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The country commercial manager of IKEA talks about WFH, home decor trends and the Indian market as a whole.
Come 2022, the pandemic is seemingly coming to an end. Many people are returning to offices, and children and young adults are returning to schools and colleges.
That’s not the case with everyone though. Some of us (including the author of this article) are still working remotely and struggling with the pitfalls of working from home – distractions from family members, doorbell ringing during important video meetings and more.
This is the focal point of IKEA’s latest ad campaign. The campaign carries the tagline “everyday situations, everyday, solutions” and is live across television, OOH, and digital channels. The ads will soon start playing out on television in the cities that IKEA already has a presence in – namely Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Mumbai.
In one of the ads, we witness a father-daughter duo working alongside each other. One is preparing for her exam with a laptop, maybe she’s taking online classes and her father is referring to some files next to her.
“Simple solutions can solve a lot of problems that people face every day at home. That’s where the thought of portraying everyday situations and IKEA’s solutions to the problems came from,” says Kavitha Rao, country commercial manager, IKEA India, over a video call.
Rao tells us that since IKEA’s Hyderabad launch in 2018, the company has released a series of different ad films in the market.
“At this point of time, irrespective of whether someone is working in a hybrid model or whether they’re physically going to work or school - there are entire industries that are still completely working from home. The ads are still relevant because there are people who are still dealing with these situations,” she says.
“TV continues to be an important medium for us. For the last few years, since the pandemic hit, OTT has become a medium that a lot of people pay attention to,” she says.
Rao adds that the company’s research showed that while people were spending extended periods of time at home, one of the things they were doing is watching more television and OTT content. “Apart from cooking, watching TV, even if it was just for a few minutes to catch up with the news was a predominant activity at home,” she says.
She adds that according to the company, digital channels of advertising are extremely important and since the last five years, she has witnessed the audience transition to favour audio visual and digital mediums.
"A search engine is the first place people go when they want to search for a piece of furniture they want to buy."
Since the last decade, IKEA’s India strategy had been very store-oriented but it has had to adapt to an omni-channel strategy. “Search engine optimisation is also very important to us because a search engine is the first place people go when they want to search for a piece of furniture they want to buy.”
Rao adds that the consumer journey in-store and online is quite closely intertwined. Customers might spot an item they want to buy, in-store and they might go back and finish the purchase online. The company also realised that people need assistance and support - even if the journey is online, shopping on IKEA’s e-commerce site. The brand created provisions to call customer care for questions that they have and whatever help they need on the purchase journey.
IKEA currently have follows an omni-channel marketing strategy which is making its presence felt in Hyderabad, Mumbai and on e-commerce channels in Bangalore.
"Some Indians live in joint families, some live in nuclear families and the needs of these families are all very different from each other."
“Some Indians live in joint families, some live in nuclear families and the needs of these families are all very different from each other. The thing is, with research, averages can be misleading when it comes to Indian consumers so we have to focus on appealing to different Indian consumer groups,” she says.
"If we show an ad in a city where we don’t have a presence (such as, say, Delhi), it won’t make sense - what will the call to action be?"
“We would like to focus on these areas in these cities because at the end of the day, we are cost conscious about our media spends. If we show an ad in a city where we don’t have a presence (such as, say, Delhi), it won’t make sense - what will the call to action be in that case? In any case, we are confident that we will eventually achieve national scale and can advertise accordingly.”
Rao tells us that one important development that happened during the pandemic is that people were spending extended periods of time at home. Because of this, people are paying attention to home furnishing and home decor. Rao tells us that customers are increasingly interested in multi-functional furniture (such as the trolley, which is emphasised on in the ad) and storage solutions.
“We are worried that it could impact the customer experience if they order a product but we are not able to assist with the installation of the product. In cities like Bangalore, we are able to provide services from delivery to setup,” she says.
When it comes to customers who purchase furniture - she broadly splits them up into three categories. The first category of people are those who are eager to experiment and put the furniture together themselves.
The second category is a little hesitant, but are willing to try. The third category of people are those who believe they can’t DIY it, and they don’t want to try. “The third category are people who believe that if they had that one extra hour, they would rather spend it with their family than spend it trying to put furniture together.”
"We have a full repertoire of products that are available in Indian markets that we don’t offer in other global markets."
Rao further tells us that the company had to make many changes to their product range to adapt to Indians’ requirements for cooking, furniture, and home spaces.
“We have a full repertoire of products that are available in Indian markets that we don’t offer in other global markets,” she says.
She elaborates that the company also had to do a lot of research in terms of understanding people’s lives at home and their needs. Value for money and affordability became two important propositions for the company to offer because Indian consumers look for these things, irrespective of their salary bracket.
Most furniture retailers in India allow users to shop from any part of the country and get the parcels delivered with the help of shipping and logistics staff they employ on ground, but that is not the case with IKEA.
“Unlike a lot of e-commerce retailers, we are not just a shipping company. Most of the time, our products are not a one person delivery. We need to have a network of staff to support large ticket deliveries. It’s important to have a fulfilment network on ground to make the deliveries possible. We are still in the early stages of our journey and it will take time for us to build up on that,” she signs off. | https://www.afaqs.com/news/advertising/in-research-averages-are-misleading-when-it-comes-to-indian-consumers-kavitha-rao-ikea | 2022-04-01T00:56:56Z |
The worldwide seafood industry is steeling itself for price hikes, supply disruptions and potential job losses as new rounds of economic sanctions on Russia make key species such as cod and crab harder to come by.
The latest round of U.S. attempts to punish Russia for the invasion of Ukraine includes bans on imports of seafood, alcohol and diamonds. The U.S. is also stripping “most favored nation status” from Russia. Nations around the world are taking similar steps.
Russia is one of the largest producers of seafood in the world, and was the fifth-largest producer of wild-caught fish, according to a 2020 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Russia is not one of the biggest exporters of seafood to the U.S., but it’s a world leader in exports of cod (the preference for fish and chips in the U.S.). It’s also a major supplier of crabs and Alaska pollock, widely used in fast-food sandwiches and processed products like fish sticks.
The impact is likely to be felt globally, as well as in places with working waterfronts. One of those is Maine, where more than $50 million in seafood products from Russia passed through Portland in 2021, according to federal statistics.
“If you’re getting cod from Russia, it’s going to be a problem,” said Glen Libby, an owner of Port Clyde Fresh Catch, a seafood market in Tenants Harbor, Maine. “That’s quite a mess. We’ll see how it turns out.”
Russia exported more than 28 million pounds (12.7 million kilograms) of cod to the U.S. from Jan. 1, 2020, to Jan. 31, 2022, according to census data.
The European Union and United Kingdom are both deeply dependent on Russian seafood. And prices of seafood are already spiking in Japan, a major seafood consumer that is limiting its trade with Russia.
In the U.K., where fish and chips are a cultural marker, shop owners and consumers alike are bracing for price surges. British fish and chip shops were already facing a squeeze because of soaring energy costs and rising food prices.
Andrew Crook, head of the National Federation of Fish Friers, said earlier this month that — even before the war — he expected a third of Britain’s fish and chip shops to go out of business. If fish prices shoot up even higher, “we are in real dire straits,” he said.
In mid-March, the U.K. slapped a 35% tariff hike on Russian whitefish, including chip-shop staples cod and haddock.
“We’re a massive part of U.K. culture and it would be a shame to see that go,” he told broadcaster ITV.
U.S. consumers are most likely to notice the impact of sanctions via price and availability of fish, said Kanae Tokunaga, who runs the Coastal and Marine Economics Lab at Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland.
“Because seafood is a global commodity, even if they are not harvested in Russia, you will notice the price hike,” Tokunaga said.
In the U.S., the dependence on foreign cod stems to the loss of its own once-robust Atlantic cod fishery that cratered in the face of overfishing and environmental changes. U.S. fishermen, based mostly in New England, brought more than 100 million pounds (45.4 million kilograms) of cod to the docks per year in the early 1980s, but the 2020 catch was less than 2 million pounds (900,000 kilograms).
Regulators have tried to save the fishery with management measures such as very low fishing quotas, and many fishermen targeting other East Coast groundfish species such as haddock and flounder now avoid cod altogether.
Seafood processors in Massachusetts are concerned about job losses due to loss of Russian products, Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, who does support sanctions on Russia, said.
“I have heard from seafood processors in my home state with concerns about potential sudden effects of a new, immediate ban on imports on their workforce, including hundreds of union workers in the seafood processing industry,” he said on the Senate floor in February.
For U.S. producers of seafood staples such as fish and chips, the lack of Russian cod could mean pivoting to other foreign sources, said Walt Golet, a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences.
“We might be able to bring in more from Norway, a little more from Canadian fisheries,” Golet said. “It really is driven by the price of those imports.”
As an alternative, producers and consumers could try underutilized fish species caught domestically, such as Atlantic pollock and redfish, said Ben Martens, executive director of Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association.
“Maybe this is a time to use haddock or hake or maybe monkfish, something different,” Martens said. “If it’s going to disrupt supply chains it does present an opportunity for other species to fill that void.”
—Patrick Whittle, The Associated Press
RELATED: Marine watchdog urges federal government to crack down on seafood fraud | https://www.100milefreepress.net/business/seafood-biz-braces-for-losses-of-jobs-fish-due-to-sanctions/ | 2022-04-01T00:56:56Z |
You just know your battery will kick the bucket at the worst possible time, right when you’ve perfected your sick, hella nar-nar skateboard tricks, bruh. The new GoPro HERO10 Black Creator Edition (who names these things, jeez) has directional audio, 5.3K video, an LED light source and the powered Volta grip.
It’s wild to think back to 2006, when the first HERO camera was released, complete with pre-loaded 35mm film and a $22 price tag. The Hero10 is a very different beast indeed. It costs two arms and a number of legs — it will set you back an eye-watering $784.95 (or the equally bizarre price tag of $531.95, if you also sign up for a one-year GoPro subscription).
The camera has some fun software tricks up its sleeve as well, including its award-winning HyperSmooth digital video stabilization, and the option to shoot 1/8-speed slow-mo video.
“HERO10 Creator Edition is like having Hollywood in your hand. It’s the perfect setup for recording professional-quality video when vlogging, filmmaking or even livestreaming,” says GoPro CEO and founder Nicholas Woodman. “Leave the extra batteries and gear behind, all you need is the Creator Edition, and you can create cinematic magic — all day long. You’ll have to recharge and refuel yourself before you even think about recharging your GoPro.”
The Volta battery grip packs an additional 4,900 mAh battery, and is capable of working in conjunction with the camera’s built-in battery to give you four hours of 30fps 4K recording. If you shoot lower resolutions, it stretches that battery life even further. Cleverly, the hand grip has legs; fold ’em out and you have a tripod for stationary shots and/or time-lapse shooting.
Volta is also compatible with HERO9 Black, and it will charge any USB-C-compatible device, including GoPro MAX and older GoPro cameras. You can buy it separately for $90.99 if you’re a GoPro subscriber, or $129.99 sans subscription. | https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/gopro-volta-battery-grip/ | 2022-04-01T00:56:56Z |
Alex’s Book Cave: ‘The Night Watchman’
Editor’s Note: This story contains spoilers for “The Night Watchman” by Louise Erdrich.
The year is 1953 and the United States government introduced House Resolution No. 108 which would terminate federal recognition of Indigenous tribes. The goal of the bill was to assimilate Indigenous people, but to Thomas Wazhashk, a tribal council member of the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, the bill is nothing more than the latest attempt at extermination.
Thomas rallies against the new bill and works as a night watchman at a jewel-bearing plant while his niece Patrice “Pixie” Paranteau plans to embark on a trip to find her sister, Vera. Vera, allegedly pregnant, has not been heard from in months since she and her husband moved to Minneapolis.
Patrice is already supporting her mom and brother, with her meager income from the jewel-bearing plant. She must save every penny from the grasps of her alcoholic father if she ever wants to find her sister. As Thomas amasses an army of support for stopping the bill, Patrice encounters the dangers of being an Indigenous woman in America, with exploitation and violence around every corner.
Rating and Review
Growing up in Wisconsin, I’ve never felt that the education of Indigenous people in regards to their history, culture and the attempts of extermination was thorough. So I took matters into my own hands.
“The Night Watchman” by Louise Erdrich was my first attempt at this deep dive. The novel describes life on a reservation and the continual underinvestment into its community. Erdrich elegantly describes the job at the jewel factory, workers must be quiet for nine hours a day with only a short lunch at noon. The workers work hunched over, straining their backs. The pay is horrible, and Patrice’s living conditions reflect this — a laundry clothesline separates her room from the rest of the house, the windows are poorly insulated, and it’s a one bedroom home filled with three people.
Erdrich also paints a horrific picture of exploitation. When Patrice goes to Minneapolis, she is abducted and forced to work as Babe the Blue Ox, the companion of Paul Bunyan, at a local dive bar. The suit is inferred to be lined with toxic paint (possibly lead), which has lead previous employees to either quit or die. Patrice almost dies too, before escaping her small room.
More broadly, Erdrich seeks to display the actuality of being an Indigenous person in America today. All the characters in this book aren’t heroes — they’re average people, trying to make the best of their circumstances. Thomas Wazhashk, for example, was never a crusader against extermination until the bill was introduced. He simply wanted to live a normal life. The same goes for Patrice. Patrice values her family, she stays at the plant to support her family, and takes the trip to Minneapolis (a place she’s never visited) to find her sister. She isn’t the next Odysseus the’s simply doing what is necessary.
As much as I loved the characters, I felt myself dragging to finish this novel. The plot wasn’t as fast paced as I would have liked, especially in the beginning, when it was just setting the scene. This is deeply important to the story though, as it shows the subhuman conditions that Indigenous people often live in. I thought the climax of the novel would be Patrice finding Vera, but it was just a couple chapters in the middle of the novel, leaving the rest of the story to Thomas. And while I might be biased as a political science major, the most exciting part of the book was when Thomas, Patrice, Millie and other members testified before Congress. I could feel the adrenaline move through my body, aching to find out the result of the hearing.
This book was as dry as the Griswold’s Christmas turkey. I really thought the plot would be more charged, but it was really just about life on the reservation. Even the subplot of Patrice going to find Vera was wrapped up by the middle of the book and the delegates testifying before Congress occurred in the last fifty pages or so. That being said, this book was an interesting read about the U.S. government’s termination policy in the 1950s, and a look into life on a native reservation.
I give “The Night Watchman” by Louise Erdrich three out of five stars.
This story was written by Alex Wagner. He can be reached at alex.wagner@marquette.edu. | https://marquettewire.org/4074467/ae/alexs-book-cave-the-night-watchman-ra1-em2-rh3-kc4/ | 2022-04-01T00:56:56Z |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – For some people, overdraft fees are a frustrating inconvenience. For others, they pose crippling costs. Some lawmakers now want to change how they’re charged altogether.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation called the “Overdraft Protection Act.” The bill includes provisions to cap the amount and number of fees a bank can charge.
“My bill tries to cut down on these unfair and deceptive practices,” the New York Democrat said.
Advocates like Elyse Crawford-Hicks with Americans for Financial Reform say overdraft fees hit low-income families and people of color the hardest.
“Overdraft fees are paid the most by people who can least afford them,” Crawford-Hicks said.
Others say over-drafting is a useful service because it can function like a short-term loan. Paul Kundert is the CEO of UW Credit Union, which recently reduced their overdraft fees and put more limits on how they charge them.
“When prices are fair, we believe consumers do benefit from access to the credit provided by overdraft fees,” Kundert said.
Recently, major banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have made changes themselves, by reducing their overdraft fees or eliminating them altogether.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, says that demonstrates the legislation is unnecessary.
“The market is naturally, naturally taking care of the issue without government intervention. And we do not need more rules from Washington,” Williams said.
Because banks make billions of dollars in revenue from overdraft fees, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argues the proposed changes would cost consumers.
“We’ll see higher bank fees, we’ll see higher minimum monthly deposits as basically insurance against over-drafting and we will see a loss of access to free checking,” Zywicki said.
Lawmakers like Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., are promising to continue pushing for the reforms.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said. | https://www.yourerie.com/news/washington-dc/bill-seeks-to-put-cap-on-overdraft-fees/ | 2022-04-01T00:56:56Z |
Our RESTDataSource
is ready to use, but we don't yet have any resolvers to use it!
A resolver's mission is to populate the data for a field in your schema. Your mission is to implement those resolvers!
What exactly is a resolver? A resolver is a function. It has the same name as the field that it populates data for. It can fetch data from any data source, then transforms that data into the shape your client requires.
In server/src/
we'll start by creating a resolvers.js
file.
In that file, we'll declare a resolvers
constant, assigning it an empty object for now. Let's export it, because we'll need it in our server config options.
const resolvers = {};module.exports = resolvers;
Our resolvers
object's keys will correspond to our schema's types and fields.
To create a resolver for the tracksForHome
field, we'll first add a Query
key to our resolvers
object. The value of that key will be another object that contains the tracksForHome
key.
This tracksForHome
key is where we'll define our resolver function for the corresponding field.
While we're here, let's add a comment above the resolver to clarify what it does.
Inside the resolvers
object:
Query: { // returns an array of Tracks that will be used to populate // the homepage grid of our web client tracksForHome: () => {},}
Which of the following are true about resolvers?
How will our resolvers interact with our data source? This is where context
comes in. Resolver functions have a specific signature with 4 optional parameters: parent
, args
, context
, and info
.
tracksForHome: (parent, args, context, info) => {},
Let's go over each parameter briefly to understand what they're responsible for:
- parent:
parent
is the returned value of the resolver for this field's parent. This will be useful when dealing with resolver chains. - args:
args
is an object that contains all GraphQL arguments that were provided for the field by the GraphQL operation. When querying for a specific item (such as a specific track instead of all tracks), in client-land we'll make a query with anid
argument that will be accessible via thisargs
parameter in server-land. We'll cover this further in Lift-off III. - context:
context
is an object shared across all resolvers that are executing for a particular operation. The resolver needs this context argument to share state, like authentication information, a database connection, or in our case theRESTDataSource
. - info:
info
contains information about the operation's execution state, including the field name, the path to the field from the root, and more. It's not used as frequently as the others, but it can be useful for more advanced actions like setting cache policies at the resolver level.
What is the context
parameter useful for?
Code Challenge!
spaceCats
with all 4 parameters as described above. The function should not return anything.In this course, we'll be focusing on context
, the third positional argument that's passed to every resolver function. Let's dig into it. | https://www.apollographql.com/tutorials/lift-off-part2/the-shape-of-a-resolver | 2022-04-01T00:56:57Z |
Click here to read the full article. The Toronto Biennial of Art in Canada, which opened to the public over the weekend, has named the two artists who have won prizes for their contributions to this year’s exhibition. They are Camille Turner, who won the Artist Prize, and Aycoobo / Wilson Rodríguez, who won the Emerging Artist Prize. Each winner will receive CAD$10,000 ($8,000). In June, the Biennial will also award two new prizes: Audience Artist Prize and Programs Prize, both selected by online voting.
At the exhibition, which runs through June 5, Turner is showing a three-channel video installation, Nave,... | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556600982660/research-scholars-workshop-creating-and-presenting-a-research-poster | 2022-04-01T00:56:58Z |
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Aliyah Boston dominated women’s college basketball on both ends of the court this season.
The junior forward helped South Carolina go wire-to-wire as the No. 1 team in the country, putting up an SEC-record 27 consecutive double-doubles, andshe has helped put the Gamecocks two wins away from the program’s second national championship.
Boston was honored as The Associated Press women’s basketball player of the year on Thursday. She is the second player from South Carolina to be recognized with the award, joining former Gamecocks great A’ja Wilson.
“Not often do you get the complete package. I think this recognition is for what she was able to do on both sides of the ball,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. “The player of the year is usually for offensive-minded people who think that when you put the ball in the hole, you should be bestowed the player of the year. She’s the full package. Every single day.”
Boston’s parents and aunt as well as the entire South Carolina team were in the audience of the ceremony that also honored AP Coach of the Year Kim Mulkey.
“Coming into this year I said in the back of my mind I wanted to change the narrative this year about women’s basketball,” Boston said. “To get this award means a lot and I can’t wait to do more in the future.”
Boston received 23 votes from the 30-member national media panel that votes weekly for the AP Top 25. Iowa’s Caitlin Clark received six votes and Baylor’s NaLyssa Smith got one.
Boston averaged 16.8 points, 12 rebounds and 2.6 blocks this year.
“I think Aliyah is so unselfish that she’s not very comfortable taking over basketball games,” Staley said. “She doesn’t want to be seen by her teammates as selfish and chasing numbers.”
Boston’s parents surprised the unanimous first-team AP All-American with the news on Zoomthat she had won the award.
“I’m in shock, I got the chills,” Boston said to her parents on the call.
Staley said that Boston is one of the hardest workers on the team.
