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HONOLULU (AP) — A man accused with his wife of trafficking a mother and teenaged girl to Hawaii from Guam pleaded not guilty Thursday.
Kevin Robert pleaded not guilty to labor trafficking charges, according to his attorney, Tim Rakieten. His wife, Pomerrine Robert, pleaded not guilty last week. Kevin Robert's arraignment was postponed then because he requested a Chuukese interpreter.
“I need sufficient time to review the case, and review with him, before I can comment any further,” Rakieten said.
State Public Defender James Tabe, whose office represents Pomerrine Robert, has previously declined to comment.
Police alleged in court documents that when the 15-year-old girl and her mother arrived in Honolulu, the Roberts took away their passports, forced them to work and beat them.
Court documents don't specify the country of the passports.
The girl and her mother lived in the couple's apartment, while the teen enrolled at a high school and the woman got a job at a deli where Pomerrine Robert also worked, the documents said.
The documents said Robert took away the mother’s money, the girl was expected to clean the apartment and Robert beat the girl and mother.
The couple locked the girl in a bedroom for several days and she reported it to a school counselor after she was let out, according to the documents.
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https://www.manisteenews.com/news/article/Husband-pleads-not-guilty-in-Hawaii-Guam-17049732.php
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Shares of Shaw Communications Inc. Cl B NV
SJR.B,
-0.26%
slipped 0.26% to C$38.80 Thursday, in what proved to be an all-around negative trading session for the Canadian market, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index
GSPTSE,
-0.84%
falling 0.84% to 21,890.16. This was the stock's fourth consecutive day of losses. Shaw Communications Inc. Cl B NV closed C$0.52 short of its 52-week high (C$39.32), which the company reached on March 25th. Trading volume of 1.5 M shares remained below its 50-day average volume of 1.9 M.
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/shaw-communications-inc-cl-b-nv-stock-outperforms-market-despite-losses-on-the-day-01648758921-3cd4a805c195
| 2022-04-01T00:08:22Z
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak spoke to a packed crowd at USI. Here are 5 takeaways.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Apple Inc. cofounder Steve Wozniak presented the contrarian ideas he’s well known for to a packed house at the University of Southern Indiana Wednesday night.
Speaking as part of USI's Innovative Speaker Series, Wozniak recounted the early years of Apple’s formation, an era dominated by a counterculture which Wozniak said he “appreciated” but didn’t fully participate in.
Speaking at a rapid pace, Wozniak retold the often quirky reality of the 1970s tech industry, but he also lamented the rise of artificial intelligence and the role algorithms play in our everyday lives.
Here are five takeaways from Wozniak's speech and the subsequent discussion:
1. Education should leave room for students to make mistakes
"We were just dumb kids making up our own projects," Wozniak said. "Nobody in school was saying, 'Here's the project that we're going to, here's what you want to do.' A little bit of misbehavior came along with that, but we had the freedom the explore and think for ourselves."
Wozniak passionately made the argument that students and would-be entrepreneurs deserve the space to make mistakes and play pranks. Apple wouldn't exist, he said, if he hadn't been afforded the chance to explore his interests as a child.
He also spoke at length about the role computers can play in education.
"My look at education comes from a different perspective," Wozniak said. "The important thing for me wasn't the knowledge of how you could use a computer in certain ways. It was about making it fun."
2. Happiness = S - F
"On the day I die, I want to be the happy guy that's laughing and smiling," Wozniak said. "I made up a formula for life. Life is about happiness and happiness is a formula: 'H equals S minus F.'
The "S" stands for smiles and the "F" stands for frowns, Wozniak said. He urged listeners to tell jokes and play pranks: activities he said unleashed creativity and new ideas.
He circled back to this theme many times throughout the night, and he argued today's tech products should be, above all else, fun to use.
3. 'Tech' doesn't mean what it used to mean
Wozniak giddily told the relatively young audience about a time before smartphones and millimeter-thin laptops. The first computers he got to play with used switches and dials to input basic programs.
What may seem like simple technology today was, at the time, incredibly complex. But Wozniak pointed out that in the 1960s and '70s, most devices could be taken apart and tinkered with or repaired by hand.
Now, as smartphones and laptops become increasingly difficult for users to repair or modify, Wozniak said it's important that tech enthusiasts fight for "their right to really own the products they buy."
"If you buy apps today, everything is a subscription," he said. "Everybody just wants to make money off of you and nobody will really sell you something ... and I don't really like that."
4. Artificial intelligence promises innovation but also poses risks
When the moderator asked Wozniak for his thoughts on Elon Musk's "Neuralink," a project to connect artificial intelligence directly to the human brain, Wozniak didn't mince words.
"Elon Musk? Don't use that word around me. That's like a four-letter word for me," he said.
He went on to criticize how artificial intelligence increasingly makes "decisions for you and your life."
"The problem is, nowadays, sometimes it makes a guess that is just totally wrong," Wozniak said. "If you're a creative human, as I consider myself, you do not want somebody to say, 'I know what you're gonna do.'"
5. Higher education drives innovation and brings entrepreneurs together
"The university was where my intellectual freedom was really allowed to grow," Wozniak said. "The high school and first year of college is so important — you get the intellectual freedom to pursue what your desires are in life and what your passions are."
Wozniak credited the California "Homebrew Computer Club" with fostering a spirit of innovation. In the 1970s, the club largely consisted of professors and students at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkley.
He recounted how club members marveled over early prototypes of Apple's first computer.
Wozniak: A lifelong hacker and engineer
Steve Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple Computer Inc. together in 1976, but Wozniak said his interests in computing and engineering date back to his early childhood.
His father was an engineer, but Wozniak said Wednesday night he had the freedom to pursue whichever career path he chose.
In the late 1960s, Wozniak found himself expelled from the University of Colorado Boulder after he hacked the school's computer system, but the expulsion did little to stifle his interest in computing.
Wozniak built his first punch-card computer with a friend in the early 1970s for a self-taught engineering project, according to Owen Linzmeyer's book "Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of The World's Most Colorful Company."
And, just a few years later, Wozniak designed the Apple I, a switch-board computer that lacked a display but nonetheless packed a punch for the time with its 8 kilobits of integrated memory.
Wozniak also designed Apple's first consumer-level computer, the Apple II, which featured a color display. It came at a time when nearly all personal computers rendered nothing but black-and-white text.
The Apple II, along with Commodore's PET 2001 computer and RadioShack's TRS-80, were some of the first computers marketed to a mass audience.
Wozniak temporarily left Apple in 1981 after suffering severe injuries in an aviation accident, and while he did eventually return to Apple, Wozniak severed ties in 1985 and sold most of his stock.
After leaving the company he helped build, Wozniak founded and co-founded other technology startups, including Privateer Space in 2021, which uses data analysis to track space debris in orbit around Earth.
Houston Harwood can be contacted at walter.harwood@courierpress.com with story ideas and questions. Twitter: @houston_whh
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Honda, Acura to sell certified 10-year-old used cars
Honda has found a way to address record-high new and used car prices. By selling very old cars.
Honda and its luxury brand Acura are launching new certified pre-owned programs that cover vehicles up to 10 years old.
HondaTrue Used and Acura Precision Used promise that the vehicles have been subjected to a 112-point inspection and provide 100 days or 5,000 miles of powertrain and bumper to bumper warranty coverage, 12 months or 12,000 miles of roadside assistance, a free first oil change, a three-month SiriusXM trial subscription and a three-day or 300-mile return policy.
The programs are an extension of the brand's current certified pre-owned programs, which cover vehicles no older than five years, but offer longer benefits. All the cars in participating dealer inventory can be browsed on the automaker's consumer websites.
The inventory of HondaTrue Used and Acura Precision Used vehicles can be shopped on the brand's websites. (Honda)
Honda expects the new programs to appeal to young and first-time buyers who have been priced out of the new car market. It and several other mainstream automakers have abandoned the sub-$20,000 market, and the lowest priced Honda currently available new is the HR-V, which starts at $23,095.
Over 40 million used vehicles were sold in the U.S. in 2021, which was nearly three-times the number of new vehicles. The average age of a car in the U.S. reached 12.1 years in 2021, according to IHS Markit.
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The city of West Hollywood and its Transgender Advisory Board will recognize the annual International Transgender Day of Visibility on Thursday, March 31.
This year, a week-long celebration will offer increased visibility to the transgender community at a time when transgender rights continue to be under attack throughout the country and worldwide.
The city council issued a proclamation to commemorate TDOV, by flying the transgender flag over City Hall and along the medians of Santa Monica Boulevard, and will light the lanterns over Santa Monica Boulevard in blue, pink and white, which are the colors of the transgender flag. In addition, the city will also highlight transgender and gender non-conforming leaders beginning on March 31 on its website at weho.org/lgbtq.
The city’s arts division will also support several projects featuring transgender artists. The WallSpace Gallery, located at 7701 Santa Monica Boulevard, will hold a Transgender Day of Visibility celebration on March 31 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. featuring the As We Are, Pillars of Society art exhibit. The exhibit brings together community artists and allies to artistically depict trans visibility through creative direction, photography, mixed media and fashion. The programming continues through April 15 at the following locations: WallSpace, located at 7701 Santa Monica Boulevard, Art Angels Gallery, located at 9020 Beverly Blvd., and bG Gallery, located at 2525 Michigan Ave. in Santa Monica.
On Wednesday, April 6 at 6 p.m., as part of the City’s WeHo Reads series, there will be a poetry reading featuring four trans poets in a reading and dialogue about the future and the intersections of science fiction and poetry, activism and language. Curated and hosted by West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace, readers include Ryka Aoki, LA-based poet and author of the new sci-fi novel “Light from Uncommon Stars,” Harry Josephine Giles, Scottish poet and author of “Deep Wheel Orcadia,” in conversation with young poets, along with organizers Simba the Poet and Ava Dadvand. The event, titled WeHo Reads: Trans | Future | Poetics, will take place online and is free to attend.
For more information and to RSVP: weho.org/wehoreads. The event can be viewed on the city of West Hollywood arts division’s YouTube channel at you-tube.com/wehoarts.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden vastly overpromised Thursday when he told Americans they can expect savings of $500 a month by transitioning to renewable energy. It's possible they might save that much over a year, not per month.
Biden addressed the subject while announcing plans to order the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the strategic petroleum reserve for the next six months.
Biden is grappling with fallout from surging energy prices, including gasoline that has reached an average of $4.23 per gallon, after the United States banned imports of Russian oil and gas.
It’s unclear how much gasoline prices might dip from Biden’s new order, but the president did promise immediate savings from adopting renewable energy:
BIDEN: “If your home is powered by safer, cheaper, cleaner electricity like solar or heat pumps, you can save about $500 a month on average.”
THE FACTS: Not so. The average person in the U.S. spends far less than that every month on electricity.
The average electric bill for homeowners was $115 per month in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Between 2009 and 2019, the average monthly electric bill for a U.S. homeowner never surpassed $120.
In a statement released to support his order Thursday, the White House predicted his energy plan would save people “$500 a year from using clean electricity like solar and heat pumps to power their homes.”
Earlier this year Biden himself promised to save “families an average of $500 a year by combatting climate change.” But in a fumble, he cast the savings this time as monthly. The White House corrected Biden’s remark in a transcript, making clear he meant to say the savings he predicted would be over a year.
Even yearly savings, though, would take years for homeowners to realize, given the upfront cost of installing solar panels and heat pumps in homes.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The prosecutor’s office of the International Criminal Court said Thursday that it will open an office in Venezuela as it investigates allegations of torture and killings by the South American country’s security forces.
The decision to open the office was announced by ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan at the end of a three-day trip to the capital, Caracas.
In a televised appearance alongside President Nicolás Maduro, Khan said he welcomed the commitment of the Venezuelan government to explore cooperation and technical assistance as part of the efforts to investigate alleged crimes against humanity.
Among other measures, Khan said Maduro’s government agreed to provide visas to court officials and to the participation of international organizations and partners, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
“Any state that encounters difficulties in complying with the rule of law must be respected,” Khan said. He added that he is “aware that the visit has not been easy, perhaps; but I feel very grateful for the commitment and the frank debates that we have had.”
Khan announced the investigation in November. At the time, the court and Maduro’s administration signed a memorandum of understanding in which the government agreed to cooperate to clarify the facts that led to the initiation of the process.
That announcement followed a lengthy preliminary probe started in February 2018 that focused on allegations of excessive force, arbitrary detention and torture by security forces during a crackdown on anti-government protests in 2017.
Khan’s predecessor, Fatou Bensouda, had indicated there was a reasonable basis to conclude that crimes against humanity had been committed in Venezuela, echoing the findings of the U.N.’s human rights council last year. But she left the decision to open any probe to Khan, a British lawyer who took the reins of the ICC earlier this year.
Maduro on Thursday said the opening of the office in Venezuela will allow for an “effective level of dialogue” that will help clarify the facts in a timely manner.
“We are first interested in seeing justice carried out, and where a crime of the characteristics is committed, it be punished according to the law, on time,” Maduro said. He added that the country’s judicial system is being overhauled.
Since its creation two decades ago, the ICC has mostly focused on atrocities committed in Africa. It could be years before any criminal charges are presented as part of the court’s investigation.
In a written statement, Khan said the start of the process “is not a one-way street” and should also serve as the basis for stronger partnerships.
He said efforts to put into effect the memorandum of understanding will include providing technical assistance and knowledge transfer to Venezuelan authorities “to support the effective investigation and prosecution at the national level of alleged crimes,” as well as offering training and expert advice to help implement domestic legislation.
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It appears that the Syracuse Orange will lose one of last season’s best bench players. This morning, Center Frank Anselem annouced that he will enter the NCAA transfer portal.
— Frank (@the2kfranky) March 31, 2022
The rising junior played primarily off the bench last season, and later started six games in place of the injured Jesse Edwards. In 32 outings, Anselem had 123 total rebounds (3.8 per game, 84 points (2.6 per game), and a .625 (30-48) FG%. He played a career high 36 minutes in the 2/12 matchup at Virginia Tech, collecting a combined 15 rebounds. Anselem would match that rebound total in the ACC Tournament game against Florida State.
With the Nigerian-born player’s departure, the Orange will be left with Edwards, John Bol Ajak (if he does not also transfer), and incoming freshman Peter Carey at the center position.
Let’s all hope this isn’t the start of a repeat exodus of depth pieces.
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https://www.nunesmagician.com/2022/3/31/23004758/syracuse-orange-mens-basketball-frank-anselem-enters-the-ncaa-transfer-portal
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RasIanI: This would be comedic if it wasn't war crimes of destruction and violence.
Theeng: "Wait, they pay AND feed you?"
JohnnyApocalypse: This is coming from The Star... hopefully a bit more reliable than The Sun, right? It seems a tad sensational and dubious. If true, thanks for getting on the right side!
SergeantObvious: Is it a war crime to pay bounties for Russian commanders?If not, this war could be over for the cost of a few dozen cheeseburgers and a box of warm gloves.
Percise1: Hey, some of the captured pilots weren't happy that they were sent to bomb homes and hospitals and said that they would be coming home and after Putin for making them war criminals, so... there could very well be an element of truth to this.Dictators gonna be dicks... *shrug*
Stile4aly: JohnnyApocalypse: This is coming from The Star... hopefully a bit more reliable than The Sun, right? It seems a tad sensational and dubious. If true, thanks for getting on the right side!I tend to take journalism with a grain of salt when the publication in question includes boobs on page 3.Not that I object to the boobs.
Kiler: Stile4aly: JohnnyApocalypse: This is coming from The Star... hopefully a bit more reliable than The Sun, right? It seems a tad sensational and dubious. If true, thanks for getting on the right side!I tend to take journalism with a grain of salt when the publication in question includes boobs on page 3.Not that I object to the boobs.FoxNews puts the boobs on the front page.
Dknsvsbl: In 1941, the ReichsHeer were greeted as liberators by the Ukranians, and a huge % of all the other minority peoples.Guderian, in his memoirs, wrote of German formations entering Rostov in 1942, greeted by cheering, flower and food giving crowds. Russian crowds.Then came the "Wry Face" order.Putler has made the same miscalculation.
PartTimeBuddha: Dknsvsbl: In 1941, the ReichsHeer were greeted as liberators by the Ukranians, and a huge % of all the other minority peoples.Guderian, in his memoirs, wrote of German formations entering Rostov in 1942, greeted by cheering, flower and food giving crowds. Russian crowds.Then came the "Wry Face" order.Putler has made the same miscalculation.You said many words. I am sure many of them meant something to you. 1942 was 80 years ago. Can I am helping
baconator41: On a slightly related note: can someone get Fox News to change their name to Fox Political Clickbait Trashbag?
Fireproof: 'Several hundred' Russian troops switch sides and start fighting for UkraineNapoleon approves.
Intrepid00: Percise1: Hey, some of the captured pilots weren't happy that they were sent to bomb homes and hospitals and said that they would be coming home and after Putin for making them war criminals, so... there could very well be an element of truth to this.Dictators gonna be dicks... *shrug*Some, the fat turd one had no problem and has even been promoted for it in the past.
ISO15693: What a crap last 1000 years it has been for them.
NEDM: You should have read the last two lines, because he's saying that Putin is making the same mistakes as Hitler.
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Brazil's central bank to postpone payments to banks due to striking workers
By Bernardo Caram
BRASILIA, March 31 (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank decided on Wednesday to postpone payments to financial institutions for resources held in accounts from the Pix instant payment system, underscoring mounting risks from striking workers despite the relatively small impact for banks.
The payment, which was to add interest at the bank's Selic benchmark rate for the time the funds were held, was due to be made for the first time on Friday.
According to the central bank analysts association ANBCB, financial institutions will no longer receive around 2 million reais ($422,030) per day.
"The central bank's workers are carrying out daily partial stoppages and will go on strike from April 1, which affects the performance of various processes," Monetary Policy Director Bruno Serra said in a vote supporting the decision on Wednesday.
To preserve the security of the systems and the maintenance of essential activities ahead of the strike, Serra said it was considered appropriate to postpone the payments, adding they would be again proposed “when the issues are overcome.”
Brazil's central bank employees voted on Monday for an indefinite strike starting on April 1 in the face of unanswered demands about a wage increase. Until now, partial shutdowns have been affecting the release of economic indicators and other data.
The central bank said the measure aims to preserve the proper functioning of IT systems considering "the potential risks" imposed by the strike.
The financial industry group Febraban called the decision "prudent" adding that policymakers had avoided implementing new features on more sensitive days.
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Brazil central bank employees vote to strike from April 1, says union
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Is Russia Shifting Strategy? – Tug of War – Podcast on CNN Audio
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NEW DELHI, March 31 (IANS): In view of the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war resulting in supply restrictions in import of edible oils and oilseeds, the Centre has extended the stock limits imposed on edible oils and oilseeds until December 31.
This will come into effect from April 1.
A notification from the ministry of Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution’s Department of Food and Public Distribution published on Wednesday, extended the date from March 31 to December 31.
Domestic prices have been impacted by the high prices of edible oils in the international market. Majority of India’s import of sunflower oil comes from Ukraine. The shortage in the global supply chain has had an impact on Indian markets too.
The government had claimed that it formulated a multi-pronged strategy to ensure that the prices of essential commodities such as edible oils remain controlled. Measures like rationalisation of import duty structure, launching of a web-portal for self-disclosure of stocks held by various stakeholders, have already been taken.
Under this amendment, the stock limits for edible oils are 30 quintals for retail and 500 quintals for wholesale while the same for oilseeds will be 100 quintals and 2,000 quintals, respectively. In both cases, the time for processors is 90 days of storage/production capacity.
This order was termed as Removal of Licensing Requirements, Stock Limits and Movement Restrictions on Specified Foodstuffs (Second Amendment) Order, 2022 and shall come into force with effect from April 1, 2022.
“In case, the stocks held by respective legal entities are higher than the prescribed limits then they shall declare the same on the portal (https://evegoils.nic.in/eosp/login) of the department of Food and Public Distribution and bring it to the prescribed stock limits in this control order within 30 days of the issue of this notification,” the notification said.
“It shall be ensured that edible oils and edible oilseeds stock is regularly declared and updated on the portal of this department i.e. department of Food and Public Distribution (https://evegoils.nic.in/eosp/login).”
In a related development, the government has also extended the free import of refined palm oils till December 31.
The Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday that 62.84 LMT of palm oil was imported between June 2021 and March 14, 2022.
In a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha, Union minister of state for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti said: “In order to improve the domestic availability and to keep prices of edible oils under control, the government has allowed import of edible oils under Open General Licence (OGL).”
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BRASHER FALLS — St. Lawrence Central High School will be implementing a new program in the fall to give seniors an opportunity to gain real-world job experience.
The Senior Career Academy will allow select seniors to link up with local businesses in the Brasher Falls, Potsdam and Massena area to gain that experience.
Global history and geography teacher Christian A. Normile said students who attend programs at the St. Lawrence-Lewis Board of Cooperative Educational Services graduate with real-world experience, and the Senior Career Academy would have the same goal.
“We have a lot of students who take Advanced Placement courses. But, we also have a group that’s taken every class they can take. They need their social studies and their English and their physical education, but they’ve taken everything. So, what do we do for them?” he said. “This is an opportunity to take that group and actually put them to work and find a place for them. It’s not going to be for everybody. We think we can hit a group that maybe we’ve been missing the last couple of years.”
Principal Kristen L. Zender said this year’s juniors must apply to get into the program as seniors.
“We surveyed our current juniors, so we talked to eligible students,” she said. “They will have a recommendation form and an application that they have to complete.”
Students will also take part in practice interviews.
“The goal is someday when they sit down for an interview, they can answer the question, ‘Why should I hire you?’ and they’ll have some real-world experience. ‘Well, the reason you should hire me is because I’ve worked well with people and I’ll give you an example,’” Mr. Normile said. “When you’re starting out, you don’t have examples. All you have is, ‘Well, I’m good with people. I don’t care to elaborate. I’m just good with people.’”
“It’s not necessarily about how they do because we want to obviously grow those skills,” Mrs. Zender said. “We don’t necessarily expect them to have them now. But it’s (about) being able to commit to our program. They may have jobs that they don’t like. That’s going to be OK. It’s part of the experience. It’s just what they take from that and that they have the skills and have the willingness to follow something through, even if they don’t like it.”
In the past, the district has held Adulting Day and other opportunities to offer real-world authentic experiences, and the Senior Career Academy builds on that.
“The idea of the program is to give our kids those soft skills that they need going forward, to give them experience,” she said.
Mrs. Zender has experienced a similar program while a student in Canton.
“This is a similar model that we’re using,” she said.
A brochure given to prospective businesses or organizations contains student responsibilities — dress and act professionally, perform relevant duties and reflect on the experience and performance. Host responsibilities include evaluating student performance, mentoring the students and teaching students real-world skills.
English language arts teacher Lisa A. Winters said students participating in the academy would take their core classes at the school in the morning.
“Those core classes are meant to directly align with what they’re going to be doing in the field. The kids will be learning some soft skills and some technical skills that will help them prepare for virtually any job that they want in the future,” she said.
Students will rotate through different areas, following training before they head into the community.
“We’ve been out ringing doorbells. The community has been great. There are a few places in Potsdam that have expressed interest, so we are looking at between Potsdam, Massena and obviously the local community. We think we can get them five different placements to give them kind of a wider experience,” Mr. Normile said.
“We have a range of partners that we’ve been reaching out to already in the community,” Mrs. Zender said. “When we talk to business leaders, we tell them that the students are going to be supervised. They will be told if they don’t toe the line.”
Mr. Normile said among the positive replies have been NuMed, Agway, Tri-Town IGA Express and Goodnow Insurance.
“We’re hoping that the community feels free to pick up the phone and call us” to ask for a student placement for five weeks, he said.
One of the students who has applied is Hannah L. Agens, who filled out her application during one of her study halls. She plans to study childhood education in college.
“I already have all of my courses. I just thought it would be really cool to have something to do,” she said.
It also provides her an opportunity to have a variety of experiences on her resume.
“It will be cool to have the knowledge of what they do,” Ms. Agens said.
For more information, contact Mr. Normile at 315-389-5131, ext. 29125, or email cnormile@bfcsd.org
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Prosecutor seeks end to Khashoggi murder trial in Turkey, requests transfer to Saudi Arabia
The Turkish prosecutor in the case against 26 Saudi nationals charged in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi made a surprise request Thursday that their trial in absentia be suspended and the case transferred to Saudi Arabia, raising fears of a possible coverup.
