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Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington state signed a bill Thursday that creates the nation's first alert system for missing Indigenous people.
The bill, which was passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate, highlights that "indigenous people experience disproportionate rates of violence in Washington state," and calls for the creation of an advisory system, like the AMBER Alert system.
"Compared to the rest of the state's population, indigenous women comprise a disproportionate number of missing people," Inslee said during a signing ceremony. "In cases where an individual has died, this bill will help families recover the remains of their loved ones while also honoring and respecting indigenous cultural practices. For women who are found, this bill will provide treatment so that they can start to recover from the trauma of their experience."
Inslee signed the bill, along with several other tribal-related bills, at the Tulalip Resort Casino.
Democratic Rep. Debra Lekanoff, a sponsor of the bill, spoke during the ceremony and said missing and murdered indigenous women and people "is not just an Indian issue, it's not just an Indian responsibility. Our sisters, our aunties, our grandmothers are going missing every day."
The bill "removes the hand so we can hear the unheard screams, it removes the hand from the Washington State Patrol. It brings together all of our governing bodies to collaborate, to take care (of) those who have been taken, those who've been lost, and those yet to come," Lekanoff said.
For years, families and activists have demanded that authorities direct more attention and resources to cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous women, arguing their cases are often overlooked or dismissed.
Federal and state officials have recently publicly acknowledged that there is a crisis of violence against Native Americans, and have launched efforts to address it, but advocates say their response is not enough.
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A Sessho-seki, or “killing stone,” was found cracked in half this month in Nikko National Park, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Tokyo.
No one knows exactly what caused the stone to crack, but the cold winter months could have contributed to the cracking, said Nick Kapur, an associate professor of history at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.
Each winter, water could have seeped into the crack, frozen, then expanded, he said. However, many look for guidance from the myth, he added.
There are multiple versions of the legend, but it was believed Tamamo-no-Mae, a nine-tailed fox spirit, lay trapped in the rock for nearly 900 years.
The tales all center around retired Emperor Toba, who reigned in Japan
from 1107 to 1123.
Tamamo-no-Mae was known for her shape-shifting abilities, so she transformed herself into a beautiful woman and caught the eye of the emperor, Kapur said.
As she grew closer to the emperor, he fell gravely ill, Kapur said. A court astrologer used divination to determine Tamamo-no-Mae was the culprit, he said.
Once her plan was foiled, she fled into the wilderness, changing shapes to try and stay hidden, he said. However, samurai sent after her eventually caught up to the fox spirit, Kapur said.
When one of the warriors shot her with an arrow, her physical form was killed, so her spirit transformed into a stone, he said.
Legend goes that if you touch the stone, you die, hence the name killing stone, Kapur said.
There is no proof of the stone’s supernatural abilities, but its unique location may have given substance to the rumors, said Yoshiko Okuyama, professor of Japanese studies at the University of Hawai?i at Hilo.
The stone is
near multiple volcanoes, so occasional gases that were released may have killed some animals or humans over the years, she said.
A spirit with a change of heart
The rock has become a top tourism site and skyrocketed in popularity, but it paled in comparison to the spirit’s fame, Okuyama said.
The fox spirit has made numerous appearances in modern Japanese media, often as the villain-turned-hero character, she said.
“More recent adaptations in manga and anime don’t want to portray women in a misogynistic way,” Okuyama said.
In older Japanese myths, the stories centered around evil female spirits out to undermine the power of males, Kapur said.
An omen for our time
After the stone cracked, people were quick to chime in on the timing of the breakage.
Many took the event as a bad omen, considering the pandemic and the war between Ukraine and Russia, Kapur said.
Others believed it was a good omen, saying she was released to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war on Ukraine, he said.
“If you’re in the mood to take this negatively, you certainly can, but if you want to take a positive spin on it, maybe this fox spirit is going to help us out in our time of need,” Kapur said. | https://dutchcaribbeannews.com/a-japanese-killing-stone-said-to-contain-an-evil-9-tailed-fox-spirit-has-split-in-two/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:14Z |
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Ko Māui koe! Ko Māui atamai, ko Māui nukurau, e ko Māui takitaki o te rā! E tika ana tēnei pepeha ki tō tātou tangata ki a Pōtaua Biasiny-Tule e whakapau toihau nei e ora ai te iwi, koeke mai, pakeke mai, rangatahi mai, otīā tamariki mai.
He whāngai te iwi ki ngā pūkenga e tū rangatira ai tātou ki te mata o te ao matihiko. Kua hautipia ōna paihau tangata i tēnei wā, e noho māuiui nei āna tamariki i te māuiui kōwheori nā reira rātou te whānau e noho rāhui kau ki tō rātou kāinga.
Nō mai anō, nōna e pakupaku nei tōna mate aroha ki te ao matihiko. Nō te tau kotahi mano, e iwa rau, e waru tekau he pūrei kēmu matihiko, ā moroki noa nei kai tēnei ao tonu a Pōtaua e rāweke haere ana tae atu ki tōna whakatupunga he mana nui whakaharahara te ipurangi koia ko te ao matihiko e mōhiotia tātou.
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Advertise with NZME."He hanga tutetute taku timatatanga ki te ao matihiko e hoa, nō te tau e rua mano mā rua, e noho atu ana ahau ki Kōrea ki te Tonga mō ētehi tau – he kitehanga nāku ki te mana o te taura-tuatini me ngā painga katoa mō te whānau me te hāpori, nā kai reira tonu ahau ināianei e mahi ana".
Nā Pōtaua ka hua ake te kamupene Digital Native Academy (DNA) he moemoeā nōna i hua ake i te mutunga mai o tana āwhina i te iwi ki te hautū i te takotoranga o te whenua hou whai muri mai i ngā whakataunga tiriti me te whakaaetanga CNI.
He ahakoa i whakahono mai ngā kamupene rangatira matihiko nō Tamaki Makaurau me Te Whanganui-a-Tara, he mōhio kē nō Pōtaua e kūare ana ēnei waka ki ngā wai karekare o te takere waka, nā, ka mātika ake a Pōtaua ki te awhina.
Me te pātai ki a Pōtaua te take i tahuri mai ia ki tēnei huarahi, hai tāna, e kōrero tika nei, ko te rawakore me te tāmitanga. Hai tāna, he tōu tīrairaka ia, he kotahi tekau mā rua ngā hāora a ia e mahi ana i te rangi kōtahi, e whitu rāngi ia wiki.
Ko tana arotahinga ināianei me pēwhea e whakahoki ai te mana o te CBD ki te iwi hai tāna he whenua i murua i ngā tau e rua rau kua pahemo. Me tana whakapono hoki, ka ea tēnei taumahatanga. Tāria te wā.
He tangata whakatutū puehu a Pōtaua nā ko te roia māia nei a Annette Sykes tōna amokura whakahau.
Ko te rawa kore me te tāmitanga anei te hoa riri e hoa mā, me te hiahia o Pōtaua kia tahuri te iwi Māori ki te ipurangi me te mana o tēnei ao, e whia kē ngā miriona tāra e pūare kau ki te tangata mei a ia te mōhiohio ki te whakahaere i tōna waka i tēnei ao. Kāore he ahumahi i tua atu i tēnei.
Kāore e take ana te mahi tāpoi me te whakatupu rākau paina, kua rūhi aua rangi, whoi anō nā Pōtaua kē tēnei whakapono. He wairua anō kai te karangahia te tangata i ngā roto-moana me ngā ara pahikara ki roto ngāhere.
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Advertise with NZME.Ka nui te pirangatia a DNA ki te whakarite ngā rangatahi ki a tū mataara ai rātou ki a hau atu me ngā pūkenga hou ki te pae tawhiti. Ka rere anō te pātai, I pēwhea i whakaara ake ai a DNA?
E tika ana tana whakamihi ki a Rotorua Energy Charitable Trust me Spark Foundation nā rāua te pūtea tautoko.
Nō te wā e Tangata Whenua Trust ana a DNA ka ātawhaitia rātou e te Kāwanatanga. Me tana āwangawanga ka tau ana te puehu o te māuiui kōwheori ka piki ngā kēhi o te hunga māuiui-ā-hinengaro.
Ko ētehi o ngā akoako a DNA ko te whakamāia me te whakamātau te tangata kia whai kaha ai ia ki te kaupare i ngā whakawhiu mōrearea a tētehi. Kia uho tawatawa ai te hinengaro ki a mārama ai ia me pēwhea te utu i ngā weriweritanga o te hunga kāore i whakaae ki te aronga o te hāpori.
E hika mā, ehara i te mea ka noho motuhake mai te IT ki te hunga rangatahi, ehara ! E noho tahi ana me ngā koeke o Ngāti Whakaue e rāweke pōtae mātātuhi matihiko ana ka wawe kē te tahuritanga o ētehi ki te ao VR. Ka wehi katoa rātou. E rua āna tohu paetahi whare wānanga, "Nā ēnei kua mōhiohio ahau he manawa honuwai tāku e tāea ai e ahau te haerenga roa, he ahakoa ngā uaua he ahakoa ngā taupā, ae, tino hemo ahau i te nama me te pūtea taurewa, engari he aturangi ka mamao!"
E whā tekau mā whitu nga tau o Pōtaua he uri nō Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Whakatōhea, Ngāti Kahungunu me Niue. Ko tōna mākau rangatira ko Nikolasa nō Amerika ia nā tōna māmā na Nan Mensinga me tōna pāpā whakaangi a John Clobert ia i poipoi i Karepōnia.
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Advertise with NZME.Ka whai wā iti hoki ia ki Niu Ioka me tōnā whāea whakaangi a Betty Wilde me tōna mātua tāne a Charles Biasiny -Riveria nō Puerto Rico ia. Tokorua a rāua tamariki, ko Atutahi te mātāmua e kotahi tekau mā whitu ōna tau rāua ko Hiona e kotahi tekau mā whā ōna tau.
Engari a Pōtaua, tāna whakahīhī harikoa nei.
He tamaiti i tupu ake i te poraka – ae, ko Fordblock tonu. I whānau mai i Opotiki ko Karen Rakuraku rāua ko John Tule ōna mātua, whoi anō he whānau hakoke, kapi katoa ngā tahataha o te Waiariki, ā tae atu ki Ōkere me Mourea ka hinga i a rātou.
I te tau kotahi mano e iwa rau, e whitu tekau mā iwa ka nuku rātou ki Fordblock, waihoki ka whakawhānau tamariki anō ai tōna māmā, he tokowhā anō i whānau mai. I te tau e iwa tekau ka nuku rātou ki Pleasant Heights, waihoki ka whānau mai tokotoru anō o āna taina.
He tamaiti noho ia ki tōna pā taunaha.
Nō mai, nō mai ēnei paiaka." Mai i Waikato ki Tūnohopu, mai i Tamatekapua ki Te Takinga, mai i Punawhakareia ki Tanatana ki roto o Te Waimana, mei kore mātou i te kura, mei kore mātou e mahi ana, i te kāinga rānei , katoa mātou e mahi ana i te pā taunaha me āna kaupapa tini ngerongero.
"Ka huri atu ai te tangata ki whea, hai mahi māna, me he kaupapa mātua ehara i te mea ki tō mātou whānau ake engari te hapū whānui, ka karangangia mātou e ngā pakeke – koia mātou, ka hau atu ki te wēne , ki te motokā, parahutihuti ana. Kāore he kōrero tua atu – he pūehu kau!"
English Translation
Self-confessed geek and tutu Potaua Biasiny-Tule, works around the clock trying to ensure our people — koeke, pakeke, rangatahi and tamariki — have the skills and accreditation to stand with pride in the digital world.
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Advertise with NZME.His physical wings are a bit clipped at the moment because his children tested positive for omicron this week so the whanau are isolating at their home next to the redwoods.
He has loved IT since he started playing video games in the early 1980s and has watched the growth of the the computer and the rise of the internet since.
"My digital pathway started as a side hustle back in 2002 after living in South Korea for a couple years.
"We could see what simple things like broadband access could do for our whanau and community have have been dedicated to that ever since."
The founder and creator of Digital Natives Academy (DNA) expanded that side hustle after helping his iwi navigate the landscape created by the treaty settlements and the CNI agreement.
It became apparent that the IT firms from Auckland and Wellington hired for the job were out of their depth and that's when Potaua stepped in.
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Advertise with NZME.Asked what inspired his business, Potaua is frank: Poverty and colonisation.
He says he works way too much, 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
His focus now is on the return of the Rotorua CBD to iwi which he says was stolen 200 years ago. He believes that ultimately, iwi will prevail.
Potaua describes himself as an activist and iwi lawyer Annette Sykes his general.
Poverty and colonisation are the enemy and Potaua wants to wake people up to the fact that the internet is a trillion-dollar-a-year enterprise open to anyone who has the skills. It is the biggest industry.
Looking at Rotorua where the emphasis is on tourism and forestry, those industries are not the way forward in his view.
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Advertise with NZME.A new energy was coming away from lakes and bike tracks through the forest.
DNA wants to prepare youth with the tools of the future. Asked how DNA came about Potaua says he is grateful to the Rotorua Energy Charitable Trust and Spark Foundation for funding.
When DNA operated as Tangata Whenua Trust it had government funding for two years but that stopped when Labour became the government.
He fears that once the worry around the covid pandemic calms down the community will see an increase in mental health problems.
Part of DNA teachings is learning to cope with tension and toxic behaviours. They need the mental tools to deal with flashes of anti-social behaviour.
But IT is not just for the young. While showing some Ngati Whakaue koeke virtual reality helmets and headphones they wanted to trial VR for themselves and quickly got the hang of things.
Potaua has two university degrees.
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Advertise with NZME."That showed I had the ability to apply myself over a long period and proved to myself that I can last the distance and it cost an arm and a leg in student loans."
Potaua, 47, affiliates to Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Pikiao, Tuhoe, Te Whakatohea, Kahungunu, and Niue.
Hi wife Nikolasa is from the US where she was raised by her mama Nan Mensinga and stepfather John Colbert in California. She spent her childhood in New York with her stepmother Betty Wilde and her Puerto Rican papa Charles Biasiny-Rivera. They have two children, Atutahi (17) and Hiona (14).
As for Potaua, he is proud to be from the Block, Fordlands. Born in Opotiki to Karen Rakuraku and John Tule where they were constantly on the move, around the eastern Bay of Plenty and Okere and Mourea.
In 1979 the whanau moved to Fordlands where it expanded by four more children and then in the early 90s to Pleasant Heights where three more siblings joined the brood.
Potaua has always been close to his pa, right from his childhood.
"From Waikatu to Tunohopu, Tamatekapua to Te Takinga, Punawhakareia to Tanatana over in Waimana, if we weren;t at home, at school or at mahi, we'd all be at the pa for various kaupapa.
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Raising Sand (Rounder Records), a 2008 collaboration between rock god Robert Plant and bluegrass giant Alison Krauss, dominated the 51st annual Grammy Awards. It claimed five trophies that night, including all-genre prize Album of the Year.
The most crucial rock-meets-roots album of the 21st century also won Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album, Record of the Year (for "Please Read the Letter"), Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals (for "Rich Woman") and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for "Killing the Blues"). To put Raising Sand's big night in perspective, Krauss shared more Grammy awards (five) in one fell swoop than the likes of Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard won across their respective careers (both are two-time winners, not counting Grammy Hall of Fame or lifetime achievement honors) .
A tandem of all-time greats in popular music had a secret weapon in the form of producer T Bone Burnett, who played acoustic and electric guitar and six-string bass on the album and had a hand in selecting its track listing.
Raising Sand's long-awaited follow-up, Raise the Roof, arrived in 2021.
The Songs on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raising Sand, Ranked
13. "Trampled Rose"
Krauss sounds downright haunting on "Trampled Rose," a then-new song first released in 2004 by its co-writer (along with Kathleen Brennan), roots-minded troubadour Tom Waits.
12. "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us"
Krauss' gorgeous voice takes center-stage on this, the first recording of a Sam Phillips original named after a prime mover in the development of Plant's bread and butter: guitar-driven and blues-influenced rock music.
11. "Your Long Journey"
The album's final track culls the catalog of Rosa Lee and Doc Watson for a weeper about a loved one's heavenly homecoming. Plant and Krauss' version doesn't stray from the original's folk formula. Speaking of folk, that's the great Mike Seeger on autoharp.
10. "Nothin'"
After its heavy-hitting opening, Townes Van Zandt original "Nothin'" settles somewhere between a swampy, dreary blues number and an electrified and distorted take on bluegrass and its old-time influences.
9. "Polly Come Home"
Byrds co-founder Gene Clark wrote this one and first recorded it with banjo picker and former Andy Griffith Show regular Doug Dillard. In the hands of Plant, Krauss, Burnett and their supporting cast, it becomes a sparse, poetic slow burner.
8. "Through the Morning, Through the Night"
A second Clark composition from his time in Dillard & Clark serves as a vocal showpiece for Krauss (as well as a shining moment for world-class pedal steel player Greg Leisz).
7. "Please Read the Letter"
This one was sure to suit Plant, considering he co-wrote it with fellow Led Zeppelin alum Jimmy Page (as well as Michael Lee and Charlie Jones) for their collaborative 1998 album Welcome to Clarksdale. Turns out it was in Krauss' wheelhouse, as well.
6. "Fortune Teller"
This cover of a song written by Allen Toussaint, the 20th century master behind Glen Campbell's "Southern Nights," digs further into the roots of popular music. It's Plant's strongest solo vocal performance on the album.
5. "Rich Woman"
Dorothy LaBostrie, best known as the co-writer of Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti," penned this R&B gem with its original performer, McKinley Millet. This version puts blues-rock and psychedelic influences from the 1960s into a musical blender, creating far-out familiarity on the album's opening track.
4. "Stick With Me Baby"
Mel Tillis penned this 1960 selection from The Everly Brothers. Naturally, a song written by one of the finest wordsmiths to ever call Nashville home and suited for the Everly siblings' blood harmonies sets up well for a lovely, infatuation-themed duet performance.
3. "Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson"
This cover of R&B and electric blues great Little Milton captures what made both Krauss and Led Zeppelin legends: her might and versatility as a vocalist and the band's knack for adding an infectiously catchy blues-rock spin to classic licks.
2. "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)"
Early rock 'n' roll and its love child with country music, rockabilly, flavor this dance party-starting ode to an important force in the development of roots-based popular music, The Everly Brothers.
1. "Killing the Blues"
The sound of hardcore country, as guided by Leisz, turned an often-covered amalgam of American roots music (you might've known it already through John Prine) into the perfect canvas for Plant and Krauss' vocal brush strokes.
Leisz is joined throughout the album by Jay Bellerose (drums), Patrick Warren (keyboards, pump organ, piano), Dennis Crouch (upright bass), Riley Baugus (banjo), Marc Ribot (guitar, banjo, dobro) and folk great Norman Blake (acoustic guitar).
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March 30 marked a historic day for New Orleans Public Schools. On Wednesday, the state announced that Dr. Avis Williams would become the new superintendent of schools across the big easy. Williams has now become the first black woman to serve in the position. The former Selma City School district superintendent was voted in by the city’s school board committee.
According to KSLA, Williams, who is also the president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, a non-profit organization that cultivates educators and teachers, was one of 50 candidates nominated and “one of 15 interviewed” for the role.
During her time as a superintendent in Selma, Williams helped to raise Alabama’s report card score by 8 points, shooting students’ scores up from 68 to 76. Graduation rates also saw an uptick of 6 percent during her tenure, while reading and math scores jumped by 6 percent and 8 percent, respectively. The huge achievement earned Selma the distinction of becoming the only state to acquire the Pathway, Tier I, and Tier II Performance Excellence Awards through the Alabama Performance Excellence Program, an organization that honors educational institutions for their commitment and outstanding educational performance.
Prior to her superintendency in Selma, Dr. Williams served as the Assistant Superintendent of Tuscaloosa City Schools, where she made more educational strides. The changemaker helped to increase graduation rates in the city from 89 percent to 91 percent and she also launched the District Instructional Framework, which led to a 25 point increase in early literacy rates.
Following the announcement, Williams issued a statement about the historic news.
“I am honored, humbled, and thrilled by this new opportunity with OPSB. I look forward to working with the community to do important work for Every Child at Every School, Every Day. I can’t wait to get started,” said Dr. Avis Williams, according to the Selma Sun. “My thanks to the OPSB for their trust & confidence. I’m excited to listen — to teachers, students, families, and the NOLA community — and translate what I learn into meaningful actions that I hope will touch lives and open doors for all of our scholars in the future.”
Williams started her education career after serving as a sergeant in the United States Army. She went on to become a “teacher and physical education coach in Huntsville, Ala.; an English teacher and assistant principal in Salisbury, N.C.; a principal in Huntsville, an adjunct education college professor in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and the Executive Director of Secondary Curriculum and Instruction in Greensboro, N.C,” the Selma Sun reported.
OPSB President Olin Parker called William’s new position “a historic moment” for the New Orleans school system.
“The board is excited to extend the superintendency to Dr. Avis Williams. As the 1st African American woman appointed to lead our District in its more than 180-year history, her breadth of experience as a sergeant in the U.S. Army, a teacher, principal, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent will help take our students’ education to the next level,” the statement read.
Parker added:
“Dr. Williams is committed to working with our schools to increase academic achievement, expand access to mental health services for students, and engage deeply with all community members. I am certain of her commitment to ensuring that our graduation rates continue to rise and the doors of success continue to open for our scholars through college, well-paying jobs, and beyond.”
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Clarksville, TN – Calling all city-dwelling green thumbs! The City of Clarksville ranked No. 11, out of 196 U.S. cities, as one of 2022’s Best Cities for Urban Gardening by LawnStarter on March 28th, 2022.
The study, conducted by LawnStarter in celebration of Lawn and Garden Month in April, sought to identify the cities that provided the most opportunities for their communities to grow food and plants with minimal space.
Based on LawnStarter’s metric system, the City of Clarksville received an overall score of 34.83 and scored significantly well in the ‘Biggest Yard’ category.
Other cities in Tennesee included Knoxville (13), Murfreesboro (14), and Chattanooga (17).
What is Urban Gardening?
According to Burpee, urban gardening is the process of growing plants in an urban environment, often by those who live in apartment buildings, high rises, or other residences with limited outdoor space or semi-private community gardens.
Urban gardening methods can include using window boxes and pots on a windowsill to container gardens on a concrete patio or balcony. An urban garden can take on various forms, depending on the amount of space you have or what you plan on growing.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe's latest superhero is not, in the conventional sense, either "super" or a "hero," but he does have an unorthodox ailment and a weird skill-set to separate him from mere mortals. His name is Morbius, and while watching his origin story, you may get the feeling that somewhere in the cinematic multiverse, wires got crossed.
The film begins with a helicopter, transporting a cage to the sort of mist-shrouded isle you half expect King Kong to be inhabiting. But Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is looking to capture smaller game as he approaches the mouth of a cave, hobbling with difficulty on two crutch-like canes.
Positioning himself behind the wires of the cage, he slices open the palm of his hand and, as a roar of batwings echoes from inside the cave, murmurs to the copter pilot "if you're gonna run, do it now."
A rare blood disease treated with a bit o' bat
It's tempting to say "consider yourself warned," but the film's first hour or so, while unremarkable, is decently crafted.
Born with a rare blood disease, Michael Morbius has spent his entire life working on two things — a cure, and origami paper-folding. Natch, it occurs to him to fold together bat and human DNA.
Because the FDA would be unlikely to approve human trials, he and his beautiful co-researcher Martine (Adria Arjona) head in a cargo ship for international waters off the coast of Long Island in the company of eight thuggish mercenaries — think bloodbags — and once Morbius has been injected with bat DNA, it's just a matter of time before things go vampiric.
Let it be said that some side-effects from dabbling in "chiropter-y" are less ghastly than others. Bat DNA evidently gives you great cheekbones and abs to go with increased strength and speed.
Less salutary effects include new fangs that sprout from his gums with decades of decay baked in, and claws that erupt from his fingers pre-filthed. I mean, sure...why not? Except this is a man whose hair has the kind of sheen that comes from brushing it three times a day.
One other thing: he now needs to drink human blood every six hours. Happily, on his way to declining a Nobel Prize, Dr. Morbius invented "artificial blood," though that only fools his system for a while.
Color coded smoke effects for a Jekyll and his Hyde
If you're expecting a conventional Marvel movie, you should be aware going in that what Director Daniel Espinoza and his writers have come up with is more a horror flick with Marvel bells and whistles.
That means Leto's Morbius gets purplish smoke effects to go with those fang-baring snarls as he's riding air currents in subway tunnels, while the similarly afflicted Hyde to his Jekyll – a schoolboy chum played as an adult by an amusingly hopped-up Matt Smith, gets blue-ish vapor trails and snappier lines.
But there isn't much tension to their story. Or logic. At one point, Morbius overhears some counterfeiters passing fake $100s, and commandeers their printing press to make what appears to be an artificial-blood machine — because the technologies for fake-bills and fake-blood match up? Maybe that works better in a comic book.
Bat guys everywhere you look
Speaking of which, when the DC Extended Universe first announced that Twilight star Robert Pattinson would play the lead in The Batman in their corner of the superhero multiverse, it seemed like a nice inside joke — from Vampire-teen to Bat-man. But now that the Marvelverse has Leto going full Dracula, it seems as if the casting maybe could've gone the other way 'round.
Leto is as persuasively haunted by the dark side of vigilantism as Pattinson was, and as a result of corporate positioning, is maybe more determined to avoid being a villain. Not unlike Venom, Morbius was a bad guy when he first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man comics, back in the 1970's. He needs to be at least an anti-hero now, if a franchise is to be built around him.
But bad guy/bat guy...who's to say? As the trailers reveal, another DC bat-guy, Michael Keaton, shows up in his non-batty baddie Marvel persona Adrian Toomes, just to mess with the heads of anyone trying to keep cinematic universes straight.
But bloodlines will have to be clarified in more robust "Morbius" episodes to come, this origin story being merely adequate, and by Marvel standards, slightly anemic.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kunr.org/npr-news/2022-03-31/jared-leto-is-marvels-bat-man-in-the-vampiric-morbius | 2022-04-01T01:02:16Z |
Clackamas Rep Returns With QUEENS GIRL IN AFRICA
Reprising her award-winning role, Portland native Lauren Steele will portray 19 unique, entertaining characters.