“Young people will follow anyone, good or bad,” the coach said. “Aliyah has tbe personality where you’d follow her because of how hard she works, how unselfish she is, how giving she is. When it’s time to make plays she delivers. She’s a leader to follow for all the right reasons.”
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More AP coverage of March Madness: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | https://www.fox44news.com/sports/south-carolinas-aliyah-boston-wins-ap-player-of-the-year/ | 2022-04-01T00:56:59Z |
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Former Texas Southern guard A.J. Lawson is all about networking, especially if it will further his goals to continue his basketball career.
Lawson, who recently wrapped up his playing eligibility with the Tigers after their first-round loss to Kansas during the NCAA Tournament, is playing in the 2022 Dos Equis 3X3U National Championship this weekend. In participating in the tournament that will be played against the backdrop of this weekend’s Men’s Final Four in New Orleans, Lawson hopes to be networking with people and impressing the right basketball executives who can keep his career going overseas.
“I knew about it,” Lawson said of the 3-on-3 tournament that is played annually in the same city as the Final Four. “I know a lot of guys from the Houston area who have played in it as well. I just think it would be an experience for me just to meet a couple of other guys. Also, just to get a little bit more exposure at the end of my college career.”
Lawson, who is from Bryan and just concluded his final season at TSU as a graduate student, has spent the week in New Orleans, preparing and learning the nuances of the 3-on-3. In between, he has gotten to know many of the players he will be playing with and against, along with the coaches and pro players who are working with the participants.
Lawson, a 6-foot-5 guard, is one of our players who will play on the MEAC/SWAC squad called HBC-U Don’t Want None squad.
“Just getting opinions of other people, just hearing their stories,” said Lawson, who averaged 6.1 points and 3.4 rebounds while starting 15 of 29 games he played in with the Tigers this past season. “A lot of the coaches here have played overseas, a lot of people I’m going to meet are agents or are professional athletes already so getting different perspectives on different countries because you never know where you are going to end up. It’s just a great experience and I just love it because it’s going to help me in the end. I’m a learner and I listen.
“It’s kind of how the world works these days, it’s about the connections and who you know and how well of a person you are.”
The 3-on-3 tournament consists of 64 players who have been selected to begin their professional careers. The teams are competing for a share of $150,000, which is one of the largest prizes at any FIBA 3×3 sanctioned event.
All of the 16 teams will each squad in their respective pool on Friday and Saturday before they all head to the knockout stage on Sunday. The games can be watched on Twitter and on ESPN networks.
Lawson is definitely enjoying the experience.
“Right now we are just learning how to play 3-on-3 basketball because it’s kind of different than doing the 5-on-5 thing,” he said. “It’s a lot quicker so we are just learning the right way to play, the right way to defend and communicate, just getting in the flow of everything.”
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SPINDLE (SPD) traded 2.6% lower against the dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 19:00 PM ET on March 31st. One SPINDLE coin can currently be purchased for about $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC on exchanges. SPINDLE has a market cap of $481,509.40 and approximately $654.00 worth of SPINDLE was traded on exchanges in the last day. In the last week, SPINDLE has traded 4.7% higher against the dollar.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:
- Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) traded 3.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $45,525.16 or 0.99927329 BTC.
- Cosmos (ATOM) traded down 4.6% against the dollar and now trades at $28.90 or 0.00063428 BTC.
- Dash (DASH) traded 6.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $135.38 or 0.00284713 BTC.
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Oak Hill four-star combo guard Judah Mintz commits to Syracuse over DePaul, NC State, Wake
Judah Mintz is staying in the northeast.
The four-star combo guard from Washington D.C., chose Syracuse over DePaul, NC State, and Wake Forest at halftime of a GEICO Nationals quarterfinal contest featuring IMG Academy (Fla.) and La Lumiere (Ind.) Thursday afternoon.
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Mintz has been a star at Oak Hill Academy (Va.) under outgoing coach Steve Smith and brought energy to the floor during his time at the GEICO Nationals and the City of Palms Classic, where the Warriors advanced to the championship in December before falling to Montverde.
"I can't wait," Mintz said after committing live on ESPNU from Suncoast Arena in Fort Myers. "Syracuse, when they first called, it was really big for me. I wasn't committing just because of the name, it's more than that. It's a real family environment there. All the coaches there, played there, like G-Mac (Gerry McNamara), and coach (Adrian Autry). I can't wait."
Mintz was initially projected to make a move to Chicago and play for DePaul, but a wave of last-minute projections came in, with Mintz going to Syracuse.
The senior is excited about joining the ACC, especially after this NCAA Tournament season as Duke, North Carolina, and Miami all advanced to the Elite Eight despite the conference supposedly being in a "down year".
"Playing this year in the NIBC with the best competition in the country, coming to GEICO, I know I didn't want to take steps back and play against the best players in the country still. ACC, it's a conference that's just like it. I'm excited."
The Orange got their highest-rated recruit of the 2022 class in Mintz, who brings energy to the floor every time he plays. He had 21 points and seven assists in an 81-67 loss to Link Academy (Mo.) earlier Thursday.
"They're going be getting a playmaker, someone who loves to score the ball and someone who also loves to get their teammates involved. I'm always going to be the most competitive on the court."
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Filmmaker Johar and his latest campaign for a matrimony platform that targets graduates of 'elite' educational institutions attracted a lot of eyeballs on social media. Is this brand-celeb association a big misfit?
Alia Bhatt and Sidharth Malhotra, Sara Ali Khan and Kartik Aaryan, Janhvi Kapoor and Ishaan Khattar - what do these former rumoured celebrity couples have in common? Well, if rumours are to be believed, these matches were made by none other than filmmaker Karan Johar (KJo). After all, he is known to be Bollywood’s ‘Sima Taparia’. (Taparia is a matchmaker who helps people to find their ‘perfect match’ on the Netflix show ‘Indian Matchmaking’.)
What caught our attention recently was Gurugram-based matrimonial platform IITIIMShaadi.com’s digital campaign, featuring Johar. “Hum ek baar jeete hai, ek baar marte hai. Aur shaadi bhi ek hi baar karte hai. Isiliye, bahot zaruri hai ki life partner ka decision correct ho. Aur yeh aasan nahi hai, especially for the highly-educated…,” says Johar, as he spoofs the dialogue of one of his films for the campaign.
IITIIMShaadi.com went viral on social media, as this brand-celeb association didn’t sit quite well with the netizens. We know that Johar is neither an IIT/IIM graduate, nor is he married. So, what made the brand get Johar as its ambassador?
Most people commenting on IITIIMShaadi.com’s post, think it is an April Fool’s Day joke. Some people say that such a concept of segregation, while choosing a life partner, puts us 50 years back.
It’s worth noting that IITIIMShaadi.com isn’t a new platform and was founded in 2014 by Taksh Gupta. The platform claims it has more than 1.5 lakh members, hailing from India and 50 other countries. One of its biggest differentiators, other than its niche segment, is that it authenticates each profile on the basis of education. It screens the educational degree, institute, ID card/mark sheet, etc.
afaqs! reached out to a few industry experts to understand this unique brand-celeb association. What repercussions, if any, will it have on the brand? Will the campaign resonate with the academically elite target audience that the platform aims to cater to?
Edited expert opinions:
Manesh Swamy, senior vice president - creative and social, Logicserve Digital, says that the association is a mismatch. “I think the brand must have thought that KJo may bring in the required eyeballs for the launch. But I am assuming the connection with the TG may be a far-fetched one. At least, they got the general audience talking, even if it’s negative.”
Swamy points out that gone are the days when you chose a celeb and just did a random product plug. Audiences now will definitely call out the gap.
“When you choose a brand ambassador, simply consider these questions. Does the audience look up to the celeb as an important influencer? Can the audience relate and connect with him/her? Does he/she have similar ethos as the brand? Can he/she take the brand to the next level?,” he says.
Marketing expert Jessie Paul believes that a brand uses influencers for two reasons - either to create awareness or generate credibility.
“I feel that even a bad celeb choice can provide the brands with awareness, as is evident in this case. People who may have never heard of the platform, know about it now. However, Johar is neither married, nor he is an IITian/IIMian. So, he may not be the correct fit.”
Talking about an earlier brand-celeb association, Paul adds, “When (actress) Priyanka Chopra appeared in an ad for dating app Bumble (though she didn’t find her spouse, Nick Jonas, through Bumble), she didn’t get trolled for it. If it was not for Chopra, Bumble wouldn’t have come across as a legitimate dating app.”
Paul also mentions the fact that this latest brand-celeb association has made people visit the site to check it out and, thus, drive traffic to it.
Puneet Bajaj, VP strategy, Kinnect tells that given how evolved today's users are, it becomes more important to speak to them in a manner they resonate with.
“That includes what you say and whom you associate with to say it. On the former, this commercial to me seems to do a superficial job of bringing to light the core purpose of the brand and as consequence, ends up being seen propagating an exclusive elitist mindset which might not sit well with the audience,” Bajaj states.
From an association standpoint, Bajaj mentions that people today appreciate real stories and perspectives much more than before. “So if a brand shows somebody with a real context, like a hair dye brand had done with Karan Johar in the past, or how an OTT brand has been leveraging Shahrukh Khan of late, people are much more receptive to it.”
Sony Kunwar, co-founder and senior vice president, Windsor Digital, is of the opinion that Johar is a name that is synonymous with elitism, fame and glamour. The brand will surely leverage all these qualities.
“The audience must be able to relate to the brand ambassadors, influenced by their thoughts or lifestyle, or aspire to be like them. This is imperative, and if the audience can’t relate, then all the fame in the world will only fetch you eyeballs, not customers,” Kunwar signs off. | https://www.afaqs.com/news/advertising/karan-johar-for-iitiimshaadicom-what-kind-of-heaven-is-this-match-made-in | 2022-04-01T00:57:02Z |
Brent Sheppard has witnessed a lot of kissing in his time.
As a licensed wedding officiant, Sheppard has participated in more than 3,000 weddings across B.C. Now he’s hoping to share his experience and oversee more unions in the South Cariboo.
“Every wedding is full of fun memories and moments,” said Sheppard, who recently bought property at Bridge Lake and plans to move there full-time. “I have been flown by helicopter and plane and travelled by 4WD or RV to officiate weddings all over beautiful British Columbia. The Cariboo is an awesome part of B.C., for a destination wedding.”
Sheppard said he got into the wedding industry by accident. He had been working for several charities from 1979 to 1999, often with at-risk youth, and eventually became an honorary minister with the Apostolic Church of Canada, earning himself the nickname of Rev. Sheppard. Several of those youth later invited him to officiate their weddings and before he knew it he found himself uniting about 100 couples a year.
“Soon it was a cottage industry for us, and now in our semi-retired years, a great way to keep busy and have fun,” he said, adding that his wife Tracy is also a licensed wedding officiant.
Although COVID-19 halted many ceremonies in the past two years, Sheppard managed to keep busy with weddings across the province. He said there are usually about 24,000 couples married annually in B.C., while there were 100 weddings in 100 Mile House in 2019 and 800 across the entire Cariboo.
With the recent influx of his fellow “604s” – people who have moved here from the Lower Mainland where the area code is 604 – Sheppard expects to see more weddings in the Cariboo. As a result, he plans to transition from doing most of his weddings in the Lower Mainland to the Cariboo in the next few years. He’s bought himself a trailer to use as he travels to venues across the Interior.
While he’s a man of faith, Sheppard said the weddings he officiates are only religious at a couple’s request. He believes that good communication between an officiator and a couple is key to a successful wedding.
“Most couples want a non-religious ceremony, but they want a minister or clergymen to perform the ceremony. No problem. That is the unique niche that has kept us quite busy over the last three decades.”
Sheppard advises couples to immediately secure a wedding officiator after arranging the date and venue for their marriage. There are only about 1,000 officiators in B.C.
When a couple does hire him, Sheppard said he likes to meet them if possible and have an ongoing dialogue over email to answer any questions. He also makes it a point to show up to wedding rehearsals to ensure everything goes smoothly on the big day.
“Our approach is it’s a formal event but let’s have some fun too,” Sheppard said. “Practice kissing, I say with a wink, preferably with each other.”
Anyone interested in contacting Sheppard is invited to reach out to merrymerev@gmail.com or check how his website HeyRev.com.
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Ukraine invasion means we need the EBRD now more than ever
The world has changed dramatically in the last week amidst the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. As a result, the United States and its partners should rethink how we use multilateral organizations. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is a little understood, key organization that has an outsize impact in Ukraine and the former Soviet space.
Before the Ukraine invasion, many shareholders wanted the EBRD to become a “green bank” focused on Sub-Saharan Africa as well as the Maghreb and Levant. These ideas need to be immediately rethought. The EBRD should instead ensure that supporting market democracies in the former Soviet space remains its major focus, while prioritizing all forms of energy and making a big commitment to mining for the carbon transition.
The EBRD came into existence with a mandate to create strong and sustainable market institutions in post-Communist Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries that would enable the growth of free enterprise and the private sector. EBRD is the only multilateral investment organization that has a mandate to use its investments to support democracy.
Many of the original countries that EBRD assisted need far less (direct assistance) from EBRD, but COVID and the invasion will likely spike demand from countries that have not called upon EBRD in a long time. In addition, a dozen countries around Russia’s rim require a significant amount of EBRD’s assistance. EBRD needs to double down on helping Ukraine — along with those other countries — given Russia’s unprovoked invasion.
The EBRD is owned by 71 countries, the European Union, and the European Investment Bank. The United States has a 10 percent capital shareholding percentage and is the largest individual shareholder. Ukraine joined the EBRD as part of its expanded membership in 1992, along with many other post-Soviet countries. The EBRD has carried out more than 500 projects in Ukraine and has a current portfolio of investments of $4.8 billion in the country. EBRD once had significant investments in Russia, but — with relations between the West and Russia going sideways, Russia’s seizure of Crimea, and growing authoritarianism — EBRD froze activities there in 2014. After what has happened in Ukraine, EBRD should fully divest itself in Russia.
Given Belarus’s support for Russia’s unprovoked invasion, the EBRD should divest itself in Belarus as well. According to the EBRD website, the current Belarus portfolio is €880 million. The EBRD has stated on its website that “our governors will soon decide whether to suspend Belarus’s access to EBRD finance and expertise open-endedly because of its role in the invasion of Ukraine.”
The EBRD’s president, Odile Renaud-Basso, has rightly come out with strong support for Ukraine, pledging “unwavering support.” Furthermore, the EBRD’s Board of Directors has agreed with a management proposal to take steps to support Ukraine in response to the invasion, and those steps are now going to its Board of Governors for approval.
There are several things that the EBRD should consider given this ongoing and likely protracted conflict:
- The EBRD should recommit to its original mission and “finish the job” in the post-Soviet space, which would mean supporting Ukraine and what might be described as “frontline states,” including Georgia and Moldova as well as the Balkans, Central Asia and other Caucasus countries.
- The U.S. will need to exercise energetic leadership and (re)engage. As of today, the Biden administration has not put forward a candidate for U.S. Executive Director at the EBRD, which means we will not have someone sitting in that chair for at least six months given the nature of Senate confirmations. Senior staff members who happen to be U.S. citizens are dwindling. Of the 20-plus members of EBRD senior management, only one is currently a U.S. citizen. Under the right circumstances, the U.S. might consider a capital increase for the EBRD.
- The EBRD should become a major financier of minerals. With Russia under increasing sanctions, Russia’s minerals and oil and gas reserves are likely going to be sold to China. Given that the carbon transition will require vast amounts of minerals for electronic vehicles, solar panels, and other technology, the EBRD should work with other MDBs and DFIs to help develop mining for the carbon transition in non-Russian contexts such as Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. The carbon transition is going to take decades, so in the meantime there are other things that the EBRD should take on including:
- The EBRD should finance new, safer, and smaller nuclear power plants as well as liquefied hydrogen, given the recent pro-nuclear announcements in Western Europe.
- The EBRD should actively finance non-Russian oil and gas projects — especially LNG projects — given the disruptions in the energy world due to the Ukraine invasion.
- EBRD should not expand to Africa. There have been significant discussions over the last several years about expanding the EBRD’s footprint to sub-Saharan Africa, which is very important to the world. Nevertheless, while sub-Saharan Africa’s population is growing at a fast pace and requires the types of investments the EBRD provides, the EBRD should “stick” to its space given the crisis in Ukraine. Other institutions — including the World Bank, the African Development Bank (AfDB), and bilateral country development finance institutions — should take the lead, and if need be, those institutions should be strengthened to help Africa, given their respective comparative advantages in Sub-Saharan Africa. There should be a moratorium on mission creep for the EBRD for the next 10 years, given the events of the last week.
While the EBRD was originally founded as a “development finance institution,” it has recently added new forms of development instruments to its toolkit, including blended finance tools, sovereign finance instruments, research grants, and technical cooperation. With these new capacities, and given the crisis, EBRD has stated it is exploring an “emergency financing package for the region.”
The EBRD should be at the center at any efforts to rebuild Ukraine and support countries impacted by the invasion of Ukraine. International observers do not know the extent of the damage, nor the cost of the reconstruction, given the evolving nature of the conflict.
The United States, European Union, and others should use the EBRD to help Ukraine and other post-Soviet states diversify their economies away from Russia.
The EBRD should stick to its original mission, and it should become the premier financier of mining and all forms of energy and power projects in the former Soviet space. EBRD should be asked to play an enormous — even pivotal — role in helping these countries chose their own futures and should stick to its knitting.
Daniel F. Runde is a senior vice president and William A. Schreyer chair in Global Analysis at CSIS. He previously worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank Group, and in investment banking, with experience in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
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WASHINGTON DC (Agencies): The award of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability procurement is planned for December, DOD Chief Information Officer John Sherman said in Washington today.
In July 2021, DOD officials said they expected the procurement would be ready in April 2022.
The JWCC is a ground-breaking procurement, Sherman said, and it involves some of the biggest technology firms in the United States: Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services.
These four “hyperscale” cloud service providers are working with DOD specialists to produce “a multi-cloud effort that will provide enterprise cloud capabilities for the Defense Department at all three security classifications: unclassified, secret and top secret all the way from the continental United States out to the tactical edge,” he said.
Once in place, it will service the Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative as well as aiding in artificial intelligence applications and much more, he
said.
The program plan is a three-year base contract with two, one-year options. At the conclusion of this possible five-year procurement, DOD will launch “a full and open competition for a future multi-cloud acquisition.”
Officials said the five-year contract ceiling is $9 billion. Washington Headquarters Services is leading the procurement effort with assistance from the Defense Information Systems Agency.
Back in July, officials expected only two cloud service providers to qualify to bid on the procurement.
The DOD was committed to conduct market research to determine which cloud service providers qualified to receive direct solicitations. Five were considered and four received the solicitations in November 2021.
This complicated the assessment period immensely. Sherman praised the professionals at each of the four bidders for their expertise and willingness to cooperate.
He said there has been “a lot of iterative dialogue, very robust, very good collaboration from all involved.
“But as we’ve gotten into this, … we’ve recognized that our schedule was maybe a little too ahead of what we thought and that now we’re going to wrap up in the fall, and we’re aiming to award in December,” he said.
The change to a December award date does not indicate anything is wrong with the procurement. Rather, it is ensuring the government does the due diligence that American taxpayers deserve.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Todd Bowles earned his way in the NFL on the defensive side of the ball.
He’s not afraid to talk offense.
The new head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won’t be shy about sharing his ideas with offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich and quarterback Tom Brady.
“I’m the head coach. I get to do whatever I want,” Bowles said Thursday, a day after taking over because Bruce Arians moved into a front-office role. “I’m not going to call plays. I understand that. But I have input on how defenses are trying to attack them. I have input on certain situations going into the half, two-minute or third downs or going for it or not going for it and those types of things. That’s my job and I have the freedom to do that. At the same time, I understand and respect Byron and Tom a great deal and they know that. I think we’re off to a good start from a communication standpoint and we just have to keep building.”
Bowles gets a second opportunity after going 24-40 in four seasons with the New York Jets from 2015 through 2018. He also was an interim head coach in Miami for three games in 2011. He becomes only the 12th minority to get a second head coaching opportunity since 1963, according to data in the NFL’s 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Report.
“When I first started in New York, you try to do things the right way and you don’t do it your way, you end up having regret. So I’m going to do it my way,” Bowles said.
Arians joined Bowles at his introductory news conference and learned the Buccaneers will induct him into the team’s Ring of Honor this season. Brady also was in attendance.
Arians, who turns 70 this year, said his decision to step down as coach was about “succession” and making sure he turned the team over to Bowles with an opportunity to succeed. When Brady unretired on March 13, Arians realized the time was right.
“Succession is way important to me,” Arians said. “This has been my dream for a long time. Guys that know me, they knew I wanted one of my guys to take over.”