The panel of judges made no ruling on the prosecutor’s request but said a letter would be sent to Turkey’s Justice Ministry seeking its opinion on the possible transfer of the file to Saudi judicial authorities, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The trial was adjourned until April 7.
The development comes as Turkey has been trying to normalize its relationship with Saudi Arabia, which hit an all-time low following Khashoggi’s grisly October 2018 killing. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an interview on Thursday that Saudi authorities were more cooperative on judicial issues with Turkey, but did not elaborate.
In arguing for the transfer, the prosecutor told the court that the Saudi chief public prosecutor’s office requested the Turkish proceedings be transferred to the kingdom in a letter dated March 13, and that international warrants issued by Ankara against the defendants be lifted, according to the private DHA news agency.
The prosecutor said that because the arrest warrants cannot be executed and defense statements cannot be taken, the case would remain inconclusive in Turkey.
Amnesty International urged Turkey to press ahead with the trial, saying if it is transferred to Saudi Arabia, Turkey will be “knowingly and willingly sending the case to a place where it will be covered up.”
Moving Khashoggi’s trial to Saudi Arabia would provide a diplomatic resolution to a dispute that represented the wider troubles between Ankara and the kingdom since the 2011 Arab Spring.
Turkey under Erdogan supported Islamists as the uprisings took hold, while Saudi Arabia and its ally the United Arab Emirates sought to suppress such movements for fear of facing challenges to their autocratic governments. Meanwhile, Turkey sided with Qatar in a diplomatic dispute that saw Doha boycotted by Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Since then-President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, the Gulf Arab states have set aside — but not fully resolved — the Qatar dispute. Meanwhile, Turkey under Erdogan has faced a rapid devaluation of its lira currency over his refusal to hike interest rates. Bilateral trade to the kingdom and the UAE, a major transshipment point for the world economy, also collapsed.
Since the start of 2022, Erdogan has sought to improve those ties, including making his first visit to the UAE in nearly a decade. Saudi Arabia and the UAE, after fighting through the coronavirus pandemic’s economic effects, facing a grinding war in Yemen and struggling with renewed tensions with Iran, also want to resolve the outstanding feud.
Khashoggi disappeared on Oct. 2, 2018, after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, seeking documents that would allow him to marry Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish national who was waiting outside the building. He never emerged.
Turkish officials allege that the Saudi national, who was a United States resident, was killed and then dismembered with a bone saw inside the consulate. His body has not been found. Prior to his killing, Khashoggi had written critically of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince in columns for the Washington Post.
Turkish authorities said he was killed by a team of Saudi agents. Those on trial in absentia include two former aides of the prince.
Saudi officials initially offered conflicting accounts concerning the killing, including claims that Khashoggi had left the consulate building unharmed. But amid mounting international pressure, they stated that Khashoggi’s death was a tragic accident, with the meeting unexpectedly turning violent.
Turkey decided to try the defendants in absentia after Saudi Arabia rejected Turkish demands for their extradition.
The slaying had sparked international condemnation and cast a cloud of suspicion over Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Western intelligence agencies, as well as the U.S. Congress, have said that an operation of this magnitude could not have happened without his knowledge.
In urging Turkey to proceed with the trial, Amnesty International said Ankara would be complicit in a coverup if it grants the Saudi request for a transfer.
“If the prosecutor’s request is granted, then instead of prosecuting and shedding light on a murder that was committed on its territory ... Turkey will be knowingly and willingly sending the case to a place where it will be covered up,” said Tarik Beyhan, Amnesty’s campaign director for Turkey.
Beyhan said he didn’t want to “think about the possibility” that the prosecutor’s request may be related to the improving ties between Riyadh and Ankara.
“Basic human rights ... should not be made the subject of political negotiations,” he said. “A murder cannot be covered up to fix relations.”
Some of the men were put on trial in Riyadh behind closed doors. A Saudi court issued a final verdict in 2020 that sentenced five mid-level officials and operatives to 20-year jail terms. The court had originally ordered the death penalty, but reduced the punishment after Khashoggi’s son Salah, who lives in Saudi Arabia, announced that he forgave the defendants. Three others were sentenced to lesser jail terms.
On Thursday, Khashoggi's fiancee, Cengiz, appeared to criticize the prosecutor’s request in a tweet in English. “It is an exemplary situation in terms of showing the dilemma facing humanity in the modern era,” she wrote. “Which of the two will we choose? To want to live like a virtuous human being or to build a life by holding material interests above all kinds of values.”
She did not respond to a request for comment.
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Associated Press Writer Jon Gambrell contributed from Dubai.
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In a move against transgender youth in Arizona, Gov. Doug Ducey signed new laws barring them from participating in girls’ and womens’ sports, and from obtaining gender reassignment surgery.
Senate Bill 1138 prohibits doctors from providing genital reassignment surgery to minors, including mastectomies or mammoplasties to feminize and masculinize a patient’s chest to be more in line with their gender identity. Senate Bill 1165 requires all interscholastic sports to narrowly define gender, effectively denying trans student-athletes the ability to play on the teams most consistent with their gender identity from elementary all the way to university.
In a signing letter, Ducey explained the bills ensure a level playing field for biological women and protect trans minors from irreversible procedures that could affect their future ability to have children.
“This legislation is common-sense and narrowly-targeted to address these two specific issues — while ensuring that transgender individuals continue to recieve the same dignity, respect and kindness as every individual in our society,” he wrote.
Trans advocates have noted that enacting anti-trans legislation negatively affects the mental well-being of trans children, and may contribute to increased suicide risk. A recent poll from The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ youth, found that as much as 85% of surveyed transgender and nonbinary youth felt debates around anti-trans bills negatively impacted their mental health.
Ducey responded to a question from the Arizona Mirror about this effect by saying that the bill’s intent was to protect girls’ sports.
“(SB1165) was positioned and framed to protect girls’ sports, female sports, and Title IX. And of course, on the subject of mental health with our children, this is something we all have great concern for and great empathy for…I think that Arizona has handled this in the most responsible way possible to keep a level playing field out there for young female athletes and to address the other issues,” he said.
Sponsors of SB1138 have touted it as a reiteration of international standards of care for transgender kids. But opponents say those standards are due to change this year, and codifying old standards can present doctors with a contradiction between following the law and providing best medical care practices for their patients.
“We’re going to be putting doctors in a situation where they’re codifying standards from 10 years ago, and we’re going to put them in a situation where they’re now at odds with new standards,” said Rep. Melody Hernandez, D-Tempe, who is also a paramedic, during a House debate of the bill on March 24.
Proponents of enacting barriers to girls’ sports argue that trans youth have an unfair biological advantage. But the Arizona Interscholastics Sports Medicine Advisory Committee says that’s not a problem that needs solving in the state. Out of the roughly 170,000 students the committee oversees in high schools across the state, it has fielded only 16 appeals from transgender youth since 2017. When reporters pointed this out to Ducey during a brief media availability Wednesday, he deflected, reiterating the bill’s intent.
“We’re going to protect girls’ sports. It’s an issue of fairness,” he said.
Critics say the law pushes Arizona backwards. Just two years ago, a 1991 law banning schools from promoting a “homosexual lifestyle” was repealed, and Kathy Hoffman, Superintendent of Public Instruction in Arizona, tweeted that the new legislation will be equally difficult to deal with later.
“We repealed ‘no-promo homo’ three years ago, a bigoted law that took decades to overturn. Today, (Ducey) sided with extremism, injected politics into our schools, and signed similarly hateful bills,” she wrote.
Last week, similar legislation in Indiana and Utah was vetoed by governors in those states.
The Human Rights Campaign condemned Ducey’s action in comparison to this, saying the move only contributes to nationwide attacks on trans kids. This year saw a record number of anti-trans legislative proposals, with as many as 280 — a spike from last year’s 147 bills.
“Gov. Ducey has chosen discrimination over protecting the well-being of vulnerable children. This isn’t leadership, it’s cowardice,” said Director Cathryn Oakley in an emailed statement.
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OPINION — Robins, blue birds, and meadow larks have made an appearance and their calls are most welcome as they seek out mates.
But some birds are larger in size and make a more substantial impression.
The sub-adult goshawk was after Eurasian collared- doves.
His novice attack was swift but sloppy and a spectacular failure.
He bombed into the top of the pine tree that the doves had chosen for their nesting site and caromed from limb to limb like a pinball through a Pachinko machine.
The large bird must have stunned itself in its dive.
It allowed me to approach closely and make a positive ID while it gathered its wits.
The two invaders scampered away from the threat.
The doves are larger and better muscled than the natives.
Their ancestors escaped from captivity or were released during wedding ceremonies along the US coasts in the mid 70s.
They breed year-round, weather allowing, and start secondary nests before their previous young have flown from the last.
They are hardier and have greater resources at their disposal than the local mourning doves.
In another twenty years, they could easily outnumber the birds that have been here previously.
A tale that sounds strangely familiar across the Midwest as immigration seems to be impacting everyone.
Hunting season for the hardy invasive doves is open year-round, not just for goshawks, but also for human hunters.
Just as Florida and other coastal states have open season on iguanas and boa constrictors, South Dakota has decided that these birds have to go.
Although it appears that they have too large a head start for hunting to have much of an impact.
This weekend opens the archery season for South Dakota’s turkeys and few residents realize that these birds too are an invasive species but transplanted and relocated with forethought by our game managers nearly 75 years ago.
The original eight birds were released on the Sleep Ranch in the spring of 1948 just to the west of Crow Peak and their descendants still return each winter to peck among the grains left behind by cattle.
Overall turkey numbers are diminished from previous estimates.
Despite a strong hatch last year and a mild winter, it will take time to rebuild the Black Hill’s flocks.
There are many reasons why numbers are down, but there are still positive signs.
When Covid shut down hunting opportunities for other states, South Dakota stayed open and nonresident hunters flocked here.
Although hunting has an impact on overall numbers, it has rarely been a limiting factor.
Predators, inclement weather, and habitat loss have always been harder on the population than hunting.
It seems counterintuitive after last year’s drought, but heavy spring and summer rains can limit nesting success and reduce insects that turkeys rely on to provide protein for their chicks.
We are currently experiencing a resurgence of moisture, and while hens will abandon failed nests and start a second clutch, chicks fair better under drier and warmer conditions.
The USDA inspection services claimed that last season, areas of the great plains had the worst grasshopper infestation that they have suffered in 35 years.
They imagine that we will have to brace for more of the same this summer.
Grasshoppers thrive in hot and dry weather.
Rain can foster conditions that lead to their demise, but it works best if it holds off until after the hoppers have hatched in early June.
Turkey chicks thrive on grasshoppers, and I cheered them on each time the fifty-bird flock that hatched out on my place last spring, strutted through gobbling them up.
While I hope for a good hatch among all of the birds, from goshawk, to grouse, turkey to turtle dove, I am loving this rain.
Green grasses benefit us all and if I have to live through another few years of low turkey numbers, I can always make do with our new Eurasian dove season that never sets.
The Speirs family has owned and operated Crow Creek Wildlife Management Service since 1996.
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The contract also includes four option years, worth additional $2.5 billion
TUCSON, Ariz., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, was awarded a $651 million, with options totaling $2.5 billion, hardware, production and sustainment contract for full-rate production of the AN/SPY-6(V) Family of Radars. The contract, with options, totals $3.2 billion and five years of radar production to equip up to 31 U.S. Navy ships with SPY-6 radars.
Under the contract, RMD will produce solid state, fixed-face and rotating SPY-6 variants that will deliver unprecedented integrated air and missile defense capabilities for seven types of U.S. Navy ships over the next 40 years. Those vessels include the Navy's new Arleigh Burke class Flight III destroyers, aircraft carriers and amphibious ships; today's Flight IIA destroyers will be backfit with an upgraded radar.
"There is no other radar with the surface maritime capabilities of SPY-6," said Wes Kremer, president of Raytheon Missiles & Defense. "SPY-6 is the most advanced naval radar in existence, and it will provide our military a giant leap forward in capability for decades to come."
Since its inception, more than $600 million has been invested in the development and manufacturing of the SPY-6 family of radars. When compared to legacy radars, SPY-6 will bring new capabilities to the surface fleet, such as advanced electronic warfare protection and enhanced detection abilities.
SPY-6 array radar variants have between nine and 37 radar modular assemblies, known as RMAs. Common RMAs allow SPY-6 to be scalable and modular to support production for the U.S. and partner nations across all variants, to include the Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar. This commonality supports standardized logistics and training for those who work on the radars.
SPY-6 radar installation is complete on the Navy's first Flight III destroyer, the USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), which is scheduled to be operational in 2024. Radar array deliveries are complete for the next ship in the class, the future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128).
Raytheon Technologies Corporation is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. With four industry-leading businesses ― Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense ― the company delivers solutions that push the boundaries in avionics, cybersecurity, directed energy, electric propulsion, hypersonics, and quantum physics. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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IKEA will pay you to get its old furniture back
Updated: 4:34 PM MDT Mar 31, 2022
Can't stand that old bookcase and dining table with the mismatched chairs you once thought looked so cool? If you bought them at IKEA, the retailer will pay you to get them back.The Swedish furniture and home goods chain said Thursday it is making its Buy Back & Resell program permanent across its 37 U.S. stores on April 1 after piloting the offer last summer.The company said the service applies only to personally-used Ikea furniture that is fully assembled and fully functional. Ikea won't accept items that have been modified, or altered in any way.Here is what's included on the list of returnable items: office drawer cabinets, sideboards, bookcases, small tables, multimedia furniture, cabinets, dining tables, desks and chairs and stools without upholstery.The program doesn't extend to non-IKEA-branded products or beds, sofas, mattresses, home furnishing accessories, leather products, lighting fixtures or chests of drawers. Any recalled IKEA products also are excluded.IKEA said it will inspect each item for its condition, age and functionality at participating stores, and if it passes muster, customers will get a store credit. The company said all "gently used" items approved for resale will be available in a designated "as is" section in stores at discounted prices.The furniture seller already offers a buyback service in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of its sustainability push. Customers there can trade in gently used Ikea products in excellent condition and get a store credit worth up to 50% of the original sale price. Items in "very good" condition earn a 40% credit, and "well used" goods get 30% of the original price.Ikea has 465 stores worldwide, and said the initiative is part of its effort to become a "circular" business by 2030. The goal, it said, is to eventually produce products that are 100% made with materials that are recycled, remanufactured, refurbished or reused.
Can't stand that old bookcase and dining table with the mismatched chairs you once thought looked so cool? If you bought them at IKEA, the retailer will pay you to get them back.
The Swedish furniture and home goods chain said Thursday it is making its Buy Back & Resell program permanent across its 37 U.S. stores on April 1 after piloting the offer last summer.
The company said the service applies only to personally-used Ikea furniture that is fully assembled and fully functional. Ikea won't accept items that have been modified, or altered in any way.
Here is what's included on the list of returnable items: office drawer cabinets, sideboards, bookcases, small tables, multimedia furniture, cabinets, dining tables, desks and chairs and stools without upholstery.
The program doesn't extend to non-IKEA-branded products or beds, sofas, mattresses, home furnishing accessories, leather products, lighting fixtures or chests of drawers. Any recalled IKEA products also are excluded.
IKEA said it will inspect each item for its condition, age and functionality at participating stores, and if it passes muster, customers will get a store credit. The company said all "gently used" items approved for resale will be available in a designated "as is" section in stores at discounted prices.
The furniture seller already offers a buyback service in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of its sustainability push. Customers there can trade in gently used Ikea products in excellent condition and get a store credit worth up to 50% of the original sale price. Items in "very good" condition earn a 40% credit, and "well used" goods get 30% of the original price.
Ikea has 465 stores worldwide, and said the initiative is part of its effort to become a "circular" business by 2030. The goal, it said, is to eventually produce products that are 100% made with materials that are recycled, remanufactured, refurbished or reused.
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KEARNEY, Neb. (KMTV) — Nebraska Republican gubernatorial candidate, Theresa Thibodeau, announced a running mate on Thursday.
Trent Loos, a farmer, rancher and conservative activist has been tapped to join the Thibodeau campaign as her choice for Lieutenant Governor.
In a statement, Thibodeau said, "The things that work for Omaha do not work in Valentine or Sidney. We must create solutions that benefit every Nebraska community. I am honored to have Trent Loos as my running mate. Trent and I agree that we must bridge the rural versus urban divide for Nebraska to move forward.”
In the same press release, Loos emphasized his agricultural background.
"I am honored to join Theresa Thibodeau in her mission to bring power back to the citizens of Nebraska. I have spent the last 22 years bridging the gap between food producers and consumers, which alludes to the rural versus urban divide. Now I see an opportunity by partnering with someone from urban Nebraska and a sixth-generation food producer to come together and bring unity to all Nebraskans."
Loos may be a familiar name to some Nebraskans. According to our news partners at the Omaha World-Herald, he was sued by the Nebraska State Fair, which claimed the nonprofit he formed had inappropriately used the name and logo of the Aksarben Stock Show for its own purposes.
Additionally, Loos has been an active campaigner against the Biden Administration's "30x30" plan.
The Nebraska Department of Agriculture describes the plan as, "a goal set by President Joe Biden to permanently protect in its natural state or conserve 30 percent of the nation’s land and waters by 2030." Participation in the plan is voluntary.
In June of 2021, The Daily Beast reported that Loos said that he stood by his earlier comment that compared 30x30 to Nazi land-use programs. According to The Daily Beast, he said, "the 30x30 plan actually called for placing more than 60 percent of land under federal control." Loos' claim is false.
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The Public Health Agency of Canada has declared an outbreak of norovirus linked to the consumption of raw B.C. oysters.
The outbreak has impacted people in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario — though as of March 30, 262 of the 279 reported cases are in B.C. There have been no deaths associated with the outbreak.
Individuals became sick with norovirus after ingesting raw oysters farmed on B.C.’s west coast. Health Canada recalled certain brands of oysters that were believed to be related to the norovirus outbreak on Feb. 18, March 20, March 23, and March 27, 2022.
READ MORE: Health Canada recalls certain B.C. oysters due to norovirus contamination
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is continuing an investigation into the outbreak which could lead to further recalls. Any recall notices will be shared publicly.
To avoid norovirus infection from oysters, make sure they are cooked thoroughly to an internal temperature of 90 degrees celsius for 90 seconds before eating. Public health agencies do not recommend consuming raw oysters.
If you believe you became sick from consuming the recalled oysters, Health Canada recommends contacting a doctor. Anyone who believes they purchased the product should check to see if they have it in their home or business. Do not consume the recalled oysters — either throw them away or return them to the place of purchase.
When people become sick with norovirus they typically develop symptoms of gastroenteritis within 24 to 48 hours, but symptoms can start within 12 hours after exposure. Even after becoming infected with norovirus, you can become re-infected. The main symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting and stomach cramps. Other symptoms may include a low-grade fever, headaches, chills, muscle aches and fatigue.
Most people start to feel better after a day or two, however in severe cases, some patients require hospitalization. Those most at risk of severe outcomes from norovirus infection include pregnant women, people with compromised immune systems, young children and seniors.
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Ohio State football Student Appreciation Day set for Saturday
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Ohio State is still going through the paces of its annual spring practices, and things are starting to come together. When the schedule came out, one of the dates that many circled on their calendars is Student Appreciation Day. It’s a tradition that started with Urban Meyer to allow students the opportunity to get front and center with the football team.
This year’s event is right around the corner — this weekend in fact. The Buckeyes are opening the doors to the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on Saturday for students with a BuckID to be admitted to watch Ohio State practice.
It’s always a fun time, and it’s sure to be a hoot for current OSU students to feel more connected to the program. If you are planning on attending all the festivities, follow the details in the tweet shared by the official Twitter account of Ohio State Football.
Doors open at 11:30 a.m ET at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.
Doors open at 11:30 am. Enter through the middle atrium in between The Woody Hayes Athletic Facility and The Schumaker.
Shuttles will start at 10:30 am and will pick up from Archer House (North) and The Union (South).
BuckID is required.
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) March 31, 2022
We are sure that some photos and video will emerge from the event, and we’ll have anything entertaining that might be worth sharing. In the meantime, set up a ride, clear the calendar and go take advantage of another Student Appreciation Day at Ohio State.
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TenX (PAY) traded up 0.2% against the US dollar during the 1-day period ending at 18:00 PM Eastern on March 31st. During the last seven days, TenX has traded 14.7% higher against the US dollar. One TenX coin can currently be bought for $0.0441 or 0.00000096 BTC on major exchanges. TenX has a market capitalization of $9.05 million and approximately $118,293.00 worth of TenX was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002186 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded down 4% against the dollar and now trades at $1.63 or 0.00003555 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 up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002183 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded 0.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $17.00 or 0.00037142 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 down 4.1% against the dollar and now trades at $49.01 or 0.00107067 BTC.
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German Bundesliga: Union Berlin v FC Koln (Correct Score)
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Using Expected Goals (xG) data from Infogol, Tom Victor provides Bundesliga result and scoreline predictions as the top two aim to cement their position...
"After finishing just a point apart last season, Dortmund and Leipzig are both in contention for another top-four finish."
Union Berlin v Köln
Friday, 19:30
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Union have become more fallible at home in the second half of the season, but Infogol's model still expects them to have too much for a Köln side with just three wins from 13 games on the road. The reverse fixture ended all-square, with Anthony Modeste rescuing a point for the hosts, but a home win at Stadion An der Alten Försterei would see Union leapfrog their opponents and stay in European contention.
BTTS? Yes
Over/Under 2.5? Over
Correct Score Prediction - Back the 2-1 @ 11.5021/2
Arminia Bielefeld v Stuttgart
Saturday, 14:30
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Arminia can drag Stuttgart back into the relegation mire with a victory on Saturday, but Infogol backs Pellegrino Matarazzo's visitors to pull away from danger with three points of their own. The home side have gone four games without scoring, averaging just 0.34 xGF per game in the process, and are expected to fall short despite having a theoretical home advantage.
BTTS? Yes
Over/Under 2.5? Over
Correct Score Prediction - Back the 1-2 @ 10.5019/2
Bayer Leverkusen v Hertha Berlin
Saturday, 14:30
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Hertha delivered an important win before the international break, but they're unlikely to have things easy this weekend at the BayArena. Felix Magath's visitors are averaging just 0.94 xGF on the road, with that record producing less than one point per game, and Infogol backs Gerardo Seoane's men to improve on the 1-1 draw they managed at the Olympiastadion back in November.
BTTS? Yes
Over/Under 2.5? Over
Correct Score Prediction - Back the 2-1 @ 9.4017/2
Eintracht Frankfurt v Greuther Fürth
Saturday, 14:30
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Greuther Fürth are still stuck on just one away point all season, and it would be a shock to see that miserable record change in Frankfurt. Their opponents are unbeaten in five games in all competitions, including an aggregate victory over Real Betis in the Europa League, and three points can help Oliver Glasner's team cement their place in the top half after a testing campaign.
BTTS? Yes
Over/Under 2.5? Over
Correct Score Prediction - Back the 2-1 @ 9.208/1
Freiburg v Bayern Munich
Saturday, 14:30
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Freiburg sadly can't have too many complaints about their dropped points at Greuther Fürth last week, with the underlying numbers supporting the outcome, and the result leaves them in need of a recovery against the champions-elect. Bayern's 3.00 xGF average on the road is part of why they're six points clear with seven games left, and Infogol doesn't expect them to suffer a hiccup at Europa-Park Stadion.
BTTS? Yes
Over/Under 2.5? Over
Correct Score Prediction - Back the 1-3 @ 13.0012/1
Hoffenheim v Bochum
Saturday, 14:30
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If Freiburg fall short against Bayern Munich, Hoffenheim are in line to capitalise. Last week's setback in Berlin came as a surprise, but Sebastian Hoeneß will be happy to see poor travellers Bochum coming to PreZero Arena. The visitors are averaging a huge 2.08 xGA per game away from home, and Infogol's model backs a home win which could sent Hoffenheim back into the Champions League spots.
BTTS? Yes
Over/Under 2.5? Over
Correct Score Prediction - Back the 2-1 @ 9.4017/2
Borussia Dortmund v RB Leipzig
Saturday, 17:30
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After finishing just a point apart last season, Dortmund and Leipzig are both in contention for another top-four finish. The hosts have a decent cushion at this late stage of the campaign, and their average of 2.17 xGF per game at Signal Iduna Park gives them the upper hand according to Infogol, but it wouldn't be a huge surprise to see Domenico Tedesco's visitors run them close.
