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The Atlanta-based Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNaP Co.) wants people to go deeper than visibility. In a new report, “Deeper Than Visibility,” SNaP Co. challenges policymakers and allies to consider many perspectives in pursuing public safety policies.
The report’s release coincided with the 13th annual Trans Day of Visibility. In the report’s introduction, SNaP Co. Executive Director Toni-Michelle Williams said that everyone deserves to feel safe.
“To be transformed by grace and mercy in a way that snowballs into more safety for each of us because safety cannot exist for some and not all,” Williams wrote.
Williams told NewsOne the new report arose from coalition organizing over the past few years in a city that claims it’s “too busy to hate.”
“Our commitment was just to talk to the people and pull the stories that we knew were true, and to be open and curious about the stories that we didn’t know,” Williams said. “We wanted to do a project that focused directly on Black, queer and trans issues, which is why we developed ‘Deeper Than Visibility.’”
Even before the killing of Rayshard Brooks in June 2020, SNap Co has worked with coalition partners to reimagine public safety. But after an Atlanta police officer killed Brooks, SNaP Co took its organizing to a new level. The organization hired 14 trans and queer organizers, including two youth organizers, to launch a community survey on what it means to have a safer Atlanta.
Equipped with PPE and proper safety protocols, the SNaP Co. organizers spoke with people across four counties in the Metro-Atlanta area: DeKalb, Clayton, Fulton, and Cobb. The group worked with allied Atlanta-based organizations like Women on the Rise, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and the Southern Center for Human Rights. The Movement for Black Lives also provided support for the organizing effort.
“As an abolitionist organization, we knew that there were different kinds of conversations that Black people were having about police,” she said. “And there were more conversations that needed to happen.”
From that organizing work, the “Deeper Than Visibility” report emerged. By interweaving narrative spotlights called “Tale From the Trenches” sharing individual experiences and reflections, the report provides expansive rarely explored in conversations of safety or visibility. But as Williams explains, it isn’t either/or, the two concepts are intertwined.
“The premise of the report is about how there is a small group of people in Atlanta who are Black, trans and queer fighting for everybody,” Williams explained. “And this report is an invitation for everybody to jump into the work with us. Especially as we are leading into another election.”
Grounded in a Black trans feminist framework, the “Deeper Than Visibility” report also shares the results of community surveys that engaged people in four Metro-Atlanta counties about Black community experiences with law enforcement. As part of a broader “mixed-methods” study, the survey engaged 565 respondents. Over 76 percent of respondents said they could call someone other than law enforcement.
When asked what the top five issues impacting their communities were, respondents named homelessness, poverty, gentrification, lack of addiction and mental health services, and police misconduct/abuse and police-involved shootings. The report noted that even though homelessness was a concern, respondents had little awareness of the greater risk for unemployment and poverty facing transgender community members.
A part of the coalition that worked to address marijuana decriminalization in Atlanta and closing the Atlanta City Detention Center, SNaP Co. has remained in campaign mode over the past few years.
“We wanted more than anything to lead campaigns that truly center trans people,” Williams shared. “And we know that when we center trans people, that would liberate everyone. A lot of our other campaigns were centered around the experiences of Black cis heterosexual men, and then also the experiences of Black cis women.”
This point stood out as she also reflected on the recent murders of two Black trans women in Chicago. Elise Malary and Tatiana Labelle were both in their early 30s at the time of their murders.
Black trans and queer folks are often front and center in fights for justice. We must hold them down year-round and not just on commemorative days or designated weeks of action.
“At the bottom line, we have to connect when it involves our safety,” Williams said. “We have to hear what people need to be safe and act on it. We have to interrupt violence when it’s happening. We have to show up for trans people and for people when homophobia and transphobia is happening.”
This year’s day of recognition comes as many states are taking action to limit the rights and privacy afforded transgender people. Last year attorney Chase Strangio and writer and activist launched a Trans Week of Visibility and Action to spread awareness about the legislative attacks happening to trans people of all ages and help allies understand how to support efforts to fight back.
All of the work to raise awareness and build new understandings of what it means to keep each other safe must include Black trans folks at the outset and not as an afterthought. Williams said it is important to listen to what people feel they need to be safe and act on it.
“It is imperative that we have a culture shift in how we receive each other’s truths,” Williams said. “We are the embodiment of what it means to love and interrupt time in a real way.”
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'Deeper Than Visibility' Centers Trans Experiences With Safety was originally published on newsone.com | https://rnbcincy.com/547864/deeper-than-visibility-centers-trans-experiences-with-safety/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:43Z |
Whitestone REIT (NYSE:WSR – Get Rating) and KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (NYSE:KREF – Get Rating) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and risk.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
55.9% of Whitestone REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.9% of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.2% of Whitestone REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
This table compares Whitestone REIT and KKR Real Estate Finance Trust’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Whitestone REIT. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Whitestone REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
Whitestone REIT has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KKR Real Estate Finance Trust has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dividends
Whitestone REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Whitestone REIT pays out 165.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust pays out 78.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Whitestone REIT has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Profitability
This table compares Whitestone REIT and KKR Real Estate Finance Trust’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings for Whitestone REIT and KKR Real Estate Finance Trust, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
Whitestone REIT presently has a consensus target price of $13.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.89%. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust has a consensus target price of $22.38, indicating a potential upside of 8.56%. Given KKR Real Estate Finance Trust’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is more favorable than Whitestone REIT.
Summary
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust beats Whitestone REIT on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
Whitestone REIT Company Profile (Get Rating)
Whitestone REIT engages in the operation of commercial properties in culturally diverse markets of major metropolitan areas. The company was founded on August 20, 1998 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.
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KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc., a mortgage real estate investment trust, focuses primarily on originating and acquiring senior loans secured by commercial real estate (CRE) assets. It engages in the origination and purchase of credit investments related to CRE, including leveraged and unleveraged commercial mortgage loans, and commercial mortgage-backed securities. The company has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust and would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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Ukraine group claims 9,000 Russians killed in Ukraine invasion
A Ukrainian group claims Russia has lost as many as 9,000 personnel in the first eight days of its invasion of Ukraine.
The figures estimated by the Ukrainian Centre for Defence Strategies, a Ukrainian think tank, far exceed those Russia has publicized.
Moscow on Wednesday said 498 of its soldiers had died so far in the fighting.
The think tank put Russia’s losses at more than 200 tanks, more than 800 armored combat vehicles, more than 30 helicopters and more than 30 aircraft.
Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 and has taken territory on several sides of the country, but particularly in the south, where it has seized the city of Kherson.
Overnight, Russia also captured the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest such plant in Europe.
Ukrainians have fled the country amid the invasion, with the United Nations recording more than a million refugees, around 2 percent of the country’s population, going to neighboring countries.
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/russia/596852-russia-has-lost-estimated-9000-personnel-in-ukraine-invasion/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:41Z |
Young Professionals discuss what it will take to retain talent in Omaha
"It's definitely gone from nothing to something in my opinion," Keith Rodgers said.
"It's definitely gone from nothing to something in my opinion," Keith Rodgers said.
"It's definitely gone from nothing to something in my opinion," Keith Rodgers said.
Over 1,000 young professionals are at CHI Health Center making connections and focusing on things like Omaha's infrastructure and how it will help bring and keep talent in the Metro.
"The energy is so great," Young Professionals Summit chair Darius Christensen said.
Christensen said city development is getting people excited about the future.
"I think once the streetcar gets done, the fact that people aren't going to need to own a car and live downtown and get to wherever they need to get is very big," Christensen said.
Attending the YP Summit is Keith Rodgers. He said Omaha has changed in the last decade.
"I'm going to be completely transparent. I wanted to leave Omaha for a very long time because I felt like I hit my glass ceiling here," Rodgers said.
He said Omaha's evolution, especially in the creative community, has kept him around and expanded his career.
"It's definitely gone from nothing to something in my opinion," Rodgers said.
Christensen said keynote speakers also help professionals learn how to start and run a business.
"Look into what that looks like investing in your workforce coming here," Christensen said.
One of this year's YP Summit Changemakers is Leah Whitney Chavez. She said her organization, World Speaks Omaha, breaks language barriers. She said diversity will keep local talent.
"With a mindset that is more futuristic and forward-thinking and people are going to be like, 'OK. This company, this team, this community is thinking forward and accepts people like me,' and then they'll stay," Chavez said.
Christensen said businesses and young professionals need to work together. | https://www.ketv.com/article/young-professionals-how-to-retain-talent-in-omaha/39602489 | 2022-04-01T01:02:45Z |
After years of teasing, murmurs and false starts, it's finally happening: new Sky Ferreira music is coming.
Officially announcing her return with a sly "remember me?", Ferreira shared a teaser for something titled "Don't Forget" coming soon. It's unclear whether the trailer reminiscent of the THX deep note intro is referring to a new single or the name of the highly anticipated follow-up to 2013's Night Time, My Time (or possibly both), but it is the most concrete confirmation we've had to date that a new Ferreira album is actually materializing.
The teaser's arrival seems to back up Ferreira's mother's claims from back in January that new music would be out in March. And while it isn't the full album that was promised, the announcement does seem to confirm Ferreira's mother's prediction, as well as the artist's own. Last fall, Ferreira toasted a finished album on Instagram with a bottle of Martinelli's apple juice, captioning the post with the hint "it comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb."
"Don't Forget" could possibly mark Ferreira's first single since 2019's "Downhill Lullaby," which was advertised as the first taste of her sophomore album, Masochism. It's unclear as to whether or not, this new project is the finished version of that album or something else entirely, but what we do know is that something appears to be in the pipeline, regardless of how hazy and vague the details may be.
If we've learned anything from the Sky Ferreira Updates account, it's that being a Sky Ferreira fan is an endurance sport. Considering its been almost 10 years since the artist's debut album, it isn't really that big of an issue if we still have to wait a couple a more days, weeks or even months. Hopefully, if this trailer is any indication, it ends up being sooner rather than later but for the time being we will just have to patiently wait and see.
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THE GAME: The Angels beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 10-5, on Thursday afternoon at American Family Fields in Maryvale, Ariz.
PITCHING REPORT: Shohei Ohtani appeared as a two-way player for the first time this spring, listed in the lineup separately as the pitcher and the DH. Ohtani threw 65 pitches in 3-2/3 innings, allowing two earned runs and three runs. He was burned by a couple of plays that second baseman Jack Mayfield didn’t make. Ohtani struck out four and walked three. Ohtani said he was simply happy to get his pitch count up in his final start before Opening Day. “Everything is going really smooth,” he said through his interpreter. Manager Joe Maddon said he was encouraged that Ohtani’s velocity touched 99 mph, even in spring training. … Right-hander Jimmy Herget entered with the bases loaded in the fourth, and allowed one run to score on a sacrifice fly. He then pitched a scoreless fifth. Herget, who is in the running for one of the final bullpen spots, has allowed one run in 5-2/3 innings this spring. … Closer Raisel Iglesias gave up a two-run homer, the first runs he had allowed in four innings this spring. … Right-hander Kyle Barraclough pitched a scoreless inning, striking out two. Barraclough has allowed one run in five innings, with no walks and nine strikeouts.
HITTING REPORT: Justin Upton blasted a pair of home runs, a grand slam and a two-run homer. Upton also homered on Tuesday. He is 5 for 15 with one strikeout and 11 RBIs this spring. … Taylor Ward hit a drive into the right-center field gap that would have been an extra-base hit, but the bases were loaded and Jared Walsh, who was at first, had to hold up to see if the ball would be caught. Walsh only made it to second and Ward was credited with a single. In Ward’s next trip, he hit a fly ball to the fence in center. … Tyler Wade yanked a ground ball down the right field line and turned it into a triple. Wade later beat out a slow grounder for an infield hit. … Walsh had three hits, improving to 7 for 21 this spring. Walsh had said he’s traditionally a slow starter in spring training. … Ohtani was 1 for 3, with a single. … Matt Duffy was 2 for 2, improving to 6 for 9 in spring training… Mayfield hit his second homer of the spring.
DEFENSE REPORT: Mayfield couldn’t come up with a sharp grounder hit just to his left. Mayfield later made an error on a potential double-play ball that could have ended the inning. … Upton, playing left field, appeared to get a late start on a fly ball, but he made a sliding catch.
UP NEXT: Reds at Angels, Friday, 1 p.m. PT, Tempe Diablo Stadium, Bally Sports West, 830 AM | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/03/31/shohei-ohtani-pitches-and-hits-justin-upton-homers-twice-in-angels-victory/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:45Z |
HOUSTON — All month long, KHOU11 is sharing the stories of local women leading the way in honor of Women's History Month.
One Houston woman has made it her life's mission to fight for voting rights and she is currently the president of the local chapter of The League of Women Voters.
“Voting rights is a passionate thing because I think every citizens’ voice should be heard," said Annie Johnson-Benifield.
When you meet Johnson-Benifield, you can’t help but notice her passion.
“Participating in the political process I think should bring joy to people," she said.
For her, it does. The significance was passed down from her parents.
“My dad was the first generation in his family out of slavery. My grandfather, was born a slave," said Johnson-Benifield.
Her father was drafted in World War II, but neither he nor her mother was able to cast a ballot until after The Voting Rights Act passed in 1965.
“She had voted in 52 presidential elections over the term time, she had actually got a chance to cast a ballot from 1968. In every presidential contest and to 2020. That was amazing to me," she said.
The last ballot her mom cast before passing was 2020.
“She received her absentee ballot the day before the election. So, they filled it out and my sister drove 150 miles to Alabama, to turn in that ballot.”
Since 1984 when Geraldine Ferraro ran for Vice President to 2020 when Kamala Harris was elected Vice President, women have been showing up to vote more than men.
“Even though they're making up 50% or 51% of the population? Why is there such a low number in terms of representation in the legislative bodies in the executive bodies, across the nation?" said Johnson-Benifield.
She says rather than voting, newer generations often turn to expressing their views online.
“In one of the unfortunate consequences that people think that using social media to air you embed your frustrations and grievances, that does not translate into political policy, that does not translate into legislation.”
What does translate she says is your vote. Something she and her husband have dedicated their life’s work to and something her dad taught her not to take for granted.
“He was able to grow up in America and accomplish things, and now he has a daughter, who is president of The League of Women Voters in Houston, I bet he would probably just never imagined that could happen," she said.
Johnson-Benifield says her story is the perfect example of democracy and what can happen when we all stay engaged. | https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/women-voting/285-dc9d307a-0434-4cd7-a86b-3ea5e08fe13d | 2022-04-01T01:02:45Z |
MOULTRIE, Ga. — A local chapter of the international women’s ministry group Aglow International will host its first meeting April 9.
The local chapter is named “Women Arising” and aims to begin its first meeting with a simple “meet and greet,” chapter president Penny Hancock said in an interview Thursday. The first meeting will be held at New Covenant Church at 776 Hwy. 319 at 10:30 a.m. but following meetings will be held elsewhere. The group’s main intention is to provide outreach for the women in the community.
“We are a non-denominational outreach group,” Hancock said Thursday. “We want to be known as helping hands around the community. We simply aim to provide outreach and ministry for women.”
Hancock says the group intends to partner with women’s help groups such as the Hero House, Serenity House and an upcoming women’s shelter, she said.
She is fairly experienced in ministry outreach. Penny’s husband, Mark, is a minister for New Covenant while she handles the ladies ministry as well as pianist duties. She was also previously a president of another Aglow chapter in the past.
As president, Hancock has already reached out to the Georgia State Aglow Board to bring speakers to future meetings. The chapter’s second meeting set for May 14 at the Hampton Inn will feature guest speaker Linda Butler, Aglow Georgia State Board Vice President of Ministry Development. In the group’s third meeting, the Aglow State President Caroline Williams will feature.
“We’re very excited to begin our work here,” Hancock said. | https://www.moultrieobserver.com/news/local_news/moultrie-chapter-of-aglow-international-plans-inaugural-meeting/article_b9e83088-b137-11ec-b860-73c8a121fc38.html | 2022-04-01T01:02:45Z |
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Harris English has decided not to play in the Masters next week as he recovers from surgery to repair a torn labrum.
English was a two-time winner on the PGA Tour last year and finished third in the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. He has not played since the Sony Open in Honolulu the second week of the year.
“I’m progressing very well from recent hip surgery, but have to exercise caution as I return to play,” English said on Twitter.
There are no alternates at the Masters, an invitation tournament. That puts the field at 90 players, with one spot available if the Texas Open winner this week is not eligible.
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Westby Syttende Mai will be holding its annual royalty coronation, Saturday, March 26, at 1 p.m., with the location being changed to the Westby Area Performing Arts Center. Four girls are vying to become royalty and reign over the 54th Westby Syttende Mai celebration May 14-15. The 2021 Syttende Mai Princess Genevieve Haugen, First Attendant Anna Dregene and Second Attendant Raegan Davey will crown the new 2022 court. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556622975462/prom-royalty-in-photos | 2022-04-01T01:02:47Z |
This update resolves most issues reported by the community, mainly game crash issues when trying to load or leave a workshop island. Below is a small detailed list of some bugs fixes.
• Workshop crash: some players reported that the game crashed when trying to load an island from the workshop or when trying to go back to the menu. I won't go into technical details, but this was fixed, a programming error caused the system to allocate too much cache memory, often exceeding the limit, forcing the game crashes.
• Settings don't save: Another bug did not allow resolution, shadow and audio settings to not be saved. That too was fixed.
• Volume bar: This has also been improved, now you need to turn it down completely so that the game is muted.
• Train: In rare cases, the train could restart the level even when the player finishes the level.
• Resolution: Now the game's minimum resolution is 800x600, it didn't make sense to have resolutions lower than that.
These were the bugs found and resolved in this new version of the game, the biggest of which was the problem with crashes related to loading workshop items.
Thanks for the feedback, I will continue to support the game by making updates and responding to comments whenever possible.