Clackamas Repertory Theatre is returning to the stage with "Queens Girl in Africa" by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, March 31 - April 24 at the Osterman Theatre on the campus of Clackamas Community College in Oregon City.
Performances take place Thursday - Saturday at 7:30pm, with 2:30pm Sunday matinees. Tickets are $40 for Adults and Seniors and $30 for Youth (6-25), and may be purchased at www.clackamasrep.org or by calling 503-594-6047.
The second play in the "Queens Girl in the World" trilogy, "Queens Girl in Africa" follows the infectiously spirited Jacqueline Marie Butler as she finds herself at a crossroads of personal and political upheaval when her family abruptly moves to Nigeria following the assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X, a close family friend. Entertaining and uplifting, "Queens Girl in Africa" captures the unforgettable moments for a teenager abroad, when questions of self and place intertwine with the realities of homework and hormones as Jacqueline assuredly, hilariously navigates the energy, excitement and unpredictability of the 1960s. Lauren Steele, who won a Drammy award for Best Solo Performance for her stunning work in Clackamas Rep's 2019 production of "Queens Girl in the World," returns to play Jacqueline and 18 other characters. An acclaimed actor, writer and musician, Steele grew up in Portland and graduated from Jefferson High School. She graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2019 with awards for excellence in Performance and Playwriting. Since Clackamas Rep audiences last saw her, Steele has released a new single and music video titled "Nighttime Friends" and began working on a full-length album of original music with local label, People Music.Damaris Webb returns to direct "Queens Girl in Africa." Webb, a Portland native and proud graduate of Jefferson High School, is co-director of The Vanport Mosaic: a multidisciplinary non-profit dedicated to presenting, celebrating and preserving the silenced histories around us in order to better understand our present and create a future where we all belong. Webb holds a MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University and a BFA from The Experimental Theater Wing of New York University.
Pancho Savery, dramaturg at Clackamas Rep and professor of English, humanities and American studies at Reed College, will present free pre-show lectures one hour before the Sunday April 3, April 10 and April 24 performances.
Osterman Theatre's HVAC system exceeds all OSHA COVID ventilation requirements.
Clackamas Repertory Theatre (www.clackamasrep.org) is a professional Equity theatre company in Oregon City, Ore. Founded in 2004, Clackamas Rep offers high-quality, financially accessible productions for the citizens of Clackamas County and beyond and prepares current and former Clackamas Community College students for a career in theatre through summer positions. | https://www.broadwayworld.com/portland/article/Clackamas-Rep-Returns-With-QUEENS-GIRL-IN-AFRICA-20220329 | 2022-04-01T01:02:16Z |
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Russell Knox recorded four straight birdies on the back nine and fired a 7-under 65 on Thursday for a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Valero Texas Open.
Knox closed out his round with a seven-foot putt to save par at the par-5 18th at TPC San Antonio, and was one shot ahead of Rasmus Hojgaard.
Hojgaard fired a 66 despite a double bogey on his final hole. Matt Kuchar is another stroke back after an opening 5-under 67 and is among a group that includes Denny McCarthy, Aaron Rei and J.J. Spaun.
Defending champ Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy finished at even-par 72. They were outside the top 60 after one round and could flirt with the cut line on Friday.
Bryson DeChambeau had a 1-over 73. After holing a bunker shot for eagle on his 11th hole and following with a birdie on the next, he made bogey on four of his last six holes.
Knox, a 32-year-old Scotsman with two career PGA Tour wins, started his birdie streak at No. 12. All of his birdie putts were inside 10 feet. At the 15th, he was about 20 feet away from a back pin position following his approach and chipped in from the fringe. It was his second chip-in in the round.
“That was one of those kind of bonus birdies that you need when you’re going to have a good day,” Knox said. “Obviously thrilled with the round. It’s been more of the way I want to play.”
Hogjaard, a 21-year-old from Denmark and two-rime winner on the European Tour, had his sights on the first-round lead heading to his closing hole. But, his drive sailed well left of the fairway. It took him four shots to reach the green on the par-4 ninth.
“I had to chip sideways back into the fairway,” he said. “Just was a little too aggressive after that. Yeah, short-sided myself and I didn’t get up and down and suddenly you walk away with double-bogey. Yeah, that was a bit annoying, but it happens.”
Kuchar was 5 under after 11 holes. Thirty feet away from the pin on the next hole, he failed to get up and down and missed a seven-foot putt for par. He got a shot back with a birdie on his 14th hole, and parred out, falling short in a bid to match his season-best round of 64 at the Sony Open, where he finished in the top 10.
“A lot of good and bad that can happen here on this course,” Kuchar said. “I was kind of managing early on in the round and then found a little something on about the fifth or sixth hole. I started having some birdie chances and converted on a few late in my first nine.”
Kuchar has won nine times on the PGA Tour. McCarthy, Rai and Spaun are looking for their first.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/sports/article/Knox-uses-4-birdie-run-for-a-one-stroke-lead-at-17049836.php | 2022-04-01T01:02:17Z |
Marvel Cinematic Universe's latest superhero is not, in the conventional sense, either "super" or a "hero," but he does have an unorthodox ailment and a weird skill-set to separate him from mere mortals. His name is Morbius, and while watching his origin story, you may get the feeling that somewhere in the cinematic multiverse, wires got crossed.
The film begins with a helicopter, transporting a cage to the sort of mist-shrouded isle you half expect King Kong to be inhabiting. But Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is looking to capture smaller game as he approaches the mouth of a cave, hobbling with difficulty on two crutch-like canes.
Positioning himself behind the wires of the cage, he slices open the palm of his hand and, as a roar of batwings echoes from inside the cave, murmurs to the copter pilot "if you're gonna run, do it now."
A rare blood disease treated with a bit o' bat
It's tempting to say "consider yourself warned," but the film's first hour or so, while unremarkable, is decently crafted.
Born with a rare blood disease, Michael Morbius has spent his entire life working on two things — a cure, and origami paper-folding. Natch, it occurs to him to fold together bat and human DNA.
Because the FDA would be unlikely to approve human trials, he and his beautiful co-researcher Martine (Adria Arjona) head in a cargo ship for international waters off the coast of Long Island in the company of eight thuggish mercenaries — think bloodbags — and once Morbius has been injected with bat DNA, it's just a matter of time before things go vampiric.
Let it be said that some side-effects from dabbling in "chiropter-y" are less ghastly than others. Bat DNA evidently gives you great cheekbones and abs to go with increased strength and speed.
Less salutary effects include new fangs that sprout from his gums with decades of decay baked in, and claws that erupt from his fingers pre-filthed. I mean, sure...why not? Except this is a man whose hair has the kind of sheen that comes from brushing it three times a day.
One other thing: he now needs to drink human blood every six hours. Happily, on his way to declining a Nobel Prize, Dr. Morbius invented "artificial blood," though that only fools his system for a while.
Color coded smoke effects for a Jekyll and his Hyde
If you're expecting a conventional Marvel movie, you should be aware going in that what Director Daniel Espinoza and his writers have come up with is more a horror flick with Marvel bells and whistles.
That means Leto's Morbius gets purplish smoke effects to go with those fang-baring snarls as he's riding air currents in subway tunnels, while the similarly afflicted Hyde to his Jekyll – a schoolboy chum played as an adult by an amusingly hopped-up Matt Smith, gets blue-ish vapor trails and snappier lines.
But there isn't much tension to their story. Or logic. At one point, Morbius overhears some counterfeiters passing fake $100s, and commandeers their printing press to make what appears to be an artificial-blood machine — because the technologies for fake-bills and fake-blood match up? Maybe that works better in a comic book.
Bat guys everywhere you look
Speaking of which, when the DC Extended Universe first announced that Twilight star Robert Pattinson would play the lead in The Batman in their corner of the superhero multiverse, it seemed like a nice inside joke — from Vampire-teen to Bat-man. But now that the Marvelverse has Leto going full Dracula, it seems as if the casting maybe could've gone the other way 'round.
Leto is as persuasively haunted by the dark side of vigilantism as Pattinson was, and as a result of corporate positioning, is maybe more determined to avoid being a villain. Not unlike Venom, Morbius was a bad guy when he first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man comics, back in the 1970's. He needs to be at least an anti-hero now, if a franchise is to be built around him.
But bad guy/bat guy...who's to say? As the trailers reveal, another DC bat-guy, Michael Keaton, shows up in his non-batty baddie Marvel persona Adrian Toomes, just to mess with the heads of anyone trying to keep cinematic universes straight.
But bloodlines will have to be clarified in more robust "Morbius" episodes to come, this origin story being merely adequate, and by Marvel standards, slightly anemic.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.upr.org/2022-03-31/jared-leto-is-marvels-bat-man-in-the-vampiric-morbius | 2022-04-01T01:02:17Z |
Africa's week in pictures: 25-31 March 2022
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A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:
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A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:
Images subject to copyright. | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-60939581 | 2022-04-01T01:02:19Z |
Chinese state broadcaster censors Paralympic official’s speech
A Chinese state broadcaster on Friday appeared to censor a Paralympic official’s speech at the opening ceremonies of the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, during which he called for peace amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Wall Street Journal reported that International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president Andrew Parsons’s remarks at the start of the event were not translated by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
The remarks were later muffled, and a signing interpreter stopped translating Parsons’s speech on screen, according to CNN.
Parsons, a Brazilian, said that he was “horrified” with the events taking place in the world at the moment.
“Tonight I want — I must — begin with a message of peace,” he said in English while addressing officials including Chinese President Xi Jinping. “As the leader of our organization, with inclusion at its core, where diversity is celebrated and differences embraced, I am horrified at what is taking place in the world right now. The 21st century is a time for dialogue and diplomacy and way and hate!”
The committee’s president went on to explain that the Olympic truce during both the Olympic and Paralympic games is recognized by the U.N. by over 100 countries. This truce, he said, “must be respected.”
China, an ally of Russia, took action in order to block anti-war sentiment about the conflict, according to the Journal.
The Chinese government has been known to censor social media and television broadcasting in the past.
Parsons’s remarks come after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 with the help of Belarus, just four days after the 2022 Winter Olympic Games ended in Beijing. Since then, the country has mounted a full-scale attack on the former Soviet country, a conflict that has been condemned by dozens of countries internationally.
The IPC on Thursday announced that it would not permit Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing in the Paralympic Games. In his announcement of the ban, Parsons stated that normally, the IPC believes “firmly” that politics and athletics should not mix.
“However, by no fault of its own, the war has now come to these Games and behind the scenes, many Governments are having an influence on our cherished event,” Parsons said.
“In order to preserve the integrity of these Games and the safety of all participants, we have decided to refuse the athlete entries from RPC and NPC Belarus. To the Para athletes from the impacted countries, we are very sorry that you are affected by the decisions your governments took last week in breaching the Olympic Truce. You are victims of your governments’ actions,” he added.
The Hill has removed its comment section, as there are many other forums for readers to participate in the conversation. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. | https://thehill.com/policy/international/china/596975-chinese-state-broadcaster-censors-paralympic-officials-speech/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:17Z |
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Former Pakistan pace bowler Aaqib Javed said he told Prime Minister Imran Khan that left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi would make the country proud.
Afridi recently captained the Lahore Qalandars to their first-ever Pakistan Super League (PSL) title.
When meeting Imran, who is renowned for leading Pakistan to victory in the 1992 World Cup, Aaqib told him that Afridi had similar traits as him.
“When we went to meet Imran Khan, I told him that Shaheen reminded me of his traits and I said that he will make us all proud,” he told Cricket Pakistan.
In the three-Test series against Australia, Afridi picked up nine wickets at an average of 36.44.
The reigning ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year missed the first ODI against Australia, but returned in the second match and took four wickets.
Pakistan won the second ODI by six wickets and levelled the series at 1-1.
The third ODI will be held on Saturday, while the one-off T20 International will be played on Tuesday.
Pakistan’s ODI squad: Babar Azam (captain), Shadab Khan, Abdullah Shafique, Asif Afridi, Asif Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imam-ul-Haq, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Haris, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Saud Shakeel, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shahnawaz Dahani, Usman Qadir
Pakistan’s T20I squad: Babar Azam (captain), Shadab Khan, Asif Afridi, Asif Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Haris, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shahnawaz Dahani, Usman Qadir | https://battingwithbimal.com/2022/04/01/told-imran-khan-he-will-make-the-country-proud-aaqib-javed-on-special-pakistan-talent/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:19Z |
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to approve legislation that would limit cost-sharing for insulin under private health insurance and Medicare. The vote was 232-193, with 12 Republican members joining their Democratic colleagues to pass the measure.
The Affordable Insulin Now Act would cap insulin prices at either $35 a month or 25% of an insurance plan's negotiated price — whichever is lower. The legislation aims to take effect in 2023 but its fate in the Senate remains unclear.
"This is a kitchen table issue, "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said to reporters ahead of the bill's passage on Thursday.
"One in four Americans is forced to skip or ration doses of insulin and that's life-threatening," she said, noting the legislation "paves the way" for further action on negotiating lower drug prices beyond insulin.
Advocates of the legislation point to data from the Health Care Cost Institute, an independent nonprofit that studies health care prices, which shows prices for insulin doubled between 2012 and 2016.
"No one should have to choose between taking their medication as prescribed and putting food on the table or a roof over their head," said Rep. Dan Kildee, one of three Democratic lawmakers who sponsored the legislation.
"As a father of a type 1 diabetic, I have seen firsthand how the high price of prescription drugs like insulin can harm patients and harm families," the Michigan Democrat said during debate on the House floor. "When my daughter turned 26 and got her own health insurance, there were months where she spent a third of her take home pay because she's diabetic on staying alive."
Critics of the bill argue the cap alone doesn't do enough to solve the underlying problem of rising prescription drug prices.
"We want lower prices for drugs, particularly for insulin," said Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga, during debate. "But instead of fixing a broken system, this bill aims to control it," he adding, calling the bill a "socialist plan."
House Democrats passed legislation in November as part of a broader spending package that would have enabled Medicare to negotiate lower prices for various prescription drugs.
Because that package remains stalled in the Senate, Democrats are working to more narrowly tackle making common drugs like insulin more affordable.
There is a similar bipartisan effort under way in the Senate but its path is unclear as Republicans have traditionally been opposed to price caps.
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I graduated from Capac High School in June 2012. Next month, nearly 10 years later, I’ll walk across the stage at OU’s commencement ceremony so President Ora Hirsch Pesovitz can hand me my diploma. In this article, I’ll be sharing details from my personal life and my experiences finishing my undergraduate...
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HOUSTON — The Obama Portraits Tour has made its way to Houston.
The paintings are on a national tour after being unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in 2018.
The portraits will be on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from Sunday, April 3 through the end of May.
President Obama's portrait by Kehinde Wiley and Michelle Obama's painting by Amy Sherald shy away from the formality of earlier presidential portraits and have become symbols of the Obama's historic legacy.
This Sunday, MFAH is having a celebration of the exhibit's opening. Those who wish to attend are asked to put on their "Sunday Best."
The event will feature an afternoon of festivities with performances from Texas Southern University’s Ocean of Soul marching band, a fashion parade, and artmaking from local artists.
General admission to this event is free, not including special ticketed exhibitions. | https://www.khou.com/article/news/community/obama-portraits-houston/285-b22e0914-6e0e-4bbe-9ac2-00b949472c22 | 2022-04-01T01:02:20Z |
FRESNO, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Well Done Moving, Inc. once again shows its appreciation for its local community by offering a moving discount to first responders.
Well Done Moving created this initiative to express appreciation for our local First Responders by offering discounted moving services for the month of April. Sales Director, Lindsey Beasley states, "The success we've experienced is directly attributed to the amazing people of our community. As a family-owned, Fresno-based company, we are proud to be able to give back to a community that has entrusted us with their valuables for over a decade".
First Responders can take advantage of this opportunity within the Fresno, Madera, Kings, and Tulare counties.
Well Done Moving strives to actively give back to the local community by creating and participating in philanthropic events such as Moving Neighbors in need, Assisting Creek Fire evacuees, and supporting Habitat for Humanity by moving residents into their new homes.
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WDM is committed to creating a culture where employees are appreciated and an extension of its family. The company offers competitive pay and starts its team members off above minimum wage. In addition, it offers PTO/sick time, and team members have the opportunity to earn up to five weeks of vacation. These policies and commitment to the community set Well Done Moving apart in the moving industry and helped it grow into one of Fresno's most trusted local companies.
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Met Gal Behavior With Hal Baddie
Story by Fatima Jamal / Photography by Oscar Ouk / Styling by Joe Van O / Hair by Sean Bennett / Makeup by Olivia Barad
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Not every doll lives on the shelf in a box packaged at the Mattel Factory. Not every doll is white, cisgender, ball-jointed with blue eyes. Some dolls are made through magic, self-creation and manifestation, like Devin Halbal, a 23-year-old TikTok star and writer from the Bronx with "Met Gala"-sized fashion dreams. Here is a doll out of the box and into the world, documenting her beauty and that of the earth through her travels, selfie stick and penguin bag in tow. Here is a doll that everyone loves to play with for her musings on travel, fashion, fine cuisines, geology, archeology, architecture and kindness, but she refuses to be collected for her own sanity.
With nearly 300 thousand followers and counting on TikTok, Halbal, more popularly known as "Hal Baddie," is carving out a path for herself in today’s very complicated age of representation. "I need to make this space for me and other girls to come after me because we deserve to be on magazine covers," she tells PAPER over the phone. "And I’m not talking about the dolls that get their work done. I’m talking about dolls who can't afford surgeries. I’m talking about dolls with beards. I think it’s really crazy that we still really don’t have models that are trans women who aren’t cis passing or 100% passing. We need models with beards. We need girls with five o'clock shadows," she continues.
Skirt and corset: Wiederhoeft, Bodysuit: Nihl, Shoes: Fluevog, Headpiece: Elena Velez, Sunglasses: Balenciaga
There is an unyielding expectation for dolls to be perfect, but here is a doll that shows up expressing her most vulnerable and authentic self. She’s shared videos of herself crying to videos getting her beard shaved in Turkey. "Dolls cry for a lot of reasons," she says in the most Cancerian tone. "Being a doll has made me very emotional and very understanding of myself and the world around me. It encapsulates my mood as a person — my aura."
She goes on, "The thing that is so interesting about being a doll is you literally live in a world where all the images and society around you tell you that you’re not the beauty standard and then when you enter the world the trade is trading. People live for doll energy. People live for Met Gala behavior. I’m constantly being sold images [that want me] to strive to be someone else and to strive to look like someone else, but in my real life I know that is not true. People love dolls and they wish that they could be dolls because dolls are special."
Top and skirt: Adrienne Landau, Necklace: 1017 ALYX 9SM, Shoes: Luar, Bag: Sever Studio
Hal Baddie has become an inspiration for many people all over the world, and while her influence has cast a wide net online, she is witnessing brands like Fashion Nova and Mejuri use her likeness for free while placing white models as the face of their content. In a recent Instagram post she writes, "Companies like Fashion Nova, Mejuri and others have used my audios to promote their products without paying me or putting me on their PR list. In fact, Fashion Nova didn’t even give me credit for my voice. This just isn’t okay. And this is disrespectful to me, the artist."
This is not the first time this has happened and it follows a trend of companies divorcing the voices of Black and POC TikTok creators from their image without giving them proper credit. Halbal has never shied away from advocating for herself. She has written pieces for Refinery29 and Teen Vogue in the past about survivorship and diversity of gender expression in clothing. Her TikTok follows this trajectory of thought production and philosophy.
Dress and necktie: Lorena Pipenco, Shoes: AGL (Purple PR)
The future of Hal Baddie is without a doubt as bright as the light she emanates from her phone screen. Who could refuse her precious smile, quirky laughter, charm and wit to boot? It’s impossible. She’s even inspired a "Hal Baddie"-themed party. "My supporters really connect to me because my content is not superficial," she says. "People view me as a safe space because I am a trans woman, because I’m a marginalized person. In short, they think I’m their therapist because I’m being vulnerable online, sharing my innermost thoughts."
She continues, "I think it’s interesting, too, because I used to co-facilitate a trans support group at the LGBT Center when I was in college. I was interning there and I feel like so much of the messages I get from people on TikTok remind me very much of that time of my life where I feel like I had to support people a lot. It can be overwhelming when you also just are trying to live your life and figure things out for yourself. I’m still figuring out my boundaries."
Jacket, and skirt: Saint Sintra, Earrings: Shiny Squirrel, Shoes: Lorena Pipenco
The pressure to show up for people depending upon your presence daily can be consuming to the point of lifelessness, much like a doll on the shelf, and it makes me wonder when Halbal has time to herself — and what rest looks for her. "TikTok and the work that I do is restorative, she says. "I’m talking about and doing things that I like. Also going for walks and runs. I love to run. And traveling." Next on her list are places like Italy, Maldives, Jordan and South Africa.
The space Halbal has assembled on TikTok is healing for both herself — her inner child, especially — and the millions of people watching from their phones. Moving forward, she desires to activate and elevate her presence in the fashion world. She’s been contacted by brands Pyer Moss and Kim Shui, and even sent items from the underwear line Parade. In addition, she has plans of creating a high fashion merch line and a one-woman fashion show to come in the future. We must all stay tuned and elevate, elevate, elevate.
Dress, leg warmers and gloves: Gogo Graham, Clips: Death in Mid-Winter, Shoes: Reike Nen (Lindsey PR)
Photography: Oscar Ouk
Styling: Joe Van O
Hair: Sean Bennett
Makeup: Olivia Barad | https://www.papermag.com/hal-baddie-tiktok-2657071129.html | 2022-04-01T01:02:21Z |
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced Thursday, March 31, he has joined forces with public defenders and nonprofit organizations to establish a pilot diversion program for human trafficking victims to help restore their lives outside the criminal justice system.
The county’s first Human Trafficking Diversion Court program will be launched at the Pomona courthouse, with the hope of expanding it to other areas of Los Angeles County plagued by human trafficking, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
“The purpose of this program is very simple,” Gascon said during a news conference. “It is to divert victims of human trafficking away from the criminal justice system and into a trauma-informed holistic system of care. Adults and children alike are forced into human trafficking and become vulnerable and repeatedly extorted. Their hopes vanish and their confidence is repeatedly trampled upon and too far often they are over-criminalized. But together with our guidance and all of these groups coming together we can make a difference.”.
Los Angeles County Public Defender Ricardo García joined Gascón in announcing the pilot court program, which is in session every Thursday at Pomona Superior Court.
“For far too long young people forced into labor, sexual exploitation and sex work for the profit or the benefit of others have been victimized by harsh treatment in our criminal legal system,” Garcia said. “In the past there was a belief and a practice that only criminal charges and incarceration were the appropriate answers for their exploitation-based conduct. As public defenders, we have seen the destruction of far too many lives due to these ideas and practices.”
Variety of services
The diversion program will offer a variety of services, including individual and group counseling for alcohol and substance abuse, mental health treatment, job training, career opportunities, educational and financial planning, resume services and criminal record clearing.
“Research shows that providing counseling, education and skills training to persons involved in human trafficking redirects these individuals to a brighter and more productive path and also prevents recidivism in great numbers,” Garcia said.
Those sentiments were echoed by Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defender Erika Anzoategui, whose office represents defendants charged with a crime who cannot afford to hire a private attorney and where Garcia’s office has a conflict of interest.
”This is a historic moment and a long-needed program to help people,” she said. “I am glad we have come together in a collaborative fashion to actually look at the needs of our clients instead of just incarceration. Incarceration is not the answer to trauma.”
Individuals who have been identified as trafficking victims and face misdemeanor or non-serious, non-violent felony charges are eligible for the program. Participants are referred to Human Trafficking Court by defense attorneys, prosecutors or law enforcement agencies.
A judge will approve the suitability of each participant, who will be assigned to a community-based organization for treatment and services. After completion of the diversionary program, a judge can dismiss and vacate the person’s arrest, convictions and probation violations.
Most have no criminal history
Pallavi Garg, an attorney for Free to Thrive, a nonprofit that provides trafficking victims legal and support services, said about 90% of the agency’s clients have a criminal record tied to their trafficking experience. Most had never been arrested before they were trafficked, she added.
“That is exactly why this (trafficking) courtroom is essential,” Garg said. “When we talk to survivors, they universally say the same thing, that nobody — not the police officers, not the defense attorneys, not the prosecutors, not the judges — ever stop to ask them why (they have no previous criminal history). That allows traffickers to continue to recruit, groom and victimize more people while their other victims are serving out long sentences.”
Claremont Mayor Jed Leano applauded the program, adding that human trafficking is the biggest public safety threat facing his city.
”This program is the right step forward to try to create an unfettered and direct pipeline for victims of trafficking and the services that can end the cycle of violence and coercion,” he said. | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/03/31/da-gascon-announces-diversion-program-for-human-trafficking-victims/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:21Z |
Appointments Committee
The Appointments Committee of the Moultrie City Council will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 5, in the conference room at City Hall.
Joshua Eric Poole, 35, of Moultrie, Georgia, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Sunday, March 20, 2022. Visit www.bakerfhga.com for funeral arrangements. Arrangements have been entrusted to Baker Funeral Home.
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Gretna boys golf hosted an invitational on Tuesday at Tiburon Golf Course, and came away as winners by three strokes over Mt. Michael.
Senior Nolan Johnson (-1) was the best individual scorer, and sophomore Beau Peterson (+5) finished tied for fourth. Calan Mikos (+9) was in ninth, while Jacob Dowd (+10) was just behind tied for tenth.
Boys head coach Scott Boehler said “everything went well” even with weather that “wasn’t the best,” and Johnson said it “went great.”
“It was really windy yesterday, obviously,” Johnson said. “And so that really makes a difference in how you play the course.”
Johnson said to combat the wind, he and his teammates work with John Peterson, head pro at Tiburon, and they work on “sliding shots lower” to avoid the wind and take spin off the ball.
For Johnson, it was a second straight win in the invite after winning last year in similar conditions.
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“The round was kind of a grind-out pars (round),” Johnson said. “You’re not gonna make a lot of birdies,” he had two, “and that’s what it was, just make pars. As a team, I thought it was really important that we played well, because this is our second tournament of the year and at our home course, because we’re not a super young team, but we don’t have much experience. And so it was really important for us to get an early win this season.”
Both Boehler and Johnson highlighted the advantage of playing on their home course.