BTTS? Yes
Over/Under 2.5? Over
Correct Score Prediction - Back the 2-1 @ 11.0010/1
Augsburg v Wolfsburg
Sunday, 14:30
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Augsburg are sitting perilously close to the drop zone going into this weekend's games, and may have fallen into it by the time they kick off on Sunday. Markus Weinzierl's side are averaging just 1.41 xGF at home - few Bundesliga sides have a lower average - and Infogol's model expects Wolfsburg to complete a league double after winning the reverse fixture by one goal to nil.
BTTS? Yes
Over/Under 2.5? Over
Correct Score Prediction - Back the 1-2 @ 10.009/1
Borussia Mönchengladbach v Mainz
Sunday, 16:30
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Borussia Mönchengladbach perhaps deserve more home points than they have, given their 2.00 xGF average at Borussia-Park, and they'll surely fancy their chances against a Mainz side with just seven points on the road all season. Adi Hütter's team are coming off their first back-to-back wins since October, and are unlikely to have a better opportunity to win three in a row.
BTTS? Yes
Over/Under 2.5? Over
Correct Score Prediction - Back the 2-1 @ 10.009/1
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Shares of Sherwin-Williams Co.
SHW,
-1.34%
slid 1.34% to $249.62 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
-1.57%
falling 1.57% to 4,530.41 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-1.56%
falling 1.56% to 34,678.35. This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses. Sherwin-Williams Co. closed $104.53 short of its 52-week high ($354.15), which the company achieved on December 30th.
Despite its losses, the stock outperformed some of its competitors Thursday, as Home Depot Inc.
HD,
-2.96%
fell 2.96% to $299.33, PPG Industries Inc.
PPG,
-1.41%
fell 1.41% to $131.07, and Masco Corp.
MAS,
-4.40%
fell 4.40% to $51.00.true Trading volume (1.8 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 1.7 M.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use.
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Indiana May Primary: When to register and how to vote early in 2022 election
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — There are lots of ways to vote in the May 3 primary election in Indiana, but it starts with being registered to vote.
Voter registration deadline
Close of business Monday is the state's deadline to register to vote in the primary or transfer registration in local voter registration offices.
If you want to complete and submit a voter registration application online, you've got until midnight Monday to do it.
The state's voter registration page has the voter registration application along with details about who can vote in Indiana. Some military and overseas voters have different registration dates.
Early voting in primary
Early on-site voting in Vanderburgh County starts at 8 a.m. Tuesday at Old National Events Plaza in Evansville and will end there at noon May 2, the day before primary election day.
Early voting also will be offered April 25-29 at Central, McCollough, North Park, Oaklyn and Red Bank libraries.
Northeast Park Baptist Church, Cedar Hall School and Old National Events Plaza also will offer early voting on the final two Saturdays of the month, April 23 and April 30.
More on primary voting:Three quick updates on 2022 voting in Vanderburgh County
In Warrick County, early voting will be offered at the county clerk’s office in the Judicial Center in Boonville, the Lynnville Community Center in Lynnville and First Christian Church of Newburgh. Early voting starts at 8 a.m. Tuesday and ends at noon May 2.
Voting early in person
It is not necessary to provide a reason for voting early in-person.
It is necessary to show a state or U.S. government ID that displays your photo and name, which must match the voter registration record. The ID must display an expiration date and must be current or have expired after the date of the most recent general election (Nov. 3, 2020).
The full schedule of dates and times for in-person early voting in Vanderburgh County can be found at the Vanderburgh County Clerk's election website. Full details for in-person early voting in Warrick County can be found at the county's elections website.
Voting absentee by mail
To vote absentee by mail, Vanderburgh County voters need to complete an application, which can be found on the clerk's website, and mail it to: Vanderburgh County Election Office, P.O. Box 3343, Evansville, IN 47732-3343. Completed applications must be received and approved in the election office by 11:59 p.m. Thursday, April 21.
Warrick County voters need to mail their absentee ballot applications to: the Warrick County Election Office, One County Square, Suite 220, Boonville, IN 47601. The deadline is the same. The application can be on the county's absentee voting site.
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If a voter's application is approved by bipartisan county election officials, a ballot is mailed out. Absentee mail ballots must be received by county elections officials by 6 p.m. on Election Day, May 3, regardless of when they're postmarked.
According to state law, only the voter, the voter’s attorney-in-fact, a bonded courier or a member of the voter’s immediate household may hand-deliver a completed absentee ballot to the county election board.
To vote absentee by mail, it is necessary to declare a specific reason why you cannot vote on Election Day. Among them:
- You have "a specific, reasonable expectation" that you will be absent from the county on Election Day during the entire 12 hours that the polls are open (6 a.m. until 6 p.m.).
- You will be confined to your residence, a health care facility or a hospital because of illness or injury.
- You will be caring for an individual confined to a private residence because of illness or injury.
- You have disabilities.
- You are at least 65.
- You will have official election duties outside your voting precinct.
- You are scheduled to work at your place of employment during the entire 12 hours the polls are open.
- You are unable to vote at the polls because of observance of a religious discipline or holiday.
- Transportation to the polls will not be available.
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The Vanderburgh County Election Office can be reached at election.office@vanderburghcounty.in.gov or at (812) 435-5122. The Warrick County Election Office can be reached at election@warrickcounty.gov or at (812) 897-6161.
Thomas B. Langhorne can be reached by email at tom.langhorne@courierpress.com.
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Prosecutor seeks end to Khashoggi murder trial in Turkey, requests transfer to Saudi Arabia
The Turkish prosecutor in the case against 26 Saudi nationals charged in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi made a surprise request Thursday that their trial in absentia be suspended and the case transferred to Saudi Arabia, raising fears of a possible coverup.
The panel of judges made no ruling on the prosecutor’s request but said a letter would be sent to Turkey’s Justice Ministry seeking its opinion on the possible transfer of the file to Saudi judicial authorities, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The trial was adjourned until April 7.
The development comes as Turkey has been trying to normalize its relationship with Saudi Arabia, which hit an all-time low following Khashoggi’s grisly October 2018 killing. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an interview on Thursday that Saudi authorities were more cooperative on judicial issues with Turkey, but did not elaborate.
In arguing for the transfer, the prosecutor told the court that the Saudi chief public prosecutor’s office requested the Turkish proceedings be transferred to the kingdom in a letter dated March 13, and that international warrants issued by Ankara against the defendants be lifted, according to the private DHA news agency.
The prosecutor said that because the arrest warrants cannot be executed and defense statements cannot be taken, the case would remain inconclusive in Turkey.
Amnesty International urged Turkey to press ahead with the trial, saying if it is transferred to Saudi Arabia, Turkey will be “knowingly and willingly sending the case to a place where it will be covered up.”
Moving Khashoggi’s trial to Saudi Arabia would provide a diplomatic resolution to a dispute that represented the wider troubles between Ankara and the kingdom since the 2011 Arab Spring.
Turkey under Erdogan supported Islamists as the uprisings took hold, while Saudi Arabia and its ally the United Arab Emirates sought to suppress such movements for fear of facing challenges to their autocratic governments. Meanwhile, Turkey sided with Qatar in a diplomatic dispute that saw Doha boycotted by Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Since then-President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, the Gulf Arab states have set aside — but not fully resolved — the Qatar dispute. Meanwhile, Turkey under Erdogan has faced a rapid devaluation of its lira currency over his refusal to hike interest rates. Bilateral trade to the kingdom and the UAE, a major transshipment point for the world economy, also collapsed.
Since the start of 2022, Erdogan has sought to improve those ties, including making his first visit to the UAE in nearly a decade. Saudi Arabia and the UAE, after fighting through the coronavirus pandemic’s economic effects, facing a grinding war in Yemen and struggling with renewed tensions with Iran, also want to resolve the outstanding feud.
Khashoggi disappeared on Oct. 2, 2018, after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, seeking documents that would allow him to marry Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish national who was waiting outside the building. He never emerged.
Turkish officials allege that the Saudi national, who was a United States resident, was killed and then dismembered with a bone saw inside the consulate. His body has not been found. Prior to his killing, Khashoggi had written critically of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince in columns for the Washington Post.
Turkish authorities said he was killed by a team of Saudi agents. Those on trial in absentia include two former aides of the prince.
Saudi officials initially offered conflicting accounts concerning the killing, including claims that Khashoggi had left the consulate building unharmed. But amid mounting international pressure, they stated that Khashoggi’s death was a tragic accident, with the meeting unexpectedly turning violent.
Turkey decided to try the defendants in absentia after Saudi Arabia rejected Turkish demands for their extradition.
The slaying had sparked international condemnation and cast a cloud of suspicion over Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Western intelligence agencies, as well as the U.S. Congress, have said that an operation of this magnitude could not have happened without his knowledge.
In urging Turkey to proceed with the trial, Amnesty International said Ankara would be complicit in a coverup if it grants the Saudi request for a transfer.
“If the prosecutor’s request is granted, then instead of prosecuting and shedding light on a murder that was committed on its territory ... Turkey will be knowingly and willingly sending the case to a place where it will be covered up,” said Tarik Beyhan, Amnesty’s campaign director for Turkey.
Beyhan said he didn’t want to “think about the possibility” that the prosecutor’s request may be related to the improving ties between Riyadh and Ankara.
“Basic human rights ... should not be made the subject of political negotiations,” he said. “A murder cannot be covered up to fix relations.”
Some of the men were put on trial in Riyadh behind closed doors. A Saudi court issued a final verdict in 2020 that sentenced five mid-level officials and operatives to 20-year jail terms. The court had originally ordered the death penalty, but reduced the punishment after Khashoggi’s son Salah, who lives in Saudi Arabia, announced that he forgave the defendants. Three others were sentenced to lesser jail terms.
On Thursday, Khashoggi's fiancee, Cengiz, appeared to criticize the prosecutor’s request in a tweet in English. “It is an exemplary situation in terms of showing the dilemma facing humanity in the modern era,” she wrote. “Which of the two will we choose? To want to live like a virtuous human being or to build a life by holding material interests above all kinds of values.”
She did not respond to a request for comment.
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Associated Press Writer Jon Gambrell contributed from Dubai.
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Rent relief helped prevent more than 1 million evictions in 2021
The federal government's emergency rental assistance program helped prevent more than one million evictions last year.
An estimated 1.36 million renters avoided an eviction filing in 2021 as a result of the government's unprecedented $46.5 billion rent relief program and other protections, according to a recent analysis by Princeton University's Eviction Lab published earlier this month.
Treasury officials reported Wednesday that $30 billion in emergency rent relief was spent or obligated by the end of February. Despite a slow and confusing initial roll out of the program last spring, more than 4.7 million payments were made to households since January 2021.
Treasury expects the remainder of the funds to be exhausted by the middle of this year.
Impact of the assistance
A national eviction ban was put in place in September 2020. While it did not stop all evictions, it significantly slowed the tide of eviction filings until the emergency aid could reach struggling renters and their landlords, White House and Department of Treasury officials said.
"We knew from the start that we faced a race with time to get the emergency rental assistance flowing to a significant degree by the time the national eviction moratorium was lifted," said Gene Sperling, the White House American Rescue Plan coordinator. "We largely won that race."
In the six states and 31 cities tracked by the Eviction Lab researchers, eviction filings fell sharply at the onset of the pandemic, but then increased in the later months of 2020 even with the ban in place. Given the increased number of renters experiencing economic hardship as the pandemic continued into 2021, experts worried about a "tsunami" of evictions and anticipated the number of filings to skyrocket above levels seen in 2019.
But the opposite happened. In a typical year, roughly 865,000 eviction cases were filed in the areas the Eviction Lab tracks. In 2021, roughly half as many evictions were filed, with 434,304 cases.
Evictions fell in all but one of the 31 cities tracked in 2021. The outlier was Las Vegas, where jobs in tourism evaporated, adversely impacting the large number of renters in the city's service sector, according to the report. New York City had the biggest reduction in eviction filings from typical levels, with the report estimating nearly 184,000 eviction cases were avoided in New York City.
Video below: NY struggles to get rent relief to hurting tenants
The emergency rental assistance was found to have a strong impact on the low-income and majority-Black neighborhoods that see a disproportionate share of eviction cases. Those areas experienced the largest absolute reduction in eviction filings last year, the Eviction Lab report found.
The report found that in 2021 the most disadvantaged neighborhoods experienced the biggest gains in terms of rental housing stability. But it also found that, among the eviction cases filed, women of color were disproportionately affected.
More than 80% of emergency rental assistance reached the lowest income households, according to the Treasury, with about 40% of all applicants who received assistance self-identifying as Black, and about 20% self-identifying as Latino.
Moving remaining money
The federal emergency rent relief was approved in two rounds of funding. The first, which included $25 billion under the Consolidated Appropriations Act at the end of 2020, and $21.55 billion under the American Rescue Plan Act in March 2021.
Some state and local governments have exhausted allotted funds while others have not distributed everything they have received. As a result, Treasury has been reallocating money to ensure it gets to renters most in need.
Of the $25 billion in the first batch of money, Treasury has already moved $2 billion in underused funds. Beginning in April, funds from the second batch will be reallocated.
This process has "allowed dollars to flow to places with high need," said Noel Poyo, Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Economic Development. "Generally reallocated funds went to higher need areas with more diverse communities."
He said he expects that trend to continue with the available funds from the second batch of money.
But it is a challenging balance to strike, Poyo said, between getting dollars to places where they are running out of funds and making sure that money is still available in places where assistance may have gotten started more slowly and people remain in need.
Treasury is encouraging state and local governments to use the additional funding to assist more renters and make continued investments in housing stability.
"In just one year, the Emergency Rental Assistance program built a national infrastructure for eviction prevention that never existed before and has helped keep eviction rates well below historic averages throughout the pandemic," said Poyo.
He also suggested state and local governments build on the network for support they have established and provide services like housing counselors, "that will help families avoid economic scarring long after COVID-19 is in the rearview mirror," he said.
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Houston woman flying to Poland to help Ukrainian refugees, local brewery raising money for humanitarian aid
HOUSTON - The United Nations is now reporting more than 4 million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began in February. Houstonians are continuing to do their part in helping with the crisis.
One local woman, for example, will be flying to Poland Friday to volunteer.
Nell Lukosavich’s bags are packed, and she’s ready for what’s likely to be an emotional journey back to Poland to help with the refugee crisis.
Over the last two weeks, Nell has collected essential supplies and donations with the help of social media.
"I raised about $10,000. I’m flying over exactly the 250 lbs. of excess baggage limit. I'm bringing baby formula, diapers, feminine products, different items for kids, band-aids, things like that," said Nell "And part [of the] items are simple medical things like tourniquets, quick clot kits."
RELATED: Texans head to Ukraine border to assist in refugee crisis
Fluent in Polish and proficient in Ukrainian, Nell’s multilingual skills make her the perfect volunteer. But her family's history is what's motivating her decision.
"My family survived World War II and Soviet occupation and all the things that Poland went through for all these decades. My family’s been in that same position before of having to flee and be refugees in other areas, and they always found kindness in people that would take them in and help. So I figured this is kind of the 40 years later, my turn to really kind of pay it back and pay it forward," Nell said.
Nell has taken time off from work and is leaving behind her 7-year-old kid for this volunteer mission. She's expected to stay in Poland for at least three weeks.
Nell has been training with the Ukkraine Refugee Relief group and will meet with city of Warsaw officials upon arrival for dispatch.
Similarly, Houston businesses are also pitching in to fundraise for Ukraine.
RELATED: Houstonians collecting medical supplies to donate to Ukrainian soldiers
Urban South Brewery in the Heights will launch a beer with blue and yellow labeling, honoring Ukraine starting Thursday.
"This is our double spilled Slava Ukraine. It is a pineapple, tangerine and banana spilled. Spilled is actually our most popular series of beers," said Anna Jensen, the General Manager at Urban South Brewery HTX.
RELATED: Gov. Abbott calls on Texas retailers to remove Russian products from shelves
The beers will be served in their taproom starting Friday at noon. The fundraiser will last until supplies run out.
"100% of the proceeds, we’re not keeping anything in house. We’re sending it all to the International Rescue Committee to support their humanitarian efforts in Ukraine," Jensen said.
RELATED: Biden calls for Putin's removal: 'For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power'
The beers will be sold on tap and in cans. Prices start at $22 for a 4-pack and the draft options will sell at $7.50 a pint.
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According to Jensen, Urban South has brewed a 10-barrel batch, which equates to approximately 60 cases of cans. The brewery also has a large supply of draft as well. Urban South Brewery opens at noon every day.
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UK phasing out Russian oil
U.K. officials on Tuesday announced plans to phase out imports of Russian oil and oil products by the end of 2022 as a response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Authorities said in a statement that the latest move will give the government more time to adjust supply chains, adding that it will work with companies through its task force on oil to support them in finding new alternative supplies.
British officials also said they plan to work closely with their allies to end the country’s dependence on Russian hydrocarbons amid the conflict, recognizing the different circumstances and transition timelines.
“In another economic blow to the Putin regime following their illegal invasion of Ukraine, the UK will move away from dependence on Russian oil throughout this year, building on our severe package of international economic sanctions, “ British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a statement.
“Working with industry, we are confident that this can be achieved over the course of the year, providing enough time for companies to adjust and ensuring consumers are protected,” he added.
The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that the U.S. will ban Russian oil, natural gas and coal imports in response to Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
The invasion has led to a series of international sanctions being leveled against Moscow. American companies in a variety of sectors have also moved to end business with Russia.
U.K. Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said in a statement that the country will continue to support Ukraine during the crisis by building on its existing sanctions against Russia.
“We have more than enough time for the market and our supply chains to adjust to these essential changes,” Kwarteng said. “Businesses should use this year to ensure a smooth transition so that consumers will not be affected.”
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Penn State extends scholarship offer to son of former NFL RB
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Penn State is off to a solid start with its Class of 2023 recruiting efforts, but there is always room for a four-star linebacker. This week, Penn State sent a scholarship offer to one such player, and this is one with NFL genes.
Jamal Anderson, a four-star linebacker in the Class of 2023 out of Georgia, announced he has received an offer from Penn State. The offer is the latest in an already substantial offer sheet, and one that will surely be growing moving forward too.
If the name Jamall Anderson sounds familiar, that’s because his dad is a former NFL running back by the same name. The elder Jamal Anderson was a former star of the Atlanta Falcons. With those Georgia roots, it’s no surprise that some of the schools that have hopped into the early recruiting mix for the younger Anderson come from the south.
Clemson is among the favorites to land Anderson’s commitment, although Michigan State may be Penn State’s biggest threat within the Big Ten.
Here’s a look at Anderson’s recruiting profile.
Jamal Anderson’s Recruiting Profile
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Georgia Tech
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Tulane
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Vanderbilt
Virginia
Virginia Tech
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— jamal anderson (@jamal1anderson) December 14, 2021
Blessed to receive an offer from Penn State University! @PennStateFball @coachjfranklin @Coach_MannyDiaz @Coach_Elby @coachjlovelady pic.twitter.com/OXJEprCzcq
— jamal anderson (@jamal1anderson) March 30, 2022
Blessed! 🖤 https://t.co/hPPRKtqiGN
— jamal anderson (@jamal1anderson) March 4, 2022
Extremely blessed to be a 4⭐️ https://t.co/moCpThWNWM
— jamal anderson (@jamal1anderson) February 28, 2022
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BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado couple face felony charges in connection with the fentanyl death of their 1-year-old child, whom prosecutors say died after ingesting enough of the extremely lethal drug to kill an adult.
Alonzo Montoya, 31, and Nicole Casias, 30, of the Denver suburb of Brighton were charged with child abuse resulting in death and distribution of a controlled substance in connection with the girl's death on Jan. 2, the 17th Judicial District's Office said in a statement Thursday.
It said the Adams County Coroner had determined that the child died after ingesting fentanyl and that Montoya and Casias “participated in illicit drug activity” in the child's presence at home before and after her death.
Montoya was being held on $250,000 bail at the Adams County Jail. Bail was set at $100,000 for Casias. A status hearing for both was set for Monday.
Telephone and email messages seeking comment from Casias' attorney, Rachel Lanzen, were not immediately returned. Montoya was being represented by the public defender's office, which doesn't comment on pending cases.
Court records that would provide details on the accusations weren't immediately available from the county district court. Christopher Hopper, a district attorney's spokesman, said he could not provide additional information.
Fentanyl is an unpredictable and powerful synthetic painkiller blamed for driving an increase in fatal drug overdoses. It’s 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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A man has been arrested in Houston following an investigation by RCMP.
On March 23, Houston RCMP received information of possible drug trafficking in the community. Police immediately started an investigation into the allegations.
According to a release from Houston RCMP, it was reported that there was a lot of people coming to a residence in the 2000 Block of Pearson Road and staying for a short period. Upon attending the residence, police observed a vehicle driven by a man known to police to be active in criminal activity.
There were three outstanding arrest warrants for this person and the Emergency Response Team (ERT) was called to assist due to past encounters that dangerous.
When ERT, Police Dog Services (PDS) and Houston RCMP attempted to make the arrest, the suspect, in his attempt to avoid apprehension, crashed into a police vehicle. He then fled from the vehicle into the trees.
The suspect was eventually located by authorities a short distance away. He was taken into custody without further incident. A youth who was in the vehicle with the suspect was also arrested and later released to a guardian.
When the vehicle was searched, police located a loaded firearm, suspected cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine as well as cash.
The suspect was held in custody and has since been released to appear in court on July 11, 2022.
The investigation remains active and if you have any information about this contact the Houston RCMP at (250) 845-2204.
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The Syracuse Orange continue to add to an impressive 2022 recruiting class. 6-foot-3 combo guard Judah Mintz just announced his decision to join the team. The No. 35 ESPN/No. 53 247 Sports prospect picked SU over DePaul and fellow-ACC programs Wake Forest and NC State. He becomes the highest ranked prospect in the freshmen class, and the second in the Top 100 alongside Chris Bunch.
Mintz visited Syracuse and attended the Duke game in February. It seems that the large Cuse crowd, paired with a convincing argument from the coaching staff, caught his attention.
“Their pitch is being able to be a playmaker for them, be a person that can get in the lane and create plays from there and just add on to the good freshman class that they already have,” Mintz said.
Mintz already has some history with other incoming freshmen. He played alongside Justin Taylor for Washington, D.C.-based Team Takeover, as well as against Bunch.
“I’ve known him for a while,” Taylor said. “That’s my guy. Of course I’d try to get him to come here with us.”
Taylor, along with Bunch and Peter Carey, were also at the February 26 game inside the Carrier Dome.
Mintz’s addition brings the incoming freshmen class up to six players, with Quadir Copeland and Maliq Brown also joining the incoming class. 247 had this class ranked No. 21 overall before today’s announcement. We’ll have more next week when we start early previews of this incoming class.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers passed a measure on Thursday to create a paid family leave program, sending the legislation to Gov. Larry Hogan.
The bill, approved by supermajority votes by Democrats who control the legislature, would enable workers to take up to 12 weeks of partially paid leave for specified personal family circumstances such as caring for a sick relative or having a baby. It would provide up to 24 weeks for a parent, if he or she has a serious health issue in the year of a child's birth.
“This has been a long time coming,” said Sen. Antonio Hayes, a Baltimore Democrat. He thanked supporters who have “come together and really advocated on behalf of Maryland families."
Republicans criticized the measure for failing to spell out how much employees and employers would have to contribute, leaving that for the state's labor department to define later. They said Democrats were rushing to get the bill to the Republican governor just to meet a deadline so lawmakers will still be in session if the bill is vetoed.
“We're pushing this bill as quick as we can to get it upstairs,” said Sen. J.B. Jennings, a Republican, who added: “We don't know the numbers ... this bill is a hot mess.”
Because lawmakers are in the last session of the four-year term, they would not have a chance to override the veto next year if they adjourn before the governor acts on legislation.
The measure would create an insurance pool. Employees and employers would contribute to fund the program. Under the bill, the state’s labor department would set contribution rates to pay for the program. Employers with fewer than 15 employees would not be required to contribute.
The measure also includes job protections to protect employees from retaliation or termination for using the leave.