Arians dismissed reports of friction with Brady, saying it “couldn’t be further from the truth.”
Bowles and Arians have a relationship that dates more than 40 years. Bowles played safety for Arians at Temple in the 1980s and was defensive coordinator on Arians’ staff in Arizona before joining him in Tampa.
“He is the most influential coaching figure and father figure that I have ever had in this league,” Bowles said, adding that it was a bittersweet feeling when he got the news from Arians.
Bowles made it clear he has a different personality than Arians.
“The only thing we have in common is our bald heads,” Bowles said. “He smokes, I don’t. He drinks, I don’t. So, we never got in each other’s way.”
Arians led the Buccaneers to their second Super Bowl title in 2020 and an NFC South title in 2021. With Brady back, Bowles takes over a team that has championship aspirations.
“Good players make good coaches so you always want to have good players,” Bowles said. “I’m not going to apologize for inheriting a talented team. I’ve had less success with a team. It’s different to the fact that I don’t think I can go into this trying to be Bruce. I would fail miserably if I tried. … I can be me.
“I understand a lot of things I’ve learned from my coaching experience, especially from him so I’m going to take that approach. The one thing I know is I know I can coach football players regardless if you’re an All-Pro or a rookie. All of your players want to be coached and help them get better. I can help people get better and I’m going to use my approach.”
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The actor is up against the Tata IPL, movies and shows or rival actors, and upcoming superhero entertainment.
Envy can make us do weird things. In the case of Shah Rukh Khan, he decided to launch his own OTT app after learning all his rivals and peers had found a place at Disney+ Hotstar and not him.
This ‘Fear of Missing Out’ (FOMO) of SRK, as the actor is often called, has gone on for awhile and it finally resulted in the actor announcing SRK+
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The Public Health Agency of Canada has declared an outbreak of norovirus linked to the consumption of raw B.C. oysters.
The outbreak has impacted people in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario — though as of March 30, 262 of the 279 reported cases are in B.C. There have been no deaths associated with the outbreak.
Individuals became sick with norovirus after ingesting raw oysters farmed on B.C.’s west coast. Health Canada recalled certain brands of oysters that were believed to be related to the norovirus outbreak on Feb. 18, March 20, March 23, and March 27, 2022.
READ MORE: Health Canada recalls certain B.C. oysters due to norovirus contamination
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is continuing an investigation into the outbreak which could lead to further recalls. Any recall notices will be shared publicly.
To avoid norovirus infection from oysters, make sure they are cooked thoroughly to an internal temperature of 90 degrees celsius for 90 seconds before eating. Public health agencies do not recommend consuming raw oysters.
If you believe you became sick from consuming the recalled oysters, Health Canada recommends contacting a doctor. Anyone who believes they purchased the product should check to see if they have it in their home or business. Do not consume the recalled oysters — either throw them away or return them to the place of purchase.
When people become sick with norovirus they typically develop symptoms of gastroenteritis within 24 to 48 hours, but symptoms can start within 12 hours after exposure. Even after becoming infected with norovirus, you can become re-infected. The main symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting and stomach cramps. Other symptoms may include a low-grade fever, headaches, chills, muscle aches and fatigue.
Most people start to feel better after a day or two, however in severe cases, some patients require hospitalization. Those most at risk of severe outcomes from norovirus infection include pregnant women, people with compromised immune systems, young children and seniors.
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It’s been nearly two weeks since our last podcast hit our channels, but the Chicago Bears really haven’t done much of note in free agency for us to talk about. They’ve made a couple moves and a few players have officially signed on to play elsewhere, but there hasn’t been the frenzy so many fans wanted to see.
Then again, this roster had a bunch of players coming out of contract and not a lot of money to play with. Plus the organization is taking the smart and steady approach they alluded to leading up to the start of the league year.
In this latest LIVE edition of Bear & Balanced, which will get started at 7:15 p.m. Chicago time, JB and myself will run though some of the moves made by general manager Ryan Poles, we’ll discuss some additional free agent moves we’d like to see, and then we’ll bring on Jacob Infante, WCG’s Lead Draft Analyst, for some draft talk.
Join us on our new YouTube Channel (2nd City Gridiron) which is the video home for all our podcasts, or check out the show right here in this embed once we go LIVE at 7:15 p.m.
And for those of you that would rather not watch our ugly mugs talk Bears, we’ll embed the podcast (audio only) right here once we cut that up and publish it.
Make sure you subscribe to our podcast channel that is available everywhere you find your podcasts including these platforms; Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Audacy, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Podbean, Audible, TuneIn, and also subscribe to our 2nd City Gridiron YouTube channel so you can see the behind the scenes recording and get some exclusive video only content. | https://www.windycitygridiron.com/2022/3/31/23004088/bear-balanced-chicago-bears-next-steps-roster-audio-video-2nd-city-gridiron-free-agency-nfl-draft | 2022-04-01T00:57:10Z |
Celestial skies at Sailor’s Creek
Published 4:24 pm Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Spend a beautiful evening with the Crewe Astronomy Club gazing at the stars and learning about the night sky on Saturday, April 9 from 7 – 8:30 p.m. Using hi-tech telescopes positioned in front of the Visitor Center at Sailor’s Creek Battlefield Historical State Park, guests will have the opportunity to look upon the planets and moons from our solar system, the Orion Nebula containing the red supergiant star, “Betelgeuse” and the blue supergiant star, “Rigel” as well as the Andromeda Galaxy and the center of the Milky Way. If you have your own telescope, bring it along, too. This program is free to the public and very family-friendly. COVID-19 protocols including social distancing shall be strictly observed.
Visitors are encouraged to bring their own telescopes and may also look through the club astronomers’ hi-tech telescopes. Even if the weather doesn’t cooperate, the extraordinary indoor presentation is worth watching.
For more information, contact the Sailor’s Creek Battlefield Historical State Park visitor center by phone at (804) 561-7510, or email sailorscreek@dcr.virginia. gov. | https://www.farmvilleherald.com/2022/03/celestial-skies-at-sailors-creek-2/ | 2022-04-01T00:57:10Z |
DENTON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A Denton County jury on Thursday, March 31, found Antwon Pinkston guilty on two counts of aggravated assault against a public servant in the shooting of Denton Police Officer Urban Rodriguez.
The punishment phase begins Friday morning.
The shooting happened in October 2019 outside of a Taco Bell on University Drive.
Officer Rodriguez was shot in the head and leg, but survived.
Pinkston faces up to 99 years in prison. | https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2022/03/31/antwon-pinkston-shot-denton-police-officer-2019-guilty-aggravated-assault-public-servant/ | 2022-04-01T00:57:10Z |
The Hague: Jamal Jama Al Musharakh presented his credentials to King Willem-Alexander UAE Ambassador to the Netherlands at Noordeinde Palace in the Hague in the presence of senior Dutch officials.
Al Musharakh conveyed to King Willem-Alexander the greetings of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and their wishes for prosperity and progress for the Dutch people.
King Willem-Alexander asked Al Musharakh to convey his greetings to the UAE leaders and his wishes for additional progress and prosperity for the UAE and its people.
He also wished the UAE ambassador success in his tasks to strengthen bilateral relations across various fields, stressing his country’s readiness to provide all possible support to facilitate his work.
Al Musharakh, in turn, expressed his pride in representing the UAE in the Netherlands and his keenness to strengthen bilateral relations in a way that contributes to reinforcing the bonds of friendship between the two countries.
The meeting was also an opportunity to review ways to develop relations, new areas of cooperation, and means to leverage joint opportunities to meet the aspirations of the two countries. | https://gulfnews.com/uae/government/uae-ambassador-presents-credentials-to-king-of-the-netherlands-1.1648769320028 | 2022-04-01T00:57:10Z |
Emily’s 6 First Alert Forecast - Warmer with evening showers Friday
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A warm up is here after Thursday’s chill! After a cold start in the 20s, Friday afternoon should push us into the 60s! You’ll see the most sun in the morning with the evening bringing a returning chance for showers into the Metro.
Areas to the west of the Metro see rain chances as early as 2-3 PM with an arrival to the Metro after 5 PM. These showers will continue into early Saturday morning and clear well before sunrise.
Saturday is the best day of the weekend to get outside. Plan on plenty of sun, occasional breezes and a high of 60 in the Metro. Sunday will be warmer but windier with the chance of a shower or two mainly in the afternoon.
Gusts as high as the 30s will make our high of 66 feel a little less comfortable so will the increased clouds. Under the clouds a shower or two will be possible, although it won’t be a washout this may not be the best for outdoor plans.
Another chance for rain is on the way Tuesday! This brings in a chance for afternoon and evening thunderstorms and a cool down to follow.
Rain chances continue into Wednesday with highs falling back to the 50s... a cool down to the 40s by Thursday with lingering moisture ands a chance for a rain/snow mix.
We’ll look ahead to a warm up after that with highs possibly approaching 70 by next weekend.
Keep track of the radar and 10-day forecast anytime by downloading the free WOWT First Alert Weather App: https://www.wowt.com/page/get-the-first-alert-weather-app/
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BLACKFOOT -- Bryan Smith, a candidate for Idaho’s 2nd Congressional District, came to Blackfoot on March 25 and spoke to Bingham County residents at the American Legion Post 23.
He addressed the audience about what he stands for as a candidate and why he believes he deserves the job over his opponent, Mike Simpson, who’s represented the district in the House of Representatives since he was elected in 1999.
Smith challenged Simpson for his seat in 2014 but lost the election after receiving 38% of the vote, while Simpson received 62%. Smith believes the political environment has changed since then and it has turned in his favor, and that the voters “simply have Mike Simpson fatigue.”
“I felt like Mike Simpson was just way too liberal. He was voting for bigger government, bigger spending … and I know that the people of Idaho are very conservative, and so I felt back then that he was out of touch and that he had become a career politician,” Smith said in an interview after the event.
“Mike has accomplished the impossible, from 2014 until today he’s gotten much worse,” Smith said. “Because I feel I can do a better job and the people deserve better representation, I decided to get back in the race.”
Smith’s top three voting issues are, first, election integrity, second, restarting the construction of Trump’s border wall, and third is opposing Simpson’s “absurd” dam breaching proposal.
Simpson said his proposal aims to address the long-standing stalemate and unending lawsuits over salmon recovery. The dams the proposal would remove are in the state of Washington, and Simpson said Idaho sends 500,000 acre feet of water to help keep the reservoirs high for Washington to use for salmon recovery.
“That is … water that could be used in Idaho, water that could be used to recharge OUR aquifer and water that could be used for Idaho farmers and producers -- not Washington state,” Simpson said in an interview.
When asked if he was in favor of balancing the budget, Smith replied, “I’m for cutting the budget.”
Smith said he wants to look at what aspects of our government are necessary to keep funding, like Social Security and defense, and then look for aspects of the government that aren’t necessary in his view.
“And so, how do you do that? One is that there’s a lot of federal departments. Not only are they not necessary but they’re not grounded in the constitution,” Smith said. Some examples of departments he would like to eliminate are the Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Smith said the national debt, which is around $30 trillion, is “totally untenable. Mike Simpson has been a co-conspirator in getting us into that position and so we need to spend what we bring in.” Smith referenced Simpson voting for a $1.5 trillion spending bill as a specific example, which he said was passed out of committee in the middle of the night by the Democrats, and that Simpson couldn’t have read its 2,900 pages before he signed on.
Simpson pointed out that the bill he signed was to keep the government open.
“Congress has a Constitutional duty to fund the government, and I take that responsibility seriously because a government shutdown is not good for anybody. I have opposed every one of Nancy Pelosi’s big government spending bills this Congress because they were unpaid for and irresponsible,” Simpson said.
Smith believes that the state of Idaho can do a better job educating students “without the help of bureaucrats in Washington.” Smith also believes that Idahoans want clean air and water, “probably more than the bureaucrats in Washington.”
“There are lots of programs that are redundant in terms of what they do. The states can be doing and the federal government shouldn’t be doing them, and so those would be fertile ground to look at in terms of where you go first to cut spending,” Smith said.
Smith also opposes the Fairness For All Act, which Simpson has co-sponsored that aims to give civil rights to members of the LGBT community while also protecting religious freedom in the workplace. Smith opposes this because he claims that the bill gives “special civil rights class status to transgender people.”
Simpson calls the bill a conservative alternative to legislation proposed by the Democrats that he said would decimate religious liberties. He claims that the bill protects the tax-exempt status of religious organizations and universities. There are currently eighteen Republican cosponsors of the legislation and no Democrat cosponsors.
When asked if he opposed transgender people having civil rights, Smith said, “I think we all ought to be treated equally.” What he claimed to be opposed to was the bill extending “special” civil rights.
Simpson said he’s taking Smith as a serious challenger, just as he did in 2014 and just as he does for all of his opponents.
“You take every challenge as a serious challenge. The first time you don’t is the time you get beat,” Simpson said.
Simpson also sees a changing political climate that he said is becoming more partisan, but he wants to find common ground between both sides of the aisle.
“We need to get back to where we actually talk to each other and discuss issues,” Simpson said.
Smith said he’s confident about his chances of being elected in 2022.
“I think my chances are very good. I think this is the best challenge that’s been waged against Mike Simpson,” Smith said. | https://www.postregister.com/chronicle/news/congressional-candidate-bryan-smith-visits-blackfoot/article_982c8f25-a37e-59c9-8faa-1b50a881879b.html | 2022-04-01T00:57:10Z |
📄 Adding a new track page
We have our server set up and we know the query we need to make. Now let's see how this fits into our user flow by creating the boilerplate for our Track page.
Let's create a new file in the client/src/pages
folder. We'll call it track.js
.
We import React
at the top, then gql
and useQuery
from @apollo/client
, and lastly, our Layout
and QueryResult
components.
In client/src/pages/track.js
:
import React from 'react';import {gql, useQuery} from '@apollo/client';import {Layout, QueryResult} from '../components';
Now let's build the skeleton of the Track page.
We'll declare a functional component that takes a trackId
destructured from the props
input.
This prop will be coming as a parameter from the route, or the browser's URL, which we'll set up later.
For now, let's return the layout of the page. Make sure to export the component below.
In track.js
:
const Track = ({trackId}) => { return <Layout></Layout>;};export default Track;
We have an empty Track page, great. But how do we access that page? We'll need to add a new route in our index page.
🛣 Adding a new route
Staying in the same pages
folder, let's open up the index.js
file. At the top, let's import our Track
component.
import Track from './track';
Inside the Router
component, below Tracks
, we can add our Track
component and set its path prop to /track/:trackId
.
<Track path="/track/:trackId" />
You can learn more about how this routing works in the Reach Router docs. For now, we know that if we go to this path, or URL, in our browser, and give it a trackId like c_0
for example, it will display the Track page.
The index.js
file in client/src/pages
should now look like this:
<Router primary={false} component={Fragment}> <Tracks path="/" /> <Track path="/track/:trackId" /></Router>
Let's check to see if this new route works.
First let's start up our client app. Open up a new terminal, since we want to keep our server running, then navigate to the client folder with cd client
. Run npm start
.
This should open up a page in the browser to localhost:3000 to show the homepage. Let's navigate to the new route we just added: localhost:3000/track/c_0. We should see a blank page layout! We'll start to fill this in with the data we retrieve from the query.
Task!
💻 Setting up our client's query
Open up the track.js
file again in client/src/pages
.
Let's build our track query. We'll call it GET_TRACK
all caps, and use the gql
template literal. Let's add an export
keyword to the declaration so the query is available in our test cases later on.
In track.js
, after the imports:
export const GET_TRACK = gql` // our query goes here`;
And now we could either build our query by hand, or, because we already did the job in Apollo Studio, let's head back there, copy the query in our Operations section and paste it in our GET_TRACK
variable just between the backticks in the gql tag.
query getTrack($trackId: ID!) { track(id: $trackId) { id title author { id name photo } thumbnail length modulesCount numberOfViews modules { id title length } description }}
On the client side, where will the query above get the value for the $trackId
variable?
Query from the client
Drag items from the box to the blanks above
gql
useApolloClient
useQuery
graphql
useState
With our query all set, we're now ready to wield our useQuery
hook in the next lesson. | https://www.apollographql.com/tutorials/lift-off-part3/building-the-track-page | 2022-04-01T00:57:10Z |
Provide temporary protection to Ukrainians, but do it the right way
Congress established Temporary Protected Status (TPS) more than 30 years ago to address exactly the sort of situation that is playing out in Ukraine today. An estimated 30,000 Ukrainian citizens are believed to be in the United States on some sort of temporary visa, or here illegally. A percentage of those Ukrainians may want to get home right now to join the resistance to Russia’s military invasion and subjugation of their homeland, or to be with their families in a time of crisis.
Others will choose to remain here beyond the terms of their visas. As long as Russian missiles are flying and tanks are rolling, we cannot ethically compel them to go home. This is why our government granted Ukrainian nationals TPS yesterday, permitting them to remain here and with work authorization for 18 months.
The United States is a compassionate nation. The idea of granting temporary refuge to people whose country is being invaded militarily by a malevolent expansionist neighbor would be entirely uncontroversial. But because of flagrant long-term abuse of the TPS program — under both Democratic and Republican administrations — and the raging crisis at the U.S. southern border created by the Biden administration, TPS for Ukrainian nationals rightfully faces some skepticism.
Yesterday’s TPS designation for Ukraine must be offset by some confidence-boosting measures to assure the American public that they will not be taken advantage of once again, and that the administration will act decisively to halt an unprecedented surge of migrants entering the country illegally.
For starters, Ukraine’s TPS designation should be followed by a clear statement of what conditions in Ukraine would constitute grounds for extending that status beyond the initial 18 months. In almost every instance in which the U.S. has granted TPS in the past, the status has been repeatedly extended based on vague assertions that conditions in the home country were not quite right, or that the country was not yet prepared to accept the return of its citizens and has become dependent on the remittances they send home.
Ending TPS should not require that the home country turn into a Garden of Eden. It requires that the immediate threats to life and safety brought on by war, political upheaval, or natural disaster no longer exist — a much lower bar.
A second act of good faith that our government can make to the American public is to end TPS for countries that have had their status repeatedly extended, long after the crisis created by the triggering event had passed. In the case of Honduras, for example, the destructive hurricane that led to the initial grant of TPS occurred a quarter-century ago.
Additionally, the Biden administration should renounce efforts to grant amnesty for longtime TPS beneficiaries. Doing so would reaffirm that “temporary” means temporary and that we expect that those who avail themselves of our protection honor their commitments to return home when the crisis passes, even if circumstances are not ideal.
Finally, the Biden administration must move decisively to restore order at the U.S. southern border and reinstate meaningful enforcement of our immigration laws. For context, the 30,000 Ukrainians who might qualify for TPS amount to about five days’ worth of migrants from Central or South America our Border Patrol encounters, while countless more enter undetected.
While Americans are generally supportive of offering temporary protection to people whose country is being overrun by a despotic ruler who threatens global stability, they also expect that our own president will make a good-faith effort to end wholesale abuse of our nation’s border and immigration laws.
Providing temporary protection to those facing imminent threats is the right thing to do — and we have done that consistently. Ending those temporary protections when the threat has passed is also the right thing to do — and we have consistently failed to do that. As we consider our humanitarian response to the crisis in Ukraine, we also must act to ensure that the interests of the American public are honored.
Dan Stein is president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) in Washington, D.C. Follow on Twitter @FAIRImmigration.
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VIENNA (TASS): The Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE SMM) in Ukraine will not have program requirements due to the completion of the mandate after March 31. This statement was made on Thursday by Russia’s permanent representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich at a meeting of the permanent council of this organization in Vienna.
“The SMM will not have any program needs, as well as program activities in general in connection with the completion of the mandate after March 31,” Lukashevich said in a statement.
According to him, the Russian side calls on the Polish Chairmanship-in-Office and the OSCE Secretary General “to submit to the participating States without delay a draft technical decision of the permanent council on the allocation of resources necessary to wind down the SMM and completely stop its administrative activities within a reasonable time.”
“Additionally, we would like to inform that the Russian Federation will notify the personnel service of the OSCE Secretariat about the termination of the secondment of all its employees in the SMM in connection with the expiration of the mandate of the mission and the termination of its mandated tasks. The need to conduct further consultations on changing the mandate or transferring the mission to “administrative mode” we don’t see,” Lukashevich said.
As the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said on Thursday, it was not possible to extend the mandate of the OSCE SMM in Ukraine because of Russia’s position.
The mission’s mandate has been renewed annually for a year since 2014. | https://thefrontierpost.com/lukashevich-osce-smm-in-ukraine-activities-ended/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lukashevich-osce-smm-in-ukraine-activities-ended | 2022-04-01T00:57:11Z |
Stakenet (XSN) traded 4.7% higher against the US dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 19:00 PM Eastern on March 31st. Stakenet has a market capitalization of $2.76 million and $3,645.00 worth of Stakenet was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Stakenet coin can currently be bought for about $0.0220 or 0.00000048 BTC on exchanges. During the last seven days, Stakenet has traded 8.9% lower against the US dollar.
Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:
- The Sandbox (SAND) traded 2.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $3.43 or 0.00007494 BTC.
- Dash (DASH) traded 6.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $135.38 or 0.00284713 BTC.
- Secret (SCRT) traded 3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $5.27 or 0.00011514 BTC.
- Immutable X (IMX) traded down 11.4% against the dollar and now trades at $2.37 or 0.00005176 BTC.
- SuperFarm (SUPER) traded 3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.82 or 0.00001800 BTC.
- DigitalBits (XDB) traded 28.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.33 or 0.00000724 BTC.
- PAC Global (PAC) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0130 or 0.00000022 BTC.
- MimbleWimbleCoin (MWC) traded 1.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $12.26 or 0.00026788 BTC.
- BinaryX (BNX) traded 16.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $63.95 or 0.00139741 BTC.
- Boson Protocol (BOSON) traded 6.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.03 or 0.00002242 BTC.
Stakenet Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “Rebranded from POSW, StakeNet is a TPoS cryptocurrency using the X11 algorithm. The team that was behind the POSW coin and recently rebranded to StakeNet (XSN) The StakeNet service allows users to stake various cryptocurrencies in one single wallet. All dividends from the StakeNet staking services are paid in XSN coin. “
Stakenet Coin Trading
It is usually not presently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Stakenet directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Stakenet should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Coinbase, GDAX or Gemini. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Stakenet using one of the exchanges listed above.
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Dear Kitty: The Act of Keeping a Diary
As we await the arrival of the Anne Frank Tree, which will be planted on the University of Iowa Pentacrest on April 29, 2022, we encourage people of all ages to read the book that is at...
events.uiowa.eduAs we await the arrival of the Anne Frank Tree, which will be planted on the University of Iowa Pentacrest on April 29, 2022, we encourage people of all ages to read the book that is at...
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — It’s been 40 years since Formula One last ventured into Sin City for back-to-back Las Vegas races staged in the parking lot of the Caesars Palace hotel.
The European-headquartered series raced in Las Vegas in 1981 and 1982, then packed up with little incentive to return. Then came new ownership, slick marketing, a Netflix docuseries and a historic championship battle that all helped F1 explode in popularity throughout the United States.
The U.S. will be the only country on the 2023 calendar to host three F1 races in one season following Wednesday’s announcement of a Saturday night race down the famed Las Vegas Strip. F1 has raced at Circuit of the America’s in Austin, Texas, since 2012, and in May it will make its debut in Miami.
Barring any surprises, existing races in Mexico City and Montreal will bring F1 to North America five times next season.
Is it too much for one market?
Bobby Epstein, president of COTA, believes there’s enough interest to sustain three U.S. races. He could barely draw 100,000 spectators over a three-day weekend five years ago; COTA had more than 300,000 last year and is already sold out for its October race.
F1’s first race in Miami this May sold out in one day.
“Before we opened, there was very little interest or awareness in America about Formula One because they had no presence here,” Epstein told The Associated Press. “The first few years, it’s hard to know if you have a bright new shiny object or you have something that people really love and come back for and aren’t just curious about.
“What you can’t buy is history and you can’t buy tradition. You have to make it and earn it. The crowds here have told us we’re absolutely doing something right.”
NASCAR is the top U.S. series and already races 13 miles away from The Strip at the oval at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. NASCAR last week made its second appearance at COTA.
IndyCar is the American version of F1 and the most diverse series in the world with its mix of road and street courses, as well as ovals. But the open-wheel series has never challenged F1, even as European drivers are now migrating to IndyCar.
F1 didn’t much focus on the U.S. until Liberty Media Corp. bought the rights to the series in 2017. The American company has since targeted U.S. expansion and received a massive boost from the Netflix docuseries “Drive To Survive.”
Season four dropped ahead of the F1 season opener this month and Netflix said the behind-the-velvet rope peek inside the series ranked No. 1 in 33 countries its opening weekend. ESPN, meanwhile, said viewership for Sunday’s race in Saudi Arabia broke the week-old record for the network and was ESPN’s largest F1 audience since 1995.
“The momentum of Formula One has been demonstrated over the last several seasons and we’ve seen that potential turn into a reality as we watch our fanbase really grow around the world, but especially here in the U.S.,” Greg Maffei, President and CEO of Liberty Media, told The Associated Press.
F1 will promote the event alongside Liberty, which is taking on the additional role because of its belief in the market. F1 signed an initial three-year contract for the race, but the exact race date was not revealed beyond that it will be a Saturday night in November on a temporary 3.8-mile street course that will utilize the iconic Las Vegas Boulevard.
“This is somewhat different for us in that we’re taking a larger role because of our belief in the opportunity and our belief in Las Vegas,” Maffei said.
Added Stefano Domenicali, the CEO of F1: “The best racing on the planet will be in the entertainment capital of the world. Formula One has huge momentum and we are growing around the world and the United States is a massive focus for us, there is no doubt about it.”
No other country hosts more than two races a season. Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak said the city expected 170,000 visitors on race weekend to account for 400,000 nights of hotel rooms and an estimated economic impact of half a billion dollars.
But as F1 chases the U.S. dollar, it does so with very little American representation.
Michael Andretti, son of 1978 F1 champion Mario Andretti, is desperate to land a two-car team and a $420 million takeover of the existing Sauber team collapsed late last year. Andretti has since applied for expansion to the 10-team grid.
He’d like to bring to F1 driver Colton Herta, the Californian who turned 22 on Wednesday and is an IndyCar title contender. Herta has signed a testing contract with McLaren and will be evaluated by that team later this year.
Maffei was quick to point out that F1 already does have an American team; Haas F1 is owned by American businessman Gene Haas, who operates part of the organization alongside its NASCAR operation in North Carolina.
But Haas was the worst team in F1 last year and Andretti has publicly called on Haas to sell the F1 team to him. Haas has refused to sell and through the first two races appears to be a much improved team.
Gene Haas was forced to drop both his Russian driver and the sponsorship Nikita Mazepin brought from his father’s fertilizer company following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two weeks before the season opened. The team has somehow emerged stronger and scored points in the first two races of the season.
F1 and Liberty agree the series needs more American representation — teams, drivers, sponsors, all of it — but Domenicali said it cannot be an artificial effort. F1 won’t admit a team owner just to further its growth in the U.S.
“It’s important, but it has to be real,” Domenicali told AP. “People are making a difference, they are the protaganist. But it has to be real, (the driver) has to be quick, because otherwise it would not work. It is a journey that is not easy to accomplish. It will take time, but for sure, is in our focus.
“From the commercial point of view, from the organizer, or promoter point of view who wants to develop the business in the U.S., an American woman or man driver would be very good.”
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AP Sports Writer Jim Vertuno in Austin, Texas, contributed to this report.
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Partners with Rais Khan Project to launch the music album on hygiene practices, streaming on Spotify.
Dettol Banega Swasth India (DBSI) has launched India’s first hygiene focused music album- ‘Folk Music for a Swasth India’ in collaboration with renowned folk music band, Rais Khan Project.
‘Folk Music for a Swasth India’ produced by Dettol and sung and composed by Ustad Rais Khan will reach listeners on Spotify globally. Its songs focus on five key themes: Hygiene at Home, Personal Hygiene, Hygiene in School, Hygiene during Illness, and Hygiene in the neighbourhood.
Commenting on the launch, Gaurav Jain, senior vice president, South Asia, Reckitt said, "With Dettol Banega Swasth India we have been at the forefront of using innovative campaigns to promote positive hygiene behaviour by engaging with children. Stepping into the world of music is a social experiment where our aim is to reach out to people from different cultures, backgrounds, and communities. Music, Art and culture from across regions in India will help us build a local connect and spread the message on hygiene in a faster and more engaging way.”
Ustad Rais Khan, a Professional Percussionist and Folk Musician based out of Rajasthan, said “Music is a powerful medium. It helps us connect with people. It is most gratifying to use the power of our music to help children of our state and nation imbibe positive hygiene habits and stay healthy. We are grateful to Dettol Banega Swasth India for making this a reality for us.”
Dettol’s Banega Swasth India program has been creating awareness around hygiene and sanitation while empowering citizens with better health outcomes across the country. The campaign with its dedicated work in school education and nutrition interventions has improved the lives of over 20 million school kids in India to date, continuing to drive behaviour change leading to a healthier India. | https://www.afaqs.com/news/mktg/dettol-drops-a-hygiene-focused-music-album | 2022-04-01T00:57:15Z |
Imagine what it would be like if every car in Canada were to careen uncontrollably down a mountain, through a narrow corridor and into the ocean.
That’s approximately what the mass of rock that fell into Elliot Lake, turning a small creek above Bute Inlet into a raging torrent, equated to, according to a new report from researchers on the November 2020 Bute Inlet landslide. According to the paper, roughly 18 million cubic metres of rock descended 1,000 metres into a glacial lake at the head of Elliot Creek in the traditional territory of the Homalco First Nation north of Campbell River on the B.C. mainland coast. The landslide had a mass of 50 million tonnes — equal to the combined mass of every car in the country — and caused a 100 metre Tsunami in a small lake, and sent pretty much everything down the valley to the ocean.
“We expect large events to happen from time to time in areas like that. What’s a little bit unusual though, is the magnitude of the wave. We have seen it in other places too, but I think this is the largest wave we’ve seen in B.C. We haven’t witnessed or seen the effects of anything that has been more than 100 metres high,” said Marten Geertsema, a researcher with the Ministry of Forests. “What’s really remarkable is if you think about that small valley, you wouldn’t be able to outrun this. We lost four million cubic metres of material in that creek in about ten minutes. It eroded to a depth of about 50 metres below the creek bed in a few places. It’s hard to imagine that water power.”
Researchers were quick to head into the valley and collect as much data as possible. Over the past year, they have been compiling and analyzing that data and have recently published their findings.
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Part of Geertsema’s research is the effects of climate change on natural hazards. Some of the modelling data presented in the paper can be used to help people prepare for the effects of climate change, particularly as rock slides and rock avalanches tend to increase in the mountains as the glaciers that had formerly held the rocks in place melt away.
“We see an increase in rock slides in mountain areas, mainly in under two situations. One is when glaciers are receding, so they’re often on the walls above those glaciers or in the area of those glaciers. The other area is where we have mountain permafrost degradation,” Geerstema said. “We’re doing research in that area right now. We’re exploring, especially these areas where we think landslides could be more likely to increase — along the glacier margins. We’re looking for these kinds of deformations that may give us an indication that slopes may be ready to fail.”
As glaciers melt, they reveal lakes like Elliot Lake that were once hidden beneath ice. The report shows evidence of a similar rockfall in the same area, but since the lake was covered by the glacier at the time there was no catastrophic outburst flood.
“An older landslide scar that is visible in aerial photography reveals that a landslide occurred from the same location before the 1950s,” the report says. “The older landslide likely ran across the glacier before Elliot Lake formed and thus the catastrophic flood experienced during the recent event could not have occurred.”
Over the past hundred years, over 1,000 similar glacial lake outbursts have been recorded around the world, and over 12,500 people have died as a result. In 2017, an outburst flood in Greenland killed four and washed away most of the fishing village of Nuugaatsiaq.
In Canada, most of the events have been in remote areas that have not caused any injury to people, however, the researchers note that “there is no assurance that this will be true in the future, given increased development and tourism in these formerly remote areas.”
LiDAR data compiled by the Hakai Institute has allowed researchers to do modelling of the slopes, which can be used to indicate dangerous areas in the mountains.
“It was really fortunate that we got LiDAR from before the event and then after,” Geertsema said. “That LiDAR was provided by the Hakai Institute, so we’re pretty grateful to them.”
The Southern Coast Mountains of Western Canada has over 8,000 square kilometres of glacier-covered terrain, and it is seeing some of the fastest glacial loss rates in the world.
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Devotional — ‘Letting go’
Published 12:47 pm Thursday, March 31, 2022
Then Jesus said, “There was a man who had two sons. NRS Luke 15:11
These familiar words from the Gospel of Luke begin an even more familiar parable of the “prodigal son.” It is one of many parables about God’s concern for those who have trouble finding God and living into a loving relationship with their creator. It tells of a younger son who asks for and receives his inheritance. He promptly goes to a far off land and wastes his money on wine women and song. Broke, he ends up tending pigs and starving. He decides to return to his father, beg forgiveness and ask for a job as a hired hand.
When he returns, the father sees him while he is far away, orders a feast be made, runs to him with new clothes and welcomes him home with an abundance of love and joyful celebration. The older brother, who has remained and worked hard on the father’s farm, hears the commotion and asks a servant, “Why all the noise?” The older son is incensed to learn that the younger “prodigal” son has returned and welcomed as a returning hero.
There are many lessons to we can learn from this parable. Often, we look quickly to the “father’s” forgiveness and rejoice in the knowledge that God always forgives the penitent. However, as often forget the lesson that the older son’s reactions can teach us. Perhaps it is that we so often agree with the anger the elder son exhibits. He has worked hard and now is in exactly the same place as the younger, who squandered the father’s hard-earned wealth. We resonate with his anger and feeling of being “wronged.” We want to scream in chorus with the eldest, “It’s not fair!”
I think that especially in the season of Lent we need to look at this parable and remember that through Christ, our God wipes away our sin no matter how hard we work. We also must learn to let go of all the anger we have with those who have not “measured up” to our standards. In holding on to the anger, we miss the best thing that God gives, loving forgiveness.
That is why we have Lent, a time when we are to work on letting go of the good things so that we may enjoy the best things.
Keith Leach is Pastor of College Church and College Chaplain at Hampden-Sydney College. He can be reached at kleach@hsc.edu. | https://www.farmvilleherald.com/2022/03/devotional-letting-go/ | 2022-04-01T00:57:16Z |
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – In the Republican runoff for Tarrant County District Attorney, the two candidates have many of the same priorities and concerns, but they have very different professional experiences they’re counting on to win.
Matt Krause is a state Representative from Tarrant County and Phil Sorrells is a former Criminal Court Judge in Tarrant County.
During an interview, Sorrells emphasized his legal background is key to becoming District Attorney. “I’ve dedicated my entire career to working at the courthouse. I have 30 years’ experience down at the courthouse. My opponent has zero, so it’s a clear choice.”
Krause said the DA is not doing the day-to-day job of being a prosecutor and is instead setting policy for the office. “I would say as a legislator coming from that policy arena, you actually have more experienced and better experience than somebody who’s never been in that role, a former prosecutor a former judge has never had to make these policy type decisions you’re going to have to make as a District Attorney.”
They’re vying to succeed Republican Sharen Wilson, who decided against running for DA again.
Both Krause and Sorrells won more votes than Mollie Westfall, a State District Judge.
Krause received an endorsement from Senator Ted Cruz and Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn, while Sorrells received the endorsement of former President Donald Trump and former Governor Rick Perry.
Sorrells said, “We were excited to get that and grateful for President Trump to see our campaign has the values conservative Republicans are looking for. We want to back the police, we want to enforce immigration, and we want to make sure we’re going to keep this community safe.”
Krause said, “The surge in violent crime, we’re going to have to do something about that. We’re going to have to work hand in hand with our law enforcement partners, which is again why it’s so important that you have the backing and advocacy of those law enforcement partners such as Sheriff Waybourn.”
Both Krause and Sorrells each said fighting against crime and drugs are key priorities as well as making sure judges aren’t setting bail for violent criminals too low.
They also believe election integrity is important for the DA to uphold.
Sorrells said, “We want to make sure that our elections are pure, true, because if you can’t trust your elections, you can’t trust your elected officials.”
Krause said, “If election integrity is important to you, you need to find a District Attorney that’s going to be proactive on that issue, and I’ve shown that my time as a legislator that’s an issue very important to me.”
This November, either Krause or Sorrells will face Democrat Tiffany Burks, the former Criminal Division Chief of the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office.
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Nebraska lawmakers tackle plans for mulitple casinos
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Bellevue wants to get in the horse racing casino game, they have drawn up plans to build a facility in their city.
A horse track for up to 5,000 fans, a grandstand and clubhouse, and a multiple-purpose entertainment center for restaurants and concerts.
And eventually a casino.
A bill was introduced in the legislature to change some provisions in the Nebraska Racetrack Gaming Act. One proposed change would have prevented horse track casino operations from opening within 50 miles of another facility.
The racing commission would have until 2025 to study the plan.
“I thought the bill was kind of to stop Sarpy County from getting a horse track and casino it almost felt like to me that somebody was trying to legislate competition which is not really right in my opinion,” said Bellevue Mayor Rusty Hike.
“We’re proposing to spend about $250 million on the Omaha facility if there’s one in Bellevue I think people understand it’s going to have to be something smaller,” said Lance Morgan, President and CEO of Ho-Chunk Inc.
Bellevue Mayor Rusty Hike hopes to use the horse track and casino to jump start economic growth south of town.
Five or six years ago we looked at an entertainment district in that area and this really feeds into that vision we can put a water park next to it, hotels different recreational-type facilities,” said Hike.
Lance Morgan says their Warhorse Casino in Douglas and Lancaster counties are two of the six counties that voters approved to have casinos operating at Nebraska’s established horse tracks and adding more casinos is not what Nebraskans want.
“When Nebraskans voted on this they thought of this as a reasonable expansion nobody wanted a casino you know on every corner the six existing tracks is what were on people’s minds.”
Morgan says their work crews have actually started some work at their facilities in Lincoln and in Omaha.
“We have a plan to open temporary facilities both in Omaha and Lincoln and so in order to get that underway we had to get started, we actually thought we would start last fall or last summer even.”
Morgan says two casinos so close together, competing against each other would make it difficult to win back Nebraska gamblers who travel to Iowa to spend their money.
“There’s 750,000 living on this side of the river our 750,000 taking care of three casinos over there in my opinion so I think there’s room to add more entertainment venues here.”
“What you really need is one large champion to fight them and I think that’s what we proposed and the fact that we were here first I think is very telling.”
Both sides agree that eventually, the Nebraska State Racing Commission will make the decision on how many casinos will be allowed in Nebraska.
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👋 Great to see you in Part III of this Lift-off series!
So far, we've built a homepage for our Catstronauts app that's filled with learning tracks for aspiring cat space explorers. We closely followed a GraphQL query's journey from client to server and back, and we set up resolvers to pull live data from a REST data source.
In this course, we'll add a second feature to our Catstronauts app: we want users to be able to click a track card on the homepage to navigate to a page that shows more details about that specific track.
To do this, we'll learn how to query for a single track using GraphQL arguments. We'll continue to apply our schema-first approach while adding to our schema's types and fields. We'll then update our resolvers and data sources accordingly. Finally, we'll jump into the frontend to send our query using GraphQL variables, and we'll add page navigation to tie everything together.
Ignition sequence...
Prerequisites
Our app uses Node.js on the backend and React on the frontend. This course can be completed stand-alone but builds on concepts previously covered in Lift-off part I and part II.
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-part3
Task!
Project structure
This repo picks up where Lift-off part II left off. Our project is a full-stack app with the back-end app in the server/
directory and the front-end app 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!
Here's the file structure:
📦 odyssey-lift-off-part3 ┣ 📂 client ┃ ┣ 📂 public ┃ ┣ 📂 src ┃ ┣ 📄 README.md ┃ ┣ 📄 package.json ┣ 📂 server ┃ ┣ 📂 src ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 datasources ┃ ┃ ┃┣ 📄 track-api.js ┃ ┃ ┣ 📄 index.js ┃ ┃ ┣ 📄 schema.js ┃ ┃ ┣ 📄 resolvers.js ┃ ┣ 📄 README.md ┃ ┣ 📄 package.json ┣ 📂 final ┃ ┣ 📂 client ┃ ┣ 📂 server ┗ 📄 README.md
Now, open the repository in your favorite IDE.
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 the installation complete and a message in the console indicating that the server is running.
Task!
Next, the client app.
In a new 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 to localhost:3000
in the browser and see our homepage, which shows multiple track cards.
Task!
Setting up the Apollo Studio Explorer
To write our queries, we'll be using the Apollo Studio Explorer. The Explorer is free to use, and it provides awesome development features like interactive query building, query history, and response hints. This will make building our queries fast and fun.
If you've already set up your Studio development graph in Lift-off I, check off the task below. If not, click "Set-up Explorer" below and follow the steps!
Task!
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Putin tried to break the international order — it will hold him accountable
Russian President Vladimir Putin has a history of manipulating international law and institutions to advance his imperial ambitions and break the post-World War II order. After the failures to stop him in Georgia and Crimea, Putin has underestimated their power and resilience. His brazen breach of the most fundamental rule prohibiting aggressive war has backfired. Today, the post-WWII international order is stronger than ever, and international law will hold Putin to account.
