution network.
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Carolin Hohnecker never liked her grandfather Hugo much. He was a cold, distant man, whom her own father despised, and during her childhood, she barely saw him. But when her church group in Germany held a Holocaust discussion event in 2014, she decided to ask him what he did during the war.
"I knew nothing about my family," she says. "Only that they were Christians, serving as missionaries in Africa and all over the world. I thought for sure they weren't involved in anything bad."
Unexpectedly, however, her grandfather sent her a 50-page memoir, bound into book form. Far from reminisces about missionary life, it revealed the Hohneckers as evangelists for the Nazi cause.
Hugo had been a Hitler Youth leader, later fighting in with the Wehrmacht in Russia and Africa. And his father Gustav – her great-grandfather – was a leading member of the SA Sturmabteilung: colloquially, the Brownshirts, Hitler's original private army. A photo shows him sitting centre stage at a gathering of uniformed comrades, all wearing swastikas. Even in that company, though, he stood out.
"He even had the same moustache as Hitler, to look just like him," says Hohnecker, 32, from Tübingen in south-west Germany. "He was utterly devoted to the cause, educating others in Nazi ideology. I was shocked to the bone – this book told me my whole family were prominent Nazis."
With the war still a sensitive topic for many Germans – particularly the role of family members – many might have chosen to keep the book's contents quiet. Hohnecker, however, wants the world to know. This week she will be airing her family's past before an audience of Peers, MPs and community leaders at the UK's House of Lords, at an event to discuss how remembrance of the Holocaust is passed on to future generations.
Joining her will be two other speakers, who will pass on memories from very different perspectives. Eitan Neishlos, 42, an Australian tech entrepreneur and philanthropist, will tell how his Jewish grandmother narrowly survived the Nazi death squads, courtesy of a Christian couple who sheltered her. Nobuki Sugihara will tell how his father, Chiune, issued transit visas that helped at least 2000 Jews escape while working as Japan's vice-consul to Lithuania, earning comparisons to Oskar Schindler.
The three speakers have been brought together ahead of next month's March of the Living, an international education programme that brings thousands of people from all over the world to Poland each year to walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the two adjacent camps where 1.1 million Jews died. This year's march – the first in three years because of the pandemic – comes with added symbolism.
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Advertise with NZME.Firstly, it is likely to be the last march featuring death camp survivors, many of whom are now frail, and wish to make this their final journey. Secondly, it comes at a time when Europe's eastern flank is one again ablaze, courtesy of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, where many of the Holocaust's worst crimes took place.
More than a millions Jews perished there in the Second World War, including at the Babyn Yar massacre in Kyiv, when 34,000 were killed between 29 and 30 September 1941. Earlier this month, the Babyn Yar memorial garden in Kyiv was hit by shrapnel from a Russian missile, making a mockery of Putin's claims to be "de-Nazifying" Ukraine. The Kremlin's leader, if nobody else, could perhaps do with refreshing his memory about what Nazism really is.
"It makes these messages far more important, to stand up against any form of hatred, or antisemitism," Hohnecker says. "We see hate everywhere, and how easy it is for one nation to attack another."
Yet the young also need reminding, says Neishlos, whose Courage to Care organisation in Australia teaches high school students about the importance of being "upstanders" against prejudice. It is only because people did that for his grandmother, Tamara Ziserman, he points out, that he is here to pass the message on today.
Unlike Hohnecker, Neishlos grew up knowing something of his grandmother's story. But he only got the full details after her death in 2011, when his mother gave him a shoebox full of his grandmother's own notes, penned in flawless handwriting.
They told how she was saved from the Nazi death squads who killed her parents by Janina and Piotr Chodosevitch, who took the weeping, terrified 11-year-old into their own home. Much of her time was spent hidden in a dark, dank basement, or amid the soot and insects of the chimney.
The Chodosevitch family's courage was remarkable – and unrewarded. They themselves were later arrested and executed, along with one of their toddlers. Despite that, Tamara was then given shelter by Piotr's mother. At Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial site, the Chodosevitch family are now among 27,000 names listed as "the Righteous Among The Nations" – a roll-call of non-Jews who risked their lives to Holocaust victims.
"I can't think of a more powerful example of the righteous," says Neishlos. "When the Nazis discovered what the Chodosevitch family was doing, they took them to the same location where my late grandmother's family were murdered, and shot them dead with one of their babies."
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Advertise with NZME.He adds: "I don't think we will lose the moral message [of the Holocaust], as long as my generation carries on the torch. That's what this campaign is all about."
For Hohnecker, it is not so much a question of passing a torch on, as rekindling it altogether. Her own father never spoke much about her grandfather Hugo, beyond saying that he was excessively fond of corporal punishment. So after reading Hugo's memoir, she resolved to find out more, delving into German historical records.
The Nazi ancestry, it turned out, ran on both sides of her family, with her maternal grandfather, Rolf Weigele, serving in the SS. Then, in 2017, an aunt told her that Hugo's wife, her grandmother Isolde, had been a guard at a children's concentration camp at Lodz in Poland.
"During the war, they had about 20,000 children in that camp, and afterwards there were only about 800 left," said Hohnecker, who visited the camp the following year. "When I went there it was horrible, I knelt down in there and begged forgiveness."
A photo shows a young Isolde in uniform at the time, her hair tied back and a swastika badge on her arm. It helped Hohnecker, a psychologist by training, understand why her grandmother was as forbidding a figure as her grandfather.
"I'd always been afraid of her, as she expected very high standards of me and never seemed pleased with me," she said. "It made me realise how important it was for me to speak about this – as a psychotherapist, I know that trauma can be transmitted from one generation to another, for both victims and perpetrators."
Hohnecker has never been able to find out whether any of her four Nazi relatives committed specific atrocities. The historical records simply show which units they served in. She is sure, though, that her great-grandfather Gustav was aware of synagogue burnings and deportations. Her grandfather Hugo's memoir, meanwhile, spoke of battlefields littered with corpses on the Russian front. Like the rest, he is now dead, although she suspects he felt some guilt. "He was ashamed, for sure, I think that is perhaps why he became a Christian after the war," she says.
Hohnecker has no personal guilt over her family's past, but does feel a duty not to remain silent. In recent years she has visited Israel to meet with Holocaust survivors and joined other descendants of perpetrators at discussion events in Germany.
They are, however, a small band, she says. While Germans are taught rigorously about Nazi history in school, relatively few are open about having Nazis in their own family. This is despite studies showing that up to one in five Germans are aware of active Nazis in their past.
"It is a big lie when Germans say they knew nothing about [the Holocaust]," Hohnecker says. "People either don't know because they haven't asked, or they do know and just leave it like that. Even some of my own family don't want me talking about it – they say we don't want us associated with the Nazis."
Her attitude is lauded by Neishlos, who describes Hohnecker as "a great example of an upstander". Yet with war in Europe again, might others now deserve that accolade too, I ask him? The Ukrainian civilians now fighting Putin's invasion force, for example? Or the thousands of Russians who have publicly protested the war, despite the risk of jail?
Neishlos hopes to keep their message "apolitical". But he commends anyone who can help end the conflict, and urges everyone to examine their own family pasts. "I hope, metaphorically, that we can open a lot more shoeboxes," he says.
Hohnecker agrees it is crucial for younger generations to bridge the gap. "World War Two may sound like an old story from 80 years ago," she says. "But when it's your own family taking part in the cruelties and horrors, that makes it very different." | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/how-i-found-out-my-grandfather-was-a-nazi/C64SJ4QWDWCIHOEECO2EPIIQDY/ | 2022-04-01T00:55:14Z |
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LOS ANGELES, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ultra PRO International LLC ("Ultra PRO"), a California-based manufacturer of toys, board games, and accessories, has acquired Legion Supplies, Inc. ("Legion Supplies"), an innovator in the tabletop gaming space since its debut in 2009. Steve Port, Owner of Legion Supplies, states, "What prompted the launch 12 years ago was when, as a hobby store owner, I saw my customer's desire for art-based sleeves that represented them beyond the basic fantasy art that existed. From our first 'Bacon' art sleeves, we've tried to bring fun images to quality products that help players express their individuality." Legion Supplies began with trading card game accessories and in 2017 launched MTGproshop.com, which expanded their offerings into the lifestyle category giving fans of Magic: The Gathering a broad selection of apparel and decor based items.
Founded in 1952 and currently celebrating its 70th anniversary, Ultra PRO is a leader in the gaming industry. The acquisition of Legion Supplies reinforces Ultra PRO's strong ability to continue to bring high quality products to the collectibles and trading card games marketplace.
Steve further states, "I'm excited for the expanded capabilities Legion will have working with Ultra PRO's large chain of suppliers and expertise in areas that can only make Legion products better."
Jay Kuo, Ultra PRO's President says, "Legion Supplies is well known in the trading card game community and has developed a great niche business with a loyal following. We're excited to welcome Steve Port to the Ultra PRO management team, as well as the entirety of the Legion team to the Ultra PRO family and look forward to Steve's continued development of Legion Supplies' catalog and service offerings."
Ultra PRO has a strong history of USA-based manufacturing and this acquisition further expands those capabilities as Legion Supplies offers a wide range of product types produced in their Minnesota-based facilities.
Ultra PRO looks forward to growing the business and bringing innovative gaming products to market for years to come. The new partnership will allow Ultra PRO to further expand distribution of the product assortment, create cross-selling opportunities and bring forth complementary line expansions that will be sought out by the gaming audience for years to come.
Legion Supplies, Inc products can be found at https://www.legionsupplies.com/ and https://mtgproshop.com/.
Ultra PRO products can be found at https://shop.ultrapro.com/
About Ultra PRO
Ultra PRO is the leading manufacturer and supplier of sports and gaming collectibles accessories, board games, photo and scrapbooking albums, school and office supplies, and TableTopics conversation starter card sets. The company has been designing and manufacturing top-quality products since 1952. Ultra PRO brands are recognized for their high-quality standards and design innovations. The company's products are sold through a top-tier network of distributors and customers worldwide. They can be purchased in hobby shops, independent toy and gift stores, retail chains and online stores across the globe. Ultra PRO is a privately-held, family-owned company with head offices near Los Angeles, California. For more information, please visit www.UltraPRO.com.
About Legion Supplies, Inc.
Legion Supplies, Inc was founded by Steve Port, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder of Melee.gg, an event management software company. Located in Burnsville, MN, Legion Supplies has been a leader in the tabletop gaming space since 2009. Legion is known for fun and trendy designs as well as innovative product development. Since the beginning, Legion has continued to expand offering new categories of gaming lifestyle products as well as publishing and distribution.
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Before we get our hands dirty, we need to answer one important question: What data do we need to build our feature?
Let's take a look at the mockup our design team sketched for us. This is what the homepage should look like: a nice clean card grid.
Before you continue, take a moment to review the mockup and determine which information we'll probably need to populate a single card.
Task!
Based on the mockup, it looks like we'll need the following information for each learning track:
- Title
- Thumbnail image
- Length (estimated duration)
- Module count
- Author name
- Author picture
The graph
Looking at the list above, we can start to think about our app's data as a collection of objects (such as learning tracks and authors) and relationships between objects (such as each learning track having an author).
Now, if we think of each object as a node and each relationship as an edge between two nodes, we can think of our entire data model as a graph of nodes and edges. This is called our application's graph.
Here's an incomplete representation of our application's graph, based entirely on our mockup's data requirements:
Which of these accurately describes a graph?
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Joplin police are reporting having found Thursday afternoon the body of a person who was reported missing the previous day.
The body was discovered at a residence in the 2200 block of South Jackson Avenue, and a death investigation is in progress by detectives with the Joplin Police Department.
Police were not releasing the name of the person pending notification of next of kin. They also were declining comment on the cause and manner of death.
A news release said police received a missing person report onWednesday and that detectives are currently looking for a person of interest in the case.
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Florida county urges residents to evacuate due to wildfire
A Florida county is pushing residents to evacuate due to a fast-moving wildfire, with officials issuing a state of emergency.
The Adkins fire moving through Bay County, Florida, had blazed across 800 acres as of Friday evening and resulted in 600 homes being evacuated, the Florida Forest Service tweeted. The area between the south of Highway 231 and the east side of Transmitter Road is under mandatory evacuation.
The fire, which has so far destroyed two homes and damaged at least a dozen others, apparently started after a homeowner burning trash was not able to control the fire, according to the Panama City News Herald. Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) office responded to the blaze with an emergency ban on burning trash.
Authorities have set up an emergency area for evacuees at the Hiland Park Baptist Church in Panama City.
The Florida Forest Service warned earlier in the day Friday that fire dangers are currently at a higher level in the state due to low humidity.
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Much of the film industry’s attention has been focused on Bruce Willis this week, as the actor announced Wednesday that he would be stepping away from performing due to his struggle with aphasia, a disease that makes it difficult to communicate and understand language. The difficult news marked the end of a storied Hollywood career that began on the sitcom “Moonlighting” and ultimately led to blockbuster stardom via the “Die Hard” franchise and acclaimed dramatic roles including “Pulp Fiction” and “Moonrise Kingdom.”
Many of Willis’ Hollywood contemporaries took to social media to share memories of working with the actor, congratulating him on a remarkable career and sending their best wishes to his family.
Willis’ “Pulp Fiction” co-star John Travolta posted about their relationship on Instagram, writing that “Bruce and I became good friends when we shared 2 of our biggest hits together, ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Look Who’s Talking.’ Years later he said to me, ‘John, I just want you to know that when something good happens to you, I feel like it’s happening to me.’ That’s how generous a soul he is. I love you Bruce.”
M. Night Shyamalan, who directed Willis in one of his most iconic roles in 1999’s “The Sixth Sense,” tweeted “All my love and respect to my big brother Bruce Willis. I know his wonderful family is surrounding him with support and strength. He will always be that hero on that poster on my wall as kid.”
Shyamalan was not the only member of the “Sixth Sense” team to honor Bruce Willis. Haley Joel Osment also honored him in an Instagram post, calling the actor “a true legend.” Osment added that Willis “enriched all of our lives with a singular career that spans nearly half a century. I am so grateful for what I got to witness firsthand, and for the enormous body of work he built for us to enjoy for years and years to come.”
Even Sylvester Stallone had a message for Willis, writing “we go back a long way, praying for the best for you and your wonderful family…” in an Instagram caption.
All my love and respect to my big brother Bruce Willis. I know his wonderful family is surrounding him with support and strength. He will always be that hero on that poster on my wall as kid.
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Shares of Limelight Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:LLNW – Get Rating) have received a consensus recommendation of “Buy” from the eleven research firms that are presently covering the company, MarketBeat Ratings reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, three have issued a hold recommendation, five have given a buy recommendation and one has assigned a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average 12 month target price among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is $5.54.
LLNW has been the topic of several recent research reports. Raymond James upped their target price on shares of Limelight Networks from $5.00 to $8.00 and gave the stock a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Friday, March 11th. Zacks Investment Research raised shares of Limelight Networks from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, February 11th. Cowen upgraded shares of Limelight Networks from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and boosted their price target for the stock from $4.00 to $6.00 in a report on Thursday, March 17th. TheStreet upgraded shares of Limelight Networks from a “d+” rating to a “c-” rating in a report on Monday, March 21st. Finally, Truist Financial upgraded shares of Limelight Networks from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and boosted their price target for the stock from $3.00 to $7.00 in a report on Tuesday, January 18th.
LLNW traded up $0.01 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $5.22. 985,908 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,116,899. Limelight Networks has a 12-month low of $2.30 and a 12-month high of $5.48. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $4.32 and a 200 day moving average of $3.46. The firm has a market cap of $705.24 million, a P/E ratio of -11.33 and a beta of 0.55. The company has a current ratio of 3.65, a quick ratio of 3.65 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.86.
Several institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Deutsche Bank AG boosted its holdings in shares of Limelight Networks by 0.4% in the 4th quarter. Deutsche Bank AG now owns 1,132,200 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $3,883,000 after buying an additional 4,021 shares in the last quarter. Teacher Retirement System of Texas boosted its holdings in shares of Limelight Networks by 25.5% in the 3rd quarter. Teacher Retirement System of Texas now owns 19,998 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $48,000 after buying an additional 4,066 shares in the last quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System boosted its holdings in shares of Limelight Networks by 3.0% in the 4th quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System now owns 174,464 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $598,000 after buying an additional 5,012 shares in the last quarter. Gamco Investors INC. ET AL boosted its holdings in shares of Limelight Networks by 3.3% in the 3rd quarter. Gamco Investors INC. ET AL now owns 163,050 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $388,000 after buying an additional 5,200 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Citigroup Inc. boosted its stake in Limelight Networks by 1.8% during the 4th quarter. Citigroup Inc. now owns 308,805 shares of the information services provider’s stock worth $1,059,000 after purchasing an additional 5,524 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 47.55% of the company’s stock.
Limelight Networks Company Profile (Get Rating)
Limelight Networks, Inc engages in the provision of content delivery network services. Its products include digital content and video delivery, cloud security, edge computing, origin storage and support services. The company’s solutions include realtime streaming, file distribution, live video and video on demand.
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How to choose the best baseball bat for your needs
Unless you play Major League Baseball, you have a choice when it comes to picking the material for your bat. Your options are wood, aluminum or composite. Each of these materials provides the player with a distinct set of advantages. Each also has an inherent set of drawbacks.
When shopping for a baseball bat, you must consider what your needs are and match the type of bat to those needs. A wood bat still has its place, even though aluminum and composite bats offer a performance advantage.
Wood baseball bats
Because of safety (and other) issues, the MLB only uses ash, birch and maple bats. If you want to play like a pro, this would be your bat of choice. It honors tradition and offers a little more safety, although a pair of quality batting gloves will come in handy to reduce the sting.
Wood baseball bats pros
- From a budget perspective, wood bats are appealing because of their lower cost.
- Wood bats are the best bat for training because they provide the most feedback. This helps the player improve their swing mechanics.
- Wood bats are safer because the bat doesn’t increase the ball’s velocity like other materials.
Wood baseball bats cons
- Wood bats break more easily than aluminum or composite bats.
- The sweet spot on a wood bat is smaller than it is on the other options.
- Wood bats are the heaviest type of bat, which means they are harder to swing and may be smaller in size, so they won’t provide as much plate coverage.
Best wood baseball bats
The Big Stick is certified for MLB play. It is made of maple and employs a heavier barrel, making it ideal for power hitters.
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Louisville Slugger Series 3X Ash Bat
This bat is from a trusted name in baseball. It is made of ash and has a natural finish. The large sweet spot and lighter weight make this a favorite.
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Wilson Sporting Goods Louisville Slugger
This 27-inch wood bat is cupped for reduced weight. The black design features red lettering so your bat is sharp looking and easy to identify.
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Aluminum baseball bats
Aluminum bats were introduced to college baseball in the early ’70s to cut down on the rising costs of replacing broken wood bats. Besides being more durable, aluminum is lighter than wood and provides more pop when hitting a ball. However, aluminum bats are not without their downsides.
Aluminum baseball bat pros
- Aluminum bats are best when they are new — there is no break-in period required.
- Aluminum bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them ideal for a beginner who is having trouble hitting with any sort of power.
- Aluminum bats have a trampoline effect. When the bat makes contact, some of the energy is transferred to the ball, making it travel farther and faster than a ball hit by a wood bat.
- The lighter weight of an aluminum bat means they can be longer and larger, giving the player greater plate coverage and a faster swing.
Aluminum baseball bat cons
- Although an aluminum bat will rarely break, it can lose its pop over time. The more imperfections the bat gains from hitting balls, the more its performance deteriorates.
- Aluminum bats cost slightly more than wooden bats, but they are less than composite bats.
- With an aluminum bat, there is less feedback sent to the batter, so it can be harder for a beginner to develop proper swing mechanics.
Best aluminum baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Omaha USA Youth Bat
The Omaha USA youth bat features a one-piece construction. It feels solid in the batter’s hands and offers enhanced energy transfer. It has a cushioned leather grip for increased comfort and control.
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The lightweight construction of this bat gives the player increased speed, letting them get more power behind their swing. It has a cushioned grip and is approved for all associations that follow the USA Baseball standard.
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This affordable aluminum bat is for entry-level T-ball players. The ultralightweight design is suitable for ages 7 and under. It has a large sweet spot to deliver greater satisfaction and foster confidence.
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Composite baseball bats
A composite baseball bat is made of carbon fiber. These crystalline filaments are thinner than a strand of human hair but become remarkably rugged when twisted together. It is a lightweight material that has incredible strength. Some composite bats are made from a single piece of material, while others are two-piece items: a handle and a barrel. A two-piece bat is better for the average player because it doesn’t transfer as much vibration to the hands after a solid hit. Advanced players with greater speed and power, however, may opt for one-piece bats.
Composite baseball bat pros
- Composite bats are the lightest baseball bats available. This lets manufacturers make longer bats without increasing the weight so players have greater plate coverage.
- Since most composite bats have a two-piece design, they are less likely to sting a player’s hands.
- Composite bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them best for inexperienced players.
- Over time, the trampoline effect increases on a composite bat.
Composite baseball bat cons
- Composite bats are not as durable as aluminum bats, and it is possible to break them.
- Compost bats cost more than wood bats and aluminum bats.
- A composite bat is not ready to go out of the box. You need to break it in. This process takes anywhere from 150 to 300 hits.
Best composite baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Meta BBCOR Bat
This is a high-end composite bat that is best for the serious player. It features a large barrel with a balanced design and a comfortable yet secure grip.
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Easton Ghost X Hyperlite Youth Bat
This composite bat from Easton is 29 inches long but only weighs 18 ounces. It has a large sweet spot and a balanced swing weight that makes it a good choice for beginners.
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This bat is available in five sizes ranging from 27-31 inches. It features an ultralightweight design to help young players succeed. The lower price adds value.
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Should you get a wood, aluminum or composite baseball bat?
For the average player, an aluminum bat wins out because it offers the best of all worlds. It has a large sweet spot, a lightweight design, and it is available at a reasonable price. However, if you have an unlimited budget, a composite bat might edge out an aluminum bat. A composite bat won’t help you hit the ball farther, but the larger barrel and lighter weight design could up your batting average. For players who want to perfect their swing mechanics, however, there is no better option than using a wood bat at practice.
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PJT Partners Inc. (NYSE:PJT – Get Rating) was the recipient of a large decline in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 605,400 shares, a decline of 22.1% from the February 28th total of 776,700 shares. Approximately 2.8% of the company’s shares are short sold. Based on an average daily volume of 192,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.1 days.
Several hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in PJT. Royal Bank of Canada grew its holdings in shares of PJT Partners by 93.5% in the 2nd quarter. Royal Bank of Canada now owns 5,297 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $377,000 after buying an additional 2,559 shares during the period. Prudential Financial Inc. grew its holdings in shares of PJT Partners by 5.3% in the 2nd quarter. Prudential Financial Inc. now owns 3,344 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $238,000 after buying an additional 169 shares during the period. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD grew its holdings in shares of PJT Partners by 7.7% in the 2nd quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 6,861 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $490,000 after buying an additional 492 shares during the period. Invesco Ltd. boosted its stake in PJT Partners by 8.4% in the 2nd quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 14,221 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $1,015,000 after purchasing an additional 1,106 shares during the period. Finally, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC boosted its stake in PJT Partners by 696.2% in the 3rd quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC now owns 11,665 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $923,000 after purchasing an additional 10,200 shares during the period. 68.95% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
PJT traded down $1.65 during trading on Thursday, reaching $63.12. 167,283 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 204,803. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $63.05 and its 200-day moving average price is $73.01. PJT Partners has a fifty-two week low of $54.48 and a fifty-two week high of $89.50. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.51 billion, a PE ratio of 15.94 and a beta of 0.92.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, March 23rd. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, March 9th were issued a $0.25 dividend. This is a positive change from PJT Partners’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.05. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, March 8th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.58%. PJT Partners’s payout ratio is 24.63%.