Seven states and the District of Columbia have paid family and medical leave insurance programs, including California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Washington. Colorado and Oregon have approved programs that have not started yet.
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MASSENA — More than half of all impacted town residents say they are interested in the formation of the East Massena Water District, according to engineers from Barton & Loguidice.
Matthew J. Cooper and Anthony M. Young updated the Massena Town Board on their feasibility study to evaluate extending public water to areas of the town that are not currently served.
Mr. Cooper said the study looked at two areas — Do residents want the water, and is the cost feasible?
“We took on two separate efforts through this to ultimately provide you with an engineering report at the end that identifies the answer to those two questions,” he said.
He said the survey asked a number of questions.
“We want to understand, do people have any issue with their water source now, whether they have a shore well, drilled well, dug well, whatever it is, if you have supply problems, if you have quality problems, and start thinking about that in terms of would public water make sense for them. We also like to gauge how much they’re willing to pay for it,” Mr. Cooper said. “In the end when we do this study, if it’s not affordable, and affordability is in the end determined by those users, they’re the ones that are going to decide whether it’s not affordable or it’s affordable to them or not.”
He said they have some water districts where the user rate is $1,200, “and everybody’s ecstatic because it’s an area where there’s really poor water.”
“So, the affordability in the end is determined by the end users, and they will have to vote for this district if you do present it to them,” he said.
He said the survey garnered 189 responses, with an overall favorability of 56%.
“In the end, you can never really shape a district that has 100% support. It just doesn’t happen. But, you try to capture the areas where there is a majority of favorability, and then we move into the next part, which is evaluating the cost to serve these different areas,” Mr. Cooper said.
The next step is to look for potential funding sources, such as through U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development programs.
“Each of those has its own set of eligibility criteria, and each tries to focus on funding certain types of projects. We try to align your project with as many of those sources as possible. Once we looked at the areas of favorability and then started doing cost estimates to serve those, we started to try to shape it into defined projects, and this one took a lot of iterations,” Mr. Cooper said. “Obviously the more people you can connect with the least amount of infrastructure, the better the numbers are going to be. You’ve got more people sharing the cost.”
He told board members that the report is still a work in progress to get a sense of the project size, affordability and funding that’s available. He said they are trying to keep the cost per user under $1,000 a year while keeping the favorability rating over 50%.
“So, we’re evaluating these potential projects in the current funding environment because that funding environment changes constantly,” he said.
One potential project mainly on South Raquette River Road would be $8.8 million. That would be $964 per year per equivalent dwelling unit, or EDU, based on 140 gallons of use a day. For water service, one EDU equals the amount of water used by one single-family, residential dwelling unit.
A second project proposal, which had a 59% favorability rate, would cost $8 million.
“Much like the first, the second proposal would cost each EDU about the same. But the scale of the project would be slightly smaller,” he said.
The third proposal would have a budget of $3.7 million, with an estimated cost of $796 per EDU, according to Mr. Cooper.
“Obviously this one is much smaller in scale, but it also limits the number of homes that could benefit from the project,” he said.
Highway Superintendent Frank J. Diagostino said one of his concerns is the cost of maintenance for an additional water district.
“What we currently have is within the village’s capabilities to maintain, but this district could be beyond the village’s capabilities to maintain if it does move forward. So we really need to keep that in mind, we may have to contract out, which could potentially negate any potential savings,” Mr. Diagostino said.
If the town moves forward on any of the projects, Mr. Cooper said it could take a few years to get water to the homes.
“Keep in mind that these projects have a lifespan of three to five, maybe six years. From the time we have this conversation now to the time the water’s running through pipes in any one of these areas is likely three to five years,” he said. “From finalizing or submitting all the applications and waiting maybe a round or two or three rounds of funding cycles to get enough grant to make it work, designing it and constructing it, it’s quite a long time.”
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Scientists finally finish decoding entire human genome
Scientists say they have finally assembled the full genetic blueprint for human life, adding the missing pieces to a puzzle nearly completed two decades ago.
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An international team described the first-ever sequencing of a complete human genome – the set of instructions to build and sustain a human being – in research published Thursday in the journal Science. The previous effort, celebrated across the world, was incomplete because DNA sequencing technologies of the day weren't able to read certain parts of it. Even after updates, it was missing about 8% of the genome.
“Some of the genes that make us uniquely human were actually in this ‘dark matter of the genome’ and they were totally missed,” said Evan Eichler, a University of Washington researcher who participated in the current effort and the original Human Genome Project. “It took 20-plus years, but we finally got it done.”
Many — including Eichler's own students — thought it had been finished already. “I was teaching them, and they said, 'Wait a minute. Isn’t this like the sixth time you guys have declared victory? I said, ’No, this time we really, really did it!”
Scientists said this full picture of the genome will give humanity a greater understanding of our evolution and biology while also opening the door to medical discoveries in areas like aging, neurodegenerative conditions, cancer and heart disease.
“We’re just broadening our opportunities to understand human disease,” said Karen Miga, an author of one of the six studies published Thursday.
The research caps off decades of work. The first draft of the human genome was announced in a White House ceremony in 2000 by leaders of two competing entities: an international publicly funded project led by an agency of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and a private company, Maryland-based Celera Genomics.
The human genome is made up of about 3.1 billion DNA subunits, pairs of chemical bases known by the letters A, C, G and T. Genes are strings of these lettered pairs that contain instructions for making proteins, the building blocks of life. Humans have about 30,000 genes, organized in 23 groups called chromosomes that are found in the nucleus of every cell.
Before now, there were "large and persistent gaps that have been in our map, and these gaps fall in pretty important regions,” Miga said.
Miga, a genomics researcher at the University of California-Santa Cruz, worked with Adam Phillippy of the National Human Genome Research Institute to organize the team of scientists to start from scratch with a new genome with the aim of sequencing all of it, including previously missing pieces. The group, named after the sections at the very ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, is known as the Telomere-to-Telomere, or T2T, consortium.
Their work adds new genetic information to the human genome, corrects previous errors and reveals long stretches of DNA known to play important roles in both evolution and disease. A version of the research was published last year before being reviewed by scientific peers.
“This is a major improvement, I would say, of the Human Genome Project,” doubling its impact, said geneticist Ting Wang of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who was not involved in the research.
Eichler said some scientists used to think unknown areas contained “junk." Not him. "Some of us always believed there was gold in those hills," he said. Eichler is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which also supports The Associated Press's health and science department.
Turns out that gold includes many important genes, he said, such as ones integral to making a person's brain bigger than a chimp's, with more neurons and connections.
To find such genes, scientists needed new ways to read life's cryptic genetic language.
Reading genes requires cutting the strands of DNA into pieces hundreds to thousands of letters long. Sequencing machines read the letters in each piece and scientists try to put the pieces in the right order. That's especially tough in areas where letters repeat.
Scientists said some areas were illegible before improvements in gene sequencing machines that now allow them to, for example, accurately read a million letters of DNA at a time. That allows scientists to see genes with repeated areas as longer strings instead of snippets that they had to later piece together.
Researchers also had to overcome another challenge: Most cells contain genomes from both mother and father, confusing attempts to assemble the pieces correctly. T2T researchers got around this by using a cell line from one “complete hydatidiform mole," an abnormal fertilized egg containing no fetal tissue that has two copies of the father’s DNA and none of the mother’s.
The next step? Mapping more genomes, including ones that include collections of genes from both parents. This effort did not map one of the 23 chromosomes that is found in males, called the Y chromosome, because the mole contained only an X.
Wang said he’s working with the T2T group on the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, which is trying to generate “reference," or template, genomes for 350 people representing the breadth of human diversity.
“Now we’ve gotten one genome right and we have to do many, many more,” Eichler said. “This is the beginning of something really fantastic for the field of human genetics.”
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South Okanagan-West Kootenay MP Richard Cannings thinks it’s time to correct a federal “tax inconsistency” associated with the sale of low-alcohol beer.
Cannings proposed to eliminate the excise tax on the product when he tabled Bill C on Thursday, March 31, in the House of Commons.
Representatives from the New Democrats called the bill a way “to help people with the rising costs of groceries” in an email sent to media on Thursday morning.
“An error was made and the result is that Canada doesn’t treat all low-alcohol beverages equally,” Cannings said while referencing that low-alcoholic wine and spirits are currently not subject to a tax.
“Just like the other low-alcohol choices we find in grocery stores, low-alcohol beer is a health-conscious and increasingly popular choice that we should not deter.”
Only beer with an alcoholic percentage of 0.5 or below is subject to the new proposal.
“Canada is the only country we’re aware of that currently applies an excise tax on non-alcohol beer,” said Luke Chapman, the vice-president of Beer Canada.
“Fixing this issue will send a positive signal to the industry.”
In 2020, the federal government collected over $1 million in tax on low-alcoholic beer, according to Cannings’ NDP colleagues.
The South Okanagan-West Kootenay MP is hopeful that the elimination of the excise tax would help expand domestic production of low-alcohol beer.
Cannings’ proposal comes one week before the unveiling of the 2022 budget by the Liberal government. It will be the first tabled budget since the 2021 federal election.
“Cannings’ bill aims to quickly correct the excise tax inconsistency with hopes of the government including it in its budget implementation act in the coming weeks,” representatives from the NDP wrote in an email.
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Israel raids West Bank, 2 Palestinians killed in gun battle
Israeli forces have raided a refugee camp within the occupied West Bank, setting off a gun battle
JERUSALEM — Israeli forces raided a refugee camp within the occupied West Bank early Thursday, setting off a gun battle through which two Palestinians have been killed and 15 have been wounded, the Palestinian Health Ministry stated.
In a separate incident, a Palestinian stabbed a 28-year-old Israeli man on a bus within the West Bank earlier than being killed by a bystander, the Israeli army stated. The Magen David Adom emergency service stated the stabbing sufferer was handled and brought to a hospital.
Videos circulated on-line confirmed smoke rising from the middle of the Jenin refugee camp as gunfire echoed within the background. Others appeared to point out Israeli troopers and Palestinian gunmen shifting via the slim streets.
The raid got here two days after a Palestinian from a village close to Jenin shot and killed 5 folks in central Israel, a part of a wave of assaults in current days which have left a complete of 11 folks useless.
The Palestinian Health Ministry stated 17-year-old Sanad Abu Atiyeh and 23-year-old Yazid al-Saadi have been killed. It stated 30-year-old Nidal Jaafara was shot and killed close to the West Bank city of Bethlehem, apparently referring to the stabbing incident.
The Israeli army stated troops got here underneath fireplace after coming into Jenin to arrest suspects. It stated one soldier was wounded and evacuated to a hospital for remedy.
The Jenin refugee camp was the scene of one of many deadliest battles of the second Palestinian intifada, or rebellion. In April 2002, Israeli forces fought Palestinian militants within the camp for practically three weeks. Twenty-three Israeli troopers and a minimum of 52 Palestinians, together with civilians, have been killed, in keeping with the U.N.
The Palestinian Authority, which administers components of the occupied West Bank and coordinates with Israel on safety issues, seems to have had little management over Jenin lately. Israeli forces working in and across the metropolis and refugee camp usually come underneath fireplace.
The Islamic Jihad militant group introduced a “general mobilization” of its fighters after Thursday’s raid.
In Tuesday’s assault, a 27-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank village of Yabad, close to Jenin, methodically gunned down victims, killing 5. On Sunday evening, a taking pictures assault by two Islamic State sympathizers within the central metropolis of Hadera killed two law enforcement officials. Last week, a mixed car-ramming and stabbing assault within the southern metropolis of Beersheba — additionally by an attacker impressed by IS — killed 4. The two assaults claimed by IS have been carried out by Arab residents of Israel.
President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday. Biden expressed his condolences after the current assaults and stated the U.S. “stands firmly and resolutely with Israel in the face of this terrorist threat and all threats to the state of Israel,” the White House stated.
The current wave of violence has introduced the Palestinian problem again to the fore at a time when Israel is targeted on constructing alliances with Arab states in opposition to Iran. There have been no severe Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in additional than a decade, and Bennett is against Palestinian statehood.
Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian leaders have held a flurry of conferences in current weeks, and Israel has introduced a sequence of goodwill gestures, in an effort to take care of calm forward of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins this weekend.
They hope to keep away from a repeat of final yr, when clashes in Jerusalem set off an 11-day Gaza battle, however the current assaults have despatched tensions hovering. After a Security Cabinet assembly late Wednesday, Israel however determined to hold on with plans to ease restrictions on Palestinians within the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Israel captured east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza within the 1967 Mideast battle, territories the Palestinians need for a future state. Israel annexed east Jerusalem in a transfer not acknowledged internationally. In the West Bank, it’s steadily constructing and increasing Jewish settlements, which many of the internationally group views as unlawful.
Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, and the Palestinian militant group Hamas seized energy there two years later. Since then, Israel and Hamas have fought 4 wars and Israel and Egypt have maintained a blockade on the territory, which is house to greater than 2 million Palestinians.
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Associated Press reporters Areej Hazboun and Tia Goldenberg in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
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Penn State spring football: Early results very promising for freshmen running backs
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Penn State is on a mission this spring to find ways to improve its ability to run the football, and help may have already arrived in the form of a pair of freshmen. Nick Singleton and Kaytron Allen have each enrolled early to be able to participate in spring football practices in State College this year, and the early indications are both are looking like solid fixtures in the running game’s plans for the upcoming season.
“They’re impressive. Those two guys are going to make it ultra competitive in that room,” Penn State offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich said when meeting with the media this week, according to Lions247. “They’re very explosive. And what’s impressive to me is that they came out of high school and physically they’re at a stage where they can do all things.”
Singleton came to Penn State as a fully decorated high school star. Singleton was named the Gatorade National High School Football Player of the Year, which has led to him earning a new nickname from his new teammates. Singleton has since pulled in a handful of other awards, including the Maxwell Football Club’s offensive player of the year award.
Allen may not have the same kind of trophy rack to his name, but Allen is another stellar addition to the depth chart as a four-star recruit with plenty of potential to be a big-time player.
“You don’t have to worry about what down it is with those guys,” Yurcich said when discussing the duo of freshmen running backs. “They can play on all downs because of their physical strength and their maturity.
The future may be bright for Singleton and Allen may be bright, but Penn State still needs its returning players to contribute as well.
“We’ve got a pretty good feel of who the vets are,” head coach James Franklin said of his returning running back options, including Keyvone Lee and Devyn Ford, earlier this week. “We need them and expect them to take a step this year. The two freshmen have been impressive really since they showed up on campus.”
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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.
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Thursday, March 31, 2022
The FEC sent a letter to conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins’ campaign this week asking for explanations after his campaign filed an amended campaign finance report that showed he initially failed to report nearly $21,000 — about 40% of what he says he has raised.
“Failure to adequately respond by the response date noted above could result in an audit or enforcement action,” the FEC wrote to Watkins, who also serves as the treasurer of his campaign. He has until Saturday to respond. The FEC also noted that Watkins’ amended disclosure also does not fully disclose the names, addresses and information of some prominent donors, details that are required by federal election law.
Several entries for people who donated amounts in the thousands of dollars have “info requested” listed under their occupation, which the FEC said was “not considered acceptable.”
“You must provide the missing information, or if you are unable to do so, you must demonstrate that ‘best efforts’ have been used to obtain the information,” the letter says.
In Watkins’ original campaign finance report filed at the end of last year, the man who is widely believed to have been behind QAnon’s master account reported having received $30,589. In the amended filing made on March 24, Watkins reported having $51,214.
Watkins also reported more expenditures and cash on hand in the amended report.
In the initial filing, Watkins reported having around $15,000 on hand after spending about $17,000 on operating expenses. The amended report shows the campaign really had twice as much cash, reporting $30,299 on hand after spending nearly $23,000.
Watkins also left out a $2,300 airfare expenditure and a “COVID Test” in his original filing report, both billed to Asiana Airlines.
Prior to coming to Arizona, Watkins was living in Japan for about a year. Before that, he had also lived in China and the Philippines, where the online image boards 8chan and 8kun were based.
“Ron Watkins isn’t new to putting out false information, but there are much greater consequences for lying to the FEC than to users on 4chan,” Campaign for Accountability Executive Director Michelle Kuppersmith said to the Arizona Mirror about the filing. “Ignorance is not a valid excuse for filing false or incomplete reports, and the FEC should consider all appropriate punitive actions if no better reason is offered.”
Watkins did not respond to a request for comment about the filings and the letter from the FEC.
Any response by Watkins to the commission will be public record and the commission will consider it before taking any action against Watkin’s committee. Watkins won’t be able to file for an extension on the letter submitted by the FEC.
Before QAnon, many came to associate Watkins with an online image board called 8chan, which was later renamed 8kun. Watkins didn’t create the site — its founder was Fredrick Brennan, who would later cut ties with the website — but he became its administrator after his father, Jim Watkins, purchased it.
The site has become a hotbed for hosting extremist and illicit content. It has hosted child porn, and white supremacist mass shooters have used it as a platform to spread their manifestos.
The Christchurch shooter in New Zealand said that he frequented the 4chan and 8chan message boards where far-right and white supremacist rhetoric was prevalent, and directly linked to other real-life hate crimes. The website also promoted antisemitism, at one point creating a cryptocurrency for users to boost their posts with a program they called “King of the Shekel.”
However, 8kun’s most active board by far is “Q Research.” As of March 30, the board had more than 1,700 unique users and over 16 million posts.
In launching his campaign, Watkins has begun to distance himself from QAnon, going so far as to claim he is not associated with the movement, however, he still was the headlining speaker at a QAnon conference in Las Vegas with other Arizona candidates.
Brennan, the former administrator of 8chan firmly believes that either Ron or Jim Watkins were the ones behind the QAnon posts, though both men have firmly denied being involved with the postings.
Arizona Mirror is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Arizona Mirror maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Jim Small for questions: info@azmirror.com. Follow Arizona Mirror on Facebook and Twitter.
The article was originally published in Arizona Mirror.
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HYDERABAD, March 31 (IANS): With Telugu superstar Nagarjuna and Bollywood actress Sonal Chauhan in lead roles, ‘The Ghost’ is being shot at a rapid pace.
It is reported that the makers have wrapped up a key schedule featuring Nagarjuna and Sonal Chauhan in Dubai recently.
Helmed by Praveen Sattaru, the film’s Dubai schedule was rolled out on March 10. The schedule has been wrapped up successfully after about 19 days. The pictures from the sets have come out, as Nagarjuna and Sonal can be spotted in slick attire as Interpol officers.
In a statement, the makers said that grand action scenes were shot in top-notch locations in Dubai. “A particular sequence canned in the desert will stun the audience,” they added, as they unveiled a few pictures from the sets of ‘The Ghost’.
It is reported that Sonal was trained to perform intense stunts, while she will be seen in a titular role in the movie. Nagarjuna and Sonal’s fans seem to be really excited to see this fresh pair’s blazing chemistry on the big screen.
Gul Panag and Anikha Surendran are reported to have wrapped up their scenes alongside the ‘Manmadhudu’ actor already.
Mukesh G is the cinematographer, while Brahma Kadali is the art director of this upcoming thriller.
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"Cheer Boxes," Now En Route to Poland, Meant to Bring Joy to the Youngest Who Have Been Displaced
LAS VEGAS, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty ONE Group, a modern, purpose-driven lifestyle brand and ONE of the fastest growing franchisors in the world, set off on a crusade only three short weeks ago to collect tens of thousands of shoe boxes of toys, "cheer boxes," for Ukrainian children who have been displaced by the war.
The idea came from the daughters of the company's CEO and founder, Kuba Jewgieniew, who wanted children to help children in need. Jewgieniew's parents and family are from Poland while his wife, Luba Jewgieniew, was born and raised in Ukraine. The family originally hoped to collect just 300 boxes, but the result was well beyond anything the girls or the company could have expected.
"People helping people is what our COOLTURE (cool + culture) is all about," said Kuba Jewgieniew, CEO and Founder of Realty ONE Group. "Our entire ONE family across 45 states shared their love along with local schools, hospitals, neighbors and other real estate companies and it was ONE of the most amazing things I've ever experienced.
In total, Realty ONE Group estimates it collected more than 30,000 cheer boxes stuffed with toys, some clothing and loving, hand-crafted notes to all ages of Ukrainian children. The boxes began to overflow at the company's several hub offices in Orange County, Phoenix and Las Vegas, and now have been crated and shipped to the east coast where they'll make the final trek overseas to the south of Poland where Jewgieniew's family will drive distribution efforts.
Realty ONE Group has a long legacy of giving back through its 501(c)3, ONE Cares, having impacted nearly 300,000 lives in 2021, giving back more than $200,000 to organizations everywhere while planting 139,000 trees through its ONE Tree, ONE World program to make the earth greener as we expand our footprint around the world.
The UNBrokerage, as it's known in the industry, now has more than 17,000 real estate professionals in more than 400 offices in 45 states, Washington D.C. and Canada and will be opening in Ecuador, Costa Rica, Italy, Singapore and Spain, in addition to the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.
Learn more at www.OwnAOne.com.
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‘Exceptional’ second-grader raising funds to benefit Ukraine
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — An “exceptional” second-grader at St. Clairsville Elementary chose to turn a school project into a fundraiser to help children in Ukraine. What began as a typical elementary school project led to 8-year-old Kaylee Edwards raising more than $700 – so far — for children in the country that...
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falling 0.84% to 21,890.16. This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses. Shopify Inc. Cl A closed C$1,383.26 short of its 52-week high (C$2,228.73), which the company reached on November 19th. Trading volume of 262,142 shares remained below its 50-day average volume of 335,945.
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Brian Howey column: In the harsh light of genocide, Holcomb lauds NATO
There is palpable emotion when American leaders approach the Ukrainian border these days. It’s what is to be expected when they meet with some of the four million people who have fled Vladimir Putin’s genocidal war that has sent 50% of this nation’s children in refugee status, with most of their fathers and many of their mothers returning to fight the Russians.
President Biden was so moved after visiting the Polish/Ukraine border last weekend he said that Putin "cannot remain in power," evoking President Reagan's calling out of the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" a generation ago. “The fact of the matter is I was expressing the moral outrage I felt toward the way Putin is dealing and the actions of this man, which is just brutality.” Biden said. It was "the kind of behavior that makes the whole world say, 'My God, what is this man doing?'"
Gov. Eric Holcomb met with Ukrainian refugees in Slovakia on Monday. "The inspiring observation I’ve made is Ukrainians are made of steel," Holcomb told me in a Zoom interview on Wednesday. "Their resolve is second to none and I just want to export this Hoosier hospitality that we’re known for and provide resources as we have the capacity to do so. They are living through their greatest hour of need.
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"The world is taking note on who is lining up behind whom," Holcomb added. "I just want to make sure that it’s as blunt as this: Ukrainian blood cannot be worth less than Russian oil and perpetuate the Russian war machine. One thing is clear today, the bear is not hibernating any longer. The bear is out, gobbling up, engulfing and devouring and needs to be stopped."
The bulwark of civilization beyond President Zelensky and the tens of thousands of Ukrainian patriot soldiers is NATO. Holcomb was in Slovakia with Indiana National Guard Adjutant Gen. Dale Lyles renewing ties with that nation's armed forces. There have been ties between these two militaries since 1994. "We are on first name basis with leaders there," Holcomb said. "So when I had the opportunity to talk to the prime minister and the defense secretary, foreign minister, the general in charge of the troops inside Slovakia, I can tell you it puts wind in their sails."
How important is NATO right now? "I don’t think it can be overstated how vital both the European Union is and NATO, because of that question of what’s next," Holcomb said. "If we do not address this, contained in Ukraine, what will be next?"
The contrast comes with former president Donald Trump, who called Putin a "savvy genius" before the Russian despot sent in 190,000 "peacekeepers" into Ukraine, as Trump called them.
Had Trump won a second term in 2020, or is returned to power in 2025 - and he is the de facto leader of the Republican Party and the favorite for the 2024 nomination - the future of NATO becomes murky. A number of Trump national security aides have said that he planned to pull the U.S. out of NATO. Former national security advisor John Bolton said in March, “In a second Trump term, I think he may well have withdrawn from NATO and I think Putin was waiting for that.”
In a second Trump term, there would be no Mad Dog Mattis, John Bolton or Dan Coats. There would be the fringe D-team players and sycophants, the same MO that Putin has used to find himself in his current dire predicament, with a nuclear escalation one of his dwindling options.
