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Will Smith Reportedly Apologized To Academy Members During ’30 Minute’ Meeting After Slap
As reports surfaced that Will Smith met with senior Academy Members, the Oscars producer says LAPD were ready to arrest the actor.
Will Smith has reportedly apologized to The Oscars for slapping Chris Rock. The apology happened during 30 minute Zoom call with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences earlier this week, CNN tweeted, adding that the Academy also “heard him out.” The organization responded by saying his “actions would have consequences.” HollywoodLife has reached out to The Academy for comment.
2/2) Will Smith met with the Academy members “for 30 minutes via Zoom where he apologized and they heard him out,” the source said tells @Chloe_Melas.
“They told him his actions would have consequences,” the source continued.— Elizabeth Joseph (@ElizabethCNN) March 31, 2022
The producer of the Oscars, Will Packer, has also spoken out — saying that the Los Angeles Police Department was ready to arrest Smith after the unexpected incident. “[Police] said, ‘We will go get him, we are prepared. We can go get him right now…you can press charges, we can arrest him,’ — they were laying out the options,” Packer said in a preview clip in his Good Morning America interview, set to air on Friday, April 1.
“As they were talking, Chris was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, ‘I’m fine’, saying ‘no, no, no’…I said Rock, let them finish,” Packer explained. “They said, ‘would you like us to take any action?’ and [Rock] said ‘no.” Packer also said that he did not speak to Will directly during the Broadcast, as some reports previously indicated.
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Whether or not Smith was asked to leave after the slap — which happened after Rock made an inappropriate joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith‘s bald head, which is as a result of alopecia — remains unclear. The Academy stated on March 30th that they did ask Smith to leave, with reports saying that the request came from Academy President David Rubin and Academy CEO Dawn Hudson. Conflicting reports emerged on March 31, however, that Will was not asked to leave directly — but rather, a heated conversation took place backstage with his representatives.
Will was, of course, nominated that evening for his role in King Richard, winning the trophy for Best Actor. He apologized during his emotionally charged speech, following up with a statement to his Instagram page. “Violence in all of its forms is poisonous and destructive. My behavior at last night’s Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable. Jokes at my expense are a part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s medical condition was too much for me to bear and I reacted emotionally,” he wrote the day after the Oscars.
“I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris. I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness,” he also said. “I would also like to apologize to the Academy, the producers of the show, all the attendees and everyone watching around the world. I would like to apologize to the Williams Family and my King Richard Family. I deeply regret that my behavior has stained what has been an otherwise gorgeous journey for all of us.”
Chris Rock briefly addressed the incident during his first stand-up show back, which took place in Boston on March 30. He told the audience he was “still processing” what happened on-stage. “I don’t have a bunch of s— about what happened,” he said her audio from Variety. “I had like a whole show I wrote before this weekend. I’m still kinda processing what happened. So at some point, I’ll talk about that s–. So I’m gonna tell some jokes It’s nice to be out.” | https://hollywoodlife.com/2022/03/31/will-smith-meeting-the-academy-apology-chris-rock-slap/ | 2022-04-01T01:31:30Z |
Seat belts save lives – that isn't arguable at this point. But what if the driver and passengers weren't wearing one during an accident? That's the blunder that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) aims to fix with its first seat belt reminder evaluations.
And as it turns out, only two SUVs/crossovers in the US earned a "Good" rating from the agency – both from the same automaker.
Out of all the 26 vehicles tested, only the 2022 Subaru Ascent and 2021-22 Forester got "Good" ratings from the new ratings program from the IIHS.
Gallery: 2022 Subaru Ascent Onyx Edition
Meanwhile, the 2022 Hyundai Palisade and Tucson, along with the 2021-22 Nissan Murano, 2022 Pathfinder, and 2021-22 Rogue, all get "Acceptable" ratings. The rest of the vehicles tested got "Marginal" and "Poor" ratings from the IIHS.
Notably, all of the vehicles evaluated fulfilled the IIHS criteria for the pitch or audio frequency of the audible alarm, although a number of other concerns detracted from their overall score.
To get a good rating, the audible alarm must be loud enough to be heard over the background noise in the car's cabin, among other requirements. The visual and aural reminders must persist for at least 90 seconds if the seat belt of an occupied front-row seat remains unbuckled. The reminders must continue for at least 30 seconds if a previously fastened second-row belt is unbuckled. For the second row, a visual signal that appears when the driver starts the car is also required.
Vehicles that meet all of the front-row requirements but fall short of one or more of the second-row requirements receive an Acceptable rating. Vehicles that fail to meet any or all of the front row requirements but have an auditory alert for both the driver and front-seat passenger that lasts eight seconds or longer receive a Marginal rating. Vehicles with shorter-than-eight-second reminders receive a Poor rating, regardless of whether they match any of the other criteria.
"Most of these problems don’t require new hardware," says IIHS Senior Test Coordinator Sean O'Malley, who conducted the evaluations. "Even among the vehicles that earn Poor ratings, it's possible that simply lengthening the duration of the audible alert could do the trick."
Source: IIHS | https://www.motor1.com/news/577180/iihs-seat-belt-reminder-evaluations/ | 2022-04-01T01:31:30Z |
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.
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“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.
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HARLEM VALLEY — Thursday, March 17, might have begun as an ordinary enough workday at the Ancram Town Hall, but by 11:08 a.m. it quickly turned into the unusual. That’s when a man dressed in dark jeans, with a black hoodie pulled over his head and a black mask hiding his...
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First lawsuit filed over Florida law restricting certain LGBTQ topics in the classroom
Two LGBTQ rights advocacy groups, as well as students, parents and a teacher in Florida, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday, challenging the state's new law banning certain instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom.
It's the first legal challenge seeking to block implementation and enforcement of the law, which Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed on Monday. The controversial law, dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by its opponents, is set to take effect in July.
DeSantis told reporters Thursday that he will defend the law "vigorously."
The lawsuit calls the Florida law an "unlawful attempt to stigmatize, silence and erase LGBTQ people in Florida's public schools."
"It seeks to do so by imposing a sweeping, vague ban covering any instruction on 'sexual orientation and gender identity,' and by constructing a diffuse enforcement scheme designed to maximize the chilling effect of this prohibition," the complaint reads.
According to the new "Parental Rights in Education" law in Florida, "classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards."
Parents would be able to bring civil suits against a school district for any potential rule violation, under the new law.
During the bill signing Monday, DeSantis said that Florida recognizes that "parents have a fundamental role in the education, health care and well-being of their children."
The plaintiffs in Thursday's lawsuit include Equality Florida, an LGBTQ advocacy organization; Family Equality, a New York-based nonprofit; a 17-year-old sophomore in Palmetto, Florida, who identifies as gay; an 18-year-old senior in Osprey, Florida, who identifies as gay; the parent of a transgender fifth-grader in Florida; three same-sex couples living in Florida with young children; and a middle-school public teacher in Grand Ridge, Florida. The complaint was filed by Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
The plaintiffs say the new law violates the First and 14th Amendments, and Title IX protections.
"This effort to control young minds through state censorship -- and to demean LGBTQ lives by denying their reality -- is a grave abuse of power. The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that LGBTQ people and families are at home in our constitutional order. The State of Florida has no right to declare them outcasts, or to treat their allies as outlaws, by punishing schools where someone dares to affirm their identity and dignity," according to the complaint.
Weighing in on the lawsuit Thursday, DeSantis said he doesn't think that "any of the legal claims have merit."
"These are policy decisions. I don't think it's anything that's invoking First Amendment because schools, states and localities have the ability to set curriculum in public schools. We do that all the time. This is not new," he said, also arguing that the law "does not regulate student speech."
DeSantis' communications director Taryn Fenske told CNN in a statement that "this calculated, politically motivated, virtue-signaling lawsuit is meritless, and we will defend the legality of parents to protect their young children from sexual content in Florida public schools."
Proponents of the new law say it gives parents more oversight over what their children learn and discuss at school and argue that LGBTQ-related topics should be left for families to discuss in private. Opponents say the law will negatively affect an already marginalized community and also argue it would open educators up to an endless barrage of litigation. | https://www.wmur.com/article/first-lawsuit-florida-law-lgbtq-topics-classroom/39600782 | 2022-04-01T01:31:32Z |
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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Murata announced the expansion of its PQ line which is comprised of open frame AC/DC converters. The PQU1000 series was designed for industrial and medical applications requiring a high level of safety. The line meets IEC62368-1 and EN60601-1 third edition standards for industrial and healthcare applications. Given that, it is suitable for Body Floating (BF) applications and complies with 2 x MOPP (IN/OUT) and 1 x MOPP (OUT/FG) safety requirements. The series’ layout is optimized for free-air convection cooling making it ideal for use in equipment being operated in low noise environments.
Additionally, the extremely compact PQU line delivers high efficiency at 95 percent meaning an overall reduction in heat wastage and an overall system reduce energy consumption. Its compact design enables convection cooling at 800W or 1000W with forced air-cooled up to 50°C. With convection cooling up to 800W, it also allows for no fan applications up to 45°C without derating. Further, the Power Management Bus (PMBus) protocol allows for improved communication with the power supply unit.
Through a proprietary combination of leading-edge design topology incorporating LLC power transfer technique and digital control and communication, we evolved our proven PQ Series to meet the demands of the medical and industrial markets. The end result is a miniaturized converter line that delivers some of the highest performance and efficiency available in the industry.
Specific target markets for the PQU1000 series include 3D printing, factory automation, test and measurement, displays, broadcast, Power over Ethernet (PoE), and healthcare applications such as hospital bed sensing, ventilators, and blood analysis equipment. | https://www.eeworldonline.com/miniaturized-open-frame-power-supplies-optimized-for-medical-and-industrial-apps/ | 2022-04-01T01:31:35Z |
The United States Department of Agriculture released an update to its Food Price Outlook for 2022 and found that nearly everything one might ingest – whether it comes from the grocery store or restaurant – is going up in price.
And yes, that's on top of the price increases consumers have already been forced to endure in the last year.
"All food prices are now predicted to increase between 4.5 and 5.5%," the USDA's Economic Research Service explained in the March report.
While the overall increase is alarming, a closer look at various food categories show just how expensive shoppers can expect items to get, according to the USDA:
As for take-out or dine-in menus, the USDA said those prices are predicted to go up between 5.5 and 6.5% for the remainder of this year.
Additionally, food prices climbed 7.9% for the year ending in February 2022.
This was "the largest 12-month advance since July 1981," according to the department.
The report also noted current global events that will only add to the uncertainty of food affordability, saying, "The impacts of the conflict in Ukraine and the recent increases in interest rates by the Federal Reserve are expected to put upward and downward pressures on food prices, respectively. The situations will be closely monitored to assess the net impacts of these concurrent events on food prices as they unfold."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wvxu.org/news-from-npr/2022-03-31/food-prices-are-going-up-and-at-levels-americans-havent-seen-in-decades | 2022-04-01T01:31:35Z |
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Honda and Acura have simultaneously announced the expansion of their Certified Pre-Owned programs. For this year, the Japanese marques are now offering certified used vehicles up to 10 years old.
Of note, Acura is the first luxury automaker to offer this, while Honda wants to strengthen its stand as America's second best-selling Certified Pre-Owned vehicle brand in 2021.
HondaTrue Used covers Honda vehicles up to 10 years old without any mileage limit. Available at Honda dealerships, all Certified Pre-Owned vehicles receive thorough background and quality checks that address any maintenance needs. A downloadable checklist is also available, detailing the comprehensive 112-point inspection performed by a certified Honda technician.
Likewise, Acura Precision Used offers the same guarantee for its premium vehicles up to 10 years old, with no mileage limit. It's an upgrade to the previous Acura Precision Certified, which only covers vehicles up to 6 years old or 80,000 miles on the clock.
HondaTrue Used coverage includes a 100-day/5,000-mile limited warranty (powertrain and non-powertrain coverage), complimentary oil change, up to 12 months or 12,000 miles of emergency roadside assistance, trip-interruption expense reimbursement, and concierge services, plus a complimentary three-month trial of SiriusXM and 3-day/300-mile exchange policy.
Acura Precision Used offers the same services but with a longer limited warranty of up to 6 months or 7,500 miles.
The used cars market has seen an increase in demand over the past few years, prompting the automakers to expand their offerings. The inventory for used cars ran low recently due to this increase in demand for quality pre-owned vehicles.
Even GM has started offering a used car shopping service called CarBravo back in January, selling an expansive inventory that included non-GM vehicles.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops handed control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant back to the Ukrainians and left the heavily contaminated site early Friday, more than a month after taking it over, Ukrainian authorities said, as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts.
Ukraine's state power company, Energoatom, said the pullout at Chernobyl came after soldiers received “significant doses" of radiation from digging trenches in the forest in the exclusion zone around the closed plant. But there was no independent confirmation of that.
The withdrawal took place amid growing indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation in Ukraine as cover while regrouping, resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in the eastern part of the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian withdrawals from the north and center of the country were just a military tactic and that the forces are building up for new powerful attacks in the southeast.
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“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. But Russian forces blocked 45 of the buses, and only 631 people were able to get out of the city in private cars, according to the Ukrainian government.
Twelve Ukrainian trucks were able to deliver humanitarian supplies to Mariupol, but they were all seized by Russian troops, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said late Thursday.
A new round of talks was scheduled for Friday, five weeks into the war that has left thousands dead and driven 4 million Ukrainians from the country.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said it had been informed by Ukraine that the Russian forces at the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster had transferred control of it in writing to the Ukrainians.
The last Russian troops left the Chernobyl plant early Friday, the Ukrainian government agency responsible for the exclusion zone said.
Energoatom gave no details on the condition of the soldiers it said were exposed to radiation and did not say how many were affected. There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin, and the IAEA said it had not been able to confirm the reports of Russian troops receiving high doses. It said it was seeking more information.
Russian forces seized the Chernobyl site in the opening stages of the Feb. 24 invasion, raising fears that they would cause damage or disruption that could spread radiation. The workforce at the site oversees the safe storage of spent fuel rods and the concrete-entombed ruins of the reactor that exploded in 1986.
Edwin Lyman, a nuclear expert with the U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists, said it “seems unlikely" a large number of troops would develop severe radiation illness, but it was impossible to know for sure without more details.
He said contaminated material was probably buried or covered with new topsoil during the cleanup of Chernobyl, and some soldiers may have been exposed to a “hot spot” of radiation while digging. Others may have assumed they were at risk too, he said.
Early this week, the Russians said they would significantly scale back military operations in areas around Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv to increase trust between the two sides and help negotiations along.
But in the Kyiv suburbs, regional governor Oleksandr Palviuk said on social media Thursday that Russian forces shelled Irpin and Makariv and that there were battles around Hostomel. Pavliuk said there were Ukrainian counterattacks and some Russian withdrawals around the suburb of Brovary to the east.
Chernihiv came under attack as well. At least one person was killed and four were wounded in the Russian shelling of a humanitarian convoy of buses sent to Chernihiv to evacuate residents cut off from food, water and other supplies, said Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmyla Denisova
Ukraine also reported Russian artillery barrages in and around the northeastern city of Kharkiv.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said intelligence indicates Russia is not scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead trying to regroup, resupply its forces and reinforce its offensive in the Donbas.