Several research analysts recently weighed in on PJT shares. The Goldman Sachs Group dropped their price objective on shares of PJT Partners from $90.00 to $82.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, February 2nd. Zacks Investment Research cut shares of PJT Partners from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, February 4th. StockNews.com started coverage on shares of PJT Partners in a research report on Thursday. They issued a “hold” rating for the company. Finally, Piper Sandler dropped their price objective on shares of PJT Partners from $80.00 to $69.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, March 9th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, PJT Partners currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $85.20.
About PJT Partners (Get Rating)
PJT Partners Inc, an investment bank, provides various strategic and capital markets advisory, restructuring and special situations, and shareholder advisory services to corporations, financial sponsors, institutional investors, and governments worldwide. It offers advisory services to clients on various transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), spin-offs, activism defense, contested M&A, joint ventures, minority investments, and divestitures.
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Scientists say they have finally assembled the full genetic blueprint for human life, adding the missing pieces to a puzzle nearly completed two decades ago.
An international team described the first-ever sequencing of a complete human genome – the set of instructions to build and sustain a human being – in research published in the journal Science. The previous effort, celebrated across the world, was incomplete because DNA sequencing technologies of the day weren't able to read certain parts of it. Even after updates, it was missing about 8 per cent of the genome.
"Some of the genes that make us uniquely human were actually in this 'dark matter of the genome' and they were totally missed," said Evan Eichler, a University of Washington researcher who participated in the current effort and the original Human Genome Project. "It took 20-plus years, but we finally got it done."
Many — including Eichler's own students — thought it had been finished already. "I was teaching them, and they said, 'Wait a minute. Isn't this like the sixth time you guys have declared victory? I said, 'No, this time we really, really did it!"
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Advertise with NZME.Scientists said this full picture of the genome will give humanity a greater understanding of our evolution and biology while also opening the door to medical discoveries in areas like aging, neurodegenerative conditions, cancer and heart disease.
"We're just broadening our opportunities to understand human disease," said Karen Miga, an author of one of the six studies published Thursday.
The research caps off decades of work. The first draft of the human genome was announced in a White House ceremony in 2000 by leaders of two competing entities: an international publicly funded project led by an agency of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and a private company, Maryland-based Celera Genomics.
The human genome is made up of about 3.1 billion DNA subunits, pairs of chemical bases known by the letters A, C, G and T. Genes are strings of these lettered pairs that contain instructions for making proteins, the building blocks of life. Humans have about 30,000 genes, organised in 23 groups called chromosomes that are found in the nucleus of every cell.
Before now, there were "large and persistent gaps that have been in our map, and these gaps fall in pretty important regions", Miga said.
Miga, a genomics researcher at the University of California-Santa Cruz, worked with Adam Phillippy of the National Human Genome Research Institute to organise the team of scientists to start from scratch with a new genome with the aim of sequencing all of it, including previously missing pieces. The group, named after the sections at the very ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, is known as the Telomere-to-Telomere, or T2T, consortium.
Their work adds new genetic information to the human genome, corrects previous errors and reveals long stretches of DNA known to play important roles in both evolution and disease. A version of the research was published last year before being reviewed by scientific peers.
"This is a major improvement, I would say, of the Human Genome Project," doubling its impact, said geneticist Ting Wang of the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, who was not involved in the research.
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Advertise with NZME.Eichler said some scientists used to think unknown areas contained "junk". Not him. "Some of us always believed there was gold in those hills," he said. Eichler is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which also supports The Associated Press's health and science department.
Turns out that gold includes many important genes, he said, such as ones integral to making a person's brain bigger than a chimp's, with more neurons and connections.
To find such genes, scientists needed new ways to read life's cryptic genetic language.
Reading genes requires cutting the strands of DNA into pieces hundreds to thousands of letters long. Sequencing machines read the letters in each piece and scientists try to put the pieces in the right order. That's especially tough in areas where letters repeat.
Scientists said some areas were illegible before improvements in gene sequencing machines that now allow them to, for example, accurately read a million letters of DNA at a time. That allows scientists to see genes with repeated areas as longer strings instead of snippets that they had to later piece together.
Researchers also had to overcome another challenge: Most cells contain genomes from both mother and father, confusing attempts to assemble the pieces correctly. T2T researchers got around this by using a cell line from one "complete hydatidiform mole", an abnormal fertilised egg containing no fetal tissue that has two copies of the father's DNA and none of the mother's.
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Advertise with NZME.The next step? Mapping more genomes, including ones that include collections of genes from both parents. This effort did not map one of the 23 chromosomes that is found in males, called the Y chromosome, because the mole contained only an X.
Wang said he's working with the T2T group on the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, which is trying to generate "reference", or template, genomes for 350 people representing the breadth of human diversity.
"Now we've got one genome right and we have to do many, many more," Eichler said. "This is the beginning of something really fantastic for the field of human genetics."
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Montreal Canadiens @ Carolina Hurricanes
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For the third and final time this season, the Montreal Canadiens are taking on the Carolina Hurricanes, looking for their first win. They’re also looking for just their second goal after being shut down in the previous two meetings, but it has now been a long time — February 12, which was Martin St. Louis’s second game as head coach — since the Canadiens scored fewer than two goals.
They won’t be facing Jesperi Kotkaniemi again after a rare fit of madness from Lars Eller at the very end of a recent game knocked him out of action. They will, however, be facing one former Hab in Max Domi after he was a deadline acquisition from the Columbus Blue Jackets.
There’s excellent news on Montreal’s side as Jake Evans is able to play. He came close to sustaining a terrible injury when he went into the end boards versus the Panthers, but it turns out he was just completely winded on the play and is good to go tonight. | https://www.habseyesontheprize.com/2022/3/31/23005454/canadiens-hurricanes-game-thread-rosters-lines-and-how-to-watch-tv-listings-online-stream | 2022-04-01T00:55:22Z |
A Marin business coalition wants the county to delay a proposed ban of single-use foodware while the food industry recovers from pandemic-inflicted losses.
The Marin Council of Chambers, which includes 12 chambers of commerce, has submitted a letter to the county seeking relief from the ordinance. The organization said it supports the effort to reduce non-compostable waste and greenhouse gas emissions, but it said food sellers are still reeling from the COVID-19 crisis.
Even though the ordinance would not take effect for 18 months after approval, the changes could deliver the industry another big financial blow, according to the organization.
“This is an ordinance that is not yet ready for implementation,” Joanne Webster, president and chief executive of the San Rafael Chamber of Commerce. “We would like to see more resources allocated to helping our local restaurants, neighborhood bakeries, corner coffee shops and family taquerias get the assistance needed to comply with a new mandate by the county.”
The ordinance is set to be presented to the Board of Supervisors on April 19. It will be considered for adoption on May 10.
The ordinance would not be enforced until Nov. 10, 2023. It would apply to businesses like grocery store food counters, restaurants, delis, bakeries, farmers markets, food trucks, carry-out vendors and other food service providers in unincorporated Marin.
The ordinance is modeled after San Anselmo’s law. It would require all takeout plates, bowls, cups, utensils and other foodware to be made of compostable fiber-based material. Dine-in foodware would have to be the same, or reusable materials. Eateries would also need to apply a 25-cent charge to takeout cups.
Bioplastics, which made from renewable sources like corn and sugar cane, would be noncompliant, despite being labeled as compostable. Bioplastics contain chemicals and are not accepted at local compost facilities and end up in the landfill, said Dana Armanino, a county planner.
The county would encourage all Marin municipalities to comply with its ordinance in effort to streamline enforcement. Fairfax, San Rafael, Novato, Mill Valley and Sausalito also have plastic bans.
Marin cities that adopt the same law prior to the county ordinance taking effect could ask the county do the enforcement at no cost. However, if a city approves it later, it will be charged a one-time set up fee for enforcement, Armanino said.
The fee, which is based on how many food service operations are in a jurisdiction, could range from a few hundred dollars to more than $30,000, Armanino said.
Cory Bytoff, sustainability program manager for San Rafael, said the city supports the process.
“Right now the city is in assessment mode and is not planning on pursuing this right away based on other priorities,” he said.
The county had previously awarded $2,050 to 10 grantees in a voluntary compliance grant program. Officials also submitted a one-time budget request for another $50,000 for technical assistance and a grant program to happen in the fall. That will be considered as part of the county’s budget hearings in June, Armanino said.
Webster said, “That simply does not seem like enough resources.”
Morgan Patton, executive director of the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin, said the nonprofit is encouraged that the county is considering the law after a two-year hiatus because of COVID-19.
“It’s fantastic to have the county advance this measure, which is aligning well with the state’s goals to reduce microplastics in our environment and drinking water,” she said.
Jim Revoir, the owner of Grilly’s restaurants in Mill Valley and San Rafael, said he uses bioplastic cups and compostable food containers. He said he would be happy to comply with the ordinance, regardless of the burden.
“It’s important to look to the future,” he said. “We’ll do our share.”
Kaity Galvez, owner of LJ’s Deli in San Rafael, said the business uses mostly paper takeout products, but also plastic utensils and dressing containers. Galvez said the ordinance would be costly at a time when food and gas prices are rising, employers are facing labor shortages and inflation is weighing on consumers.
Although Galvez’s business is in San Rafael city limits and doesn’t fall under the county’s jurisdiction, she hopes county officials will put off any decisions until there is a better sense of what’s ahead.
“If you asked me in March 2020, I would think 18 months from then we would be OK, but we aren’t,” she said. “I would love for them to look at it again in 18 months.” | https://www.marinij.com/2022/03/31/marin-business-interests-seek-pause-on-foodware-ordinance/ | 2022-04-01T00:55:22Z |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A convicted felon was arresting Thursday morning for carjacking a work van on Welshwood Drive.
Metro police say two men told officers an armed man, identified as 29-year-old Tequandre Craighead, approached them in a parking lot at around 8:15 a.m. Thursday in the 400 block of Welshwood Drive. Craighead demanded their keys to a 2019 Nissan NV cargo van, to which they complied.
Officers quickly arrived on scene to investigate and soon found the van driving on Harding Place near Danby Drive and followed it to the area of Wallace Road and Recovery Drive where they tried to stop Craighead, but he quickly sped away. Officers did not pursue the van.
Instead, a police helicopter followed the van and radioed to officers on the ground that the van had stopped in a parking lot on Linbar Drive where Craighead got out and fled on foot. He was taken into custody a short time later near an apartment building.
Police also recovered an ID and a debit card that belonged to the wife of one of the carjacking victims. Craighead admitted during an interview that he was driving the stolen van. He was also positively identified as the robber.
At the time of his arrest, Craighead was free on a $35,000 bond for the armed robbery of a Harding Place convenience store in 2019. His court date in that case is set for next month.
Craighead, who already has a conviction for felony theft, is now charged with carjacking, evading arrest, and driving on a revoked license.
He is being held in lieu of a $58,000 bond. | https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/carjacking-suspect-arrested-in-south-nashville/ | 2022-04-01T00:55:22Z |
The Bombay High Court has ordered the DHFL scam accused Rakesh Wadhawan to be shifted back to BMC-run KEM hospital. The dean of the KEM hospital has been ordered to evaluate Wadhawan's health and submit a report next week.
The bench of Justice Anuja Prabhudessai passed this order while hearing a bail application filed by Wadhawan. Although in the court, Wadhawan's lawyer, Niranjan Mundargi, stated that he was not pressing for bail.
"I am not praying for bail. Pursuant to a court order, Wadhawan was shifted to a private hospital in the western suburbs and thereafter it was extended by two weeks. The hospital has now given a report that I can be shifted to KEM," Mundargi said.
Wadhawan had undergone heart surgery in a private hospital at his own expense and thus the court had sought the report from the hospital to know about his status. The private hospital had told the court that the surgery was successful and Wadhawan could be shifted back to the KEM hospital where he was admitted earlier.
Advocate Hiten Venegaonkar appearing for the investigating agency Enforcement Directorate (ED) stated that since Wadhawan was fit enough, he should be discharged from the hospital.
However, Mundargi said that Wadhawan was not fit enough to be discharged and he was suffering from various other ailments. "He has other co-mormidities. He is suffering from lung disease and is unable to even stand. One time when he stood up, he damaged his ribs. He is in immense pain and is on intravenous pain killer even now according to their own report," said Mundargi.
After hearing arguments from both sides, Justice Prabhudessai said that it was best to get a medical expert's opinion on the issue and asked the Dean of KEM hospital to evaluate the medical condition of Wadhawan and submit a report. The court will further hear the case on April 8.
Wadhawan was arrested under charges of money laundering in the multi-crore Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank fraud case. Both the ED and the Economic Offences Wing of the Mumbai Police registered offences against him.
The fraud at PMC Bank came to light in September 2019 after the Reserve Bank of India discovered that the bank had allegedly created fictitious accounts to hide over Rs 4,355 crore of loans extended to almost-bankrupt Housing Development and Infrastructure Limited (HDIL). | https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/bombay-hc-rakesh-wadhawan-pmc-bank-fraud-case-shifted-back-kem-hospital-mumbai-1932132-2022-04-01 | 2022-04-01T00:55:22Z |
FORNEY, Texas — The Forney City Council will host a special meeting Thursday night to hear public comments before going into executive session to discuss the proposed HEB store that was announced late last year and recently approved.
Scheduled for Thursday at 6:30 PM at Forney City Hall, the council will take up to 30 minutes of public comment before reconvening into executive session.
The majority of comments and discussion will be around a current proposal brought by Union Pacific Railroad that would close three railroad crossings — two in downtown Forney and a third at County Road (CR) 212 — and creating a new railroad crossing at the HEB property site.
"During a special meeting on March 22nd, the council discussed a new railroad crossing for the HEB site plan. In order to open a new railroad crossing, Union Pacific requires that three existing crossings be closed. In this meeting, Forney City Council authorized the City Manager to write a letter in support of closing the crossings at Elm St. and Center St. These crossings have been proposed as they are the least traveled crossings with only an average of 1,000 vehicles per day. In comparison, Bois D’ Arc St. averages approximately 10,000 vehicle crossings per day," the City of Forney stated on its Facebook page on March 24, 2022.
The proposed site plan is available here on the city's website.
"The meeting’s purpose was to talk with representatives of HEB and to also consult with our City’s legal counsel about this important decision. The meeting was not 'last minute,' 'under the radar,' or in any way 'secret,'" stated, in part, Forney Councilwoman Sarah Salgado of the March 22nd meeting. "The City posted the agenda and public notice for it last Friday, March 18th, and anyone was welcome to attend the open session portion of the meeting."
"While there are of course always different opinions, the overwhelming majority of residents I’ve spoken with are excited about HEB coming to town. That’s also how I feel. This development will be a huge boon to Forney’s economic growth, tax base, and community. HEB is known for being an amazing community partner-that includes their work with non-profits, school districts, and many other community partners. It’s also a high quality business in line with the sort of community we want Forney to be," stated Salgado.
As HEB's first store east of Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex — a market they have largely avoided previously — HEB is a huge win for any town anywhere in Texas. Towns across Texas are "pining" for an HEB, according to one local chamber of commerce official.
Forney's expansive growth and traffic is what has attracted HEB to Forney and the surrounding area. However that growth hasn't been met my infrastructure improvements from the federal level on down in years.
Congressman Lance Gooden of Terrell said he is working with Union Pacific officials in Washington, confirming to inForney.com that he met with them on Wednesday about how they can help with traffic congestion.
Gooden tells inForney.com that working with Forney's mayor, Amanda Lewis, he feels positive about conversations with Union Pacific to find something acceptable and they're actively working to minimize closures.
"This is my top local priority and Mayor Lewis and I are keenly aware of the seriousness of already-difficult traffic situations. We will work to make this right and Mayor Lewis and I won’t agree to anything that our constituents find unacceptable or unreasonable," Gooden tells inForney.com
"The closure of the three crossings are only proposed, and have not been approved by Union Pacific. If approved, they would only be closed after the completion of HEB, which is 18+ months-plus away," Salgado says.
"The closure of Elm and Center will not hinder or help our response times for Police or Fire," Salgado's comments continued. "If there is a train on the tracks at Bois D’Arc, that means there is also a train at Elm, Center, and Chestnut. The problem of getting our Police and Fire across the tracks to respond to calls is being addressed by council-as with our recent vote to approve a temporary south side fire station."
"It is not a permanent or final solution, but it’s a step in the process of getting a permanent station built. Other measures to alleviate traffic build up at the Bois D’Arc intersection were discussed Tuesday night," she says. "We are aware that more needs to be done, and plans and ideas are being discussed." | https://www.inforney.com/business/council-to-hold-special-meeting-concerning-updates-to-heb-site-plan/article_75c7979c-b081-11ec-a1a9-0384001504d8.html | 2022-04-01T00:55:22Z |
‘Moon Knight’ director says nobody could tell the story better than him
The man behind Disney Plus’ Moon Knight is completely backing himself, saying that he could tell Marc Spector’s story better than anyone else.
Mohamed Diab, who directed the series, felt personally connected to the material as an Egyptian, seeing it as a way to correct foreign filmmakers’ previous portrayals of the country. In an interview with Variety, Diab explained some of the problems he has in the way Hollywood traditionally portrays Egypt and its people.
“Egyptians see that Hollywood always sees them in an Orientalist way. We’re always exotic. Women are submissive. Men are bad. So it was very important for me to break that.”
Diab has gone on the record about this before, trashing Wonder Woman 1984 for its portrayal of the country. However, Diab didn’t want it to seem as if he only got the job due to his heritage.
“It was very important for me to show that I’m not here because I’m an Arab or an Egyptian…I’m here because I’m a good director. I’m here because I can tell the story better than anyone else. And if I succeeded, I might open doors for minorities around the world. I hope that happens.”
Diab and wife/producer Sarah Goher had previously collaborated on films Cairo 678 and Eshtebak (Clash), an official selection at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Upon moving to Los Angeles, the team saw an announcement about Kevin Feige’s plan to adapt Moon Knight as a series for Disney’s streaming service and zeroed in on it as their next project. They even went so far as to put together a 200-page pitch to present to the Marvel Films boss.
The series stars Oscar Isaac as the titular hero, whose alter Steven Grant is a mild-mannered museum employee, with Marc Spector, another alter, is more headstrong and assertive. In the comics, Moon Knight is Jewish and his faith plays an important part in the series, and when the non-Jewish Oscar Isaac was announced as the series star, it caused a large degree of controversy among the title’s fans. However, fans have praised the series premiere for staying true to the look of the comic. | https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/moon-knight-director-says-nobody-could-tell-the-story-better-than-him/ | 2022-04-01T00:55:22Z |
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Grand Prix of Long Beach: City announces road closures ahead of big race
LONG BEACH, Calif. - The 2022 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is set to take place April 8 through the 10th.
On Thursday, the City of Long Beach released its list of street closures and traffic advisories.
Street closures will be in effect from April 6 to 11. All streets will reopen by 5 p.m. on Monday, April 11.
Below is a list of street closures and alternative access points:
Wednesday, April 6:
- The side streets off Shoreline Drive and Seaside Way leading into the Racecourse will close.
- Westbound Shoreline Drive will close.
- Northbound Queensway Bridge off ramp will close.
- Southbound Queensway Bridge on ramp from Shoreline Drive will close.
- Aquarium Way, south of Shoreline Drive, will close.
- Eastbound Shoreline Drive from Broadway to Ocean Boulevard will close.
- Pine Avenue will remain open to traffic for visitors to the Hyatt Regency Long Beach (Hyatt), waterfront restaurants, Shoreline Village and Shoreline Marina tenants.
- Aquarium of the Pacific will only be accessible via Chestnut Place or Golden Shore Avenue after 3 p.m. on April 7. All vehicles must be out of the Aquarium parking structure by 5 p.m. on April 7.
Friday, April 8:
- Access to the Hyatt, Shoreline Village and the Shoreline Marina from Ocean Boulevard and Pine Avenue will close.
- Southbound Pine Avenue will close to all traffic.
- Access to the south side of the track will be provided at the intersection of Ocean Boulevard and Alamitos Avenue and will only be available to Grand Prix passholders and boat owner permitees.
- Interior streets of The Pike, north of Shoreline Drive, will close.
- Pine Avenue will open for traffic to access the Hyatt, Shoreline Village and Shoreline Marina tenants.
- The Ocean Boulevard and Alamitos Avenue entry access route will close.
Saturday, April 9:
- Access to the Hyatt, Shoreline Village and the Shoreline Marina from Ocean Boulevard and Pine Avenue will close.
- Southbound Pine Avenue will close to all traffic.
- Access to the south side of the track will be provided at the intersection of Ocean Boulevard and Alamitos Avenue and will only be available to Grand Prix passholders and boat owner permitees.
- Interior streets of The Pike, north of Shoreline Drive, will close.
- Pine Avenue will open for traffic to access the Hyatt, Shoreline Village and Shoreline Marina tenants.
- The Ocean Boulevard and Alamitos Avenue entry access route will close.
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Sunday, April 10:
- Access to the Hyatt, Shoreline Village and the Shoreline Marina from Ocean Boulevard and Pine Avenue will close.
- Southbound Pine Avenue will close to all traffic.
- Access to the south side of the track will be provided at the intersection of Ocean Boulevard and Alamitos Avenue and will only be available to Grand Prix passholders and boat owner permitees.
- Interior streets of The Pike, north of Shoreline Drive, will close.
- Pine Avenue will open for traffic to access the Hyatt, Shoreline Village and Shoreline Marina tenants.
- The Ocean Boulevard and Alamitos Avenue entry access route will close.
Monday, April 11:
By 5 p.m. Monday, traffic will be restored to:
- Both east and west bound Shoreline Drive
- Northbound Queensway Bridge off ramp, southbound Queensway Bridge on ramp from Shoreline Drive, east and west bound Seaside Way
- North and south bound Pine Avenue, including Pine Avenue Circle
- North and south bound Shoreline Village Drive
- All service roads and internal streets of The Pike facility.
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- AUD/USD is hovering around 0.7500 as investors await the next batch of US data.
- Caixin manufacturing PMI is likely to keep the aussie bulls on the sidelines.
- Aussie has been a top performer amid rising commodity prices.
The AUD/USD pair is oscillating in a range of 0.7456-0.7537 the whole week as investors are waiting for the release of the US Nonfarm Payrolls and Caixin Manufacturing Purchase Managers Index (PMI) data.
A preliminary estimate for the Caixin China Manufacturing PMI is 49.7 lower than the earlier print of 50.4. Australia, being a major exporter to China possesses a positive relationship with the above-mentioned data. The aussie dollar has remained a frontline performer in the Fx domain after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Rising prices of commodities have underpinned the antipodean against major currencies. Even a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine will continue to push the push aussie higher as Europe’s aim to attain independence from Russian oil will shift its dependency for energy on the commodity-exporting currency.
