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ONE LOCAL SPORTS talk radio show has so much NMSU Aggie coverage, I wonder if the “Aggie Detester,” UNM football coach Danny Gonzales, will continue doing interviews with them? Looking forward to the UNM-NMSU football game in Las Cruces come October (should be scheduled as the last game of the season). And already looking ahead to the Lobo-Aggie basketball rematch in December at the Pit, after the post-game antics from the entire NMSU program this past season. A guaranteed sellout. Oh yes, that’s going to be one noisy atmosphere.
— Retro Lobo
THE UCONN-N.C. STATE NCAA Elite Eight double-overtime thriller did more for women’s basketball than anything else you could name. One of the best games–male or female–this season and perhaps any other. UConn’s Paige Bueckers, who missed most of the season with a broken leg, was no less than phenomenal, nailing eight of nine field goals and drilling six straight free throws in the second half and overtime in UConn’s 91-87 win. Wow!
— Jack Bowers, Albuquerque
IMAGINE BEING the UNM basketball coach and reading that after just your first year the local paper is already asking fans how long you should be given to get UNM back to the NCAA tournament. In his first eight years as a head coach at Army and Duke, Mike Krzyzewski never got to the NCAA Tournament. If Krzyzewski had coached at UNM he’d wouldnt have been given the opportunity to coach in a second. As one respondent to this ridiculous question said, the fan expectations are ruthless. It’s not just the fans it’s the local paper as well.
— Davario | https://www.abqjournal.com/2484544/sports-speak-up-lobo-fan-doesnt-like-coverage-of-aggies-in-abq.html | 2022-04-01T01:25:40Z |
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BOSTON (AP) — After a 15-year career in which he etched his name on the Stanley Cup and the Vezina Trophy, Tuukka Rask is focusing now on avoiding the rink.
“Don’t even go there. Not yet,” the retired Bruins goalie said Thursday night when asked if his daughters had taken up hockey. “They’re into dance and whatnot. If I have to go and spend my days at hockey rinks, so be it. But not really at the top of my list.”
A two-time All-Star, and the winner of the 2014 Vezina as the NHL’s top goalie, Rask announced his retirement last month after a setback in his attempt to come back from a torn labrum in his hip. The Bruins invited him back to drop the ceremonial first puck before Thursday night’s game against the New Jersey Devils, and again – perhaps for the last time – the chants of “Tuuuuk!” echoed through the TD Garden.
Rask took the ice with his wife, and their three daughters dressed for a ballet class. He bumped fists with the players on the Bruins bench while both teams tapped their sticks on the ice to salute him.
“I don’t know what the future holds,” Rask told reporters beforehand, saying that he would be showing up at games and golf outings as a team ambassador. “Maybe I’ll get into coaching. Maybe not, but for now, I’ll be hanging out with sponsors.”
The franchise’s all-time leader in wins, Rask helped the Bruins allow the fewest goals in the NHL in the pandemic-interrupted 2019-20 season, when Boston finished with the most points in the league. He injured his hip during the 2021 playoffs and worked his way back to the team midway through this season.
But after just four starts, he aggravated his injury on Jan. 24 against the Anaheim Ducks. Two weeks later, he announced he was through.
“It was kind of time to be honest with yourself,” he said. “I just figured it was better for everybody to call it. I had a great career. No regrets.”
While his hip still has some good days, Rask said no one could talk him out of retirement. His immediate future will involve as much golf as he can squeeze in between shuttling his daughters to dance class and school.
He may need a hip replacement at some point.
“It was at a point where it affected my everyday life,” Rask said. “I’m a guy who makes pretty quick decisions, anyway. So I wasn’t dwelling on it too long.”
Rask was 308-165-66 with a 2.28 goals-against average and .921 save percentage in a franchise-leading 564 games. He was the backup goalie for the Bruins team that won it all in 2011, and he led the team to Stanley Cup Final appearances in 2013 and ’19.
Although coaching is not in his plans, Rask said he would be available if Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman wants him.
“I told him right after I retired: Tell me if you need anything,” Rask said. “Just make sure you don’t get too high or too low.”
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More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.sheltonherald.com/sports/article/Bruins-honor-retired-goalie-Rask-after-injury-17049805.php | 2022-04-01T01:25:41Z |
Fourth round of Evaluations focus on top ransomware and wiper malware groups, including Russian cyber military unit
WALTHAM, Mass., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Uptycs, provider of the first cloud-native security analytics platform enabling cloud and endpoint security from a common solution, today announced the results of its completed MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluation, Round 4. This round of independent ATT&CK Evaluations for enterprise cybersecurity solutions emulated the Wizard Spider and Sandworm threat groups. Wizard Spider is responsible for the infamous Ryuk ransomware family, and Sandworm is a Russian cyber military unit behind the 2017 NotPetya attacks.
"Ransomware is a growing scourge for all types of organizations and the focus of these MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations could not come at a more appropriate time," said Ganesh Pai, Co-founder and CEO at Uptycs. "Security teams can use these evaluation results to identify gaps in their detection coverage. Our strong performance in both the Windows and Linux portions of the evaluation demonstrate how Uptycs helps these Security teams to detect even advanced ransomware actors, in addition to the hardening needed to minimize the risk of ransomware in the first place."
The MITRE Engenuity evaluations team chose to emulate two threat groups that abuse the Data Encrypted For Impact (T1486) technique. In Wizard Spider's case, they have leveraged data encryption for ransomware, including the widely known Ryuk malware (S0446). Sandworm, on the other hand, leveraged encryption for the destruction of data, perhaps most notably with their NotPetya malware (S0368) that disguised itself as ransomware. While the common thread to this year's evaluations is "Data Encrypted for Impact," both groups have substantial reporting on a broad range of post-exploitation tradecraft.
New advanced detection capabilities helped Uptycs perform strongly in the Wizard Spider and Sandworm evaluation, including:
- Ransomware detection - Uptycs provides generic detection and protection against ransomware attacks on Windows operating systems. The capability analyzes telemetry inside the endpoint agent so it can protect against the attacks in offline mode.
- Process code injection / DLL injection and process hollowing - Uptycs provides generic detection to process code injection and process hollowing on both Windows and Linux endpoints. Process code injection is a technique used by attackers to inject malicious code inside a trusted running process to evade detection.
- Master boot record (MBR) overwrite - Uptycs provides generic detection of MBR overwrite on Windows-based endpoints. MBR overwrite is a technique used by adversaries where the goal is to disrupt operations and make the system unusable.
- Lsass.exe memory credential dumping - To detect attacker attempts to steal credentials, Uptycs provides generic detection of lsass.exe (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service) memory credential dumping on Windows-based endpoints.
For full results and more information about the evaluations, please visit: https://attackevals.mitre-engenuity.org/enterprise/wizard-spider-and-sandworm/.
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SCAPPOOSE, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a man was shot and killed Thursday by two police officers in Scappoose, Oregon.
Columbia County officials confirmed the officer-involved shooting on social media. In a tweet, officials said that “no officers were injured and the incident is currently under investigation.”
A witness told KOIN-TV that he was dropping his wife off at work when he saw a man show up to the towing facility next door. The witness, Erik Tyler, said the man appeared angry and a fight escalated between the man and employees until the workers told him they would call the police.
Police arrived and Tyler said he heard them yell at the man to drop his weapon and the man didn’t comply.
Detective Shannon Wilde with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, which has taken over the investigation, told reporters police responded to the “disturbance” at Grumpy’s Towing just before 10 a.m. During the incident, Wilde said both a sheriff's deputy and an Oregon State Police trooper fired their weapons, killing the man.
Wilde did not identify the deceased man or specify whether he was armed at the time but said he was wanted for an unrelated “violent felony.”
Wilde also declined to comment on the circumstances that led up to the shooting. | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/news/article/Police-Officers-shoot-kill-man-in-Scappoose-17049819.php | 2022-04-01T01:25:42Z |
By AMY FORLITI
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An external review of Minnesota’s response to days of civil unrest following the May 2020 killing of George Floyd found several problems, including a lack of clear leadership early on as businesses were being destroyed and set ablaze, and a failure to discern peaceful from unlawful protesters.
The report by Wilder Research, commissioned by the Department of Public Safety and made public Thursday, said the state set up a multi-agency command center too late – four days after Floyd was killed. And the center had a “chaotic beginning,” with no clear chain of command, while the city of Minneapolis continued to operate it’s own emergency operations center with competing law enforcement strategies, the report said.
Floyd, who was Black, was killed May 25, 2020, when former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck for about nine and a half minutes as Floyd was handcuffed and lying facedown on the pavement. Bystander video showed Floyd said multiple times that he couldn’t breathe, before he eventually went silent and stopped moving.
The killing sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the globe as part of a reckoning over racial injustice. In Minneapolis, some of the protests became violent as businesses, and even a police station, were ransacked and burned.
The report said the unrest was unplanned and left local and state agencies overextended.
Local police and emergency responders couldn’t respond to many calls for help. Several state agencies, as well as the National Guard, were called in — but the report said they were not experienced in handling large-scale civil disturbances over such an extended period, and the National Guard was mobilized too late.
The report found that several local agencies were following different rules of engagement. There was also a lack of communication, leading some communities and businesses to feel they weren’t being protected and to take matters into their own hands. Some viewed the law enforcement response as escalating.
It also noted some strengths. Among them, it found officials held numerous, informative press conferences, and the state acknowledged that the community had legitimate concerns after Floyd’s killing. It also noted that small mobile field force units were effective in addressing unrest in multiple locations. The report said that a curfew, when enforced, was also effective.
The report, which examined the state’s actions from May 26 through June 7, 2020, listed 20 recommendations to improve the state’s response and find ways to prevent such civil unrest from happening again.
One of the recommendations is to set up a command center quickly – and set up a clear chain of command. Another is to avoid escalating situations — by keeping riot gear prepared, but out of sight unless law enforcement officers are under imminent threat.
The report said Minnesota can do more to address tensions between law enforcement and communities, and must incorporate a “deeper sense of humanity” — particularly for Black Minnesotans — in the way it responds to civil unrest in the future.
It said numerous community members and business owners said racism and discrimination against Black Minneapolis residents, specifically racist practices by the Minneapolis Police Department, contributed to the unrest.
“Further research and evaluation are needed to understand the role of racism and other forms of bias in law enforcement responses to civil unrest and determine additional steps to address community distrust in law enforcement and state government,” the report found.
One key recommendation to prevent future unrest was for the state to lead efforts to reimagine policing and community safety and to engage communities in law enforcement oversight and accountability.
Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said in a letter to Gov. Tim Walz, dated Wednesday, that the unrest was “unexpected and unprecedented.” He said his agency has already made changes to improve communication and police accountability, and some of the report’s recommendations have been implemented.
Harrington also urged the passage of $300 million for public safety funding for local governments, saying the money could be used to address some of the issues raised in the report, including investing in community policing models and efforts to create diverse police forces.
Walz spokesman Teddy Tschann said it is “imperative” that lawmakers approve the funding as part of the governor’s comprehensive public safety plan. Tschann said Walz has reviewed the recommendations outlined in the report as well as a progress report from Harrington and he and state leaders “will take a close look at the findings and use them to help inform future work.”
A report issued earlier this month on the city’s response to the Minneapolis protests was sharply critical and included several recommendations, including improving police training on crowd control tactics. City spokeswoman Sarah McKenzie said city leaders are focused on implementing recommendations from that report, and they are reviewing Thursday’s report.
Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter and also pleaded guilty in federal court to violating Floyd’s civil rights. Three other former officers were also convicted of federal civil rights violations and are awaiting trial on state charges of aiding and abetting both murder and manslaughter.
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Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | https://wtmj.com/national/2022/03/31/report-criticizes-response-to-unrest-after-floyds-killing/ | 2022-04-01T01:25:40Z |
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The perfect combination of grapes, apples, and berries with a refreshing hit of menthol.
Slim. Potent. Discreet.
The DazeD8 disposable vape pen has an unparalleled uplifting feel and comes in a sleek rechargeable battery that delivers perfect clouds—every single time.
- Perfect for on-the-go use
- Featuring a tightly sealed juice reservoir to prevent any leaking and a powerful battery to ensure you can enjoy every last hit
- No VG, PG, PEG, Vitamin E, MCT, or any other cutting agent
Flavor Profile
- Grapple Berry Ice - Indica
- Features flavors of grape and apple with undertones of sweet and sour berries
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- Sativa
- Custom terpene profile by DazeD8 with a hit of menthol
How Does it Feel?
- Grapple Berry is known for its heavy tingly effects
- Full-body relaxation
- Alleviates chronic pain
- Stress-relieving
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How to Overcome TV Addiction and Reclaim Your Life
Research shows that most Americans spend a little more of their leisure time watching TV. That's maybe because the shows have gotten better over time.
You can find anything you want on different streaming sites anytime and in any country, provided the licensing agreement covers it. When the habit of watching TV engulfs your whole life, it's too hard to come out of it and reclaim your life. But all is not lost. Here are a few ways to overcome TV addiction and reclaim your life.
Keep track of your time
Keeping track of the time spent on the TV will give you a better idea of how much time you should spend on the shows and other productive activities. It breaks the automatic urge to watch more episodes after the current one is over.
With time, the moods related to TV watching changes drastically, and you no longer feel the need to keep your eyes on the screen for more than an hour. Effective watching should be regulated. There should be a thorough trimming of what content you should cover and what not to.
Explore reasons behind watching TV
If you explore the reasons for your TV addiction, you will start planning how to cope without. This also pushes you to the feeling that it's like you are wasting much of your time. Exploring the reasons behind TV addiction makes the process no longer automatic.
You will always feel something hindering you from doing it, and with time you will get bored of watching. That's because you have full awareness of the reasons behind binge-watching, and you associate it with adverse effects on your life.
Purpose connecting with others
The kind of people you connect with has a massive influence on your life. You might not notice, but day-by-day things take a new turn. It's hard to stop TV addiction and stay in isolation. In this way, the mind keeps going back to the old habits trying to find comfort to fit in the vacuum left.
You can catch up with loved ones, spend time in a public place or participate in a group hobby. Once you become comfortable in social situations, it will be tough to get back to the addiction, and hence you will have reclaimed your life from addiction.
Find better distractions
There are many options to explore, and you don't have to restrict yourself to one issue over a long period. Of course, you will encounter something more interesting than what you have been doing. Before jumping into it, develop a plan that will guide you to avoid the same mistakes later in life.
Try to add fun through MyBookie, and it’s sure to spice up your life. You will get something good out of it. Numerous books can help you enhance your mental strength by understanding more about dealing with addictive issues in life. That's why you should never be shy of trying to reclaim your life.
Be specific on shows
Sometimes you might be caught in the dilemma of not knowing precisely what to watch! At this moment, you are forced to scroll down, looking for exciting channels to watch. That's a waste of time. You are not really into it. It's just that it's happening automatically, and you have less control over it. If this happens to you, you need to take it more seriously and keep off the TV unless you have something interesting to watch.
Even when you are tired, try to come up with a different solution because not every show will make you relaxed. Being specific will help control your binge-watching and reduce the time you used to watch by more than half. Eventually, you will have reclaimed your life from TV addictions.
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Oscars producer says police offered to arrest Will Smith
Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
Related video above: Chris Rock gets warm welcome from Boston crowd during first show post-Oscars slap
"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 to comment Thursday on Packer's interview, a longer version of which will air on Friday morning.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group's standards of conduct. Smith could be suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned.
The academy said in a statement that "Mr. Smith's actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television."
Without giving specifics, the academy said Smith was asked to leave the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, but refused to do so.
Smith strode from his front row seat on to the stage and slapped Rock after a joke Rock made about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, when he was on stage to present the Oscar for best documentary.
On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying "I was out of line and I was wrong."
The academy said Smith has the opportunity to defend himself in a written response before the board meets again on April 18.
Rock publicly addressed the incident for the first time, but only briefly, at the beginning of a standup show Wednesday night in Boston, where he was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation. He said "I'm still kind of processing what happened." | https://www.wapt.com/article/oscars-producer-police-offered-arrest-will-smith/39603725 | 2022-04-01T01:25:43Z |
2022 University-wide student awards announced for Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Each year, Penn State honors several students for the highest levels of academic excellence, outstanding leadership and meritorious service. The 2022 student award recipients exemplify best practices and achievements among Penn State students, reflecting the...
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A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on Block.
Looking at options history for Block SQ we detected 53 strange trades.
If we consider the specifics of each trade, it is accurate to state that 39% of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 60% with bearish.
From the overall spotted trades, 21 are puts, for a total amount of $1,146,179 and 32, calls, for a total amount of $2,435,332.
What's The Price Target?
Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $80.0 to $300.0 for Block over the last 3 months.
Volume & Open Interest Development
Looking at the volume and open interest is an insightful way to conduct due diligence on a stock.
This data can help you track the liquidity and interest for Block's options for a given strike price.
Below, we can observe the evolution of the volume and open interest of calls and puts, respectively, for all of Block's whale activity within a strike price range from $80.0 to $300.0 in the last 30 days.
Block Option Volume And Open Interest Over Last 30 Days
Biggest Options Spotted:
Where Is Block Standing Right Now?
- With a volume of 13,496,439, the price of SQ is down -3.18% at $135.64.
- RSI indicators hint that the underlying stock may be approaching overbought.
- Next earnings are expected to be released in 35 days.