“Russia has repeatedly lied about its intentions,” Stoltenberg said. At the same time, he said, pressure is being kept up on Kyiv and other cities, and “we can expect additional offensive actions bringing even more suffering.”
The Donbas is the predominantly Russian-speaking industrial region where Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014. In the past few days, the Kremlin, in a seeming shift in its war aims, said that its “main goal” now is gaining control of the Donbas, which consists of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including Mariupol.
The top rebel leader in Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, issued an order to set up a rival city government for Mariupol, according to Russian state news agencies, in a sign of Russian intent to hold and administer the city.
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.”
Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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1News Reporter Jordan Oppert survived 50 days in wintry China, reporting on the Olympics and Paralympics under the state's watchful eye.
Covering the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in China for six weeks, you have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
There's nothing like leaving a muggy, 25C Auckland and arriving in Beijing's Zhangjiakou mountains at a frosty -17C. Little did we know that would soon feel tropical.
Standing at the bottom of the freeski halfpipe, waiting for Nico and Miguel Porteous to drop in for the final runs it was -36C with wind chill. I had five layers on my top half and three on the bottom and still I was numb. My hair, eyebrows and eyelashes had formed icicles.
In temperatures like that it's hard to function, let alone think - which makes what our snow sport athletes do even more admirable. Add in the altitude and I don't think I made much sense that morning.
That afternoon, we arrived back at our accommodation - I took my gloves off to see that my fingernails had gone a deep blue/purple near my cuticles - the beginning of frostbite. Not ideal, especially when you've got a 10-minute time limit on your showers!
An icy welcome
But while the climate is one thing, China's Covid and security protocols were another.
On arrival we were 'welcomed' by swarms of volunteers who had come together from right across the country to help roll out an effective, efficient and safe Games. I say 'welcomed' because while the people were friendly, it was far from welcoming.
The volunteers were kitted out in full PPE from head to toe - all you saw was their eyes through thick plastic goggles. We were ushered through the Beijing Capital Airport, completing the 10-step health declaration as we went - including a nasal swab PCR test.
Given China is a communist country, we were prepared for the regimented procedures that would come with it. What we weren't prepared for was a massive reality check within the first 30 minutes of landing.
Camera operator Nayte Mataia-Davidson needed to get his gear signed off. Usually this should take no more than five minutes, but 20 minutes later he was still stuck. Fortunately, an Australian camera operator came to his rescue - taking one look at his paperwork and pointing to 'Taiwan'. The officers gave Nayte a pen and watched him cross it out.
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From the moment we stepped foot in China we got the feeling we were being watched - confirmed when we struggled to find a live cross location that didn't have multiple surveillance cameras staring at us. In some cases, like at the hotel, they would follow our movements. That's on top of police officers guarding all entry and exit points, marching the perimeters of the hotels.
Being inside what China called a 'closed loop' meant we could only use provided transport - Games buses and taxis, and the special 'Winter Express' bullet train. You could not walk anywhere, despite some venues/facilities literally being just a kilometre apart. The Zhangjiakou Press Centre, where we were most days, was only 600m from our hotel.
The closed loop also meant we never came into contact with the general public, nor could we see much of China. Big fences and walls lined the transport corridors and we struggled to see over them.
Even in the dining hall/restaurants we were separated from everyone else - including those in our own bubble - through thick plastic Perspex shields.
And there's something to be said for the amount of hand sanitiser that had to be used. There was gallons of it, and it was potent - strong enough to clear your nostrils and dry your hands out to the point they started peeling. I can smell the sanitiser right now just thinking about it!
The irony is I survived 50 days of tight Covid restrictions and daily swabs only to test positive within a week of being back on home soil.
Big Brother, China-style
Everywhere we went, our Olympic/Paralympic identification lanyard had to be visible. It also paid to have our passports handy in case we needed to prove our identity. If we chose to take an official Games taxi we'd often be stopped at checkpoints, escorted by police inside to be verified through a facial recognition system, before getting back into our car.
Other times our driver would be forced to pull over while we all put our accreditation up to the window to be checked over by police. Depending on our daily schedule, we'd be doing this three or four times a day - in addition to scanning in and out of each venue and the hotel.
Step outside the closed loop? Twenty-one days in isolation. Seen without a mask? Twenty-one days in isolation. Miss a daily test or health monitoring? Twenty-one days in isolation. The only excuses were when you were in private, eating, drinking or sleeping.
You know when you're driving along going the correct speed, seatbelt on, and a police car follows behind you? And you know you're doing absolutely nothing wrong, but you still panic? That's how it felt covering the Games in China.
And the authorities were not afraid to pull people up. We saw firsthand journalists get locked out of their rooms, one can only assume due to their coverage.
The Olympic and Paralympic Games are political at the best of times, but these Games were unprecedented. At the opening ceremony a Chinese Uighur Muslim was a torchbearer, while President Xi Jinping watched on, perched up beside Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Three weeks later Russia invaded Ukraine and the International Paralympic Committee banned Russian and Belarussian athletes, just 24 hours after announcing they'd be able to compete neutrally. It came after major backlash from world leaders and other athletes - many who'd threatened a boycott.
As unsettling as this was, it also showed the power of sport. The Ukranian contingent made it safely to China, dominated the medal charts and used their platforms to make their voices heard. Athletes from all around echoed their sentiments - standing on daises and publicly saying 'no' to war. It was moving to be on the finish line of the biathlon course and watch the Ukrainian para-athletes ski their way to victory day in, day out - despite the worsening situation back home.
In the shadow of war
As a journalist, it felt like a vulnerable time to be in China. Geographically, we were very close to Russia. But I also felt close to the situation.
Between the two Games I became friends with a lovely Polish journalist. Each time I saw her, whether it was for a coffee or just passing through the lobby, I could sense she was becoming increasingly uncomfortable and unsettled with the situation unfolding in Ukraine. She feared what could happen to Poland, which was accepting millions of refugees, or if her husband, brothers and father could soon be joining the war - but also that China might intervene once the Games were over.
Then there was a Norwegian journalist who we got to know quite well on our daily five-hour return bus to Yanqing. By the end of the campaign, she too was worried given Norway had publicly come out saying they'd support Ukraine 'till the end'. It felt as though we were in a bubble that could pop at any time.
For me, it was important to remember though, this is China. They do restrictions, they do rules, and they go all-out - and it worked. Very few Covid cases slipped through, most caught at the airport on arrival.
And they managed to put on a Winter Games in a place that might be cold but produces very little natural snow - the bulk of it was artificial. No pennies were spared on the ceremonies or the venues.
The Chinese people were hospitable, and you cannot fault the volunteers - many of them who stood there for 12 hours a day in freezing conditions to help us get from A to B, all with a smile on their face. It's for that reason I've forgiven those who wrongly pointed out the Great Wall to us on multiple occasions, just so it made us feel like we'd experienced part of their homeland! (I have since found out they were told to lie to us).
Bringing home medals - and memories
The truth is this gig was tough, brutally tough, but equally rewarding. It was my first time covering the Olympics or Paralympics and I got to cover history both on the slopes and off it - from restrictions to results, as cliché as this is, it was a Games like no other.
I will never forget Zoi Sadowski-Synnott claiming New Zealand's first Olympic gold in the snowboard slopestyle; Finn Bilous' reaction to finding out he'll be a flagbearer for the first time; both Porteous brothers making the halfpipe final and Miguel being there waiting for Nico at the bottom of the slope when he knew his little bro had won gold; Adam Hall, fresh off his own run standing at the bottom of the downhill course, cheering Corey Peters to Paralympic gold; or seeing a number of our athletes make their debuts on the world's biggest stage after years of hard graft.
I believe each and every one of our Kiwi snow sports athletes embody everything the Olympics and Paralympics are about - inspiration, integrity, passion, purpose, resilience, respect and courage, as well as pure, unwavering talent.
And at the end of the day, all the challenges aside, those are the memories I'll remember and cherish forever. | https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/31/behind-the-wall-reporting-from-china-brutal-but-rewarding/ | 2022-04-01T01:31:36Z |
Turning Back the Pages
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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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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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The House of Representatives voted Thursday to approve legislation that would limit cost-sharing for insulin under private health insurance and Medicare. The vote was 232-193, with 12 Republican members joining their Democratic colleagues to pass the measure.
The Affordable Insulin Now Act would cap insulin prices at either $35 a month or 25% of an insurance plan's negotiated price — whichever is lower. The legislation aims to take effect in 2023 but its fate in the Senate remains unclear.
"This is a kitchen table issue, "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said to reporters ahead of the bill's passage on Thursday.
"One in four Americans is forced to skip or ration doses of insulin and that's life-threatening," she said, noting the legislation "paves the way" for further action on negotiating lower drug prices beyond insulin.
Advocates of the legislation point to data from the Health Care Cost Institute, an independent nonprofit that studies health care prices, which shows prices for insulin doubled between 2012 and 2016.
"No one should have to choose between taking their medication as prescribed and putting food on the table or a roof over their head," said Rep. Dan Kildee, one of three Democratic lawmakers who sponsored the legislation.
"As a father of a type 1 diabetic, I have seen firsthand how the high price of prescription drugs like insulin can harm patients and harm families," the Michigan Democrat said during debate on the House floor. "When my daughter turned 26 and got her own health insurance, there were months where she spent a third of her take home pay because she's diabetic on staying alive."
Critics of the bill argue the cap alone doesn't do enough to solve the underlying problem of rising prescription drug prices.
"We want lower prices for drugs, particularly for insulin," said Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga, during debate. "But instead of fixing a broken system, this bill aims to control it," he adding, calling the bill a "socialist plan."
House Democrats passed legislation in November as part of a broader spending package that would have enabled Medicare to negotiate lower prices for various prescription drugs.
Because that package remains stalled in the Senate, Democrats are working to more narrowly tackle making common drugs like insulin more affordable.
There is a similar bipartisan effort under way in the Senate but its path is unclear as Republicans have traditionally been opposed to price caps.
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The guy who went to a party at the Oscars shindig over the weekend knew him as…Joey Lawrence?
in Pine, Wednesday Appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Kimmel recalled that when the party-goer mistook him for a “Blossom” actor and musician, he eventually told her and told him that he was actually Chris Evans, who played Captain America in several Marvel movies. .
This is hardly the first time that Paine has been called by another male figure, he said.
“I’ve got Ryan Reynolds, [Chris] Pratt, [Chris] Hemsworth, Matt Damon,” Pine said in her bid for “best dressed Chris” in blush, embroidered button-downs, striped maroon-and-white pants and smoking slippers.
When Pine finally told the party patron that he was Captain America (again, not true, Pine called the “Star…
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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.
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"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.wmur.com/article/oscars-producer-police-offered-arrest-will-smith/39603725 | 2022-04-01T01:31:42Z |
LFP (lithium iron phosphate) batteries don’t have quite the energy density of batteries that use cobalt and nickel, but they do have one distinct advantage — the raw materials needed to manufacture them are abundant, inexpensive, and available in almost every country in the world. As a result, they tend to be less expensive as well. Today, nickel prices have spiked to insane new heights, further highlighting the cost differential between LFP and conventional batteries. Higher nickel prices have already led automakers to raise the sale price of many EVs that are currently on the market.
Nothing could be clearer from the war crimes perpetrated by Russia in Ukraine than a shift away from resources controlled by lunatics and tyrants is essential to national security for the US, Europe, and most of the rest of the world. No one can afford to depend on labor or resources that may become unavailable due to armed conflicts or political constraints. (Almost no one remembers when countries in South America nationalized US oil companies, and the OPEC oil embargo is just a distant memory for most people alive today. How easily we forget when there’s money to be made!)
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Chinese news source Gasgoo reports that Gotion High Tech plans to start production of an LFP battery with an energy density of 230 Wh/kg before the end of this year. It already has similar batteries with an energy density of 210 Wh/kg in production. By comparison, the energy density of today’s cells that use cobalt and nickel is around 250 to 270 Wh/kg. “At that moment, ternary lithium batteries will be replaced by LFP ones on a larger scale in Gotion,” Li Zhen, Gotion CEO, told the China EV100 Forum 2022 this week.
Nevertheless, Gotion is continuing to invest in new ternary battery technologies that use reduced amounts of nickel and cobalt. It expects to bring production of a semi-solid-state battery with an energy density of 360 Wh/kg in the near future. Volkswagen is working closely with Gotion and stands to be the beneficiary of its battery research and development efforts.
Meanwhile, PushEVs reports that SVolt has reached the 200 Wh/kg benchmark with its own LFP batteries and expects to reach 230 Wh/kg by sometime next year. While NCM will still be used in some cases where high energy density is crucial, such as luxury electric sport cars, the cobalt-free battery technologies NMx (LNMO) and LFP (LiFePO4) are expected to power most mainstream electric cars, the publication says.
The Takeaway
One could draw an analogy to the world of combustion engines. Some people may feel they need — and are willing to pay for — humongous 6- or 7-liter V-8 engines, but the mainstream engine of choice for many manufacturers today is a turbocharged 2-liter unit that powers everything from passenger vehicles to midsize SUVs and even some pickup trucks. NMC may be the equivalent of those big V-8s, but LFP will be the workhorse of the EV revolution, at least until sodium ion batteries become available in a few years.
Nickel will soon go the way of the tetraethyl lead that once was used to boost the octane rating of gasoline. Continued high prices for nickel will see to that. | https://cleantechnica.com/2022/03/31/lfp-battery-news-is-the-end-of-nickel-in-sight/ | 2022-04-01T01:31:43Z |
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.
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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.
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Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni says the benefit increases will outweigh the cost of living crisis.
A range of payment changes come into force from April 1, including benefit increases and the halving of public transport fares for three months.
The minimum wage has also increased from $20 to $21.20 per hour, meaning Kiwis working 40 hours will see an extra $48 per week or $2500 per year.
Benefit and other payment increases also come into force from Friday, including a boost for Working for Families payments, with the Government estimating the incomes for 346,000 families will increase by an average of $20 per week.
However, there’s concerns the increases don’t go far enough to offset rising inflation.
The Consumer Price Index, which measures the average person’s cost of living, increased by 5.9% in the year to December, and is expected to rise in the coming months.
READ MORE: Will the Government's April 1 changes give you more cash?
Sepuloni acknowledged on Breakfast that there are “still whānau living in hardship”.
She said while the steps taken by the Government to change this are "significant", there is "more to do" and they are "committed to doing that".
However, she said their focus "from day one" has been "lifting children out of poverty and we’ve seen results there".
She said 66,000 children have been lifted out of poverty on the after-housing cost measure, with an estimated 33,000 others to follow with the benefit increases.
"That’s progress. There are still families living in hardship, though, and no one likes to see that."
READ MORE: Inflation hits 5.9%, biggest movement since 1990
Sepuloni said Kiwis have to remember it's "not just about income", adding that there are "a whole lot of things around that", including access to transport, food in schools, public housing, and affordable healthcare.
"There are so many places that we as a Government need to be investing and we are … but as we always say, there’s still more to do."
The Child Poverty Action Group criticised the Government’s raft of changes as "little more than an overdue inflation catch-up and substantive payments are needed to unlock all families from the constraints of poverty".