The US dollar index (DXY) has advanced near 98.40 on downbeat market sentiment as global equities lose shine on fading optimism over the Russia-Ukraine peace talks. The DXY has sensed a sheer responsive buying near 97.70 after being a value bet for the market participants. Thursday’s data batch has brought some optimism for the greenback despite a slightly lower Core Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) inflation at 5.4% than the estimate of 5.5%.
A power-pack action is expected on Friday as the US docket will report Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP), which is likely to land at 490k, much lower than the previous figure of 678k. This will have a significant impact on the likely decision on the interest rates from the Federal Reserve (Fed).
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👋 Welcome to the first part of our Lift-off series!
Here we begin our journey building a full-stack GraphQL example application called Catstronauts, a learning platform for adventurous cats who want to explore the universe! 😺 🚀
The first feature we'll build for the app will fetch a (mocked) list of learning tracks from a GraphQL API and display them in a card grid on our homepage.
Here's how it'll look when we're finished:
To build this feature, we'll use a "schema-first" design. That means we'll implement the feature based on exactly which data our client application needs. Schema-first design typically involves three major steps:
- Defining the schema: We identify which data our feature requires, and then we structure our schema to provide that data as intuitively as possible.
- Back-end implementation: We build out our GraphQL API using Apollo Server and fetch the required data from whichever data sources contain it. In this first course, we will be using mocked data. In a following course, we'll connect our app to a live REST data source.
- Front-end implementation: Our client consumes data from our GraphQL API to render its views.
One of the benefits of schema-first design is that it reduces total development time by allowing front-end and back-end teams to work in parallel. The front-end team can start working with mocked data as soon as the schema is defined, while the back-end team develops the API based on that same schema. This isn't the only way to design a GraphQL API, but we believe it's an efficient one, so we'll use it throughout this course.
Which of these are benefits of schema-first design?
Ignition sequence...
Prerequisites
Our app will use Node.js on the backend and React on the frontend.
Concepts and keywords like import
, map
, async
, jsx
, and React Hooks should all be familiar concepts before you start up.
Clone the repository
In the directory of your choice with your preferred terminal, clone the app's starter repository:
git clone https://github.com/apollographql/odyssey-lift-off-part1
Task!
Project structure
We'll build a full-stack app that is (unsurprisingly) composed of two parts:
- The back-end app in the
server/
directory - The front-end app located in the
client/
directory
You'll also find a final/
folder that contains the final state of the project once you've completed the course. Feel free to use it as a guide!
Both apps have bare-minimum package dependencies. Here's the file structure:
📦 odyssey-lift-off-part1 ┣ 📂 client ┃ ┣ 📂 public ┃ ┣ 📂 src ┃ ┣ 📄 README.md ┃ ┣ 📄 package.json ┣ 📂 server ┃ ┣ 📂 src ┃ ┃ ┣ 📄 index.js ┃ ┣ 📄 README.md ┃ ┣ 📄 package.json ┣ 📂 final ┃ ┣ 📂 client ┃ ┣ 📂 server ┗ 📄 README.md
Now, open the repository in your favorite IDE. We're using Visual Studio Code in our examples.
Note: The examples in this course use npm
, but you're welcome to use yarn
if you prefer.
Let's start with the server app.
In a terminal window, navigate to the repo's server/
directory and run the following to install dependencies and run the app:
npm install && npm start
If all goes well, you'll see your installation complete and a message that nodemon
is waiting for changes to your src/index.js
file. There's nothing else to do here, because we don't have any code for nodemon
to run just yet.
Task!
Next, the client app.
In a terminal window, navigate to the repo's client/
directory and run the following to install dependencies and start the app:
npm install && npm start
The console should show a bunch of output and a link to the running app at localhost:3000
. You can navigate there and see that not much is rendered right now.
Task!
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Jeff Turkanis Named Chief Investment Officer
Taryn Fielder Named General Counsel
JERSEY CITY, N.J., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Veris Residential, Inc. (NYSE: VRE), a forward-thinking, environmentally- and socially-conscious REIT that primarily owns, operates, acquires, and develops Class A multifamily properties, today announced two executive appointments designed to further support the company's transition into a pure-play multifamily REIT and drive long-term shareholder value.
Jeff Turkanis, former Head of U.S. Residential at Oxford Properties Group, has been appointed Chief Investment Officer, succeeding Ricardo Cardoso, effective April 4, and Taryn Fielder, former General Counsel at WashREIT, has been appointed General Counsel, succeeding Gary Wagner, effective April 18. Messrs. Cardoso and Wagner will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities following a transition period.
Mahbod Nia, Chief Executive Officer of Veris Residential, said, "We are pleased to welcome Jeff and Taryn to Veris Residential as we continue to strengthen our team with top professionals who have significant experience working across private and publicly traded residential real estate. Jeff's intricate knowledge of the residential sector and impressive track record of sourcing and executing strategic investments, coupled with Taryn's breadth of experience that includes providing strategic advice for a variety of complex real estate transactions, will be invaluable as we continue our transition to a pure-play multifamily REIT.
"Importantly, I would like to thank Ricardo and Gary for their decades of dedicated service to Veris Residential and wish them all the best as they explore the next chapter of their careers."
Mr. Turkanis' extensive real estate investment experience includes over $15 billion in transactions concluded primarily across the office and residential sectors. He has been focused specifically on the residential sector (predominantly multifamily) for the past 8 years, closing over $4 billion in transactions during this time. As Chief Investment Officer, he will be responsible for overseeing the sale of non-strategic assets, identifying potential value enhancement opportunities within Veris Residential's existing portfolio, and sourcing potential new investment opportunities. Prior to his more than decade-long tenure at Oxford Properties Group, Mr. Turkanis held roles at Putnam Investments and Fortress Investment Group. He earned a BBA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA, Real Estate from Columbia Business School.
Ms. Fielder has significant experience providing legal counsel for capital market transactions, as well as securities, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance matters. Prior to WashREIT, she served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for ASB Real Estate Investments and was Assistant General Counsel for publicly-traded REIT DiamondRock Hospitality Company. Earlier in her career, she worked in the Real Estate Group at Hogan Lovells, and practiced corporate and real estate law with Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett LLP. Ms. Fielder earned a BA summa cum laude from Eckerd College and her JD from Harvard Law School.
In connection with the hiring of Ms. Fielder and Mr. Turkanis, and also in connection with the previous hiring of Ms. Amanda Lombard as Chief Accounting Officer, who will assume the role of Chief Financial Officer on April 1, 2022, Veris Residential is also announcing, as required by New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Manual Rule 303A.08, equity awards to be made to those three executives as a material inducement to their entering into employment with the company. All of the awards were approved by the Compensation Committee of the Veris Residential Board of Directors and will be made effective April 18, 2022, or such later date as the Chair of the Compensation Committee may determine. The awards to Ms. Lombard and Ms. Fielder are each in the form of restricted stock units; Mr. Turkanis will receive a restricted stock unit award and a stock option award.
The restricted stock unit award to Ms. Lombard will have a grant date fair value of $150,000 and will generally vest ratably on each of the first three anniversaries of the date of grant. The restricted stock unit award to Ms. Fielder will have a grant date fair value of $400,000 and will generally vest 60% on December 31, 2022, 20% on December 31, 2023 and 20% on the third anniversary of the date of grant. The restricted stock unit award to Mr. Turkanis will have a grant date fair value of $425,000 and will generally vest 50% on the first anniversary of the date of grant and 25% on each of the next two anniversaries of the grant date. The option grant to Mr. Turkanis will cover 250,000 shares, have an exercise price equal to the closing price of the underlying stock on the date of grant, generally vest and become exercisable ratably on each of the first three anniversaries of the date of grant, and have a maximum six-year term. All of the awards are subject to accelerated vesting in certain circumstances. The awards will all be made outside of Veris Residential's existing 2013 Incentive Stock Plan but will be subject to terms and conditions generally consistent with those in that plan, other than with respect to such terms and conditions intended to comply with the NYSE inducement award exception.
About Veris Residential, Inc.
Veris Residential, Inc. is a forward-thinking, environmentally- and socially-conscious real estate investment trust (REIT) that primarily owns, operates, acquires, and develops holistically-inspired, Class A multifamily properties that meet the sustainability-conscious lifestyle needs of today's residents while seeking to positively impact the communities it serves and the planet at large. The company is guided by an experienced management team and Board of Directors and is underpinned by leading corporate governance principles, a best-in-class and sustainable approach to operations, and an inclusive culture based on equality and meritocratic empowerment. For additional information on Veris Residential, Inc. and our properties available for lease, please visit http://www.verisresidential.com/.
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Editor’s note: In this feature, we put five questions before local school board and city council candidates. Today, we’ll hear from the three candidates for Carl Junction Board of Education. Incumbents Larry Cowger and Robert Hays and challenger Jason Mickey seek two seats with a three-year term.
If necessary, what cuts would you make to the school district’s budget and why?
Cowger: District is in good financial shape. Not cutting anything out.
Hays: In the foreseeable future, cuts are not necessary. However, if the time comes for cuts, I will work alongside the administration to figure out the best course of action necessary to make cuts in the budget in a prudent and responsible manner.
Mickey: I can honestly tell you I have not looked at the budget. I have been invited in to look at it and ask whatever questions I have. One of the reasons I have not looked at it is because I want to go into it this with an open mind. I am new to this public service and “fresh,” if you will. I want to be totally neutral. I have to make big budget decisions daily/weekly for the business I help run and have learned from this experience. I don’t want a rush in judgment to cloud my decisions until I have all the facts.
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All happy workplace sitcoms are alike, but each new complication to the Lumen office in “Severance” makes the Apple TV+ series as disturbingly weird in its own way.
The “severed” floor — for employees who have elected to go through a surgical procedure that separates their memories of their time at work from their sense of self after-hours — has all the normal office accoutrements: desks, bad carpet, the worst break room of all time. But it’s also a place slightly out of time, with a modish ’60s aesthetic and nonsense computer operating systems.
Just as the Macrodata Refinement team of Mark (Adam Scott), Dylan (Zach Cherry), Helly (Britt Lower), and Irving (John Turturro) are beginning to realize there may be sinister things going on in Episode 7, they’re treated to a visit from floor manager Milchick (Tramell Tillman). They’ve won “a music dance experience,” the options for which include “Bawdy Funk,” “Effusive Ska,” and the episode’s title, “Defiant Jazz.” The whole thing is bonkers.
But there’s method to the madness, both in how the world of “Severance” is set up and how the dance party devolves. IndieWire spoke to production designer Jeremy Hindle and cinematographer Jessica Lee Gagné about why the party sequence feels like a break in every sense of the word.
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Normally, Gagné says that the show employs a shooting approach that evokes a distant, creepy corporate eye roving over all the oddities of the severed floor. “A lot of the angles are much more aesthetic than typical surveillance [but evokes something similar], and then also any movement [feels] robotic,” Gagné said. “We would really avoid Steadicam and anything that was kind of like human-based, so that you would get that [surveillance] feeling from it. And then that framing was weird and awkward.”
Gagné said that the work of photographer Lee Friedlander — specifically his photos of office workers — informed the show’s willingness to get intrusively close to its characters, before backing up to show just how small the MDR team is in relationship to their environment. Hindle said Friedlander’s work informed his design sense of the severed employees’ workspace, with a twist: the office’s minimalism connotes dignified, important, cutting edge work. But the severed floor is built for babies.
“They’re just children at this place. It gives us a license to play with them a lot, to create things for them to do,” Hindle said. For instance, Hindle designed the computers that the MDR team uses as a tube-based touch screen, connected to trackballs that would mystify most millennials. As Hindle explained, “If you got to the outside world and tried to explain it to somebody, [it] would never make any sense.”
The way the office space is laid out also adheres to this idea of creating a space that is vast and sleek and yet at the same time constrained and awkward. Hindle said that he asked writer Dan Erickson how far underground the offices extend. “And he said, ‘Oh, it goes miles.‘” That understanding gives the show license to get weird with Lumen HQ. There could be a Minoan bull roaming the mazelike halls and it wouldn’t necessarily look more out of place than some of the things we see Burt (Christopher Walken) working on in the Optics and Design office. But the show largely restrains itself — until Episode 7.
Gagné, Hindle, and director Ben Stiller’s overall approach to the office is on full display when Milchick rolls in with a cart full of records. First there’s a gawking, spacious group shot of the team as Milchick enters, unnervingly centered in frame.
Even in a quick summary, the events of the scene are anything but centered and controlled.
Milchick changes the lighting pattern so that over the course of the song the office transforms into almost a foreboding club atmosphere: awash in strong red and purple lights that flash and almost strobe along with the music. Milchick moves fluidly across the frame as he dances around each of the MDR employees, almost circling them like a sheepdog. He gets Helly, Mark, and Irving to all dance, to varying degrees, but Dylan refuses to participate. The lights and music become more and more disruptive, and the distance between Dylan and his computer screen seems to shrink as Milchick gyrates around him. Something snaps, and suddenly Dylan’s screen flashes images from his “outie” memories: namely, he remembers that he has a child. Dylan explodes and attacks Milchick, biting him before the MDR team can pull him away.
screencaps / Apple TV+
The sequence is an enormous divergence from the show’s usual style. “Everything in ‘Severance’ was extremely calculated,” Gagné said. “We did a lot of multi-camera stuff where we had to be super precise [and have defined] end point/start points. [For this sequence], OK, the camera’s different, it’s moving in a different way, this guy’s dancing, there’s color? Everyone’s just out of their element.”
To give the viewer that intuitive sense of change, Gagné and Stiller choose to utilize a Stedicam, first slowly pushing in on Mark and Helly and then following Milchick as he dances from one member of the team to another. By the time the camera twirls around Milchick and Helly, ramping up slightly in speed and giving us a 180-degree view, it feels almost drunk on defiant jazz. Gagné and Stiller also went with a 24mm lens for the sequence “because we almost wanted it to feel like a music video.”
The pulsing overhead lighting accentuates that feeling, functioning almost like a reverse dance floor. The way red and then strong purple and maroon lighting saturates the space is helped by the dimensions of the office, which are also off in subtle ways. “We made the ceiling really low,” Hindle said. “We really tricked that set out [so that] every angle and every little detail could be a place that you could live for an hour straight.”
Screenshot/Apple TV+
The dance party starts to feel like it’s going for an hour straight as Dylan refuses to give in, and the lighting, the pace of the editing, camera work, and Tillman’s physical performance all pick up in intensity. “It was an opportunity for him to really come to life,” Gagné said. “I think the Steadicam gave him that freedom [to improvise].”
“He blew me away when I saw that. I thought it was incredible,” Hindle added.
The shot that ends the sequence is as alien as all the colorful dancing that proceeds it: the core four workers united, relatively centered in frame and — crucially — not segmented by any aspect of Hindle’s design.
Screenshot/Apple TV+
Gagné credits the writing and the focus on Dylan as the inspiration for the stylistic changes, but no character can go back to who they were before the party. The Musical Dance Experience is a hinge point, and the defiance of jazz will mark whatever choices the MDR team makes in the final two episodes.
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The Collapse Of American Teaching
Teachers all over the country describe problems that touch every aspect of our culture and society, from technology dependence to stats-obsessed bureaucracy to a post-COVID behavior crisis.
Paige worked in digital marketing for several years before deciding at the beginning of 2020 to switch to a career she found more meaningful. When the pandemic hit a short time later, she second-guessed her decision, but the crisis also made her feel “more compelled to rise to the occasion.” She completed virtual training. Paige — who spoke on the condition that only her middle name be used — started her first job as a teacher at an under-resourced Dallas middle school in January 2021. The district was using a hybrid classroom model, blending remote and in-person instruction. Paige had the advantage of a previous career that prepared her for the technological headache. She felt she was able to build constructive relationships with her students, especially the roughly 30% who came to school in person. Though her subject, reading, is a perennial testing priority, she was liberated from test pressure since states were given the option to waive the usual battery of exams that year. In hindsight, her first few months of teaching were “breezy and manageable” in comparison to what came after.
On the first day of the 2021-2022 school year, all students were back in person. The sixth-graders she taught hadn’t been in full-time school since the fourth grade, and Paige saw the same kind of problems that many teachers have observed this year. Many were struggling. “These kids have gone almost two years without structure and following rules and routines and interacting with their peers,” she said. They lacked social skills and behavior problems ran rampant in the school, which didn’t have enough staff to manage them. The students were also behind on academics, but the district had returned to pre-COVID expectations for benchmarks; Paige’s students were “heavily, heavily tested” in four core subjects, undergoing testing twice a month in each. Catching them up was nearly impossible given the challenges. She says an administrator told her to focus on kids most likely to perform well on tests to maximize funding return.
Each day, Paige saw the strain in a tangible way: She had 28 kids on average in her classes. Her classroom had 17 desks. She complained to her school’s administration, who told her they were still adjusting schedules to even out the class sizes. Paige improvised. She didn’t want students to “feel distressed,” she said. She managed to wrangle four extra chairs and gave clipboards to all the students who didn’t have a desk. By the third day of school, after “raising hell,” she was given three more desks. But she didn’t have enough for every student in her classroom until January — a full five months after the start of the school year. By then, during the Omicron wave, teachers at the school had frequently been out sick, and the district had a major shortage of substitute teachers. The school managed it by spreading out students to other classrooms. One day, Paige saw dozens of kids just wandering the halls. “How is any learning even supposed to happen, or order supposed to happen if you have kids sitting on the floor?” she said.
Teaching has always been a demanding job. It’s a cliché that many teachers burn out within five years of starting; the commonly cited statistic is University of Pennsylvania researcher Richard Ingersoll’s finding that between 40% and 50% of them do so. Teaching “has had recruitment and retention problems, and that’s perennial,” Ingersoll told me. But this moment may be unprecedented. Though complete national data on the pandemic-induced teacher shortage isn’t yet available, Ingersoll said, the anecdotal and statistical trends he’s seen so far make him think “this could well be worse” than any shortage he’s examined in his career studying the teaching force. When Paige quit her job, she was the fifth teacher at her school to do so mid-contract. Over half a million public school educators left the field during the pandemic, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data; a recent National Education Association poll of its membership showed that 55% of them were planning to leave. Forty-nine percent of teachers in an American Psychological Association poll conducted between July 2020 and June 2021 said they wanted or planned to quit, as well as large percentages of school staff and administrators.
Rising costs of living were already outstripping teacher salaries before the pandemic, a key factor behind the teachers’ strikes in several states that took place in 2018; teacher pay has always lagged behind other college-educated professions, though they’ve traditionally received good benefits and pensions. Now, to many teachers, the tradeoffs look less worth it — even if they were to get a raise. School districts are desperate for new teachers, in some cases offering unprecedented signing bonuses to lure applicants — and still not filling vacancies. Some districts are allowing teenagers fresh out of high school to substitute teach; I spoke to a 19-year-old college student in Connecticut who started subbing soon after graduation, including at the school she had recently graduated from.
I spoke to a 19-year-old college student in Connecticut who started subbing soon after graduation.
This winter, I interviewed dozens of teachers across the country, from all kinds of districts and at all levels of experience. Most of the teachers worked at public schools, though a few were private school teachers or charter school teachers. I contacted many of the teachers through the r/Teachers Reddit board, which has over 300,000 members.
In those conversations, it became clear that the pandemic didn’t simply create but heightened problems that existed long before. Parents struggled to improvise childcare in the absence of in-person school, a situation that strained families and exacerbated inequality; some kids had quiet homes and access to Wi-Fi, some did not. Some families could form learning “pods” and afford extra instruction for their children, while most could not. Remote learning caused a severe setback in many kids’ academic progress and damaged the mental health of some. It also highlighted the fact that schools serve many purposes beyond academic learning, like providing meals for kids and identifying children who qualify for social services or special education. The debate over school closures devolved into one side calling teachers lazy and narcissistic, and the other side accusing parents of selfishly wanting free daycare while they worked. Once teachers’ unions got involved and began pushing against reopenings in the summer of 2020, the vitriol boiled over on both sides. Democrat-run states where teachers’ unions are strong tended to delay reopening, while Republican states opened. Some teachers in red states I spoke with had been teaching in person since the fall of 2020.
Despite these wide geographic and logistical differences, however, nearly all of the teachers I interviewed spoke about similar problems in their schools that touch every aspect of our culture and society, from technology dependence to stats-obsessed bureaucracy. Teachers described increasing pressure from multiple angles. They’re dealing directly with the ways phones and technology have changed the classroom environment. They’re dealing with kids who were out of school, sometimes for years, and are readjusting to social interaction every day. They’re dealing with an increasingly political and surveilling approach to curriculum from outside, and longstanding budgetary and bureaucratic demands from above.
The breakdown of teaching, I came to understand, has been accelerating in plain sight from well before the virus hit. But its aftershocks will be felt long after the virus has faded.
As the Omicron variant surged all around him, Martin Urbach was teaching his tenth-graders at Harvest Collegiate, a high school in downtown Manhattan where 67% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. A group of them sat in the fluorescent-lit classroom finishing their lunch between sessions of a restorative justice workshop Urbach hosts. Urbach put me on Zoom so I could speak with him and the kids. All wore masks, which made it hard to tell who was speaking at any time. Though the sophomores were back in school, their high school experience had so far been anything but normal. Ninth grade was remote, and masking up throughout the (abbreviated) in-person school day wasn’t exactly what they had dreamed of. “I feel like we haven’t had any type of real high school experience,” said one of the students. “Most people didn’t really get that freshman experience of being in school meeting people,” said another. “And now we’re in the building but it’s still not that authentic high school experience that I would really love to have.”
During the surge, the school went into a kind of war footing in an attempt to control it, canceling electives and letting students leave at 12:45 if their parents allowed. One of Urbach’s students told me that one day he walked through the halls for 45 minutes after the 12:45 bell and didn’t see a single teacher or sub. He alerted one of the school’s social workers, who told him to just go home. None of the students blamed teachers for what was going on. “I feel like it's really stressful for all of us, especially teachers,” one said.
The Zoom era, far from relaxing, was isolating and arduous. “Last year, the loneliness and teaching on Zoom all day long really kind of destroyed parts of my spirit,” Urbach said. The physical challenges of teaching in person with COVID restrictions this school year had been daunting, though — hard to communicate with students while everyone is wearing a mask, hard to hear over the constant hum of air purifiers. Urbach got COVID right before the winter break. He’s angry at the system that has left schools in such a state. But despite it all, he said, “I love getting to spend time with the young people and just getting the connection that only in-person school can happen.”
Urbach has been teaching for 17 years, five at Harvest Collegiate. Of all those, even after the crisis of 2020, “this year has been the most exhausting year for my whole career,” he said.
Connection with students, many teachers say, isn’t what it used to be. The emotional and behavioral crisis among American kids has become so obvious that President Biden addressed it in his State of the Union speech.
First, there’s the technology. Smartphones and laptops aren’t new, and schools have had to contend with distracting devices for years now. Ken, a high school teacher in Northern California, noticed a shift around 2010 when smartphones became omnipresent. Ken teaches computer programming, and when he started out 20 years ago, his students loved learning about how a computer works, seeing inside the box. But around that smartphone inflection point, he saw their interest fade away. Why bother learning the nuts and bolts of computing when everybody had a super-powerful computer in their hands at all times?