Howey columns:Journalists again playing crucial role in telling the truth about war
While American leaders like Biden, Holcomb and former vice president Mike Pence have visited Ukrainian refugees, Trump stunned those paying attention this past week. At a MAGA rally in Georgia he called Putin a "smart leader," adding, "They ask me, ‘Is Putin smart?’ Yes, Putin was smart. And I actually thought he was going to be negotiating. I said, ‘That’s a hell of a way to negotiate, put 200,000 soldiers on the border.”
On a Fox News show Tuesday, Trump asked Putin to help dig up dirt on Hunter Biden, the president's troubled son. "I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it,” Trump said. “I think we should know that answer.”
Trump has busted through a number of taboo barriers frequently since he announced his presidential candidacy in 2015, but reaching out to a murderous dictator in the midst of a genocidal frenzy is a new, pathetic low.
Trump also revealed, once again, how scant his understanding of nuclear war is. Asked by Stuart Varney on Fox what he would do about the Russian invasion, Trump rattled his nuclear saber. “We say, ‘Oh, he’s a nuclear power. But we’re a greater nuclear power. We have the greatest submarines in the world, the most powerful machines ever built … we’re going to send them over and we’ll be coasting back and forth, up and down your coast."
This from a man who didn't know what the concept of nuclear triad was. This from a candidate who got his foreign policy expertise by "watching the shows." This from a man who once asked about detonating a nuclear warhead into a powerful hurricane approaching the U.S.
The columnist is publisher of Howey Politics Indiana at www.howeypolitics.com. Find Howey on Facebook and Twitter @hwypol.
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Parent of transgender child speaks out after Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signs anti-trans bills
PHOENIX - Republican Gov. Doug Ducey has signed bills banning transgender girls from playing on girls' sports teams and prohibiting gender reassignment surgeries for minors.
The governor described Senate bills 1138 and 1165 as legislation to "protect female athletes" and "to ensure that individuals undergoing irreversible gender reassignment surgery are of adult age."
"This legislation is common-sense and narrowly-targeted to address these two specific issues — while ensuring that transgender individuals continue to receive the same dignity, respect and kindness as every individual in our society," Ducey said in a Twitter thread.
Two GOP governors last week bucked conservatives in their party and vetoed bills in Indiana and Utah requiring trans girls to play on boys sports teams.
Republicans have said blocking transgender players from girls sports teams would protect the integrity of women’s sports, fearing that trans athletes would have an advantage.
Many point to the transgender collegiate swimmer Lia Thomas, who won an individual title at the NCAA Women’s Division I Swimming and Diving Championship last week.
But there are few trans athletes in Arizona schools. Since 2017, about 16 trans athletes have received waivers to play on teams that align with their gender identities out of about 170,000 school-based athletes in the state, according to the Arizona Interscholastic Association.
"This bill to me is all about biology," said Republican Rep. Shawnna Bolick, who said she played on a coed team in the 1980s but could not have made the high school boys team. "In my opinion, its unfair to allow biological males to compete with biological girls sports."
RELATED: Arizona lawmakers move forward with bill banning transgender girls on women's sports teams
Critics said the legislation dehumanizes trans youth to address an issue that hasn’t been a problem.
"We’re talking about legislating bullying against children who are already struggling just to get by," said Democratic Rep. Kelli Butler. fighting back tears.
Until two years ago, no state had passed a law regulating gender-designated youth sports. But the issue has become front-and-center in Republican-led statehouses since Idaho lawmakers passed the nation’s first sports participation law in 2020. It’s now blocked in court, along with another in West Virginia.
"This bill is creating a pointless and harmful solution to a non-existent issue," Skyler Morrison, a 13-year-old transgender girl, told lawmakers during a committee hearing earlier this month. "It’s obvious this bill is just an excuse to discriminate against transgender girls."
Republicans around the country have leaned into culture war issues including transgender rights. The debate and vote on the transgender sports legislation came the same morning the House considered and passed a ban on abortions after 15-week gestation. Republicans said little during debates on all three bills.
‘It is irreversible’
Arizona is one of 20 states that have considered legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care. The bill originally would have banned all such care for minors but was scaled back to restrict only irreversible procedures, such as surgeries related to gender reassignment.
Similar legislation passed the Idaho House earlier this month but it died in the Senate amid concerns from some Republicans about restricting parental rights.
Supporters of the Arizona bill said it would prevent children from making permanent decisions that they might later come to regret. Republican Rep. John Kavanagh compared the vote to the Legislature’s unanimous decision in years past to ban genital mutilation.
"We should stand the same way today because this is mutilation of children," Kavanagh said. "It is irreversible. It is horrific."
Critics said the decision should be left to parents, their children and the health care team caring for them. They said surgeries are only performed after extensive care and therapy.
"We’re talking about our kids, who are already going to be taking the proper steps with their parents to be able to be who they are," said Democratic Rep. Andres Cano.
The bill originally would have banned all gender-affirming care, including hormone therapies and puberty blockers but was scaled back in the Senate.
Similar legislation passed the Idaho House earlier this month but died in the Senate, where some Republicans said they were concerned about restricting parental rights.
Parents, advocates speak out
On March 30, a day after the bills were signed into law by Gov. Ducey, parents and advocates expressed their devastation.
"It was a punch," said Ai Binh Ho. "It takes away our rights to make decisions together with our children."
Ho's four-year-old daughter is transgender.
"For me to say ‘you’ll never be part of a team,' I just don’t even know what to say, how to tell her that," said Ho. "It takes away that hope that we have for her."
President Joe Biden, meanwhile, promised his administration will stand up for the transgender community.
"The onslaught of anti-transgender state laws attacking you and your families is simply wrong," said the President.
On March 30, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to states, warning it will go after states that practice unlawful discrimination based on gender identity. In response, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich tweeted ‘See you in court (again).'
In the meantime, some parents are now thinking about leaving Arizona, for the sake of their kids.
"You know when she reaches the age where she wants the surgery, and is ready for the surgery -- we know that the surgery decreases suicide, it is a lifeline for her -- I think we will have to move," said Ho.
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UN denies it asked staff to avoid describing Russia action in Ukraine as war, invasion
Nearly two weeks on, it is painfully clear that those suffering the most after Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine are civilians – killed, wounded, displaced. This war is senseless. We are ready to support all good-faith efforts at negotiation to end the bloodshed.
— Rosemary A. DiCarlo (@DicarloRosemary) March 7, 2022
“This is an important reminder that we, as international civil servants, have a responsibility to be impartial. There is a serious possibility of reputational risk that has been flagged by senior officials recently,” the email said.
Screenshots of the email were shared in full on Twitter by Irish Times journalist Naomi O’Leary. It also told staff to “please note we are waiting for updated guidance on specific terminology following the General Assembly resolution, which uses the word ‘aggression.'”
The U.N.’s reported instruction to staff on terminology comes after the Russian parliament on Friday banned “fake news” from journalists about the ongoing war.
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Carl Loftin Career and Technology Center's automotive student, Kade Ryals, placed first at the SkillsUSA State Competition in the "Motorcycle Service" category. He will continue to Atlanta for nationals in June. From left are Kade Ryals and his instructor, Kade Lear.
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Spanish La Liga: Celta Vigo v Real Madrid (Match Odds)
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Despite their fine form, Dan Fitch is not convinced that Barcelona will beat stubborn Sevilla, as he previews the pick of the weekend La Liga action...
"Barcelona look short at this price considering how hard Sevilla have proved to beat this season, so we’ll look towards the goals markets. Over 2.5 goals has landed in each of Barcelona’s last seven league games."
Back over 2.5 goals between Barcelona and Sevilla at 1.910/11
Celta Vigo 4.1 v Real Madrid 1.991/1; The Draw 3.7511/4
Saturday 2 April, 17:30
Live on LaLigaTV and Betfair Live Video
The recent international break came at a good time for Real Madrid, allowing them time to recover from the humiliation of being thrashed at home in El Clasico.
Madrid lost 4-0 to Barcelona at the Bernabeu in their last outing. While the result is a warning of the threat that Barca pose in the future, for now Real Madrid remain huge favourites at 1.061/18 to win the La Liga title.
Despite the defeat, Real have a nine point lead over second placed Sevilla, with nine games remaining. It was only their third league loss of the season (W20 D6) and after their previous two defeats, Madrid were able to shrug off the disappointment and go on lengthy unbeaten runs.
Eleventh placed Celta Vigo are having a decent season, but have only won one of their last six league games (D3 L2). Real Madrid look a big price at 1.991/1 to get back to winning ways.
Atletico Madrid 1.392/5 v Alaves 12.011/1; The Draw 4.94/1
Saturday 2 April, 20:00
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Atletico Madrid could go up to second in La Liga if they can beat Alaves by a sufficient margin.
A win would see fourth placed Atletico go level on points with Sevilla. At one stage it looked likely that there would be some new teams qualifying for the Champions League from Spain this season, but Atletico and Barcelona's improvement has seen them move back into the top four.
There is now a four point gap between Atletico and fifth placed Betis. Diego Simeone's team won 1-0 at Rayo Vallecano in their last outing, which stretched their unbeaten run across all competitions to seven games (W6 D1).
That run doesn't seem likely to be broken by 19th placed Alaves, who are without a win in five (D2 L3). No team has scored goals less than Alaves this season and with Atletico keeping clean sheets in four of their last seven games, it could make sense to back the hosts to win to nil at 2.0521/20.
Barcelona 1.491/2 v Sevilla 7.613/2; The Draw 4.77/2
Sunday 3 April, 20:00
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The La Liga action concludes with a big game, as third placed Barcelona host a Sevilla side clinging on to second.
Like Atletico Madrid, Barcelona are only three points behind Sevilla, but Xavi's side have the advantage of having a game in hand on all of the top four. Though it seems unlikely that anyone can beat Real Madrid to the title, second place is very much up for grabs, which seemed an unthinkable prospect for Barca, just a few months ago.
Sevilla could end up finishing third or worse, in what has been a two-horse title race for most of the season. With just two defeats in La Liga, no team has lost less games, but also, no side has drawn more times than Sevilla, who have suffered twelve stalemates.
Some seven of those twelve league draws have come in Sevilla's last nine games, so though they are unbeaten in 15 La Liga matches (W7 D8), they have seen Barca and Atletico gain ground. Barcelona look short at this price considering how hard Sevilla have proved to beat this season, so we'll look towards the goals markets. Over 2.5 goals has landed in each of Barcelona's last seven league games and is available at 1.910/11.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers passed a measure on Thursday to create a paid family leave program, sending the legislation to Gov. Larry Hogan.
The bill, approved by supermajority votes by Democrats who control the legislature, would enable workers to take up to 12 weeks of partially paid leave for specified personal family circumstances such as caring for a sick relative or having a baby. It would provide up to 24 weeks for a parent, if he or she has a serious health issue in the year of a child's birth.
“This has been a long time coming,” said Sen. Antonio Hayes, a Baltimore Democrat. He thanked supporters who have “come together and really advocated on behalf of Maryland families."
Republicans criticized the measure for failing to spell out how much employees and employers would have to contribute, leaving that for the state's labor department to define later. They said Democrats were rushing to get the bill to the Republican governor just to meet a deadline so lawmakers will still be in session if the bill is vetoed.
“We're pushing this bill as quick as we can to get it upstairs,” said Sen. J.B. Jennings, a Republican, who added: “We don't know the numbers ... this bill is a hot mess.”
Because lawmakers are in the last session of the four-year term, they would not have a chance to override the veto next year if they adjourn before the governor acts on legislation.
The measure would create an insurance pool. Employees and employers would contribute to fund the program. Under the bill, the state’s labor department would set contribution rates to pay for the program. Employers with fewer than 15 employees would not be required to contribute.
The measure also includes job protections to protect employees from retaliation or termination for using the leave.
Seven states and the District of Columbia have paid family and medical leave insurance programs, including California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Washington. Colorado and Oregon have approved programs that have not started yet.
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MIAMI (AP) — A Florida police officer fatally shot a man who was able to arm himself after being arrested Thursday, officials said.
The shooting occurred shortly before noon at a western Miami-Dade home, according to a police news release.
Miami-Dade police officers had been assisting Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Marshals Service when they took a 53-year-old man into custody, police said. The man complained of feeling ill, and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to evaluate him. During the evaluation, the man somehow armed himself, and shots were fired, officials said.
The man died at the scene. No other injuries were reported.
The shooting is being investigated by state police officials.
Police didn't immediately release the names or races of the dead man or the officer who shot him.
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“It’s a disingenuous argument to say, ‘Well, I haven’t got the money’ — but you haven’t asked for it,” Rep. Connolly told Newsweek
Democratic lawmakers are combating again towards the Trump-appointed head of the United States Postal Service (USPS), Louis DeJoy, who announced last month that the Service would go towards President Joe Biden‘s inexperienced agenda and replace its vehicular fleet with gasoline autos over electrical ones.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform revealed in a Thursday release that it plans to carry a listening to on April 5 inspecting ” the benefits, opportunities, and challenges of electrifying the Postal Service fleet.”
While Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has defended his agency’s decision to put money into gasoline autos as a consequence of price issues, Democrats like Congressman Gerry Connolly of Virginia, who chairs Oversight and Reform’s postal overseer, the Subcommittee on Government Operations, is not shopping for it.
“It’s a disingenuous argument to say, ‘Well, I haven’t got the money’ — but you haven’t asked for it,” Connolly advised Newsweek. “And even when you haven’t asked for it, we’ve shown a willingness to give it to you anyhow.”
In fiscal yr 2021, the USPS reported working bills that totaled $81.8 billion. During that very same yr, its whole unfunded liabilities and debt reached $122.5 billion, greater than 150% of its annual income. Yet, regardless of it is monetary struggles, the USPS has persistently ranked as one of many nation’s hottest federal establishments, with some 90% of respondents in USPS surveys holding favorable views.
Because of its recognition, the company has seen bipartisan assist. On March 28, Congress introduced Biden with the bipartisan Postal Service Reform Act, which might take away an enormous debt burden that has weighed down the establishment for many years.
Connolly says this demonstrates that Congress will act on DeJoy’s wants when he requests it. Yet, Connolly says it seems DeJoy has made little try and safe funding for electrical autos, main Connolly to anticipate that his resolution is politically motivated.
“DeJoy has shown his political stripes from day one,” Connolly advised Newsweek. “This is somebody who actively engaged in disrupting the Postal Service in order to influence the election result. He was called out on that not only by members of Congress, but more importantly by federal judges.”
U.S. Judge Stanley Bastian of Washington dominated that adjustments initiated by DeJoy through the time of the 2020 election gave the impression to be a “politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service” that launched the “substantial possibility (that) many voters will be disenfranchised.”
Connolly, who additionally co-chairs the House Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition, goals to introduce laws referred to as the Green Postal Service Fleet Act that will cease DeJoy from shifting ahead along with his gasoline automobile plan by requiring the Service to have “at least 75 percent electric or zero emission vehicles.”
That 75% quantity is far increased than the one specified by the Post Office’s authentic plan, which solely referred to as for 10% of its new fleet to be powered by electrical energy.
This invoice has garnered 71 Democratic co-sponsors, and Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney has expressed favor towards the transfer, saying USPS “must prioritize the acquisition of electric vehicles or it will be stuck with outdated technology that further pollutes our environment for decades.”
However, regardless of the rosy angle towards electrical autos of Connolly and his colleagues, DeJoy says the proposal underlies a elementary misunderstanding of the scope, dimension and logistics of the group.
With 8,500 amenities, 600,000 staff and a community of greater than 160 million supply addresses, the Postal Service continues to be one of many largest organizations within the United States and continues to face monetary challenges.
With that in thoughts, DeJoy dismissed the early requires a majority-electric automobile fleet, telling Postal Board members that whereas he’s “compelled to act prudently in the interest of the American public, that responsibility should not be mistaken for an ambivalent commitment to operating a cleaner postal vehicle fleet for our country.”
The Postal Service echoed an identical sentiment in an official assertion.
“While we can understand why some who are not responsible for the financial sustainability of the Postal Service might prefer that we acquire more electric vehicles, the law requires us to be self-sufficient,” the assertion learn.
Michael Ravnitzky labored on the Postal Regulatory Commission from 2005 by way of 2015 as employees assistant to Commissioner Ruth Goldway, and from 2009 by way of 2014 as chief counsel to Chairman Goldway. While he agrees that shortly transitioning the biggest authorities fleet to electrical autos is the fitting resolution to assist meet nationwide emissions objectives, he mentioned he understands the place DeJoy is coming from in saying that it is probably not a really perfect route from an organizational perspective.
“It’s hard to condemn the Postal Service for making reasonable decisions,” he mentioned. “From a risk perspective, having a lower-cost internal combustion fleet with new gasoline engines is not necessarily such a bad choice from the USPS’s standpoint.”
“But when you look at it from the perspective of the United States in 2022,” he added, “with everything we know about climate change and the government’s responsibility to address some of these issues, then that decision that is reasonable from an internal perspective does not make as much sense externally.”
From his first-hand perspective, Ravnitzky argues that the Postal Service’s issues can’t simply be decreased to poor management or “big government” oversight. He mentioned that the most important issues stifling the group embrace its lack of obtainable capital, sluggish procurement course of and poor technique for exterior communications.
“There’s a whole range of things the Postal Service has to consider when they are making these decisions.” he advised Newsweek. “But I think some of the criticism has been somewhat unfair. People are condemning the move, but are not aware of the lengthy review process that the Postal Service has put into place to plan this procurement.”
While he helps the transition to electrical autos and believes the group can do a a lot better job of innovating, he additionally emphasised the significance of giving some grace to America’s most beloved establishment.
“The Postal Service constantly has to balance the risks against the cost benefits, against the perception on the Hill and Congress, and against the country’s perception on what they should and should not be doing,” mentioned Ravnitzky. “At the end of the day, my experience with the Postal Service is that they are a group of very committed people, doing a mission that is often under-appreciated.”
Ravnitzky says USPS’ sluggish procurement course of can be a significant trigger for blame, saying that “most people are not aware of the lengthy review process that the Postal Service put into place to plan this procurement.” With electrical autos nonetheless rising throughout the vehicular market, he empathizes with the Post Office’s cautious method to the shift.
In flip, Connolly argues that if the group is unable to hurry up this course of for making modern investments, it runs the danger of turning into more and more outdated and out of date. He says in the long term, USPS will in the end lower your expenses by investing in EVs, making the funding sound, from his perspective.
He argues that though these logistical restrictions do exist, DeJoy has solely made it worse by way of his miscommunication and more and more adverse picture. Given his previous actions, Connolly continues to see DeJoy as a Trump steward, and his resolution to solely enhance the variety of EVs within the fleet by 10% solely furthers this picture.
“Even if you want to argue that he is not all bad, he’s got so much baggage at this point that he is no longer credible and will always be damaged goods going forward,” Connolly advised Newsweek. “Why not pick an alternative who is none of that?”
To take away DeJoy from his place, the Postal Service’s Board of Governors should vote in favor of his removing. Despite President Biden nominating two candidates for the board, these nominations haven’t handed the U.S. Senate, leaving the conservative-majority board with the authority to maintain DeJoy in place.
“This policy looks to be in outright defiance of (America’s) environmental goals,” Connolly advised Newsweek. “I do not understand why we are allowing a Trump-selected, unqualified candidate to continue being Postmaster General.”
Despite his preliminary reluctance to extend the order of electrical autos, final week DeJoy introduced an vital adjustment to his authentic procurement plan, doubling the USPS’s authentic order of EV’s.
Based on latest developments and “our improving outlook,” DeJoy mentioned, “we have determined that increasing our initial electric vehicle purchase from 5,000 to 10,019 makes good sense from an operational and financial perspective.”
While some have interpreted this transfer to be an encouraging signal of progress, Connolly is just not so optimistic.
“My bill would say the fleet has got to be 75 percent electric,” he mentioned. “Am I to say that his willingness to go up to 20 percent is progress?”
“This is a very reluctant concession on his part,” Connolly added. “He ought to be embracing the opportunity to go EV and to have a cutting edge, technologically advanced, more efficient and lower cost vehicle fleet.”
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Pinterest, Inc. (NYSE:PINS – Get Rating) CFO Todd R. Morgenfeld sold 53,016 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $26.37, for a total transaction of $1,398,031.92. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website.
Shares of PINS stock traded down $1.08 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $24.61. The company had a trading volume of 9,989,731 shares, compared to its average volume of 13,318,170. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $25.77 and a 200-day moving average price of $37.65. Pinterest, Inc. has a one year low of $21.92 and a one year high of $88.83. The firm has a market cap of $16.20 billion, a PE ratio of 53.48, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.64 and a beta of 1.22.
Pinterest (NYSE:PINS – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 3rd. The company reported $0.29 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.27 by $0.02. Pinterest had a net margin of 12.27% and a return on equity of 13.74%. The firm had revenue of $846.66 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $831.23 million. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.30 earnings per share. As a group, research analysts anticipate that Pinterest, Inc. will post 0.43 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Several equities research analysts have recently commented on the stock. Barclays dropped their target price on shares of Pinterest from $50.00 to $37.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 4th. Benchmark assumed coverage on shares of Pinterest in a research report on Tuesday, March 1st. They issued a “hold” rating for the company. Guggenheim cut shares of Pinterest from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and dropped their target price for the stock from $46.00 to $39.00 in a research report on Tuesday, January 4th. KeyCorp dropped their target price on shares of Pinterest from $54.00 to $37.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, February 3rd. Finally, Citigroup decreased their price target on shares of Pinterest from $48.00 to $42.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, December 22nd. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, nineteen have given a hold rating and six have given a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $43.54.
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Pinterest, Inc engages in the operation of a pinboard-style photo-sharing website. It allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, and hobbies. The company was founded by Benjamin Silbermann, Paul C. Sciarra, and Evan Sharp in October 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
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Wonderbrett is a legendary West Coast cannabis lifestyle brand founded in 1997 by elite California legacy cultivators Brett Feldman and Cameron Damwijk. The company’s cannabis genetics library is among the most sought after in the world. Built upon decades of cultivation experience and devotion to growing the rarest genetics, Wonderbrett’s global acclaim and cultural relevance is intrinsic to music, art and style through its history cementing the famous OG Kush strain in hit songs during the late '90s. The founders and its team have a deep history of fostering the symbiotic relationship between cannabis as plant medicine, with creatives such as artists, designers and musicians.
Wonderbrett also built one of the largest cultivation facilities in North America. Headquartered in Long Beach, Calif., the operation features custom-designed irrigation systems that integrate advanced technology with time-honored, traditional cultivation techniques. This ensures craft-style, premium products at scale and the continuous development of elite genetics from Californian legacy cultivators.
In 2021, Wonderbrett will unveil its North American dispensary flagship on North La Brea Avenue in the iconic Fairfax District of Los Angeles. The store is a result of Wonderbrett founders receiving a social equity retail license in 2018 from L.A. County’s cannabis commission. There is no doubt that Feldman, Damwijk and the Wonderbrett organization is emblematic of what the cannabis industry needs more of, as the company raises the bar for plant medicine with its world-class marijuana strains, impactful campaigns, authentic collaborations, and representation of California’s legacy history.
Wonderbrett also built one of the largest cultivation facilities in North America. Headquartered in Long Beach, Calif., the operation features custom-designed irrigation systems that integrate advanced technology with time-honored, traditional cultivation techniques. This ensures craft-style, premium products at scale and the continuous development of elite genetics from Californian legacy cultivators.
In 2021, Wonderbrett will unveil its North American dispensary flagship on North La Brea Avenue in the iconic Fairfax District of Los Angeles. The store is a result of Wonderbrett founders receiving a social equity retail license in 2018 from L.A. County’s cannabis commission. There is no doubt that Feldman, Damwijk and the Wonderbrett organization is emblematic of what the cannabis industry needs more of, as the company raises the bar for plant medicine with its world-class marijuana strains, impactful campaigns, authentic collaborations, and representation of California’s legacy history.
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PERI Finance (PERI) traded 5% lower against the US dollar during the one day period ending at 18:00 PM Eastern on March 31st. During the last week, PERI Finance has traded down 2.3% against the US dollar. One PERI Finance coin can currently be purchased for approximately $0.23 or 0.00000513 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. PERI Finance has a total market cap of $1.60 million and $1.76 million worth of PERI Finance was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
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- Tether (USDT) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002185 BTC.