Sepuloni said while there is another Working for Families review currently underway to provide "insights and recommendations for what our next steps should be", the Government "shifted ahead" to provide families with an "extra, on average, $20 a week for over 350,000 whānau".
"That’s on top of the many other changes; it’s not one change or one policy or one action that will make the difference."
Weekly benefit rates have also been lifted from $32 to $44 per adult per week.
However, there’s concerns the increase does not go far enough to offset the sharp increase in living costs seen in the past six months.
"We have to look at the inflation increase, which is 5.9%, I think, over the 12-month period, but the benefit increases from April to April are around 13 to 30% so they do outweigh the inflationary increases that we’re seeing.
"It’s not about one action – it’s about making sure that we’ve got the breadth of actions that actually make a meaningful difference in the lives of our whānau who are on the lowest incomes and I think that we’ve got the mix right but we’re always looking at what else we can do."
She stressed the importance when making changes that the Government is "not tinkering too much".
"Otherwise, you can get into a space where you make it even more complicated for whānau, there can be interactions that haven’t been thought through and so you give on one hand and whānau lose on the other.
"This has to be much more comprehensive than just continuing to go 'we’ll shift this, and then the next day, we’ll shift this' ... We’ve got to actually look at the whole system."
CPAG said of the welfare expert advisory group’s 42 key recommendations, which came out in 2019, none been fully addressed or implemented.
However, Sepuloni rejected the group’s criticisms, saying that "very few" of the advisory group’s recommendations are "tick box recommendations whereby you can just achieve this and it’s done".
"It’s an ongoing process in prioritising of the recommendations that are in there with regards to those informing the actions that we take.
"I do refute the fact that we haven’t done anything and I’m absolutely – along with the rest of the Government – focused on making sure that we continue the welfare overhaul that we started." | https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/31/benefit-increases-outweigh-inflation-woes-carmel-sepuloni/ | 2022-04-01T01:31:43Z |
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Dupuytren disease (DD) is a progressive fibrous proliferative disease. It invades the palmar aponeurosis and extends to the finger fascia, eventually leading to flexion contracture of the metacarpophalangeal or interphalangeal joint. At present, surgical resection and the local injection of collagenase are the main methods for the treatment of DD, but postoperative complications and high recurrence rates often occur. Bioinformatics analysis showed that the increased expression of SFRP4 protein was closely related to the incidence of DD. Persistent and effective inhibition of SFRP4 expression may be a promising treatment for DD. We prepared SFRP4 siRNA/nanoparticle complexes (si-SFRP4) and negative siRNA/nanoparticle complexes (NC) and applied them in vitro and in vivo. Flow cytometry analysis showed that si-SFRP4 could be successfully transfected into DD cells. MTT and EdU staining assays showed that the OD values and percentage of EdU-positive cells in the si-SFRP4 group were significantly lower than those in the NC group. Scratch tests showed that the wound healing rate of the si-SFRP4 group was lower than that of the NC group, and the difference was statistically significant. The expression of SFRP4 and α-SMA protein in the si-SFRP4 group significantly decreased in both DD cells and xenografts. Compared with the NC group, the xenograft quality of the si-SFRP4 group was significantly reduced. Masson's trichrome staining showed that the collagen and fibrous cells in the si-SFRP4 group were more uniform, slender, parallel and regular. The above experimental results suggest that the proliferation and metabolism of palmar aponeurosis cells and the quality of metacarpal fascia xenografts were both significantly decreased. We speculated that nanoparticle-mediated SFRP4 siRNA can be used as a potential new method for the treatment of DD. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556691917196/simplify-access-to-hepatitis-b-care | 2022-04-01T01:31:44Z |
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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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Anna Davis was little more than a silhouette from right of the ninth green as darkness fell quickly at the end of a long day at the Augusta National Women's Amateur. The only light came from a video board and headlights from carts making their way in.
Not the least bit rattled, the 16-year-old from San Diego pitched with perfect pace to 2 feet to save par and post a 4-over 76 at Champions Retreat, one of only nine players to finish the second round.
What started as lingering thunderstorms turned into a heavy rain that delayed the start of the second round for for seven-and-a-half hours. That led to what should be a longer day, but far more fun on Friday.
Fifty-one players will finish the second round in the morning — some with only one hole to play, others with nine holes — before heading over to Augusta National for a practice round.
It starts with an elite competition. It ends for so many of them with a dream come true.
Of the nine players who finished, Davis was at 2-over 146 and in a tie for eighth, virtually assured of being among the 30 players from a field of 60 who advance to the final round at the home of the Masters.
No one was under par.
Beatrice Wallin of Sweden was 1 under for the round through 16 holes and even par for the tournament, tied with Amari Avery, who also was 1 under for the day through 16.
Joining them at even par was Hailey Borjas, the Californian who plays at Michigan. Her day ended on a sour note with consecutive bogeys. Even so, she was excited for Friday.
She was at Augusta National earlier in the week, driving down Magnolia Lane and having a group dinner hosted by the club chairman.
“Seeing Augusta for the first time, it was like a dream come true,” Borjas said.
She was more excited about her first chance to play it than her position in the Augusta National Women's Amateur, in its third year but already considered elite among amateur events because of where it's at.
“I don't really like to think about golf when I'm playing golf, if that makes any sense," Borjas said. “I like to talk about other things, like shoes. So to think about Augusta National tomorrow will keep me going.”
U.S. Women's Amateur champion Jensen Castle had the best round going at 2 under through 16 holes, leaving her one shot out of the lead.
The course was just as difficult as the opening round, when strong wind allowed only five players to break par. The wind subsided after the rain, though it left the course soggy and longer, even as the greens were slightly more receptive.
Rose Zhang, the No. 1 amateur in the world, made progress by not really going anywhere. She put together one bogey and 13 pars and improved from a tie for 39th to a tie for 26th.
Rachel Heck of Stanford, the No. 3 player in women's amateur golf who won six times in one semester last year as a freshman, was going the other direction. Heck had a pair of double bogeys in her opening four holes and was 5 over through 10 holes, leaving her outside the projected cut line at 6 over.
The cut is a hard 30. Any ties lead to a sudden-death playoff to see who advances, although everyone gets to play a practice round at Augusta National on Friday.
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Oscars' guests and viewers are still reeling over Will Smith's surprising and infamous onstage slap of comedian Chris Rock, who joked about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair. Shortly after, Smith went onstage to accept the Best Actor Oscar for his role in King Richard.
Will Packer, producer of the Academy Award, ceremony told the ABC News show Good Morning America that Los Angeles police officers were ready to arrest Will Smith if Rock wanted to press charges.
"They were saying, 'This is battery.' That was the word they used in that moment," Packer told T.J. Holmes, in an exclusive interview that was teased during ABC's World News Tonight. "They said, 'We will go get him. We are prepared. We will go get him right now. You can press charges. We can arrest him. They were laying out the options. And as they were talking, Chris was, he was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, 'No, I'm fine.' He was like, 'no, no, no.' And even to the point where I said, 'Rock, let them finish.'"
In the clip, Packer said after the officers finished laying out what Rock's options were, "they said, 'Would you like us to take any action? And he said no.'"
Packer also said he did not speak to Smith at all on Oscar night. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released a statement saying Smith was asked to leave the ceremony and refused.
In his acceptance speech, Smith apologized to the Academy and his fellow nominees for the incident, but not Rock. On Instagram the following day, Smith wrote that he was embarrassed by his behavior and told Rock he was sorry. Still, the Academy began disciplinary proceedings against Smith-- which could include "suspension, expulsion, or other sanctions permitted."
SAG-AFTRA is also weighing sanctions against Smith.
On Wednesday night, Rock was onstage in Boston with a new comedy routine. He didn't say much about the slap. "I'm still kind of processing what happened," he said, adding that at some point he will talk about it "and it will be serious and funny."
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IDEC Corporation introduces a new line of products to its power supply family with its PS3V Series. These switching power supplies provide an excellent price/performance ratio and build upon the previous generation’s reputation for reliability and functionality while adding new features like push-in connections for simplified installation.
The PS3V power supply family accepts a wide input voltage range from 85 to 264VAC, and it provides an output of 5, 12, and 24VDC with capacities ranging from 15 to 150W, both depending on the model. Output voltage is user adjustable ±10%, and the 24VDC versions deliver efficiencies ranging from 83 to 88%.
A robust yet compact metal housing protects the PS3V power supply, and it can be mounted in four orientations, by direct panel mount or DIN rail bracket. Mounting brackets are the same as for the previous PS3X series, providing easy upgrade options. Models are available with traditional screw terminals, or with safe and efficient push-in terminals for rapid one-step wiring. A wide operating temperature range from -25 to +70 degrees C ensures these power supplies work in the most challenging environments.
PS3V power supplies have UL61010 and cUL approvals and are safety extra-low voltage (SELV) listed (all models pending). A QR code is printed right on the product, enabling easy user access to the latest instruction manuals. The five-year warranty provides confidence for users to specify these power supplies in processing and packaging equipment, portable machines, valve and gate control, control panels, and many other industrial applications.
IDEC provides a wide range of quality power supply product lines, so users can select products that best meet their requirements for standards, features, and pricing. As with all its products, IDEC offers free tech support for its PS3V power supplies. | https://www.eeworldonline.com/switch-mode-supplies-feature-flexible-form-factor/ | 2022-04-01T01:31:47Z |
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Durban: Dean Elgar and Temba Bavuma scored half-centuries to give South Africa a slight lead on the first day of the first Test against Bangladesh at Kingsmead on Thursday.
South Africa posted 233 for four when poor light stopped play after being sent in to bat.
South Africa captain Elgar put on 67 in an opening partnership of 113 runs with fellow left-armer Sarel Irvi (41), but Bavuma and Kyle Wren put on an unbeaten fifth-wicket partnership of 53 runs to propel the innings forward.
Bavuma, playing his 50th Test, scored an unbeaten 53 and Verene remained unbeaten on 27. It was Bavuma’s 18th fifty. He has also scored a century.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants.
The agency said the Trump administration's decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the “best available peer reviewed science.” The chemical is used in rocket fuel and fireworks.
At the time, Trump's EPA said perchlorate was not found widely enough in drinking water or "at levels of public health concern" to warrant federal regulation. The decision was one of many Trump-era rollbacks or eliminations of existing or pending public health and environmental protections. The Biden administration ordered a review of that decision at the start of his term.
EPA Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox said the agency was “applying the right tools to support public health protections.”
Environmental groups slammed the Biden administration’s decision.
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“The Trump EPA gave perchlorate a pass; it was a bad decision then, and it’s a bad decision now,” said Erik Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council advocacy group. “Tap water across America will remain contaminated by this toxic chemical.”
Perchlorate from runoff contaminates the drinking water of as many as 16 million Americans, the Obama administration said in 2011 when it announced the EPA would for the first time set maximum limits for the chemical compound. It has been used in the U.S. for decades, particularly by the military and defense industries, and is commonly found in munitions, fireworks, matches and signal flares.
Exposure to the compound can damage the development of fetuses and children and cause measurable drops in IQ in newborns, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in 2019, when it called for stringent federal limits. It damages human development by disrupting the functioning of the thyroid gland.
In its 2020 review, the EPA said state-level regulations and cleanup activities at contaminated sites had lowered the health risks posed by the compound. Massachusetts and California, for example, limit perchlorate in drinking water to 2 parts per billion and 6 parts per billion, respectively.
“But the problem is that for the rest of the country the states have not set standards,” said Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
In the Southwest, perchlorate has been detected in groundwater that entered Lake Mead in Nevada. Manufacturing activities in Henderson, Nevada, were thought to be the source of the chemical. The EPA said cleanup activities at two industrial sites near Las Vegas between 2002 and 2006 resulted in reduced levels of perchlorate in samples provided since then by Nevada environmental and water agencies.
The EPA said Thursday it was considering other steps besides a federal drinking water limit, such as setting standards at open burning and detonation sites of waste explosives, where severe perchlorate contamination is known to exist.
But environmental advocates said such measures fall short of what's needed.
“Simply put, toxic chemicals used in rocket fuel do not belong in our drinking water," said John Rumpler, senior attorney with Environment America.
AP reporter Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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Kiwi world No.1 Paul Coll has booked a spot in the quarter-finals of the British Open with a convincing win on Friday morning.
Coll took down Frenchman Gregoire Marche 12-10 11-6 11-9 to keep his title defence on track in Hull.
Marche showed some earlier resilience in the match, coming back from a 7-1 deficit in the opening set to level the score at 10-10 but a pair of costly mistakes handed Coll the game.
Coll then upped his aggression in the second game and kept that tempo going in the third, shutting the match out in 57 minutes.
"I thought that was tactically good today," Coll said.
"I did exactly what I wanted to, maybe could have been a little more clinical at the front, but overall very happy with that.
"[Marche] is extremely talented with the racket and very quick, so I tried to tie him down and keep it straight and accurate.
"Maybe I got a little passive at times, but I was very happy with my overall length hitting and thought I contained him quite well.
"It's one of the things I love most about squash is constantly evolving my game and adding different parts, learning and making myself better every day."
Coll will next face close friend and regular training partner Diego Elias on Saturday.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Anna Davis was little more than a silhouette from right of the ninth green as darkness fell quickly at the end of a long day at the Augusta National Women's Amateur. The only light came from a video board and headlights from carts making their way in.
Not the least bit rattled, the 16-year-old from San Diego pitched with perfect pace to 2 feet to save par and post a 4-over 76 at Champions Retreat, one of only nine players to finish the second round.
What started as lingering thunderstorms turned into a heavy rain that delayed the start of the second round for for seven-and-a-half hours. That led to what should be a longer day, but far more fun on Friday.
Fifty-one players will finish the second round in the morning — some with only one hole to play, others with nine holes — before heading over to Augusta National for a practice round.
It starts with an elite competition. It ends for so many of them with a dream come true.
Of the nine players who finished, Davis was at 2-over 146 and in a tie for eighth, virtually assured of being among the 30 players from a field of 60 who advance to the final round at the home of the Masters.
No one was under par.
Beatrice Wallin of Sweden was 1 under for the round through 16 holes and even par for the tournament, tied with Amari Avery, who also was 1 under for the day through 16.
Joining them at even par was Hailey Borjas, the Californian who plays at Michigan. Her day ended on a sour note with consecutive bogeys. Even so, she was excited for Friday.
She was at Augusta National earlier in the week, driving down Magnolia Lane and having a group dinner hosted by the club chairman.
“Seeing Augusta for the first time, it was like a dream come true,” Borjas said.
She was more excited about her first chance to play it than her position in the Augusta National Women's Amateur, in its third year but already considered elite among amateur events because of where it's at.
“I don't really like to think about golf when I'm playing golf, if that makes any sense," Borjas said. “I like to talk about other things, like shoes. So to think about Augusta National tomorrow will keep me going.”
U.S. Women's Amateur champion Jensen Castle had the best round going at 2 under through 16 holes, leaving her one shot out of the lead.
The course was just as difficult as the opening round, when strong wind allowed only five players to break par. The wind subsided after the rain, though it left the course soggy and longer, even as the greens were slightly more receptive.