What The Experts Say On Block:
- Goldman Sachs downgraded its action to Buy with a price target of $173
- Mizuho has decided to maintain their Buy rating on Block, which currently sits at a price target of $190.
- Mizuho has decided to maintain their Buy rating on Block, which currently sits at a price target of $180.
- Morgan Stanley downgraded its action to Equal-Weight with a price target of $146
- Mizuho has decided to maintain their Buy rating on Block, which currently sits at a price target of $215.
Options are a riskier asset compared to just trading the stock, but they have higher profit potential. Serious options traders manage this risk by educating themselves daily, scaling in and out of trades, following more than one indicator, and following the markets closely.
© 2022 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved. | https://www.benzinga.com/markets/options/22/03/26411173/block-whale-trades-for-march-31 | 2022-04-01T01:25:44Z |
The Coda Collection Introduces New Way To Experience Concert Films With The Coda Companion
The Coda Companion debuts alongside today’s release of night one of Metallica’s anniversary concerts “Metallica 40th Anniversary LIVE."
Today, the subscription music-centric streaming channel The Coda Collection introduces The Coda Companion, a first-of-its-kind second screen experience that unites concert films on the channel with the untold or rarely heard stories that surround and enrich those films.
The Coda Companion is filled with a trove of engaging must-know artist facts, band history, lyrical notes, and exclusive ecommerce opportunities delivered seamlessly in real time through your phone via a mobile app that syncs to your stream on The Coda Collection channel. Inspired by everything from Behind the Music to the VH1's beloved Pop-Up Video, The Coda Companion serves up details music fans crave plus the essential context artists deserve. The Coda Companion app is available here as a free download in the Apple App Store and on Google Play.
The Coda Companion debuts alongside today's release of night one of Metallica's much-anticipated anniversary concerts "Metallica 40th Anniversary LIVE," two separate concert films delivered with all-new, re-edited & remixed audio. Night two of the momentous concert films will arrive with a second unique Coda Companion experience on April 7th.
For these concerts, The Coda Companion sourced facts and insight that even devout fans of the band might not know about from two longtime members of the band's crew - Dan Braun, Creative Director and Scenic Designer who has been with the band since 1994, and Zach Harmon, Backline Manager who was recruited back in the mid-1980s. Also available on The Coda Companion now is The White Stripes' 2005 "From The Basement," with more content from The Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam, Carole King, The Grateful Dead and more launching soon.
The Coda Companion is a natural next step for The Coda Collection. The channel offers a brilliantly curated selection of concert films, music documentaries and episodic series. From Dave Grohl's critically acclaimed documentary What Drives Us to titles with Jimi Hendrix, PJ Harvey, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Wu Tang Clan and more, their content has made them the streaming destination for music lovers since launching last year. Alongside the channel, The Coda Collection also hosts an editorial website to provide deeper context alongside each piece of content that lives on the channel.
Recognizing that a growing portion of viewers use their phones while watching content on The Coda Collection, the Coda Companion seeks to engage viewers with an immersive mobile experience. Just as music fans turn to Shazam when they want to know the name of the songs they are hearing, music fans can turn to The Coda Companion to reveal the stories behind titles they are watching on the channel.
The app is enabled via audio signatures, serving as digital imprints of the entire film's audio track, which contain information that allows the Coda Collection app to recognize any part of a supported film. These signatures are transferred to the app and leveraged in conjunction with Apple's Shazamkit SDK to sync the user to their current position. Once you've opened the app, The Coda Companion syncs to wherever you are in the concert film, unfurling a series of content cards that reveal insight into the film as you watch it across topics ranging from lyrics to gear to trivia to custom merch available for purchase and more.
Watch the demo for the new experience here: | https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/The-Coda-Collection-Introduces-New-Way-To-Experience-Concert-Films-With-The-Coda-Companion-20220331 | 2022-04-01T01:25:45Z |
For the first time since the Rooney Rule was passed, a head-coaching vacancy has emerged after March 1. The development exposed a loophole that easily could be exploited by a team that hopes to quickly and cleanly hire a non-minority coach, without taking the time to conduct the required interviews of at least two external minority candidates.
Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the NFL is considering closing the loophole.
As applied to the resignation of Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians, the league permitted the team to install defensive coordinator Todd Bowles as the head coach, without interviewing at any external minority candidates. Although the end result furthers the broader goals of the Rooney Rule by resulting in the hiring of another Black head coach, the process easily could be abused.
The fix would be simple. Because assistant coaches from other teams become off limits for head-coaching interviews as of March 1, a team with a vacancy arising on or after March 1 could name an interim coach from the current staff for the upcoming season and then conduct a full search after the season concludes.
It’s the right result, and it should be implemented before an owner realizes that a simple end run around the Rooney Rule is readily available. | https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/03/31/source-nfl-considers-closing-rooney-rule-loophole/ | 2022-04-01T01:25:45Z |
(SACRAMENTO, CA) – As part of Women’s History Month, Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) is proud to recognize Luz Gallegos, Executive Director of TODEC Legal Center, as his 2022 Woman of the Year honoree.
“In celebration of Women’s History Month, we are excited to honor Luz Gallegos as our Woman of the Year. Luz Gallegos is a dynamic force for justice and a humble leader who has dedicated her career to advocating for immigrant rights, civic engagement, and youth leadership development. Luz is a hero with an unmatched energy and work ethic. After all her efforts to mobilize community response and bring COVID-19 resources and relief to our most vulnerable, at-risk during this pandemic, Luz was a clear choice for our 2022 Woman of the Year. Evidence of Luz’s contributions to our community is all around us. With this award, we hope to express our gratitude for all she has done and reinforce our support of Luz as she continues to carry out her mission,” exclaimed Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia.
“I am truly humbled for this honor, thank you Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia. As a community organizer we are so concentrated on the grassroots, that sometimes we don’t have time to sit back and celebrate. It is humbling to know that others are paying attention to our work. The work that we do at TODEC is fueled by our love and compassion of our committed team,” said Luz Gallegos.
“It is my goal and commitment to continue to build systems that reflect and address the needs of our vulnerable population. We will continue to encourage and develop young leaders to build the continuity of our movement, porque tambien las mujeres podemos. Vivan todas las mujeres!”
Luz Gallegos was born and raised in the Inland Empire. Luz is a natural leader who began advocating for social justice and organizing as a young child with her family. She marched alongside leaders like Bert Corona, Soledad “Chole” Alatorre, and Cesar E. Chavez. She continues to lead the charge for justice in the Coachella Valley and throughout the Inland Empire.
Luz has dedicated herself to advancing immigrant rights, boosting civic engagement, and ensuring resources are available for farmworker families and other underserved communities. As the Executive Director for TODEC Legal Center, Luz oversees various initiatives, including legal aid, youth development, and strong local, state, and federal policy advocacy programs.
Throughout her career, Luz has mentored hundreds of youth and motivated them to continue their education while never forgetting their roots. She continues to give continuity to her family’s community commitment and legacy with her work at TODEC. | https://nbcpalmsprings.com/2022/03/31/assemblymember-eduardo-garcia-awards-luz-gallegos-of-todec-woman-of-the-year-2022/ | 2022-04-01T01:25:45Z |
SCOTTSDALE — The Scottsdale Police Department announced Thursday a partnership with Scottsdale Unified School District and Cave Creek Unified School District in which they will address the "Orbeez Challenge" with students.
The challenge encourages people to shoot Orbeez, squishy beads that expand in water, at strangers and post about it on social media.
Scottsdale police say the challenge is not an innocent act and could be considered assault or aggravated assault, both felonies.
"These incidents are not only dangerous but can bring criminal charges for the people involved in these shootings," said the Scottsdale Police Department in a release. "This challenge is not a 'game' or an innocent action but one that can harm or injure others."
Police encourage parents and guardians to have a discussion with their children about the dangers of some social media trends and the consequences that can come from their actions.
For more information about social media and education, contact Scottsdale police's non-emergency number at 480-312-5000. | https://www.abc15.com/news/region-northeast-valley/scottsdale/scottsdale-pd-partners-with-schools-to-address-the-orbeez-challenge | 2022-04-01T01:25:45Z |
Shares of Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT – Get Rating) have been assigned a consensus recommendation of “Buy” from the eleven ratings firms that are currently covering the company, Marketbeat.com reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a hold recommendation and six have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 12-month target price among analysts that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $31.22.
A number of research analysts have issued reports on the stock. MKM Partners upgraded shares of Mattel from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and upped their target price for the company from $24.00 to $30.00 in a report on Thursday, January 13th. Monness Crespi & Hardt upped their target price on shares of Mattel from $28.00 to $32.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, February 10th. StockNews.com initiated coverage on shares of Mattel in a research note on Thursday. They set a “buy” rating for the company. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price objective on shares of Mattel from $31.00 to $33.00 in a research note on Thursday, February 10th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research raised shares of Mattel from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $26.00 price objective for the company in a research note on Friday, February 11th.
In related news, Director Richard Todd Bradley sold 9,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, February 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $24.54, for a total transaction of $220,860.00. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, EVP Zanatta Roberto Jacobo Isaias sold 51,761 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, February 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $24.50, for a total transaction of $1,268,144.50. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 1.34% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
Shares of Mattel stock traded down $1.07 on Friday, hitting $22.21. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 2,119,325 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,480,629. Mattel has a 52-week low of $17.94 and a 52-week high of $25.71. The company has a quick ratio of 1.31, a current ratio of 1.80 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.64. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $23.16 and a 200-day moving average price of $21.78. The company has a market capitalization of $7.82 billion, a P/E ratio of 8.64 and a beta of 1.47.
Mattel (NASDAQ:MAT – Get Rating) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, February 8th. The company reported $0.53 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.30 by $0.23. Mattel had a net margin of 16.81% and a return on equity of 47.84%. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.40 EPS. As a group, analysts expect that Mattel will post 1.47 earnings per share for the current year.
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Mattel, Inc is a global children’s entertainment company that specializes in the design and production of toys and consumer products. The company engages consumers through its portfolio of iconic franchises, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, American Girl, Fisher-Price, Thomas & Friends, UNO and MEGA. It operates through the following segments: North America, International and American Girl.
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Tree change as Kangaroo Island firm reveals 'global' sheep plan
Kiland, formerly known as Kangaroo Island Plantation Timber, will turn its land into a "sheep meat farming enterprise of global significance" with the equivalent of 120,000 breeding ewes.
The company declared its plans in detailed documents to the Australian Stock Exchange on March 30.
This included a 26-page Investor Report that makes up the basis of this article by The Lead.
Kiland has employed specialist firm AAGIM to conduct the actual clearing and remediation of the land.
AAGIM investments director Iain Elgin said the stocking potential for 2023 was 55,000 DSE (dry sheep equivalent) animals across the portfolio.
With a further projection of 120,000 breeding ewes or the equivalent of 270,000 DSE by 2026.
The company expects to advertise for various position on KI in the near future, he said.
Meanwhile, logistics company T-Ports is proceeding with its plan to ship blue gum woodchips and pine logs out of Kingscote, although its development application for its proposed site at Ten Trees Road has not yet been submitted to the KI Council.
Also, biochar specialist company New World Climate & Agriculture has secured a $2.7 million in Black Summer funding to a develop biochar processing plant on KI for the leaves and branches of any felled timber.
A company representative told The Islander that contracts and agreements were being finalised for an announcement on plans could be announced.
The Kiland plan was made public to the ASX this week and the The Lead South Australiaprovided a summary of its plan:
The listed company owns 18,662ha of potential farmland on the island including 14,433ha of forestry land, the overwhelming majority of which was severely impacted by bushfire in early 2020.
KIPT received more than $60 million in insurance compensation payouts following the fires.
But it announced plans to walk away from the forestry industry last August after its proposal to build a $40 million port at Smith Bay on the Island's north coast was rejected by the state government.
Since changing its name to Kiland in November, the company has bought back more than 10 million shares at an average cost of $1.26 each to provide liquidity to shareholders following the change of strategy.
On March 30, Kiland announced the $32.4 million entitlement offer to fund the forestry to agriculture transition.
"We are pleased to announce this significant share offer that will finance the development of the Kiland agricultural land portfolio of high rainfall, high production assets into an industrial grade estate," chief executive James Davies said in a statement to shareholders yesterday.
The company's property manager AAGIM Investment Manager will now develop the land with an indicative timeline showing the first 55,000 sheep to begin grazing on the land from the beginning of next year.
Those numbers will ramp up to 125,000 DSE in 2024 and 213,000 DSE in 2025 before topping out at 270,000 DSE in 2026.
If the number is reached it will increase the island's sheep flock by a large percentage.
It also comes at a time when the SA Forestry Products Association is calling for the planting of 50 million trees in the next four years to address industry shortages in South Australia.
Agriculture is Kangaroo Island's largest industry with sheep - meat and wool - its major contributor.
Primary Industries and Regions South Australia figures had sheep stock losses during the Kangaroo Island fires at more than 51,000 - almost 10 per cent of the island's pre-fire flock of 600,000.
The Kangaroo Island fires began on December 20, 2019, and burnt 210,000ha - almost half of the island - across a 612 km perimeter before being declared contained on January 21, 2020.
The Kiland modelling, included in a presentation to shareholders yesterday, assumes a Dry Sheep Equivalent (DSE) of 14.5 sheep per hectare across the estate, which has at least 750mm in average annual rainfall.
Set to begin in July this year, the remediation on the western side of the island includes the harvesting and grinding of timber, sourcing of livestock water, fencing, fertiliser application and pasture planting before stocking can begin.
The company has valued its land at $50 million and estimates further land development costs of $65 million and additional costs of $26 million for heavy machinery, stock and initial operating expenses associated with sheep meat enterprise establishment.
In its investor presentation yesterday, Kiland said discussions were being held with Australian banks regarding term funding to support reversion activities.
"Kiland currently expects to raise approximately $50 million in term funding incrementally on an as-needed basis," it said.
"Initial non-binding indications have been received in respect of expected initial term debt funding of $25 million and equipment finance of $5 million."
The $32.4 million offer will allow existing shareholders to purchase up to seven shares for every 11 owned at a cost of $1.10 per share.
Eligible retail shareholders will have the ability to apply for additional new shares up to 50 per cent of their entitlement, up to a maximum of $5 million under a top-up facility.
The offer is fully underwritten by Aitken Murray Capital Partners and will result in about 29.4 million new shares being issued, representing approximately 64 per cent of Kiland's existing issued capital. Kiland's market capitalisation yesterday was $54 million.
Kiland shares were placed in a trading halt ahead of the announcement at $1.17.
This is a Creative Commons story from The Lead South Australia, a news service providing stories about innovation in South Australia.
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It’s been a busy first quarter for new video games, but things are taking a bit of a breather in April.
With the Easter long weekend coming up it’s the perfect time to catch up on your pile of shame or to dive into one of these brand new games. Highlights include the long-awaited LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and the sequel to Wii Sports, Nintendo Switch Sports. Perfect for a weekend away with the family! Particularly if the rain continues!
Here are all the major game releases you have to look forward to in April
What new video games are coming out in April 2022?
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Release Date: April 5
LEGO games have always been the perfect blend of fun for both adults and children. The games will always bring a new perspective to the franchise they are adapting with jokes, intriguing puzzles and couch co-op.
In The Skywalker Saga, players will be able to journey through all nine movies of the main Star Wars saga, reliving iconic moments and exploring different chapters in an almost open-world style.
Pre-order it now: PS5 | PS4 | Xbox | Switch
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Release Date: April 20
The force is with us this month with yet another Star Wars release. This time it’s an old classic, with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed being ported over to the Nintendo Switch.
In the game, you play as Darth Vader’s secret apprentice who has been tasked with hunting down the last Jedi. If you’ve never indulged in The Force Unleashed, now is a perfect time.
Moto GP 22
Release Date: April 21
It’s either Star Wars or sports this month with another major game in the series, this time for MotoGP fans.
MotoGP 22 offers 120 riders and 20 official tracks to race around on. You can also relive epic moments in MotoGP history all with new and enhanced graphical power.
Pre-order it now: PS5 | PS4 | Xbox | Switch
Nintendo Switch Sports
Release Date: April 29
Anyone who has fond memories of Wii Sports back in the 2000s, please prepare to feel nostalgic because Nintendo Switch Sports is bringing the iconic game back for a new generation.
Using your JoyCons, you’ll be able to partake in six competitive mini-games including Tennis, Bowling, Chambara, Soccer, Badminton and Volleyball.
Pre-order it now: Switch
That’s just the beginning of all the new games coming our way this year, particularly for PlayStation which has 22 new games releasing this year!
Stay tuned to Lifehacker Australia because we’ll be bringing you lists of the best games to buy each month throughout 2022.
Do you have a game you’re really looking forward to in April? Let us know in the comments. | https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2022/04/new-video-games-release-dates/ | 2022-04-01T01:25:45Z |
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — About $7 million worth of surplus personal protective equipment and cleaning supplies purchased by a Northern California county was left outside during a rainstorm because no one anticipated wet weather to start so early in the season, according to an investigation released Thursday.
After a KGO-TV news report showed hundreds of drenched cardboard boxes, San Mateo County officials acknowledged the supplies were moved outside an event center last September to make room for a conference.