Boehler said, “It’s a huge factor as far as preparation for the course and our kids do a nice job of trying to get out to the courses that we play ahead of time to become a little bit more familiar. But playing on the course two or three times a week definitely helped.”
Johnson added, “It’s a huge advantage, knowing how the greens break and how to play the course. Knowing where to hit the ball and what the best miss is for certain pins to give you the best chance of getting up and down if you missed the green.
"And I think it’s more of a confidence thing, honestly. Playing the course every day and then getting to play in tournaments, you have a lot of confidence going into it because you play it all the time and you know the course.”
Boehler was happy with the teams overall improvement from a score of 326 on Monday at Firethorn in Lincoln to 311 on Tuesday, but hopes to see an improvement in the short game from the Dragons.
“The courses are in a little bit of rough shape with the lack of moisture in the short game,” Boehler said. “On the greens and around the greens have been probably the most challenging and we haven’t been able to practice that much around the greens and so I think that’s probably the biggest thing that we need to improve on.”
Boehler has also been impressed by Johnson and Mikos’ senior leadership, and said the top five players “all keep an even keel.”
“I mean, nothing really bothers them,” he said. “They’ll have a bad hole, they just move on, so that definitely helps.”
And in moving on, Johnson will look to carry the momentum from an early win through the rest of the season, which continues in the Alex Shives Classic at Oak Hills Country Club on April 4.
“I think it’s always great to get that first (win) out of the way and give yourself confidence as it goes on throughout the season,” Johnson said. “It’s going to be important to carry that confidence in other tournaments and just know that the way I’m playing is good enough to win a golf tournament.” | https://nonpareilonline.com/community/gretna/boys-golf-gretna-hosts-and-wins-invitational-at-tiburon/article_ef17004c-b072-11ec-a7a5-8f87676d720b.html | 2022-04-01T01:02:21Z |
Updated March 31, 2022 at 2:30 PM ET
Editor's note: Graphic content
As Russians continue to carry out strikes on Ukrainian cities, the country's residents are evacuating their homes and taking cover in subway cars, basements and bomb shelters.
The displacement of millions across Ukraine a little over a month into the invasion is evident in photos of sliced-open apartment buildings, dogs in arms and children's belongings left behind.
Here is what it looks like on the ground in Ukraine and bordering countries:
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<strong>March 30:</strong> A Ukrainian soldier patrols near a bridge destroyed by the Russian army in the town of Rogan, east of Kharkiv.
<strong>March 30:</strong> Fire and smoke light up the sky east of Kharkiv.
<strong>March 30:</strong> The interior of a destroyed house in the village of Lukianivka.
<strong>March 30:</strong> People stand amid destroyed Russian military vehicles close to the central train station that was used as a Russian base in Trostyanets.
<strong>March 30:</strong> People in a car look at a destroyed Russian tank close to the central train station that was used as a Russian base in Trostyanets.
<strong>March 30:</strong> Volunteers help recipients in a Red Cross and local NGO's registration center for Internally Displaced People in Zaporizhzhia. The center helps people who managed to escape the war in eastern Ukraine with money, food and other supplies.
<strong>March 30:</strong> Ukrainian servicemen staff a checkpoint in Kyiv. Local officials reported fresh attacks on the outskirts of Kyiv despite Tuesday's announcement that Russia would "reduce military operations" around the capital. Ukraine and other countries regarded the announcement skeptically.
<strong>March 30:</strong> A man stands with his dog at the edge of a rocket crater in Boromlya. The town was recently recaptured by Ukrainian forces. Boromlya lies 40km south of Sumy, the regional capital, which has been heavily bombarded by Russian forces.
<strong>March 30:</strong> Cars marked with a "Z" used by Russian military are seen destroyed on a road on the outskirts of Trostyanets.
<strong>March 31:</strong> Ukrainian military members carry the caskets of three Ukrainian servicemen from the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul during their funerals in Lviv.
<strong>March 31:</strong> Olya Melnik comforts her baby, Nicks Melnik, while they rest at a temporary refugee center set up at the main train station in Lviv. Olya said she is trying to make it to Germany after fleeing Kyiv.
<strong>March 29:</strong> Residents look at a destroyed Russian tank close to the central train station that was used as a Russian base in Trostyanets.
<strong>March 29:</strong> Lina and Vlad, both volunteers, kiss each other at the registration center in Zaporizhzhia.
<strong>March 29:</strong> A Ukrainian serviceman walks near a damaged train in the northeastern city of Trostyanets.
<strong>March 29:</strong> Residents wait for food outside a church in the northeastern city of Trostyanets.
<strong>March 29:</strong> The volunteers of 'Palianytsia' café serve meals to visitors in Kyiv. The café provides free meals for the elderly.
<strong>March 29:</strong> People sit in a bomb shelter after an air raid siren sounded in Lviv.
<strong>March 30:</strong> Civilians evacuated from Irpin are brought to the center established in Kyiv's Sviatoshinski district. Civilians continue to be evacuated from Irpin, near Kyiv, amid ongoing Russian attacks on Ukraine.
<strong>March 30:</strong> People pray while air raid sirens sound outside the church they've found shelter in near an Israeli field hospital in Mostyska, Ukraine. The hospital, which can accommodate 150 patients, was established by the Israeli Ministry of Health, Sheba Medical Center, and teams from Israeli hospitals.
<strong>March 30:</strong> Nadia Stasishin hugs Dr. Mikhail Bazhmin after he's given her the news that her son, Yura Stasishin (left), would be okay after he experienced an epileptic seizure and found treatment at an Israeli field hospital in Mostyska, Ukraine.
<strong>March 29:</strong> Ukrainian servicemen stand next to the rubble of a destroyed building in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Trostyanets.
<strong>March 29: </strong>Residents collect food at a humanitarian aid station in Trostyanets.
<strong>March 29:</strong> A Ukrainian serviceman stands near a destroyed Russian tank in Trostyanets. | https://www.whqr.org/2022-03-26/photos-russian-forces-keep-up-attacks-in-kharkiv-and-kyiv-as-many-are-displaced | 2022-04-01T01:02:21Z |
This week, the Senate dedicated its time to hearing bills from the House side that representatives have deemed most important to consider this year, as these pieces of legislation all passed through the House side before Crossover Day.
Similarly, I am excited about the bills that have made it through the Senate and are now being carefully considered for voting by the House. The session is flying by with just over a week left until sine die, which will officially mark the end of our session on April 4. I anticipate that the Senate will hear even more bills and resolutions on this day than the 45-plus we heard on Crossover Day, and while this week has remained relatively calm and orderly with House bills considered in various committees, I feel the excitement piling up for the long hours that are to come in the next few days before our work is officially done.
On Tuesday, a House Bill — “Giving the Gift of Life Act” — also passed the Senate. Sometimes, a bill will pass in one chamber and the other will find ways to make changes or improvements. The result of such collaboration, House Bill 275, would encourage others to help save a life through organ donation by requiring that both full- and part-time employees are not denied life insurance because they have decided to donate and consequently need to miss work due to recovery time. It would also increase the existing income tax deduction from $10,000 to $25,000 for living donors and provide each employer giving paid leave to a donating employee with a maximum tax credit of $54,000.
House Bill 385 also passed through the Senate this week as a bill that would allow retired teachers to return to teaching in high-need areas without losing their retirement benefits. At a time where our state is facing a shortage of qualified teachers, this bill would encourage their service and devotion to our children while enabling them to receive benefits.
On Friday, we passed Senate Resolution 542 to recognize the first Tuesday of every March as Women Veteran’s Day, which I am thrilled about as both our service men and women deserve the utmost respect and most equal levels of recognition for their service to our state and nation. We shortly thereafter passed House Bill 1064, which would help military service members under 62 years of age by allowing them to exempt up to $17,500 of income taxes on qualified retirement income funds. With bordering states having this same tax incentive, this bill would encourage military service members to stay in Georgia.
To end the week, we passed the General Budget for the 2023 Fiscal Year through House Bill 911, which will account for more than $30 billion to fund Georgia’s state agencies. Included in this budget is a $5,000 pay raise for state employees and a $2,000 teacher pay raise. Investments in mental health, behavioral health, and maternity leave pay (with $83.4 million going toward funding a full year of postpartum coverage), reflect the hard work of a dedicated team of staff and legislators to create the most fiscally satisfying and responsible budget.
Other priorities include funds for a pilot program for high school foster children among provisions such as $3 million for foster care clothing allowance, $5 million in equipment and grants for nursing programs, and $1.2 million to apprenticeship programs designed to put students to work in high-demand fields.
I look forward to continuing to keep you updated in these last few days we convene as a Senate body, and I thank you for trusting me to represent District 13. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to my office. | https://www.albanyherald.com/opinion/carden-summers-calm-in-senate-expected-to-disappear-in-final-days-of-session/article_fa51229e-afbe-11ec-bac1-c73699b2d3d8.html | 2022-04-01T01:02:21Z |
President Joe Biden eliminated all men, white people, and minorities except blacks when he chose a nominee to sit on the Supreme Court. Now, we find out that hidden in Biden’s 2023 budget is dedicated to landing the first woman of color on the moon.
Bidenistas are insane. Everything is about race and manufactured genders. This is so blatantly against the Constitution. Yet, they get away with it.
Biden’s budget appropriates billions of dollars toward advancing “equity” in dozens of government agencies.
He’s infesting every government agency with Marxism and anti-white and anti-Asian racism. The Free Beacon outlined a few:
- 20 million goes to the Department of Transportation’s efforts “to promote equity and inclusion.” Inclusion is about gender.
- $400 million is budgeted for initiatives “that expand equitable inclusion in federal science and technology programs and the use of scientific and technological innovation to advance equitable outcomes.
- $600 million is earmarked for building “science and technology capacity in underserved institutions” such as historically black colleges and universities.
- $48 million is allocated for an “equitable National Park System” to enable the Department of the Interior to “expand operations at parks that preserve and tell the story of historically underrepresented and marginalized groups.” [They are going to rewrite history]
- $2.6 billion goes to the State Department to “advance gender equity.”
- $1.5 billion+ to the EPA to “advance racial equity and secure environmental justice for communities.
Democrats are abolishing our Constitution and the principles outlined in the Declaration of Independence. We are no longer created equal. Everything is about the Marxist concept of equity. It’s no longer a meritocracy. You can be a fool as long as you are an LGBTQIA or a minority they like (not Asian, of course).
We are becoming communists. In the USA, the land of equality, there is no equality, just equal outcomes regardless of merit. | https://www.independentsentinel.com/biden-budget-eliminates-whites-everywhere-including-from-the-moon/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:21Z |
Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay is notorious for his brutal criticism in the kitchen. Now we know where he might get it from.
In an Instagram video posted earlier this week, Ramsay, 55, offers his mother, Helen Cosgrove, a taste of what he just made.
“Mmmm,” he says.
Cosgrove dips her finger into the bowl and then makes a face. She is not a fan of whatever he's serving.
“Urgh!” she exclaims. “I don’t like that.”
The “Hell’s Kitchen” star shared the hilarious clip in honor of Mother’s Day, which is celebrated in March in the United Kingdom.
“You may not enjoy my toppings but I love you xxx,” Ramsay captioned the post.
“Hahaha now i understand everything,” one person wrote in the comments.
Added another, “Probably the only person that can get away with criticizing Gordon Ramsay’s food lol.”
Ramsay credits Cosgrove for his tirelss work ethic. When he was a child, he said, she worked as a cook, a cleaner and a night nurse.
“I grew up with my mum having three jobs,” he told the Scotsman earlier this year. “I grew up watching my mum work her arse off, and I grew up with the outmost respect for my mum.”
Ramsay and his wife, Tana Ramsay, share five children: Megan, 23, 22-year-old twins Jack and Holly, Tilly, 20, and Oscar, 2.
In 2017, Ramsay revealed that his kids won’t inherit his fortune.
“It’s definitely not going to them,” he told The Telegraph. “And that’s not in a mean way; it’s to not spoil them.”
Ramsay added that his kids fly coach on family trips, while he and Tana sit up at the front of the plane.
“At that age, at that size, you’re telling me they need to sit in first class? No, they do not. We’re really strict on that,” he said.
“I turn left with Tana and they turn right and I say to the chief stewardess, ‘Make sure those little f-----s don’t come anywhere near us; I want to sleep on this plane,'" he continued. "I worked my f-----g arse off to sit that close to the pilot and you appreciate it more when you’ve grafted for it.”
Related: | https://www.today.com/parents/parents/gordon-ramsays-mom-reacts-food-video-rcna22452 | 2022-04-01T01:02:21Z |
The make-up of who will sit on Rotorua's next council is in the hands of Parliament as the district's current council pushes for a law change for the district's electoral rules. But the composition the council is pushing for has been on a long journey from the governance model it first proposed, what it prefers and the stopgap model it agreed to. So how did we get here and what could happen next? Local Democracy Reporter Felix Desmarais breaks it all down.
The representation review
Representation reviews are a way for the public to review its representation arrangements and potentially change them. They're a six-yearly legislative requirement for councils.
Questions include how many elected members a council should have, and whether there are wards, or whether all elected members are elected at large – that is, not constricted by an electoral boundary.
For the past two elections, Rotorua Lakes Council had 10 councillors and a mayor, all elected at large. The council also has the Lakes Community Board and Rural Community Board with four members and a chairperson elected and one councillor appointed.
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Advertise with NZME.Representation reviews can change this, but there was a spanner in the works this time: the introduction of Māori wards.
When the council agreed to adopt a Māori ward on May 21, it changed the future structure of the council. Instead of electing all councillors at large, now at least one councillor had to be part of a ward.
The initial proposal
First, council officials considered eight representation models, and whittled them down to three, which were floated to the public during an "awareness phase" beginning on June 14 last year.
They were:
• Option one: Seven general ward councillors, three Māori ward councillors (7-3)
• Option two: Six general ward councillors, three Māori ward councillors and one councillor elected at large (6-3-1)
• Option three: Four general ward councillors, two Māori ward councillors and four councillors elected at large (4-2-4)
The council decided early on it would keep councillor numbers at 10.
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Advertise with NZME.All models would elect the mayor at large. Officials settled on option three as the initial proposal and presented it to councillors for approval.
Māori roll voters would be able to vote for six candidates, and general ward voters would be able to vote for eight.
On August 31 the council agreed to put the 4-2-4 model out for public consultation from September 8 until October 8.
The submissions
The council received 159 submissions on its initial proposal. In a response analysis provided to elected members, officials broke down percentages based on how many people responded to each question, rather than the overall number of submitters.
It stated 39 of 80 respondents identified equity or equality as an issue for consideration. Twenty-five of 55 responses favoured the 7-3 model, and 18 wanted a model with a Māori ward and a rural ward.
Two of 55 supported the council's initial proposal.
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Advertise with NZME.At the representation review hearing on October 19, some submitters, such as Federated Farmers, argued for a rural ward.
Others, such as Ngāti Whakaue's Ana Morrison said the hapū wanted iwi co-governance.
Te Tatau O Te Arawa chairman Te Taru White told the council at the hearing co-governance was "always on the table" but in the meantime, Te Arawa whānui wanted three guaranteed Māori ward seats.
Other submitters said the proposed structure was undemocratic, favoured Māori and created "fake" at large wards.
After the hearing, a closed-door workshop was held, where elected members discussed the submissions and hearing feedback and directed council officials on its next steps.
The 'interim' model and the 'preferred' model
In a report prepared for the November 16 Strategy, Policy and Finance Committee meeting, council district leadership and democracy deputy chief executive Oonagh Hopkins pointed out a lack of "parity" with the initial proposal – the 4-2-4 model - for Māori roll voters, as they would only be able to vote for six candidates while general roll voters could select eight.
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Advertise with NZME."This outcome may be seen as unfair to Māori, as it reduces the influence [of] those voters on the Māori ward roll ... which is contrary to the concept of parity."
Hopkins' report also identified themes from the submissions and hearing, including the concept of equality and equity, iwi/Māori co-governance aspirations, the Treaty of Waitangi and equal suffrage.
It also discussed the role of the Rotorua Township (Fenton) Agreement, with Ngāti Whakaue gifting land for the original township in the spirit of reciprocity and the "bicultural intent of the agreement as an equal relationship".
With that in mind, she said the council's new preferred model was one with three Māori ward seats, three general ward seats and four at large seats – 3-3-4.
It allowed voters on both wards the same number of seats to influence and equalised the number of Māori ward and general ward seats.
However, the model was unlawful under the Local Electoral Act as the law has a strict formula that limits the number of Māori ward seats based on population sizes.
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Advertise with NZME.There were 21,700 people on the Māori roll and 55,600 people on the general roll in Rotorua, her report said.
As a workaround, council officials devised a new, "interim" model: one Māori ward seat, one general ward seat and eight at large seats.
"The implications of this spilt, is that it does not deliver a significant number of Māori ward councillors ... but it does achieve parity," Hopkins' report said.
"Staff acknowledge that this option is not [the] council's preferred outcome, and will continue to seek legal remedies to achieve the preferred 3-3-4 representation model."
The committee agreed – narrowly - to recommend the council adopt the interim model, after a split vote that was broken by chairwoman Merepeka Raukawa-Tait's casting vote.
The local bill
At the council meeting later the same week, the recommendation was trumped by a five-part motion introduced by councillor Mercia Yates. Some parts had sub-parts.
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Advertise with NZME.The motion:
• Confirmed the council's commitment to a Māori ward;
• Stated the council's commitment to voter "parity";
• Affirmed the role of the Rotorua Township (Fenton) Agreement and the principles of te Tiriti o Waitangi in Rotorua's electoral system;
• Agreed the preferred model as 3-3-4;
• Noted that model was unlawful and instructed the chief executive to pursue statutory reforms to enable it as soon as possible;
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Advertise with NZME.• Adopted the interim – 1-1-8 – model; and
• Stated the interim model fell short of the preferred model but achieved "voter parity".
All parts were carried with a division noted only on the last. Councillors Reynold Macpherson, Peter Bentley, Tania Tapsell, Raj Kumar and Sandra Kai Fong voted against it.
The pursuit of a law change to enable the preferred model resulted in the drafting of the Rotorua District Council (Representation Arrangements) Bill.
Rotorua-based Labour list MP Tāmati Coffey is the bill's sponsor. It seeks an exemption from the Local Electoral Act's requirements preventing the 3-3-4 model.
If the bill becomes law before June 1, the 3-3-4 model will replace the 1-1-8 model.
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Advertise with NZME.While Rotorua mayor Steve Chadwick indicated with a public comment on March 23 the bill may or may not go through a select committee process, a council statement on March 2 said it would.
It was publicly notified and now awaits introduction to Parliament for its first reading and referral to the select committee. The select committee then prepares a report and makes recommendations to Parliament, including possible changes to the bill.
The bill is then read a second and third time – with votes to pass or block the bill from becoming law.
If the bill passes its third reading, it must receive royal assent via the Governor-General – generally considered a symbolic process – then it becomes law.
The law change would apply to at least the next two local elections following its passing.
So far, pursuing the law change has cost the council $46,500 in legal fees.
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Advertise with NZME.The appeals
While the council pursues the law change to enable the preferred model, to all intents and purposes, the interim model is the one that will be implemented in this year's local election.
However, all representation review decisions are able to be appealed by submitters to the Local Government Commission, and the council received 12. The commission can overturn the council's decision.
Hearings for the appellants were held over Zoom on March 23, and the commission's decision on Rotorua's governance arrangements is due by April 10. If the local bill fails to pass through Parliament before June 1, that will be the final representation arrangement for at least the next election – a postal ballot which will close on October 8 this year.
Timeline
May 21, 2021 - Rotorua Lakes Council adopts Māori wards
June 14, 2021 - The council's representation review "awareness phase" floats three representation models
August 31, 2021 - The council adopts its initial proposal (4-2-4) for public consultation
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Advertise with NZME.September 8 – October 8, 2021 - The representation review consultation period
October 18, 2021 - A hearing for representation review submitters
Between October 18 and November 16, 2021 - A closed door workshop on the representation review
November 16, 2021 - At a committee meeting, officials publicly reveal the council's preferred model (3-3-4), that it is unlawful, and offer an interim model (1-1-8)
November 19, 2021 – The council decides to adopt the interim model (1-1-8) and pursue a law change to achieve the preferred model (3-3-4)
March 2 – 23, 2022 – The Rotorua District Council (Representation Arrangements) Bill is publicly notified
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After four seasons of Yellowstone, it can be hard to remember some of the drama the Dutton family has faced on the popular Paramount Network series. John Dutton and his adult children have fought hard against every adversary who comes their way to protect the legacy of their massive empire, regardless of the cost. There have been numerous villains we have met along the way and while some flip flop to John's side like Chief Rainwater, others meet a nasty fate at the hands of Rip or Kayce. It's one of the best modern westerns to hit our TV screens maybe ever which is probably why it's developed such a passionate fan base.
Because every juicy detail is important to remember, we've compiled a timeline of all of the most worthwhile moments by season. Not everyone has time to rewatch four seasons of a TV show as a refresher, so this master list will make sure all fans out there feel fully prepared for the upcoming season 5. While certainly not every detail is captured in this list, it's a helpful overview of some of the most important things that happened season by season. Buckle up!
Season 1
- The new Chief of Broken Rock Reservation, Thomas Rainwater, makes it known that he is coming for John Dutton's land that he took from his people. It's established that the Duttons have the biggest ranch in the country, bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
- Developer Dan Jenkins comes to town wanting to build a massive subdivision.
- All four Dutton children return home and John Dutton makes it clear to Kayce that he wants to get to know his grandson.
- A fight for stolen cattle turns deadly. The Duttons, with the help of livestock agents, attempt to reclaim their cattle that were stolen by Broken Rock in the dark of night. Eldest son Lee Dutton gets killed by Kayce's brother-in-law who Kayce immediately kills as well.
- Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler, head ranchhand at the Yellowstone, reconnect after years apart. They were teenage lovers and it seems like the time didn't change the way they felt about each other.
- After years away in the military and living on the reservation with his family, Kayce starts to spend more time at the Yellowstone and Rip isn't a fan.
- As a favor to a friend (Jimmy's grandfather), John Dutton brings the lovable criminal (who can't ride a horse) Jimmy Hurdstrom to work on the ranch under Rip. He gets branded with the Yellowstone 'Y' just like Rip, Lloyd, and Kayce.
- After having to take one of their ranch hands to the "train station" for fighting Jimmy (i.e. he was killed), Rip picks up a replacement at the nearest prison. Walker. Since Walker is a criminal, he also gets the Yellowstone brand but immediately ignites frustration in Rip because he doesn't want to do some of the more colorful things requested of him to protect the ranch.
- Jamie tries to run for attorney general but John has too much going on because he's got cancer so he makes him drop out of the race causing an immediate rift in their relationship.
- Beth is named beneficiary for the ranch's new trust and Jamie is taken off the payroll.
- Monica gets seriously injured trying to break up a fight at her teaching job on the reservation. After passing out at home afterward, she ends up needing emergency surgery. She also decides that in order to best protect Tate, she needs to keep him away from Kayce and John Dutton.
- A reporter shows up in town sniffing around the Dutton ranch, wanting to bring down the empire.
- Rip, Lloyd, Kayce, and Jimmy hang Dan Jenkins from a tree, getting him to admit he had tried to kill John Dutton in order to obtain his property for his development.
Watch a 10 min recap here.
Season 2
- Apparently, John didn't have Dan Jenkins killed but tried to scare him to leave town after hanging him from that tree at the end of the first season. Instead of running for the hills, Dan partners up with Chief Rainwater to try and build a casino right up against the Yellowstone land.
- We meet the Beck Brothers who don't want to see that casino built. They try getting John Dutton to work with them but he declines.
- Turns out John doesn't have colon cancer as he thought. He had an ulcer that ruptures while he was out on the ranch. He gets rushed to the hospital in a helicopter and ends up pulling through.
- Kayce decides he wants to be a Dutton again to have something to leave his son. He also doesn't have many choices since Monica left him. John puts him in charge of the ranch (making Rip step down) and makes him a livestock agent.
- Monica is going to physical therapy, living in an apartment with Tate on the university campus where she got a new teaching job.
- Someone kills a large number of the Dutton cattle. Initially, they think it was Dan Jenkins, but it was actually the Beck Brothers who are mad that John didn't join their fight against Jenkins and the Broken Rock casino.
- Jamie gives an interview to the reporter trying to bring down his father's empire. He gives all the dirty details.
- After confessing to the interview with Beth and John, Jamie kills the reporter in frustration, and Rip and Walker help him cover up the death by looking like a kayaking death.
- Walker wants to leave because he doesn't want to keep up with the criminal behavior required to maintain the Yellowstone so Rip wants to take him to the "train station." Kayce offers to take him instead and ends up letting him live with the promise that he won't come back to the ranch or spill any of their secrets.
- Jamie comes to work on the ranch for Kayce as a way back in with the family.
- The Beck brothers send two hitmen to Beth's office. They kill her assistant and hurt her pretty bad before Rip shows up and saves her life. It's also his first official "I love you."
- John writes Rip into his trust and gives him a house on the property.
- John, Chief Rainwater, and Dan Jenkins form a temporary partnership with the common enemy of the Beck brothers but Jenkins gets killed.
- The Becks hire the local militia to kidnap Tate as a way to get at John but the Yellowstone crew is able to rescue him and take out both Beck brothers in the process.
Watch a 10 min recap here.
Season 3
- Tate is having trouble recovering from the trauma of his kidnapping so Monica asks John to take him along with the rest of the ranch hands on an overnight camping trip. It does the trick and Monica and Kayce seem like they are finally in a good place.
- John has to resign as livestock commissioner after using his resources to eliminate the Beck brothers and rescue Tate. He prepares to name Jamie his successor.
- A firm called Market Equities has purchased all of the land that Dan Jenkins had. Beth discovers they plan on turning the property into an airport.
- The governor decides to name Jamie interim Attorney General of the state of Montana and Kayce the new Livestock Commissioner. Kayce immediately becomes a hit with the local ranchers helping them protect their property from thieves.
- Willa Hayes of Market Equities offers Jamie $500 million for the Dutton property. He's interested.
- Rip hires a new female ranch hand named Teeter, who immediately sets her sites on Colby.
- Jimmy makes his rodeo debut and the Duttons and bunkhouse boys all go watch his first event. He also meets a new love interest, a barrel racer named Mia.