Now, though, their withdrawal has grown more severe. “I have students post pandemic who will sit and just stare at the screen,” he said. “They’re so disengaged from everything.”
“I was watching one student make their way through the entire third and fourth season of Bojack Horseman.”
Teachers describe swaths of kids nearly anesthetized by technology, socially limited, and often displaying disruptive behavior. It’s not only teaching them that’s hard — it’s reaching them on any level. The screen dependence that preceded the pandemic seems to have gotten worse during it, turning students across America into TikTok mainliners. Everyone seems to have given up on managing it.
“Five years ago, it was an issue in that it was kids just texting each other,” said M., an art teacher in Northern Virginia who requested going by her first initial to speak freely. Now, she says, she’s observed more passive content consumption in lieu of communication. “I was watching one student make their way through the entire third and fourth season of Bojack Horseman,” she said.
The way teachers describe their hyperconnected yet disengaged students is reminiscent of the British writer and critic Mark Fisher’s descriptions of his philosophy students at a continuing education college in his 2009 book Capitalist Realism. Fisher noticed that the teenagers in his classroom wallowed in a state of what he called “depressive hedonia,” glumly and constantly seeking an instant gratification that never translated to true satisfaction. The students displayed a “twitchy, agitated interpassivity, an inability to concentrate or focus.” Even in 2009, like Ken observed, personal devices had already become too mighty for teachers to compete with in the classroom. The system had conditioned the students to view education like any other consumer service, and teachers were thus “caught between being facilitator-entertainers and disciplinarian-authoritarians.”
“They’re just waiting for something. And I don’t know what that thing is that they’re waiting for.”
This tension nowadays starts early as screens become a part of children's lives at younger and younger ages. “We’re competing against all the devices,” said Yvonne, a second-grade teacher in southern Illinois who has been teaching for over 30 years. “I can think of good things to say about technology,” she said; over the break she was able to keep in touch with one motherless girl in her class on Google Classroom, for example. “But I can see that sometimes it’s hard to keep a child engaged.” Increasingly, her students are given unrestricted access at home to YouTube, viewing material she doesn’t think is age-appropriate.
TikTok is seen as a particular curse, given its addictive quality and ability to spread new fads rapid-fire, like the “devious licks” TikTok challenge that briefly made it trendy to vandalize school property.
“TikTok is just wrecking these kids’ attention span,” said Joe, a high school history teacher in upstate New York who has also taught middle schoolers. “You always have to teach in 15-second intervals for the youngest; for the oldest, it’s a little different.” Activities that used to be considered a treat, like watching a movie in class, now get rejected as boring. “If I show them a movie, they don’t want to watch it,” said James Stanley, also a high school history teacher, in Killeen, Texas. “If I have them do activities, they don’t want to do it. If I have them do notes, they don’t want to do it… they’re just waiting. That’s it. They’re just waiting for something. And I don’t know what that thing is that they’re waiting for.”
Then there are the other, more serious challenges teachers are seeing.
“Astonishing,” “terrible,” “off the wall”: These are just some of the ways teachers describe the behavior issues they are seeing in their schools. These range from a non-threatening though puzzling unconcern for the bare minimum — raising one’s hand, not walking around the school or classroom during lessons — to more severe disruptions like violence, bullying, and breaking things. The pandemic seems to have exacerbated these issues, though they’ve always been an under-discussed fact of American education, a fact Biden also acknowledged in his State of the Union. A third of teachers polled by the American Psychological Association reported receiving verbal harassment or threats from students in the 2020-2021 school year, while 14% said they’d been the victim of physical violence.
A Georgetown analysis of how schools have spent federal COVID relief funds found that about a third devoted money to social-emotional learning, or SEL, an increasingly prevalent concept in education. The idea behind SEL is to promote emotional management and social skills as part of the school day, not separate from academics. Its proponents say it has a measurable impact on classroom behaviors and academic performance. Opponents say the method overly de-emphasizes academic learning and infringes on the home and family’s purview.
It’s clear that kids need help that goes far beyond their studies, and the SEL push is an attempt at addressing this. It’s often coupled with new discipline frameworks, like restorative justice practices, and an emphasis on giving kids “grace” in the wake of two traumatic years. While this all sounds enlightened and helpful, and can be when applied skillfully, teachers say that these concepts often prove counterproductive in practice. Schools have increasingly removed many of the once-standard consequences for misbehavior like detentions, suspensions, and even being sent to the principal’s office, except in extreme situations. Many schools have de facto stopped trying to keep kids off their phones in class. The absence of consequences, many teachers I spoke with said, has undermined their authority, led to disorderly and even unsafe classrooms, and hampered learning overall by diverting lesson time to classroom management.
H.R., a teacher in rural Missouri who teaches first-years in English and Spanish, described her students as around a sixth-grade level academically, and even less mature than that behaviorally. Disruptions are frequent in her classroom, along with talking back and constant requests for special exceptions on missed work. After a year of “rough classes,” H.R. is tired of hearing about grace.
“I hate that word,” she said. “I mean, nobody gave us grace. So what about us? And we gave them too much grace, and now these are the consequences of our actions.” Her students are finally “learning how to be in school,” she said, but “it was touch and go.”
“I don’t know how many fights I had break out in my class,” said Darby McNally, a former middle school teacher in Atlanta. “Like physical fights, like kids bleeding in my classroom. And not just me, multiple teachers around me as well.” McNally felt she had no backup from her administration, who refused to impose consequences in an effort, McNally surmised, to avoid recording so many disciplinary incidents. The result was that “I really was not able to teach” because of the constant disruptions in class. “I really am knowledgeable of the subjects that I’m teaching and I would be able to, in the right circumstances, provide knowledge and care to these kids, but the environment was just not conducive to that whatsoever,” she said. McNally left at the end of the first semester, paying a $1,000 fine in order to quit mid-year.
School districts face a complicated balancing act when it comes to severe behavior issues: negotiating the needs of the student, how it affects their peers, their parents’ reaction, and the system’s legal obligation to provide an education for every child. The complexity often feeds inertia, keeping students in an environment that might not be beneficial for them nor their classmates while making a teacher’s job harder.
Even the school administrators one level above teachers often have little say when it comes to discipline, even in cases of serious violence. “They won’t let me expel for fighting unless they have multiple fights and the fights get severe,” said Donald P., a vice principal in Arizona. “I’ve had some severe fights and I’ve pushed to get the kid expelled and they won’t do it. I actually have an easier time having the student arrested than expelled.”
Lydia Echols teaches middle school English in a district outside of Dallas. Though it’s her fourth year teaching, it’s her first in this district, which is smaller than her previous one. At the beginning of the school year, Echols’ school held a parent-teacher night, which she felt went well. She thought the parents were “lovely” and was excited to meet them. So she was surprised when a student the next day told her “my parents don’t like you because you’re too liberal.”
“I don’t remember ever bringing up anything political,” Echols said. “I don’t remember being anything other than myself that night. Apparently, something about me that’s too liberal for these parents. And they don’t like me because of that, even though I completely adore their child.” Echols was also wary. “That’s one thing that could get you in trouble here,” she said. “You know, ‘you’re being too political or or you’re being too liberal by introducing my child to this text.’”
To avoid such impressions, Echols’ new district places a heavy emphasis on teachers staying within the strict bounds of the curriculum, to a degree that struck me as counter-productive. When I spoke to Echols, she was teaching her students The Diary of Anne Frank, a mainstay of middle school curricula nationwide. She’d been directed to downplay the Holocaust part. “When we were instructed to teach this, they told us explicitly you’re not history teachers, so don’t go too deep into the history of the Holocaust in how it touches on Nazis, neo-Nazism, Holocaust deniers, things like that, and we’re not allowed to broach those topics in a realistic way where it makes the kids sit up and pay attention,” she said.
“As an African American woman, I am all for social and emotional justice and learning for these kids who are going into a world where they are going to have to face these issues,” Echols said. She has wanted to teach The Long Way Down, a well-received 2017 young adult novel about gun violence told in verse, but she hasn’t been able to get permission. “Anything that looks like, smells like, tastes like critical race theory to whoever is in charge is not allowed. That’s why we can’t go anywhere with a curriculum.”
A few hundred miles away in rural western Missouri, H.R., the ninth-grade English and Spanish teacher, is working in an environment she described as paranoia-inducing when it comes to teaching anything with a whiff of political sensitivity.
“I cannot for the life of me ever teach something that has to deal with like, social justice. Or anything that highlights you know, like, basic human rights like LGBT and things like that,” she said.
H.R. has felt the need to tread carefully after a class discussion of the novel Ender’s Game offended a few students who didn’t like hearing about the atheist society depicted in the book. She worries constantly that a parent will try to get her in trouble for something like that. Teachers like Luis, a sixth-year high-school teacher in Scottsdale, Arizona, have learned what kind of material will generate parent complaints: in Luis’ case, the Rudolfo Anaya novel Bless Me, Ultima, which some parents opposed because it involves witchcraft.
Conservative activists have pushed the specter of critical race theory in schools into the mainstream of political debate over the past two years. Though the term itself refers to a theory of systemic racism encoded in the legal system that originated among scholars in the 1970s, the right has used the term to attack anything that seems too woke on race or diversity. Critics have portrayed it as a sinister, anti-American ideology being smuggled into children’s heads on the taxpayer dime.
More than one teacher I spoke with scoffed at the idea that they could teach students about critical race theory even if they tried; it’s enough of a challenge as it is to get them to pay attention at all. “I could teach basket weaving, and they still wouldn’t learn it,” said Joe, the history teacher in upstate New York. “Let alone these massive, you know, critical race theory beliefs.” The furor has powered a national wave of fraught, often unruly school board meetings and motivated voters in key races like last year’s Virginia gubernatorial election, powered by conservatives.
Republican state lawmakers around the country have been introducing bills designed to prevent classroom discussion of institutional racism that would directly impinge on teachers’ pedagogical autonomy. These range from bans on specific curricula to sweeping injunctions against teachers bringing up certain topics. A new law in Florida, which opponents have called the “don’t say gay” bill, outlaws any instruction about sexuality or gender until fourth grade or “in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”
So far, these endeavors have been a mixed bag; bills attempting to ban the teaching of “divisive concepts” recently failed to pass in Indiana and South Dakota. But the movement has contributed to an atmosphere of censoriousness around teachers. So have efforts to increase “transparency” by filming teachers or requiring schools to post lesson plans and curriculum materials online ahead of time.
According to Ingersoll, the controversy, however fervent, is just the “latest manifestation” of a “long-standing debate” about curriculum dating back at least to the 1925 Scopes Monkey trial. “These are people's children,” Ingersoll said. “And so there's a tussle. You know, who gets the final say in what they're taught and how they're taught?” The current situation also reflects the persistent tendency to try and use schools as an arena to settle societal disputes, Ingersoll argued. “Usually, it's a story of asking the schools to do more and more and more, and not lengthening the day, not lengthening the year and on more and more topics,” Ingersoll said. “‘We have this societal problem, boom, let’s have the schools fix it.’”
For Yvonne, the veteran elementary teacher in Illinois, the increased contempt for teachers has been one of the most pronounced shifts she’s noticed over her long career. Parents have become “quick to attack,” instantly defensive and accusatory when a teacher calls home. Some parents air their grievances about individual teachers publicly on Facebook. The breakdown in trust saddens her, but she’s concluded that people now channel their rage toward teachers the same way they do to service workers. “It has nothing to do with us,” she said. “You know how people are mean to retail people, like you’re in Target and people are mean? It really has nothing to do with the Target workers. They’re just mad about something.”
Left with no comprehensive way to staunch the flow of quitting teachers, the system has leaned on nominal stopgaps aimed at helping teachers cope. These may include professional development sessions focused on mental health and self-care, or regular school-wide appreciation emails. A teacher friend of Joe, the high school teacher in upstate New York, recently received a self-care kit from their school’s administration that came with a sheet of “reminders” printed out in colorful type on a sheet of paper. The advice includes affirmations like “I deserve to take care of myself” and “I am important & good at what I do.” Joe sent me a photo of it.
“It’s my classroom & I can cry if I want to,” reads one of these reminders. “Teaching is rewarding, but hard work. It’s okay to cry in a bathroom stall.”
“They also need reasonable hours, reasonable class sizes, and supplies.”
“I don’t think you could go anywhere besides an Amazon warehouse and see a sign that says you can cry in the bathroom, it’s OK,” Joe said. “For $56,000.”
The material realities prevent teachers from getting the kind of reprieve that could help keep more of them in the profession or at least improve their morale, even when administrators try to help. Donald P., the vice principal in Arizona, gives his teachers mental health days off whenever he can. “But I don’t have the staffing where I can give it as much as I want to,” he said. “And when my higher ups hear that I’m letting a teacher take a mental health day, I get my ass chewed out for it.”
All his teachers deserve a raise, Donald said, but that won’t alleviate all the problems with the job. “They also need reasonable hours, reasonable class sizes, and supplies,” he said.
Tierraney Richardson taught for eight years in elementary and middle schools before becoming an assistant principal in Texas. Though she’s still working in a school, she interviews teachers who mostly are not for her podcast, Teachers Who Quit. While increasing teacher pay would be a welcome change, “I think my pay could have been upped a lot, and I still wouldn't have stayed in the work,” she said. “And I think a lot of people do that. Because we're not driven by money. We already know going in that we're paid pennies, OK? We're doing it because of the purpose behind the work.” Giving teachers more support and decision-making power, Richardson said, would do more to keep them in the job; she herself left teaching for administration to try and fix the kinds of problems in school culture and leadership she had encountered.
“I love when I have those days where I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, that was so much fun. I love my students, we did so much.’”
Support and autonomy are also measures that don’t have to cost anything, unlike politically unpopular raises. “Sometimes when I'm talking to legislators, I’ve had cases where a legislator will just stop me right in the beginning and say, ‘Look, Professor Ingersoll, give us some concrete things to do. But please, please, don't bring up raising salaries,’” Ingersoll said.
Many of the teachers leaving classrooms find jobs at educational technology companies or writing curriculum, which McNally, the former Atlanta teacher, now does. Teaching can translate to roles at tutoring companies and in training programs for businesses. At these kinds of jobs, they can escape the pressure and low pay and finally attain work-life balance. Teaching is a job too, but it’s also a craft, and for many people, a passion; and it’s bittersweet for some to think of a life without it.
Jasmihn Williams, a sixth-grade teacher in Salt Lake City, often sees advice online from former teachers on how to pivot to jobs she sees as much less fulfilling than teaching can be. “They end up in these like, tech jobs, which is fine, but it’s not really what I want to do,” Williams said. “I love teaching. I love when I have those days where I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, that was so much fun. I love my students, we did so much.’ Those days are so worth it for me that I don’t really want to try something else right now.
“I would rather see through the other side,” she said of this moment in teaching. “But it feels like there’s never gonna be another side.” ● | https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/america-teaching-collapse-covid-education | 2022-04-01T00:55:26Z |
One week after bringing back Erik Harris, the Atlanta Falcons have added another veteran safety to the mix, signing Dean Marlowe to a one-year contract on Thursday afternoon.
Marlowe, 29, has played for three different teams (Carolina, Buffalo and Detroit) since making his debut for the Panthers in 2015.
We have signed safety Dean Marlowe to a one-year contract. pic.twitter.com/3e5mqHwueW
— Atlanta Falcons (@AtlantaFalcons) March 31, 2022
In 2021, Marlowe played in 16 games for the Lions with nine starts. He finished the season with 67 tackles (37 solo), two QB hits, two passes defended and a fumble recovery.
For his career, Marlowe has appeared in 47 games, starting in 16 total since 2015. Pro Football Focus gave the veteran safety a coverage grade of 63 last season, and a tackle grade of 81.9. | https://thefalconswire.usatoday.com/2022/03/31/atlanta-falcons-sign-veteran-safety-dean-marlowe-to-one-year-contract/ | 2022-04-01T00:55:26Z |
GENEVA (AP) — Environmentalists are criticizing slow progress at a U.N.-backed meeting of nearly all the world’s countries toward beefing up protections for biodiversity on Earth, ahead of a crucial meeting expected later this year in China where delegates could sign a global agreement.
A total of 195 countries — but not the United States — which are parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity wrapped up a two-week meeting Tuesday that aimed to make progress toward a deal to prevent the loss of biodiversity and avoid the extinction of many vulnerable species. It also addresses the emergence of pathogens like the coronavirus, which damage both lives and livelihoods.
Delegates agreed to hold an interim meeting in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, in June before a high-level conference known as COP15 in Kunming, China, at a still-undecided date later this year.
“Biodiversity is securing our own survival on this planet. It is not a joking matter,” said Francis Ogwal of Uganda, a meeting co-chair. “Every day that you live as a human being is on biodiversity."
Ogwal cited the “close linkage” between biodiversity and climate change, saying “every time that governments are talking about mobilizing for climate change, they should be doing the same for biodiversity.”
Advocacy groups and some governments have ambitions for a deal in Kunming that would aim to protect and conserve at least 30% of the world’s land, inland waters and oceans to help stanch habitat loss, the overuse of nature by people and businesses, and the emergence of pathogens that thrive off of environmental upheaval.
Some faulted the lagging pace of progress.
“With so little time to Kunming, parties have finally kicked the can to the end of the road,” said Greenpeace East Asia senior policy advisor Li Shuo. As president of COP15, “China should work out a contingency plan to deliver a complex package with quality and ambition,” Li added.
The U.S.-based Campaign for Nature pointed to an emerging consensus on the 30% target and a growing recognition that the lives and livelihoods of local communities and Indigenous peoples should be better protected. Still it pressed for greater intensity from countries to find solutions to declining biodiversity.
“Unfortunately, the negotiations in Geneva have not reflected the urgency that is needed to successfully confront the crisis facing our natural world,” said Campaign for Nature's director, Brian O’Donnell. “Progress with the negotiations has been painfully slow, and the level of ambition with financing remains woefully inadequate.”
He said donor countries should commit to “far more ambitious financing targets.”
A key issue has been on repurposing and redirecting harmful subsidies that total $500 billion per year and can damage biodiversity. A draft proposal for the China meeting aims to commit $700 billion for sustaining or improving biodiversity.
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News Treehugger Voices Are Baugruppen the Answer to the Housing Affordability Crisis? This German spin on cohousing is perfect for young people. By Lloyd Alter Lloyd Alter Facebook Twitter Design Editor University of Toronto Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. Learn about our editorial process Published March 31, 2022 09:34AM EDT Fact checked by Katherine Martinko Fact checked by Katherine Martinko Twitter University of Toronto Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Learn about our fact checking process The R-50 Baugruppen in Berlin. Lloyd Alter Share Twitter Pinterest Email News Environment Business & Policy Science Animals Home & Design Current Events Treehugger Voices News Archive Housing affordability is a widespread problem and it has only managed to grow during the pandemic. Finance columnist Rob Carrick writes in The Globe and Mail: "Without a blistering correction in the real estate market, a growing number of people will never own a house.... Housing affordability is a generational conflict — Gen Z and millennials who find houses unaffordable versus older generations who already own and benefit when prices rise. It’s also class-driven – young adults on their own versus well-off families helping their adult kids buy homes they could not otherwise not afford. And it’s regional – buyers from expensive cities have migrated to cheaper, smaller locales." Carrick is writing from Canada, but the same thing is happening in the U.S., as noted by Bloomberg: "A measure of prices in 20 U.S. cities jumped 19.1%, up from 18.6% the previous month, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index showed Tuesday." According to The Economist, "For some millennials, the dream of home ownership may still prove out of reach." But there are alternatives to traditional homeownership, such as Baugruppen—the German word for “building groups” that refers to a principle of collective housing. These are described by erstwhile Treehugger contributor and Baugruppen expert Mike Eliason on the website of his new venture, Larch Labs: "At Larch Lab, we believe that Baugruppen, (German, lit. building groups) or self-developed urban co-housing, offer an appealing and more affordable alternative for those wishing to live in cities – near friends, family, and jobs. They are intentional communities in multifamily buildings developed by the residents that will be living in them, rather than developers. The elimination of developer profit and marketing costs can result in significant savings – from ten to twenty percent – over market-rate housing." It sounds a lot like cohousing, which has been slowly making inroads into North America. When asked what the differences were, Eliason tells Treehugger: "They are similar in that they are co-planned/determined/developed by the inhabitants. I would say the largest differential is that baugruppen are typically much more urban (e.g. the R-50 in Berlin, shown above) and there is no requirement for a common house, though there are also several baugruppen that have them. In the end, they are really similar with subtle nuances and probably a little interchangeable. For me, it's really about the residents living in the kind of housing they need in urban environments - choosing what sort of amenity spaces they want (sauna, library, bike room, community room, music room, etc.) that makes living in denser environments, in communal housing, much easier to facilitate. And more affordable, with more diverse housing than you would see in a typical market rate development." I have previously written about how Baugruppen would be perfect for aging baby boomers, but Eliason says it is good for everyone. "Baugruppen allow singles, couples, single parents, families with young children, and seniors to find their place in the city, affordably, and without contributing greatly to climate change," says Eliason. That's because they are designed for flexibility and are usually multi-story on urban lots at what I have called the "Goldilocks Density." "Dense enough to support vibrant main streets with retail and services for local needs, but not too high that people can't take the stairs in a pinch. Dense enough to support bike and transit infrastructure, but not so dense to need subways and huge underground parking garages. Dense enough to build a sense of community, but not so dense as to have everyone slip into anonymity." The chainlink balcony guards at the R-50 in Berlin. Lloyd Alter Eliason claims the Baugruppen model is more affordable because it is "development without developers," saving its profits and marketing costs, which he estimates are between 10% and 20%. This is an arguable point: Developers are very good at beating up trades and negotiating lower prices—they often make decisions on the basis of price rather than quality. On the other hand, the R-50 Baugruppe in Berlin that he and I both admire has balcony guards made of chainlink fencing and raw concrete ceilings; developers spend money on granite counters, so this may all balance out. More important is government support. In Canada, for example, thousands of cooperative units were built from the 1970s to the early 1990s with support from federal government programs until conservative governments cut all the programs in the name of austerity. In Germany, Eliason explains, "There are development and cooperative banks that have been open to financing these types of projects for decades." He adds: "Germany also has significant grants and subsidies for energy-efficient construction that can be used to partially fund the project." Baugruppen are encouraged and single-family sprawl is discouraged. There are also problems with zoning in North America. "Land use codes preventing small- and medium-scale multifamily housing from most urban areas has dramatic effects on decreasing affordability," says Eliason. "Restrictions that limit multifamily housing to loud, polluted and dangerous streets could be repealed." These restrictions are slow to change because politicians are often beholden to their NIMBY voters. Pew Research Center But this may change, as millennials and younger cohorts come to outnumber the boomer generation and start demanding that something be done. According to Pew Research, "Multigenerational living has grown sharply in the U.S. over the past five decades and shows no sign of peaking." Eliason says Baugruppen are multigeneration-friendly: "They are intentional multigenerational communities, where young can learn from old, old can be enthused by young. Where residents can pick up groceries for a neighbor, elderly residents can help with childcare, households can teach each other how to garden, or repair and maintain bicycles. They offer a vision of community that is not often found in the massive, faceless apartment buildings that have proliferated in today’s urban landscapes." In recent posts, I have been musing about how we should be building in a climate crisis, and now once again we have an energy crisis. I noted we should be building at the right density (Goldilocks), the right height (around five stories), and the right upfront and operating carbon regimes (natural materials and Passivhaus). Looking at Eliason's prescriptions for building Baugruppen, I realize the buildings he describes are all of these things, adding in the issues of ownership and affordability, which is important in this time of an intergenerational housing crisis. As Eliason concludes, "The construction of decarbonized Passivhaus Baugruppen could be a win for all involved: green jobs, high-quality climate-adaptive buildings; comfortable living environments; low-carbon living, and affordable homes." This is the way we should be building now. | https://www.treehugger.com/baugruppen-housing-affordability-crisis-5224089 | 2022-04-01T00:55:26Z |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jurors got a closer look at the life of an accused killer on the fourth day of Ronnie Hyde’s murder trial, as prosecutors introduced photographs of his squalid Jacksonville Beach home and he took the stand in his own defense.