There was no definitive timeline for how the supplies would be distributed “even though the Fall rainy season was not far off,” the probe by James Lianides said. County officials said they hired the retired school superintendent to conduct the inquiry because of his experience dealing with large organizations and purchasing practices.
Lianides said the boxes of non-medical-grade gowns, face shields and goggles as well as cleaning supplies were also moved out of the event center to avoid the $100,000-per-month storage fee.
“It does not appear that there were any discussions or actions taken in the process of (moving) to protect the equipment in the event of inclement weather, such as wrapping or covering each pallet,” he wrote.
The county's executive officer, Mike Callagy, has said the county purchased the items early in the pandemic when PPE was becoming scarce nationwide so that local first responders and medical providers would have what they needed. The demand for the equipment decreased as the pandemic continued.
The county’s supply of gloves and masks — including N95 and KN95 respirators — are stored indoors.
“What’s clear is that that this shouldn’t have happened. What is equally clear is we are taking the steps necessary to make sure that we put the checks and balances in place so this never happens again,” Callagy said in a statement Thursday.
An inspection of the damaged boxes determined that most of the safety equipment remains usable because they were packed in sealed plastic wrapping, the probe found. Equipment that could not be salvaged were worth about $128,000, according to Lianides. | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/news/article/Report-Rain-not-anticipated-when-7M-in-PPE-17049873.php | 2022-04-01T01:25:48Z |
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military needs to adjust its planning, training, targeting and use of weapons in order to better avoid widespread civilian deaths and damage such as the devastating 2017 battle to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants, a new RAND report said Thursday.
The report requested by the Pentagon reflects criticism of the military’s airstrike campaign that, according to some estimates, killed more than 1,600 civilians in Raqqa, as the U.S.-led coalition worked to destroy the Islamic State caliphate that wrested control of large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said the report, which lays out a series of recommendations to improve military procedures and strategy, will be used as the department develops its own broader plan to reduce civlian harm.
“No other military works as hard as we do to mitigate civilian harm, and yet we still cause it,” said Kirby. ”We’re going to continue to try to learn from past issues.”
RAND concluded that the battle for Raqqa provided important lessons.
Michael McNerney, lead author of the RAND report, called Raqqa “a cautionary tale about civilian harm in urban combat.” He said it “should serve as an extra incentive to the DoD to strengthen its policies and procedures to mitigate, document and respond to civilian harm.”
The RAND report noted that there has been a wide range of estimated civilian casualties during the seige, but also said it believes that 60%-80% of Raqqa was left uninhabitable by the time the city was liberated in October 2017.
Initially the U.S.-led coalition estimted that it was responsible for 38 incidents involving 240 civilian casualties — including 178 who were killed. A consortium of local Syrian and international groups, including Amnesty International and Airwars, put the number of casualties at a “high estimate” of 1,600, but said that about 774 of them could specifically be “verified” by data as the result of coalition action.
The report makes it clear that several thousand more civilians likely died, based on the number of bodies uncovered by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, but many were probably killed by IS or other fighters on the ground.
“Our report focuses on U.S. actions in Raqqa, but the actions of the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian partners undoubtedly contributed far more to civilian harm and suffering in Syria overall,” McNerney said.
The report noted that the challenges in Raqqa were compounded by limits on the number U.S. troops that could be there, as well as where they could be positioned. U.S. troops on the ground could have provided better targeting and civilian information, including on Islamic State militants’ efforts to use civilians as human shields, the report said.
RAND recommended that the U.S. military provide more extensive training and guidance on the need to avoid civilian harm, and plan and execute operations in ways to achieve those goals. Changes could include improved planning, better assessments of potential collateral damage, increased mission rehearsals, improved intelligence gathering, and more selective use of air strikes and munitions that minimize bomb fragmentation.
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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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The DazeD8 premium delta 8 carts have an unparalleled uplifting feel and offer the best delta 8 concentrate on the market
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John Durning, Owner of Pizzeria DeVille in Libertyville, joined Lisa Dent and Steve Bertrand on Chicago’s Afternoon News to describe his journey from having a white collar job to living his dream as the owner of a pizzeria.
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Shares of Expeditors International of Washington Inc.
EXPD,
-1.87%
inched 0.31% higher to $105.33 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
-1.57%
rising 1.23% to 4,631.60 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-1.56%
rising 0.97% to 35,294.19. This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains. Expeditors International of Washington Inc. closed $32.47 below its 52-week high ($137.80), which the company reached on December 16th.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Tuesday, as United Parcel Service Inc. Cl B
UPS,
-2.61%
rose 1.32% to $222.45, FedEx Corp.
FDX,
-1.64%
rose 3.70% to $238.57, and C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.
CHRW,
-1.87%
rose 0.44% to $110.62. Trading volume (1.0 M) remained 409,681 below its 50-day average volume of 1.4 M.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use. | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/expeditors-international-of-washington-inc-stock-rises-tuesday-still-underperforms-market-01648585842-7654a4e8a9cc | 2022-04-01T01:25:49Z |
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Japan art and Sakai Hōitsu: Snow, the Moon, and Cherry Blossoms
Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1829) produced countless stunning art pieces. Hence, his reputation remains potent in modern Japan. Therefore, in the delightful triptych by Hōitsu – titled Snow, the Moon, and Cherry Blossoms – the majesty is clear concerning its simplicity and aspects concerning space.
The Museum of Art (MOA) says, “The snow, the moon and the cherry blossom flowers are the three motifs representing the seasonal pleasures in Japan. Hōitsu composed the triad as one whole unit, thinking of the overall composition when three paintings are juxtaposed. Therefore he placed the snow and pine trees on the top, the moon in the clouds in the middle, and the cherry blossoms at the bottom of each screen. Hōitsu was a painter, poet, and researcher of the Rimpa School, but this work is a superb manifestation of Hōitsu’s prestige as a designer. This triad beautifully painted with selected pigments, is one of Hōitsu’s masterpieces, completed when he was 60 years old.”
Hōitsu, when completing this delightful art piece, was now a Buddhist monk. Thus the holy Buddhist chants, reading holy books, space, and dimensions of Japanese gardens, art, and other cultural, religious, and philosophical angles were part of his daily life.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art says, “Sakai Hoitsu was the second son of a powerful landowning family in the city of Himeji, in Hyogo Prefecture. He was a talented person, especially in painting, and, strongly influenced by the works of Ogata Korin (1658–1716), established his own Rimpa style.”
The minimal approach by Hōitsu in this art piece fails to mask the hidden meaning that is often overlooked. Hence, intricate thought patterns – the delightful beauty of nature – and time and space work perfectly.
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Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bullish stance on DraftKings DKNG.
And retail traders should know.
We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.
Whether this is an institution or just a wealthy individual, we don't know. But when something this big happens with DKNG, it often means somebody knows something is about to happen.
So how do we know what this whale just did?
Today, Benzinga's options scanner spotted 10 uncommon options trades for DraftKings.
This isn't normal.
The overall sentiment of these big-money traders is split between 60% bullish and 40%, bearish.
Out of all of the special options we uncovered, 4 are puts, for a total amount of $220,538, and 6 are calls, for a total amount of $794,452.
What's The Price Target?
Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $5.0 to $45.0 for DraftKings over the last 3 months.
Volume & Open Interest Development
In terms of liquidity and interest, the mean open interest for DraftKings options trades today is 6228.75 with a total volume of 4,554.00.
In the following chart, we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for DraftKings's big money trades within a strike price range of $5.0 to $45.0 over the last 30 days.
DraftKings Option Volume And Open Interest Over Last 30 Days
Biggest Options Spotted:
Where Is DraftKings Standing Right Now?
- With a volume of 15,260,563, the price of DKNG is down -4.61% at $19.47.
- RSI indicators hint that the underlying stock is currently neutral between overbought and oversold.
- Next earnings are expected to be released in 36 days.
Options are a riskier asset compared to just trading the stock, but they have higher profit potential. Serious options traders manage this risk by educating themselves daily, scaling in and out of trades, following more than one indicator, and following the markets closely.
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BWW Review: TORI SCOTT Leaves It All on the Stage in JETLAGGED at Joe's Pub
Tori Scott Celebrates 10 Years at Joe's Pub
There is a phenomenon that occurs at Joe's pub sometimes. Once in a while, you feel a little tremor underneath the seats while you're watching a show like you're experiencing a small earthquake. It's attributable to the 6 train that runs directly below The Public Theater on Lafayette Street. However last night, the tremor that was felt was completely due to the act onstage. Tori Scott was in complete command of the room, a room packed with fans there to celebrate her return to Joe's Pub after a 2-year absence. For ten years she has been making appearances at the downtown cabaret and has developed a sizeable following. If her show, Tori Scott: JETLAGGED is any indication, it's no wonder she has such devoted followers.
Ms. Scott recently made the move to London where she is one of the stars of the UK tour of The Cher Show. Her appearance at Joe's Pub comes in the middle of rehearsal for that tour. She was only in NYC for 46 hours, so the title of her show couldn't be more accurate. It was designed to catch everyone up on what's been going on with her while the world was locked down. Turns out, a lot. While Tori Scott is a powerhouse singer, it is her stories that are the main attraction of the evening. And does she have stories, most of them hysterical! Whether she's talking about witnessing the beauty in very public sex on a gay cruise, pondering the possibility of a paranormal connection at Greenlawn Cemetery, or discussing the details of moving to London with a cat who hates her singing voice, Ms. Scott knows how to spin a yarn.
The songs are woven into the tapestry of these life rants. She opened with a medley of tunes about survival including "I Drove All Night to Get to You," "I'm a Survivor,' "I Will Survive," I'm Still Standing," and "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger." She dedicated "As If We Never Said Goodbye" to the aforementioned music-hating cat. Like a lot of performers, she said she didn't realize how much she missed singing (and the attention) until she was invited to sing for an audience of seven at a gay rooftop wedding. Gay men feature prominently and lovingly in most of Ms. Scott's stories. She describes the drug-like effect of the applause of those seven nuptial gays in "All Coming Back to Me."
She went on an extended story about the bane of all cabaret performers, self-promotion. Talking about having to distribute flyers all over Provincetown and Puerto Vallarta and Edinburgh, Scotland, and eventually on shipboard where she was performing aboard a gay cruise. This story was punctuated with wonderful performances of "Private Dancer," " I'm Crazy For You," and " I Am Dancing on My Own." The highlight of the evening was a sequence in which her lack of amorous attention during the pandemic led to a platonic but sensual experience with a gravedigger in Greenlawn Cemetery who may or may not have been one of the undead. Threaded into this story were hilarious takes on "Unchained Melody" and " Just One Look." The cap on the story was a truly rocked-out performance of Janis Joplin's "Stay With Me Baby."
The last section of the show dealt with the uncertainty of being at the beginning of a new and exciting chapter. She summed up the world-weary jetlag we all have coming out of this period of lockdown self-reflection with "Everybody's Changing and I Don't Feel the Same" which she combined with a bravura performance of Kander & Ebb's "And the World Goes Round" that brought the house down. We should all have fans like Tori Scott's. In a "leave-it-all-on-the-stage" encore, she encouraged those fans to follow their hearts more and question their choices less with the Queen Mother of power ballads, Aerosmith's "Dream On." There wasn't a person still seated by the end of the number.
Tori Scott was supported by some amazing musicians. Jesse Kissel provided nearly wall-to-wall arrangements and underscore. Ray Seta on bass and Mike Luno on drums seemed to enjoy the show as much as the audience. All three were monstrously good. Tori Scott is a masterful storyteller and an accomplished and heartfelt singer. Although she now lives in London, I can't help but hope that her jetlag is frequently exacerbated by many trips home to perform in New York and Joe's Pub.
To learn more about Tori Scott, visit toriscott.com or follow her @ItsToriScott on Twitter or @itstoriscott on Instagram. For more great artists at Joe's Pub and The Public Theater, go to publictheater.org. | https://www.broadwayworld.com/cabaret/article/BWW-Review-TORI-SCOTT-Leaves-It-All-on-the-Stage-in-JETLAGGED-at-Joes-Pub-20220331 | 2022-04-01T01:25:51Z |
OK With Fabick Skid Steer Offer
After visiting with Craig Harris of Fabick Cat last Thursday, Ste. Genevieve County commissioners were satisfied with the proposed resolution to their skid steer problem. The commissioners and Road and Bridge Foreman Scott Schmieder had long bemoaned the trouble they had with a Caterpillar skid steer they had gotten from Fabick....
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GILBERT, AZ — Over the last decade, since he was just five years old, Kai Martin has used his birthday to make a difference in the lives of those battling cancer.
“This is my tenth year now and we’ve raised over thirty-three thousand dollars which is just nuts to see how much it’s grown,” said Kai, Thursday.
Every year instead of receiving birthday gifts, Kai asks his friends, neighbors, and community to give to his GoFundMe page. He was inspired to raise money for cancer research after being personally touched by this horrible disease.
“I lost my grandpa, I lost my nana to it, it stinks but it really is just more encouragement to try and help because cancer hasn’t gone away,” said Kai. “You never know when that last dollar will come and change that.”
“When he learned at a very young age what cancer can do, I remember saying to him you know, you know you’re giving up your presents, you don’t mean that, and he was like, no, I mean it and ten years later he is so passionate about it that it’s just kind of become who he is,” said Shannon Bodnar, Kai’s mom.
It’s a journey now being recognized by GoFundMe itself by naming Kai as one of the site's heroes.
“This series was kind of developed to celebrate those who are basically using the GoFundMe platform to change their communities and the world,” said Kelsea Little, the company’s head of brand storytelling.
Little say’s Kai is one of two people being honored this month, calling his dedication truly inspiring.
“We were so taken with Kai’s story, it’s not every day you meet a teenager who's so selfless, especially on the occasion of their birthday and the fact that Kai’s been using his birthday to raise funds for cancer research since he was five years old just blew me away,” stated Little.
The young man from Gilbert has been able to outdo himself each year by raising his goals along the way. He has been determined more than ever to prove anyone can make a lasting impact with a little sacrifice.
“There are good people in the world, those good people, if they come together, it can really help a cause,” said Kai.
A truth he continues to celebrate every single year. | https://www.abc15.com/news/uplifting-arizona/valley-teen-named-gofundme-hero-trading-in-birthday-gifts-for-donations | 2022-04-01T01:25:51Z |
INDIO – All nine Coachella Valley cities and the County of Riverside will honor 11 of the community’s active senior volunteers at the 30th annual Senior Inspiration Awards at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, March 31.
After taking place virtually last year, the annual Senior Inspiration Awards program returns as an in-person awards luncheon, which will be held at the Fantasy Springs Resort Special Events Center, Hall A, 84-245 Indio Springs Parkway, Indio.
The Senior Inspiration Awards was started 30 years ago by Supervisor Patricia “Corky” Larson and Palm Desert Mayor Jean Benson. Around 550 people attend this major event.
“This event recognizes the community’s unsung heroes, individuals 65 years and older whose volunteerism and ongoing work in the community inspire us to be active,” said Supervisor V. Manuel Perez. “These volunteers are from each of our different cities in the Coachella Valley as well as from unincorporated communities in the Fourth District. We are looking forward to holding our 30th annual Senior Inspiration Awards tomorrow, and to having family members, friends and the community join in recognizing these phenomenal volunteers.”
This year’s honorees are: Terry Nelson (Cathedral City), Noelia Gonzalez (Coachella), Donna Lozano (Desert Hot Springs), Clive Weightman (Indian Wells), Eugenie Balentine (Indio), Victory Grund (La Quinta), Ricardo Loretta (Palm Desert), Kathleen C. Cohn (Palm Springs), Bunni Benaron (Rancho Mirage) and Sharon Huddleston and Josie Martinez (Riverside County).
Biographies of each award recipient are attached. High-resolution photographs are available upon request.
Brooke Beare, Director of Communications and Marketing for the City of Indio, and Jeff Stahl of KESQ News Channel 3 will serve as the masters of ceremonies.
Tickets are $30 per person, which includes lunch, and will be available for purchase at the door.
The Senior Inspiration Awards is hosted by Supervisor Perez and the cities of the Coachella Valley (Cathedral City, Coachella, Desert Hot Springs, Indian Wells, Indio, La Quinta, Palm Desert, Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage). | https://nbcpalmsprings.com/2022/03/31/coachella-valley-cities-riverside-county-to-celebrate-11-inspirational-seniors-tomorrow/ | 2022-04-01T01:25:51Z |
We should probably kick things off by saying that this isn’t an April fools gag. Aussie sexual health start-up Normal is throwing a huge 30% off storewide sale until midnight April 7, and you should absolutely get involved if you’re in the market for a sex toy.
NORMAL has fast become known for its modern sex toys that are designed to suit different bodies and different pleasure preferences. NORMAL currently have seven devices on offer, all carefully created to satisfy your needs.
Unlike more traditional sex toys, NORMAL’s range is designed to be way less intimidating than the “realistic-looking” dildos people used to hide in their bedside draws. Each toy has a sleek design and comes in a bright, punchy colourway, so it could honestly be confused for funky decor or a new-age beauty device.
Take Normal’s best-selling Frankie for example. It’s a smooth, bright yellow palm-sized vibrator that was designed for both solo and partner play.
‘Frankie’ — Was $70, now $49
Another crowd favourite? The Quinn. Why? Oh, probably because it uses air pressure technology to mimic the sensation of oral sex, making it a great option for anyone with a clitoris.