- XRP (XRP) traded 4.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.82 or 0.00001786 BTC.
- Polkadot (DOT) traded down 4.1% against the dollar and now trades at $21.48 or 0.00046930 BTC.
- Shiba Inu (SHIB) traded 5.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Wrapped TRON (WTRX) traded 4.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0749 or 0.00000164 BTC.
- Lido stETH (STETH) traded 3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $3,280.00 or 0.07164876 BTC.
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- Bitcoin BEP2 (BTCB) traded 2.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $45,829.18 or 1.00109818 BTC.
- stETH (Lido) (STETH) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $3,479.19 or 0.06807369 BTC.
- Filecoin (FIL) traded down 4.9% against the dollar and now trades at $24.55 or 0.00053623 BTC.
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St. Clairsville baseball debuts with impressive win
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – The major question mark surrounding St. Clairsville baseball this spring is how effective its pitching staff will be after graduation stripped the Red Devils of several talented arms. If one game is any indication, Hall of Fame coach Tom Sliva may be guiding another powerful...
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CONFIRMS LIQUIDATION TIMETABLE
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Retail Holdings N.V. (Symbol: RHDGF) -- Retail Holdings N.V. (together with its subsidiaries, the "Company"), announced today results for the year ended December 31, 2021 and confirmed the Company's liquidation timetable.
Shareholders should read the complete 2021 Summary Annual Report and the accompanying audited Financial Statements and Notes, which will be available shortly at the Corporate/Investor section of the Retail Holdings' website www.retailholdings.com and can be obtained free of charge via mail or email request to Amy Pappas, Corporate Secretary, at the contact details indicated below.
Management Discussion and Analysis: Results of Operations 2021
For the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company's consolidated Revenue was $487 thousand, compared to $327 thousand for the same period in 2020. Revenue is primarily from royalties for use of the Singer brand and tradename. As there are essentially no costs directly related to the generation of royalty income, Gross profit is equal to Revenue in both the year ended December 31, 2021 and the year ended December 31, 2020. Other income for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $37 thousand and for the year ended December 31, 2020 was $13 thousand.
Salary and administrative ("S&A") expenses for the year ended December 31, 2021, were $1,024 thousand, compared to $1,665 thousand for the same period prior year. The very high S&A expenses relative to Revenue in both years reflect continuing, albeit declining, legacy expenses in the face of Revenue decline as the Company proceeds to liquidation, and certain fixed costs of being a public company and of maintaining a management structure.
Results from operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2021 were a loss of $504 thousand, compared to a loss of $1,327 thousand in the same period in 2020. The smaller loss primarily reflects lower S&A expenses.
The Company's net loss from Continuing operations after tax for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $503 thousand, compared to a net loss of $1,306 thousand for the same period prior year.
Profit from Discontinued operations, net of tax, was $334 thousand for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to a net profit of $24 thousand in the same period prior year. Included in the results for the year ended December 31, 2021 is the gain on disposal of the Company's remaining stake in Retail Holdings India B.V. ("India BV") of $105 thousand. The Company's total net loss after tax, was $169 thousand for the year ended December 31, 2021, compared to a total net loss after tax, of $1,282 thousand for the year ended December 31, 2020.
The loss attributable to Retail Holdings N.V. shareholders is $259 thousand for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to a loss of $1,632 thousand for the same period prior year. The loss attributable to Retail Holdings N.V. shareholders is equivalent to a loss per Share of $0.09 from Continuing operations and $0.06 overall for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to a loss per Share attributable to Retail Holdings N.V. shareholders of $0.24 from Continuing operations and $0.35 overall for the year ended December 31, 2020.
Total comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $169 thousand, compared to
a comprehensive loss for the same period prior year of $1,452 thousand. The decline in comprehensive loss is largely due to the flow through of the Company's loss and profit explained above.
For a discussion of liquidity and capital resources during 2021 and 2020, see the Company's 2021 and 2020 Annual Reports, respectively, dated March 2021 and March 2020.
This presentation of the financial results is quite different in format than in earlier years. As a consequence of the disposal in December 2020 of 42.4% of the Company's equity interest in India BV the Company no longer had control stakes in either India BV or in the India operations at Singer India Limited ("Singer India"); both companies were treated as associates as at December 31, 2020. As a consequence of the disposal in December 2021 of the Company's remaining interest in India BV, India BV and Singer India are eliminated entirely from the Company's financial statements.
Chairman's Comments
Commenting on the 2021 results and the Company's strategy going forward, Stephen H. Goodman, the Company's Chairman, President and CEO, noted, "In 2021 the Company completed the divestment program begun in 2015. In that year, the Company outlined a strategy to "maximize and, ultimately to monetize the value of its assets and then to liquidate the Company". Over the period since 2015, a total of $265.4 million from asset sales have been generated and a total $38.30 per Share has been distributed to shareholders.
"The Company has now begun the liquidation process. Remaining under Retail Holdings N.V. are four intermediate holding companies (see the organization chart at the end of this release). Management anticipates that these companies and Retail Holdings N.V. itself will be liquidated by June 30, 2023. The liquidation of Retail Holdings Asia B.V. has commenced; the liquidation of Retail Holdings Asia N.V. and Reho Limited will commence shortly; with the liquidation of Singer Asia Limited and Retail Holdings N.V. to follow.
"Pending the ultimate liquidation, the Company intends: to minimize personnel and administrative costs; collect and monetize certain financial assets, including those that come due during 2022; and mitigate a number of contingent risks including the negative impact on the ultimate realization from liquidation of unclaimed distributions payable to certain foreign shareholders. At or near the end of the process, a final liquidation distribution will, subject to shareholder approval, be paid to shareholders.
"While it is difficult to accurately forecast, management estimates, based on the available facts, assumptions, and beliefs, that the ultimate distribution to shareholders will likely be somewhat in excess of $0.50 per Share. No assurance can be given that management's estimate will prove to be correct as to the amount and timing of this distribution.
"I extend my thanks to fellow employees and directors for their efforts in 2021 and thank all of the Company shareholders for their continued support."
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John Krull column: Todd Rokita and the chestnut horse
The explanation Indiana Attorney Todd Rokita offered for settling his silly, silly lawsuit with conservative commentator and radio talk show host Abdul-Hakim Shabazz reveals what Rokita thinks about his voters.
He believes they are gullible.
Really.
Really.
Really.
Gullible.
To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, the attorney general is betting that his backers can’t tell the difference between a chestnut horse and a horse chestnut.
Rokita writes in an opinion piece he sent around to news organizations that he settled the suit Shabazz and the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed against him to save the taxpayers money and him time to fight more important battles. (Disclosure: Nearly 20 years ago, I was the executive director of the Indiana ACLU.)
In his piece, the attorney general suggests that Shabazz and the ACLU came after him for no reason.
In fact, Rokita started the fight. He barred Shabazz from a press conference last year on the grounds that Shabazz wasn’t a journalist. Rokita then asserted that he had the right to determine who was a journalist and who wasn’t.
That’s an odd position for a guy who proclaims himself to be a small-government conservative to take, but, then again, intellectual consistency and honesty never have been among Rokita’s strong suits.
It was a stupid, stupid, stupid fight for Rokita to pick.
In the first place, Shabazz had credentials issued by the state of Indiana certifying that he was a member of the Statehouse press corps. To make his case, Rokita would have had to argue that he isn’t bound by the state’s processes and procedures for issuing credentials.
Second, Abdul works for several established and respected news organizations. Rokita was arguing that he, not the owners and publishers of those outlets, was entitled to decide who was a journalist and who wasn’t. Perhaps that’s why the Society of Professional Journalists and other such organizations also came out against the attorney general’s ham-handed action.
Third, Rokita went to war with someone in his own army. Until now, Shabazz has rarely if ever had a less-than-complimentary word to say about any Republican ever. That Shabazz now is willing to make an exception of Rokita says something about the attorney general, not much of it good.
Fourth and perhaps most important, there’s the epic level of hypocrisy involved here.
If Rokita were serious about banning people who weren’t “serious” journalists from his presence, he would refuse to sit down with, say, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson from Fox News. To save the network from crushing lawsuits, Fox has argued in court that nothing Hannity or Carlson says should be taken as either fact or truth because they are polemicists and entertainers, not journalists.
But if either Carlson or Hannity wanted to talk with Rokita, he not would only open his doors to them but likely inquire as to what surgery was necessary for him to be able to bear their children—the attorney general’s fulminations about transgender athletes notwithstanding.
The reality is that Rokita ran up the white flag here because he was going to lose and lose big.
Worse, some observers — including me — had begun to point out that the taxpayers were likely to have to pay quite a bit for his personal meltdown.
Even though he’s done a fair amount of losing, Rokita apparently doesn’t much enjoy the experience.
When he does lose, he looks for someone else to blame for his misfortune.
When there’s a factual error in reporting about him, he’s quick to demand a correction.
But when he does something foolish and there’s no factual error in the reporting, he fulminates about “fake news” and tries to direct people’s attention elsewhere.
He argues that the problem isn’t that he did something dumb or ill-advised. No, the problem is that others noticed that he did something dumb or ill-advised.
But that’s standard Todd Rokita.
He’s betting that enough Hoosiers won’t be able to tell the difference between a chestnut horse and a horse chestnut to elect him governor.
Or maybe, just maybe, he doesn’t know the difference himself.
John Krull is director of Franklin College's Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.
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MUMBAI, March 31 (IANS): Actress Nushrratt Bharuccha now has started the shoot for ‘Selfiee’ in Bhopal on Thursday.
Speaking about kickstarting the shoot, Nushrratt said, “I am super excited to be a part of the Selfiee cast and looking forward to be working on one more film with Akshay sir.. And that too right after Ram Setu, which makes it even more special!”
‘Selfiee’ is helmed by director Raj A Mehta, with whom Nushrratt had worked with on ‘Ajeeb Daastaans’.
On reuniting with him, Nushrratt said, “Of course my director Raj Mehta, who I have last done Ajeeb Datsaans with, he is one crazy fun director! And him and Akshay sir on set, it will definitely be a laugh riot all day everyday! Selfiee is going to be one mad fun ride!”
Adding to it, she said, “I’m also really looking forward to working with Emraan sir and Diana. I’ve enjoyed watching their movies and excited to be working with them on Selfiee.”
On the work front, Nushrratt currently has 5 films in her kitty, namely – ‘Ram Setu’, ‘Janhit Mein Jaari’, ‘Chhorii 2’, ‘Hurdang’ and ‘Selfiee’.
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https://thehillstimes.in/entertainment/nushrratt-on-shooting-for-selfiee-gonna-be-one-mad-fun-ride
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Lesotho Key Message Update: As the lean season ends with the beginning of the green harvests, food security improves, March 2022
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March marks the end of the lean season in Lesotho, when most households are expected to have depleted food stocks from the 2021 harvest with increased reliance on market purchases for food. At the same time, green consumption has started for some households. Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes are likely ongoing in some areas of the country. Although, as the green harvest is beginning, many households have started to access own-produced foods. As the harvest becomes fully established, food security outcomes are expected to improve in the coming months.
Above-average rainfall for the January to February period led to favorable crop development across much of the country, notably for maize and sorghum. The maize and sorghum harvest begins in May. National production is likely to be above both last year and the five-year average.
Seasonal workers are returning to South Africa in search of labor, as casual labor opportunities typically decline within Lesotho. The lifting of restrictions on the movement of people and the opening of industries resulted in the recovery of jobs and incomes. The lifting of restrictions affects both the workforce within the country and migrant workers heading to South Africa. However, these opportunities and the level of remittances remain below pre-pandemic levels.
The monthly price of maize meal was stable in January and near last year’s levels but significantly above the five-year average. The stable levels generally reflect adequate regional supplies of maize. However, there was an uptick in edible oil and wheat flour prices for the past four months. Prices for edible oil and wheat flour were above last year and the five-year average. Following the invasion of Ukraine and sanctions on Russia, global prices for energy and food commodities and freight costs increased. As Lesotho is a net importer of these commodities, there will likely be some price transmission to domestic markets. Food prices are expected to remain high compared to last year and the five-year average and will negatively impact purchasing power of market-dependent households.
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Sen. John Cornyn talks backing Ukraine, opposing SCOTUS nominee, and repeal of Article 42
HOUSTON - The valiant defense of Ukraine by its embattled people is drawing the full support of the Lone Star State's Senior U.S. Senator John Cornyn who has proposed legislation for a massive transfer of American arms and supplies, unmatched since the Second World War.
"The consistent message we heard from the Ukrainians is they need more, faster," said Cornyn in an interview with FOX 26. "They need more humanitarian aid and more defensive weapons, and we are doing everything to get them to them as fast as we possibly can."
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Cornyn was less enthusiastic about the President's decision to release a million barrels a day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve in an effort to offer Americans a modicum of relief at the pump.
"It's a drop in the bucket and unfortunately doesn't get to the source of the problem which is increasing demand and reduced supply," said Cornyn.
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With the apprehension of undocumented immigrants rising to a 20-year high of 7,000 per day, Senator Cornyn predicted a further escalation if President Joe Biden proceeds with plans to retract Article 42 - the Trump era policy allowing immediate deportation as a defense against Coronavirus spread.
"The Border Patrol tells me if you take away tools like Title 42, which allows them to turn adult migrants at the Border, then they are going to lose control completely," said Cornyn.
Supreme Court nominee Katanji Brown Jackson will not be getting Cornyn's vote.
The Senator says he is unconvinced she will stick to interpreting the Constitution and refrain from legislating from the bench.
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Shares of Simon Property Group Inc. SPG shed 2.40% to $131.56 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around dismal trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX falling 1.57% to 4,530.41 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA falling 1.56% to 34,678.35. This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses. Simon Property Group Inc. closed $39.56 short of its 52-week high ($171.12), which the company achieved on November 18th.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. ARE fell 0.41% to $201.25 and Vornado Realty Trust VNO fell 1.90% to $45.32. Trading volume (2.3 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 2.3 M.
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Scientists finally finish decoding entire human genome
Scientists say they have finally assembled the full genetic blueprint for human life, adding the missing pieces to a puzzle nearly completed two decades ago.
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An international team described the first-ever sequencing of a complete human genome – the set of instructions to build and sustain a human being – in research published Thursday in the journal Science. The previous effort, celebrated across the world, was incomplete because DNA sequencing technologies of the day weren't able to read certain parts of it. Even after updates, it was missing about 8% of the genome.
“Some of the genes that make us uniquely human were actually in this ‘dark matter of the genome’ and they were totally missed,” said Evan Eichler, a University of Washington researcher who participated in the current effort and the original Human Genome Project. “It took 20-plus years, but we finally got it done.”
Many — including Eichler's own students — thought it had been finished already. “I was teaching them, and they said, 'Wait a minute. Isn’t this like the sixth time you guys have declared victory? I said, ’No, this time we really, really did it!”
Scientists said this full picture of the genome will give humanity a greater understanding of our evolution and biology while also opening the door to medical discoveries in areas like aging, neurodegenerative conditions, cancer and heart disease.
“We’re just broadening our opportunities to understand human disease,” said Karen Miga, an author of one of the six studies published Thursday.
The research caps off decades of work. The first draft of the human genome was announced in a White House ceremony in 2000 by leaders of two competing entities: an international publicly funded project led by an agency of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and a private company, Maryland-based Celera Genomics.
The human genome is made up of about 3.1 billion DNA subunits, pairs of chemical bases known by the letters A, C, G and T. Genes are strings of these lettered pairs that contain instructions for making proteins, the building blocks of life. Humans have about 30,000 genes, organized in 23 groups called chromosomes that are found in the nucleus of every cell.
Before now, there were "large and persistent gaps that have been in our map, and these gaps fall in pretty important regions,” Miga said.
Miga, a genomics researcher at the University of California-Santa Cruz, worked with Adam Phillippy of the National Human Genome Research Institute to organize the team of scientists to start from scratch with a new genome with the aim of sequencing all of it, including previously missing pieces. The group, named after the sections at the very ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, is known as the Telomere-to-Telomere, or T2T, consortium.
Their work adds new genetic information to the human genome, corrects previous errors and reveals long stretches of DNA known to play important roles in both evolution and disease. A version of the research was published last year before being reviewed by scientific peers.
“This is a major improvement, I would say, of the Human Genome Project,” doubling its impact, said geneticist Ting Wang of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who was not involved in the research.
Eichler said some scientists used to think unknown areas contained “junk." Not him. "Some of us always believed there was gold in those hills," he said. Eichler is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which also supports The Associated Press's health and science department.
Turns out that gold includes many important genes, he said, such as ones integral to making a person's brain bigger than a chimp's, with more neurons and connections.
To find such genes, scientists needed new ways to read life's cryptic genetic language.
Reading genes requires cutting the strands of DNA into pieces hundreds to thousands of letters long. Sequencing machines read the letters in each piece and scientists try to put the pieces in the right order. That's especially tough in areas where letters repeat.
Scientists said some areas were illegible before improvements in gene sequencing machines that now allow them to, for example, accurately read a million letters of DNA at a time. That allows scientists to see genes with repeated areas as longer strings instead of snippets that they had to later piece together.
Researchers also had to overcome another challenge: Most cells contain genomes from both mother and father, confusing attempts to assemble the pieces correctly. T2T researchers got around this by using a cell line from one “complete hydatidiform mole," an abnormal fertilized egg containing no fetal tissue that has two copies of the father’s DNA and none of the mother’s.
The next step? Mapping more genomes, including ones that include collections of genes from both parents. This effort did not map one of the 23 chromosomes that is found in males, called the Y chromosome, because the mole contained only an X.
Wang said he’s working with the T2T group on the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, which is trying to generate “reference," or template, genomes for 350 people representing the breadth of human diversity.
“Now we’ve gotten one genome right and we have to do many, many more,” Eichler said. “This is the beginning of something really fantastic for the field of human genetics.”
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Donald Nelson Smith
88, Columbia
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at Hathorn Funeral Home for Donald Nelson Smith, 88, of Columbia, who died on Friday, March 25, 2022. Burial followed in Woodlawn Cemetery. Mernice Griner officiated at the services. Chris Turnage and Beth Aultman provided special music. Visitation was held from 1 p.m. until the time of the services on Sunday, March 27, at Hathorn Funeral Home.
Family and friends may sign an online guestbook at www.hathornfuneralhome.com.
Hathorn Funeral Home in Columbia was in charge of the arrangements.
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Russian official proposes nationalizing factories shut down amid invasion
A Russian official has proposed nationalizing factories in the country shut down by private companies that have come out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“United Russia proposes nationalising production plants of the companies that announce their exit and the closure of production in Russia during the special operation in Ukraine,” said Andrei Turchak, secretary of the ruling party’s general council, Reuters reported.
The statement mentions three specific companies that recently announced they would halt business in Russia: Fazer, Valio and Paulig.
“This is an extreme measure, but we will not tolerate being stabbed in the back, and we will protect our people. This is a real war, not against Russia as a whole, but against our citizens,” Turchak said, according to Reuters.
“We will take tough retaliatory measures, acting in accordance with the laws of war,” Turchak added.
Dozens of private companies, social media platforms and news media outlets have taken action against Russia for invading Ukraine on Feb. 24.
The war has become increasingly deadly as it approaches the two-week mark. Ukraine has accused Russia committing war crimes amid increased bombing of civilian areas.
Ukrainian officials said last week that they had to halt the evacuation of civilians after safe corridors came under fire.
The U.S. and other foreign governments have levied crippling economic sanctions against wealthy Russians, Russian banks and against Russian President Vladimir Putin himself.
Most recently, President Biden announced Tuesday midday that the U.S. would ban Russian oil, natural gas and coal imports.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military needs to adjust its planning, training, targeting and use of weapons in order to better avoid widespread civilian deaths and damage such as the devastating 2017 battle to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants, a new RAND report said Thursday.
The report requested by the Pentagon reflects criticism of the military's airstrike campaign that, according to some estimates, killed more than 1,600 civilians in Raqqa, as the U.S.-led coalition worked to destroy the Islamic State caliphate that wrested control of large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said the report, which lays out a series of recommendations to improve military procedures and strategy, will be used as the department develops its own broader plan to reduce civlian harm.
“No other military works as hard as we do to mitigate civilian harm, and yet we still cause it,” said Kirby. ”We're going to continue to try to learn from past issues.”
RAND concluded that the battle for Raqqa provided important lessons.
Michael McNerney, lead author of the RAND report, called Raqqa “a cautionary tale about civilian harm in urban combat.” He said it "should serve as an extra incentive to the DoD to strengthen its policies and procedures to mitigate, document and respond to civilian harm.”
The RAND report noted that there has been a wide range of estimated civilian casualties during the seige, but also said it believes that 60%-80% of Raqqa was left uninhabitable by the time the city was liberated in October 2017.
Initially the U.S.-led coalition estimted that it was responsible for 38 incidents involving 240 civilian casualties — including 178 who were killed. A consortium of local Syrian and international groups, including Amnesty International and Airwars, put the number of casualties at a “high estimate” of 1,600, but said that about 774 of them could specifically be “verified” by data as the result of coalition action.
The report makes it clear that several thousand more civilians likely died, based on the number of bodies uncovered by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, but many were probably killed by IS or other fighters on the ground.
“Our report focuses on U.S. actions in Raqqa, but the actions of the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian partners undoubtedly contributed far more to civilian harm and suffering in Syria overall,” McNerney said.
The report noted that the challenges in Raqqa were compounded by limits on the number U.S. troops that could be there, as well as where they could be positioned. U.S. troops on the ground could have provided better targeting and civilian information, including on Islamic State militants' efforts to use civilians as human shields, the report said.
RAND recommended that the U.S. military provide more extensive training and guidance on the need to avoid civilian harm, and plan and execute operations in ways to achieve those goals. Changes could include improved planning, better assessments of potential collateral damage, increased mission rehearsals, improved intelligence gathering, and more selective use of air strikes and munitions that minimize bomb fragmentation.
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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.
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ROCKPORT, Texas —
People are about to get rewarded for visiting Rockport-Fulton restaurants.
Throughout April, more than 20 restaurants are taking part in "Find Yourself on the Rockport-Fulton Foodie Trail." The number of times you visit leads to different rewards.
“It’s a way to stimulate business in the area," said Sandy Jumper, Vice President of marketing for the Rockport-Fulton Chamber of Commerce. "So the more people that they have in their restaurants, obviously that’s going to cause more consumers to come in and eat because once they’ve tasted this wonderful food, word of mouth is going to spread it.”
All the restaurants taking part are locally owned, some for more than 30 years. As Rockport continues its financial recovery from Hurricane Harvey and COVID-19, they hope the trail will bring in even more visitors.
“Look at the weather," Rockport Mayor Patrick Rios said. "Who wouldn't want to be Rockport right now this time of year. The food is fantastic, it’s a lot of fun, the people work really hard to make sure they showcase their food and events.”
Rios said Rockport is about 90% recovered since Harvey hit in 2017. Events like the foodie trail are the City’s way of making sure people know what they have to offer and introduce more people to local favorites.
“We’re known as the charm of the Texas coast," Rios said. "But I think we could also be called festival City because we’ll celebrate anything. If you can do it, we’ll celebrate it.”
Sam Lalumia, a Rockport local who was in the Dallas restaurant industry for decades, said the trail is exactly what the City needs after everything it has been through.
“The chamber has spent a lot of time on this food trail and I think it’s going to help our restaurants down here," Lalumia said. "Please go out to the restaurants, the restaurants down here are busy in the evening but in the daytime, come for lunch. You’ll have a better experience.”
To get credit, download the pass from the Rockport-Fulton Chamber of Commerce website to your phone and visit as much as you can. The event will last from April 1 to April 30.
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The way to officially close the door on a crazy awards season (and even-crazier 94th Oscar ceremony), is to crack open the window and take a look ahead at what the studios and production companies could have in store for global cinema in 2022.
As Variety transitions to Emmy season, with the first official predictions rolling out next week, this annual tradition of blind guesses gives us all something to look forward to. If you look at last year’s piece, no one expects this to be 100% accurate as films shift or fall by the wayside, while some end up bigger than we could have anticipated.