The former pastor is accused of murdering and dismembering 16-year-old Fred Laster, whose headless, handless, legless torso was found behind a Lake City Dumpster in 1994.
Hyde is also charged with 25 counts of child pornography, which will be taken up at a separate trial. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Under questioning from his own attorney, Hyde was seemingly at ease, answering her freely, and chuckling often.
"Oh no," he said often, as when attorney Ann Finnell asked, "Would you have ever harmed that child?"
He testified he had no idea where most of the items found at the crime scene were found, including items that had his DNA on them, like a red plaid shirt. He testified he may have given it to Fred Laster.
He said he also gave Laster an egg crate mattress for camping, one similar the blood soaked one found in the Lake City dumpster.
When asked about the pictures of his squalid home, he chuckled and said, "I'm a bit embarrassed about that. If I knew you all were coming over, I would've cleaned up a bit."
The attempt at humor was met with total silence in the crowded courtroom.
Family of Fred Laster frequently shook their heads as he testified about their family.
The lead FBI agent on the case testified her crews were unable to follow their usual protocol for collecting evidence because Hyde’s home was so full of trash, agents couldn’t safely navigate it. She said they took most items outside to photograph and catalogue, and were required to wear extra PPE and respirators because of what she called “the heavy odor emanating from the house."
Also shown to jurors today – pictures of an anatomy textbook found on Hyde’s bookshelf, which was the source of a furious confrontation between Prosecutor Alan Mizrahi and defense attorney Ann Finnell. Finnell said she “inadvertently” stipulated to the photograph (agreed to allow it into evidence without objection), but insisted she’d opposed the photograph from the beginning and that Mizrahi "knew it."
After court concluded Wednesday, Finnell called it “pure sleaze” on the part of the prosecution. “C’mon Ann,” Mizrahi shot back, saying she was “wrong” and that he’d “bent over backward” for her throughout trial. Things got so heated, the courtroom deputy repeatedly ordered them to “take it outside,” telling them “not in the courtroom!”
There were no such fireworks Thursday morning. Mizrahi agreed to remove the photo from the list of approved evidence, and the judge later permitted it over defense objections.
Jurors were also shown tax returns in which Hyde claimed the victim as his foster son for two years after his disappearance and a poster by the national center for missing and exploited children titled “Knowing My 8 Rules for Safety.”
After struggling with IT issues, prosecutors began playing the police interrogation video of Hyde before noon.
The state is expected to rest its case today. The jury is scheduled to get the case Friday. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/defendants-surprise-testimony-dominates-4th-day-of-ronnie-hyde-murder-trial/77-fb91402a-d58a-4e1b-956c-d1f555154f6a | 2022-04-01T00:55:26Z |
CHEROKEE COUNTY, Texas — An East Texas doctor has been suspended by the state medical board,
According to the Texas Medical Board, on Wednesday, a disciplinary panel temporarily suspended, without notice, the Texas medical license of Karl Frederick Kauffman, M.D. (Lic. No. Q6435), after "determining his continuation in the practice of medicine poses a continuing threat to public welfare."
The suspension was effective immediately.
The board panel found that on or about March 21, 2022, Dr. Kauffman, who served as an ER physician at several area hospitals, was arrested by the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office for continuous sexual abuse of a young child.
The CCSO says an ongoing investigation and a search warrant of his home led to two warrants for continuous sexual abuse of a child.
Dr. Kauffman was booked into the Cherokee County Jail on $2 million bond.
A temporary suspension hearing with notice will be held as soon as practicable with 10 days' notice to Dr. Kauffman, unless the hearing is specifically waived.
If convicted, Dr. Kauffman faces life in prison or for any term of not more than 99 years or less than 25 years, according to the CCSO. | https://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/local/east-texas-doctor-suspended-by-state-medical-board/501-65ef0601-e17c-4e6e-a6fe-ff6f7327125c | 2022-04-01T00:55:26Z |
Which basketball hoop is best?
Imagine playing basketball with your friends only to find that a group of kids has already taken over your favorite court. You’ll never face this dilemma again if you have a hoop at home.
If you want a high-quality basketball hoop for your driveway, the Silverback In-Ground Basketball Hoop is worth your attention. It’s an arena-style hoop made with durable steel and delivers elite performance thanks to its tempered glass backboard and breakaway rim.
What to know before you buy a basketball hoop
Location
You’re going to need ample space to work with if you want a basketball hoop for your home. Driveways are a popular location for hoops, and they’re also the safest since you can put one close to your house. It’s recommended to do so, especially if you have small children, as there’s less chance that the ball will roll or bounce onto the street.
Hoop type
There are three types of home basketball hoops: in-ground, portable and mounted.
In-ground hoops are placed into the ground with cement, so they’re more of a long-term or permanent option. Portable hoops are the most versatile since you can move them around easily, and they have bases that need to be filled with water or stand to stay in place. Both hoop types have mechanisms for adjusting height, so they’re both excellent options for young players who are still growing physically.
Mountable hoops are usually placed on walls or over garage doors. They’re the least expensive option, but unfortunately, they don’t have as many features as in-ground or portable hoops. For example, if you have the space to do so, you must remove a mounted hoop and relocate it to adjust the height.
Playability
If all you want to do is shoot around occasionally, you can save yourself a few dollars by going with a mountable hoop if you have somewhere to put it. However, if you want something that can last you for years and help you or your child develop as a player, a portable or in-ground hoop is the better option. They’re more durable and are engineered with advanced metrics to deliver a professional-level experience.
What to look for in a quality basketball hoop
Backboard size
Small backboards make for an easier target and are designed for children learning to play the game. Backboards with a width of 32 to 48 inches are considered youth sizes and are usually cheaper than hoops with larger backboards. 48 to 52 inches is considered regulation-size and the best option for adults and experienced players.
Backboard material
The backboard can be tempered glass, polycarbonate or acrylic. Tempered glass backboards are the most expensive as it delivers the best bounce and is used for backboards across all competitive levels. Polycarbonate and acrylic backboards are durable and less delicate than tempered glass, making them excellent options for portable hoops.
Height adjustability
The basketball hoops used in the National Basketball Association are 10 feet high, and while that’s the height teenagers and adults should be playing with, younger players need lower nets. As they grow and develop, you can adjust the hoop’s height based on your strength and skill level. Also, lowering the height on a portable hoop can make storage easier.
How much you can expect to spend on a basketball hoop
You can find youth portable and mountable basketball hoops for $100-$300, but if you’re looking for a regulation-size in-ground or portable hoop, it can cost you anywhere from $500-$2,000.
Basketball hoop FAQ
Can in-ground hoops be moved?
A. Some newer in-ground hoops come with goals that can change their orientation and detachable upper portions. However, removing an in-ground hoop can be complicated and requires professional assistance.
Is it better to use water or sand to fill a portable hoop base?
A. Water is more convenient, but sand is denser, so it’s more reliable and adds more weight. More weight means less shifting or shaking, which can be common once water leaks or evaporates from the base.
What’s the best basketball hoop to buy?
Top basketball hoop
Silverback In-Ground Basketball Hoop
What you need to know: This in-ground hoop has sturdy, powder-coated steel construction and offers gymnasium-style performance.
What you’ll love: It’s height adjustable between 7.5 and 10 feet and boasts a tinted tempered glass backboard. It can be unbolted to move around the net’s orientation and has a flexible breakaway rim. Also, it comes with a backboard pad and a five-year limited warranty.
What you should consider: Many customers report that it shakes too much on missed shots.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top basketball hoop for the money
Lifetime 52-Inch MVP Portable Basketball Hoop
What you need to know: It’s an excellent driveway hoop for those who want something easy to maneuver and light on the wallet.
What you’ll love: The backboard isn’t as large as an arena-style basketball hoop, but it’s shatterproof, and at 52 inches, it’s enough for casual pick-up games. It’s adjustable between 7.5 and 10 feet and has a high-quality rim flexible rim.
What you should consider: Assembly isn’t complicated, but it can be time-consuming, even with quality tools.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
Spalding The Beast Glass Portable Basketball Hoop
What you need to know: This is a high-quality hoop with premium features you wouldn’t find on other portable models.
What you’ll love: It has a sturdy alloy-steel frame, a 54-inch tempered glass backboard, and a screw jack lift for easy height-adjusting. The base has four wheels and can be filled with water or sand.
What you should consider: Some reported that the base leaks if filled with water and that sand works best to avoid this.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NYU reports spate of attacks on Asian students in the last month
Three Asian students at New York University reported being attacked over the past month.
At least six students in total were assaulted in February, college newspaper the Washington Square News reported last month. Most of the victims said they were walking alone when they were struck from behind.
Three of the first four victims were Asian, NBC News confirmed.
Students were upset at a slow response from campus police. But in an email to the student body obtained by NBC News, the university’s vice president for Global Campus Safety pledged to increase campus patrols and improve lighting on campus.
“We are conscious of the unease that Asian members of the NYU community may be feeling right now,” said Fountain Walker, according to NBC. “We stand united in full support of them, and want them to know they have our support and that we are determined to make them feel secure on our campus.”
Anti-Asian hate crimes have soared during the pandemic, fueled in part by the origin of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China.
Anti-Asian hate crimes soared 339 percent last year compared to 2020.
In response, the U.S. Congress passed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act last year to bolster reporting, education and other measures to combat the issue.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Emotions were high inside a Davidson County courtroom as the guilty verdict for Michael Mosley was read.
A bar fight turned deadly at the hands of Mosley after he stabbed three BGA graduates in 2019, claiming the lives of Paul Trapeni and Clay Beathard and severely injuring AJ Bethurum.
It only took about an hour for jurors to come back with a guilty verdict for Mosley, a verdict that sparked emotions from both sides of the courtroom as well as the foreperson.
Her voice quivered as though she was holding back tears as the foreperson read the guiltily verdict, while family and friends of Trapeni and Beathard quietly cried. It was a day they have been waiting a long time for.
In the hallway afterwards, family and friends embraced one another with hugs as prosecutors spoke about the verdict.
“We were thrilled to get that verdict especially for these families who have been so wonderful,” said Assistant District Attorney Amy Hunter.
Prosecutors say something that came out of this trial was getting to know the incredible group of people the victims were surrounded by.
“I just feel like it was such an amazing group of young people. They are all kind and loving people that really truly treated other people the way they would treat each other, which is why it’s so shocking for something like this to have happened to them because they wouldn’t expect somebody like Michael Mosley to even exist in the world, much less be in the same place as they were,” said ADA Jan Norman.
As we heard earlier this week, Michael Mosley and his group of friends were at the Dogwood to try and sell drugs.
We heard from some 20 people throughout the week recounting how the bar fight turned fatal to everyone’s surprise, as no one saw a weapon or anyone get stabbed.
Before the verdict was read, Mosley’s sister and girlfriend were already in tears. His attorney, Ken Quillen, said he didn’t want to comment because of the grieving families.
Mosley faces a life sentence; prosecutors say they will ask for the maximum penalty. He is already behind bars serving a 12-year sentence for an unrelated assault case. | https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/reaction-following-michael-mosleys-guilty-verdict/ | 2022-04-01T00:55:28Z |
A Marin County elementary school has reinstated its indoor masking rule following a spike in COVID-19 cases.
Coleman Elementary School in San Rafael has documented 20 infections since March 22, including 14 students and six employees, the school district reported Thursday.
Principal Mike Taylor announced a temporary reinstatement of the indoor mask mandate through April 15. He said extra masks will be available in the school office.
The school is also distributing extra at-home rapid tests for families to use any time symptoms or possible exposures occur. Any children who test positive should be kept home and retested before returning to school, Taylor said.
“I want to emphasize that this is not a time for alarm, but for us to implement the recommended public health strategies to respond to an uptick in cases and decrease risk of transmission,” Taylor said in a letter to parents on Wednesday. “Together, we are all adapting to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, while creating environments where students thrive.”
A similar spike in coronavirus infections was reported at Bacich Elementary School in Kentfield. But it happened before the indoor mask mandate for schools lifted on March 12.
Raquel Rose, superintendent of the Kentfield School District, said 13 students and one staff member at Bacich tested positive between March 6 and 11.
All the people who tested positive followed the isolation and testing guidelines and returned to school once the protocol was completed, she said.
Rose said the county recommended onsite testing on March 23. She said 125 students and staff were tested, and there were no positive cases.
“We have done a deep cleaning at the site and continue to offer masks for the students and staff,” she said.
Elsewhere in the county, COVID-19 infections have been minimal since the indoor mask mandate ended, education leaders said this week. Several school districts plan to distribute home test kits for families to have while students are on spring break next week.
“We currently have 14 students districtwide who have tested positive for COVID in the past 10 days and two staff members,” said Tara Taupier, superintendent of the Tamalpais Union High School District. “We currently have 5,039 students and 503 staff members in the district.”
Similarly, the Novato Unified School District is not reporting a spike in positive cases. Leslie Benjamin, a district spokesperson, said staff and students have continued to wear masks indoors since the guidance changed.
“The COVID activity has been manageable,” she said.
At the Reed Union School District, a handful of students have tested positive, said Kimberly McGrath, the superintendent.
“We currently have six total active cases, which includes no staff members and only six students,” McGrath said. “This is a manageable level of COVID activity.”
The Miller Creek School District has “not had a surge,” said Becky Rosales, the superintendent. The students and staff are expected to test on April 10 before returning to school the next day.
“Since March 6, three staff and one student tested positive,” she said.
At Ross Valley School District, the situation is “manageable,” said superintendent Marci Trahan. She said 11 students and no employees have tested positive since March 14.
“There’s really a mix of students and staff who continue to wear masks indoors and out,” she said.
The district will distribute test kits “to all students and staff this Friday that they can use if they have an exposure, become symptomatic, return from out of state travel, or to test out of quarantine after exposure,” Trahan said.
The Larkspur-Corte Madera School District has “not had very many cases at all” and “no significant spikes,” said Brett Geithman, superintendent.
Students and staff will be taking home another batch of at-home test kits over the break, but they will be told only to use if they have symptoms, Geithman said.
At Branson School in Ross, “the rollout of mask-optional has gone exceptionally well and about 20% of our community is still masking inside,” said Chris Mazzola, head of school.
“We have had one or two COVID cases, but that is it,” Mazzola said.
Marin Catholic High School in Kentfield has had “zero cases of students or faculty with COVID,” said Tim Navone, school president.
“A very low percentage of students and faculty wear masks on campus,” Navone said. “We have no current plans for any testing after Easter break.”
John Carroll, superintendent of the Lagunitas and Bolinas-Stinson school districts, said “we haven’t had really any cases at school.” He said there have been “a few individuals with positive cases off-campus, but nothing alarming.”
“Things have actually been calmer than usual,” he said.
Infections at Shoreline Unified School District in West Marin “have remained at a manageable level since our change to our policy, with only two student cases over the last few weeks,” said Adam Jennings, the district superintendent.
“We also have a blend of students and staff who are wearing face coverings, and are making test kits available to all of our students and staff,” he said.
Mary Jane Burke, the county superintendent of schools, said “the lifting of the state mask mandate and its implementation on the local level has so far proven to be working well.”
Burke said the Marin County Office of Education has received a new supply of at-home rapid antigen COVID-19 tests for distribution to schools in advance of spring break next week. Families can use the tests before returning children to school on April 11, or at any time symptoms occur.
Burke said public health officials are “advising anyone who is traveling or engaging in any other potentially risky activity to consider testing before returning from spring break.”
“Otherwise, students and staff may hold onto the test and use it if experiencing symptoms,” she said. | https://www.marinij.com/2022/03/31/marin-school-restores-mask-order-amid-covid-spike/ | 2022-04-01T00:55:28Z |
Review: ‘Slow Horses’ introduces audiences to a new kind of antihero
Directed in the main by James Hawes, a showrunner who brought TNT’s Snowpiercer to life, this seedy espionage thriller series stars Gary Oldman as a lifer in charge of the MI5 version of a dead letter office, and it’s solid stuff. Shot in and around London, Slow Horses takes its time to embrace the milieu of this sprawling metropolis, immersing audiences into a world of cut-price cloak and dagger.
As the plot thickens, a politically-charged kidnapping adds impetus, and early, introductory scenes, which are a savvy combination of action-based pursuit and visual exposition, pay dividends. Slow Horses is also a story about opposites in every conceivable manner, as Oldman’s Jackson Lamb faces off against his officious opposite number, Diana Taverner, played by Oscar nominee Kristin Scott Thomas, who brings an icy demeanor and emotional detachment to the role, tinged with fleeting moments of vulnerability that make her almost human.
As the agendas of Taverner and Lamb conflict, converge and dissipate completely, Slow Horses turns into a genuine guessing game. Government-sponsored guns-for-hire clash with extremist groups out to make a statement, while Lamb and his cohorts navigate seedy side streets. In part, this feels like an old school spy thriller, overlayed with elements of hi-tech surveillance which add a modern edge.
The novel of the same name upon which the series is based, a creation from the pen of author Mick Herron, was adapted for Apple TV by Will Smith. Not that Will Smith, but the writer best-known for his work on Veep and the British political satire The Thick of It.
With Smith dancing around the dialogue, often giving Oldman some truly caustic diatribes, Slow Horses often proves to be simultaneously extremely funny yet poignant. As Jackson Lamb, Oldman is disheveled, dismissive, and disarming in his apparent indifference to everything around him. He perpetually paints the air blue with his gift for profanity, while his indolent charges wither in the wake of those witticisms. Like Barry Humphries’ Goblin King in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Lamb is often found in repose behind a battle-hardened demeanor, even as he is immersed in squalor, and baldly repulsive in his penchant for bodily debasement.
Yet over the course of this series, Lamb embraces his role as reluctantly reticent patriarch to a rabble of agents whose career mistakes have steered them out of the agency’s front lines. Lamb reveals himself to be a man of principle, even if the principles might be concealed beneath a sheen of unhygienic detachment.
Other supporting players in this espionage dramedy include Oscar nominee Jonathan Pryce, in a small but pivotal role, much of which plays out alongside Jack Lowden, himself a veteran of high-profile small screen projects, like Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, as well as indie film breakout Fighting with My Family, from writer-director Stephen Merchant. Although Pryce only makes a fleeting appearance, while Lowden’s Cartwright proves crucial to this eclectic ensemble, there is no denying that this story benefits from his presence.
Although certain elements of this show embrace conventional genre tropes, they are delivered to audiences with fresh eyes. Lamb might be using his indifference as a defense mechanism to insulate himself from others, but remains a fundamentally decent person. Diana Taverner puts a similar barrier up against her insecurities, which stem from a need for professional recognition.
Those are the clashes of ideology and agenda that give Slow Horses a much-needed injection of dramatic depth, which in turn adds pathos to any comedic moments. Both Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas are experienced enough to walk this line flawlessly, without once descending into caricature or stereotype. In many ways, their performances here mirror those they gave in Darkest Hour, where Oldman gets the best one-liners, while his revered co-star is reduced to an admirable supporting player, a fact which should never diminish the importance of that contribution in making Slow Horses such an engaging piece of entertainment.
Whether that translates into a sequel to this series remains to be seen, as there are a number of novels featuring Jackson Lamb already out there in the world. However, based on this outing alone, and with the full endorsement of Gary Oldman going forward, Slow Horses could be the beginning of something truly unique.
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Gary Oldman delivers audiences an unhygienic anti-hero to remember in this new Apple original drama. | https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/review-slow-horses-introduces-audiences-to-a-new-kind-of-antihero/ | 2022-04-01T00:55:28Z |
FORNEY, Texas — Rapper "Trapboy Freddy", was arrested and put into custody at the Kaufman County jail in Kaufman on Wednesday following a traffic stop.
Trapboy Freddy's real name is Devarius Dontez Moore, 30, of Dallas, and was arrested Wednesday afternoon after a traffic stop by Kaufman County Constable Pct 2 deputies.
Moore was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon and one charge of possession of marijuana < 2oz. According to jail records Moore was booked in the Kaufman County Jail at 2:57 PM Wednesday afternoon.
Moore is expected to be arraigned during a bond hearing by a Kaufman County magistrate Thursday morning.
News of Moore's arrest first went viral on social media Wednesday after a video captured by a passerby was posted.
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LAPD was ready to arrest Will Smith following Chris Rock slap, Oscars producer says
Oscars producer Will Packer is unfolding details of the events that occurred at the 2022 Oscars.
In a preview clip of an upcoming "Good Morning America" interview, the producer shared that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was there and ready to arrest Will Smith if Chris Rock chose to press charges after the "King Richard" star slapped him.
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"They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment. They said we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him," Packer explained.
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"They were laying out the options. And as they were talking, Chris was — he was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine.’ And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish.’ The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were, and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said no. He said no."
Per the outlet, Packer said he didn't speak to Smith the night of the Oscars.
In another short clip shared by "Good Morning America," T.J. Holmes asks Packer: "Sounds like Chris Rock had the option to have the LAPD go arrest Will Smith," to which Packer replied, "That's absolute facts."
It was previously reported that Rock declined to press charges.
The Los Angeles Police Department as well as reps for Rock and Smith did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
On Thursday, a source told Fox News that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is standing behind its statement that Smith was "asked to leave the ceremony and refused."
A source at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences told Fox News that the Academy also looks forward to the April 18 meeting when disciplinary actions may be taken. The source added that they believe the "King Richard" star did violate the Academy’s Standards of Conduct.
Reports swirled on Thursday claiming that the actor wasn't directly asked to leave and that it was instead "suggested."
Deadline reported that Academy President David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson spoke with Smith’s rep, running the idea by her that Smith should leave Sunday night’s ceremony, before he was awarded the Oscar for best actor.
The rep then reportedly approached Smith with that statement, to which he replied, "I want to make this right. I want to stay and apologize."
The Academy's statement also noted that Smith will receive a 15-day notice regarding "his violations and sanctions" as well as the "opportunity to be heard beforehand by means of a written response."
Smith took to Instagram on Monday night to publicly apologize to Rock, but has been silent since.
On Wednesday night, Rock was greeted with a three-minute-long standing ovation before his first comedy show, which was in Boston, and addressed the slap for the first time.
The comedian first addressed the crowd by joking, "How was your weekend?"
"I had a whole list of jokes. I had a whole show I wrote before this weekend, and I'm still kind of processing what happened," he added.
"At some point I'll talk about that s---, and it will be serious, and it will be funny," Rock said.