Quinn — Was $195, now $136.50
You’ve also got Normal’s modern twist on the classic rabbit vibrator in the form of the “Piper” wand, and the discreet palm-sized “Billie”, which is designed for clitoral stimulation and erogenous zone massages, and the classic wand vibrator called “Charlie”. And for those with a penis, there’s also a vibrating cock ring named “Flynn”.
While there are only seven sex toys to choose from, it can still feel very overwhelming if this is your first foray into sex toys, or if you’re not sure what to add to your growing collection. The good news is, you can take the NORMAL quiz (which will only take around 3-mins) to score personalised recommendations as to what sex toy will pleasure you best. Oh, and they also offer a ‘100 Night Stand Policy’ if you’re unsatisfied with your purchase. | https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2022/04/sex-toy-sale/ | 2022-04-01T01:25:52Z |
Capital Power Co. (TSE:CPX – Get Rating) has been given a consensus recommendation of “Hold” by the twelve brokerages that are currently covering the firm, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company. The average 1-year price target among brokers that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is C$45.23.
Several research firms have issued reports on CPX. CIBC lowered their target price on shares of Capital Power from C$44.00 to C$43.00 in a research note on Wednesday, January 26th. BMO Capital Markets dropped their price objective on Capital Power from C$43.00 to C$42.00 in a research note on Friday, December 3rd. CSFB set a C$50.00 target price on Capital Power and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, December 3rd. National Bankshares raised their price objective on shares of Capital Power from C$46.00 to C$47.00 in a research report on Wednesday, January 26th. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada cut their price objective on Capital Power from C$44.00 to C$42.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a report on Friday, December 3rd.
CPX traded up C$0.23 during trading on Friday, reaching C$40.71. 420,083 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 348,809. Capital Power has a 12-month low of C$36.03 and a 12-month high of C$45.05. The company’s 50-day moving average is C$39.78 and its two-hundred day moving average is C$40.45. The company has a quick ratio of 0.68, a current ratio of 0.98 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 125.04. The company has a market cap of C$4.73 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 104.38.
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Capital Power Corporation develops, acquires, owns, and operates power generation facilities in Canada and the United States. It generates electricity from various energy sources, including natural and landfill gas, coal, wind, waste heat, solid fuels, and solar. The company owns an approximately 6,500 megawatts of power generation capacity at 28 facilities.
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Leon Bignell sworn in as local member at Parndana pub
Leon Bignell was officially sworn in for a second term as the member for Mawson at the Parndana Hotel on Wednesday, March 30.
Mr Bignell wanted to have the ceremony in the heartland of Kangaroo Island where he spent so much time during and after the bushfires, connecting with local residents.
He invited returning officer Peter Verkerk to make the ferry trip over to conduct the ceremony, reading out the final results and presenting Mr Bignell with his certificate of election.
For the record, the Labor incumbent member beat his Liberal opponent Amy Williams 15,332 to 8686, in the two-party count after the distribution of preference.
The first preference vote was a similar 12,288 to 6742.
This was the first time a Labor member has swept all four Kangaroo Island booths in a state election and Mr Bignell acknowledged everyone who voted.
He also acknowledged the other candidates, especially the ones that actually lived in the electorate, with only Labor, Liberal and the Greens fielding local candidates.
He paid tribute to Amy Williams, with whom he stood side by side at the polling places, often with both their family members also present. "We would take turns on coffee runs," he said.
"We've been through a lot with fires, COVID and now the war overseas and the last thing people want to see is more conflict," he said.
"We the candidates set an example of being kind and respectful to one another."
He said he wanted to be sworn in at Parndana because of the important role it played in his life.
He joked that he had visited often as a journalist and then a minister in the previous government but he only really got to know the town and district after the fires.
He said he now understood why people wanted to live in the middle of the Island and the history and connection to the land through the Soldier Settlers scheme.
"The fires were the worst of time but they also brought about the best in people," he said. "I think of all those special connections we made during and since those deadly fires.
"Those moments in time and those connections will be there for me forever."
Helping others was one of the best thing anyone could do and whatever your skill level or talent, whether you could hold a hose a not, there was always something that could be done to help.
He apologised for not bringing his dog Dusty along, who had become quite a celebrity on the mainland after he adopted him as one of a litter that survived the fire in their kennel off Pioneer Bend Road.
Mr Bigell encouraged everyone to watch "Dusty the Movie", which can be viewed below:
He said he saw the swearing in ceremony as a "commitment ceremony" not only to Islanders but all of the Mawson electorate.
He said he was looking forward to his next four years in State Parliament working for the electorate.
He was not afraid to stand up for issues that his electorate wanted resolved, even if went against party lines, such as was the case for opposition to drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight.
He travelled Norway to pass on the message from locals and said he was eventually able to change the minds of his party leaders to oppose drilling.
Polling booth lines
Voters on Kangaroo Island would have noticed longer lines in the state election on March 19, particularly in Kingscote.
Returning officer for Mawson, Peter Verkerk said it was simply a matter of COVID restrictions requiring a great separation between the voting screens.
There were fewer screens, hence fewer voters could vote at once.
Also, there were three times the number of non-resident voters in Kingscote, and also reports of more non residents at two of three other polling places.
At Penneshaw, there were more construction workers from the SA Water project, while voting officials at Parndana also noticed more non resident voters, a combination of tourists and construction workers.
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The federal government's emergency rental assistance program helped prevent more than one million evictions last year.
An estimated 1.36 million renters avoided an eviction filing in 2021 as a result of the government's unprecedented $46.5 billion rent relief program and other protections, according to a recent analysis by Princeton University's Eviction Lab published earlier this month.
Treasury officials reported Wednesday that $30 billion in emergency rent relief was spent or obligated by the end of February. Despite a slow and confusing initial roll out of the program last spring, more than 4.7 million payments were made to households since January 2021.
Treasury expects the remainder of the funds to be exhausted by the middle of this year.
Impact of the assistance
A national eviction ban was put in place in September 2020. While it did not stop all evictions, it significantly slowed the tide of eviction filings until the emergency aid could reach struggling renters and their landlords, White House and Department of Treasury officials said.
"We knew from the start that we faced a race with time to get the emergency rental assistance flowing to a significant degree by the time the national eviction moratorium was lifted," said Gene Sperling, the White House American Rescue Plan coordinator. "We largely won that race."
In the six states and 31 cities tracked by the Eviction Lab researchers, eviction filings fell sharply at the onset of the pandemic, but then increased in the later months of 2020 even with the ban in place. Given the increased number of renters experiencing economic hardship as the pandemic continued into 2021, experts worried about a "tsunami" of evictions and anticipated the number of filings to skyrocket above levels seen in 2019.
But the opposite happened. In a typical year, roughly 865,000 eviction cases were filed in the areas the Eviction Lab tracks. In 2021, roughly half as many evictions were filed, with 434,304 cases.
Evictions fell in all but one of the 31 cities tracked in 2021. The outlier was Las Vegas, where jobs in tourism evaporated, adversely impacting the large number of renters in the city's service sector, according to the report. New York City had the biggest reduction in eviction filings from typical levels, with the report estimating nearly 184,000 eviction cases were avoided in New York City.
Video below: NY struggles to get rent relief to hurting tenants
The emergency rental assistance was found to have a strong impact on the low-income and majority-Black neighborhoods that see a disproportionate share of eviction cases. Those areas experienced the largest absolute reduction in eviction filings last year, the Eviction Lab report found.
The report found that in 2021 the most disadvantaged neighborhoods experienced the biggest gains in terms of rental housing stability. But it also found that, among the eviction cases filed, women of color were disproportionately affected.
More than 80% of emergency rental assistance reached the lowest income households, according to the Treasury, with about 40% of all applicants who received assistance self-identifying as Black, and about 20% self-identifying as Latino.
Moving remaining money
The federal emergency rent relief was approved in two rounds of funding. The first, which included $25 billion under the Consolidated Appropriations Act at the end of 2020, and $21.55 billion under the American Rescue Plan Act in March 2021.
Some state and local governments have exhausted allotted funds while others have not distributed everything they have received. As a result, Treasury has been reallocating money to ensure it gets to renters most in need.
Of the $25 billion in the first batch of money, Treasury has already moved $2 billion in underused funds. Beginning in April, funds from the second batch will be reallocated.
This process has "allowed dollars to flow to places with high need," said Noel Poyo, Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Economic Development. "Generally reallocated funds went to higher need areas with more diverse communities."
He said he expects that trend to continue with the available funds from the second batch of money.
But it is a challenging balance to strike, Poyo said, between getting dollars to places where they are running out of funds and making sure that money is still available in places where assistance may have gotten started more slowly and people remain in need.
Treasury is encouraging state and local governments to use the additional funding to assist more renters and make continued investments in housing stability.
"In just one year, the Emergency Rental Assistance program built a national infrastructure for eviction prevention that never existed before and has helped keep eviction rates well below historic averages throughout the pandemic," said Poyo.
He also suggested state and local governments build on the network for support they have established and provide services like housing counselors, "that will help families avoid economic scarring long after COVID-19 is in the rearview mirror," he said. | https://www.wapt.com/article/rent-relief-prevent-million-evictions/39602016 | 2022-04-01T01:25:53Z |
Tommy Thompson, just weeks removed from leading the University of Wisconsin System, met with former President Donald Trump on Thursday for a talk about “Wisconsin politics,” a former aide said.
Thompson was elected to four terms as Wisconsin's governor, and earlier this year declined to rule out another bid. Thompson, 80, spent almost two years atop the university system before leaving earlier this month.
Bill McCoshen, a former chief of staff to Thompson when he served as governor, said the two met at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
“The primary topic was Wisconsin politics," McCoshen said. “They talked about the gubernatorial race, the Senate race and what it will take to win in Wisconsin. The topic of running for governor may have come up, but the purpose was to talk about Wisonsin politics more broadly.”
A Trump spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
McCoshen said he expected Thompson to make a decision in April. The primary is in August. Former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, businessman Kevin Nicholson and state Rep. Timothy Ramthun are Republicans vying to take on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
Thompson was first elected to the Legislature in 1966 and was first elected governor in 1986. He resigned midway through his fourth term to serve as Health and Human Services secretary under then-President George W. Bush, and ran briefly for president in 2008. | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/news/article/Thompson-and-Trump-meet-to-talk-politics-17049815.php | 2022-04-01T01:25:54Z |
By NEBI QENA and YURAS KARMANAU
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops handed control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant back to the Ukrainians and began leaving the heavily contaminated site more than a month after taking it over, authorities said Thursday, as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts.
Ukraine’s state power company, Energoatom, said the pullout at Chernobyl came after soldiers received “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches in the forest in the exclusion zone around the closed plant. But there was no independent confirmation of that.
The withdrawal took place amid growing indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation in Ukraine as cover while regrouping, resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in the eastern part of the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian withdrawals from the north and center of the country were just a military tactic and that the forces are building up for new powerful attacks in the southeast.
“We know their intentions,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address to the nation. “We know that they are moving away from those areas where we hit them in order to focus on other, very important ones where it may be difficult for us.”
“There will be battles ahead,” he added.
Meanwhile, a convoy of buses headed to Mariupol in another bid to evacuate people from the besieged port city after the Russian military agreed to a limited cease-fire in the area. And a new round of talks was scheduled for Friday, five weeks into the war that has left thousands dead and driven 4 million Ukrainians from the country.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said it had been informed by Ukraine that the Russian forces at the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster had transferred control of it in writing to the Ukrainians.
Ukraine reported that three convoys of Russian forces had left toward Belarus, while the remaining troops were apparently planning to leave too, the agency said.
Energoatom gave no details on the condition of the soldiers it said were exposed to radiation and did not say how many were affected. There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin, and the IAEA said it had not been able to confirm the reports of Russian troops receiving high doses. It said it was seeking more information.
Russian forces seized the Chernobyl site in the opening stages of the Feb. 24 invasion, raising fears that they would cause damage or disruption that could spread radiation. The workforce at the site oversees the safe storage of spent fuel rods and the concrete-entombed ruins of the reactor that exploded in 1986.
Edwin Lyman, a nuclear expert with the U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists, said it “seems unlikely” a large number of troops would develop severe radiation illness, but it was impossible to know for sure without more details.
He said contaminated material was probably buried or covered with new topsoil during the cleanup of Chernobyl, and some soldiers may have been exposed to a “hot spot” of radiation while digging. Others may have assumed they were at risk too, he said.
Early this week, the Russians said they would significantly scale back military operations in areas around Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv to increase trust between the two sides and help negotiations along.
But in the Kyiv suburbs, regional governor Oleksandr Palviuk said on social media Thursday that Russian forces shelled Irpin and Makariv and that there were battles around Hostomel. Pavliuk said there were Ukrainian counterattacks and some Russian withdrawals around the suburb of Brovary to the east.
Chernihiv came under attack as well. At least one person was killed and four were wounded in the Russian shelling of a humanitarian convoy of buses sent to Chernihiv to evacuate residents cut off from food, water and other supplies, said Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmyla Denisova
Ukraine also reported Russian artillery barrages in and around the northeastern city of Kharkiv.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said intelligence indicates Russia is not scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead trying to regroup, resupply its forces and reinforce its offensive in the Donbas.
“Russia has repeatedly lied about its intentions,” Stoltenberg said. At the same time, he said, pressure is being kept up on Kyiv and other cities, and “we can expect additional offensive actions bringing even more suffering.”
The Donbas is the predominantly Russian-speaking industrial region where Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014. In the past few days, the Kremlin, in a seeming shift in its war aims, said that its “main goal” now is gaining control of the Donbas, which consists of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including Mariupol.
The top rebel leader in Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, issued an order to set up a rival city government for Mariupol, according to Russian state news agencies, in a sign of Russian intent to hold and administer the city.
The Red Cross, meanwhile, said its teams were headed for Mariupol with medical supplies and other relief and hoped to take civilians out of the beleaguered city, the site of some of the worst suffering of the war.
Tens of thousands have managed to get out of Mariupol in the past few weeks by way of humanitarian corridors, reducing its population from a prewar 430,000 to an estimated 100,000 as of last week, but other efforts to relieve the city have been thwarted by continued Russian attacks.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said 45 buses would be sent to collect civilians from the encircled and bombarded city, where food, water, medicine and fuel were running low.
“It’s desperately important that this operation takes place,” the Red Cross said in a statement. “The lives of tens of thousands of people in Mariupol depend on it.”
With talks set to resume between Ukraine and Russia via video, there seemed little faith that the two sides would resolve the conflict any time soon.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that conditions weren’t yet “ripe” for a cease-fire and that he wasn’t ready for a meeting with Zelenskyy until negotiators do more work, Italian Premier Mario Draghi said after a telephone conversation with the Russian leader.
In other developments, Ukraine’s emergency services said the death toll had risen to 20 in a Russian missile strike Tuesday on a government administration building in the southern city of Mykolaiv.
As Western officials search for clues about what Russia’s next move might be, a top British intelligence official said demoralized Russian soldiers in Ukraine are refusing to carry out orders and sabotaging their equipment and had accidentally shot down their own aircraft.
In a speech in Australia, Jeremy Fleming, head of the GCHQ electronic spy agency, said Putin had apparently “massively misjudged” the invasion.
The Pentagon reported Thursday that an initial half-dozen shipments of weapons and other security assistance from the U.S. have reached Ukraine as part of an $800 million aid package President Joe Biden approved this month.
The shipments included Javelin anti-tank weapons, Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems, body armor, medical supplies and other materials, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about how badly the war is going because they are afraid to tell him the truth.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the U.S. is wrong and that “neither the State Department nor the Pentagon possesses the real information about what is happening in the Kremlin.”
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Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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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.
FSOC was created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Council comprises ten voting members and five non-voting members and monitors the safety and stability of the nation's financial system, identifies risks to the system, and coordinates responses.
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CHICAGO (WKOW) -- When Michael Rhodes first saw the news reports that Russia had launched its invasion of Ukraine, he was in shock.
"I understood that there have been an escalation and troop buildups, but we'd seen that many times before," he said. "Just the thought of trying to swallow the whole country was not something that registered immediately, like this has to be a mistake."
Rhodes is no stranger to struggles in Ukraine. He's been traveling back and forth between the United States and Eastern Europe for nearly 20 years, since he has family in Hungary.
He met his wife Natalia in Ukraine during one of his trips. The couple had twin daughters in the spring of 2020.
It was for them that Rhodes truly feared when he saw the initial reports that the invasion had begun. Natalia and his daughters were in Ukraine at the time, helping her mother get ready to leave her native Ukraine and retire in Hungary.
Rhodes had a flight scheduled to head over and help the day after fighting officially broke out. That got canceled, and so did all the commercial flights he was looking for.
With his family and relatives trapped in a Kyiv under siege, Rhodes and his family and friends statewide tried everything they could to get them out.
"I presented a good face for my wife, but in reality I was frantic," he said.
He finally got in touch with a nonprofit group that has helped Americans and allies escape places of conflict, like Afghanistan and Ukraine. He credits them with preparing his family to escape the country.
"That was Plan A," he said.
But the family got lucky, and took a chance on the train station in Kyiv. At first, it hadn't been an option because it was so packed with people trying to escape and, at times, dangerous.
"There were, you know, gunshots fired on a platform to keep people in order," he said. "That would have been a disaster, imagine being there with two little babies and get separated or something and it's just unthinkable."