Law has been but a toy for Putin since he studied it in St. Petersburg during the Soviet era. In 2008, he sent Russian troops to Georgia, claiming the legal right of self-defense in response to non-existent Georgian aggression. He justified his 2014 annexation of Crimea on a twisted version of the international law rule self-determination — the same rule that gave Kosovo, East Timor and South Sudan their independence. His current conquest similarly distorts the law yet again. He recognized the separatist Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk as independent nations and entered into “treaties” with their self-appointed leaders, to manufacture an “invitation” for Russian troops to enter Ukraine. He was well on his way to breaking the international system.
Invading Ukraine, however, is proving to be the step-too-far that the international community needed to reboot the international order and hold Putin to account. Precisely because of the flagrancy of Putin’s violation, the world has emerged united behind the United Nations Charter. Russia is surrounded. The sanctions package is the broadest, most robust in history, cutting Russia off from the international banking system, breaking the ruble, prohibiting the import of crucial technologies, freezing the assets of Putin and his allies, blocking Russian use of European Union (EU) airspace, and closing it off from the Bosporus.
These sanctions are possible because of Putin’s disregard for international law. Politically, the gravity of his breach fundamentally transformed countries, such as Germany, that last month shunned foreign policy activism but this week dispatched weapons to Kyiv. Legally, Putin’s violation allows countries to take countermeasures against Russia that otherwise would be illegal — from denying Russia use of their airspace to cutting it off from the SWIFT financial clearing system.
Last month, the post-WWII international order appeared to be decaying in the face of internal discord and a new Sino-Russian alliance of autocracies. Today, however, it is that new alliance — not the Western international order — that appears at risk. China’s Xi Jinping has been caught off guard by global unanimity, unable to either condemn or condone Putin. While the post-WWII order may have been cracking, Putin unintentionally gave it new life.
The resilience of the international order so evident this week is empowering international law to hold Putin accountable. Russia’s invasion is being challenged at the International Court of Justice. Enterprising lawyers in the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice filed a case this week in The Hague, arguing that Russia has violated the Genocide Convention by falsely claiming a genocide in Ukraine as a pretext for war. Although the court moves slowly, it likely will issue Preliminary Measures in favor of Ukraine.
Putin may well find himself prosecuted personally at the International Criminal Court. The court, established in 2002, ensures that the “most serious crimes of concern to the international community … not go unpunished.” While Russia has never joined, Ukraine has accepted its special jurisdiction, subjecting Putin — even while president of Russia — to prosecution for crimes in Ukraine The ICC Prosecutor has decided to open an investigation of the emerging evidence of Russian war crimes, including the use of cluster munitions and the targeting of civilians.
Foreign investors in Russia and Ukraine may be able to seek financial compensation through international investment law. The 1988 Russia-Ukraine Bilateral Investment Treaty opens the door to liability that could run to billions of dollars. Ukrainian investors, including the Ukrainian state-owned energy company and a Crimea-based bank, brought such cases in relation to the annexation of Crimea. Many more could follow, subjecting Russia to billions of dollars in damages.
As a legal consequence of invasion, Russia will find itself outcast or expelled from critical economic and security institutions. In 2014, Putin’s political repression led the G-8 to uninvite Russia, thereby transforming itself into the more effective G-7. That offered a precedent for moves this week by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Council of Europe to push Russia out. In the weeks ahead, the UN Human Rights Council — of which Russia is awkwardly a member — may seek its expulsion. The UN General Assembly, which is not subject to Russia’s veto power, likely will adopt a resolution of condemnation, isolating Russia even further. While Russia’s seat on the Security Council is enshrined in the UN Charter, might its invasion present the international constitutional moment needed for Security Council reform that excludes Russia?
By abusing international law, Putin tried to break the international system. The collective global rejection of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has actually made that system stronger, unifying it in a shared commitment to sovereignty, rights and law. Putin unwittingly has given the international order exactly what it needed to hold him to account.
William Burke-White is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a nonresident senior fellow with the Brookings Institution, and was a member of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State from 2009-2011.
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ISLAMABAD (APP): National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri on Thursday adjourned the House proceedings till Sunday 11:30 a.m., observing that the opposition me-mbers’ attitude was ‘non-serious’ in taking up the scheduled agenda items.
“The attitude seems non-serious, so the House is adjourned to meet again on Sunday at 11:30 a.m.,” Suri said when all opposition members asked the same query, during the question-hour, about the time for voting on no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister.
During the short but noisy proceedings, the House witnessed exchange of harsh words among members from both opposition and treasury benches besides non-stop sloganeering.
Even after the House was adjourned, the opposition members stayed in the assembly hall for the quite some time, chanting anti-government slogans.
Earlier, the House rejected a motion with majority vote, moved by Advisor to the PM on Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan to use the National Assembly Hall for a briefing to the Parliamentary Committee on National Security today.
Following which, the deputy speaker observed that now the briefing would be arranged in Committee Room No.2 of the Parliament House.
The House was scheduled to take up around 23 agenda items including question-hour, debate on no-confidence resolution, moved by joint opposition against the PM, legislative business, presentation of different reports and calling attention notices. | https://thefrontierpost.com/na-proceedings-adjourned-till-sunday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=na-proceedings-adjourned-till-sunday | 2022-04-01T00:57:17Z |
Canceled: An Evening with Judy Heumann and Senator Tom Harkin
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Judy Heumann and Tom Harkin event has been canceled. We hope to reschedule the event...
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With this foray into healthy spreads, Marico is strengthening its foothold in the healthy foods and ready-to-eat segment.
Over the last two years, we have noticed a couple of prominent trends in consumer behaviour, owing to the COVID pandemic. One, with work from home demanding more time, a need for convenience has emerged.
Two, the pandemic has brought the focus on health and fitness, thus, people have started looking for healthy alternatives. This has led to a strong demand for healthy, but ready-to-eat (RTE) and delicious snacking options. There is also a sizable demand for snackable items that fit into the fluid schedules of fitness enthusiasts.
Recognising this, Mumbai-based consumer goods company Marico is expanding its healthy food portfolio, under the Saffola banner. The latest additions to this range include Saffola Mayonnaise and Saffola Peanut Butter. With this foray into healthy spreads, Marico is strengthening its foothold in the healthy foods and RTE segment.
Sanjay Mishra, chief operating officer - India business, and chief executive officer - new business, Marico, said, “Over the past few years, Saffola has become a mainstay in the Indian healthy snacking market. The brand is now synonymous with healthy products that don’t compromise on taste.”
“We are extremely delighted to introduce Saffola Mayonnaise and Saffola Peanut Butter, in our bid to champion this category. With this launch, we aim to become the go-to choice for health and fitness conscious individuals, while consistently delivering superior quality that Saffola, as a brand, is known and trusted for.”
Saffola Mayonnaise is a healthy eggless offering made with milk cream, and is enriched with vitamins A, D and E. Saffola Peanut Butter replaces refined sugar with jaggery. It has 31 per cent RDA protein and no refined sugar. It will be available in two variants, ‘Crunchy’ and ‘Creamy’.
Saffola Mayonnaise and Peanut Butter are currently available on all major e-commerce platforms, and will be launched on other channels in a phased manner.
Marico has been innovating in the healthy foods and immunity-boosting category. It has products like honey, chyawanprash, oats, no-maida noodles, soya chunks, apart from its most prominent edible oils that are positioned to keep the heart healthy.
The mayonnaise market in India has many domestic and international brands, including Veeba, FunFoods, Wingreens and Hellmann’s. Meanwhile, the peanut butter market is also evolving fast. Saffola’s competitor in the oil market is ITC Sundrop. Many smaller players include The Whole Truth, Pintola and Alpino. | https://www.afaqs.com/news/mktg/saffola-adds-healthy-spreads-to-its-range-launches-mayonnaise-peanut-butter | 2022-04-01T00:57:21Z |
Russia’s blocking of humanitarian aid to Ukraine and its bombing of medical facilities should be the subjects of an international war crimes investigation, says Canada’s international development minister.
Harjit Sajjan offered that view as a half dozen extra RCMP investigators head to The Hague to assist in the International Criminal Court investigation of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.
“I have worked enough conflict areas and war zones to understand what international humanitarian law is. This is something that does need to be investigated. Civilians are not supposed to be harmed. That also includes when civilians need medical support, food support,” Sajjan said in an interview.
Sajjan, a former defence minister and Canadian Armed Forces veteran of the war in Afghanistan, was speaking ahead of the International Committee of the Red Cross announcement Thursday that it would be ready to start evacuating citizens from the besieged port city of Mariupol on Friday.
“For logistics and security reasons, we’ll be ready to lead the safe passage operation tomorrow, Friday, provided all the parties agree to the exact terms, including the route, the start time, and the duration,” the ICRC said in a statement on Thursday.
“It’s desperately important that this operation takes place. The lives of tens of thousands of people in Mariupol depend on it.”
Relentless Russian attacks on Mariupol have reduced massive sections of the city to rubble and have blocked efforts to get food, water and medicine to its estimated 430,000 residents, amid reports that some may have been abducted by invading troops.
Canada’s Parliament and others recognize as a genocide the acts perpetrated by Joseph Stalin that killed millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s, a tragic chapter of which Sajjan is mindful.
“The Ukrainians already have seen another Holocaust in their past with the Holodomor where the population was starved to death,” he said.
“This is just another time now, Russians using kind of a different tactic here. So, I hope that everything will be investigated thoroughly in this regard.”
Sajjan said carving out the corridors needed to get humanitarian supplies into Ukraine has been a difficult undertaking. Even when routes have been cleared, convoys have had to deal with booby traps and other hazards, he said.
“Every time you try and co-ordinate something, it’s been used for the Russians to start targeting folks in the corridor itself.”
Sajjan has travelled throughout eastern Europe to liaise with Canadian allies and international agencies, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Food Program. The food program reported recently it had helped feed its one millionth displaced Ukrainian.
An estimated 10 million Ukrainians have been forced out of their homes, while almost four million have sought asylum as refugees in the worst humanitarian disaster in Europe since the Second World War.
In a separate interview, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said the RCMP officers dispatched to assist the prosecutor’s office of the ICC — joining Mounties already deployed there on various investigations — will be seized with documenting the atrocities that are “continuing to occur in real time” in Ukraine.
Mendicino said he expected them to focus on digitally recording the destruction while eventually gathering testimony from the Ukrainians who have fled attacks.
“They are all living witnesses to what’s happened in Ukraine,” said Mendicino.
“Even while we continue to provide military aid and impose economic sanctions and (create) humanitarian corridors to allow those who are fleeing those atrocities to survive, we have to preserve the record.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Russia should be kicked out of the G20, the group of leading nations charged with steering the world economy, echoing U.S. President Joe Biden’s call last week.
Trudeau said the G20, which also includes China, might include different countries with different approaches and “political structures” but its main function is to “manage and encourage economic growth.”
“Russia, right now, has with its illegal invasion of Ukraine upended economic growth for everyone around the world and can’t possibly be a constructive partner in how we manage in part the crisis created by Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine,” he said.
“The bottom line is it can’t be business as usual to have Vladimir Putin just sitting around the table pretending that everything is OK, because it’s not OK and it’s his fault.”
Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland welcomed a delegation of five Ukrainian MPs for further discussions on what Canada can do to help Ukraine’s democratically elected government survive the Russian invasion.
“We want to be a symbol of victory, for democratic growth, for democratic values,” said Lesia Zaburanna, the delegation chair. She said it was a difficult decision “for us to leave our home, our people … but we have to because it’s our duty.”
—Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Johnny Davis is ready to turn pro after delivering a superb sophomore season.
Davis announced Thursday that he’s entering the NBA draft and hiring an agent. The 6-foot-5 guard is regarded as a likely lottery selection and could be Wisconsin’s first top-10 overall pick since the Charlotte Hornets took Frank Kaminsky ninth overall in 2015.
The only other Badgers to be selected in the top 10 of an NBA draft are Don Rehfeldt (second in 1950) and Devin Harris (fifth in 2004).
“I can’t wait for what happens next,” Davis said while making his announcement on ESPN’s “NBA Today.”
The draft is June 23.
Davis added that “after talking it over with my coaches and my family, they thought (entering the draft) was the best decision for me.”
Davis is an Associated Press All-America first-team selection and the Big Ten player of the year. He is a finalist for the Naismith Trophyand Wooden Award, both given annually to the nation’s top player.
Kansas’ Ochai Agbaji, Iowa’s Keegan Murray and Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe join Davis as Naismith finalists. Those four along with Gonzaga’s Drew Timme join Davis as Wooden finalists.
Davis also was one of the nation’s most improved players.After averaging 7 points, 4.1 rebounds and 24.4 minutes in a bench role as a freshman, he had 19.7 points and 8.2 rebounds per game this season while helping Wisconsin (25-8) win a share of the Big Ten regular-season titleand earn a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Davis scored Wisconsin’s last 14 points and finished with 25 in a 67-60 first-round victory over Colgate before shooting 4 of 16 and recording 17 points in a 54-49 second-round loss to Iowa State.
“My time here at Wisconsin was great,” Davis said. “It was an unforgettable experience. I thank all my coaches and my teammates that I had in my corner.” ___
More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | https://www.fox44news.com/sports/wisconsins-davis-says-hes-entering-nba-draft-hiring-agent/ | 2022-04-01T00:57:20Z |
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Forest to open to public
Published 4:19 pm Wednesday, March 30, 2022
The Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF) has announced that the Charlotte State Forest (Charlotte SF), 5,005 acres located in Charlotte County, will open to the public for recreational use beginning April 1 – just in time for the beautiful spring recreation weather in Virginia.
Charlotte SF is an amazing property that VDOF manages for sustainable timber production, demonstration of scientific forest management, applied forest research, diverse wildlife habitat, watershed protection, biological diversity and passive outdoor recreation. Charlotte SF, like all Virginia’s state forests, is certified to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and American Tree Farm System (ATFS) standards ensuring that forestry is practiced in an environmentally responsible and socially beneficial manner.
Recreational uses of the Charlotte SF include hunting, fishing, trapping, hiking, mountain biking, trail running, horseback riding and wildlife watching. One of the highlights of the Charlotte SF is Roanoke Creek, which is a navigable waterway bordered by a large wetlands area with abundant wildlife, and suitable for fishing, hunting, canoeing and wildlife viewing.
A State Forest Use Permit is required for individuals aged 16 and older to hunt, fish, trap, horseback ride or mountain bike on state forest lands. The permit can be purchased online or where hunting licenses are sold.
VDOF recommends that all forest visitors wear blaze orange or pink during hunting seasons. Visitors are asked to adopt a “leave-no-trace” ethic when visiting the forest, as there are no restrooms or trash cans in the forest itself. The forest is restricted to foot traffic only and no motorized vehicles are allowed past forest gates. The boundary lines of the forest have been marked with yellow paint and VDOF asks that visitors respect the private property rights of neighbors and fellow forest users.
For horseback riding, be reminded that State law requires that visitors carry a copy of a negative Coggins test report with each horse on state lands.
Only non-motorized boats are allowed on state forest waterways for fishing and water recreation. Fishing is subject to state fishing regulations and license requirements, in addition to the State Forest Use Permit.
For hunting, Charlotte SF has numerous game species including deer, waterfowl, squirrels, rabbits and, of course, turkey. Hunters will need a valid Virginia hunting license and a State Forest Use Permit. Local Charlotte County regulations apply to hunting in the forest. Answers to specific questions on hunting laws and regulations can be found on the Department of Wildlife Resources website.
Before visiting any state forest, VDOF recommends viewing Before You Visit. Additional information can be found on the VDOF website. For specific questions about forest use or access, visitors can contact the local forest manager, Kirby Woolfolk, at (434) 995- 8096 or Kirby.woolfolk@ dof.virginia.gov. | https://www.farmvilleherald.com/2022/03/forest-to-open-to-public/ | 2022-04-01T00:57:22Z |
Theresa Thibodeau announces running mate
KEARNEY, Neb. (WOWT) - Republican gubernatorial candidate Theresa Thibodeau announced her running mate Thursday.
Trent Loos, whom her campaign described as an agricultural advocate, will appear on the Nebraska ballot alongside Thibodeau.
She said Loos will help with her mission to bridge the state’s rural-urban divide.
“A one-size-fits-all approach will not solve Nebraska’s problems,” she said in a news release Thursday ahead of the 6:30 p.m. announcement. “The things that work for Omaha do not work in Valentine or Sidney. We must create solutions that benefit every Nebraska community.”
The announcement was livestreamed on the campaign’s Facebook page.
Other republicans in the race for Governor include Brett Lindstrom, Jim Pillen, Charles Herbster, Michael Connely, Donna Carpenter, Lela McNinch, Troy Wentz and Breland Ridenour. Carol Blood and Roy Harris are the two democrats on the ballot along with Libertarian Scott Zimmerman.
Earlier this week, Blood announced former State Senator Al Davis of Lincoln as her running mate.
Lindstrom’s running mate is Dave Rippe, the former Director of Economic Development for the State of Nebraska.
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The Idaho Attorney General’s Office filed a motion to disqualify defense attorney Justin Oleson from representing Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland in Rowland’s criminal case.
The motion argues that Oleson’s position as Custer County prosecuting attorney creates a conflict of interest under an Idaho rule of professional conduct that states an attorney can’t represent a client if that representation is “directly adverse” to the interests of another client. The motion claims that a prosecutor cannot act as a defense attorney without creating such a conflict.
“The prosecuting attorney’s client is the state in every criminal case filed in his county and, consequently, he owes the state his undivided loyalty,” the motion states. “But when he represents a criminal defendant in Idaho — even in a different county — he betrays that loyalty because his representation of the criminal defendant is directly adverse to the state.”
The prosecution also said defense work by county prosecutors is prohibited by the Idaho State Bar. The memorandum presents hypothetical examples in support of the rule, such as if an attorney had to cross examine a law enforcement officer to defend their client, then have that same officer as a witness in a criminal prosecution.
A second example given was one where an attorney may have to uphold laws as a prosecutor that a defense attorney could challenge as unconstitutional.
Oleson said motions similar to that filed by the Attorney General’s Office have been filed several times in cases in which he acted as a defense attorney, and that he did not expect this motion to be granted. He said the Idaho State Bar opinion cited in the motion was from 1990 and he did not believe it would apply in his case.
“Every time these prosecutors get scared, they try to get me kicked off the case because they know they’re going to lose” Oleson said.
A district court arraignment in the case is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. March 31 in Bingham County Court.
Rowland is charged with aggravated battery, aggravated assault and exhibition or use of a deadly weapon. He is accused of pointing a gun at a woman and children in November after they reportedly left a Thanksgiving note on his door. Rowland has continued to work as sheriff despite calls for his resignation. | https://www.postregister.com/messenger/news/ags-office-seeks-dismissal-of-oleson-in-bingham-case/article_af678dbc-279b-5eb0-a184-44f937af4d01.html | 2022-04-01T00:57:22Z |
❓ Querying for a specific track
We've updated our schema with new fields and the Module
type, but we still need a way to query for a specific track by its ID. To do that, we'll need to add another entry point to our schema.
In our schema.js
file in the server/src
folder, we can see that we only have a single entry point to our API so far: the tracksForHome
field that returns a list of Track
s. Let's add another one called track
, which will return a single Track
.
Inside the Query
type in schema.js
:
track: Track
Where can we add entry points to our schema?
We'll be able to specify which unique track we're querying for by giving this field an argument.
🤔 How to use GraphQL arguments
An argument is a value you provide for a particular field in your query. The schema defines the arguments that each of your fields accepts.
Your resolvers can then use a field's provided arguments to help determine how to populate the data for that field. Arguments can help you retrieve specific objects, filter through a set of objects, or even transform the field's returned value. A query that performs a search usually provides the user's search term as an argument.
To define an argument for a field in our schema, we add parentheses after the field name. Inside, we write the name of the argument followed by a colon, then the type of that argument, like String
or Int
. If we have more than one argument, we can separate them with commas.
Which of these are reasons to use arguments in a query?
🙌 Using arguments
In our case, we want to use the track's ID as our argument. Following the syntax rules, we'll add the parentheses, then the name id
, with the type ID
which is required.
Inside the Query
type in schema.js
, update the track
field to:
"Fetch a specific track, provided a track's ID"track(id: ID!): Track
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ISLAMABAD (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan Thursday, while resolving to fight the conspiracy against his government, said the nation would never forgive and forget the conspirators as well as their supporters.
“On Sunday, there is voting (on a no-confidence motion). The country’s fate is about to be decided on Sunday… The nation will decide where they want the country lead to,” the prime minister said in his address to the nation broadcast live.
He said the people wou-ld always remember those who would be committing any treachery on Sunday as they would not buy their argument so easily.