Report bugs here.
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Moraes Game Studio. | https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/8476285/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:47Z |
DELANO, Calif. (AP) — The death of an inmate at a central California prison is being investigated as a homicide, officials said Thursday.
Juan E. Mendoza, 26, was found unresponsive in his cell at Kern Valley State Prison shortly before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
He had visible injuries and died a short time later despite life-saving efforts.
Mendoza shared his cell with another man, Jorge L. Mendoza, who was removed from the cell and placed in segregation while the death is investigated, authorities said.
Juan E. Mendoza went to prison in 2020 after receiving a six-year sentence in San Bernardino County for second-degree attempted murder and personal use of a dangerous weapon, officials said.
Jorge L. Mendoza was admitted from Monterey County in 2018 and was serving a sentence of life with the chance of parole for second-degree murder with the use of a firearm by a second-striker.
Kern Valley State Prison is located in Delano, northwest of Bakersfield. It has more than 3,200 inmates. | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/California-prison-inmate-death-investigated-as-a-17049814.php | 2022-04-01T01:02:48Z |
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America is the “land of the free” and nothing says “freedom” like forcing children and teenagers to pledge their allegiance to a thing, amirite?
Seriously though, how is it that in the 21st century, there are “educators” that still haven’t gotten it in their heads that forcing students to stand and participate in the Pledge of Allegiance doesn’t fly like it used to. Really, it was always weird. For all of conservatives’ pretentious and racist grandstanding about critical race theory indoctrination—a thing that isn’t happening in K-12 schools or anywhere, really—they seem to be ignoring that for generations, the traditional American education system was forcibly indoctrinating students into repeating the lie that “liberty and justice for all” has ever been a reality in this country and then forcing students, of various religions or lack thereof, to declare that lie “under God.”
And apparently, there are school faculty members who are still engaging in the practice—but not without getting themselves sued.
According to CHRON., the Texas Association of School Boards has agreed to resolve a lawsuit by paying $90,000 to a Black Houston area student who said she was harassed and bullied by her teachers for refusing to stand for the janky-a** pledge.
The whole thing reportedly began in 2017 at Klein Oak High School. The now-former student, who, according to Click2Houston, has only been identified in court records as M.O., objected to the words “under God” and said, “I also believe that we live in a country where there isn’t justice and freedom for all and so I’m not going to stand for a pledge that says there is when there really isn’t.”
The student is demonstrably correct.
Even if you’re of the belief that we live in a post-racial America now—which we sure as hell don’t—the Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892, early on in the lynch-happy reconstruction era that came after roughly two and a half centuries of slavery and proceeded Jim Crow.
But boooy, the whites sure do get butthurt when folks, especially Black folks, don’t want to stand up and cosign their lies. (Colin Kaepernick, anyone?)
From CHRON:
Despite knowing that the student was exempt from the pledge, the teacher, identified in the suit as Benjie Arnold, singled out the student and threatened to fail her for not observing the pledge. According to the release, Arnold told the student that what she did left him “no option but to give you a zero, and you can have all the beliefs and resentment and animosity that you want.”
Arnold also offered to pay students to move students to Europe if they didn’t like living in America, as evidenced by an audio recording of the incident.
Europe, huh? I guess we should all just be glad Arnold didn’t do what was likely his first instinct and tell the student to go back to Africa.
The lawsuit, which was filed by the student’s mother and includes the school district as a defendant, also initially included several other staffers at the school. But during the years-long legal battle, the staffers were all dismissed from the suit except Arnold.
Geoffrey T. Blackwell, litigation counsel at American Atheists, which handled the student’s case, said the settlement serves as a reminder that students still have their First Amendment rights when they’re at school. So they ain’t gotta pledge their allegiance to sh**
“The classroom is not a pulpit,” he said. “It is a place of education, not indoctrination.”
Exactly.
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New evidence details Roger Stone’s efforts against 2020 election: WaPo
New video evidence from a documentary in the making about Roger Stone offers new details about his involvement in efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to The Washington Post, which reviewed more than 20 hours of film.
Stone, a longtime political adviser to former President Trump, is having a documentary made of him called “A Storm Foretold.” A Danish film crew has followed him around the past two years to produce the film.
Video from the crew shows Stone involved in numerous aspects of the Trump campaign to unwind the election, including knowledge of a plot to oust Justice Department leadership days before it was publicly reported.
It shows him communicating by encrypted messaging app with Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers, and maps his movements at the Willard Hotel with members of the far-right group by his side as his security guards. It details more about his campaign to secure pardons before leaving office – including a plot to secure preemptive pardons for lawmakers who voted against certification of the election results.
In a statement to The Hill, Stone denies any wrongdoing and says that he never spoke with Rhodes, who is facing seditious conspiracy charges, through “any phone conversation or text by signal or otherwise.”
“Any assertion, claim or implication that I knew about or was involved in or condoned any illegal action at the Capitol on January 6 is categorically false and will be met with immediate legal action,” he said in a statement, adding that The Post article is “rife with inaccuracies which is of course the trademark of the Washington post.”
Stone was subpoenaed and appeared before the House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, pleading the fifth to every single question asked over his 90 minute deposition.
But the documentary footage touches on many areas the committee sought to question Stone about.
Stone suggested as early as July 2020 that Trump should use his powers as president to reject the election results.
“It’s going to be really nasty,” Stone said, saying he thought Democrats would try to steal the election, according to one of the videos released in the Post’s report. “If the electors show up at the Electoral College, armed guards will throw them out.”
‘I’m the president. F— you,’ ” Stone thought Trump would say in the face of a supposed rigged election. “ ‘You’re not stealing Florida, you’re not stealing Ohio. I’m challenging all of it, and the judges we’re going to are judges I appointed.’ ”
In another video, Stone directs an aide to resurrect his Stop the Steal campaign, even as he publicly sought to distance himself from others involved. Another organizer, Ali Alexander, was also subpoenaed by the committee.
Stone likewise asks the aide to recruit retired law enforcement and military personnel for the effort.
The clip shows how Stone thought of the campaign against the election as a money earning situation.
Stone told an aide in reported messages that his brand will get “quite a bit hotter” and he’s “going to raise money from Stop the Steal — it will be like falling off a log.”
That same day, footage also shows him talking with one-time Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn, another figure subpoenaed by the committee, with the two strategizing the slogan “Count every legal ballot.”
Before the riot, Stone spoke at a rally in D.C. on Jan. 5, flanked by members of the far-right Oath Keepers group that have since been charged with seditious conspiracy. One of the men, Joshua James, pleaded guilty this week and agreed to cooperate with authorities.
But things began to unravel on Jan. 6. The video shows Stone complaining he wasn’t getting VIP treatment as organizers apparently sought to block him from speaking.
However, once the Capitol riot was underway, Stone seemed to change his tune, and also attempted to dodge the filmmakers.
In the video reviewed by the Post, Stone is seen saying the Capitol riot was “really bad” for Trump’s movement and left Washington, D.C., on a private plane on Jan. 6, 2021.
Stone was seen talking to the film crew to condemn the riot but also said it was the fault of the legislature and judicial system for not giving the people a “fair, honest and transparent election.”
In responses to the Post, Stone chastised the outlet’s reporting and said videos of him could be “deep fakes” and accused the reporters of “half truths, anonymous claims, falsehoods and out of context trick questions.”
Stone did not respond to a request for comment from The Hill.
The video also shows Stone complaining the attack at the Capitol wrecked the president’s schedule, bumping a meeting he expected to attend on pardons.
Stone continued to lobby for pardons after Jan. 6, including for Republican Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio), all of whom either tried to delay or block the certification of Biden’s victory that day.
In another call he tells a friend he raised the possibility of pardons for “Gaetz and others,” a reference to Rep. Matt Gaetz who is under federal investigation in connection with Joel Greenberg, who has been indicted on sex trafficking charges. Stone has denied reports that show text messages between him and Greenberg discussing a fee for Jones help in securing a pardon.
Stone was also working to secure a pardon for himself. Trump commuted his sentence after he was convicted of lying to Congress. The video shows him upset that one-time White House strategist Steve Bannon is able to secure one, calling him a “grifter scumbag” and other expletives.
On Inauguration Day, Stone is also seen saying Trump made an error in not trying to pardon himself.
“A good, long sentence in prison will give him a chance to think about it, because the Southern District is coming for him, and he did nothing,” Stone said.
“Run again! You’ll get your f—ing brains beat in,” Stone said.
After the call, he warned the filmmakers against using the footage.
“Obviously if you use any of that, I’ll murder you,” he said.
Stone told The Hill the documentary does not yet have a plan for a U.S. release.
“The Danish film makers do not have a release for their film and therefore I doubt you’ll ever see it in the United States. I do have to admit that my clothes look pretty cool,” he said.
Updated at 3:59 p.m.
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Deals combine to more than 292,000 square feet of medical industrial and office space, including the Crothall Healthcare industrial building in Gilroy, California
GILROY, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mohr Capital, a Dallas-based privately held real estate investment firm, sold $65 million of deals over the past 80 days. This includes the recent sale of a 102,466-square-foot industrial building in Gilroy, California, to Four Springs Capital Trust. Mohr Capital sold two additional office buildings in Florida and Wisconsin, totaling more than 292,000 square feet of space, leading into 2022.
Located at 8190 Murray Ave., the property is fully leased to Crothall Healthcare. This mission-critical facility provides state-of-the-art laundry processing services to Northern California hospital systems, enabling them to continue providing medical care to patients. Kevin Moul with Colliers San Jose represented Mohr Capital throughout the transaction.
"We are pleased to have worked closely with Four Springs Capital Trust on this transaction. As our third transaction with Four Springs over the last 12 months, this transaction speaks to our deep partnership with Four Springs that we hope continues," said Rodrigo Godoi, managing director of investments for Mohr Capital. "Mission-critical facilities that serve regional hospitals like this still provide value in a market where occupiers and investors are redeveloping dysfunctional R&D product to suit their needs. We're pleased with the performance of this property, and we hope to continue to invest in the Bay Area's bustling industrial market in the future."
Additionally, Mohr sold a two-story, 78,449-square-foot office building in Orlando's Lee Vista Center business park to Falcon Global Real Estate Advisors. Located at 6272 Lee Vista Blvd., the building is fully leased to Accredo Health Group Inc., an Express Scripts company and subsidiary of the global health service company, Cigna. Prior to the sale, Mohr Capital worked with CBRE and CIGNA to secure CIGNA's long-term occupancy while at the same time lowering its occupancy costs.
Mohr also sold Riverwood Corporate Center II in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, in an off-market transaction to IRA Capital. The office building is fully occupied by ProHealth Care, the largest healthcare provider between Milwaukee and Madison. Shortly after acquiring the building, Mohr Capital worked closely with ProHealth to secure its long-term occupancy at the property through 2032.
"These three transactions support our trajectory to be a leading investor in mission-critical industrial and office facilities for the healthcare field," said Bob Mohr, founder and CEO of Mohr Capital. "We are always on the lookout for cutting-edge investment opportunities, and these sales were a great start to 2022."
About Mohr Capital
Mohr Capital is a privately held real estate investment firm specializing in the acquisition, development and value enhancement of office, industrial and retail assets throughout the U.S. The Mohr Capital team has decades of experience in commercial real estate and has completed more than $1 billion in transactions. Guided by a value-driven strategy and an entrepreneurial spirit, the company relies on strong long-term relationships and possesses keen market insights needed to capitalize on undervalued or underperforming properties. With its family office structure, Mohr Capital can close quickly and has a proven track record of delivering the highest risk-adjusted returns. For more information, visit www.mohrcap.com or follow Mohr Capital on LinkedIn.
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Social media has always been a way for us to peek into another person's life. Whether it be through their photo posts, video uploads or shared anecdotes, it's allowed us to connect with each other on a deeper level as a tool for understanding, cultivating friendships and more diverse storytelling.
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More importantly though, this means that social media has also become the perfect place to give voice and visibility to historically marginalized communities by amplifying their voices and recognizing the impact they've had on our world. So in honor of Trans Day of Visibility on March 31, the good folks over at TikTok are hosting a series called #TransVisibility Live in an effort to spotlight the trans and nonbinary creators who make the platform what it — and it's a virtual event definitely that you definitely don't want to miss.
As we all know, Trans Day of Visibility was created as a day to commemorate the joy and achievements of both communities, meaning it's only appropriate to bring together some of the app's biggest trans and nonbinary creators and hear what they have to say through different TikTok Lives via the official @TikTok page.
Starting at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET, fans will be able to watch creators — including Devin, Somaya, Jesse Sullivan and PAPER alum Emira D'Spain — talk about everything from parenting to expressing themselves through art to using beauty as self care.
Not only that, but TikTok will also be using this opportunity to recognize the advocates and nonprofits supporting the trans and nonbinary communities and, hopefully, make this a year-round event. And the way you can do this with TikTok? By supporting organizations like the It Gets Better Project and Trans Lifelife, all while engaging with these groups' educational resources and awareness initiatives. So get ready to learn, celebrate and engage with a community that's changing the world for the better.
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Paul George was treated to a celebratory postgame shower live on TNT on Tuesday, when three of his teammates circled around and emptied water bottles on the Clippers’ All-Star wing moments after he returned to action with a resounding 34 points in a rousing comeback win over the Utah Jazz.
Two of the Clippers doing the soaking: Terance Mann and Amir Coffey, guys who have been Clippers for three seasons, as long as George.
The third: Newcomer Xavier Moon, a well-traveled 27-year-old rookie who on Saturday signed a two-way deal with the team.
In a sense, George’s triumphant return to NBA action after more than three months away coincided with Moon’s.
“I feel like this is where I’m supposed to be, it definitely feels great to be back,” Moon said Monday, when his presence at Honey Training Center gave the Clippers a second healthy, proven professional point guard for the first time since they traded Eric Bledsoe.
Moon has impressed this season, both in 21 games this season with the Agua Caliente Clippers and in a trio of 10-day hardship deals with the parent club in late December and January, when they were hit hard by the league’s COVID-19 health and safety protocols.
In the G League, the 6-foot-2 Moon averaged 18.7 points on 45.3% shooting, including 38.5% from deep. He also averaged 7 assists and just 2.2 turnovers, to go with 4.5 rebounds and 1.3 steals.
And in the first six NBA games of his career, the three-time Canadian Elite Basketball League MVP averaged 5.5 points and 1.7 assists in 13.8 minutes per game.
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— LA Clippers (@LAClippers) March 30, 2022
Moon – whose roundabout route to the NBA took him from Alabama to France, England, Canada and Israel – also was among the team leaders in good vibes while he was around.
That included counseling Reggie Jackson, the Clippers’ the resident high-energy hype man said, to “just smile, have fun!” and, importantly, to appreciate the opportunity to play the game.
“He’s just always positive, optimistic,” Jackson said of Moon in January. “Not B.S. It’s nothing overdone, you can just tell he’s very optimistic, he’s very confident in what he does.”
Looking back, Moon said his initial taste of the NBA fed that belief.
“The month that I had here was probably the best month of basketball I’ve ever played, even though I only played in six games,” Moon said. “I learned a lot. … I took that and that was able to get me that time that I needed to elevate my game even more, even though I went back to the G, I didn’t look at it as a downgrade or anything like that. I looked at it as an opportunity to work harder and get back here.”
“And while I was here the first time, I learned a lot from these guys, just how to lead a team, just being a good teammate, all the type of stuff,” Moon added. “And I took it back with me to the G and then just worked my tail off to get back here, so it definitely feels good to be back, seeing everybody again.”
COFFEY’S NEW ROLE
Moon filled the Clippers’ vacated two-way spot after they signed Coffey to a standard deal worth $153,488 for the rest of the season, per ESPN’s Bobby Marks. The deal makes the 6-7 wing a restricted free agent in the offseason, when the team will retain his Bird rights, meaning they can sign him for as much as 25% of the salary cap for a maximum of five seasons.
It was an expected reward for a dependable contributor who has started 28 of 63 games this season, with 25 of those starts coming after George was ruled out on Christmas with a torn ligament in his right elbow.
When George returned to the lineup Tuesday, Coffey came off the bench for the first time in eight contests and, a game after playing more than 37 minutes in a loss to Philadelphia, logged just 28 seconds against the Jazz.
Coffey still made an instant impact when he checked in late in the third quarter, yanked a rebound away from Donovan Mitchell and quickly delivered an outlet pass to George, who scored and drew a foul in transition to build on the brewing comeback. With that sequence, the Clippers trimmed what had been a 25-point deficit to 12 entering the fourth quarter.
In his postgame comments, Coach Tyronn Lue made sure to credit Coffey for his alertness off the bench.
“A big play for me was that rebound that Amir got at the end of the quarter and was able to score at the end of the quarter,” Lue said. “That was huge.” | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/03/31/xavier-moon-gives-clippers-another-point-guard-and-good-vibes/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:51Z |
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed a bill capping the monthly cost of insulin at $35 for insured patients, part of an election-year push by Democrats for price curbs on prescription drugs at a time of rising inflation.
Experts say the legislation, which passed 232-193, would provide significant relief for privately insured patients with skimpier plans and for Medicare enrollees facing rising out-of-pocket costs for their insulin. Some could save hundreds of dollars annually, and all insured patients would get the benefit of predictable monthly costs for insulin. The bill would not help the uninsured.
But the Affordable Insulin Now Act will serve as a political vehicle to rally Democrats and force Republicans who oppose it into uncomfortable votes ahead of the midterms. For the legislation to pass Congress, 10 Republican senators would have to vote in favor. Democrats acknowledge they don't have an answer for how that's going to happen.
“If 10 Republicans stand between the American people being able to get access to affordable insulin, that's a good question for 10 Republicans to answer,” said Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., a cosponsor of the House bill. “Republicans get diabetes, too. Republicans die from diabetes.”
Public opinion polls have consistently shown support across party lines for congressional action to limit drug costs.