At that point, there was a lull in activity, so the family was able to board a train. Thankfully, the train made it to the Hungarian border without getting stopped or fired upon.
"It was certainly elation and relief," said Rhodes.
By that point, Rhodes had been able to get a flight to Europe, and met his family at the border. After all the planning, the phone calls, the terrifying thoughts, he realized in that moment what's most important.
"The only thing that really matters is your relationships," he said. "Those things are what's going to carry you through difficult times."
Rhodes is now back in Chicago, and his family is safe in Hungary.
The United Nations reports that more than 4 million people have fled Ukraine since the invasion began. Half of them are children. | https://www.wkow.com/news/it-was-pretty-much-just-shock-when-russia-invaded-ukraine-one-chicagoan-frantically-tried-to/article_8fc9c9ea-b139-11ec-8f96-ffc77dfb70e6.html | 2022-04-01T01:25:55Z |
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Jaguar Health Inc JAGX shares are trading higher by 31.2% at $0.70 after the company announced an agreement granting Quadri Pharmaceuticals for exclusive promotional, commercialization and distribution rights for specified human indications of crofelemer in the Middle East.
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The Increasing Danger Facing Women in Turkey
by Abigail R. Esman
IPT News
Investigative Project on Terrorism
There was Aylin Sozer in Istanbul, whose former boyfriend slit her throat and then burned her alive.
There was 23-year-old Sule Cet, raped by her boss and tossed from the 20th-floor window of a high rise in Ankara.
And in Denizli Province, there was Sebnem Sirin, 25, whose boyfriend, Furkan Zibinci, slit her throat when she tried to end their relationship. Zibinci was later found to have been previously convicted of six crimes, including sexual abuse.
All were among the more than 300 women killed every year in Turkey – many of them attributed to “suicide,” despite evidence clearly showing they were murdered, usually by a father, husband, boyfriend, or brother.
But when Turkish women sought to celebrate International Women’s Day earlier this month to honor all the victims of femicide – most often perpetrated by relatives, partners or ex-partners – riot police in Istanbul blocked their way, firing pepper spray and setting off flares among the crowds.
It wasn’t the first time. Since at least 2019, police have clashed with marchers protesting violence against women, though this was the first year that Istanbul outright banned the event. Invoking two laws, Istanbul’s governor said the prohibition was to “protect rights and freedoms and to prevent crime.”
More than 35 people were arrested during last year’s march, most on charges of “insulting the president” in their chants. When they faced trial in December, the judge griped about the focus on the murders of women. “Men also are being killed,” he said. “There are those who say, ‘if ten women are being killed, 20 men are killed. Should we also gather to protest?”
He was not alone in making this argument. Indeed, Hulya Atci Nergis, a Member of Parliament for Erdogan’s ruling AKP party, used last year’s International Women’s Day to complain that women should also bear responsibility for the fact that men kill women. “Men are the ones who are always blamed, but… don’t women have any fault?” she is quoted as saying, while emphasizing that “more men are killed every year than women.”
Similarly, in referring to International Women’s Day, Mehmet Boynukalin last year, head imam of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia mosque, attacked the media’s reporting. “The constant emphasis on ‘femicides’ is a slogan-geared media propaganda tool that looks to pit women against men,” he declared on Twitter. In a subsequent statement, he added, “Today, unfortunately, the concepts of women and ‘femicide’ are abused by shedding crocodile tears.”
And so it perhaps was no surprise that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan withdrew last July from the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence – a treaty ironically known as the Istanbul Treaty for the city where it was first signed.
The result has been devastating. By the end of the year, the country had marked a record 342 murders of women by men, and 96 reported rapes. (These numbers, it should be noted, are likely understated; other reports showed 410 murders in 2020, and 401 by early December of 2021.)
But then, what could one really expect in a country where, in 2014 – the same year the Istanbul Convention went into effect – Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc pronouncedthat women should not laugh in public? Or where – that same year – Erdogan declared, “You cannot put men and women on an equal footing. It is against nature.”
Meantime, the reclassification of so many murders as “suicides” poses an additional problem, according to the activist group We Will Stop Femicide Platform. When Ayten Kaya was found hanged in her Diyarbakir home in 2021, officials ruled it a suicide and closed the case – despite significant evidence that she had been killed by her husband. Sule Cet’s 2018 murder was also initially declared a suicide, ignoring evidence of forced sex, a broken neck, and sedatives present in her blood. In this case, however, justice won: the killer was sentenced to life in prison.
But that’s hardly always the case. In 2004, for instance, Osman Calli was convicted in Belgium of killing four women – his wife and his pregnant sister in Ghent, and his ex-wife and her mother in Aalst – in the same night. It was necessary, he had told police, to “cleanse his family’s honor.”
Yet after the Belgian courts sentenced him to life, Calli was allowed to return to Turkey to serve out his sentence in 2013. Three years later, he was a free man. “I am enjoying the sun, the sea, and the beach here,” he reportedly boasted on Belgian television.
Now activists, motivated especially by Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, are focusing on changing the laws, demanding harsher sentences for men who murder women. For many, it is a cause they fight in memory of Ayse Tuba Aslan, who was murdered by her husband in 2019 after having filed 23 complaints with the police attesting to his violence. He was never arrested.
After her death, Aslan’s final petition for help was found in her purse. It read, in part: “Will you protect me after my death?”
IPT Senior Fellow Abigail R. Esman is a freelance writer based in New York and the Netherlands. Her new book, Rage: Narcissism, Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism, was published by Potomac Books in October 2020. Follow her at @abigailesman.
Three women in the photo: Murder victims Aylin Sozer, Sule Cet and Sebnem Sirin.
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INDIO (CNS) – A Ralphs in Indio was evacuated Thursday due to a strange odor inside.
The Riverside County Fire Department received a report of the incident at 7:19 a.m. in the 49900 block of Jefferson Street.
Officials have not specified what the strange odor is, but explained that the building was evacuated out of precaution.
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In most years, the opposition leader’s budget reply passes virtually unnoticed.
By convention, it is delivered two days after the budget.
It’s different when an election is imminent. Then it becomes a statement of priorities about what the opposition would do differently if it wins government.
There is hardly ever a difference between government and opposition on the broad directions of spending and taxing – and for that matter, rarely much difference on tax and spending between one budget and the next.
The economic parameters are outside of government control – both government and opposition take the officials’ economic forecasts as given.
Opposition leader Anthony Albanese’s Thursday night speech in reply is no exception. Differences between the parties lie not in macroeconomic settings or in the amount of spending, but in what it is spent on.
The centrepiece is an aged care package with five parts:
- Every aged care facility required to have a registered, qualified nurse on site, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Every Australian living in aged care gets at least 215 minutes of care per day
- Support for the aged care workers pay case in Fair Work Commission and a commitment to fund the outcome
- Better food for aged care residents
- Accountability: more powers for the Aged Care Safety Commissioner and a requirement for aged care providers to report publicly what they are spending money on.
These are not new ideas. They come from the report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, which made a compelling case for reform.
The government said it supported most of the royal commission’s recommendations, but it has been slow to implement them.
Aged care is the one big difference
Notably, the government has so far declined to support aged care workers’ pursuit of a 25% pay rise in a case presently before the Fair Work Commission.
Away from aged care, many of the other initiatives mentioned in Albanese’s speech have previously been announced – the Powering Australia Plan for renewable energy, the Future Made in Australia plan for manufacturing, funding for infrastructure, funding for training, and cheaper child care.
In other areas, Labor will have similar policies to the Coalition but implement them differently. It will invest in infrastructure, but base the spending on advice from Infrastructure Australia, a body whose recommendations were largely overlooked in a Coalition budget that announced 144 projects, only 21 of which were on the priority list prepared by Infrastructure Australia.Not all are points of difference. The Coalition announced similar measures in the budget, including more funding for training apprentices, and a package to boost manufacturing and address supply chain vulnerabilities.
Five climate mentions instead of one
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s speech used the phrase “climate change” once. Albanese’s used it five times. It’s another point of differentiation, but not as big as it might be.
Neither side of politics has an explicit position on the links between climate change and natural disasters.
While it is too soon to draw those links with the latest floods, the broader evidence that the increased frequency and severity of disasters is due to climate change is overwhelming.
This is going to be an increasing challenge for Australian communities, and one budgets will have to address.
Where’s the money?
Albanese’s speech will be vulnerable to the traditional taunt of governments facing proposals from oppositions: “where’s the money coming from?”
For much of Albanese’s speech there are easy answers. Some content has been announced previously and provision made; other elements are similar to government measures, even if different in implementation, so are covered by budget funding.
The biggest gap is in the plan to fix aged care. The government has been avoiding engaging on wages, due mostly to their cost.
Labor has costed its aged care package at $2.5 billion, plus the wage increases arising from the Fair Work Commission case. The wage cost is hard to estimate, but is likely to be huge. The biggest cost in aged care is wages.
It is worth noting whatever party wins government it will need to meet the costs arising from the Commission’s decision.
The required spending could be met by an increased deficit – that is, going deeper into debt. In a deficit forecast to be $78 billion next year, a few extra billion makes little difference.
Less likely – because of the negative headlines it would generate – is that Australians would be charged a levy for the proper provisioning of aged care, as has happened before for both Medicare and disability.
Another option is that savings could be made in other areas of spending, reflecting the priority placed on aged care.
Or perhaps, after huge additional spending on COVID response proved not only affordable but good for the economy, the question about “where the money is coming from” is losing its potency.
A new budget, real soon
Whatever the case, if Labor wins the election, it will need a new budget.
Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced his intention to deliver a second post-election budget in a speech to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in March.
Albanese’s budget reply speech was economically cautious.
Many of the specific initiatives have been announced previously. The largest new component by far, the aged care plan, is likely to attract widespread support.
Investments in education and training, childcare, renewable energy and infrastructure are all likely to have a positive return for Australia.
There are big differences in rhetoric between Labor and the Coalition, but on the economic fundamentals, there is little – other than aged care reform – to separate the two.
Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. | https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2022/04/the-biggest-takeaways-from-labors-budget-reply/ | 2022-04-01T01:25:59Z |
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Lasting ImPRESSions at Kangaroo Island Art Society gallery
A group of Kangaroo Island women artists, who've spent 15 years creating lasting impressions on a printing press in a Kingscote backyard shed, break the mold of the solitary studio artist.
Ros Stoldt, Sharon Clifford and Merril Hansen are three members of Shed Print Studio, formed in 2006 when five women artists agreed to make prints together one day each month.
Their artworks, along with an explanatory exposition of multiple print-making techniques, will be hung at ImPRESSions exhibition in the Kangaroo Island Art Society (KIAS) gallery, Murray Street, opening April 16 until May 1.
KIAS members and contemporary printmakers who will also exhibit works are Peter Hastwell, Jane Evans, Prue Coulls plus Jenny Clapson, an early pioneer of solar print-making in Australia.
Jenny has been a mentor and inspiration to many Kangaroo Island artists and with the purchase of her prints by South Australian and National Art Galleries, is one of our most acclaimed visual artists.
Artists who formed Shed Print Studio fell under the spell of solar plate printing at a workshop run by Sharon Clifford who'd graduated from Adelaide art school in the 1990s.
Sharon explained, "I'm enthusiastic about print-making because it produces multiple art works, whereas a painting will yield one final result. I also love experimenting with the variety of printing techniques which give different effects and outcomes. The print-making group has been a great opportunity to exchange ideas and problem-solve with other artists."
Visitors to ImPRESSions exhibition will get a thorough understanding about these evocative printing terms and techniques - Eco, Lino, Gelli Plate, Solar Plate Etching, Mono, Reduction, Dry Point, Screen Printing and Collagraph.
KIAS exhibition organizers/artists hope to secure an enduring future for creative printing on Kangaroo Island by increasing public enthusiasm for printing processes ranging from extremely simple for a beginner to more intricate and professional. - Catherine Murphy
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A $64.1 billion supplemental state budget that spends on statewide programs ranging from homelessness and behavioral health to the ongoing COVID-19 response was signed Thursday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
The supplemental plan builds off of the $59 billion, two-year spending plan adopted by the Legislature last year, and benefited from the significant influx of revenues the state has seen over the past year. Additionally, lawmakers used more than $1 billion in remaining pandemic-related federal relief funds in the budget.
More than $800 million is allocated for homelessness and housing, including $50 million to transition unhoused people from unsanctioned camps to housing.
Inslee specifically called out the efforts on addressing homelessness, saying that lawmakers “gave us relief that is big, that is bold, and that is fast.”
While there are no general tax increases in the plan, there are also no across-the-board tax cuts, something Republicans had argued for throughout the legislative session that ended March 10.
“It’s been easy to explain to my constituents why Republicans opposed this budget – all I have to do is point to how the costs of living have continued to rise in the weeks since it was adopted, and the huge revenue surplus the Democrats had available,“ Republican Sen. Lynda Wilson said in a statement.
A small business tax credit was included that would affect about 125,000 small businesses in the state, and was among the bills signed by Inslee Thursday.
Starting in January, businesses making less than $125,000 a year would pay no state business taxes, and those making up to $250,000 a year, business taxes will be cut in half.
The supplemental operating budget also spends state or federal money on things like adding more social supports like nurses and counselors for students, increasing rates to vendors providing services to people with developmental disabilities or long-term care needs and shoring up the state’s paid family leave program, which officials warned was nearing a deficit.
It also allots funding for raises for state workers. According to the Office of Financial Management, about 63,800 general government employees will get a 3.25% general wage increase, about 6,700 state corrections workers will get a 4% general wage increase and about 1,200 state patrol officers will get a 10% general wage increase. The last general wage increase for represented employees was July 1, 2020.
The operating budget also transfers more than $2 billion to the nearly $17 billion, 16-year transportation revenue package that Inslee signed last week. The plan leaves about $3 billion in total reserves.
Inslee had several full or partial vetoes of bills, including a section of a bill that would have expanded the state’s existing warehouse sales and use tax to include smaller warehouses of at least 100,000 square feet. In his veto notice, Inslee said that while he understood the importance of manufacturing and warehousing to rural economies, he said the tax incentives in the bill were overly broad.
Inslee on Thursday also signed a $1.5 billion state construction budget that spends on areas ranging from housing, homelessness, behavioral health facilities, and seismic upgrades at public schools. | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/news/article/Washington-governor-signs-64-1-billion-17049827.php | 2022-04-01T01:26:00Z |
By DOUG FEINBERG
AP Basketball Writer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Aliyah Boston dominated women’s college basketball on both ends of the court this season.
The junior forward helped South Carolina go wire-to-wire as the No. 1 team in the country, putting up an SEC-record 27 consecutive double-doubles, and she has helped put the Gamecocks two wins away from the program’s second national championship.
Boston was honored as The Associated Press women’s basketball player of the year on Thursday. She is the second player from South Carolina to be recognized with the award, joining former Gamecocks great A’ja Wilson.
“Not often do you get the complete package. I think this recognition is for what she was able to do on both sides of the ball,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. “The player of the year is usually for offensive-minded people who think that when you put the ball in the hole, you should be bestowed the player of the year. She’s the full package. Every single day.”
Boston’s parents and aunt as well as the entire South Carolina team were in the audience of the ceremony that also honored AP Coach of the Year Kim Mulkey.
“Coming into this year I said in the back of my mind I wanted to change the narrative this year about women’s basketball,” Boston said. “To get this award means a lot and I can’t wait to do more in the future.”
Boston received 23 votes from the 30-member national media panel that votes weekly for the AP Top 25. Iowa’s Caitlin Clark received six votes and Baylor’s NaLyssa Smith got one.
Boston averaged 16.8 points, 12 rebounds and 2.6 blocks this year.
“I think Aliyah is so unselfish that she’s not very comfortable taking over basketball games,” Staley said. “She doesn’t want to be seen by her teammates as selfish and chasing numbers.”
Boston’s parents surprised the unanimous first-team AP All-American with the news on Zoom that she had won the award.
“I’m in shock, I got the chills,” Boston said to her parents on the call.
Staley said that Boston is one of the hardest workers on the team.
“Young people will follow anyone, good or bad,” the coach said. “Aliyah has tbe personality where you’d follow her because of how hard she works, how unselfish she is, how giving she is. When it’s time to make plays she delivers. She’s a leader to follow for all the right reasons.”
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More AP coverage of March Madness: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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Every minute, over £10,000 is spent on racial equity and diversity programmes, amounting to a staggering global spend of £5.6bn every year. Businesses have the budgets, so why are we still not seeing results?
Following the tragic and avoidable deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and countless others in 2020, numerous organisations publicly demonstrated their disdain for such brutal acts of racism through educational campaigns and social media pledges.
But actions taken in good faith have not been enough to dismantle systems and cultures that breed racial bias. Racial inequality remains pervasive across all sectors. In fact, a report from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) recently found that only 0.8% of professors identify as Black.
Without the tools and data in place to effectively drive decision-making and measure performance, organisations have struggled to create racially equitable cultures and, in turn, drive long term change.
Getting this right requires a change in approach. We need to stop seeing racial equity as a purely emotional issue, but one that is tackled and reported on like every other business problem, backed by data and results.
Shifting the conversation
There is no doubt that more discussions about racial equity are happening at board level: recent research shows that 79% of leaders see it as a key priority. However, organisations are looking to go further with positive action. For this to happen, though, we need to move past heartfelt conversations. DE&I needs to be treated the same as other business functions, which involves reviewing everything from how progress is measured and reported on, to the solutions that are put in place.