Rose Zhang, the No. 1 amateur in the world, made progress by not really going anywhere. She put together one bogey and 13 pars and improved from a tie for 39th to a tie for 26th.
Rachel Heck of Stanford, the No. 3 player in women's amateur golf who won six times in one semester last year as a freshman, was going the other direction. Heck had a pair of double bogeys in her opening four holes and was 5 over through 10 holes, leaving her outside the projected cut line at 6 over.
The cut is a hard 30. Any ties lead to a sudden-death playoff to see who advances, although everyone gets to play a practice round at Augusta National on Friday.
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Medical connectors are different because medical applications are different. Medical systems require high reliability like industrial systems, but they have unique challenges where failure or unreliable operation can be life-threatening. A few examples include: Materials qualified for medical connectors are often specified to prevent bacteria growth and ensure that the connection system withstands sterilization or disinfection procedures. Connectors in medical systems may have to carry high voltages, optical links, fluids, and power and signal lines. Moisture resistance, cable management, and ergonomics are often important in medical equipment designs.
This FAQ begins with an overview of medical connector safety standards and related applications, presents hybrid cables that can include interconnects for signal, power, light, and fluids, covers the challenges associated with medical device misconnections, and closes with a review of recent developments related to small-bore connectors and luers.
IEC 60601-1 – “Medical electrical equipment – Part 1: General requirements for basic safety and essential performance” is an important document for specifiers of connectors for medical devices. The standard delineates two categories of protection:
- Means of Patient Protection (MOPP)
- Means of Operator Protection (MOOP)
IEC 60601-1 generally requires that two means of protection for both patients and operators be included in medical electronic devices; 2 MOPP and/or 2 MOOP. That ensures that if one means of protection fails, the second one still protects the user. Equipment or devices touching a patient when in use are required to have 2 MOPP. For equipment such as X-ray machines separated from the patient, 2 MOOP is considered sufficient to protect medical personnel.
Like all physical interconnects in electronic systems, connectors have creepage and clearance distances. The clearance distance is the shortest distance between two contacts through the air outside the solid insulation for connectors. The creepage distance is the shortest distance between two contacts along the surface of an insulation body. Connectors can achieve two means of protection by doubling the clearance and creepage distances between contacts (Table 1).
The level of protection required is directly related to the application. Three examples include:
- Type B (body) devices operate close to the body but without patient contact and must have 1,500 Vac insulation, 2.5mm creepage, 2.0mm clearance, and Basic insulation. X-ray machines, hospital beds, and MRI scanners are examples of type B devices.
- Type BF (body floating) devices are in physical contact with the patient and must have 3,000 Vac insulation, 5mm creepage, 4.0mm clearance, and Double insulation. Blood pressure monitors, thermometers, and ultrasound equipment are examples of type BF devices.
- Type CF (cardiac floating) devices are in physical contact with the heart and must have 4,000 Vac insulation, 8mm creepage, 5mm clearance, and Double insulation. Defibrillators and dialysis machines are examples of type CF devices.
Meeting IEC 60601-1 requires extended creepage and clearance distance that general-purpose commodity multipin connectors can’t match. Connectors meeting IEC60601-1 often have extended insulating collars or sleeves around the pins, or asymmetrical pin arrangements, to increase the creepage and clearance distances (Figure 1).
Hybrid medical connectors
As medical devices and equipment become increasingly complex and capable, cable management becomes a more important design aspect. The use of hybrid connectors provides one possible solution. Just as medical systems are getting more complex, so are hybrid medical connectors. Hybrid connectors can reduce device size and improve reliability and safety by eliminating the need for multiple cables and connectors. Hybrid connector systems eliminate the risk of cable entanglement, reduce cable stress, and speed connecting and disconnect medical devices. By eliminating the need for multiple connectors and cables, these interconnect systems enable clinicians or even patients to quickly and securely change umbilical or modular tools and handpieces that need connections to power, signal, and gases or liquids.
Users only have a single connector to check for proper mating instead of having to check multiple possible points of failure. And these connectors reduce the possibility of misconnections. In many environments such as intensive care units (ICUs), cardiac care units, emergency departments, even at home, patients may require several different devices at once, increasing the risk of misconnections.
Medical device misconnections
Medical device misconnections happen when two devices that perform different functions are connected in error or when a connection is not completely secured. While it’s possible to misconnect electrical connectors, misconnection is more common with connectors for liquids since there is a small variety of connectors for liquids compared with the breadth of electrical connector styles and formats. For long-term connections, fittings are often used. But for more common short-term uses, luers and quick disconnect couplings are the most frequently used tubing connectors in low-pressure environments. They are lightweight, cost-efficient, and, in the past, were mostly reliable. The ‘mostly reliable’ aspect could result in misconnections, possibly leading to patient injury or death. There are several possible reasons for misconnections:
- The limited number of sizes and shapes of low-pressure liquid connectors easily lead to confusion.
- Numerous sources of potential human error when connecting multiple devices to a patient including time pressure, inadequate lighting, unfamiliarity with a new system, and fatigue in high-stress environments.
Simple ‘fixes’ such as color-coding, tags, or labels are only somewhat successful. They can be helpful, but it’s still possible to physically misconnect devices. Due to the importance of ensuring secure and correct connections of low-pressure liquid fittings, industry standards have been developed.
ISO 594-2 – A Partial Solution to Misconnections
The current ISO 80369 is a series of standards developed to improve on the shortcomings of ISO 594-2:1998 that was issued to address problems with misconnections in medical devices. ISO 594-2 references materials in the scope section with separate requirements for rigid and semi-rigid materials. Metal and glass are classified as rigid, while many plastics are semi-rigid. The standard does not address flexible and elastomeric materials. It does explicitly recognize that for fittings using semi-rigid materials (including most plastics), it was impossible to specify the fitting’s dimensions with sufficient accuracy. Fittings are still required to satisfy the functional/performance requirements.
It’s possible to design a male and female luer pair that meet the ISO 594-2 thread profile dimensions but which don’t work properly. Suppose a softer material such as nylon or polypropylene is used. Some users can over-rotate, or over-torque, the luer, causing damage to the threads resulting in an unsecured connection. The ISO 80369 series of standards were developed to address these concerns.
Evolving and Improving Small-Bore Connector Standards
Small-bore connectors have a connector opening diameter of less than 8.5 mm. They connect tubing, syringes, and other devices that carry fluids or gases for patient care. ISO 80369 is a series of standards to improve patient safety and reduce the risk of small-bore misconnections used in liquid and gas healthcare applications (Figure 3). For example, the new standard adds a specification for the “t” dimension for the male luer thread, defined as the distance from the end of the male luer to the first fully formed thread. Adding the “t” dimension helps to specify the thread profile dimensions more fully.
Two primary standards recognized by the FDA for small-bore connectors are:
ISO 80369-1:2010, “Small-bore connectors for liquids and gases in healthcare applications” – Part 1: General requirements – provides the methodology to assess non-interconnectable characteristics of small-bore connectors based on their inherent design and dimensions to reduce the risk of misconnections between medical devices
ISO 80369-20:2015, “Small-bore connectors for liquids and gases in healthcare applications” – Part 20: Common test methods – provides test methods to support small-bore connectors’ functional requirements.
ISO 80369 combines the semi-rigid and rigid dimensional requirements. It also adds a flexural modulus of 700 MPa or higher, not included in ISO 594. The addition of the flexural modulus makes it possible to define the dimensions with greater precision. For compliance, both the dimensional and functional requirements must be satisfied, even when using semi-rigid materials.
Where practical, ISO 80369 adopted some of the requirements in ISO 594. A luer that complies with ISO 80369 is backward compatible with ISO 594 requirements. However, a luer made from semi-rigid materials that passes only ISO 594 performance testing is incompatible with ISO 80369-7. ISO 80369 has expanded coverage to include several specific classes of devices:
80369-2 – Breathing systems and gas driving
80369-3 – Enteral applications such as feeding tubes
80369-5 – Limb cuff inflation devices such as blood pressure cuffs
80369-6 – Neuraxial applications such as epidural anesthesia catheters
80369-7 – Intravenous (IV) or hypodermic
In addition, a new section, “Part 2: Connectors for breathing systems and driving gases applications” is under development, and an additional part on “Connectors for urethral and urinary applications” is planned for the future.
Summary
Medical connectors are held to higher standards than industrial and other high-performance connectors. Proper design and use of medical connectors is needed to ensure the safety of patients and equipment operators. Hybrid connectors can minimize misconnections and enable users and patients to quickly and securely change umbilical or modular tools and handpieces that need connections to power, signal, and gases or liquids. The ISO 80369 is a series of standards developed to address problems with potentially dangerous misconnections when using medical devices, and ISO 80369 continues to evolve and expand its coverage.
References
ISO 80369 Small-Bore Connector Standards, Qosina
Medical Device Connectors, U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Reducing Risks through Standards Development for Medical Device Connectors, U.S. Food & Drug Administration
The IEC 60601-1 – Maximum patient and operator protection, ODU Connectors
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Rent relief helped prevent more than 1 million evictions in 2021
The federal government's emergency rental assistance program helped prevent more than one million evictions last year.
An estimated 1.36 million renters avoided an eviction filing in 2021 as a result of the government's unprecedented $46.5 billion rent relief program and other protections, according to a recent analysis by Princeton University's Eviction Lab published earlier this month.
Treasury officials reported Wednesday that $30 billion in emergency rent relief was spent or obligated by the end of February. Despite a slow and confusing initial roll out of the program last spring, more than 4.7 million payments were made to households since January 2021.
Treasury expects the remainder of the funds to be exhausted by the middle of this year.
Impact of the assistance
A national eviction ban was put in place in September 2020. While it did not stop all evictions, it significantly slowed the tide of eviction filings until the emergency aid could reach struggling renters and their landlords, White House and Department of Treasury officials said.
"We knew from the start that we faced a race with time to get the emergency rental assistance flowing to a significant degree by the time the national eviction moratorium was lifted," said Gene Sperling, the White House American Rescue Plan coordinator. "We largely won that race."
In the six states and 31 cities tracked by the Eviction Lab researchers, eviction filings fell sharply at the onset of the pandemic, but then increased in the later months of 2020 even with the ban in place. Given the increased number of renters experiencing economic hardship as the pandemic continued into 2021, experts worried about a "tsunami" of evictions and anticipated the number of filings to skyrocket above levels seen in 2019.
But the opposite happened. In a typical year, roughly 865,000 eviction cases were filed in the areas the Eviction Lab tracks. In 2021, roughly half as many evictions were filed, with 434,304 cases.
Evictions fell in all but one of the 31 cities tracked in 2021. The outlier was Las Vegas, where jobs in tourism evaporated, adversely impacting the large number of renters in the city's service sector, according to the report. New York City had the biggest reduction in eviction filings from typical levels, with the report estimating nearly 184,000 eviction cases were avoided in New York City.
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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.wmur.com/article/rent-relief-prevent-million-evictions/39602016 | 2022-04-01T01:31:52Z |
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Former Army officer and disability campaigner Dr. Tom Clonon has been elected to the Senate.
Dr. Clonan defeated psychologist Maureen Gaffney in the Trinity College panel by-election, which began last summer with the election of Ivana Besik for Dell.
Dr. Clonan was leading over Ms. Gaffney by only 160 votes after the 16th vote count this evening after a day of counting.
The count had seen high-profile candidates including former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Choo and former Irish rugby star Hugo McNeill be eliminated before the final count. At the final count, Mr. Clonan received 5,358 votes against Miss Gaffney’s 5,198. The pair took 1,947 and 1,882 first preferences respectively.
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CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — Charlotte County deputies arrested four people after searching the home of 2764 Starlite Lane in Port Charlotte.
According to Charlotte County Sheriff's Office deputies, while searching the home, they found methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, guns, and hundreds of pills.
Taylor Plaja was arrested for possession of drugs along with Kelly Rudy, Christopher, and Barbara Ridgeway.
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As part of a broader push on part of the aviation industry to reduce its carbon footprint, Airbus has conducted the first ever flight of its giant A380 jumbo jet using 100 percent biofuel. This is the third Airbus aircraft to fly using the sustainable fuel made up of primarily cooking oil, as the company works to certify the technology by the end of the decade.
The aircraft featured in the groundbreaking flight is the Airbus ZEROe Demonstrator, an A380 adapted for use as a flying testbed and one the company plans to also use to test out hydrogen combustion jet engines.
For this particular outing, the aircraft was loaded up with 27 tonnes of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), made mostly with cooking oil and waste fats. This powered the A380's Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine across a three-hour test flight out of the Blagnac Airport in Toulouse France on March 28, with a second flight then carrying it all the way to Nice Airport on March 29.
This demonstration follows successful flights of the Airbus A350 and the Airbus A319neo single-aisle plane using SAF last year. Using the biofuel to now power the world's largest passenger jet marks another step forward for the testing program, as Airbus aspires to bring the world's first zero-emission aircraft to market by 2035.
Airbus isn't alone in pursuing cleaner aviation with the help of cooking oil. Way back in 2012, Boeing made the first biofuel-powered Pacific crossing in its 787 Dreamliner using a mix of regular jet fuel and fuel derived mainly from cooking oil. In 2014, it even opened up a biofuel production plant in China based to ensure a consistent supply.
In emphasizing the potential of SAF, Airbus refers to the Waypoint 2050 report put together by collaboration of aviation experts to outline how the industry can achieve decarbonization by midway through the century. That report identifies the deploying of SAF as the single largest opportunity to meet these goals, with the potential to deliver between 53 and 71 percent of the required carbon reductions.
As it stands, all of Airbus' aircraft are certified to fly with a 50 percent SAF-kerosene blend. Airbus aims to achieve certification for 100 percent SAF use by the end of the decade.
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Charles W. Herbster is a jet-setting businessman and Republican mega-donor with deep pockets. He’s also a cattle rancher and born-again Christian who draws on farming metaphors with ease.
He’s fashioning a public image around those identities in his campaign for governor of Nebraska. But the most defining feature of his candidacy has been loyalty, similarities and ties to Donald Trump.
The former president endorsed Herbster last year, a potential game-changer in a state where Trump got 75% of votes in heavily GOP western Nebraska in 2020 and 58% statewide.
But, unlike his top primary competitors, Herbster has never held public office. His history and lack of policy expertise hold potential pitfalls.
He’s come first in recent polling, followed by Jim Pillen, a Columbus hog producer and University of Nebraska regent, and State Sen. Brett Lindstrom of Omaha.
This isn’t Herbster’s first go at the office: He launched a run in 2014 but quickly pulled out when his wife became ill. He then made headlines for donating historically significant sums to another candidate, Beau McCoy. As of January, Herbster had almost entirely self-funded his current campaign, to the tune of $4.7 million.
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Small-town roots, big-time businessman
Herbster, 67, was born in Falls City, a town of about 4,000 tucked into Nebraska's southeastern corner. He went to Falls City High School, where he was involved in myriad organizations and spoke at his graduation ceremony, then the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for a couple of stints in the ‘70s. He did not attain a degree.
It seems he hasn’t slowed down since.
The man heads several businesses across five states. He got a job with Conklin Company Inc. in the 1970s and rose through the ranks. He and his late wife, Judy, who also worked at Conklin, ultimately bought it in the early '90s.