- Jimmy ends up in the hospital and John Dutton tells him that he will pay for his recovery if he promises not to rodeo again. Mia threatens to leave him if he doesn't continue with the rodeo so he gets back on a horse to try and ends up face down in the dirt, not moving.
- John gives his blessing for Beth and Rip to tie the knot and they are officially engaged. Rip even signs on Lloyd to be his best man.
- Rip and Lloyd discover Kayce didn't kill Walker and drag him back to the ranch.
- We find out that Beth hates Jamie so much because when she became pregnant as a teen, he took her to a clinic on the reservation that required sterilization in order to complete an abortion. Beth tells John about it and it causes yet another rift between him and Jamie.
- John reveals to Beth that the last promise he made his father was that he would never sell their land. He would rather lose it than break his promise by accepting the offer Market Equities made.
- Monica goes undercover on the reservation to help catch a serial killer. She succeeds and the reservation police take him out just in time.
- Jamie discovers he was adopted and connects with his birth father, Garrett Randall.
- On behalf of Market Equities, Roarke Morris hires an old adversary of John's, Wade Morrow, to terrorize the ranch and he even attacks Colby and Teeter. As a result, the bunkhouse takes him out and all accept the Yellowstone brand for their loyalty.
- Jamie tries to sell the Yellowstone as the acting legal authority without realizing John changed it to be Beth.
- A bomb is delivered to Beth's office, John is shot on the side of the highway, and armed shooters attack Kayce in his office.
Watch a 17 min recap here.
Season 4
- Rip takes out Roarke Morris. Beth is angry about being fired after Market Equities took control of her company Schwartz & Meyer. She takes a job at Market Equities in exchange for controlling stakes in Schwartz & Meyer and promptly fires her old boss Bob who didn't stick up for her.
- John is in a coma at the hospital after getting shot but pulls through and has a steady recovery process back home.
- Jimmy is sent by John down to a ranch in Texas to "become a man." As a result, his relationship with Mia ends.
- Beth brings a teenage orphan home named Carter. He reminds her of a young Rip and in a way, becomes part of her and Rip's family even though he's technically a Yellowstone employee.
- Jamie moves onto his own ranch and his birth father brings home his estranged girlfriend and former campaign manager Christina with whom he had a baby. She is ready to get back with him if he is really done with John Dutton.
- We learn that a former prison inmate of Garrett Randall was behind the hit on the Duttons at the end of season 3. Randall wants to help Jamie run for governor so John decides to run against him.
- A rift forms between Lloyd and Walker. Walker is back on the ranch and romantically involved with the barrel racer Laramie who was with Lloyd in season 3. Lloyd picks multiple fights with him throughout the season that almost get him kicked off the ranch.
- John meets an animal rights activist named Summer Higgins who protests outside the livestock commissioner's office. Without his knowledge, Beth recruits her to protest at the Market Equities airport construction site.
- Beth and Rip get married after she visits the local prison to figure out who was behind the attacks on her family.
- Summer Higgins gets arrested at the protest with a pretty horrible prison sentence. John calls in a favor with the judge on her behalf.
- Jimmy meets a new girlfriend in Texas and brings her back up to the Yellowstone where she gets in a fight with Mia. New girlfriend Emily wins.
- New Market Equities CEO Caroline Warner realizes Beth has been working against them behind the scenes and fires her.
- Monica, Tate, and Kayce move back to the reservation and Monica reveals she's pregnant. Kayce has a vision that reveals "the end" of him and Monica.
- Beth blackmails Jamie into killing his birth father for plotting the hits on the Dutton family.
(currently waiting on a season 4 video recap from Yellowstone's YouTube page!)
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A number of firms have modified their ratings and price targets on shares of Nutrien (NYSE: NTR) recently:
- 3/31/2022 – Nutrien had its price target raised by analysts at TD Securities from $91.00 to $125.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.
- 3/28/2022 – Nutrien was downgraded by analysts at Scotiabank from a “sector outperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating.
- 3/25/2022 – Nutrien was given a new $120.00 price target on by analysts at Berenberg Bank.
- 3/22/2022 – Nutrien had its price target raised by analysts at Citigroup Inc. from $89.00 to $126.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.
- 3/17/2022 – Nutrien had its price target raised by analysts at Raymond James from $95.00 to $105.00. They now have an “outperform” rating on the stock.
- 3/17/2022 – Nutrien had its price target raised by analysts at Morgan Stanley from $75.00 to $100.00. They now have an “equal weight” rating on the stock.
- 3/16/2022 – Nutrien had its price target raised by analysts at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. from $85.00 to $121.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.
- 3/7/2022 – Nutrien was upgraded by analysts at Piper Sandler from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating. They now have a $112.00 price target on the stock, up previously from $87.00.
- 3/7/2022 – Nutrien was given a new $120.00 price target on by analysts at Royal Bank of Canada.
- 3/4/2022 – Nutrien was given a new $95.00 price target on by analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co..
- 3/1/2022 – Nutrien had its price target raised by analysts at Stifel Nicolaus from $85.00 to $100.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.
- 2/28/2022 – Nutrien was given a new $94.00 price target on by analysts at UBS Group AG.
- 2/28/2022 – Nutrien had its price target raised by analysts at Piper Sandler from $80.00 to $87.00.
- 2/22/2022 – Nutrien had its price target raised by analysts at Royal Bank of Canada from $85.00 to $90.00. They now have an “outperform” rating on the stock.
- 2/22/2022 – Nutrien was given a new $95.00 price target on by analysts at Raymond James. They now have an “outperform” rating on the stock.
- 2/18/2022 – Nutrien had its price target raised by analysts at Barclays PLC from $84.00 to $92.00. They now have an “overweight” rating on the stock.
- 2/18/2022 – Nutrien was upgraded by analysts at Atlantic Securities from an “underweight” rating to a “neutral” rating. They now have a $79.00 price target on the stock, up previously from $68.00.
- 2/18/2022 – Nutrien had its price target raised by analysts at Scotiabank from $80.00 to $90.00.
- 2/18/2022 – Nutrien had its price target raised by analysts at Citigroup Inc. from $84.00 to $89.00.
- 2/18/2022 – Nutrien was given a new $90.00 price target on by analysts at Berenberg Bank.
- 2/16/2022 – Nutrien was given a new $95.00 price target on by analysts at Raymond James. They now have an “outperform” rating on the stock.
- 2/15/2022 – Nutrien had its price target raised by analysts at Mizuho from $75.00 to $87.00. They now have a “neutral” rating on the stock.
Shares of NYSE:NTR traded up $1.93 on Thursday, reaching $103.99. 3,682,952 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 4,118,439. The company has a current ratio of 1.11, a quick ratio of 0.60 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32. The company has a market capitalization of $57.33 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.84, a PEG ratio of 1.04 and a beta of 0.85. The company has a fifty day moving average of $85.58 and a 200-day moving average of $74.98. Nutrien Ltd. has a twelve month low of $52.28 and a twelve month high of $108.84.
Nutrien (NYSE:NTR – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 16th. The company reported $2.47 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $2.30 by $0.17. The business had revenue of $7.07 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $6.53 billion. Nutrien had a net margin of 11.38% and a return on equity of 15.31%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 83.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.24 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that Nutrien Ltd. will post 12.86 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Large investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Van Strum & Towne Inc. raised its stake in shares of Nutrien by 1.2% during the fourth quarter. Van Strum & Towne Inc. now owns 11,846 shares of the company’s stock valued at $891,000 after acquiring an additional 136 shares during the last quarter. Argent Trust Co raised its stake in shares of Nutrien by 2.2% during the fourth quarter. Argent Trust Co now owns 6,381 shares of the company’s stock valued at $480,000 after acquiring an additional 137 shares during the last quarter. AE Wealth Management LLC raised its stake in shares of Nutrien by 2.9% during the third quarter. AE Wealth Management LLC now owns 4,888 shares of the company’s stock valued at $317,000 after acquiring an additional 140 shares during the last quarter. Northern Oak Wealth Management Inc. raised its stake in shares of Nutrien by 57.4% during the fourth quarter. Northern Oak Wealth Management Inc. now owns 417 shares of the company’s stock valued at $31,000 after acquiring an additional 152 shares during the last quarter. Finally, V Wealth Advisors LLC raised its stake in shares of Nutrien by 4.5% during the fourth quarter. V Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 3,703 shares of the company’s stock valued at $278,000 after acquiring an additional 158 shares during the last quarter. 64.94% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Nutrien Ltd. is a crop nutrient company, which engages in the production and distribution of products for agricultural, industrial, and feed customer. It operates through the following segments: Retail, Potash, Nitrogen, and Phosphate. The Retail segment distributes crop nutrients, crop protection products, seed, and merchandise.
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Former President Trump senior adviser Jared Kushner provided "helpful" information to the Democratic-led House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a member of the panel said.
Kushner, married to Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, who was also a senior adviser, is the most high profile member of Trump's inner circle known to have appeared before the committee.
He voluntarily appeared for a remote interview that started at 10 a.m. and lasted at least into the early afternoon hours, several sources familiar with the committee's work said.
Kushner's meeting came two months after the panel asked Ivanka Trump to voluntarily appear before the committee. Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said Ivanka Trump and the committee are engaged in conversations, but no final plan has been reached on her appearance.
"The expectation is that it will take place, as to when I can't tell you right now, I know we are engaging her as a committee," Thompson said on Wednesday.
Virginia Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria told NPR the conversation with Kushner was "helpful." She told MSNBC that Kushner was able to substantiate information and provide his own take on different reports on the Jan. 6 attack.
Luria said it's valuable to hear firsthand accounts from witnesses such as Kushner directly.
"I think that the committee really appreciates hearing information directly from people who have relevant facts about January 6, and the fact that Jared Kushner came as a witness is helpful to building the story of our investigation," Luria said.
One source familiar with the committee's discussions but unable to speak on the record said there were details that Kushner couldn't remember but the source noted that like other witnesses, it has been more than a year since the attack on the Capitol and it is not uncommon for some to not recall some specifics.
Kushner was traveling back from Saudi Arabia on Jan. 6, 2021, but Thompson said he believes that he could help the committee understand more about the events that led up to that day.
"We think because he was an integral part of the administration, it's, I think, important for us to find out if he knew anything about the planning before January 6 and to get it from him," Thompson said.
Thompson, who was not at House votes on Thursday and voted by proxy, had said a day earlier if Kushner's interview went well, the panel would ask for additional communication details, such as call and text message records.
Thompson had previously waved off interest in Kushner but said the committee's staff has continued to reach out to potential witnesses.
"We have an excellent staff, and staff has been actively engaging a number of witnesses, including individuals or their attorneys and Kushner's attorney will be the same," Thompson told NPR on Wednesday.
The White House on Wednesday said it had waived executive privilege claims for Kushner and Ivanka Trump, allowing them to share certain details with the panel.
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#HAM4HAM Lottery Announced for HAMILTON in Portland
A limited number of tickets will be available for every performance for $10 each.
Producer Jeffrey Seller and Broadway in Portland announced a digital lottery for HAMILTON tickets that will begin in conjunction with the show's first performance on Wednesday, April 13 in Portland at Keller Auditorium. A limited number of tickets will be available for every performance for $10 each. The lottery will first open at 10:00 AM Friday, April 1 and will close at 12:00 PM Thursday, April 7 for tickets to performances from April 13 - 16. Subsequent digital lotteries will begin on each Friday and close the following Thursday for the upcoming week's performances.
HOW TO ENTER
- Use the official app for HAMILTON, now available for all iOS and Android devices in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store (http://hamiltonmusical.com/app).
- The lottery will open at 10:00 AM every Friday and will close for entry at 12:00 PM the next Thursday prior to the following week's performances.
- Winner and non-winner notifications will be sent between 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM every Thursday for the upcoming week's performances via email and mobile push notification. Winners will have two hours to claim and pay for their ticket(s).
- No purchase or payment necessary to enter or participate.
- Each winning entrant may purchase up to two (2) tickets.
- Only one entry per person. Repeat entries and disposable email addresses will be discarded.
- Lottery tickets may be picked up at will call beginning 2 hours prior to the performance with a valid photo ID.
- Lottery tickets void if resold.
- All times listed are in the local time zone.
ADDITIONAL RULES
Patrons must be 18 years or older and have a valid, non-expired photo ID that matches the name used to enter. Tickets are non-transferable. Ticket limits and prices displayed are at the sole discretion of the show and are subject to change without notice.
Lottery prices are not valid on prior purchases. Lottery ticket offer cannot be combined with any other offers or promotions. All sales final - no refunds or exchanges. Lottery may be revoked or modified at any time without notice. A purchase will not improve the chances of winning.
Tickets for HAMILTON are currently on sale. Patrons are advised to check the official HAMILTON channels and www.BroadwayinPortland.com for late release seats which may become available at short notice.
HAMILTON is the story of America then, told by America now. Featuringa?? a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway, HAMILTON has taken the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in theatre-a musical that has had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education.
With book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, and musical supervision and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, HAMILTON is based on Ron Chernow's acclaimed biography. It has won Tonya??®a??, Grammya??®a??, and Olivier Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and an unprecedented special citation from the Kennedy Center Honors.
The HAMILTON creative team previously collaborated on the Tony Award® Winning Best Musical IN THE HEIGHTS.
HAMILTON features scenic design by David Korins, costume design by Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Howell Binkley, sound design by Nevin Steinberg, hair and wig design by Charles G. LaPointe, casting by The Telsey Office, Bethany Knox, CSA, and General Management by Baseline Theatrical.
The musical is produced by Jeffrey Seller, Sander Jacobs, Jill Furman and The Public Theater.
The HAMILTON Original Broadway Cast Recording is available everywhere nationwide. The HAMILTON recording received a 2016 Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album.
COVID-19 Health and Safety Update - Vaccine and Mask Requirements Remain:
In an effort to protect the health and wellbeing of Broadway in Portland patrons, artists and staff, proof of full vaccination with an FDA or WHO authorized vaccine will be required for entry for all performances.
Patrons unable to be vaccinated will be required to show proof of a negative Covid PCR test taken within 72 hours prior to the performance or a negative COVID-19 antigen test taken within 24 hours prior to the performance.
Guests unable to be vaccinated due to a medical condition or a closely held religious belief, and children under 12 will be required to show proof of a negative Covid test within 72 hours prior to the performance, or a negative COVID-19 antigen test taken within 24 hours prior to the performance. At-home tests will not be accepted.
Staff will check for proof of vaccination and/or negative Covid tests at the doors as a condition of entry. Additionally, guests will need to provide photo ID that matches the name on the proof of vaccination. Children without photo ID will need to be accompanied by an adult. Acceptable forms of proof include: CDC or WHO vaccination card, a photocopy of the card or a photo of the card on a mobile device. Cardholders must be at least two weeks past receiving their second dose in a two-dose series (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna), or a single-dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
A number of additional safety protocols will be in place in Keller Auditorium include including digital ticketing, rigorous cleaning and disinfection practices, hand sanitation stations and the use of MERV 13 filters for increased filtration.
Masks will be required for all patrons and staff (regardless of vaccination status), except while actively eating or drinking.
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The counting is over in the second union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. But it's too close to call.
There were 993 "no" votes and 875 "yes" votes, but more than 400 contested ballots remain. According to the National Labor Relations Board, there will be a hearing within a few weeks to decide if any of the challenged ballots will be opened and counted.
More than 6,100 workers were eligible to vote in the do-over election, which was ordered after the NLRB found that Amazon had improperly interfered in last year's tally.
Turnout in this year's vote was down from last year when over half of eligible voters cast ballots. But among those who actually voted this time around, there was greater support for the union. Last year, workers voted more than 2-to-1 against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a well-established national union.
"This time around we were able to educate more about unions," said Jennifer Bates, a warehouse employee, noting that organizers were able to get closer to workers now that the pandemic has eased.
The RWDSU called for every vote to be counted.
"The tenacity and courage of these workers never wavered in this unnecessarily long process," said RWDSU president Stuart Appelbaum in a statement. "Workers will have to wait just a little bit longer to ensure their voices are heard."
Meanwhile in a separate Amazon union election on Staten Island in New York, the vote count will continue Friday morning. Roughly 8,000 workers were eligible to vote on whether to join the Amazon Labor Union, an upstart organization led by former and current Amazon warehouse employees. With ballots still to count, the union is in the lead, with 1,518 voting yes so far, and 1,154 voting no.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert said investigations into allegations of major violations against several high-profile men's college basketball programs — including 2022 Final Four participant Kansas — have taken “way too long.”
What solutions might be on the table to speed it up, Emmert did not say, but there appears to be increasing acknowledgement that the current process is broken.
“It’s just been really slow in getting through that new independent process that’s wound up reinvestigating the entire case,” Emmert said, referring to the Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP).
The IARP was created out of proposals from the commission led by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2018 to reform the sport. It began looking into allegations against Kansas, Arizona, LSU, Louisville and North Carolina State on the heels of a federal investigation into corruption in college sports that resulted in convictions of shoe company executives, a middle man who worked with them and some assistant college coaches.
Of those FBI cases nearly five years ago, only one -- North Carolina State, tied to its recruitment of one-and-done star Dennis Smith Jr. -- has actually gone through the IARP system to completion and received a ruling that resulted in probation for one year, some vacated victories and penalties for previous coaches.
The four other cases are still pending in the IARP structure, while Auburn went through the more traditional process and received four years of probation in December from an NCAA infractions committee panel.
In the meantime, this year's NCAA Tournament could be tainted should Kansas win the national championship and subsequently have an unfavorable decision come down in a now half-decade-old investigation.
Created to handle complex cases, the IARP includes independent investigators and decision-makers with no direct ties to NCAA member schools, and rulings cannot be appealed.
Emmert said NCAA institutions need to come up with a process that has “got to be fair. It’s got to be swift. And it’s got to not punish the innocent. ... That’s where the membership’s got to be in all of this, as they shape a new process or rebuild the one that’s in place.”
The Kansas case hinges on whether Adidas representatives were considered boosters — the school contends they were not — when two of them arranged payments to prospective recruits. Kansas does not dispute the payments. Kansas asked for referral to the IARP instead of having the NCAA's infractions committee handle the matter.
While the lengthy IARP process has been going on, Self agreed to a new contract on April 2, 2021, that will keep him with the school until he retires.
The five-year deal adds one additional year after the conclusion of each season — in effect, making it a lifetime contract. It guarantees him $5.41 million per year with a base salary of $225,000, professional services contract of $2.75 million and an annual $2.435 million retention bonus.
The contact also includes a clause that says the school cannot terminate him for cause “due to any current infractions matter that involves conduct that occurred on or prior to” the signing of the new contract. Instead, he would forfeit half of his base salary and professional services pay while serving any Big 12 or NCAA suspension.
Emmert declined to weigh on on Kansas' decision to double down on Self.
“I’ll leave it to the school to make decisions about their coaches’ contracts,” said Emmert, who also spoke at the women's Final Four on Wednesday. “That’s their business, obviously. They can do that as they see fit.”
The infractions process has also come up with the Division I Transformation Committee, which is working to recommend ways to modernize and reform NCAA governance and regulatory policies.
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey, who chairs the committee along with Ohio athletics director Julie Cromer, said the group is looking at both the overall infractions process and the IARP structure as part of its work.
“I don’t know fully what was envisioned and what wasn’t envisioned,” said Sankey, who has served on the NCAA infractions committee. “But we have to have timely outcomes, both for those accused and for those competing against those who are accused. That has to be a point of emphasis.”
Later, Sankey added: “I was on an implementation working group, and I disagreed with elements of the approach. So I think some of these problems were foreseeable. We have an opportunity to correct and enhance the process. That doesn’t mean everybody will like the process.”
Among other topics Emmert addressed:
NATIONAL NIL RULES
Emmert offered an urgent plea to Congress to craft what he said was needed, uniform national legislation governing financial endorsements for athletes know known as name, image and likeness (NIL) deals.
“This tournament’s put on full display the beauty of college sport,” Emmert said. "People love it and enjoy it, and we’ve got to work with the schools and with Congress to make sure we can continue that.
“We’ve got again a relatively short window of time — in my estimate, one and two years,” Emmert continued. “These decisions have to be made because of the dynamics that are underway right now that are far beyond the control of schools, coaches, (athletic directors) or presidents.”
Currently, more than 30 states have been working on their own NIL laws.
TRANSGENDER LEGISLATION
With a number of states considering or passing legislation restricting participation of transgender athletes, Emmert was asked whether the NCAA would bar those states from hosting championship events.
The NCAA has largely followed the Olympic model that allows transgender athletes to compete if they've had certain biomedical treatments, including hormone therapies, meant to promote fairness.
Emmert said the NCAA currently requires communities which wish to host events “to explain how it is that they’re going to make sure that the participants in that sport will be allowed to do that in a nondiscriminatory way. ... If they can do that, then we’ll be in those states."
TRANFER RULES
Emmert said the current transfer rules continue to draw a lot of scrutiny and complaints from coaches and could be adjusted over time.
“The only thing that I can say right now is that it’s clear that students are getting more opportunities to play. They’re getting more freedom of movement in some respects,” Emmert said.
But he added that officials are keeping an eye on how the rules affect “students being able to finish their degrees in a timely fashion and go on and lead productive lives, because we know how few of them will be professional basketball players. It’s a constant point of discussion. I don’t anticipate it going away too soon.”
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AP Sports Writers Aaron Beard, Dave Skretta and John Marshall contributed to this report.
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So, it looks like the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is finally trying to rid itself of the sexual predators that have been darkening its prestigious hallways for years, decades and generations. On Tuesday, the academy made its decision to expel director Roman Polanski and the purveyor of pills, poundcake propaganda, and predatory behavior, Bill Cosby.
According to Deadline, academy board members voted during a Tuesday night meeting “in accordance with the organization’s Standards of Conduct,” according to a statement released Thursday announcing the news.
“The Board continues to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy’s values of respect for human dignity,” the statement read.
So, let’s just be real about one thing. This is some of the most Johnny come lately news in tardy to the predator party history.
Like, OK—I’ll give you Cosby. Sure he’s got enough rape and sexual assault convictions throughout his career to fill the stadium at an R Kelly concert. But he wasn’t convicted of anything for decades and then when he finally was, he was later un-convicted. One can understand the academy can’t just be expelling folks all willy-nilly despite said folks putting their willy where it wasn’t wanted if it wasn’t legally proven.
But Polanski, my guy?
As Deadline noted: “Polanski pleaded guilty in the late 1970s to five charges stemming from having sex with then-minor Samantha Gailey. He spent 42 days behind bars in 1978 but fled to France and has lived in exile ever since.”
So, it took 40 some odd years for the academy to say, “You know, maybe it’s time to give Polanski the boot.”
Maybe if Polanski or Cosby slapped their victims across the face on the academy’s Oscars stage like Will Smith did Chris Rock there would have been swifter action. (Not that the actions are anywhere near comparable. I’m just saying Will got in one little fight and the academy got scared. It should have that same energy for victims of powerful predators as well.)
To be fair, the academy recently updated its code of conduct. So now, if a member’s misconduct is deemed serious enough, it is referred to the board of governors, which is the only body that “can make the final determination on whether to suspend or expel a member.” Who knew the movie academy was so serious it had a government-style chain of command?
Also, according to the code, an expelled member member “shall be entitled to appeal the decision, within 10 business days, in writing to the Boar and c/o the Academy’s President or Secretary.”
Deadline reported that last October, there was a special emergency meeting during which a decision was made to expel Harvey Weinstein.
So yeah, they’re cleaning house. One can only wonder who’s next.
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Rent relief helped prevent more than 1 million evictions in 2021
The federal government's emergency rental assistance program helped prevent more than one million evictions last year.
An estimated 1.36 million renters avoided an eviction filing in 2021 as a result of the government's unprecedented $46.5 billion rent relief program and other protections, according to a recent analysis by Princeton University's Eviction Lab published earlier this month.
Treasury officials reported Wednesday that $30 billion in emergency rent relief was spent or obligated by the end of February. Despite a slow and confusing initial roll out of the program last spring, more than 4.7 million payments were made to households since January 2021.
Treasury expects the remainder of the funds to be exhausted by the middle of this year.
Impact of the assistance
A national eviction ban was put in place in September 2020. While it did not stop all evictions, it significantly slowed the tide of eviction filings until the emergency aid could reach struggling renters and their landlords, White House and Department of Treasury officials said.
"We knew from the start that we faced a race with time to get the emergency rental assistance flowing to a significant degree by the time the national eviction moratorium was lifted," said Gene Sperling, the White House American Rescue Plan coordinator. "We largely won that race."
In the six states and 31 cities tracked by the Eviction Lab researchers, eviction filings fell sharply at the onset of the pandemic, but then increased in the later months of 2020 even with the ban in place. Given the increased number of renters experiencing economic hardship as the pandemic continued into 2021, experts worried about a "tsunami" of evictions and anticipated the number of filings to skyrocket above levels seen in 2019.
But the opposite happened. In a typical year, roughly 865,000 eviction cases were filed in the areas the Eviction Lab tracks. In 2021, roughly half as many evictions were filed, with 434,304 cases.
Evictions fell in all but one of the 31 cities tracked in 2021. The outlier was Las Vegas, where jobs in tourism evaporated, adversely impacting the large number of renters in the city's service sector, according to the report. New York City had the biggest reduction in eviction filings from typical levels, with the report estimating nearly 184,000 eviction cases were avoided in New York City.
Video below: NY struggles to get rent relief to hurting tenants
The emergency rental assistance was found to have a strong impact on the low-income and majority-Black neighborhoods that see a disproportionate share of eviction cases. Those areas experienced the largest absolute reduction in eviction filings last year, the Eviction Lab report found.
The report found that in 2021 the most disadvantaged neighborhoods experienced the biggest gains in terms of rental housing stability. But it also found that, among the eviction cases filed, women of color were disproportionately affected.
More than 80% of emergency rental assistance reached the lowest income households, according to the Treasury, with about 40% of all applicants who received assistance self-identifying as Black, and about 20% self-identifying as Latino.
Moving remaining money
The federal emergency rent relief was approved in two rounds of funding. The first, which included $25 billion under the Consolidated Appropriations Act at the end of 2020, and $21.55 billion under the American Rescue Plan Act in March 2021.
Some state and local governments have exhausted allotted funds while others have not distributed everything they have received. As a result, Treasury has been reallocating money to ensure it gets to renters most in need.