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- NZD/USD bulls are stepping in at 4-hour support.
- Bulls are looking for a continuation of the bull trend for fresh daily highs.
NZD/USD is setting up for a possible bullish continuation on the daily chart and the following illustrates the market structure there and lower down on the 4-hour chart:
NZD/USD daily chart
The price has corrected back to test the prior resistance that is now acting as support. Should this hold, the bulls could be encouraged to commit to the broader bullish trend and a higher high could be on the cards for the foreseeable future. 0.7050 will be a focus in this regard.
NZD/USD H4 chart
The 4-hour chart shows the price establishing a support structure from which the bulls have engaged at. A break of the recently printed 4-hour highs near 0.6960 would be encouraging.
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📄 The GraphQL schema
A schema is like a contract between the server and the client. It defines what a GraphQL API can and can't do, and how clients can request or change data. It's an abstraction layer that provides flexibility to consumers while hiding back-end implementation details.
Before we jump into defining our schema, let's run through a quick crash course on GraphQL's Schema Definition Language, or SDL.
If you're already familiar with SDL, feel free to move to the next lesson.
At its heart, a schema is a collection of object types that contain fields. Each field has a type of its own. A field's type can be scalar (such as an Int
or a String
), or it can be another object type. For example, the Track
object type in our schema will have an author
field of type Author
.
We declare a type using the type
keyword, followed by the name of the type (PascalCase is best practice), then opening brackets to hold its contained fields:
type SpaceCat { # Fields go here}
Fields are declared by their name (camelCase), a colon, and then the type of the field (scalar or object). A field can also contain a list, indicated by square brackets:
type SpaceCat { age: Int missions: [Mission]}
Unlike Javascript objects (which look very similar), fields are not separated by commas. In addition, we can indicate whether each field value is nullable or non-nullable. If a field should never be null, we add an exclamation mark after its type:
Which of the following are valid field types?
Code Challenge!
SpaceCat
type with the following fields: name
of type String
(non null), age
of type Int
, and missions
of type List
of Mission
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"""I'm a block descriptionwith a line break"""
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Why are Democrats crying that the sky is falling? Why are Democrats acting like a challenge to the election process never happened before in American history? Well, they are partially correct. When it was done previously, it actually worked.
Have you ever heard of “President” Samuel J. Tilden? It appeared he had the most votes for U.S. president on election night in 1876, yet months later politicians creatively arranged a compromise to bring about Tilden’s demise. Democratic politicians did this to one of their own, for Tilden was a fellow Democrat and the governor of New York. Poor Gov. Tilden. In the electoral count, he was just one delegate away from winning. Instead, he lost by one.
Now, to our current election controversy, which the Democrat-controlled Congress is constantly talking about. Not only did election disputes happen before, as with Tilden, there is also a game plan to do it again and again. But what has been proven is that our electoral system works, it is strong. Joe Biden is president of the United States.
The Democrats in Congress cannot stop thinking about the past. This past week they attempted to bring the Jan. 6 episode at the Capitol to the forefront again. They never learned an important lessons that former President Bill Clinton taught them, which, by the way, won him two elections: 1. It’s the economy, stupid. 2. From a popular song that Clinton used as his theme — “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow.”
The laundry list of what the Democrat-controlled Congress should do to help America is lengthy. It shouldn’t include spending more money on every conceivable liberal/socialist issue while increasing our $30 trillion debt.
History has a way of repeating itself, especially when you do not know your history. On election night, Rutherford Hayes — Tilden’s Republican opponent — was patient. He wanted all the votes counted. Who could disagree with him?
Months later, Hayes was declared president after allegations emerged of election tampering in certain states. The delegate counts from those states were contested. And when the dust settled, the Democrats threw their support behind the Republican candidate for president in what became known as the Compromise of 1877. Tilden still won the popular vote, but was just one electoral delegate short of the presidency.
At the time, Black people were used as political pawns. Ultimately, they suffered the most. Northern troops were removed from the South in exchange for the Democrats’ willingness to push Tilden off the political cliff.
That led to the end of Reconstruction and the start of Jim Crow. This was when the Ku Klux Klan flourished, causing Blacks from the South to migrate to the North and West. It led to domestic terrorism, the likes of which has never been seen on American soil. More than 4,000 Black people were lynched over the following decades. (Congress and President Biden can be commended for finally making lynching a hate crime).
What former President Donald Trump was attempting to do actually worked in the late 1870s. His advocates were simply working off the Tilden-Hayes playbook.
Today, the polls are actually much, much worse for Democrats than we are led to be believe. Why? Because of the overwhelming support Black people give to Democrats and Biden. To a degree the role of Black people today is as instrumental as it was in 1877.
All polls relating to Biden’s performance should be done in two ways. Method one can look at the universe. The other method could include polls that are broken down into suburban and rural versus urban.
Such a poll would mirror the racial lines between Black and white people. A better barometer is to look at the question of whether the country is going in the “right” or “wrong” direction. Currently, those who say we are going in the “right” direction are in the low 20s. Those who say we are headed in the “wrong” direction are in the 70s.
These are numbers possibly never seen before. They spell a crisis.
Thanks to our political system, we will have midterm elections soon.
In the meantime, Biden can push Congress to pass spending bills and the budget via regular order, something that Congress has failed to do for years.
What happened on Jan. 6 is only a news item because Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi did not protect the Capitol.
The riots were extremely horrific. Something for our Justice Department to address.
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Only approximately 3% of American lawyers are board certified
DALLAS, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bradley Arant Boult Cummings is pleased to announce that partner Dick Sayles has earned National Board Certification as a trial lawyer advocate by The National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA).
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Mr. Sayles has been board certified in Texas for more than 30 years in both civil trial law and personal injury trial law, and now has the honor of being nationally recognized for his dedication to the legal profession. The extensive screening that NBTA board certified attorneys must complete includes demonstrating substantial trial experience, submission of judicial and peer references, attendance in continuing legal education courses, submission of legal writing documents, proof of good standing and passing of an examination.
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Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (NYSE:SQM – Get Rating) was the target of a large drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,850,000 shares, a drop of 21.9% from the February 28th total of 2,370,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,650,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.1 days.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile stock traded up $0.06 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $85.60. The stock had a trading volume of 1,832,495 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,605,335. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a twelve month low of $40.53 and a twelve month high of $87.49. The stock has a market capitalization of $22.53 billion, a PE ratio of 41.35, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.44 and a beta of 0.64. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.80, a quick ratio of 3.43 and a current ratio of 4.62. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $67.38 and its 200 day simple moving average is $60.16.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (NYSE:SQM – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, March 2nd. The basic materials company reported $1.13 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.97 by $0.16. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile had a return on equity of 19.57% and a net margin of 20.45%. The firm had revenue of $1.08 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.01 billion. Equities analysts predict that Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile will post 4.65 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of SQM. Blue Bell Private Wealth Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile during the fourth quarter worth about $26,000. Stephenson National Bank & Trust acquired a new position in shares of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile during the third quarter worth about $32,000. Baldwin Brothers LLC MA acquired a new position in shares of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile during the fourth quarter worth about $96,000. Daiwa Securities Group Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile during the third quarter worth about $166,000. Finally, HighTower Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile during the third quarter worth about $201,000. Institutional investors own 19.28% of the company’s stock.
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Sociedad QuÃmica y Minera de Chile SA produces and distributes specialty plant nutrients, iodine and its derivatives, lithium and its derivatives, potassium chloride and sulfate, industrial chemicals, and other products and services. The company offers specialty plant nutrients, including potassium nitrate, sodium nitrate, sodium potassium nitrate, specialty blends, and other specialty fertilizers.
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More than a dozen states have banned discrimination against someone based on how they wear their hair -- and now there is a push in Congress for the federal government to do the same. The House just approved a federal ban and now the legislation goes to the Senate.
Supporters say a federal law is needed because Black people are sometimes singled out in schools and workplaces because of their hair.
“I try to encourage people to embrace what they have,” said Danielle Butler, a hair stylist who owns Hair Rayz Glowin, a salon in Hyattsville, MD.
Butler says far too many of her clients are afraid to wear their natural hair at work or for job interviews.
“It’s disheartening to hear that people in the corporate world want people to change and be so uniform and cookie cutter, that’s not the way the world works,” she said during an interview at her salon with Spectrum News.
"If you wear it like that it’s perceived as ghetto or ratchet or something, no that’s our culture,” she added.
Butler hopes these pressures will end after the U.S. House passed the CROWN Act earlier this month, which stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair. The bill would ban discrimination based on hair style or texture. The bill explicitly states that “people of African descent” are “routinely deprived of educational and employment opportunities for hairstyles.” Those styles include twists, braids, cornrows and Afros.
“Nobody should have to sacrifice their time, their money and the health of their hair for the sake of complying with racist standards of professionalism,” said Rep. Bonnie Coleman Watson (D) New Jersey, who sponsored the legislation.
President Joe Biden has vowed to sign the bill but it may have trouble getting through the Senate, where Democrats barely have a majority. Some Republicans say protections against hair discrimination already exist under federal law. Others see the bill as a distraction.’
“They gotta get with the times,” Butler said.
Butler said passing the legislation federally would send a powerful message to black children like her daughter, Alaura.
“That’s why I like her being here at the shop with me, just so she could start to understand and love her hair,” she said.
“You got to teach them early to love their hair and just accept it, because it’s not going anywhere.”
She hopes others will feel more willing to express themselves moving forward.
“Some people are just not aware that this is an issue. The fact that we are bringing it to the forefront and bringing it to light and other people see it’s a problem, maybe they can start to change,” Butler said. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/03/31/hair-discrimination-bill-closer-to-becoming-federal-law | 2022-04-01T00:55:32Z |
News Animals Critically Endangered Blue-Eyed Lemur Born at Florida Zoo These lemurs have been named among the world's most threatened primates. By Mary Jo DiLonardo Mary Jo DiLonardo LinkedIn Twitter Senior Writer University of Cincinnati Mary Jo DiLonardo has worked in print, online, and broadcast journalism for 25 years and covers nature, health, science, and animals. Learn about our editorial process Published March 31, 2022 11:00AM EDT Fact checked by Katherine Martinko Fact checked by Katherine Martinko Twitter University of Toronto Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Learn about our fact checking process Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens Share Twitter Pinterest Email News Environment Business & Policy Science Animals Home & Design Current Events Treehugger Voices News Archive Covered in fuzzy light brown fur, a new critically endangered lemur baby born at a Florida zoo is surveying the world through its large, crystal blue eyes. The blue-eyed black lemur (Eulemur flavifrons) was recently born as part of the conservation program at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. Blue-eyed black lemurs are some of the most threatened primates in the world. The lemurs are classified as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of at-risk species. Blue-eyed black lemurs have been named among the 25 most threatened primates on Earth. Their population numbers have dropped 80% over the past three generations or 24 years. Scientists estimate that there will be an 88% reduction in the lemurs' range from 2000 to 2080 due to climate change alone. Blue-eyed black lemurs are sexually dichromatic, meaning that males and females have very different appearances. Males are totally black while females are reddish-brown to grayish-orange. When they’re born, babies have brown fur that blends in with their mother. As they get older, the fur on male lemurs will eventually turn black. They are the only primates, other than humans, that can consistently have blue eyes. Blue eyes are uncommon in the wild because they offer less protection from the sun than eyes with darker irises. They weigh about 5 pounds (2.4 kilograms) and are about 38 inches (1 meter) long. They have long, bushy tails that they will often keep high in the air as they move around. About the Lemur Baby Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens The lemur pup is the second successful birth of a blue-eyed black lemur at the zoo. The baby was born to mom Hendricks and dad Hemsworth, a pair that came to the zoo in 2017. Their first pup was a girl who left to go live at the San Diego Zoo in July 2021. Keepers don’t know the new baby’s gender yet. They are giving the family quiet time and space in these early days of development. “We have many reasons to celebrate this new infant. He or she will further enrich the social environment and experience of the Zoo’s amazing mixed-species lemur group and strengthen the sustainability of the Blue-eyed black lemur population,” Tracy Fenn, assistant curator of mammals, said in a statement. “The Madagascar team is elated to see this infant thriving in the care of the mother.” Threats and Habitat Loss The main threat to the blue-eyed black lemur’s survival is habitat loss. The species is found in a very limited area of northwestern Madagascar. The island country lost 37% of its forest from 1973 to 2014, according to the IUCN. Almost half of Madagascar’s remaining forest is located within 328 feet (100 meters) from the edge of the forest. Habitat is lost as more forest is converted into agricultural land. Logging, mining, and forest fires have also destroyed much of the lemurs’ home. In some cases, the animals are also hunted for food or trapped to keep as pets. View Article Sources "Critically Endangered Lemur Born at the Zoo." Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. 29 March 2022. "Blue-eyed Black Lemur." IUCN Red List. Mittermeier, Russell A., et al. "Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates, 2012– 2014." IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group, International Primatological Society, Conservation International, and Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation, 2012. "Blue-eyed Black Lemur," Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. "Blue-Eyed Black Lemur," Los Angeles Zoo. "Blue-eyed Black Lemur," San Francisco Zoo and Gardens. "Blue-eyed Black Lemur." Duke Lemur Center. Stepzinski, Teresa. "Awww! Cute and critically endangered baby lemur born at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens." Jacksonville. 29 March 2022. | https://www.treehugger.com/critically-endangered-blue-eyed-lemur-born-5224092 | 2022-04-01T00:55:32Z |
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. — The Jacksonville Beach Police say the killing of a father of four was targeted.
Jared Bridegan was shot, at close range, on the evening of February 16th as he left the Sanctuary neighborhood in Jacksonville Beach. Detectives say they believe he had stopped to move a tire that had been placed in the road when he was shot multiple times, with his two-year-old daughter in the car.
His killer's identity remains unknown, but his wife is not giving up her push for answers.
Kirsten Bridegan has a phone full of memories. Videos and pictures capturing the love her husband had for his family. A father of nine-year-old twins Abby and Liam from a previous marriage and their daughters, two-year-old Bexley and 7-month-old London.
In her cellphone videos she captures the simple, but precious moments, like Bexley bringing her father a picture she had drawn of a flower.
"Thank you, that's beautiful," said Jared admiring the picture.
"I drew you a picture Daddy," replied Bexley, "I drew you a flower."
It was Bexley that was in the car with Jared the night he was shot.
"She brings that up, daddy on the ground, we talk about how his body couldn’t get better and he is with God now," explained Kirsten.
She says she doesn’t know why anyone would want to kill Jared. He was the kind of man that surprised his children with a special breakfast on Valentine’s Day and gave her a handwritten love letter.
"That letter is on my nightstand because that is the last thing he gave me and it was truly from the heart and I am really grateful I got that," she said.
In the month and half since Jared’s murder, Kirsten has printed and hung up countless flyers at local businesses in Jacksonville Beach. She has also started an Instagram page, @JusticeForJaredB. It tells their family’s story and urges the public to share it in the hopes that someone with information will call in or identify the truck seen in surveillance video.
A Ford F-150 with tan or brown running boards, likely a 2004 to 2008 model, with a silver toolbox in the back is the truck Jacksonville Beach Police want to find.
"I do believe there is that one person out there that does know what happened and we just want them to come forward so this investigation can move forward and we can find out who did it," said Sgt. Tonya Tator with the Jacksonville Beach Police Department, "So that we can give that family some closure, it is not going to make up for what happened, but at least we can give them some closure."
And be able to give the children answers when they ask who killed their father and why.
For now, Kirsten holds tightly to the memories, replaying the videos of the moments life was a dream.
"He was a great dad, the best spouse and I want people to know that, so they know why it is important we find the truck," said Kirsten.
If you recognize the Ford F-150 in the pictures and video or have any information about the murder of Jared Bridegan you can contact the Jacksonville Beach Police Department at 904-270-1667 or Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS(8477).
There is a combined reward of $18,000 from CrimeStoppers and the ATF in this case. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/wife-continues-to-push-for-tips-in-the-death-of-husband-father-of-four/77-36dbb1eb-d8dd-4a39-9a4b-206ddfdc4262 | 2022-04-01T00:55:33Z |
WASHINGTON — 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://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/nation-world/insulin-cap-35-dollars-month-bill/507-855508ee-6b9d-4ce8-9937-22fa115af232 | 2022-04-01T00:55:33Z |
The Novato Unified School District board has named five administrators to positions starting July 1.
“Most are Novato residents or current employees and want to give back to the community through their professional talents,” Jan La Torre-Derby, the district superintendent, said after the trustees approved the appointments on Tuesday.
The appointees will fill vacant spots that had been frozen while the district trimmed $4 million from its budget.
“With the budget reductions made this year, NUSD does not forecast a deficit in the 2022-23 school year,” district spokesperson Leslie Benjamin said Thursday.
The district named Stefanie Parnell as principal at Hamilton K-8 School, where she has been interim principal this school year. Parnell replaces Steve Hospodar, who resigned in August.
Parnell was assistant principal at Hamilton for eight years and previously taught math at Sinaloa Middle School and Hill Middle School. Her starting salary will be $146,237.
Allie Greene was appointed assistant principal at Novato High School. She is the principal at Laguna High School in Sonoma County and worked previously as a vice principal at Santa Rosa High School and assistant principal at Terra Linda High School. She lives in Novato with her family and her children attend Novato schools.
Greene replaces Greg Fister, who resigned in January. Her starting salary will be $138,124.
Francesca Whitcomb was named director of human resources. She has been the human resources manager at Healdsburg Unified School District for the past seven years and she previously worked in human resources at San Rafael City Schools and the Novato district.
Whitcomb replaces Jonathan Ferrer, who resigned in June. Her starting salary will be $133,716.
Mike Saisi was named director of student services. Saisi has been the assistant principal at Sinaloa Middle School and Hill Middle School. He began his career in Novato teaching math at Hill Middle School.
The job is being reinstated following the elimination of two positions, director of student success and assistant director of special education. Saisi’s starting salary will be $152,736.
Anna McGee will coordinate the district’s mental health services. She joined the district as a counselor in adult education and has been a counselor at Novato High School since 2018.
McGee was previously a high school counselor at the Madrone Continuation High School and the San Ramon Valley Unified School District. She lives in Novato with her family and her children attend Novato schools. Her starting salary will be $102,050. | https://www.marinij.com/2022/03/31/novato-school-district-fills-administrative-posts/ | 2022-04-01T00:55:34Z |
Antioch, Tenn. (WKRN) — Two teens are facing criminal charges in connection with a murder investigation from Wednesday night.
The incident happened just before midnight at the Summerwind Apartments at 344 Bell Road in Antioch.
Once on the scene, police found a man — later identified as Denzel Hammond, 23 — shot and killed inside a locked car. Hammond was in the driver seat of the car, which was in gear when officers first arrived.
Although police were able to break out the window and render aid to Hammond, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Suhaela Lemelle, 16, was at the scene of the crime and identified Hammond as an acquaintance.
Following the preliminary investigation, detectives learned Lemelle and Draven Hughes, 17, were handling a pistol earlier in the night as they discussed robbing Hammond.
Police later searched Lemelle’s apartment, finding two guns.
Lemelle was taken into custody, and Hughes was also later arrested Thursday at his home. They are each charged with criminal homicide. | https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/teens-facing-criminal-homicide-charges-in-connection-with-antioch-deadly-shooting/ | 2022-04-01T00:55:34Z |
KAUFMAN, Texas — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved more than $12.5 million in grants to help create and enhance outdoor recreational opportunities. The competitive grants are allocated to local government entities on a 50/50 reimbursement match basis.
The City of Kaufman received a $750,000 non-urban outdoor grant for its Kaufman City Lake Park Development and Acquisition project. The project will include land acquisition for park expansion as well as development and renovations to City Lakes park. New hike/bike trails, disc golf course, an inclusive playground and significant landscaping are planned. This will also include the installation of an all-inclusive playground. The new playground replaces the previous aging playground and is more accessible for all children of varying skill levels and abilities.
The new playground was designed to increase interaction, encourage conversation, and promote language skills for children ages 2 to 12. This fenced playground will be ADA compliant and be inclusive of physical, emotional and mentally challenged kids. It will include elements for sensory play, wheel chair access, and much. All of our kids deserve a place to grow and play together.
The city has been working on sponsorship and fundraising efforts to provide this state-of-the-art playground. The goal is to raise/pledge $1 million for this project. The city has in place an opportunity for individual water customers to contribute to this project with a special designation on their monthly utility bill. Simply write in the additional amount and that money will be segregated for this special project. You can spread your gift over the next 36 monthly utility bills.
The city will also be pursuing corporate, foundational and public sponsorships and grants as well. To date the city has raised $418,500 towards this project from corporate sponsors including Texas Health Resources - Kaufman, Kaufman Lion’s Club, Performance Services, Republic Services, RelyOn Credit Union and Kaufman ISD. A permanent Sponsorship/Donor wall will be constructed to recognize all of our community sponsors and partners.
For more information on contributing to this project, email kaufmancitysec@kaufmantx.org | https://www.inforney.com/local-news/city-of-kaufman-fundraising-to-match-750-000-grant-to-expand-city-lake-park/article_469415be-b12a-11ec-b463-4793bf3f11ac.html | 2022-04-01T00:55:34Z |
Which backpack leaf blower is best?
If you have a yard or patch of land, you may have some difficulty dealing with leaves in the fall. Smaller yards with fewer trees usually clean up easily with a handheld leaf blower. But if you have a large plot that has plenty of foliage, you might want to consider investing in a backpack leaf blower. These handy devices can significantly cut your workload. And there are a number of worthwhile options in every price range.
The best backpack leaf blower for most consumers is the Echo PB-580T due to its budget-friendly price, performance, weight and reliability.
What to know before you buy a backpack leaf blower
They’re perfect for large jobs
Since backpack leaf blowers are considerably more powerful than handheld models, you won’t have to walk as much. They transfer the bulk of the weight to your back, hips and legs instead of your shoulders and arms.
Most importantly, they let you work on your entire property without being tethered to an electrical outlet. It’s this versatility that makes backpack leaf blowers the go-to choice for contractors and commercial lawn care outfits.
Noise factor
Backpack leaf blowers pack more power than handheld models because it has an internal combustion engine. One of the biggest issues with this is how much noise it makes. Four-cycle backpack leaf blowers are usually in the neighborhood of 70-80 decibels, and two-cycle models can easily exceed 90 decibels. Aside from wearing proper ear protection, you’ll need to consider noise level regulations. Some communities have laws prohibiting the use of lawn power tools that exceed 65 decibels.
Fuel blend
Most backpack leaf blowers have two-cycle engines, which use a combination of gasoline and motor oil. It’s extremely important to remember to use this blend since the wrong mixture could wreck your leaf blower. Most use a fuel-to-oil blend, but this can vary based on the model. Take time to review the manufacturer’s instructions carefully to ensure you use the right formula.
What to look for in a quality backpack leaf blower
Airspeed and cubic feet per minute
Both velocity and volume are important considerations. They’re related but not necessarily correlated. These factors vary depending on the design of the specific model and brand. If you want a truly effective backpack leaf blower that can handle a good amount of space, look for leaf blowers with a velocity of nearly 200 mph or more and at least 500 CFM in volume.