But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., complained the legislation is only “a small piece of a larger package around government price controls for prescription drugs." Critics say the bill would raise premiums and fails to target pharmaceutical middlemen seen as contributing to high list prices for insulin.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Democrats could have a deal on prescription drugs if they drop their bid to authorize Medicare to negotiate prices. “Do Democrats really want to help seniors, or would they rather have the campaign issue?" Grassley said.
The insulin bill, which would take effect in 2023, represents just one provision of a much broader prescription drug package in President Joe Biden's social and climate legislation.
In addition to a similar $35 cap on insulin, the Biden bill would authorize Medicare to negotiate prices for a range of drugs, including insulin. It would penalize drugmakers who raise prices faster than inflation and overhaul the Medicare prescription drug benefit to limit out-of-pocket costs for enrollees.
Biden's agenda passed the House only to stall in the Senate because Democrats could not reach consensus. Party leaders haven't abandoned hope of getting the legislation moving again, and preserving its drug pricing curbs largely intact.
The idea of a $35 monthly cost cap for insulin actually has a bipartisan pedigree. The Trump administration had created a voluntary option for Medicare enrollees to get insulin for $35, and the Biden administration continued it.
In the Senate, Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are working on a bipartisan insulin bill. Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has introduced legislation similar to the House bill, with the support of Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
Stung by criticism that Biden's economic policies spur inflation, Democrats are redoubling efforts to show how they'd help people cope with costs. On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported a key inflation gauge jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982.
But experts say the House bill would not help uninsured people, who face the highest out-of-pocket costs for insulin. Also, people with diabetes often take other medications as well as insulin. That's done to treat the diabetes itself, along with other serious health conditions often associated with the disease. The House legislation would not help with those costs, either. Collins says she's looking for a way to help uninsured people through her bill.
About 37 million Americans have diabetes, and an estimated 6 million to 7 million use insulin to keep their blood sugars under control. It’s an old drug, refined and improved over the years, that has seen relentless price increases.
Steep list prices don't reflect the rates insurance plans negotiate with manufacturers. But those list prices are used to calculate cost-sharing amounts that patients owe. Patients who can’t afford their insulin reduce or skip doses, a strategy born of desperation, which can lead to serious complications and even death.
Economist Sherry Glied of New York University said the market for insulin is a “total disaster” for many patients, particularly those with skimpy insurance plans or no insurance.
“This will make private insurance for people with diabetes a much more attractive proposition,” said Glied. | https://www.khou.com/article/news/nation-world/insulin-cap-35-dollars-month-bill/507-855508ee-6b9d-4ce8-9937-22fa115af232 | 2022-04-01T01:02:51Z |
MOULTRIE, Ga. – Each March, healthcare organizations across the country celebrate athletic trainers for National Athletic Training Month. This year’s theme, decided on by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA), is “ATs provide healthcare everywhere.”
This theme is particularly significant in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a press release from Colquitt Regional Medical Center, which operates the Vereen Center. ATs everywhere had to adjust their schedules and training at the start of the pandemic in March 2020.
Vereen ATs have worked in various settings over the course of the pandemic, lending a hand when departments were experiencing severe shortages or an influx of patient volume required extra hands. Some worked, and continue to work, at Sterling Group Outpatient Laboratory, helping collect paperwork, gather COVID-19 tests, and transport tests to and from the lab. Others played a vital role as screeners at the main entrances of the hospital, when it was required for visitors to have their temperature taken before entrance to the facility and they helped document and monitor the amount of visitors allowed for each patient.
“Our ATs have gone above and beyond their typical duties throughout the pandemic,” said Colquitt Regional President and CEO Jim Matney. “Many worked in areas that they were not familiar with and performed tasks they had never done before. We are grateful for their dedication to not only this hospital, but to their profession and rising to the challenge during difficult times.”
The COVID-19 pandemic hit the athletic training program especially hard, because schools shut down for the entirety of the spring and summer of 2020 and sporting events were canceled.
Athletic trainers are highly qualified, multi-skilled health care professionals who render service or treatment, under the direction of or in collaboration with a physician, according to the NATA. On a daily basis, ATs provide a variety of services, including primary care, injury and illness prevention, wellness promotion and education, emergent care, examination and clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions.
Students who wish to pursue a career in athletic training have many different avenues they can take to accomplish their goal. However, The Vereen Center has established an intensive, immersive program for ATs who want to go a step further in their education and training, which is led by Vereen Center Athletic Training Services Coordinator Jaclyn Donovan, MBA, MS, LAT, ATC, CSCS.
“When our ATs enter our program, they are already nationally certified athletic trainers and licensed by the State of Georgia to practice,” said Vereen Center Assistant Vice President of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Services Scott Romanowski, PT, OCS, OMPT. “By joining our team, they get the experience of functioning as a full time AT, along with obtaining their master’s degree in kinesiology. The program really is a win-win for them, because they get to further their training and education at the same time, under the tutelage of highly-qualified professionals at the Vereen Center.”
The ATs at the Vereen Center focus specifically on sports medicine and work with athletes in Colquitt County and surrounding counties during their sports seasons. In addition to their time with school athletics, they also provide coverage to various community organizations, such as Moss Farms Diving, YMCA Gymnastics, and other community-related sports events.
The current class of ATs at Vereen include Dyshon Carr (Greenville, N.C.), Bryson Bradley (Asheville, N.C.), Hunter Mitchell (Raleigh, N.C.), Katie Riney (Buford, Ga.), Tiffany Roberts (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Kathleen Rubino (Bartlett, Ill.), Sawyer Foss (Mount Morris, Ill.), and Madeline Bills (Purcellville, Va.).
Vereen Rehabilitation Center is a state-of-the-art facility that offers a variety of treatments including physical, occupational, speech, aquatic, and hyperbaric oxygen therapies. The team of highly trained professionals provides one-on-one care, focusing on the individual during treatment. | https://www.moultrieobserver.com/news/local_news/vereen-rehab-center-celebrates-national-athletic-trainer-month/article_1650a92e-b131-11ec-b0aa-cf7b39d629e1.html | 2022-04-01T01:02:52Z |
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Wirex Token (WXT) traded up 2.6% against the U.S. dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 19:00 PM Eastern on March 31st. One Wirex Token coin can currently be purchased for $0.0059 or 0.00000013 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Wirex Token has a market cap of $59.40 million and $1.18 million worth of Wirex Token was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. During the last week, Wirex Token has traded up 22.1% against the U.S. dollar.
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Server owners please update your servers!
- Zombie Players can no longer get to the elevators in Night Club before the humans reach this level.
- Reduced damage from acid in Swamp Trouble, this will prevent breaking the map if someone falls into the acid near the raft/bridge with objective items.
- Added a blocker to the last checkpoint in Swamp Trouble, you may only reach this area after defending the sewers.
- Fixed Bandits in Swamp Trouble raft area, they should pay more attention to the players now.
- Increased Blood Rage HP regen rate from 0.615 to 0.815 per point.
- Extended the XP event to be active for both Saturday and Sunday, plus increased XP gained by 50% (2.5X multiplier). | https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/8476795/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:54Z |
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“The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces,” advised wildlife biologist Aldo Leopold. In ecology that means saving diverse niches, all the habitat types necessary for native species to thrive. That is appropriate for our public lands. But some public land users are taking...
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The pain was sharp and familiar. It reminded David Price of where he has been. It also told him he still might be able to be the pitcher the Los Angeles Dodgers thought they had nearly 26 months ago.
Price’s quiet spring began the way others have in the five-time All-Star’s 13-year career: His left elbow hurt after his first live batting practice a couple of weeks ago, and he knew the resumption of an old routine was underway.
“Always the elbow,’’ Price said. “It happens every year, all the way back to 2010. Now, everything feels good – arm, elbow and shoulder.’’
It was good enough to impress Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and anybody else who watched Price make his first spring appearance against Cleveland on Wednesday night. The left-hander worked only an inning, but he had two strikeouts and was clocked at 93 mph.
In an abbreviated camp, it wasn’t enough to determine his role. It did remind the Dodgers that Price is still in the mix.
From starter to bullpen, Price’s role with the Dodgers has been uncertain since they acquired the 2012 American League Cy Young Award winner from the Boston Red Sox in a three-team deal that included right-fielder Mookie Betts in February 2020.
Price didn’t pitch at all that year, opting out because of concerns about COVID-19. In 2021, he bounced between the starting rotation and the bullpen with 11 starts and 28 appearances as a reliever. His overall ERA was 4.03.
He arrived at camp in mid-March ready to do anything. Then Roberts mentioned him as a possible starter.
“I’m preparing that way, yeah,” said Price, who is in the final year of a seven-year, $217 million contract. “I think it’d be silly of me to prepare to be a reliever if I’m asked to start. So, I’m preparing to be a starter until otherwise.”
Otherwise looks to be the case. Roberts projects his starting rotation will be Walker Buehler, Julio Urias, Clayton Kershaw, Andrew Heaney and Tony Gonsolin. He cautioned that nothing is set in stone, mostly because pitchers were limited in a camp cut short by major league baseball’s lockout.
The Dodgers signed career starter Tyler Anderson in mid-March, just in case. As for Price, Roberts said: “I just think that David, right now, is not an option in the sense of, he’s not built up. It just doesn’t seem feasible right now.”
The 36-year-old left-hander could still have an immediate role, like one inning in relief early in the season, Roberts said, and moving up to multiple innings as he gets stronger.
“I’m confident in David in any role,’’ Roberts said. “I like his versatility. The role doesn’t matter. It’s just knowing that he’s going to pitch valuable innings in whatever role.”
NOTES
Cody Bellinger took batting practice Thursday on the minor-league side of the Dodgers’ camp. The 2019 National League MVP is 4 for 27 with 17 strikeouts this spring.
“I wouldn’t say I’m alarmed,’’ Roberts said. “I think ‘progressing’ is the word. We’ve got to continue to log at-bats to make him feel as comfortable as possible when the season starts.’’
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4493123 | 2022-04-01T01:02:54Z |
Court deals partial blow to Title 42 expulsions
The U.S. can continue to swiftly expel migrants under a Trump-era directive, a federal court ruled Friday, but it cannot return them to countries where they may face persecution or torture.
The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit deals a partial blow to Title 42, the controversial policy under which the government has been removing migrants without allowing them to seek asylum.
“This is a huge victory prohibiting the administration from continuing to send families back to danger without a hearing,” said Lee Gelernt, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the groups to file the case.
“We hope the Biden administration will not appeal the ruling.”
The Biden administration, which has continued the Trump-era policy under claims it is necessary for public health, has expelled hundreds of thousands of migrants under Title 42.
The ruling will force the Department of Homeland Security to conduct so-called withholding and torture screenings to assess the danger of returning a migrant to their home country.
It does, however, allow them to still expel the individual.
“The Executive cannot expel those aliens to places where they will be persecuted or tortured,” Judge Justin Walker, a Trump appointee, wrote on behalf of the three-judge panel.
“That does not make their presence here legal. Nor does it give them a path to asylum. Nor does it stop the Executive from detaining them. Nor does it curb the Executive’s power to expel them to a country where they will not be persecuted or tortured.”
The ruling applies only to families and not single adults, who make up the vast majority of those expelled under Title 42.
The judge also took aim at the underlying public health argument for keeping Title 42 in place.
“The CDC’s [Title 42] order looks in certain respects like a relic from an era with no vaccines, scarce testing, few therapeutics, and little certainty,” he wrote.
“We are doing this out of a public health need,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at the White House in September.
“It is not an immigration policy. It is not an immigration policy that we would embrace.”
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On April 1, the government’s Clean Car Discount kicked in, with the introduction of a more extensive “feebate” scheme that will reward buyers of low-emission vehicles with rebates, but also fine those who choose higher-emitting models.
And that’s just the start, because the Programme is set to evolve over the next few years. You can read more on just what the update means for customers and dealers here.
The “Clean Car Discount” is aimed directly at us, the consumers. The first phase was launched in July last year and introduced rebates for new and used Electric Vehicles (EVs, meaning they have a plug), as long as they are being registered for the first time, cost less than $80,000 and have a three-star safety rating or higher.
From April, the Discount scheme will be expanded to include all vehicles on sale. Low emissions vehicles (below 146g/km) will receive a rebate proportional to how far below that baseline they fall, while vehicles above 196g/km will attract a fine (also proportional) that’s payable after registration. That leaves a 146-196g “zero band” in the middle where there are no rebates or fines.
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With more vehicles being included in the Discount scheme, New Zealand has a new cheapest car!
Up until the updated Clean Car Discount scheme, the cheapest new car in NZ has been the MG3 Core, at $19,490. But now, the honour of selling the countries cheapest new car belongs to Suzuki.
And no, it's not the Ignis or even the Swift! But the Suzuki Baleno 1.4 GLX manual, which with a rebate of $1,871.72 comes in at $18,119.28.
Gary Collins, General Manager of Motor Vehicle Marketing for Suzuki New Zealand, says “we are pleased a good range of new Suzukis are becoming even more affordable under the Clean Car Discount programme. A total of 12 compact Suzuki cars and SUVs qualify for the rebate, covering the Swift, Ignis and Baleno ranges and none of our vehicles incur a penalty"
The programme is designed to be self-funding through the penalties that will apply to higher emission vehicles. In between, there are models that will be neutral with no incentive or penalty.
To be eligible for the new car rebates, all vehicles need to be registered for the first time between April 1 and December 31, 2022, and have a safety star rating of 3 stars or more on the Rightcar website.
The rebate is paid to the first person registered to the vehicle and the new owner claims the rebate through the Waka Kotahi Land Transport Agency website after completion of the sale. This means the selling dealer does not incorporate the discount into the sale price of the vehicle. | https://www.driven.co.nz/news/clean-car-discount-2-0-is-today-and-nz-s-cheapest-new-car-is/?utm_source=nzh&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=topbox | 2022-04-01T01:02:54Z |
Superintendent Dwyer to represent state insurance regulators nationally
WASHINGTON, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Executive Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has appointed Beth Dwyer, Superintendent of Banking and Insurance for Rhode Island's Department of Business Regulation, to serve as NAIC members' representative on the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC). She will succeed recently retired Maine Bureau of Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa and will provide the Council with critical expertise and the perspective of state insurance regulators.
"Ensuring financial stability nationwide requires trust, clear communication, and close collaboration between the states and the federal government. Superintendent Dwyer has a proven track record, thorough knowledge of the regulatory landscape, and a tireless commitment to protecting consumers and markets, making her a great choice to help FSOC fulfill its mission," said NAIC President and Director of the Idaho Department of Insurance Dean L. Cameron.
Since taking office in January 2016, Superintendent Dwyer has served in several leadership capacities with the NAIC and is currently the vice chair of the Financial Condition (E) Committee, co-vice chair of the Climate and Resiliency (EX) Task Force, and secretary/treasurer of the National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR) Board of Directors.
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DJ Zedd is back to make people dance on the grass again with the return of Zedd in the Park festival this summer at L.A. State Historic Park.
General admission tickets go on sale April 6 for the July 8 festival taking place at the downtown L.A. venue that will include a headlining performance by Zedd, who previously performed at the 2019 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and just appeared at the 2022 Beyond Wonderland festival in San Bernardino.
Presale tickets are available as of April 5.
Joining Zedd for the electronic and pop music dance party at the park will be Canadian DJ duo Loud Luxury, along with DJs Wolfgang Gartner, Regard, GOJ!RA and Fernet.
The all-day festival is for those ages 18 and over and will also include art installations and food trucks.
Zedd in the Park launched in 2018 and returned in 2019 before being sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic until its 2022 return.
“I’m beyond thrilled Zedd In The Park is back! This is one of my favorite shows to play and I can’t wait to see everyone back at the park since the event has been on hiatus since 2019. It’s going to be an incredible experience with an awesome line-up,” Zedd said in a statement.
For tickets go to zedd.net/zitp | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/03/31/zedd-in-the-park-brings-dance-music-back-to-the-la-state-historic-park-this-summer/ | 2022-04-01T01:02:57Z |
On Monday, President Joe Biden unveiled his proposal for the next federal budget.
Though Congress has the final say in the annual budget, presidents create a proposal highlighting their fiscal priorities. Then, the president typically spends time advocating for their plan to the public, arguing for those priorities.
While promoting his latest proposal, Biden tweeted, “This year, my administration is on track to cut the deficit by more than $1.3 trillion… that would be the largest one-year reduction in the deficit in U.S. history.”
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Would a $1.3 trillion reduction in the deficit be the largest single-year reduction ever?
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Yes, if the deficit shrinks by $1.3 trillion this year, that will be the largest single-year reduction in history.
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Both the Federal Reserve and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) track how much money the federal government takes in each year, and how much it spends. The Fed has records dating back to 1901, and the CBO dating to 1962.
If the government makes more than it spends, there’s a budget surplus. Since 1962, there have only been five years with a surplus, and none since 2001.
More commonly, the government spends more than it takes in. That’s a deficit, and it results in the U.S. borrowing money to make up the difference, which in turn adds to the federal debt.
According to the Fed and the CBO, the year in which the deficit shrank the most was 2013. In 2012, the budget was nearly $1.08 trillion in the hole, and in 2013, it was just under $679.8 billion. The deficit decreased by roughly $396.8 billion, more than in any other year in history.
If the deficit drops by $1.3 trillion in 2022 like Biden projected, it would indeed be the largest deficit reduction in American history, by a big margin.
The Fed and CBO track numbers on a fiscal-year basis, with the fiscal year ending on Sept. 30. So we won’t really know if Biden’s projections for 2022 are accurate until at least October.
But budget experts VERIFY spoke with agreed it’s likely the deficit reduction could wind up being more than a trillion dollars. However, they said that drop is mostly due to COVID-related spending programs expiring.