Of the $25 billion in the first batch of money, Treasury has already moved $2 billion in underused funds. Beginning in April, funds from the second batch will be reallocated.
This process has "allowed dollars to flow to places with high need," said Noel Poyo, Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Economic Development. "Generally reallocated funds went to higher need areas with more diverse communities."
He said he expects that trend to continue with the available funds from the second batch of money.
But it is a challenging balance to strike, Poyo said, between getting dollars to places where they are running out of funds and making sure that money is still available in places where assistance may have gotten started more slowly and people remain in need.
Treasury is encouraging state and local governments to use the additional funding to assist more renters and make continued investments in housing stability.
"In just one year, the Emergency Rental Assistance program built a national infrastructure for eviction prevention that never existed before and has helped keep eviction rates well below historic averages throughout the pandemic," said Poyo.
He also suggested state and local governments build on the network for support they have established and provide services like housing counselors, "that will help families avoid economic scarring long after COVID-19 is in the rearview mirror," he said. | https://www.ketv.com/article/rent-relief-prevent-million-evictions/39602016 | 2022-04-01T01:02:25Z |
China: Peeking into the private lives of livestreamers
By Zubaidah Abdul Jalil and Tessa Wong
BBC News
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From a pigeon expert to a professor, a new photo series seeks to shed light on one of China's fastest growing communities - livestreamers.
Chinese photographer Huang Qingjun is no stranger to capturing the intimate personal lives of ordinary Chinese. In 2003, he embarked on a unique project - documenting the possessions that people across China own.
The project series - called Jia Dang, or Family Stuff - has taken him across a multitude of provinces for nearly two decades, snapping families as they lay out all their worldly possessions.
In the latest instalment of his project, Mr Huang has turned his lens on people who make their living from livestreaming.
Livestreaming has exploded in popularity during the pandemic, providing hours of entertainment as millions were confined to their homes for weeks on end.
And it's not just buyers who were hooked. More digitally-savvy sellers also began going online as a way of peddling their goods.
In February 2020, the height of China's Covid-19 epidemic, Taobao, the platform which sees the largest number of live-streaming sales, saw an increase of 719% in new sellers across the country.
And as lockdowns continued to be imposed across provinces and cities, the appetite for livestreaming content has remained strong.
"In the past two years, people's daily life and consumption habits have changed a lot," Mr Huang tells the BBC.
"Now people in the post-pandemic era perceive society through smartphones, and short broadcasts and livestreaming have become a window for individuals to showcase their talents."
Perhaps more importantly, livestreamers have presented some respite from loneliness, especially at a time when restrictions and quarantine have left many starved of human connection and company.
"The 'iron friendships' between the audience and the livestreamer, forged in the livestream broadcast room, is also part of what 'sustains the spirit of people,'" said Mr Huang.
In his earlier photo series, Mr Huang had to travel to some of the remotest parts of China to persuade people to pose for him. Some of them had never even been photographed in their lives, much less owned a camera.
They often displayed their meagre yet prized possessions: a television, a few pots and pans, and several pairs of worn shoes.
But he has now focused on a group of technology-savvy people from diverse backgrounds, ranging from a chemistry professor and a food deliveryman to a pigeon aficionado and a noodle seller.
Many of his subjects this time are pictured turning their own lenses on themselves, surrounded by professional filming equipment, electronic appliances and sporting goods.
"By focusing on [the livestreamers'] belongings … and the tools they rely on for their livelihood, we can see the changes of an era," says Mr Huang.
"With the rapid development of Chinese society, the living standards of Chinese people have also undergone great changes, and more families enjoy the dividends brought by this development."
The World Bank estimates China's gross national income per capita has grown more than tenfold in two decades, from $940 (£714) in 2000 to $10,550 in 2020, creating a swelling middle class with disposable income.
But the photographer adds that living through a pandemic has forced many to re-think their patterns of consumption.
"Now people have recognised the importance of the environment, and every household has begun to sort their rubbish [for recycling]," he says. "Because the pandemic has too many uncertainties, it also has had a great impact on people's incomes and household consumption patterns."
Mr Huang hopes this gradual orientation away from excessive consumerism will serve as inspiration for his next instalment of the series.
"I hope that I can do a minimalist lifestyle in the future," he says. "And the last work of my Family Stuff series will be of my own belongings."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military needs to adjust its planning, training, targeting and use of weapons in order to better avoid widespread civilian deaths and damage such as the devastating 2017 battle to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants, a new RAND report said Thursday.
The report requested by the Pentagon reflects criticism of the military's airstrike campaign that, according to some estimates, killed more than 1,600 civilians in Raqqa, as the U.S.-led coalition worked to destroy the Islamic State caliphate that wrested control of large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said the report, which lays out a series of recommendations to improve military procedures and strategy, will be used as the department develops its own broader plan to reduce civlian harm.
“No other military works as hard as we do to mitigate civilian harm, and yet we still cause it,” said Kirby. ”We're going to continue to try to learn from past issues.”
RAND concluded that the battle for Raqqa provided important lessons.
Michael McNerney, lead author of the RAND report, called Raqqa “a cautionary tale about civilian harm in urban combat.” He said it "should serve as an extra incentive to the DoD to strengthen its policies and procedures to mitigate, document and respond to civilian harm.”
The RAND report noted that there has been a wide range of estimated civilian casualties during the seige, but also said it believes that 60%-80% of Raqqa was left uninhabitable by the time the city was liberated in October 2017.
Initially the U.S.-led coalition estimted that it was responsible for 38 incidents involving 240 civilian casualties — including 178 who were killed. A consortium of local Syrian and international groups, including Amnesty International and Airwars, put the number of casualties at a “high estimate” of 1,600, but said that about 774 of them could specifically be “verified” by data as the result of coalition action.
The report makes it clear that several thousand more civilians likely died, based on the number of bodies uncovered by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, but many were probably killed by IS or other fighters on the ground.
“Our report focuses on U.S. actions in Raqqa, but the actions of the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian partners undoubtedly contributed far more to civilian harm and suffering in Syria overall,” McNerney said.
The report noted that the challenges in Raqqa were compounded by limits on the number U.S. troops that could be there, as well as where they could be positioned. U.S. troops on the ground could have provided better targeting and civilian information, including on Islamic State militants' efforts to use civilians as human shields, the report said.
RAND recommended that the U.S. military provide more extensive training and guidance on the need to avoid civilian harm, and plan and execute operations in ways to achieve those goals. Changes could include improved planning, better assessments of potential collateral damage, increased mission rehearsals, improved intelligence gathering, and more selective use of air strikes and munitions that minimize bomb fragmentation. | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4493114 | 2022-04-01T01:02:26Z |
HOUSTON — We asked UT Physicians registered dietitian Gladys Ortiz some common questions about healthy eating and diet misconceptions.
How many servings of vegetables should a person eat daily?
“The American Heart Association recommends 5 servings of vegetables per day. When you make a plate, half of it should be fruits and vegetables – that’s a good way to get those servings throughout the day.”
Are frozen fruits and veggies, just as good as fresh versions?
“Yes – especially since they are frozen at their nutritional peak. With frozen fruit, be careful of sugars and syrups that may be added in. With vegetables, be careful of the sauces – like butter sauces and cheese sauces.”
Is sugar toxic?
“No, sugar is not toxic. However, not all sugar is created equally. It’s found naturally in fruit and milk, but it’s best to avoid foods where it’s added, even as a syrup or sweetener.”
Is coconut oil healthy?
“It’s high in saturated fat, which can increase your risk of cardiovascular disease. So try other healthy sources of fat, like avocados, nut butters, and fatty fish.”
How can you make sure you’re eating enough protein if you don’t eat meat?
“Include protein through our beans, lentils and legumes - those are great plant-bases sources. Nuts, nut butter, tofu, tempeh, milk and milk products are also great sources of protein.” | https://www.khou.com/article/news/health/health-matters/dietician-nutrition-questions/285-fc778fad-d94d-4f7d-92b1-47229b8d7eff | 2022-04-01T01:02:27Z |
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar | Associated Press
WASHINGTON — When the end of the COVID-19 pandemic comes, it could create major disruptions for a cumbersome U.S. health care system made more generous, flexible and up-to-date technologically through a raft of temporary emergency measures.
Winding down those policies could begin as early as the summer. That could force an estimated 15 million Medicaid recipients to find new sources of coverage, require congressional action to preserve broad telehealth access for Medicare enrollees, and scramble special COVID-19 rules and payment policies for hospitals, doctors and insurers. There are also questions about how emergency use approvals for COVID-19 treatments will be handled.
The array of issues is tied to the coronavirus public health emergency first declared more than two years ago and periodically renewed since then. It’s set to end April 16 and the expectation is that the Biden administration will extend it through mid-July. Some would like a longer off-ramp.
Transitions don’t bode well for the complex U.S. health care system, with its mix of private and government insurance and its labyrinth of policies and procedures. Health care chaos, if it breaks out, could create midterm election headaches for Democrats and Republicans alike.
“The flexibilities granted through the public health emergency have helped people stay covered and get access to care, so moving forward the key question is how to build on what has been a success and not lose ground,” said Juliette Cubanski, a Medicare expert with the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, who has been researching potential consequences of winding down the pandemic emergency.
MEDICAID CHURN
Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for low-income people, is covering about 79 million people, a record partly due to the pandemic.
But the nonpartisan Urban Institute think tank estimates that about 15 million people could lose Medicaid when the public health emergency ends, at a rate of at least 1 million per month.
Congress increased federal Medicaid payments to states because of COVID-19, but it also required states to keep people on the rolls during the health emergency. In normal times states routinely disenroll Medicaid recipients whose incomes rise beyond certain levels, or for other life changes affecting eligibility. That process will switch on again when the emergency ends, and some states are eager to move forward.
Virtually all of those losing Medicaid are expected to be eligible for some other source of coverage, either through employers, the Affordable Care Act or — for kids — the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
But that’s not going to happen automatically, said Matthew Buettgens, lead researcher on the Urban Institute study. Cost and lack of awareness about options could get in the way.
People dropped from Medicaid may not realize they can pick up taxpayer-subsidized ACA coverage. Medicaid is usually free, so people offered workplace insurance could find the premiums too high.
“This is an unprecedented situation,” said Buettgens. “The uncertainty is real.”
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, is advising states to take it slow and connect Medicaid recipients who are disenrolled with other potential coverage. The agency will keep an eye on states’ accuracy in making eligibility decisions. Biden officials want coverage shifts, not losses.
“We are focused on making sure we hold on to the gains in coverage we have made under the Biden-Harris administration,” said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. “We are at the strongest point in our history and we are going make sure that we hold on to the coverage gains.”
ACA coverage — or “Obamacare” — is an option for many who would lose Medicaid. But it will be less affordable if congressional Democrats fail to extend generous financial assistance called for in President Joe Biden’s social legislation. Democrats stalling the bill would face blame.
Republicans in mostly Southern states that have refused to expand Medicaid are also vulnerable. In those states, it can be very difficult for low-income adults to get coverage and more people could wind up uninsured.
State Medicaid officials don’t want to be the scapegoats. “Medicaid has done its job,” said Matt Salo, head of the National Association of Medicaid Directors. “We have looked out for physical, mental and behavioral health needs. As we come out of this emergency, we are supposed to right-size the program.”
TELEHEALTH STATIC
Millions of Americans discovered telehealth in 2020 when coronavirus shutdowns led to the suspension of routine medical consultations. In-person visits are again the norm, but telehealth has shown its usefulness and gained broader acceptance.
The end of the public health emergency would jeopardize telehealth access for millions enrolled in traditional Medicare. Restrictions predating COVID-19 limit telehealth mainly to rural residents, in part to mitigate against health care fraud. Congress has given itself 151 days after the end of the public health emergency to come up with new rules.
“If there are no changes to the law after that, most Medicare beneficiaries will lose access to coverage for telehealth,” the Kaiser Foundation’s Cubanski said.
A major exception applies to enrollees in private Medicare Advantage plans, which generally do cover telehealth. However, nearly 6 in 10 Medicare enrollees are in the traditional fee-for-service program.
TESTS, VACCINES, TREATMENTS, PAYMENTS & PROCEDURES
Widespread access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments rests on legal authority connected to the public health emergency.
One example is the Biden administration’s requirement for insurers to cover up to eight free at-home COVID-19 tests per month.
An area that’s particularly murky is what happens to tests, treatments and vaccines covered under emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration.
Some experts say emergency use approvals last only through the duration of the public health emergency. Others say it’s not as simple as that, because a different federal emergency statute also applies to vaccines, tests and treatments. There’s no clear direction yet from health officials.
The FDA has granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for those 16 and older and Moderna’s for those 18 and older, so their continued use would not be affected.
But hospitals could take a financial hit. Currently Medicare pays them 20% more for the care of COVID-19 patients. That’s only for the duration of the emergency.
And Medicare enrollees would have more hoops to jump through to be approved for rehab in a nursing home. A suspended Medicare rule requiring a prior three-day hospital stay would come back into effect.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra recently told The Associated Press that his department is committed to giving “ample notice” when it ends the public health emergency.
“We want to make sure we’re not putting in a detrimental position Americans who still need our help,” Becerra said. “The one that people are really worried about is Medicaid.” | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/03/31/end-of-the-pandemic-could-bring-tumult-to-us-health-care/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:27Z |
Breakups are hard, but JoJo Siwa hasn't let her uncoupling with Kylie Prew dampen her spirits. The 18-year-old dancer suggested in a recent appearance on the Rachel Uncensored podcast that although she’s technically single, she's "exclusive" with someone.
Though Siwa isn't one to divulge too soon, when asked directly about dating, she just said that she was “happy” which is “all that matters” right now and after being presseda little more shared that she’s actually “exclusive, ladies and gentleman.”
But who could that special someone be? As she went on, it sounded like Siwa was actually referring to herself — and not rumored girlfriend TikTok star Katie Mills, who she was spotted hanging with at a recent Phoenix Suns game. “We’re not single,” she said. “I say 'we're' because it’s me and my multiple personalities within myself. I am not single and I don’t want to mingle. No, I’m a loyal lady.”
Last January, Siwa came out as queer in a TikTok video, dancing to Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" while dating then-girlfriend Prew and come November, Siwa announced the pair had split.
“I have yet to talk about this officially, publicly, but we broke up,” said Siwa on Paris Hilton’s This is Paris podcast. “But she is literally still my best friend. I talked to her yesterday, she just got a new puppy. She’s awesome. She’s having the time of her life, I’m having the time of my life.”
“I’m really lucky that I didn’t lose her completely because, you know, even though relationships end, friendships don’t have to end,” she continued before addicting that it’s something that she “didn’t know could happen.”
Regardless of who Siwa is dating now, it sounds like she’s happy. And that’s all that matters.
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MOULTRIE, Ga. — The Colquitt County High School FFA Livestock Judging team was honored at Monday night’s Board of Education meeting for their state champion placement.
Monday night’s BoE meeting was occupied not by policy updates or budget conversations. Instead, the achievements of the county’s students got the main stage. The board recognized not only the State Champion Livestock Judging Team but also the HOSA State Leadership Conference winners, SkillsUSA Construction Electrical Wiring Champion Jeffrey Cheramie, other FFA state placements and the Future Business Leaders Association regional competition winners.
The Livestock Judging Team — made up of Carolyne Turner, who placed second highest in overall individual scoring; Laurie Jo Burt; Baylee Tatum and Christie Deariso — presented their trophy to the board alongside South Region Ag Education Director Stacey Beacham of the Georgia Department of Education.
“It brings me great pleasure to bring this trophy here tonight,” Beacham told the board during the presentation. “There are many categories that these young ladies had to compete in… The competition goes well beyond your skills with the animals but also their knowledge of showmanship, the right qualities you want. There is so much to this competition. You should be very proud of these young ladies.”
The trophy they presented was described by Beacham as a “traveling trophy.” It travels with each champion school until a new champion is crowned the following year. Will Burt, FFA advisor to the team, said during the presentation that in his personal research, “It had been since 1978 since that trophy was in Colquitt County.”
The competition they competed in consisted of eight placing classes, four sets of oral reasons, a keep/cull class, a general knowledge test and a team activity.
The HOSA State Leadership Conference winners were:
- Hayley Hamm - HOSA Happenings Newsletter Certificate of Excellence.
- Aralyn Cooper - First Place Physical Therapy.
- Amberly Cooper - Second Place Home Health Aide.
- Ermilo Ocamp - Third Place Medical Assisting.
- Cammi Ruis & Maahi Patel - Eighth Place Health Career Display.
- Kamal Patel - Eighth Place Medical Assisting.
- Tyson Yates - Ninth Place Medical Assisting.
These students are also eligible to compete at the International Leadership Conference in Nashville, Tenn., in June, HOSA program director Melissa Culpepper said during their presentation.
The FBLA state placers who were honored are:
- Annabelle Kinsey & Manan Patel - First Place in Entrepreneurship.
- Lily Ren - Second Place in Business Calculations.
- Shiv Patel - Second Place in Social Media Strategies.
- Caleb Joiner, Zackery Grier and Travis Crosby - Third Place in Public Service Announcement.
- Jacob Rogdriguez - Fourth Place in Sports & Entertainment Management.
- Avery Rivenbark - Fifth Place in Economics.
- Miya Cardin - Fourth Place in Help Desk.
- Hannah Hankins - Second Place in Introduction to Information Technology.
- Jonathan Baltazar-Escobedo - Fourth Place in Introduction to Business Procedures.
- Travis Crosby - 10th Place in Journalism.
Other FFA State Career Development Events members were honored including:
Veterinary Science - Seventh Place in State Contest
- Karson Smith.
- Lanie Gray.
- Rylee Wiard.
- AnnElyse Clements.
Floriculture - Second Place in State Contest
- Mason Bass.
- LeAnna Gay - Second highest individual scorer.
- Price Jarvis.
- Alaina Riley.
Ag Sales - Sixth Place in State Contest
- Laine Weeks.
- Allison Taylor.
- Maycey Kight.
- Baylee Tatum.
Electrical Wiring - Second Place overall winner
- Jordan Hudson.
Lawn Mower Driving - Eighth Place overall winner
- Daniel Durrence.
Agricultural Mechanics - Third Place in State Contest
- Mason Bass - Second highest individual scorer.
- Gavin Ragland - Third highest individual scorer.
- Dawson Hurst.
- West Rountree.
Nursery Landscape - Third Place in State Contest
- Kale Hopper.
- Ava Croft.
- Aaron Carter.
- Aurora Jones.
In actions taken by the Board, members agreed to reinvest in the Hufstetler Scholarship. More information regarding that will be available during the April 25 meeting’s financial report.
They also approved field trips for:
- C.A. Gray ESOL Students to Tallahassee, Fl., March 31.
- C.A. Gray Ladies Club to Tallahassee, Fl., March 31.
- C.A. Gray Ninth Grade A/V Technology Film Students, Tallahassee, Fl., March 31.
- Williams Middle School Multi-Club FT, Tallahassee, Fl., April 15.
- Williams Middle School Sixth Grade Team Bravo, Tallahassee, Fl., April 19.
- Williams Middle School Seventh Grade Team Tango, Tallahassee, Fl., April 21.
- Colquitt County High School State Latin Convention, Eatonton, April 22-24.
They also approved the Strategic Map and Vision mission and beliefs. The SMV is part of a plan the Colquitt County School District wishes to undertake to identify strengths and weaknesses in the curriculum throughout the county. The results will affect later policies. | https://www.moultrieobserver.com/news/local_news/board-of-education-recognizes-ffa-hosa-winners/article_9fbc96fc-afa9-11ec-9146-279f4ddf873d.html | 2022-04-01T01:02:27Z |
Senior pitcher Cody Metzger pitched a complete game shutout and knocked in three RBIs at the Platteview Trojans won 9-0 over the Seward Bluejays Thursday night at Buffalo Park.
In the first inning, Metzger knocked in a run on a single, and the Trojans opened with an early lead.
That lead grew even further the next inning when the Trojans were walked twice (after being walked twice in the first inning also) and scored one run on a fielder's choice. The Trojans scored three more runs on a two-RBI single by sophomore Keegan Stobbe and another RBI single by Metzger.
Discipline and good hitting pushed the Trojans ahead 5-0 at the end of the second inning.
"I thought our hitters had a really good approach today," Platteview head coach Bryan Dutcher said. "Last couple of games, we've been facing some pretty tough arms... so I think our guys were anxious to get after it, but they did show good discipline early in the game, were just really productive with the bats early. Whatever the situation called for, our guys were doing a nice job with it."
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Using a fastball that the Bluejays simply couldn't catch up to, Metzger was facing the minimum hitters. He didn't have a no-hitter past the third inning, but some solid defensive plays kept the Bluejays getting no more than three at-bats in most innings.
"Today I felt really good," Metzger said. "I went out there, first couple of innings, I felt good and then they started putting balls in play and I just trusted my defense that they were gonna make those plays. When you get that all together, good things happen."
The senior pitcher continued to set down Seward hitters, finishing the game with eight strikeouts, and Platteview tacked on two more runs in the fifth inning.
Two more runs came in the sixth on RBI doubles by junior Alex Draper and Metzger, who finished the game around 85 pitches and earned the complete game shutout.
Draper also stole two bases in the game, an area Dutcher highlighted along with Metzger's pitching and a "pretty strong" defensive performance.
"Overall, it was a great game," Dutcher said. "It started on the mound with Cody Metzger... we got all the confidence in the world and he turned out a really, really good outing today... Not perfect (on defense), but made some good plays behind him.
"And then I really feel like our base running was excellent today. We were taking advantage of situations and moving first to third and setting ourselves up nicely on the bases."
In their second home game of the season (the first an 11-5 loss to Ralston on Tuesday), Dutcher said it "feels awesome" to be able to play games with the recent weather.
"It's been a crazy spring," he said. "We were kind of worried earlier, it was pretty cold out. We had snow on the field at 11:30 today, so to be able to be out here playing, the guys were super excited when I told them that the game was still on. All around a great day."
Next up, the Trojans will face Hastings at home on Monday, April 4 a 4:30 p.m. | https://nonpareilonline.com/community/inthegame/baseball-metzger-dominates-on-the-mound-and-at-the-plate-as-platteview-wins-9-0/article_87f7548e-b14e-11ec-8107-63d8c6d433a9.html | 2022-04-01T01:02:27Z |
Dean’s Office, Office of the Registrar relieve classroom space concerns
In February and early March, the lack of classroom space at Oakland University shocked the Spanish Department’s students and faculty who feared the possibility of many Fall 2022 and Winter 2023 classes going online. Since then, the faculty, the Dean’s Office of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and the...
oaklandpostonline.com | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556622243688/dean-s-office-office-of-the-registrar-relieve-classroom-space-concerns | 2022-04-01T01:02:27Z |
More than 50 years ago, when I heard the Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black” for the first time, it was the first song I wanted to listen to every day for the rest of my life.
I’ve always been a huge fan of classic rock. So today, I’ve modified my thoughts slightly. Now, I’d prefer listening to the Black Jacket Symphony — ideally live and in concert — every day for the rest of my life.
In 2009, J. Willoughby, a huge Beatles fan — the “J” is for John but nobody calls him that — recognized that the Fab Four’s Abbey Road album was turning 40. He knew that there were plenty of tribute bands around playing the music of the Beatles and some of his other favorite bands, but none of them was playing “like they were supposed to.”
That left the door wide open for what happened next. Since J. enjoyed playing his guitar wearing a black jacket, he thought, “Why not put together an entire ensemble of musicians wearing black jackets performing classic rock albums exactly as they sound on the album?”
The Black Jacket Symphony was born.
Having spent 10 years living in Nashville, J. knew a lot of people in the music business. And once BJS had a little momentum going, people were interested in seeing what they were doing. Today, with a roster that varies from 55 to 75 musicians — depending on what concerts are on their immediate horizon — the band has been on the road for more than a decade. Home base for the Black Jacket Symphony is Birmingham, Ala., although the band members come from different parts of the country.
J. says from that point on, it was a matter of “I know a guy who can play the music” of one band or another, and BJS grew from there.
Thirteen years later, BJS have performed more than 40 different classic rock albums to absolute perfection, including the Beatles’ “Abbey Road,” Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon,” and Queen’s “A Night at the Opera.” I’ve attended several BJS concerts and will be the first to admit: If you listen to their music with your eyes closed, you would swear you’re listening to the original album.
How can their music be so precise? “It’s difficult,” J. says. “It takes lot of what we call forensic research — and lots of homework” (practice and rehearsal). The musicians thrive on the challenge, and the fact that they love to “out-geek” each other contributes to making their final product what it is: absolutely flawless. J. adds, “All of the albums have challenges. The Rolling Stones should be easy (to perform), but it’s really hard to be ‘specifically sloppy.’ The music of the Beatles is deceptively challenging. Preparing for ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ took the longest, because for that we had to coordinate with an entire orchestra. The rehearsals are long and the travel is hard, but the two or three hours on stage more than make up for it.”
J.’s earliest influences were Paul McCartney and Wings (the “Wings over America” tour) and Elton John (“Yellow Brick Road” tour). Jason Rogoff — BJS’s producer, director, CEO, and “potentate” — says that J. possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of classic rock, a knowledge that keeps the fire burning in the other musicians. While riding in the touring bus, they play Beatles trivia and answer questions about rock and roll. Jason says everyone is so energetic, enthusiastic, and into what they’re doing.
As for who picks which albums to perform, “J. and Jason arm wrestle.” All kidding aside, their goal appears to be to eventually perform all of their albums in the cities they regularly tour. They receive the most support in Huntsville, Ala., Knoxville, Tenn., and Birmingham — although, tongue-in-cheek, J. says he always gets the best reception at his house. They hope to add Macon to that list very soon. Audiences appear to be particularly receptive to “A Night at the Opera” and the Eagles’ “Hotel California.” However, Jason says that regardless of what music they perform, he always leaves a concert with a great appreciation for the album.
A couple of their favorite venues are the Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville (“beautiful”) and the Tivoli Theatre in Chattanooga, Tenn. J. Says they love the nice, older venues; Macon’s Grand Opera House certainly falls into that category.
Learning and mastering other albums are always on the horizon. Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell,” Rush’s “Moving Pictures,” and ELO’s “Out of the Blue,” to name a few. So many classic albums, and so little time. A little cliché, maybe, but absolutely true.