Conklin manufactures over 130 products, including roofing and agriculture products. Distribution is based in Minnesota, and they moved administrative offices to Kansas City, Missouri, in the 2000s.
Basing the company out of state has sparked criticism from those opposed to his run for governor, including Gov. Pete Ricketts, who has endorsed Pillen and said he doesn't believe Herbster is qualified to be governor.
“I was just going to do what’s economically the best for our people,” Herbster said of moving the offices to Missouri.
Herbster also heads Carico Farms and Herbster Angus Farms in Falls City, a bull semen operation in Virginia and Kansas City-based Judy's Dream, which distributes nutritional shakes and supplements. He's active nationally in the evangelical community and said he's sponsored the National Day of Prayer for over two decades.
The land on which Carico and Herbster Angus Farms sit has been in Herbster's family since the 1800s, he said. Herbster Angus Farms was incorporated in 2015, and Carico Farms was incorporated in 1981 — Secretary of State's Office records show that document was signed by Herbster and his grandmother.
His grandmother, whom he named as one of his top influences, owned the farm, and he said his parents worked at the local hospital and bank.
Now, Herbster owns homes in Falls City, farmland in Colorado, a condo in downtown Omaha and a home in Kansas City, which he said he’s stayed in just a few times since Judy's death in 2017.
Given his scattered portfolio, Herbster has faced criticism for weak Nebraska ties. At a recent campaign event, he addressed those criticisms by citing his time spent living in Grand Island, then Lincoln.
But, in an interview, Herbster said he’s spent most of his time since 1992 “on an airplane.”
“We live in hotels, and we live on an airplane," he said. "Because, without children, it's very easy for us to just stay out there and continue to work with our people. That's how we built the business.”
He said he still spends summers on the farm in Falls City. According to the Richardson County Clerk’s Office, Herbster has been registered to vote there since 2004. He was registered in Lancaster County before that.
Asked if he'd step away from his businesses if he wins the race, Herbster didn't offer a clear answer: "If I become the governor of the state of Nebraska, my number one focus will be on making Nebraska great again," he said.
Touting Trump ties
Trump endorsed Herbster despite Ricketts’ attempt to dissuade him from doing so, according to Politico’s reporting. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is among his other backers.
At campaign events, Herbster often sounds like Trump, pumping up his credentials as a political outsider and successful businessman, name-dropping, and focusing on national wedge issues like securing the country’s southern border.
"I'm very concerned about the direction of America," he told The World-Herald. "And as America goes, so goes every state."
Herbster often opens public appearances by extending greetings from the former president. Multiple people affiliated with his campaign, including Kellyanne Conway, have worked for Trump. The Herbster campaign cut ties with longtime Trump aide Corey Lewandowski last year, after a woman accused him of sexual harassment.
Herbster donated $1.3 million, in all, to Trump’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. He was there when Trump announced his candidacy in 2015 and later led the Agriculture and Rural Advisory Committee for his campaign and administration.
When he announced his campaign, he put his loyalty to Trump above his run for office: “Everybody said: 'You’re going to run for governor? You have to take the Trump (license) plates off,'" he said. “And this is how loyal I am to the 45th president of the United States, I said: ‘If it’s the difference between being disloyal to President Trump or becoming governor of Nebraska, I will not be disloyal to the 45th president.'”
Herbster was at a meeting Jan. 5, 2021, in Trump's private residence in his Washington, D.C., hotel, where they discussed how to pressure more members of Congress to object to the Electoral College results affirming Joe Biden's victory. And he was there the next day at Trump's rally before the violent attack on the nation's Capitol. He now downplays his participation and says he never heard that anybody was going to the Capitol to do anything.
And, despite previous statements and records showing he bought into baseless claims that the election was stolen, he now accepts that Biden is president.
Talking to reporters after a recent debate, though, he again expressed doubts about the integrity of the 2020 election. And he asserted without evidence that China released the COVID-19 pandemic to oust Trump from office and divide the country.
On state policy, a dearth of specifics
Herbster is an energetic speaker and can capture a crowd’s attention. But when it comes to Nebraska-specific policy, he rarely offers detail.
At a recent campaign event, he handed the mic to a staffer when it came time to talk about his campaign’s idea for caring for veterans in the state. He has pledged that there’ll be “zero critical race theory” in Nebraska — but admitted he doesn’t know how he’d accomplish that.
He says he'd crack down on illegal immigration and drugs and "close the border in Nebraska." When asked what he meant by that, Herbster suggested he'd meet incoming groups of undocumented immigrants "wherever they park."
In an interview, Herbster spoke enthusiastically about requiring identification to vote and another specific proposal: branding and marketing the state. He pictures a state silhouette stamped on every box and wrapper that leaves the state, in red alongside words akin to “Made in Nebraska.”
“Everywhere I go in the state, and I’ve been traveling constantly, everybody’s going to talk to you about property tax,” he said. “We’ve been talking about that in Nebraska for 15 years. Everybody knows that, and we will address it, I will address it. But to me, it’s bigger than that. It’s a vision of how do we brand and market our state.”
On Nebraska's tax code, his campaign website said that he’d advocate for shifting to a consumption tax-based system. But, in conversation, he didn’t commit to one approach.
He has said the tax code is outdated and that any solution needs to be “revenue neutral,” meaning the state won’t end up collecting more taxes. He named a few proposals for reforming the tax code from which he could draw, including a consumption tax-based proposal and a statewide initiative from Nebraska business and higher education leaders called Blueprint Nebraska.
Herbster said that one of the ways he manages to run several businesses is through hiring good people and delegating, and that he’d do the same as governor.
If he wins the primary on May 10, he said he’s going to immediately start assembling teams of people to work on branding, marketing, taxes, workforce and mental health issues facing veterans and law enforcement officers.
“I can assure you that every single person, even if they did not vote for me — I'm not concerned about what their political affiliation is: Republican, Democrat, independent or none of the three — every person will have a seat at the table,” he said.
Herbster’s former running mate, former State Sen. Theresa Thibodeau, called the campaign “chaotic and disorganized.” She has since launched her own campaign for the Republican nomination.
“He just wasn't getting a good grasp on Nebraska policy and not going into that,” she said. “And I would say that, as I'm on the campaign trail, I continue to see exactly the same thing: That there's really no depth to, you know, learning Nebraska issues.”
Divisive among locals
On a recent visit to his southeastern Nebraska hometown, The World-Herald found there was about an equal chance of running into Herbster supporters and detractors.
Joe Kuttler, a fellow farmer north of town, said he’d “recommend him for the job, above all the rest.” Herbster got a good start, he said, but took care of what he inherited.
Heidi Billingsly, who worked as Judy Herbster’s assistant for a few years before her death, called Herbster “a great person” who takes care of his employees and loves the state of Nebraska. If people have a negative perception of him, she said, it’s probably because they don’t know him.
A couple of people in town mentioned issues they have with Herbster, but didn’t want to speak for this story.
But Kim Griffiths of Verdon, just north of Falls City, offered a story about Herbster from decades ago, when he hired her family’s hay-baling business. When they arrived, they found the hay wasn’t ready but Herbster insisted they bale it anyway, she said.
So they did, but they never got paid. When the hay predictably rotted, she said Herbster called angry, demanding they help him remove the hay from his barn. They did it to avoid drama, she said, and swallowed the loss.
The way she sees it, he uses other people to get ahead with no regard for what happens to them.
“Herbster will never have our family’s vote. ... He’s going for a glory ride on Donald Trump’s coattails,” she said.
Herbster's campaign did not offer a response to Griffiths' recounting.
Late taxes and a lead foot
Herbster has blemishes in his record, including a history of paying property taxes late and accumulating traffic violations.
In 2014, The World-Herald reported that he had almost always been late on his taxes in Richardson County in the previous two decades and sometimes waited a year or more to make a payment. A KMTV investigation last year found that Herbster and his businesses had paid late nearly 600 times. Herbster told KMTV that it was a choice, meant to offset cash flow issues.
But he’s faced criticism for his reasoning. Specifically, Ricketts and others point to 2014, when Herbster was late but also donated $2 million to McCoy, the then-gubernatorial candidate.
Herbster also acknowledged back in 2014 that he has a long list of driving offenses and that his license was temporarily suspended in 2002. At the time, he had been fined 21 times in Missouri and Nebraska in the previous 14 years.
Last year, he told the Falls City Journal that he likely had 34 speeding tickets in 35 years and called that one-ticket-a-year rate “not bad.”
Violations visible in public records include speeding tickets, charges for making unnecessary noise and other offenses. The most recent that’s publicly available in Missouri was in 2018, when Herbster pleaded guilty to an amended charge of failure to register and paid a fine.
Herbster acknowledged that the property taxes and traffic violations might be red flags for voters. But he ultimately paid all his taxes, he said, and paid interest and penalties — which he framed as a positive result for Richardson County.
“The only person I really hurt by being almost bankrupt is me,” he said. “And, if you are not running for political office, it would mean nothing to anybody, because politicians have been coming to me for 20 years wanting money. They were concerned very little about my taxes or my speeding tickets.”
How powerful is the Trump endorsement?
What’s yet to be seen is if Herbster’s self-branding as the Trump-endorsed candidate will pay off. Asked what he thought of Ricketts' request to Trump, Herbster laughed and said, “It’s a free country.”
“I would’ve ran for governor irregardless of who or who wasn’t gonna endorse me,” he said.
While he loves having endorsements, he said, that doesn’t win a race.
“Races are won on candidates who have the vision, have a message and who work harder than anybody else,” he said.
At least one longtime political observer, though, sees Herbster's candidacy as a referendum on that concept.
“Traditionally, you’d rather have an endorsement than not, but it wasn’t a deciding factor for most voters,” Lincoln-based political consultant and lobbyist Perre Neilan said. “Herbster flips that notion on its head and says the Trump endorsement is the ONLY thing that matters.” | https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/herbster-tests-nebraska-whats-the-weight-of-a-trump-endorsement/article_ff928e8b-f6e9-558e-9550-7ffa90d3df43.html | 2022-04-01T01:31:55Z |
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued 18 migrants crammed inside a U-Haul trailer with little ventilation early Tuesday morning.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said a U-Haul pickup pulling the trailer stopped at the Border Patrol checkpoint on NM Highway 185, which runs parallel to Interstate 25. Agents found 17 migrant adults and one unaccompanied child inside the trailer.
Agents linked the smuggling scheme to a driver who had crossed the checkpoint minutes before the U-Haul and was found to have a 9 mm handgun, an AK-47 rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun, ammunition, and a flare gun.
Agents arrested both drivers on suspicion of conspiracy to transport migrants.
On Sunday, a resident alerted border agents to a possible human smuggling scheme after spotting a tractor-trailer parked along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near the Texas-New Mexico state line in Northeast El Paso.
Agents responded and freed 15 adult migrants and one unaccompanied child inside a poorly ventilated cargo container.
The rescued migrants, agents said, were from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Some of them ended up at the Central Processing Center, and agents expelled the others to Mexico under Title 42.
According to a news release, agents referred the driver to the El Paso Sector Integrated Targeting Team and the Texas Department of Public Safety as part of an ongoing interagency investigation.
CBP said that since Fiscal Year 2022 began in October, Border Patrol agents from the El Paso Sector have disrupted approximately 525 smuggling schemes.
“Ruthless human smugglers continuously endanger human lives as one of their tactics is to smuggle migrants in confined spaces with restricted oxygen,” El Paso Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez said in a statement. “I am extremely proud of the actions of our El Paso Sector Border Patrol Agents as they often encounter situations, where if not for their involvement, events as these would turn into tragedies. Our Border Patrol Agents are true heroes as they display compassion and professionalism (every day) in our very complex mission of border security.” | https://www.localdvm.com/border-report-tour/34-migrants-rescued-from-cargo-trailers-in-separate-smuggling-attempts/ | 2022-04-01T01:31:57Z |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — If you saw UAMS employees smiling a little more this week, there's a good reason. For Dr. Michelle Krause, it's hard to contain the excitement.
"It's wonderful, wonderful news. I mean, I haven't seen such low levels in the well over two years that we started having patients hospitalized with COVID-19." Dr. Krause, co-leader for UAMS's COVID response, said.
Her excitement is understandable as COVID's been a fight each and every day for those working in health care. Wednesday was a welcome sight they haven't seen in awhile, though.
"I was so excited when we got to single digits and then for that one period of time we got down to, yesterday, where we had no patients that required respiratory isolation," Dr. Krause said.
This is huge news for both the state and those who work each and every day to make patients better.
There's been a huge amount of progress compared to a couple months ago where it didn't look like this would happen.
"So we were very hopeful at the time that as fast as we went up, you still have to come back down. So we were very fortunate that that coming down period wasn't very prolonged," Dr. Krause said.
She isn't alone in thinking this either as her colleague Gina Boshears, Clinical Service Manager at UAMS, is feeling the same way.
This is a short lived feat as some patients were admitted overnight, but despite that she's still celebrating.
"It's a great feeling. The morale is so much better, there's a lot less stress," Boshears said.
While this is good news, they're not getting ahead of themselves. After all, this time last year and we were also seeing a decrease in cases.
Fast forward a couple months after that and hospitals were swarmed again.
"We all were so excited and we were sure it was over the last time," Boshears said. "So I think we've learned to not get our hopes up and just to expect anything around the corner."
This time around is hopefully different as more people are fully vaccinated. This time around, they've also got more experience doing this.
So while this may have been a temporary victory, the attitude is still the same--they're celebrating, but not letting their guard down.
"I'm proud of our staff and their resilience and they're willingness to do whatever it takes to get us through this," Boshears said. "We're ready to do this again if we have to." | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/health/uams-celebrates-after-zero-covid-patients/91-a6042462-271f-4925-995e-83c7b6dafea4 | 2022-04-01T01:31:57Z |
- Nine arts organizations in Benton and Linn counties will receive grants through the Oregon Arts Commission for fiscal year 2022. Operating Support Grants were awarded to Corvallis Arts Center Inc., $6,749; the Corvallis Youth Symphony Association, $4,899; and the Whiteside Theatre Foundation, Corvallis, $2,000. Grants are available to nonprofit organizations with arts at the core of their mission, and budgets more than $150,000. Organizations with budgets under $150,000 are eligible to apply to the Small Operating Program. Small Operating Grants of $2,178 each for 2022 were awarded to the Corvallis Guitar Society; the Corvallis Repertory Singers; Gallery Calapooia, Albany; Mid-Valley Prelude Sinfonia Inc., Albany; Orgelkids USA, Corvallis; and Willamette Valley Symphony, Albany. “The Arts Commission’s Small Operating Grants allow minuscule, all-volunteer organizations to have an outsized impact,” said Erin Scheessele, executive director of Orgelkids USA. “It frees us up to dream bigger and to bring a bit of wonder to our communities. For Orgelkids, that meant we could focus resources on designing and building a bike for our pipe organ so that we could continue our outreach and education through the pandemic.”