Apple Original Films broke through the streaming glass ceiling with Siân Heder’s “CODA,” winning the Academy’s top prize. Unfortunately, the elephant in their awards room is the upcoming action-thriller “Emancipation” from director Antoine Fuqua and starring recently Oscar-crowned (and Chris Rock slapper) Will Smith. Typically, we’d be talking about the “afterglow” possibility and if he could go the way of Tom Hanks, winning back-to-back statuettes. Instead, you have to assume that film executives at Apple are discussing whether or not the film, which tells the story of an enslaved person escaping a Louisiana plantation, should be released this year. Smith’s production company, Westbrook, is behind the movie, which also stars Ben Foster.
The streaming company has other potentials if “Emancipation” has to shift, most notably Martin Scorsese’s “The Killers of the Flower Moon” with Jesse Plemons (off his first nomination for “The Power of the Dog”) and Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio. They also have the war film “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” with Russell Crowe, Zac Efron and Bill Murray, by co-writer and director Peter Farrelly, his follow-up to best picture winner “Green Book” (2018).
The streaming company has already picked up another Sundance Film Festival hit, “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” with Dakota Johnson. In addition, they have the first animated feature Skydance Animation: “Luck,” with the voice talents of Simon Pegg and Jane Fonda. Other options are Rodrigo García’s dramedy “Raymond and Ray” with Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke.
After “The Power of the Dog” tied “The Turning Point” (1977) and “The Color Purple” (1985) as the only films ever to lose 11 Oscars, Netflix is shaking it off this season and, once again, will have an abundance of choices. Their most “buzzy” comes from “Mank” director David Fincher with his adaptation of “The Killer” with two-time nominee Michael Fassbender and Oscar winner Tilda Swinton. The streaming giant will also be captaining the hotly anticipated sequel “Knives Out 2” (please get Kathryn Hahn an Oscar nom); Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise,” an adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel (with Adam Driver and Baumbach’s partner Greta Gerwig); Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” (an animated, dark re-telling of the classic); and much more. Morbid curiosity continues to swirl around Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde,” starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, which got slapped with an NC-17 rating.
Universal Pictures has a rich, dynamic slate of movies, including a semi-autobiographical look at director Steven Spielberg’s childhood with “The Fabelmans,” which could bring him his first screenwriting nomination alongside the brilliant Tony Kushner, who just missed out for “West Side Story.” It could finally bring four-time nominee Michelle Williams to the Dolby Theatre stage. Williams also stars in A24’s “Showing Up” from writer-director Kelly Reichardt, who missed out on recognition for “First Cow” (2020).
Timely stories about the Hollywood industry are sure to pique interest, such as Maria Schrader’s “She Said,” starring Zoe Kazan, and “Promising Young Woman” best actress nominee Carey Mulligan. Based on the book by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the movie tells the story of the New York Times journalists who exposed the abuse and sexual misconduct of convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein.
The 110-year-old film studio also has the ominous horror film “Nope” by “Get Out” Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Jordan Peele, starring Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya. Based on the Super Bowl trailer, it looks incredibly inventive.
Speaking of A24, the independent company approaching its 10th anniversary continues to push the boundaries of storytelling with varying voices. If you listened to the last episode of the “Variety Awards Circuit Podcast,” the campaign has already started for actress Michelle Yeoh for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which opened SXSW. Next will be Alex Garland’s “Ex Machina” follow-up “Men” with the recently nominated Jessie Buckley. Afterward, we await the official dates for multiple anticipated films from Ari Aster (“Disappointment Blvd. “), Lila Neugebauer (“Red, White and Water”) and Benjamin Caron (“Sharper”). Finally, at the top of buzzy thrillers is “The Whale,” the next psychological outing from Darren Aronofsky. Based on the play by Samuel D. Hunter and starring Brendan Fraser, it tells the story of a 600-pound man who reconnects with his daughter after abandoning his family for his gay lover. It could mark a career resurgence for the 53-year-old actor.
Amazon Studios has space for a few last-minute additions to its calendar. Still, as it stands, they’ll be handling the Harry Styles-led “My Policeman” from Michael Grandage; and “Catherine, Called Birdy” starring Andrew Scott, and written and directed by Lena Dunham.
MGM and United Artists Releasing are living under the Amazon umbrella now. While it still isn’t clear what that will mean in terms of their awards strategy, they have a few promising projects on the horizon, such as Ron Howard’s look at the 2018 Thailand cave rescue. Although examined in two documentaries, most recently the snubbed “The Rescue,” the film stars three-time nominee Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell as cave divers integral to the operation. Howard has often excelled with true-life stories.
MGM/UAR is also steering director George Miller’s epic fantasy film “Three Thousand Years of Longing” with Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, which will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Luca Guadagnino reunites with his “Call Me by Your Name” Oscar-nominated star Timothée Chalamet in “Bones & All,” also starring Taylor Russell and Mark Rylance. We can’t wait to feast our eyes on Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” her first venture since “Stories We Tell” (2012). She’s enlisted a powerhouse ensemble that includes Frances McDormand, Buckley, Rooney Mara, Ben Whishaw and Claire Foy.
After coming up short with Ann Dowd and “Mass,” Bleecker Street is handling Helen Mirren’s depiction of Golda Meir in the biopic “Golda” from Oscar winner Guy Nattiv. They also have “Slumdog Millionaire” star Freida Pinto’s next vehicle, “Mr. Malcolm’s List” from Emma Holly Jones.
After winning adapted screenplay for “Jojo Rabbit” (2019), Taika Waititi has teamed up again with Searchlight Pictures for the long-delayed “Next Goal Wins” with Michael Fassbender and Elisabeth Moss. The best picture-winning studio behind “Nomadland” (2020), “The Shape of Water” (2017) and “Birdman” (2014) will also run with Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” with Colin Farrell; Mark Mylod’s “The Menu” with Anya Taylor-Joy; and Tom George’s “See How They Run” with Saoirse Ronan.
The executives at Neon are looking to make more history after “Parasite” (2019), and currently on its roster is David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” with Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart and Léa Seydoux, along with his son Brandon Cronenberg’s sci-fi film “Infinity Pool” with Alexander Skarsgård. So we should expect some acquisitions out of Cannes for them.
Sony Pictures Classics always has something to be excited about and at the top of the list could be “The Son” from Florian Zeller. After bringing Anthony Hopkins (and himself) Oscar wins for “The Father” last year, he’s teaming up with Hopkins again, alongside Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Kirby and Laura Dern. Hans Zimmer will score the pic.
SPC also has “The Phantom of the Open” with Mark Rylance and “Living” with Bill Nighy, which received excellent reviews out of Sundance.
Sony Pictures is sure to blaze through the animation space once again with Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Part One,” which will continue the adventures of Miles Morales. On the live-action side, Reese Witherspoon is producing Olivia Newman’s “Where the Crawdads Sing,” and Marc Forster is helming “A Man Called Otto” — the American remake of the Oscar-nominated “A Man Called Ove” (2015). Musical geniuses Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are executive producing and composing original songs for “Lyle, Lyle Crocodile” based on the popular children’s book. It also boasts original music by Shawn Mendes and Ari Afsar.
Speaking of animation, DreamWorks Animation is bringing Antonio Banderas to the beloved “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” after the upcoming Sam Rockwell-voiced “The Bad Guys” drops in late April. Illumination Entertainment has two franchise properties with “Super Mario Bros.” and “Minions: The Rise of Gru.”
Focus Features won Kenneth Branagh his overdue Oscar for “Belfast.” Perhaps they can do the same for Todd Field, who makes his long-awaited return to filmmaking with “Tár,” starring Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss. With only two outstanding features under his belt — “In the Bedroom” (2001) and “Little Children” (2006) — he’s walking in with a strong artisan team, including “Joker” composer Hildur Guðnadóttir. A valuable arm of NBCUniversal, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, they’ll also bring forth the Viking epic “The Northman” from Robert Eggers; the period drama “Armageddon Time” directed by James Gray; and Agnieszka Smoczynska’s “The Silent Twins.”
Roadside Attractions is mounting a comeback and partnering with Vertical Entertainment on several films: John Michael McDonagh’s “The Forgiven” with Ralph Fiennes and best actress winner Jessica Chastain; and John Patton Ford’s “Emily the Criminal” with Aubrey Plaza. They’ll also be shepherding others like “Carol” (2015) screenwriter Phyllis Nagy’s “Call Jane” with Elizabeth Banks.
This year, Warner Media will be plenty busy with the Discovery merger and HBO operating on all cylinders. For Warner Bros., after a box office success with Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” (a possible artisan player), they’re headed to Cannes with Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks, to kick start their box office run in late June. With other commercial plays spread across their slate, such as “Black Adam” with Dwayne Johnson; “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” with Zachary Levi; and remakes of “House Party” and “The Father to the Bride,” all eyes are on “Don’t Worry Darling.” From Olivia Wilde, who also has an acting role, her sophomore directorial feature after “Booksmart” (2018) has enlisted an all-star cast that includes Florence Pugh, Styles, Chris Pine and Gemma Chan. Expect a fall festival premiere with a late September release to jump-start this one.
For Disney and everything that lives under its roofs, such as Marvel, 20th Century Studios and Hulu, they’re looking for a significant moment in 2022. We’ll be waiting on pins and needles for Marvel’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” without the magic of the late Chadwick Boseman. Since the first film won the SAG Award for cast ensemble and became the first superhero film nominated for best picture, it holds a special place in Oscar history, and the sequel will be looked upon through a different lens. In addition, Marvel will have “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Thor: Love and Thunder” before “Panther” hits screens. Disney also has their own live-action of “Pinocchio” directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Hanks.
For 20th Century Studios, there’s the still-untitled film from David O. Russell dated for November and starring Christian Bale, and James Cameron’s “Avatar 2.”
With Hulu, I’m looking forward to the “Romeo & Juliet” spinoff “Rosaline” from screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, with Kaitlyn Dever.
After sitting this past season out, Paramount Pictures is back with two massive projects. Oscar winner Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon,” a rumored period piece about Hollywood starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, will get people interested when it opens just before Christmas. The other is Tom Cruise’s return to the skies with “Top Gun: Maverick,” which will stop at Cannes before opening the summer blockbuster season in late May.
Of course, there are films seeking distribution and much smaller companies hoping for a significant breakthrough. Quiver has acquired “Jeopardy” host Mayim Bialik’s directorial and screenwriting debut, “As They Made Us,” with the under-appreciated talents of Dianna Agron and Simon Helberg, and Hollywood royals Candice Bergen and Dustin Hoffman.
Consecutive best director winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu is back on the scene with his “Birdman” co-writer Nicolás Giacobone for the comedy “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths)” with Spanish actor Daniel Giménez Cacho playing a Mexican journalist.
Wes Anderson is back with his next project, “Asteroid City” with Hanks, Scarlett Johansson and Robbie, while we continue to wait patiently on Park Chan-wook’s “Decision to Leave” with Tang Wei. Sam Mendes’ “1917” follow-up “Empire of Light” sounds spectacular with Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward.
All information, categories and films are subject to change.
Best Picture
- “Armageddon Time” (Focus Features) – James Gray, Anthony Katagas, Rodrigo Teixeira, Alan Terpins
- “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures) – Tony Kushner, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg – PREDICTED WINNER
- “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films) – Dan Friedkin, Daniel Lupi, Martin Scorsese, Bradley Thomas
- “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures) – Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Lowe
- “She Said” (Universal Pictures) – Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
- “The Son” (Sony Pictures Classics) – Iain Canning, Joanna Laurie, Emile Sherman, Christophe Spadone, Florian Zeller
- “Till” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) – Keith Beauchamp, Barbara Broccoli, Thomas K. Levine, Michael JP Reilly, Frederick Zollo, Whoopi Goldberg
- “White Noise” (Netflix) – Noah Baumbach, Uri Singer
- “The Woman King” (TriStar Pictures) – Maria Bello, Viola Davis, Cathy Schulman, Julius Tennon
- “Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt
Alternates: “Babylon” (Paramount Pictures) / “Don’t Worry Darling” (Warner Bros.) / “The Whale” (A24)
Best Director
- Chinonye Chukwu, “Till” (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
- Sarah Polley, “Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
- Martin Scorsese, “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films)
- Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures) – PREDICTED WINNER
- Florian Zeller, “The Son” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Alternates: Maria Schrader, “She Said” (Universal Pictures) / Yorgos Lanthimos, “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures) / Gina Prince-Bythewood, “The Woman King” (TriStar Pictures)
Best Actor
- Colman Domingo, “Rustin” (Netflix)
- Adam Driver, “White Noise” (Netflix)
- Brendan Fraser, “The Whale” (A24)
- Hugh Jackman, “The Son” (Sony Pictures Classics) – PREDICTED WINNER
- Jesse Plemons, “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films)
Alternate: Bill Nighy, “Living” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Best Actress
- Cate Blanchett, “Tár” (Focus Features)
- Danielle Deadwyler, “Till” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) – PREDICTED WINNER
- Regina King, “Shirley” (Netflix)
- Florence Pugh, “Don’t Worry Darling” (Warner Bros.)
- Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Alternates: Emma Thompson, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” (Lionsgate) / Naomi Ackie, “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” (Sony Pictures) / Carey Mulligan, “She Said” (Universal Pictures)
Best Supporting Actor
- Paul Dano, “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures)
- Leonardo DiCaprio, “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films)
- Chris Pine, “Don’t Worry Darling” (Warner Bros.)
- Mark Ruffalo, “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures) – PREDICTED WINNER
- Glynn Turman, “Rustin” (Netflix)
Alternates: Frankie Faison, “Till” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) / André Holland, “Shirley” (Netflix) / Tobey Maguire, “Babylon” (Paramount Pictures)
Best Supporting Actress
- Jessie Buckley, “Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
- Hong Chau, “The Whale” (A24)
- Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films)
- Margot Robbie, “Babylon” (Paramount Pictures)
- Michelle Williams, “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures) – PREDICTED WINNER
Alternates:
- Patricia Clarkson, “She Said” (Universal Pictures) / Vanessa Kirby, “The Son” (Sony Pictures Classics) / Tang Wei, “Decision to Leave” (No U.S. distribution yet)
Best Original Screenplay
- “Armageddon Time” (Focus Features) – James Gray
- “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures) – Tony Kushner, Steven Spielberg – PREDICTED WINNER
- “Rustin” (Netflix) – Dustin Lance Black
- “Till” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) – Keith Beauchamp, Chinonye Chukwu, Michael Reilly
- “The Woman King” (TriStar Pictures) – Gina Prince-Bythewood, Dana Stevens
Alternates:
- “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths)” (No U.S. distribution yet) – Nicolás Giacobone, Alejandro G. Iñárritu / “Nope” (Universal Pictures) – Jordan Peele / “The Menu” (Searchlight Pictures) – Mark Mylod
Best Adapted Screenplay
- “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures) – Martin McDonagh
- “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films) – Eric Roth (based on the book by David Grann)
- “The Son” (Sony Pictures Classics) – Florian Zeller (based on “Le Fils” by Florian Zeller)
- “White Noise” (Netflix) – Noah Baumbach (based on the book by Don DeLillo) – PREDICTED WINNER
- “Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) – Sarah Polley (based on the book by Miriam Toews)
Alternates:
- “Tár” (Focus Features) – Todd Field / “She Said” (Universal Pictures) – Rebecca Lenkiewicz / “The Wonder” (Netflix) – Alice Birch, Sebastián Lelio
Best Animated Feature
- “Lightyear” (Pixar) – Angus MacLane
- “Pinocchio” (Netflix) – Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson
- “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) (Sony Pictures) – Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson – PREDICTED WINNER
- “Turning Red” (Pixar) – Domee Shi
- “Wendell and Wild” (Netflix) – Henry Selick
Alternates:
- “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (DreamWorks Animation) – Joel Crawford / “Luck” (Apple Original Films/Skydance) – Peggy Holmes / “The Deer King” (GKIDS) – Masashi Ando and Masayuki Miyaji
Best Production Design
- “Avatar 2” (20th Century Studios) – Dylan Cole, Ben Procter (production design), Vanessa Cole (set decoration)
- “Babylon” (Paramount Pictures) – Florencia Martin (production design), Anthony Carlino (set decoration)
- “Don’t Worry Darling” (Warner Bros.) – Katie Byron (production design), Rachel Ferrara (set decoration)
- “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures) – Rick Carter (production design), Karen O’Hara (set decoration) – PREDICTED WINNER
- “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films) – Jack Fisk (production design), Adam Willis (set decoration)
Alternates: “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix) / “Persuasion” (Netflix) / “Shirley” (Netflix)
Best Cinematography
- “Don’t Worry Darling” (Warner Bros.) – Matthew Libatique
- “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures) – Janusz Kaminski
- “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films) – Rodrigo Prieto – PREDICTED WINNER
- “The Woman King” (TriStar Pictures) – Polly Morgan
- “The Wonder” (Netflix) – Ari Wegner
Alternates: “Monkey Man” (Netflix) – Sharon Meir / “The Way of the Wind” (No U.S. distribution yet) – Jörg Widmer / “Babylon” (Paramount Pictures) – Linus Sandgren
Best Costume Design
- “Babylon” (Paramount Pictures) – Mary Zophres
- “Don’t Worry Darling” (Warner Bros.) – Arianne Phillips – PREDICTED WINNER
- “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures) – Mark Bridges
- “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films) – Jacqueline West
- “The Woman King” (TriStar Pictures) – Gersha Phillips
Alternate: “Living” (Sony Pictures Classics) / “Knives Out 2” (Netflix) / “Shirley” (Netflix)
Best Film Editing
- “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures) – Sarah Broshar
- “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films) – Thelma Schoonmaker – PREDICTED WINNER
- “Till” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) – Ron Patane
- “The Woman King” (TriStar Pictures) – Terilyn A. Shripshire
- “Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) – Roslyn Kalloo
Alternates: “Avatar 2” (20th Century Studios) / “She Said” (Universal Pictures) / “Armageddon Time” (Focus Features)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
- “The Batman” (Warner Bros.) – TBA
- “Elvis” (Warner Bros.) – TBA
- “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures) – TBA
- “The Whale” (A24) – TBA – PREDICTED WINNER
- “The Woman King” (TriStar Pictures) – TBA
Alternate: “Avatar 2” (20th Century Studios) / “The Northman” (Focus Features) / “Thor: Love and Thunder” (Marvel Studios)
Best Sound
- “Avatar 2” (20th Century Studios) – PREDICTED WINNER
- “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films) – TBA
- “Nope” (Universal Pictures) – TBA
- “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures) – TBA
- “The Woman King” (TriStar Pictures) – TBA
Alternate: “The Batman” (Warner Bros.) / “Babylon” (Paramount Pictures) / “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel Studios)
Best Visual Effects
- “Avatar 2” (20th Century Studios) – PREDICTED WINNER
- “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel Studios)
- “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” (Warner Bros.)
- “Thor: Love and Thunder” (Marvel Studios)
- “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures)
Alternate: “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (Marvel Studios) / “The Batman” (Warner Bros.) / “Jurassic World: Dominion” (Universal Pictures) /
Best Original Score
- “Babylon” (Paramount Pictures) – Justin Hurwitz
- “Don’t Worry Darling” (Warner Bros.) – John Powell
- “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures) – John Williams – PREDICTED WINNER
- “The Woman King” (TriStar Pictures) – Terence Blanchard, Lebo M.
- “Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) – Hildur Guðnadóttir
Alternate: “The Batman” (Warner Bros.) – Michael Giacchino / “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films) – Robbie Robertson / “White Bird: A Wonder Story” (Lionsgate) – Thomas Newman
Best Original Song
- Possible original song from “Babylon” (Paramount Pictures)
- TBA from “Lyle, Lyle Crocodile” (Sony Pictures) – PREDICTED WINNER
- Possible original song from “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” (Sony Pictures)
- Possible original song from “Wendell and Wild” (Netflix)
- Possible original song from “White Bird: A Wonder Story” (Lionsgate)
Alternate: Possible song from “Lightyear” (Pixar)
Best Documentary Feature
- “Descendant” (Netflix) – Margaret Brown
- “The End of Medicine” (Gravitas Ventures) – Alex Lockwood
- “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song” (Sony Pictures Classics) – Daniel Geller, Dayne Goldfine – PREDICTED WINNER
- “The Last Movie Stars” (CNN Films) – Ethan Hawke
- “Lucy and Desi” (Amazon Studios) – Amy Poehler
Alternate: “Bitterbrush” (Magnolia Pictures) – Emelie Mahdavian
Best International Feature
- “Alcarràs” (Spain) – dir. Carla Simón
- “Before, Now & Then” (Indonesia) – dir. Kamila Andini
- “Black Box” (Belgium) – die. Yann Gozlan
- “Lost Illusions” (France) – Xavier Giannoli – PREDICTED WINNER
- “The Novelist’s Film” (South Korea) – dir. Hong Sang-soo
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Argus Broker Affiliate Sells Indiana Self Storage Facility
Argus Self Storage Advisors broker affiliate Rob Schick is pleased to announce the sale of Union Chapel Storage located in Noblesville, IN.
Noblesville, IN, March 31, 2022 --(PR.com)-- Argus Self Storage Advisors broker affiliate Rob Schick is pleased to announce the sale of Union Chapel Storage located in Noblesville, IN. Union Chapel is a 76,854 rentable square foot, 484-unit facility located in Noblesville, IN (suburb of Indianapolis). Rob represented the seller, an independent owner, in the sale and also procured the buyer for this 54% occupied facility that was built in 2020.
Rob Schick is the Argus broker affiliate representing Indiana. He can be reached at 317-403-1205.
Based in Denver, Colorado, Argus Self Storage Advisors (Argus) was formed in 1994 to assist owners and investors of self-storage with their real estate needs. Through the years, Argus has assembled a network of real estate brokers experienced in self-storage and income property investments. Now the largest self-storage brokerage network in the United States, the Argus network has 36 Broker Affiliates covering nearly 40 markets. These brokers are able to meet the needs of self-storage investors and owners whether it is acting as a buyer’s agent or listing and marketing a property. For more information call 1-800-55-STORE or visit www.argus-selfstorage.com.
Rob Schick is the Argus broker affiliate representing Indiana. He can be reached at 317-403-1205.
Based in Denver, Colorado, Argus Self Storage Advisors (Argus) was formed in 1994 to assist owners and investors of self-storage with their real estate needs. Through the years, Argus has assembled a network of real estate brokers experienced in self-storage and income property investments. Now the largest self-storage brokerage network in the United States, the Argus network has 36 Broker Affiliates covering nearly 40 markets. These brokers are able to meet the needs of self-storage investors and owners whether it is acting as a buyer’s agent or listing and marketing a property. For more information call 1-800-55-STORE or visit www.argus-selfstorage.com.
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iHeartMedia announced today that Jeremy Rice has been named Program Director for XL1067 (WXXL) and Magic 107.7 (WMGF) in Orlando. Rice replaces Brian Mack, who was promoted to iHeartMedia’s National Programming team.
Rice joins iHeartMedia Orlando from Cox Media Group. For over 20 years, he was the Top 40 Format Leader for all CMG stations, including Hot 101.5 Tampa Bay and WAPE Jacksonville, while serving as Program Director for the legendary WBLI, Long Island.
Rice reports to Rick Everett, Senior Vice President of Programming for iHeartMedia Orlando and Jacksonville who said, “Jeremy has an extensive background and knowledge in the CHR and AC format and Is a perfect fit to lead our programming team in Orlando at XL1067 and Magic 107.7. His unique perspective, positive energy and creativity make him a perfect fit,” said Everett.
“Jeremy has big shoes to fill,” said Barbara Latham, President for iHeartMedia Central Florida. “We are confident he has the experience and expertise to continue the success of our brands here in Central Florida, welcome aboard, Jeremy.”
“iHeart has built an extensive portfolio of assets and the leadership team has a clear and exciting vision for the future,” said Rice. “ I am thrilled to join the iHeart team and be a part of that winning culture. XL 106.7 and Magic 107.7 are amazing Superbrands that exemplify the success of iHeartMedia Orlando.”
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Chandigarh records driest March since 2008
With no rain through the past one month, Chandigarh recorded its driest March in the last 14 years, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
Though western disturbances (WD) approached the city multiple times in March, their effect remained poor, leading to poor precipitation, which is expected to continue in April as well.
As per IMD records, the last time the city saw no rain in March was in 2008, while trace rainfall (less than 0.1 mm) was also recorded in 2010, a 100% deficit from the 34.4 mm rainfall considered normal for March.
Notably, January and February had both recorded above normal rain this year.