“It's not really due to any particularly aggressive policy action to, say, raise more revenue than we would have otherwise, or spend less. It's mostly just a factor of temporary things,” said Alex Muresianu, a federal policy analyst for the Tax Foundation.
“We had deficits that were over $3 trillion [in 2020], and one that was $2.8 trillion [in 2021]. That was as a result of a huge recession, and trillions of dollars that we were spending to fight COVID. So we will be dropping for sure. The deficit will be closer to a trillion dollars this year,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-profit group. “But that doesn't come from policies to reduce the deficit.”
More from VERIFY: No, Congress members did not give themselves a 21% pay raise in 2022 | https://www.khou.com/article/news/verify/money-verify/biden-projects-trillion-dollar-deficit-reduction-largest-ever/536-82b0158e-0851-49dd-a546-3dbef252c761 | 2022-04-01T01:02:57Z |
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Plains track banking on experience
A group of hard-working underclassmen is sparking hope the Plains High track and field team will grow and develop as the year goes by.
Coach Sean McCarthy says the team that has returned for springs practices this year is basically the same one as last year ... but with another year of experience he hopes will serve them well.
“We were a very young team last year,” he said. “We didn’t lose any seniors”.
Among the top returnees is Mason Elliot who made it to the state championships in the 110 meter and 300 meter hurdles. And after the first meet of the year, the Eureka Invitational last weekend, Elliot is looking like a solid state-caliber performer again as the 2022 season gets underway.
Elliot won the 400 meter race in Eureka with a time of 56.68, then added the 300 meter hurdles title to his daily haul, coming in first with a time of 46.74. He also finished fourth in the high jump.
The Horsemen, who McCarthy predicted would be strong in the middle distance running events, also got a first place finish from Joseph Martin in the 800 meter race, and a third place showing in the same event from Aaron Pfister.
On the girls side of the track, Elizabeth Flanagan won the 100 meter sprint in Eureka as teammates Amy Hill and Gracie Scribner took third and fourth respectively. Hill also added a third in the 110 meter hurdles.
Another event showing promise for the Plains team is the girls 800 meter run, where Payton Wasson finished first and teammate Teagan Thomas came in second. Thomas went on to win the girls 300 meter hurdles at the Eureka meet.
And the Trotters got an outstanding day out of weight thrower Alexis Deming, who won the shot put with a throw of 31 feet three inches, and also won the discus with a 70-feet even throw.
All of that is encouraging to coach McCarthy as the new season unfolds.
“We are made up of mainly freshmen and sophomores this year with three juniors,” McCarthy said. “I think our biggest strength is our ability to grow and get better every week. Nobody is currently close to their personal record (PR) so we have nowhere to go but up.
“Everyone is very hardworking and positive, which will help our growth. They are a fun group to coach”.
McCarthy said he considers integrity to be a key factor in future growth and development.
“My main philosophy I try to get across to my team every day is integrity,” he said. “In a small school we only have a couple of coaches and we can’t be everywhere and see everything that is going on. I have to trust the team to go 100% in every workout even if I’m not standing right there. Like I said, this is a very hardworking group that I’ve been able to trust is doing their workouts so far this season”.
Plains will join several other area track teams at the Bigfork Invitational this Saturday. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556623017422/plains-track-banking-on-experience | 2022-04-01T01:03:00Z |
BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado couple face felony charges in connection with the fentanyl death of their 1-year-old child, whom prosecutors say died after ingesting enough of the extremely lethal drug to kill an adult.
Alonzo Montoya, 31, and Nicole Casias, 30, of the Denver suburb of Brighton were charged with child abuse resulting in death and distribution of a controlled substance in connection with the girl's death on Jan. 2, the 17th Judicial District's Office said in a statement Thursday.
It said the Adams County Coroner had determined that the child died after ingesting fentanyl and that Montoya and Casias “participated in illicit drug activity” in the child's presence at home before and after her death.
Montoya was being held on $250,000 bail at the Adams County Jail. Bail was set at $100,000 for Casias. A status hearing for both was set for Monday.
Telephone and email messages seeking comment from Casias' attorney, Rachel Lanzen, were not immediately returned. Montoya was being represented by the public defender's office, which doesn't comment on pending cases.
Court records that would provide details on the accusations weren't immediately available from the county district court. Christopher Hopper, a district attorney's spokesman, said he could not provide additional information.
Fentanyl is an unpredictable and powerful synthetic painkiller blamed for driving an increase in fatal drug overdoses. It’s 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4493124 | 2022-04-01T01:03:01Z |
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FRESNO, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The State of California recently launched its TECH Clean California initiative which is a $120 million program funded by California gas corporations to implement low emissions space and water heating units for single and multifamily homes.
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xEURO (XEUR) traded flat against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 19:00 PM ET on March 31st. One xEURO coin can now be bought for $1.10 or 0.00010573 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. xEURO has a total market cap of $22,552.30 and approximately $33,871.00 worth of xEURO was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last seven days, xEURO has traded flat against the dollar.
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- Tether (USDT) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002185 BTC.
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HOUSTON — Baseball is almost here and what would opening day be without a little trash-talking from the Bronx Bombers?
Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman was recently interviewed by The Athletic and had an absurd response as to why the boys in pinstripes didn't win the World Series in 2017.
"The only thing that stopped (us) was something that was so illegal and horrific," Cashman told The Athletic. "So I get offended when I start hearing we haven't been to the World Series since '09. Because I’m like, 'Well, I think we actually did it the right way.' Pulled it down, brought it back up. Drafted well, traded well, developed well, signed well. The only thing that derailed us was a cheating circumstance that threw us off."
That's right. Cashman blames the Astros' sign-stealing scandal for the missed opportunity.
Houston was "caught" stealing and relaying signs that season. They paid the price for the cheating scandal. But the 'Stros still earned the title of World Series champions for that year and that will never be taken away. The Yankees, however, haven't won a title since 2009.
In fact, the Yankees haven't even been in the World Series since their 2009 win. Houston has been in three of the last five World Series and has been to the ALCS in five straight seasons.
Sign stealing definitely could be seen as something that could benefit hitters (it could also be seen as something that could bother some hitters) but let's take a look at how the Yankees performed on the offensive side of the ball in that American League Championship Series against Houston.
Houston was caught stealing signs at home, so for argument's sake, let's just look at the games played at Minute Maid Park.
- Game 1: Astros 2, Yankees 1
- Game 2: Astros 2, Yankees 1
- Game 6: Astros 7, Yankees 1
- Game 7: Astros 4, Yankees 0
So, New York scored 3 total runs and no more than 1 run in any game. But Houston's sign-stealing is the reason they lost? That's a bit of a stretch.
"People are like 'Oh, we haven't been to a World Series . . .' and I'm like, 'Yeah, I don't think that's as true a statement as it could be,'" Cashman said. "We had a World Series team. And either you get it done or you don't."
Well, the Yankees didn't get it done and the argument saying it's due to the Astros' cheating is questionable at best. | https://www.khou.com/article/sports/mlb/astros/yankees-brian-cashman-2017-world-series-astros-cheating-scandal-the-athletic-report/285-9b534a75-ab4c-4798-8351-038e04e44b08 | 2022-04-01T01:03:03Z |
Texas judge rules Biden administration can’t exempt migrant children from Trump-era order
A Texas judge on Friday ruled that the Biden administration cannot exempt unaccompanied migrant children from a Trump-era order, a decision that could lead U.S. Border Patrol to turn children away.
During the early part of the pandemic, former President Trump launched Title 42, a controversial public health policy that would allow the U.S. to immediately expel migrants who came to the border. The Biden administration has continued to operate under that order, but carved out an exception from unaccompanied migrant children.
However, Texas District Court Judge Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee, ruled against the Title 42 exemption, according to CBS News.
Pittman said that the Biden administration did not thoroughly justify the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention orders that codified the exclusion of unaccompanied minors from Title 42, calling them “arbitrary and capricious,” CBS reported.
Pittman also argued that Texas had been financially hit as a result of the exemptions due to education and medical costs for the migrant children now living in the state.
The ruling comes hours after a Washington, D.C., judge ruled against the Biden administration from using Title 42 to expel migrants back to countries where they may face persecution.
The decision on Friday marks the latest instance in which Texas has successfully blocked Biden administration immigration initiatives.
A judge in the state blocked a 100-day moratorium on deportations in February, and the Supreme Court sided with the state in August in a battle to reimplement what is formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, one of the most controversial Trump-era immigration programs.
The Biden administration has expelled hundreds of thousands of migrants under Title 42, which they have argued is necessary for public health purposes. However, the administration has been against using the policy to expel unaccompanied children, choosing instead to transfer them to shelters run by the Department of Health and Human Services.
It’s unknown whether the Biden administration will start expelling unaccompanied children at the border in light of Pittman’s ruling. Around 16,000 minors were expelled under the policy during the Trump administration before a judge blocked the policy in November 2020, according to CBS.
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On April 1, the government’s Clean Car Discount kicked in for new BEVs, PHEVs and HEVs, but what about used? Of course, the rebate still applies to used cars for first-time-registered vehicles, up to $3450 for a Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV), so we thought we’d scour DRIVEN.co.nz to see what what we could find.
With a theoretical $25,000 in hand, a budget not made easy by the high global demand pushing up used car prices, we’ve each come up with a typical example or sample of what’s available to buy, in our preferred BEV, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) and Hybrid Electrified Vehicle (HEV) specs.
Dean: 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
Mitsubishi’s Outlander and Eclipse Cross PHEV siblings are both super popular, but with half the budget, a five-year-old version is great value at half the price. This 2014 Premium Package version with 150,000km offers 4WD, a bodykit, heated seats and paddle shifts from an Evo X, power front seats, reversing camera, smart key and sunroof. And not just is it $24,950, but with a used PHEV Clean Car Discount of $2300, that’s a lot of SUV for $22,650.
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Other models are available of course, but to any rational thinker a budget used Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) means a Nissan Leaf and that’s that. Used-import Leafs account for most of New Zealand’s BEV fleet and that’s where you get the most choice.
The later models look a lot sharper than the jellymould original, especially in the right colour. I found this 2016 facelift 30X model with the upgraded 30kWh battery and factory Leaf G alloys, in white, for $22,990.
It’s fully loaded with everything from Lane Departure Warning to heated seats and it’s had a full English dash cluster conversion. It’s done just 42,000km and the current battery state of health is 79 per cent. It also gets a NZ-certified portable charging cable for home use, so you can’t go wrong – especially with a Clean Car Discount of $3450, making the “real” price $19,540. Less than $20k, and you never have to pay for petrol again.
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When looking for a hybrid under $25,000, over 2000 listings met the criteria, but this little purple number caught my eye. This 2018 Toyota Aqua S has covered just 90,580km and looks fantastic sitting on those 18-inch wheels.
Though I can’t imagine that these big wheels do the fuel economy of 3.8l/100km any good, it’s still a very impressive figure that will mean a lot of savings at the pump. Optional extras are few and far between here, but I do enjoy the contrast between the big body kit and plain black interior.
It’s listed at $22,370, but a rebate of $1676 is available, meaning the bottom line will be $20,294. | https://www.driven.co.nz/news/the-best-clean-car-to-buy-for-less-than-25k/?utm_source=nzh&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=topbox | 2022-04-01T01:03:02Z |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants.
The agency said the Trump administration's decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the “best available peer reviewed science.” The chemical is used in rocket fuel and fireworks.
At the time, Trump's EPA said perchlorate was not found widely enough in drinking water or "at levels of public health concern" to warrant federal regulation. The decision was one of many Trump-era rollbacks or eliminations of existing or pending public health and environmental protections. The Biden administration ordered a review of that decision at the start of his term.
EPA Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox said the agency was “applying the right tools to support public health protections.”
Environmental groups slammed the Biden administration’s decision.
“The Trump EPA gave perchlorate a pass; it was a bad decision then, and it’s a bad decision now,” said Erik Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council advocacy group. “Tap water across America will remain contaminated by this toxic chemical.”
Perchlorate from runoff contaminates the drinking water of as many as 16 million Americans, the Obama administration said in 2011 when it announced the EPA would for the first time set maximum limits for the chemical compound. It has been used in the U.S. for decades, particularly by the military and defense industries, and is commonly found in munitions, fireworks, matches and signal flares.
Exposure to the compound can damage the development of fetuses and children and cause measurable drops in IQ in newborns, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in 2019, when it called for stringent federal limits. It damages human development by disrupting the functioning of the thyroid gland.
In its 2020 review, the EPA said state-level regulations and cleanup activities at contaminated sites had lowered the health risks posed by the compound. Massachusetts and California, for example, limit perchlorate in drinking water to 2 parts per billion and 6 parts per billion, respectively.
“But the problem is that for the rest of the country the states have not set standards,” said Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
In the Southwest, perchlorate has been detected in groundwater that entered Lake Mead in Nevada. Manufacturing activities in Henderson, Nevada, were thought to be the source of the chemical. The EPA said cleanup activities at two industrial sites near Las Vegas between 2002 and 2006 resulted in reduced levels of perchlorate in samples provided since then by Nevada environmental and water agencies.
The EPA said Thursday it was considering other steps besides a federal drinking water limit, such as setting standards at open burning and detonation sites of waste explosives, where severe perchlorate contamination is known to exist.
But environmental advocates said such measures fall short of what's needed.
“Simply put, toxic chemicals used in rocket fuel do not belong in our drinking water," said John Rumpler, senior attorney with Environment America.
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Q&A with Mineral County sheriff candidate Wayne Cashman
On Aug. 3, 2020, Mike Toth took the oath to be sheriff of Mineral County. He was appointed by the county commissioners following the resignation of Sheriff Mike Boone.
For personal reasons, Toth decided not to run for the position, but two people that are already employed have registered for the primary and their names will be on the ballot in the Tuesday, June 7 election.
Undersheriff Wayne Cashman was hired by Toth within minutes of his own acceptance of his position. Sgt. Ryan Funke has been with the Mineral County Sheriff’s Office for over four years.
The following is a Q&A with Cashman. The Q&A with Funke published last week and is posted online at vp-mi.com
What have you done to improve the department since you became a member?
Cashman: Wow, that is a hard question to answer. We take a team approach to all that we do here, so to try and single out what I alone have done is a hard thing to answer. I Would have to say using my experience in corrections to get the Mineral County jail up and running again.
What kinds of situations would you call in other law enforcement agencies to assist with an arrest or an ongoing investigation? Specifically, which agencies would you be willing to coordinate with on a state or federal level and for what kinds of criminal activity?
Cashman: We have had many outside agencies assisting us over the past 16 months we have been here. At the county level, Missoula County and Flathead County have assisted us in a missing person case, assisted in a fugitive recovery operation, brought in their Swat Teams to assist along with Flathead County Sheriff SWAT. DCI (Department of Criminal Investigations) has assisted with murder a suicide case and found remains investigation. At the federal level Homeland Security form interdiction and human smuggling cases. We maintain working relationships with local, state and federal agencies to help protect the citizens of Mineral County.
What do you see as the immediate needs of the department, and how will accomplish them?
Cashman: We have overcome so many immediate needs in our time here at the Sheriff’s Office. Just about every system was at critical mass, from worn out vehicles to worn out equipment, so from my perspective I would have to say training. We have a good crew of people here and it is now time to help them broaden their careers and experience with enhanced training for all here at the Sheriff’s Office. We will utilize training offered by our sister agencies at little to no charge by pursuing grants and other alternative funding programs.
How will your department work with ancillary offices to promote transparency and vital communication?
Cashman: I Believe we have a good working relationship with all these offices now. We are all here to assist the citizens of the county so we strive to maintain good working relationships. Can they be strengthened? Yes of course, and my goal is to insure we strengthen and maintain strong working relationships with these entities to ensure transparency and security for our citizens.
What are your plans for community involvement and community partnerships?
Cashman: I would like to become more involved in the schools here in Mineral County by continuing the efforts to obtain funding for School Resource Officers and providing continued support for community programs in Superior , Alberton and St Regis, and all west end communities with programs such as block watch.
What is your plan to balance the jail occupancy between local, state and federal prisoners? And what will be done with the revenue from state and federal occupants?
Cashman: We developed a plan when we reopened the jail. We rekindled the relationship with the United States Marshall service that was lost after a couple escapes and the closings of the detention center. We currently have 12 federal inmates that brings in a substernal amount of revenue into the county. We have a 26-bed facility here and house federal, state and local inmates. The revenues come back in to the sheriff office budget to offset the operating costs of the detention center.
What additional proactive law enforcement policies will you put into place to curb the widespread and far-reaching drug related and human trafficking crimes?
Cashman: We will continue to grow and strengthen our relationship with our local drug task forces and with Homeland Security and Border Patrol in Operation Stone Garden. Since being in office we have been provided over $300,000 in overtime funds and equipment including two new patrol vehicles and other much needed equipment.
Why do your years of law enforcement and experience make you the best candidate to be the Sheriff of Mineral County?
Cashman: I have been fortunate enough to experience many years of training and leadership development classes and been provided great mentors to temper the training with real time commands. In my 26 years in law enforcement, two were spent learning at Montana State prison, five years at Arizona State Prison and the remainder as a Deputy, Sergeant, Lieutenant of an agency that was progressive and I experienced and helped remedy the problems of a rapidly growing population. At one point in my career, Pinal County was the fastest growing county in the nation. I was assigned to all 4 regions as a Region Commander encompassing 5,000 square miles and 400,000 residents which has exposed me with many, many problems, difficult situations and unique experiences I can draw on as needed to help lead Mineral County Sheriff Office. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556623049414/q-a-with-mineral-county-sheriff-candidate-wayne-cashman | 2022-04-01T01:03:07Z |
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jeff Walz has had a lot of success getting players to transfer to Louisville over the last few years, including three starters on his Final Four team this season.
He's not the only coach in the Final Four who has bolstered the roster by using the transfer portal as both South Carolina and UConn have found supplemental players from it.