- The Arts Center, Corvallis, recently elected four new members to its board of directors. They are Mandy Clark, Keith Farney, Kristi Martens and Jeff Shiminsky. They join president Patricia Berman, vice president Frank Hann, treasurer Brian Egan, secretary Kimberly Long, and directors Alyce Chapman, Morgen Daniels, John Friedlander and Deborah John. The center has provided services to the region for 59 years, with a mission to inspire creativity and contribute to community well-being through equitable access to and engagement with the visual arts. The center offers exhibitions, learning opportunities, artist development and cultural events centered on art, artists and art enthusiasts. The center is open noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays; entry is free.
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Aria Bridger, a 13-year-old girl, has been captured on CCTV in Auckland central four days after she was reported missing.
Bridger has been missing since March 24 but was seen in CCTV footage on Monday, March 28 around 9.12pm on Wellesley Street, in the city centre.
Police said given Bridger's age, there are concerns for her welfare, "we would like to locate her so we can speak with her".
"Information has been received from the public following an appeal earlier this week and police acknowledge those who have contacted us so far," police said.
According to police, she wearing a red tracksuit, purple shoes and a black backpack when she went missing on March 24.
If members of the public sight Bridger, they are asked to call police immediately on 111.
Anyone with further information on her whereabouts should contact 105 quoting the file number 220324/9994. | https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/31/girl-13-captured-on-cctv-4-days-after-reported-missing/ | 2022-04-01T01:31:57Z |
Bullock appointed Reserve Bank deputy
Michele Bullock has become the first female deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced Ms Bullock to replace retiring deputy Guy Debelle on Friday.
She joined the central bank in 1985 as an analyst and has been an assistant governor since 2010.
Ms Bullock is also a member of the Council of Financial Regulators and works extensively with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Treasury.
The appointment is for five years.
Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers said she would bring much experience after a distinguished career.
"The departure of Guy Debelle has provided an opportunity for renewal in the most senior echelons of the RBA and it's pleasing to see a woman appointed as deputy for the first time," Dr Chalmers said.
However, he said it was disappointing the federal opposition had been "informed of this appointment today rather than consulted". | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-10674547/Bullock-appointed-Reserve-Bank-deputy.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-01T01:31:57Z |
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Gulden (NLG) traded 9.7% lower against the dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 20:00 PM Eastern on March 31st. Gulden has a total market capitalization of $3.59 million and approximately $3,170.00 worth of Gulden was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Gulden coin can currently be bought for $0.0064 or 0.00000014 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. In the last seven days, Gulden has traded 3.7% higher against the dollar.
Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:
- Dogecoin (DOGE) traded 3.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.14 or 0.00000303 BTC.
- Litecoin (LTC) traded 5.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $123.64 or 0.00271396 BTC.
- UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded 4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $5.81 or 0.00012760 BTC.
- Polymath (POLY) traded 1.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.52 or 0.00001141 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded 8.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.65 or 0.00001418 BTC.
- ConstitutionDAO (PEOPLE) traded 15.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0681 or 0.00000150 BTC.
- Hellenic Coin (HNC) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $3.68 or 0.00010892 BTC.
- Verge (XVG) traded 11.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0136 or 0.00000030 BTC.
- Presearch (PRE) traded 4.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.18 or 0.00000405 BTC.
- XeniosCoin (XNC) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.65 or 0.00001426 BTC.
About Gulden
According to CryptoCompare, “Gulden (NLG) is another national currency for the Netherlands. The premine is 10% with 1% to be used for bounties and not distributed. The total number of coins to be mined is 1.68 billion and the block time is set to 150 seconds. The difficulty retargetting occurs every 576 blocks using the Kimoto Gravity well. The coin is scrypt and pure Proof of Work. “
Buying and Selling Gulden
It is usually not presently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Gulden directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Gulden should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as GDAX, Changelly or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to buy Gulden using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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Sir, – Due to the protracted delays experienced by passengers at Dublin Airport, which are predicted to continue for some time, the DAA recommends that you arrive at the airport earlier and allow more time in the queue. Passengers have recently experienced security-related delays of up to three hours. Unfortunately, reaching out earlier, as I did until recently, was to no avail. The check-in desk does not open until two and a half hours before the scheduled departure time. Queuing for check-in takes more than two hours to pass through security and reach the departure gate; It is not enough to believe DAA advice. Even if, like me, you had completed all pre-withdrawal health checks and checked in online, it still didn’t ease the situation….
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The House on Thursday passed a bill capping the monthly cost of insulin at $35 for insured patients, part of an election-year push by Democrats for price curbs on prescription drugs at a time of rising inflation.
Experts say the legislation, which passed 232-193, would provide significant relief for privately insured patients with skimpier plans and for Medicare enrollees facing rising out-of-pocket costs for their insulin. Some could save hundreds of dollars annually, and all insured patients would get the benefit of predictable monthly costs for insulin. The bill would not help the uninsured.
But the Affordable Insulin Now Act will serve as a political vehicle to rally Democrats and force Republicans who oppose it into uncomfortable votes ahead of the midterms. For the legislation to pass Congress, 10 Republican senators would have to vote in favor. Democrats acknowledge they don't have an answer for how that's going to happen.
"If 10 Republicans stand between the American people being able to get access to affordable insulin, that's a good question for 10 Republicans to answer," said Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., a cosponsor of the House bill. "Republicans get diabetes, too. Republicans die from diabetes."
Public opinion polls have consistently shown support across party lines for congressional action to limit drug costs.
But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., complained the legislation is only "a small piece of a larger package around government price controls for prescription drugs." Critics say the bill would raise premiums and fails to target pharmaceutical middlemen seen as contributing to high list prices for insulin.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Democrats could have a deal on prescription drugs if they drop their bid to authorize Medicare to negotiate prices. "Do Democrats really want to help seniors, or would they rather have the campaign issue?" Grassley said.
The insulin bill, which would take effect in 2023, represents just one provision of a much broader prescription drug package in President Joe Biden's social and climate legislation.
In addition to a similar $35 cap on insulin, the Biden bill would authorize Medicare to negotiate prices for a range of drugs, including insulin. It would penalize drugmakers who raise prices faster than inflation and overhaul the Medicare prescription drug benefit to limit out-of-pocket costs for enrollees.
Biden's agenda passed the House only to stall in the Senate because Democrats could not reach consensus. Party leaders haven't abandoned hope of getting the legislation moving again, and preserving its drug pricing curbs largely intact.
The idea of a $35 monthly cost cap for insulin actually has a bipartisan pedigree. The Trump administration had created a voluntary option for Medicare enrollees to get insulin for $35, and the Biden administration continued it.
In the Senate, Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are working on a bipartisan insulin bill. Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has introduced legislation similar to the House bill, with the support of Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
Stung by criticism that Biden's economic policies spur inflation, Democrats are redoubling efforts to show how they'd help people cope with costs. On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported a key inflation gauge jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982.
But experts say the House bill would not help uninsured people, who face the highest out-of-pocket costs for insulin. Also, people with diabetes often take other medications as well as insulin. That's done to treat the diabetes itself, along with other serious health conditions often associated with the disease. The House legislation would not help with those costs, either. Collins says she's looking for a way to help uninsured people through her bill.
About 37 million Americans have diabetes, and an estimated 6 million to 7 million use insulin to keep their blood sugars under control. It's an old drug, refined and improved over the years, that has seen relentless price increases.
Steep list prices don't reflect the rates insurance plans negotiate with manufacturers. But those list prices are used to calculate cost-sharing amounts that patients owe. Patients who can't afford their insulin reduce or skip doses, a strategy born of desperation, which can lead to serious complications and even death.
Economist Sherry Glied of New York University said the market for insulin is a "total disaster" for many patients, particularly those with skimpy insurance plans or no insurance.
"This will make private insurance for people with diabetes a much more attractive proposition," said Glied. | https://www.fox4now.com/news/national/house-passes-35-a-month-insulin-cap-as-dems-seek-wider-bill | 2022-04-01T01:32:01Z |
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Ten years ago China was shaken by the arrest and downfall of leading CCP princeling Bo Xilai. Bo was one of the most well-known political figures in China, using his office as CCP leader of Chongqing as a platform to project himself as an alternative to the central leadership. Bo Xilai was brought down not primarily because of corruption, which applies in all cases of disgraced or purged officials, but as a key figure in internal CCP power struggles.
2012 was a tumultuous year around the world, with revolutionary upheavals in the Arab World. The Chinese regime feared that a similar process could develop at home. The internal CCP struggles in 2012 saw the rise of Xi Jinping and a radically different direction in policy – towards an unprecedented personal concentration of power, nationalism and harsher authoritarian rule. Ironically, these were all features of Bo Xilai’s rule and revival of “red culture” in Chongqing.
Bo Xilai generated many illusions among Maoists in China who saw him as a progressive alternative to the then Hu-Wen leadership and even as an enemy of the CCP’s capitalist orientation. But in reality he did not stand for such an alternative. The newly launched Maoist Communist Party even held a conference in Chongqing looking to Bo as their flag bearer, but the participants were all arrested.
Here we are republishing two articles from chinaworker.info in 2012. Some processes have become much clearer in the aftermath of these events and others have developed in ways we did not and could not foresee at that time. Still, the major points of our 2012 analysis have been confirmed by subsequent developments.
Bo Xilai and the crisis in the CCP
Impending criminal trial and delay of party congress highlight deep splits in Chinese regime
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
The expulsion of fallen ‘princeling’ Bo Xilai from the ruling ‘communist’ party (CCP), decided at the Politburo’s September 28 meeting, marks a new phase in China’s high-level power struggle, the most serious for at least 20 years. Divisions over how harshly to deal with Bo are responsible for delaying the CCP’s five-yearly party congress, which has now been announced to start on November 8, a month later than originally expected.
This delay underlines the seriousness of internal divisions over positions in the new leadership line-up to be unveiled at the congress. The dates of the last three congresses (in 1997, 2002 and 2007) were all announced in late August, a month earlier than in this case. A traditional pre-congress conclave of CCP leaders held in August at the beach resort of Beidaihe was thought to have reached a deal over the hotly contested leadership line-up. The delay however suggests that any such deal broke down amid renewed factional wrangling.
Abrupt change of fortune
Bo Xilai’s fate has been used as a bargaining chip between his supporters and opponents inside the party leadership. Bo’s opponents – who include the current leadership of president Hu Jintao and premier Wen Jiabao – seem to have gained the upper hand in this matter, but the question is at what price? What concessions have Hu’s ‘tuanpai’ or ‘communist youth league’ faction been forced to make over the carve-up of seats on the party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee (PSC)?
“Apparently, factional rifts and power conflicts have escalated to unprecedented levels this year over how to handle Bo,” said Chen Ziming, a Beijing-based commentator, who speculated that this issue had “forced the top leadership to change the previous consensus” (reached at Beidaihe in August).
The current splits within the one-party state reflect explosive tensions in society, with the most extreme wealth gap in Asia, an epidemic of corruption, and hundreds of ‘mass incidents’ daily. The main fault line of the current struggle is between the ‘princelings’ – super-wealthy second and third generation CCP luminaries like Bo – and their factional opponents mainly represented by the ‘tuanpai’ faction, who want to limit the princelings’ power and break-up their ‘vested interests’, including powerful state-owned industrial groups, which are seen as blocking faster liberalisation of the economy.
Some commentators compare the ferocity of the current internal struggle to the failed coup attempt by Lin Biao against Mao Zedong in 1971, and the mysterious plane crash that killed Lin while attempting to escape to the Soviet Union.
Bo’s expulsion is a first step towards a closely scripted show trial with the aim of ‘killing off’ Bo politically – if not literally. He now faces the prospect of a lengthy prison term, and possibly even the death penalty. While this could unleash an outcry across China from Bo’s many supporters, some of his ‘liberal’ opponents would favour such a drastic sentence – to rule out any possibility of a political comeback. It is unlikely that Bo’s trial will be open to the public, to preclude any act of public defiance or attempt to incriminate his enemies. In this sense, the proceedings are likely to be less democratic than when the Maoist ‘Gang of Four’ were tried in 1981 and Jiang Qing (Madame Mao) delivered a two-hour televised tongue-lashing of her accusers.
Bo Xilai and the ‘new left’
Prior to his dismissal as party chief for Chongqing, Bo was the major figurehead for China’s resurgent ‘new left’ – a loose umbrella group that spans Maoist inspired youth to nationalists and CCP old-timers – who are critical of Beijing’s neo-liberal and pro-globalisation policies. Despite being a multi-millionaire himself, Bo achieved national recognition with his flamboyant campaigns aimed at self-promotion such as his neo-Maoist ‘red culture’ campaign that tapped into the growing popular backlash against the effects of capitalist restoration.
A ruthless crackdown on Chongqing’s notorious triads (criminal gangs), masterminded by Bo’s recently jailed former sidekick and police chief Wang Lijun, drew criticisms from human rights advocates and targeted many others, not just the triads. Such high profile campaigning and the popularity it conferred upon Bo did not endear him to the current leadership of Hu and Wen. Bo was seen as a threat to Beijing’s attempts to rein in wayward provinces, as well as a symbol of ‘princeling’ arrogance, corruption and high-handedness, which unless checked pose a threat to CCP rule.
High-risk strategy
In the days since his expulsion, state-controlled media have denigrated Bo in unusually harsh terms for a fallen official, presenting a litany of crimes including abuse of power, bribery and even “improper sexual relationships”. Significantly, these alleged offences go back over almost two decades to Bo’s time as vice-mayor of Dalian. He has been pilloried as a “dictator” who ruled Chongqing with an “iron hand” and an “extremely filthy man” to quote from the Guangming Daily, a newspaper under the control of the Central Committee. This overtly liberal mouthpiece could not hold back in attacking Bo’s allegedly leftist stand, which it described as a “stale political model that brought China unparalleled disaster”.
These attacks on Bo represent a high-risk strategy by the CCP leadership. “They are going after him with both barrels,” commented Patrick Chovanec, an economist based at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Clearly, the aim is to destroy not just Bo but also to strike a blow against the increasingly vocal neo-Maoist left who adopted him as their standard-bearer. But the anti-Bo propaganda campaign is also likely to fan greater scepticism towards the regime as a whole.
People will inevitably ask why, if Bo “violated party discipline” over a 20-year period, it took the regime until now to stop him? We are told Bo was a “dictator” (a view we would not disagree with), but in what respect were his actions more or less dictatorial than other CCP officials?
As liberal historian Yuan Weishi said, “Why has he been engaged in evil for so long and what on earth nurtures that behaviour?” Bo has been blamed for poor judgement in his choice of police chief Wang, whose flight to the US consulate in Chengdu triggered Bo’s downfall. But as activist lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan commented in a microblog post, “Bo Xilai failed in his oversight of Wang Lijun, so who failed to oversee Bo?”
The regime is moving into unchartered territory with these attacks, which can trigger protests both from Bo’s supporters but also from opponents who doubt the regime’s sincerity or ability to deal with corruption and power “abuses”. The deadlock until now over Bo’s fate, and the delay of the party congress, underline the seriousness of this move and the risks it can incur. In addition to enjoying the protection of fellow ‘princelings’, Bo built up considerable support outside the CCP and also in the armed forces, to a degree that arguably no other leading CCP figure can match.