Throttle position
The leaf blower’s throttle control location is a subtle but important detail. Most users find that tube-mounted throttles are more convenient and comfortable to use. Leaf blowers with hip-mounted throttles tend to be slightly less expensive, but that depends on the brand. Ultimately, the choice will come down to your personal preference.
How much you can expect to spend on a backpack leaf blower
The most affordable backpack leaf blowers cost just over $200. The best options for private landowners are in the $500-$700 range. Those with landscaping businesses that do multiple jobs a week might want to invest in even more expensive models, some up in the thousands.
Backpack leaf blower FAQ
Are battery-powered backpack leaf blowers worth it?
A. Not really. If you have enough land and debris to need a backpack leaf blower, there aren’t battery-powered models that will last long enough to complete the job. To be clear, some systems allow you to strap high-powered, long-lasting batteries to your back for running specific leaf blowers, but they cost over $1,000.
What’s the best safety equipment for using a backpack leaf blower?
A. Wear work boots with plenty of traction as well as durable pants and long-sleeve shirts. These are important basics when working with any potentially hazardous tools. In addition, you should also use other safety equipment when using a commercial-grade leaf blower, such as protective glasses, earmuffs, earplugs and work gloves. All of these will keep you safe and ensure you’re protected while you’re using this heavy-duty equipment.
What’s the best backpack leaf blower to buy?
Top backpack leaf blower
What you need to know: It combines the performance of a commercial leaf blower with a consumer-friendly cost and lightweight design.
What you’ll love: It’s powerful enough to satisfy homeowners with large plots and plenty of brush. Echo is a well-respected manufacturer, so it’s an investment you can trust. It boasts a maximum airspeed of 215 mph and weighs just over 22 pounds.
What you should consider: One of its few drawbacks is that you can’t adjust or repair the carburetor.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot and Amazon
Top backpack leaf blower for the money
What you need to know: This relatively affordable option doesn’t sacrifice power or comfort.
What you’ll love: It’s one of the rare options that is less than $300 and still offers long-lasting effectiveness. It’s about as light as they come and significantly more powerful than a handheld mode.
What you should consider: It doesn’t quite have the same kind of power that many lawn care professionals need.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Worth checking out
What you need to know: Put simply, this four-cycle model is a beast of a leaf blower.
What you’ll love: It has more raw power and speed than just about any other option. Plus, since it uses a four-cycle motor, the sound it makes isn’t quite as painfully loud as others. If you need premium performance for professional jobs, this one is a great choice.
What you should consider: While it outperforms much of the competition, it may be too much power for the average homeowner.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
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Man who tried to drug woman's drink at Santa Monica bar pleads guilty to drugging, raping victim
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man who tried to spike a woman's drink at a bar in Santa Monica in 2016 before three women thwarted the attempt, has pleaded guilty to drugging and raping the victim.
Michael Roe Chien Hsu pleaded guilty to an act of sexual penetration where the victim was prevented from resisting because of a controlled substance. Hsu also admitted factors in aggravation.
According to investigators, three women saw Hsu allegedly trying to spike the drink of his female companion while she was in a restroom at the Fig restaurant inside the Fairmont Miramar Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, one of the three wrote in a Facebook posting.
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"He pulled her glass toward him, kind of awkwardly, then he took out a little black vial,'' according to her account on Facebook. "He opened it up and dropped something in. Then he tried to play it cool, like checking his phone and hiding the vial in his hand and then trying to bring it back down slyly.''
One witness got up to go tell security and warn the victim in the restroom of what occurred. When the victim returned to her table, Hsu tried to get her to take a drink of her wine. The victim waited until police arrived. The incident was captured via surveillance footage.
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When he was arrested, police discovered that he had three vials that later tested positive for MDMA and melatonin.
An electronic search warrant of his phone later revealed images and videos of Hsu digitally penetrating the victim in an incapacitated state at various stages of their friendship, then dating relationship.
Hsu will be required to register as a sex offender for life and will serve time in jail, authorities said.
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Florida GOP-led legislature passes congressional maps despite DeSantis veto threat
The GOP-controlled Florida State Legislature on Friday passed two congressional maps even after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) threatened to veto them if they came across his desk.
Florida’s House of Representatives voted 67-47 to pass the congressional districting maps and the state senate passed it by a vote of 24-15, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
Just before the vote, DeSantis had warned the bill was dead on arrival. “I will veto the congressional reapportionment plan currently being debated by the House. DOA,” he tweeted.
News of the maps’ passage has set the stage for a showdown over redistricting maps that need to be approved by June.
In order to override a veto from the governor, Florida’s state House will need to garner 80 votes and the state Senate will need 26, according to the Tampa Bay Times. However, Republicans hold less seats than votes needed in both chambers imperiling their override abilities, according to the paper.
If DeSantis vetoes the bill, he can also force lawmakers to come back for a special session and draw up new maps.
If neither of the scenarios play out, the two branches of state government can petition a court to draw the maps for them, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
The outlet reported that the maps passed by the legislature include one that would diminish Black voting strength in northern Florida, and another that splits Black voters in Orlando.
Both of these congressional maps have been slammed by Democrats, who argue the maps amount to gerrymandering and are unconstitutional under state law.
In January, DeSantis proposed a congressional map establishing 18 seats that would have gone for former President Trump in 2020.
The Hill has removed its comment section, as there are many other forums for readers to participate in the conversation. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. | https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/596980-florida-gop-led-legislature-passes-congressional-maps-despite-desantis/ | 2022-04-01T00:55:34Z |
- The US Dollar Index finished March with gains of 1.65%, boosted by a negative market mood.
- An extension of the Russia-Ukraine conflict could benefit safe-haven assets.
- Money market futures have priced in a 69.9% chance of a 50 bps rate hike by the Fed in the May meeting.
- DXY Price Forecast: The bias is upwards, but a break below 97.802 would open the door for further losses.
The US Dollar Index, a gauge of the greenback value against a basket of six currencies, also known as DXY, finished March positively, with a monthly gain of 1.65%, its highest since November of 2021. At press time, the US Dollar Index sits at 98.348.
The market mood on March’s last trading day was dismal. Failure to find a meaningful resolution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict keeps investors on their toes, boosting the buck’s prospects. Also, money market futures expectations that the Federal Reserve would hike 50-bps in May and June meetings loom, keeping the US dollar tilted upwards.
The CME FedWatch Tool has priced in a 69.9% chance of a 50 basis point rate hike in the May meeting, while June odds lie at 64%.
Source: CME FedWatch Tool
Thursday’s US economic docket featured the US Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE), the favorite measurement of inflation of the Federal Reserve, for February, which rose by 6.4% y/y, higher than the previous 6% reading. Meanwhile, Core PCE, which excludes volatile items, rose by 5.4% y/y, better than the 5.5% foreseen by analysts.
At the same time, the US Department of Labor revealed Initial Jobless Claims for the week ending on March 26. The figure came at 202K, worse than the 197K estimated.
DXY Price Forecast: Technical outlook
The US Dollar Index remains upward biased but consolidates around the 97.800-99.418 range. The 50 and 200-day moving average (DMA) remain below the price with an upslope, meaning that the uptrend is still intact.
On the upside, the DXY first resistance is the 99.000 mark. Breach of the latter would expose the YTD high at 99.418, followed by the psychological 100.00 mark.
On the flip side, the DXY first support would be 98.000. A decisive break would expose 97.802, which in case of being broken, would pave the way towards 96.000, but it would find some hurdles on its way down. The following support would be the 50-DMA at 97.196, followed by 96.000.
Technical levels to watch
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directory in our IDE. Within the src
directory we have a few subdirectories: pages
, containers
, components
, and assets
:
📂 client ┣ 📂 src ┃ ┣ 📂 assets ┃ ┣ 📂 components ┃ ┣ 📂 containers ┃ ┣ 📂 pages ┃ ┣ ... ┣ ...
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and containers/
directories, interacting with our GraphQL server via Apollo Client.
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folder holds our UI React components. Those are only responsible for displaying the data they receive via props. Those components are already built, because they aren't the focus of this course.
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directory, run:
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Missouri had the opportunity to try a new redistricting process. But we’re still operating under the old process that clearly hasn’t worked for years now.
In 2018, Missouri voters approved a ballot measure known as Clean Missouri that was designed to diminish the potential for political influences in redistricting. It required a nonpartisan demographer to draw state House and Senate districts to achieve what proponents said would be “partisan fairness” and “competitiveness” as determined by a specific mathematical formula.
Clean Missouri might have worked, or it might not have worked. No one knows because the state never had a chance to implement it.
Two years later, a push by the Republican-led Legislature that cast Clean Missouri as “deceptive” attempted to repeal it through a constitutional amendment that abolishes the nonpartisan demographer position and returns the redistricting task to a pair of bipartisan commissions. It worked, and the repeal was narrowly approved by voters in late 2020.
Now, the state is back where it started — unable to approve any sort of redistricting plan without getting the court system involved. One commission did adopt new state House districts, but another politically balanced citizens commission failed to agree on a new map for Missouri’s 34 Senate districts. The task then went to a judicial panel, which released a map in mid-March.
It has echoes of how terribly the process worked a decade ago. Ten years ago, a Senate redistricting plan put forth by a judicial panel was struck down by the Missouri Supreme Court for improperly dividing some counties in violation of the state constitution. A second citizens commission then was appointed and adopted a map that remained in place for the past decade.
Meanwhile, work to redraw a new congressional map for the state has been bogged down for months by disagreements and may also end up in the court system.
When the candidate filing period closed Tuesday, a new map for Missouri’s U.S. House districts still hadn’t been agreed upon by the GOP-led Legislature, where lawmakers have been unable to agree on how aggressively to draw maps in their favor.
Until a new map is agreed upon, the districts enacted after the 2010 census will remain in place. A lawsuit in Cole County Circuit Court contends that it’s unconstitutional to use the old districts because of unequal populations, and it asks a judge to intervene.
That Missouri continues to rely on redistricting processes that appear to be broken is embarrassing. Voters and candidates who rely on these maps for effective elections deserve better.
And one of those better options was laid out in the Clean Missouri amendment and is now worthy of being brought back up for additional conversation. | https://www.joplinglobe.com/opinion/our-view-clean-missouri-looks-like-the-answer/article_a48c3fd2-b109-11ec-bbfd-77dc09df5fba.html | 2022-04-01T00:55:36Z |
SÃO PAULO, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ZENVIA Inc. ("ZENVIA" or "Company") (NASDAQ: ZENV), a customer experience communications platform that empowers businesses to create unique journeys for their end-customers along their life cycle, announced today that it filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The annual report, the first one issued by Zenvia since the IPO in July 2021, can be accessed on the Company's investor relations website at http://investors.zenvia.com or at http://www.sec.gov.
The Company will provide shareholders a hard copy of its annual report containing the audited consolidated financial statements, free of charge, upon request. Requests should be directed to the Investor Relations Department through the email ir@zenvia.com.
About ZENVIA
ZENVIA is driven by the purpose of empowering companies to create unique experiences for customer communications through its unified end-to-end platform. ZENVIA empowers companies to transform their existing customer communications from non-scalable, physical, and impersonal interactions into highly scalable, digital first and hyper contextualized experiences across the customer journey. ZENVIA's unified end-to-end CX communications platform provides a combination of (i) SaaS focused on campaigns, sales teams, customer service and engagement, (ii) tools, such as software application programming interfaces, or APIs, chatbots, single customer view, journey designer, documents composer and authentication and (iii) channels, such as SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, Instagram and Webchat. Its comprehensive platform assists customers across multiple use cases, including marketing campaigns, customer acquisition, customer onboarding, warnings, customer services, fraud control, cross-selling and customer retention, among others. ZENVIA's shares are traded on Nasdaq, under the ticker ZENV.
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Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., a member of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot, told Spectrum News that she is disappointed that the Department of Justice has not yet acted on contempt charges against Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump's chief of staff.
"I am concerned that the Mark Meadows referral has not received attention yet," Lofgren said in an interview with Spectrum News on Thursday.
The House of Representatives voted in December to hold Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman, in contempt, the first time the body voted to hold a member in contempt since the 1830s. The vote was largely along party lines.
Meadows was the second person the House voted to hold in contempt for defying its subpoena, the first being former White House adviser Steve Bannon. A federal grand jury indicted Bannon in November of last year; his trial is scheduled for July. But the Justice Department has not yet charged Meadows.
At a meeting of the Jan. 6 panel this week, members expressed their frustration with the Justice Department and its leader, Attorney General Merrick Garland, for not yet taking action against Meadows.
"Attorney General Garland, do your job, so that we can do ours," Virginia Rep. Elaine Luria said Monday.
"We are upholding our responsibility," California Rep. Adam Schiff said. "The Department of Justice must do the same."
"This committee is doing its job," Lofgren said at Monday's meeting. "The Department of Justice needs to do theirs."
"Certainly you could make an arguable claim of privilege, perhaps for some of his communications," the California Democrat told Spectrum News on Thursday. "But clearly, you know, we outlined communications that by no conceivable stretch of the imagination would be covered by executive privilege."
"And further, you can’t just say ‘I’m not going to come in.’ There’s no case law that supports that,” Lofgren continued. "But certainly his communication with state legislators in the variety of states – that's not executive privilege, and material that you discuss publicly, you waive the privilege."
"It's disappointing that there's been no action," she added.
Despite the setback, Lofgren expects the public can have faith in the committee’s work.
“We’re going to do the best we can and pursue every lead that we have,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., told Spectrum News on Thursday. “We’re getting all the information we can from every source to piece it together.”
The Jan. 6 panel has interviewed hundreds of witnesses related to the deadly insurrection and issued dozens of subpoenas to a number of individuals, including former Trump White House officials, former Trump campaign officials and close allies of the former president.
This week, the committee recommended contempt charges against former Trump advisers Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro.
Like many of her colleagues, Lofgren expressed concern about reports of a nearly eight-hour gap in then-President Donald Trump’s phone calls on Jan. 6, 2021.
“I mean, the expectation is, under the law, that phone calls placed by the President will be recorded, that they were made,” Lofgren told Spectrum News. “If that didn’t happen, in this case, that’s not in conformity with what the law expects and requires.”
"We certainly do know that phone calls were made in that timeframe, because we've had other testimony," she said. "In fact, there's been public reporting about phone calls made during that timeframe by the former president to various people. So it's our intention to discover the answer to that, and also what was done and what was said."
Though the committee’s work is far from over, Lofgren said that she is "impressed" by her colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
“The two Republicans on the committee are very conservative — I mean, if you took their voting records and my voting record, there wouldn’t be a lot of overlap,” she said, referring to Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. “They’re super conservative, but they’re honest, and they have decided that ti’s important to find the truth out."
"We’re all working together in a respectful way to do just one thing: Find the truth, and then tell it," she added.
Lofgren told Spectrum News that the panel hopes to have public hearings this spring. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/politics/2022/03/31/lofgren-disappointed-doj-hasn-t-acted-on-contempt-charges | 2022-04-01T00:55:38Z |
News Treehugger Voices Enjoy Spring Tonic Herbs From Your Garden Early spring greens are a welcome change from the monotony of winter diets. By Elizabeth Waddington Elizabeth Waddington Facebook LinkedIn Writer, Permaculture Designer, Sustainability Consultant University of St Andrews (MA) Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a freelance writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Learn about our editorial process Published March 31, 2022 03:00PM EDT Fact checked by Haley Mast Fact checked by Haley Mast LinkedIn Harvard University Extension School Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside snowboarding or foraging. Topics of expertise and interest include agriculture, conservation, ecology, and climate science. Learn about our fact checking process Rudy Malmquist / Getty Images Share Twitter Pinterest Email News Environment Business & Policy Science Animals Home & Design Current Events Treehugger Voices News Archive Winter can leave us all feeling rather sub-par. But once again, our gardens often hold the answer. Making spring tonics from garden plants is a practice which may have fallen by the wayside for many in our modern, connected world. But it can be a great way to get out into your garden or your surrounding area and discover some of the earliest spring greens. What Are Spring Tonics? Over the winter months, historically, people ate stored or canned produce since fresh green food was in short supply. The diet over the coldest part of the year left a lot to be desired, filling stomachs but not necessarily providing all the nutrition modern science tells us is necessary. Traditionally, often long before most garden crops became available, country folk would get outside early in spring to forage for fresh greens—a way to put paid to nutritional deficiencies and put a spring in their step. The wild greens of early spring became known as spring tonic herbs. Spring tonic herbs can be eaten fresh, cooked as a side of greens, added to recipes, or used in teas. There are many different recipes—traditional and modern—which recognize the health benefits that these nutrient-packed fresh young greens can bring. The point is not so much to understand in depth the herbalism or the medicinal effects of particular plants—though this is a fascinating field if you are interested. The most important thing is simply to know which fresh greens you can forage from your garden in the early spring, and to familiarize yourself with the benefits that finding and using these wild plants can bring. Spring Tonic Plants That I Find in My Garden The earliest greens of spring will obviously depend on where exactly you live. But many of the plants that most people think of as weeds can be very useful to eat as fresh greens or brew into healthful teas or infusions early in the season. In my garden, sorrels, nettles, chickweed, plantain, wild garlic, and ramps are some of the first greens I forage for and harvest in early spring. Soon, there will be fat hen, Good King Henry, cleavers, fireweed, dandelion leaves, and so much more. I can "shop" from my garden long before the first outdoor cultivated crops of spring are ready to yield, and certainly before I even think about direct sowing or transplanting indoor-grown seedlings into the garden. Jenny Dettrick / Getty Images The Most Effective Spring Tonic: Getting Outdoors I love getting out into the wilder parts of my garden and filling a basket with fresh nutritious greens for free. While I do still have produce in my polytunnel ready to eat before the first crops of the new season are ready, spring tonic plants bring a natural bounty at this time of year. For me, however, what really provides true tonic is not merely the nutrients these plants contain, but more the tonic that a stroll through the early spring garden provides. Getting outside and feeling the sun's rays on your face is sure to chase away any remaining winter blues. Making use of fresh spring greens and making spring tonics is all about forging a closer connection to the turning of the seasons. This is a key component in establishing a more sustainable way of life. With supermarkets and global food supply chains, it is easy to lose our connection to the edibles in our own backyards. Foraging for spring tonic plants and learning more about the benefits of native and naturalized plants in our areas is very useful. It is a great way to get back to basics and to rediscover our connection with the natural world. So, why not get out into your garden? Take a good look at the wild plants you find there, and think about looking into some of their properties and researching how they can be used. Even before spring arrives in earnest, there may well be more food around than you imagined. And if nothing else, on a sunny early spring day, you'll get a much-needed dose of vitamin D. 10 Easy Garden Vegetables to Plant in Spring | https://www.treehugger.com/enjoy-spring-tonic-herbs-garden-5223817 | 2022-04-01T00:55:38Z |
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WASHINGTON — 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://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/nation-world/insulin-cap-35-dollars-month-bill/507-855508ee-6b9d-4ce8-9937-22fa115af232 | 2022-04-01T00:55:39Z |
On Monday, President Joe Biden unveiled his proposal for the next federal budget.
Though Congress has the final say in the annual budget, presidents create a proposal highlighting their fiscal priorities. Then, the president typically spends time advocating for their plan to the public, arguing for those priorities.
While promoting his latest proposal, Biden tweeted, “This year, my administration is on track to cut the deficit by more than $1.3 trillion… that would be the largest one-year reduction in the deficit in U.S. history.”
THE QUESTION
Would a $1.3 trillion reduction in the deficit be the largest single-year reduction ever?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, if the deficit shrinks by $1.3 trillion this year, that will be the largest single-year reduction in history.
WHAT WE FOUND
Both the Federal Reserve and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) track how much money the federal government takes in each year, and how much it spends. The Fed has records dating back to 1901, and the CBO dating to 1962.
If the government makes more than it spends, there’s a budget surplus. Since 1962, there have only been five years with a surplus, and none since 2001.
More commonly, the government spends more than it takes in. That’s a deficit, and it results in the U.S. borrowing money to make up the difference, which in turn adds to the federal debt.
According to the Fed and the CBO, the year in which the deficit shrank the most was 2013. In 2012, the budget was nearly $1.08 trillion in the hole, and in 2013, it was just under $679.8 billion. The deficit decreased by roughly $396.8 billion, more than in any other year in history.
If the deficit drops by $1.3 trillion in 2022 like Biden projected, it would indeed be the largest deficit reduction in American history, by a big margin.
The Fed and CBO track numbers on a fiscal-year basis, with the fiscal year ending on Sept. 30. So we won’t really know if Biden’s projections for 2022 are accurate until at least October.
But budget experts VERIFY spoke with agreed it’s likely the deficit reduction could wind up being more than a trillion dollars. However, they said that drop is mostly due to COVID-related spending programs expiring.
“It's not really due to any particularly aggressive policy action to, say, raise more revenue than we would have otherwise, or spend less. It's mostly just a factor of temporary things,” said Alex Muresianu, a federal policy analyst for the Tax Foundation.
“We had deficits that were over $3 trillion [in 2020], and one that was $2.8 trillion [in 2021]. That was as a result of a huge recession, and trillions of dollars that we were spending to fight COVID. So we will be dropping for sure. The deficit will be closer to a trillion dollars this year,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-profit group. “But that doesn't come from policies to reduce the deficit.”
More from VERIFY: No, Congress members did not give themselves a 21% pay raise in 2022 | https://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/verify/money-verify/biden-projects-trillion-dollar-deficit-reduction-largest-ever/536-82b0158e-0851-49dd-a546-3dbef252c761 | 2022-04-01T00:55:39Z |
With the release of iOS 15.4.1 and macOS Monterey 12.3.1 on Thursday, Apple has fixed some bugs in its operating systems. However, in addition to bug fixes, the company also made security enhancements to iOS and macOS, which include patches for multiple zero-day exploits.
One of the patched exploits affected both iOS and macOS devices. According to Apple, the exploit allowed malicious apps to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. A second exploit found in the Intel Graphics drivers, which only affected macOS, could lead to the disclosure of kernel memory.
Both exploits were reported by an “anonymous researcher” and have now been fixed, as you can read below:
AppleAVD
Available for: macOS Monterey and iOS 15
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited.
CVE-2022-22675: an anonymous researcher
Intel Graphics Driver
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An application may be able to read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read issue may lead to the disclosure of kernel memory and was addressed with improved input validation. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited.
CVE-2022-22674: an anonymous researcher
For those unfamiliar with the term, a zero-day exploit is basically a newly discovered vulnerability that the fix is still unknown to the developers and engineers. That’s why it’s so important to keep your devices updated in order to protect them from malicious software.
When it comes to other bugs, iOS 15.4.1 fixes an issue that could drain the battery of iPhones and iPads more quickly than expected, while macOS 12.3.1 fixes an issue that could cause Bluetooth devices to unexpectedly disconnect from the Mac.
Both iOS 15.4.1 and macOS Monterey 12.3.1 are now available to all users. You can find more details about Apple’s security updates on this webpage.
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A peaceful rally in support of Ukraine will take place from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 2, on the sidewalk at D River Wayside. The rally gives people an opportunity to speak out peacefully and have their voices heard about the Russia-Ukraine war.
“This will hopefully give people an opportunity to get out and have their voices heard,” Organizer Georgia Roelof said. “I have yet to talk to anyone who objects to the concept of ‘Stop the War.’”