The prime minister addressed the nation hours after he chaired the meeting of the National Security Committee, which called the formal communication of a foreign country’s official “blatant interference” in Pakistan’s internal affairs and also decided to issue a demarche to that country.
“I will fight if you think this conspiracy will succeed. Future generations will not forgive them. They should not have any misconceptions. It will make no difference to me as I live in my own house, bear my own expenses, and have no family member in politics,” he remarked.
He told the nation that on March 7, the government received a message from that country through Pakistan’s ambassador there, which said that they would pardon Pakistan’s all misgivings if Imran Khan was ousted. If happened otherwise, Pakistan would have to face difficulties.
“This (message) is against the nation,” he said, adding the message coming before the vote of confidence showed that the political opponents were in contact with that country.
“Is this our worth?…We are creeping like snails,” he remarked.
The prime minister said the conspiracy was being hatched through three stooges in Pakistan. They wanted to oust Imran Khan and it would also be fine for that country, he added.
He questioned the nation whether they would allow the one into power facing NAB (National Accountability Bureau) cases for corruption of billions of rupees, and an absconder whose corruption tales were also highlighted by the Western media, including the BBC.
He said out of nothing, the said foreign country expressed its concerns over his Russian visit which he had done after thorough consultation with the military leadership, Foreign Office and think tanks.
He said through their intelligence reports, the foreign countries had all the information about him as well as the opposition leaders and their benami properties and bank accounts abroad.
He said the leaders, who were now beloved by the said foreign country, never condemned 400 drone attacks by the United States during their tenures killing innocent people.
Referring to the Wikileaks disclosures, he said JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman had once offered to serve the US interests if he was given power.
He said instead of condemning Narendra Modi for calling that time Army Chief General Raheel Sharif a terrorist, he said Nawaz Sharif used to secretly meet him.
He said instead of condemning the drone attacks, the then president Asif Zardari told the US that the collateral damage made no different to him.
He said Shehbaz Sharif had opposed his “Absolutely Not” stance to join the US-led war anymore, said his government was pursuing an independent foreign policy.
“Our public representatives are on sale. This is the trade of loyalties. This is the trade of country and its sovereignty. What lesson are we giving to our youth? No one will ever call them ideological. Everyone knows them,” the prime minister remarked.
The prime minister said Pakistan was at a defining moment, it had to choose from two paths.
Calling Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah a great politician and lawyer, he said before he came into politics, he had everything; popularity, money. “Even today I do not need anything from others and I am thankful to Allah for His blessings.”
Imran Khan said he was among the first generation, which grew up in an independent nation while his parents were born in an enslaved country.
He said self-respect was the sign of an independent nation and Pakistan had to be built according to vthe ision of Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Its aim was to become an Islamic welfare state on the model of Riyasat-e-Madina founded on the principles of justice, humanity and self-respect.
“Humans are the best of creations. Humans move ahead and resist against difficulties. I want that the youth should learn from the life and qualities of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).
He said when he assumed power, he decided that Pakistan’s foreign policy would be independent but it would not be against India, the United States, Europe and other countries. “In the past I criticized the wrong policies of the foreign countries.”
He recalled that Pakistan had nothing to do with the war on terror and nobody from Pakistan was involved in the attacks on the United States on 9/11.
Pervez Musharraf committed the biggest mistake when it became an ally of the United States after 9/11, while in the war against Soviet Union, Mujahideen were trained to wage Jehad against the foreign occupation of Afghanistan, he observed.
He said later on the United States, which earlier was an ally, imposed sanctions against Pakistan.
Pakistan was against terrorism and it sacrificed 80,000 nationals in the war against terrorism, he said, adding its tribal areas were peaceful but when the people there were killed they turned against Pakistan.
He said the people in tribal areas declared Pakistanis as collaborators and carried out terror attacks against the country, while the United States asked Pakistan to do more at the time when its innocent people were being killed in the drone attacks, he added. The prime minister said he was called Taliban Khan when he staged a sit-in against the drone attacks. During the US-led war terrorism, the people of tribal areas as well as the expatriates suffered the most but no one spoke for them except him, he added. | https://thefrontierpost.com/nation-will-never-forgive-forget-conspirators-their-backers-pm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nation-will-never-forgive-forget-conspirators-their-backers-pm | 2022-04-01T00:57:23Z |
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Putin can be prosecuted for crimes of aggression — but likely not any time soon
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a clear violation of international law that opens the door to prosecuting Russian President Vladimir Putin down the road. The United Nations Charter prohibits aggressive use of force, and Russia has no valid claim that it is using force in self-defense. To assert self-defense, a state must be the victim of an actual or imminent armed attack. No facts support a claim that Russia is the victim of such an attack.
The ban on aggressive use of force is such a fundamental element of international law that when a state breaches it, its leaders can be held criminally responsible. After World War II, dozens of political and military leaders of Germany and Japan were convicted of the crime of aggression by international tribunals set up in Nuremberg and Tokyo.
Although the crime of aggression lay dormant during the Cold War, the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) now has jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. The ICC statute defines aggression as “the planning, preparation, initiation or execution, by a person in a position effectively to exercise control over or to direct the political or military action of a State, of an act of aggression which, by its character, gravity and scale, constitutes a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations.”
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine easily meets this definition. But ICC jurisdiction over aggression is limited to only two situations: when both the aggressor and the victim state are parties to the ICC and have specifically accepted the Court’s aggression provisions; or when the UN Security Council refers a case of aggression to the Court. Even if Ukraine were to become a state party to the ICC and accept the aggression provisions, Russia would not. Russia would also veto any attempt by the Security Council to refer the case.
Where are international law’s teeth? How and when can the perpetrators of these crimes face justice? One powerful way is through domestic prosecution. Of course, Ukraine would have jurisdiction to prosecute perpetrators of the crime of aggression since it is the territory where the crime took place. Russia could also theoretically assert jurisdiction at some future point should there be a regime change since the planning occurred there. Both the Ukrainian and Russian criminal codes criminalize aggression.
But aggression also triggers what’s called “universal jurisdiction.” What this means is that any state in the world that criminalizes aggression in its own criminal code can prosecute the perpetrators, even without any connection to the crime. The basic principle is that states are not projecting their national laws abroad; rather, they are acting as the decentralized enforcement mechanisms of an international law that covers the globe.
There are some limits, however. While in office, Putin and other high-ranking officials are cloaked with what’s called status-based immunity; it protects high-ranking officials against suits alleging illegal conduct while the officeholder is in office, but, importantly, the immunity lapses once the official leaves office. In addition, most states require that the perpetrator be present in their territory before proceedings can be initiated. The possibility of prosecution, however, will keep Russian officials from traveling to many states around the world after they leave office.
Anthony J. Colangelo is Robert G. Storey Fellow and a professor of law at the SMU Dedman School of Law.
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Shina Biblow always knew she would have to have open heart surgery one day, she just never thought it would be when she was four months pregnant with her second child.
“He’s here and he’s healthy and growing. It’s a miracle,” said Biblow of the family’s latest addition, a healthy baby boy named Merritt, born Jan. 26.
Unlike her first textbook pregnancy a few years before with their son Morris, Shina developed health problems almost immediately that would require complex, high-risk heart surgery at St. Paul’s Hospital when she was just 15 weeks pregnant.
“There was a 40 per cent risk of losing the baby. It was very hard … (but if ) there’s no me, then there’s no baby so we had to do what we had to do.”
In a sense, Biblow’s story began 32 years ago. She was born with a narrowing of her aortic valve, the main blood vessel leaving the heart. She required surgery for this as an infant.
The condition meant that when she turned 18, she became part of the Pacific Adult Congenital Heart Clinic (PACH) at St. Paul’s Hospital, a multidisciplinary team that follows adults born with heart disease.
Feeling unwell from the pregnancy’s start
Apart from being unable to do certain intense sports, Biblow led a normal life, including an uneventful first pregnancy and birth of their oldest son, Morris.
This second pregnancy was different.
From the get-go, she felt unwell. “I was nauseous and tired, my heart was racing and I got what I call hot flashes,” she says. “I just assumed they were caused by a surge of pregnancy hormones.”
She received care at Cariboo Memorial Hospital’s emergency department.
“That’s when they discovered I was going into heart failure.”
Doctors sent an urgent referral to the highly specialized Cardiac Obstetrics Clinic (COB) at St. Paul’s Hospital. She received tests that revealed episodes of sudden extremely rapid heart rhythms.
Calf cramps followed – also a pregnancy symptom, she figured. When she developed itchy red spots on her body, she became alarmed.
“Things just kept getting worse,” Shina said.
Breathing was so hard she could not even care for her toddler. When she called a PACH Clinic nurse, she exploded into fits of coughing.
Dr. Marla Kiess, St. Paul’s cardiologist and COB founder, followed Biblow by Zoom to monitor the heart palpitations, shortness of breath and other symptoms.
A soaring heart rate
As they persisted, Dr. Kiess directed the local hospital to airlift her for more advanced care to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops on August 12. There, her heart rate soared to 190 beats/minute. A normal rate is 60 to 100.
Tests found growths on her aortic valve, suggesting a bacterial infection: serious in any patient, more so in a pregnant woman.
“The infection in the valve was totally unexpected and unpredictable,” recalls Dr. Kiess.
She and her team arranged for Biblow’s transfer to St. Paul’s, the only centre in British Columbia for complex cardiac-obstetrics cases like this.
Surgery poses big risk to fetus
Shortly after arriving on August 15, St. Paul’s cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Jamil Bashir told Biblow she’d need open-heart surgery to replace the infected aortic valve.
“It was scary,” says Biblow. “But it needed to be done if we wanted to keep the baby and save my life.”
Risks were high. “That point in gestation is a critical time in the baby’s evolution because many organs are developing,” says Dr. Kiess.
A complex case requires a large care team
In surgery, Biblow would be supported by a heart-lung bypass machine, which would reduce blood flow to the fetus and risk organ malformation. Alarmingly, it would bring a 40 per cent risk of the baby dying, says Dr. Kiess.
Because of the case’s complexity, her care team began a huge amount of planning to anticipate potential responses to problems in both mom and baby. It included nurses and doctors from cardiology, anesthesia, surgery, infectious diseases, the ICU, and obstetrics. Zoom proved invaluable.
Her husband Tyson, a millwright at Gibraltar Mine, rushed to Vancouver to be with his wife, narrowly getting over the Coquihalla pass before it was closed due to last summer’s wildfires.
Delicate balance around medication
On August 18, Dr. Bashir and his team successfully implanted a mechanical aortic valve to replace the severely infected one. The good news was, a mechanical valve (unlike a cadaver valve) would never have to be replaced. The bad news was, it increased Biblow’s risk of clotting. She would need blood thinners for the rest of her life.
Those drugs brought risks to the fetus, so Dr. Anna Rahmani and Dr. Tony Wan from the St. Paul’s Thrombosis clinic were also part of her care.
St. Paul’s teams then followed her post-surgery to monitor her with the new valve and pregnancy.
The birth approaches
As the delivery date approached, her team wanted her in Vancouver near the hospital several weeks before, to tend to her cardiac and obstetrical needs. Registered nurse Karen Sandhu, complex care coordinator for maternity, and Amy Graham, COB RN, oversaw the many logistics around that chapter, as did PACH/COB social worker Kassandra Maxwell.
“I coordinated with her St. Paul’s obstetrician, Dr. Nancy Matinko and the virtual visits Shina would have with her,” says Sandhu.
More planning ensued, especially around her anticoagulants. They had to stop in advance because of the risk of a severe bleed giving birth. Yet she couldn’t be off them for more than 24 hours because of clotting risks.
Amid it all, Merritt arrived on January 24 at 38 weeks’ gestation, weighing six pounds, four ounces. “With all the meds I was on, they were expecting a smaller baby,” Biblow says proudly. He is healthy and well.
The family is now home on their ranch, enjoying life at Miocene.
Shina has regular virtual visits with St. Paul’s teams, including COB and the Thrombosis Clinic.
She and her husband Tyson are grateful to St. Paul’s expansive team of doctors, nurses, social workers and many others who helped her and her baby survive risky cardiac surgery and see her through delivery and post-partum care.
“Even though everything happening was very scary and we didn’t know what the outcome was going to be, our faith and prayers from our family and friends, and the care from the team at St. Paul’s is what got us through the experience.”
With files from Providence Health Care
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – For some people, overdraft fees are a frustrating inconvenience. For others, they pose crippling costs. Some lawmakers now want to change how they’re charged altogether.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation called the “Overdraft Protection Act.” The bill includes provisions to cap the amount and number of fees a bank can charge.
“My bill tries to cut down on these unfair and deceptive practices,” the New York Democrat said.
Advocates like Elyse Crawford-Hicks with Americans for Financial Reform say overdraft fees hit low-income families and people of color the hardest.
“Overdraft fees are paid the most by people who can least afford them,” Crawford-Hicks said.
Others say over-drafting is a useful service because it can function like a short-term loan. Paul Kundert is the CEO of UW Credit Union, which recently reduced their overdraft fees and put more limits on how they charge them.
“When prices are fair, we believe consumers do benefit from access to the credit provided by overdraft fees,” Kundert said.
Recently, major banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have made changes themselves, by reducing their overdraft fees or eliminating them altogether.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, says that demonstrates the legislation is unnecessary.
“The market is naturally, naturally taking care of the issue without government intervention. And we do not need more rules from Washington,” Williams said.
Because banks make billions of dollars in revenue from overdraft fees, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argues the proposed changes would cost consumers.
“We’ll see higher bank fees, we’ll see higher minimum monthly deposits as basically insurance against over-drafting and we will see a loss of access to free checking,” Zywicki said.
Lawmakers like Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., are promising to continue pushing for the reforms.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said. | https://www.fox44news.com/washington/washington-dc/bill-seeks-to-put-cap-on-overdraft-fees/ | 2022-04-01T00:57:28Z |
Garden Club meeting held
Published 4:03 pm Wednesday, March 30, 2022
The Buckingham/Dillwyn Garden Club met on March 11. The guest was Jonathan Fitzgerald of Special Touch Florist in Dillwyn who presented a demonstration on arranging spring flowers. Above, from left, are Fitzgerald, Suzanne Vandegrift, Marie Baker and President Jackie Fairbarns. | https://www.farmvilleherald.com/2022/03/garden-club-meeting-held-14/ | 2022-04-01T00:57:28Z |
As Fortenberry’s resignation formalizes, Nebraskans wait for details about special election
Voters will fill Nebraska’s 1st District Congressional seat for the remainder of his term before deciding on their next representative
(WOWT) - Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s resignation goes into effect Thursday, those in Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District are waiting to hear details about the upcoming special election to replace him.
The 61-year-old Congressman announced his resignation over the weekend, two days after he was convicted of lying to the FBI. After 18 years in office, his resignation will formally go into effect as Congress adjourned for the day Thursday. That will prompt Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts to schedule the special election for Fortenberry’s seat, serving 710,000 Nebraskans, for the remainder of his term.
Ballots will have only two names on them. Nebraska’s Democratic and Republican parties will gather with their executive boards in the coming weeks to select a single candidate for their respective party.
The state then needs 65 days to print ballots and work out the details with election commissioners.
Voters will be able to cast their ballots in person 30 days ahead of the special election date; early ballots will be sent 15 days ahead of the vote to those who request them.
The special election will be the second of three votes cast for Nebraska’s next 1st District Congressional seat this year. The first will be in the May primary — because of the timing, Fortenberry’s name will still appear on that ballot — then the special election, and finally the November election to decide who fills the seat for the next term in January.
The special election isn’t cheap. With several counties in the district, Lancaster being the largest, the special election is estimated to cost $300,000-$325,000.
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BOISE — Idaho Gov. Brad Little vetoed legislation that would have made it illegal for most businesses to require employees to get a coronavirus vaccine.
“I am vetoing this legislation because I am a lifelong advocate of limited government,” Little wrote in his transmittal letter on Monday, saying the bill “significantly expands government overreach into the private sector.”
Several states have passed laws either requiring vaccines for certain employees or barring government agencies from issuing vaccine mandates. But broader bans against business vaccine requirements are rarer.
Last year, Montana became the first state in the nation to ban most businesses from requiring vaccines as a condition of employment. That law, like the one proposed in Idaho, cited “discrimination” as the reason.
Montana’s law was challenged in federal court. Earlier this month a federal judge ruled that coronavirus vaccine requirements could remain in effect for health care workers whose employers accept Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, at least as long as a related interim federal rule remains in place.
Idaho’s bill, dubbed the “coronavirus pause act,” would have subjected public and private employers to a misdemeanor charge punishable by a $1,000 fine if they require vaccines as a condition of employment or service. It included exemptions for situations involving federal law, existing employee-employer contracts and businesses that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding.
“I have been consistent in stating my belief that businesses should be left to make decisions about the management of their operations and employees with limited interference from the government,” Little wrote. “For the same reason, I sued to stop President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates three times, successfully challenging his unprecedented government overreach into the lives of American workers and the decisions of free businesses.”
Late last week the Idaho House and Senate both adjourned until today, giving them time to wait out any vetoes from Little. At the time, Republican Senate President Pro-Tem Chuck Winder cited the coronavirus pause act as one of the bills the lawmakers were watching.
“It’s difficult to override a veto,” Winder said late Friday night. “But we think that’s the only way we can do it, if we hang around for five days.”
The coronavirus pause act passed both chambers with large margins, but not a veto-proof margin in the House. Proponents said it would prevent businesses from discriminating against people who don’t want to or cannot be vaccinated. But opponents said the measure allows discrimination against people who are vaccinated and doesn’t protect vulnerable people. The bill would have even applied to families that hire in-home workers, but it would have expired in April of 2023 — one year after the termination of all state emergency declarations related to coronavirus. | https://www.postregister.com/messenger/news/gov-vetoes-bill-banning-vaccine-requirements/article_364dc433-1407-56d0-a504-087aa0ea9d8d.html | 2022-04-01T00:57:29Z |
👉 Connecting the 2 pages
Our track page is ready, but unless we manually enter the right path and track ID in our browser's url bar, we have no way to get to it. Time to work out the navigation from the homepage to the track page.
This happens on the track card itself. Let's open up the track-card.js
file in client/src/containers
.
We're using Reach Router for our routing implementation, so let's import their Link
component at the top.
import {Link} from '@reach/router';
We'll need to convert the CardContainer
component into a Link
, but still keep our nice styles. So let's scroll down below to find where this component is defined as a styled div
.
Let's replace the 'div'
with the Link
component.
const CardContainer = styled(Link)({
Alright, let's scroll back up at the top and set up our navigation.
We need to access the track id
from our track
prop, so let's destructure it in addition to the other track fields we already have.
const {title, thumbnail, author, length, modulesCount, id} = track;
Then we add a to
prop to the CardContainer
, which will tell the router where to go when the component is clicked. In our case, we'll want to navigate to the track/id
path, passing it the track's ID.
<CardContainer to={`/track/${id}`}>
Let's head back to the homepage at localhost:3000.
We still have our homepage with our tracks card grid, so we didn't break anything there. Now if we click a card, we go to that track's page.
Awesome! We can go back to the homepage, click on a few other tracks and see that their data is loading properly as well.
Can you navigate to the correct track page from the homepage? What's the last module on the track 'Cat-strophysics, master class'?
😲 Behind the scenes caching
Now you might notice that if we click on a track we already clicked on before, the page pops up super fast! Compared to clicking on a track that we've never clicked on before, we can see the loading icon spinning before we see any detail on the page.
This fast-loading behavior is thanks to Apollo Client!
The first time we send a query to the GraphQL server, Apollo Client stores the results in the cache. The next time we try to send that same query (for example, navigating to the same page again), it will load the results from the cache, instead of sending unnecessary calls across the network.
Pretty handy! Apollo Client takes care of this caching behavior for us with the InMemoryCache
we set up in Lift-off I, and we'll dive deeper into the specifics and how to work with the cache in another series.
🎉 You did it!
And with that, you've completed Part III of our Lift-off series, congratulations!
Here's what your project should look like after completing all the steps:
If you want to go the extra mile, we have a bonus course project for you to exercise your new skills by building the module page. Take on the challenge with Lift-off lab.
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BRUSSELS (TASS): The North Atlantic Alliance will supply weapons to Ukraine as much as needed. This was stated on Thursday by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference in Brussels.
“We need to keep supplying arms to Ukraine for as long as it takes because Ukraine is fighting for our values, freedom and democracy,” he said, answering a journalist’s question about whether NATO has a time frame for arms supplies to Ukraine.
“We have been supplying Ukraine for many ye-ars,” Stoltenberg said. “And after the outbreak of hostilities, NATO countries ex-panded military assistance, arms supplies, humanitarian and financial assistance to Ukraine,” he said.