There are many testimonials to the talent and success of BJS, including:
♦ Losing one of their band members to Aerosmith. While BJS haven’t performed any of Aerosmith’s albums to date, they just might — “when we get our musician back.”
♦ Losing several production workers to very large bands that sell out stadiums — “it gives us a great feeling when our people graduate to bigger things.”
♦ They have a friend in Pearl Jam who admits he “loves what we do.” Jason sent him a link to a BJS performance of Pearl Jam’s “Ten” album, and when the members of Pearl Jam listened, the guy in the front seat of their tour bus heard it and “wondered which Pearl Jam concert that was.”
Jason says that the ages of their audience members vary, all the way from teenagers to baby boomers. As for the teens, parents tell their children that being at a BJS concert “allows them to see and hear something they never thought possible.”
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
On April 14, the Black Jacket Symphony will perform “Synchronicity” by the Police in its entirety at the Macon Grand Opera House. Then, after a brief intermission, they will return to perform the greatest hits of many of the artists in their extensive repertoire — for the very first time. The show will be a celebration of “being back out there” after the better part of two (COVID) years, and will be their longest performance ever — using the most musicians in the band’s’ history.
Take it from a huge fan of classic rock, and a huge fan of the Black Jacket Symphony: You don’t want to miss it.
Look for me there. I’ll be sitting in the fourth row. | https://www.albanyherald.com/opinion/scott-ludwig-paint-it-black/article_31de0bc6-b0ed-11ec-bf37-5fb52f46859a.html | 2022-04-01T01:02:27Z |
US Embassy: Russian attack on Ukrainian nuclear plant ‘is a war crime’
The United States Embassy in Ukraine on Friday called the Russian attack on the Ukrainian nuclear plant in Zaporizhzhia a “war crime.”
“It is a war crime to attack a nuclear power plant. Putin’s shelling of Europe’s largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further,” wrote the embassy, responding to the attack that broke out into fire Friday. The fire has since been extinguished.
Russian forces took control of the power plant shortly after the strikes. The fire is believed to have been ignited by the strike of a Russian projectile, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The six reactors at the nuclear power plant have enough energy to power 4 million homes. They were reported as undamaged in the strike, and international monitors said they did not detect any increased spike in radiation, according to a report by CBS News.
“We survived a night that could have stopped the story, the history of Ukraine, the history of Europe,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, according to CBS News.
Any potential explosion at Zaporizhzhia would have been equal to “six Chernobyls,” Zelensky said, referring to the world’s worst nuclear disaster, which occurred in 1986, notes CBS.
Following the attack, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations council and, CBS reports, Johnson slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “reckless actions” that “could now directly threaten the safety of all of Europe.”
The Hill has removed its comment section, as there are many other forums for readers to participate in the conversation. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. | https://thehill.com/policy/international/europe/596844-us-russian-attack-on-ukrainian-nuclear-plant-is-a-war-crime/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:25Z |
Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips of True the Vote presented testimony about their investigation into ballot trafficking in Wisconsin’s 2020 election.
This “was not the most secure election ever,” Engelbrecht began. “It was quite possibly one of the least.”
True the Vote estimates that at least 7% of all mail-in ballots–4.8 million nationwide–were trafficked during the 2020 election. About 138,000 were trafficked in Wisconsin.
“This was an organized crime that was perpetrated on Americans,” Gregg Phillips told citizens gathered at a Wisconsin Assembly hearing this month.
Mr. Phillips said True the Vote uncovered a “nationwide grift around voting” in which not-for-profits orchestrated paid ballot collection, ballot preparation, and harvested ballot delivery operations.
True the Vote purchased 10 trillion cell signals in Arizona, Georgia, Texas, Wisconsin, Detroit, Michigan, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for its investigation.
Engelbrecht concluded by saying that privately-funded drop boxes, mass mail-in ballots, NGOs, enormous amounts of money, and in particular “dirty voter rolls are the gateway to fraud” in our elections. They must be eliminated and the penalties for cheating must be severe, she said.
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4.8 MILLION ballots trafficked in the 2020 Election
7% of mail-in ballots were trafficked in every Swing State True the Vote has looked in
“It’s an organized crime that was perpetrated on Americans” pic.twitter.com/cseftCWhB7
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) March 31, 2022
In Milwaukee on one day 4 ballot traffickers went to 20 drop boxes pic.twitter.com/gOBCjvYRIT
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) March 31, 2022
Organized ballot trafficking caught in San Luis, AZ
Ballots collected from elderly, gathered in one location to be paid, one trafficker drops off stacks and stacks of ballots pic.twitter.com/4vqnogPYQv
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) March 31, 2022
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— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) March 31, 2022
“It was not the most secure election ever. It was, quite possibly, one of the least…
“It was planned.” pic.twitter.com/t4c00vBCCj
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) March 31, 2022
Widespread. pic.twitter.com/dTiEp7FrWK
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) March 31, 2022
“My Democrat colleagues started their testimony talking about situations in which votes were cast illegally…[and] tried to [say] if a vote came from a voter that was registered…somehow that makes it all right.
“If a vote is cast in an illegal process, it’s an illegal vote!” pic.twitter.com/SdttteWZQQ
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) March 31, 2022 | https://www.independentsentinel.com/true-the-vote-4-8-million-mail-in-ballots-were-trafficked-in-2020/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:27Z |
President Joe Biden marked Transgender Day of Visibility on Thursday by denouncing “hateful bills” being passed at the state level as the White House played host to “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider, the first openly transgender winner on the popular quiz show.
Schneider met with second gentleman Doug Emhoff, who joined Rachel Levine, the assistant health secretary and the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate, for a conversation with transgender kids and their parents.
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Schneider used the moment in the Washington spotlight to speak out against bills affecting transgender people.
“They’re really scary and some of them in particular that are denying medical services to trans youth, those are, those are life-saving medical treatments,” Schneider told reporters. “These bills will cause the deaths of children and that’s really sad to me and it’s really frightening.”
Biden, in a brief video message, said that “the onslaught of anti-transgender state laws attacking you and your families is simply wrong.” The president said his administration “is standing up for you against all these hateful bills. And we’re committed to advancing transgender equality in the classroom, on the playing field, at work, in our military and our housing and health care systems.”
The administration announced several actions to make the federal government more inclusive for transgender people and said the Health and Human Services Department will be the first agency to fly a trans pride flag. The steps come as Republican leaders have advanced state measures targeting transgender people as part of a broader push to stoke culture wars heading into a critical election season.
The administration said the federal government will become more inclusive for transgender people, including through the use of a new “X” gender marker on U.S. passport applications, beginning on April 11, and new Transportation Security Administration scanners that are gender-neutral.
It is working to expand the availability of the “X” gender marker to airlines and federal travel programs and will make it easier for transgender people to change their gender information in Social Security Administration records.
Visitors to the White House complex soon will also be able to choose an “X” gender marker option in the White House Worker and Visitor Entry System, which is used to conduct screening background checks.
At airports, changes will be made to screening scanners along with the introduction of the use of an “X” for travelers going through Precheck who do not identify as male or female. Transportation Security Administration agents will receive new instructions on how to make screening procedures less invasive and will work with airlines to promote acceptance of the “X” gender marker.
“Jeopardy!” star Schneider spoke of “being a trans person out there that isn’t monstrous and isn’t threatening and is just a normal person, like we all are,” and said “the more that people like me can be seen, the harder it is to sustain the myths that are ... kind of driving a lot of this hate and fear.”
In his video, Biden said there is work still to be done to end “the epidemic of violence against transgender women of color and girls of color” and to ensure that transgender seniors “can age with dignity.” He called anew on Congress to pass the Equality Act to help transgender people around the world “live free from discrimination and violence.”
Biden tried to reassure any transgender person who is struggling, telling them to remember that “you’re not alone.”
“You’re so brave. You belong. And we have your back,” Biden said.
The administration’s actions follow recent steps at the state level to limit activity by transgender people. At least 10 states have banned transgender athletes from participating in sports at all levels in a way that is consistent with their gender identity.
In Texas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who is seeking reelection, has ordered the state’s child welfare agency to probe reports of gender-affirming medical care for kids as abuse.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who is running for reelection and considering a 2024 presidential bid, on Monday signed into law a measure that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. The law has drawn intense national scrutiny from critics who argue it marginalizes LGBTQ people. Republicans and advocates of the law argue that discussion of these topics should be between parents and their children. | https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/white-house-hosts-transgender-jeopardy-star-amy-schneider-rcna22500 | 2022-04-01T01:02:27Z |
A school principal has condemned a violent attack on a student that was filmed, showing the repeated punching and kicking of a Year 12 girl.
Havelock North High School principal Greg Fenton told parents he was saddened and embarrassed to have to communicate to them about the incident.
Fenton has made the comments in an email to parents. Hawke's Bay Today has approached the school for further comment.
In the email, Fenton also called for the video to be taken off social media and says it could breach the Harmful Digital Communications Act.
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Advertise with NZME.The incident was one of two at the school recently, and is similar to a Napier Boys' HIgh School fight last month in which a student was seemingly knocked out in a playground fight filmed on school premises.
Fenton has also told parents that despite the two violent incidents, he does not believe violence is escalating at the school.
On Wednesday, a Year 12 Havelock North High girl was knocked to the ground.
She is then stood over by a female Year 11 student, and kicked in the head and body, while at least one bystander laughs as it is filmed.
The blows include a kick to the victim's head, as she lies on the ground.
Another student pulls the attacker away from the victim.
Fenton told parents the attackers have been removed from the school and will appear in front of the school board disciplinary committee next week.
"Such was the nature of the attack, that the police have also been involved, and are conducting a full investigation,'' Fenton said in an email to parents.
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Advertise with NZME."I met with the police and in addition to the nature of the incident, they are also concerned about the number of people who downloaded the video of the attack, and have shared it with others.
"There is a feeling that this could be a breach of the Harmful Digital Communications Act.
"I would suggest that if your young person has done this and posted the video on social media, that they take it down immediately as it could be an offence."
Fenton told parents that while it was unfortunate there had been two incidents of violence recently, he did not believe violence was escalating in the playground.
"This was confirmed in the numerous conversations that I had with students on the grounds. I do however accept that situations like this are unsettling for students and as mentioned before, I am disappointed that for many students their first reaction is to film and circulate the footage.
"I have no hesitation in saying that staff and students who are new to HNHS frequently comment on how quiet and safe our playground is. That is certainly my opinion of our school.'' | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/principal-condemns-attack-on-havelock-student-and-calls-for-violent-video-to-be-taken-down/OOKZXM3C4CMDDAGWVDYYWEYTZ4/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:28Z |
Rick Ross says he is serious about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.
The rapper has been open about many goals he has set for himself. From owing dozens of cars and only learning to drive at 45 years old, the Rozay rapper is not one to cop out.
Rick Ross recently disclosed on the Full Send Podcast that he has set some ambitious goals for himself this year, including climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa.
“I really believe when I put my heart to something, I can do anything,” he began. “As a matter of fact, I was smoking, I was on my back patio last night, I’m sitting underneath the trees, I’m listening to the waterfall, I’m looking at the plants, the landscaping, the patio furniture, you know? And I gave myself a challenge and I’m actually issuing you guys a challenge here,” he says.
“This is the first time I’ve said this, but in 2024, I’ma hike to the top of Kilimanjaro. Just making it to the top, and you going with me.”
Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano in Tanzania famous for its three volcanic cones, namely Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira. The mountain forms the highest peek on the African continent making it no easy fete to climb.
Mount Kilimanjaro is known as one of the most difficult mountains to climb but not because of how steep the trails are but because the hardest part is getting to the summit, which at night is extremely difficult as this is the coldest, windiest section of the adventure with an ascent of 4,084ft with 49% less oxygen and descent of nearly 6,870ft. Still, about 30,000 people attempt to climb the mountain annually, and there are about 10 fatalities per year.
However, Rick Ross isn’t deterred as he says he’s determined to complete the climb.
“I’m the boss, I don’t look into nothing,” he said. “I make my mind up, it’s not really that big. I just gotta get it done. And what you gotta realize, if you notice I said 2024. So for the rest of this year, I’m getting prepared mentally, next year I get prepared physically.”
When asked about the length of days to complete the journey, he says, “Who knows? I’m guessing five/10 days, some shit like that. Give me 12 days, no rush. That’s what we doing. I’m not sure [about the elevation], I would wanna guess maybe 5000 [metres] or some type of shit.”
And he’s already preparing in terms of food and company as he says he’s not going on his own because someone needs to carry his Wingstop fries and chips. | https://dutchcaribbeannews.com/rick-ross-reveals-his-next-big-project-is-climbing-mount-kilimanjaro/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:28Z |
A legal battle between the Expedition League and the Western Nebraska Pioneers may put the 2022 baseball season at Oregon Trail Park Stadium in jeopardy.
The City of Gering, which leases the stadium to the Pioneers, released a statement on Thursday, March 31, stating, “Without a resolution of the dispute between the League and the Pioneers team, a baseball season might not be possible this summer at Oregon Trail Park Stadium.”
The statement summarizes the timeline of events that led to a legal dispute between the league and the baseball team. The Pioneers, along with the Badlands Big Sticks, Fremont Moo, Hastings Sodbusters, Spearfish Sasquatch, Hub City Hotshots and Casper Horseheads, left the Expedition League and formed a new league called the Independence League in 2021. The Independence League was officially announced in October.
According to the City of Gering’s statement, issued in a press release sent to media, both the Expedition League and the Pioneers “expressed their commitment to play baseball in Gering in 2022” via communications with Steve Wagner, owner of the Expedition League, and Chuck Heeeman, owner of the Pioneers, in November and December 2021.
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As a result, the Expedition League filed a complaint in Pennington County, South Dakota, on Jan. 28, 2022, suing the Pioneers and the six other teams that left and began the Independence League. According to the complaint, the Expedition League alleges the seven baseball teams have violated their original contracts with the league by using their logos and likenesses in a competing league and not paying their full dues and fees that they owe to the league.
The Star-Herald reached out to Wagner for comment, but he could not be reached prior to press time.
On March 18, the Pioneers and the other six baseball teams filed an answer and counterclaim against the Expedition League, in which, according to Heeman, the teams claim that their agreements between the Expedition League and the teams are not valid.
“Our contention is that the Expedition League was selling franchises without the proper federal documentation and the disclosures that they needed to make,” Heeman told the Star-Herald. “So what that does, it means that the agreements that the teams in the Expedition League made are illegal agreements in the first place.”
A few days after the original complaint, the Expedition League sent a letter to the City of Gering outlining its position, according to the city’s statement.
In its accounting of the letter, the city said the letter stated that “allowing the Western Nebraska Pioneers to play baseball at Oregon Trail Park Stadium, or any other League outside of the Expedition League, would amount to a breach of the lease by the City of Gering. The letter/notice further advised the City that it could be liable to the Expedition League for damages in the event that the Nebraska Pioneers were allowed to play.”
At the Gering City Council meeting on Monday, March 28, Heeman asked the council to work with the Pioneers to find a resolution to the issue so that the Pioneers might still have a season in Gering.
“I know you’ve seen the letter from the Expedition League to try and block us from playing this year. Obviously, on our end,this is a pretty major thing,” Heeman said, addressing the council during an open comment period. “…I’ve kind of felt like the city has been afraid of being sued by somebody who has no stake in it. The Expedition League isn’t going to put a team here; they have no damages to claim if they were to sue. The Pioneers, if we’re barred from playing this year, that’s going to be catastrophic for our business.”
Following the city council meeting, Mayor Tony Kaufman told the Star-Herald that the city just wants to see the entire issue resolved so ball can still be played at Oregon Trail Park Stadium.
“Our community and numerous communities in the region are involved simply because we have a team, but the legal fight is really between the league and those teams,” he said. “And so, the plea tonight is to get the communities involved, but really, we’re not involved. ... We encourage, and we have highly encouraged, both parties to resolve for play and move on with the season and resolve their differences. But again, it is not the city’s issue. It is between the teams in the existing league and the new league.”
On Thursday, March 31, Heeman said he and Mayra Heeman, his wife and co-owner of the Pioneers, have since been working with the city to find a resolution with it being so close to the start of the 2022 season.
“We’re going to work toward a solution, and I feel really confident that we will, but this is the situation it is,” he said. “Nobody wants to be in this situation — the city doesn’t; we don’t. So, this is a situation the Expedition League put us in, we’ll work through it and we’ll get a resolution.”
Still, the dispute between the Expedition League and the Pioneers could take some time, Heeman said, but it’s all a part of the process.
“We have our lawyers, too, and they’ve told us this could be a two-year process; it could be a two-week process, you just never know. It’s going about like we thought it would,” he said. “…We can’t guarantee what’s going to happen. We’re going to do what we think is right. We’re going to follow the paths of our advisers and do what we think is right.
“I think we’re going to be fine. To us, it’s just another bump in the road, and I feel like we’ll get past it. This happens a lot, and you’ll see this in the minor leagues — baseball and hockey and indoor football — happens a lot. It does, and it always gets resolved.”
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Previous time you saw a Fury of the Nymbos, this time it will be April Fools' Day dedicated to mechous jokes!
Meet the collection of jokes on their names and descriptions.
Can you spot them all?
(due to the differences in naming of Rus\Eng versions some of the humour may be lost in translation)
Responsible for jokes and 3D models - John Tomson
Special thanks to tractortractor for the model converter
This In-Game Event will be active till the end of this week. It will automatically back to normal at Monday.
Here is the way to get back to a classic look if you can't wait until Monday.
Open Game list in Library.
Right Click on Vangers: Propetries -> BETAS.
Enter Password: turbospiralnab
Choose beta in the first field
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CALGARY, AB, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - mCloud Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: MCLD) (TSXV: MCLD), ("mCloud" or the "Company") a leading provider of AI-powered asset management and Environmental, Social, and Governance ("ESG") solutions, today announced it will host a conference call to discuss the financial results for the year-end and fourth quarter of 2021 and its outlook on 2022 at 10:00am EDT on April 4, 2022.
The conference call will include prepared remarks from Russ McMeekin, Chief Executive Officer, and Chantal Schutz, Chief Financial Officer. After the prepared remarks, the Company will accept questions.
This date and time follows from the Company's release on March 30 it would add a discussion of its recent partnership with Carbon Royalty Corp and Middle East strategic financing alternatives to prepared remarks.
To access the conference call by telephone, dial 416-764-8659 or 1-888-664-6392 with the confirmation number 74107253. Please connect approximately 10 minutes prior to the beginning of the call to ensure participation. The conference call will be archived for replay by telephone until April 11, 2022 at midnight (ET). To access the archived conference call, dial 1-888-390-0541 and enter the reservation number 107253.
A live audio webcast of the conference call will be available at https://bit.ly/3NvJvZs. Please connect at least 15 minutes prior to the conference call to ensure adequate time for any software download that may be required to join the webcast. The webcast will be archived at the above website for one year.
About mCloud Technologies Corp.
mCloud is unlocking the untapped potential of energy intensive assets with AI and analytics, curbing energy waste, maximizing energy production, and getting the most out of critical energy infrastructure. Through mCloud's AI-powered AssetCare™ platform, mCloud offers complete asset management solutions for commercial buildings, renewable energy, healthcare, heavy industry, and connected workers. IoT sensors bring data from connected assets into the cloud, where AI and analytics are applied to maximize their performance.
With a worldwide presence and offices in San Francisco, Vancouver, Calgary, London, Perth, Singapore, and Beijing, the mCloud family includes an ecosystem of operating subsidiaries that deliver high-performance IoT, AI, 3D, and mobile capabilities to customers, all integrated into AssetCare. With over 100 blue-chip customers and more than 63,000 assets connected in thousands of locations worldwide, mCloud is changing the way energy assets are managed.
mCloud's common shares trade in the United States on the Nasdaq and in Canada on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol MCLD. mCloud's convertible debentures trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol MCLD.DB. For more information, visit www.mcloudcorp.com.
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Skippy Foods, LLC has recalled more than 9,000 cases of peanut butter "due to the possibility that a limited number of jars may contain a small fragment of stainless steel from a piece of manufacturing equipment," the company said in an announcement Thursday.
The specific Skippy brands included Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter Spread, Skippy Reduced Fat Chunky Peanut Butter Spread and Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter Blended With Plant Protein all with "best if used by dates" of early May 2023. Those dates are located at the top of the lid.
The company said there have been no consumer complaints related to this issue and the recall is voluntary.
All retailers that received these particular products have been notified, the company said.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kunr.org/u-s-headlines/2022-03-31/recall-issued-for-thousands-of-skippy-peanut-butter-cases-due-to-steel-fragments | 2022-04-01T01:02:29Z |
Family, fellow police mourn ‘hero’ cop killed while taking out Bnei Brak terrorist
Sobbing father, fiancée recall how Amir Khoury never shied from danger, wanted to protect people, as they mourn officer who raced to neutralize gunman and paid with his life
On Sunday, Amir Khoury sat at home with his fiancée Shani Yashar as news of a terror attack in Hadera, in which two police officers were killed, began to filter in. Khoury, a former cop himself, turned to Shani and assured her that he would not be victim to the same fate.
“If I see a terrorist in front of my eyes, I’m going to crush him. I’m not going to let anyone get hurt, that’s why I’m a cop,” she recalled him telling her, as she pleaded with him to “not be a hero.”
Three days later, Yashar climbed the stairs to the home of her beloved’s parents, sobbing along with them as they tried to grasp the enormity of his death.
In the end, he had been a hero, and paid with his life.
Khoury was shot and killed Tuesday night as he arrived on the scene of a terror attack in Bnei Brak, helping take out terrorist Diaa Hamarsheh, 27, and prevent him from continuing his rampage of death and destruction through the Tel Aviv suburb.
“He was like that, always the first when something goes down,” his father Jeries Khoury, a former police officer, said Wednesday. “He had no fear.”
Khoury, 32, was stationed in Bnei Brak as a motorcycle cop. He and a partner were the first to reach Hamarsheh during the attack, who had already killed four people at two different locations.
“He was a hero, the way he and the other officer acted saved lives,” Tel Aviv police commander Amihai Eshed told the crying family as a camera from Channel 12 news filmed.
Bodycam footage published Wednesday showed Khoury and his partner, whose name has not been cleared for publication, racing toward the scene. As they reach Herzl street, Khoury, who was driving the motorcycle, appears to be shot, after which the terrorist is shot to death.
Khoury was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was declared dead. Police announced Wednesday that Amir and the cop who was with him will be cited for their heroic actions.
His father Jeries recalled unsuccessfully trying to get in touch with his son after hearing about the attack, which occurred just before 8 p.m.
“I sent him a message and he didn’t answer,” he said tearfully. “After about an hour and half police showed up. When I saw them at the gate, I knew this was it.”
Khoury, a Christian Arab, is survived by his parents and two sisters. His funeral is set to take place on Thursday in his hometown of Nof Hagalil, formerly known as Upper Nazareth.
Jeries said that Amir had planned to visit the families of the two Border Police officers who were killed in the terror attack in Hadera on Sunday.
Instead, it was other police visiting the Khoury home in Nof Hagalil, along with Yashar, who met Khoury six years ago through the police. The two had planned to marry in the coming months.
“I’m not supposed to come here alone! He was the love of my life,” she cried out as she entered the home.
The other victims include Bnei Brak residents Avishai Yehezkel, 29, who was protecting his baby from gunfire, Ya’akov Shalom, 36, and Ukrainian nationals Victor Sorokopot, 38, and Dimitri Mitrik, 23.
Shalom and Yehezkel were laid to rest in Bnei Brak earlier Wednesday.
According to Channel 12 news, a Haredi delegation from Bnei Brak is expected to attend Khoury’s funeral to express gratitude for his actions, and a resident of the West Bank settlement of Alon has offered to fund buses to bring people from Jerusalem to the funeral.
“More than 300 people already called me,” he told Channel 12. “The man gave his life there to protect ultra-Orthodox Jews and I think he should be thanked for that.” | https://www.timesofisrael.com/family-fellow-police-mourn-hero-cop-killed-while-taking-out-bnei-brak-terrorist/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:29Z |
The United States Department of Agriculture released an update to its Food Price Outlook for 2022 and found that nearly everything one might ingest – whether it comes from the grocery store or restaurant – is going up in price.
And yes, that's on top of the price increases consumers have already been forced to endure in the last year.
"All food prices are now predicted to increase between 4.5 and 5.5%," the USDA's Economic Research Service explained in the March report.
While the overall increase is alarming, a closer look at various food categories show just how expensive shoppers can expect items to get, according to the USDA:
As for take-out or dine-in menus, the USDA said those prices are predicted to go up between 5.5 and 6.5% for the remainder of this year.
Additionally, food prices climbed 7.9% for the year ending in February 2022.
This was "the largest 12-month advance since July 1981," according to the department.
The report also noted current global events that will only add to the uncertainty of food affordability, saying, "The impacts of the conflict in Ukraine and the recent increases in interest rates by the Federal Reserve are expected to put upward and downward pressures on food prices, respectively. The situations will be closely monitored to assess the net impacts of these concurrent events on food prices as they unfold."
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey refused to say Thursday if transgender people actually exist, twice dodging direct questions on the subject just a day after he signed legislation limiting transgender rights.
The Republican worked instead to defend his signatures on bills that bar transgender girls and women from playing on girls high school and women's college sports teams and barring gender affirming surgery for anyone under age 18.
When specifically asked if he believed that there “are really transgender people,” the governor paused for several seconds before answering.
“I’m going to ask you to read the legislation and to see that the legislation that we passed was in the spirit of fairness to protect girls sports in competitive situations,” Ducey said, referring to the new law that targets transgender girls who want to play on girls sports teams. “That’s what the legislation is intended to do, and that’s what it does.”
Asked again if he believed there are “actual transgender people,” he again answered slowly and carefully.
“I ... am going to respect everyone, and I’m going to respect everyone’s rights. And I’m going to protect female sports. And that’s what the legislation does,” Ducey said.
Ducey's response was “appalling,” according to the Arizona director of the Human Rights Campaign, a national civil rights group that advocates for equality for LGBTQ people. The organization worked to ensure families and transgender young people came to the Capitol to testify against the bills as the Republican-led House and Senate considered them this session.
“It's quite shocking that he can't even address trans people or even say that he thinks they exist,” Bridget Sharpe said.