Consider it this way: if a sales team was failing to hit its targets, the organisation would not pledge to do better. They would find the cause of the issue, implement a solution, measure and track progress and ensure there was absolute accountability for delivering results.
This is how businesses achieve their corporate objectives and it is becoming increasingly important that organisations apply similar methods to DE&I. Leaders are now under more pressure than ever to clearly demonstrate how they are taking action to meet ESG goals in a certain timeframe, presenting year on year results to clients, employees and investors.
Measuring racial equity at a cultural level
Technology and metrics are vital for understanding racially marginalised groups. With these in place, organisations can actually change the approach, applying targeted solutions to create racially equitable cultures, while at the same time reporting on the progress.
But first, we need to think about racial equity on a cultural level. According to the Parker Review, ethnic minority representation on FTSE 100 boards has increased from 52 to 81 companies in the past year. This is a step in the right direction - there's no question about it - but representation is only one part of the puzzle; it does not account for the experience and opportunities afforded to marginalised employees across the business.
Creating racially equitable cultures requires looking beyond just representation. It means understanding the lived experiences of employees. Culture directly impacts the success of a company and wellbeing of its employees, so it is crucial that organisations tackle both diversity and inclusion.
Tangible metrics and tools are key for helping organisations assess how racially equitable their cultures are and, importantly, what they need to improve on. With the right technology in place, they can track a number of key areas over time, such as behaviours, attitudes, levels of awareness, inclusion barriers, performance, pay and recruitment.
This way, organisations can examine their cultures in a well-rounded way, accounting for the fact that everyone has their own experiences of marginalisation and oppression.
Progress is driven by data
Taking a data-driven approach to measuring and identifying problems is fundamental to other areas of an organisation, so why not DE&I?
If organisations begin thinking about racial equity and culture as a business problem that can be measured and solved accordingly, they will not only be better placed to implement solutions that drive material change, but also tangibly report on progress.
With a refreshed approach, they can both mitigate risk and reap the rewards of having a more diverse and inclusive culture on all levels.
Nii Cleland is CEO & co-founder of Flair Impact | https://www.investmentweek.co.uk/opinion/4047393/racially-equitable-cultures-measurement | 2022-04-01T01:26:00Z |
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.
For some homeowners considering a new air conditioning system, this California rebate can save them up to $7,000. Unlike solar incentives that require the homeowner to apply for the incentive with the State of California after the system is installed, the homeowner realizes the savings upfront with the TECH Clean California Initiative. The HVAC company that installs the system is then required to apply for reimbursement with the State.
To qualify, an electric heating and cooling unit must be installed by an approved HVAC company. Simon DeLaCerda, General Manager of Valley Air Conditioning and Repair has been installing these systems upon the launch and states, "I am pleased to offer the opportunity, we've seen incredible savings for homeowners and urge other homeowners to take advantage of this amazing deal".
The Switch Is On, is an educational campaign that has been launched to promote the TECH initiative and the benefits of home electrification. Learn more about the campaign through their site.
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ROCK COUNTY (WKOW) -- Ashley Morse became the first woman of color to be appointed to the Rock County Circuit Court.
Governor Tony Evers made the announcement last week, placing Morse in the judge's seat.
Morse tells 27 News she has been reflecting on the kind of judge she wants to be.
"Making sure that people that come to my courtroom and when they leave my courtroom, hopefully they feel seen, heard, you know, believe that they've been treated fairly, even if, you know, the decision might not ultimately be one that they like," Morse said.
She said her experience as a public defender gives her a unique perspective.
Morse will take over the position from Judge Daniel Dillon next week. | https://www.wkow.com/news/newly-appointed-rock-county-circuit-court-judge-making-history/article_50a56b62-b142-11ec-9eb6-972d2c5e0568.html | 2022-04-01T01:26:01Z |
Read Why Qualcomm Failed To Mark AI Chip Debut With Meta
- Leading mobile phone processor supplier Qualcomm Inc (NASDAQ: QCOM) looked to tap its energy efficiency expertise to break into the fast-growing market for the artificial intelligence chips used in data centers in 2019, the Information reports.
- Qualcomm wooed Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) to make Facebook’s owner the flagship customer for Qualcomm’s first AI data center chip, the AI 100.
- After Qualcomm released the chip in the fall of 2020, Meta tested it against a range of alternatives, including the chips Meta has been using and a specialized chip Meta developed internally to handle AI computing work.
- Qualcomm’s chip performed well, posting the best performance per watt of electricity.
- However, by 2021 spring, Meta had declined to use Qualcomm’s chip.
- Meta questioned whether the software that accompanied the chip was mature enough to wring the best performance from the chip on future tasks.
- Meta decided to stick with its existing chips as it evaluated its options.
- Price Action: QCOM shares closed higher by 0.06% at $152.82 on the last check Thursday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Whoa! It's a Double Aho!
Both NHL players named Sebastian Aho — one a defenseman for the New York Islanders, the other a forward for the Carolina Hurricanes — scored goals for their teams Thursday night.
And at nearly the exact same time.
According to Sportsnet Stats, the Islanders' Aho scored his first goal of the season at 7:14 p.m. EDT in New York against Columbus.
Just 34 seconds later — and more than 500 miles away — the Hurricanes' Aho scored his 31st goal in Carolina against Montreal. Both gave their teams 1-0 leads in the first period.
It's not the first time the two have combined on a statistical oddity. In 2018, New York's Aho committed a hooking penalty on Carolina's Aho, causing MSG Networks Islanders play-by-play broadcaster Brendan Burke to exclaim: "A little Sebastian Aho-on-Sebastian Aho crime.”
The two Ahos are not related, by the way. The Islanders' Aho, Sebastian Johannes Aho, is 26 and from Sweden. He has three career NHL goals in limited action.
The Hurricanes' Aho, Sebastian Antero Aho, is 24 and from Finland. He's a two-time NHL All-Star and has 176 career goals.
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RIVERSIDE (CNS) – A virtual job fair focused on filling hundreds of
caregiver positions throughout Riverside County will be held next week, and
county officials emphasized that no prior experience is needed to apply.
The Department of Public Social Services has, since last year, been
seeking to swell the ranks of In-Home Supportive Services personnel as demand
for IHSS resources accelerates.
The latest recruitment drive will be online Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Up to 1,000 positions need to be filled, according to DPSS.
The agency said that the greatest need at the moment is in the
Coachella Valley, as well as in the communities of Anza, Blythe, Hemet and
Idyllwild.
There are currently about 34,000 IHSS caregivers available to assist
40,000 seniors countywide. Some of the caregivers are related to the residents
who receive services under the IHSS system, which is state-mandated.
The system is focused on assisting the aged, but disabled adults also
qualify. Caregivers render assistance with personal grooming, light
housekeeping, food service and transportation.
“The program is needed more than ever as one in every five of the
county’s 2.5 million residents is age 60 or older — a population projected to
grow by 250% in coming decades,” according to a DPSS statement.
The base wage for an IHSS caregiver is $15.50 an hour, and workers are
entitled to benefits, including flexible work arrangements and sick leave.
Applicants do not need prior experience in caregiving, but they must
pass a background check in order to be hired.
The online job fair Wednesday will be available via
https://app.premiervirtual.com/events/b9d7d021-cdee-4bb2-83cb-4ef2991424a8/ihss-
public-authority-job-fair-april.
More information is also available at https://riversideihss.org/.
Copyright 2022, City News Service, Inc.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Whoa! It's a Double Aho!
Both NHL players named Sebastian Aho — one a defenseman for the New York Islanders, the other a forward for the Carolina Hurricanes — scored goals for their teams Thursday night.
And at nearly the exact same time.
According to Sportsnet Stats, the Islanders' Aho scored his first goal of the season at 7:14 p.m. EDT in New York against Columbus.
Just 34 seconds later — and more than 500 miles away — the Hurricanes' Aho scored his 31st goal in Carolina against Montreal. Both gave their teams 1-0 leads in the first period.
It's not the first time the two have combined on a statistical oddity. In 2018, New York's Aho committed a hooking penalty on Carolina's Aho, causing MSG Networks Islanders play-by-play broadcaster Brendan Burke to exclaim: "A little Sebastian Aho-on-Sebastian Aho crime.”
The two Ahos are not related, by the way. The Islanders' Aho, Sebastian Johannes Aho, is 26 and from Sweden. He has three career NHL goals in limited action.
The Hurricanes' Aho, Sebastian Antero Aho, is 24 and from Finland. He's a two-time NHL All-Star and has 176 career goals.
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BOSTON (AP) — After a 15-year career in which he etched his name on the Stanley Cup and the Vezina Trophy, Tuukka Rask is focusing now on avoiding the rink.
“Don’t even go there. Not yet,” the retired Bruins goalie said Thursday night when asked if his daughters had taken up hockey. “They’re into dance and whatnot. If I have to go and spend my days at hockey rinks, so be it. But not really at the top of my list.”
A two-time All-Star, and the winner of the 2014 Vezina as the NHL’s top goalie, Rask announced his retirement last month after a setback in his attempt to come back from a torn labrum in his hip. The Bruins invited him back to drop the ceremonial first puck before Thursday night’s game against the New Jersey Devils, and again – perhaps for the last time – the chants of “Tuuuuk!” echoed through the TD Garden.
Rask took the ice with his wife, and their three daughters dressed for a ballet class. He bumped fists with the players on the Bruins bench while both teams tapped their sticks on the ice to salute him.
“I don’t know what the future holds,” Rask told reporters beforehand, saying that he would be showing up at games and golf outings as a team ambassador. “Maybe I’ll get into coaching. Maybe not, but for now, I’ll be hanging out with sponsors.”
The franchise’s all-time leader in wins, Rask helped the Bruins allow the fewest goals in the NHL in the pandemic-interrupted 2019-20 season, when Boston finished with the most points in the league. He injured his hip during the 2021 playoffs and worked his way back to the team midway through this season.
But after just four starts, he aggravated his injury on Jan. 24 against the Anaheim Ducks. Two weeks later, he announced he was through.
“It was kind of time to be honest with yourself,” he said. “I just figured it was better for everybody to call it. I had a great career. No regrets.”
While his hip still has some good days, Rask said no one could talk him out of retirement. His immediate future will involve as much golf as he can squeeze in between shuttling his daughters to dance class and school.
He may need a hip replacement at some point.
“It was at a point where it affected my everyday life,” Rask said. “I’m a guy who makes pretty quick decisions, anyway. So I wasn’t dwelling on it too long.”
Rask was 308-165-66 with a 2.28 goals-against average and .921 save percentage in a franchise-leading 564 games. He was the backup goalie for the Bruins team that won it all in 2011, and he led the team to Stanley Cup Final appearances in 2013 and ’19.
Although coaching is not in his plans, Rask said he would be available if Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman wants him.
“I told him right after I retired: Tell me if you need anything,” Rask said. “Just make sure you don’t get too high or too low.”
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More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/sports/article/Bruins-honor-retired-goalie-Rask-after-injury-17049805.php | 2022-04-01T01:26:06Z |
It was 1976 in Three Rivers, Michigan. Judith “Judy” Kovacs-Long, M.A.,LPC, was out celebrating at a bicentennial event.
She turned to her then-husband Bill and pushed her long hair behind her ear to reveal newly-placed jewelry.
“I got my ears pierced, and I am going to graduate school,” she told him.
Both decisions might have been considered bold moves, considering the times.
But she had important work to do. After attending a one-day workshop for women, she knew she wanted to become a counselor, specifically addressing the problems and concerns of women.
She may not have always taken the conventional route, but her trailblazing spirit has taken her on numerous journeys with the same ending —benefitting the community.
Before there were security cameras and when the town was much smaller, a group of PTA moms, including Judy, launched the idea for painting of the blue hoof marks at New Braunfels High School. The group snuck onto campus in the middle of the night to paint the hoof marks — which Judy said are still there — to support the high school football team.
“John Turman was principal at the time and Coach Chuck Engler was there. They knew exactly who had done it,” Judy explained.
She dropped some well-known names as her cohorts, but can one still get in trouble with the principal?
After moving to New Braunfels from Michigan in 1979, Judy taught Hatha yoga in the Community Education program. She joined the campaign committee of Barbara Teigen, helping the city council member get elected as mayor.
She helped form a women’s business networking group in New Braunfels. They called themselves the Uppity Women United. The group was the precursor to the women’s chamber.
Judy’s passion to be a champion for women stemmed from what she saw, and felt, in the 1970s.
“It is so hard for women today to understand how isolated women felt back then,” she explained. “All of my research at that time showed some major depression among women.”
Many families were one-car families and homemakers were isolated at home, Judy explained.
Her journey to becoming a counselor began with a teaching degree.
“My mother saw something during the Great Depression,” Judy explained. “She saw that teachers ate. Her family went hungry. She told me they would send me to school, but I needed to get a teaching degree.”
She began teaching English at the high school where she grew up in Ohio. But when her family moved to Michigan, it was hard to find a job.
“They had too many teachers. I felt betrayed. My mother told me to go into teaching so that I would always have a job,’ she explained.
She went back to school, and after obtaining her master’s degree in counseling from the Western Michigan University, Judy and her family moved to New Braunfels.
“It was the best thing that ever happened to me,” she said.
She worked at the Women’s Center at San Antonio College. She taught assertiveness training, business classes and other skills to women who were recently-divorced, suffered from domestic abuse, starting over, or learning how to live on their own.
She was active in both the Texas Counseling Association and the American Counseling Association. In 1990, the Texas Counseling Association named her Counselor of the Year. She worked in a private practice in New Braunfels and also helped found Hope Hospice in 1983.
“Elisabeth Kuper-Ross had written a book ‘On Death and Dying,’ and it made it okay to talk about death,” explained Judy, whose father had been under hospice care.
When her children Randy and Erin were in school, she volunteered in several school activities. She was involved in the “Just Say No” campaign helping teens dealing with, or avoiding, substance or alcohol abuse and was recognized by former First Lady Nancy Reagan for her work. She helped launch Project Graduation at New Braunfels High School, providing a safe place for seniors to stay all night and participate in games and activities instead of being on the road.
She would go on to serve on one of the early boards of the Comal County Violence Shelter, serve on the Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association, and serve as co-president of the GuadaComa Garden Club. She continued to write workshop training programs for Hope Hospice and other organizations. When her marriage dissolved, she went to work full time before retiring in 2006. At the time of retirement, she was an Associate Professor at San Antonio College and chair of the counseling department.
Judy kept her private practice until the pandemic. She has continued volunteering in the community serving on the Charitable Giving Committee with the Rotary Club of New Braunfels, working at the Sts. Peter and Paul Church Thrift Shop, and singing in the choir at the church.
Judy leads a Good Grief Support Group for anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one from 1:15 to 2:45 p.m. every Thursday at the Westside Community Center.
“Grief is a process. There is a beginning, a middle and an end. Change begins with an ending. We talk about grief and normalize the grief process so that we don’t feel out of step with the rest of the world,” Judy said.
It is part of the reason why she helped Hope Hospice the Remembering the Time of COVID memorial service in May to help the community come together to acknowledge the shared grief caused by the pandemic.
“Our stories are different now. They are changed. It is like the kachina dolls of the Native American tribes. The kachina doll is the keeper of stories. Who we are, how we got here, how we feel. That has all changed,” Judy said.
She knows a thing or two about change and journeys.
“It is all about how we are going to be in this different world, and redefining that journey,” she explained. | https://herald-zeitung.com/community_alert/article_07a36c2e-b143-11ec-ba88-bf8ff2e4b41a.html | 2022-04-01T01:26:06Z |
By DOUG FEINBERG
AP Basketball Writer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Aliyah Boston has dominated women’s college basketball on both ends of the court this season.
The junior forward helped South Carolina go wire-to-wire as the No. 1 team in the country, putting up an SEC-record 27 consecutive double-doubles, and she has helped put the Gamecocks two wins away from the program’s second national championship.
Boston was honored as The Associated Press women’s basketball player of the year on Thursday. She is the second player from South Carolina to be recognized with the award, joining former Gamecocks great A’ja Wilson.
“Not often do you get the complete package. I think this recognition is for what she was able to do on both sides of the ball,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. “The player of the year is usually for offensive-minded people who think that when you put the ball in the hole, you should be bestowed the player of the year. She’s the full package. Every single day.”
Boston received 23 votes from the 30-member national media panel that votes weekly for the AP Top 25. Iowa’s Caitlin Clark received six votes and Baylor’s NaLyssa Smith got one.
Boston averaged 16.8 points, 12 rebounds and 2.6 blocks this year.
“I think Aliyah is so unselfish that she’s not very comfortable taking over basketball games,” Staley said. “She doesn’t want to be seen by her teammates as selfish and chasing numbers.”
Boston’s parents surprised the unanimous first-team AP All-American with the news on Zoom that she had won the award.
“I’m in shock, I got the chills,” Boston said to her parents on the call.
Staley said that Boston is one of the hardest workers on the team.
“Young people will follow anyone, good or bad,” the coach said. “Aliyah has tbe personality where you’d follow her because of how hard she works, how unselfish she is, how giving she is. When it’s time to make plays she delivers. She’s a leader to follow for all the right reasons.”