At the same time, accor-ding to Stoltenberg, any pr-oposals involving the intervention of individual NAT-O countries in the conflict in Ukraine are dangerous, as this will lead to its escalation. “NATO has an obligation to help Ukraine, but also to prevent the escalation of this conflict. Therefore, any idea of ??a small group of NATO allies entering this conflict is dangerous. The result will be an escalation, more deaths and more destruction. I do not think this is a good idea at all,” the head said.
The statement came in response to a request by the TV presenter for comment on the words of the former commander of the British ground forces, retired General Nick Parker, who earlier on Thursday in an interview with the BBC said there was a need for “a coalition of a smaller [compared to NATO] scale, which could start developing an offensive counter-strategy” against the Russian Federation. “It must be understood that if NATO allies, either as part of an alliance or unilaterally, or by forming a smaller group or “coalition of consent”, entered into a direct confrontation with Russian troops in Ukraine. | https://thefrontierpost.com/nato-will-supply-weapons-to-ukraine-as-much-as-needed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nato-will-supply-weapons-to-ukraine-as-much-as-needed | 2022-04-01T00:57:29Z |
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Prior to the year 2010, the New Jersey courts had treated the law of palimony quite liberally with respect to a promise by a person in an unmarried…. Prior to the year 2010, the New Jersey courts had treated the law of palimony quite liberally with respect to a promise by a person in an unmarried relationship to provide support to the other for the remainder of her life. In Kozlowski v Kozlowski, 80 NJ 378 (1979), the court concluded “that the judicial barriers that may stand in the way of a policy based upon fulfillment of the reasonable expectations of parties to a non-marital relationship should be removed,” and that express or implied agreements involving promises for support for the rest of one’s life were enforceable. As explained in In re Estate of Roccamonte, 174 NJ 381 (2002), Kozlowski “recognized that unmarried adult partners, even those who may be married to others, have the right to cohabit in a marital-like relationship, and if one of those partners is induced to do so by a promise of support given her by the other, that promise will be enforced by the court.” (Crowe v. DeGioia, 90 NJ 126 (1982), the court held that temporary relief was available based on the principles announced in Kozlowski.) | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556601141422/attorney-volunteers-needed-for-april-2-expungement-event | 2022-04-01T00:57:31Z |
Starbase (STAR) traded up 0.1% against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 19:00 PM E.T. on March 31st. Over the last seven days, Starbase has traded 38.2% higher against the dollar. One Starbase coin can now be purchased for about $0.0033 or 0.00000007 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. Starbase has a total market cap of $622,828.70 and $634,118.00 worth of Starbase was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002188 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded down 3.9% against the dollar and now trades at $1.63 or 0.00003555 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded 1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.65 or 0.00004286 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002184 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded down 1% against the dollar and now trades at $17.01 or 0.00037169 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded 4.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $49.03 or 0.00107140 BTC.
About Starbase
According to CryptoCompare, “Starbase is a blockchain-based crowdfunding platform. It is built on the Ethereum network, allowing users to launch their fundraising campaigns, sell issued tokens and pay team members. The STAR token can be used for services within the platform and it is also used to receive rewards from project revenue in the form of Ether and Ethereum-based tokens. The STAR token is inflationary. “
Starbase Coin Trading
It is usually not presently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Starbase directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Starbase should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Coinbase, Gemini or GDAX. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Starbase using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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Mount Polley Mining Corporation (MPMC) is looking to fill hundreds of jobs as it aims for a spring start up.
The gold and copper mine located northeast of Williams Lake and is situated near the community of Likely.
MPMC has been relying on contractors for the pit operations underway already and will be hiring staff to take over as they increase to full production.
No set date has been determined, but Don Parsons, chief operation officer and interim general manager for the mine, said the hope is to have the mine recommissioned by late April.
MPMC is looking to fill approximately 130 roles in pit operations and then will be looking for more people once they begin mill operations for a total of 355 employees to become fully staffed.
Jobs needing to be filled include everything from truck drivers to information technology support, mechanics, millwrights, electricians and supervisors. There were only about 16 MPMC employees at the mine in mid-March, the rest of the workers on the site were contractors and an average of about 110 people are on site each day.
MPMC is expected to have about eight to 10 years of mine life left based on current reserves and Parsons said this could be extended with further exploration.
The mine has been in care and maintenance with minimal staff since May of 2019 which owner Imperial Metals attributed to declining copper prices.
In August of 2014 a dam breach at the mine’s tailing’s facilities spilled an estimated 17 million cubic metres of tailings water and eight million cubic metres of tailings materials into Hazeltine Creek and Quesnel Lake, according to the Province of B.C.’s website.
The mine continues to release tailings water into Quesnel Lake “to manage on-site water inventory and support permitted operations,” according to a community meeting notice and has applied to extend the permit which allows them to do so.
The permit would run out in December of 2022, but the mine has applied to extend this until June 30, 2025.
A community engagement meeting was held in Likely at the Likely Community Hall on March 28 to discuss the permit and proposed amendment as well as provide information on the mine restarting and job opportunities and included representatives from the Ministry of Environment.
Williams Lake First Nation Chief Willie Sellars said WLFN and MPMC are close to signing a cooperation agreement and he is viewing the mine restarting as providing local career opportunities which allow community members to support their families.
He said WLFN is looking forward to what reopening the mine could do for the local economy.
Read more: Mount Polley mine expected to open by fall 2021: Imperial Metals
Read more: Regulator fines engineers 8 years after Mount Polley disaster in B.C.
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Roberts’s roadmap to reversing Roe v. Wade
During oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – about Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban – Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts’s questions indicated that he was searching for a way to uphold Mississippi’s law while leaving Roe v. Wade intact. But Roberts has already penned the most convincing argument for overturning Roe, in his dissenting opinion in the Court’s same-sex marriage case.
In Obergefell v. Hodges, the Court held that the due process clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment – the same clause on which Roe relied – contains a right of same-sex marriage. Justice Roberts wrote a blistering dissent, ending with the memorable lines: “If you are among the many Americans . . . who favor expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today’s decision. . . . But do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it.”
The bulk of Roberts’s dissent was a primer for the Court about how its precedents structure a due process inquiry: The clause forbids deprivations of “liberty” without due process, but leaves it to the Court to name the particular liberties protected. Quoting an earlier case, Roberts cautioned his colleagues that “substantive due process” analysis is the “most sensitive category of constitutional adjudication” rendering the Court “most vulnerable and . . . nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or even the design of the Constitution.” He underscored just how wrong the Court’s “own conception of liberty” had proved in the past, citing the Dred Scott decision upholding the rights of slaveholders.
Most importantly, Roberts reminded the Court that its leading substantive due process precedents require any claimed right to be “objectively, deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition,” and “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, such that neither liberty nor justice would exist if they were sacrificed.” In short, legal history matters enormously. There can be no “right” that blatantly contradicts the laws widely embraced by states at the time the Constitution or the 14th Amendment was ratified.
But pre-Roe abortion law was a sea of state prohibitions. From the founding of the United States to 1973, when Roe was decided, state laws protected unborn human lives from the point that science could determine with certainty that they were alive. Thus, before the early 19th century, common law protected life from “quickening,” when the mother could feel movement.
After scientists discovered the ova and fertilization, abortion laws changed to meet the new scientific standard. Thus, by1868, when the 14th Amendment was ratified, 30 of 37 states had legislative protections for unborn life, with all but three protecting life from conception. Over the next 28 years, the remaining seven states also adopted laws protecting unborn life. Even when antibiotics rendered abortion much safer from about the1940s forward, state laws continued to protect unborn life in the vast majority of circumstances. Immediately before Roe, more than 150 bills attempting to allow more abortion failed. And each year since Roe, hundreds of pro-life bills have been introduced; at least 1,327 have become law.
Roberts exhorts his colleagues to resist the siren song of “delivering social change,” and to “exercise humility and restraint in deciding cases according to the Constitution and law,” no matter how long the public has debated the issue. “In our democracy” he writes, “debate about the content of the law is not an exhaustion requirement to be checked off before courts can impose their will.” In fact, he concludes, the public will grant the Court “legitimacy” only if they perceive that it has “decided cases according to the Constitution and law.”
Same-sex marriage is not an issue in Dobbs, but Roberts’s roadmap from Obergefell is a sure guide for a majority of the Court to reverse Roe on the foundations of respect for its own precedent and separation of powers. Since the foundation of our country, up to the moment the case was handed down, states protected unborn life from abortion in the vast majority of cases, and continued to try even when the Court had almost completely tied their hands. Roberts’s Obergefell dissent is right: If history is ignored, “No matter the Court’s profession of its own discipline in identifying fundamental rights, what a judge is too often ‘discovering,’ whether or not he is fully aware of it, are his own values.”
Helen Alvaré is the Robert A Levy Chair and professor of law at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.
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Impact of US agriculture validated in new economic study
Published 4:17 pm Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Agriculture is the backbone of America, and a new study commissioned by 30 leading farm and food advocacy groups has the data to affirm that.
The coalition — Feeding the Economy — released its 2022 Food and Agriculture Industries Economic Impact Study March 22 in conjunction with National Agriculture Day.
The basis of the study was to quantify the contributions of the American agriculture and food sectors to the U.S. economy in 2021.
The corresponding report identified the number of jobs, wages paid, value added and total output of the U.S. agriculture and food sectors. It also measured the economic impact of suppliers supporting the two sectors, as well as the businesses aided by the industries’ direct spending.
The findings revealed 7% of the U.S. economy and 29% of American jobs are tied to the two sectors, whether directly or indirectly. The total impact of agriculture and food was found to be $7.43 trillion.
Additionally, both combined to provide 43.46 million jobs, $2.3 trillion in workers’ wages and $718.15 billion in tax dollars.
The Feeding the Economy coalition noted the report “underscores the resiliency and strength of America’s food and agriculture sectors.” And, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the industries continued to add jobs and provide safe food for consumers amid global supply chain shortages.
“American agriculture is really the foundation of our lives and our economy,” said Dr. Roger Cryan, chief economist for American Farm Bureau Federation, one of the study’s sponsoring organizations. “This study reveals the numbers — and maybe some of the spirit — of this one indispensable sector.”
Data also was calculated at the state level, and the study found Virginia’s agriculture and food sectors provided over 518,161 direct jobs and produced $62.8 billion in economic output.
Agricultural goods produced in Virginia also contributed $3.85 billion in agricultural exports and $16.4 billion in tax revenue in 2021, according to the report.
“Agriculture has long been Virginia’s largest industry, and our farmers’ dedication to providing the nation’s food, fiber and fuel continues to be a key driver of the state’s economy,” said Tony Banks, senior assistant director of agriculture, development and innovation for Virginia Farm Bureau Federation.
“Feeding the Economy’s report and similar studies help support this fact and reinforce the importance of agriculture locally and nationally,” he added. “They also increase public awareness of farming, which ultimately helps the cause of farmers everywhere.” | https://www.farmvilleherald.com/2022/03/impact-of-us-agriculture-validated-in-new-economic-study/ | 2022-04-01T00:57:34Z |
Omaha families getting ready to welcome in Ukrainian family members
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The journey to safety for Ukrainians has been full of heartbreak.
Omaha’s Ukrainian community is now working tirelessly to get loved ones here to the heartland.
The process hasn’t been easy but in the coming days, they are hoping to get two dozen Ukrainians to Omaha.
The war in Ukraine has raged on for five weeks now.
When it first started, Liubov Onishchuk called her family in Ukraine. She told her cousin to be prepared for the next steps.
“I said to her, I think you need to pack your stuff, wake up your kids and be ready,” said Onishchuk.
Her cousin stayed in Ukraine for a little bit.
“The kids were crying constantly. That’s when the parents made the decision that we had to take them out,” said Onishchuk.
It’s a feeling nearly four million Ukrainians now know.
“Her youngest was very attached to the father. She said it was extremely hard for the kids to say bye to the father without knowing if he will come back. She’s in Poland now with her two kids,” said Onishchuk.
Onishchuk is now working non-stop to help her family and other Nebraskans with family in Ukraine.
“We have probably around 24 people-ish that we expect to receive with kids.”
Once those two dozen people get here, they will be living with their relatives until they can find more permanent housing.
“The hardest problem will be trying to help put them on their feet. To go through all of the documentation, to make sure that they get all the work permits,” Onishchuk said.
And Omaha’s Ukrainian community says they will continue to fight to get their loved ones to safety.
“Every day might end somebody’s life.”
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🚀 Exploring the Explorer
Let's build our query using the Apollo Studio Explorer. First we need to start our server. Open a terminal window, navigate to the server
folder with cd server
, then run npm start
.
With the server running, we can go to the Explorer in the browser by going to studio.apollographql.com.
Let's head over to the schema page (the first tab on the left sidebar).
This page gives us useful information about the current status of our schema. In production, this would list the changes each time the schema is deployed. In our case, because we're using a development graph, Studio automatically polls our locally running server for schema changes.
Each new schema version is shown with its own hash, kind of like a commit for a Git repository. This page has 3 main tabs: Reference, Changelog and SDL. Let's check out the changelog.
Here we'll see every update made to our schema, presented in a "diff"-like format that may feel familiar: green pluses for additions, red minuses for deletions, and yellow circles for modifications from previous versions.
In our last schema version in Lift-off II, we only had the tracksforHome
query, a Track
type, and an Author
type. Now we can see the latest changes: a new query for a track
, new fields added for the Track
type, and a whole new Module
type.
Pretty handy to get a quick understanding of the schema evolution over time!
The items displayed in the Changelog are interactive. For example, we can click on the track
query we've just added and it will send us to the Reference tab on the same page, where we get a breakdown of the entry points, objects, scalars, and more.
Here we see our track
query highlighted and we see its description, the same one we added in the schema file.
Notice the Play button on the right of the query? Clicking it sends us directly to the Explorer with the sidebar opened to the field!
🛠️ Building our query
Clicking the ⊕ button on the track
field, we start to see our query come together in the Operations section.
First let's rename our query to better explain what it's for, so we'll replace Query
with getTrack
.
In the Operations section of the Explorer:
query getTrack($trackId: ID!) { track(id: $trackId) { }}
You'll notice something new here: a dollar sign ($
) followed by the name trackId
.
💰 Variables
The $
symbol indicates a variable in GraphQL. The name after the $
symbol is the name of our variable, which we can use throughout the query. After the colon is the variable's type, which must match the type of the argument we'll use it for.
Variables are great—they let us pass argument values dynamically from the client-side so we don't have to hardcode values into our query. We'll use them every time we create a query with arguments.
Variables
Drag items from the box to the blanks above
In our case, we have a variable called trackId
that the Explorer set up for us down in the Variables section. Right now, it's set to null
, but let's replace it with the track ID we've been testing so far: c_0
.
In the Variables section in the Explorer:
{"trackId": "c_0"}
Before we start adding all the fields we need from our initial mockup, let's start small with just returning the id
and the title
.
In the Operations section of the Explorer:
query getTrack($trackId: ID!) { track(id: $trackId) { id title }}
When we click on the run query button, we see the data we're expecting! Awesome, we can keep on adding the fields to complete the full set of data we need for our mockup by clicking the ⊕ sign beside each field on the sidebar.
Your query should look like this:
query getTrack($trackId: ID!) { track(id: $trackId) { id title author { id name photo } thumbnail length modulesCount numberOfViews modules { id title length } description }}
Let's click on the Run Query button again… it looks like we get the complete track, but it's a bit tricky to read as a JSON object. The Explorer has a nice option to format the response as a table.
And now we can clearly see the track that we need, along with all the details for each module! Nice!
Code Challenge!
getMission
. This query uses a variable called isScheduled
of type nullable Boolean
. It retrieves a mission
using the scheduled
argument set to the isScheduled
variable. It retrieves the mission's id
and codename
.Our server is ready for our client's queries, so let's hop on over to client-land and work on the UI. | https://www.apollographql.com/tutorials/lift-off-part3/query-building-in-apollo-studio | 2022-04-01T00:57:35Z |
F.P. Report
ISLAMABAD: The Natio-nal Security Committee on Thursday, while calling the communication of a foreign country’s senior official a “blatant interference” in the internal affairs of Pakistan, decided to issue a strong demarche to the country in question.
The 37th meeting of the NSC, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, decided that the demarche would be issued both in Islamabad and in the country’s capital through proper channel in line with the diplomatic norms.
The meeting was attended by federal ministers of defence, energy, information & broadcasting, interior, finance, human rights, planning and development & special initiatives, chairman joint chiefs of staff committee, services chiefs, the national security adviser and senior officers.
National Security Advi-ser Moeed Yusuf briefed the committee on the “formal communication” of the foreign country’s senior off-icial to Pakistan’s ambassador in the said country in a formal meeting, which was duly conveyed by the ambassador to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“The committee expres-sed grave concern at the co-mmunication, terming the language used by the foreign official undiplomatic,” said a PM Office press release.
It concluded that the communication amounted to blatant interference in the internal affairs of Pakistan by the country in question, which was unacceptable under any circumstances.
The participants also en-dorsed the Federal Cabin-et’s decision in its special meeting held on Wednes-day under the prime minister’s chairmanship to take the Parliament into confidence through an in-camera briefing of its National Security Committee. | https://thefrontierpost.com/nsc-terms-foreign-countrys-formal-communication-a-blatant-interference/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nsc-terms-foreign-countrys-formal-communication-a-blatant-interference | 2022-04-01T00:57:35Z |
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The Nadleh Whut’en First Nation in northern B.C. outlined priorities such as an apology from Pope Francis amid discussions at the Vatican in a statement to the press on Wednesday (March 30).
Nadleh Whut’en representatives are part of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) delegation to the Vatican alongside more than 100 First Nations people from across Canada including residential school survivors, elders, youth and support staff.
Nadleh Whut’en is calling on the Pope to visit the site of the former Lejac Indian Residential School to “further discuss reparations and a better path forward” as part of an apology for the role the Catholic Church played in the residential school system in Canada.
The school was operated by the Catholic Church under contract with the Canadian government from when it opened in 1922 until 1976. First Nations say hundreds of their children were forced to attend Lejac, many never to return home.
Nadleh Whut’en Chief Larry Nooski said the Catholic Church “has yet to apologize, compensate or meaningfully support reconciliation” with Nadleh Whut’en and more than 70 B.C. First Nation communities that had their children taken to Lejac.
“This meeting with Pope Francis, to witness an apology, is a historic moment for Nadleh Whut’en and other First Nations from across Canada,” Nooski wrote.
“Many survivors of the Lejac Indian Residential School carry pain and suffering as a result of abuse from priests and nuns at the school.”
Nadleh Whut’en delegates Eleanor Nooski and Tanya Stump said they will prioritize the return of stolen artifacts and access to Vatican archives.
READ MORE: Nadleh Whut’en delegates prepare for Vatican visit to push for residential school archives
The First Nation is also seeking for Rose Prince to be officially recognized as a saint. Prince died in 1949 of tuberculosis. Since 1990, the devout have held pilgrimages to her grave at Lejac where Father Joules Goulet’s prayers and anointments are said to heal the chronically injured.
The First Nation said discussions with the Catholic Church must also include the “rejection and retraction” of the “doctrine of discovery.” Papal laws gave license to explorers to claim terra nullius [vacant land] in the name of their sovereign and defined “vacant” as not populated by Christians.
Nadleh Whut’en Chief and Council offered prayers and support for all delegates to the Vatican saying the First Nation continue will continue to seek justice, restitution and apology for the harms committed by the Catholic Church to their children.
READ MORE: Nadleh Whut’en First Nation plans for unmarked grave search at Lejac residential school site
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Lancers sweep North Carolina A&T
Published 4:18 pm Wednesday, March 30, 2022
The Longwood Lancers won Sunday’s contest 10-5 to sweep their first Big South opponent on the road since 2016. The victory brings Longwood’s record back up to .500 for the first time since the second week of the baseball season.
“They are just starting to believe,” said head coach Chad Oxendine following the team’s second Big South sweep on the road since joining the conference in 2012. “We talked about that earlier in the year. Having a winning mentality versus a losing mentality. Expecting something good to happen instead of something bad. Just continuing to do everything the right way and believing that everything matters. If we continue to do things the right way, the ball is going to roll our way.”
Andrew Melnyk (1-1) started on the mound for Longwood (12-12, 5-1) and picked up his first victory on his first quality start in 2022. Melnyk finished with six innings pitched, and allowed just one run on five hit and struck out six Aggies.
In the top half of the third with one out, Dylan Wilkinson ripped a single through the right side. Hayden Harris and Michael Peterson followed up being hit by a pitch and base on balls respectively, to load the bases. Hunter Gilliam then hit a sacrifice fly to shallow center field that saw Wilkinson cross home to give the Lancers the early 1-0 lead for the third consecutive game.
The Aggies (9-14, 0-3) tied it up in their half of the third when Tyshawn Barrett hit home Anthony Hennings after Hennings singled and stole second.