Still Walz, Dawn Staley and Geno Auriemma think the amount of players looking to change schools is getting out of control.
“I always like to say, ‘The grass is greener on the other side because it’s fertilized with a bunch of bull,’” Louisville coach Jeff Walz said. “I think there are a lot of players that will jump into the portal after one year that don’t really have a good grasp of why they’re doing it.”
Staley likened the portal to Twitter, Instagram or TikTok.
“It’s a big ol’ fad that just keeps continuing,” she said. “Is it out of hand? It absolutely is. I don’t know how you control it. But it’s their way. It’s their way of controlling their own destinies.”
Both Staley and Auriemma noted that there were currently more players seeking to transfer than there were scholarships available across the country.
“You know those 850 people in the portal? Three hundred of them are not going to find a school to go to because they’re going to realize it’s not the school they just left,” Auriemma said.
Despite the reservations, they're still playing along. Emily Engstler (Syracuse), Kianna Smith (California) and Chelsie Hall (Vanderbilt) have been key for Louisville. Engstler and Hall just joined the program this season.
When Engstler was considering the Cardinals, Walz went to Mykasa Robinson to discuss how her role would likely shrink if Engstler were to come and gauge her comfort level.
“She looked at me, and she’s like, ‘I’m tired of guarding her. If we can get her, yes, because she likes to win, and she wants to play with other good players,’” Walz said.
SOUTH CAROLINA SUPPORT
The Gamecocks have led the nation in average attendance for seven straight years, buoyed by a base of more than 10,000 season tickets. Despite the 1,200-mile distance from campus to downtown Minneapolis, there will be plenty of garnet-and-black-clad South Carolina fans voicing their support on Friday night when the Gamecocks take on Louisville.
“They’ve been with us when we weren’t a popular team or we weren’t a whole lot to cheer about,” Staley said. “This is my 14th year being at South Carolina, but the last probably 10, the fans have given us a ride that’s kind of irreplaceable.”
One of the catalysts for the attendance boom was giving fans as much as access to the program as they could, to build relationships and let the locals get to know the players as people.
“You really feel the love in the community,” guard Brea Beal said. “You can go to the store and run into somebody and they’re like, oh my gosh, just freaking out. It’s like a family.”
FOND MEMORY
Walz spent one season at Minnesota on his climb up the coaching ladder, serving as an assistant under current Maryland coach Brenda Frese.
That was 20 years ago, when Hall of Fame finalist Lindsay Whalen was a sophomore for the Gophers on a breakthrough team that reached the Final Four two seasons later. The women's team at that time played in a smaller gym, the Pavilion, next door to Williams Arena where the Minnesota men's team has played since 1928.
A water pipe burst that winter, moving the women's team into the bigger venue. The Gophers were on a roll, and the first game in the building known as “The Barn” was packed to the rafters.
“From that point on, we continued the rest of the season playing in the Barn in front of unbelievable crowds,” Walz said.
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HOUSTON — The latest batch of data released by the 2020 U.S. Census confirms what countless Houston-area drivers are feeling: we’re sitting in traffic longer.
“It's just inconvenient,” said one woman who moving through traffic congestion in her Cypress neighborhood earlier this month.
“Seems like it's never-ending,” said a Galleria-area business.
“Sometimes it rains, sometimes it's sunny,” said another driver who speaks for so many of his neighbors. “You can always count on Houston traffic.”
David Schrank, a Research Scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute says no, Houstonians are not crazy when it comes to traffic. He says traffic is coming back to pre-pandemic congestion.
Research done by the university over the last 30 years confirms what the U.S. Census pulled from surveys completed among drivers 16-years and older in the Houston area.
“Texas is growing like crazy,” said Schrank. “And for every person that moves here… there’s more goods and services moving around... Plus Texas is a key player in the national economy. And so, especially with truck traffic. It’s going to continue on our roads.”
The 2020 data, released online by the federal government, shows increasing commute times when compared to data released in 2015. Drivers in the Liberty County city of Cleveland are seeing a 35-minute increase in their daily commutes. It tracks their one-way daily commute as just under 60 minutes.
Drivers in Montgomery are spending an additional 10 minutes in traffic during their daily commute.
While most Houston suburbs are averaging 4.5 more minutes in commuter traffic, people in communities like Humble, Richmond and League City shaved a minute off their daily drive.
“Folks are working from home, still. Or enough are working from home that it still makes a difference,” said Schrank of why some drivers aren’t feeling the added time on the road, yet.
Construction projects can also cause temporary congestion.
2020 Census data will help the federal government better divvy up funds for transportation projects like the widening of highways across Houston as its population expands.
But Schrank confirms, we’ll always feel like construction projects will only provide temporary relief, as more people move to Texas.
“What we need is more transportation options and a transportation system.”
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute ranks Houston as the third most congested city in the U.S., behind New York City and Boston.
Schrank does share some good news. While Houstonians once wasted 76 hours a year in traffic, because of the pandemic, drivers are now down to averaging 49 hours a year in traffic.
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Association Announces Next-Gen Leaders
WASHINGTON, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The White House Association released a new episode of the 1600 Sessions podcast today, "The Next Generation: What the White House Means to Me," to announce its inaugural program, Next-Gen, a group of more than fifty influential young professionals from a wide variety of fields, bound together by a passion for history, civics, and education.
The Next-Gen Leaders include presidential descendants, members of Forbes' 30 Under 30, CEOs, military officers, a White House correspondent, a former Miss America, and several other individuals held in high esteem in their respective fields. Members will take part in a year-long cohort and attend Association events, in-person and virtual programming, and quarterly meetings.
In this podcast episode, White House Historical Association President and podcast host Stewart McLaurin speaks with eight of the Association's new Next-Gen Leaders.
Next-Gen Leaders were chosen either by recommendation or by research, vetted according to demonstrated dedication to education, history, and civics, accomplishments within their field, social media presence, and embracing the Association's nonpartisan mission.
The 1600 Sessions is available on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and Stitcher.
To watch or listen to the full episode, visit The1600sessions.org.
For more information, please contact press@whha.org.
Visit whitehousehistory.org to learn about the current Next-Gen group.
About The 1600 Sessions
In this podcast series, White House Historical Association President Stewart McLaurin interviews luminaries, historians, and eyewitnesses to history about America's most famous residence and office—the White House. Each episode includes a prominent guest or guests to discuss varying facets of White House history, including insights from former staff and many other topical issues.
About The White House Historical Association
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy envisioned a restored White House that conveyed a sense of history through its decorative and fine arts. In 1961, the White House Historical Association was established to support her vision to preserve and share the Executive Mansion's legacy for generations to come. Supported entirely by private resources, the Association's mission is to assist in the preservation of the state and public rooms, fund acquisitions for the White House permanent collection, and educate the public on the history of the White House. Since its founding, the White House Historical Association has contributed more than $50 million in fulfillment of its mission. To learn more about the White House Historical Association, please visit www.whitehousehistory.org.
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Tech companies seek to choke out Russian state media
Tech companies have sought to deplatform RT, Sputnik and other Russian state media dispensing disinformation about the invasion in Ukraine.
The Silicon Valley giants are relying on playbooks they’ve crafted over the last decade or so as they enter largely uncharted territory in responding to an unprecedented military conflict in the social media age.
Platforms are abiding by widespread calls from global leaders to block content from Kremlin-controlled media, but are trying to strike a balance to leave their platforms open for Russian civilians to communicate.
Starting last week, companies began to take action against Russian state media by demonetizing content from such publishers. Later, amid pressure from global leaders and after the European Union issued sanctions on Russian state-controlled media, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media companies restricted access to the outlets through their platforms in Europe.
Reddit went a step further on Thursday, announcing it is restricting Russian state media outlets universally across the platform “in all geographies.” Also on a global scale, Facebook and Twitter said they would demote content from Russian state media to make it less accessible.
While the social media industry seems to be taking a widespread, full-throttle approach to restrict Russian state media now, April Glaser, a senior internet policy fellow at the Harvard Shorenstein Center, said the platforms are following a pattern they’ve set in the past — taking action after a crisis “has begun to swell.”
“These Kremlin backed media operations have been operating and monetizing on these platforms for years, and we’re seeing them take action now long after the Russian state media has been using disinformation to justify an invasion of Ukraine,” Glaser said.
If the tech companies had spent the last decade “more proactive in recognizing what kinds of threats state sponsored disinformation networks pose to the internet ecology,” it would be less challenging now to combat the Russian disinformation, said American University professor Aram Sinnreich.
“While they’re certainly doing more than lip service now, they also don’t have anything close to like a kill switch. They don’t have any comprehensive strategy to counter these networks and that’s a problem,” he said.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) sent a letter last week to a wide array of tech companies, urging them to ramp up efforts to curb Russian information operations. He commended the action they’ve taken since then, but also made a push for more regulation to hold the companies accountable.
“I commend these platforms, but the truth is, at this moment in time when these companies have such enormous power, I shouldn’t have to rely on their goodwill,” Warner said Monday during an interview with Washington Post Live.
“I commend them right now, but we need some rules of the road going forward because, whether it’s in peace or war, these companies have unparalleled power,” he added.
Meta’s president of global affairs Nick Clegg indicated the company is open to taking more aggressive action in the future, such as potentially removing Russian government accounts, but for now will stay on its current course.
“This is such an unprecedented and horrifying set of events,” Clegg told reporters earlier this week. “I really can’t predict to you how they’re going to unfold, [let] alone how we are going to have to adapt to and respond to them.”
“I don’t want to pretend that things are, sort of, off the table,” he added. “We all feel, I think the whole world feels, we are entering into territory here. So of course we’ll keep an open mind. But we will continue along the sort of trendlines, all other things being equal, that we’ve set out to you today.”
As the platforms grapple with government requests to restrict Russian disinformation, they’re also facing threats from Russia that the country will cut off access to their sites for the Russian public. Even before Facebook announced it would restrict access to Kremlin-controlled outlets in the EU, Russia said it would limit access to Facebook.
So far, Russia’s throttling effects on Facebook have been seen mostly on video and other multimedia content, Clegg said.
“The Kremlin will definitely use this as an excuse to justify taking down those network platforms. The Kremlin would have done it anyway,” said Bret Schafer, a senior fellow and head of the Alliance for Securing Democracy’s information manipulation team.
Russia’s military invasion into Ukraine, though its scale is unprecedented in the years of social media prominence, is not the first military conflict to arise during that time.
Sinnreich said the companies haven’t “learned their lessons very well” from the previous instances — arguing they have failed to take a proactive approach.
“It’s not because they’re stupid, it’s actually a strategic, it’s a strategic kind of ignorance,” Sinnreich said.
“The problem is that social media need to maintain a plausible degree of neutrality and ignorance regarding the information that traverses their networks so that they can avoid being more heavily regulated,” he said.
This time, the companies are heavily leaning on government requests as their reason for restricting access. It’s a key difference from previous instances when they have made decisions to moderate content, which have largely been based on their own internal terms and policies.
That reasoning may pose challenges going forward, as the companies face continued calls for content moderation in the U.S. and abroad.
“We’ve seen a lot of pushback against attempts to regulate these companies or attempts to get them to be more accountable for the information that people receive on their channels. And they’re showing that they’re fully capable of making these editorial decisions or decisions in the public interest,” Glaser said.
“It’s going to be interesting to see how they’re, how they push back on requests from the United States and other governments who may also want to see faster firm action to keep places where people get information functioning healthily,” she added.
The response from tech companies is also different than in previous conflicts because Russia is more adept at manipulating social media platforms than other combatants, Schafer said.
“We are seeing a kind of different calculus here because it’s Russia. And they’re just a different player,” he said.
On the other side of the conflict, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other leaders have been successful at using social media to push back on the Russian disinformation “playbook,” said Jason Blazakis, Director of the Middlebury Institute’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism.
“We’re also seeing that Ukrainian messaging, and genuine messaging, is actually in some ways, talking about the truth of the situation, is actually refreshingly winning the battle against disinformation and misinformation right now. And I think it’s a testament to Zelensky’s communication skills, and this is to me one of the refreshing aspects of a very sad situation,” Blazakis said.
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- Added distance to player to the player list UI.
- Fixed bug related to dragging blocks onto guns in the inventory.
- Fixed bug where removing a container with the screwdriver wouldn't actually remove it.
- Fixed a zombie desync that can happen if a zombie is killed far from another player.
- Fixed issue where after closing a container it took two key presses to open the same container.
- Fix for crash if you have the inventory/container UI up when another player dies in Last Life.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former minor league pitcher ran a major league illegal sports betting operation in California that used other former pro athletes to take bets and took wagers from players still in the game, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Wayne Nix, who threw for Oakland Athletics farm teams, used his connections to recruit three former Major League Baseball players and a former pro football player as fellow bookies, prosecutors said.
The MLB began looking into the matter when it learned of it Thursday, but was unaware any of those involved other than Nix, a spokesman said.
Court records offered no names of the players who worked for Nix or those who placed bets with his business, but they provide a glimpse of the kind of money being wagered, earned and lost.
A professional football player paid Nix $245,000 for gambling losses in 2016. An MLB coach paid $4,000 in losses that same year. It was not disclosed if either bet on their own games or their own sports.
MLB prohibits players from betting on baseball or gambling illegally on sports. They can bet on other sports if it’s legal. The National Football League policy bars all personnel from betting on football games.
A Los Angeles check cashing business that has agreed to plead guilty to failing to prevent money laundering in the scheme cashed over $18 million in checks from two single bettors, prosecutors said.
One client wagered $5 million on the Super Bowl but it was not revealed if that gambit paid off.
Sports betting is legal in 30 states, but not in California. However, voters will have a chance to legalize it at the polls in November.
Nix, 45, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to run an illegal gambling operation and faces up to eight years in prison. He also admitted he failed to report $1.4 million in income in 2017 and 2018. He has agreed to pay back taxes and interest of $1.25 million and forfeit $1.3 million seized from bank accounts.
Nix began the sports bookmaking business about 20 years ago after his six-year minor league career — with stops in Arizona, Texas and California — ended, prosecutors said.
His client list was created from contacts he had made in the sports world and included current and former pro athletes. The agents he hired helped expand that clientele.
The operation eventually began using a Costa Rican business, Sand Island Sports, to create accounts where bets could be placed and tracked and credit limits set, prosecutors said. Bets were placed online or through a call center, though Nix paid winners and kept most of the money from losing bets.
Those who exceeded credit limits were shut off, though exceptions were made, according to court documents.
A sports broadcaster's account was reactivated in February 2019 after he told Nix he was refinancing his home mortgage to pay off his gambling debts.
In September 2019, Nix increased the credit limit to a baseball player with debts so he could make additional bets.
In November, 2019, Nix's partner, Edon Kagasoff, told a business manager for a professional basketball player that he would increase the maximum wager he could place to $25,000 per NBA game.
Kagasoff, 44, faces the same conspiracy charge as Nix. He also agreed to plead guilty and forfeit over $3 million in funds seized from his home and bank accounts. | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/Ex-minor-leaguer-ran-major-league-sports-betting-17049855.php | 2022-04-01T01:03:13Z |
Wall Street brokerages expect AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T – Get Rating) to report $0.78 earnings per share (EPS) for the current fiscal quarter, Zacks Investment Research reports. Fourteen analysts have issued estimates for AT&T’s earnings. The lowest EPS estimate is $0.64 and the highest is $0.88. AT&T posted earnings of $0.86 per share in the same quarter last year, which would indicate a negative year over year growth rate of 9.3%. The business is scheduled to announce its next quarterly earnings results before the market opens on Monday, January 1st.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that AT&T will report full-year earnings of $3.07 per share for the current year, with EPS estimates ranging from $2.55 to $3.27. For the next year, analysts anticipate that the business will report earnings of $3.12 per share, with EPS estimates ranging from $2.54 to $3.60. Zacks’ earnings per share averages are a mean average based on a survey of sell-side research analysts that cover AT&T.
AT&T (NYSE:T – Get Rating) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, January 26th. The technology company reported $0.78 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.76 by $0.02. The business had revenue of $40.96 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $40.75 billion. AT&T had a return on equity of 13.50% and a net margin of 11.89%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was down 10.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.75 earnings per share.
Shares of NYSE:T traded down $0.51 during trading on Thursday, reaching $23.63. The stock had a trading volume of 51,913,964 shares, compared to its average volume of 52,856,086. AT&T has a 52 week low of $22.02 and a 52 week high of $33.88. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $23.95 and its 200 day moving average price is $24.89. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.83, a current ratio of 0.70 and a quick ratio of 0.66. The stock has a market capitalization of $168.79 billion, a PE ratio of 8.56, a P/E/G ratio of 2.22 and a beta of 0.68.
The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, May 2nd. Shareholders of record on Thursday, April 14th will be given a dividend of $0.278 per share. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, April 13th. This represents a $1.11 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.71%. AT&T’s payout ratio is presently 75.36%.
Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Econ Financial Services Corp acquired a new stake in AT&T in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $26,000. KRS Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in AT&T in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $27,000. MFA Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in AT&T in the third quarter valued at approximately $29,000. Atwood & Palmer Inc. acquired a new stake in AT&T in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $29,000. Finally, Arlington Partners LLC boosted its position in AT&T by 70.7% in the fourth quarter. Arlington Partners LLC now owns 1,263 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $31,000 after buying an additional 523 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 51.63% of the company’s stock.
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STAMFORD, Conn., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stamford, CT based private equity firm Olympus Partners has acquired Omega Environmental Technologies ("Omega"), the market leading aftermarket distributor of climate control products and other mission-critical components across the light and heavy-duty automotive sectors, from AEA Investors, which will remain a minority equity investor and retain a board position in the Company. Omega serves thousands of customers globally across the wholesale distribution, OE service, and automotive retail channels. The Company is headquartered in Irving, Texas and has over 20 distribution centers across the United States and Canada.