“Bo’s case is unprecedented [as] he apparently has much greater clout that Chen Liangyu [former party boss of Shanghai, jailed for corruption] and Chen Xitong [former party boss of Beijing, also jailed for corruption],” noted Yuan Weishi, referring to the two most senior cases of official corruption over the past two decades.
Murder trial of Gu Kalai
This represents a complete turnaround since the trial in August of Gu Kalai, Bo’s wife, who received a suspended death sentence after confessing to the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. Gu’s one-day stage-managed trial omitted any mention of Bo. Now, we read in Xinhua that Bo bore “major responsibility” for the murder of Heywood – something that escaped the notice of the court in Gu’s case! Similarly, Gu’s trial played down the issue of corruption, despite it being widely known that Heywood was a money-launderer for the Bo family, and was killed over a dispute with Gu after a multi-million dollar business deal went sour.
By not naming Bo, Gu’s trial implied he would be spared criminal proceedings, to be dealt with more leniently through the CCP’s own disciplinary channels (shuanggui). This was seen as part of a wider deal among the party tops in the run-up to the party congress. But clearly things have changed. The shift began with the trial of Wang Lijun in mid-September, which sent the former Chongqing police chief to jail for 15 years (a lenient sentence considering one of the four indictments was for attempted defection to the US). The official accounts of Wang’s mostly secret trial implicated Bo in the attempted cover-up of Heywood’s murder. Bo was not named, however, with the report referring instead to “the Chongqing party committee’s main responsible person at the time”.
We are now told that Bo, “received huge bribes personally and through his family,” [Xinhua, September 28] and yet at her trial just two months earlier, no such charge was levelled against Gu Kalai or Bo’s son, Bo Guagua (who is said to be in hiding in the US). The omittance of such charges, despite a clear connection to the murder of Heywood, shows the extent to which Gu’s trial was manipulated by the CCP’s leading group for its own interests, which have since changed. The impending trial of Bo Xilai is unlikely to show greater ‘impartiality’ or respect for the ‘rule of law’.
Even the official account of how Heywood was murdered has been cast into doubt, in a blog post (September 26) by Wang Xuemei, one of China’s foremost forensic experts. She has challenged Gu’s scripted confession that she poisoned Heywood with cyanide, because this produces unmistakeable symptoms such as discolouration of the corpse, which would inevitably have been noticed by police forensic experts at the scene. Wang’s post, which was quickly deleted by censors, raised the theory that Heywood may have been suffocated. Why would the prosecution need to ‘modify’ the method by which Heywood’s life was taken? Possibly to give support to the scenario whereby Gu acted by herself, allegedly in a state of mental instability, rather than simply (and more logically) ordering ‘professionals’ from the security forces under Bo’s control to deal with Heywood.
Similar factual ‘modification’ can be expected at Bo’s trial. Already, in the media’s campaign against him, the allegations of corruption have been conveniently downsized with the figure of 20 million yuan in bribes being cited, which is a conspicuously low figure, especially if this is meant to represent his entire career ‘takings’ over two decades.
“As far as I understand, it was far beyond 20 million yuan,” noted Li Zhuang, a lawyer who was jailed by Bo. “Much more than 200 million, I would say.”
An honest accounting of the Bo family’s plunder would however pose serious problems for the CCP regime. The decision to downplay the sums of money involved and also to introduce the issue of “improper sexual relations with multiple women” (not a crime in China), represent diversionary manoeuvres on the part of the state and its propaganda machinery. Despite this, many people will rightly conclude that rather than a ‘bad egg’; Bo Xilai was no better or worse when it came to lining his own pocket than other senior officials.
Most commentators believe the level of corruption in the case of Bo and his family, while possibly running to billions of yuan, is in no way exceptional in China today. “They [CCP officials] don’t have a belief in anything but money,” commented Liu Junsheng of the China University of Political Science and Law, an expert on the newer generation of CCP leaders.
Reports in overseas media, based on information from CCP insiders, allege that as party boss of Chongqing from 2007 to this year, Bo collected 1 billion yuan in bribes just for dispensing promotions. Should such – more realistic – sums surface at his trial and in official accounts, this would inevitably fuel demands for a wider investigation. Most of the underlings who paid Bo for promotion are still sitting on their expensive official seats – very few have been purged in Chongqing following the demise of their benefactor.
Power struggle to continue
The drama surrounding Bo cannot be understood purely in terms of corruption or criminality. “No one seems to know the answers to so many unanswered questions regarding Bo’s downfall and the murder scandal because they are not being treated as legal matters in the first place,” said He Weifang, a law professor at Peking University. “All we have seen is the result of political intrigue and a power struggle.”
As always in China, top-level corruption cases are driven by the struggle between party factions for positions, influence and control. The CCP’s internal factions are not based on any cohesive political agenda or ideology, but rather on clannish loyalties and power politics. Despite this often confusing lack of clear political distinctions, the current struggle does reflect a sharp divergence between those, especially in Wen’s ‘reform wing’, but also said to include president-in-waiting Xi Jinping, who want to speed up deregulation and privatisation of the economy and reduce the dominant role of state-owned companies, and those like Bo who favour more state intervention and the defence of national as against foreign capital.
Bo’s principal backing inside the party hierarchy came from the faction led by the 86-year old ex-president, Jiang Zemin, which is known as the ‘Shanghai gang’ or ‘princeling faction’. This group previously hoped to shield Bo from a public crucifixion, not primarily out of political solidarity (most princelings oppose Bo’s Maoist-tinted populism) but from a sense of collective self-preservation. A public airing of Bo’s misdeeds threatens the standing of the ‘princelings’ as a privileged social stratum, but could also pose a wider systemic threat to the one-party state itself.
In the opinion of Steve Tsang, professor of contemporary Chinese studies at the University of Nottingham, the latest twist of events means the Jiang faction “have agreed to let him [Bo] be thrown to the wolves in exchange for whatever deal they have got in the leadership change.”
It seems the Jiang faction have sacrificed Bo for a bigger presence on the new Politburo Standing Committee. It has even been rumoured that Jiang, officially long retired, attended the September 28 Politburo meeting that expelled Bo Xilai. This also suggests the ‘tuanpai’ faction of outgoing president Hu has, in return for Bo’s scalp, made new concessions over the allocation of PSC seats.
Rather than the victory for Hu, Wen, and the ‘reformist camp’, that some observers are proclaiming, this is more likely a trade-off involving concessions to Jiang, who has shown he still wields considerable influence. If as expected, the number of seats on the ruling PSC is cut from nine to seven in order to concentrate more power in the hands of Xi Jinping, this will also have sharpened the power struggle – rather like a brutal version of ‘musical chairs’.
Anti-Japan protests
It is also possible that Hu’s faction, supported by Xi, have changed their position only recently in favour of a ‘lasting solution’ to the Bo problem, even if this means surrendering a larger role in the new leadership to Jiang’s ‘princeling faction’.
What may have tipped the balance in this case are the recent anti-Japan protests in more than 100 cities across China. These protests were the largest for many years, demanding the return of the disputed Diaoyu islands from Japan in the face of high profile posturing by right-wing Japanese nationalists. They also gave further evidence of the splits within the CCP.
While the central government sought to maintain tight control and use these demonstrations to strengthen its hand in dealings with the Japanese and US governments, the protests in fact produced some nasty surprises for Beijing. The appearance on many of the protests of Mao placards and slogans in support of Bo Xilai in particular, left the central government feeling the protests had been ‘hi-jacked’ by Bo’s supporters and factional allies within the security forces and local governments. This “alarmed many people in the party”, according to Zhang Ming, a political scientist at Renmin University in Beijing.
In turning their guns on Bo, the CCP leadership not only want to block any future political comeback, but also to deal a blow to his supporters in the ‘new left’ and prevent them from posing a challenge to the regime and its increasingly neo-liberal agenda in future.
Internationally, we have heard reassuring sounds from capitalist commentators that the decision to put Bo Xilai on trial means Beijing is “back on track” with its congress and leadership makeover. There has of late been extreme nervousness on global stock markets about governmental paralysis and ‘gridlock’ in China, not unlike that in the US and European Union. This has the capitalists in a panic as they see China’s economy sink towards a possible hard landing, and crave a return to more ‘hands-on’ measures from Beijing including a bigger economic stimulus.
But whatever fate awaits Bo Xilai, this does not mean the end of the power struggle within the regime, which itself is only a reflection of fundamental social contradictions in Chinese society, brought about by rampant capitalist development melded to one-party dictatorship. The struggle is set to continue and can acquire new explosive momentum from the very course of action the regime has embarked upon.
“Airing all this dirty laundry is really risky for the party. They are playing with fire,” warned Chovanec.
What is needed is a mass working class political force, completely independent of all CCP factions – right and so-called ‘left’ – to fight for democratic rights and socialism.
Note: The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) changed its name to International Socialist Alternative (ISA) in 2020. Chinaworker.info is published by ISA in China. | https://chinaworker.info/en/2022/03/30/1312/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bo-xilai-and-the-crisis-in-the-ccp | 2022-04-01T01:32:00Z |
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JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – Myrna and Julio Flores fled El Salvador after gang members levied a “tax” on their home-based business and threatened harm if they didn’t pay up.
“We had a baby on the way. That motivated us to close our business, quit our jobs and come to the United States,” Myrna said, holding her now 8-month-old daughter.
The couple crossed the Rio Grande at Reynosa, Mexico, but didn’t have a chance to plead their case for asylum. The U.S. Border Patrol fingerprinted them at a processing center near McAllen, Texas, put them on an airplane to El Paso and expelled them to Mexico under the Title 42 public health rule last month.
Immigration advocates say Title 42 exposes migrants to violent crime in Mexican border cities like Juarez. The Flores couple can attest to that.
On Feb. 12, armed gunmen allegedly belonging to a cell of the Aztecas gang arrived at a church in South Central Juarez where a funeral was being held for a rival. The gunmen murdered six funeral-goers including a 12-year-old boy and wounded several other people. The Floreses were staying at a small migrant shelter in the back of that church and escaped the fusillade.
“When we went out, we had to step over the dead because there were several dead and wounded. We found refuge in the house across (the street),” Myrna said. “The church had to close to because of threats.”
Seeing days go by at a Juarez shelter, the couple is looking forward to the termination of Title 42, which news reports out of Washington, D.C., say will happen on May 23.
“We were fleeing violence and we found more violence,” Julio said. “I hope they let us apply for asylum (in the United States). Most of us are fleeing because there are too many problems in our countries. The violence in El Salvador has exploded. […] There’s a 6 p.m. curfew in most towns (because of gang violence). People cannot come out of their homes.”
Enrique Valenzuela, head of the Chihuahua Population Council (COESPO), says between 10,000 and 12,500 migrants are in Juarez waiting for the end of Title 42.
“The shelters are at 80 percent capacity. That’s between 2,000 and 3,000 people, but for every migrant that comes to us for assistance, there are four to five that do not,” said Valenzuela, whose office oversees Juarez’s Migrant Assistance Center.
The council in 2019 helped U.S. Customs and Border Protection bring order to a then-chaotic border in which flash mobs frequently materialized across from U.S. ports of entry and hustlers sold places in line.
Back then, COESPO helped manage access to international bridges and provided guidance to migrants as to what documents CBP expected of them.
This time, though, it’s still not known what shape that cooperation will take.
“At this point, we don’t know how much of an influx we will have or how the United States chooses to handle that flow,” Valenzuela said. “It’s important for people to know they have to wait for official information, for them not to be tricked that it will be an easy way into the United States now that Title 42 is going to be lifted. No, that is not the case.”
But Valenzuela said Chihuahua Gov. Maru Campos has instructed his office and other state agencies to continue helping migrants regardless of where they come from. That includes Mexican families displaced by a bloody drug war in several regions, Central and South Americans already in the city or on the way, and those whom the United States continues to expel daily.
“It’s our duty to provide humanitarian attention to people arriving at this border. We work with allies that include all three levels of government (in Mexico), the United Nations, local and international NGOs,” he said. “Our primary duty is to provide them shelter – a place to stay – and also medical and mental health screenings.”
Meantime, Myrna and Julio Flores hope to finally soon have a chance to state their case and flee the violence in El Salvador and Mexico. “Our hope is that at least they let us apply for asylum in the United States. Most of us are on the run, running from problems because our countries are too conflictive,” Julio said. | https://www.localdvm.com/border-report-tour/at-least-10000-in-juarez-waiting-for-title-42-rollback-chance-at-u-s-asylum/ | 2022-04-01T01:32:03Z |
BRADLEY COUNTY, ARKANSAS, Ark. — A fire damaged Warren High School on Wednesday night and for parents like Sandy Gavin, she's now wondering 'what's next?'
"I was just in shock at first and I'm a crier, so the tears started," Gavin said.
For those in this community, Warren High School is more than just a simple brick building-- it holds a lot of great moments within it.
"I have so many memories. Good memories," Gavin said.
Those memories span back to her younger days as she remembers walking the halls with friends to attend class back in the day.
"It's just a very special place for me," Gavin said.
And while it's been some time since she walked through the halls, some of her fondest memories still exist today.
"It's a testament to our class of 1978 and how much we thought of the school," Gavin said.
Some of those memories are now a part of the destruction from Wednesday's fire.
"It just got worse and worse and worse and all these fire trucks came and it was crazy," said Weston Gavin, Sandy's son and junior at Warren High School.
According to the city's fire chief, the fire started around 6:00 p.m. Wednesday evening.
This fire poses yet another problem for he and his classmates. Like countless students across the country, he's already had to adjust his way of life during the pandemic, now this fire damage presents a new hurdle.
Now with classes virtual, he said things will be far from normal.
"You watch all these movies, and you don't have the perfect high school life experience and I'll never have that now," Weston said.
Weston has lived in Warren all of his life and said that he knows the strength of the community.
"We've went through worse stuff than this and so we'll be able to come back out of this stronger," Weston said.
That's something that Gregg Reep, former mayor and current Sales Manager at the Saline River Chronicle, knows all too well.
"We'll get something put back, or repair however we need to do it and we'll still be here," Reep said. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/warren-high-school-cleans-after-fire/91-11386479-7dd2-4ab0-bb0e-d95a8808cb38 | 2022-04-01T01:32:03Z |
Corvallis-based 2 Towns Ciderhouse released a sequel to its number one selling single-serve craft cider in the country “Bad Apple.”
The new cider, aptly called “Super Bad Apple,” has a 12.5% alcohol by volume, compared to 10.5% in “Bad Apple.”
The new cider, which became available in stores Wednesday, is crafted with notes of fresh-pressed apple cider and sweetness that balances out the increased alcohol content.
“The Bad Apple” launched in 2010 and soon became the best selling single-serve craft cider in the nation for being the first coined “Imperial cider.” 2 Towns describes the new cider as “fruit-forward” and sweet.
“Undoubtedly, Super Bad is super good,” Dave Takush, head cider maker, in a statement. “The Bad Apple fans will find the amped-up notes of fresh-pressed apples of Super Bad Apple layered with a touch of sweetness to be the perfect sequel to their OG fav.”
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Inflation rise in June quarter: Treasury
Australia's inflation rate is expected to tick higher in the June quarter but the increase will be capped by a cut in the fuel excise announced this week.