Drayven Kowalski gave Longwood the lead back in the fourth with a single that went in between third and short and scored Elliot Dix. Dix had walked to start the inning and advanced to third on consecutive ground outs by Michael Dolberry and Jack Schnell.
The Lancers added to their lead in the fifth when Michael Peterson, who had reached on a fielder’s choice and advanced to third after consecutive wild pitches, was hit home on an RBI double by Gilliam. Gregory Ryan then reached on a fielder’s choice that saw him wind up on second, and Gilliam on third. Dix then followed up with a soft fly ball that landed in center field and scored Gilliam. A Dolberry walk loaded the bases, and a wild pitch then saw Ryan score to extend Lancers lead to four. A Schnell walk re-loaded the bases, followed by Kowalski who hit a sacrifice fly to left that scored Dix from third. Wilkinson then cleared the rest of the bases to open up the game with a single to right that scored Dolberry and Kowalski.
Longwood put another run up through a Ryan single that saw Peterson score after he had stolen second and third after being hit by the pitch. The final Lancers run was a deep shot by Peterson in the top of the eighth that stayed just inside the left field foul pole.
A&T would score four of their own in the bottom of the eighth. Hennings singled to start the inning while Ash and Barrett walked to load the bases. Base hits by Dalton, Brantley and Panton made the score 10-5 going into the ninth.
The Lancers offense as a whole had 27 runs over the weekend on 34 hits. On the day, Longwood finished with 11 hits and 10 runs, while seven Lancers recorded knocks and three had multi-hit days.
“We have to keep getting better,” further explained Oxendine on what to expect from the Lancers in conference play the rest of the year. “Our backend of our bullpen, they know. We have to keep throwing strikes and offensively we have to continue to execute and play offense the right way. Again man, up to this point we’re doing great but we can’t get satisfied. We’re only two weekends in, it’s only going to get tougher/ As you know the Big South is a great conference and we have to continue get better all around.” | https://www.farmvilleherald.com/2022/03/lancers-sweep-north-carolina-at/ | 2022-04-01T00:57:40Z |
Oscars producer says police offered to arrest Will Smith
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
“They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment,” Packer said in a clip released by ABC News Thursday night of an interview he gave to “Good Morning America.” “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. They were laying out the options.”
But Packer said Rock was “very dismissive” of the idea.
“He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine,” Packer said. “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.”
The LAPD said in a statement after Sunday night’s ceremony that they were aware of the incident, and that Rock had declined to file a police report. The department declined comment Thursday on Packer’s interview, a longer version of which will air on Friday morning.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct. Smith could be suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned.
The academy said in a statement that “Mr. Smith’s actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television.”
Without giving specifics, the academy said Smith was asked to leave the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, but refused to do so.
Smith strode from his front row seat on to the stage and slapped Rock after a joke Rock made about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, when he was on stage to present the Oscar for best documentary.
On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying “I was out of line and I was wrong.”
The academy said Smith has the opportunity to defend himself in a written response before the board meets again on April 18.
Rock publicly addressed the incident for the first time, but only briefly, at the beginning of a standup show Wednesday night in Boston, where he was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation. He said “I’m still kind of processing what happened.”
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People who don’t have internet access at their homes or who have travel plans that might mean no reliable Wi-Fi connections now have an easy alternative to get online when they need to.
The Challis Public Library has mobile Wi-Fi hotspots that patrons can check out — just like they check out books or laptops or other materials.
A grant from the Federal Communications Commission paid for 30 of the devices, which are about the size of an old flip phone from 20 or so years ago, library Director Becky Mitchell said. Mitchell secured a $25,000 grant to pay for the equipment and the service through the FCC’s emergency connectivity fund.
She applied for the grant about a year ago, but didn’t hear until about Christmas time that the library had been awarded the money. So she scrambled, and with help from the team at CusterTel, the devices were ordered and delivered to Challis. The library paid about $120 per unit and signed up for the internet plans to operate them, Mitchell said.
The grant provides funding through June 2023. Another round of funding was announced last week and Mitchell said she will apply for more money to keep the program operating longer in Challis. Library board members will discuss funding options beyond grants.
CusterTel Director of Wireless Operations Jentre Spencer said cooperative officials were so impressed with the devices after ordering them for the library that they bought more to stock for their customers to purchase.
Spencer expressed her gratitude to Mitchell for “shopping local” when buying the mobile devices.
“We were excited when Becky reached out to us and gave us the opportunity to help serve the community,” Spencer said. “I’m thankful that Becky is going out and looking for these kind of opportunities.”
While the library qualifies for a discounted internet service rate for its other computers that are used by patrons, the hotspots aren’t eligible for the FCC’s E-Rate program, Mitchell said. That program subsidizes telecommunications fees for schools and libraries.
The devices “are 100 percent ready to go,” Mitchell said. They’ve been catalogued and she has little bags that users can tote them around in.
A big bonus of the mobile hotspots, she said, is they can support multiple devices, with high speeds available to all the users. She and her staff tested the hotspots, connecting a couple of computers and cellphones, streaming music and YouTube videos to a single hotspot, with great success, she said. They tried Zoom calls, which worked “with no issues.” The hotspots come with unlimited data and work anywhere there is cell service. That’s not to say a person couldn’t “max it out” though, she cautioned.
“The speed is great. They work well,” she said. “You turn them on and connect immediately.” The connection process is the same as connecting to any Wi-Fi network. The network name and password are on the box the hotspot comes in.
She expects people to check them out when traveling to do business in other towns or even when they travel on vacation. The hotspots can be checked out for two weeks at a time and can be renewed if there isn’t a wait list of other patrons who want to use one, Mitchell said. People must have a library card to check one out. There are a couple other restrictions, Mitchell said. Only adults — age 18 and older — can check them out; only one unit per household can be checked out; patrons can’t have overdue materials or library fines. Mitchell’s not too worried that people will steal the units. If someone fails to return a hotspot by its due date, it will be turned off and unable to connect to the internet, becoming useless to the person who kept it.
“Sure, we’d be out the cost of the equipment then,” Mitchell said. “But the benefit of making these available to people is more than the possible negatives.”
Anyone who lives in the city limits of Challis can get a free library card to the city library. People outside the city limits can purchase library cards for $30 a year, which can be pro-rated by the month. A photo identification card and proof of where a person lives are required to obtain a card.
Mitchell is especially excited that Challis received enough money to buy 30 units. Most libraries which are in the program have 15 or fewer units, she said.
“I feel really lucky that we could get the quantity — and we need that many. We know some people don’t have internet at home because they come in and use our computers regularly.” These devices can help those folks, she said. | https://www.postregister.com/messenger/news/mobile-wi-fi-hotspot-devices-available-from-challis-library/article_7909b7c6-898a-5f81-bde8-107f2db6d6b3.html | 2022-04-01T00:57:41Z |
VIENNA (TASS): It was not possible to extend the mandate of the Special Mo-nitoring Mission of the Or-ganization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (O-SCE) because of the position of Russia. This statement was made on Thursd-ay by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau.
The mission’s mandate has been renewed annually for a year since 2014. On March 31, 2021, it was extended until March 31, 2022. The current mandate expires at midnight. Rau, together with OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid, expressed their regret at the lack of consensus on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE SMM in Ukraine.
“I deeply regret that we were unable to reach an ag-reement to renew the mandate of the Special Monito-ring Mission due to the position of the Russian Fe-deration. Over the past eight years, the mission has played a decisive role, providing objective information on the security and humanitarian situation on the ground and working tirelessly to mitigate the consequences conflict for the civilian population,” Rau said in a statement.
The missions of Germany and France to the OSCE also expressed regret that the Russian Federation refused to renew the mandate of the SMM in Ukraine. “The Polish OSCE Chairmanship has reported that one participating State, Russia, has refused to renew the mandate of the international observer mission in Ukraine,” the German mission tweeted. As the French Mission to the OSCE stated on Twitter, “France deeply regrets the obstruction of Russia to the resumption [of the mandate] of the mission, which Ukraine needs now more than ever.”
Rau indicated that the Polish Chairmanship will continue consultations with participating States on the future role and presence of the OSCE in Ukraine. “W-hile these discussions continue, the SMM will maintain its administrative status as an OSCE field operation and will continue to perfo-rm functions, including en-suring the safety and security of mission members, property and premises,” the OSCE statement said.
The OSCE Mission began its work in Ukraine on March 21, 2014. The decision to form it was supported by all 57 member countries of the organization. The mission includes about 1,000 observers. Mission offices are located in Kyiv, Donetsk and Lugansk. In early March, OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid announced the evacuation of almost 500 SMM monitors from Ukraine following the start of Russia’s military operation. | https://thefrontierpost.com/osce-not-possible-to-extend-mandate-of-smm-in-ukraine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=osce-not-possible-to-extend-mandate-of-smm-in-ukraine | 2022-04-01T00:57:41Z |
What the UN General Assembly vote on Ukraine tells us
There really were no surprises among the five states that voted against the United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demanding that it withdraw its forces from that embattled country. Syria, Belarus, North Korea and Eritrea, all led by authoritarian dictators, supported their fellow autocrat in the Kremlin. Indeed, the Biden administration had sanctioned the Eritrean Defense Forces and the country’s ruling party as recently as September, stating, “Eritrea’s destabilizing presence in Ethiopia is prolonging the conflict … and threatening the integrity of the Ethiopian state.” In other words, it has been taking a leaf out of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s playbook.
On the other hand, there were some surprises both among the 141 states that supported the resolution — of which 96 were its co-sponsors — as well as among the 35 states that chose to abstain. The list of co-sponsors included Israel, which previously had attempted to walk a fine line between Russia and Ukraine. This was in part because of Israel’s concern about endangering its arrangements with Moscow that have enabled it to attack Iranian targets in Syria and thwart Tehran’s efforts to establish a position on the Golan Heights.
Jerusalem also did not want to alienate those oligarchs in Putin’s circle who have supported Israel politically and financially. For those reasons, the Israelis blocked sales of their weapons to Ukraine, either directly or through third countries. Nevertheless, given the scale of Ukraine’s growing humanitarian crisis, as well as Putin’s clear determination to wipe the country off the map, and facing intense American pressure, the Israelis did an about-face. They began to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine, and then chose not only to vote for the resolution but to co-sponsor it.
Like Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had hesitated to criticize Russia. It not only remained silent during Russia’s pre-war military buildup on Ukraine’s borders, but also voted against the Security Council resolution that presaged the virtually identical resolution in the General Assembly. Although the UAE did not co-sponsor the General Assembly resolution, it did join the other 140 countries that voted in its favor. Saudi Arabia likewise supported the resolution, even though it has developed close ties with Moscow and had refrained from criticizing Russia’s actions. So, too, did the other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, as well as non-GCC member Yemen.
There were other surprises among those states that supported the General Assembly resolution. Singapore, traditionally careful not to get caught in disagreements between the United States and China, was a supporter. So was Cambodia, which tends to take a low profile on controversial international political matters. Indeed, of the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), only Vietnam and Laos abstained.
It was no great surprise that China abstained from voting on the resolution. It had abstained in the Security Council vote and did not want to alienate either Moscow or the many Third World countries that host Chinese economic projects and supported the resolution. Nor was it surprising that Russia’s Central Asian neighbors abstained as well.
Apart from China, Pakistan and India were among the most notable abstainers. Several European Union states, as well as Britain, Canada, Australia and Japan, had lobbied Pakistan to support the resolution. But Islamabad in recent years has supplemented its close ties to China with a growing relationship with Russia. This past April, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his counterpart on a visit to Islamabad, “I came with a message from my president that tell Pakistan we are open for any cooperation; whatever Pakistan needs, Russia is ready for it.” The Pakistanis interpreted the statement to mean that Moscow would give them a “blank check.” And Pakistani President Imran Khan was in Moscow striking a trade deal with Russia even as Russian forces penetrated deeper into Ukraine.
Pakistan’s arch-rival India has had a longstanding relationship with Russia. Sixty percent of India’s military equipment is Russian or Soviet-made. Given the ties between the two countries, it probably is not surprising that the world’s largest democracy in effect has aligned itself with the world’s second largest (after China) autocracy.
In so doing, however, India signaled the limits to its participation in the Quad with the U.S., Japan and Australia, all three of which co-sponsored the resolution on Ukraine. For years, under both Democratic and Republican presidents, Washington has sought closer ties with India, not least in the military sphere. There is no reason that the United States should not seek to expand those ties. But India still sees itself as non-aligned, however much business — including arms business — it does with the West. Unlike Israel and the Gulf States, India simply is not prepared to condemn any Russian aggression, even if it merely is asked to support what ultimately is a toothless, non-binding U.N. resolution.
Washington should harbor no illusions about India. The giant of the Asian subcontinent will resist binding ties with anyone and, as it has since gaining its independence from British colonial rule 75 years ago, will continue to go its own way.
Dov S. Zakheim is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and vice chairman of the board for the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He was under secretary of Defense (comptroller) and chief financial officer for the Department of Defense from 2001 to 2004 and a deputy under secretary of Defense from 1985 to 1987.
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📥 Retrieving our data
Our schema is freshly updated with new types and a new query for fetching a given track. We'll need to implement resolvers and data source methods for these new fields.
Our REST API can be found here: https://odyssey-lift-off-rest-api.herokuapp.com.
It has a GET track/:id
endpoint, which takes the track ID as a parameter and returns that track's data. Let's first try out this endpoint: give it a track ID c_0
and check if it provides us with all the necessary data.
Here's the full GET /track/c_0
response:
{ "id": "c_0", "thumbnail": "https://res.cloudinary.com/dety84pbu/image/upload/v1598465568/nebula_cat_djkt9r.jpg", "topic": "Cat-stronomy", "authorId": "cat-1", "title": "Cat-stronomy, an introduction", "description": "Curious to learn what Cat-stronomy is all about? Explore the planetary and celestial alignments and how they have affected our space missions.", "numberOfViews": 0, "createdAt": "2018-09-10T07:13:53.020Z", "length": 2377, "modulesCount": 10, "modules": [ "l_0", "l_1", "l_2", "l_3", "l_4", "l_5", "l_6", "l_7", "l_8", "l_9" ]}
Looking closely at the shape of that response, we can see that we do get the description
and the numberOfViews
. That's great! We also get an array of modules, but they're only IDs, and we'll need more details than that. We'll have to use another endpoint to get those details later.
Try out the REST API endpoint for /track/:id, giving it the ID c_1
. What's the first module ID on the list?
💾 Updating the RESTDataSource
Let's take care of our TrackAPI
, the data source in charge of calling our REST API and retrieving the data. We can find it in the server/src/datasources
folder, in the track-api.js
file.
Let's create a new method to get a single track based on its ID. Let's call it getTrack
, and it'll take a trackId
as a parameter.
We'll use the get
method provided by our RESTDataSource
class to make a call to the track/:id
endpoint, passing it the trackId
from the arguments. Then, we'll return the results.
In track-api.js
, inside the TrackAPI
class:
getTrack(trackId) { return this.get(`track/${trackId}`);}
Now that our data source is retrieving the data, our resolver should be able to use it! In Lift-off II, we already worked out the connection between our resolvers and data sources inside the ApolloServer
configuration options, so we should be good to add more resolvers as necessary.
✍️ Adding a new resolver
Let's take care of this track
resolver. In the server/src
folder, open up the resolvers.js
file.
In our Query
object, we'll add a new function below tracksForHome
. In our schema, we named the fieldtrack
, so here it has to have the same name.
Recall that a resolver is a function with 4 optional parameters: parent
, args
, context
, and info
.
In resolvers.js
, after the tracksForHome
resolver:
track: (parent, args, context, info) => {},
We've used the third argument context
before, to access the dataSources
key. This is where our trackAPI.getTrack
method lives. This method is expecting the id
of a track. We'll be specifying that value later as an argument when we build the query.
To access this id
, we can use the second parameter in the resolver: args
. args
is an object that contains all GraphQL arguments that were provided for the field. We can destructure this object to access the id
property, then pass that id
into our getTrack
method.
Then, we can return the results of that method.
Update the track
resolver in resolvers.js
:
track: (parent, {id}, {dataSources}, info) => { return dataSources.trackAPI.getTrack(id);},
Finally, let's clean up our 2 other parameters. We can replace parent
with an underscore since we won't be using it, and we can omit the last parameter info
altogether; we won't use it either.
Let's not forget to add a nice little comment above to help teammates and future you make sense of what this resolver does.
Update the track
resolver in resolvers.js
:
// get a single track by ID, for the track pagetrack: (_, {id}, {dataSources}) => { return dataSources.trackAPI.getTrack(id);},
Code Challenge!
spaceCat
field to query a spaceCat by ID. Follow the conventions used above for the 4 resolver parameters. Use the dataSources
object to access the spaceCatsAPI.getSpaceCat()
method, which takes the id
from args
and returns the results.We're done with our track resolver, but not quite finished with our resolver work yet. If you recall, the track data returned by our REST API has a modules
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The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is expected to release guidance on fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccine in early April as public health indicators tick up across Canada.
That’s set to come amid growing concerns about hospital capacity as the country enters what some are characterizing as a sixth wave.
A spokeswoman for the Public Health Agency of Canada said Thursday that the agency expects to publish NACI’s advice on fourth doses in the coming days.
“NACI has been asked for advice on the potential use of second booster doses in elderly populations at higher risk of severe disease. PHAC is expected to publish NACI advice on this in early April,” Anna Maddison said in an email.
NACI previously recommended that people who are “moderately to severely immunocompromised” receive a fourth dose of the vaccine six months after getting their third shot. Earlier this week, U.S. regulators approved a fourth dose for Americans 50 and older if it’s been at least four months since their last vaccination.
The question of extra boosters has become more pressing to some due to concerning public health indicators.
Hospitalizations have started rising in some regions and wastewater trends suggest cases are too, after many provinces ditched their vaccine passports and mask mandates this month.
Some – including officials in Quebec – say the nation is on the precipice of a sixth wave of the pandemic that could once again see hospitals stretched thin.
“At some point we’re going to have to stop putting numbers to (the waves),” said Dr. Susy Hota, an infectious disease specialist and hospital epidemiologist at the University Health Network in Toronto.
“A reality that we’re going to have to get used to is that cases will go up and down. The real question is, what are we willing to do to try and keep them from rising at a pace where we can’t keep up?”
Hota said some COVID-19 patients have been unable to leave the hospital system after developing complications, adding strain to the system that’s not captured in the publicly reported numbers.
“And when you combine all of it with the need to catch up on surgeries and delayed and deferred care of a variety of natures, it’s just a lot for the health-care system to be handling,” she said.
Colin Furness, an epidemiologist and professor at the University of Toronto, said burnout in the health-care field and staff absences due to COVID-19 have made the issue even more challenging.
“We’re hearing really quiet but urgent SOSes from the front line saying, ‘We don’t have this capacity that the government has been saying we have,’” he said.
He urged people to continue wearing masks and take other precautions to safeguard not only their personal health, but also the hospital system.
“‘Everyone take off your mask, and we’ll have a hospital bed when you need it’ is a really bad idea,” Furness said. “First of all, because COVID is not a disease you want. But more importantly, I don’t know if that bed is going to be there.”
The Ontario Hospital Association has noted that hospitalizations are trending upward, with the province reporting 807 patients in hospital with COVID-19 on Thursday, compared to 661 a week earlier.
Farther east, Nova Scotia is reporting strain on its health-care system.
As of Thursday, 786 health workers in that province were off the job because they either have tested positive for COVID-19, are awaiting test results or were exposed to a member of their household who tested positive.
Nova Scotia also reported 53 new hospital admissions for COVID-19 in the past week, with 16 patients discharged and 11 patients in intensive care.
Quebec – which started offering fourth doses to seniors over 80, immunocompromised people and residents of long-term care homes this week – saw 1,238 people hospitalized with the virus Thursday.
Health Minister Christian Dubé said outlying regions in Quebec that were spared when the highly contagious Omicron variant tore through the country are now being hit hard by what he characterized as the pandemic’s sixth wave.
Montreal, for instance, has about 208 cases per 100,000 people. In contrast, Côte-Nord has 750 cases per 100,000 people.
Nonetheless, Dubé said the province doesn’t plan to delay lifting its mask mandate – a move currently set for mid-April – or reintroduce other public health measures.
“There is no reason at the moment … to change the strategy we have, because people have to learn to live with the virus, to continue to protect themselves,” he said.
In Ontario, Health Minister Christine Elliott also said there was no current plan to bring back any COVID-19 measures that were lifted earlier this month despite rising virus trends.
“If we need to take any further measure we will, but so far it doesn’t appear that we need to do that,” she said.
Ontario lifted indoor masking rules in most spaces earlier this month, along with a majority of other measures aimed at limiting spread, like proof-of-vaccination rules and crowd capacity limits.
—Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press
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