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More AP coverage of March Madness: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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Fire officials in Montgomery County are trying to help locate a lost dog who was rescued from a burning apartment complex.
Reecy was saved from a three-story fire at the Walker House Apartments in Gaithersburg on Wednesday, March 30, Chief Spokesperson for MCFRS Pete Piringer said on Twitter.
Unfortunately, Reecy got loose from her rescuers and ran away, Piringer said.
Reecy’s owner Terri came forward on Thursday and is asking anyone who sees Reecy to contact her. Terri can be reached at 240-370-7896.
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MADISON (WKOW) -- From longer and hotter heat waves to stronger storm systems — climate change impacts everyone. Madison leaders and clean energy experts want to help lower-income communities fight it.
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway was joined by Wisconsin Housing Preservation and Common Wealth Development Thursday. They're encouraging Wisconsin representatives to push for investments for clean energy for lower-income communities.
"Additionally, low income renters will be the last to benefit from new, energy efficient technology because they do not own their homes, can not make decisions about upgrades... and since the tenant is paying utility bills, the landlord is not incentivized to pay for these improvements," Rob Dicks of Wisconsin Housing Preservation said.
He said low-income housing is usually not up to date with energy efficiency, increasing utility costs. | https://www.wkow.com/news/top-stories/madison-aims-to-weatherize-affordable-housing/article_c9c947bc-b146-11ec-a2c9-27efb2e889f7.html | 2022-04-01T01:26:07Z |
FDA Approves Edwards Lifesciences' Resilia Valve For Mitral Replacement Surgery
- The FDA has approved Edwards Lifesciences Corp's (NYSE: EW) Mitris Resilia valve, a tissue valve replacement specifically designed for the heart's mitral position.
- The Mitris Resilia valve has a saddle-shaped sewing cuff that mimics the asymmetric shape of the native mitral valve.
- It also features a low-profile frame that helps avoid the left ventricular outflow tract obstruction by stent posts and is visible under fluoroscopy to facilitate future transcatheter interventions.
- Related: Edwards Lifesciences Q4 Earnings Fall Short Of Expectations, Reaffirms FY22 Outlook.
- Resilia tissue is bovine pericardial tissue and serves as the platform for Edwards' new class of valves.
- Resilia tissue has been studied in two premarket clinical trials, including the COMMENCE trial in 694 patients enrolled in an aortic arm, and the EU Feasibility trial comprised 133 patients enrolled who were followed for five years.
- Price Action: EW shares are up 1.27% at $118.58 during the market session on the last check Thursday.
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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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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Russell Knox recorded four straight birdies on the back nine and fired a 7-under 65 on Thursday for a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Valero Texas Open.
Knox closed out his round with a seven-foot putt to save par at the par-5 18th at TPC San Antonio, and was one shot ahead of Rasmus Hojgaard.
Hojgaard fired a 66 despite a double bogey on his final hole. Matt Kuchar is another stroke back after an opening 5-under 67 and is among a group that includes Denny McCarthy, Aaron Rei and J.J. Spaun.
Defending champ Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy finished at even-par 72. They were outside the top 60 after one round and could flirt with the cut line on Friday.
Bryson DeChambeau had a 1-over 73. After holing a bunker shot for eagle on his 11th hole and following with a birdie on the next, he made bogey on four of his last six holes.
Knox, a 32-year-old Scotsman with two career PGA Tour wins, started his birdie streak at No. 12. All of his birdie putts were inside 10 feet. At the 15th, he was about 20 feet away from a back pin position following his approach and chipped in from the fringe. It was his second chip-in in the round.
“That was one of those kind of bonus birdies that you need when you’re going to have a good day,” Knox said. “Obviously thrilled with the round. It’s been more of the way I want to play.”
Hogjaard, a 21-year-old from Denmark and two-rime winner on the European Tour, had his sights on the first-round lead heading to his closing hole. But, his drive sailed well left of the fairway. It took him four shots to reach the green on the par-4 ninth.
“I had to chip sideways back into the fairway,” he said. “Just was a little too aggressive after that. Yeah, short-sided myself and I didn’t get up and down and suddenly you walk away with double-bogey. Yeah, that was a bit annoying, but it happens.”
Kuchar was 5 under after 11 holes. Thirty feet away from the pin on the next hole, he failed to get up and down and missed a seven-foot putt for par. He got a shot back with a birdie on his 14th hole, and parred out, falling short in a bid to match his season-best round of 64 at the Sony Open, where he finished in the top 10.
“A lot of good and bad that can happen here on this course,” Kuchar said. “I was kind of managing early on in the round and then found a little something on about the fifth or sixth hole. I started having some birdie chances and converted on a few late in my first nine.”
Kuchar has won nine times on the PGA Tour. McCarthy, Rai and Spaun are looking for their first.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.nhregister.com/sports/article/Knox-uses-4-birdie-run-for-a-one-stroke-lead-at-17049836.php | 2022-04-01T01:26:09Z |
Hong Kong Dance Company Announces Upcoming Lineup of Online Events
Follow the company's Facebook and Instagram, and subscribe and like their YouTube Channel to make sure you don’t miss out on any of these special treats!
Hong Kong Dance Company is presenting the fourth round of online events on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube Channel. Stay tuned to our invigorating online activities that sure will lift everybody's spirits! Exciting happenings include: Lightning Rounds on Ethnic Dance, Stretch It Out! and Ethnic Dance Fun.
Follow the company's Facebook and Instagram, and subscribe and like their YouTube Channel to make sure you don't miss out on any of these special treats!
Please refer to the Chinese version for further details of the programmes.
Learn more at https://www.hkdance.com/whatson.php?id=175&action=details | https://www.broadwayworld.com/hong-kong/article/Hong-Kong-Dance-Company-Announces-Upcoming-Lineup-of-Online-Events-20220331 | 2022-04-01T01:26:09Z |
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The DazeD8 HHC disposable vape pen has an unparalleled uplifting feel and comes in a sleek rechargeable battery that delivers perfect clouds—every single time.
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- Featuring a tightly sealed juice reservoir to prevent any leaking and a powerful battery to ensure you can enjoy every last hit
- No VG, PG, PEG, Vitamin E, MCT, or any other cutting agent
- 2 grams of highly potent HHC distillate
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- Featuring a strong sweet earthy citrus taste
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- A unique cross between California Orange and OG Kush
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- OJ is known for its heavy tingly effects
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- Stress-relieving
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The application period began Thursday for Los Angeles County’s guaranteed income program, which will provide 1,000 randomly selected residents with $1,000 a month for three years.
To qualify for the “Breathe: LA County’s Guaranteed Income Program,” people must be at least 18 years old, have a household income under $56,000 for a single person or $96,000 for a family of four and have experienced negative impacts due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants will receive the money through a debit card, and there are no strings attached or conditions to the income.
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Holly Mitchell formally opened the application period Thursday at a news conference at Community Coalition headquarters.
“The financial uncertainty and varying depths of poverty that millions of our constituents experience day to day cannot be addressed with a one-size-fits-all approach. Now is our opportunity to invest in support that directly reaches our residents,” Mitchell said previously.
“…It’s time that we trust that our residents know how best to meet their needs when given the resources to do so. Across the country, guaranteed income has already proven to reduce poverty, improve the long-term well-being of families, and give residents living on the edge of a fiscal cliff the support to breathe a bit easier.”
Marshall Bell, who waiting in line at Community Coalition Thursday morning to apply for the program, said the money will help him cover his bills.
“The pandemic hit me pretty hard, you know, and it would do some help for me,” Bell told KCAL9. “I am … low income and I don’t have nothing, and I thank God if I can apply for something, it’s good for me.”
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the motion, introduced by Mitchell and Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, to create the program on May 18, 2021. The motion also declared poverty and economic opportunity a public health matter.
“The course of this pandemic has revealed the large number of county residents who are living on the brink of financial crisis, with insufficient savings to weather a job loss, a medical emergency or a major car repair,” Kuehl said.
“This guaranteed income program will help give residents the breathing room they need to better weather those crises. There is ample evidence from guaranteed income projects around the country that financial support, coupled with the freedom to make their own decisions about how best to spend their money, offers families the flexibility they need to establish stability and invest in a more prosperous future for themselves.”
Los Angeles County’s Poverty Alleviation Initiative will oversee the program, and a research team from the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research will randomly select qualified applicants. The team will also study long-term impacts the income has on residents’ economic wellbeing.
“There is so much we still do not know about the power of unconditional cash over a longer period of time. With a three-year pilot, it opens up the possibility for families to set larger goals than we have seen in other experiments and it also gives policymakers a chance to learn how unconditional cash functions alongside other programs over time,” said Dr. Amy Beth Castro of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Guaranteed Income Research.
The pilot program is based on a similar program in Stockton, California, that has been praised for its success. The city of Los Angeles introduced a guaranteed basic income program, called BIG:LEAP, last year.
“Given that we saw reductions in anxiety and depression after just 12 months in Stockton, we are eager to see how families leverage a much longer period of support,” Castro said.
Residents interested in applying can find more information at breathe.lacounty.gov, including a map to help determine whether they live in a qualifying community. Information is also available by calling 213-342-1003.
The deadline for enrollment applications is April 13. Selection will not depend on the timing of entries.
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Heritage Commission Gives OK To Four Certificate Requests
All four requests for certificates of appropriateness were approved March 21 at the Ste. Genevieve Heritage Commission meeting. Cheryl Land was approved for a certificate to construct a wood and welded wire fence in the side and rear yards at 250 Academy. George...
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Moving iMage Technologies, Inc. (NYSEAMERICAN:MITQ – Get Rating) was the target of a significant decline in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 52,700 shares, a decline of 31.6% from the February 28th total of 77,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,130,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.0 days. Currently, 0.7% of the company’s shares are short sold.
Shares of MITQ traded down $0.07 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $1.25. 72,408 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,172,515. Moving iMage Technologies has a 12-month low of $1.03 and a 12-month high of $27.31. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a current ratio of 2.84 and a quick ratio of 2.47.
Moving iMage Technologies (NYSEAMERICAN:MITQ – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 9th. The company reported ($0.04) earnings per share for the quarter. The company had revenue of $3.42 million for the quarter.
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Moving iMage Technologies, Inc, a digital cinema company, designs, manufactures, integrates, installs, and distributes proprietary and custom designed equipment, and other off the shelf cinema products for cinema requirements in the United State, Mexico, and internationally. Its products and services focus on the integration needs associated with the building, modernization, and equipping of motion picture exhibition theatres.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Russell Knox recorded four straight birdies on the back nine and fired a 7-under 65 on Thursday for a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Valero Texas Open.
Knox closed out his round with a seven-foot putt to save par at the par-5 18th at TPC San Antonio, and was one shot ahead of Rasmus Hojgaard.
Hojgaard fired a 66 despite a double bogey on his final hole. Matt Kuchar is another stroke back after an opening 5-under 67 and is among a group that includes Denny McCarthy, Aaron Rei and J.J. Spaun.
Defending champ Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy finished at even-par 72. They were outside the top 60 after one round and could flirt with the cut line on Friday.
Bryson DeChambeau had a 1-over 73. After holing a bunker shot for eagle on his 11th hole and following with a birdie on the next, he made bogey on four of his last six holes.
Knox, a 32-year-old Scotsman with two career PGA Tour wins, started his birdie streak at No. 12. All of his birdie putts were inside 10 feet. At the 15th, he was about 20 feet away from a back pin position following his approach and chipped in from the fringe. It was his second chip-in in the round.
“That was one of those kind of bonus birdies that you need when you’re going to have a good day,” Knox said. “Obviously thrilled with the round. It’s been more of the way I want to play.”
Hogjaard, a 21-year-old from Denmark and two-rime winner on the European Tour, had his sights on the first-round lead heading to his closing hole. But, his drive sailed well left of the fairway. It took him four shots to reach the green on the par-4 ninth.
“I had to chip sideways back into the fairway,” he said. “Just was a little too aggressive after that. Yeah, short-sided myself and I didn’t get up and down and suddenly you walk away with double-bogey. Yeah, that was a bit annoying, but it happens.”
Kuchar was 5 under after 11 holes. Thirty feet away from the pin on the next hole, he failed to get up and down and missed a seven-foot putt for par. He got a shot back with a birdie on his 14th hole, and parred out, falling short in a bid to match his season-best round of 64 at the Sony Open, where he finished in the top 10.
“A lot of good and bad that can happen here on this course,” Kuchar said. “I was kind of managing early on in the round and then found a little something on about the fifth or sixth hole. I started having some birdie chances and converted on a few late in my first nine.”
Kuchar has won nine times on the PGA Tour. McCarthy, Rai and Spaun are looking for their first.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.sheltonherald.com/sports/article/Knox-uses-4-birdie-run-for-a-one-stroke-lead-at-17049836.php | 2022-04-01T01:26:12Z |
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New Braunfels Mayor Rusty Brockman is joining other mayors from across the country in the National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation, presented by the Wyland Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting, protecting, and preserving the world’s ocean, waterways, and marine life.
The challenge asks residents to make a long-term commitment to reducing pollution and managing water resources more wisely.
Brockman said the New Braunfels community has been blessed with abundant water resources for as long as there have been people living here.
“As stewards of the natural resources we enjoy each day, water plays a most significant role in the success and preservation of life as we know it here, from drinking water to water recreation,” Brockman said. “As mayor, I challenge all citizens of New Braunfels and Comal County to participate. Water conservation is so important as we grow and plan for our future. By following conservation measures and taking the pledge to protect the quality of our water, we all are laying a firm foundation for a sustainable future here in our community.”
Participants can win $3,000 toward their home utility payments, water-saving fixtures and hundreds of other prizes. In addition, one lucky charity from a winning city will receive a 2022 Toyota Highlander Hybrid.
The annual mayor’s challenge, which starts Friday and runs through April 30, is a non-profit national community service campaign that encourages leaders to inspire their residents to make a series of simple pledges to use water more efficiently, reduce pollution, and save energy.
A handful of mayors, who were looking for alternative ways to engage their residents more deeply about the water challenges faced in the country, established the program about 10 years ago.
New Braunfels Utilities is also partnering with the city of New Braunfels to encourage everyone in the community to pledge to conserve water during April.
“We are privileged to live here in New Braunfels and enjoy the Comal and Guadalupe rivers,” said Melissa Krause, NBU’s chief strategic communications and security officer. “This Water Conservation Challenge serves as a great reminder that we each have opportunities to be good stewards of these precious natural resources.”
Last year, residents from more than 2,000 cities in all 50 states pledged to reduce their annual freshwater consumption by more than 3 billion gallons and reduce waste sent to landfills by 80 million pounds, preventing hundreds of thousands of pounds of hazardous waste from entering watersheds.
To participate, log on to www.mywaterpledge.com. Residents can then use a new digital tool called My Volunteer Water Project which provides a unique way to participate in hands-on home, community, and workplace projects year-round.
The more projects that residents do throughout the year, the better the chances their city will win the mayor’s challenge in April.
Cities will compete in various population categories. Those with the highest percentage of residents who take the challenge will then be eligible for their residents to win hundreds of eco-friendly prizes.
To participate in the National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation on behalf of New Braunfels, log on to www.mywaterpledge.com.
For more information about the Wyland Foundation, visit www.wylandfoundation.org. | https://herald-zeitung.com/community_alert/article_164f95b2-b144-11ec-a547-6b45e90fa081.html | 2022-04-01T01:26:13Z |
By ROB HARRIS
AP Global Soccer Writer
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A dozen years of defending Qatar’s suitability to host the World Cup can leave Hassan Al-Thawadi exasperated at the enduring glare of scrutiny and the accusatory, rather than celebratory, tone.
At times, Al-Thawadi can seem to be the face — even leader — of this Persian Gulf nation given his prominence. As head of the bid, and now general secretary of the organizing committee, Al-Thawadi has rights groups, protesting football federations and fans worldwide to answer to.
The responses do not always placate those aghast at the suffering of migrant workers whose low-paid labor was relied on to build not only stadiums but also Qatar’s wider infrastructure that is beyond Al-Thawadi’s direct remit.
But it is the changes to working conditions and rights in the nation that Al-Thawadi is trying to accentuate on the eve of the World Cup draw when the finalists discover who and where they will be playing in November.
“Human suffering is a tragedy. Simple as that,” Al-Thawadi said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. “We recognized from day one from before we bid to host the World Cup, that things had to change. This is not something that dawned upon us as a result of the World Cup.”
And yet changes to labor laws were not part of the public Qatar bid. They only came in recent years rather than before construction started on the eight new stadiums required after the 2010 vote once groups, including Amnesty International, applied pressure.
“We knew that this World Cup will be an accelerant,” he said, “and will assist the government in terms of making that change.”
They include the introduction of a minimum wage and the dismantling of the “kafala” sponsorship system binding workers to their employer. Enforcement across Qatar is the challenge, especially as investigators hone in on construction sites away from the eight World Cup stadiums that are complete.
Al-Thawadi sees Qatar as setting the “benchmark” — particularly with more restrictive working practices enduring elsewhere in the Gulf — and pointing to how some of the “most ardent of critics” are now working with them.
“Nobody accepts any sort of suffering, and we are doing our bit to ensure that this doesn’t occur,” he said. “I’m working very diligently and we’re very committed that this progress that has been done over the last 12 years will continue after 2022 and will remain.”