"The replacement air conditioning market is very attractive, with steadily growing demand and high barriers to entry due to the technical nature and SKU intensity of the product. Omega is the leader in this category with a portfolio of powerful brands and complete end market coverage. We look forward to working with Peter, Randy, and the rest of the management team to continue grow the Company," said Jason Miller, Partner at Olympus.
Peter Butterfield, Chairman of Omega, added, "I would like to thank AEA for their support over the past few years and look forward to partnering with the Olympus team. I have never been more excited about the prospects of the Company."
Founded in 1988, Olympus Partners is a private equity firm focused on providing equity capital for middle market management buyouts and for companies needing capital for expansion. Olympus is an active, long-term investor across a broad range of industries including business services, consumer products, healthcare services, financial services, industrial services, and manufacturing. Olympus manages in excess of $8.5 billion mainly on behalf of corporate pension funds, endowment funds and state-sponsored retirement programs.
The Olympus team included Jason Miller, Matt Bujor, and Alex Pollera. Olympus was represented by Ben Clinger, Adam Wexner, and Kat Murphy from Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Antares Capital LP led debt financing for the transaction.
AEA Investors LP was founded in 1968 by the Rockefeller, Mellon and Harriman family interests and S.G. Warburg & Co. as a private investment vehicle for a select group of industrial family offices with substantial assets. AEA has an extraordinary global network built over many years which includes leading industrial families, business executives and leaders; many of whom invest with AEA as active individual investors and/or join its portfolio company boards or act in other advisory roles. Today, AEA's approximately 100 investment professionals operate globally with offices in New York, Stamford, San Francisco, London, Munich and Shanghai. The firm manages funds that have over $14 billion of invested and committed capital including the leveraged buyouts of middle market companies and small business companies, growth capital and mezzanine and senior debt investments. AEA Small Business is a strategy within AEA that currently manages $1.9 billion of invested and committed capital. The team seeks to help grow and transform companies at the lower end of the middle market by sponsoring growing companies with proven management teams and superior business models.
Olympus Partners is a private equity firm focused on providing equity capital for middle market management buyouts and for growing companies. Olympus manages in excess of $8.5 billion mainly on behalf of corporate pension funds, endowment funds and state-sponsored retirement programs. Founded in 1988, Olympus is an active, long-term investor across a broad range of industries including business services, food services, consumer products, healthcare services, financial services, industrial services and manufacturing.
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Airbnb suspending operations in Russia, Belarus
Airbnb has announced that it will suspend all operations in Russia and Belarus in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine last week.
Airbnb, Inc. CEO Brian Chesky, who has added a Ukrainian flag to his name on Twitter in solidarity with the country, tweeted the news Thursday night, shortly after Russian infantry attacked the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant near Energodar, Ukraine.
Earlier Thursday Chesky retweeted images of a person’s chat with a Ukrainian Airbnb host, saying “People are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine they don’t intend to stay in just to help Hosts.” He retweeted two more similar posts where people shared their messages after booking from Ukrainian hosts.
Chesky announced Monday that Airbnb aims to house over 100,000 Ukrainian refugees for free. He followed up with notices telling people how they can help the company in its efforts to house refugees.
“With more Hosts, we can house more refugees,” Chesky wrote. “If you live in Germany, Poland, Romania, Hungary, France, UK, Italy, Netherlands … anywhere a refugee may be, you can help by opening your home.”
Airbnb previously housed over 20,000 Afghan refugees in the span of six months, boosting its goal number to 40,000 on Feb. 22.
The news of Airbnb’s suspension of operations in Russia and Belarus comes amid increasing diplomatic pressure against Russia to retreat from Ukraine.
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- Attack of invocations now scales depending on the invocation's strength
- The last orientation a player used to cast a spell is now saved
- Tooltips of fire and water spells reworked (only 86 more, sometimes I hate my life)
Spells
New spells
- Flood
- Water pillar
Pact of the Dragon Slayer
- Applies less damage but also applies fire
Pact of Eaman
- Applies less damage
- Now drains water
- Bonus of Mana max / Mana income now depends of the drained water
Flame
- New knight effect: turns the neighbouring into fire tile
Fire ball
- New knight effect: enlarges impact area if the knight is on a fire tile
- New queen effect: turns the tile under the queen into fire tile
Fire aura
- Knight effect reworked: now applies attack to AI pieces if the knight is on a fire tile
Fire meteors
- Rook effect: applies less ice
Fire wave
- Queen effect: number of waves now scales on attack
Fire hydra
- Now moves and fire on enemy pieces
- Starts with less stats
- Hydra's spells are empowered as knight
- New rook effect: starts with earth
- New bishop effect: starts with more lightning
- King effect now increases the mana cost of the spell by 3
Living bomb
- New knight effect: removes HP instead of fire
Splash
- New queen effect: clear special tiles
- New king effect: gives energy if the king is on a water tile
Water disc
- Water drained nerfed
- Pawn effect: bonus damage nerfed
- New queen effect: drains more water
Epuration
- Mana cost reduced from 5 to 4
Water bolt
- Applies less water
- Bishop effect: now enlarges area only if the bishop is on a water tile
- New queen effect: turns the tile under the queen into water tile
- Mana cost reduced from 5 to 4
Water hydra
- Now moves and fire on enemy pieces
- Mana cost reduced from 8 to 6
- Summoning sickness reduced from 2 to 1
- Starts with less stats
- Hydra's spells are empowered as knight
- New rook effect: starts with earth
- Bishop effect reworked: fire on friendly pieces
- King effect now increases the mana cost of the spell by 3
Water elemental
- Adds water to itself even if it is already awake
Blessed bypass
- Now turns the tile under the piece into air tile (each turn)
Burning bypass
- Now turns the tile under the piece into air tile (each turn)
- New king effect: applies lightning to the king (each turn)
Explosive bypass
- Now turns the tile under the piece into air tile (each turn)
- Rook effect: gives less earth
Feather
- Pawn effect: gives more lightning to the pawn
Curse Of Necrom
- Bishop effect reworked: applies curse each turn if the cursed piece has the curse ascension
- King effect reworked: damage increases if the piece is on a curse tile
Levels
- New versions for Sky temple and Golden fortress
Water temple
- Summons less elementals
- Now summons water pillars
Fixes
- Pieces now trigger "Enter tile event" when they spawn
- Holy tiles: fixed mana given
- Blood gem: tooltip fixed
- Dragon skeleton: tooltip fixed
- Broken dragon egg+: attack and mana cost of fixed
- Fake holy grail+: will not propose items you already have
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers passed a measure on Thursday to create a paid family leave program, sending the legislation to Gov. Larry Hogan.
The bill, approved by supermajority votes by Democrats who control the legislature, would enable workers to take up to 12 weeks of partially paid leave for specified personal family circumstances such as caring for a sick relative or having a baby. It would provide up to 24 weeks for a parent, if he or she has a serious health issue in the year of a child's birth.
“This has been a long time coming,” said Sen. Antonio Hayes, a Baltimore Democrat. He thanked supporters who have “come together and really advocated on behalf of Maryland families."
Republicans criticized the measure for failing to spell out how much employees and employers would have to contribute, leaving that for the state's labor department to define later. They said Democrats were rushing to get the bill to the Republican governor just to meet a deadline so lawmakers will still be in session if the bill is vetoed.
“We're pushing this bill as quick as we can to get it upstairs,” said Sen. J.B. Jennings, a Republican, who added: “We don't know the numbers ... this bill is a hot mess.”
Because lawmakers are in the last session of the four-year term, they would not have a chance to override the veto next year if they adjourn before the governor acts on legislation.
The measure would create an insurance pool. Employees and employers would contribute to fund the program. Under the bill, the state’s labor department would set contribution rates to pay for the program. Employers with fewer than 15 employees would not be required to contribute.
The measure also includes job protections to protect employees from retaliation or termination for using the leave.
Seven states and the District of Columbia have paid family and medical leave insurance programs, including California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Washington. Colorado and Oregon have approved programs that have not started yet. | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/Maryland-paid-family-leave-program-bill-passed-to-17049782.php | 2022-04-01T01:03:19Z |
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Starting this fall, the Indiana State University Sustainable Cities Program will begin a partnership with the city of Marshall, Illinois to develop and implement community-driven projects throughout the academic year. "We are really excited about our partnership with the City of Marshall," said Vice President for University Engagement Nancy...
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Equities analysts expect F.N.B. Co. (NYSE:FNB – Get Rating) to post earnings of $0.24 per share for the current quarter, according to Zacks. Six analysts have provided estimates for F.N.B.’s earnings, with the highest EPS estimate coming in at $0.26 and the lowest estimate coming in at $0.19. F.N.B. posted earnings per share of $0.28 in the same quarter last year, which would suggest a negative year over year growth rate of 14.3%. The company is expected to report its next earnings report on Monday, January 1st.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that F.N.B. will report full-year earnings of $1.17 per share for the current year, with EPS estimates ranging from $1.11 to $1.24. For the next fiscal year, analysts anticipate that the business will report earnings of $1.34 per share, with EPS estimates ranging from $1.22 to $1.52. Zacks’ EPS averages are an average based on a survey of sell-side research analysts that that provide coverage for F.N.B..
F.N.B. (NYSE:FNB – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January 19th. The bank reported $0.30 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.30. F.N.B. had a net margin of 30.30% and a return on equity of 8.23%. The firm had revenue of $302.30 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $297.70 million. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.28 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was down .2% compared to the same quarter last year.
Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Norges Bank bought a new stake in shares of F.N.B. in the fourth quarter worth $38,129,000. Bill Few Associates Inc. bought a new stake in shares of F.N.B. in the fourth quarter worth $1,044,000. Quent Capital LLC bought a new stake in shares of F.N.B. in the fourth quarter worth $87,000. BlackRock Inc. grew its stake in shares of F.N.B. by 2.5% in the fourth quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 35,370,902 shares of the bank’s stock worth $429,048,000 after purchasing an additional 848,254 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company MN grew its stake in shares of F.N.B. by 21.9% in the fourth quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 898,384 shares of the bank’s stock worth $10,898,000 after purchasing an additional 161,356 shares during the last quarter. 77.83% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Shares of NYSE FNB traded down $0.34 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $12.45. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 2,519,043 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,091,847. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a quick ratio of 0.85 and a current ratio of 0.85. F.N.B. has a fifty-two week low of $10.51 and a fifty-two week high of $14.11. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $13.10 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $12.50. The company has a market cap of $4.37 billion, a P/E ratio of 10.12 and a beta of 1.16.
The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, March 15th. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 4th were paid a dividend of $0.12 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, March 3rd. This represents a $0.48 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.86%. F.N.B.’s payout ratio is presently 39.02%.
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F.N.B. Corp. is a financial holding company. It engages in the provision of financial services to consumers, corporations, governments, and small to medium-sized businesses. The firm operates through the following segments: Community Banking, Wealth Management, Insurance, and Other. The Community Banking segment includes commercial and consumer banking services.
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Customer-facing departments participated in expert-led educational sessions, underscoring commitment to promoting responsible gambling habits
DENVER, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the third year in a row, PointsBet and its employees participated in Problem Gambling Awareness Month, a national campaign designed to increase awareness of problem gambling and offer prevention, treatment, and recovery services.
In the spirit of this year's theme, Awareness + Action, PointsBet hosted educational sessions for all its customer-facing departments. The trainings were designed to generate awareness of problem gambling and empower staff with clear strategies on how to identify and address problem gambling. Sessions were led in consultation with department heads to ensure staff would have a clear understanding of how their roles uniquely position them to recognize problem gambling red flags through a path of escalation regarding observed red flags.
"Responsible and problem gambling education for our staff is far more than just fulfilling a regulatory requirement," said Johnny Aitken, PointsBet USA Chief Executive Officer. "It is about sparking genuine dialogue and empowering our teams to discuss responsible gambling with our customers. We are proud to participate in Problem Gambling Awareness Month for the third consecutive year and look forward to our continued support of this important initiative in the years to come."
This month's trainings were part of an ongoing responsible gambling education plan, which includes an introductory level training for all new hires as part of the onboarding process, lived experience training, and responsible gambling presentations delivered during company-wide town hall meetings.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owner of a downtown Los Angeles building where an explosion injured 12 firefighters has been allowed to enter a judicial diversion program that allows him to avoid jail time and potentially have all charges dismissed.
A court commissioner on Wednesday granted the diversion request for Steve Sungho Lee. He and his companies must pay more than $125,000 in investigative fees, make sure the property meets fire and building codes and arranging for Fire Department training.
Lee owned a commercial building on East Boyd Street in the city's Toy District that caught fire on May 16, 2020. Firefighters had to run for their lives when a ball of flames shot out the building and scorched a fire truck across the street.
Firefighters inside the building had to run through a wall of flames he estimated as 30 feet (9 meters) high and wide, and those on the roof scrambled down a ladder that was engulfed in fire.
Fire officials said the building was a warehouse for Smoke Tokes, a wholesale distributor of supplies for smoking and vaping products including butane hash oil, a concentrated cannabis extract that can be eaten, smoked or vaped. Highly flammable butane is used in the manufacturing process.
Most of the injured firefighters still haven't returned to work and one, Capt. Victor Aguirre, was hospitalized for more than two months and all of his fingers had to be partially amputated, according to a lawsuit he filed against the building and business owners.
Aguirre alleged that the area contained “hundreds of illegally and improperly stored butane canisters and thousands of illegally and improperly stored nitrous oxide cylinders.”
A fire department report concluded that the blaze, which spread to a nearby building, was fueled by an “excessive quantity” of the containers.
Investigators from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives concluded that the fire started under a storage rack in the building and that a worker with a lit cigarette was seen in the area. The cause of the fire was ruled accidental.
However, city prosecutors filed more than 300 misdemeanor charges of violating fire and safety codes against Lee, his companies and owners of businesses in the building and nearby properties. That included more than 160 counts against Lee and his companies.
If Lee meets all conditions of his judicial diversion program for two years, the charges will be dismissed.
“Mr. Lee will be deemed by law to have never been charged," said his attorney, Blair Berk. “The exhaustive federal investigation of the tragic fire objectively concluded that the cause was accidental, and there was no finding of any wrongdoing by Mr. Lee or his companies.”
City Attorney Mike Feuer opposed diversion for Lee, noting the severity of the fire, the injuries suffered by the firefighters and Lee's alleged failure “to take steps which could have mitigated the extent of the blaze."
The owners of Smoke Tokes and another business, Green Buddha, agreed in November 2020 to pay $139,000 each to cover investigative costs and to move out of the building. Charges against them were later dismissed. | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/No-jail-for-LA-building-owner-over-explosion-that-17049830.php | 2022-04-01T01:03:25Z |
Twitter expanding fact-checking ‘Birdwatch’ project
Twitter is expanding its user generated fact-checking program “Birdwatch,” the company said Friday.
After testing Birdwatch with 10,000 users in a pilot program over the last year, the community generated notes will start appearing on tweets to a larger group of users on Twitter in the U.S.
Users will also be able to rate the notes to provide further input.
In order for a note to appear on a tweet, it needs to be rated helpful by “enough” Birdwatch contributors from “different perspectives,” Twitter’s vice president of product Keith Coleman said in a blog post.
The difference in perspectives is determined by how people have rated notes in the past, not based on their demographics, Coleman said.
Birdwatch is part of Twitter’s policies and programs to combat misinformation on the platform.
The company also announced a partnership with The Associated Press and Reuters in August to help identify and elevate credible information on Twitter.
Birdwatch also uses feedback from AP and Reuters as one way to assess the quality of information elevated by Birdwatch participants.
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/technology/596870-twitter-expanding-fact-checking-birdwatch-project/ | 2022-04-01T01:03:24Z |
Youth to power St. Regis track and field
They are few in numbers but long in competitiveness.
That’s the situation facing St. Regis track coach Jesse Allan as the team prepares for the 2022 Montana high school track and field season.
With only six, and possibly seven or eight students out for track this year, Allan and company will be looking at a group of freshmen and a few sophomores to provide team points and get better as the year goes on.
“We have only about six or seven players out this year”, said Allan before a sun splashed practice last week in St. Regis. “For a variety of reasons, some of the athletes we were hoping would come out have chosen to do other things. Several of them decided to golf this year”.
Among those Allan is hoping will shine this year is freshman sprinter and jumping events athlete Ayden Rael. He will compete in the sprint events and long jump during the coming year and has impressed the coach with his early season speed.
“We knew from basketball season Rael could run,” Allan said. “He has a good chance to be a good sprinter and jumper. He’s a hard worker”.
A sophomore showing great promise is Brooke Filek, who Allan said has a good chance to make it to divisionals later this Spring.
“Filek has the ability and a real good chance at making divisionals in the shot put,” he said.
Despite the low numbers and inexperience, Allan is optimistic the team will show improvement as the year goes on.
“We lost a lot from last season but are excited for this next group of kids coming up,” he said. “We have seven freshmen out this year, which is great for the coming years”.
Allan said he will be happy if the kids show improvement and develop their personal skills as the season progresses.
“My coaching philosophy is essentially to work hard and try for improvement each week. With young kids the focus is on them building good habits and foundations and watching them improve every week”.
And he is hoping that focus will translate into good results by the end of the year.
“I think by the end of the year our kids will compete well at districts and if they have a good day they should be able to compete one more week (Divisionals)”.
The Tigers open the 2022 season this Saturday when they take part in the Frenchtown Invitational. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556623154168/youth-to-power-st-regis-track-and-field | 2022-04-01T01:03:27Z |
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All of our ceramics are crafted by hand from 100% organic materials at Mudshark Studios in Portland, Oregon. The plastic free, locally-sourced packaging was made by Bay Area packaging company Lahlouh and was created using only 100% recyclable materials. We are also trying to limit the use of plastics in our shipping materials by using only recycled paper products and plant based fillers for ceramic items. For smaller items we use mailers from Ecoenclose that you can reuse for future shipments or recycle at grocery bag drop offs or wherever plastic bags are accepted.