"Our central forecast is for inflation to pick up to four-and-a-quarter per cent through the year in the March quarter and June quarters," Treasury Secretary Steven Kennedy told a post-budget Senate estimates hearing on Friday.
Of this, about one percentage point would be due to the direct effect of higher oil prices on fuel.
Broader global energy cost and supply-chain pressures will put pressure on prices for other consumer goods in the near term.
Treasury is forecasting for oil prices to remain elevated but reduce from the recent peak of above $US125 per barrel.
A more prolonged period of higher oil prices could add a further quarter percentage point to annual inflation, Dr Kennedy said.
Without the reduced excise, inflation would have been forecast to rise to 4.5 per cent in the June quarter, he said.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Tuesday halved the 44.2 cents a litre fuel excise for six months in an effort to cut cost-of-living pressures.
Economists expect inflation to accelerate to at least five per cent compared with an already high rate of 3.5 per cent.
Dr Kennedy played down the risk of that happening, saying conditions in Australia were a little different to those in the United States and Europe.
"While we have faced higher petrol prices, we have not faced domestically higher gas prices, and other energy prices, to the same extent," he said.
"The second factor is in the US they have got broader wage pressures coming through. They have not recovered their participation rates so they are facing a tighter labour market." | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-10674563/Inflation-rise-June-quarter-Treasury.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-01T01:32:04Z |
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A man has been charged following an assault in a Hastings dairy earlier this week.
A customer was allegedly assaulted inside a dairy on Gordon Road at around 11am on Tuesday, Detective Inspector Dave de Lange said in a statement.
The customer suffered serious facial injuries, including a fractured cheekbone, and a concussion.
“This was a savage, unprovoked attack on an innocent member of the public going about his daily business,” de Lange said.
The victim, an RSE worker, remains in hospital while he recovers from his injuries.
"In addition to the serious impact this incident has had on the victim, I’m aware it has also affected the victim’s colleagues, and our wider RSE community.
“I want to reassure them that this was an isolated event and the offender has been located and will be held to account for his actions.”
A 32-year-old man is has been charged with injuring with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. | https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/31/man-charged-in-savage-unprovoked-hastings-dairy-assault/ | 2022-04-01T01:32:04Z |
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Serious security delays at Dublin Airport are unlikely to be resolved in the short term.
This is according to Niall Philips, the organizer of the aviation sector with SIPTU.
He was speaking as delays continue at the country’s largest airport, with passengers being advised to arrive several hours before the flight.
Those on short-haul flights must get there “at least two hours before boarding”, while those on long-haul flights should give themselves three hours.
DA CEO Dalton Phillips says they are “aggressively recruiting” to solve this problem.
Niall Phillips told Newstalk Breakfast The recruitment process itself may be an issue.
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HEROcoin (PLAY) traded down 13.1% against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 20:00 PM E.T. on March 31st. One HEROcoin coin can now be bought for approximately $0.0169 or 0.00000037 BTC on exchanges. Over the last seven days, HEROcoin has traded up 16.9% against the dollar. HEROcoin has a total market capitalization of $4.21 million and approximately $50,684.00 worth of HEROcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed over the last 24 hours:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded down 0.3% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002189 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded down 3.9% against the dollar and now trades at $1.62 or 0.00003558 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded up 1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.65 or 0.00004286 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded up 5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002191 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded down 1.6% against the dollar and now trades at $17.01 or 0.00037265 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded 4.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $48.94 or 0.00107216 BTC.
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According to CryptoCompare, “HEROcoin is a decentralized online betting platform for esports events. PLAY is an Ethereum-based ERC20 token that powers HEROcoin's ecosystem. Single users can become providers and are rewarded for their effort in HERO. On top of that, all HERO holders will receive a general reward from every pot that is played. “
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Dolly Parton is sharing her support for those fighting the wildfires in Wears Valley and Sevier County.
On Thursday, Parton tweeted, “I’ve been keeping up with everything going on with the fires near my home area. It looks scary on TV, but I’m proud of how everyone in the area has pulled together like they always do. I’m especially proud of the brave men and women who are working to contain the fire.”
The fire has burned at least 3,700 acres and at least 500 people have been evacuated. The fire is still burning, with 30 percent contained. More evacuations were ordered late Thursday, more than 24 hours after the fire broke out on Hatcher Mountain in Wears Valley.
Parton also wrote, “I know there are some folks who have been affected, and I hope that you will join me in saying a prayer for them. During this time, I’ve also remained in touch with my people at Dollywood who have assured me everything is okay there.”
Pigeon Forge leaders said Thursday at a press conference that firefighters had kept the flames from entering the city limits.
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WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed a bill capping the monthly cost of insulin at $35 for insured patients, part of an election-year push by Democrats for price curbs on prescription drugs at a time of rising inflation.
Experts say the legislation, which passed 232-193, would provide significant relief for privately insured patients with skimpier plans and for Medicare enrollees facing rising out-of-pocket costs for their insulin. Some could save hundreds of dollars annually, and all insured patients would get the benefit of predictable monthly costs for insulin. The bill would not help the uninsured.
But the Affordable Insulin Now Act will serve as a political vehicle to rally Democrats and force Republicans who oppose it into uncomfortable votes ahead of the midterms. For the legislation to pass Congress, 10 Republican senators would have to vote in favor. Democrats acknowledge they don't have an answer for how that's going to happen.
“If 10 Republicans stand between the American people being able to get access to affordable insulin, that's a good question for 10 Republicans to answer,” said Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., a cosponsor of the House bill. “Republicans get diabetes, too. Republicans die from diabetes.”
Public opinion polls have consistently shown support across party lines for congressional action to limit drug costs.
But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., complained the legislation is only “a small piece of a larger package around government price controls for prescription drugs." Critics say the bill would raise premiums and fails to target pharmaceutical middlemen seen as contributing to high list prices for insulin.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Democrats could have a deal on prescription drugs if they drop their bid to authorize Medicare to negotiate prices. “Do Democrats really want to help seniors, or would they rather have the campaign issue?" Grassley said.
The insulin bill, which would take effect in 2023, represents just one provision of a much broader prescription drug package in President Joe Biden's social and climate legislation.
In addition to a similar $35 cap on insulin, the Biden bill would authorize Medicare to negotiate prices for a range of drugs, including insulin. It would penalize drugmakers who raise prices faster than inflation and overhaul the Medicare prescription drug benefit to limit out-of-pocket costs for enrollees.
Biden's agenda passed the House only to stall in the Senate because Democrats could not reach consensus. Party leaders haven't abandoned hope of getting the legislation moving again, and preserving its drug pricing curbs largely intact.
The idea of a $35 monthly cost cap for insulin actually has a bipartisan pedigree. The Trump administration had created a voluntary option for Medicare enrollees to get insulin for $35, and the Biden administration continued it.
In the Senate, Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are working on a bipartisan insulin bill. Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has introduced legislation similar to the House bill, with the support of Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
Stung by criticism that Biden's economic policies spur inflation, Democrats are redoubling efforts to show how they'd help people cope with costs. On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported a key inflation gauge jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982.
But experts say the House bill would not help uninsured people, who face the highest out-of-pocket costs for insulin. Also, people with diabetes often take other medications as well as insulin. That's done to treat the diabetes itself, along with other serious health conditions often associated with the disease. The House legislation would not help with those costs, either. Collins says she's looking for a way to help uninsured people through her bill.
About 37 million Americans have diabetes, and an estimated 6 million to 7 million use insulin to keep their blood sugars under control. It’s an old drug, refined and improved over the years, that has seen relentless price increases.
Steep list prices don't reflect the rates insurance plans negotiate with manufacturers. But those list prices are used to calculate cost-sharing amounts that patients owe. Patients who can’t afford their insulin reduce or skip doses, a strategy born of desperation, which can lead to serious complications and even death.
Economist Sherry Glied of New York University said the market for insulin is a “total disaster” for many patients, particularly those with skimpy insurance plans or no insurance.
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The number of COVID-19 cases reported to the state continued to grow, albeit more slowly, the state reported Thursday, March 31, while continuing to draw down its response to the virus, ending a command team that had coordinated efforts since August 2021 to combat surges of COVID-19, according to a news release.
The unit was known as the Healthcare Surge Unified Command team, and was comprised of staff from Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Department of Human Services.
"Though the period of active operations ends today, some team members will continue to serve through the end of June," the news release states.
OHA operations will switch from emergency response to a focus on resiliency in the state's health care system, the release states.
Meanwhile, the percentage of people testing positive coronavirus seems to have plateaued.
Although the relationship is not equal, positive test rates for the virus so far have peaked around the same time as reported cases.
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Just 1.7% of those tested on March 13 in Benton County showed positive for coronavirus, the lowest positive test rate since June 2021, before the virus surged under the delta variant, according to OHA data.
By March 20, 4.8% of coronavirus tests in Benton County were positive as the BA.2 subvariant of the virus was causing spikes in cases in the U.S. south and northeast.
Those rates plateaued the next week with 4.8% of tests again showing positive by March 27.
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Positive results accounted for 1.9% of tests in the county in November before the omicron variant coronavirus swept through Oregon. At the height of infections in January, 18.4% of tests were positive.
Over the same time in Linn County, positive tests lagged with the lowest numbers, 1.8%, posted the week ending March 20. The positive test rate was 2.8% on March 27.
The state recorded 320 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday March 30, 67 fewer than the day before, while the rolling seven-day average rose from 252 to 255 cases each day. The rolling average increased on March 27 for the first time since the January peak of cases.
So far 15,080 Benton County residents have had COVID-19 cases reported to the state, and 66 have died with the disease.
Linn County has seen 26,379 cases and 255 deaths.
Statewide, 7,144 have died with COVID-19, and 704,152 have logged cases with the state since the pandemic started in 2020.
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Richmond to stick with Balta in attack
Richmond coach Damien Hardwick says the threat posed by St Kilda spearhead Max King won't sway him from using swingman Noah Balta at the opposite end of the ground in their AFL clash.
Premiership defender Balta has impressed in attack this season, kicking six goals across the opening two rounds.
He combined well with Tom Lynch against GWS last week in the absence of veteran forward Jack Riewoldt, who has been named to return from a thumb injury against the Saints at the MCG on Sunday.
"We know what we've got with Noah down back but we wanted to see what he could be and we've really enjoyed what he's brought," Hardwick said.
"He's a powerful man, a great contested mark and he's a great kick at goal as well.
"At this stage we'll settle him down up forward for this week but that's not to say that in the upcoming weeks he won't swing down back at various stages."
King's dominant third-quarter showing against Fremantle last week was crucial in St Kilda claiming their first win of the season.
The 21-year-old, now in his third full season after injuries ruined his rookie year, booted four goals in a performance that made the rest of the competition take notice.
Balta is arguably the Tigers' best physical match-up for King but Hardwick will try his other options first.
"He's an incredible talent, Max. He's getting better and better every year we see him play," Hardwick said.
"But we're really confident with Robbie (Tarrant), Josh Gibcus and Dylan Grimes ... that one of those players will be able to fill the role and negate him as best they can.
"He's going to take some marks, he's going to kick some goals - that's what the very best players do.
"We've got to make sure we manage that as best we can and keep it to a relatively low total."
Riewoldt and Grimes, who missed last week because of soreness, both took part in the Tigers' light training session at Punt Road on Friday.
Meanwhile, Richmond superstar Dustin Martin is no closer to returning from personal leave.
Martin has been away from the club since last week as he grieves the death of his father, Shane, last December.
"We have no further update at this stage. It's still at the same stage that we had last (week)," Hardwick said.
"We give him time and we wish him all the very best, and we can't wait to welcome him back at some stage.
"When that is, we're not too sure."
Hardwick chose not to disclose further details, brushing off questions about whether Martin is training while away from the club.
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0001104659-22-040401 | https://www.benzinga.com/secfilings/22/03/26389095/jaguar-health-inc-changes-to-beneficial-ownership-bochnowski-james-j-director-form4 | 2022-04-01T01:32:11Z |
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has a complex etiology that seems to include immune dysfunction and alterations in circulating monocytes. To investigate the immune basis and the functional dysregulation of monocytes in this disease, we analyzed gene expression in the peripheral monocytes of pediatric patients with OCD (N"‰="‰102) compared to controls (N"‰="‰47). We examined gene expression in primary cultures of peripheral monocytes from participants, under basal conditions and under exposure to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to stimulate immune response. Whole-genome expression was assessed in 8 patients and 8 controls. Differentially expressed genes were identified followed by protein-protein interaction network construction and functional annotation analysis to identify the genes and biological processes that are altered in the monocytes of OCD patients. We also explored the expression levels of selected genes in monocytes from the other participants using qPCR. Several changes in gene expression were observed in the monocytes of OCD patients, with several immune processes involved under basal conditions (antigen processing and presentation, regulation of immune system and leukocyte cell adhesion) and after LPS stimulation (immune and inflammatory response, cytokine production and leukocyte activation). Despite the qPCR analysis provided no significant differences between patients and controls, high correlations were observed between the expression levels of some of the genes and inflammatory markers (i.e., T helper 17 and regulatory T cell levels, total monocyte and proinflammatory monocyte subset levels, and the cytokine production by resting and stimulated monocytes) of the study participants. Our findings provide more evidence of the involvement of monocyte dysregulation in early-onset OCD, indicating a proinflammatory predisposition and an enhanced immune response to environmental triggers. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556692044401/why-hepatitis-b-hits-aboriginal-australians-especially-hard | 2022-04-01T01:32:11Z |
Duke. North Carolina. It’s always a big, blue-blooded, rival matchup.
Some may wonder if the two squads have ever met in the NCAA Final Four. They haven’t—in fact, the two teams with 11 championships have never met in the NCAA Tournament.
Now, one spot is on the line in the championship game. The No. 8 seed will be the North Carolina Underdogs versus the No. 2 seed Duke (32-6) of the team, which will have NBA draft picks like Paulo Banchero, Mark Williams, and AJ Griffin.
An upset Saturday will mark the end of Duke’s head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s coaching history as he retires. Coach Kay won all five Duke titles, including the most recent in 2015. Winning one final title would be the end of a story.
“It’s the goat right here.”
“No, no. Shut up.”
This coach’s postgame interview…
Read Full News | https://themiracletech.com/latest/duke-north-carolina-meet-for-fantasy-final-four-espn-98-1-fm/ | 2022-04-01T01:32:12Z |
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Will Smith was not asked to leave the Oscars after he slapped Chris Rock, according to a new report from entertainment site TMZ.
The Academy released a statement on Thursday clarifying Smith was asked to leave the awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Monday - but TMZ has reported sources claim the organisation never attempted to kick the actor out.
According to TMZ, show producer Will Packer told Smith he could stay.
Some Oscars officials did want the actor to leave, but the group never reached an agreement, the report said.
Sources also told TMZ that Smith was asked to leave by Oscars CEO Dawn Hudson and president David Rubin.
READ MORE: Will Smith's Oscars slap felt by comedians beyond Chris Rock
Rubin and Hudson were reportedly furious with Smith and got into an argument with his representatives backstage.
Smith won the Oscar for best actor for his role as Venus and Serena Williams' father in King Richard. | https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/31/oscars-didnt-ask-will-smith-to-leave-report/ | 2022-04-01T01:32:11Z |