But Al-Thawadi went from the interview to the FIFA Congress where Norwegian football federation president Lise Klaveness called out the freedoms and safety denied to workers and the lack of LGBTQ+ protections in Qatar.
Al-Thawadi was riled, claiming in response that Klaveness had not attempted to contact him. It is a sign of how vexed Al-Thawadi can be having to continue justifying Qatar as the Middle East’s first World Cup host.
“The World Cup is an opportunity for everybody to come and get to understand different people of different backgrounds with different values,” Al-Thawadi said. “We don’t necessarily always … agree on everything … but that in itself has to be respected and accepted.
“What we say is what we’re offering them, providing a safe World Cup, a welcoming World Cup for everybody. And this is the opportunity for everybody to sit down and build relations.”
Al-Thawadi is hoping people will listen, even if the answers or Qatari laws do not satisfy them.
“People are very quick to pass judgment,” he said. “Very quick and very firm in their judgment with that, whether they have the full information or not.”
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Half a dozen students were sickened by drug-laced food at a Pennsylvania middle school, briefly leading to a shelter-in-place order at the school on Thursday, school officials say.
The students ingested the drugs, in the morning and the "staff recognized the situation, and immediately put our emergency plan into place. Our local EMS and police departments arrived at the school shortly thereafter," South Allegheny School District Superintendent Lisa Duval said in a statement.
During the shelter-in-place order, "trained drug detection dogs from the McKeesport Police Department searched the bathrooms, lockers, hallways and common areas of the building and did not find anything suspicious.," Duval said.
"The students who ingested the edibles are either receiving, or have already received, proper medical care," according to the statement.
Additional details about what the drugs were or how the child got access to them were not released.
The shelter-in-place order was left at 11:15 a.m., according to the statement.
The school district ended the statement by saying "Any situation when a student is using drugs is concerning. If you think your child is experimenting with drugs, or has a drug problem please call your child’s guidance counselor or these suggested community resources Auberle: 412-673-5800 Mon Yough Community Services: 412-675-6927."
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BELOIT (WKOW) -- Amaree Goodall, the suspect in the deadly shooting of Jion Broomfield, is now in custody.
At the time of the homicide, Beloit Police Chief Andre Sayles made clear they were having trouble getting witnesses and the community to cooperate in the investigation.
He now credits the community for proving that residents and the police department can come together to keep the city safe.
"This incident shows if the community and the police department work together, we will clean up our city. It will bring these individuals to justice and the families can have peace," said Chief Sayles.
"I appreciate the tip. I thank God for the tipster," said Teresa Jackson, Jion Broomfield's mother.
Jackson expressed her appreciation for the public's help with the arrest of Goodall. She said now she can start her search for peace.
"I'm just grateful. I'm grateful that doesn't take away the pain but it starts the healing process for me," said Jackson.
Chief Sayles said, "Individuals needed to understand that we can only do so much without their assistance. We wouldn't be able to do this."
Broomfield was shot after a basketball game on January 29, 2022, in the front parking lot of Beloit Memorial High School.
Shortly after that homicide, Chief Sayles made a fiery plea for witnesses to come forward, "It is absolutely ridiculous that we have 30 to 40 people who witnessed a young man lose his life and refuse to talk to us. The culture of the no-snitching needs to stop," he said.
Chief Sayles now credits Goodall's arrest to some of those witnesses at that Beloit High basketball game.
"Those individuals that helped us. I can't thank you enough. We continue to look forward to that collaboration," said Chief Sayles.
"I'm just waiting for it to play out in court," said Jackson as she waits for the legal system to take its course. She's left reflecting that two lives are now tragically lost.
"It all started with something so senseless, a Madison versus Beloit basketball game. I just hope justice is served for Jion," said Jackson.
Goodall was arrested in Holland, Michigan, and is waiting to be extradited to Rock County. He's facing a first-degree reckless homicide charge. | https://www.wkow.com/townnews/criminal_law/beloit-police-chief-sayles-credits-tipsters-with-arrest-of-homicide-suspect/article_753307ec-b14b-11ec-84e1-e3531c0b798f.html | 2022-04-01T01:26:13Z |
B&W Partners With Fidelis To Provide Advanced Technologies To Assist In Development Of Green Fuels
- Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (B&W) (NYSE: BW) has partnered with Kiewit Industrial to deliver Fidelis New Energy’s planned net-negative carbon impact biomass power plant at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Deal terms not disclosed.
- The planned facility, called Project Cyclus, will provide power for Fidelis’ state-of-the-art, 73,000-barrel-per-day Grön Fuels facility.
- B&W will provide engineering, design, equipment, and technology services to support biomass-fueled plant development.
- The company’s B&W Renewable business segment will design and supply a 200-megawatt electric, biomass-fueled bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) boiler.
- Price Action: BW shares are trading lower by 0.36% at $8.20 on the last check Thursday.
© 2022 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved. | https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/03/26406707/b-w-partners-with-fidelis-to-provide-advanced-technologies-to-assist-in-development-of-green-fuels | 2022-04-01T01:26:14Z |
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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INGLEWOOD (CNS) – An off-duty Inglewood police officer was wounded in a shooting Thursday near Lennox, and a search was being conducted for a suspect.
Paramedics were sent to an address on Lennox Boulevard around 10:20 a.m. Thursday on a call possibly involving an off-duty officer, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
The off-duty officer was taken by ambulance to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. ABC7 reported the officer was shot in a leg.
Law enforcement officers from various agencies descended on the area, and a manhunt was under way in the 11000 block of Osage Avenue, a few blocks south of Lennox Boulevard.
A representative of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said deputies were assisting the Inglewood Police Department in the investigation. Officers from Gardena and Hawthorne also responded to the scene.
Information was not immediately available from the Inglewood police.
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City Looks Into Old Handicapped Spaces
Several handicapped parking spaces created by the city of Ste. Genevieve for individuals now sit unused, while drivers struggle to find parking spaces. The reason is that these individuals have either died or moved elsewhere, leaving neighbors and new residents stuck with the limited-access parking spots. The subject came...
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Hovering over her paddle board, Jessica Sanders spots something floating just below the surface of the Guadalupe River near Cypress Bend Park. Using the end of her paddle she reaches in and fishes out a water-logged plastic shopping bag — one of several she would find during her cleanup excursion along the river bank.
Over the course of two hours, Sanders, with the help of her 16 year-old son and another volunteer, pulled a deflated inner tube, a lawn chair, a fleece throw blanket and countless empty beer cans from the Guadalupe River.
For the last several months Sanders has taken it upon herself to do something about the trash left behind from those traversing the rivers and clearing out debris in the wake of storms that sweep through the area.
Since 2015 Sanders has been volunteering in river cleanup efforts with groups from San Antonio and San Marcos, but prior to that had already begun unofficially cleaning the local rivers.
“I enjoy the outdoors and I enjoy paddling and you can only sit and look at the trash, and paddle past the trash for so long,” Sanders said. “It prompts you to make the world a little better whenever you see (the trash).”
In late September 2021 Sanders finally made the leap and officially adopted a stretch of the river that begins on the Guadalupe River at the edge of Cypress Bend Park and ends at the confluence.
Every month or so Sanders recruits volunteers through social media to assist her with the cleanup and they take to the river on paddle boards and kayaks visiting the river banks and islands in their path to collect trash.
Sanders and her volunteers have recovered several oddities from the water such as a twin-size mattress, a tricycle, pairs of sunglasses and scads of what she describes as “creepy-looking” dolls.
Once finished Sanders reporters her haul with the city so they can officially document it for their records before she sorts through the contents and properly disposes of it.
In 2021 over 2 tons of trash was retrieved along the banks of the Guadalupe River by the city’s litter services contractor. During the same year 245 pounds of trash was collected from the Comal and Guadalupe rivers through the city’s Adopt-a-Spot program — the same program Sanders is involved in.
“It’s certainly rewarding, but at the same time it’s kind of frustrating,” Sanders said. “No matter how many times you go out there, there’s gonna be more next time, so sometimes it feels like you’re not really putting a dent in it.”
Volunteers make a huge difference on the amount of garbage that Sanders is able to collect during her outings on the river. On some expeditions she has been able to round up five or six volunteers and other times it’s just her and her son.
This past weekend Sanders recruited Ryan Horrell as a first time volunteer for her river cleanup. Horrell moved from California to the New Braunfels area six years ago and while he isn’t native to the area, he feels a deep responsibility to maintain it.
“This is my river now too,” Horrell said.
Gathering volunteers can be a struggle at times, but one of Sanders’ biggest hurdles is gaining access to a private shoot exit where she can park her truck and load the trash she finds from the river.
To find out how you can help Sanders on her mission to keep the Guadalupe River clean, please contact her by email at jsandersfnp@gmail.com. For more information about how you can adopt a river visit https://www.nbtexas.org/2156/Adopt-A-Spot-River-Clean-Up. | https://herald-zeitung.com/community_alert/article_772f4852-b142-11ec-8a23-0b21c0e26add.html | 2022-04-01T01:26:19Z |
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A late burst of selling left stocks broadly lower on Wall Street Thursday, as the market closed out its worst quarter since the pandemic broke out two years ago.
Despite posting a 3.6% gain for March, a dismal January and February left U.S. indexes lower for the year to date. The S&P 500 ended the day 1.6% lower, bringing its loss since the beginning of the year to 4.9%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.6%, while the Nasdaq composite fell 1.5%. Both indexes also notched gains for March, thanks largely to a market rally in the two weeks heading into this week.
Oil prices fell as President Joe Biden ordered the release of up to 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve. The move to pump more oil into the market is part of an effort to control energy prices, which are up nearly 40% globally this year.
Wall Street’s downbeat finish to March comes as investors try to navigate the market risks amid surging inflation, geopolitical instability and uncertainty over how aggressively the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates to quash inflation.
“Yesterday’s weakness and some weakness today may be in response to sentiment that’s a little more cautious given the recent strength in the last two weeks and the ongoing uncertainty related to inflation and earnings,” said Terry Sandven, chief equity strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management.
The S&P 500 fell 72.04 points to 4,530.41. The Dow fell 550.46 points to 34,678.35, and the Nasdaq slid 221.76 points to 14,220.52.
Smaller company stocks also fell. The Russell 2000 index dropped 20.94 points, or 1%, to 2,070.13.
About 85% of stocks in the benchmark S&P 500 fell. Much of the movement seemed like a “consolidation” for investors, said Scott Wren, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
“This is a little give back today just from the big run that we had, but we’re hanging in here pretty well,” Wren said. Major indexes fell on Wednesday to end a four-day winning streak.
Technology and communications stocks were among the biggest weights on the market. Many of the companies in those sectors have pricey stock values that tend to give the broader market a more forceful push either up or down. Chipmaker Intel fell 3.6%, while Facebook parent Meta Platforms slid 2.4%.
Banks also fell along with bond yields, which forces interest rates on loans lower, making lending less profitable for banks. The yield on the 10-year Treasury slipped to 2.34% from 2.36% late Wednesday. Bank of America fell 4.1%.
U.S. crude oil prices fell 7% and Brent, the international standard, fell 4.9%. The pullback slightly trimmed what have been soaring oil prices amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The conflict has elevated concerns that tightened supplies will only worsen persistently rising inflation that threatens businesses and consumers globally.
An inflation gauge that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, marking the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982.
Energy prices have been a key factor in pushing inflation higher and Biden’s plan to release more oil into the system comes as little relief is expected from the oil cartel OPEC. The cartel and its allied oil producers including Russia are sticking to a modest increase in the amount of crude they pump to the world, a step that supports higher prices.
Higher prices for everything from energy to food has been a key concern of central banks globally, which are moving to raise interest rates to help temper the impact. Investors have been trying to measure how the economy and companies will fare amid rising inflation, higher interest rates, the war in Ukraine and other factors. That has made for a rocky start to the year.
Investors received a lukewarm update on the job market on Thursday. More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but layoffs remain at historic lows. Wall Street will get a fuller report on Friday when the Labor Department releases employment data for March.
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Four people were shot— killing two people, including a police officer— during a domestic incident at a central Pennsylvania home, according to Mayor Sherry Capello.
The shooting happened at a home in the 1100 block of Forest Street in Lebanon shortly before 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Mar. 31, emergency dispatchers told Daily Voice.
Police had been called to the home for a domestic incident around 3:36 p.m., Capello said at a press conference on Thursday night.
The 34-year-old white man— who was the suspected shooter—and one officer have died, Capello says.
Two other officers who were shot remain in area hospitals— one is in critical and the other is in stable condition, officials said at the conference.
Pennsylvania state police and Lebanon City police were both on the scene.
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Tyreek Hill returns to Douglas to sign record-breaking contract
DOUGLAS, Ga. (WALB) - Tyreek Hill returned to Douglas Thursday to sign a record-breaking contract with the Miami Dolphins after being traded from the Chiefs.
He is now the highest-paid wide receiver in NFL history. Hill is originally from Pearson but went to high school at Coffee High School.
He spoke to students at Coffee High School after he signed the contract. Hill says he wants them to pursue whatever makes them happy, in athletics or not.
But he also says to enjoy the time while it’s here.
“You guys are going to grow up, you’re going to go into the real world. Try to live every day and be the best student you can be,” he says.
He says one of his biggest regrets was not focusing enough on academics. He told the Coffee County students he almost made it harder than it should have been. Hill hopes to motivate youth in Douglas to set their goals high and to stay committed to the city as he did.
“It’s always good, to give back to the city because I feel like that’s my way of blessing the kids,” Hill says.
Freshman football Coach Tye Bailey says he saw Hill play and saw his growth as a person and a player. He says he uses Hill as an example of what hard work can produce.
“He was one of those guys who put the maroon and white on. He came under the same lights and on the same field house as those guys.”
Hill is set to play 17 games with the Miami Dolphins starting this fall.
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Triumph Secures Contract Extension For 787 Cargo Door Actuation System
- Triumph Group Inc (NYSE: TGI) facility in Clemmons, North Carolina, Actuation Products & Services, has extended a contract with a major European aerostructures provider to supply a Boeing Co (NYSE: BA) 787 Cargo Door Actuation System. Financial terms were not disclosed.
- Designed, integrated, qualified, and manufactured by Triumph, the product line complements a portfolio of cargo door and utility actuation systems used on many transport aircraft.
- Products include actuators, uplocks, pumps, motors, reservoirs, and control valves for commercial and military aircraft.
- Price Action: TGI shares are trading lower by 0.16% at $25.57 on the last check Thursday.
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With the rising popularity of thematic investing, the need for a formalised framework for diversified portfolio allocation within the field has never been greater.
As a play that capitalises on long-term trends tipped for success, thematic investing is inherently forward-looking. The approach is predicated on following key structural shifts - be they economic, social, technological or environmental - and taking their pulse to scout out high-potential players capable of driving change and, of course, generating capital.
The pandemic has struck markets with waves of unanticipated volatility and buoyant inflation, and while some sectors, particularly the service industry, saw catatonic dips, others, such as e-commerce, sustainable investing and medical innovation, faired considerably better. For those shrewd enough to identify and tap into these fields, the payoff was significant.
The popularity of this investment approach can be tracked not only by the rising number of products, but of investors and inflows too. Global AUM of thematic funds tripled to almost $554bn in the three years leading to the end of March 2021, according to IPE. This accounted for 2.1% of all of investors' assets allocated to managed investment funds internationally. As the financial zeitgeist becomes increasingly engaged, it is crucial to evaluate a formalised structural framework for thematic allocation.
As thematics move increasingly into the mainstream, there is a strong investment case to transform their role as satellite assets to a core portfolio allocation. Our research has highlighted the existence of a specifically thematic premium that we define as the residual relative performance after deducting that of the market, sector, geography and currency.
In essence, this residual ‘premium' is the USP of a theme that promises an edge over the market.
Its magnitude varies from theme to theme and according to their maturity. Combining thematic universes with differing risk factors captures the premium and diversifies exposure to systematic risk factors.
Indeed, exposure to a range of investable themes is fundamental to thematic allocation, where possible with performance drivers that run independent of each other. A portfolio composed of predominately, say, digital technology funds will offer little in the way of diversified risk. As the remit of fund offerings in this space grows to encompass more sectors, regions, market capitalisations and risk profiles, so does the scope for sustainable and diversified thematic performance.
Crucially, for the best returns, fund selection must also be judicious, aligning with areas of high-growth potential. Global megatrends are a promising starting point for pinpointing mushrooming themes. UN economists have identified five they believe are ‘shaping our world': climate change; demographic shifts (population ageing in particular); urbanisation; emergence of digital technologies; and increase in inequalities.
From these, it is possible to categorise a string of tangential ‘sub-themes' that can be grouped to visualise isolated, investable segments that will deliver portfolio diversification.
The challenge is then to produce a robust, forward-looking analytical framework on which the allocation of thematic funds can be based, with a three-to-five-year time horizon representing the key period of concern. Current economic conditions must also be taken into account as a final, tactical step to ensure strategic allocation is adapted to reflect the short-term market environment.
Thematic allocation enables us to take an active stance on supporting trends that will push the envelope for the long term. As investors direct capital towards these segments, they involve themselves in the process too.
Noémie Hadjadj-Gomes is head of research and Bastien Drut is chief thematic macro strategist at CPR AM | https://www.investmentweek.co.uk/opinion/4047536/systematic-approach-thematics | 2022-04-01T01:26:20Z |