Wednesday's signing of the two transgender bills and a third that bars abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and is currently unconstitutional put Ducey right in the middle of two top issues national Republicans are highlighting in the runup to November's midterm elections.
Ducey also signed election legislation that minority Democrats said amounted to voter suppression by requiring longtime Arizonans to be thrown off the voter rolls if they did not prove their citizenship and residence location.
The governor leads the Republican Governors Association, which is charged with helping elect GOP chief executives in U.S. states. He in is the last year of his second term as Arizona governor and term limits bar him from seeking reelection.
The top Democrat in the state House, Rep. Reginald Bolding, called Wednesday “probably one of the darkest days we've seen in the history of Arizona."
“With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Ducey has hurled Arizona backwards to its ugliest past,” Bolding said Wednesday. “And today, he put in jeopardy pregnant people, transgender youth in danger and curtailed voting rights for people of color.”
Social conservative groups and the Arizona Republican Party praised Ducey's action. The Center for Arizona Policy, whose president shepherded the abortion and women's sports bills through the Legislature, called it a victory.
"Thank you, Governor Ducey, for taking a bold stand for women athletes, vulnerable children, and the unborn by putting your signature on (the bills) in the face of intense opposition from activists," Center for Arizona Policy president Cathi Herrod said in a news release she posted on Twitter.
She said the legislation protects the unborn, ensures a level playing field for female athletes and shows that “Arizona will do everything it can to protect vulnerable children struggling with gender confusion” by enacting the surgery ban.
Ducey said the surgery ban protects children from irreversible decisions.
“These are permanent surgeries of reassignment that are irreversible, and those discussions can happen once adulthood is reached,” he said.
The American Civil Liberties Association has vowed to sue over the surgery ban. U.S. Supreme Court precedent currently says women have a constitutional right to abortion until about 24 weeks of pregnancy, although it is considering whether to uphold a 15-week ban enacted in Mississippi and may overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision enshrining a woman's right to choose.
Arizona joins 13 other states in enacting laws preventing transgender girls and women from playing on girls teams. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed a transgender sports ban in his state, saying it would harm transgender girls, but the Legislature overrode the veto. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb also vetoed a sports bill, but lawmakers hope to override his action as well. | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/Arizona-governor-won-t-say-transgender-people-17049806.php | 2022-04-01T01:02:30Z |
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Te Ara Nui o Te Rangihaeata
.....or Transmission Gully to us old, racist pakehas isn't quite the sensory overload I had built up in my mind.
Road feels like it's 10 years old already and is rough as guts in someplaces, it doesn't feel 'new'.
But 26mins from Porirua to Paraparaumu Beach isn't to be sneezed at, and it's a shedload better than what we had.
Might go again at night this weekend, that'll be pretty cool.
Oh, and plenty of cops, specially going down the big hills. But 'road safety' aye, not revenue-gathering.
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Spencer Day To Perform At Boys & Girls Aid's Fostering Futures Virtual Event
#1 Billboard recording artist Spencer Day to perform at Boys & Girls Aid's 6th Annual Fostering Futures virtual fundraiser to support foster care children.
Boys & Girls Aid has announced that its 6th Annual Fostering Futures fundraising event to support foster care children will take place virtually on Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 6:00pm PT.
Presented by The Standard, this year's event will be broadcast on Boys & Girls Aid's Facebook (www.facebook.com/BoysAndGirlsAid) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/BoysAndGirlsAid) pages and will feature an exclusive special performance by #1 Billboard jazz/pop singer and songwriter Spencer Day from his new album "Broadway By Day."
"The most powerful support system in the world is family," said Dr. Suzan Huntington, President & CEO of Boys & Girls Aid. "We're committed to ensuring every child grows up with a family of their own. And we're delighted to welcome Spencer Day into our extended family as he entertains viewers with a classic song about hope for everyone to enjoy from the comfort of home."
Funds raised through the event will enable Boys & Girls Aid to help care for children living in foster care and ensure every child has a safe place to call home. The 8,000 children currently living in Oregon's foster care system need assistance more than ever.
In 1885, Boys & Girls Aid was founded in response to a crisis. Children were being a??abandoned on the streets of Portland with nowhere to go. The agency created a home for a??these children to go to and connections in the community to find families for them. Over the last 137 years, Boys & Girls Aid has found families for more than 100,000 children.
For more information on Boys & Girls Aid and Fostering Futures, please visit www.boysandgirlsaid.org/fosteringfutures. | https://www.broadwayworld.com/portland/article/Spencer-Day-To-Perform-At-Boys-Girls-Aids-Fostering-Futures-Virtual-Event-20220329 | 2022-04-01T01:02:29Z |
Title IX has been a passionate subject for Candace Parker ever since she learned of its impact while doing a paper on it in the eighth grade.
So, it is no surprise her first documentary as an executive producer is about the landmark legislation. On Saturday, “Title IX: 37 Words That Changed America,” will open coverage of the men’s Final Four on TBS at 1 p.m. EDT.
“I sit here because of Title IX. Although we have so many wins, we have so much further to go. That’s why we went with having the Title IX story told through my eyes so that you can see if Title IX didn’t exist, I wouldn’t exist,” Parker said.
Parker considers herself a first-generation benefactor of Title IX, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Parker’s mother, Sara, attended Iowa before Title IX became law. Candace’s 12-year old daughter, Lailaa Nicole Williams, will have more opportunities.
“It means a lot to be able to have my mom and my daughter be a part of this,” Parker said. “I have inspiration from my mom and her story. And then as well for my daughter, I want to continue to open up doors, and I don’t want her to see limitations.”
The documentary also comes as inequities between the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are coming under intense scrutiny.
“Something as simple as March Madness, right? Like, now women can use that. That’s unbelievable. It’s 2022,” Parker said. “But things are changing. But it still doesn’t take away that we still have so much farther to go. I think that’s the whole point of doing this documentary is if you invest, it’s not a charity, it’s an investment. And it’s an honest investment of trying to make it work. And I think for so long, we just existed; women’s sports existed as something that had to be there. And now we look at it as an investment, and then I think we can start moving things forward."
Parker won a pair of NCAA championships at Tennessee while being coached by one of the pioneers of Title IX, the late Pat Summitt. Parker has parlayed that experience into a successful career as a two-time WNBA champion and MVP and two gold medals in the Olympics.
Parker is also an accomplished analyst for Turner Sports on its NBA and NCAA Tournament coverage since 2018. During discussions about a contract extension at Turner, Parker and her representatives first pitched the idea of a documentary. It got the green light for production last November.
The documentary includes interviews with Billie Jean King, Peyton Manning, Lisa Leslie, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
“There’s a number of influential voices that I think I have to pinch myself to realize that they’re a part of it,” Parker said. “To have Billie Jean King, like the 10-year-old girl that did a biography project on her, I just think it’s just so special.
“Title IX doesn’t just impact women. To watch Peyton Manning talk about how Pat really influenced his life, as a competitor and just as an individual. To see somebody that is an icon to say that I think speaks to how valuable women in leadership positions are.”
Having the documentary tip-off Turner’s Final Four coverage on Saturday should give it a broader audience. “The Arena” will air following the documentary and focus on the impact of Title IX on sports and society.
This is also the first project for Parker’s production company — Baby Hair Productions — and was also produced with Scout Productions.
“Having a diverse audience, that’s not just the women and girls, we want everyone to see how impactful and powerful women are in society,” Parker said. “To have this be something that we talk about, especially after with ‘The Arena' show, I think it speaks to just how important it is.”
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More AP coverage of March Madness: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/sports/article/Parker-hopes-Title-IX-documentary-serves-as-17049750.php | 2022-04-01T01:02:30Z |
Tucker Carlson, a host at Fox News, aka Republican Viagra Network, is, for whatever reason, randomly circling back to an old gripe he has with rapper Cardi B. Yes, Carlson is just being weird at this point. No, Cardi did not send for Carlson before he decided to come for her. Yes, it is as clear as day that Carlson’s love life is a case study for the ultimate definition of “vanilla sex.” (Actually, Ben Shapiro has been holding that spot down longer than he’s ever held down any of his wife’s spots, but for the purposes of this article, it’s Tucker.)
Anyway, apparently, Carlson is big-fake mad that Cardi will be making an appearance on an episode of Baby Shark’s Big Show! on Nickelodeon.
“So you’re a fuddy-duddy if you note that American culture is becoming, like, not really culture anymore,” Carlson said on his show, the Daily Beast reported. “It’s like a lot of growling and sexless talking about sex. And if you think it’s an overstatement, check out this song from someone calling herself Cardi B.”
Carlson then played a clip from the music video for “WAP”—which was released nearly two years ago.
Has Carlson been caught in a time warp? Why is he introducing Cardi B like she’s a new artist and WAP like it’s her debut hit single? Does he expect that Cardi will be whipping out her WAP on the kids? Just what does Carlson think a Baby Shark is exactly?
And WTF does Cardi B have to do with “American culture?” What the hell does Carlson think American culture even is? Does he think Cardi’s milkshake is going to bring all the MAGA hats, spiceless food, twice a month washclothless showers, apple pie, and negro oppression to the yard?
“So you watch something like that and probably your first thought was, ‘Man, I want my kids, my little kids, to get a lot more of Cardi B,” Carlson continued. “Like how can they experience Cardi B and the Cardi B lifestyle, because obviously, that’s not bad for them or anything. They’re not going to wind up in rehab or as hookers.”
First of all, WAP is just basically a song about women who like sex. And if that’s what Carlson means when he talks about “the Cardi B lifestyle,” well I have some bad news for the Fox News host who hasn’t changed his hairstyle since Howdy Doody—a lot of little girls are going to grow up to be women who will *gasp* like sex too.
Anyway, this couldn’t be the same Tucker Carlson who not long ago was whining about female M&M cartoons being “less sexy.” Let me find out Carlson is just projecting his sexual frustrations on Cardi because that “melt in your mouth” WAP ain’t WAPing like it used to.
It’s worth noting that Carlson has been griping this same gripe since the song first came out.
After Carlson’s latest fit of “missionary is kinky enough” rage, he turned to the sunken place commander-in-WAPlessness herself, Candace Owens.
“I think for the first time I’m actually going to defend Cardi B here,” Owens said. “It’s not Cardi B’s fault that she gets a phone call from Nickelodeon executives asking her to do this.”
Now, in case you’re thinking miss MAGA-mammy is giving a rare display of decency—Nah, Owens’ defense of Cardi came with a backhanded insult of the “Bodack Yellow” artist’s intelligence.
Owens went on to say that while Cardi “doesn’t possess the intelligence” to understand how she’s being used, “these executives know exactly what they’re doing…(which is) to further corrode culture.”
First of all, I know white people’s favorite “Black friend” who has been white supremacy’s favorite sockpuppet for as long as we’ve known her name and lack of edges ain’t talking. I just know Owens isn’t about anyone not having the intelligence to see how she’s being used.
Secondly, I’m pretty sure Nickelodean’s agenda is to gain ratings by featuring a popular celeb, not to “further corrode culture.” (Candace being given a talk show had already done that.) So, how exactly is Cardi being used?
Owens previously joined Carlson in complaining about “less sexy” M&M brands and about Disney putting Minnie Mouse in a pantsuit instead of her classic red and white polka dot skirt. She literally called the change was an attempt “to destroy the fabric of our society,” while not possessing the intelligence to do the five minutes of Googling it would have taken to know Minnie’s new threads weren’t a permanent design change and that they were created by a French fashion designer to mark Disneyland Paris’ 30th anniversary.
Anyway, Candace and Carlson are weird as hell and Cardi should continue not giving a f**k what either of them think.
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Haryana: India's ambitious child brides who dare to dream
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Photojournalist Ruhani Kaur traces the story of three child brides from the northern Indian state of Haryana who dream of studying and working against all odds.
Priyanka, Meenakshi and Shiwani grew up in Damdama, an urban village that is home to Gujjars, an influential agricultural community. Their village is less than half an hour from Gurgaon, an upscale suburb of India's capital, Delhi.
The girls, around 16 years old, have been friends since childhood. They are also child brides - one got married when she was just 10.
It is illegal for girls under the age of 18 to marry in India. But the practice still continues in many parts of the country due to patriarchy and poverty.
India is home to the largest number of child brides in the world, accounting for a third of the global total, according to the United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef. The charity estimates that at least 1.5 million girls under 18 get married here each year.
Last year, the government introduced a bill in parliament to increase the minimum age of marriage to 21, but it hasn't become a law yet.
The three friends desperately want to forge independent lives, but know there are big challenges ahead.
'Don't shackle me with marriage'
Priyanka was 10 when her family forced her to marry. Seven years on, she is in Class 11, and still lives in her parents' house.
But she has been told that she will have to go to live with her husband - who is studying for exams to join the police force - as soon as he gets a job.
She is scared, and pours her worries into her diary.
"Don't shackle me with marriage, I'm too young… I don't want to go to my mother-in-law, leaving my doll behind," she writes.
Priyanka says she isn't a very good student, but likes helping out at her brother's beauty parlour - she hopes this can help her stay at home longer.
Her cousin - who is married to Priyanka's husband's brother - also learnt some parlour work but couldn't continue because she too was married off. Priyanka yearns for a different life.
'We shouldn't get married until our dreams come true'
Last year, when Meenakshi entered Class 11, she became the first girl in her school to enrol in the science stream. Her happiness knew no bounds, she said then.
By that point, the coronavirus pandemic had changed lives. Millions lost their jobs during intermittent lockdowns, with many having to return to their hometowns and villages.
It was also a time when many parents of young girls, anxious about their future prospects, arranged their marriages.
A number of Meenakshi's classmates got married during this period, but she hoped to hold on. "I don't know about the right age [to get married] but until our dreams come true, we shouldn't get married!" she would say, defiantly.
But on 5 February this year, she became part of that statistic.
The henna is still visible on Meenakshi's hands as she reaches for her mobile phone, which is buzzing with messages from her 16-year-old husband. Her red bangles jingle as she types a reply.
Her husband is also studying, so Meenakshi's parents have told her she can stay on in school for now. She hopes her parents and in-laws will let her study for as long as she wants to.
Dreams of working in a bank
There is visible excitement on Shiwani's face when she speaks about studying - she loves going to school and dreams of becoming a banker.
But when her mother takes out her wedding album from the cupboard, Shiwani is jolted back to reality. She knows that her future may not be in her control after she finishes Class 12.
Shiwani and her elder sister Ashu got married on the same day - their uncle fixed their weddings along with that of his own daughter after the girls' father fell ill.
"Nothing's changed. I was married off at 15, and so was my daughter," Shiwani's mother says.
Their father had promised to let them finish Class 12, so both sisters clung fiercely to hope.
Ashu went to her husband's house before her exam results were out. She wanted to study more, maybe even pursue law, and hoped her in-laws would agree.
But within a few months, she got pregnant. She gave birth earlier this year.
As life goes on in the village, on a bright autumn day, Priyanka, Shiwani and Meenakshi meet their friend Monu, who is free of any immediate pressure to marry.
They shriek in excitement as they ride a creaking Ferris wheel.
As they start spinning faster and faster, the girls forget their worries for a glorious moment.
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Minimalist clogs continue to be all the rage. From Bottega Veneta’s rubberized slingbacks to the sleek leather styles from Rick Owens x Birkenstock, it's not hard to see why chunky slip-ons have become a fashion favorite in recent years.
Melissa's latest collaboration, a footwear capsule with the LA-based label Simon Miller, also hits that minimalist sweet spot. The standout is a jelly bubble clog made from Melissa's vegan jelly technology combined with Simon Miller's signature platform clog silhouette — all in monochromatic colors like matte kiwi, shiny blue and sepia brown and blue.
The clogs, which also come in black and white, are instant shoe candy and have a distinct summer rave quality about them. It is festival season after all. (There are also slides with a graphic floral and cow print for the less platform-inclined among us.)
Simon Miller is the latest Melissa collaborator following past link-ups with brands like Marine Serre, Viktor & Rolf and, most recently, Y/Project. If you're in New York, the Melissa store in SoHo will have an installation from now until mid-June that includes a space dedicated to the collab if you wanna see them IRL first.
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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — A computer glitch that led to the release of more than 280 defendants from the Harris County Jail over the weekend has happened before.
The county's Chief Public Defender Alex Bunin said it's happened 3 previous times in recent years and the District Attorney's office has done nothing to create a backup plan.
"Maybe this is a wake-up call and something will be done," said Bunin.
Bunin had a front-row seat to the computer glitch that crashed J-Web, the county's computer system.
"It affected the DA's system allowing them to accept and file charges," said Bunin.
It impacted hundreds of the defendants his office represents.
"In many cases, it kept them in jail for hours and days longer than they should have," said Bunin.
Some defendants were locked up without a probable cause hearing for more than 48 hours, violating Texas law. That's why Bunin said a magistrate ordered the release of more than 280 defendants.
"It sounds like a scary number but it really is business as usual," said Bunin. "What's not usual is keeping people in jail longer than they're supposed to be."
RELATED: Harris County Bail Bond Board rejects proposal requiring bondsmen to collect 10% minimum bond
Bunin said there was never a threat to public safety and no felony cases or violent offenders were part of that release.
"Those were all people that would have been released pretty quickly anyway," said Bunin.
The focus instead Bunin said needs to be on why the computer system failed again.
"This exact situation has happened 3 times before, but it never made the papers," said Bunin.
This was the fourth time, and if nothing changes, Bunin believes it won't be the last.
"I think everyone needs to get together, the DA, District Clerk, Universal Services, Sheriff, everyone needs to be on the same page," said Bunin. "Computers will go down again and we just need another plan when they do."
The DA's office is responding to the claim they've failed to create a backup plan. They released this statement:
"These failures are the responsibility of Universal Services, which is the County’s IT Department and it is crucial that Commissioners Court provide Universal Services with the sufficient resources- persons and technology- for this to be fixed and never happen again
This failure is not the result of anything done by the DA Office and the solution is not up to the DA." | https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/harris-county-jail-computer-glitch-280-defendants-released/285-fda9a0c7-b1b4-428c-b63e-59abbfa906c7 | 2022-04-01T01:02:33Z |
A look at what’s happening in European soccer on Friday:
GERMANY
The Bundesliga resumes to a full house as Union Berlin is allowed a capacity crowd for the first time in months for Cologne’s visit. Coronavirus restrictions are being scrapped in Berlin from Friday, part of a wider trend under national guidelines that will see full stadiums across the league. It’s going to be a special game for Cologne coach Steffen Baumgart, a fan favorite at Union for the two seasons he played at the club before its relegation to the third division in 2004. Baumgart played in Union’s heaviest ever second-division defeat, a 7-0 loss to Cologne in October 2002. Union’s record since it gained promotion to the Bundesliga in 2019 is far better. Of five games against Cologne in the top division, the Köpenick-based club has won four and drawn the other. Union has also won its last three Friday night games, in contrast to Cologne, which lost its last three. Another win would let Union replace Cologne in seventh place.
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By Darlene Superville | Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden marked Transgender Day of Visibility on Thursday by denouncing “hateful bills” being passed at the state level as the White House played host to “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider, the first openly transgender winner on the popular quiz show.
Schneider met with second gentleman Doug Emhoff, who joined Rachel Levine, the assistant health secretary and the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate, for a conversation with transgender kids and their parents.
Schneider used the moment in the Washington spotlight to speak out against bills affecting transgender people.
“They’re really scary and some of them in particular that are denying medical services to trans youth, those are, those are lifesaving medical treatments,” Schneider told reporters. “These bills will cause the deaths of children and that’s really sad to me and it’s really frightening.”
Biden, in a brief video message, said that “the onslaught of anti-transgender state laws attacking you and your families is simply wrong.” The president said his administration “is standing up for you against all these hateful bills. And we’re committed to advancing transgender equality in the classroom, on the playing field, at work, in our military and our housing and health care systems.”
The administration announced several actions to make the federal government more inclusive for transgender people and said the Health and Human Services Department will be the first agency to fly a trans pride flag. The steps come as Republican leaders have advanced state measures targeting transgender people as part of a broader push to stoke culture wars heading into a critical election season.
The administration said the federal government will become more inclusive for transgender people, including through the use of a new “X” gender marker on U.S. passport applications, beginning on April 11, and new Transportation Security Administration scanners that are gender-neutral.
It is working to expand the availability of the “X” gender marker to airlines and federal travel programs and will make it easier for transgender people to change their gender information in Social Security Administration records.
Visitors to the White House complex soon will also be able to choose an “X” gender marker option in the White House Worker and Visitor Entry System, which is used to conduct screening background checks.
At airports, changes will be made to screening scanners along with the introduction of the use of an “X” for travelers going through Precheck who do not identify as male or female. Transportation Security Administration agents will receive new instructions on how to make screening procedures less invasive and will work with airlines to promote acceptance of the “X” gender marker.
“Jeopardy!” star Schneider spoke of “being a trans person out there that isn’t monstrous and isn’t threatening and is just a normal person, like we all are,” and said “the more that people like me can be seen, the harder it is to sustain the myths that are … kind of driving a lot of this hate and fear.”
In his video, Biden said there is work still to be done to end “the epidemic of violence against transgender women of color and girls of color” and to ensure that transgender seniors “can age with dignity.” He called anew on Congress to pass the Equality Act to help transgender people around the world “live free from discrimination and violence.”
Biden tried to reassure any transgender person who is struggling, telling them to remember that “you’re not alone.”
“You’re so brave. You belong. And we have your back,” Biden said.
The administration’s actions follow recent steps at the state level to limit activity by transgender people. At least 10 states have banned transgender athletes from participating in sports at all levels in a way that is consistent with their gender identity.
In Texas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who is seeking reelection, has ordered the state’s child welfare agency to probe reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who is running for reelection and considering a 2024 presidential bid, on Monday signed into law a measure that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. The law has drawn intense national scrutiny from critics who argue it marginalizes LGBTQ people. Republicans and advocates of the law argue that discussion of these topics should be between parents and their children.
Associated Press writers Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, and Colleen Long and Ben Fox contributed to this report. | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/03/31/jeopardy-star-amy-schneider-visit-the-white-house/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:33Z |
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC – Get Rating) and Hanmi Financial (NASDAQ:HAFC – Get Rating) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Wells Fargo & Company and Hanmi Financial’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Profitability
This table compares Wells Fargo & Company and Hanmi Financial’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Wells Fargo & Company and Hanmi Financial, as reported by MarketBeat.
Wells Fargo & Company presently has a consensus target price of $57.03, suggesting a potential upside of 17.68%. Hanmi Financial has a consensus target price of $28.50, suggesting a potential upside of 15.81%. Given Wells Fargo & Company’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Wells Fargo & Company is more favorable than Hanmi Financial.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
69.0% of Wells Fargo & Company shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of Hanmi Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Wells Fargo & Company shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Hanmi Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Dividends
Wells Fargo & Company pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Hanmi Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Wells Fargo & Company pays out 20.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hanmi Financial pays out 27.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Wells Fargo & Company has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Hanmi Financial has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Volatility & Risk
Wells Fargo & Company has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hanmi Financial has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wells Fargo & Company Company Profile (Get Rating)
Wells Fargo & Company, a diversified financial services company, provides banking, investment, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services in the United States and internationally. It operates through four segments: Consumer Banking and Lending; Commercial Banking; Corporate and Investment Banking; and Wealth and Investment Management. The Consumer Banking and Lending segment offers diversified financial products and services for consumers and small businesses. Its financial products and services include checking and savings accounts, and credit and debit cards, as well as home, auto, personal, and small business lending services. The Commercial Banking segment provides financial solutions to private, family owned, and certain public companies. Its products and services include banking and credit products across various industry sectors and municipalities, secured lending and lease products, and treasury management services. The Corporate and Investment Banking segment offers a suite of capital markets, banking, and financial products and services to corporate, commercial real estate, government, and institutional clients. Its products and services comprise corporate banking, investment banking, treasury management, commercial real estate lending and servicing, equity, and fixed income solutions, as well as sales, trading, and research capabilities services. The Wealth and Investment Management segment provides personalized wealth management, brokerage, financial planning, lending, private banking, and trust and fiduciary products and services to affluent, high-net worth, and ultra-high-net worth clients. It also operates through financial advisors. Wells Fargo & Company was founded in 1852 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Hanmi Financial Company Profile (Get Rating)
Hanmi Financial Corp. is a holding company, which engages in the provision of commercial banking and financial services. It offers checking, money market and savings, treasury management, and loans. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (WFOR) — Florida is taking Walgreens to court in an effort to hold it accountable for what it claims was the company’s role in the state’s opioid crisis.
So far the state has recovered more than $3 billion from other pharmaceutical companies in its opioid litigation, but Walgreens was not one of the companies.
“It’s time for Walgreens to face accountability for their part in fueling the opioid crisis, and my team is prepared to vigorously try our strong case against them,” said state Attorney General Ashley Moody.
Jury selection for the trial in New Port Richey is set for April 5th, opening statements are likely to occur on or about April 11.
In court filings, the state highlighted what it said was concerning evidence surrounding Walgreens’s dispensing and distribution of opioids in Florida.
According to the filings, “a Walgreens drug distribution center sold 2.2 million tablets to a single Walgreens pharmacy in tiny Hudson, a roughly six-month supply for each of its 12,000 residents… In some cases, Walgreens increased orders by as much as 600% in the space of just two years, including, for example, supplying a town of 3,000 with 285,800 orders of oxycodone in a one-month period.”
The Office of the Attorney General will outline additional facts and figures concerning Walgreens’s role in creating and fueling the deadly opioid crisis during next week’s trial.
Moody recently announced that they had secured more than $870 million for opioid abatement from former defendants in the state’s case: CVS Health Corporation, CVS Pharmacy, Inc., Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd., and Allergan PLC.
Additionally, Attorney General Moody announced the finalization of the state’s agreement with Endo Health Solutions.
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Georgia State Patrol
Arrests
• Marcie Thompson, 36, 142 Cora Mae Rd., Carrabelle, Fl., was charged March 30 with D.U.I., possession of methamphetamine, speeding and possession of a schedule IV controlled substance.
Moultrie Police Department
Arrests
• Lamons Roddricus, 35, 3051 East Pear St., Pavo, was charged March 24 with possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug related objects.
• Ruby Lynn Simpson, 43, 209 Circle Drive S.E., was charged March 23 with battery-family violence.