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The brand began because of the lack of female representation in the cannabis industry and to help normalize the ritual use of plant medicine. We create functional, timeless pieces that are durable but also decorative and meant to be displayed proudly.
All of our ceramics are crafted by hand from 100% organic materials at Mudshark Studios in Portland, Oregon. The plastic free, locally-sourced packaging was made by Bay Area packaging company Lahlouh and was created using only 100% recyclable materials. We are also trying to limit the use of plastics in our shipping materials by using only recycled paper products and plant based fillers for ceramic items. For smaller items we use mailers from Ecoenclose that you can reuse for future shipments or recycle at grocery bag drop offs or wherever plastic bags are accepted.
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$20,000
1st:
$11,000
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
“They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment," Packer said in a clip released by ABC News Thursday night of an interview he gave to “Good Morning America.” “They said we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him. They were laying out the options.”
But Packer said Rock was “very dismissive” of the idea.
“He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine,” Packer said. "And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish.’ The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said no.”
The LAPD said in a statement after Sunday night's ceremony that they were aware of the incident, and that Rock had declined to file a police report. The department declined comment Thursday on Packer's interview, a longer version of which will air on Friday morning.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct. Smith could be suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned.
The academy said in a statement that “Mr. Smith’s actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television."
Without giving specifics, the academy said Smith was asked to leave the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, but refused to do so.
Smith strode from his front row seat on to the stage and slapped Rock after a joke Rock made about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, when he was on stage to present the Oscar for best documentary.
On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying “I was out of line and I was wrong.”
The academy said Smith has the opportunity to defend himself in a written response before the board meets again on April 18.
Rock publicly addressed the incident for the first time, but only briefly, at the beginning of a standup show Wednesday night in Boston, where he was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation. He said “I’m still kind of processing what happened.”
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Follow AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/andyjamesdalton | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/Oscars-producer-says-police-offered-to-arrest-17049804.php | 2022-04-01T01:03:31Z |
- Full year 2021 results include revenue of $612.2 million and adjusted EBITDA of $60.0 million
- Reported 24-month backlog at the end of Q4 2021 was $2.1 Billion, an increase of 22.0% over year end 2020
- Fourth quarter 2021 results include revenue of $147.1 million and adjusted EBITDA of $4.0 million
- Successfully completed four acquisitions and added significant new contract awards
BLUE BELL, Pa., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QualTek Services Inc. ("QualTek" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: QTEK), a leading turnkey provider of infrastructure services to the North American 5G wireless, telecom, power grid modernization, and renewable energy sectors, announced today a strong 2021 fourth quarter and full-year financial results of its subsidiary QualTek HoldCo, LLC.
Fourth quarter 2021 revenue was up 11.0% to $147.1 million, compared to $132.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2020. Net loss from continuing operations for the fourth quarter 2021 was $81.1 million compared to net loss from continuing operations of $56.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2020. Excluding one-time impairment of goodwill, Net loss from continuing operations for the fourth quarter 2021 was $28.6 million compared to a net loss from continuing operations of $27.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2020. Fourth quarter 2021 adjusted EBITDA was $4.0 million compared to a loss of $13.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2020. Backlog at the end of the fourth quarter was $2.1 billion which is a 22% increase over the fourth quarter 2020.
Full year 2021 revenue was $612.2 million, a decline of 6.7% from $656.5 million for the full year 2020. Net loss from continuing operations for 2021 was $101.6 million compared to net loss from continuing operations of $94.2 million in 2020. Excluding one-time impairment of goodwill, Net loss from continuing operations for 2021 improved to $49.1 million compared to a net loss from continuing operations of $65.4 million in 2020. Full year 2021 adjusted EBITDA increased 356.9% to $60.0 million, compared to $13.1 million for the full year 2020. The increase in adjusted EBITDA was driven primarily by margin improvement initiatives across both the Telecom and Renewables & Recovery segments. On a pro-forma basis, assuming the recently closed acquisitions had been owned for the full year ending December 31, 2021, QualTek estimates adjusted EBITDA would be approximately 72.0 million. For the full year 2022, guidance remains unchanged.
As QualTek has indicated in the past, strong industry tailwinds including grid modernization and infrastructure improvements along with the C-band spectrum deployment are expected to drive major 5G infrastructure buildouts and provide significant growth opportunities across the business. The company is also seeing reductions in COVID-19 health and safety protocols in key regions allowing for a return to pre-covid scale and efficiency. QualTek expects continued growth in both segments during 2022 and beyond.
Scott Hisey, QualTek's Chief Executive Officer, said, "2021 was a critical year for the company. We successfully closed our SPAC transaction creating over $80 million of additional liquidity to allow us to execute on our strategic growth plan. Full year 2021 adjusted EBITDA grew to $60.0 million, a $47 million increase from 2020. QualTek remains on a path to be a significant industry player across the telecommunications and power industries. We successfully grew our rolling two-year backlog by 22% to $2.1 billion during the year. This growth is a testament to our strong performance and our customer's reliance on QualTek to play a critical role in building out 5G networks and participating in the long-term grid modernization initiatives. We are very excited for the future of QualTek."
Management will hold a conference call to discuss these results on Friday, April 1, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The call-in number for the conference call is 1 (888) 330 – 2454 or 1 (240) 789 - 2714 using passcode 2965812. Additionally, the call will be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed and replayed through the investor relations section of the Company's website at qualtekservices.com.
The following tables set forth the financial results for the periods ended December 31, 2021 and 2020:
The following tables set forth the financial results for the three-month periods ended December 31, 2021 and 2020:
Founded in 2012, QualTek is a leading technology-driven provider of infrastructure services to the 5G wireless, telecom, power grid modernization, and renewable energy sectors across North America. QualTek has a national footprint with more than 80 operation centers across the U.S. and a workforce of over 5,000 people. QualTek has established a nationwide operating network to enable quick responses to customer demands as well as proprietary technology infrastructure for advanced reporting and invoicing. The Company will report within two operating segments: Telecommunications and Renewables and Recovery. For more information, please visit qualtekservices.com.
This communication contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about the financial condition, results of operations, earnings outlook and prospects of QualTek. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as "plan," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "outlook," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "continue," "could," "may," "might," "possible," "potential," "predict," "should," "would" and other similar words and expressions, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.
The forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the management of QualTek and are inherently subject to uncertainties and changes in circumstances and their potential effects and speak only as of the date of such statement. There can be no assurance that future developments will be those that have been anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed and identified in public filings made with the SEC by QualTek.
Should one or more of the risks or uncertainties materialize or should any of the assumptions made by the management of QualTek prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements.
All pro forma numbers are used for illustrative purpose only, are not forecasts and may not reflect actual results.
All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning the matters addressed in this communication and attributable to QualTek or any person acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this communication. Except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, QualTek undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this communication to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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Wall Street brokerages expect Nerdwallet Inc (NASDAQ:NRDS – Get Rating) to post earnings per share (EPS) of ($0.14) for the current fiscal quarter, according to Zacks Investment Research. Five analysts have made estimates for Nerdwallet’s earnings. The lowest EPS estimate is ($0.17) and the highest is ($0.13). The firm is expected to issue its next earnings report on Monday, January 1st.
On average, analysts expect that Nerdwallet will report full-year earnings of ($0.32) per share for the current financial year, with EPS estimates ranging from ($0.41) to $0.00. For the next year, analysts forecast that the company will post earnings of ($0.20) per share, with EPS estimates ranging from ($0.27) to ($0.16). Zacks Investment Research’s EPS averages are a mean average based on a survey of sell-side research firms that cover Nerdwallet.
Nerdwallet (NASDAQ:NRDS – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, February 24th. The company reported ($0.13) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.20) by $0.07. The company had revenue of $99.50 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $87.53 million.
In other news, CEO Tim Chao-Ming Chen acquired 13,794 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, March 9th. The shares were bought at an average cost of $11.33 per share, for a total transaction of $156,286.02. The acquisition was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Insiders have bought a total of 84,900 shares of company stock worth $852,925 over the last 90 days.
A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of NRDS. Innovius Capital Management LLC bought a new stake in Nerdwallet in the 4th quarter valued at about $81,006,000. Point72 Asset Management L.P. bought a new stake in Nerdwallet in the 4th quarter valued at about $9,099,000. Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC bought a new stake in Nerdwallet in the 4th quarter valued at about $5,622,000. Rit Capital Partners PLC bought a new stake in Nerdwallet in the 4th quarter valued at about $3,888,000. Finally, HST Ventures LLC bought a new stake in shares of Nerdwallet during the 4th quarter worth approximately $3,171,000. 0.90% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
NRDS traded down $0.32 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $11.99. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 68,023 shares, compared to its average volume of 274,804. The business’s 50-day moving average is $12.42. Nerdwallet has a fifty-two week low of $9.09 and a fifty-two week high of $34.44.
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Expanding rail service will create greater connectivity in Montana
For over a century, passenger rail has been part of Montana’s heritage, culture, and economy. It’s currently a lifeline for Hi-Line communities. And, without a doubt, it is part of Montana’s future. In the fall of 2020, 12 Montana counties, stretching from Sanders to Wibaux, came...
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Microsoft suspends new sales in Russia amid invasion
Microsoft Corp. is suspending new sales of its products and services in Russia, the software giant announced Friday.
Microsoft joins a growing list of U.S. tech companies, including Apple and Dell Technologies, in cutting Russia off from key technologies following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s violent invasion of Ukraine and subsequent Western sanctions against Russia.
“Like the rest of the world, we are horrified, angered and saddened by the images and news coming from the war in Ukraine and condemn this unjustified, unprovoked and unlawful invasion by Russia,” Microsoft president Brad Smith wrote in a blog post.
“In addition, we are coordinating closely and working in lockstep with the governments of the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom, and we are stopping many aspects of our business in Russia in compliance with governmental sanctions decisions,” he continued.
Smith added in his blog post that Microsoft is attempting to protect Ukraine’s cybersecurity, stating that the company has acted against “Russian positioning, destructive or disruptive measures against more than 20 Ukrainian government, IT and financial sector organizations” and other cyber attacks on civilian sites that Microsoft believes violate the Geneva Convention.
Microsoft’s move comes after Apple said Tuesday that it would halt all sales to Russia and limit its services within the country. Google paused all ad sales in Russia Thursday, and Meta and Twitter have sought to crack down on Russian propaganda.
Corporate America has broadly joined much of the international community in condemning Russia, with Nike, ExxonMobil, Boeing, Ford Motor Co. and Airbnb among the firms cutting ties with Moscow. Even top Hollywood studios, including Warner Bros. and Disney, are pulling their releases from Russia.
The exodus of multinational companies comes after the U.S. and its allies imposed crippling sanctions and export controls that greatly complicate companies’ ability to do business in Russia.
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/technology/596872-microsoft-suspends-new-sales-in-russia-amid-invasion/ | 2022-04-01T01:03:32Z |
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1h 32m
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R2 Maiden Hcp
1050m
Class:
Maiden, Handicap
Class:
Maiden, Handicap
Prize:
$22,000
1st:
$12,200
2nd:
$3,900
3rd:
$2,100
Track Info:
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Friday 01 April 2022 03:11AM
Track Profile:
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Patch 1.0.4.47
Visual Routes System
Gridiron now has a visual routes/play art system! Quarterbacks now have new formations to choose from in the huddle. There are a number of plays with predetermined route/run concepts. Once the quarterback picks a play, players can see their assignment on the field itself!
- Receivers can see their routes on the field.
- Runningbacks can see their routes, blocking assignment, or intended running scheme for handoffs.
- Linemen can see an indication that they’re supposed to block on offense or rush the passer on defense.
- Corners and safeties can see the zone they are responsible for covering, the player they are supposed to guard in man coverage, or even where they’re supposed to rush on blitz plays.
New Ping System
The new Ping System will make communicating with your teammates easier than ever during plays. Prior to this update, it was basically impossible for players to communicate with their team during a play without a mic.
- Players can use the ping hotkey to bring up a menu that will display several communication options based on their position.
Balance Changes
- Introduced a mechanic designed to punish QBs when they drop back very far behind the line of scrimmage. Once the QB reaches 14 yards behind the line of scrimmage they will get progressively slower for the next 6 yards they back up until they are slowed the most possible at 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage.
- Moved the hash marks on the field closer together.
Matchmaking Changes
We’ve removed the match acceptance feature along with the ability to queue for multiple game modes at once. Limitations with our matchmaking service prevented us from getting the acceptance feature to work as we intended.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where a shield bash would cause players to fly backward indefinitely.
- Fixed an issue with the passing section of training mode. | https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/8477023/ | 2022-04-01T01:03:37Z |
Battle Creek Central's Amira Gaddy to play hoops at the next level
Bill Broderick
Battle Creek Enquirer
A standout starter on the Battle Creek Central girls basketball team, senior Amira Gaddy is hoping to make the same impact in the college ranks.
The Bearcats' Gaddy committed to play at the next level at Jackson Community College during a signing ceremony at BCC High School last week.
Despite her squad having an up-and-down season at 4-13, Amira Gaddy came up with a senior year that demonstrated her ability to be an elite point guard at the high school level as she earned a return spot on the All-City team.
Gaddy averaged 13.1 points per game with her fast break style and ability to get to the rim off the dribble, adding 4.1 rebounds and earned all-league consideration in the Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference. | https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/sports/2022/03/31/battle-creek-centrals-amira-gaddy-play-hoops-next-level/7231006001/ | 2022-04-01T01:03:38Z |
Over the last several years, an increasing number of companies have pledged to hire a more diverse workforce and begun releasing their diversity numbers annually. The results have been a mixed bag at best.
With so many organizations saying that diversity hiring is among their top goals and making good-faith efforts to revamp their recruiting practices accordingly, our team wanted to better understand why the results have fallen short. What we found surprised us: Subconscious bias tends to have the strongest impact on historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in the early stages of the interview process.
For example, the data revealed that while white candidates see higher passthrough rates at the very top of the funnel, Black and Hispanic/Latinx talent see higher passthrough rates across the remaining funnel stages: 62% of Black talent and 57% of Hispanic/Latinx talent are extended offers after on-sites, compared to just 54% of white talent.
This suggests that diversity is most often an issue in earlier stages of the interview process, driven at least in part by subconscious bias. Candidates from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups have to work harder to prove themselves than their white counterparts, despite seeing higher offer rates at later stages of the interview process.
Whenever you open a new role, start by asking the question: How do we ensure that our selection is based solely on criteria that’s relevant to the role?
To help address this issue, I’m sharing six strategies that recruiting teams can use to reduce bias in the early phases of the recruiting process, when candidates are both entering and progressing through interviews.
Rethink the criteria for your open roles
Research has found that many things people list on their LinkedIn profile or résumé have very little, if any, correlation with their future work performance.
For example, requiring or being predisposed to four-year degrees from certain institutions biases you toward privilege. Screening for leadership experience can also be racially biased, due to lower representation of non-white people at the executive level.
To avoid this, whenever you open a new role, start by asking the question: How do we ensure that our selection is based solely on criteria that’s relevant to the role?
From there, clarify which competencies and qualifications are absolutely necessary to success in the role, and rather than focusing on the candidate’s experience, education, or — if they’re early in their careers — GPAs, ask yourself what about their history suggests problem-solving skills, cognitive ability and a growth mindset. | https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/6-methods-for-reducing-bias-in-candidate-sourcing-and-screening/ | 2022-04-01T01:03:38Z |
Georgia 46: Gwinnett 1; Walton County 0 more deaths reported in the past 24 hours
After week of declining numbers of positive cases of COVID-19 in Georgia, Wednesday and Thursday of this week cases suddenly spiked again. The cases went from 678 on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, which was a 2.5 % positive rate to 9,661, a positive rate of 20.2 % the following day. However, this spike was not due to actual cases spiking, but just a reporting error that is in the process of being corrected, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health. The cases also were from a few months back when the Omicron surge resulted in climbing positive rates.
“The number of confirmed cases in the Daily Status update includes an ongoing backlog of cases that were not previously reported by a large laboratory. We anticipate additional backlog from this lab will be added in the coming days as DPH receives these reports. The total backlog is expected to primarily include cases identified at this lab between December 2021 and February 2022 during the Omicron surge,” said Nancy Nydam director of communications with the Georgia DPH. “In addition to artificially inflating the number of PCR positive tests today, the PCR percent positive will be impacted. When accounting for the backlog of positive test results, the number of recent case reports and PCR percent positive is consistent with the previous week.”
Nydam also explained the reason for the Walton County number of positive cases actually reversing over the last few days.
“That is the result of data cleaning. Our team goes back and reviews data to ensure there is no duplicate reporting or errors or incorrect zip code. It is usually the result of the same information reported by two sources (for example a hospital and a lab),” she said.
The following is a snapshot of the statistics reported by the Georgia Department of Public Health at 3 p.m., on Thursday, March 31, 2022. Georgia is reporting 46 more deaths, Gwinnett County one more and Walton County no more deaths reported in the past 24 hours.
Walton County
Total Cases – 21,830 – That is 5 less cases reported in the past 24 hours.
Cases per 100,000 – 22,784 cumulative (65 per 100,000 in past 2 weeks)
Total deaths – 385 – that’s 0 more death reported in the past 24 hours. (deaths per 100,000 is 401.8)
Testing 1.5 % positive in the past 2 weeks, overall 15.0 % (1.75% of those tested came back positive over the past 2 weeks)
Gwinnett County
Total Cases – 207,381 – That is 214 more cases reported in the past 24 hours.
Cases per 100,000 – 21,354 cumulative (153 per 100,000 in past 2 weeks)
Total deaths – 1,732 – That’s 1 more death reported in the past 24 hours (179.2 deaths per 100,000 reported)
Testing – 1.5 % positive in the past 2 weeks, overall 12.7 % (1.5 % of those tested came back positive over the past 2 weeks.)