Speaking about why there was no rain in March, IMD Chandigarh director Manmohan Singh said, “While around five WDs affected the region, most of them were weak and their effect was felt only in the hilly areas. On the other hand, city saw pretty strong WDs in January and February, leading to surplus rainfall.”
Sweltering April on the cards
The IMD had also released its monthly outlook for April. Issued for the whole country, the outlook predicts a high probability of below-average rain in Chandigarh and nearby regions. As a result, both the minimum and maximum temperatures will remain above average.
On Thursday as well, at 37°C, the maximum temperature was 5.4 degrees above normal, but still lower than 37.8°C on March 31, 2021. 37°C is the highest day temperature so far this year, as also recorded on Wednesday.
The minimum temperature rose from 17.4°C on Wednesday to 18.6°C on Thursday, three notches above normal. Over the next three days, the maximum temperature will remain between 35°C and 36°C, while the minimum temperature will hover around 19°C.
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The Los Angeles Lakers’ pursuit of the Play-In Tournament qualification takes them to Salt Lake City next, where they’ll face the Utah Jazz on Thursday night.
The Lakers will still be without LeBron James and Anthony Davis, who appear to target the rear end of this back-to-back for their return. Wenyen Gabriel was listed as questionable to play after he sprained his ankle in the loss to the Dallas Mavericks but is expected to play.
Utah center Hassan Whiteside will sit out the clash due to a right foot sprain. Bojan Bogdanovic and Danuel House Jr. have been sidelined for a couple of weeks with a calf strain and knee bone bruise, respectively, and the clash with the Lakers might come too soon for their comebacks.
The Jazz have struggled more than L.A. over the last couple of weeks, entering the Thursday matchup on the back of a five-game losing streak. The once-red-hot Utah offense has gone cold, as its shooting percentages from both the field and beyond the arc rank in the bottom-10 since mid-March.
That’s a promising sign for the Lakers considering they just gave up 82 first-half points in the loss to the Mavericks — the most in the Los Angeles era and one short of matching their all-time record from 1959.
The Purple and Gold couldn’t catch up with the speed Dallas passed the ball around, in big part thanks to the magnificence of Luka Doncic. But they will face a much different offense when they square off with the Jazz, who rank 27th in assists but thrive in iso plays and pick-and-roll action between Donovan Mitchell, Mike Conley, and Rudy Gobert.
Utah has been a favorable matchup for the Lakers this season, who lead the season series 2-0, partly because of its inability to force turnovers — which L.A. is very prone to. Limiting mistakes and keeping up the good effort on offense will exponentially increase the Purple and Gold’s chances of snatching a much-needed win.
The Lakers have been shooting 51.2% from the field over the last two weeks, a fourth-best clip in the NBA during that stretch, and a 10th-best 37% from deep. Such offensive efficiency, combined with any sort of improvement on last game’s defensive performance, could allow the Purple and Gold to stun the Jazz once again this season.
The Lakers enjoyed a rare taste of luck over the last couple of weeks, as the San Antonio Spurs’ loss bumped them up to 10th in the Western Conference, which would be enough to secure a Play-In Spot. Now it’s L.A.’s turn to make the most of the gift and jump further ahead of the Spurs with just a few games left in the season.
Lakers (31-44) vs. Jazz (45-31)
7:00 p.m. PT, March 31, 2022
Vivint Smart Home Arena, Salt Lake City, Utah
TV: TNT, Spectrum SportsNet
Radio: 710 AM ESPN LA
Projected Lakers Starting Lineup:
PG: Russell Westbrook
SG: Malik Monk
SF: Austin Reaves
PF: Wenyen Gabriel
C: Dwight Howard
Key Reserves: Carmelo Anthony, Stanley Johnson, Talen Horton-Tucker, Wayne Ellington, D.J. Augustin
Projected Jazz Starting Lineup:
PG: Mike Conley
SG: Donovan Mitchell
SF: Royce O’Neale
PF: Juancho Hernangomez
C: Rudy Gobert
Key Reserves: Rudy Gay, Greg Monroe, Jordan Clarkson
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Pasquale Bombino Joins Veego Advisory Board
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, March 31, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Veego Software, the world leader in application intelligence - contextual, app-aware QoE data, and high-impact analytics, today announced the addition of Pasquale Bombino to the Veego Advisory Board. Mr. Bombino brings vast corporate experience in the telecommunication space and strong global leadership perspective. He will join existing advisory board members Max Blumberg and Doron Hachmon and brings in-depth experience from the corporate business world.
“We are very fortunate to have such a high-level experienced professional become a critical part of our advisory board,” said Amir Kotler, CEO of Veego. “We welcome Pasquale and are eager to leverage his valuable expertise in strengthening our strategic positioning as the company continues to deliver innovative and high value connected home solutions for communication service providers.”
Pasquale Bombino has spent the last 25 years in the Telecom industry, a primary area of focus for Veego. Much of his time has been spent in European operations as a General Manager of ADB Global. His history includes a position as Vice President & CTO of telecom provider, Pirelli Broadband Solutions.
Mr. Bombino recently became a Founder and CEO of IIO, a disruptive Voice-as-a-Service startup, and in addition to his new advisory role for Veego, will also be providing technology and strategy-based consulting services to various organizations throughout Europe.
Bombino’s appointment occurs as Veego establishes its revolutionary solution that classifies applications and devices running in the home to provide real-time insights about the customer’s quality of experience. This is especially critical for communication service providers (CSPs), including telecom providers and internet service providers (ISPs) as service providers demand more automated and efficient oversight of connected homes globally.
To learn more about Veego and the company’s Home Connectivity Insight Platform to ensure a smooth, measurable connected home user experience, please visit: https://veego.io/.
About Veego Software
Veego continuously enhances the Internet user experience in the connected smart home. Developing Artificial Intelligence and other breakthrough technologies, Veego delivers home stakeholders a unique understanding of the performance and behavior of connected devices and the apps and services running on them, and the experience of users engaging with them. The Veego Home Insight Platform generates vast volumes of new data that enable a wealth of valuable insights into the connected home, including penetrating understandings of the customer experience, internet usage, performance, trends, and more. To learn more, please visit www.veego.io.
“We are very fortunate to have such a high-level experienced professional become a critical part of our advisory board,” said Amir Kotler, CEO of Veego. “We welcome Pasquale and are eager to leverage his valuable expertise in strengthening our strategic positioning as the company continues to deliver innovative and high value connected home solutions for communication service providers.”
Pasquale Bombino has spent the last 25 years in the Telecom industry, a primary area of focus for Veego. Much of his time has been spent in European operations as a General Manager of ADB Global. His history includes a position as Vice President & CTO of telecom provider, Pirelli Broadband Solutions.
Mr. Bombino recently became a Founder and CEO of IIO, a disruptive Voice-as-a-Service startup, and in addition to his new advisory role for Veego, will also be providing technology and strategy-based consulting services to various organizations throughout Europe.
Bombino’s appointment occurs as Veego establishes its revolutionary solution that classifies applications and devices running in the home to provide real-time insights about the customer’s quality of experience. This is especially critical for communication service providers (CSPs), including telecom providers and internet service providers (ISPs) as service providers demand more automated and efficient oversight of connected homes globally.
To learn more about Veego and the company’s Home Connectivity Insight Platform to ensure a smooth, measurable connected home user experience, please visit: https://veego.io/.
About Veego Software
Veego continuously enhances the Internet user experience in the connected smart home. Developing Artificial Intelligence and other breakthrough technologies, Veego delivers home stakeholders a unique understanding of the performance and behavior of connected devices and the apps and services running on them, and the experience of users engaging with them. The Veego Home Insight Platform generates vast volumes of new data that enable a wealth of valuable insights into the connected home, including penetrating understandings of the customer experience, internet usage, performance, trends, and more. To learn more, please visit www.veego.io.
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Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen quits top EU Council post
Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen, the secretary-general of the Council of the EU, resigned on Wednesday to just accept a put up as head of the international ministry in Denmark, his dwelling nation.
The veteran Danish diplomat has served because the Council’s high bureaucrat since July 1, 2015. In 2020, he was reappointed for a second time period that was to run via July 1, 2025.
In a letter to Council workers seen by POLITICO, Tranholm-Mikkelsen wrote: “I have been offered to go back to the country I know best and become the Permanent Secretary of State of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I expect to take up my new position on 1 May 2022.”
The resignation got here as a shock to many colleagues and coworkers — together with European Council President Charles Michel, who should now ponder a swift transition because the EU is wrestling with an array of difficult points, significantly sanctions coverage and different measures associated to the struggle in Ukraine and its reverberations throughout Europe’s economic system.
In his letter, Tranholm-Mikkelsen, who served as Danish ambassador to the EU and earlier than that as ambassador to China, instructed colleagues that he accepted this new job after virtually seven years in workplace as a result of “for me personally it constitutes a real chance. I started in that service 30 years ago, and the offer now to head it is an opportunity I just cannot turn down.”
As the pinnacle of the Council’s normal secretariat, Tranholm-Mikkelsen confronted the at all times tough problem of serving to to steer the EU’s member international locations — both their heads of state and authorities, or their ministers and ambassadors — towards the unanimity that’s required for many main choices.
Among different duties, the final secretariat is answerable for serving to to help and put together conferences of the European Council, the collective of EU heads of state and authorities, the place a very powerful choices are taken. The normal secretariat additionally offers a everlasting infrastructure for the presidency of the Council of the EU, which passes to a special member nation each six months.
Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod announced the appointment in a press launch, saying: “Jeppe is an internationally recognized top diplomat with an impressive international network at the highest level.” Citing Tranholm-Mikkelsen’s prior expertise within the EU, within the Danish prime minister’s workplace, and within the international service, Kofod said: “This is important at a time when Denmark must navigate increasingly difficult foreign and security policy waters.”
Shoes to fill
In distinction to the European Commission’s 30,000-strong civil service, the Council employs about 3,000 individuals, and Michel himself has a crew of only a few dozen. The normal secretariat additionally performs a vital position within the common conferences of EU ambassadors (referred to as Coreper), which in the course of the pandemic and the struggle have elevated in frequency from a couple of times every week to usually three per week. Coreper prepares the conferences of ministers in all of the totally different Council formations and likewise is the place member states talk about sanctions.
Diplomats mentioned it could not be simple to discover a alternative, particularly at brief discover.
Tranholm-Mikkelsen was an in depth, trusted adviser to former European Council President Donald Tusk. But based on some diplomats, Tranholm-Mikkelsen was not as shut with Michel, the present president who’s a former Belgian prime minister and works with a really tight-knit interior circle.
Still, officers with direct information of the connection mentioned that Michel extremely revered Tranholm-Mikkelsen and so they famous that the Dane was reappointed with Michel’s help in April 2020 on the peak of the coronavirus emergency.
“Jeppe has both a good political nose and is a very effective administrator,” mentioned a diplomat who served with him in Brussels. “As secretary-general, you need to be clear-headed. You need to be tough. But you also have to be highly aware and have your attention switched on to the concerns of the member states and not just the bigger member states. Jeppe was exceptionally good at that.”
Adding additional strain to filling the position is the truth that there is no such thing as a deputy secretary-general within the Council’s organizational structure, which means there is no such thing as a apparent short-term alternative.
Among the potential successors stirring hypothesis is the French ambassador to the EU, Philippe Léglise-Costa. Yet Paris is already seen as very shut to Michel in addition to to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and as the primary nation calling the pictures at the European External Action Service, the EU’s international coverage arm.
As France presently holds the rotating Council of the EU presidency, such a transfer could possibly be considered as giving Paris an excessive amount of management. Léglise-Costa was talked about as a possible alternative for Tranholm-Mikkelsen in 2020 earlier than it was clear he can be getting a second time period.
Another attainable candidate is the Dutch ambassador to the EU, Robert de Groot, who can also be extensively admired by colleagues and considered as having the required cool-headed negotiating abilities. De Groot would even have the plus of not coming from a big nation.
But candidates from huge international locations should not robotically disqualified.
Tranholm-Mikkelsen’s predecessor was Uwe Corsepius, who served as an adviser to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Corsepius changed a former French ambassador to the EU, Pierre de Boissieu. Diplomats famous that Corsepius, who served as secretary-general from 2011 to 2015, demonstrated that advisers to EU heads of state and authorities may be thought of for the job.
When Michel picks somebody to succeed Tranholm-Mikkelsen, that particular person would wish the endorsement of the heads of state or authorities at a summit. The Council of the EU would then formally make the appointment, in accordance with Article 240 (2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU.
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WABASH VALLEY, Ind. (WTHI) -- Duke Energy hopes to spur economic development in Indiana.
The company gave nearly $120,000 in strategic grants to Hoosier communities.
Duke Energy's partnership program funds will help with marketing and strategic efforts.
Recipients had to submit a plan showing how the money would grow their economies.
Here's a list of the local recipients:
- Knox County Indiana Economic Development – $5,000
- Terre Haute Regional Airport - $5,000
- Vermillion County Economic Development Council - $1,200
- Vermillion Rise Mega Park - $5,000
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Barnesville searching for ‘beautiful’ photos of village
BARNESVILLE — The Barnesville Area Chamber of Commerce is looking to the community for a “beautiful” photograph that best represents the village for the front cover of its 2022 brochure. Chamber Director Jill Hissom, who typically takes the photos for the Barnesville Brochure, said she wanted...
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DALLAS, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EnLink Midstream, LLC (NYSE: ENLC) (EnLink) has expanded its Carbon Solutions Group with the hiring of Robert "Bob" Purgason, a seasoned energy expert and prior executive of EnLink Midstream's predecessor, Crosstex Energy. Purgason will lead EnLink's Carbon Solutions Group as Managing Director of Carbon Solutions.
Purgason brings extensive industry experience in growing new business lines and excellent industry relationships, both of which will help EnLink grow its carbon capture, transportation, and sequestration (CCS) business. Purgason will lead our Carbon Solutions Group, which consists of in-house commercial and engineering talent, including Scott Goldberg, Vice President of Carbon Solutions, who will continue to lead the day-to-day execution of the CCS business.
"The emerging CCS business is the most exciting opportunity for EnLink to participate in the energy transition, and it's critical, after establishing a complete CCS offering, that we have the right resources to make the most of our competitive advantages to scale this business," Chairman and CEO Barry Davis said. "When we think about the size of the opportunity and the work needed to fulfill its potential, we see the need for an executive level leader who can bring strategic vision and deep experience building new businesses. Having worked closely with Bob, I am confident his extensive industry knowledge, deep connections within the market, and business development experience, combined with his innate leadership abilities, will be extremely complimentary to our team."
Purgason brings over 40 years of experience in operations, business development and finance in the energy industry, including five years at Crosstex Energy serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Most recently, he was CEO of the predecessor to Altus Midstream. Prior to that, Purgason held senior executive positions at Williams Co. and Access Midstream.
Purgason currently serves on the board of directors of L.B. Foster Co. He has served on the Executive Committee of Texas Pipeline Association and Board of Directors at GPA Midstream Association. He holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma.
About EnLink Midstream
EnLink Midstream reliably operates a differentiated midstream platform that is built for long-term, sustainable value creation. EnLink's best-in-class services span the midstream value chain, providing natural gas, crude oil, condensate, NGL capabilities, and carbon capture, transportation and sequestration. Our purposely built, integrated asset platforms are in premier production basins and core demand centers, including the Permian Basin, Oklahoma, North Texas, and the Gulf Coast. EnLink's strong financial foundation and commitment to execution excellence drive competitive returns and value for our employees, customers, and investors. Headquartered in Dallas, EnLink is publicly traded through EnLink Midstream, LLC (NYSE: ENLC). Visit www.EnLink.com to learn how EnLink connects energy to life.
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Tokenomy (TEN) traded up 24.5% against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 19:00 PM Eastern on March 31st. One Tokenomy coin can now be purchased for about $0.0560 or 0.00000122 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. During the last seven days, Tokenomy has traded 39% higher against the dollar. Tokenomy has a market cap of $11.19 million and $1.43 million worth of Tokenomy was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002188 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded down 3.9% against the dollar and now trades at $1.63 or 0.00003555 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded 1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.65 or 0.00004286 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 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 0.00002184 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded down 1% against the dollar and now trades at $17.01 or 0.00037169 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded 4.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $49.03 or 0.00107140 BTC.
Tokenomy Coin Profile
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NEW DELHI, March 31 (IANS): Pan-India star Prabhas, who has worked in hits such as the ‘Baahubali’ franchise, ‘Saaho’, ‘Varsham’, ‘Darling’ and ‘Mr Perfect’ among others, is now gearing up for his next ‘Adipurush’, which he says is sentimentally a very important project for his life and that it’s more than just a film.
‘Adipurush’, which translates to ‘The First Man’, is a Hindu historical film based on the epic Ramayana directed by Om Raut. It also stars Kriti Sanon and Saif Ali Khan. According to reports, the movie is one of the most expensive Indian films ever made.
Talking about his slate of upcoming films to IANS, Prabhas shared: “‘Adipurush’ sentimentally is a very important project for my life. Om Raut, luckily I have a very good director. I had called him after three days and asked ‘should I do it?’ because if I do make mistake it will be very wrong.”
The star, who has featured in Forbes India’s Celebrity 100 list three times since 2015, stressed that ‘Adipurush’ is more than just a film.
He asserted: “It is not just a film.”
“It is not a film, it is something very important and everyone will be having a look at it. I was really frightened of it and is very important for me. It is something else I feel.”
The 42-year-old star has had his share of hits and misses in a career spanning over two decades. Do box office numbers matter to Prabhas, who is often referred as “Darling” by his fans?
“Yes. I can’t get every ‘Baahubali’ as a film… But the budgets and the people’s acceptance is very important. The box office can be told like that. It does not mean I break records nothing like that but how much I am reaching in every part… How many people are disappointed, happy or super excited that I can only know through box office. It is important.”
Talking about having regrets in his journey in cinema, Prabhas shared: “So regrets… When your film doesn’t do so well always before also after also you feel maybe somewhere I should have concentrated or we should have done that… It is a process of my profession otherwise I don’t have so much regrets.”
Prabhas and his film ‘Baahubali’ opened the floodgates for pan-India films and helped in exchanging talents all across the country. He agrees that now is the time to take Indian cinema to the next level.
“I think it’s time we need to make Indian films or we need to cross India and go global. I think the time has come maybe it started with ‘Baahubali’ and S.S. Rajamouli… (‘Baahubaali’ director) It matters for me and my life and the crew. It changed a lot for us.”
“It is time we need to become one Indian cinema and we need to cross the Indian borders and go worldwide.”
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LaWanda Inez Dennis
62, Columbia
Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at Community Church of Lord Jesus Christ for LaWanda Inez Dennis, 62, of Columbia, who died on Saturday, March 19, in Hattiesburg. Burial followed in Community Church of Lord Jesus Christ Cemetery. Rev. Jimmy Johnson officiated at the services. Visitation was held from 1 p.m. until the time of the services on Wednesday, March 23, at Community Church of Lord Jesus Christ.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.colonialfuneralhomes-ms.com for the Dennis family.
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Pernod Ricard (OTCMKTS:PDRDF – Get Rating) had its target price raised by equities researchers at Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft from €266.00 ($292.31) to €273.00 ($300.00) in a report issued on Thursday, The Fly reports.
Separately, Citigroup raised shares of Pernod Ricard from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, February 15th.
Shares of OTCMKTS:PDRDF traded down 7.35 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching 213.57. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 400 shares, compared to its average volume of 985. Pernod Ricard has a fifty-two week low of 183.48 and a fifty-two week high of 246.48.
Pernod Ricard SA produces and sells wines and spirits worldwide. It offers its products under various brands. The company was founded in 1805 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man was convicted Thursday in two stabbing deaths outside a Nashville bar in 2019.
Michael Mosley was convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths, attempted first-degree murder in the stabbing of another man left blind in one eye and assault of another, The Tennessean reported.
College students Clayton Beathard, 22, and Paul Trapeni III, 21, were killed Dec. 21, 2019, at The Dogwood bar.
Deputy District Attorney Amy Hunter and Assistant District Attorney Jan Norman said Mosley escalated a comment from one of the group’s friends to a fistfight and he was the only one to pull a knife.
Defense lawyer Ken Quillen argued that Mosley was acting in self-defense .
Beathard was the brother of NFL quarterback C.J. Beathard and musician Tucker Beathard, son of country music songwriter Casey Beathard and grandson of NFL Hall of Famer Bobby Beathard.
Trapeni was a student at Rhodes College in Memphis.
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Shares of Sirius XM Holdings Inc.
SIRI,
-0.30%
slipped 0.30% to $6.62 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
-1.54%
falling 1.54% to 14,220.52 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-1.56%
falling 1.56% to 34,678.35. The stock's fall snapped a five-day winning streak. Sirius XM Holdings Inc. closed $0.67 short of its 52-week high ($7.29), which the company reached on June 9th.
Despite its losses, the stock outperformed some of its competitors Thursday, as Spotify Technology S.A.
SPOT,
-3.29%
fell 3.29% to $151.02 and Tencent Music Entertainment Group ADR
TME,
-2.21%
fell 2.21% to $4.87. Trading volume (17.6 M) remained 5.5 million below its 50-day average volume of 23.1 M.
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McDonald’s closing 850 restaurants in Russia temporarily
McDonald’s announced through a press release Tuesday that it will be suspending operations in Russia by temporarily closing 850 restaurants throughout the country because of its invasion of Ukraine.
CEO Chris Kempczinski originally sent the announcement to McDonald’s employees and franchises, detailing the fast food chain’s decision and how the company is dealing with the crisis in Ukraine.
Kempczinski said in his letter, “McDonald’s has decided to temporarily close all our restaurants in Russia and pause all operations in the market.”
The McDonald’s CEO also said that the company will continue to pay its 62,000 Russian employees their full salaries while the establishments remain closed. The company also said that it will continue paying its Ukrainian employees their full salaries as the Russian invasion continues.
McDonald’s statement also said that the Ronald McDonald House Charities will continue operations and support throughout Russia, as well as continue to operate to help Ukrainians, including partnering with Ukrainian hospitals, providing humanitarian aid throughout the nation, as well as operating a mobile leg of its charity at the Polish-Ukrainian border and in Latvia.
McDonald’s said it has donated $5 million to its Employee Assistance Fund, and that it will support relief efforts led by the International Red Cross in and around Ukraine.
The company also made an official statement condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
“The conflict in Ukraine and the humanitarian crisis in Europe has caused unspeakable suffering to innocent people. As a System, we join the world in condemning aggression and violence and praying for peace,” Kempczinski wrote. “Our number one priority from the start of this crisis has been – and will remain – our people.”
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Texas teen arrested after posing on Instagram with drugs, money, guns
BEXAR COUNTY, Texas - Two people have been arrested after one of them posted photos of himself with drugs, weapons and cash on Instagram, says the Bexar County Sheriff's Office (BCSO).
BCSO says that on March 29, it received information that 17-year-old David Anakin Guerra was posting on social media photos of himself in possession of what looked like THC cartridges, weapons and cash.
David Anakin Guerra, 17, allegedly posted images of himself with weapons, drugs and cash on Instagram. (Bexar County Sheriff's Office)
BCSO Covert, Intel, and Street Crimes Units began their investigation into the posts and then located David Guerra and conducted a traffic stop on his vehicle. During the stop, deputies reportedly found hash oil, a loaded handgun, and cash.
Guerra and his passenger, 21-year-old Ezra Sebastian Guerra, were then detained following the execution of a search warrant of their home in the 8900 block of Raywood Street in San Antonio. Deputies found more hash oil, two handguns, a high-powered pistol, cocaine, marijuana and $15,000 in cash, says BCSO.
Ezra Guerra was charged with second-degree felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver 1-4 grams and state-jail felony possession of marijuana 4 oz-5 lbs. (Bexar County Sheriff's Office)
Both were booked into the Bexar County jail.
David Guerra, 17, was booked on charges of third-degree felony Possession of a Controlled Substance1-4 grams, Reckless Conduct-Traffic, a Class B Misdemeanor, and Unlawfully Carrying of a Weapon, a Class A Misdemeanor, says BCSO.
Ezra Sebastian Guerra, 21, was booked on charges of second-degree felony Possession of a Controlled Substance With Intent to Deliver 1-4 grams and state-jail felony Possession of Marijuana 4 oz- 5 lbs- State Jail Felony.
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