Roelof, of the Congregational Church of Lincoln City, said the rally helps draw attention to the fact that although the war is in Ukraine, it affects us all.
“If we have to sacrifice a bit of our gas prices at the pump, then that’s one of the ways we can support these poor people whose country is just being destroyed,” Roelof said. “It is such a horrible thing to witness either on the television or on the radio. I just cannot imagine what it would be like to have your entire country just destroyed.”
Roelof added that people need to have their voices heard so the government and the rest of the world know they are concerned and want change.
Roelof is an active member of the Congregational Church of Lincoln City.
“We reach out to the community and we care a great deal about issues that exist here in town,” Roelof said of the church. “I have organized two other rallies. One on gun violence back in 2019 and the women’s march in 2021.”
The women’s march spoke out against reproductive restrictions being instigated in Texas.
Roelof has developed a list of people who want to be reminded of any future rallies. She believes it is important for people to know there is a way to have your voice heard.
Roelof said State Rep. David Gomberg will attend the rally, as well as Dave Price, vice president of engagement and entrepreneurship at Oregon Coast Community College. The college is loaning the group a Ukrainian flag for the rally. The group will have homemade signs for those who wish to join in.
“I expect a good turnout,” Roelof said. “I’ve heard from a lot of people who have said ‘we’re going to be there.’” | https://www.thenewsguard.com/community/peaceful-rally-held-in-support-of-ukraine-april-2/article_2100b072-b13a-11ec-96da-1ff3d8dc0289.html | 2022-04-01T00:55:40Z |
Chip shortage: Has Europe's plan arrived too late?
By Chris Baraniuk
Technology of Business reporter
- Published
All his customer wants is a white, standard model, manual transmission VW Golf. But Umesh Samani, a car salesman in Stoke-on-Trent, can't say when it will arrive.
It could be many months, or he fears even a year until delivery.
Extraordinary delays have hit car dealerships up and down the country during the pandemic.
Mr Samani, who is also chairman of the Independent Motor Dealers Association, says manufacturers often tell him the computer chip shortage is to blame. Europe's car makers did not stockpile enough chips from their suppliers - mostly based in Asia - at a time of booming global demand.
This and other factors have led to shuttered car factories and fewer new cars entering the market.
"Used car prices have just gone unbelievable - almost a 30% increase on some of the models," says Mr Samani, while recounting stories of Range Rovers that have added £6,000 to their price tags in just 12 months. There are also people selling used cars for a higher price than they paid for them.
The chip shortage has exposed just how dependent the world is on semiconductor manufacturers in Asia, with the vast majority of chips produced by TSMC in Taiwan alone.
Among those who want to wrestle back some of that market share is the European Commission (EC), which in February announced a Chips Act.
The EC will plough 43bn euros (£36bn) of public and private investment into Europe's semiconductor industry. The Commission hopes to, among other things, increase the region's share of global chip manufacturing - from less than 10% to 20%.
But can Europe really catch-up with the rest of the world? And could this mean the European Union's (EU) car industry - the second largest in the world - will be shielded from future supply shocks in the long-run?
First of all, it is worth noting that not only is the EU currently well behind on chip production, it must also compete with big investment elsewhere.
China poured $33bn (£25bn), purely in subsidies, into its own chip manufacturing industry in 2020. South Korea, also plans to spend almost half a trillion dollars via support packages, tax incentives and other measures over the next decade.
In order for Europe and the US - which also has ambitions to increase its market share in this sector - to truly compete, huge sums of money are required from both public and private sources, says Anisha Bhatia, an analyst at GlobalData.
But spending it is important, she argues, for geopolitical and business reasons, since Asia currently totally dominates the semiconductor industry.
"There needs to be a little more balance," she argues.
The trouble is that Europe is behind on multiple fronts, not just the manufacturing of chips.
There are also relatively few firms within the EU that design new chips for use in technology products. That is in stark contrast to the US, which already has a sizeable semiconductor design industry. US firms lead the way in determining which chips actually get made.
There is little sense in spending huge sums of money on manufacturing capabilities in a region as expensive for that sort of thing as Europe, without having more control over chip design, explains Alicia Garcia-Herrero, chief economist for Asia-Pacific at Natixis, an investment bank.
"I'm not sure this is the right strategy, to be frank," she says, referring to the Chips Act, "We should spend more money on design."
This sentiment is backed up by a report from German think tank, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV), which published a policy brief last year on the lack of semiconductor manufacturing in Europe. The report suggests that with few Europe-designed chips, any new chip factories, or "fabs", in the region would need to seek orders from elsewhere, such as the US.
"Why would [US firms without semiconductor-manufacturing capabilities] choose to manufacture their chips not in South Korea, Taiwan or the United States but in Europe?" the brief asked.
There are other problems, too. Thanks to improvements in technology, chips have been getting smaller and smaller for years. The latest are just a few nanometres (nm) across. This is referred to as "node size". But Europe makes hardly any of these most advanced chips, meaning the region has little experience in this area.
Also, semiconductors are manufactured on large discs called wafers, which are then split into thousands of smaller pieces - the individual chips themselves.
Over time, the size of these wafers has increased to allow more chips to be made at once. Cutting-edge chips are generally made on 300mm wafers today, says Koray Köse, an analyst at Gartner.
While Europe does have some production capacity for 300mm wafers, it is very far behind the US and Asia.
That leads to the question - what sort of chips Europe should be aiming to produce and why - as Europe is currently behind on everything and must choose its battles.
"There is no Apple, or Foxconn, manufacturing location in Spain that would consume gazillions of 300mm wafer products," says Mr Köse.
European industry, in general, does not require many of the cutting edge, sub-10mm chips, says Julia Hess at SNV, who adds, "The demand in Europe is basically focused on industrial and automotive demands and these kind of chips do not rely on cutting edge fabrication."
In theory, Europe could try to improve its capacity for producing the older, larger chips.
But this strategy wouldn't be easy to do either, because of equipment constraints and the fact that many countries around the world - including those with much lower costs - are trying to do this right now.
It is also worth noting that current headaches with chip production, although still ongoing, are beginning to clear up. Analysis from Gartner suggests that there will actually be a global surplus of chips again in around two years' time.
It's not that Europe can't improve its position in the semiconductor industry, but these analysts tend to agree that reacting to the recent shortage by attempting to boost manufacturing alone would not be a straightforward, or wise, decision.
And as Jan-Peter Kleinhans, also of SNV, says, trying to shore-up production of chips in Europe to shield the car industry from future supply shocks will likely not be effective, since the industry will still, inevitably, rely on global supply chains.
"A modern car needs hundreds of different chips sourced from countless fabs worldwide," he says. "How does it increase your resilience against supply disruptions if you source [a percentage] of those chips domestically?
Instead, he suggests, car makers and other industries in Europe should make their supply chains more resilient by making them more transparent - and stockpiling chips in advance of the next crisis. | https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60554228 | 2022-04-01T00:55:40Z |
By NEBI QENA and YURAS KARMANAU
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops handed control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant back to the Ukrainians and left the heavily contaminated site early Friday, more than a month after taking it over, Ukrainian authorities said, as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts.
Ukraine’s state power company, Energoatom, said the pullout at Chernobyl came after soldiers received “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches in the forest in the exclusion zone around the closed plant. But there was no independent confirmation of that.
The withdrawal took place amid growing indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation in Ukraine as cover while regrouping, resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in the eastern part of the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian withdrawals from the north and center of the country were just a military tactic and that the forces are building up for new powerful attacks in the southeast.
“We know their intentions,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address to the nation. “We know that they are moving away from those areas where we hit them in order to focus on other, very important ones where it may be difficult for us.”
“There will be battles ahead,” he added.
Meanwhile, a convoy of 45 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 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.
The city has been the scene 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 relief efforts have been thwarted by continued Russian attacks.
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.
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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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A new Titans stadium is the center of some conversation on Capitol Hill and Thursday, legislative leaders signaled some support for Governor Bill Lee’s $500 million bond proposal to go towards a new stadium.
It began as Adelphia Coliseum, then L.P. Field, now Nissan Stadium, where the Tennessee Titans lace their cleats to play–but that could change in a matter of years.
“I’m going to vote for it because I think it makes economic sense for us,” House Speaker Cameron Sexton said.
Speaker Sexton is backing the governor’s proposal for a new downtown Nashville stadium. “It gives us an opportunity to host things that Atlanta and New Orleans and San Antonio and Dallas and Indianapolis host,” Sexton said. “It allows us to do more conventions, bigger conventions, it allows us to do more sporting events, it allows us to bring people here from international to events.”
Sexton said he believes, after looking at the numbers, the stadium will repay the state and concerns from Senate leaders after the surprise proposal has been alleviated in part.
Lt. Gov. Randy McNally is also in support. “It’s an investment and the state will receive a return off of it from the increase in sales tax and from other events.”
But for a modern NFL stadium, the price tag could reach a billion or more dollars and would require more than just $500 million.
“There are a lot of attractions for a facility like that, but we should have a robust and deep debate about it because we’re using taxpayer money to do it,” said Sen. Bo Watson (R-Hixson).
Nashvillians could also be on the hook to put up some money, but details are not yet public. Democrats are calling for transparency in any decision made.
“I think it’s important that the process be transparent, because if anything’s going to be asked of tax payers they need to know exactly why and how much and I would caution those who are actually engaged in the process to be very careful about asking for Nashville taxpayers to carry any more of the load because we already have enough on our plate,” said Rep. John Ray Clemmons (D-Nashville).
The funds are contingent on the new stadium being a dome or having a retractable roof.
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TERRELL, Texas — State Highway (SH) 34 between Terrell and Kaufman is closed, both northbound and southbound, due to a hazardous material spill, according to county officials.
The hazardous material spill originated from a tanker truck. County officials did not immediately identify the hazardous material.
"First responders are on location and the clean up is expected to take several hours," read a statement from the county.
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After Black man stopped 37 times, eight Quebec police officers cited for racial profiling
Quebec’s police ethics commissioner ruled that a Terrebonne man was racially profiled after he was pulled over by police officers nearly 40 times in less than a year.
The traffic tickets kept piling up for 44-year-old Pierre Marcel Monsanto, who is Black of Hatian origin. Most were settled out of court or thrown out, but to Monsanto there’s seemingly no end to the discrimination he faces on the road.
"I feel like I’m a slave. There is no freedom," he said Thursday.
Monsanto moved to Quebec from Alberta in September 2018. From the time he moved to Terrebonne until August 2019, police checked with Centre de renseignements policiers du Québec (CRPQ) 37 times about his vehicle, according to a March 11 ethics commission decision.
There was one day where he was stopped twice by police.
"Sometimes they just make a U-turn. They’re driving on the opposite side and make a U-turn," he said.
Monsanto filed 12 complaints alleging harassment and discrimination based on his race. The commission ruled in his favour in eight of those complaints, citing eight officers for racial profiling, but dismissed his harassment complaints.
Monsanto often drives his wife's vehicle and was allegedly stopped repeatedly while running errands, taking his children to daycare or going to work. In many instances, Monsanto said his three children were in the car with him.
"'Why they stop you papa?'" he recalled one of his kids asking him in the car. "I don’t tell them the truth to protect them. I say they just need to see my papers."
He said the experience makes him feel unsafe whenever he sees a police officer.
"When the complainant has not committed any offence, he is likely to feel a strong sense of injustice and a loss of trust with the officers of the Terrebonne Police Department," Commissioner Dowd wrote in the lengthy 47-page ruling.
"The Commissioner also brings to the director's attention the even higher, and unexplained high frequency of numerous checks at the CRPQ on the complainant over a relatively short period."
Monsanto sees a police light in his mirror so often that he switched to a smaller car in the hopes it would attract less attention.
Terrebonne police declined to comment on the ruling, but the Centre for Research Action on Race Relations (CRARR), which supported the man with his complaint, calls it one of the worst examples of racial profiling it has seen in the Montreal area.
"This is very excessive, abusive, and very, very concerning," said Fo Niemi, CRARR's executive director, at a news conference.
"In all the years of working against racial profiling, we have never seen a case this serious.
The elected officials and residents of Terrebonne must demand firm measures of prevention and redress."
For now, Monsanto said he’s cutting back on his time behind the wheel. "I avoid driving now," he said, adding that it's not worth all the anxiety and he hopes the ruling will help stop it for good.
Monsanto has also taken his case to the Quebec's Human Rights Commission.
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People who suffered from even mild cases of COVID-19 face an increased risk of being diagnosed with diabetes within a year of recovering from the illness, a new study reports.
Researchers found that people who had COVID-19 were about 40% more likely to develop diabetes within a year after recovering, compared to participants in a control group. The likelihood of developing diabetes grew if the patient suffered from a serious infection that led to hospitalization or a stay in intensive care.
"What's surprising is that it is happening in people with no prior risk factors for diabetes" before becoming infected with COVID-19, said Ziyad Al-Aly, the lead author of the study.
These latest findings add to a growing list of studies showing that people who suffered from COVID-19 are at risk of facing other long-term health problems. Those include heart and kidney ailments and chronic fatigue.
Al-Aly also helped lead the study that showed the prevalence of cardiac issues in people who survived COVID-19 infections.
This newest study, published Monday in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal, analyzed data from more than 180,000 patients from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The study's authors compared patients who tested positive for COVID-19 and survived the illness for more than a month with more than 4 million other people who didn't contract COVID in the same period. This data was also compared with another 4.28 million patients who were treated at the VA in 2018 and 2019.
The paper states that around 1% to 2% of people who have been infected with COVID will develop diabetes as a result. That may seem like a small number, but nearly 80 million people in the U.S. have had COVID, Al-Aly told NPR — meaning 800,000 to 1.6 million people developing diabetes who might not have otherwise.
"That translates to a really significant number of people with new onset diabetes in the U.S. and many, many more around the world," Al-Aly said.
Nationwide, approximately 34 million people had diabetes pre-COVID, according to Jorge Moreno, an internal medicine physician at Yale University who didn't work on Al-Aly's study. Doctors expect roughly 1.5 million new people to be newly diagnosed with diabetes each year during normal times, he told NPR.
What to look out for
This study shows that as a nation, more attention needs to be paid to the long-term effects of COVID-19, Al-Aly said. More vigilance can start at the doctor's office.
"We need to start treating COVID as a risk factor for diabetes," Al-Aly said, adding that each person who has come down with the virus needs to be screened.
Moreno told NPR he believes this study will create more awareness among general practitioners and endocrinologists, like himself, to screen patients who have had COVID for diabetes and other complications.
Those who've had COVID should also be closely monitoring their health and changes in their body, Moreno said, and should seek help at the first sign of an issue. Major symptoms for diabetes include increased thirst, frequent urination (which is not influenced by how much liquid consumed) and blurry vision. Major weight fluctuations are also a sign.
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Parent of transgender child speaks out after Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signs anti-trans bills
PHOENIX - Republican Gov. Doug Ducey has signed bills banning transgender girls from playing on girls' sports teams and prohibiting gender reassignment surgeries for minors.
The governor described Senate bills 1138 and 1165 as legislation to "protect female athletes" and "to ensure that individuals undergoing irreversible gender reassignment surgery are of adult age."
"This legislation is common-sense and narrowly-targeted to address these two specific issues — while ensuring that transgender individuals continue to receive the same dignity, respect and kindness as every individual in our society," Ducey said in a Twitter thread.
Two GOP governors last week bucked conservatives in their party and vetoed bills in Indiana and Utah requiring trans girls to play on boys sports teams.
Republicans have said blocking transgender players from girls sports teams would protect the integrity of women’s sports, fearing that trans athletes would have an advantage.
Many point to the transgender collegiate swimmer Lia Thomas, who won an individual title at the NCAA Women’s Division I Swimming and Diving Championship last week.
But there are few trans athletes in Arizona schools. Since 2017, about 16 trans athletes have received waivers to play on teams that align with their gender identities out of about 170,000 school-based athletes in the state, according to the Arizona Interscholastic Association.
"This bill to me is all about biology," said Republican Rep. Shawnna Bolick, who said she played on a coed team in the 1980s but could not have made the high school boys team. "In my opinion, its unfair to allow biological males to compete with biological girls sports."
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Critics said the legislation dehumanizes trans youth to address an issue that hasn’t been a problem.
"We’re talking about legislating bullying against children who are already struggling just to get by," said Democratic Rep. Kelli Butler. fighting back tears.
Until two years ago, no state had passed a law regulating gender-designated youth sports. But the issue has become front-and-center in Republican-led statehouses since Idaho lawmakers passed the nation’s first sports participation law in 2020. It’s now blocked in court, along with another in West Virginia.
"This bill is creating a pointless and harmful solution to a non-existent issue," Skyler Morrison, a 13-year-old transgender girl, told lawmakers during a committee hearing earlier this month. "It’s obvious this bill is just an excuse to discriminate against transgender girls."
Republicans around the country have leaned into culture war issues including transgender rights. The debate and vote on the transgender sports legislation came the same morning the House considered and passed a ban on abortions after 15-week gestation. Republicans said little during debates on all three bills.
‘It is irreversible’
Arizona is one of 20 states that have considered legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care. The bill originally would have banned all such care for minors but was scaled back to restrict only irreversible procedures, such as surgeries related to gender reassignment.
Similar legislation passed the Idaho House earlier this month but it died in the Senate amid concerns from some Republicans about restricting parental rights.
Supporters of the Arizona bill said it would prevent children from making permanent decisions that they might later come to regret. Republican Rep. John Kavanagh compared the vote to the Legislature’s unanimous decision in years past to ban genital mutilation.
"We should stand the same way today because this is mutilation of children," Kavanagh said. "It is irreversible. It is horrific."
Critics said the decision should be left to parents, their children and the health care team caring for them. They said surgeries are only performed after extensive care and therapy.
"We’re talking about our kids, who are already going to be taking the proper steps with their parents to be able to be who they are," said Democratic Rep. Andres Cano.
The bill originally would have banned all gender-affirming care, including hormone therapies and puberty blockers but was scaled back in the Senate.
Similar legislation passed the Idaho House earlier this month but died in the Senate, where some Republicans said they were concerned about restricting parental rights.
Parents, advocates speak out
On March 30, a day after the bills were signed into law by Gov. Ducey, parents and advocates expressed their devastation.
"It was a punch," said Ai Binh Ho. "It takes away our rights to make decisions together with our children."
Ho's four-year-old daughter is transgender.
"For me to say ‘you’ll never be part of a team,' I just don’t even know what to say, how to tell her that," said Ho. "It takes away that hope that we have for her."
President Joe Biden, meanwhile, promised his administration will stand up for the transgender community.
"The onslaught of anti-transgender state laws attacking you and your families is simply wrong," said the President.
On March 30, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to states, warning it will go after states that practice unlawful discrimination based on gender identity. In response, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich tweeted ‘See you in court (again).'
In the meantime, some parents are now thinking about leaving Arizona, for the sake of their kids.
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Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT – Get Rating) saw a significant decline in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 4,910,000 shares, a decline of 22.6% from the February 28th total of 6,340,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,270,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.2 days. Currently, 3.7% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in SPOT. UMB Bank N A MO bought a new stake in shares of Spotify Technology in the 4th quarter valued at $26,000. Lazard Asset Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Spotify Technology in the 4th quarter valued at $26,000. MUFG Americas Holdings Corp acquired a new position in Spotify Technology in the 4th quarter worth $29,000. IFP Advisors Inc boosted its stake in Spotify Technology by 71.6% in the 4th quarter. IFP Advisors Inc now owns 151 shares of the company’s stock worth $35,000 after purchasing an additional 63 shares during the period. Finally, Fifth Third Bancorp boosted its stake in Spotify Technology by 55.0% in the 4th quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp now owns 155 shares of the company’s stock worth $36,000 after purchasing an additional 55 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 56.36% of the company’s stock.
Shares of Spotify Technology stock traded down $5.14 on Thursday, hitting $151.02. 1,368,535 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,394,252. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $156.03 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $213.50. The stock has a market capitalization of $28.73 billion, a PE ratio of -124.93 and a beta of 1.69. Spotify Technology has a one year low of $118.20 and a one year high of $305.60.
A number of equities research analysts have weighed in on the company. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $200.00 price objective on Spotify Technology in a report on Thursday, February 3rd. Evercore ISI decreased their price objective on Spotify Technology from $365.00 to $300.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, February 3rd. TheStreet downgraded Spotify Technology from a “c-” rating to a “d+” rating in a report on Tuesday, March 15th. Canaccord Genuity Group decreased their price objective on Spotify Technology from $300.00 to $250.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, February 3rd. Finally, Morgan Stanley reduced their target price on Spotify Technology from $350.00 to $300.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, February 1st. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have assigned a hold rating and fourteen have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $246.18.
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What is the Sephora Savings Event?
Beauty deals are blooming this season, and starting April 1, you can pick up your favorite makeup, fragrance and skin care products at deep discounts during the Sephora Spring Savings Event.
As usual, the event is exclusive to Beauty Insiders. Depending on their status, they receive up to 20% off their purchases. That’s not all, either. The entire Sephora collection, which now consists of over 350 products, also will be 30% off for Beauty Insiders. And between these deals and other offers, it’s a good idea to brush up on the event’s details and start adding products to your cart so you can check out before they sell out.
What is the Sephora Spring Savings Event?
When is the Sephora Sales Event?
The Sephora Spring Savings Event kicks off April 1 at 11:59 p.m. PST and runs through April 11. It’s Sephora’s first major sales event following Valentine’s Day, and because it falls right before Easter and Mother’s Day, many Beauty Insiders are taking the opportunity to shop early and snag deals on gifts.
What is a Sephora Beauty Insider?
Like many other Sephora events, the Spring Savings Event is exclusive to Beauty Insiders. If you’re not sure what a Beauty Insider is, it refers to members of Sephora’s rewards program, which unlocks access to special promotions and deals. It also gives birthday perks, bonus points throughout the year and free shipping eligibility. And the more you spend at Sephora as a Beauty Insider, the more you’ll save — including during the Spring Savings Event.
How to become a Sephora Beauty Insider
It’s easy to become a Beauty Insider and take advantage of the Spring Savings Event. When you join today for free, you automatically earn Insider status. When you spend $350 annually, you’ll hit VIB, and when you spend $1,000 in a year, you’re promoted to Rouge.
The different levels also play a role in your access to Sephora’s Spring Sales Event, both in terms of how much you save and how early you can access deals:
- Rouge: Rouge members get 20% and get early access to the event starting April 1.
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Most products at Sephora are eligible for Spring Savings Event discounts, ranging from Drunk Elephant skin care to Dyson hair tools. The entire Sephora collection, which includes best-selling brushes and affordable eyeshadow palettes, is on sale for 30%. Other deals and promotions may go live during the event, but Sephora has yet to reveal what those are.
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Anastasia Beverly Hills Soft Glam Eyeshadow Palette
The day-to-night palette has a well-curated assortment of matte, metallic and duo chrome finishes that create sophisticated looks.
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Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Drops
Add a touch of glow to your skin care routine with these niacinamide drops that hydrate skin and minimize the appearance of hyperpigmentation.
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If your hair and scalp are in need of deep cleaning, this clarifying shampoo removes product buildup and leaves hair soft and clean.
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Supergoop Glowscreen Sunscreen
Besides protecting delicate facial skin, Supergoop’s SPF40 sunscreen has a pearly, luminous finish and wears well under foundation.
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