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Arrests
• Christina Gail Kosik, 42, 4542 McMillian Rd., Ochlocknee, was charged March 30 with cruelty to animals.
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Teva Pharma (TEVA) Reaches Agreement With Florida to Settle the State’s Opioid-Related Claims
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Date for special election to replace Nebraska Congressman Jeff Fortenberry to be announced Friday
The state must hold a special election to fill Fortenberry's First Congressional District seat within 90 days of the vacancy, in accordance with Nebraska state law.
The state must hold a special election to fill Fortenberry's First Congressional District seat within 90 days of the vacancy, in accordance with Nebraska state law.
The state must hold a special election to fill Fortenberry's First Congressional District seat within 90 days of the vacancy, in accordance with Nebraska state law.
Nebraska Congressman Jeff Fortenberry's resignation became official as of 7:30 p.m. Thursday night.
Now, the state must hold a special election to fill Fortenberry's First Congressional District seat within 90 days of the vacancy, in accordance with Nebraska state law.
Governor Pete Ricketts's office told KETV Newswatch 7 it will wait and announce the date of the special election to replace Fortenberry on Friday.
The Republican's resignation triggered a 90-day vacancy period.
Fortenberry was convicted in California on March 24 on three felony charges for lying to the FBI about a 2016 foreign campaign contribution. On March 26, he announced that he was resigning from Congress.
The Nebraska Democratic and Republican parties will nominate their own candidates to fill Fortenberry's seat until January.
Jane Kleeb, chair of Nebraska Democrats, said their candidate will be announced at a later date.
"We have a shot, it's still an uphill battle. We're never naive as to the challenge in front of us. But we think we're going to have the dollars, the strong candidate and the volunteers to make it happen," Kleeb said.
In an email, Nebraska Republican Party executive director Taylor Gage said their executive committee will meet to nominate a candidate.
"Both the Republican and Democratic side are going to have a job in front of them to educate voters," Gage said.
Officials in Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge, Lancaster, Madison, Platte, Seward, Stanton, eastern Polk, and eastern Sarpy of District 1 will prepare for the special election, as well as the primary election on May 10 and the general election in November. | https://www.ketv.com/article/special-election-date-nebraska-congressman-jeff-fortenberry/39602425 | 2022-04-01T01:02:35Z |
Sept. 11 victims ask US government to seize Iran oil aboard American-owned tanker
Sept. 11 attack victims have asked the federal government to seize Iranian oil from a tanker in Asia that is American-owned.
The Associated Press reported that the victims made the request in a court filing on Thursday amid federal investigations into the involvement of the tanker, called the Suez Rajan, in the sanctioned trade of Iranian crude oil.
A million barrels of oil could be on the Suez Rajan, according to federal court filings, suggesting they were placed aboard the tanker by the National Iranian Oil Co. and the National Iranian Tanker Corp.
Both of the Iranian oil companies are under sanctions from the U.S. Treasury.
Sept. 11 victims are asking the government to seize the Iranian oil and sell it to fulfill a more than $3 billion judgement against Iran because of the attacks. The money would be given to families affected by the attacks.
The Suez Rajan is owned by Fleetscape, a subsidiary of Los Angeles-based private equity firm Oaktree Capital Management.
“The Suez Rajan is operated and managed by Empire Navigation; Fleetscape is a provider of lease financing to Empire Navigation, and has no role in the operation of Empire’s fleet,” a spokesperson for Fleetscape told The Hill.
“Fleetscape is committed to using best practices in its operations and complying with U.S. sanctions laws. We take any allegation of non-compliance very seriously and are cooperating fully with the U.S. authorities in a thorough investigation into this matter. That investigation is ongoing and Fleetscape and Empire are in regular contact with US authorities.”
Allegations against the Suez Rajan were initially made in February by United Against Nuclear Iran in a letter sent by the group to Oaktree Capital Management raising concerns about the tanker and its uses.
Discussions between the government and victims come amid tense negotiations between the U.S., Iran and other world powers in Vienna over the Iranian nuclear deal.
Updated 2:10 p.m.
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Dear Students,
It's time for some rewards for your hard work! I previously added seasonal items to customise your Dojo, though now I thought it was about time we had some new bracers to train with in your own style.
(The first set of bracers to unlock in game)
The bracers come with a smoother backend system as well, all unlockables now including the Dojo environments trigger a small floating plank pop up that you can punch right away if you want to access your new reward immediately.
This hopefully makes rewards clearer as to when you unlock them, and being able to access them faster. And all your rewards will be in one place, under "DOJO" in the menu. There's now a "BRACERS" section where you can find all the currently unlockable bracers.
Here's a full list of what's included in this update
Updates and fixes:
- Unlockable bracers! New bracers will be added regularly for a few months that need to be unlocked at different levels of training.
- New "Bracers" section in the menu under the "DOJO" tab.
- New reward system! Check for the pop up panels that you can smash once you've unlocked something.
- Removed accuracy count bar from the scoreboard when in Fight mode, as this is only valid for Train mode.
- Fixed issue where Expert level 11 wouldn't unlock in some instances.
- Updated leaderboards layout to be clearer.
- FIxed issue where if using focus mode directly after Expert, precision spheres would spawn. Or was that a feature? I'm not sure, but it doesn't happen anymore. :)
If you have any questions or feedback, let me know in the comments or on Discord!
As always, train hard and stay focused. | https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/8470553/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:35Z |
Turkish FM says he’ll visit Israel in May, discuss reinstalling ambassadors
Foreign Ministry doesn’t confirm Mevlut Cavusoglu’s trip; Ankara’s top envoy also says Israel-Turkey gas pipeline will not happen anytime soon
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday that he will travel to Israel and the Palestinian Authority in mid-May. Speaking to Turkish TV channel A Haber, Cavusoglu said he will discuss the return of ambassadors to Turkey and Israel during the trip, according to Reuters.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry told The Times of Israel that it could not confirm the visit at this time.
Once robust regional allies, Israel and Turkey saw their ties fray during the tenure of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has has been an outspoken critic of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians.
Israel has been upset by Erdogan’s warm relations with Hamas, the terror group that controls the Gaza Strip.
The countries reciprocally withdrew their ambassadors in 2010 after Israeli forces were attacked when they boarded a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian aid for the Palestinians that attempted to break an Israeli blockade, and killed 10 Turkish citizens in the altercation.
Relations slowly improved but broke down again in 2018, after Turkey, angered by the United States moving its embassy to Jerusalem, once more recalled its envoy from Israel, prompting Israel to reciprocate.
In the latest sign of attempts to restore ties, President Isaac Herzog visited Turkey earlier this month for a landmark 24-hour visit.
Cavusoglu’s visit was the topic of some confusion during Herzog’s trip. Both Herzog and Erdogan announced that the Turkish foreign minister would visit Israel and meet Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in April — but apparently caught the Foreign Ministry off guard.
Lapid’s spokesman told reporters that Cavusoglu had expressed interest in visiting, but that no visit had been scheduled yet.
Erdogan said during Herzog’s visit that he believed “this historic visit will be a turning point in relations between Turkey and Israel. Strengthening relations with the State of Israel has great value for our country.”
He noted that his meeting with Herzog included a discussion about events in Ukraine and in the Eastern Mediterranean and said he believed “the coming period will bring new opportunities for both regional and bilateral cooperation.”
“This is a very important moment in relations between our countries, and I feel it is a great privilege for both of us to lay the foundations for the cultivation of friendly relations between our states and our peoples, and to build bridges that are critical for all of us,” Herzog said.
Gas diplomacy
Cavusoglu also said Thursday that a gas pipeline between Israel and Turkey will not happen in the near future.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has made clear to European leaders how pressing it is to develop alternatives to Russian natural gas. Israel and its Mediterranean partners hope to be part of the solution for Europe, but it remains unclear how the gas will reach the continent.
After the Biden administration dropped its support for the EastMed gas pipeline in January, Erdogan indicated he wanted Turkey to be involved in the import of Israeli gas to Europe, saying there had been “some progress” on the matter in the past, and suggesting a new project that would involve Ankara.
Then-energy minister Yuval Steinitz mentioned during a March 2021 press conference in Cyprus that Israel would be open to cooperating with Turkey on natural gas, but then walked back the comments somewhat.
But statements from Ankara won’t be enough to make Israel and its EastMed partners cooperate with Turkey on Mediterranean energy exploration.
If Ankara continues to insist on maintaining a 2019 maritime border deal with Libya that claims economic rights over areas that Greece and Cyprus see as their exclusive economic zones, Israel’s allies will continue to treat Turkey as an adversary. Greece says the Turkey-Libya deal fails to take into account the island of Crete, while Turkey has already upset Cyprus by sending ships to search for oil and gas off the divided island. | https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkish-fm-says-hell-visit-israel-in-may-discuss-reinstalling-ambassadors/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:35Z |
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to approve legislation that would limit cost-sharing for insulin under private health insurance and Medicare. The vote was 232-193, with 12 Republican members joining their Democratic colleagues to pass the measure.
The Affordable Insulin Now Act would cap insulin prices at either $35 a month or 25% of an insurance plan's negotiated price — whichever is lower. The legislation aims to take effect in 2023 but its fate in the Senate remains unclear.
"This is a kitchen table issue, "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said to reporters ahead of the bill's passage on Thursday.
"One in four Americans is forced to skip or ration doses of insulin and that's life-threatening," she said, noting the legislation "paves the way" for further action on negotiating lower drug prices beyond insulin.
Advocates of the legislation point to data from the Health Care Cost Institute, an independent nonprofit that studies health care prices, which shows prices for insulin doubled between 2012 and 2016.
"No one should have to choose between taking their medication as prescribed and putting food on the table or a roof over their head," said Rep. Dan Kildee, one of three Democratic lawmakers who sponsored the legislation.
"As a father of a type 1 diabetic, I have seen firsthand how the high price of prescription drugs like insulin can harm patients and harm families," the Michigan Democrat said during debate on the House floor. "When my daughter turned 26 and got her own health insurance, there were months where she spent a third of her take home pay because she's diabetic on staying alive."
Critics of the bill argue the cap alone doesn't do enough to solve the underlying problem of rising prescription drug prices.
"We want lower prices for drugs, particularly for insulin," said Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga, during debate. "But instead of fixing a broken system, this bill aims to control it," he adding, calling the bill a "socialist plan."
House Democrats passed legislation in November as part of a broader spending package that would have enabled Medicare to negotiate lower prices for various prescription drugs.
Because that package remains stalled in the Senate, Democrats are working to more narrowly tackle making common drugs like insulin more affordable.
There is a similar bipartisan effort under way in the Senate but its path is unclear as Republicans have traditionally been opposed to price caps.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.upr.org/npr-news/2022-03-31/house-passes-bill-to-cap-insulin-prices | 2022-04-01T01:02:35Z |
People who suffered from even mild cases of COVID-19 face an increased risk of being diagnosed with diabetes within a year of recovering from the illness, a new study reports.
Researchers found that people who had COVID-19 were about 40% more likely to develop diabetes within a year after recovering, compared to participants in a control group. The likelihood of developing diabetes grew if the patient suffered from a serious infection that led to hospitalization or a stay in intensive care.
"What's surprising is that it is happening in people with no prior risk factors for diabetes" before becoming infected with COVID-19, said Ziyad Al-Aly, the lead author of the study.
These latest findings add to a growing list of studies showing that people who suffered from COVID-19 are at risk of facing other long-term health problems. Those include heart and kidney ailments and chronic fatigue.
Al-Aly also helped lead the study that showed the prevalence of cardiac issues in people who survived COVID-19 infections.
This newest study, published Monday in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal, analyzed data from more than 180,000 patients from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The study's authors compared patients who tested positive for COVID-19 and survived the illness for more than a month with more than 4 million other people who didn't contract COVID in the same period. This data was also compared with another 4.28 million patients who were treated at the VA in 2018 and 2019.
The paper states that around 1% to 2% of people who have been infected with COVID will develop diabetes as a result. That may seem like a small number, but nearly 80 million people in the U.S. have had COVID, Al-Aly told NPR — meaning 800,000 to 1.6 million people developing diabetes who might not have otherwise.
"That translates to a really significant number of people with new onset diabetes in the U.S. and many, many more around the world," Al-Aly said.
Nationwide, approximately 34 million people had diabetes pre-COVID, according to Jorge Moreno, an internal medicine physician at Yale University who didn't work on Al-Aly's study. Doctors expect roughly 1.5 million new people to be newly diagnosed with diabetes each year during normal times, he told NPR.
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This study shows that as a nation, more attention needs to be paid to the long-term effects of COVID-19, Al-Aly said. More vigilance can start at the doctor's office.
"We need to start treating COVID as a risk factor for diabetes," Al-Aly said, adding that each person who has come down with the virus needs to be screened.
Moreno told NPR he believes this study will create more awareness among general practitioners and endocrinologists, like himself, to screen patients who have had COVID for diabetes and other complications.
Those who've had COVID should also be closely monitoring their health and changes in their body, Moreno said, and should seek help at the first sign of an issue. Major symptoms for diabetes include increased thirst, frequent urination (which is not influenced by how much liquid consumed) and blurry vision. Major weight fluctuations are also a sign.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kunr.org/world-headlines/2022-03-31/covid-19-infection-increases-your-risk-for-diabetes-a-new-study-says | 2022-04-01T01:02:35Z |
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BOSTON (AP) — A bill aimed at banning discrimination based on natural and protective hairstyles in workplaces, school districts, and school-related organizations was unanimously approved Thursday by the Massachusetts Senate.
The vote comes two weeks after the Massachusetts House approved a similar bill.
Supporters say Black women in particular have faced pressure in school and the workplace to alter their hair to conform to policies biased against natural hairstyles.
The Senate added a provision to the House version of the bill that would include the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association to the list of school entities banned from adopting and implementing restrictions on natural hairstyles.
Advocates say the change will ensure those participating in sports and extracurricular activities will not be asked to change their natural or protective hairstyles in order to participate.
The bill has its roots in the case of a Massachusetts charter school that came under fire in 2017 for a policy of banning hair braid extensions. After intense criticism, the school abandoned the policy.
The U.S. House also approved a bill earlier this month that would bar discrimination against Black people who wear hairstyles like Afros, cornrows or tightly coiled twists in society, school and the workplace. The federal bill would explicitly say that such discrimination is a violation of federal civil rights law.
President Joe Biden has said he would sign the bill into law. It now heads to the U.S. Senate.
Lawmakers in the Massachusetts House and Senate now have to come up with a single version of the bill before taking a final vote and shipping it to Republican Gov. Charlie Baker for his signature.
If signed into law, Massachusetts would become the fifteenth state to adopt the measure, known as the CROWN Act. | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/Bill-banning-hairstyle-bias-approved-by-17049811.php | 2022-04-01T01:02:36Z |
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Our elected leaders should reflect the constituents they represent, which begs the question, why aren’t there more Black women holding office? This country’s current racial and gender diversity statistics are bleak: Black women currently have no representation in the Senate, and there has never been a Black woman governor.
Even more alarming, in the 2020 elections, 117 Black women ran for a seat in the House, and only 25 of those women were elected. Black women have proven themselves as strong leaders, yet they struggle to win in statewide races. With the 2022 midterm elections looming and a record number of Black women expected to run, I hope we can stop this extreme lack of diversity.
Greater representation in congress is why I joined Emerge, an organization that recruits and trains Democratic women to run for office. My goal was to ultimately put more women, especially women of color, into office because I knew a racial and gender shift in congress would not only impact displaced communities in this country. Still, it would also inspire the next generation of candidates.
I recently spoke about the importance of representation with New Jersey State Rep. Sadaf Jaffer on my podcast, The Brown Girls Guide to Politics. She told me about a community event she attended where mothers came up to her with their daughters, telling them they could one day be elected to public office. Seeing a woman of color like Rep. Jaffer, who was also the first Muslim woman mayor in New Jersey, hold office shows young women everywhere that they can one day sit at the head of decision-making tables.
History has shown that our voices and concerns are heard and addressed when Black women are in office. With voting rights being threatened across the country and reproductive freedom at stake, it is important now more than ever to elect leaders in the midterms who are willing to protect these rights and understand how they disproportionately affect women of color.
As it stands, Black women, who will bear the brunt of abortion restrictions, face higher rates of complications and death during pregnancy and childbirth. Reps. Alma Adams and Lauren Underwood created the first Black Maternal Health Caucus to reverse the rising maternal mortality rates in 2019. If these two women had not created this caucus, would Congress have responded to the Black maternal mortality crisis? Imagine how much more could be done for Black women if there were more strong voices like Reps. Adams and Underwood’s speaking up for us in Washington.
Stacey Abrams’ activism and her 2018 gubernatorial campaign brought another huge issue to the nation’s attention: racial voter suppression. Since her loss to Brian Kemp, Abrams has committed herself to fighting to end this issue since more Republican-dominated state legislatures nationwide have adopted voting restrictions to stop Black people from voting, including in Georgia.
A recent Quinnipiac University poll found that only 40 percent of Black registered voters in Georgia expect it to be very easy to vote in 2022, compared to 73 percent of white registered voters. We must elect members of congress who are willing to advance the federal voting rights that are at stake.
We do, however, have reason to celebrate. Over the past two years, there have been major victories for women of color. Biden recently nominated the incredibly qualified Judge Kentaji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Though she will have a tough road ahead, I am thrilled about her nomination.
In 2021, Elaine O’Neal became the first woman of color and first Black woman elected mayor of Durham, North Carolina. State Rep. Mia Bonita, who I recently spoke with on my podcast, became the first Afro-Latina woman to serve in the California Legislature last year.
Black women are looking to make even more historic gains in the 2022 midterm elections, and I’m ecstatic about the slate of women running. There are currently five Black women running for governor in the midterms, including Abrams. Aramis Ayala is running for attorney general in Florida, and Rep. Val Demings is challenging Marco Rubio for his senate seat.
Admittedly, these women will have a tough road ahead of them. They will encounter racism and sexism that I’ve seen too often in my years working in politics. But if there’s anything these trailblazing women have shown, they aren’t afraid to go against the status quo to make a difference for the betterment of this country.
A’shanti Gholar serves as president of Emerge, an organization committed to training and supporting Democratic women running for office. She also hosts the podcast “The Brown Girls Guide to Politics.”
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Patrick Demarchelier has died at 78. The announcement was first made on his official Instagram account. "He is survived by his wife Mia, his three sons Gustaf, Arthur, Victor and three grandchildren," the post said.
The French fashion photographer was one of the most sought-after creatives in his field, having shot numerous covers for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and more for over four decades.
Among his most famous works were his intimate photographs of Princess Diana in the '80s as well as portraits of Janet Jackson, Britney Spears and Madonna, including the latter's famous "Justify My Love" single cover. He also regularly shot campaigns for the likes of Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton.
Demarchelier had several pop culture crossover moments as well, including a cameo in the Sex and the City film for Carrie Bradshaw's bridal shoot and the infamous "I have Patrick!" quote from The Devil Wears Prada. He also appeared in the documentary The September Issue to do last-minute photographs for Grace Coddington after the images by Edward Enninful were deemed not sufficient.
In recent years, however, Demarchelier's reputation took a nosedive following sexual assault allegations made by seven models in a 2018 Boston Globe report, leading to Conde Nast cutting ties with him indefinitely. (According to models.com, he's had almost no new work published since.)
In the Instagram post today announcing his death, several of his past collaborators from the fashion world expressed their condolences, including model Amber Valletta, hairstylist Sam McKnight, makeup artist Peter Philips and model Gigi Hadid.
"I’m so sadden by this news," Valletta wrote. "Patrick was one of the first photographers to work with me. He is fashion history and legendary photography. We will miss him. I am sending love and good thoughts to his family."
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HOUSTON — A west Houston family is blaming last week’s strong winds for causing the gate to their backyard to break, which allowed for their beloved dog to escape.
Their Goldendoodle made it to a gas station across the street where a man is seen on camera taking the dog and driving away.
“The wind actually made it burst” the dog’s owner, Augusto Guzman, explains from his backyard. “Normally, he sits and plays here and Kate went inside her office, he came out but the wind ended up breaking the latch at the door.”
They didn’t know it at the time, but Oliver, the family’s Goldendoodle managed to get out.
Someone passing on the sidewalk played with him for a minute, then Oliver crossed the street, to the gas station on the corner.
“That’s actually when this person saw him and then they took him,” Guzman said.
The man goes into the gas station, buys an item, and then leaves.
“And then he actually started trying to get Oliver when he was parked there,” Guzman said.
“He called Oliver, Oliver hesitated, but ended up jumping in the car,” Guzman said. “And as soon as he got him, he got in the street and went west on Richmond.”
The white Ford Expedition the man was driving had paper plates.
Augusto says Oliver was wearing his dog tag, with his name on the front and Augusto’s phone number on the back.
The Guzman’s other dog, “Bella,” and the rest of their family have been waiting for the phone to ring, hoping whoever has Oliver is on the other end of the line.
That call hasn’t come.
Until then, they’ll just keep hoping.
“We’re offering a reward, no questions asked, we just want our baby back,” Guzman said.
If you think you may know where the dog is located, Guzman asks that you call 832-429-5386. The Guzman’s are offering a $1,000 reward. | https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/west-houston-dog-taken-asking-for-return/285-506d6bf6-9235-40f1-8a0c-d9c708d96839 | 2022-04-01T01:02:39Z |
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LOS ANGELES — 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.” | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/03/31/oscars-police-offered-to-arrest-will-smith-over-attack/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:39Z |
MOULTRIE, Ga. — Two weeks ago, four Colquitt County High School FFA students competed in the State Livestock Evaluation Career Development Event.
This contest is more commonly known as the Livestock Judging Contest.
Colquitt County has had great success on the area and regional levels over the years in this event, but according to records the last state winning team took place in 1978. After winning the area and region event in January, four FFA members traveled to Covington, GA to participate in the state contest.
The state contest was composed of eight placing classes, one keep/cull class, four sets of oral reasons, a general knowledge test, and a team activity. The state contest included the top 12 teams from across the entire state. After all scores were tallied, the Colquitt County FFA team topped the list by 30 points. This had finally ended the 44-year drought of being named state livestock evaluation champions.
The team members included Carolyne Turner, who was the second highest scoring individual in the entire contest, Christie Deariso, Laurie Burt, and Baylee Tatum. All four students are either juniors or sophomores.
The team was awarded the Gary Minyard traveling trophy at the Board of Education meeting Monday night. The trophy is awarded each year to the state winning livestock evaluation team.
This accomplishment has awarded the opportunity for these girls to compete at the national livestock evaluation contest in Indianapolis at the National FFA Convention. This team will not only continue to represent Colquitt County but will now represent the entire state of Georgia in the National Event.
“We are so proud of all the hard work, dedication, studying, and preparation, these students have put into this event,” FFA adviser Will Burt said. “They are all four exceptional students and go above and beyond to accomplish their goals. There is not a more deserving team to finally win this award, and they will be sure to represent the state of Georgia well at the national event. “ | https://www.moultrieobserver.com/news/local_news/ffa-livestock-judging-team-wins-first-state-championship-in-44-years/article_9eca0682-b128-11ec-aade-57657184ab08.html | 2022-04-01T01:02:39Z |
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Destroyed Russian tanks line a road on the outskirts of Ukraine's capital, where Ukrainian troops pose for selfies atop the shell of one vehicle after their forces overran a Russian position. An 81-year-old man bicycles alone past one burned-out tank on the muddy road.
Close to Kyiv, in Irpin, Ukrainian soldiers carry the bodies of civilians killed by Russian forces over a destroyed bridge. Other soldiers assist an elderly woman who has hidden from Russian shelling in a shelter for weeks without food and water.
In the town of Bashtanka, people who have fled nearby villages attacked by the Russian army shelter in a church among the pews and in the basement bomb shelter.
During a break for lunch, a Ukrainian soldier keeps a machine gun close at hand, next to pickles and condiments on the table. | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4493116 | 2022-04-01T01:02:40Z |
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WALTHAM, Mass., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Uptycs, provider of the first cloud-native security analytics platform enabling cloud and endpoint security from a common solution, today announced the results of its completed MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluation, Round 4. This round of independent ATT&CK Evaluations for enterprise cybersecurity solutions emulated the Wizard Spider and Sandworm threat groups. Wizard Spider is responsible for the infamous Ryuk ransomware family, and Sandworm is a Russian cyber military unit behind the 2017 NotPetya attacks.
"Ransomware is a growing scourge for all types of organizations and the focus of these MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations could not come at a more appropriate time," said Ganesh Pai, Co-founder and CEO at Uptycs. "Security teams can use these evaluation results to identify gaps in their detection coverage. Our strong performance in both the Windows and Linux portions of the evaluation demonstrate how Uptycs helps these Security teams to detect even advanced ransomware actors, in addition to the hardening needed to minimize the risk of ransomware in the first place."
The MITRE Engenuity evaluations team chose to emulate two threat groups that abuse the Data Encrypted For Impact (T1486) technique. In Wizard Spider's case, they have leveraged data encryption for ransomware, including the widely known Ryuk malware (S0446). Sandworm, on the other hand, leveraged encryption for the destruction of data, perhaps most notably with their NotPetya malware (S0368) that disguised itself as ransomware. While the common thread to this year's evaluations is "Data Encrypted for Impact," both groups have substantial reporting on a broad range of post-exploitation tradecraft.
New advanced detection capabilities helped Uptycs perform strongly in the Wizard Spider and Sandworm evaluation, including:
- Ransomware detection - Uptycs provides generic detection and protection against ransomware attacks on Windows operating systems. The capability analyzes telemetry inside the endpoint agent so it can protect against the attacks in offline mode.
- Process code injection / DLL injection and process hollowing - Uptycs provides generic detection to process code injection and process hollowing on both Windows and Linux endpoints. Process code injection is a technique used by attackers to inject malicious code inside a trusted running process to evade detection.
- Master boot record (MBR) overwrite - Uptycs provides generic detection of MBR overwrite on Windows-based endpoints. MBR overwrite is a technique used by adversaries where the goal is to disrupt operations and make the system unusable.
- Lsass.exe memory credential dumping - To detect attacker attempts to steal credentials, Uptycs provides generic detection of lsass.exe (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service) memory credential dumping on Windows-based endpoints.
For full results and more information about the evaluations, please visit: https://attackevals.mitre-engenuity.org/enterprise/wizard-spider-and-sandworm/.
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