Georgia
*Confirmed cases – 1,938,336 – that is 3,016 more cases reported plus 366 Antigen positive cases for a total of 3,382 more cases reported in the past 24 hours.
Hospitalizations – 110,561 – That’s 87 more hospitalizations reported in the past 24 hours. ICU Admissions 15,764 cumulative, that is 12 more reported in the past 24 hours. Total deaths – 31,097 – That is 46 more deaths reported in the past 24 hours.
*A total of 17,452,764 PCR/Molecular tests and 6,031,945 antigen tests have been performed and 736,353 antibody tests. Of these tests performed collectively, 2,161,838 (12.4 %) PCR Molecular, 564,342 (9.4 %) Antigen tests have come back positive and 232,139 (31.5 %) antibody tests have come back positive. In the past 24 hours, 100,726 Molecular tests were reported with 21,097 (20.9 %) positive. | https://news.monroelocal.org/covid-19-spike-in-georgias-positive-numbers-this-week-are-result-of-dump-of-backlog-cases-from-large-lab/ | 2022-04-01T01:03:38Z |
Natural hair enthusiast and expert Felicia Leatherwood is the mastermind behind the tresses of some of our favorite celebrities. If you love the intricate styles that Issa Rae sported on Insecure and beyond, then you’ll want to get familiar with the woman behind the styling comb. Leatherwood is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to sculpting the natural mane into a work of art, and now she’s giving us the tools to manage our own hair with the My Black is Beautiful Golden Milk Collection.
The My Black is Beautiful Golden Milk Collection is inspired by two ideas; Our Blackness is unequivocally flawless; and it’s a Black woman’s birthright to live luxuriously. Leatherwood fused both ideas to create a line of products that will elevate your hair care experience.
“I really feel like My Black is Beautiful wanted women to feel luxurious and to feel like they’re doing something special for themselves, self-care. One of the main inspirations behind the collection is to just give us that feeling of goodness and luxury when it comes to ourselves and our hair care,” she tells HelloBeautiful in an exclusive interview.
Black women deserve to live in luxury. Taking trips, treating yourself to gifts, and pouring into yourself with manicures, hair salon visits, and massages is an integral part of self-care. The hustle and bustle of life can convince us that such tasks aren’t always necessary, but the truth is we deserve those things and so much more.
“Black women are often shunned for living in luxury,” Leatherwood said. “We’re often viewed as doing too much. My advice for anyone who is hesitant to step into the luxurious life that they deserve to be living is to get in the mirror, look at yourself and see how incredible you are. Look at your skin. Feel how beautiful your skin is. Look at your hair. Thank yourself and your body that you are able to have this beautiful head of hair, no matter what texture it is. And that you can take a moment out to reflect on the most amazing parts of your life. And to know that you deserve that and more. The highest place that you’ve been in your life. Guess what? You deserve more. You can wish and believe bigger and grander, and you deserve that.”
With luxury in mind, Leatherwood’s collection offers a spa-like feel to the otherwise mundane wash-day experience. “The Golden Milk Products are infused with the perfect ingredients, giving you that therapeutic feeling as well as aromatherapy because the products smell amazing and they feel great in your hair.”
The My Black is Beautiful Golden Milk Collection features eight products that will nourish your tresses from root to tip. Adding the Hydrating Shampoo, Fortifying Conditioner, Tangle Slayer Conditioning Cream Type 3, Tangle Slayer Conditioning Cream Type 4, Intense Recovery Treatment, Moisture Luxe Detangling Spray, Edge Slayer and Curl Cream to your wash day can take your wash days to the next level. Each product is a personal favorite of Letherwood’s for various reasons.
“I would say that my staple is the edge Slayer. I love the edge Slayer for my edges, cuz I just drop it in my bag and take it on the go,” she said. “Oh my God, I love the Intense Recovery Treatment because one of my favorite things to do is deep condition my hair. I have color-treated hair. I also have 4C hair, which is kinky coily hair and it tends to be a bit dry. So when I can get in a really good deep condition session, my hair is in love with me. Speaker 1: I love the curl cream because the curl cream is formulated for textures three and four. Those are my three staples.”
You can shop the Golden Milk collection on Walmart.com.
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Rough winter for semi wrecks on I-90
This has been a harsher winter with both snow accumulation and cold temperatures than the last few years. It has been especially noticeable when driving.
“Our first priority with every snowfall is I-90,” reports Megan Redmond with the Montana Department of Transportation in Missoula. “We, the state, are responsible for plowing the interstates and then we can get to the state roads and county when needed. They go by the ADT (Average Daily Traffic) at that point.”
Redmond shared news about their snow plows being involved in accidents each winter from other drivers.
“On average we have about 24 snow plows that are hit from behind by drivers going too fast or possibly not seeing them especially as they are kicking up snow while plowing. People will now see flashing green lights up high on the cab or over the dump. This is brand new and was a safety precaution passed in the last Legislature to have green lights installed on plows and sanders. It’s a different color so that it is recognizable from traffic in all directions,” she shared.
The flashing orange lights will remain, but drivers will now know if it’s a tow truck, working state vehicle or even a mail carrier with the absence of green lights.
“This has definitely been a hard winter,” said Sgt. Shawn Smalley with the Montana Highway Patrol when talking about the weather-related accidents. “There are multiple factors that have made it hard like lots of snow, ice, temperature swings, freezing rain. I would say that most of the crashes are still passenger vehicles, but the big crashes that block the interstate have been CMV (Commercial Motor Vehicle). The number of CMV’s on the road is increasing and we can expect more over the years.”
One semi accident near I-90 eastbound mile marker 53 claimed the life of the driver and caused several more jack-knifed rigs trying to slow down as they approached the accident area.
“The MHP does not track if CMV drivers are from out of state or from out of the country,” explained Sgt. Jay Nelson, Public Information Officer for the MHP.
This was in response to out-of-state, or even out-of-country CDL (Commercial Driver’s License) operators being unfamiliar with winter driving conditions in Montana.
“Federal commercial motor vehicle law requires that commercial drivers read and speak English sufficiently to converse with the general public, understand highway traffic signs and signals, respond to official inquiries and make entries on reports and records. The MHP enforces this law, however, does not track this as a cause of crashes. I can speak for my career and say that in my 23 years with MHP, I do not remember a time where this was a cause of a crash involving a commercial motor vehicle,” Nelson shared when asked about the possibility of a language barrier.
Foreigners obtaining a CDL are required to provide authorized presence – green card, visa and passport are examples. They must prove validity in the U.S. for at least three months or more and have a Social Security number. Plus, they must have proof of residency showing a residential address.
For their written test, knowledge testing is available in English via a paper or electronic tablet test. Oral translators are available by phone or by Zoom for translation of the paper test. And finally on the Driving Test, an examiner accompanies the tester for pre-trip and skills testing. Skills testing must be done in English without translators as all traffic signs are in English. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556623274352/rough-winter-for-semi-wrecks-on-i-90 | 2022-04-01T01:03:40Z |
The contract also includes four option years, worth additional $2.5 billion
TUCSON, Ariz., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, was awarded a $651 million, with options totaling $2.5 billion, hardware, production and sustainment contract for full-rate production of the AN/SPY-6(V) Family of Radars. The contract, with options, totals $3.2 billion and five years of radar production to equip up to 31 U.S. Navy ships with SPY-6 radars.
Under the contract, RMD will produce solid state, fixed-face and rotating SPY-6 variants that will deliver unprecedented integrated air and missile defense capabilities for seven types of U.S. Navy ships over the next 40 years. Those vessels include the Navy's new Arleigh Burke class Flight III destroyers, aircraft carriers and amphibious ships; today's Flight IIA destroyers will be backfit with an upgraded radar.
"There is no other radar with the surface maritime capabilities of SPY-6," said Wes Kremer, president of Raytheon Missiles & Defense. "SPY-6 is the most advanced naval radar in existence, and it will provide our military a giant leap forward in capability for decades to come."
Since its inception, more than $600 million has been invested in the development and manufacturing of the SPY-6 family of radars. When compared to legacy radars, SPY-6 will bring new capabilities to the surface fleet, such as advanced electronic warfare protection and enhanced detection abilities.
SPY-6 array radar variants have between nine and 37 radar modular assemblies, known as RMAs. Common RMAs allow SPY-6 to be scalable and modular to support production for the U.S. and partner nations across all variants, to include the Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar. This commonality supports standardized logistics and training for those who work on the radars.
SPY-6 radar installation is complete on the Navy's first Flight III destroyer, the USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), which is scheduled to be operational in 2024. Radar array deliveries are complete for the next ship in the class, the future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128).
Raytheon Technologies Corporation is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. With four industry-leading businesses ― Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense ― the company delivers solutions that push the boundaries in avionics, cybersecurity, directed energy, electric propulsion, hypersonics, and quantum physics. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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Taylor Hawkins died with a heavy heart, but what does that mean?
By Sarah Berry
People can die of a broken heart, but what about a heavy heart?
A toxicology report following the death of Foo Fighters drummer, Taylor Hawkins, last Friday, revealed that the 50-year-old had at least 10 different substances in his body including THC (marijuana), tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids.
An autopsy also found Hawkins’ heart was about double the size of a normal healthy heart and weighed at least 600 grams, as reported by Colombian publication, Semana.
A heavy heart is “not out of the ordinary” says Professor Tom Marwick, the director of Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute.
Athletes can have enlarged hearts which is a healthy adaptation to increased blood circulation during exercise. But a heavy heart is typically not a good thing.
Just about anything that damages the heart muscles can enlarge the heart as it gets bigger to compensate for impaired function, says Heart Foundation chief executive Garry Jennings: “People can get fat hearts too. There is a relationship between body size and heart size.”
And although high blood pressure is a common cause and COVID-19 can also increase the size of the heart, illicit drugs and some prescription drugs carry a significant cardiac risk.
“Cocaine, for example, can cause the arteries of the heart to spasm and that can produce scarring and cause blood pressure to increase. That can increase load on the heart,” Marwick says, pointing out that “old-style” antidepressants like tricyclics also carry a risk.
“Stimulants at high doses can kill heart muscle cells,” adds Jennings. “Or injecting [any type of drug] can introduce bacteria into circulation which can settle on the valves and damage the heart valves - that’s a common cause of heart problems too.”
Heart attacks are increasingly common in people aged under 50 and experts believe substance use may be contributing to the problem.
People who smoke cigarettes are nearly twice as likely to have premature heart disease; cocaine or cannabis users are about 2.5 times as likely to have premature heart disease, while those who use amphetamines increase their risk three-fold. The more substances a person uses the greater the risk.
And while Jennings explains that the heart has “a great reserve” and can cope with a lot of damage before giving out, meaning people are not always symptomatic before a heart attack, if someone has a heart as heavy as Hawkins’, there is likely to be a sign.
“They may have exercise intolerance or shortness of breath,” Marwick says, explaining that a heavy heart can be a symptom of problems, or exacerbate existing problems.
“An enlarged heart carries with it a risk of heart rhythm disorders because the electrical impulses that drive the heart become disrupted as the heart is damaged and scarred,” he explains, “so it can be a cause of death.”
About 20 per cent of people with a coronary blockage die before they get to the hospital and, Jennings estimates, for half of those who know they have high blood pressure or another heart issue there’s another one who doesn’t.
“There is a problem with unrecognised heart problems out in the community,” he says.
Marwick agrees: “These prominent people who have died in the last month or so have been a reminder to the Australian community that as much as we have appropriately focused on COVID over the last two years… probably 100 times the number of people who got into trouble with COVID have been getting into trouble with cardiovascular disease.”
An echo test or an ultrasound of the heart can show the size of the heart, but the first step is a cardiac check-up.
“This is a disease of women as much as men and once people get to the age of 40 they should have blood tests for cholesterol, they should have a blood pressure check and somebody should listen to their heart,” Marwick says.
Some people may require further testing and possibly medication. For many, however, addressing lifestyle is enough to prevent the development of heart problems and can help even those with a genetic predisposition.
“No matter how bad your genes are, there is always a benefit of lifestyle - healthy nutrition, physical activity, not smoking tobacco, not getting diabetes,” Jennings says. “You should never give up on the possibilities that lifestyle can put off the problems.
“The earlier you find out about it the less damage will be there and therefore the better the outcome in the longer term.”
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(ANNews) – On March 30, 2022 the government of B.C. released a five-year action plan dedicated to upholding the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Described as a “whole government approach” by Premier John Horgan, the plan includes 89 actions that will be taken by all provincial ministries for the next five years.
“This … is a first for any government in the world. It will drive transformative change in the relationship with Indigenous Peoples and help us build a brighter future for everyone,” said Horgan.
“By working together in partnership, we are creating more opportunities, better jobs and stronger environment protections. This is a roadmap that builds on the progress we have made – a new way forward and another important step towards meaningful reconciliation.”
The plan follows the four central themes of self-determination and the right to self government; title and rights of Indigenous Peoples; ending Indigenous-specific racism; and social, cultural and economic well-being.
This is the latest move by the BC government towards reconciliation, as they were the first jurisdiction in North America to implement UNDRIP when it was unanimously passed in the legislative assembly in 2019.
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), said of the action plan, “Two years ago, the seeds of change were sown – a future rife with the promises of true transformation and reconciliation became possible with the historic passage of the Declaration Act.”
“Make no mistake, there have been and there will continue to be numerous obstacles that challenge the work being done to revolutionize and rebuild a relationship that has long been mired in colonial violence and discrimination,” he said.
“We must reflect on the processes, frameworks and institutions that continue to deny the Title and Rights of First Nations, enact tremendous harm upon our communities and perpetuate a colonial cycle of marginalization and violence.”
“We must hold our governments and those in positions of power accountable for their actions and their commitments to the Declaration Act,” said Grand Chief Phillip.
Chief Terry Teegee of the BC Assembly of First Nations, said that the action will improve the relationship between the government and Indigenous peoples in the province but also believes the government needs to be held accountable.
In an interview with CTV News, Teegee explained that, “But there still is room for improvement. In terms of making sure that the government is accountable for the commitments that we’ve seen in the action plan.”
Unfortunately, any future initiatives resulting from the action plan will not include ending current court disputes with First Nations, such as protester arrests made during the blockades opposing pipeline construction on West’suwet’en territory.
Some criticism regarding the actual time-line of implementing the 89 actions has arose, but Murray Rankin, minister of Indigenous relations and reconciliation, said that they are “tangible, measurable and achievable” within a five-year period.
“We will be held accountable every year in a real way,” said Rankin. “[The plan] will not gather dust, it cannot, it’s not allowed to.” | https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2022/03/31/bc-government-announces-five-year-indigenous-action-plan.html | 2022-04-01T01:03:41Z |
As the international community seeks ways to punish Russia for its war in Ukraine, diplomats from the rogue nation continue to enjoy generous parking privileges in New York City. That, despite U.S. State Department rules which suggest Russia should be temporarily blocked from acquiring diplomatic plates.
An I-Team analysis of summonses issued to vehicles with Russian plates shows the country owes more than $100,000 in unpaid parking fines. When asked about the diplomatic parking bill, a State Department spokesperson referred the I-Team to a policy which indicates three or more unpaid violations since 2003 will result in a nation being suspended from registering or renewing diplomatic license plates.
According to New York City’s database of open parking violations, Russia currently has 46 parking tickets that have gone unpaid for more than 100 days since 2003 — far more than the three outstanding summonses that would trigger a suspension.
The State Department declined to say definitively whether Russia is currently suspended from registering or renewing diplomatic plates, but stressed the policy is applied evenhandedly, irrespective of geopolitics or sanctions imposed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
"This policy is enforced for every mission, including the Russian Federation," the State Department wrote in an email to the I-Team.
Email and phone messages to the Russian Federation Mission to the United Nations were not returned by the deadline for this article.
In total, member countries of the United Nations have racked up more than $16 million in unpaid New York City parking fines. Most of that figure stems from violations that took place prior to 2002.
In Nov. 2002, the State Department and the government of New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg entered into a Memorandum of Understanding that calls for much tougher penalties for scofflaw nations that don’t pay parking bills.
Despite the promise of those tougher penalties, the I-Team spotted Russian diplomatic vehicles flouting city traffic laws just this week. On East 67th Street, near the country’s UN mission, there were three Russian vehicles parked on sidewalks. Several others were illegally parked in No Stopping zones. One Russian diplomat parked his vehicle in a spot reserved for the fire station across the street.
Some neighbors who live and work near 67th Street said Russia’s flagrant parking violations should draw swift enforcement – especially because much of the international community is searching for new ways to condemn the country for waging war in Ukraine.
"I don’t think they should be given diplomatic immunity whatsoever for parking tickets," said Barbara Evans-Butler, a neighbor who said she was once married to an Australian diplomat.
Jack Murray said he routinely sees illegally parked Russian vehicles on his block. "We should be disallowing their parking here," he said.
Still others suggested questions of parking enforcement should be kept entirely separate from discussions of how to deter Russian aggression.
"Right now I think the main focus should be on how we can make the biggest impact," said Jose Cabrera, "and I don't necessarily think that's the biggest impact we can think about right now."
The 2002 Memorandum of Understanding allows New York City to tow diplomatic vehicles parked on sidewalks or in No Stopping zones. A spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams declined weigh in on whether Russia should have its illegally parked vehicles towed or maintain its diplomatic parking privileges.
Although diplomats enjoy immunity from the laws of host countries – that immunity only applies to activities done in their official capacity as representatives of their nations. In its response to the I-Team, the US State Department stressed that foreign diplomats are still obligated to follow local traffic laws.
"Diplomatic plate holders are expected to pay for parking and moving violations," the email said. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/i-team-russia-owes-new-york-city-101000-for-unpaid-parking-tickets/3625370/ | 2022-04-01T01:03:41Z |